03 Oct, 2012

2 commits

  • Pull vfs update from Al Viro:

    - big one - consolidation of descriptor-related logics; almost all of
    that is moved to fs/file.c

    (BTW, I'm seriously tempted to rename the result to fd.c. As it is,
    we have a situation when file_table.c is about handling of struct
    file and file.c is about handling of descriptor tables; the reasons
    are historical - file_table.c used to be about a static array of
    struct file we used to have way back).

    A lot of stray ends got cleaned up and converted to saner primitives,
    disgusting mess in android/binder.c is still disgusting, but at least
    doesn't poke so much in descriptor table guts anymore. A bunch of
    relatively minor races got fixed in process, plus an ext4 struct file
    leak.

    - related thing - fget_light() partially unuglified; see fdget() in
    there (and yes, it generates the code as good as we used to have).

    - also related - bits of Cyrill's procfs stuff that got entangled into
    that work; _not_ all of it, just the initial move to fs/proc/fd.c and
    switch of fdinfo to seq_file.

    - Alex's fs/coredump.c spiltoff - the same story, had been easier to
    take that commit than mess with conflicts. The rest is a separate
    pile, this was just a mechanical code movement.

    - a few misc patches all over the place. Not all for this cycle,
    there'll be more (and quite a few currently sit in akpm's tree)."

    Fix up trivial conflicts in the android binder driver, and some fairly
    simple conflicts due to two different changes to the sock_alloc_file()
    interface ("take descriptor handling from sock_alloc_file() to callers"
    vs "net: Providing protocol type via system.sockprotoname xattr of
    /proc/PID/fd entries" adding a dentry name to the socket)

    * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (72 commits)
    MAX_LFS_FILESIZE should be a loff_t
    compat: fs: Generic compat_sys_sendfile implementation
    fs: push rcu_barrier() from deactivate_locked_super() to filesystems
    btrfs: reada_extent doesn't need kref for refcount
    coredump: move core dump functionality into its own file
    coredump: prevent double-free on an error path in core dumper
    usb/gadget: fix misannotations
    fcntl: fix misannotations
    ceph: don't abuse d_delete() on failure exits
    hypfs: ->d_parent is never NULL or negative
    vfs: delete surplus inode NULL check
    switch simple cases of fget_light to fdget
    new helpers: fdget()/fdput()
    switch o2hb_region_dev_write() to fget_light()
    proc_map_files_readdir(): don't bother with grabbing files
    make get_file() return its argument
    vhost_set_vring(): turn pollstart/pollstop into bool
    switch prctl_set_mm_exe_file() to fget_light()
    switch xfs_find_handle() to fget_light()
    switch xfs_swapext() to fget_light()
    ...

    Linus Torvalds
     
  • There's no reason to call rcu_barrier() on every
    deactivate_locked_super(). We only need to make sure that all delayed rcu
    free inodes are flushed before we destroy related cache.

    Removing rcu_barrier() from deactivate_locked_super() affects some fast
    paths. E.g. on my machine exit_group() of a last process in IPC
    namespace takes 0.07538s. rcu_barrier() takes 0.05188s of that time.

    Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov
    Cc: Al Viro
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Al Viro

    Kirill A. Shutemov
     

21 Sep, 2012

1 commit


02 Aug, 2012

1 commit

  • Pull second vfs pile from Al Viro:
    "The stuff in there: fsfreeze deadlock fixes by Jan (essentially, the
    deadlock reproduced by xfstests 068), symlink and hardlink restriction
    patches, plus assorted cleanups and fixes.

    Note that another fsfreeze deadlock (emergency thaw one) is *not*
    dealt with - the series by Fernando conflicts a lot with Jan's, breaks
    userland ABI (FIFREEZE semantics gets changed) and trades the deadlock
    for massive vfsmount leak; this is going to be handled next cycle.
    There probably will be another pull request, but that stuff won't be
    in it."

    Fix up trivial conflicts due to unrelated changes next to each other in
    drivers/{staging/gdm72xx/usb_boot.c, usb/gadget/storage_common.c}

    * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (54 commits)
    delousing target_core_file a bit
    Documentation: Correct s_umount state for freeze_fs/unfreeze_fs
    fs: Remove old freezing mechanism
    ext2: Implement freezing
    btrfs: Convert to new freezing mechanism
    nilfs2: Convert to new freezing mechanism
    ntfs: Convert to new freezing mechanism
    fuse: Convert to new freezing mechanism
    gfs2: Convert to new freezing mechanism
    ocfs2: Convert to new freezing mechanism
    xfs: Convert to new freezing code
    ext4: Convert to new freezing mechanism
    fs: Protect write paths by sb_start_write - sb_end_write
    fs: Skip atime update on frozen filesystem
    fs: Add freezing handling to mnt_want_write() / mnt_drop_write()
    fs: Improve filesystem freezing handling
    switch the protection of percpu_counter list to spinlock
    nfsd: Push mnt_want_write() outside of i_mutex
    btrfs: Push mnt_want_write() outside of i_mutex
    fat: Push mnt_want_write() outside of i_mutex
    ...

    Linus Torvalds
     

31 Jul, 2012

2 commits


14 Jul, 2012

1 commit

  • Just the flags; only NFS cares even about that, but there are
    legitimate uses for such argument. And getting rid of that
    completely would require splitting ->lookup() into a couple
    of methods (at least), so let's leave that alone for now...

    Signed-off-by: Al Viro

    Al Viro
     

02 Jun, 2012

1 commit

  • Btrfs has to make sure we have space to allocate new blocks in order to modify
    the inode, so updating time can fail. We've gotten around this by having our
    own file_update_time but this is kind of a pain, and Christoph has indicated he
    would like to make xfs do something different with atime updates. So introduce
    ->update_time, where we will deal with i_version an a/m/c time updates and
    indicate which changes need to be made. The normal version just does what it
    has always done, updates the time and marks the inode dirty, and then
    filesystems can choose to do something different.

    I've gone through all of the users of file_update_time and made them check for
    errors with the exception of the fault code since it's complicated and I wasn't
    quite sure what to do there, also Jan is going to be pushing the file time
    updates into page_mkwrite for those who have it so that should satisfy btrfs and
    make it not a big deal to check the file_update_time() return code in the
    generic fault path. Thanks,

    Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik

    Josef Bacik
     

06 May, 2012

1 commit

  • After we moved inode_sync_wait() from end_writeback() it doesn't make sense
    to call the function end_writeback() anymore. Rename it to clear_inode()
    which well says what the function really does - set I_CLEAR flag.

    Signed-off-by: Jan Kara
    Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu

    Jan Kara
     

22 Mar, 2012

2 commits

  • Pull vfs pile 1 from Al Viro:
    "This is _not_ all; in particular, Miklos' and Jan's stuff is not there
    yet."

    * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (64 commits)
    ext4: initialization of ext4_li_mtx needs to be done earlier
    debugfs-related mode_t whack-a-mole
    hfsplus: add an ioctl to bless files
    hfsplus: change finder_info to u32
    hfsplus: initialise userflags
    qnx4: new helper - try_extent()
    qnx4: get rid of qnx4_bread/qnx4_getblk
    take removal of PF_FORKNOEXEC to flush_old_exec()
    trim includes in inode.c
    um: uml_dup_mmap() relies on ->mmap_sem being held, but activate_mm() doesn't hold it
    um: embed ->stub_pages[] into mmu_context
    gadgetfs: list_for_each_safe() misuse
    ocfs2: fix leaks on failure exits in module_init
    ecryptfs: make register_filesystem() the last potential failure exit
    ntfs: forgets to unregister sysctls on register_filesystem() failure
    logfs: missing cleanup on register_filesystem() failure
    jfs: mising cleanup on register_filesystem() failure
    make configfs_pin_fs() return root dentry on success
    configfs: configfs_create_dir() has parent dentry in dentry->d_parent
    configfs: sanitize configfs_create()
    ...

    Linus Torvalds
     
  • Pull kmap_atomic cleanup from Cong Wang.

    It's been in -next for a long time, and it gets rid of the (no longer
    used) second argument to k[un]map_atomic().

    Fix up a few trivial conflicts in various drivers, and do an "evil
    merge" to catch some new uses that have come in since Cong's tree.

    * 'kmap_atomic' of git://github.com/congwang/linux: (59 commits)
    feature-removal-schedule.txt: schedule the deprecated form of kmap_atomic() for removal
    highmem: kill all __kmap_atomic() [swarren@nvidia.com: highmem: Fix ARM build break due to __kmap_atomic rename]
    drbd: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
    zcache: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
    gma500: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
    dm: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
    tomoyo: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
    sunrpc: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
    rds: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
    net: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
    mm: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
    lib: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
    power: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
    kdb: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
    udf: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
    ubifs: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
    squashfs: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
    reiserfs: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
    ocfs2: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
    ntfs: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
    ...

    Linus Torvalds
     

21 Mar, 2012

3 commits

  • Pull trivial tree from Jiri Kosina:
    "It's indeed trivial -- mostly documentation updates and a bunch of
    typo fixes from Masanari.

    There are also several linux/version.h include removals from Jesper."

    * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (101 commits)
    kcore: fix spelling in read_kcore() comment
    constify struct pci_dev * in obvious cases
    Revert "char: Fix typo in viotape.c"
    init: fix wording error in mm_init comment
    usb: gadget: Kconfig: fix typo for 'different'
    Revert "power, max8998: Include linux/module.h just once in drivers/power/max8998_charger.c"
    writeback: fix fn name in writeback_inodes_sb_nr_if_idle() comment header
    writeback: fix typo in the writeback_control comment
    Documentation: Fix multiple typo in Documentation
    tpm_tis: fix tis_lock with respect to RCU
    Revert "media: Fix typo in mixer_drv.c and hdmi_drv.c"
    Doc: Update numastat.txt
    qla4xxx: Add missing spaces to error messages
    compiler.h: Fix typo
    security: struct security_operations kerneldoc fix
    Documentation: broken URL in libata.tmpl
    Documentation: broken URL in filesystems.tmpl
    mtd: simplify return logic in do_map_probe()
    mm: fix comment typo of truncate_inode_pages_range
    power: bq27x00: Fix typos in comment
    ...

    Linus Torvalds
     
  • Signed-off-by: Al Viro

    Al Viro
     
  • Signed-off-by: Al Viro

    Al Viro
     

20 Mar, 2012

1 commit


24 Feb, 2012

1 commit


22 Feb, 2012

2 commits


21 Feb, 2012

1 commit


04 Feb, 2012

2 commits


13 Jan, 2012

1 commit

  • For historical reasons, we allow module_param(bool) to take an int (or
    an unsigned int). That's going away.

    A few drivers really want an int: they set it to -1 and a parameter
    will set it to 0 or 1. This sucks: reading them from sysfs will give
    'Y' for both -1 and 1, but if we change it to an int, then the users
    might be broken (if they did "param" instead of "param=1").

    Use a new 'bint' parser for them.

    (ntfs has a different problem: it needs an int for debug_msgs because
    it's also exposed via sysctl.)

    Cc: Steve Glendinning
    Cc: Jean Delvare
    Cc: Guenter Roeck
    Cc: Hoang-Nam Nguyen
    Cc: Christoph Raisch
    Cc: Roland Dreier
    Cc: Sean Hefty
    Cc: Hal Rosenstock
    Cc: linux390@de.ibm.com
    Cc: Anton Altaparmakov
    Cc: Jaroslav Kysela
    Cc: Takashi Iwai
    Cc: lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org
    Cc: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org
    Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
    Cc: linux-ntfs-dev@lists.sourceforge.net
    Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org
    Acked-by: Takashi Iwai (For the sound part)
    Acked-by: Guenter Roeck (For the hwmon driver)
    Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell

    Rusty Russell
     

07 Jan, 2012

1 commit


04 Jan, 2012

2 commits


02 Nov, 2011

1 commit


01 Nov, 2011

1 commit

  • Standardize the style for compiler based printf format verification.
    Standardized the location of __printf too.

    Done via script and a little typing.

    $ grep -rPl --include=*.[ch] -w "__attribute__" * | \
    grep -vP "^(tools|scripts|include/linux/compiler-gcc.h)" | \
    xargs perl -n -i -e 'local $/; while (<>) { s/\b__attribute__\s*\(\s*\(\s*format\s*\(\s*printf\s*,\s*(.+)\s*,\s*(.+)\s*\)\s*\)\s*\)/__printf($1, $2)/g ; print; }'

    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: revert arch bits]
    Signed-off-by: Joe Perches
    Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov"
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Joe Perches
     

27 Jul, 2011

1 commit

  • This allows us to move duplicated code in
    (atomic_inc_not_zero() for now) to

    Signed-off-by: Arun Sharma
    Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet
    Cc: Ingo Molnar
    Cc: David Miller
    Cc: Eric Dumazet
    Acked-by: Mike Frysinger
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Arun Sharma
     

21 Jul, 2011

2 commits

  • Btrfs needs to be able to control how filemap_write_and_wait_range() is called
    in fsync to make it less of a painful operation, so push down taking i_mutex and
    the calling of filemap_write_and_wait() down into the ->fsync() handlers. Some
    file systems can drop taking the i_mutex altogether it seems, like ext3 and
    ocfs2. For correctness sake I just pushed everything down in all cases to make
    sure that we keep the current behavior the same for everybody, and then each
    individual fs maintainer can make up their mind about what to do from there.
    Thanks,

    Acked-by: Jan Kara
    Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik
    Signed-off-by: Al Viro

    Josef Bacik
     
  • i_alloc_sem is a rather special rw_semaphore. It's the last one that may
    be released by a non-owner, and it's write side is always mirrored by
    real exclusion. It's intended use it to wait for all pending direct I/O
    requests to finish before starting a truncate.

    Replace it with a hand-grown construct:

    - exclusion for truncates is already guaranteed by i_mutex, so it can
    simply fall way
    - the reader side is replaced by an i_dio_count member in struct inode
    that counts the number of pending direct I/O requests. Truncate can't
    proceed as long as it's non-zero
    - when i_dio_count reaches non-zero we wake up a pending truncate using
    wake_up_bit on a new bit in i_flags
    - new references to i_dio_count can't appear while we are waiting for
    it to read zero because the direct I/O count always needs i_mutex
    (or an equivalent like XFS's i_iolock) for starting a new operation.

    This scheme is much simpler, and saves the space of a spinlock_t and a
    struct list_head in struct inode (typically 160 bits on a non-debug 64-bit
    system).

    Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
    Signed-off-by: Al Viro

    Christoph Hellwig
     

31 Mar, 2011

1 commit


25 Mar, 2011

3 commits

  • * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6:
    fs: simplify iget & friends
    fs: pull inode->i_lock up out of writeback_single_inode
    fs: rename inode_lock to inode_hash_lock
    fs: move i_wb_list out from under inode_lock
    fs: move i_sb_list out from under inode_lock
    fs: remove inode_lock from iput_final and prune_icache
    fs: Lock the inode LRU list separately
    fs: factor inode disposal
    fs: protect inode->i_state with inode->i_lock
    autofs4: Do not potentially dereference NULL pointer returned by fget() in autofs_dev_ioctl_setpipefd()
    autofs4 - remove autofs4_lock
    autofs4 - fix d_manage() return on rcu-walk
    autofs4 - fix autofs4_expire_indirect() traversal
    autofs4 - fix dentry leak in autofs4_expire_direct()
    autofs4 - reinstate last used update on access
    vfs - check non-mountpoint dentry might block in __follow_mount_rcu()

    Linus Torvalds
     
  • All that remains of the inode_lock is protecting the inode hash list
    manipulation and traversals. Rename the inode_lock to
    inode_hash_lock to reflect it's actual function.

    Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner
    Signed-off-by: Al Viro

    Dave Chinner
     
  • * 'for-2.6.39/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (65 commits)
    Documentation/iostats.txt: bit-size reference etc.
    cfq-iosched: removing unnecessary think time checking
    cfq-iosched: Don't clear queue stats when preempt.
    blk-throttle: Reset group slice when limits are changed
    blk-cgroup: Only give unaccounted_time under debug
    cfq-iosched: Don't set active queue in preempt
    block: fix non-atomic access to genhd inflight structures
    block: attempt to merge with existing requests on plug flush
    block: NULL dereference on error path in __blkdev_get()
    cfq-iosched: Don't update group weights when on service tree
    fs: assign sb->s_bdi to default_backing_dev_info if the bdi is going away
    block: Require subsystems to explicitly allocate bio_set integrity mempool
    jbd2: finish conversion from WRITE_SYNC_PLUG to WRITE_SYNC and explicit plugging
    jbd: finish conversion from WRITE_SYNC_PLUG to WRITE_SYNC and explicit plugging
    fs: make fsync_buffers_list() plug
    mm: make generic_writepages() use plugging
    blk-cgroup: Add unaccounted time to timeslice_used.
    block: fixup plugging stubs for !CONFIG_BLOCK
    block: remove obsolete comments for blkdev_issue_zeroout.
    blktrace: Use rq->cmd_flags directly in blk_add_trace_rq.
    ...

    Fix up conflicts in fs/{aio.c,super.c}

    Linus Torvalds
     

17 Mar, 2011

1 commit


10 Mar, 2011

1 commit

  • Code has been converted over to the new explicit on-stack plugging,
    and delay users have been converted to use the new API for that.
    So lets kill off the old plugging along with aops->sync_page().

    Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

    Jens Axboe
     

31 Jan, 2011

1 commit

  • In ntfs_mft_record_alloc() when mapping the new extent mft record with
    map_extent_mft_record() we overwrite @m with the return value and on
    error, we then try to use the old @m but that is no longer there as @m
    now contains an error code instead so we crash when dereferencing the
    error code as if it were a pointer.

    The simple fix is to use a temporary variable to store the return value
    thus preserving the original @m for later use. This is a backport from
    the commercial Tuxera-NTFS driver and is well tested...

    Thanks go to Julia Lawall for pointing this out (whilst I had fixed it
    in the commercial driver I had failed to fix it in the Linux kernel).

    Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Anton Altaparmakov
     

13 Jan, 2011

1 commit


07 Jan, 2011

1 commit

  • RCU free the struct inode. This will allow:

    - Subsequent store-free path walking patch. The inode must be consulted for
    permissions when walking, so an RCU inode reference is a must.
    - sb_inode_list_lock to be moved inside i_lock because sb list walkers who want
    to take i_lock no longer need to take sb_inode_list_lock to walk the list in
    the first place. This will simplify and optimize locking.
    - Could remove some nested trylock loops in dcache code
    - Could potentially simplify things a bit in VM land. Do not need to take the
    page lock to follow page->mapping.

    The downsides of this is the performance cost of using RCU. In a simple
    creat/unlink microbenchmark, performance drops by about 10% due to inability to
    reuse cache-hot slab objects. As iterations increase and RCU freeing starts
    kicking over, this increases to about 20%.

    In cases where inode lifetimes are longer (ie. many inodes may be allocated
    during the average life span of a single inode), a lot of this cache reuse is
    not applicable, so the regression caused by this patch is smaller.

    The cache-hot regression could largely be avoided by using SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU,
    however this adds some complexity to list walking and store-free path walking,
    so I prefer to implement this at a later date, if it is shown to be a win in
    real situations. I haven't found a regression in any non-micro benchmark so I
    doubt it will be a problem.

    Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin

    Nick Piggin
     

29 Oct, 2010

1 commit