18 Oct, 2020
1 commit
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A previous commit changed the notification mode from true/false to an
int, allowing notify-no, notify-yes, or signal-notify. This was
backwards compatible in the sense that any existing true/false user
would translate to either 0 (on notification sent) or 1, the latter
which mapped to TWA_RESUME. TWA_SIGNAL was assigned a value of 2.Clean this up properly, and define a proper enum for the notification
mode. Now we have:- TWA_NONE. This is 0, same as before the original change, meaning no
notification requested.
- TWA_RESUME. This is 1, same as before the original change, meaning
that we use TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME.
- TWA_SIGNAL. This uses TIF_SIGPENDING/JOBCTL_TASK_WORK for the
notification.Clean up all the callers, switching their 0/1/false/true to using the
appropriate TWA_* mode for notifications.Fixes: e91b48162332 ("task_work: teach task_work_add() to do signal_wake_up()")
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
30 Jun, 2020
1 commit
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This reverts commit e9c15badbb7b ("fs: Do not check if there is a
fsnotify watcher on pseudo inodes"). The commit intended to eliminate
fsnotify-related overhead for pseudo inodes but it is broken in
concept. inotify can receive events of pipe files under /proc/X/fd and
chromium relies on close and open events for sandboxing. Maxim Levitsky
reported the followingChromium starts as a white rectangle, shows few white rectangles that
resemble its notifications and then crashes.The stdout output from chromium:
[mlevitsk@starship ~]$chromium-freeworld
mesa: for the --simplifycfg-sink-common option: may only occur zero or one times!
mesa: for the --global-isel-abort option: may only occur zero or one times!
[3379:3379:0628/135151.440930:ERROR:browser_switcher_service.cc(238)] XXX Init()
../../sandbox/linux/seccomp-bpf-helpers/sigsys_handlers.cc:**CRASHING**:seccomp-bpf failure in syscall 0072
Received signal 11 SEGV_MAPERR 0000004a9048Crashes are not universal but even if chromium does not crash, it certainly
does not work properly. While filtering just modify and access might be
safe, the benefit is not worth the risk hence the revert.Reported-by: Maxim Levitsky
Fixes: e9c15badbb7b ("fs: Do not check if there is a fsnotify watcher on pseudo inodes")
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
16 Jun, 2020
1 commit
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The kernel uses internal mounts created by kern_mount() and populated
with files with no lookup path by alloc_file_pseudo() for a variety of
reasons. An example of such a mount is for anonymous pipes. For pipes,
every vfs_write() regardless of filesystem, calls fsnotify_modify()
to notify of any changes which incurs a small amount of overhead in
fsnotify even when there are no watchers. It can also trigger for reads
and readv and writev, it was simply vfs_write() that was noticed first.A patch is pending that reduces, but does not eliminate, the overhead of
fsnotify but for files that cannot be looked up via a path, even that
small overhead is unnecessary. The user API for all notification
subsystems (inotify, fanotify, ...) is based on the pathname and a dirfd
and proc entries appear to be the only visible representation of the
files. Proc does not have the same pathname as the internal entry and
the proc inode is not the same as the internal inode so even if fanotify
is used on a file under /proc/XX/fd, no useful events are notified.This patch changes alloc_file_pseudo() to always opt out of fsnotify by
setting FMODE_NONOTIFY flag so that no check is made for fsnotify
watchers on pseudo files. This should be safe as the underlying helper
for the dentry is d_alloc_pseudo() which explicitly states that no
lookups are ever performed meaning that fanotify should have nothing
useful to attach to.The test motivating this was "perf bench sched messaging --pipe". On
a single-socket machine using threads the difference of the patch was
as follows.5.7.0 5.7.0
vanilla nofsnotify-v1r1
Amean 1 1.3837 ( 0.00%) 1.3547 ( 2.10%)
Amean 3 3.7360 ( 0.00%) 3.6543 ( 2.19%)
Amean 5 5.8130 ( 0.00%) 5.7233 * 1.54%*
Amean 7 8.1490 ( 0.00%) 7.9730 * 2.16%*
Amean 12 14.6843 ( 0.00%) 14.1820 ( 3.42%)
Amean 18 21.8840 ( 0.00%) 21.7460 ( 0.63%)
Amean 24 28.8697 ( 0.00%) 29.1680 ( -1.03%)
Amean 30 36.0787 ( 0.00%) 35.2640 * 2.26%*
Amean 32 38.0527 ( 0.00%) 38.1223 ( -0.18%)The difference is small but in some cases it's outside the noise so
while marginal, there is still some small benefit to ignoring fsnotify
for files allocated via alloc_file_pseudo() in some cases.Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200615121358.GF3183@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman
Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara
04 Jun, 2020
1 commit
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Pull networking updates from David Miller:
1) Allow setting bluetooth L2CAP modes via socket option, from Luiz
Augusto von Dentz.2) Add GSO partial support to igc, from Sasha Neftin.
3) Several cleanups and improvements to r8169 from Heiner Kallweit.
4) Add IF_OPER_TESTING link state and use it when ethtool triggers a
device self-test. From Andrew Lunn.5) Start moving away from custom driver versions, use the globally
defined kernel version instead, from Leon Romanovsky.6) Support GRO vis gro_cells in DSA layer, from Alexander Lobakin.
7) Allow hard IRQ deferral during NAPI, from Eric Dumazet.
8) Add sriov and vf support to hinic, from Luo bin.
9) Support Media Redundancy Protocol (MRP) in the bridging code, from
Horatiu Vultur.10) Support netmap in the nft_nat code, from Pablo Neira Ayuso.
11) Allow UDPv6 encapsulation of ESP in the ipsec code, from Sabrina
Dubroca. Also add ipv6 support for espintcp.12) Lots of ReST conversions of the networking documentation, from Mauro
Carvalho Chehab.13) Support configuration of ethtool rxnfc flows in bcmgenet driver,
from Doug Berger.14) Allow to dump cgroup id and filter by it in inet_diag code, from
Dmitry Yakunin.15) Add infrastructure to export netlink attribute policies to
userspace, from Johannes Berg.16) Several optimizations to sch_fq scheduler, from Eric Dumazet.
17) Fallback to the default qdisc if qdisc init fails because otherwise
a packet scheduler init failure will make a device inoperative. From
Jesper Dangaard Brouer.18) Several RISCV bpf jit optimizations, from Luke Nelson.
19) Correct the return type of the ->ndo_start_xmit() method in several
drivers, it's netdev_tx_t but many drivers were using
'int'. From Yunjian Wang.20) Add an ethtool interface for PHY master/slave config, from Oleksij
Rempel.21) Add BPF iterators, from Yonghang Song.
22) Add cable test infrastructure, including ethool interfaces, from
Andrew Lunn. Marvell PHY driver is the first to support this
facility.23) Remove zero-length arrays all over, from Gustavo A. R. Silva.
24) Calculate and maintain an explicit frame size in XDP, from Jesper
Dangaard Brouer.25) Add CAP_BPF, from Alexei Starovoitov.
26) Support terse dumps in the packet scheduler, from Vlad Buslov.
27) Support XDP_TX bulking in dpaa2 driver, from Ioana Ciornei.
28) Add devm_register_netdev(), from Bartosz Golaszewski.
29) Minimize qdisc resets, from Cong Wang.
30) Get rid of kernel_getsockopt and kernel_setsockopt in order to
eliminate set_fs/get_fs calls. From Christoph Hellwig.* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (2517 commits)
selftests: net: ip_defrag: ignore EPERM
net_failover: fixed rollback in net_failover_open()
Revert "tipc: Fix potential tipc_aead refcnt leak in tipc_crypto_rcv"
Revert "tipc: Fix potential tipc_node refcnt leak in tipc_rcv"
vmxnet3: allow rx flow hash ops only when rss is enabled
hinic: add set_channels ethtool_ops support
selftests/bpf: Add a default $(CXX) value
tools/bpf: Don't use $(COMPILE.c)
bpf, selftests: Use bpf_probe_read_kernel
s390/bpf: Use bcr 0,%0 as tail call nop filler
s390/bpf: Maintain 8-byte stack alignment
selftests/bpf: Fix verifier test
selftests/bpf: Fix sample_cnt shared between two threads
bpf, selftests: Adapt cls_redirect to call csum_level helper
bpf: Add csum_level helper for fixing up csum levels
bpf: Fix up bpf_skb_adjust_room helper's skb csum setting
sfc: add missing annotation for efx_ef10_try_update_nic_stats_vf()
crypto/chtls: IPv6 support for inline TLS
Crypto/chcr: Fixes a coccinile check error
Crypto/chcr: Fixes compilations warnings
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03 Jun, 2020
1 commit
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Patch series "vfs: have syncfs() return error when there are writeback
errors", v6.Currently, syncfs does not return errors when one of the inodes fails to
be written back. It will return errors based on the legacy AS_EIO and
AS_ENOSPC flags when syncing out the block device fails, but that's not
particularly helpful for filesystems that aren't backed by a blockdev.
It's also possible for a stray sync to lose those errors.The basic idea in this set is to track writeback errors at the
superblock level, so that we can quickly and easily check whether
something bad happened without having to fsync each file individually.
syncfs is then changed to reliably report writeback errors after they
occur, much in the same fashion as fsync does now.This patch (of 2):
Usually we suggest that applications call fsync when they want to ensure
that all data written to the file has made it to the backing store, but
that can be inefficient when there are a lot of open files.Calling syncfs on the filesystem can be more efficient in some
situations, but the error reporting doesn't currently work the way most
people expect. If a single inode on a filesystem reports a writeback
error, syncfs won't necessarily return an error. syncfs only returns an
error if __sync_blockdev fails, and on some filesystems that's a no-op.It would be better if syncfs reported an error if there were any
writeback failures. Then applications could call syncfs to see if there
are any errors on any open files, and could then call fsync on all of
the other descriptors to figure out which one failed.This patch adds a new errseq_t to struct super_block, and has
mapping_set_error also record writeback errors there.To report those errors, we also need to keep an errseq_t in struct file
to act as a cursor. This patch adds a dedicated field for that purpose,
which slots nicely into 4 bytes of padding at the end of struct file on
x86_64.An earlier version of this patch used an O_PATH file descriptor to cue
the kernel that the open file should track the superblock error and not
the inode's writeback error.I think that API is just too weird though. This is simpler and should
make syncfs error reporting "just work" even if someone is multiplexing
fsync and syncfs on the same fds.Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara
Cc: Andres Freund
Cc: Matthew Wilcox
Cc: Al Viro
Cc: Christoph Hellwig
Cc: Dave Chinner
Cc: David Howells
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200428135155.19223-1-jlayton@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200428135155.19223-2-jlayton@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
27 Apr, 2020
1 commit
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Instead of having all the sysctl handlers deal with user pointers, which
is rather hairy in terms of the BPF interaction, copy the input to and
from userspace in common code. This also means that the strings are
always NUL-terminated by the common code, making the API a little bit
safer.As most handler just pass through the data to one of the common handlers
a lot of the changes are mechnical.Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
Acked-by: Andrey Ignatov
Signed-off-by: Al Viro
19 Aug, 2019
1 commit
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Allow knfsd to flush the delayed fput list so that it can ensure the
cached struct file is closed before it is unlinked.Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields
21 May, 2019
1 commit
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Add SPDX license identifiers to all files which:
- Have no license information of any form
- Have EXPORT_.*_SYMBOL_GPL inside which was used in the
initial scan/conversion to ignore the fileThese files fall under the project license, GPL v2 only. The resulting SPDX
license identifier is:GPL-2.0-only
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
21 Mar, 2019
1 commit
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open_tree(dfd, pathname, flags)
Returns an O_PATH-opened file descriptor or an error.
dfd and pathname specify the location to open, in usual
fashion (see e.g. fstatat(2)). flags should be an OR of
some of the following:
* AT_PATH_EMPTY, AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW -
same meanings as usual
* OPEN_TREE_CLOEXEC - make the resulting descriptor
close-on-exec
* OPEN_TREE_CLONE or OPEN_TREE_CLONE | AT_RECURSIVE -
instead of opening the location in question, create a detached
mount tree matching the subtree rooted at location specified by
dfd/pathname. With AT_RECURSIVE the entire subtree is cloned,
without it - only the part within in the mount containing the
location in question. In other words, the same as mount --rbind
or mount --bind would've taken. The detached tree will be
dissolved on the final close of obtained file. Creation of such
detached trees requires the same capabilities as doing mount --bind.Signed-off-by: Al Viro
Signed-off-by: David Howells
cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro
28 Feb, 2019
1 commit
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Some uses cases repeatedly get and put references to the same file, but
the only exposed interface is doing these one at the time. As each of
these entail an atomic inc or dec on a shared structure, that cost can
add up.Add fget_many(), which works just like fget(), except it takes an
argument for how many references to get on the file. Ditto fput_many(),
which can drop an arbitrary number of references to a file.Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
29 Dec, 2018
2 commits
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totalram_pages and totalhigh_pages are made static inline function.
Main motivation was that managed_page_count_lock handling was complicating
things. It was discussed in length here,
https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/995739/#1181785 So it seemes
better to remove the lock and convert variables to atomic, with preventing
poteintial store-to-read tearing as a bonus.[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding style fixes]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1542090790-21750-4-git-send-email-arunks@codeaurora.org
Signed-off-by: Arun KS
Suggested-by: Michal Hocko
Suggested-by: Vlastimil Babka
Reviewed-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov
Reviewed-by: Pavel Tatashin
Acked-by: Michal Hocko
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka
Cc: David Hildenbrand
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Patch series "mm: convert totalram_pages, totalhigh_pages and managed
pages to atomic", v5.This series converts totalram_pages, totalhigh_pages and
zone->managed_pages to atomic variables.totalram_pages, zone->managed_pages and totalhigh_pages updates are
protected by managed_page_count_lock, but readers never care about it.
Convert these variables to atomic to avoid readers potentially seeing a
store tear.Main motivation was that managed_page_count_lock handling was complicating
things. It was discussed in length here,
https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/995739/#1181785 It seemes better
to remove the lock and convert variables to atomic. With the change,
preventing poteintial store-to-read tearing comes as a bonus.This patch (of 4):
This is in preparation to a later patch which converts totalram_pages and
zone->managed_pages to atomic variables. Please note that re-reading the
value might lead to a different value and as such it could lead to
unexpected behavior. There are no known bugs as a result of the current
code but it is better to prevent from them in principle.Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1542090790-21750-2-git-send-email-arunks@codeaurora.org
Signed-off-by: Arun KS
Reviewed-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand
Acked-by: Michal Hocko
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka
Reviewed-by: Pavel Tatashin
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
22 Aug, 2018
1 commit
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Pull overlayfs updates from Miklos Szeredi:
"This contains two new features:- Stack file operations: this allows removal of several hacks from
the VFS, proper interaction of read-only open files with copy-up,
possibility to implement fs modifying ioctls properly, and others.- Metadata only copy-up: when file is on lower layer and only
metadata is modified (except size) then only copy up the metadata
and continue to use the data from the lower file"* tag 'ovl-update-4.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/vfs: (66 commits)
ovl: Enable metadata only feature
ovl: Do not do metacopy only for ioctl modifying file attr
ovl: Do not do metadata only copy-up for truncate operation
ovl: add helper to force data copy-up
ovl: Check redirect on index as well
ovl: Set redirect on upper inode when it is linked
ovl: Set redirect on metacopy files upon rename
ovl: Do not set dentry type ORIGIN for broken hardlinks
ovl: Add an inode flag OVL_CONST_INO
ovl: Treat metacopy dentries as type OVL_PATH_MERGE
ovl: Check redirects for metacopy files
ovl: Move some dir related ovl_lookup_single() code in else block
ovl: Do not expose metacopy only dentry from d_real()
ovl: Open file with data except for the case of fsync
ovl: Add helper ovl_inode_realdata()
ovl: Store lower data inode in ovl_inode
ovl: Fix ovl_getattr() to get number of blocks from lower
ovl: Add helper ovl_dentry_lowerdata() to get lower data dentry
ovl: Copy up meta inode data from lowest data inode
ovl: Modify ovl_lookup() and friends to lookup metacopy dentry
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18 Jul, 2018
1 commit
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Stacking file operations in overlay will store an extra open file for each
overlay file opened.The overhead is just that of "struct file" which is about 256bytes, because
overlay already pins an extra dentry and inode when the file is open, which
add up to a much larger overhead.For fear of breaking working setups, don't start accounting the extra file.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi
12 Jul, 2018
8 commits
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Acked-by: Linus Torvalds
Signed-off-by: Al Viro -
alloc_file_clone(old_file, mode, ops): create a new struct file with
->f_path equal to that of old_file. pipe converted.Acked-by: Linus Torvalds
Signed-off-by: Al Viro -
takes inode, vfsmount, name, O_... flags and file_operations and
either returns a new struct file (in which case inode reference we
held is consumed) or returns ERR_PTR(), in which case no refcounts
are altered.converted aio_private_file() and sock_alloc_file() to it
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds
Signed-off-by: Al Viro -
Just check FMODE_OPENED in __fput() and be done with that...
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds
Signed-off-by: Al Viro -
basically, "is that instance set up enough for regular fput(), or
do we want put_filp() for that one".NOTE: the only alloc_file() caller that could be followed by put_filp()
is in arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c, which is (Kconfig-level) broken.Acked-by: Linus Torvalds
Signed-off-by: Al Viro -
... and have it set the f_flags-derived part of ->f_mode.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro
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... and rename get_empty_filp() to alloc_empty_file().
dentry_open() gets creds as argument, but the only thing that sees those is
security_file_open() - file->f_cred still ends up with current_cred(). For
almost all callers it's the same thing, but there are several broken cases.Acked-by: Linus Torvalds
Signed-off-by: Al Viro -
... so that it could set both ->f_flags and ->f_mode, without callers
having to set ->f_flags manually.Signed-off-by: Al Viro
11 Jul, 2018
1 commit
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.. and the call of file_free() in case of security_file_alloc() failure
in get_empty_filp() should be simply file_free_rcu() - no point in
rcu-delays there, anyway.Acked-by: Linus Torvalds
Signed-off-by: Al Viro
08 Dec, 2017
1 commit
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Preempt counter APIs have been split out, currently, hardirq.h just
includes irq_enter/exit APIs which are not used by vfs at all.So, remove the unused hardirq.h.
Signed-off-by: Yang Shi
Cc: Alexander Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro
16 Nov, 2017
1 commit
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The allocations from filp cache can be directly triggered by userspace
applications. A buggy application can consume a significant amount of
unaccounted system memory. Though we have not noticed such buggy
applications in our production but upon close inspection, we found that
a lot of machines spend very significant amount of memory on these
caches.One way to limit allocations from filp cache is to set system level
limit of maximum number of open files. However this limit is shared
between different users on the system and one user can hog this
resource. To cater that, we can charge filp to kmemcg and set the
maximum limit very high and let the memory limit of each user limit the
number of files they can open and indirectly limiting their allocations
from filp cache.One side effect of this change is that it will allow _sysctl() to return
ENOMEM and the man page of _sysctl() does not specify that. However the
man page also discourages to use _sysctl() at all.Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171011190359.34926-1-shakeelb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt
Cc: Alexander Viro
Cc: Vladimir Davydov
Cc: Michal Hocko
Cc: Greg Thelen
Cc: Johannes Weiner
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
09 Nov, 2017
1 commit
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The file hash is calculated and written out as an xattr after
calling fasync(). In order for the file data and metadata to be
written out to disk at the same time, this patch calculates the
file hash and stores it as an xattr before calling fasync.Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar
28 Aug, 2017
1 commit
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Although llist provides proper APIs, they are not used. Make them used.
Signed-off-by: Byungchul Park
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov
Signed-off-by: Al Viro
06 Jul, 2017
1 commit
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Most filesystems currently use mapping_set_error and
filemap_check_errors for setting and reporting/clearing writeback errors
at the mapping level. filemap_check_errors is indirectly called from
most of the filemap_fdatawait_* functions and from
filemap_write_and_wait*. These functions are called from all sorts of
contexts to wait on writeback to finish -- e.g. mostly in fsync, but
also in truncate calls, getattr, etc.The non-fsync callers are problematic. We should be reporting writeback
errors during fsync, but many places spread over the tree clear out
errors before they can be properly reported, or report errors at
nonsensical times.If I get -EIO on a stat() call, there is no reason for me to assume that
it is because some previous writeback failed. The fact that it also
clears out the error such that a subsequent fsync returns 0 is a bug,
and a nasty one since that's potentially silent data corruption.This patch adds a small bit of new infrastructure for setting and
reporting errors during address_space writeback. While the above was my
original impetus for adding this, I think it's also the case that
current fsync semantics are just problematic for userland. Most
applications that call fsync do so to ensure that the data they wrote
has hit the backing store.In the case where there are multiple writers to the file at the same
time, this is really hard to determine. The first one to call fsync will
see any stored error, and the rest get back 0. The processes with open
fds may not be associated with one another in any way. They could even
be in different containers, so ensuring coordination between all fsync
callers is not really an option.One way to remedy this would be to track what file descriptor was used
to dirty the file, but that's rather cumbersome and would likely be
slow. However, there is a simpler way to improve the semantics here
without incurring too much overhead.This set adds an errseq_t to struct address_space, and a corresponding
one is added to struct file. Writeback errors are recorded in the
mapping's errseq_t, and the one in struct file is used as the "since"
value.This changes the semantics of the Linux fsync implementation such that
applications can now use it to determine whether there were any
writeback errors since fsync(fd) was last called (or since the file was
opened in the case of fsync having never been called).Note that those writeback errors may have occurred when writing data
that was dirtied via an entirely different fd, but that's the case now
with the current mapping_set_error/filemap_check_error infrastructure.
This will at least prevent you from getting a false report of success.The new behavior is still consistent with the POSIX spec, and is more
reliable for application developers. This patch just adds some basic
infrastructure for doing this, and ensures that the f_wb_err "cursor"
is properly set when a file is opened. Later patches will change the
existing code to use this new infrastructure for reporting errors at
fsync time.Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara
02 Mar, 2017
1 commit
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Add #include dependencies to all .c files rely on sched.h
doing that for them.Note that even if the count where we need to add extra headers seems high,
it's still a net win, because is included in over
2,200 files ...Acked-by: Linus Torvalds
Cc: Mike Galbraith
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
06 Dec, 2016
1 commit
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro
07 Aug, 2015
1 commit
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Dave Hansen reported the following;
My laptop has been behaving strangely with 4.2-rc2. Once I log
in to my X session, I start getting all kinds of strange errors
from applications and see this in my dmesg:VFS: file-max limit 8192 reached
The problem is that the file-max is calculated before memory is fully
initialised and miscalculates how much memory the kernel is using. This
patch recalculates file-max after deferred memory initialisation. Note
that using memory hotplug infrastructure would not have avoided this
problem as the value is not recalculated after memory hot-add.4.1: files_stat.max_files = 6582781
4.2-rc2: files_stat.max_files = 8192
4.2-rc2 patched: files_stat.max_files = 6562467Small differences with the patch applied and 4.1 but not enough to matter.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman
Reported-by: Dave Hansen
Cc: Nicolai Stange
Cc: Dave Hansen
Cc: Alex Ng
Cc: Fengguang Wu
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel)
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
24 Jun, 2015
1 commit
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro
12 Apr, 2015
1 commit
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no remaining users
Signed-off-by: Al Viro
13 Oct, 2014
2 commits
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Pull vfs updates from Al Viro:
"The big thing in this pile is Eric's unmount-on-rmdir series; we
finally have everything we need for that. The final piece of prereqs
is delayed mntput() - now filesystem shutdown always happens on
shallow stack.Other than that, we have several new primitives for iov_iter (Matt
Wilcox, culled from his XIP-related series) pushing the conversion to
->read_iter()/ ->write_iter() a bit more, a bunch of fs/dcache.c
cleanups and fixes (including the external name refcounting, which
gives consistent behaviour of d_move() wrt procfs symlinks for long
and short names alike) and assorted cleanups and fixes all over the
place.This is just the first pile; there's a lot of stuff from various
people that ought to go in this window. Starting with
unionmount/overlayfs mess... ;-/"* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (60 commits)
fs/file_table.c: Update alloc_file() comment
vfs: Deduplicate code shared by xattr system calls operating on paths
reiserfs: remove pointless forward declaration of struct nameidata
don't need that forward declaration of struct nameidata in dcache.h anymore
take dname_external() into fs/dcache.c
let path_init() failures treated the same way as subsequent link_path_walk()
fix misuses of f_count() in ppp and netlink
ncpfs: use list_for_each_entry() for d_subdirs walk
vfs: move getname() from callers to do_mount()
gfs2_atomic_open(): skip lookups on hashed dentry
[infiniband] remove pointless assignments
gadgetfs: saner API for gadgetfs_create_file()
f_fs: saner API for ffs_sb_create_file()
jfs: don't hash direct inode
[s390] remove pointless assignment of ->f_op in vmlogrdr ->open()
ecryptfs: ->f_op is never NULL
android: ->f_op is never NULL
nouveau: __iomem misannotations
missing annotation in fs/file.c
fs: namespace: suppress 'may be used uninitialized' warnings
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This comment is 5 years outdated; init_file() no longer exists.
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers
Signed-off-by: Al Viro
08 Sep, 2014
1 commit
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Percpu allocator now supports allocation mask. Add @gfp to
percpu_counter_init() so that !GFP_KERNEL allocation masks can be used
with percpu_counters too.We could have left percpu_counter_init() alone and added
percpu_counter_init_gfp(); however, the number of users isn't that
high and introducing _gfp variants to all percpu data structures would
be quite ugly, so let's just do the conversion. This is the one with
the most users. Other percpu data structures are a lot easier to
convert.This patch doesn't make any functional difference.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo
Acked-by: Jan Kara
Acked-by: "David S. Miller"
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: Jens Axboe
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o"
Cc: Alexander Viro
Cc: Andrew Morton
13 Jun, 2014
1 commit
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Pull vfs updates from Al Viro:
"This the bunch that sat in -next + lock_parent() fix. This is the
minimal set; there's more pending stuff.In particular, I really hope to get acct.c fixes merged this cycle -
we need that to deal sanely with delayed-mntput stuff. In the next
pile, hopefully - that series is fairly short and localized
(kernel/acct.c, fs/super.c and fs/namespace.c). In this pile: more
iov_iter work. Most of prereqs for ->splice_write with sane locking
order are there and Kent's dio rewrite would also fit nicely on top of
this pile"* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (70 commits)
lock_parent: don't step on stale ->d_parent of all-but-freed one
kill generic_file_splice_write()
ceph: switch to iter_file_splice_write()
shmem: switch to iter_file_splice_write()
nfs: switch to iter_splice_write_file()
fs/splice.c: remove unneeded exports
ocfs2: switch to iter_file_splice_write()
->splice_write() via ->write_iter()
bio_vec-backed iov_iter
optimize copy_page_{to,from}_iter()
bury generic_file_aio_{read,write}
lustre: get rid of messing with iovecs
ceph: switch to ->write_iter()
ceph_sync_direct_write: stop poking into iov_iter guts
ceph_sync_read: stop poking into iov_iter guts
new helper: copy_page_from_iter()
fuse: switch to ->write_iter()
btrfs: switch to ->write_iter()
ocfs2: switch to ->write_iter()
xfs: switch to ->write_iter()
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07 Jun, 2014
1 commit
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This typedef is unnecessary and should just be removed.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
07 May, 2014
2 commits
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Beginning to introduce those. Just the callers for now, and it's
clumsier than it'll eventually become; once we finish converting
aio_read and aio_write instances, the things will get nicer.For now, these guys are in parallel to ->aio_read() and ->aio_write();
they take iocb and iov_iter, with everything in iov_iter already
validated. File offset is passed in iocb->ki_pos, iov/nr_segs -
in iov_iter.Main concerns in that series are stack footprint and ability to
split the damn thing cleanly.[fix from Peter Ujfalusi folded]
Signed-off-by: Al Viro
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Since we are about to introduce new methods (read_iter/write_iter), the
tests in a bunch of places would have to grow inconveniently. Check
once (at open() time) and store results in ->f_mode as FMODE_CAN_READ
and FMODE_CAN_WRITE resp. It might end up being a temporary measure -
once everything switches from ->aio_{read,write} to ->{read,write}_iter
it might make sense to return to open-coded checks. We'll see...Signed-off-by: Al Viro