17 Feb, 2016
1 commit
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inode struct members that track cgroup writeback information
should be reinitialized when inode gets allocated from
kmem_cache. Otherwise, their values remain and get used by the
new inode.Signed-off-by: Tahsin Erdogan
Acked-by: Tejun Heo
Fixes: d10c80955265 ("writeback: implement foreign cgroup inode bdi_writeback switching")
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
24 Jan, 2016
1 commit
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Pull final vfs updates from Al Viro:
- The ->i_mutex wrappers (with small prereq in lustre)
- a fix for too early freeing of symlink bodies on shmem (they need to
be RCU-delayed) (-stable fodder)- followup to dedupe stuff merged this cycle
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
vfs: abort dedupe loop if fatal signals are pending
make sure that freeing shmem fast symlinks is RCU-delayed
wrappers for ->i_mutex access
lustre: remove unused declaration
23 Jan, 2016
2 commits
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Add support for tracking dirty DAX entries in the struct address_space
radix tree. This tree is already used for dirty page writeback, and it
already supports the use of exceptional (non struct page*) entries.In order to properly track dirty DAX pages we will insert new
exceptional entries into the radix tree that represent dirty DAX PTE or
PMD pages. These exceptional entries will also contain the writeback
addresses for the PTE or PMD faults that we can use at fsync/msync time.There are currently two types of exceptional entries (shmem and shadow)
that can be placed into the radix tree, and this adds a third. We rely
on the fact that only one type of exceptional entry can be found in a
given radix tree based on its usage. This happens for free with DAX vs
shmem but we explicitly prevent shadow entries from being added to radix
trees for DAX mappings.The only shadow entries that would be generated for DAX radix trees
would be to track zero page mappings that were created for holes. These
pages would receive minimal benefit from having shadow entries, and the
choice to have only one type of exceptional entry in a given radix tree
makes the logic simpler both in clear_exceptional_entry() and in the
rest of DAX.Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin"
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields"
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o"
Cc: Alexander Viro
Cc: Andreas Dilger
Cc: Dave Chinner
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Jan Kara
Cc: Jeff Layton
Cc: Matthew Wilcox
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: Dan Williams
Cc: Matthew Wilcox
Cc: Dave Hansen
Cc: Hugh Dickins
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
parallel to mutex_{lock,unlock,trylock,is_locked,lock_nested},
inode_foo(inode) being mutex_foo(&inode->i_mutex).Please, use those for access to ->i_mutex; over the coming cycle
->i_mutex will become rwsem, with ->lookup() done with it held
only shared.Signed-off-by: Al Viro
15 Jan, 2016
1 commit
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Mark those kmem allocations that are known to be easily triggered from
userspace as __GFP_ACCOUNT/SLAB_ACCOUNT, which makes them accounted to
memcg. For the list, see below:- threadinfo
- task_struct
- task_delay_info
- pid
- cred
- mm_struct
- vm_area_struct and vm_region (nommu)
- anon_vma and anon_vma_chain
- signal_struct
- sighand_struct
- fs_struct
- files_struct
- fdtable and fdtable->full_fds_bits
- dentry and external_name
- inode for all filesystems. This is the most tedious part, because
most filesystems overwrite the alloc_inode method.The list is far from complete, so feel free to add more objects.
Nevertheless, it should be close to "account everything" approach and
keep most workloads within bounds. Malevolent users will be able to
breach the limit, but this was possible even with the former "account
everything" approach (simply because it did not account everything in
fact).[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner
Acked-by: Michal Hocko
Cc: Tejun Heo
Cc: Greg Thelen
Cc: Christoph Lameter
Cc: Pekka Enberg
Cc: David Rientjes
Cc: Joonsoo Kim
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
13 Jan, 2016
1 commit
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Pull file locking updates from Jeff Layton:
"File locking related changes for v4.5 (pile #1)Highlights:
- new Kconfig option to allow disabling mandatory locking (which is
racy anyway)
- new tracepoints for setlk and close codepaths
- fix for a long-standing bug in code that handles races between
setting a POSIX lock and close()"* tag 'locks-v4.5-1' of git://git.samba.org/jlayton/linux:
locks: rename __posix_lock_file to posix_lock_inode
locks: prink more detail when there are leaked locks
locks: pass inode pointer to locks_free_lock_context
locks: sprinkle some tracepoints around the file locking code
locks: don't check for race with close when setting OFD lock
locks: fix unlock when fcntl_setlk races with a close
fs: make locks.c explicitly non-modular
locks: use list_first_entry_or_null()
locks: Don't allow mounts in user namespaces to enable mandatory locking
locks: Allow disabling mandatory locking at compile time
09 Jan, 2016
1 commit
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...so we can print information about it if there are leaked locks.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton
Acked-by: "J. Bruce Fields"
09 Dec, 2015
1 commit
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kmap() in page_follow_link_light() needed to go - allowing to hold
an arbitrary number of kmaps for long is a great way to deadlocking
the system.new helper (inode_nohighmem(inode)) needs to be used for pagecache
symlinks inodes; done for all in-tree cases. page_follow_link_light()
instrumented to yell about anything missed.Signed-off-by: Al Viro
10 Nov, 2015
1 commit
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Fix kernel-doc warning in fs/inode.c:
../fs/inode.c:1606: warning: No description found for parameter 'inode'
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap
Cc: Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
19 Aug, 2015
1 commit
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On a box with a lot of ram (148gb) I can make the box softlockup after running
an fs_mark job that creates hundreds of millions of empty files. This is
because we never generate enough memory pressure to keep the number of inodes on
our unused list low, so when we go to unmount we have to evict ~100 million
inodes. This makes one processor a very unhappy person, so add a cond_resched()
in dispose_list() and if we need a resched when processing the s_inodes list do
that and run dispose_list() on what we've currently culled. Thanks,Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara
18 Aug, 2015
2 commits
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There's a small consistency problem between the inode and writeback
naming. Writeback calls the "for IO" inode queues b_io and
b_more_io, but the inode calls these the "writeback list" or
i_wb_list. This makes it hard to an new "under writeback" list to
the inode, or call it an "under IO" list on the bdi because either
way we'll have writeback on IO and IO on writeback and it'll just be
confusing. I'm getting confused just writing this!So, rename the inode "for IO" list variable to i_io_list so we can
add a new "writeback list" in a subsequent patch.Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig
Tested-by: Dave Chinner -
The process of reducing contention on per-superblock inode lists
starts with moving the locking to match the per-superblock inode
list. This takes the global lock out of the picture and reduces the
contention problems to within a single filesystem. This doesn't get
rid of contention as the locks still have global CPU scope, but it
does isolate operations on different superblocks form each other.Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig
Tested-by: Dave Chinner
05 Jul, 2015
1 commit
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Pull more vfs updates from Al Viro:
"Assorted VFS fixes and related cleanups (IMO the most interesting in
that part are f_path-related things and Eric's descriptor-related
stuff). UFS regression fixes (it got broken last cycle). 9P fixes.
fs-cache series, DAX patches, Jan's file_remove_suid() work"[ I'd say this is much more than "fixes and related cleanups". The
file_table locking rule change by Eric Dumazet is a rather big and
fundamental update even if the patch isn't huge. - Linus ]* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (49 commits)
9p: cope with bogus responses from server in p9_client_{read,write}
p9_client_write(): avoid double p9_free_req()
9p: forgetting to cancel request on interrupted zero-copy RPC
dax: bdev_direct_access() may sleep
block: Add support for DAX reads/writes to block devices
dax: Use copy_from_iter_nocache
dax: Add block size note to documentation
fs/file.c: __fget() and dup2() atomicity rules
fs/file.c: don't acquire files->file_lock in fd_install()
fs:super:get_anon_bdev: fix race condition could cause dev exceed its upper limitation
vfs: avoid creation of inode number 0 in get_next_ino
namei: make set_root_rcu() return void
make simple_positive() public
ufs: use dir_pages instead of ufs_dir_pages()
pagemap.h: move dir_pages() over there
remove the pointless include of lglock.h
fs: cleanup slight list_entry abuse
xfs: Correctly lock inode when removing suid and file capabilities
fs: Call security_ops->inode_killpriv on truncate
fs: Provide function telling whether file_remove_privs() will do anything
...
01 Jul, 2015
1 commit
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currently, get_next_ino() is able to create inodes with inode number = 0.
This have a bad impact in the filesystems relying in this function to generate
inode numbers.While there is no problem at all in having inodes with number 0, userspace tools
which handle file management tasks can have problems handling these files, like
for example, the impossiblity of users to delete these files, since glibc will
ignore them. So, I believe the best way is kernel to avoid creating them.This problem has been raised previously, but the old thread didn't have any
other update for a year+, and I've seen too many users hitting the same issue
regarding the impossibility to delete files while using filesystems relying on
this function. So, I'm starting the thread again, with the same patch
that I believe is enough to address this problem.Signed-off-by: Carlos Maiolino
Signed-off-by: Al Viro
26 Jun, 2015
1 commit
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Pull cgroup writeback support from Jens Axboe:
"This is the big pull request for adding cgroup writeback support.This code has been in development for a long time, and it has been
simmering in for-next for a good chunk of this cycle too. This is one
of those problems that has been talked about for at least half a
decade, finally there's a solution and code to go with it.Also see last weeks writeup on LWN:
http://lwn.net/Articles/648292/"
* 'for-4.2/writeback' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (85 commits)
writeback, blkio: add documentation for cgroup writeback support
vfs, writeback: replace FS_CGROUP_WRITEBACK with SB_I_CGROUPWB
writeback: do foreign inode detection iff cgroup writeback is enabled
v9fs: fix error handling in v9fs_session_init()
bdi: fix wrong error return value in cgwb_create()
buffer: remove unusued 'ret' variable
writeback: disassociate inodes from dying bdi_writebacks
writeback: implement foreign cgroup inode bdi_writeback switching
writeback: add lockdep annotation to inode_to_wb()
writeback: use unlocked_inode_to_wb transaction in inode_congested()
writeback: implement unlocked_inode_to_wb transaction and use it for stat updates
writeback: implement [locked_]inode_to_wb_and_lock_list()
writeback: implement foreign cgroup inode detection
writeback: make writeback_control track the inode being written back
writeback: relocate wb[_try]_get(), wb_put(), inode_{attach|detach}_wb()
mm: vmscan: disable memcg direct reclaim stalling if cgroup writeback support is in use
writeback: implement memcg writeback domain based throttling
writeback: reset wb_domain->dirty_limit[_tstmp] when memcg domain size changes
writeback: implement memcg wb_domain
writeback: update wb_over_bg_thresh() to use wb_domain aware operations
...
24 Jun, 2015
4 commits
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Comment in include/linux/security.h says that ->inode_killpriv() should
be called when setuid bit is being removed and that similar security
labels (in fact this applies only to file capabilities) should be
removed at this time as well. However we don't call ->inode_killpriv()
when we remove suid bit on truncate.We fix the problem by calling ->inode_need_killpriv() and subsequently
->inode_killpriv() on truncate the same way as we do it on file write.After this patch there's only one user of should_remove_suid() - ocfs2 -
and indeed it's buggy because it doesn't call ->inode_killpriv() on
write. However fixing it is difficult because of special locking
constraints.Signed-off-by: Jan Kara
Signed-off-by: Al Viro -
Provide function telling whether file_remove_privs() will do anything.
Currently we only have should_remove_suid() and that does something
slightly different.Signed-off-by: Jan Kara
Signed-off-by: Al Viro -
file_remove_suid() is a misnomer since it removes also file capabilities
stored in xattrs and sets S_NOSEC flag. Also should_remove_suid() tells
something else than whether file_remove_suid() call is necessary which
leads to bugs.Signed-off-by: Jan Kara
Signed-off-by: Al Viro -
file_remove_suid() could mistakenly set S_NOSEC inode bit when root was
modifying the file. As a result following writes to the file by ordinary
user would avoid clearing suid or sgid bits.Fix the bug by checking actual mode bits before setting S_NOSEC.
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara
Signed-off-by: Al Viro
02 Jun, 2015
1 commit
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For the planned cgroup writeback support, on each bdi
(backing_dev_info), each memcg will be served by a separate wb
(bdi_writeback). This patch updates bdi so that a bdi can host
multiple wbs (bdi_writebacks).On the default hierarchy, blkcg implicitly enables memcg. This allows
using memcg's page ownership for attributing writeback IOs, and every
memcg - blkcg combination can be served by its own wb by assigning a
dedicated wb to each memcg. This means that there may be multiple
wb's of a bdi mapped to the same blkcg. As congested state is per
blkcg - bdi combination, those wb's should share the same congested
state. This is achieved by tracking congested state via
bdi_writeback_congested structs which are keyed by blkcg.bdi->wb remains unchanged and will keep serving the root cgroup.
cgwb's (cgroup wb's) for non-root cgroups are created on-demand or
looked up while dirtying an inode according to the memcg of the page
being dirtied or current task. Each cgwb is indexed on bdi->cgwb_tree
by its memcg id. Once an inode is associated with its wb, it can be
retrieved using inode_to_wb().Currently, none of the filesystems has FS_CGROUP_WRITEBACK and all
pages will keep being associated with bdi->wb.v3: inode_attach_wb() in account_page_dirtied() moved inside
mapping_cap_account_dirty() block where it's known to be !NULL.
Also, an unnecessary NULL check before kfree() removed. Both
detected by the kbuild bot.v2: Updated so that wb association is per inode and wb is per memcg
rather than blkcg.Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo
Cc: kbuild test robot
Cc: Dan Carpenter
Cc: Jens Axboe
Cc: Jan Kara
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
15 May, 2015
1 commit
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touch_atime is not RCU-safe, and so cannot be called on an RCU walk.
However, in situations where RCU-walk makes a difference, the symlink
will likely to accessed much more often than it is useful to update
the atime.So split out the test of "Does the atime actually need to be updated"
into atime_needs_update(), and have get_link() unlazy if it finds that
it will need to do that update.Signed-off-by: NeilBrown
Signed-off-by: Al Viro
11 May, 2015
1 commit
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let "fast" symlinks store the pointer to the body into ->i_link and
use simple_follow_link for ->follow_link()Reviewed-by: Jan Kara
Signed-off-by: Al Viro
25 Apr, 2015
1 commit
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do_blockdev_direct_IO() increments and decrements the inode
->i_dio_count for each IO operation. It does this to protect against
truncate of a file. Block devices don't need this sort of protection.For a capable multiqueue setup, this atomic int is the only shared
state between applications accessing the device for O_DIRECT, and it
presents a scaling wall for that. In my testing, as much as 30% of
system time is spent incrementing and decrementing this value. A mixed
read/write workload improved from ~2.5M IOPS to ~9.6M IOPS, with
better latencies too. Before:clat percentiles (usec):
| 1.00th=[ 33], 5.00th=[ 34], 10.00th=[ 34], 20.00th=[ 34],
| 30.00th=[ 34], 40.00th=[ 34], 50.00th=[ 35], 60.00th=[ 35],
| 70.00th=[ 35], 80.00th=[ 35], 90.00th=[ 37], 95.00th=[ 80],
| 99.00th=[ 98], 99.50th=[ 151], 99.90th=[ 155], 99.95th=[ 155],
| 99.99th=[ 165]After:
clat percentiles (usec):
| 1.00th=[ 95], 5.00th=[ 108], 10.00th=[ 129], 20.00th=[ 149],
| 30.00th=[ 155], 40.00th=[ 161], 50.00th=[ 167], 60.00th=[ 171],
| 70.00th=[ 177], 80.00th=[ 185], 90.00th=[ 201], 95.00th=[ 270],
| 99.00th=[ 390], 99.50th=[ 398], 99.90th=[ 418], 99.95th=[ 422],
| 99.99th=[ 438]In other setups, Robert Elliott reported seeing good performance
improvements:https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/4/3/557
The more applications accessing the device, the worse it gets.
Add a new direct-io flags, DIO_SKIP_DIO_COUNT, which tells
do_blockdev_direct_IO() that it need not worry about incrementing
or decrementing the inode i_dio_count for this caller.Cc: Andrew Morton
Cc: Christoph Hellwig
Cc: Theodore Ts'o
Cc: Elliott, Robert (Server Storage)
Cc: Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
Signed-off-by: Al Viro
16 Apr, 2015
1 commit
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these should be used on objects already in top layer
Signed-off-by: David Howells
Signed-off-by: Al Viro
18 Feb, 2015
1 commit
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Pull lazytime mount option support from Al Viro:
"Lazytime stuff from tytso"* 'lazytime' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
ext4: add optimization for the lazytime mount option
vfs: add find_inode_nowait() function
vfs: add support for a lazytime mount option
13 Feb, 2015
4 commits
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Merge third set of updates from Andrew Morton:
- the rest of MM
[ This includes getting rid of the numa hinting bits, in favor of
just generic protnone logic. Yay. - Linus ]- core kernel
- procfs
- some of lib/ (lots of lib/ material this time)
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (104 commits)
lib/lcm.c: replace include
lib/percpu_ida.c: remove redundant includes
lib/strncpy_from_user.c: replace module.h include
lib/stmp_device.c: replace module.h include
lib/sort.c: move include inside #if 0
lib/show_mem.c: remove redundant include
lib/radix-tree.c: change to simpler include
lib/plist.c: remove redundant include
lib/nlattr.c: remove redundant include
lib/kobject_uevent.c: remove redundant include
lib/llist.c: remove redundant include
lib/md5.c: simplify include
lib/list_sort.c: rearrange includes
lib/genalloc.c: remove redundant include
lib/idr.c: remove redundant include
lib/halfmd4.c: simplify includes
lib/dynamic_queue_limits.c: simplify includes
lib/sort.c: use simpler includes
lib/interval_tree.c: simplify includes
hexdump: make it return number of bytes placed in buffer
... -
Currently, the isolate callback passed to the list_lru_walk family of
functions is supposed to just delete an item from the list upon returning
LRU_REMOVED or LRU_REMOVED_RETRY, while nr_items counter is fixed by
__list_lru_walk_one after the callback returns. Since the callback is
allowed to drop the lock after removing an item (it has to return
LRU_REMOVED_RETRY then), the nr_items can be less than the actual number
of elements on the list even if we check them under the lock. This makes
it difficult to move items from one list_lru_one to another, which is
required for per-memcg list_lru reparenting - we can't just splice the
lists, we have to move entries one by one.This patch therefore introduces helpers that must be used by callback
functions to isolate items instead of raw list_del/list_move. These are
list_lru_isolate and list_lru_isolate_move. They not only remove the
entry from the list, but also fix the nr_items counter, making sure
nr_items always reflects the actual number of elements on the list if
checked under the appropriate lock.Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov
Cc: Johannes Weiner
Cc: Michal Hocko
Cc: Tejun Heo
Cc: Christoph Lameter
Cc: Pekka Enberg
Cc: David Rientjes
Cc: Joonsoo Kim
Cc: Dave Chinner
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Kmem accounting of memcg is unusable now, because it lacks slab shrinker
support. That means when we hit the limit we will get ENOMEM w/o any
chance to recover. What we should do then is to call shrink_slab, which
would reclaim old inode/dentry caches from this cgroup. This is what
this patch set is intended to do.Basically, it does two things. First, it introduces the notion of
per-memcg slab shrinker. A shrinker that wants to reclaim objects per
cgroup should mark itself as SHRINKER_MEMCG_AWARE. Then it will be
passed the memory cgroup to scan from in shrink_control->memcg. For
such shrinkers shrink_slab iterates over the whole cgroup subtree under
the target cgroup and calls the shrinker for each kmem-active memory
cgroup.Secondly, this patch set makes the list_lru structure per-memcg. It's
done transparently to list_lru users - everything they have to do is to
tell list_lru_init that they want memcg-aware list_lru. Then the
list_lru will automatically distribute objects among per-memcg lists
basing on which cgroup the object is accounted to. This way to make FS
shrinkers (icache, dcache) memcg-aware we only need to make them use
memcg-aware list_lru, and this is what this patch set does.As before, this patch set only enables per-memcg kmem reclaim when the
pressure goes from memory.limit, not from memory.kmem.limit. Handling
memory.kmem.limit is going to be tricky due to GFP_NOFS allocations, and
it is still unclear whether we will have this knob in the unified
hierarchy.This patch (of 9):
NUMA aware slab shrinkers use the list_lru structure to distribute
objects coming from different NUMA nodes to different lists. Whenever
such a shrinker needs to count or scan objects from a particular node,
it issues commands like this:count = list_lru_count_node(lru, sc->nid);
freed = list_lru_walk_node(lru, sc->nid, isolate_func,
isolate_arg, &sc->nr_to_scan);where sc is an instance of the shrink_control structure passed to it
from vmscan.To simplify this, let's add special list_lru functions to be used by
shrinkers, list_lru_shrink_count() and list_lru_shrink_walk(), which
consolidate the nid and nr_to_scan arguments in the shrink_control
structure.This will also allow us to avoid patching shrinkers that use list_lru
when we make shrink_slab() per-memcg - all we will have to do is extend
the shrink_control structure to include the target memcg and make
list_lru_shrink_{count,walk} handle this appropriately.Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov
Suggested-by: Dave Chinner
Cc: Johannes Weiner
Cc: Michal Hocko
Cc: Greg Thelen
Cc: Glauber Costa
Cc: Alexander Viro
Cc: Christoph Lameter
Cc: Pekka Enberg
Cc: David Rientjes
Cc: Joonsoo Kim
Cc: Tejun Heo
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Pull backing device changes from Jens Axboe:
"This contains a cleanup of how the backing device is handled, in
preparation for a rework of the life time rules. In this part, the
most important change is to split the unrelated nommu mmap flags from
it, but also removing a backing_dev_info pointer from the
address_space (and inode), and a cleanup of other various minor bits.Christoph did all the work here, I just fixed an oops with pages that
have a swap backing. Arnd fixed a missing export, and Oleg killed the
lustre backing_dev_info from staging. Last patch was from Al,
unexporting parts that are now no longer needed outside"* 'for-3.20/bdi' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
Make super_blocks and sb_lock static
mtd: export new mtd_mmap_capabilities
fs: make inode_to_bdi() handle NULL inode
staging/lustre/llite: get rid of backing_dev_info
fs: remove default_backing_dev_info
fs: don't reassign dirty inodes to default_backing_dev_info
nfs: don't call bdi_unregister
ceph: remove call to bdi_unregister
fs: remove mapping->backing_dev_info
fs: export inode_to_bdi and use it in favor of mapping->backing_dev_info
nilfs2: set up s_bdi like the generic mount_bdev code
block_dev: get bdev inode bdi directly from the block device
block_dev: only write bdev inode on close
fs: introduce f_op->mmap_capabilities for nommu mmap support
fs: kill BDI_CAP_SWAP_BACKED
fs: deduplicate noop_backing_dev_info
11 Feb, 2015
2 commits
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Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton:
"Bite-sized chunks this time, to avoid the MTA ratelimiting woes.- fs/notify updates
- ocfs2
- some of MM"
That laconic "some MM" is mainly the removal of remap_file_pages(),
which is a big simplification of the VM, and which gets rid of a *lot*
of random cruft and special cases because we no longer support the
non-linear mappings that it used.From a user interface perspective, nothing has changed, because the
remap_file_pages() syscall still exists, it's just done by emulating the
old behavior by creating a lot of individual small mappings instead of
one non-linear one.The emulation is slower than the old "native" non-linear mappings, but
nobody really uses or cares about remap_file_pages(), and simplifying
the VM is a big advantage.* emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (78 commits)
memcg: zap memcg_slab_caches and memcg_slab_mutex
memcg: zap memcg_name argument of memcg_create_kmem_cache
memcg: zap __memcg_{charge,uncharge}_slab
mm/page_alloc.c: place zone_id check before VM_BUG_ON_PAGE check
mm: hugetlb: fix type of hugetlb_treat_as_movable variable
mm, hugetlb: remove unnecessary lower bound on sysctl handlers"?
mm: memory: merge shared-writable dirtying branches in do_wp_page()
mm: memory: remove ->vm_file check on shared writable vmas
xtensa: drop _PAGE_FILE and pte_file()-related helpers
x86: drop _PAGE_FILE and pte_file()-related helpers
unicore32: drop pte_file()-related helpers
um: drop _PAGE_FILE and pte_file()-related helpers
tile: drop pte_file()-related helpers
sparc: drop pte_file()-related helpers
sh: drop _PAGE_FILE and pte_file()-related helpers
score: drop _PAGE_FILE and pte_file()-related helpers
s390: drop pte_file()-related helpers
parisc: drop _PAGE_FILE and pte_file()-related helpers
openrisc: drop _PAGE_FILE and pte_file()-related helpers
nios2: drop _PAGE_FILE and pte_file()-related helpers
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We don't create non-linear mappings anymore. Let's drop code which
handles them in rmap.Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
05 Feb, 2015
2 commits
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Add a new function find_inode_nowait() which is an even more general
version of ilookup5_nowait(). It is designed for callers which need
very fine grained control over when the function is allowed to block
or increment the inode's reference count.Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o
Signed-off-by: Al Viro -
Add a new mount option which enables a new "lazytime" mode. This mode
causes atime, mtime, and ctime updates to only be made to the
in-memory version of the inode. The on-disk times will only get
updated when (a) if the inode needs to be updated for some non-time
related change, (b) if userspace calls fsync(), syncfs() or sync(), or
(c) just before an undeleted inode is evicted from memory.This is OK according to POSIX because there are no guarantees after a
crash unless userspace explicitly requests via a fsync(2) call.For workloads which feature a large number of random write to a
preallocated file, the lazytime mount option significantly reduces
writes to the inode table. The repeated 4k writes to a single block
will result in undesirable stress on flash devices and SMR disk
drives. Even on conventional HDD's, the repeated writes to the inode
table block will trigger Adjacent Track Interference (ATI) remediation
latencies, which very negatively impact long tail latencies --- which
is a very big deal for web serving tiers (for example).Google-Bug-Id: 18297052
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o
Signed-off-by: Al Viro
21 Jan, 2015
1 commit
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Now that we never use the backing_dev_info pointer in struct address_space
we can simply remove it and save 4 to 8 bytes in every inode.Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
Acked-by: Ryusuke Konishi
Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
17 Jan, 2015
1 commit
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The current scheme of using the i_flock list is really difficult to
manage. There is also a legitimate desire for a per-inode spinlock to
manage these lists that isn't the i_lock.Start conversion to a new scheme to eventually replace the old i_flock
list with a new "file_lock_context" object.We start by adding a new i_flctx to struct inode. For now, it lives in
parallel with i_flock list, but will eventually replace it. The idea is
to allocate a structure to sit in that pointer and act as a locus for
all things file locking.We allocate a file_lock_context for an inode when the first lock is
added to it, and it's only freed when the inode is freed. We use the
i_lock to protect the assignment, but afterward it should mostly be
accessed locklessly.Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig
17 Dec, 2014
1 commit
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Pull vfs pile #2 from Al Viro:
"Next pile (and there'll be one or two more).The large piece in this one is getting rid of /proc/*/ns/* weirdness;
among other things, it allows to (finally) make nameidata completely
opaque outside of fs/namei.c, making for easier further cleanups in
there"* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
coda_venus_readdir(): use file_inode()
fs/namei.c: fold link_path_walk() call into path_init()
path_init(): don't bother with LOOKUP_PARENT in argument
fs/namei.c: new helper (path_cleanup())
path_init(): store the "base" pointer to file in nameidata itself
make default ->i_fop have ->open() fail with ENXIO
make nameidata completely opaque outside of fs/namei.c
kill proc_ns completely
take the targets of /proc/*/ns/* symlinks to separate fs
bury struct proc_ns in fs/proc
copy address of proc_ns_ops into ns_common
new helpers: ns_alloc_inum/ns_free_inum
make proc_ns_operations work with struct ns_common * instead of void *
switch the rest of proc_ns_operations to working with &...->ns
netns: switch ->get()/->put()/->install()/->inum() to working with &net->ns
make mntns ->get()/->put()/->install()/->inum() work with &mnt_ns->ns
common object embedded into various struct ....ns
14 Dec, 2014
1 commit
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The i_mmap_mutex is a close cousin of the anon vma lock, both protecting
similar data, one for file backed pages and the other for anon memory. To
this end, this lock can also be a rwsem. In addition, there are some
important opportunities to share the lock when there are no tree
modifications.This conversion is straightforward. For now, all users take the write
lock.[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: update fremap.c]
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel
Acked-by: "Kirill A. Shutemov"
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins
Cc: Oleg Nesterov
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel)
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju
Acked-by: Mel Gorman
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
11 Dec, 2014
1 commit
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As it is, default ->i_fop has NULL ->open() (along with all other methods).
The only case where it matters is reopening (via procfs symlink) a file that
didn't get its ->f_op from ->i_fop - anything else will have ->i_fop assigned
to something sane (default would fail on read/write/ioctl/etc.).Unfortunately, such case exists - alloc_file() users, especially
anon_get_file() ones. There we have tons of opened files of very different
kinds sharing the same inode. As the result, attempt to reopen those via
procfs succeeds and you get a descriptor you can't do anything with.Moreover, in case of sockets we set ->i_fop that will only be used
on such reopen attempts - and put a failing ->open() into it to make sure
those do not succeed.It would be simpler to put such ->open() into default ->i_fop and leave
it unchanged both for anon inode (as we do anyway) and for socket ones. Result:
* everything going through do_dentry_open() works as it used to
* sock_no_open() kludge is gone
* attempts to reopen anon-inode files fail as they really ought to
* ditto for aio_private_file()
* ditto for perfmon - this one actually tried to imitate sock_no_open()
trick, but failed to set ->i_fop, so in the current tree reopens succeed and
yield completely useless descriptor. Intent clearly had been to fail with
-ENXIO on such reopens; now it actually does.
* everything else that used alloc_file() keeps working - it has ->i_fop
set for its inodes anywaySigned-off-by: Al Viro
10 Nov, 2014
1 commit
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All filesystems using VFS quotas are now converted to use their private
i_dquot fields. Remove the i_dquot field from generic inode structure.Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara
09 Aug, 2014
1 commit
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This patch (of 6):
The i_mmap_writable field counts existing writable mappings of an
address_space. To allow drivers to prevent new writable mappings, make
this counter signed and prevent new writable mappings if it is negative.
This is modelled after i_writecount and DENYWRITE.This will be required by the shmem-sealing infrastructure to prevent any
new writable mappings after the WRITE seal has been set. In case there
exists a writable mapping, this operation will fail with EBUSY.Note that we rely on the fact that iff you already own a writable mapping,
you can increase the counter without using the helpers. This is the same
that we do for i_writecount.Signed-off-by: David Herrmann
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins
Cc: Michael Kerrisk
Cc: Ryan Lortie
Cc: Lennart Poettering
Cc: Daniel Mack
Cc: Andy Lutomirski
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
