27 Sep, 2006

4 commits

  • Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk
    Acked-by: Trond Myklebust
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Adrian Bunk
     
  • This eliminates the i_blksize field from struct inode. Filesystems that want
    to provide a per-inode st_blksize can do so by providing their own getattr
    routine instead of using the generic_fillattr() function.

    Note that some filesystems were providing pretty much random (and incorrect)
    values for i_blksize.

    [bunk@stusta.de: cleanup]
    [akpm@osdl.org: generic_fillattr() fix]
    Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o"
    Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Theodore Ts'o
     
  • * Rougly half of callers already do it by not checking return value
    * Code in drivers/acpi/osl.c does the following to be sure:

    (void)kmem_cache_destroy(cache);

    * Those who check it printk something, however, slab_error already printed
    the name of failed cache.
    * XFS BUGs on failed kmem_cache_destroy which is not the decision
    low-level filesystem driver should make. Converted to ignore.

    Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Alexey Dobriyan
     
  • * Removing useless casts
    * Removing useless wrapper
    * Conversion from kmalloc+memset to kzalloc

    Signed-off-by: Panagiotis Issaris
    Acked-by: Dave Kleikamp
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Panagiotis Issaris
     

25 Sep, 2006

1 commit

  • Some file systems want to manually d_move() the dentries involved in a
    rename. We can do this by making use of the FS_ODD_RENAME flag if we just
    have nfs_rename() unconditionally do the d_move(). While there, we rename
    the flag to be more descriptive.

    OCFS2 uses this to protect that part of the rename operation with a cluster
    lock.

    Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh
    Cc: Trond Myklebust
    Cc: Al Viro
    Cc: Christoph Hellwig
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

    Mark Fasheh
     

23 Sep, 2006

35 commits

  • Comments-only change to clarify a detail of the NFS protocol and how it is
    implemented in Linux.

    Test plan:
    None.

    Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever
    Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust

    Chuck Lever
     
  • Signed-off-by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek
    Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust

    Josef 'Jeff' Sipek
     
  • RFC3530 states that the registered port 2049 for the NFS protocol should be
    the default configuration in order to allow clients not to use the RPC
    binding protocols.
    If the mount program sends us a port=0, we therefore substitute port=2049.

    Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust

    Trond Myklebust
     
  • Change the initial retry delay from 1s to 0.1s (and then back off
    exponentially).

    Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust

    Trond Myklebust
     
  • Retry a few times before we give up: the error is usually due to ordering
    issues with asynchronous RPC calls.

    Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust

    Trond Myklebust
     
  • Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust

    Trond Myklebust
     
  • And slight optimisation of nfs_end_data_update(): directories never have
    delegations anyway.

    Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust

    Trond Myklebust
     
  • Currently, a read() request will return EIO even if the file has been
    deleted on the server, simply because that is what the VM will return
    if the call to readpage() fails to update the page.

    Ensure that readpage() marks the inode as stale if it receives an ESTALE.
    Then return that error to userland.

    Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust

    Trond Myklebust
     
  • Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields
    Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust

    J. Bruce Fields
     
  • If the open intents tell us that a given lookup is going to result in a,
    exclusive create, we currently optimize away the lookup call itself. The
    reason is that the lookup would not be atomic with the create RPC call, so
    why do it in the first place?

    A problem occurs, however, if the VFS aborts the exclusive create operation
    after the lookup, but before the call to create the file/directory: in this
    case we will end up with a hashed negative dentry in the dcache that has
    never been looked up.
    Fix this by only actually hashing the dentry once the create operation has
    been successfully completed.

    Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust

    Trond Myklebust
     
  • Fix an oops when the referral server is not responding.
    Check the error return from nfs4_set_client() in nfs4_create_referral_server.

    Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson
    Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust

    andros@citi.umich.edu
     
  • Teach NFS_ROOT to use the new rpc_create API instead of the old two-call
    API for creating an RPC transport.

    Test plan:
    Compile the kernel with the NFS client build-in, and set CONFIG_NFS_ROOT.

    Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever
    Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust

    Chuck Lever
     
  • Fix up warnings from compiling on ppc64.

    Signed-Off-By: David Howells
    Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust

    David Howells
     
  • Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust

    Trond Myklebust
     
  • Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust

    Trond Myklebust
     
  • Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust

    Trond Myklebust
     
  • Now that we have a copy of the symlink path in the page cache, we can pass
    a struct page down to the XDR routines instead of a string buffer.

    Test plan:
    Connectathon, all NFS versions.

    Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever
    Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust

    Chuck Lever
     
  • Currently the NFS client does not cache symlinks it creates. They get
    cached only when the NFS client reads them back from the server.

    Copy the symlink into the page cache before sending it.

    Test plan:
    Connectathon, all NFS versions.

    Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever
    Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust

    Chuck Lever
     
  • If the LOOKUP or GETATTR in nfs_instantiate fail, nfs_instantiate will do a
    d_drop before returning. But some callers already do a d_drop in the case
    of an error return. Make certain we do only one d_drop in all error paths.

    This issue was introduced because over time, the symlink proc API diverged
    slightly from the create/mkdir/mknod proc API. To prevent other coding
    mistakes of this type, change the symlink proc API to be more like
    create/mkdir/mknod and move the nfs_instantiate call into the symlink proc
    routines so it is used in exactly the same way for create, mkdir, mknod,
    and symlink.

    Test plan:
    Connectathon, all versions of NFS.

    Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever
    Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust

    Chuck Lever
     
  • In the early days of NFS, there was no duplicate reply cache on the server.
    Thus retransmitted non-idempotent requests often found that the request had
    already completed on the server. To avoid passing an unanticipated return
    code to unsuspecting applications, NFS clients would often shunt error
    codes that implied the request had been retried but already completed.

    Thanks to NFS over TCP, duplicate reply caches on the server, and network
    performance and reliability improvements, it is safe to remove such checks.

    Test plan:
    None.

    Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever
    Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust

    Chuck Lever
     
  • Convert NFS client mount logic to use rpc_create() instead of the old
    xprt_create_proto/rpc_create_client API.

    Test plan:
    Mount stress tests.

    Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever
    Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust

    Chuck Lever
     
  • include/linux/sunrpc/clnt.h already includes include/linux/sunrpc/xprt.h.
    We can remove xprt.h from source files that already include clnt.h.
    Likewise include/linux/sunrpc/timer.h.

    Test plan:
    Compile kernel with CONFIG_NFS enabled.

    Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever
    Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust

    Chuck Lever
     
  • The scheme to indicate which services have been started up appears to be
    seriously broken.

    Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust

    Trond Myklebust
     
  • Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust

    Trond Myklebust
     
  • Invoke security_d_instantiate() on root dentries after allocating them with
    dentry_alloc_anon(). Normally dentry_alloc_root() would do that, but we don't
    call that as we don't want to assign a name to the root dentry at this point
    (we may discover the real name later).

    Signed-Off-By: David Howells
    Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust

    David Howells
     
  • Fix an error handling problem: nfs_put_client() can be given a NULL pointer if
    nfs_free_server() is asked to destroy a partially initialised record.

    Signed-Off-By: David Howells
    Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust

    David Howells
     
  • Make two new proc files available:

    /proc/fs/nfsfs/servers
    /proc/fs/nfsfs/volumes

    The first lists the servers with which we are currently dealing (struct
    nfs_client), and the second lists the volumes we have on those servers (struct
    nfs_server).

    Signed-Off-By: David Howells
    Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust

    David Howells
     
  • The attached patch makes NFS share superblocks between mounts from the same
    server and FSID over the same protocol.

    It does this by creating each superblock with a false root and returning the
    real root dentry in the vfsmount presented by get_sb(). The root dentry set
    starts off as an anonymous dentry if we don't already have the dentry for its
    inode, otherwise it simply returns the dentry we already have.

    We may thus end up with several trees of dentries in the superblock, and if at
    some later point one of anonymous tree roots is discovered by normal filesystem
    activity to be located in another tree within the superblock, the anonymous
    root is named and materialises attached to the second tree at the appropriate
    point.

    Why do it this way? Why not pass an extra argument to the mount() syscall to
    indicate the subpath and then pathwalk from the server root to the desired
    directory? You can't guarantee this will work for two reasons:

    (1) The root and intervening nodes may not be accessible to the client.

    With NFS2 and NFS3, for instance, mountd is called on the server to get
    the filehandle for the tip of a path. mountd won't give us handles for
    anything we don't have permission to access, and so we can't set up NFS
    inodes for such nodes, and so can't easily set up dentries (we'd have to
    have ghost inodes or something).

    With this patch we don't actually create dentries until we get handles
    from the server that we can use to set up their inodes, and we don't
    actually bind them into the tree until we know for sure where they go.

    (2) Inaccessible symbolic links.

    If we're asked to mount two exports from the server, eg:

    mount warthog:/warthog/aaa/xxx /mmm
    mount warthog:/warthog/bbb/yyy /nnn

    We may not be able to access anything nearer the root than xxx and yyy,
    but we may find out later that /mmm/www/yyy, say, is actually the same
    directory as the one mounted on /nnn. What we might then find out, for
    example, is that /warthog/bbb was actually a symbolic link to
    /warthog/aaa/xxx/www, but we can't actually determine that by talking to
    the server until /warthog is made available by NFS.

    This would lead to having constructed an errneous dentry tree which we
    can't easily fix. We can end up with a dentry marked as a directory when
    it should actually be a symlink, or we could end up with an apparently
    hardlinked directory.

    With this patch we need not make assumptions about the type of a dentry
    for which we can't retrieve information, nor need we assume we know its
    place in the grand scheme of things until we actually see that place.

    This patch reduces the possibility of aliasing in the inode and page caches for
    inodes that may be accessed by more than one NFS export. It also reduces the
    number of superblocks required for NFS where there are many NFS exports being
    used from a server (home directory server + autofs for example).

    This in turn makes it simpler to do local caching of network filesystems, as it
    can then be guaranteed that there won't be links from multiple inodes in
    separate superblocks to the same cache file.

    Obviously, cache aliasing between different levels of NFS protocol could still
    be a problem, but at least that gives us another key to use when indexing the
    cache.

    This patch makes the following changes:

    (1) The server record construction/destruction has been abstracted out into
    its own set of functions to make things easier to get right. These have
    been moved into fs/nfs/client.c.

    All the code in fs/nfs/client.c has to do with the management of
    connections to servers, and doesn't touch superblocks in any way; the
    remaining code in fs/nfs/super.c has to do with VFS superblock management.

    (2) The sequence of events undertaken by NFS mount is now reordered:

    (a) A volume representation (struct nfs_server) is allocated.

    (b) A server representation (struct nfs_client) is acquired. This may be
    allocated or shared, and is keyed on server address, port and NFS
    version.

    (c) If allocated, the client representation is initialised. The state
    member variable of nfs_client is used to prevent a race during
    initialisation from two mounts.

    (d) For NFS4 a simple pathwalk is performed, walking from FH to FH to find
    the root filehandle for the mount (fs/nfs/getroot.c). For NFS2/3 we
    are given the root FH in advance.

    (e) The volume FSID is probed for on the root FH.

    (f) The volume representation is initialised from the FSINFO record
    retrieved on the root FH.

    (g) sget() is called to acquire a superblock. This may be allocated or
    shared, keyed on client pointer and FSID.

    (h) If allocated, the superblock is initialised.

    (i) If the superblock is shared, then the new nfs_server record is
    discarded.

    (j) The root dentry for this mount is looked up from the root FH.

    (k) The root dentry for this mount is assigned to the vfsmount.

    (3) nfs_readdir_lookup() creates dentries for each of the entries readdir()
    returns; this function now attaches disconnected trees from alternate
    roots that happen to be discovered attached to a directory being read (in
    the same way nfs_lookup() is made to do for lookup ops).

    The new d_materialise_unique() function is now used to do this, thus
    permitting the whole thing to be done under one set of locks, and thus
    avoiding any race between mount and lookup operations on the same
    directory.

    (4) The client management code uses a new debug facility: NFSDBG_CLIENT which
    is set by echoing 1024 to /proc/net/sunrpc/nfs_debug.

    (5) Clone mounts are now called xdev mounts.

    (6) Use the dentry passed to the statfs() op as the handle for retrieving fs
    statistics rather than the root dentry of the superblock (which is now a
    dummy).

    Signed-Off-By: David Howells
    Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust

    David Howells
     
  • Start rpciod in the server common (nfs_client struct) management code rather
    than in the superblock management code. This means we only need to "start" it
    once per server instead of once per superblock.

    Signed-Off-By: David Howells
    Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust

    David Howells
     
  • Eliminate nfs_server::client_sys in favour of nfs_client::cl_rpcclient as we
    only really need one per server that we're talking to since it doesn't have any
    security on it.

    The retransmission management variables are also moved to the common struct as
    they're required to set up the cl_rpcclient connection.

    The NFS2/3 client and client_acl connections are thenceforth derived by cloning
    the cl_rpcclient connection and post-applying the authorisation flavour.

    The code for setting up the initial common connection has been moved to
    client.c as nfs_create_rpc_client(). All the NFS program definition tables are
    also moved there as that's where they're now required rather than super.c.

    Signed-Off-By: David Howells
    Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust

    David Howells
     
  • Move the rpc_ops from the nfs_server struct to the nfs_client struct as they're
    common to all server records of a particular NFS protocol version.

    Signed-Off-By: David Howells
    Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust

    David Howells
     
  • Make better use of inode* dereferencing macros to hide dereferencing chains
    (including NFS_PROTO and NFS_CLIENT).

    Signed-Off-By: David Howells
    Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust

    David Howells
     
  • Maintain a common server record for NFS2/3 as well as for NFS4 so that common
    stuff can be moved there from struct nfs_server.

    Signed-Off-By: David Howells
    Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust

    David Howells
     
  • Add some extra const qualifiers into NFS.

    Signed-Off-By: David Howells
    Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust

    David Howells
     
  • Use the nominated dentry's superblock directly in the NFS statfs() op to get a
    file handle, rather than using s_root (which will become a dummy dentry in a
    future patch).

    Signed-Off-By: David Howells
    Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust

    David Howells