07 Jan, 2011
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Use a seqlock in the fs_struct to enable us to take an atomic copy of the
complete cwd and root paths. Use this in the RCU lookup path to avoid a
thread-shared spinlock in RCU lookup operations.Multi-threaded apps may now perform path lookups with scalability matching
multi-process apps. Operations such as stat(2) become very scalable for
multi-threaded workload.Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin
18 Aug, 2010
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fs: fs_struct rwlock to spinlock
struct fs_struct.lock is an rwlock with the read-side used to protect root and
pwd members while taking references to them. Taking a reference to a path
typically requires just 2 atomic ops, so the critical section is very small.
Parallel read-side operations would have cacheline contention on the lock, the
dentry, and the vfsmount cachelines, so the rwlock is unlikely to ever give a
real parallelism increase.Replace it with a spinlock to avoid one or two atomic operations in typical
path lookup fastpath.Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin
Signed-off-by: Al Viro
11 Aug, 2010
1 commit
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Add three helpers that retrieve a refcounted copy of the root and cwd
from the supplied fs_struct.get_fs_root()
get_fs_pwd()
get_fs_root_and_pwd()Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi
Signed-off-by: Al Viro
01 Apr, 2009
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* all changes of current->fs are done under task_lock and write_lock of
old fs->lock
* refcount is not atomic anymore (same protection)
* its decrements are done when removing reference from current; at the
same time we decide whether to free it.
* put_fs_struct() is gone
* new field - ->in_exec. Set by check_unsafe_exec() if we are trying to do
execve() and only subthreads share fs_struct. Cleared when finishing exec
(success and failure alike). Makes CLONE_FS fail with -EAGAIN if set.
* check_unsafe_exec() may fail with -EAGAIN if another execve() from subthread
is in progress.Signed-off-by: Al Viro
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Pure code move; two new helper functions for nfsd and daemonize
(unshare_fs_struct() and daemonize_fs_struct() resp.; for now -
the same code as used to be in callers). unshare_fs_struct()
exported (for nfsd, as copy_fs_struct()/exit_fs() used to be),
copy_fs_struct() and exit_fs() don't need exports anymore.Signed-off-by: Al Viro
29 Mar, 2009
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Annotate struct fs_struct's usage count to indicate the restrictions upon it.
It may not be incremented, except by clone(CLONE_FS), as this affects the
check in check_unsafe_exec() in fs/exec.c.Signed-off-by: David Howells
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
01 Jan, 2009
1 commit
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro
27 Jul, 2008
1 commit
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long overdue...
Signed-off-by: Al Viro
15 Feb, 2008
2 commits
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In nearly all cases the set_fs_{root,pwd}() calls work on a struct
path. Change the function to reflect this and use path_get() here.Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
* Use struct path in fs_struct.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher
Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
08 Dec, 2006
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fs_cachep is only used in kernel/exit.c and in kernel/fork.c.
It is used to store fs_struct items so it should be placed in linux/fs_struct.h
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
17 Apr, 2005
1 commit
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Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.Let it rip!
