Use the same mechanism as the block devices are using, but move the
helper functions from fs/direct-io.c into fs/inode.c to remove the
dependency on CONFIG_BLOCK.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Fred Isaman <iisaman@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
New features include:
- Rewrite the O_DIRECT code so that it can share the same coalescing and
pNFS functionality as the page cache code.
- Allow the server to provide hints as to when we should use pNFS, and
when it is more efficient to read and write through the metadata
server.
- NFS cache consistency updates:
- Use the ctime to emulate a change attribute for NFSv2/v3 so that
all NFS versions can share the same cache management code.
- New cache management code will only look at the change attribute
and size attribute when deciding whether or not our cached data
is still valid or not.
- Don't request NFSv4 post-op attributes on writes in cases such as
O_DIRECT, where we don't care about data cache consistency, or
when we have a write delegation, and know that our cache is
still consistent.
- Don't request NFSv4 post-op attributes on operations such as
COMMIT, where there are no expected metadata updates.
- Don't request NFSv4 directory post-op attributes in cases where
the operations themselves already return change attribute updates:
i.e. operations such as OPEN, CREATE, REMOVE, LINK and RENAME.
- Speed up 'ls' and friends by using READDIR rather than READDIRPLUS
if we detect no attempts to lookup filenames.
- Improve the code sharing between NFSv2/v3 and v4 mounts
- NFSv4.1 state management efficiency improvements
- More patches in preparation for NFSv4/v4.1 migration functionality.
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Merge tag 'nfs-for-3.5-1' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/linux-nfs
Pull NFS client updates from Trond Myklebust:
"New features include:
- Rewrite the O_DIRECT code so that it can share the same coalescing
and pNFS functionality as the page cache code.
- Allow the server to provide hints as to when we should use pNFS,
and when it is more efficient to read and write through the
metadata server.
- NFS cache consistency updates:
* Use the ctime to emulate a change attribute for NFSv2/v3 so that
all NFS versions can share the same cache management code.
* New cache management code will only look at the change attribute
and size attribute when deciding whether or not our cached data
is still valid or not.
* Don't request NFSv4 post-op attributes on writes in cases such as
O_DIRECT, where we don't care about data cache consistency, or
when we have a write delegation, and know that our cache is still
consistent.
* Don't request NFSv4 post-op attributes on operations such as
COMMIT, where there are no expected metadata updates.
* Don't request NFSv4 directory post-op attributes in cases where
the operations themselves already return change attribute
updates: i.e. operations such as OPEN, CREATE, REMOVE, LINK and
RENAME.
- Speed up 'ls' and friends by using READDIR rather than READDIRPLUS
if we detect no attempts to lookup filenames.
- Improve the code sharing between NFSv2/v3 and v4 mounts
- NFSv4.1 state management efficiency improvements
- More patches in preparation for NFSv4/v4.1 migration functionality."
Fix trivial conflict in fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c that was due to the dcache
qstr name initialization changes (that made the length/hash a 64-bit
union)
* tag 'nfs-for-3.5-1' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/linux-nfs: (146 commits)
NFSv4: Add debugging printks to state manager
NFSv4: Map NFS4ERR_SHARE_DENIED into an EACCES error instead of EIO
NFSv4: update_changeattr does not need to set NFS_INO_REVAL_PAGECACHE
NFSv4.1: nfs4_reset_session should use nfs4_handle_reclaim_lease_error
NFSv4.1: Handle other occurrences of NFS4ERR_CONN_NOT_BOUND_TO_SESSION
NFSv4.1: Handle NFS4ERR_CONN_NOT_BOUND_TO_SESSION in the state manager
NFSv4.1: Handle errors in nfs4_bind_conn_to_session
NFSv4.1: nfs4_bind_conn_to_session should drain the session
NFSv4.1: Don't clobber the seqid if exchange_id returns a confirmed clientid
NFSv4.1: Add DESTROY_CLIENTID
NFSv4.1: Ensure we use the correct credentials for bind_conn_to_session
NFSv4.1: Ensure we use the correct credentials for session create/destroy
NFSv4.1: Move NFSPROC4_CLNT_BIND_CONN_TO_SESSION to the end of the operations
NFSv4.1: Handle NFS4ERR_SEQ_MISORDERED when confirming the lease
NFSv4: When purging the lease, we must clear NFS4CLNT_LEASE_CONFIRM
NFSv4: Clean up the error handling for nfs4_reclaim_lease
NFSv4.1: Exchange ID must use GFP_NOFS allocation mode
nfs41: Use BIND_CONN_TO_SESSION for CB_PATH_DOWN*
nfs4.1: add BIND_CONN_TO_SESSION operation
NFSv4.1 test the mdsthreshold hint parameters
...
Keep track of the number of bytes read or written via buffered, direct, and
mem-mapped i/o for use by mdsthreshold size_io hints.
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Simplified error gotos to make it slightly easier to read,
it doesn't affect the functionality of the routine.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Treinish <treinish@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
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 <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
While the use of READDIRPLUS is significantly more efficient than
READDIR followed by many LOOKUP calls, it is still less efficient
than just READDIR if the attributes are not required.
This patch tracks when lookups are attempted on the directory,
and uses that information to selectively disable READDIRPLUS
on that directory.
The first 'readdir' call is always served using READDIRPLUS.
Subsequent calls only use READDIRPLUS if there was a successful
lookup or revalidation on a child in the mean time.
Credit for the original idea should go to Neil Brown. See:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-nfs/msg19996.html
However, the implementation in this patch differs from Neil's
in that it focuses on tracking lookups rather than calls to
stat().
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Now that NFSv2 and NFSv3 have simulated change attributes,
instead of using all three of mtime, ctime and change attribute to
manage data cache consistency, we can simplify the code to just use
the change attribute.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
If the inode is being initialised, there is no point in
setting flags such as NFS_INO_INVALID_ACCESS,
NFS_INO_INVALID_ACL or NFS_INO_INVALID_DATA since there are
no cached access calls, acls or data caches to invalidate.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
It is COMMIT that is handled the most differently between
the paged and direct paths. Create a structure that encapsulates
everything either path needs to know about the commit state.
We could use void to hide some of the layout driver stuff, but
Trond suggests pulling it out to ensure type checking, given the
huge changes being made, and the fact that it doesn't interfere
with other drivers.
Signed-off-by: Fred Isaman <iisaman@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
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Merge tag 'split-asm_system_h-for-linus-20120328' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-asm_system
Pull "Disintegrate and delete asm/system.h" from David Howells:
"Here are a bunch of patches to disintegrate asm/system.h into a set of
separate bits to relieve the problem of circular inclusion
dependencies.
I've built all the working defconfigs from all the arches that I can
and made sure that they don't break.
The reason for these patches is that I recently encountered a circular
dependency problem that came about when I produced some patches to
optimise get_order() by rewriting it to use ilog2().
This uses bitops - and on the SH arch asm/bitops.h drags in
asm-generic/get_order.h by a circuituous route involving asm/system.h.
The main difficulty seems to be asm/system.h. It holds a number of
low level bits with no/few dependencies that are commonly used (eg.
memory barriers) and a number of bits with more dependencies that
aren't used in many places (eg. switch_to()).
These patches break asm/system.h up into the following core pieces:
(1) asm/barrier.h
Move memory barriers here. This already done for MIPS and Alpha.
(2) asm/switch_to.h
Move switch_to() and related stuff here.
(3) asm/exec.h
Move arch_align_stack() here. Other process execution related bits
could perhaps go here from asm/processor.h.
(4) asm/cmpxchg.h
Move xchg() and cmpxchg() here as they're full word atomic ops and
frequently used by atomic_xchg() and atomic_cmpxchg().
(5) asm/bug.h
Move die() and related bits.
(6) asm/auxvec.h
Move AT_VECTOR_SIZE_ARCH here.
Other arch headers are created as needed on a per-arch basis."
Fixed up some conflicts from other header file cleanups and moving code
around that has happened in the meantime, so David's testing is somewhat
weakened by that. We'll find out anything that got broken and fix it..
* tag 'split-asm_system_h-for-linus-20120328' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-asm_system: (38 commits)
Delete all instances of asm/system.h
Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h
Add #includes needed to permit the removal of asm/system.h
Move all declarations of free_initmem() to linux/mm.h
Disintegrate asm/system.h for OpenRISC
Split arch_align_stack() out from asm-generic/system.h
Split the switch_to() wrapper out of asm-generic/system.h
Move the asm-generic/system.h xchg() implementation to asm-generic/cmpxchg.h
Create asm-generic/barrier.h
Make asm-generic/cmpxchg.h #include asm-generic/cmpxchg-local.h
Disintegrate asm/system.h for Xtensa
Disintegrate asm/system.h for Unicore32 [based on ver #3, changed by gxt]
Disintegrate asm/system.h for Tile
Disintegrate asm/system.h for Sparc
Disintegrate asm/system.h for SH
Disintegrate asm/system.h for Score
Disintegrate asm/system.h for S390
Disintegrate asm/system.h for PowerPC
Disintegrate asm/system.h for PA-RISC
Disintegrate asm/system.h for MN10300
...
Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h preparatory to splitting and killing
it. Performed with the following command:
perl -p -i -e 's!^#\s*include\s*<asm/system[.]h>.*\n!!' `grep -Irl '^#\s*include\s*<asm/system[.]h>' *`
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
This allows us to turn on/off the dprintk() debugging interfaces for
those distributions that don't ship the 'rpcdebug' utility.
It also allows us to add Kbuild dependencies. Specifically, we already
know that dprintk() in general relies on CONFIG_SYSCTL. Now it turns out
that the NFS dprintks depend on CONFIG_CRC32 after we added support
for the filehandle hash.
Reported-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
The radix tree is only being used to compile lists of reqs needing commit.
It is simpler to just put the reqs directly into a list.
Signed-off-by: Fred Isaman <iisaman@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
The check for 'fh == NULL' needs to come _before_ we dereference
fh.
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
For debugging, introduce a simplistic function to print NFS file
handles on the system console. The main function is hooked into the
dprintk debugging facility, but you can directly call the helper,
_nfs_display_fhandle(), if you want to print a handle unconditionally.
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
This patch makes ID's infrastructure network namespace aware. This was done
mainly because of nfs_client_lock, which is desired to be per network
namespace, but protects NFS clients ID's.
NOTE: NFS client's net pointer have to be set prior to ID initialization,
proper assignment was moved.
Signed-off-by: Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
This patch splits global list of NFS clients into per-net-ns array of lists.
This looks more strict and clearer.
BTW, this patch also makes "/proc/fs/nfsfs/servers" entry content depends on
/proc mount owner pid namespace. See below for details.
NOTE: few words about how was /proc/fs/nfsfs/ entries content show per network
namespace done. This is a little bit tricky and not the best is could be. But
it's cheap (proper fix for /proc conteinerization is a hard nut to crack).
The idea is simple: take proper network namespace from pid namespace
child reaper nsproxy of /proc/ mount creator.
This actually means, that if there are 2 containers with different net
namespace sharing pid namespace, then read of /proc/fs/nfsfs/ entries will
always return content, taken from net namespace of pid namespace creator task
(and thus second namespace set wil be unvisible).
Signed-off-by: Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
This patch addresses printks that have some context to show that they are
from fs/nfs/, but for the sake of consistency now start with NFS:
Signed-off-by: Weston Andros Adamson <dros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
This patch makes it possible to create NFS program entry ("/proc/net/rpc/nfs")
in passed network namespace context instead of hard-coded "init_net".
Signed-off-by: Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Currently, we will correctly optimise away a truncate that doesn't
change the file size. However, in the case of open(O_TRUNC), we
also want to optimise away the time changes.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
This patch implements blocklayout pipe creation and registration per each
existent network namespace.
This was achived by registering NFS per-net operations, responsible for
blocklayout pipe allocation/register and unregister/destruction instead of
initialization and destruction of static "bl_device_pipe" pipe (this one was
removed).
Note, than pointer to network blocklayout pipe is stored in per-net "nfs_net"
structure, because allocating of one more per-net structure for blocklayout
module looks redundant.
This patch also changes dev_remove() function prototype (and all it's callers,
where it' requied) by adding network namespace pointer parameter, which is used
to discover proper blocklayout pipe for rpc_queue_upcall() call.
Signed-off-by: Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
This patch implements DNS resolver cache creation and registration for each
alive network namespace context.
This was done by registering NFS per-net operations, responsible for DNS cache
allocation/register and unregister/destructioning instead of initialization and
destruction of static "nfs_dns_resolve" cache detail (this one was removed).
Pointer to network dns resolver cache is stored in new per-net "nfs_net"
structure.
This patch also changes nfs_dns_resolve_name() function prototype (and it's
calls) by adding network pointer parameter, which is used to get proper DNS
resolver cache pointer for do_cache_lookup_wait() call.
Note: empty nfs_dns_resolver_init() and nfs_dns_resolver_destroy() functions
will be used in next patch in the series.
Signed-off-by: Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
module_param(bool) used to counter-intuitively take an int. In
fddd5201 (mid-2009) we allowed bool or int/unsigned int using a messy
trick.
It's time to remove the int/unsigned int option. For this version
it'll simply give a warning, but it'll break next kernel version.
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* 'nfs-for-3.3' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/linux-nfs:
NFSv4: Change the default setting of the nfs4_disable_idmapping parameter
NFSv4: Save the owner/group name string when doing open
NFS: Remove pNFS bloat from the generic write path
pnfs-obj: Must return layout on IO error
pnfs-obj: pNFS errors are communicated on iodata->pnfs_error
NFS: Cache state owners after files are closed
NFS: Clean up nfs4_find_state_owners_locked()
NFSv4: include bitmap in nfsv4 get acl data
nfs: fix a minor do_div portability issue
NFSv4.1: cleanup comment and debug printk
NFSv4.1: change nfs4_free_slot parameters for dynamic slots
NFSv4.1: cleanup init and reset of session slot tables
NFSv4.1: fix backchannel slotid off-by-one bug
nfs: fix regression in handling of context= option in NFSv4
NFS - fix recent breakage to NFS error handling.
NFS: Retry mounting NFSROOT
SUNRPC: Clean up the RPCSEC_GSS service ticket requests
* 'pm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (76 commits)
PM / Hibernate: Implement compat_ioctl for /dev/snapshot
PM / Freezer: fix return value of freezable_schedule_timeout_killable()
PM / shmobile: Allow the A4R domain to be turned off at run time
PM / input / touchscreen: Make st1232 use device PM QoS constraints
PM / QoS: Introduce dev_pm_qos_add_ancestor_request()
PM / shmobile: Remove the stay_on flag from SH7372's PM domains
PM / shmobile: Don't include SH7372's INTCS in syscore suspend/resume
PM / shmobile: Add support for the sh7372 A4S power domain / sleep mode
PM: Drop generic_subsys_pm_ops
PM / Sleep: Remove forward-only callbacks from AMBA bus type
PM / Sleep: Remove forward-only callbacks from platform bus type
PM: Run the driver callback directly if the subsystem one is not there
PM / Sleep: Make pm_op() and pm_noirq_op() return callback pointers
PM/Devfreq: Add Exynos4-bus device DVFS driver for Exynos4210/4212/4412.
PM / Sleep: Merge internal functions in generic_ops.c
PM / Sleep: Simplify generic system suspend callbacks
PM / Hibernate: Remove deprecated hibernation snapshot ioctls
PM / Sleep: Fix freezer failures due to racy usermodehelper_is_disabled()
ARM: S3C64XX: Implement basic power domain support
PM / shmobile: Use common always on power domain governor
...
Fix up trivial conflict in fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c due to removal of unused
XBT_FORCE_SLEEP bit
...so that we can do the uid/gid mapping outside the asynchronous RPC
context.
This fixes a bug in the current NFSv4 atomic open code where the client
isn't able to determine what the true uid/gid fields of the file are,
(because the asynchronous nature of the OPEN call denies it the ability
to do an upcall) and so fills them with default values, marking the
inode as needing revalidation.
Unfortunately, in some cases, the VFS will do some additional sanity
checks on the file, and may override the server's decision to allow
the open because it sees the wrong owner/group fields.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Seeing that just about every destructor got that INIT_LIST_HEAD() copied into
it, there is no point whatsoever keeping this INIT_LIST_HEAD in inode_init_once();
the cost of taking it into inode_init_always() will be negligible for pipes
and sockets and negative for everything else. Not to mention the removal of
boilerplate code from ->destroy_inode() instances...
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
No need to duplicate them in both callers; make it return
ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM) on allocation failure instead of NULL and
it'll be able to report rpc_lookup_cred() failures just
fine. Callers are much happier that way...
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Allow the freezer to skip wait_on_bit_killable sleeps in the sunrpc
layer. This should allow suspend and hibernate events to proceed, even
when there are RPC's pending on the wire.
Also, wrap the TASK_KILLABLE sleeps in NFS layer in freezer_do_not_count
and freezer_count calls. This allows the freezer to skip tasks that are
sleeping while looping on EJUKEBOX or NFS4ERR_DELAY sorts of errors.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
commit d953126 changed how nfs_atomic_lookup handles an -EISDIR return
from an OPEN call. Prior to that patch, that caused the client to fall
back to doing a normal lookup. When that patch went in, the code began
returning that error to userspace. The d_revalidate codepath however
never had the corresponding change, so it was still possible to end up
with a NULL ctx->state pointer after that.
That patch caused a regression. When we attempt to open a directory that
does not have a cached dentry, that open now errors out with EISDIR. If
you attempt the same open with a cached dentry, it will succeed.
Fix this by reverting the change in nfs_atomic_lookup and allowing
attempts to open directories to fall back to a normal lookup
Also, add a NFSv4-specific f_ops->open routine that just returns
-ENOTDIR. This should never be called if things are working properly,
but if it ever is, then the dprintk may help in debugging.
To facilitate this, a new file_operations field is also added to the
nfs_rpc_ops struct.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Replace remaining direct i_nlink updates with a new set_nlink()
updater function.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Tested-by: Toshiyuki Okajima <toshi.okajima@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Replace direct i_nlink updates with the respective updater function
(inc_nlink, drop_nlink, clear_nlink, inode_dec_link_count).
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Commit 28331a46d8 "Ensure we request the
ordinary fileid when doing readdirplus"
changed the meaning of NFS_ATTR_FATTR_FILEID which used to be set when
FATTR4_WORD1_MOUNTED_ON_FILED was requested.
Allow nfs_fhget to succeed with only a mounted on fileid when crossing
a mountpoint or a referral.
Ask for the fileid of the absent file system if mounted_on_fileid is not
supported.
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
cc:stable@kernel.org [2.6.39]
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
nfs_update_inode will update isize if there is no queued pages. For pNFS,
layoutcommit is supposed to change file size on server, the same effect as queued
pages. nfs_update_inode may be called when dirty pages are written back (nfsi->npages==0)
but layoutcommit is not sent, and it will change client file size according to server
file size. Then client ends up losing what it just writes back in pNFS path.
So we should skip updating client file size if file needs layoutcommit.
Signed-off-by: Peng Tao <peng_tao@emc.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org [2.6.39]
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
NFSv4.1 LAYOUTRETURN implementation
Currently, does not support layout-type payload encoding.
Signed-off-by: Alexandros Batsakis <batsakis@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Dean Hildebrand <dhildeb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Fred Isaman <iisaman@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Fred Isaman <iisaman@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Eshel <eshel@almaden.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhang Jingwang <zhangjingwang@nrchpc.ac.cn>
[call pnfs_return_layout right before pnfs_destroy_layout]
[remove assert_spin_locked from pnfs_clear_lseg_list]
[remove wait parameter from the layoutreturn path.]
[remove return_type field from nfs4_layoutreturn_args]
[remove range from nfs4_layoutreturn_args]
[no need to send layoutcommit from _pnfs_return_layout]
[don't wait on sync layoutreturn]
[fix layout stateid in layoutreturn args]
[fixed NULL deref in _pnfs_return_layout]
[removed recaim member of nfs4_layoutreturn_args]
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Hi Trond,
In nfs_update_inode debug output, print the current and new inode
size when the file size changes on the NFS server.
Signed-off-by: Harshula Jayasuriya <harshula@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
A submount may use different security than the parent
mount does. We should figure out what sec flavor the
submount uses at mount time.
Signed-off-by: Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Implement all the hooks created in the previous patches.
This requires exporting quite a few functions and adding a few
structure fields.
Signed-off-by: Fred Isaman <iisaman@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
nfs_opendir() created a context that held much more information than we
need for a readdir. This patch introduces a slimmed-down
nfs_open_dir_context that contains only the cookie and the cred used for
RPC operations. The new context will eventually be used to help detect
readdir loops.
Signed-off-by: Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* 'for-2.6.39' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq:
workqueue: fix build failure introduced by s/freezeable/freezable/
workqueue: add system_freezeable_wq
rds/ib: use system_wq instead of rds_ib_fmr_wq
net/9p: replace p9_poll_task with a work
net/9p: use system_wq instead of p9_mux_wq
xfs: convert to alloc_workqueue()
reiserfs: make commit_wq use the default concurrency level
ocfs2: use system_wq instead of ocfs2_quota_wq
ext4: convert to alloc_workqueue()
scsi/scsi_tgt_lib: scsi_tgtd isn't used in memory reclaim path
scsi/be2iscsi,qla2xxx: convert to alloc_workqueue()
misc/iwmc3200top: use system_wq instead of dedicated workqueues
i2o: use alloc_workqueue() instead of create_workqueue()
acpi: kacpi*_wq don't need WQ_MEM_RECLAIM
fs/aio: aio_wq isn't used in memory reclaim path
input/tps6507x-ts: use system_wq instead of dedicated workqueue
cpufreq: use system_wq instead of dedicated workqueues
wireless/ipw2x00: use system_wq instead of dedicated workqueues
arm/omap: use system_wq in mailbox
workqueue: use WQ_MEM_RECLAIM instead of WQ_RESCUER
The problem was use of an int32, which when converted to a uint64
is sign extended resulting in a fileid that doesn't fit in 32 bits
even though the intent of the function is to fit the fileid into
32 bits.
Signed-off-by: Frank Filz <ffilzlnx@us.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
[Trond: Added an include for compat.h]
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
If the call to nfs_wcc_update_inode() results in an attribute update, we
need to ensure that the inode's attr_gencount gets bumped too, otherwise
we are not protected against races with other GETATTR calls.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
WQ_RESCUER is now an internal flag and should only be used in the
workqueue implementation proper. Use WQ_MEM_RECLAIM instead.
This doesn't introduce any functional difference.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Make NFS use the new d_automount() dentry operation rather than abusing
follow_link() on directories.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* 'nfs-for-2.6.38' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6: (89 commits)
NFS fix the setting of exchange id flag
NFS: Don't use vm_map_ram() in readdir
NFSv4: Ensure continued open and lockowner name uniqueness
NFS: Move cl_delegations to the nfs_server struct
NFS: Introduce nfs_detach_delegations()
NFS: Move cl_state_owners and related fields to the nfs_server struct
NFS: Allow walking nfs_client.cl_superblocks list outside client.c
pnfs: layout roc code
pnfs: update nfs4_callback_recallany to handle layouts
pnfs: add CB_LAYOUTRECALL handling
pnfs: CB_LAYOUTRECALL xdr code
pnfs: change lo refcounting to atomic_t
pnfs: check that partial LAYOUTGET return is ignored
pnfs: add layout to client list before sending rpc
pnfs: serialize LAYOUTGET(openstateid)
pnfs: layoutget rpc code cleanup
pnfs: change how lsegs are removed from layout list
pnfs: change layout state seqlock to a spinlock
pnfs: add prefix to struct pnfs_layout_hdr fields
pnfs: add prefix to struct pnfs_layout_segment fields
...
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 <npiggin@kernel.dk>
This is to prepare the way for sensible io draining. Instead of just
removing the lseg from the list, we instead clear the VALID flag
(preventing new io from grabbing references to the lseg) and remove
the reference holding it in the list. Thus the lseg will be removed
once any io in progress completes and any references still held are
dropped.
Signed-off-by: Fred Isaman <iisaman@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Use the small id to pointer translator service to provide a unique callback
identifier per SETCLIENTID call used to identify the v4.0 callback service
associated with the clientid.
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
We need to ensure that the entries in the nfs_cache_array get cleared
when the page is removed from the page cache. To do so, we use the
freepage address_space operation.
Change nfs_readdir_clear_array to use kmap_atomic(), so that the
function can be safely called from all contexts.
Finally, modify the cache_page_release helper to call
nfs_readdir_clear_array directly, when dealing with an anonymous
page from 'uncached_readdir'.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
At the start of the io paths, try to grab the relevant layout
information. This will initiate the inode's layout cache, but
stubs ensure the cache stays empty.
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Dean Hildebrand <dhildebz@umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Marc Eshel <eshel@almaden.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Tao Guo <guotao@nrchpc.ac.cn>
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Labiaga <ricardo.labiaga@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Fred Isaman <iisaman@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
We will now use readdir plus even on directories that are very large.
Signed-off-by: Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
This patch creates a new idmapper system that uses the request-key function to
place a call into userspace to map user and group ids to names. The old
idmapper was single threaded, which prevented more than one request from running
at a single time. This means that a user would have to wait for an upcall to
finish before accessing a cached result.
The upcall result is stored on a keyring of type id_resolver. See the file
Documentation/filesystems/nfs/idmapper.txt for instructions.
Signed-off-by: Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@netapp.com>
[Trond: fix up the return value of nfs_idmap_lookup_name and clean up code]
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
In nfs_open_revalidate(), if the open_context() call returns an inode that
is not the same as dentry->d_inode, then we will call
put_nfs_open_context() with a valid dentry->d_inode, but without the
context being part of the nfsi->open_files list.
In this case too, we want to just skip the list removal, but we do want to
call the ->close_context() callback in order to close the NFSv4 state.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
inode may be NULL when put_nfs_open_context is called from nfs_atomic_lookup
before d_add_unique(dentry, inode)
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Start moving the 'struct nameidata' dependent code out of the lower level
NFS code in preparation for the removal of open intents.
Instead of the struct nameidata, we pass down a partially initialised
struct nfs_open_context that will be fully initialised by the atomic open
upon success.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (96 commits)
no need for list_for_each_entry_safe()/resetting with superblock list
Fix sget() race with failing mount
vfs: don't hold s_umount over close_bdev_exclusive() call
sysv: do not mark superblock dirty on remount
sysv: do not mark superblock dirty on mount
btrfs: remove junk sb_dirt change
BFS: clean up the superblock usage
AFFS: wait for sb synchronization when needed
AFFS: clean up dirty flag usage
cifs: truncate fallout
mbcache: fix shrinker function return value
mbcache: Remove unused features
add f_flags to struct statfs(64)
pass a struct path to vfs_statfs
update VFS documentation for method changes.
All filesystems that need invalidate_inode_buffers() are doing that explicitly
convert remaining ->clear_inode() to ->evict_inode()
Make ->drop_inode() just return whether inode needs to be dropped
fs/inode.c:clear_inode() is gone
fs/inode.c:evict() doesn't care about delete vs. non-delete paths now
...
Fix up trivial conflicts in fs/nilfs2/super.c
If the server has given us a delegation on a file, we _know_ that we can
cache the attribute information even when the user has specified 'noac'.
Reviewed-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
NFS Filehandles and struct fattr are really too large to be allocated on
the stack. This patch adds in a couple of helper functions to allocate them
dynamically instead.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.
percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.
http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py
The script does the followings.
* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used,
gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.
* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains
core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
doesn't seem to be any matching order.
* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
file.
The conversion was done in the following steps.
1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400
files.
2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion,
some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added
inclusions to around 150 files.
3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.
4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.
5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h
inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each
slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
necessary.
6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.
7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).
* x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
* powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
* sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
* ia64 SMP allmodconfig
* s390 SMP allmodconfig
* alpha SMP allmodconfig
* um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig
8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
a separate patch and serve as bisection point.
Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
If the NFS_INO_REVAL_FORCED flag is set, that means that we don't yet have
an up to date attribute cache. Even if we hold a delegation, we must
put a GETATTR on the wire.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Now that we have correct COMMIT semantics in writeback_single_inode, we can
reduce and simplify nfs_wb_all(). Also replace nfs_wb_nocommit() with a
call to filemap_write_and_wait(), which doesn't need to hold the
inode->i_mutex.
With that done, we can eliminate nfs_write_mapping() altogether.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
In order to know when we should do opportunistic commits of the unstable
writes, when the VM is doing a background flush, we add a field to count
the number of unstable writes.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
The sole purpose of nfs_write_inode is to commit unstable writes, so
move it into fs/nfs/write.c, and make nfs_commit_inode static.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
This gives the filesystem more information about the writeback that
is happening. Trond requested this for the NFS unstable write handling,
and other filesystems might benefit from this too by beeing able to
distinguish between the different callers in more detail.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Similar to the fsync issue fixed a while ago in commit
2daea67e96 we need to write for data to
actually hit the disk before writing out the metadata to guarantee
data integrity for filesystems that modify the inode in the data I/O
completion path. Currently XFS and NFS handle this manually, and AFS
has a write_inode method that does nothing but waiting for data, while
others are possibly missing out on this.
Fortunately this change has a lot less impact than the fsync change
as none of the write_inode methods starts data writeout of any form
by itself.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
For NFSv2 and v3:
O_DIRECT writes are always synchronous, and aren't cached, so nothing
should be flushed when closing an NFS O_DIRECT file descriptor. Thus
there are no write errors to report on close(2).
In addition, there's no cached data to verify on the next open(2),
so we don't need clean GETATTR results at close time to compare with.
Thus, there's no need for the nfs_revalidate_inode() call when closing
an NFS O_DIRECT file. This reduces the number of synchronous
on-the-wire requests for a simple open-write-close of an NFS O_DIRECT
file by roughly 20%.
For NFSv4:
Call nfs4_do_close() with wait set to zero when closing an NFS
O_DIRECT file. The CLOSE will go on the wire, but the application
won't wait for it to complete.
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
If the NFS_ATTR_FATTR_TYPE field isn't set in fattr->valid, then we should
not set the S_IFMT part of inode->i_mode.
Reported-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Update some fs code to make use of new helper functions introduced
in the previous patch. Should be no significant change in behaviour
(except CIFS now calls send_sig under i_lock, via inode_newsize_ok).
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com
Cc: linux-cifs-client@lists.samba.org
Cc: sfrench@samba.org
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
The NFSv4 and NFSv4.1 protocols both allow for the redirection of a client
from one server to another in order to support filesystem migration and
replication. For full protocol support, we need to add the ability to
convert a DNS host name into an IP address that we can feed to the RPC
client.
We'll reuse the sunrpc cache, now that it has been converted to work with
rpc_pipefs.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
If the NFSv4 server doesn't support a POSIX attribute, the generic NFS code
needs to know that, so that it don't keep trying to poll for it.
However, by the same count, if the NFSv4 server does support that
attribute, then we should ensure that the inode metadata is appropriately
labelled as being untrusted. For instance, if we don't know the correct
value of the file's uid, we should certainly not be caching ACLs or ACCESS
results.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* Remove smp_lock.h from files which don't need it (including some headers!)
* Add smp_lock.h to files which do need it
* Make smp_lock.h include conditional in hardirq.h
It's needed only for one kernel_locked() usage which is under CONFIG_PREEMPT
This will make hardirq.h inclusion cheaper for every PREEMPT=n config
(which includes allmodconfig/allyesconfig, BTW)
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Bind data storage objects in the local cache to NFS inodes.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
Register NFS for caching and retrieve the top-level cache index object cookie.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
Close-to-open cache consistency rules really only require us to flush out
writes on calls to close(), and require us to revalidate attributes on the
very last close of the file.
Currently we appear to be doing a lot of extra attribute revalidation
and cache flushes.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
The following patch is a combination of a patch by myself and Peter
Staubach.
Trond: If we allow other processes to dirty pages while a process is doing
a consistency sync to disk, we can end up never making progress.
Peter: Attached is a patch which addresses a continuing problem with
the NFS client generating out of order WRITE requests. While
this is compliant with all of the current protocol
specifications, there are servers in the market which can not
handle out of order WRITE requests very well. Also, this may
lead to sub-optimal block allocations in the underlying file
system on the server. This may cause the read throughputs to
be reduced when reading the file from the server.
Peter: There has been a lot of work recently done to address out of
order issues on a systemic level. However, the NFS client is
still susceptible to the problem. Out of order WRITE
requests can occur when pdflush is in the middle of writing
out pages while the process dirtying the pages calls
generic_file_buffered_write which calls
generic_perform_write which calls
balance_dirty_pages_rate_limited which ends up calling
writeback_inodes which ends up calling back into the NFS
client to writes out dirty pages for the same file that
pdflush happens to be working with.
Signed-off-by: Peter Staubach <staubach@redhat.com>
[modification by Trond to merge the two similar patches]
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Currently, filling struct nfs_fattr is more or less an all or nothing
operation, since NFSv2 and NFSv3 have only mandatory attributes.
In NFSv4, some attributes are optional, and so we may simply not be able to
fill in those fields. Furthermore, NFSv4 allows you to specify which
attributes you are interested in retrieving, thus permitting you to
optimise away retrieval of attributes that you know will no change...
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Trond Myklebust
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