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  1. Jan 31, 2014
  2. Sep 17, 2013
    • Miklos Szeredi's avatar
      vfs: improve i_op->atomic_open() documentation · 0854d450
      Miklos Szeredi authored
      
      Fix documentation of ->atomic_open() and related functions: finish_open()
      and finish_no_open().  Also add details that seem to be unclear and a
      source of bugs (some of which are fixed in the following series).
      
      Cc-ing maintainers of all filesystems implementing ->atomic_open().
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
      Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
      Cc: Sage Weil <sage@inktank.com>
      Cc: Steve French <sfrench@samba.org>
      Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
      Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      0854d450
  3. Jul 04, 2013
  4. Jul 03, 2013
  5. Jun 29, 2013
  6. May 22, 2013
    • Lukas Czerner's avatar
      mm: change invalidatepage prototype to accept length · d47992f8
      Lukas Czerner authored
      
      Currently there is no way to truncate partial page where the end
      truncate point is not at the end of the page. This is because it was not
      needed and the functionality was enough for file system truncate
      operation to work properly. However more file systems now support punch
      hole feature and it can benefit from mm supporting truncating page just
      up to the certain point.
      
      Specifically, with this functionality truncate_inode_pages_range() can
      be changed so it supports truncating partial page at the end of the
      range (currently it will BUG_ON() if 'end' is not at the end of the
      page).
      
      This commit changes the invalidatepage() address space operation
      prototype to accept range to be invalidated and update all the instances
      for it.
      
      We also change the block_invalidatepage() in the same way and actually
      make a use of the new length argument implementing range invalidation.
      
      Actual file system implementations will follow except the file systems
      where the changes are really simple and should not change the behaviour
      in any way .Implementation for truncate_page_range() which will be able
      to accept page unaligned ranges will follow as well.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
      Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
      d47992f8
  7. Feb 26, 2013
    • Jeff Layton's avatar
      vfs: kill FS_REVAL_DOT by adding a d_weak_revalidate dentry op · ecf3d1f1
      Jeff Layton authored
      
      The following set of operations on a NFS client and server will cause
      
          server# mkdir a
          client# cd a
          server# mv a a.bak
          client# sleep 30  # (or whatever the dir attrcache timeout is)
          client# stat .
          stat: cannot stat `.': Stale NFS file handle
      
      Obviously, we should not be getting an ESTALE error back there since the
      inode still exists on the server. The problem is that the lookup code
      will call d_revalidate on the dentry that "." refers to, because NFS has
      FS_REVAL_DOT set.
      
      nfs_lookup_revalidate will see that the parent directory has changed and
      will try to reverify the dentry by redoing a LOOKUP. That of course
      fails, so the lookup code returns ESTALE.
      
      The problem here is that d_revalidate is really a bad fit for this case.
      What we really want to know at this point is whether the inode is still
      good or not, but we don't really care what name it goes by or whether
      the dcache is still valid.
      
      Add a new d_op->d_weak_revalidate operation and have complete_walk call
      that instead of d_revalidate. The intent there is to allow for a
      "weaker" d_revalidate that just checks to see whether the inode is still
      good. This is also gives us an opportunity to kill off the FS_REVAL_DOT
      special casing.
      
      [AV: changed method name, added note in porting, fixed confusion re
      having it possibly called from RCU mode (it won't be)]
      
      Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      ecf3d1f1
  8. Dec 21, 2012
  9. Aug 03, 2012
  10. Aug 01, 2012
    • Mel Gorman's avatar
      mm: add support for a filesystem to activate swap files and use direct_IO for writing swap pages · 62c230bc
      Mel Gorman authored
      
      Currently swapfiles are managed entirely by the core VM by using ->bmap to
      allocate space and write to the blocks directly.  This effectively ensures
      that the underlying blocks are allocated and avoids the need for the swap
      subsystem to locate what physical blocks store offsets within a file.
      
      If the swap subsystem is to use the filesystem information to locate the
      blocks, it is critical that information such as block groups, block
      bitmaps and the block descriptor table that map the swap file were
      resident in memory.  This patch adds address_space_operations that the VM
      can call when activating or deactivating swap backed by a file.
      
        int swap_activate(struct file *);
        int swap_deactivate(struct file *);
      
      The ->swap_activate() method is used to communicate to the file that the
      VM relies on it, and the address_space should take adequate measures such
      as reserving space in the underlying device, reserving memory for mempools
      and pinning information such as the block descriptor table in memory.  The
      ->swap_deactivate() method is called on sys_swapoff() if ->swap_activate()
      returned success.
      
      After a successful swapfile ->swap_activate, the swapfile is marked
      SWP_FILE and swapper_space.a_ops will proxy to
      sis->swap_file->f_mappings->a_ops using ->direct_io to write swapcache
      pages and ->readpage to read.
      
      It is perfectly possible that direct_IO be used to read the swap pages but
      it is an unnecessary complication.  Similarly, it is possible that
      ->writepage be used instead of direct_io to write the pages but filesystem
      developers have stated that calling writepage from the VM is undesirable
      for a variety of reasons and using direct_IO opens up the possibility of
      writing back batches of swap pages in the future.
      
      [a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl: Original patch]
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
      Acked-by: default avatarRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
      Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
      Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net>
      Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
      Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
      Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
      Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
      Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>
      Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
      Cc: Xiaotian Feng <dfeng@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      62c230bc
  11. Jul 14, 2012
    • Al Viro's avatar
      don't pass nameidata to ->create() · ebfc3b49
      Al Viro authored
      
      boolean "does it have to be exclusive?" flag is passed instead;
      Local filesystem should just ignore it - the object is guaranteed
      not to be there yet.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      ebfc3b49
    • Al Viro's avatar
      stop passing nameidata to ->lookup() · 00cd8dd3
      Al Viro authored
      
      Just the flags; only NFS cares even about that, but there are
      legitimate uses for such argument.  And getting rid of that
      completely would require splitting ->lookup() into a couple
      of methods (at least), so let's leave that alone for now...
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      00cd8dd3
    • Al Viro's avatar
      stop passing nameidata * to ->d_revalidate() · 0b728e19
      Al Viro authored
      
      Just the lookup flags.  Die, bastard, die...
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      0b728e19
    • Al Viro's avatar
      kill struct opendata · 30d90494
      Al Viro authored
      
      Just pass struct file *.  Methods are happier that way...
      There's no need to return struct file * from finish_open() now,
      so let it return int.  Next: saner prototypes for parts in
      namei.c
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      30d90494
    • Al Viro's avatar
      make ->atomic_open() return int · d9585277
      Al Viro authored
      
      Change of calling conventions:
      old		new
      NULL		1
      file		0
      ERR_PTR(-ve)	-ve
      
      Caller *knows* that struct file *; no need to return it.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      d9585277
    • Al Viro's avatar
      ->atomic_open() prototype change - pass int * instead of bool * · 47237687
      Al Viro authored
      
      ... and let finish_open() report having opened the file via that sucker.
      Next step: don't modify od->filp at all.
      
      [AV: FILE_CREATE was already used by cifs; Miklos' fix folded]
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      47237687
    • Miklos Szeredi's avatar
      vfs: add i_op->atomic_open() · d18e9008
      Miklos Szeredi authored
      
      Add a new inode operation which is called on the last component of an open.
      Using this the filesystem can look up, possibly create and open the file in one
      atomic operation.  If it cannot perform this (e.g. the file type turned out to
      be wrong) it may signal this by returning NULL instead of an open struct file
      pointer.
      
      i_op->atomic_open() is only called if the last component is negative or needs
      lookup.  Handling cached positive dentries here doesn't add much value: these
      can be opened using f_op->open().  If the cached file turns out to be invalid,
      the open can be retried, this time using ->atomic_open() with a fresh dentry.
      
      For now leave the old way of using open intents in lookup and revalidate in
      place.  This will be removed once all the users are converted.
      
      David Howells noticed that if ->atomic_open() opens the file but does not create
      it, handle_truncate() will be called on it even if it is not a regular file.
      Fix this by checking the file type in this case too.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      d18e9008
  12. Jun 01, 2012
    • Josef Bacik's avatar
      fs: introduce inode operation ->update_time · c3b2da31
      Josef Bacik authored
      
      Btrfs has to make sure we have space to allocate new blocks in order to modify
      the inode, so updating time can fail.  We've gotten around this by having our
      own file_update_time but this is kind of a pain, and Christoph has indicated he
      would like to make xfs do something different with atime updates.  So introduce
      ->update_time, where we will deal with i_version an a/m/c time updates and
      indicate which changes need to be made.  The normal version just does what it
      has always done, updates the time and marks the inode dirty, and then
      filesystems can choose to do something different.
      
      I've gone through all of the users of file_update_time and made them check for
      errors with the exception of the fault code since it's complicated and I wasn't
      quite sure what to do there, also Jan is going to be pushing the file time
      updates into page_mkwrite for those who have it so that should satisfy btrfs and
      make it not a big deal to check the file_update_time() return code in the
      generic fault path. Thanks,
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJosef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
      c3b2da31
  13. May 30, 2012
  14. Apr 09, 2012
  15. Mar 07, 2012
  16. Jan 07, 2012
  17. Jan 04, 2012
  18. Sep 27, 2011
    • Paul Bolle's avatar
      doc: fix broken references · 395cf969
      Paul Bolle authored
      
      There are numerous broken references to Documentation files (in other
      Documentation files, in comments, etc.). These broken references are
      caused by typo's in the references, and by renames or removals of the
      Documentation files. Some broken references are simply odd.
      
      Fix these broken references, sometimes by dropping the irrelevant text
      they were part of.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
      395cf969
  19. Jul 25, 2011
  20. Jul 21, 2011
    • Josef Bacik's avatar
      fs: push i_mutex and filemap_write_and_wait down into ->fsync() handlers · 02c24a82
      Josef Bacik authored
      
      Btrfs needs to be able to control how filemap_write_and_wait_range() is called
      in fsync to make it less of a painful operation, so push down taking i_mutex and
      the calling of filemap_write_and_wait() down into the ->fsync() handlers.  Some
      file systems can drop taking the i_mutex altogether it seems, like ext3 and
      ocfs2.  For correctness sake I just pushed everything down in all cases to make
      sure that we keep the current behavior the same for everybody, and then each
      individual fs maintainer can make up their mind about what to do from there.
      Thanks,
      
      Acked-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJosef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      02c24a82
    • Dave Chinner's avatar
      vfs: increase shrinker batch size · 8ab47664
      Dave Chinner authored
      
      Now that the per-sb shrinker is responsible for shrinking 2 or more
      caches, increase the batch size to keep econmies of scale for
      shrinking each cache.  Increase the shrinker batch size to 1024
      objects.
      
      To allow for a large increase in batch size, add a conditional
      reschedule to prune_icache_sb() so that we don't hold the LRU spin
      lock for too long. This mirrors the behaviour of the
      __shrink_dcache_sb(), and allows us to increase the batch size
      without needing to worry about problems caused by long lock hold
      times.
      
      To ensure that filesystems using the per-sb shrinker callouts don't
      cause problems, document that the object freeing method must
      reschedule appropriately inside loops.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      8ab47664
    • Dave Chinner's avatar
      superblock: add filesystem shrinker operations · 0e1fdafd
      Dave Chinner authored
      
      Now we have a per-superblock shrinker implementation, we can add a
      filesystem specific callout to it to allow filesystem internal
      caches to be shrunk by the superblock shrinker.
      
      Rather than perpetuate the multipurpose shrinker callback API (i.e.
      nr_to_scan == 0 meaning "tell me how many objects freeable in the
      cache), two operations will be added. The first will return the
      number of objects that are freeable, the second is the actual
      shrinker call.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      0e1fdafd
  21. Jul 20, 2011
  22. May 27, 2011
    • Christoph Hellwig's avatar
      fs: pass exact type of data dirties to ->dirty_inode · aa385729
      Christoph Hellwig authored
      
      Tell the filesystem if we just updated timestamp (I_DIRTY_SYNC) or
      anything else, so that the filesystem can track internally if it
      needs to push out a transaction for fdatasync or not.
      
      This is just the prototype change with no user for it yet.  I plan
      to push large XFS changes for the next merge window, and getting
      this trivial infrastructure in this window would help a lot to avoid
      tree interdependencies.
      
      Also remove incorrect comments that ->dirty_inode can't block.  That
      has been changed a long time ago, and many implementations rely on it.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      aa385729
  23. Mar 31, 2011
  24. Mar 25, 2011
    • Dave Chinner's avatar
      fs: remove inode_lock from iput_final and prune_icache · f283c86a
      Dave Chinner authored
      
      Now that inode state changes are protected by the inode->i_lock and
      the inode LRU manipulations by the inode_lru_lock, we can remove the
      inode_lock from prune_icache and the initial part of iput_final().
      
      instead of using the inode_lock to protect the inode during
      iput_final, use the inode->i_lock instead. This protects the inode
      against new references being taken while we change the inode state
      to I_FREEING, as well as preventing prune_icache from grabbing the
      inode while we are manipulating it. Hence we no longer need the
      inode_lock in iput_final prior to setting I_FREEING on the inode.
      
      For prune_icache, we no longer need the inode_lock to protect the
      LRU list, and the inodes themselves are protected against freeing
      races by the inode->i_lock. Hence we can lift the inode_lock from
      prune_icache as well.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      f283c86a
  25. Mar 18, 2011
  26. Mar 16, 2011
  27. Jan 16, 2011
    • David Howells's avatar
      Unexport do_add_mount() and add in follow_automount(), not ->d_automount() · ea5b778a
      David Howells authored
      
      Unexport do_add_mount() and make ->d_automount() return the vfsmount to be
      added rather than calling do_add_mount() itself.  follow_automount() will then
      do the addition.
      
      This slightly complicates things as ->d_automount() normally wants to add the
      new vfsmount to an expiration list and start an expiration timer.  The problem
      with that is that the vfsmount will be deleted if it has a refcount of 1 and
      the timer will not repeat if the expiration list is empty.
      
      To this end, we require the vfsmount to be returned from d_automount() with a
      refcount of (at least) 2.  One of these refs will be dropped unconditionally.
      In addition, follow_automount() must get a 3rd ref around the call to
      do_add_mount() lest it eat a ref and return an error, leaving the mount we
      have open to being expired as we would otherwise have only 1 ref on it.
      
      d_automount() should also add the the vfsmount to the expiration list (by
      calling mnt_set_expiry()) and start the expiration timer before returning, if
      this mechanism is to be used.  The vfsmount will be unlinked from the
      expiration list by follow_automount() if do_add_mount() fails.
      
      This patch also fixes the call to do_add_mount() for AFS to propagate the mount
      flags from the parent vfsmount.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      ea5b778a
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