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Author SHA1 Message Date
Adrian Bunk
835d90c421 [PATCH] v9fs_vfs_mkdir(): fix a double free
Fix a double free of "dfid" introduced by commit
da977b2c7e and spotted by the Coverity
checker.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-09 09:25:47 -08:00
Eric Van Hensbergen
e540eb45a5 [PATCH] 9p: null terminate error strings for debug print
We weren't properly NULL terminating protocol error strings for our debug
printk resulting in garbage being included in the output when debug was
enabled.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-01-26 13:51:00 -08:00
Eric Van Hensbergen
da977b2c7e [PATCH] 9p: fix segfault caused by race condition in meta-data operations
Running dbench multithreaded exposed a race condition where fid structures
were removed while in use.  This patch adds semaphores to meta-data operations
to protect the fid structure.  Some cleanup of error-case handling in the
inode operations is also included.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-01-26 13:51:00 -08:00
Eric Van Hensbergen
621997cd39 [PATCH] 9p: fix rename return code
9p doesn't handle renames between directories -- however, we were returning
EPERM instead of EXDEV when we detected this case.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergren <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-01-26 13:50:59 -08:00
Eric Van Hensbergen
f94b347059 [PATCH] 9p: fix bogus return code checks during initialization
There is a simple logic error in init_v9fs - the return code checks are
reversed.  This patch fixes the return code and adds some messages to prevent
module initialization from failing silently.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-01-26 13:50:59 -08:00
Josef "Jeff" Sipek
d6f787bcee [PATCH] 9p: change uses of f_{dentry,vfsmnt} to use f_path
Change all the uses of f_{dentry,vfsmnt} to f_path.{dentry,mnt} in the 9p
filesystem.

Signed-off-by: Josef "Jeff" Sipek <jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08 08:28:43 -08:00
Mika Kukkonen
736c4b8572 [PATCH] Function v9fs_get_idpool returns int, not u32 as called twice in fs/9p/vfs_inode.c
Function v9fs_get_idpool returns int, not u32.  Actually it returns -1 on
errors, and these two callers check if the value is smaller than 0, which
was caught by gcc with extra warning flags.  Compile tested only but should
be OK, as the value computed in v9fs_get_idpool() is also int.

Signed-of-by: Mika Kukkonen <mikukkon@iki.fi>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Cc: Ron Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
Cc: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:33 -08:00
David Howells
9db7372445 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Conflicts:

	drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c
	include/linux/libata.h

Futher merge of Linus's head and compilation fixups.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2006-12-05 17:01:28 +00:00
Al Viro
914e26379d [PATCH] severing fs.h, radix-tree.h -> sched.h
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2006-12-04 02:00:24 -05:00
David Howells
c4028958b6 WorkStruct: make allyesconfig
Fix up for make allyesconfig.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2006-11-22 14:57:56 +00:00
Dave Hansen
d8c76e6f45 [PATCH] r/o bind mount prepwork: inc_nlink() helper
This is mostly included for parity with dec_nlink(), where we will have some
more hooks.  This one should stay pretty darn straightforward for now.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-01 00:39:30 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
d826380b30 [PATCH] 9p: fix leak on error path
If register_filesystem() fails mux workqueue must be killed.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Cc: Ron Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
Cc: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:20 -07:00
Theodore Ts'o
ba52de123d [PATCH] inode-diet: Eliminate i_blksize from the inode structure
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" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27 08:26:18 -07:00
Eric Van Hensbergen
834a9b8ca7 [PATCH] 9p: fix fid behavior on failed remove
Based on a bug report from Russ Ross <russruss@gmail.com>

According to the spec:

"The remove request asks the file server both to remove the file
 represented by fid and to clunk the fid, even if the remove fails."

but the Linux client seems to expect the fid to be valid after a failed
remove attempt.  Specifically, I'm getting this behavior when attempting to
remove a non-empty directory.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-31 13:28:44 -07:00
Russ Ross
4c90c68aca [PATCH] 9p: fix marshalling bug in tcreate with empty extension field
Signed-off-by: Russ Ross <russross@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-31 13:28:44 -07:00
Jörn Engel
6ab3d5624e Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>
Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
Paul Collins
779cbf0bbc v9fs: do not include linux/version.h
I noticed that part of v9fs was being rebuilt when version.h changed.

Signed-off-by: Paul Collins <paul@ondioline.org>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-06-30 18:50:03 +02:00
Latchesar Ionkov
9d7fa40098 [PATCH] v9fs: fix fid check in v9fs_create
Fix an incorrect check whether a fid was allocated in v9fs_create and if it
should be freed on error.

Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@ericvh.myip.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-28 14:59:05 -07:00
Latchesar Ionkov
94374e7cc3 [PATCH] v9fs: return the correct error when interrupted by signal
If a signal interrupts the user process, v9fs sends a flush request to the
file server and waits for its response.  It error code is incorrectly set
to the error code of the flush message instead of ERESTARTSYS.  The patch
sets the error code to the correct value.

Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@ericvh.myip.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-28 14:59:05 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
f5e54d6e53 [PATCH] mark address_space_operations const
Same as with already do with the file operations: keep them in .rodata and
prevents people from doing runtime patching.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Steven French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-28 14:59:04 -07:00
Andreas Mohr
d6e05edc59 spelling fixes
acquired (aquired)
contiguous (contigious)
successful (succesful, succesfull)
surprise (suprise)
whether (weather)
some other misspellings

Signed-off-by: Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-06-26 18:35:02 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
1d77062b14 Merge git://git.linux-nfs.org/pub/linux/nfs-2.6
* git://git.linux-nfs.org/pub/linux/nfs-2.6: (51 commits)
  nfs: remove nfs_put_link()
  nfs-build-fix-99
  git-nfs-build-fixes
  Merge branch 'odirect'
  NFS: alloc nfs_read/write_data as direct I/O is scheduled
  NFS: Eliminate nfs_get_user_pages()
  NFS: refactor nfs_direct_free_user_pages
  NFS: remove user_addr, user_count, and pos from nfs_direct_req
  NFS: "open code" the NFS direct write rescheduler
  NFS: Separate functions for counting outstanding NFS direct I/Os
  NLM: Fix reclaim races
  NLM: sem to mutex conversion
  locks.c: add the fl_owner to nlm_compare_locks
  NFS: Display the chosen RPCSEC_GSS security flavour in /proc/mounts
  NFS: Split fs/nfs/inode.c
  NFS: Fix typo in nfs_do_clone_mount()
  NFS: Fix compile errors introduced by referrals patches
  NFSv4: Ensure that referral mounts bind to a reserved port
  NFSv4: A root pathname is sent as a zero component4
  NFSv4: Follow a referral
  ...
2006-06-25 10:54:14 -07:00
Eric Sesterhenn
099a71d995 [PATCH] Remove needless checks in fs/9p/vfs_inode.c
coverity found two needless checks in vfs_inode.c (cid #1165 and #1164)
In both cases inode is always NULL when we goto error; either because it
is still initialized to NULL or is set to NULL explicitly. This patch
simply removes these checks to save some code.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Cc: Ron Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
Cc: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:20 -07:00
Florin Malita
0710d36a0f [PATCH] 9pfs: missing result check in v9fs_vfs_readlink() and v9fs_vfs_link()
__getname() may fail and return NULL (as pointed out by Coverity 437 &
1220).

Signed-off-by: Florin Malita <fmalita@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Cc: <rminnich@lanl.gov>
Cc: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:15 -07:00
Trond Myklebust
816724e65c Merge branch 'master' of /home/trondmy/kernel/linux-2.6/
Conflicts:

	fs/nfs/inode.c
	fs/super.c

Fix conflicts between patch 'NFS: Split fs/nfs/inode.c' and patch
'VFS: Permit filesystem to override root dentry on mount'
2006-06-24 13:07:53 -04:00
David Howells
454e2398be [PATCH] VFS: Permit filesystem to override root dentry on mount
Extend the get_sb() filesystem operation to take an extra argument that
permits the VFS to pass in the target vfsmount that defines the mountpoint.

The filesystem is then required to manually set the superblock and root dentry
pointers.  For most filesystems, this should be done with simple_set_mnt()
which will set the superblock pointer and then set the root dentry to the
superblock's s_root (as per the old default behaviour).

The get_sb() op now returns an integer as there's now no need to return the
superblock pointer.

This patch permits a superblock to be implicitly shared amongst several mount
points, such as can be done with NFS to avoid potential inode aliasing.  In
such a case, simple_set_mnt() would not be called, and instead the mnt_root
and mnt_sb would be set directly.

The patch also makes the following changes:

 (*) the get_sb_*() convenience functions in the core kernel now take a vfsmount
     pointer argument and return an integer, so most filesystems have to change
     very little.

 (*) If one of the convenience function is not used, then get_sb() should
     normally call simple_set_mnt() to instantiate the vfsmount. This will
     always return 0, and so can be tail-called from get_sb().

 (*) generic_shutdown_super() now calls shrink_dcache_sb() to clean up the
     dcache upon superblock destruction rather than shrink_dcache_anon().

     This is required because the superblock may now have multiple trees that
     aren't actually bound to s_root, but that still need to be cleaned up. The
     currently called functions assume that the whole tree is rooted at s_root,
     and that anonymous dentries are not the roots of trees which results in
     dentries being left unculled.

     However, with the way NFS superblock sharing are currently set to be
     implemented, these assumptions are violated: the root of the filesystem is
     simply a dummy dentry and inode (the real inode for '/' may well be
     inaccessible), and all the vfsmounts are rooted on anonymous[*] dentries
     with child trees.

     [*] Anonymous until discovered from another tree.

 (*) The documentation has been adjusted, including the additional bit of
     changing ext2_* into foo_* in the documentation.

[akpm@osdl.org: convert ipath_fs, do other stuff]
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23 07:42:45 -07:00
Trond Myklebust
8b512d9a88 VFS: Remove dependency of ->umount_begin() call on MNT_FORCE
Allow filesystems to decide to perform pre-umount processing whether or not
MNT_FORCE is set.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-06-09 09:34:18 -04:00
Latchesar Ionkov
41e5a6ac80 [PATCH] v9fs: signal handling fixes
Multiple races can happen when v9fs is interrupted by a signal and Tflush
message is sent to the server.  After v9fs sends Tflush it doesn't wait
until it receives Rflush, and possibly the response of the original
message.  This behavior may confuse v9fs what fids are allocated by the
file server.

This patch fixes the races and the fid allocation.

Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@hera.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-15 11:20:56 -07:00
Latchesar Ionkov
343f1fe6f2 [PATCH] v9fs: Twalk memory leak
v9fs leaks memory if the file server responds with Rerror to a Twalk
message.  The patch fixes the leak.

Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@hera.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-15 11:20:56 -07:00
Eric Van Hensbergen
00fbc6dfe7 [PATCH] 9p: handle sget() failure
Handle a failing sget() in v9fs_get_sb().

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11 06:18:41 -07:00
Arjan van de Ven
4b6f5d20b0 [PATCH] Make most file operations structs in fs/ const
This is a conversion to make the various file_operations structs in fs/
const.  Basically a regexp job, with a few manual fixups

The goal is both to increase correctness (harder to accidentally write to
shared datastructures) and reducing the false sharing of cachelines with
things that get dirty in .data (while .rodata is nicely read only and thus
cache clean)

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-28 09:16:06 -08:00
Eric Van Hensbergen
67543e508d [PATCH] 9p: fix name consistency problems
There were a number of conflicting naming schemes used in the v9fs project.
The directory was fs/9p, but MAINTAINERS and Documentation referred to
v9fs.  The module name itself was 9p2000, and the file system type was 9P.
This patch attempts to clean that up, changing all references to 9p in
order to match the directory name.  We'll also start using 9p instead of
v9fs as our patch prefix.

There is also a minor consistency cleanup in the options changing the name
option to uname in order to more closely match the Plan 9 options.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergevan <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 08:22:54 -08:00
Eric Van Hensbergen
42e8c509cf [PATCH] v9fs: update license boilerplate
Update license boilerplate to specify GPLv2 and remove the (at your option
clause).  This change was agreed to by all the copyright holders (approvals
can be found on v9fs-developer mailing list).

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 08:22:54 -08:00
Eugene Teo
c0291a05f8 [PATCH] v9fs: fix vfs_inode dereference before NULL check
__getname, which in turn will call kmem_cache_alloc, may return NULL.

Coverity bug #977

Signed-off-by: Eugene Teo <eugene.teo@eugeneteo.net>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 08:22:54 -08:00
Latchesar Ionkov
16cce6d27e [PATCH] v9fs: add extension field to Tcreate
Implement a new way of creating special files.  Instead of Tcreate+Twstat,
add one more field to Tcreate that contains special file description.

Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 08:22:54 -08:00
Latchesar Ionkov
5174fdab9f [PATCH] v9fs: print 9p messages
Print 9p messages.

Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@ericvh.myip.org>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 08:22:54 -08:00
Russ Cox
4a26c2429b [PATCH] v9fs: rename tids to tags to be consistent with Plan 9 documentation
The code talks about these things called tids, which I eventually figured
out are tags.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 08:22:54 -08:00
Russ Cox
27979bb2ff [PATCH] v9fs: consolidate trans_sock into trans_fd
Here is a new trans_fd.c that replaces the current trans_fd.c and
trans_sock.c.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 08:22:54 -08:00
Adrian Bunk
29c6e48601 [PATCH] fs/9p/: possible cleanups
- mux.c: v9fs_poll_mux() was inline but not static resuling in needless
         object size bloat
- mux.c: remove all "inline"s: gcc should know best what to inline
- #if 0 the following unused global functions:
  - 9p.c: v9fs_v9fs_t_flush()
  - conv.c: v9fs_create_tauth()
  - mux.c: v9fs_mux_rpcnb()

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@ericvh.myip.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24 07:33:21 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
4f7a07b887 [PATCH] convert fs/9p/ to mutexes, fix locking bugs
Convert fs/9p/mux.c from semaphore to mutex.

NOTE: fixed locking bugs in the process - the code was using semaphores
the other way around.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@ericvh.myip.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-23 07:38:10 -08:00
Latchesar Ionkov
5e7a99ac45 [PATCH] v9fs: assign dentry ops to negative dentries
If a file is not found in v9fs_vfs_lookup, the function creates negative
dentry, but doesn't assign any dentry ops.  This leaves the negative entry
in the cache (there is no d_delete to mark it for removal).  If the file is
created outside of the mounted v9fs filesystem, the file shows up in the
directory with weird permissions.

This patch assigns the default v9fs dentry ops to the negative dentry.

Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-22 07:53:55 -08:00
Eric Van Hensbergen
8532159f55 [PATCH] v9fs: fix overzealous dropping of dentry which breaks dcache
There is a d_drop in dir_release which caused problems as it invalidates
dcache entries too soon.  This was likely a part of the wierd cwd behavior
folks were seeing.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-17 07:51:25 -08:00
Latchesar Ionkov
731805b494 [PATCH] v9fs: fix for access to unitialized variables or freed memory
Miscellaneous fixes related to accessing uninitialized variables or memory
that was already freed.

Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@ericvh.myip.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-08 14:14:02 -08:00
Eric Van Hensbergen
46f6dac259 [PATCH] v9fs: simplify fid mapping
v9fs has been plagued by an over-complicated approach trying to map Linux
dentry semantics to Plan 9 fid semantics.  Our previous approach called for
aggressive flushing of the dcache resulting in several problems (including
wierd cwd behavior when running /bin/pwd).

This patch dramatically simplifies our handling of this fid management.  Fids
will not be clunked as promptly, but the new approach is more functionally
correct.  We now clunk un-open fids only when their dentry ref_count reaches 0
(and d_delete is called).

Another simplification is we no longer seek to match fids to the process-id or
uid of the action initiator.  The uid-matching will need to be revisited when
we fix the security model.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-02 08:33:07 -08:00
Eric Van Hensbergen
74b8054c73 [PATCH] v9fs: fix bug in atomic create open fix
Lucho's atomic create+open fix had a bug in the super block initialization
causing all mounts to fail.  He was freeing an fcall too early.  This patch
fixes that oversight.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-02 08:33:07 -08:00
Latchesar Ionkov
6a3124a394 [PATCH] v9fs: fix atomic create open
In order to assure atomic create+open v9fs stores the open fid produced by
v9fs_vfs_create in the dentry, from where v9fs_file_open retrieves it and
associates it with the open file.

This patch modifies v9fs to use nameidata.intent.open values to do the atomic
create+open.

Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-02 08:33:07 -08:00
Eric Van Hensbergen
e1c9211755 [PATCH] v9fs: update documentation and fix debug flag
Minor updates to the documentation to bring them into sync with current
websites and available features.  The debug flag was switched back to hex
to match the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-20 20:00:11 -08:00
Latchesar Ionkov
034b91a3b6 [PATCH] v9fs: fix corner cases when flushing request
When v9fs_mux_rpc sends a 9P message, it may be put in the queue of unsent
request.  If the user process receives a signal, v9fs_mux_rpc sets the
request error to ERREQFLUSH and assigns NULL to request's send message.  If
the message was still in the unsent queue, v9fs_write_work would produce an
oops while processing it.

The patch makes sure that requests that are being flushed are moved to the
pending requests queue safely.

If a request is being flushed, don't remove it from the list of pending
requests even if it receives a reply before the flush is acknoledged.  The
request will be removed during from the Rflush handler (v9fs_mux_flush_cb).

Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@ericvh.myip.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-03 08:32:06 -08:00
Latchesar Ionkov
05818a004a [PATCH] v9fs: v9fs_put_str fix
v9fs_put_str used to store pointer to the source string, instead of the
cbuf copy.  This patch corrects it.

Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@ericvh.myip.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-03 08:32:06 -08:00
Latchesar Ionkov
93c615feff [PATCH] v9fs: symlink support fixes
Two symlink fixes, v9fs_readlink didn't copy the last character of the
symlink name, v9fs_vfs_follow_link incorrectly called strlen of newly
allocated buffer instead of PATH_MAX.

Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-03 08:32:06 -08:00
Eric Van Hensbergen
147b31cf09 [PATCH] v9fs: add readpage support
v9fs mmap support was originally removed from v9fs at Al Viro's request,
but recently there have been requests from folks who want readpage
functionality (primarily to enable execution of files mounted via 9P).
This patch adds readpage support (but not writepage which contained most of
the objectionable code).  It passes fsx-linux (and other regressions) so it
should be relatively safe.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:22 -08:00
Arjan van de Ven
858119e159 [PATCH] Unlinline a bunch of other functions
Remove the "inline" keyword from a bunch of big functions in the kernel with
the goal of shrinking it by 30kb to 40kb

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-14 18:27:06 -08:00
Christoph Hellwig
0d456fa426 [PATCH] 9p: remove superflous MS_NODIRATIME assignment
MS_NOATIME implies MS_NODIRATIME

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@ericvh.myip.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:33 -08:00
Adrian Bunk
943ffb587c spelling: s/retreive/retrieve/
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-01-10 00:10:13 +01:00
Latchesar Ionkov
1dac06b20d [PATCH] v9fs: handle kthread_create failure, minor bugfixes
- remove unnecessary -ENOMEM assignments
- return correct value when buf_check_size for second time in a buffer
- handle failures when create_workqueue and kthread_create are called
- use kzalloc instead of kmalloc/memset 0
- v9fs_str_copy and v9fs_str_compare were buggy, were used only in one
  place, correct the logic and move it to the place it is used.

Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@ericvh.myip.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:14:06 -08:00
Latchesar Ionkov
531b1094b7 [PATCH] v9fs: zero copy implementation
Performance enhancement reducing the number of copies in the data and
stat paths.

Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@ericvh.myip.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:14:06 -08:00
Latchesar Ionkov
d8da097afb [PATCH] v9fs: fix fid management in v9fs_create
v9fs_create doesn't manage correctly the fids when it is called to create a
directory..  The fid created by the create 9P call (newfid) and the one
created by walking to already created file (wfidno) are not used
consistently.

This patch cleans up the usage of newfid and wfidno.

Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@ericvh.myip.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:14:05 -08:00
Latchesar Ionkov
3cf6429a26 [PATCH] v9fs: new multiplexer implementation
New multiplexer implementation. Decreases the number of kernel threads
required. Better handling when the user process receives a signal.

Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@ericvh.myip.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:14:05 -08:00
Eric Van Hensbergen
f5ef3c105b [PATCH] v9fs: fix fd_close
If a 9pfs server crashes, v9fs_fd_close() is called.  Subsequently, in
cleaning up by performing a umount() on the FS that was provided by this
server v9fs_fd_close() is called again, and uses the old, freed valus of
trans->priv.  This patch ensures that trans->priv can be freed only once,
otherwise this function bails early.

Signed-off-by: Michal Ostrowski <mostrows@watson.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:14:05 -08:00
OGAWA Hirofumi
28fd129827 [PATCH] Fix and add EXPORT_SYMBOL(filemap_write_and_wait)
This patch add EXPORT_SYMBOL(filemap_write_and_wait) and use it.

See mm/filemap.c:

And changes the filemap_write_and_wait() and filemap_write_and_wait_range().

Current filemap_write_and_wait() doesn't wait if filemap_fdatawrite()
returns error.  However, even if filemap_fdatawrite() returned an
error, it may have submitted the partially data pages to the device.
(e.g. in the case of -ENOSPC)

<quotation>
Andrew Morton writes,

If filemap_fdatawrite() returns an error, this might be due to some
I/O problem: dead disk, unplugged cable, etc.  Given the generally
crappy quality of the kernel's handling of such exceptions, there's a
good chance that the filemap_fdatawait() will get stuck in D state
forever.
</quotation>

So, this patch doesn't wait if filemap_fdatawrite() returns the -EIO.

Trond, could you please review the nfs part?  Especially I'm not sure,
nfs must use the "filemap_fdatawrite(inode->i_mapping) == 0", or not.

Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:13:47 -08:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
14c850212e [INET_SOCK]: Move struct inet_sock & helper functions to net/inet_sock.h
To help in reducing the number of include dependencies, several files were
touched as they were getting needed headers indirectly for stuff they use.

Thanks also to Alan Menegotto for pointing out that net/dccp/proto.c had
linux/dccp.h include twice.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-03 13:11:21 -08:00
Latchesar Ionkov
a93a117eaa [PATCH] v9fs: fix memory leak in v9fs dentry code
Assign the appropriate dentry operations to the dentry. Fixes memory leak.

Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-28 14:42:25 -08:00
Olaf Hering
733482e445 [PATCH] changing CONFIG_LOCALVERSION rebuilds too much, for no good reason
This patch removes almost all inclusions of linux/version.h.  The 3
#defines are unused in most of the touched files.

A few drivers use the simple KERNEL_VERSION(a,b,c) macro, which is
unfortunatly in linux/version.h.

There are also lots of #ifdef for long obsolete kernels, this was not
touched.  In a few places, the linux/version.h include was move to where
the LINUX_VERSION_CODE was used.

quilt vi `find * -type f -name "*.[ch]"|xargs grep -El '(UTS_RELEASE|LINUX_VERSION_CODE|KERNEL_VERSION|linux/version.h)'|grep -Ev '(/(boot|coda|drm)/|~$)'`

search pattern:
/UTS_RELEASE\|LINUX_VERSION_CODE\|KERNEL_VERSION\|linux\/\(utsname\|version\).h

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-09 07:55:57 -08:00
Jesper Juhl
f99d49adf5 [PATCH] kfree cleanup: fs
This is the fs/ part of the big kfree cleanup patch.

Remove pointless checks for NULL prior to calling kfree() in fs/.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:54:06 -08:00
Tim Schmielau
8c65b4a604 [PATCH] fix remaining missing includes
Fix more include file problems that surfaced since I submitted the previous
fix-missing-includes.patch.  This should now allow not to include sched.h
from module.h, which is done by a followup patch.

Signed-off-by: Tim Schmielau <tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:53:41 -08:00
Davi Arnaut
ce44eeb690 [PATCH] V9FS: 'names_cache' memory leak
Data allocated with "__getname()" should always be free'd with "__putname()"
because of the AUDITSYSCALL code.

Signed-off-by: Davi Arnaut <davi.arnaut@gmail.com>
Cc: <rminnich@lanl.gov>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@ericvh.myip.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:53:39 -08:00
Latchesar Ionkov
19cba8abd6 [PATCH] v9fs: remove additional buffer allocation from v9fs_file_read and v9fs_file_write
v9fs_file_read and v9fs_file_write use kmalloc to allocate buffers as big
as the data buffer received as parameter.  kmalloc cannot be used to
allocate buffers bigger than 128K, so reading/writing data in chunks bigger
than 128k fails.

This patch reorganizes v9fs_file_read and v9fs_file_write to allocate only
buffers as big as the maximum data that can be sent in one 9P message.

Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-11 09:46:54 -07:00
Al Viro
192eaa28ba [PATCH] missing ERR_PTR in 9fs
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-30 08:42:23 -07:00
Latchesar Ionkov
0b8dd17762 [PATCH] v9fs: fix races in fid allocation
Fid management cleanup.  The patch attempts to fix the races in dentry's
fid management.

Dentries don't keep the opened fids anymore, they are moved to the file
structs.  Ideally there should be no more than one fid with fidcreate equal
to zero in the dentry's list of fids.

v9fs_fid_create initializes the important fields (fid, fidcreated) before
v9fs_fid is added to the list.  v9fs_fid_lookup returns only fids that are
not created by v9fs_create.  v9fs_fid_get_created returns the fid created
by the same process by v9fs_create (if any) and removes it from dentry's
list

Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-28 07:46:40 -07:00
Latchesar Ionkov
f71626a461 [PATCH] v9fs: don't free root dentry & inode if error occurs in v9fs_get_sb
If error occurs while in v9fs_get_sb after it calles sget, the dentry object
of the root and its inode may be freed twice -- once while handling the error
in v9fs_get_sb, and second time when v9fs_get_sb calles deactivate_super
(which in turn calls v9fs_kill_super)

The patch removes the unnecessary code that frees the root dentry and its
inode.

Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-22 22:17:33 -07:00
Latchesar Ionkov
a1f9d8d23f [PATCH] v9fs: replace strlen on newly allocated by __getname buffers to PATH_MAX
v9fs_vfs_readlink allocates space for the link using __getname and
errorneously uses strlen on the newly allocated buffer to check if the buffer
passed by the user is bigger than the one returned by __getname.

The patch replaces the strlen usage to PATH_MAX, which is the actual size of
the buffers returned by __getname.

Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-22 22:17:33 -07:00
Latchesar Ionkov
a8e63bff52 [PATCH] v9fs: make copy of the transport prototype instead of using it directly
When a new session is created it uses a template object of the specified
transport type to instantiate its own copy.  The code for the making a copy of
the template object was lost, and the object itself is attached to the v9fs
session.  This leads to many sessions using the same transport instead of
having their own copy.

The patch puts back the code that makes a copy of the template object.

Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-22 22:17:33 -07:00
Latchesar Ionkov
5b06767623 [PATCH] v9fs: allocate the Rwalk qid array from the right conv buffer
When v9fs_deserealize_fcall deserializes a Rwalk message, it incorrectly
allocates space for the qid array in the source instead of the destination
buffer.

Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-22 22:17:33 -07:00
Latchesar Ionkov
d06a8fb130 [PATCH] v9fs: make conv functions to check for conv buffer overflow
buf_check_size function checks if the conv buffer has enough space for the
performed operation, but it doesn't return the result back to the calling
function, only logs an error in the log.

The report-back-error functionality was lost when buf_check_size was
converted from macro to inline function. The return in the macro used to
exit from the functions that include it, after the conversion it just exits
from the inline function itself.

The patch makes buf_check_size to return flag and all functions that use
it check if they should perform the operation, or exit.

Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-22 22:17:33 -07:00
Eric Van Hensbergen
cb2e87a65d [PATCH] v9fs: fix handling of malformed 9P messages
This patch attempts to do a better job of cleaning up after detecting errors
on the transport.  This should also improve error reporting on broken
connections to servers.

Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 13:57:58 -07:00
Eric Van Hensbergen
b501611a6f [PATCH] v9fs: readlink extended mode check
LANL reported some issues with random crashes during mount of legacy protocol
servers (9P2000 versus 9P2000.u) -- crash was always happening in readlink
(which should never happen in legacy mode).  Added some sanity conditionals to
the get_inode code which should prevent the errors LANL was seeing.  Code
tested benign through regression.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 13:57:58 -07:00
Eric Van Hensbergen
5d58bec5b7 [PATCH] v9fs: Fix support for special files (devices, named pipes, etc.)
Fix v9fs special files (block, char devices) support.

Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 13:57:58 -07:00
Eric Van Hensbergen
73c592b9b8 [PATCH] v9fs: Clean-up vfs_inode and setattr functions
Cleanup code in v9fs vfs_inode as suggested by Alexey Dobriyan.  Did some
major revamping of the v9fs setattr code to remove unnecessary allocations and
clean up some dead-code.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 13:57:57 -07:00
Eric Van Hensbergen
1346f51ede [PATCH] v9fs: Change error magic numbers to defined constants
Change magic error numbers to system defined constants in v9fs error.h As
suggested by Jan-Benedict Glaw.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 13:57:57 -07:00
Eric Van Hensbergen
3ed8491c8a [PATCH] v9fs: debug and support routines
This part of the patch contains debug and other misc routines.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 13:57:57 -07:00
Eric Van Hensbergen
322b329ab7 [PATCH] v9fs: Support to force umount
Support for force umount

Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 13:57:57 -07:00
Eric Van Hensbergen
426cc91aa6 [PATCH] v9fs: transport modules
This part of the patch contains transport routines.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 13:57:57 -07:00
Eric Van Hensbergen
b8cf945b31 [PATCH] v9fs: 9P protocol implementation
This part of the patch contains the 9P protocol functions.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 13:57:56 -07:00
Eric Van Hensbergen
9e82cf6a80 [PATCH] v9fs: VFS superblock operations and glue
This part of the patch contains VFS superblock and mapping code.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 13:57:56 -07:00
Eric Van Hensbergen
2bad847151 [PATCH] v9fs: VFS inode operations
This part of the patch contains the VFS inode interfaces.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 13:57:56 -07:00
Eric Van Hensbergen
e69e7fe5b0 [PATCH] v9fs: VFS file, dentry, and directory operations
This part of the patch contains the VFS file, dentry & directory interfaces.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 13:57:56 -07:00
Eric Van Hensbergen
93fa58cb83 [PATCH] v9fs: Documentation, Makefiles, Configuration
OVERVIEW

V9FS is a distributed file system for Linux which provides an
implementation of the Plan 9 resource sharing protocol 9P.  It can be
used to share all sorts of resources: static files, synthetic file servers
(such as /proc or /sys), devices, and application file servers (such as
FUSE).

BACKGROUND

Plan 9 (http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9) is a research operating
system and associated applications suite developed by the Computing
Science Research Center of AT&T Bell Laboratories (now a part of
Lucent Technologies), the same group that developed UNIX , C, and C++.
Plan 9 was initially released in 1993 to universities, and then made
generally available in 1995. Its core operating systems code laid the
foundation for the Inferno Operating System released as a product by
Lucent Bell-Labs in 1997. The Inferno venture was the only commercial
embodiment of Plan 9 and is currently maintained as a product by Vita
Nuova (http://www.vitanuova.com). After updated releases in 2000 and
2002, Plan 9 was open-sourced under the OSI approved Lucent Public
License in 2003.

The Plan 9 project was started by Ken Thompson and Rob Pike in 1985.
Their intent was to explore potential solutions to some of the
shortcomings of UNIX in the face of the widespread use of high-speed
networks to connect machines. In UNIX, networking was an afterthought
and UNIX clusters became little more than a network of stand-alone
systems. Plan 9 was designed from first principles as a seamless
distributed system with integrated secure network resource sharing.
Applications and services were architected in such a way as to allow
for implicit distribution across a cluster of systems. Configuring an
environment to use remote application components or services in place
of their local equivalent could be achieved with a few simple command
line instructions. For the most part, application implementations
operated independent of the location of their actual resources.

Commercial operating systems haven't changed much in the 20 years
since Plan 9 was conceived. Network and distributed systems support is
provided by a patchwork of middle-ware, with an endless number of
packages supplying pieces of the puzzle. Matters are complicated by
the use of different complicated protocols for individual services,
and separate implementations for kernel and application resources.
The V9FS project (http://v9fs.sourceforge.net) is an attempt to bring
Plan 9's unified approach to resource sharing to Linux and other
operating systems via support for the 9P2000 resource sharing
protocol.

V9FS HISTORY

V9FS was originally developed by Ron Minnich and Maya Gokhale at Los
Alamos National Labs (LANL) in 1997.  In November of 2001, Greg Watson
setup a SourceForge project as a public repository for the code which
supported the Linux 2.4 kernel.

About a year ago, I picked up the initial attempt Ron Minnich had
made to provide 2.6 support and got the code integrated into a 2.6.5
kernel.   I then went through a line-for-line re-write attempting to
clean-up the code while more closely following the Linux Kernel style
guidelines.  I co-authored a paper with Ron Minnich on the V9FS Linux
support including performance comparisons to NFSv3 using Bonnie and
PostMark - this paper appeared at the USENIX/FREENIX 2005
conference in April 2005:
( http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix05/tech/freenix/hensbergen.html ).

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION/REQUEST FOR COMMENTS

Our 2.6 kernel support is stabilizing and we'd like to begin pursuing
its integration into the official kernel tree.  We would appreciate any
review, comments, critiques, and additions from this community and are
actively seeking people to join our project and help us produce
something that would be acceptable and useful to the Linux community.

STATUS

The code is reasonably stable, although there are no doubt corner cases
our regression tests haven't discovered yet.  It is in regular use by several
of the developers and has been tested on x86 and PowerPC
(32-bit and 64-bit) in both small and large (LANL cluster) deployments.
Our current regression tests include fsx, bonnie, and postmark.

It was our intention to keep things as simple as possible for this
release -- trying to focus on correctness within the core of the
protocol support versus a rich set of features.  For example: a more
complete security model and cache layer are in the road map, but
excluded from this release.   Additionally, we have removed support for
mmap operations at Al Viro's request.

PERFORMANCE

Detailed performance numbers and analysis are included in the FREENIX
paper, but we show comparable performance to NFSv3 for large file
operations based on the Bonnie benchmark, and superior performance for
many small file operations based on the PostMark benchmark.   Somewhat
preliminary graphs (from the FREENIX paper) are available
(http://v9fs.sourceforge.net/perf/index.html).

RESOURCES

The source code is available in a few different forms:

tarballs: http://v9fs.sf.net
CVSweb: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/v9fs/linux-9p/
CVS: :pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/v9fs/linux-9p
Git: rsync://v9fs.graverobber.org/v9fs (webgit: http://v9fs.graverobber.org)
9P: tcp!v9fs.graverobber.org!6564

The user-level server is available from either the Plan 9 distribution
or from http://v9fs.sf.net
Other support applications are still being developed, but preliminary
version can be downloaded from sourceforge.

Documentation on the protocol has historically been the Plan 9 Man
pages (http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/man/5/INDEX.html), but there is
an effort under way to write a more complete Internet-Draft style
specification (http://v9fs.sf.net/rfc).

There are a couple of mailing lists supporting v9fs, but the most used
is v9fs-developer@lists.sourceforge.net -- please direct/cc your
comments there so the other v9fs contibutors can participate in the
conversation.  There is also an IRC channel: irc://freenode.net/#v9fs

This part of the patch contains Documentation, Makefiles, and configuration
file changes.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 13:57:56 -07:00