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Tejun Heo
4fed947cb3 block: implement REQ_FLUSH/FUA based interface for FLUSH/FUA requests
Now that the backend conversion is complete, export sequenced
FLUSH/FUA capability through REQ_FLUSH/FUA flags.  REQ_FLUSH means the
device cache should be flushed before executing the request.  REQ_FUA
means that the data in the request should be on non-volatile media on
completion.

Block layer will choose the correct way of implementing the semantics
and execute it.  The request may be passed to the device directly if
the device can handle it; otherwise, it will be sequenced using one or
more proxy requests.  Devices will never see REQ_FLUSH and/or FUA
which it doesn't support.

Also, unlike the original REQ_HARDBARRIER, REQ_FLUSH/FUA requests are
never failed with -EOPNOTSUPP.  If the underlying device doesn't
support FLUSH/FUA, the block layer simply make those noop.  IOW, it no
longer distinguishes between writeback cache which doesn't support
cache flush and writethrough/no cache.  Devices which have WB cache
w/o flush are very difficult to come by these days and there's nothing
much we can do anyway, so it doesn't make sense to require everyone to
implement -EOPNOTSUPP handling.  This will simplify filesystems and
block drivers as they can drop -EOPNOTSUPP retry logic for barriers.

* QUEUE_ORDERED_* are removed and QUEUE_FSEQ_* are moved into
  blk-flush.c.

* REQ_FLUSH w/o data can also be directly passed to drivers without
  sequencing but some drivers assume that zero length requests don't
  have rq->bio which isn't true for these requests requiring the use
  of proxy requests.

* REQ_COMMON_MASK now includes REQ_FLUSH | REQ_FUA so that they are
  copied from bio to request.

* WRITE_BARRIER is marked deprecated and WRITE_FLUSH, WRITE_FUA and
  WRITE_FLUSH_FUA are added.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-09-10 12:35:37 +02:00
Arnd Bergmann
4d2deb40b2 kernel: __rcu annotations
This adds annotations for RCU operations in core kernel components

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2010-08-19 17:18:03 -07:00
Nick Piggin
6416ccb789 fs: scale files_lock
fs: scale files_lock

Improve scalability of files_lock by adding per-cpu, per-sb files lists,
protected with an lglock. The lglock provides fast access to the per-cpu lists
to add and remove files. It also provides a snapshot of all the per-cpu lists
(although this is very slow).

One difficulty with this approach is that a file can be removed from the list
by another CPU. We must track which per-cpu list the file is on with a new
variale in the file struct (packed into a hole on 64-bit archs). Scalability
could suffer if files are frequently removed from different cpu's list.

However loads with frequent removal of files imply short interval between
adding and removing the files, and the scheduler attempts to avoid moving
processes too far away. Also, even in the case of cross-CPU removal, the
hardware has much more opportunity to parallelise cacheline transfers with N
cachelines than with 1.

A worst-case test of 1 CPU allocating files subsequently being freed by N CPUs
degenerates to contending on a single lock, which is no worse than before. When
more than one CPU are allocating files, even if they are always freed by
different CPUs, there will be more parallelism than the single-lock case.

Testing results:

On a 2 socket, 8 core opteron, I measure the number of times the lock is taken
to remove the file, the number of times it is removed by the same CPU that
added it, and the number of times it is removed by the same node that added it.

Booting:    locks=  25049 cpu-hits=  23174 (92.5%) node-hits=  23945 (95.6%)
kbuild -j16 locks=2281913 cpu-hits=2208126 (96.8%) node-hits=2252674 (98.7%)
dbench 64   locks=4306582 cpu-hits=4287247 (99.6%) node-hits=4299527 (99.8%)

So a file is removed from the same CPU it was added by over 90% of the time.
It remains within the same node 95% of the time.

Tim Chen ran some numbers for a 64 thread Nehalem system performing a compile.

                throughput
2.6.34-rc2      24.5
+patch          24.9

                us      sys     idle    IO wait (in %)
2.6.34-rc2      51.25   28.25   17.25   3.25
+patch          53.75   18.5    19      8.75

So significantly less CPU time spent in kernel code, higher idle time and
slightly higher throughput.

Single threaded performance difference was within the noise of microbenchmarks.
That is not to say penalty does not exist, the code is larger and more memory
accesses required so it will be slightly slower.

Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-08-18 08:35:48 -04:00
Nick Piggin
d996b62a8d tty: fix fu_list abuse
tty: fix fu_list abuse

tty code abuses fu_list, which causes a bug in remount,ro handling.

If a tty device node is opened on a filesystem, then the last link to the inode
removed, the filesystem will be allowed to be remounted readonly. This is
because fs_may_remount_ro does not find the 0 link tty inode on the file sb
list (because the tty code incorrectly removed it to use for its own purpose).
This can result in a filesystem with errors after it is marked "clean".

Taking idea from Christoph's initial patch, allocate a tty private struct
at file->private_data and put our required list fields in there, linking
file and tty. This makes tty nodes behave the same way as other device nodes
and avoid meddling with the vfs, and avoids this bug.

The error handling is not trivial in the tty code, so for this bugfix, I take
the simple approach of using __GFP_NOFAIL and don't worry about memory errors.
This is not a problem because our allocator doesn't fail small allocs as a rule
anyway. So proper error handling is left as an exercise for tty hackers.

[ Arguably filesystem's device inode would ideally be divorced from the
driver's pseudo inode when it is opened, but in practice it's not clear whether
that will ever be worth implementing. ]

Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-08-18 08:35:47 -04:00
Nick Piggin
ee2ffa0dfd fs: cleanup files_lock locking
fs: cleanup files_lock locking

Lock tty_files with a new spinlock, tty_files_lock; provide helpers to
manipulate the per-sb files list; unexport the files_lock spinlock.

Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-08-18 08:35:47 -04:00
Christoph Hellwig
9cb569d601 remove SWRITE* I/O types
These flags aren't real I/O types, but tell ll_rw_block to always
lock the buffer instead of giving up on a failed trylock.

Instead add a new write_dirty_buffer helper that implements this semantic
and use it from the existing SWRITE* callers.  Note that the ll_rw_block
code had a bug where it didn't promote WRITE_SYNC_PLUG properly, which
this patch fixes.

In the ufs code clean up the helper that used to call ll_rw_block
to mirror sync_dirty_buffer, which is the function it implements for
compound buffers.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-08-18 01:09:01 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
10041d2d14 Merge branch 'bkl/ioctl' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing
* 'bkl/ioctl' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing:
  bkl: Remove locked .ioctl file operation
  v4l: Remove reference to bkl ioctl in compat ioctl handling
  logfs: kill BKL
2010-08-13 17:52:35 -07:00
David Howells
c788732523 Mark arguments to certain syscalls as being const
Mark arguments to certain system calls as being const where they should be but
aren't.  The list includes:

 (*) The filename arguments of various stat syscalls, execve(), various utimes
     syscalls and some mount syscalls.

 (*) The filename arguments of some syscall helpers relating to the above.

 (*) The buffer argument of various write syscalls.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-13 16:53:13 -07:00
Arnd Bergmann
b19dd42faf bkl: Remove locked .ioctl file operation
The last user is gone, so we can safely remove this

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2010-08-14 00:24:24 +02:00
Adrian Hunter
8d57a98ccd block: add secure discard
Secure discard is the same as discard except that all copies of the
discarded sectors (perhaps created by garbage collection) must also be
erased.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@nokia.com>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Kyungmin Park <kmpark@infradead.org>
Cc: Madhusudhan Chikkature <madhu.cr@ti.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Ben Gardiner <bengardiner@nanometrics.ca>
Cc: <linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-12 08:43:30 -07:00
Andrew Morton
13bcbc0087 include/linux/fs.h: complete hexification of FMODE_* constants
One straggler which was missed due to merge ordering issues.

Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-11 08:58:59 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
2f9e825d3e Merge branch 'for-2.6.36' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-2.6.36' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (149 commits)
  block: make sure that REQ_* types are seen even with CONFIG_BLOCK=n
  xen-blkfront: fix missing out label
  blkdev: fix blkdev_issue_zeroout return value
  block: update request stacking methods to support discards
  block: fix missing export of blk_types.h
  writeback: fix bad _bh spinlock nesting
  drbd: revert "delay probes", feature is being re-implemented differently
  drbd: Initialize all members of sync_conf to their defaults [Bugz 315]
  drbd: Disable delay probes for the upcomming release
  writeback: cleanup bdi_register
  writeback: add new tracepoints
  writeback: remove unnecessary init_timer call
  writeback: optimize periodic bdi thread wakeups
  writeback: prevent unnecessary bdi threads wakeups
  writeback: move bdi threads exiting logic to the forker thread
  writeback: restructure bdi forker loop a little
  writeback: move last_active to bdi
  writeback: do not remove bdi from bdi_list
  writeback: simplify bdi code a little
  writeback: do not lose wake-ups in bdi threads
  ...

Fixed up pretty trivial conflicts in drivers/block/virtio_blk.c and
drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c as per Jens.
2010-08-10 15:22:42 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
8c8946f509 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/notify
* 'for-linus' of git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/notify: (132 commits)
  fanotify: use both marks when possible
  fsnotify: pass both the vfsmount mark and inode mark
  fsnotify: walk the inode and vfsmount lists simultaneously
  fsnotify: rework ignored mark flushing
  fsnotify: remove global fsnotify groups lists
  fsnotify: remove group->mask
  fsnotify: remove the global masks
  fsnotify: cleanup should_send_event
  fanotify: use the mark in handler functions
  audit: use the mark in handler functions
  dnotify: use the mark in handler functions
  inotify: use the mark in handler functions
  fsnotify: send fsnotify_mark to groups in event handling functions
  fsnotify: Exchange list heads instead of moving elements
  fsnotify: srcu to protect read side of inode and vfsmount locks
  fsnotify: use an explicit flag to indicate fsnotify_destroy_mark has been called
  fsnotify: use _rcu functions for mark list traversal
  fsnotify: place marks on object in order of group memory address
  vfs/fsnotify: fsnotify_close can delay the final work in fput
  fsnotify: store struct file not struct path
  ...

Fix up trivial delete/modify conflict in fs/notify/inotify/inotify.c.
2010-08-10 11:39:13 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
5f248c9c25 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6
* '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
2010-08-10 11:26:52 -07:00
Jan Kara
f446daaea9 mm: implement writeback livelock avoidance using page tagging
We try to avoid livelocks of writeback when some steadily creates dirty
pages in a mapping we are writing out.  For memory-cleaning writeback,
using nr_to_write works reasonably well but we cannot really use it for
data integrity writeback.  This patch tries to solve the problem.

The idea is simple: Tag all pages that should be written back with a
special tag (TOWRITE) in the radix tree.  This can be done rather quickly
and thus livelocks should not happen in practice.  Then we start doing the
hard work of locking pages and sending them to disk only for those pages
that have TOWRITE tag set.

Note: Adding new radix tree tag grows radix tree node from 288 to 296
bytes for 32-bit archs and from 552 to 560 bytes for 64-bit archs.
However, the number of slab/slub items per page remains the same (13 and 7
respectively).

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-09 20:44:59 -07:00
Al Viro
7a4dec5389 Fix sget() race with failing mount
If sget() finds a matching superblock being set up, it'll
grab an active reference to it and grab s_umount.  That's
fine - we'll wait for completion of foofs_get_sb() that way.
However, if said foofs_get_sb() fails we'll end up holding
the halfway-created superblock.  deactivate_locked_super()
called by foofs_get_sb() will just unlock the sucker since
we are holding another active reference to it.

What we need is a way to tell if superblock has been successfully
set up.  Unfortunately, neither ->s_root nor the check for
MS_ACTIVE quite fit.  Cheap and easy way, suitable for backport:
new flag set by the (only) caller of ->get_sb().  If that flag
isn't present by the time sget() grabbed s_umount on preexisting
superblock it has found, it's seeing a stillborn and should
just bury it with deactivate_locked_super() (and repeat the search).

Longer term we want to set that flag in ->get_sb() instances (and
check for it to distinguish between "sget() found us a live sb"
and "sget() has allocated an sb, we need to set it up" in there,
instead of checking ->s_root as we do now).

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
2010-08-09 16:49:01 -04:00
Christoph Hellwig
ebabe9a900 pass a struct path to vfs_statfs
We'll need the path to implement the flags field for statvfs support.
We do have it available in all callers except:

 - ecryptfs_statfs.  This one doesn't actually need vfs_statfs but just
   needs to do a caller to the lower filesystem statfs method.
 - sys_ustat.  Add a non-exported statfs_by_dentry helper for it which
   doesn't won't be able to fill out the flags field later on.

In addition rename the helpers for statfs vs fstatfs to do_*statfs instead
of the misleading vfs prefix.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-08-09 16:48:42 -04:00
Al Viro
b57922d97f convert remaining ->clear_inode() to ->evict_inode()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-08-09 16:48:37 -04:00
Al Viro
45321ac543 Make ->drop_inode() just return whether inode needs to be dropped
... and let iput_final() do the actual eviction or retention

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-08-09 16:48:35 -04:00
Al Viro
30140837f2 fs/inode.c:clear_inode() is gone
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-08-09 16:48:34 -04:00
Al Viro
07958f9f5b ->delete_inode() is gone
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-08-09 16:48:31 -04:00
Al Viro
b0683aa638 new helper: end_writeback()
Essentially, the minimal variant of ->evict_inode().  It's
a trimmed-down clear_inode(), sans any fs callbacks.  Once
it returns we know that no async writeback will be happening;
every ->evict_inode() instance should do that once and do that
before doing anything ->write_inode() could interfere with
(e.g. freeing the on-disk inode).

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-08-09 16:47:49 -04:00
Al Viro
c6287315cb generic_detach_inode() can be static now
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-08-09 16:47:48 -04:00
Al Viro
be7ce4161f New method - evict_inode()
Hybrid of ->clear_inode() and ->delete_inode(); if present, does
all fs work to be done when in-core inode is about to be gone,
for whatever reason.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-08-09 16:47:46 -04:00
Al Viro
a4ffdde6e5 simplify checks for I_CLEAR/I_FREEING
add I_CLEAR instead of replacing I_FREEING with it.  I_CLEAR is
equivalent to I_FREEING for almost all code looking at either;
it's there to keep track of having called clear_inode() exactly
once per inode lifetime, at some point after having set I_FREEING.
I_CLEAR and I_FREEING never get set at the same time with the
current code, so we can switch to setting i_flags to I_FREEING | I_CLEAR
instead of I_CLEAR without loss of information.  As the result of
such change, checks become simpler and the amount of code that needs
to know about I_CLEAR shrinks a lot.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-08-09 16:47:44 -04:00
Christoph Hellwig
2c27c65ed0 check ATTR_SIZE contraints in inode_change_ok
Make sure we check the truncate constraints early on in ->setattr by adding
those checks to inode_change_ok.  Also clean up and document inode_change_ok
to make this obvious.

As a fallout we don't have to call inode_newsize_ok from simple_setsize and
simplify it down to a truncate_setsize which doesn't return an error.  This
simplifies a lot of setattr implementations and means we use truncate_setsize
almost everywhere.  Get rid of fat_setsize now that it's trivial and mark
ext2_setsize static to make the calling convention obvious.

Keep the inode_newsize_ok in vmtruncate for now as all callers need an
audit for its removal anyway.

Note: setattr code in ecryptfs doesn't call inode_change_ok at all and
needs a deeper audit, but that is left for later.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-08-09 16:47:39 -04:00
Christoph Hellwig
1025774ce4 remove inode_setattr
Replace inode_setattr with opencoded variants of it in all callers.  This
moves the remaining call to vmtruncate into the filesystem methods where it
can be replaced with the proper truncate sequence.

In a few cases it was obvious that we would never end up calling vmtruncate
so it was left out in the opencoded variant:

 spufs: explicitly checks for ATTR_SIZE earlier
 btrfs,hugetlbfs,logfs,dlmfs: explicitly clears ATTR_SIZE earlier
 ufs: contains an opencoded simple_seattr + truncate that sets the filesize just above

In addition to that ncpfs called inode_setattr with handcrafted iattrs,
which allowed to trim down the opencoded variant.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-08-09 16:47:37 -04:00
Christoph Hellwig
6a1a90ad1b rename generic_setattr
Despite its name it's now a generic implementation of ->setattr, but
rather a helper to copy attributes from a struct iattr to the inode.
Rename it to setattr_copy to reflect this fact.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-08-09 16:47:35 -04:00
Christoph Hellwig
eafdc7d190 sort out blockdev_direct_IO variants
Move the call to vmtruncate to get rid of accessive blocks to the callers
in prepearation of the new truncate calling sequence.  This was only done
for DIO_LOCKING filesystems, so the __blockdev_direct_IO_newtrunc variant
was not needed anyway.  Get rid of blockdev_direct_IO_no_locking and
its _newtrunc variant while at it as just opencoding the two additional
paramters is shorted than the name suffix.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-08-09 16:47:29 -04:00
Tejun Heo
7cc015811e bio, fs: separate out bio_types.h and define READ/WRITE constants in terms of BIO_RW_* flags
linux/fs.h hard coded READ/WRITE constants which should match BIO_RW_*
flags.  This is fragile and caused breakage during BIO_RW_* flag
rearrangement.  The hardcoding is to avoid include dependency hell.

Create linux/bio_types.h which contatins definitions for bio data
structures and flags and include it from bio.h and fs.h, and make fs.h
define all READ/WRITE related constants in terms of BIO_RW_* flags.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-08-07 18:53:10 +02:00
Tejun Heo
aca27ba961 bio, fs: update RWA_MASK, READA and SWRITE to match the corresponding BIO_RW_* bits
Commit a82afdf (block: use the same failfast bits for bio and request)
moved BIO_RW_* bits around such that they match up with REQ_* bits.
Unfortunately, fs.h hard coded RW_MASK, RWA_MASK, READ, WRITE, READA
and SWRITE as 0, 1, 2 and 3, and expected them to match with BIO_RW_*
bits.  READ/WRITE didn't change but BIO_RW_AHEAD was moved to bit 4
instead of bit 1, breaking RWA_MASK, READA and SWRITE.

This patch updates RWA_MASK, READA and SWRITE such that they match the
BIO_RW_* bits again.  A follow up patch will update the definitions to
directly use BIO_RW_* bits so that this kind of breakage won't happen
again.

Neil also spotted missing RWA_MASK conversion.

Stable: The offending commit a82afdf was released with v2.6.32, so
this patch should be applied to all kernels since then but it must
_NOT_ be applied to kernels earlier than that.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-and-bisected-by: Vladislav Bolkhovitin <vst@vlnb.net>
Root-caused-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-08-07 18:53:07 +02:00
Christoph Hellwig
7b6d91daee block: unify flags for struct bio and struct request
Remove the current bio flags and reuse the request flags for the bio, too.
This allows to more easily trace the type of I/O from the filesystem
down to the block driver.  There were two flags in the bio that were
missing in the requests:  BIO_RW_UNPLUG and BIO_RW_AHEAD.  Also I've
renamed two request flags that had a superflous RW in them.

Note that the flags are in bio.h despite having the REQ_ name - as
blkdev.h includes bio.h that is the only way to go for now.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-08-07 18:20:39 +02:00
Christoph Hellwig
41f2df6289 block: BARRIER request should imply SYNC
A barrier request should by defintion have priority in get_request
and let the queue be unplugged immediately as it's blocking all forward
progress due to the queue draining.

Most filesystems already get this implicitly by the way how submit_bh
treats the buffer_ordered flag, and gfs2 sets it explicitly.  But btrfs
and XFS are still forgetting to set the flag, as is blkdev_issue_flush
and some places in DM/MD.

For XFS on metadata heavy workloads this gives a consistent speedup
in the 2-3% range.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-08-07 18:15:44 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
7e6880951d Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6: (90 commits)
  AppArmor: fix build warnings for non-const use of get_task_cred
  selinux: convert the policy type_attr_map to flex_array
  AppArmor: Enable configuring and building of the AppArmor security module
  TOMOYO: Use pathname specified by policy rather than execve()
  AppArmor: update path_truncate method to latest version
  AppArmor: core policy routines
  AppArmor: policy routines for loading and unpacking policy
  AppArmor: mediation of non file objects
  AppArmor: LSM interface, and security module initialization
  AppArmor: Enable configuring and building of the AppArmor security module
  AppArmor: update Maintainer and Documentation
  AppArmor: functions for domain transitions
  AppArmor: file enforcement routines
  AppArmor: userspace interfaces
  AppArmor: dfa match engine
  AppArmor: contexts used in attaching policy to system objects
  AppArmor: basic auditing infrastructure.
  AppArmor: misc. base functions and defines
  TOMOYO: Update version to 2.3.0
  TOMOYO: Fix quota check.
  ...
2010-08-04 10:28:39 -07:00
Eric Paris
9cfcac810e vfs: re-introduce MAY_CHDIR
Currently MAY_ACCESS means that filesystems must check the permissions
right then and not rely on cached results or the results of future
operations on the object.  This can be because of a call to sys_access() or
because of a call to chdir() which needs to check search without relying on
any future operations inside that dir.  I plan to use MAY_ACCESS for other
purposes in the security system, so I split the MAY_ACCESS and the
MAY_CHDIR cases.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by:  Stephen D. Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2010-08-02 15:35:06 +10:00
Alexey Dobriyan
6e006701cc dnotify: move dir_notify_enable declaration
Move dir_notify_enable declaration to where it belongs -- dnotify.h .

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 09:59:01 -04:00
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang
12ed2e36c9 fanotify: FMODE_NONOTIFY and __O_SYNC in sparc conflict
sparc used the same value as FMODE_NONOTIFY so change FMODE_NONOTIFY to be
something unique.

Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 09:58:54 -04:00
Eric Paris
ecf081d1a7 vfs: introduce FMODE_NONOTIFY
This is a new f_mode which can only be set by the kernel.  It indicates
that the fd was opened by fanotify and should not cause future fanotify
events.  This is needed to prevent fanotify livelock.  An example of
obvious livelock is from fanotify close events.

Process A closes file1
This creates a close event for file1.
fanotify opens file1 for Listener X
Listener X deals with the event and closes its fd for file1.
This creates a close event for file1.
fanotify opens file1 for Listener X
Listener X deals with the event and closes its fd for file1.
This creates a close event for file1.
fanotify opens file1 for Listener X
Listener X deals with the event and closes its fd for file1.
notice a pattern?

The fix is to add the FMODE_NONOTIFY bit to the open filp done by the kernel
for fanotify.  Thus when that file is used it will not generate future
events.

This patch simply defines the bit.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 09:58:54 -04:00
Eric Paris
e61ce86737 fsnotify: rename fsnotify_mark_entry to just fsnotify_mark
The name is long and it serves no real purpose.  So rename
fsnotify_mark_entry to just fsnotify_mark.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 09:58:53 -04:00
Eric Paris
2dfc1cae4c inotify: remove inotify in kernel interface
nothing uses inotify in the kernel, drop it!

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 09:58:31 -04:00
Christoph Hellwig
40e2e97316 direct-io: move aio_complete into ->end_io
Filesystems with unwritten extent support must not complete an AIO request
until the transaction to convert the extent has been commited.  That means
the aio_complete calls needs to be moved into the ->end_io callback so
that the filesystem can control when to call it exactly.

This makes a bit of a mess out of dio_complete and the ->end_io callback
prototype even more complicated.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2010-07-26 16:09:02 -05:00
Artem Bityutskiy
140236b4b1 VFS: introduce s_dirty accessors
This patch introduces 3 VFS accessors: 'sb_mark_dirty()',
'sb_mark_clean()', and 'sb_is_dirty()'. They simply
set 'sb->s_dirt' or test 'sb->s_dirt'. The plan is to make
every FS use these accessors later instead of manipulating
the 'sb->s_dirt' flag directly.

Ultimately, this change is a preparation for the periodic
superblock synchronization optimization which is about
preventing the "sync_supers" kernel thread from waking up
even if there is nothing to synchronize.

This patch does not do any functional change, just adds
accessor functions.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-07-06 17:32:07 -07:00
Roberto Sassu
7d683a0999 wrong type for 'magic' argument in simple_fill_super()
It's used to superblock ->s_magic, which is unsigned long.

Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@polito.it>
Reviewed-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
CC: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-06-04 17:16:28 -04:00
npiggin@suse.de
7bb46a6734 fs: introduce new truncate sequence
Introduce a new truncate calling sequence into fs/mm subsystems. Rather than
setattr > vmtruncate > truncate, have filesystems call their truncate sequence
from ->setattr if filesystem specific operations are required. vmtruncate is
deprecated, and truncate_pagecache and inode_newsize_ok helpers introduced
previously should be used.

simple_setattr is introduced for simple in-ram filesystems to implement
the new truncate sequence. Eventually all filesystems should be converted
to implement a setattr, and the default code in notify_change should go
away.

simple_setsize is also introduced to perform just the ATTR_SIZE portion
of simple_setattr (ie. changing i_size and trimming pagecache).

To implement the new truncate sequence:
- filesystem specific manipulations (eg freeing blocks) must be done in
  the setattr method rather than ->truncate.
- vmtruncate can not be used by core code to trim blocks past i_size in
  the event of write failure after allocation, so this must be performed
  in the fs code.
- convert usage of helpers block_write_begin, nobh_write_begin,
  cont_write_begin, and *blockdev_direct_IO* to use _newtrunc postfixed
  variants. These avoid calling vmtruncate to trim blocks (see previous).
- inode_setattr should not be used. generic_setattr is a new function
  to be used to copy simple attributes into the generic inode.
- make use of the better opportunity to handle errors with the new sequence.

Big problem with the previous calling sequence: the filesystem is not called
until i_size has already changed.  This means it is not allowed to fail the
call, and also it does not know what the previous i_size was. Also, generic
code calling vmtruncate to truncate allocated blocks in case of error had
no good way to return a meaningful error (or, for example, atomically handle
block deallocation).

Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-05-27 22:15:33 -04:00
Christoph Hellwig
1b061d9247 rename the generic fsync implementations
We don't name our generic fsync implementations very well currently.
The no-op implementation for in-memory filesystems currently is called
simple_sync_file which doesn't make too much sense to start with,
the the generic one for simple filesystems is called simple_fsync
which can lead to some confusion.

This patch renames the generic file fsync method to generic_file_fsync
to match the other generic_file_* routines it is supposed to be used
with, and the no-op implementation to noop_fsync to make it obvious
what to expect.  In addition add some documentation for both methods.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-05-27 22:06:06 -04:00
Christoph Hellwig
7ea8085910 drop unused dentry argument to ->fsync
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-05-27 22:05:02 -04:00
Al Viro
d7065da038 get rid of the magic around f_count in aio
__aio_put_req() plays sick games with file refcount.  What
it wants is fput() from atomic context; it's almost always
done with f_count > 1, so they only have to deal with delayed
work in rare cases when their reference happens to be the
last one.  Current code decrements f_count and if it hasn't
hit 0, everything is fine.  Otherwise it keeps a pointer
to struct file (with zero f_count!) around and has delayed
work do __fput() on it.

Better way to do it: use atomic_long_add_unless( , -1, 1)
instead of !atomic_long_dec_and_test().  IOW, decrement it
only if it's not the last reference, leave refcount alone
if it was.  And use normal fput() in delayed work.

I've made that atomic_long_add_unless call a new helper -
fput_atomic().  Drops a reference to file if it's safe to
do in atomic (i.e. if that's not the last one), tells if
it had been able to do that.  aio.c converted to it, __fput()
use is gone.  req->ki_file *always* contributes to refcount
now.  And __fput() became static.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-05-27 22:03:07 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
105a048a4f Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-unstable
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-unstable: (27 commits)
  Btrfs: add more error checking to btrfs_dirty_inode
  Btrfs: allow unaligned DIO
  Btrfs: drop verbose enospc printk
  Btrfs: Fix block generation verification race
  Btrfs: fix preallocation and nodatacow checks in O_DIRECT
  Btrfs: avoid ENOSPC errors in btrfs_dirty_inode
  Btrfs: move O_DIRECT space reservation to btrfs_direct_IO
  Btrfs: rework O_DIRECT enospc handling
  Btrfs: use async helpers for DIO write checksumming
  Btrfs: don't walk around with task->state != TASK_RUNNING
  Btrfs: do aio_write instead of write
  Btrfs: add basic DIO read/write support
  direct-io: do not merge logically non-contiguous requests
  direct-io: add a hook for the fs to provide its own submit_bio function
  fs: allow short direct-io reads to be completed via buffered IO
  Btrfs: Metadata ENOSPC handling for balance
  Btrfs: Pre-allocate space for data relocation
  Btrfs: Metadata ENOSPC handling for tree log
  Btrfs: Metadata reservation for orphan inodes
  Btrfs: Introduce global metadata reservation
  ...
2010-05-27 10:43:44 -07:00
jan Blunck
ae6afc3f5c vfs: introduce noop_llseek()
This is an implementation of ->llseek useable for the rare special case
when userspace expects the seek to succeed but the (device) file is
actually not able to perform the seek.  In this case you use noop_llseek()
instead of falling back to the default implementation of ->llseek.

Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-27 09:12:56 -07:00
Josef Bacik
facd07b07d direct-io: add a hook for the fs to provide its own submit_bio function
Because BTRFS can do RAID and such, we need our own submit hook so we can setup
the bio's in the correct fashion, and handle checksum errors properly.  So there
are a few changes here

1) The submit_io hook.  This is straightforward, just call this instead of
submit_bio.

2) Allow the fs to return -ENOTBLK for reads.  Usually this has only worked for
writes, since writes can fallback onto buffered IO.  But BTRFS needs the option
of falling back on buffered IO if it encounters a compressed extent, since we
need to read the entire extent in and decompress it.  So if we get -ENOTBLK back
from get_block we'll return back and fallback on buffered just like the write
case.

I've tested these changes with fsx and everything seems to work.  Thanks,

Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2010-05-25 10:34:55 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
e8bebe2f71 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (69 commits)
  fix handling of offsets in cris eeprom.c, get rid of fake on-stack files
  get rid of home-grown mutex in cris eeprom.c
  switch ecryptfs_write() to struct inode *, kill on-stack fake files
  switch ecryptfs_get_locked_page() to struct inode *
  simplify access to ecryptfs inodes in ->readpage() and friends
  AFS: Don't put struct file on the stack
  Ban ecryptfs over ecryptfs
  logfs: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function
  ufs: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function
  udf: replace inode uid,gid,mode init with helper
  ubifs: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function
  sysv: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function
  reiserfs: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function
  ramfs: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function
  omfs: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function
  bfs: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function
  ocfs2: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function
  nilfs2: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function
  minix: replace inode uid,gid,mode init with helper
  ext4: replace inode uid,gid,mode init with helper
  ...

Trivial conflict in fs/fs-writeback.c (mark bitfields unsigned)
2010-05-21 19:37:45 -07:00
Dmitry Monakhov
a1bd120d13 vfs: Add inode uid,gid,mode init helper
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-05-21 18:31:22 -04:00
Roland Dreier
51ee049e77 vfs: add lockdep annotation to s_vfs_rename_key for ecryptfs
>  =============================================
 >  [ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ]
 >  2.6.31-2-generic #14~rbd3
 >  ---------------------------------------------
 >  firefox-3.5/4162 is trying to acquire lock:
 >   (&s->s_vfs_rename_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff81139d31>] lock_rename+0x41/0xf0
 >
 >  but task is already holding lock:
 >   (&s->s_vfs_rename_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff81139d31>] lock_rename+0x41/0xf0
 >
 >  other info that might help us debug this:
 >  3 locks held by firefox-3.5/4162:
 >   #0:  (&s->s_vfs_rename_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff81139d31>] lock_rename+0x41/0xf0
 >   #1:  (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#11/1){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff81139d5a>] lock_rename+0x6a/0xf0
 >   #2:  (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#11/2){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff81139d6f>] lock_rename+0x7f/0xf0
 >
 >  stack backtrace:
 >  Pid: 4162, comm: firefox-3.5 Tainted: G         C 2.6.31-2-generic #14~rbd3
 >  Call Trace:
 >   [<ffffffff8108ae74>] print_deadlock_bug+0xf4/0x100
 >   [<ffffffff8108ce26>] validate_chain+0x4c6/0x750
 >   [<ffffffff8108d2e7>] __lock_acquire+0x237/0x430
 >   [<ffffffff8108d585>] lock_acquire+0xa5/0x150
 >   [<ffffffff81139d31>] ? lock_rename+0x41/0xf0
 >   [<ffffffff815526ad>] __mutex_lock_common+0x4d/0x3d0
 >   [<ffffffff81139d31>] ? lock_rename+0x41/0xf0
 >   [<ffffffff81139d31>] ? lock_rename+0x41/0xf0
 >   [<ffffffff8120eaf9>] ? ecryptfs_rename+0x99/0x170
 >   [<ffffffff81552b36>] mutex_lock_nested+0x46/0x60
 >   [<ffffffff81139d31>] lock_rename+0x41/0xf0
 >   [<ffffffff8120eb2a>] ecryptfs_rename+0xca/0x170
 >   [<ffffffff81139a9e>] vfs_rename_dir+0x13e/0x160
 >   [<ffffffff8113ac7e>] vfs_rename+0xee/0x290
 >   [<ffffffff8113c212>] ? __lookup_hash+0x102/0x160
 >   [<ffffffff8113d512>] sys_renameat+0x252/0x280
 >   [<ffffffff81133eb4>] ? cp_new_stat+0xe4/0x100
 >   [<ffffffff8101316a>] ? sysret_check+0x2e/0x69
 >   [<ffffffff8108c34d>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x14d/0x190
 >   [<ffffffff8113d55b>] sys_rename+0x1b/0x20
 >   [<ffffffff81013132>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

The trace above is totally reproducible by doing a cross-directory
rename on an ecryptfs directory.

The issue seems to be that sys_renameat() does lock_rename() then calls
into the filesystem; if the filesystem is ecryptfs, then
ecryptfs_rename() again does lock_rename() on the lower filesystem, and
lockdep can't tell that the two s_vfs_rename_mutexes are different.  It
seems an annotation like the following is sufficient to fix this (it
does get rid of the lockdep trace in my simple tests); however I would
like to make sure I'm not misunderstanding the locking, hence the CC
list...

Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Cc: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@canonical.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-05-21 18:31:22 -04:00
Christoph Hellwig
8018ab0574 sanitize vfs_fsync calling conventions
Now that the last user passing a NULL file pointer is gone we can remove
the redundant dentry argument and associated hacks inside vfs_fsynmc_range.

The next step will be removig the dentry argument from ->fsync, but given
the luck with the last round of method prototype changes I'd rather
defer this until after the main merge window.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-05-21 18:31:21 -04:00
Stephen Hemminger
bb4354538e fs: xattr_handler table should be const
The entries in xattr handler table should be immutable (ie const)
like other operation tables.

Later patches convert common filesystems. Uncoverted filesystems
will still work, but will generate a compiler warning.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-05-21 18:31:18 -04:00
Josef Bacik
18e9e5104f Introduce freeze_super and thaw_super for the fsfreeze ioctl
Currently the way we do freezing is by passing sb>s_bdev to freeze_bdev and then
letting it do all the work.  But freezing is more of an fs thing, and doesn't
really have much to do with the bdev at all, all the work gets done with the
super.  In btrfs we do not populate s_bdev, since we can have multiple bdev's
for one fs and setting s_bdev makes removing devices from a pool kind of tricky.
This means that freezing a btrfs filesystem fails, which causes us to corrupt
with things like tux-on-ice which use the fsfreeze mechanism.  So instead of
populating sb->s_bdev with a random bdev in our pool, I've broken the actual fs
freezing stuff into freeze_super and thaw_super.  These just take the
super_block that we're freezing and does the appropriate work.  It's basically
just copy and pasted from freeze_bdev.  I've then converted freeze_bdev over to
use the new super helpers.  I've tested this with ext4 and btrfs and verified
everything continues to work the same as before.

The only new gotcha is multiple calls to the fsfreeze ioctl will return EBUSY if
the fs is already frozen.  I thought this was a better solution than adding a
freeze counter to the super_block, but if everybody hates this idea I'm open to
suggestions.  Thanks,

Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-05-21 18:31:18 -04:00
Al Viro
01a05b337a new helper: iterate_supers()
... and switch the simple "loop over superblocks and do something"
loops to it.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-05-21 18:31:16 -04:00
Al Viro
35cf7ba0b4 Bury __put_super_and_need_restart()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-05-21 18:31:16 -04:00
Al Viro
8edd64bd60 get rid of restarts in sync_filesystems()
At the same time we can kill s_need_restart and local mutex in there.
__put_super() made public for a while; will be gone later.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-05-21 18:31:15 -04:00
Al Viro
b20bd1a5e7 get rid of S_BIAS
use atomic_inc_not_zero(&sb->s_active) instead of playing games with
checking ->s_count > S_BIAS

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-05-21 18:31:14 -04:00
Al Viro
79d7e39ee1 sb_entry() has been killed a couple of years ago and resurrected on mismerge
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-05-21 18:31:13 -04:00
Jens Axboe
ee9a3607fb Merge branch 'master' into for-2.6.35
Conflicts:
	fs/ext3/fsync.c

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-05-21 21:27:26 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
f8965467f3 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1674 commits)
  qlcnic: adding co maintainer
  ixgbe: add support for active DA cables
  ixgbe: dcb, do not tag tc_prio_control frames
  ixgbe: fix ixgbe_tx_is_paused logic
  ixgbe: always enable vlan strip/insert when DCB is enabled
  ixgbe: remove some redundant code in setting FCoE FIP filter
  ixgbe: fix wrong offset to fc_frame_header in ixgbe_fcoe_ddp
  ixgbe: fix header len when unsplit packet overflows to data buffer
  ipv6: Never schedule DAD timer on dead address
  ipv6: Use POSTDAD state
  ipv6: Use state_lock to protect ifa state
  ipv6: Replace inet6_ifaddr->dead with state
  cxgb4: notify upper drivers if the device is already up when they load
  cxgb4: keep interrupts available when the ports are brought down
  cxgb4: fix initial addition of MAC address
  cnic: Return SPQ credit to bnx2x after ring setup and shutdown.
  cnic: Convert cnic_local_flags to atomic ops.
  can: Fix SJA1000 command register writes on SMP systems
  bridge: fix build for CONFIG_SYSFS disabled
  ARCNET: Limit com20020 PCI ID matches for SOHARD cards
  ...

Fix up various conflicts with pcmcia tree drivers/net/
{pcmcia/3c589_cs.c, wireless/orinoco/orinoco_cs.c and
wireless/orinoco/spectrum_cs.c} and feature removal
(Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt).

Also fix a non-content conflict due to pm_qos_requirement getting
renamed in the PM tree (now pm_qos_request) in net/mac80211/scan.c
2010-05-20 21:04:44 -07:00
David S. Miller
278554bd65 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
	Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
	drivers/net/wireless/ath/ar9170/usb.c
	drivers/scsi/iscsi_tcp.c
	net/ipv4/ipmr.c
2010-05-12 00:05:35 -07:00
Jiri Slaby
6a727b43be FS / libfs: Implement simple_write_to_buffer
It will be used in suspend code and serves as an easy wrap around
copy_from_user. Similar to simple_read_from_buffer, it takes care
of transfers with proper lengths depending on available and count
parameters and advances ppos appropriately.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
2010-05-10 23:08:17 +02:00
Jens Axboe
7407cf355f Merge branch 'master' into for-2.6.35
Conflicts:
	fs/block_dev.c

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-04-29 09:36:24 +02:00
Tejun Heo
6b4517a791 block: implement bd_claiming and claiming block
Currently, device claiming for exclusive open is done after low level
open - disk->fops->open() - has completed successfully.  This means
that exclusive open attempts while a device is already exclusively
open will fail only after disk->fops->open() is called.

cdrom driver issues commands during open() which means that O_EXCL
open attempt can unintentionally inject commands to in-progress
command stream for burning thus disturbing burning process.  In most
cases, this doesn't cause problems because the first command to be
issued is TUR which most devices can process in the middle of burning.
However, depending on how a device replies to TUR during burning,
cdrom driver may end up issuing further commands.

This can't be resolved trivially by moving bd_claim() before doing
actual open() because that means an open attempt which will end up
failing could interfere other legit O_EXCL open attempts.
ie. unconfirmed open attempts can fail others.

This patch resolves the problem by introducing claiming block which is
started by bd_start_claiming() and terminated either by bd_claim() or
bd_abort_claiming().  bd_claim() from inside a claiming block is
guaranteed to succeed and once a claiming block is started, other
bd_start_claiming() or bd_claim() attempts block till the current
claiming block is terminated.

bd_claim() can still be used standalone although now it always
synchronizes against claiming blocks, so the existing users will keep
working without any change.

blkdev_open() and open_bdev_exclusive() are converted to use claiming
blocks so that exclusive open attempts from these functions don't
interfere with the existing exclusive open.

This problem was discovered while investigating bko#15403.

  https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15403

The burning problem itself can be resolved by updating userspace
probing tools to always open w/ O_EXCL.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Matthias-Christian Ott <ott@mirix.org>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-04-27 10:57:54 +02:00
Josef Bacik
3a3076f4d6 Cleanup generic block based fiemap
This cleans up a few of the complaints of __generic_block_fiemap.  I've
fixed all the typing stuff, used inline functions instead of macros,
gotten rid of a couple of variables, and made sure the size and block
requests are all block aligned.  It also fixes a problem where sometimes
FIEMAP_EXTENT_LAST wasn't being set properly.

Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-04-23 10:39:48 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
989a297920 fasync: RCU and fine grained locking
kill_fasync() uses a central rwlock, candidate for RCU conversion, to
avoid cache line ping pongs on SMP.

fasync_remove_entry() and fasync_add_entry() can disable IRQS on a short
section instead during whole list scan.

Use a spinlock per fasync_struct to synchronize kill_fasync_rcu() and
fasync_{remove|add}_entry(). This spinlock is IRQ safe, so sock_fasync()
doesnt need its own implementation and can use fasync_helper(), to
reduce code size and complexity.

We can remove __kill_fasync() direct use in net/socket.c, and rename it
to kill_fasync_rcu().

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-21 16:19:29 -07:00
Andrew Morton
b1dd3b2843 vfs: rename block_fsync() to blkdev_fsync()
Requested by hch, for consistency now it is exported.

Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-04-07 08:38:04 -07:00
Anton Blanchard
55ab3a1ff8 raw: fsync method is now required
Commit 148f948ba8 (vfs: Introduce new
helpers for syncing after writing to O_SYNC file or IS_SYNC inode) broke
the raw driver.

We now call through generic_file_aio_write -> generic_write_sync ->
vfs_fsync_range.  vfs_fsync_range has:

        if (!fop || !fop->fsync) {
                ret = -EINVAL;
                goto out;
        }

But drivers/char/raw.c doesn't set an fsync method.

We have two options: fix it or remove the raw driver completely.  I'm
happy to do either, the fact this has been broken for so long suggests it
is rarely used.

The patch below adds an fsync method to the raw driver.  My knowledge of
the block layer is pretty sketchy so this could do with a once over.

If we instead decide to remove the raw driver, this patch might still be
useful as a backport to 2.6.33 and 2.6.32.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-04-07 08:38:04 -07:00
Andrew Morton
19adf9c5d5 include/linux/fs.h: convert FMODE_* constants to hex
It was tolerable until Eric went and added 8388608.

Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-06 11:26:25 -08:00
Wu Fengguang
0141450f66 readahead: introduce FMODE_RANDOM for POSIX_FADV_RANDOM
This fixes inefficient page-by-page reads on POSIX_FADV_RANDOM.

POSIX_FADV_RANDOM used to set ra_pages=0, which leads to poor performance:
a 16K read will be carried out in 4 _sync_ 1-page reads.

In other places, ra_pages==0 means
- it's ramfs/tmpfs/hugetlbfs/sysfs/configfs
- some IO error happened
where multi-page read IO won't help or should be avoided.

POSIX_FADV_RANDOM actually want a different semantics: to disable the
*heuristic* readahead algorithm, and to use a dumb one which faithfully
submit read IO for whatever application requests.

So introduce a flag FMODE_RANDOM for POSIX_FADV_RANDOM.

Note that the random hint is not likely to help random reads performance
noticeably.  And it may be too permissive on huge request size (its IO
size is not limited by read_ahead_kb).

In Quentin's report (http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/12/24/145), the overall
(NFS read) performance of the application increased by 313%!

Tested-by: Quentin Barnes <qbarnes+nfs@yahoo-inc.com>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>			[2.6.33.x]
Cc: <qbarnes+nfs@yahoo-inc.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-06 11:26:25 -08:00
Christoph Hellwig
a9185b41a4 pass writeback_control to ->write_inode
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>
2010-03-05 13:25:52 -05:00
Miklos Szeredi
db1f05bb85 vfs: add NOFOLLOW flag to umount(2)
Add a new UMOUNT_NOFOLLOW flag to umount(2).  This is needed to prevent
symlink attacks in unprivileged unmounts (fuse, samba, ncpfs).

Additionally, return -EINVAL if an unknown flag is used (and specify
an explicitly unused flag: UMOUNT_UNUSED).  This makes it possible for
the caller to determine if a flag is supported or not.

CC: Eugene Teo <eugene@redhat.com>
CC: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-03-03 14:08:00 -05:00
Al Viro
1f707137b5 new helper: iterate_mounts()
apply function to vfsmounts in set returned by collect_mounts(),
stop if it returns non-zero.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-03-03 14:07:57 -05:00
Al Viro
2096f759ab New helper: path_is_under(path1, path2)
Analog of is_subdir for vfsmount,dentry pairs, moved from audit_tree.c

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-03-03 14:07:55 -05:00
Christoph Hellwig
2ecdc82ef0 kill unused invalidate_inode_pages helper
No one is calling this anymore as everyone has switched to
invalidate_mapping_pages long time ago.  Also update a few
references to it in comments.  nfs has two more, but I can't
easily figure what they are actually referring to, so I left
them as-is.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-03-03 14:07:55 -05:00
Richard Kennedy
270ba5f7c5 fs: re-order super_block to remove 16 bytes of padding on 64bit builds
re-order structure super_block to remove 16 bytes of alignment padding
on 64bit builds.

This shrinks the size of super_block from 712 to 696 bytes so requiring
one fewer 64 byte cache lines.

Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk>

-----
patch against 2.6.33-rc5
compiled & tested on x86_64 AMDX2 desktop machine.

I've been running with this patch applied for several weeks with no
problems.

regards
Richard
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-03-03 14:07:55 -05:00
Boaz Harrosh
193cf4b991 libfs: Unexport and kill simple_prepare_write
Remove the EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL of simple_prepare_write

Collapse simple_prepare_write into it's only caller, though
making it simpler and clearer to understand.

Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-03-03 13:00:17 -05:00
Richard Kennedy
4e70af5631 fs: inode - remove 8 bytes of padding on 64bits allowing 1 more objects/slab under slub
This removes 8 bytes of padding from struct inode on 64bit builds, and
so allows 1 more object/slab in the inode_cache when using slub.

Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk>
----
patch against 2.6.33-rc8
compiled & tested on x86_64 AMDX2

I've been running this patch for over a week with no obvious problems
regards
Richard
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-02-19 10:41:13 -05:00
Al Viro
6d125529c6 Fix ACC_MODE() for real
commit 5300990c03 had stepped on a rather
nasty mess: definitions of ACC_MODE used to be different.  Fixed the
resulting breakage, converting them to variant that takes O_... value;
all callers have that and it actually simplifies life (see tomoyo part
of changes).

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-01-14 09:05:26 -05:00
Dmitry Monakhov
b462707e7c Add unlocked version of inode_add_bytes() function
Quota code requires unlocked version of this function. Off course
we can just copy-paste the code, but copy-pasting is always an evil.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2009-12-23 13:33:54 +01:00
Andreas Gruenbacher
95ebc3a793 Remove obsolete comment in fs.h
This question was determined to be a bug which was fixed in
commit 4a3b0a49.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Cc: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-12-22 12:27:35 -05:00
Al Viro
5300990c03 Sanitize f_flags helpers
* pull ACC_MODE to fs.h; we have several copies all over the place
* nightmarish expression calculating f_mode by f_flags deserves a helper
too (OPEN_FMODE(flags))

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-12-22 12:27:34 -05:00
Christoph Hellwig
eaff8079d4 kill I_LOCK
After I_SYNC was split from I_LOCK the leftover is always used together with
I_NEW and thus superflous.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-12-17 11:03:25 -05:00
Christoph Hellwig
7a0ad10c36 fold do_sync_file_range into sys_sync_file_range
We recently go rid of all callers of do_sync_file_range as they're better
served with vfs_fsync or the filemap_write_and_wait.  Now that
do_sync_file_range is down to a single caller fold it into it so that people
don't start using it again accidentally.  While at it also switch it from
using __filemap_fdatawrite_range(..., WB_SYNC_ALL) to the more clear
filemap_fdatawrite_range().

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-12-17 11:03:25 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
bea4c899f2 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs
* 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs:
  XFS: Free buffer pages array unconditionally
  xfs: kill xfs_bmbt_rec_32/64 types
  xfs: improve metadata I/O merging in the elevator
  xfs: check for not fully initialized inodes in xfs_ireclaim
2009-12-16 13:29:39 -08:00
Dave Chinner
2ee1abad73 xfs: improve metadata I/O merging in the elevator
Change all async metadata buffers to use [READ|WRITE]_META I/O types
so that the I/O doesn't get issued immediately. This allows merging of
adjacent metadata requests but still prioritises them over bulk data.
This shows a 10-15% improvement in sequential create speed of small
files.

Don't include the log buffers in this classification - leave them as
sync types so they are issued immediately.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2009-12-16 13:41:19 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig
1e431f5ce7 cleanup blockdev_direct_IO locking
Currently the locking in blockdev_direct_IO is a mess, we have three different
locking types and very confusing checks for some of them.  The most
complicated one is DIO_OWN_LOCKING for reads, which happens to not actually be
used.

This patch gets rid of the DIO_OWN_LOCKING - as mentioned above the read case
is unused anyway, and the write side is almost identical to DIO_NO_LOCKING.
The difference is that DIO_NO_LOCKING always sets the create argument for
the get_blocks callback to zero, but we can easily move that to the actual
get_blocks callbacks.  There are four users of the DIO_NO_LOCKING mode:
gfs already ignores the create argument and thus is fine with the new
version, ocfs2 only errors out if create were ever set, and we can remove
this dead code now, the block device code only ever uses create for an
error message if we are fully beyond the device which can never happen,
and last but not least XFS will need the new behavour for writes.

Now we can replace the lock_type variable with a flags one, where no flag
means the DIO_NO_LOCKING behaviour and DIO_LOCKING is kept as the first
flag.  Separate out the check for not allowing to fill holes into a separate
flag, although for now both flags always get set at the same time.

Also revamp the documentation of the locking scheme to actually make sense.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-12-16 12:16:49 -05:00
Eric Paris
e81e3f4dca fs: move get_empty_filp() deffinition to internal.h
All users outside of fs/ of get_empty_filp() have been removed.  This patch
moves the definition from the include/ directory to internal.h so no new
users crop up and removes the EXPORT_SYMBOL.  I'd love to see open intents
stop using it too, but that's a problem for another day and a smarter
developer!

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-12-16 12:16:45 -05:00
Christoph Hellwig
5fe878ae7f direct-io: cleanup blockdev_direct_IO locking
Currently the locking in blockdev_direct_IO is a mess, we have three
different locking types and very confusing checks for some of them.  The
most complicated one is DIO_OWN_LOCKING for reads, which happens to not
actually be used.

This patch gets rid of the DIO_OWN_LOCKING - as mentioned above the read
case is unused anyway, and the write side is almost identical to
DIO_NO_LOCKING.  The difference is that DIO_NO_LOCKING always sets the
create argument for the get_blocks callback to zero, but we can easily
move that to the actual get_blocks callbacks.  There are four users of the
DIO_NO_LOCKING mode: gfs already ignores the create argument and thus is
fine with the new version, ocfs2 only errors out if create were ever set,
and we can remove this dead code now, the block device code only ever uses
create for an error message if we are fully beyond the device which can
never happen, and last but not least XFS will need the new behavour for
writes.

Now we can replace the lock_type variable with a flags one, where no flag
means the DIO_NO_LOCKING behaviour and DIO_LOCKING is kept as the first
flag.  Separate out the check for not allowing to fill holes into a
separate flag, although for now both flags always get set at the same
time.

Also revamp the documentation of the locking scheme to actually make
sense.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-16 07:20:13 -08:00
Christoph Hellwig
94004ed726 kill wait_on_page_writeback_range
All callers really want the more logical filemap_fdatawait_range interface,
so convert them to use it and merge wait_on_page_writeback_range into
filemap_fdatawait_range.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2009-12-10 15:02:50 +01:00
Martin K. Petersen
98262f2762 block: Allow devices to indicate whether discarded blocks are zeroed
The discard ioctl is used by mkfs utilities to clear a block device
prior to putting metadata down.  However, not all devices return zeroed
blocks after a discard.  Some drives return stale data, potentially
containing old superblocks.  It is therefore important to know whether
discarded blocks are properly zeroed.

Both ATA and SCSI drives have configuration bits that indicate whether
zeroes are returned after a discard operation.  Implement a block level
interface that allows this information to be bubbled up the stack and
queried via a new block device ioctl.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-03 09:24:48 +01:00
Vivek Goyal
d9449ce35a Fix regression in direct writes performance due to WRITE_ODIRECT flag removal
There seems to be a regression in direct write path due to following
commit in for-2.6.33 branch of block tree.

commit 1af60fbd75
Author: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Date:   Fri Oct 2 18:56:53 2009 -0400

    block: get rid of the WRITE_ODIRECT flag

Marking direct writes as WRITE_SYNC_PLUG instead of WRITE_ODIRECT, sets
the NOIDLE flag in bio and hence in request. This tells CFQ to not expect
more request from the queue and not idle on it (despite the fact that
queue's think time is less and it is not seeky).

So direct writers lose big time when competing with sequential readers.

Using fio, I have run one direct writer and two sequential readers and
following are the results with 2.6.32-rc7 kernel and with for-2.6.33
branch.

Test
====
1 direct writer and 2 sequential reader running simultaneously.

[global]
directory=/mnt/sdc/fio/
runtime=10

[seqwrite]
rw=write
size=4G
direct=1

[seqread]
rw=read
size=2G
numjobs=2

2.6.32-rc7
==========
direct writes: aggrb=2,968KB/s
readers	     : aggrb=101MB/s

for-2.6.33 branch
=================
direct write: aggrb=19KB/s
readers	      aggrb=137MB/s

This patch brings back the WRITE_ODIRECT flag, with the difference that we
don't set the BIO_RW_UNPLUG flag so that device is not unplugged after
submission of request and an explicit unplug from submitter is required.

That way we fix the jeff's issue of not enough merging taking place in aio
path as well as make sure direct writes get their fair share.

After the fix
=============
for-2.6.33 + fix
----------------
direct writes: aggrb=2,728KB/s
reads: aggrb=103MB/s

Thanks
Vivek

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-11-26 09:46:46 +01:00
Jeff Moyer
1af60fbd75 block: get rid of the WRITE_ODIRECT flag
Hi,

The WRITE_ODIRECT flag is only used in one place, and that code path
happens to also call blk_run_address_space.  The introduction of this
flag, then, could result in the device being unplugged twice for every
I/O.

Further, with the batching changes in the next patch, we don't want an
O_DIRECT write to imply a queue unplug.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-10-28 09:29:25 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
58e57fbd1c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (41 commits)
  Revert "Seperate read and write statistics of in_flight requests"
  cfq-iosched: don't delay async queue if it hasn't dispatched at all
  block: Topology ioctls
  cfq-iosched: use assigned slice sync value, not default
  cfq-iosched: rename 'desktop' sysfs entry to 'low_latency'
  cfq-iosched: implement slower async initiate and queue ramp up
  cfq-iosched: delay async IO dispatch, if sync IO was just done
  cfq-iosched: add a knob for desktop interactiveness
  Add a tracepoint for block request remapping
  block: allow large discard requests
  block: use normal I/O path for discard requests
  swapfile: avoid NULL pointer dereference in swapon when s_bdev is NULL
  fs/bio.c: move EXPORT* macros to line after function
  Add missing blk_trace_remove_sysfs to be in pair with blk_trace_init_sysfs
  cciss: fix build when !PROC_FS
  block: Do not clamp max_hw_sectors for stacking devices
  block: Set max_sectors correctly for stacking devices
  cciss: cciss_host_attr_groups should be const
  cciss: Dynamically allocate the drive_info_struct for each logical drive.
  cciss: Add usage_count attribute to each logical drive in /sys
  ...
2009-10-04 12:39:14 -07:00
Martin K. Petersen
ac481c20ef block: Topology ioctls
Not all users of the topology information want to use libblkid.  Provide
the topology information through bdev ioctls.

Also clarify sector size comments for existing BLK ioctls.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-10-03 20:52:01 +02:00
Alexey Dobriyan
828c09509b const: constify remaining file_operations
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix KVM]
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-10-01 16:11:11 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
6c5daf012c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6:
  truncate: use new helpers
  truncate: new helpers
  fs: fix overflow in sys_mount() for in-kernel calls
  fs: Make unload_nls() NULL pointer safe
  freeze_bdev: grab active reference to frozen superblocks
  freeze_bdev: kill bd_mount_sem
  exofs: remove BKL from super operations
  fs/romfs: correct error-handling code
  vfs: seq_file: add helpers for data filling
  vfs: remove redundant position check in do_sendfile
  vfs: change sb->s_maxbytes to a loff_t
  vfs: explicitly cast s_maxbytes in fiemap_check_ranges
  libfs: return error code on failed attr set
  seq_file: return a negative error code when seq_path_root() fails.
  vfs: optimize touch_time() too
  vfs: optimization for touch_atime()
  vfs: split generic_forget_inode() so that hugetlbfs does not have to copy it
  fs/inode.c: add dev-id and inode number for debugging in init_special_inode()
  libfs: make simple_read_from_buffer conventional
2009-09-24 08:32:11 -07:00