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Christoph Hellwig
8a87694ed1 remove trim_fs method from Documentation/filesystems/Locking
The ->trim_fs has been removed meanwhile, so remove it from the documentation
as well.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reported-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-04 11:01:09 -08:00
Christoph Hellwig
b83be6f20a update Documentation/filesystems/Locking
Mostly inspired by all the recent BKL removal changes, but a lot of older
updates also weren't properly recorded.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-12-30 10:00:50 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
38971ce2fa Merge branch 'bugfixes' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6
* 'bugfixes' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6:
  NFS: Fix panic after nfs_umount()
  nfs: remove extraneous and problematic calls to nfs_clear_request
  nfs: kernel should return EPROTONOSUPPORT when not support NFSv4
  NFS: Fix fcntl F_GETLK not reporting some conflicts
  nfs: Discard ACL cache on mode update
  NFS: Readdir cleanups
  NFS: nfs_readdir_search_for_cookie() don't mark as eof if cookie not found
  NFS: Fix a memory leak in nfs_readdir
  Call the filesystem back whenever a page is removed from the page cache
  NFS: Ensure we use the correct cookie in nfs_readdir_xdr_filler
2010-12-14 08:51:12 -08:00
Andrew Morton
4fe65cab84 Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt: fix ->repeasepage() description
->releasepage() does not remove the page from the mapping.

Acked-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-12-02 14:51:15 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
6072d13c42 Call the filesystem back whenever a page is removed from the page cache
NFS needs to be able to release objects that are stored in the page
cache once the page itself is no longer visible from the page cache.

This patch adds a callback to the address space operations that allows
filesystems to perform page cleanups once the page has been removed
from the page cache.

Original patch by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
[trondmy: cover the cases of invalidate_inode_pages2() and
          truncate_inode_pages()]
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-12-02 09:55:21 -05:00
Dan Carpenter
09c9feb946 Documentation: make configfs example code simpler, clearer
If "p" is NULL then it will cause an oops when we pass it to
simple_strtoul().  In this case "p" can not be NULL so I removed the
check.  I also changed the check a little to make it more explicit that
we are testing whether p points to the NUL char.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-11-18 15:00:46 -08:00
Jiri Slaby
23308ba54d console: add /proc/consoles
It allows users to see what consoles are currently known to the system
and with what flags.

It is based on Werner's patch, the part about traversing fds was
removed, the code was moved to kernel/printk.c, where consoles are
handled and it makes more sense to me.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> [cleanups]
Signed-off-by: "Dr. Werner Fink" <werner@suse.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-11-16 12:50:17 -08:00
Christoph Hellwig
5d0af85cd0 xfs: remove experimental tag from the delaylog option
We promised to do this for 2.6.37, and the code looks stable enough to
keep that promise.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2010-11-10 12:00:47 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig
bb8430a2c8 locks: remove fl_copy_lock lock_manager operation
This one was only used for a nasty hack in nfsd, which has recently
been removed.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-31 06:35:15 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
f063a0c0c9 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging-2.6: (841 commits)
  Staging: brcm80211: fix usage of roundup in structures
  Staging: bcm: fix up network device reference counting
  Staging: keucr: fix up US_ macro change
  staging: brcm80211: brcmfmac: Removed codeversion from firmware filenames.
  staging: brcm80211: Remove unnecessary header files.
  staging: brcm80211: Remove unnecessary includes from bcmutils.c
  staging: brcm80211: Removed unnecessary pktsetprio() function.
  Staging: brcm80211: remove typedefs.h
  Staging: brcm80211: remove uintptr typedef usage
  Staging: hv: remove struct vmbus_channel_interface
  Staging: hv: remove Open from struct vmbus_channel_interface
  Staging: hv: storvsc: call vmbus_open directly
  Staging: hv: netvsc: call vmbus_open directly
  Staging: hv: channel: export vmbus_open to modules
  Staging: hv: remove Close from struct vmbus_channel_interface
  Staging: hv: netvsc: call vmbus_close directly
  Staging: hv: storvsc: call vmbus_close directly
  Staging: hv: channel: export vmbus_close to modules
  Staging: hv: remove SendPacket from struct vmbus_channel_interface
  Staging: hv: storvsc: call vmbus_sendpacket directly
  ...

Fix up conflicts in
	drivers/staging/cx25821/cx25821-audio-upstream.c
	drivers/staging/cx25821/cx25821-audio.h
due to warring whitespace cleanups (neither of which were all that great)
2010-10-28 12:13:00 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
e4c5bf8e3d Merge 'staging-next' to Linus's tree
This merges the staging-next tree to Linus's tree and resolves
some conflicts that were present due to changes in other trees that were
affected by files here.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-10-28 09:44:56 -07:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V
76381a42e4 fs/9p: Add access = client option to opt in acl evaluation.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Venkateswararao Jujjuri <jvrao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2010-10-28 09:08:46 -05:00
Theodore Ts'o
a107e5a3a4 Merge branch 'next' into upstream-merge
Conflicts:
	fs/ext4/inode.c
	fs/ext4/mballoc.c
	include/trace/events/ext4.h
2010-10-27 23:44:47 -04:00
Lukas Czerner
bfff68738f ext4: add support for lazy inode table initialization
When the lazy_itable_init extended option is passed to mke2fs, it
considerably speeds up filesystem creation because inode tables are
not zeroed out.  The fact that parts of the inode table are
uninitialized is not a problem so long as the block group descriptors,
which contain information regarding how much of the inode table has
been initialized, has not been corrupted However, if the block group
checksums are not valid, e2fsck must scan the entire inode table, and
the the old, uninitialized data could potentially cause e2fsck to
report false problems.

Hence, it is important for the inode tables to be initialized as soon
as possble.  This commit adds this feature so that mke2fs can safely
use the lazy inode table initialization feature to speed up formatting
file systems.

This is done via a new new kernel thread called ext4lazyinit, which is
created on demand and destroyed, when it is no longer needed.  There
is only one thread for all ext4 filesystems in the system. When the
first filesystem with inititable mount option is mounted, ext4lazyinit
thread is created, then the filesystem can register its request in the
request list.

This thread then walks through the list of requests picking up
scheduled requests and invoking ext4_init_inode_table(). Next schedule
time for the request is computed by multiplying the time it took to
zero out last inode table with wait multiplier, which can be set with
the (init_itable=n) mount option (default is 10).  We are doing
this so we do not take the whole I/O bandwidth. When the thread is no
longer necessary (request list is empty) it frees the appropriate
structures and exits (and can be created later later by another
filesystem).

We do not disturb regular inode allocations in any way, it just do not
care whether the inode table is, or is not zeroed. But when zeroing, we
have to skip used inodes, obviously. Also we should prevent new inode
allocations from the group, while zeroing is on the way. For that we
take write alloc_sem lock in ext4_init_inode_table() and read alloc_sem
in the ext4_claim_inode, so when we are unlucky and allocator hits the
group which is currently being zeroed, it just has to wait.

This can be suppresed using the mount option no_init_itable.

Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-10-27 21:30:05 -04:00
Nikanth Karthikesan
03f890f8c2 /proc/pid/pagemap: document in Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
Document /proc/pid/pagemap in Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt

Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Cc: Richard Guenther <rguenther@suse.de>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-27 18:03:13 -07:00
Nikanth Karthikesan
b40d4f84be /proc/pid/smaps: export amount of anonymous memory in a mapping
Export the number of anonymous pages in a mapping via smaps.

Even the private pages in a mapping backed by a file, would be marked as
anonymous, when they are modified. Export this information to user-space via
smaps.

Exporting this count will help gdb to make a better decision on which
areas need to be dumped in its coredump; and should be useful to others
studying the memory usage of a process.

Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-27 18:03:13 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
426e1f5cec 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: (52 commits)
  split invalidate_inodes()
  fs: skip I_FREEING inodes in writeback_sb_inodes
  fs: fold invalidate_list into invalidate_inodes
  fs: do not drop inode_lock in dispose_list
  fs: inode split IO and LRU lists
  fs: switch bdev inode bdi's correctly
  fs: fix buffer invalidation in invalidate_list
  fsnotify: use dget_parent
  smbfs: use dget_parent
  exportfs: use dget_parent
  fs: use RCU read side protection in d_validate
  fs: clean up dentry lru modification
  fs: split __shrink_dcache_sb
  fs: improve DCACHE_REFERENCED usage
  fs: use percpu counter for nr_dentry and nr_dentry_unused
  fs: simplify __d_free
  fs: take dcache_lock inside __d_path
  fs: do not assign default i_ino in new_inode
  fs: introduce a per-cpu last_ino allocator
  new helper: ihold()
  ...
2010-10-26 17:58:44 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
18a043f941 Merge branch 'nfs-for-2.6.37' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6
* 'nfs-for-2.6.37' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6:
  NFS: rename nfs.upcall -> nfs.idmap
  NFS: Fix a compile issue in nfs_root
2010-10-26 17:24:28 -07:00
Matt Mackall
0f4d208f19 Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt: improve smaps field documentation
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.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>
2010-10-26 16:52:05 -07:00
Bryan Schumaker
eb1c86b8b5 NFS: rename nfs.upcall -> nfs.idmap
This patch renames the idmapper upcall program from nfs.upcall to nfs.idmap in
the NFS documentation.  This is because the program has been renamed in the
nfs-utils source.

Signed-off-by: Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-10-26 13:57:10 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
a4dd8dce14 Merge branch 'nfs-for-2.6.37' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6
* 'nfs-for-2.6.37' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6:
  net/sunrpc: Use static const char arrays
  nfs4: fix channel attribute sanity-checks
  NFSv4.1: Use more sensible names for 'initialize_mountpoint'
  NFSv4.1: pnfs: filelayout: add driver's LAYOUTGET and GETDEVICEINFO infrastructure
  NFSv4.1: pnfs: add LAYOUTGET and GETDEVICEINFO infrastructure
  NFS: client needs to maintain list of inodes with active layouts
  NFS: create and destroy inode's layout cache
  NFSv4.1: pnfs: filelayout: introduce minimal file layout driver
  NFSv4.1: pnfs: full mount/umount infrastructure
  NFS: set layout driver
  NFS: ask for layouttypes during v4 fsinfo call
  NFS: change stateid to be a union
  NFSv4.1: pnfsd, pnfs: protocol level pnfs constants
  SUNRPC: define xdr_decode_opaque_fixed
  NFSD: remove duplicate NFS4_STATEID_SIZE
2010-10-26 09:52:09 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
e1455d1bdc update block_device_operations documentation
Updated Documentation/filesystems/Locking to match the code.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2010-10-25 21:18:22 -04:00
Valerie Aurora
d9d1dc802f Documentation: Fix trivial typo in filesystems/sharedsubtree.txt
Documentation: Fix trivial typo in filesystems/sharedsubtree.txt

This typo is easy to ignore unless you have spent a great deal of time
thinking about how to eliminate duplicate dentries in unions.

Signed-off-by: Valerie Aurora <vaurora@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-10-25 21:18:21 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
74eb94b218 Merge branch 'nfs-for-2.6.37' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6
* 'nfs-for-2.6.37' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6: (67 commits)
  SUNRPC: Cleanup duplicate assignment in rpcauth_refreshcred
  nfs: fix unchecked value
  Ask for time_delta during fsinfo probe
  Revalidate caches on lock
  SUNRPC: After calling xprt_release(), we must restart from call_reserve
  NFSv4: Fix up the 'dircount' hint in encode_readdir
  NFSv4: Clean up nfs4_decode_dirent
  NFSv4: nfs4_decode_dirent must clear entry->fattr->valid
  NFSv4: Fix a regression in decode_getfattr
  NFSv4: Fix up decode_attr_filehandle() to handle the case of empty fh pointer
  NFS: Ensure we check all allocation return values in new readdir code
  NFS: Readdir plus in v4
  NFS: introduce generic decode_getattr function
  NFS: check xdr_decode for errors
  NFS: nfs_readdir_filler catch all errors
  NFS: readdir with vmapped pages
  NFS: remove page size checking code
  NFS: decode_dirent should use an xdr_stream
  SUNRPC: Add a helper function xdr_inline_peek
  NFS: remove readdir plus limit
  ...
2010-10-25 13:48:29 -07:00
Fred Isaman
02c35fca7c NFSv4.1: pnfs: full mount/umount infrastructure
Allow a module implementing a layout type to register, and
have its mount/umount routines called for filesystems that
the server declares support it.

Signed-off-by: Fred Isaman <iisaman@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Eshel <eshel@almaden.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson<andros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Bian Naimeng <biannm@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-10-24 18:07:10 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
6c2754c28f Revert "tty: Add a new file /proc/tty/consoles"
This reverts commit f4a3e0bceb.  Jiri
Sladby points out that the tty structure we're using may already be
gone, and Al Viro doesn't hold back in complaining about the random
loading of 'filp->private_data' which doesn't have to be a pointer at
all, nor does checking the magic field for TTY_MAGIC prove anything.

Belated review by Al:

 "a) global variable depending on stdin of the last opener? Affecting
     output of read(2)? Really?

  b) iterator is broken; list should be locked in ->start(), unlocked in
     ->stop() and *NOT* unlocked/relocked in ->next()

  c) ->show() ought to do nothing in case of ->device == NULL, instead
     of skipping those in ->next()/->start()

  d) regardless of the merits of the bright idea about asterisk at that
     line in output *and* regardless of (a), the implementation is not
     only atrociously ugly, it's actually very likely to be a roothole.
     Verifying that Cthulhu knows what number happens to be address of a
     tty_struct by blindly dereferencing memory at that address...
     Ouch.

  Please revert that crap."

And Christoph pipes in and NAK's the approach of walking fd tables etc
too.  So it's pretty unanimous.

Noticed-by: Jri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Requested-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-23 08:14:12 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
73ecf3a6e3 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty-2.6: (49 commits)
  serial8250: ratelimit "too much work" error
  serial: bfin_sport_uart: speed up sport RX sample rate to be 3% faster
  serial: abstraction for 8250 legacy ports
  serial/imx: check that the buffer is non-empty before sending it out
  serial: mfd: add more baud rates support
  jsm: Remove the uart port on errors
  Alchemy: Add UART PM methods.
  8250: allow platforms to override PM hook.
  altera_uart: Don't use plain integer as NULL pointer
  altera_uart: Fix missing prototype for registering an early console
  altera_uart: Fixup type usage of port flags
  altera_uart: Make it possible to use Altera UART and 8250 ports together
  altera_uart: Add support for different address strides
  altera_uart: Add support for getting mapbase and IRQ from resources
  altera_uart: Add support for polling mode (IRQ-less)
  serial: Factor out uart_poll_timeout() from 8250 driver
  serial: mark the 8250 driver as maintained
  serial: 8250: Don't delay after transmitter is ready.
  tty: MAINTAINERS: add drivers/serial/jsm/ as maintained driver
  vcs: invoke the vt update callback when /dev/vcs* is written to
  ...
2010-10-22 19:59:04 -07:00
Dr. Werner Fink
f4a3e0bceb tty: Add a new file /proc/tty/consoles
Add a new file /proc/tty/consoles to be able to determine the registered
system console lines.  If the reading process holds /dev/console open at
the regular standard input stream the active device will be marked by an
asterisk.  Show possible operations and also decode the used flags of
the listed console lines.

Signed-off-by: Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-10-22 10:20:05 -07:00
Tristan Ye
7bdb0d18bf ocfs2: Add a mount option "coherency=*" to handle cluster coherency for O_DIRECT writes.
Currently, the default behavior of O_DIRECT writes was allowing
concurrent writing among nodes to the same file, with no cluster
coherency guaranteed (no EX lock held).  This can leave stale data in
the cache for buffered reads on other nodes.

The new mount option introduce a chance to choose two different
behaviors for O_DIRECT writes:

    * coherency=full, as the default value, will disallow
                      concurrent O_DIRECT writes by taking
                      EX locks.

    * coherency=buffered, allow concurrent O_DIRECT writes
                          without EX lock among nodes, which
                          gains high performance at risk of
                          getting stale data on other nodes.

Signed-off-by: Tristan Ye <tristan.ye@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
2010-10-11 14:14:55 -07:00
Bryan Schumaker
955a857e06 NFS: new idmapper
This patch creates a new idmapper system that uses the request-key function to
place a call into userspace to map user and group ids to names.  The old
idmapper was single threaded, which prevented more than one request from running
at a single time.  This means that a user would have to wait for an upcall to
finish before accessing a cached result.

The upcall result is stored on a keyring of type id_resolver.  See the file
Documentation/filesystems/nfs/idmapper.txt for instructions.

Signed-off-by: Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@netapp.com>
[Trond: fix up the return value of nfs_idmap_lookup_name and clean up code]
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-10-07 18:48:49 -04:00
Arnd Bergmann
2116b7a473 smbfs: move to drivers/staging
smbfs has been scheduled for removal in 2.6.27, so
maybe we can now move it to drivers/staging on the
way out.

smbfs still uses the big kernel lock and nobody
is going to fix that, so we should be getting
rid of it soon.

This removes the 32 bit compat mount and ioctl
handling code, which is implemented in common fs
code, and moves all smbfs related files into
drivers/staging/smbfs.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-10-05 09:08:21 -07:00
Chuck Lever
306a075362 NFS: Allow NFSROOT debugging messages to be enabled dynamically
As a convenience, introduce a kernel command line option to enable
NFSROOT debugging messages.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-09-17 10:54:37 -04:00
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
Linus Torvalds
062e27ec1b Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pkl/squashfs-linus
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pkl/squashfs-linus:
  Squashfs: fix checkpatch.pl warnings
  Squashfs: fix filename typo
  Squashfs: update Kconfig and documentation for LZO
  Squashfs: fix block size use in LZO decompressor
  Squashfs: Add LZO compression support
  squashfs: fix filename in header comment
  Squashfs: Make XATTR config name consistent with other file systems
  squashfs: fix compiler inline warning
2010-08-11 09:20:13 -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
David Rientjes
51b1bd2ace oom: deprecate oom_adj tunable
/proc/pid/oom_adj is now deprecated so that that it may eventually be
removed.  The target date for removal is August 2012.

A warning will be printed to the kernel log if a task attempts to use this
interface.  Future warning will be suppressed until the kernel is rebooted
to prevent spamming the kernel log.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-09 20:45:02 -07:00
David Rientjes
a63d83f427 oom: badness heuristic rewrite
This a complete rewrite of the oom killer's badness() heuristic which is
used to determine which task to kill in oom conditions.  The goal is to
make it as simple and predictable as possible so the results are better
understood and we end up killing the task which will lead to the most
memory freeing while still respecting the fine-tuning from userspace.

Instead of basing the heuristic on mm->total_vm for each task, the task's
rss and swap space is used instead.  This is a better indication of the
amount of memory that will be freeable if the oom killed task is chosen
and subsequently exits.  This helps specifically in cases where KDE or
GNOME is chosen for oom kill on desktop systems instead of a memory
hogging task.

The baseline for the heuristic is a proportion of memory that each task is
currently using in memory plus swap compared to the amount of "allowable"
memory.  "Allowable," in this sense, means the system-wide resources for
unconstrained oom conditions, the set of mempolicy nodes, the mems
attached to current's cpuset, or a memory controller's limit.  The
proportion is given on a scale of 0 (never kill) to 1000 (always kill),
roughly meaning that if a task has a badness() score of 500 that the task
consumes approximately 50% of allowable memory resident in RAM or in swap
space.

The proportion is always relative to the amount of "allowable" memory and
not the total amount of RAM systemwide so that mempolicies and cpusets may
operate in isolation; they shall not need to know the true size of the
machine on which they are running if they are bound to a specific set of
nodes or mems, respectively.

Root tasks are given 3% extra memory just like __vm_enough_memory()
provides in LSMs.  In the event of two tasks consuming similar amounts of
memory, it is generally better to save root's task.

Because of the change in the badness() heuristic's baseline, it is also
necessary to introduce a new user interface to tune it.  It's not possible
to redefine the meaning of /proc/pid/oom_adj with a new scale since the
ABI cannot be changed for backward compatability.  Instead, a new tunable,
/proc/pid/oom_score_adj, is added that ranges from -1000 to +1000.  It may
be used to polarize the heuristic such that certain tasks are never
considered for oom kill while others may always be considered.  The value
is added directly into the badness() score so a value of -500, for
example, means to discount 50% of its memory consumption in comparison to
other tasks either on the system, bound to the mempolicy, in the cpuset,
or sharing the same memory controller.

/proc/pid/oom_adj is changed so that its meaning is rescaled into the
units used by /proc/pid/oom_score_adj, and vice versa.  Changing one of
these per-task tunables will rescale the value of the other to an
equivalent meaning.  Although /proc/pid/oom_adj was originally defined as
a bitshift on the badness score, it now shares the same linear growth as
/proc/pid/oom_score_adj but with different granularity.  This is required
so the ABI is not broken with userspace applications and allows oom_adj to
be deprecated for future removal.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-09 20:45:02 -07:00
Al Viro
336fb3b97b update VFS documentation for method changes.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-08-09 16:48:40 -04:00
Christoph Hellwig
1e23173509 update documentation for the new truncate sequence
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-08-09 16:47:40 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
a57f9a3e81 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ryusuke/nilfs2
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ryusuke/nilfs2: (45 commits)
  nilfs2: reject filesystem with unsupported block size
  nilfs2: avoid rec_len overflow with 64KB block size
  nilfs2: simplify nilfs_get_page function
  nilfs2: reject incompatible filesystem
  nilfs2: add feature set fields to super block
  nilfs2: clarify byte offset in super block format
  nilfs2: apply read-ahead for nilfs_btree_lookup_contig
  nilfs2: introduce check flag to btree node buffer
  nilfs2: add btree get block function with readahead option
  nilfs2: add read ahead mode to nilfs_btnode_submit_block
  nilfs2: fix buffer head leak in nilfs_btnode_submit_block
  nilfs2: eliminate inline keywords in btree implementation
  nilfs2: get maximum number of child nodes from bmap object
  nilfs2: reduce repetitive calculation of max number of child nodes
  nilfs2: optimize calculation of min/max number of btree node children
  nilfs2: remove redundant pointer checks in bmap lookup functions
  nilfs2: get rid of nilfs_bmap_union
  nilfs2: unify bmap set_target_v operations
  nilfs2: get rid of nilfs_btree uses
  nilfs2: get rid of nilfs_direct uses
  ...
2010-08-07 13:10:55 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
3b7433b8a8 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: (55 commits)
  workqueue: mark init_workqueues() as early_initcall()
  workqueue: explain for_each_*cwq_cpu() iterators
  fscache: fix build on !CONFIG_SYSCTL
  slow-work: kill it
  gfs2: use workqueue instead of slow-work
  drm: use workqueue instead of slow-work
  cifs: use workqueue instead of slow-work
  fscache: drop references to slow-work
  fscache: convert operation to use workqueue instead of slow-work
  fscache: convert object to use workqueue instead of slow-work
  workqueue: fix how cpu number is stored in work->data
  workqueue: fix mayday_mask handling on UP
  workqueue: fix build problem on !CONFIG_SMP
  workqueue: fix locking in retry path of maybe_create_worker()
  async: use workqueue for worker pool
  workqueue: remove WQ_SINGLE_CPU and use WQ_UNBOUND instead
  workqueue: implement unbound workqueue
  workqueue: prepare for WQ_UNBOUND implementation
  libata: take advantage of cmwq and remove concurrency limitations
  workqueue: fix worker management invocation without pending works
  ...

Fixed up conflicts in fs/cifs/* as per Tejun. Other trivial conflicts in
include/linux/workqueue.h, kernel/trace/Kconfig and kernel/workqueue.c
2010-08-07 12:42:58 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
1cfd2bda8c Merge branch 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6
* 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6: (30 commits)
  PCI: update for owner removal from struct device_attribute
  PCI: Fix warnings when CONFIG_DMI unset
  PCI: Do not run NVidia quirks related to MSI with MSI disabled
  x86/PCI: use for_each_pci_dev()
  PCI: use for_each_pci_dev()
  PCI: MSI: Restore read_msi_msg_desc(); add get_cached_msi_msg_desc()
  PCI: export SMBIOS provided firmware instance and label to sysfs
  PCI: Allow read/write access to sysfs I/O port resources
  x86/PCI: use host bridge _CRS info on ASRock ALiveSATA2-GLAN
  PCI: remove unused HAVE_ARCH_PCI_SET_DMA_MAX_SEGMENT_{SIZE|BOUNDARY}
  PCI: disable mmio during bar sizing
  PCI: MSI: Remove unsafe and unnecessary hardware access
  PCI: Default PCIe ASPM control to on and require !EMBEDDED to disable
  PCI: kernel oops on access to pci proc file while hot-removal
  PCI: pci-sysfs: remove casts from void*
  ACPI: Disable ASPM if the platform won't provide _OSC control for PCIe
  PCI hotplug: make sure child bridges are enabled at hotplug time
  PCI hotplug: shpchp: Removed check for hotplug of display devices
  PCI hotplug: pciehp: Fixed return value sign for pciehp_unconfigure_device
  PCI: Don't enable aspm before drivers have had a chance to veto it
  ...
2010-08-06 11:44:36 -07:00
Phillip Lougher
4b676d2dbe Squashfs: update Kconfig and documentation for LZO
Update compression types supported and add some help text for
the LZO Kconfig option.

Also add missing "default n" line and make some trivial whitespace
cleanups too.

Signed-off-by: Phillip Lougher <phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk>
2010-08-05 23:42:54 +01:00
Ira Weiny
a530703271 sysfs: Fix one more signature discrepancy between sysfs implementation and docs.
Signed-off-by: Ira Weiny <weiny2@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-08-05 13:53:34 -07:00
Bart Van Assche
30a69000a4 sysfs: fix discrepancies between implementation and documentation
Fix all discrepancies I know of between the sysfs implementation and its
documentation.

Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@gmail.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-08-05 13:53:34 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
3cfc2c42c1 Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
* 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (48 commits)
  Documentation: update broken web addresses.
  fix comment typo "choosed" -> "chosen"
  hostap:hostap_hw.c Fix typo in comment
  Fix spelling contorller -> controller in comments
  Kconfig.debug: FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT: typo Faul -> Fault
  fs/Kconfig: Fix typo Userpace -> Userspace
  Removing dead MACH_U300_BS26
  drivers/infiniband: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data
  fs/ocfs2: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data
  libfc: use ARRAY_SIZE
  scsi: bfa: use ARRAY_SIZE
  drm: i915: use ARRAY_SIZE
  drm: drm_edid: use ARRAY_SIZE
  synclink: use ARRAY_SIZE
  block: cciss: use ARRAY_SIZE
  comment typo fixes: charater => character
  fix comment typos concerning "challenge"
  arm: plat-spear: fix typo in kerneldoc
  reiserfs: typo comment fix
  update email address
  ...
2010-08-04 15:31:02 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
6ba74014c1 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: (1443 commits)
  phy/marvell: add 88ec048 support
  igb: Program MDICNFG register prior to PHY init
  e1000e: correct MAC-PHY interconnect register offset for 82579
  hso: Add new product ID
  can: Add driver for esd CAN-USB/2 device
  l2tp: fix export of header file for userspace
  can-raw: Fix skb_orphan_try handling
  Revert "net: remove zap_completion_queue"
  net: cleanup inclusion
  phy/marvell: add 88e1121 interface mode support
  u32: negative offset fix
  net: Fix a typo from "dev" to "ndev"
  igb: Use irq_synchronize per vector when using MSI-X
  ixgbevf: fix null pointer dereference due to filter being set for VLAN 0
  e1000e: Fix irq_synchronize in MSI-X case
  e1000e: register pm_qos request on hardware activation
  ip_fragment: fix subtracting PPPOE_SES_HLEN from mtu twice
  net: Add getsockopt support for TCP thin-streams
  cxgb4: update driver version
  cxgb4: add new PCI IDs
  ...

Manually fix up conflicts in:
 - drivers/net/e1000e/netdev.c: due to pm_qos registration
   infrastructure changes
 - drivers/net/phy/marvell.c: conflict between adding 88ec048 support
   and cleaning up the IDs
 - drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/ipw2100.c: trivial ipw2100_pm_qos_req
   conflict (registration change vs marking it static)
2010-08-04 11:47:58 -07:00
Justin P. Mattock
0ea6e61122 Documentation: update broken web addresses.
Below you will find an updated version from the original series bunching all patches into one big patch
updating broken web addresses that are located in Documentation/*
Some of the addresses date as far far back as 1995 etc... so searching became a bit difficult,
the best way to deal with these is to use web.archive.org to locate these addresses that are outdated.
Now there are also some addresses pointing to .spec files some are located, but some(after searching
on the companies site)where still no where to be found. In this case I just changed the address
to the company site this way the users can contact the company and they can locate them for the users.

Signed-off-by: Justin P. Mattock <justinmattock@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weber <weber@corscience.de>
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Cc: Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-08-04 15:21:40 +02:00
Alex Williamson
8633328be2 PCI: Allow read/write access to sysfs I/O port resources
PCI sysfs resource files currently only allow mmap'ing.  On x86 this
works fine for memory backed BARs, but doesn't work at all for I/O
port backed BARs.  Add read/write to I/O port PCI sysfs resource
files to allow userspace access to these device regions.

Acked-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
2010-07-30 09:32:08 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
a64afb057b xfs: remove obsolete osyncisosync mount option
Since Linux 2.6.33 the kernel has support for real O_SYNC, which made
the osyncisosync option a no-op.  Warn the users about this and remove
the mount flag for it.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
2010-07-26 13:16:51 -05:00
Ryusuke Konishi
802d317754 nilfs2: add nodiscard mount option
Nilfs has "discard" mount option which issues discard/TRIM commands to
underlying block device, but it lacks a complementary option and has
no way to disable the feature through remount.

This adds "nodiscard" option to resolve this imbalance.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
2010-07-23 10:02:12 +09:00
Ryusuke Konishi
773bc4f3b6 nilfs2: add barrier mount option
Nilfs enables write barriers by default and has "nobarrier" mount
option to disable this feature.  But it lacks the complementary option
and has no way to re-enable the feature on remount.

This adds "barrier" option to resolve this imbalance.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
2010-07-23 10:02:12 +09:00
Tejun Heo
8b8edefa2f fscache: convert object to use workqueue instead of slow-work
Make fscache object state transition callbacks use workqueue instead
of slow-work.  New dedicated unbound CPU workqueue fscache_object_wq
is created.  get/put callbacks are renamed and modified to take
@object and called directly from the enqueue wrapper and the work
function.  While at it, make all open coded instances of get/put to
use fscache_get/put_object().

* Unbound workqueue is used.

* work_busy() output is printed instead of slow-work flags in object
  debugging outputs.  They mean basically the same thing bit-for-bit.

* sysctl fscache.object_max_active added to control concurrency.  The
  default value is nr_cpus clamped between 4 and
  WQ_UNBOUND_MAX_ACTIVE.

* slow_work_sleep_till_thread_needed() is replaced with fscache
  private implementation fscache_object_sleep_till_congested() which
  waits on fscache_object_wq congestion.

* debugfs support is dropped for now.  Tracing API based debug
  facility is planned to be added.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2010-07-22 22:58:34 +02:00
Alex Elder
1bf7dbfde8 Merge branch 'master' into for-linus 2010-06-04 13:22:30 -05:00
Wu Fengguang
8cbccbe761 ipconfig: document DHCP hostname and DNS record
Now it's possible to update the DNS record for $HOST_NAME with

	ip=::::$HOST_NAME::dhcp

CC: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-06-03 03:18:18 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
99a4d54620 xfs: remove done roadmap item from xfs-delayed-logging-design.txt
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
2010-06-03 16:22:29 +10:00
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
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
Jan Blunck
866707fc27 Documentation/filesystems/Locking: update documentation on llseek() wrt BKL
The inode's i_size is not protected by the big kernel lock.  Therefore it
does not make sense to recommend taking the BKL in filesystems llseek
operations.  Instead it should use the inode's mutex or use just use
i_size_read() instead.  Add a note that this is not protecting
file->f_pos.

Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
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
Linus Torvalds
63a6440326 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pkl/squashfs-linus
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pkl/squashfs-linus:
  squashfs: update documentation to include description of xattr layout
  squashfs: fix name reading in squashfs_xattr_get
  squashfs: constify xattr handlers
  squashfs: xattr fix sparse warnings
  squashfs: xattr_lookup sparse fix
  squashfs: add xattr support configure option
  squashfs: add new extended inode types
  squashfs: add support for xattr reading
  squashfs: add xattr id support
2010-05-26 08:57:20 -07:00
Phillip Lougher
899f453033 squashfs: update documentation to include description of xattr layout
Signed-off-by: Phillip Lougher <phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk>
2010-05-26 01:12:26 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
110b93842e Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs
* 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs:
  xfs: Ensure inode allocation buffers are fully replayed
  xfs: enable background pushing of the CIL
  xfs: forced unmounts need to push the CIL
  xfs: Introduce delayed logging core code
  xfs: Delayed logging design documentation
  xfs: Improve scalability of busy extent tracking
  xfs: make the log ticket ID available outside the log infrastructure
  xfs: clean up log ticket overrun debug output
  xfs: Clean up XFS_BLI_* flag namespace
  xfs: modify buffer item reference counting
  xfs: allow log ticket allocation to take allocation flags
  xfs: Don't reuse the same transaction ID for duplicated transactions.
2010-05-25 08:17:01 -07:00
Lee Schermerhorn
971ada0f66 mempolicy: document cpuset interaction with tmpfs mpol mount option
Update Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt to describe the interaction of
tmpfs mount option memory policy with tasks' cpuset mems_allowed.

Note: the mount(8) man page [in the util-linux-ng package] requires
similiar updates.

Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-25 08:06:57 -07:00
Alex Elder
88e88374ee Merge branch 'delayed-logging-for-2.6.35' into for-linus 2010-05-24 11:57:36 -05:00
Dave Chinner
a9a745daad xfs: Delayed logging design documentation
Document the design of the delayed logging implementation. This
includes assumptions made, dead ends followed, the reasoning behind
the structuring of the code, the layout of various structures, how
things fit together, traps and pit-falls avoided, etc. This is all
too much to document in the code itself, so do it in a separate
file.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2010-05-24 10:35:39 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
7ce1418f95 Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs-2.6
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs-2.6: (31 commits)
  dquot: Detect partial write error to quota file in write_blk() and add printk_ratelimit for quota error messages
  ocfs2: Fix lock inversion in quotas during umount
  ocfs2: Use __dquot_transfer to avoid lock inversion
  ocfs2: Fix NULL pointer deref when writing local dquot
  ocfs2: Fix estimate of credits needed for quota allocation
  ocfs2: Fix quota locking
  ocfs2: Avoid unnecessary block mapping when refreshing quota info
  ocfs2: Do not map blocks from local quota file on each write
  quota: Refactor dquot_transfer code so that OCFS2 can pass in its references
  quota: unify quota init condition in setattr
  quota: remove sb_has_quota_active in get/set_info
  quota: unify ->set_dqblk
  quota: unify ->get_dqblk
  ext3: make barrier options consistent with ext4
  quota: Make quota stat accounting lockless.
  suppress warning: "quotatypes" defined but not used
  ext3: Fix waiting on transaction during fsync
  jbd: Provide function to check whether transaction will issue data barrier
  ufs: add ufs speciffic ->setattr call
  BKL: Remove BKL from ext2 filesystem
  ...
2010-05-21 10:50:28 -07:00
Eric Sandeen
0636c73ee7 ext3: make barrier options consistent with ext4
ext4 was updated to accept barrier/nobarrier mount options
in addition to the older barrier=0/1.  The barrier story
is complex enough, we should help people by making the options
the same at least, even if the defaults are different.

This patch allows the barrier/nobarrier mount options for ext3,
while keeping nobarrier the default.

It also unconditionally displays barrier status in show_options,
and prints a message at mount time if barriers are not enabled,
just as ext4 does.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2010-05-21 19:30:41 +02:00
Serge E. Hallyn
b9d8b45ee3 sysfs-namespaces: add a high-level Documentation file
The first three paragraphs are almost verbatim taken from Eric's
commit message on the patch introducing network ns tags.  The next
two paragraphs I wrote to be a brief high level overview.  The last
section is taken from the commit message on "Implement sysfs tagged
directory support", but updated.  Hopefully correctly.

Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-05-21 09:37:31 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
d7dbf4ffee Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ryusuke/nilfs2
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ryusuke/nilfs2: (23 commits)
  nilfs2: disallow remount of snapshot from/to a regular mount
  nilfs2: use huge_encode_dev/huge_decode_dev
  nilfs2: update comment on deactivate_super at nilfs_get_sb
  nilfs2: replace MS_VERBOSE with MS_SILENT
  nilfs2: add missing initialization of s_mode
  nilfs2: fix misuse of open_bdev_exclusive/close_bdev_exclusive
  nilfs2: enlarge s_volume_name member in nilfs_super_block
  nilfs2: use checkpoint number instead of timestamp to select super block
  nilfs2: add missing endian conversion on super block magic number
  nilfs2: make nilfs_sc_*_ops static
  nilfs2: add kernel doc comments to persistent object allocator functions
  nilfs2: change sc_timer from a pointer to an embedded one in struct nilfs_sc_info
  nilfs2: remove nilfs_segctor_init() in segment.c
  nilfs2: insert checkpoint number in segment summary header
  nilfs2: add a print message after loading nilfs2
  nilfs2: cleanup multi kmem_cache_{create,destroy} code
  nilfs2: move out checksum routines to segment buffer code
  nilfs2: move pointer to super root block into logs
  nilfs2: change default of 'errors' mount option to 'remount-ro' mode
  nilfs2: Combine nilfs_btree_release_path() and nilfs_btree_free_path()
  ...
2010-05-21 07:47:00 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
677abe49ad Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-2.6-nmw
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-2.6-nmw:
  GFS2: Fix typo
  GFS2: stuck in inode wait, no glocks stuck
  GFS2: Eliminate useless err variable
  GFS2: Fix writing to non-page aligned gfs2_quota structures
  GFS2: Add some useful messages
  GFS2: fix quota state reporting
  GFS2: Various gfs2_logd improvements
  GFS2: glock livelock
  GFS2: Clean up stuffed file copying
  GFS2: docs update
  GFS2: Remove space from slab cache name
2010-05-21 07:29:15 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
03e62303cf Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jlbec/ocfs2
* 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jlbec/ocfs2: (47 commits)
  ocfs2: Silence a gcc warning.
  ocfs2: Don't retry xattr set in case value extension fails.
  ocfs2:dlm: avoid dlm->ast_lock lockres->spinlock dependency break
  ocfs2: Reset xattr value size after xa_cleanup_value_truncate().
  fs/ocfs2/dlm: Use kstrdup
  fs/ocfs2/dlm: Drop memory allocation cast
  Ocfs2: Optimize punching-hole code.
  Ocfs2: Make ocfs2_find_cpos_for_left_leaf() public.
  Ocfs2: Fix hole punching to correctly do CoW during cluster zeroing.
  Ocfs2: Optimize ocfs2 truncate to use ocfs2_remove_btree_range() instead.
  ocfs2: Block signals for mkdir/link/symlink/O_CREAT.
  ocfs2: Wrap signal blocking in void functions.
  ocfs2/dlm: Increase o2dlm lockres hash size
  ocfs2: Make ocfs2_extend_trans() really extend.
  ocfs2/trivial: Code cleanup for allocation reservation.
  ocfs2: make ocfs2_adjust_resv_from_alloc simple.
  ocfs2: Make nointr a default mount option
  ocfs2/dlm: Make o2dlm domain join/leave messages KERN_NOTICE
  o2net: log socket state changes
  ocfs2: print node # when tcp fails
  ...
2010-05-21 07:20:17 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
f39d01be4c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (44 commits)
  vlynq: make whole Kconfig-menu dependant on architecture
  add descriptive comment for TIF_MEMDIE task flag declaration.
  EEPROM: max6875: Header file cleanup
  EEPROM: 93cx6: Header file cleanup
  EEPROM: Header file cleanup
  agp: use NULL instead of 0 when pointer is needed
  rtc-v3020: make bitfield unsigned
  PCI: make bitfield unsigned
  jbd2: use NULL instead of 0 when pointer is needed
  cciss: fix shadows sparse warning
  doc: inode uses a mutex instead of a semaphore.
  uml: i386: Avoid redefinition of NR_syscalls
  fix "seperate" typos in comments
  cocbalt_lcdfb: correct sections
  doc: Change urls for sparse
  Powerpc: wii: Fix typo in comment
  i2o: cleanup some exit paths
  Documentation/: it's -> its where appropriate
  UML: Fix compiler warning due to missing task_struct declaration
  UML: add kernel.h include to signal.c
  ...
2010-05-20 09:20:59 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
f72caf7e49 Merge branch 'for-2.6.35' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux
* 'for-2.6.35' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux: (45 commits)
  Revert "nfsd4: distinguish expired from stale stateids"
  nfsd: safer initialization order in find_file()
  nfs4: minor callback code simplification, comment
  NFSD: don't report compiled-out versions as present
  nfsd4: implement reclaim_complete
  nfsd4: nfsd4_destroy_session must set callback client under the state lock
  nfsd4: keep a reference count on client while in use
  nfsd4: mark_client_expired
  nfsd4: introduce nfs4_client.cl_refcount
  nfsd4: refactor expire_client
  nfsd4: extend the client_lock to cover cl_lru
  nfsd4: use list_move in move_to_confirmed
  nfsd4: fold release_session into expire_client
  nfsd4: rename sessionid_lock to client_lock
  nfsd4: fix bare destroy_session null dereference
  nfsd4: use local variable in nfs4svc_encode_compoundres
  nfsd: further comment typos
  sunrpc: centralise most calls to svc_xprt_received
  nfsd4: fix unlikely race in session replay case
  nfsd4: fix filehandle comment
  ...
2010-05-19 17:24:54 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
6e0b7b2c39 Merge branch 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  genirq: Clear CPU mask in affinity_hint when none is provided
  genirq: Add CPU mask affinity hint
  genirq: Remove IRQF_DISABLED from core code
  genirq: Run irq handlers with interrupts disabled
  genirq: Introduce request_any_context_irq()
  genirq: Expose irq_desc->node in proc/irq

Fixed up trivial conflicts in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
2010-05-19 17:09:40 -07:00
J. Bruce Fields
4dc6ec00f6 nfsd4: implement reclaim_complete
This is a mandatory operation.  Also, here (not in open) is where we
should be committing the reboot recovery information.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2010-05-13 12:03:11 -04:00
Robin Holt
34441427aa revert "procfs: provide stack information for threads" and its fixup commits
Originally, commit d899bf7b ("procfs: provide stack information for
threads") attempted to introduce a new feature for showing where the
threadstack was located and how many pages are being utilized by the
stack.

Commit c44972f1 ("procfs: disable per-task stack usage on NOMMU") was
applied to fix the NO_MMU case.

Commit 89240ba0 ("x86, fs: Fix x86 procfs stack information for threads on
64-bit") was applied to fix a bug in ia32 executables being loaded.

Commit 9ebd4eba7 ("procfs: fix /proc/<pid>/stat stack pointer for kernel
threads") was applied to fix a bug which had kernel threads printing a
userland stack address.

Commit 1306d603f ('proc: partially revert "procfs: provide stack
information for threads"') was then applied to revert the stack pages
being used to solve a significant performance regression.

This patch nearly undoes the effect of all these patches.

The reason for reverting these is it provides an unusable value in
field 28.  For x86_64, a fork will result in the task->stack_start
value being updated to the current user top of stack and not the stack
start address.  This unpredictability of the stack_start value makes
it worthless.  That includes the intended use of showing how much stack
space a thread has.

Other architectures will get different values.  As an example, ia64
gets 0.  The do_fork() and copy_process() functions appear to treat the
stack_start and stack_size parameters as architecture specific.

I only partially reverted c44972f1 ("procfs: disable per-task stack usage
on NOMMU") .  If I had completely reverted it, I would have had to change
mm/Makefile only build pagewalk.o when CONFIG_PROC_PAGE_MONITOR is
configured.  Since I could not test the builds without significant effort,
I decided to not change mm/Makefile.

I only partially reverted 89240ba0 ("x86, fs: Fix x86 procfs stack
information for threads on 64-bit") .  I left the KSTK_ESP() change in
place as that seemed worthwhile.

Signed-off-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Cc: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-11 17:33:41 -07:00
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
ca0dbd86b1 doc: inode uses a mutex instead of a semaphore.
Replace the introduced i_sem by an i_mutex in the filesystem locking
documentation. This was introduced [1] after all occurrences were
already replaced in the same text [2]. However, the term "inode
semaphore" has not been replaced then, and it's replaced now.

[1] afddba49d1
[2] a7bc02f4f4

Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@holoscopio.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-05-10 23:42:27 +02:00
Anand Gadiyar
a8cd4561ea fix "seperate" typos in comments
s/seperate/separate

Signed-off-by: Anand Gadiyar <gadiyar@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-05-10 11:56:30 +02:00
Ryusuke Konishi
277a6a3417 nilfs2: change default of 'errors' mount option to 'remount-ro' mode
Like ext3, nilfs has 'errors' mount option to allow specifying desired
behavior on severe errors.

Currently, the default action is 'errors=continue' and has potential
to advance filesystem corruption for severe errors.

This will change the action to 'errors=remount-ro' to avoid the issue.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
2010-05-10 11:32:30 +09:00
Mark Fasheh
83f92318fa ocfs2: Add dir_resv_level mount option
The default behavior for directory reservations stays the same, but we add a
mount option so people can tweak the size of directory reservations
according to their workloads.

Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
2010-05-05 18:18:07 -07:00
Mark Fasheh
b07f8f24df ocfs2: change default reservation window sizes
The default reservation size of 4 (32-bit windows) is a bit too ambitious.
Scale it back to 16 bits (resv_level=2). I have been testing various sizes
on a 4-node cluster which runs a mixed workload that is heavily threaded.
With a 256MB local alloc, I get *roughly* the following levels of average file
fragmentation:

resv_level=0	70%
resv_level=1	21%
resv_level=2	23%
resv_level=3	24%
resv_level=4	60%
resv_level=5	did not test
resv_level=6	60%

resv_level=2 seemed like a good compromise between not letting windows be
too small, but not so big that heavier workloads will immediately suffer
without tuning.

This patch also change the behavior of directory reservations - they now
track file reservations.  The previous compromise of giving directory
windows only 8 bits wound up fragmenting more at some window sizes because
file allocations had smaller unused windows to poach from.

Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
2010-05-05 18:18:07 -07:00
Mark Fasheh
d02f00cc05 ocfs2: allocation reservations
This patch improves Ocfs2 allocation policy by allowing an inode to
reserve a portion of the local alloc bitmap for itself. The reserved
portion (allocation window) is advisory in that other allocation
windows might steal it if the local alloc bitmap becomes
full. Otherwise, the reservations are honored and guaranteed to be
free. When the local alloc window is moved to a different portion of
the bitmap, existing reservations are discarded.

Reservation windows are represented internally by a red-black
tree. Within that tree, each node represents the reservation window of
one inode. An LRU of active reservations is also maintained. When new
data is written, we allocate it from the inodes window. When all bits
in a window are exhausted, we allocate a new one as close to the
previous one as possible. Should we not find free space, an existing
reservation is pulled off the LRU and cannibalized.

Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
2010-05-05 18:17:30 -07:00
Francis Galiegue
a33f32244d Documentation/: it's -> its where appropriate
Fix obvious cases of "it's" being used when "its" was meant.

Signed-off-by: Francis Galiegue <fgaliegue@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-04-23 02:09:52 +02:00
Jiri Kosina
6c9468e9eb Merge branch 'master' into for-next 2010-04-23 02:08:44 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
7c7145f6ac Merge branch 'linus' into irq/core
Reason: Get the upstream IRQF_DISABLED related changes.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-04-13 14:12:17 +02:00
Sripathi Kodi
9208d24253 9p: documentation update
This patch adds documentation for new 9P options introduced in
2.6.34.

Signed-off-by: Sripathi Kodi <sripathik@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2010-04-05 10:37:36 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
9f32160372 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sage/ceph-client
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sage/ceph-client: (28 commits)
  ceph: update discussion list address in MAINTAINERS
  ceph: some documentations fixes
  ceph: fix use after free on mds __unregister_request
  ceph: avoid loaded term 'OSD' in documention
  ceph: fix possible double-free of mds request reference
  ceph: fix session check on mds reply
  ceph: handle kmalloc() failure
  ceph: propagate mds session allocation failures to caller
  ceph: make write_begin wait propagate ERESTARTSYS
  ceph: fix snap rebuild condition
  ceph: avoid reopening osd connections when address hasn't changed
  ceph: rename r_sent_stamp r_stamp
  ceph: fix connection fault con_work reentrancy problem
  ceph: prevent dup stale messages to console for restarting mds
  ceph: fix pg pool decoding from incremental osdmap update
  ceph: fix mds sync() race with completing requests
  ceph: only release unused caps with mds requests
  ceph: clean up handle_cap_grant, handle_caps wrt session mutex
  ceph: fix session locking in handle_caps, ceph_check_caps
  ceph: drop unnecessary WARN_ON in caps migration
  ...
2010-03-29 14:42:25 -07:00
Cheng Renquan
8136b58dd0 ceph: some documentations fixes
New documentation should have an entry in the 00-INDEX.  Correct git
urls.

Signed-off-by: Cheng Renquan <crquan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
2010-03-29 09:52:11 -07:00
Andrea Gelmini
4cb947b59c GFS2: docs update
Now http://sources.redhat.com/cluster/ is redirected to
http://sources.redhat.com/cluster/wiki/

Also fixed tabs in the end.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Gelmini <andrea.gelmini@gelma.net>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2010-03-29 14:28:52 +01:00
KOSAKI Motohiro
5574169613 doc: add the documentation for mpol=local
commit 3f226aa1c (mempolicy: support mpol=local tmpfs mount option) added
new mpol=local mount option.  but it didn't add a documentation.

This patch does it.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-24 16:31:21 -07:00
Dimitri Sivanich
92d6b71ab9 genirq: Expose irq_desc->node in proc/irq
Expose irq_desc->node as /proc/irq/*/node.

This file provides device hardware locality information for apps
desiring to include hardware locality in irq mapping decisions.

Signed-off-by: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-03-24 14:10:03 +01:00
Sage Weil
23ab15ad7a ceph: avoid loaded term 'OSD' in documention
'OSD' means different things to different people; avoid it here to avoid
confusion.

Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
2010-03-23 07:47:07 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
fc7f99cf36 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sage/ceph-client
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sage/ceph-client: (205 commits)
  ceph: update for write_inode API change
  ceph: reset osd after relevant messages timed out
  ceph: fix flush_dirty_caps race with caps migration
  ceph: include migrating caps in issued set
  ceph: fix osdmap decoding when pools include (removed) snaps
  ceph: return EBADF if waiting for caps on closed file
  ceph: set osd request message front length correctly
  ceph: reset front len on return to msgpool; BUG on mismatched front iov
  ceph: fix snaptrace decoding on cap migration between mds
  ceph: use single osd op reply msg
  ceph: reset bits on connection close
  ceph: remove bogus mds forward warning
  ceph: remove fragile __map_osds optimization
  ceph: fix connection fault STANDBY check
  ceph: invalidate_authorizer without con->mutex held
  ceph: don't clobber write return value when using O_SYNC
  ceph: fix client_request_forward decoding
  ceph: drop messages on unregistered mds sessions; cleanup
  ceph: fix comments, locking in destroy_inode
  ceph: move dereference after NULL test
  ...

Fix trivial conflicts in Documentation/ioctl/ioctl-number.txt
2010-03-19 09:43:06 -07:00
Rob Landley
32e688b8c1 Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt typo fix.
Typo fix for a filename in procfs documentation.

Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-03-15 15:21:31 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
c32da02342 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (56 commits)
  doc: fix typo in comment explaining rb_tree usage
  Remove fs/ntfs/ChangeLog
  doc: fix console doc typo
  doc: cpuset: Update the cpuset flag file
  Fix of spelling in arch/sparc/kernel/leon_kernel.c no longer needed
  Remove drivers/parport/ChangeLog
  Remove drivers/char/ChangeLog
  doc: typo - Table 1-2 should refer to "status", not "statm"
  tree-wide: fix typos "ass?o[sc]iac?te" -> "associate" in comments
  No need to patch AMD-provided drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/atombios.h
  devres/irq: Fix devm_irq_match comment
  Remove reference to kthread_create_on_cpu
  tree-wide: Assorted spelling fixes
  tree-wide: fix 'lenght' typo in comments and code
  drm/kms: fix spelling in error message
  doc: capitalization and other minor fixes in pnp doc
  devres: typo fix s/dev/devm/
  Remove redundant trailing semicolons from macros
  fix typo "definetly" -> "definitely" in comment
  tree-wide: s/widht/width/g typo in comments
  ...

Fix trivial conflict in Documentation/laptops/00-INDEX
2010-03-12 16:04:50 -08:00
Randy Dunlap
1e0051ae48 Documentation/fs/: split txt and source files
Make dnotify_test.c source file and add it to Makefile so that
bitrot can be prevented.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-12 15:52:35 -08:00
Jiri Kosina
318ae2edc3 Merge branch 'for-next' into for-linus
Conflicts:
	Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
	arch/arm/mach-u300/include/mach/debug-macro.S
	drivers/net/qlge/qlge_ethtool.c
	drivers/net/qlge/qlge_main.c
	drivers/net/typhoon.c
2010-03-08 16:55:37 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
66b89159c2 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joern/logfs
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joern/logfs:
  [LogFS] Change magic number
  [LogFS] Remove h_version field
  [LogFS] Check feature flags
  [LogFS] Only write journal if dirty
  [LogFS] Fix bdev erases
  [LogFS] Silence gcc
  [LogFS] Prevent 64bit divisions in hash_index
  [LogFS] Plug memory leak on error paths
  [LogFS] Add MAINTAINERS entry
  [LogFS] add new flash file system

Fixed up trivial conflict in lib/Kconfig, and a semantic conflict in
fs/logfs/inode.c introduced by write_inode() being changed to use
writeback_control' by commit a9185b41a4
("pass writeback_control to ->write_inode")
2010-03-06 13:18:03 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
05c5cb31ec Merge branch 'for-2.6.34' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux
* 'for-2.6.34' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux: (22 commits)
  nfsd4: fix minor memory leak
  svcrpc: treat uid's as unsigned
  nfsd: ensure sockets are closed on error
  Revert "sunrpc: move the close processing after do recvfrom method"
  Revert "sunrpc: fix peername failed on closed listener"
  sunrpc: remove unnecessary svc_xprt_put
  NFSD: NFSv4 callback client should use RPC_TASK_SOFTCONN
  xfs_export_operations.commit_metadata
  commit_metadata export operation replacing nfsd_sync_dir
  lockd: don't clear sm_monitored on nsm_reboot_lookup
  lockd: release reference to nsm_handle in nlm_host_rebooted
  nfsd: Use vfs_fsync_range() in nfsd_commit
  NFSD: Create PF_INET6 listener in write_ports
  SUNRPC: NFS kernel APIs shouldn't return ENOENT for "transport not found"
  SUNRPC: Bury "#ifdef IPV6" in svc_create_xprt()
  NFSD: Support AF_INET6 in svc_addsock() function
  SUNRPC: Use rpc_pton() in ip_map_parse()
  nfsd: 4.1 has an rfc number
  nfsd41: Create the recovery entry for the NFSv4.1 client
  nfsd: use vfs_fsync for non-directories
  ...
2010-03-06 11:31:38 -08:00
Mel Gorman
a1b57ac061 mm: document /proc/pagetypeinfo
Add documentation for /proc/pagetypeinfo.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-06 11:26:26 -08:00
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
b084d4353f mm: count swap usage
A frequent questions from users about memory management is what numbers of
swap ents are user for processes.  And this information will give some
hints to oom-killer.

Besides we can count the number of swapents per a process by scanning
/proc/<pid>/smaps, this is very slow and not good for usual process
information handler which works like 'ps' or 'top'.  (ps or top is now
enough slow..)

This patch adds a counter of swapents to mm_counter and update is at each
swap events.  Information is exported via /proc/<pid>/status file as

[kamezawa@bluextal memory]$ cat /proc/self/status
Name:   cat
State:  R (running)
Tgid:   2910
Pid:    2910
PPid:   2823
TracerPid:      0
Uid:    500     500     500     500
Gid:    500     500     500     500
FDSize: 256
Groups: 500
VmPeak:    82696 kB
VmSize:    82696 kB
VmLck:         0 kB
VmHWM:       432 kB
VmRSS:       432 kB
VmData:      172 kB
VmStk:        84 kB
VmExe:        48 kB
VmLib:      1568 kB
VmPTE:        40 kB
VmSwap:        0 kB <=============== this.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-06 11:26:24 -08:00
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
34e55232e5 mm: avoid false sharing of mm_counter
Considering the nature of per mm stats, it's the shared object among
threads and can be a cache-miss point in the page fault path.

This patch adds per-thread cache for mm_counter.  RSS value will be
counted into a struct in task_struct and synchronized with mm's one at
events.

Now, in this patch, the event is the number of calls to handle_mm_fault.
Per-thread value is added to mm at each 64 calls.

 rough estimation with small benchmark on parallel thread (2threads) shows
 [before]
     4.5 cache-miss/faults
 [after]
     4.0 cache-miss/faults
 Anyway, the most contended object is mmap_sem if the number of threads grows.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-06 11:26:24 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
e213e26ab3 Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs-2.6
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs-2.6: (33 commits)
  quota: stop using QUOTA_OK / NO_QUOTA
  dquot: cleanup dquot initialize routine
  dquot: move dquot initialization responsibility into the filesystem
  dquot: cleanup dquot drop routine
  dquot: move dquot drop responsibility into the filesystem
  dquot: cleanup dquot transfer routine
  dquot: move dquot transfer responsibility into the filesystem
  dquot: cleanup inode allocation / freeing routines
  dquot: cleanup space allocation / freeing routines
  ext3: add writepage sanity checks
  ext3: Truncate allocated blocks if direct IO write fails to update i_size
  quota: Properly invalidate caches even for filesystems with blocksize < pagesize
  quota: generalize quota transfer interface
  quota: sb_quota state flags cleanup
  jbd: Delay discarding buffers in journal_unmap_buffer
  ext3: quota_write cross block boundary behaviour
  quota: drop permission checks from xfs_fs_set_xstate/xfs_fs_set_xquota
  quota: split out compat_sys_quotactl support from quota.c
  quota: split out netlink notification support from quota.c
  quota: remove invalid optimization from quota_sync_all
  ...

Fixed trivial conflicts in fs/namei.c and fs/ufs/inode.c
2010-03-05 13:20:53 -08:00
Christoph Hellwig
871a293155 dquot: cleanup dquot initialize routine
Get rid of the initialize dquot operation - it is now always called from
the filesystem and if a filesystem really needs it's own (which none
currently does) it can just call into it's own routine directly.

Rename the now static low-level dquot_initialize helper to __dquot_initialize
and vfs_dq_init to dquot_initialize to have a consistent namespace.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2010-03-05 00:20:30 +01:00
Christoph Hellwig
9f75475802 dquot: cleanup dquot drop routine
Get rid of the drop dquot operation - it is now always called from
the filesystem and if a filesystem really needs it's own (which none
currently does) it can just call into it's own routine directly.

Rename the now static low-level dquot_drop helper to __dquot_drop
and vfs_dq_drop to dquot_drop to have a consistent namespace.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2010-03-05 00:20:30 +01:00
Christoph Hellwig
b43fa8284d dquot: cleanup dquot transfer routine
Get rid of the transfer dquot operation - it is now always called from
the filesystem and if a filesystem really needs it's own (which none
currently does) it can just call into it's own routine directly.

Rename the now static low-level dquot_transfer helper to __dquot_transfer
and vfs_dq_transfer to dquot_transfer to have a consistent namespace,
and make the new dquot_transfer return a normal negative errno value
which all callers expect.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2010-03-05 00:20:29 +01:00
Christoph Hellwig
63936ddaa1 dquot: cleanup inode allocation / freeing routines
Get rid of the alloc_inode and free_inode dquot operations - they are
always called from the filesystem and if a filesystem really needs
their own (which none currently does) it can just call into it's
own routine directly.

Also get rid of the vfs_dq_alloc/vfs_dq_free wrappers and always
call the lowlevel dquot_alloc_inode / dqout_free_inode routines
directly, which now lose the number argument which is always 1.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2010-03-05 00:20:28 +01:00
Christoph Hellwig
5dd4056db8 dquot: cleanup space allocation / freeing routines
Get rid of the alloc_space, free_space, reserve_space, claim_space and
release_rsv dquot operations - they are always called from the filesystem
and if a filesystem really needs their own (which none currently does)
it can just call into it's own routine directly.

Move shared logic into the common __dquot_alloc_space,
dquot_claim_space_nodirty and __dquot_free_space low-level methods,
and rationalize the wrappers around it to move as much as possible
code into the common block for CONFIG_QUOTA vs not.  Also rename
all these helpers to be named dquot_* instead of vfs_dq_*.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2010-03-05 00:20:28 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
0f2cc4ecd8 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: (52 commits)
  init: Open /dev/console from rootfs
  mqueue: fix typo "failues" -> "failures"
  mqueue: only set error codes if they are really necessary
  mqueue: simplify do_open() error handling
  mqueue: apply mathematics distributivity on mq_bytes calculation
  mqueue: remove unneeded info->messages initialization
  mqueue: fix mq_open() file descriptor leak on user-space processes
  fix race in d_splice_alias()
  set S_DEAD on unlink() and non-directory rename() victims
  vfs: add NOFOLLOW flag to umount(2)
  get rid of ->mnt_parent in tomoyo/realpath
  hppfs can use existing proc_mnt, no need for do_kern_mount() in there
  Mirror MS_KERNMOUNT in ->mnt_flags
  get rid of useless vfsmount_lock use in put_mnt_ns()
  Take vfsmount_lock to fs/internal.h
  get rid of insanity with namespace roots in tomoyo
  take check for new events in namespace (guts of mounts_poll()) to namespace.c
  Don't mess with generic_permission() under ->d_lock in hpfs
  sanitize const/signedness for udf
  nilfs: sanitize const/signedness in dealing with ->d_name.name
  ...

Fix up fairly trivial (famous last words...) conflicts in
drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_main.c and security/tomoyo/realpath.c
2010-03-04 08:15:33 -08:00
Al Viro
2f99cc6e46 add several pieces to shared subtree documentation
* document locking
* add the missing part of data structure invariants (relationship
between mnt_share and mnt_slave lists in case of a peer group
among slaves).

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-03-03 13:00:23 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
feaf77d51a Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ryusuke/nilfs2
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ryusuke/nilfs2:
  nilfs2: add reader's lock for cno in nilfs_ioctl_sync
  nilfs2: delete unnecessary condition in load_segment_summary
  nilfs2: move iterator to write log into segment buffer
  nilfs2: get rid of s_dirt flag use
  nilfs2: get rid of nilfs_segctor_req struct
  nilfs2: delete unnecessary condition in nilfs_dat_translate
  nilfs2: fix potential hang in nilfs_error on errors=remount-ro
  nilfs2: use mnt_want_write in ioctls where write access is needed
  nilfs2: issue discard request after cleaning segments
2010-03-03 08:53:49 -08:00
Mulyadi Santosa
cb2992a60b doc: typo - Table 1-2 should refer to "status", not "statm"
Fixes a typo in proc.txt documentation. Table 1-2 should refer to
"status", not "statm"

Signed-off-by: Mulyadi Santosa <mulyadi.santosa@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-02-18 00:43:50 +01:00
Jiro SEKIBA
e902ec9906 nilfs2: issue discard request after cleaning segments
This adds a function to send discard requests for given array of
segment numbers, and calls the function when garbage collection
succeeded.

Signed-off-by: Jiro SEKIBA <jir@unicus.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
2010-02-13 12:26:02 +09:00
J. Bruce Fields
73834d6f90 nfsd: 4.1 has an rfc number
No need to refer to an internet draft; there's an RFC now.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2010-01-20 17:17:04 -05:00
Paul E. McKenney
4c54005ca4 rcu: 1Q2010 update for RCU documentation
Add expedited functions.  Review documentation and update
obsolete verbiage.  Also fix the advice for the RCU CPU-stall
kernel configuration parameter, and document RCU CPU-stall
warnings.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
LKML-Reference: <12635142581866-git-send-email->
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-01-16 10:25:22 +01:00
KOSAKI Motohiro
1306d603fc proc: partially revert "procfs: provide stack information for threads"
Commit d899bf7b (procfs: provide stack information for threads) introduced
to show stack information in /proc/{pid}/status.  But it cause large
performance regression.  Unfortunately /proc/{pid}/status is used ps
command too and ps is one of most important component.  Because both to
take mmap_sem and page table walk are heavily operation.

If many process run, the ps performance is,

[before d899bf7b]

% perf stat ps >/dev/null

 Performance counter stats for 'ps':

     4090.435806  task-clock-msecs         #      0.032 CPUs
             229  context-switches         #      0.000 M/sec
               0  CPU-migrations           #      0.000 M/sec
             234  page-faults              #      0.000 M/sec
      8587565207  cycles                   #   2099.425 M/sec
      9866662403  instructions             #      1.149 IPC
      3789415411  cache-references         #    926.409 M/sec
        30419509  cache-misses             #      7.437 M/sec

   128.859521955  seconds time elapsed

[after d899bf7b]

% perf stat  ps  > /dev/null

 Performance counter stats for 'ps':

     4305.081146  task-clock-msecs         #      0.028 CPUs
             480  context-switches         #      0.000 M/sec
               2  CPU-migrations           #      0.000 M/sec
             237  page-faults              #      0.000 M/sec
      9021211334  cycles                   #   2095.480 M/sec
     10605887536  instructions             #      1.176 IPC
      3612650999  cache-references         #    839.160 M/sec
        23917502  cache-misses             #      5.556 M/sec

   152.277819582  seconds time elapsed

Thus, this patch revert it. Fortunately /proc/{pid}/task/{tid}/smaps
provide almost same information. we can use it.

Commit d899bf7b introduced two features:

 1) Add the annotattion of [thread stack: xxxx] mark to
    /proc/{pid}/task/{tid}/maps.
 2) Add StackUsage field to /proc/{pid}/status.

I only revert (2), because I haven't seen (1) cause regression.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-01-11 09:34:06 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
a87da40875 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ryusuke/nilfs2
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ryusuke/nilfs2:
  nilfs2: update mailing list address
  nilfs2: Storage class should be before const qualifier
  nilfs2: trivial coding style fix
2010-01-04 12:28:26 -08:00
Ryusuke Konishi
6aff43f817 nilfs2: update mailing list address
This replaces the list address for nilfs discussion to linux-nilfs at
vger.kernel.org from users at nilfs.org.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
2010-01-02 21:47:04 +09:00
Fang Wenqi
6d3b82f2d3 ext4: Update documentation to correct the inode_readahead_blks option name
Per commit 240799cd, the option name for readahead should be
inode_readahead_blks, not inode_readahead.

Signed-off-by: Fang Wenqi <antonf@turbolinux.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-12-24 17:51:42 -05:00
Phil Carmody
099c2f21d8 Driver core: driver_attribute parameters can often be const*
Many struct driver_attribute descriptors are purely read-only
structures, and there's no need to change them. Therefore make
the promise not to, which will let those descriptors be put in
a ro section.

Signed-off-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-12-23 11:23:43 -08:00
Phil Carmody
26579ab70a Driver core: device_attribute parameters can often be const*
Most device_attributes are const, and are begging to be
put in a ro section. However, the create and remove
file interfaces were failing to propagate the const promise
which the only functions they call offer.

Signed-off-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-12-23 11:23:43 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
37c24b37fb Merge branch 'for-2.6.33' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux
* 'for-2.6.33' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux: (42 commits)
  nfsd: remove pointless paths in file headers
  nfsd: move most of nfsfh.h to fs/nfsd
  nfsd: remove unused field rq_reffh
  nfsd: enable V4ROOT exports
  nfsd: make V4ROOT exports read-only
  nfsd: restrict filehandles accepted in V4ROOT case
  nfsd: allow exports of symlinks
  nfsd: filter readdir results in V4ROOT case
  nfsd: filter lookup results in V4ROOT case
  nfsd4: don't continue "under" mounts in V4ROOT case
  nfsd: introduce export flag for v4 pseudoroot
  nfsd: let "insecure" flag vary by pseudoflavor
  nfsd: new interface to advertise export features
  nfsd: Move private headers to source directory
  vfs: nfsctl.c un-used nfsd #includes
  lockd: Remove un-used nfsd headers #includes
  s390: remove un-used nfsd #includes
  sparc: remove un-used nfsd #includes
  parsic: remove un-used nfsd #includes
  compat.c: Remove dependence on nfsd private headers
  ...
2009-12-16 10:43:34 -08:00
Alexey Dobriyan
6be4b78993 seq_file: use proc_create() in documentation
Using create_proc_entry() + ->proc_fops assignment is racy because
->proc_fops will be NULL for some time, use proc_create() to avoid race.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-16 07:20:07 -08:00
john stultz
4614a696bd procfs: allow threads to rename siblings via /proc/pid/tasks/tid/comm
Setting a thread's comm to be something unique is a very useful ability
and is helpful for debugging complicated threaded applications.  However
currently the only way to set a thread name is for the thread to name
itself via the PR_SET_NAME prctl.

However, there may be situations where it would be advantageous for a
thread dispatcher to be naming the threads its managing, rather then
having the threads self-describe themselves.  This sort of behavior is
available on other systems via the pthread_setname_np() interface.

This patch exports a task's comm via proc/pid/comm and
proc/pid/task/tid/comm interfaces, and allows thread siblings to write to
these values.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Fulton <fultonm@ca.ibm.com>
Cc: Sean Foley <Sean_Foley@ca.ibm.com>
Cc: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 08:53:24 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
3126c136bc Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs-2.6
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs-2.6: (21 commits)
  ext3: PTR_ERR return of wrong pointer in setup_new_group_blocks()
  ext3: Fix data / filesystem corruption when write fails to copy data
  ext4: Support for 64-bit quota format
  ext3: Support for vfsv1 quota format
  quota: Implement quota format with 64-bit space and inode limits
  quota: Move definition of QFMT_OCFS2 to linux/quota.h
  ext2: fix comment in ext2_find_entry about return values
  ext3: Unify log messages in ext3
  ext2: clear uptodate flag on super block I/O error
  ext2: Unify log messages in ext2
  ext3: make "norecovery" an alias for "noload"
  ext3: Don't update the superblock in ext3_statfs()
  ext3: journal all modifications in ext3_xattr_set_handle
  ext2: Explicitly assign values to on-disk enum of filetypes
  quota: Fix WARN_ON in lookup_one_len
  const: struct quota_format_ops
  ubifs: remove manual O_SYNC handling
  afs: remove manual O_SYNC handling
  kill wait_on_page_writeback_range
  vfs: Implement proper O_SYNC semantics
  ...
2009-12-11 15:31:13 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
4e2ccdb040 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ryusuke/nilfs2
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ryusuke/nilfs2: (49 commits)
  nilfs2: separate wait function from nilfs_segctor_write
  nilfs2: add iterator for segment buffers
  nilfs2: hide nilfs_write_info struct in segment buffer code
  nilfs2: relocate io status variables to segment buffer
  nilfs2: do not return io error for bio allocation failure
  nilfs2: use list_splice_tail or list_splice_tail_init
  nilfs2: replace mark_inode_dirty as nilfs_mark_inode_dirty
  nilfs2: delete mark_inode_dirty in nilfs_delete_entry
  nilfs2: delete mark_inode_dirty in nilfs_commit_chunk
  nilfs2: change return type of nilfs_commit_chunk
  nilfs2: split nilfs_unlink as nilfs_do_unlink and nilfs_unlink
  nilfs2: delete redundant mark_inode_dirty
  nilfs2: expand inode_inc_link_count and inode_dec_link_count
  nilfs2: delete mark_inode_dirty from nilfs_set_link
  nilfs2: delete mark_inode_dirty in nilfs_new_inode
  nilfs2: add norecovery mount option
  nilfs2: add helper to get if volume is in a valid state
  nilfs2: move recovery completion into load_nilfs function
  nilfs2: apply readahead for recovery on mount
  nilfs2: clean up get/put function of a segment usage
  ...
2009-12-11 11:49:18 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
4515c3069d Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (47 commits)
  ext4: Fix potential fiemap deadlock (mmap_sem vs. i_data_sem)
  ext4: Do not override ext2 or ext3 if built they are built as modules
  jbd2: Export jbd2_log_start_commit to fix ext4 build
  ext4: Fix insufficient checks in EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT
  ext4: Wait for proper transaction commit on fsync
  ext4: fix incorrect block reservation on quota transfer.
  ext4: quota macros cleanup
  ext4: ext4_get_reserved_space() must return bytes instead of blocks
  ext4: remove blocks from inode prealloc list on failure
  ext4: wait for log to commit when umounting
  ext4: Avoid data / filesystem corruption when write fails to copy data
  ext4: Use ext4 file system driver for ext2/ext3 file system mounts
  ext4: Return the PTR_ERR of the correct pointer in setup_new_group_blocks()
  jbd2: Add ENOMEM checking in and for jbd2_journal_write_metadata_buffer()
  ext4: remove unused parameter wbc from __ext4_journalled_writepage()
  ext4: remove encountered_congestion trace
  ext4: move_extent_per_page() cleanup
  ext4: initialize moved_len before calling ext4_move_extents()
  ext4: Fix double-free of blocks with EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT
  ext4: use ext4_data_block_valid() in ext4_free_blocks()
  ...
2009-12-10 09:33:29 -08:00
Eric Sandeen
dee1d3b627 ext3: make "norecovery" an alias for "noload"
Users on the list recently complained about differences across
filesystems w.r.t. how to mount without a journal replay.

In the discussion it was noted that xfs's "norecovery" option is
perhaps more descriptively accurate than "noload," so let's make
that an alias for ext3.

Also show this status in /proc/mounts

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2009-12-10 15:02:52 +01:00
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
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
9f249162fb trivial: some small fixes in exofs documentation
Add exofs.txt to filesystems Documentation index and fix some typos,
identation and grammar.

Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@holoscopio.com>
Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
2009-12-10 09:59:16 +02:00
Luis Garces-Erice
e3cc2226e9 Doc: better explanation of procs_running
the description in Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt of the
procs_running entry in /proc/stat is confusing (according to that
description, it looks as if procs_running could only be a number
between 0 and the number of CPUs).

Changed it to a more accurate description in the patch attached.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-09 18:59:52 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
897e81bea1 Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (35 commits)
  sched, cputime: Introduce thread_group_times()
  sched, cputime: Cleanups related to task_times()
  Revert "sched, x86: Optimize branch hint in __switch_to()"
  sched: Fix isolcpus boot option
  sched: Revert 498657a478
  sched, time: Define nsecs_to_jiffies()
  sched: Remove task_{u,s,g}time()
  sched: Introduce task_times() to replace task_{u,s}time() pair
  sched: Limit the number of scheduler debug messages
  sched.c: Call debug_show_all_locks() when dumping all tasks
  sched, x86: Optimize branch hint in __switch_to()
  sched: Optimize branch hint in context_switch()
  sched: Optimize branch hint in pick_next_task_fair()
  sched_feat_write(): Update ppos instead of file->f_pos
  sched: Sched_rt_periodic_timer vs cpu hotplug
  sched, kvm: Fix race condition involving sched_in_preempt_notifers
  sched: More generic WAKE_AFFINE vs select_idle_sibling()
  sched: Cleanup select_task_rq_fair()
  sched: Fix granularity of task_u/stime()
  sched: Fix/add missing update_rq_clock() calls
  ...
2009-12-05 15:30:49 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
6e80133f7f Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-2.6-fscache
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-2.6-fscache: (31 commits)
  FS-Cache: Provide nop fscache_stat_d() if CONFIG_FSCACHE_STATS=n
  SLOW_WORK: Fix GFS2 to #include <linux/module.h> before using THIS_MODULE
  SLOW_WORK: Fix CIFS to pass THIS_MODULE to slow_work_register_user()
  CacheFiles: Don't log lookup/create failing with ENOBUFS
  CacheFiles: Catch an overly long wait for an old active object
  CacheFiles: Better showing of debugging information in active object problems
  CacheFiles: Mark parent directory locks as I_MUTEX_PARENT to keep lockdep happy
  CacheFiles: Handle truncate unlocking the page we're reading
  CacheFiles: Don't write a full page if there's only a partial page to cache
  FS-Cache: Actually requeue an object when requested
  FS-Cache: Start processing an object's operations on that object's death
  FS-Cache: Make sure FSCACHE_COOKIE_LOOKING_UP cleared on lookup failure
  FS-Cache: Add a retirement stat counter
  FS-Cache: Handle pages pending storage that get evicted under OOM conditions
  FS-Cache: Handle read request vs lookup, creation or other cache failure
  FS-Cache: Don't delete pending pages from the page-store tracking tree
  FS-Cache: Fix lock misorder in fscache_write_op()
  FS-Cache: The object-available state can't rely on the cookie to be available
  FS-Cache: Permit cache retrieval ops to be interrupted in the initial wait phase
  FS-Cache: Use radix tree preload correctly in tracking of pages to be stored
  ...
2009-11-30 13:33:48 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
16bc67edeb Merge branch 'sched/urgent' into sched/core
Merge reason: Pick up fixes that did not make it into .32.0

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-26 10:50:42 +01:00
J. Bruce Fields
9b8b317d58 Merge commit 'v2.6.32-rc8' into HEAD 2009-11-23 12:34:58 -05:00
Joern Engel
5db53f3e80 [LogFS] add new flash file system
This is a new flash file system. See
Documentation/filesystems/logfs.txt

Signed-off-by: Joern Engel <joern@logfs.org>
2009-11-20 20:13:39 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
931ed94430 Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jlbec/ocfs2
* 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jlbec/ocfs2:
  ocfs2: Trivial cleanup of jbd compatibility layer removal
  ocfs2: Refresh documentation
  ocfs2: return f_fsid info in ocfs2_statfs()
  ocfs2: duplicate inline data properly during reflink.
  ocfs2: Move ocfs2_complete_reflink to the right place.
  ocfs2: Return -EINVAL when a device is not ocfs2.
2009-11-19 20:29:05 -08:00
Ryusuke Konishi
0234576d04 nilfs2: add norecovery mount option
This adds "norecovery" mount option which disables temporal write
access to read-only mounts or snapshots during mount/recovery.
Without this option, write access will be even performed for those
types of mounts; the temporal write access is needed to mount root
file system read-only after an unclean shutdown.

This option will be helpful when user wants to prevent any write
access to the device.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
2009-11-20 10:05:52 +09:00
Jiro SEKIBA
91f1953bf3 nilfs2: Using nobarrier option instead of barrier=off
Since most of fs using nofoobar style option,
modified barrier=off option as nobarrier.

Signed-off-by: Jiro SEKIBA <jir@unicus.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
2009-11-20 10:05:47 +09:00
Eric Sandeen
e3bb52ae2b ext4: make "norecovery" an alias for "noload"
Users on the linux-ext4 list recently complained about differences
across filesystems w.r.t. how to mount without a journal replay.

In the discussion it was noted that xfs's "norecovery" option is
perhaps more descriptively accurate than "noload," so let's make
that an alias for ext4.

Also show this status in /proc/mounts

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-11-19 14:28:50 -05:00
Eric Sandeen
5328e63531 ext4: make trim/discard optional (and off by default)
It is anticipated that when sb_issue_discard starts doing
real work on trim-capable devices, we may see issues.  Make
this mount-time optional, and default it to off until we know
that things are working out OK.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-11-19 14:25:42 -05:00
David Howells
fee096deb4 CacheFiles: Catch an overly long wait for an old active object
Catch an overly long wait for an old, dying active object when we want to
replace it with a new one.  The probability is that all the slow-work threads
are hogged, and the delete can't get a look in.

What we do instead is:

 (1) if there's nothing in the slow work queue, we sleep until either the dying
     object has finished dying or there is something in the slow work queue
     behind which we can queue our object.

 (2) if there is something in the slow work queue, we return ETIMEDOUT to
     fscache_lookup_object(), which then puts us back on the slow work queue,
     presumably behind the deletion that we're blocked by.  We are then
     deferred for a while until we work our way back through the queue -
     without blocking a slow-work thread unnecessarily.

A backtrace similar to the following may appear in the log without this patch:

	INFO: task kslowd004:5711 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
	"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
	kslowd004     D 0000000000000000     0  5711      2 0x00000080
	 ffff88000340bb80 0000000000000046 ffff88002550d000 0000000000000000
	 ffff88002550d000 0000000000000007 ffff88000340bfd8 ffff88002550d2a8
	 000000000000ddf0 00000000000118c0 00000000000118c0 ffff88002550d2a8
	Call Trace:
	 [<ffffffff81058e21>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0xf
	 [<ffffffffa011c4d8>] ? cachefiles_wait_bit+0x0/0xd [cachefiles]
	 [<ffffffffa011c4e1>] cachefiles_wait_bit+0x9/0xd [cachefiles]
	 [<ffffffff81353153>] __wait_on_bit+0x43/0x76
	 [<ffffffff8111ae39>] ? ext3_xattr_get+0x1ec/0x270
	 [<ffffffff813531ef>] out_of_line_wait_on_bit+0x69/0x74
	 [<ffffffffa011c4d8>] ? cachefiles_wait_bit+0x0/0xd [cachefiles]
	 [<ffffffff8104c125>] ? wake_bit_function+0x0/0x2e
	 [<ffffffffa011bc79>] cachefiles_mark_object_active+0x203/0x23b [cachefiles]
	 [<ffffffffa011c209>] cachefiles_walk_to_object+0x558/0x827 [cachefiles]
	 [<ffffffffa011a429>] cachefiles_lookup_object+0xac/0x12a [cachefiles]
	 [<ffffffffa00aa1e9>] fscache_lookup_object+0x1c7/0x214 [fscache]
	 [<ffffffffa00aafc5>] fscache_object_state_machine+0xa5/0x52d [fscache]
	 [<ffffffffa00ab4ac>] fscache_object_slow_work_execute+0x5f/0xa0 [fscache]
	 [<ffffffff81082093>] slow_work_execute+0x18f/0x2d1
	 [<ffffffff8108239a>] slow_work_thread+0x1c5/0x308
	 [<ffffffff8104c0f1>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x34
	 [<ffffffff810821d5>] ? slow_work_thread+0x0/0x308
	 [<ffffffff8104be91>] kthread+0x7a/0x82
	 [<ffffffff8100beda>] child_rip+0xa/0x20
	 [<ffffffff8100b87c>] ? restore_args+0x0/0x30
	 [<ffffffff8104be17>] ? kthread+0x0/0x82
	 [<ffffffff8100bed0>] ? child_rip+0x0/0x20
	1 lock held by kslowd004/5711:
	 #0:  (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#7/1){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffffa011be64>] cachefiles_walk_to_object+0x1b3/0x827 [cachefiles]

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2009-11-19 18:12:05 +00:00
David Howells
60d543ca72 FS-Cache: Start processing an object's operations on that object's death
Start processing an object's operations when that object moves into the DYING
state as the object cannot be destroyed until all its outstanding operations
have completed.

Furthermore, make sure that read and allocation operations handle being woken
up on a dead object.  Such events are recorded in the Allocs.abt and
Retrvls.abt statistics as viewable through /proc/fs/fscache/stats.

The code for waiting for object activation for the read and allocation
operations is also extracted into its own function as it is much the same in
all cases, differing only in the stats incremented.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2009-11-19 18:11:45 +00:00
David Howells
201a15428b FS-Cache: Handle pages pending storage that get evicted under OOM conditions
Handle netfs pages that the vmscan algorithm wants to evict from the pagecache
under OOM conditions, but that are waiting for write to the cache.  Under these
conditions, vmscan calls the releasepage() function of the netfs, asking if a
page can be discarded.

The problem is typified by the following trace of a stuck process:

	kslowd005     D 0000000000000000     0  4253      2 0x00000080
	 ffff88001b14f370 0000000000000046 ffff880020d0d000 0000000000000007
	 0000000000000006 0000000000000001 ffff88001b14ffd8 ffff880020d0d2a8
	 000000000000ddf0 00000000000118c0 00000000000118c0 ffff880020d0d2a8
	Call Trace:
	 [<ffffffffa00782d8>] __fscache_wait_on_page_write+0x8b/0xa7 [fscache]
	 [<ffffffff8104c0f1>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x34
	 [<ffffffffa0078240>] ? __fscache_check_page_write+0x63/0x70 [fscache]
	 [<ffffffffa00b671d>] nfs_fscache_release_page+0x4e/0xc4 [nfs]
	 [<ffffffffa00927f0>] nfs_release_page+0x3c/0x41 [nfs]
	 [<ffffffff810885d3>] try_to_release_page+0x32/0x3b
	 [<ffffffff81093203>] shrink_page_list+0x316/0x4ac
	 [<ffffffff8109372b>] shrink_inactive_list+0x392/0x67c
	 [<ffffffff813532fa>] ? __mutex_unlock_slowpath+0x100/0x10b
	 [<ffffffff81058df0>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x10c/0x130
	 [<ffffffff8135330e>] ? mutex_unlock+0x9/0xb
	 [<ffffffff81093aa2>] shrink_list+0x8d/0x8f
	 [<ffffffff81093d1c>] shrink_zone+0x278/0x33c
	 [<ffffffff81052d6c>] ? ktime_get_ts+0xad/0xba
	 [<ffffffff81094b13>] try_to_free_pages+0x22e/0x392
	 [<ffffffff81091e24>] ? isolate_pages_global+0x0/0x212
	 [<ffffffff8108e743>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x3dc/0x5cf
	 [<ffffffff81089529>] grab_cache_page_write_begin+0x65/0xaa
	 [<ffffffff8110f8c0>] ext3_write_begin+0x78/0x1eb
	 [<ffffffff81089ec5>] generic_file_buffered_write+0x109/0x28c
	 [<ffffffff8103cb69>] ? current_fs_time+0x22/0x29
	 [<ffffffff8108a509>] __generic_file_aio_write+0x350/0x385
	 [<ffffffff8108a588>] ? generic_file_aio_write+0x4a/0xae
	 [<ffffffff8108a59e>] generic_file_aio_write+0x60/0xae
	 [<ffffffff810b2e82>] do_sync_write+0xe3/0x120
	 [<ffffffff8104c0f1>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x34
	 [<ffffffff810b18e1>] ? __dentry_open+0x1a5/0x2b8
	 [<ffffffff810b1a76>] ? dentry_open+0x82/0x89
	 [<ffffffffa00e693c>] cachefiles_write_page+0x298/0x335 [cachefiles]
	 [<ffffffffa0077147>] fscache_write_op+0x178/0x2c2 [fscache]
	 [<ffffffffa0075656>] fscache_op_execute+0x7a/0xd1 [fscache]
	 [<ffffffff81082093>] slow_work_execute+0x18f/0x2d1
	 [<ffffffff8108239a>] slow_work_thread+0x1c5/0x308
	 [<ffffffff8104c0f1>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x34
	 [<ffffffff810821d5>] ? slow_work_thread+0x0/0x308
	 [<ffffffff8104be91>] kthread+0x7a/0x82
	 [<ffffffff8100beda>] child_rip+0xa/0x20
	 [<ffffffff8100b87c>] ? restore_args+0x0/0x30
	 [<ffffffff8102ef83>] ? tg_shares_up+0x171/0x227
	 [<ffffffff8104be17>] ? kthread+0x0/0x82
	 [<ffffffff8100bed0>] ? child_rip+0x0/0x20

In the above backtrace, the following is happening:

 (1) A page storage operation is being executed by a slow-work thread
     (fscache_write_op()).

 (2) FS-Cache farms the operation out to the cache to perform
     (cachefiles_write_page()).

 (3) CacheFiles is then calling Ext3 to perform the actual write, using Ext3's
     standard write (do_sync_write()) under KERNEL_DS directly from the netfs
     page.

 (4) However, for Ext3 to perform the write, it must allocate some memory, in
     particular, it must allocate at least one page cache page into which it
     can copy the data from the netfs page.

 (5) Under OOM conditions, the memory allocator can't immediately come up with
     a page, so it uses vmscan to find something to discard
     (try_to_free_pages()).

 (6) vmscan finds a clean netfs page it might be able to discard (possibly the
     one it's trying to write out).

 (7) The netfs is called to throw the page away (nfs_release_page()) - but it's
     called with __GFP_WAIT, so the netfs decides to wait for the store to
     complete (__fscache_wait_on_page_write()).

 (8) This blocks a slow-work processing thread - possibly against itself.

The system ends up stuck because it can't write out any netfs pages to the
cache without allocating more memory.

To avoid this, we make FS-Cache cancel some writes that aren't in the middle of
actually being performed.  This means that some data won't make it into the
cache this time.  To support this, a new FS-Cache function is added
fscache_maybe_release_page() that replaces what the netfs releasepage()
functions used to do with respect to the cache.

The decisions fscache_maybe_release_page() makes are counted and displayed
through /proc/fs/fscache/stats on a line labelled "VmScan".  There are four
counters provided: "nos=N" - pages that weren't pending storage; "gon=N" -
pages that were pending storage when we first looked, but weren't by the time
we got the object lock; "bsy=N" - pages that we ignored as they were actively
being written when we looked; and "can=N" - pages that we cancelled the storage
of.

What I'd really like to do is alter the behaviour of the cancellation
heuristics, depending on how necessary it is to expel pages.  If there are
plenty of other pages that aren't waiting to be written to the cache that
could be ejected first, then it would be nice to hold up on immediate
cancellation of cache writes - but I don't see a way of doing that.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2009-11-19 18:11:35 +00:00
David Howells
e3d4d28b1c FS-Cache: Handle read request vs lookup, creation or other cache failure
FS-Cache doesn't correctly handle the netfs requesting a read from the cache
on an object that failed or was withdrawn by the cache.  A trace similar to
the following might be seen:

	CacheFiles: Lookup failed error -105
	[exe   ] unexpected submission OP165afe [OBJ6cac OBJECT_LC_DYING]
	[exe   ] objstate=OBJECT_LC_DYING [OBJECT_LC_DYING]
	[exe   ] objflags=0
	[exe   ] objevent=9 [fffffffffffffffb]
	[exe   ] ops=0 inp=0 exc=0
	Pid: 6970, comm: exe Not tainted 2.6.32-rc6-cachefs #50
	Call Trace:
	 [<ffffffffa0076477>] fscache_submit_op+0x3ff/0x45a [fscache]
	 [<ffffffffa0077997>] __fscache_read_or_alloc_pages+0x187/0x3c4 [fscache]
	 [<ffffffffa00b6480>] ? nfs_readpage_from_fscache_complete+0x0/0x66 [nfs]
	 [<ffffffffa00b6388>] __nfs_readpages_from_fscache+0x7e/0x176 [nfs]
	 [<ffffffff8108e483>] ? __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x11c/0x5cf
	 [<ffffffffa009d796>] nfs_readpages+0x114/0x1d7 [nfs]
	 [<ffffffff81090314>] __do_page_cache_readahead+0x15f/0x1ec
	 [<ffffffff81090228>] ? __do_page_cache_readahead+0x73/0x1ec
	 [<ffffffff810903bd>] ra_submit+0x1c/0x20
	 [<ffffffff810906bb>] ondemand_readahead+0x227/0x23a
	 [<ffffffff81090762>] page_cache_sync_readahead+0x17/0x19
	 [<ffffffff8108a99e>] generic_file_aio_read+0x236/0x5a0
	 [<ffffffffa00937bd>] nfs_file_read+0xe4/0xf3 [nfs]
	 [<ffffffff810b2fa2>] do_sync_read+0xe3/0x120
	 [<ffffffff81354cc3>] ? _spin_unlock_irq+0x2b/0x31
	 [<ffffffff8104c0f1>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x34
	 [<ffffffff811848e5>] ? selinux_file_permission+0x5d/0x10f
	 [<ffffffff81352bdb>] ? thread_return+0x3e/0x101
	 [<ffffffff8117d7b0>] ? security_file_permission+0x11/0x13
	 [<ffffffff810b3b06>] vfs_read+0xaa/0x16f
	 [<ffffffff81058df0>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x10c/0x130
	 [<ffffffff810b3c84>] sys_read+0x45/0x6c
	 [<ffffffff8100ae2b>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

The object state might also be OBJECT_DYING or OBJECT_WITHDRAWING.

This should be handled by simply rejecting the new operation with ENOBUFS.
There's no need to log an error for it.  Events of this type now appear in the
stats file under Ops:rej.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2009-11-19 18:11:32 +00:00
David Howells
1bccf513ac FS-Cache: Fix lock misorder in fscache_write_op()
FS-Cache has two structs internally for keeping track of the internal state of
a cached file: the fscache_cookie struct, which represents the netfs's state,
and fscache_object struct, which represents the cache's state.  Each has a
pointer that points to the other (when both are in existence), and each has a
spinlock for pointer maintenance.

Since netfs operations approach these structures from the cookie side, they get
the cookie lock first, then the object lock.  Cache operations, on the other
hand, approach from the object side, and get the object lock first.  It is not
then permitted for a cache operation to get the cookie lock whilst it is
holding the object lock lest deadlock occur; instead, it must do one of two
things:

 (1) increment the cookie usage counter, drop the object lock and then get both
     locks in order, or

 (2) simply hold the object lock as certain parts of the cookie may not be
     altered whilst the object lock is held.

It is also not permitted to follow either pointer without holding the lock at
the end you start with.  To break the pointers between the cookie and the
object, both locks must be held.

fscache_write_op(), however, violates the locking rules: It attempts to get the
cookie lock without (a) checking that the cookie pointer is a valid pointer,
and (b) holding the object lock to protect the cookie pointer whilst it follows
it.  This is so that it can access the pending page store tree without
interference from __fscache_write_page().

This is fixed by splitting the cookie lock, such that the page store tracking
tree is protected by its own lock, and checking that the cookie pointer is
non-NULL before we attempt to follow it whilst holding the object lock.

The new lock is subordinate to both the cookie lock and the object lock, and so
should be taken after those.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2009-11-19 18:11:25 +00:00
David Howells
5753c44188 FS-Cache: Permit cache retrieval ops to be interrupted in the initial wait phase
Permit the operations to retrieve data from the cache or to allocate space in
the cache for future writes to be interrupted whilst they're waiting for
permission for the operation to proceed.  Typically this wait occurs whilst the
cache object is being looked up on disk in the background.

If an interruption occurs, and the operation has not yet been given the
go-ahead to run, the operation is dequeued and cancelled, and control returns
to the read operation of the netfs routine with none of the requested pages
having been read or in any way marked as known by the cache.

This means that the initial wait is done interruptibly rather than
uninterruptibly.

In addition, extra stats values are made available to show the number of ops
cancelled and the number of cache space allocations interrupted.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2009-11-19 18:11:19 +00:00
David Howells
52bd75fdb1 FS-Cache: Add counters for entry/exit to/from cache operation functions
Count entries to and exits from cache operation table functions.  Maintain
these as a single counter that's added to or removed from as appropriate.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2009-11-19 18:11:08 +00:00
David Howells
4fbf4291aa FS-Cache: Allow the current state of all objects to be dumped
Allow the current state of all fscache objects to be dumped by doing:

	cat /proc/fs/fscache/objects

By default, all objects and all fields will be shown.  This can be restricted
by adding a suitable key to one of the caller's keyrings (such as the session
keyring):

	keyctl add user fscache:objlist "<restrictions>" @s

The <restrictions> are:

	K	Show hexdump of object key (don't show if not given)
	A	Show hexdump of object aux data (don't show if not given)

And paired restrictions:

	C	Show objects that have a cookie
	c	Show objects that don't have a cookie
	B	Show objects that are busy
	b	Show objects that aren't busy
	W	Show objects that have pending writes
	w	Show objects that don't have pending writes
	R	Show objects that have outstanding reads
	r	Show objects that don't have outstanding reads
	S	Show objects that have slow work queued
	s	Show objects that don't have slow work queued

If neither side of a restriction pair is given, then both are implied.  For
example:

	keyctl add user fscache:objlist KB @s

shows objects that are busy, and lists their object keys, but does not dump
their auxiliary data.  It also implies "CcWwRrSs", but as 'B' is given, 'b' is
not implied.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2009-11-19 18:11:04 +00:00
Sunil Mushran
7ab8f5244d ocfs2: Refresh documentation
Signed-off-by: Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
2009-11-13 15:45:01 -08:00
J. Bruce Fields
ea4878a24d nfs: move more to Documentation/filesystems/nfs
Oops: I missed two files in the first commit that created this
directory.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2009-11-06 14:01:02 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
d4da6c9ccf Revert "ext4: Remove journal_checksum mount option and enable it by default"
This reverts commit d0646f7b63, as
requested by Eric Sandeen.

It can basically cause an ext4 filesystem to miss recovery (and thus get
mounted with errors) if the journal checksum does not match.

Quoth Eric:

   "My hand-wavy hunch about what is happening is that we're finding a
    bad checksum on the last partially-written transaction, which is
    not surprising, but if we have a wrapped log and we're doing the
    initial scan for head/tail, and we abort scanning on that bad
    checksum, then we are essentially running an unrecovered filesystem.

    But that's hand-wavy and I need to go look at the code.

    We lived without journal checksums on by default until now, and at
    this point they're doing more harm than good, so we should revert
    the default-changing commit until we can fix it and do some good
    power-fail testing with the fixes in place."

See

	http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14354

for all the gory details.

Requested-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Alexey Fisher <bug-track@fisher-privat.net>
Cc: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mathias Burén <mathias.buren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-11-02 10:15:27 -08:00
J. Bruce Fields
dc7a08166f nfs: new subdir Documentation/filesystems/nfs
We're adding enough nfs documentation that it may as well have its own
subdirectory.

Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2009-10-27 19:34:04 -04:00
J. Bruce Fields
e343eb0d60 Merge commit 'v2.6.32-rc5' into for-2.6.33 2009-10-27 18:45:17 -04:00
Ryota Ozaki
ce0e7b28fb sched, cpuacct: Fix niced guest time accounting
CPU time of a guest is always accounted in 'user' time
without concern for the nice value of its counterpart
process although the guest is scheduled under the nice
value.

This patch fixes the defect and accounts cpu time of
a niced guest in 'nice' time as same as a niced process.

And also the patch adds 'guest_nice' to cpuacct. The
value provides niced guest cpu time which is like 'nice'
to 'user'.

The original discussions can be found here:

  http://www.mail-archive.com/kvm@vger.kernel.org/msg23982.html
  http://www.mail-archive.com/kvm@vger.kernel.org/msg23860.html

Signed-off-by: Ryota Ozaki <ozaki.ryota@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1256314810-7897-1-git-send-email-ozaki.ryota@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-25 17:31:30 +01:00
Jan Kara
6dbce52182 ext3: Update documentation about ext3 quota mount options
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2009-10-13 00:06:43 +02:00
Sage Weil
7ad920b504 ceph: documentation
Mount options, syntax.

Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
2009-10-06 11:31:05 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
9f44fdc518 Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4:
  ext4: Fix time encoding with extra epoch bits
  ext4: Add a stub for mpage_da_data in the trace header
  jbd2: Use tracepoints for history file
  ext4: Use tracepoints for mb_history trace file
  ext4, jbd2: Drop unneeded printks at mount and unmount time
  ext4: Handle nested ext4_journal_start/stop calls without a journal
  ext4: Make sure ext4_dirty_inode() updates the inode in no journal mode
  ext4: Avoid updating the inode table bh twice in no journal mode
  ext4: EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT: Check for different original and donor inodes first
  ext4: async direct IO for holes and fallocate support
  ext4: Use end_io callback to avoid direct I/O fallback to buffered I/O
  ext4: Split uninitialized extents for direct I/O
  ext4: release reserved quota when block reservation for delalloc retry
  ext4: Adjust ext4_da_writepages() to write out larger contiguous chunks
  ext4: Fix hueristic which avoids group preallocation for closed files
  ext4: Use ext4_msg() for ext4_da_writepage() errors
  ext4: Update documentation about quota mount options
2009-09-30 09:32:30 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
4c8f1cb266 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hirofumi/fatfs-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hirofumi/fatfs-2.6:
  fat: Check s_dirt in fat_sync_fs()
  vfat: change the default from shortname=lower to shortname=mixed
  fat/nls: Fix handling of utf8 invalid char
2009-09-30 09:31:14 -07:00
Theodore Ts'o
296c355cd6 ext4: Use tracepoints for mb_history trace file
The /proc/fs/ext4/<dev>/mb_history was maintained manually, and had a
number of problems: it required a largish amount of memory to be
allocated for each ext4 filesystem, and the s_mb_history_lock
introduced a CPU contention problem.  

By ripping out the mb_history code and replacing it with ftrace
tracepoints, and we get more functionality: timestamps, event
filtering, the ability to correlate mballoc history with other ext4
tracepoints, etc.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-09-30 00:32:42 -04:00
Andy Adamson
ddc04fd4d5 nfsd41: use sv_max_mesg for forechannel max sizes
ca_maxresponsesize and ca_maxrequest size include the RPC header.

sv_max_mesg is sv_max_payolad plus a page for overhead and is used in
svc_init_buffer to allocate server buffer space for both the request and reply.
Note that this means we can service an RPC compound that requires
ca_maxrequestsize (MAXWRITE) or ca_max_responsesize (MAXREAD) but that we do
not support an RPC compound that requires both ca_maxrequestsize and
ca_maxresponsesize.

Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
[bfields@citi.umich.edu: more documentation updates]
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2009-09-28 12:40:15 -04:00
J. Bruce Fields
03d6a74b5f nfsd: fix Documentation typo
Caught by Benny, thanks!

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2009-09-28 12:07:52 -04:00
Jan Kara
8365388827 ext4: Update documentation about quota mount options
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-09-29 15:59:34 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
db16826367 Merge branch 'hwpoison' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6
* 'hwpoison' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6: (21 commits)
  HWPOISON: Enable error_remove_page on btrfs
  HWPOISON: Add simple debugfs interface to inject hwpoison on arbitary PFNs
  HWPOISON: Add madvise() based injector for hardware poisoned pages v4
  HWPOISON: Enable error_remove_page for NFS
  HWPOISON: Enable .remove_error_page for migration aware file systems
  HWPOISON: The high level memory error handler in the VM v7
  HWPOISON: Add PR_MCE_KILL prctl to control early kill behaviour per process
  HWPOISON: shmem: call set_page_dirty() with locked page
  HWPOISON: Define a new error_remove_page address space op for async truncation
  HWPOISON: Add invalidate_inode_page
  HWPOISON: Refactor truncate to allow direct truncating of page v2
  HWPOISON: check and isolate corrupted free pages v2
  HWPOISON: Handle hardware poisoned pages in try_to_unmap
  HWPOISON: Use bitmask/action code for try_to_unmap behaviour
  HWPOISON: x86: Add VM_FAULT_HWPOISON handling to x86 page fault handler v2
  HWPOISON: Add poison check to page fault handling
  HWPOISON: Add basic support for poisoned pages in fault handler v3
  HWPOISON: Add new SIGBUS error codes for hardware poison signals
  HWPOISON: Add support for poison swap entries v2
  HWPOISON: Export some rmap vma locking to outside world
  ...
2009-09-24 07:53:22 -07:00
Peng Tao
16c01b20ae doc/filesystems: more mount cleanups
Documentation/filesystems/sharedsubtree.txt needs updating because the
mount command in util-linux package is well aware of shared subtree
features now.  The patch also fixes two typos in sharedsubtree.txt.

Signed-off-by: Peng Tao <bergwolf@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24 07:20:57 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
0288b95b43 doc/filesystems: remove smount program
mount(8) handles shared subtrees just fine, so remove the smount program
from Documentation/filesystems/sharedsubtree.txt.

Fix annoying "Lets" -> "Let's".
Insert space between '#' prompt and "mount" command.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24 07:20:57 -07:00
Abhishek Kulkarni
f4edeeb393 9p: Update documentation to add fscache related bits
Update the documentation to describe FS-Cache related
caching parameters. This patch also updates the pointers
to 9p-related papers and adds pointer to the Wiki.

Signed-off-by: Abhishek Kulkarni <adkulkar@umail.iu.edu>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2009-09-23 13:03:46 -05:00
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
1b83df308f ncpfs: remove dead URL from documentation
Noticed-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Petr Vandrovec <vandrove@vc.cvut.cz>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-23 07:39:42 -07:00
Stefani Seibold
d899bf7b55 procfs: provide stack information for threads
A patch to give a better overview of the userland application stack usage,
especially for embedded linux.

Currently you are only able to dump the main process/thread stack usage
which is showed in /proc/pid/status by the "VmStk" Value.  But you get no
information about the consumed stack memory of the the threads.

There is an enhancement in the /proc/<pid>/{task/*,}/*maps and which marks
the vm mapping where the thread stack pointer reside with "[thread stack
xxxxxxxx]".  xxxxxxxx is the maximum size of stack.  This is a value
information, because libpthread doesn't set the start of the stack to the
top of the mapped area, depending of the pthread usage.

A sample output of /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/maps looks like:

08048000-08049000 r-xp 00000000 03:00 8312       /opt/z
08049000-0804a000 rw-p 00001000 03:00 8312       /opt/z
0804a000-0806b000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0          [heap]
a7d12000-a7d13000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0
a7d13000-a7f13000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0          [thread stack: 001ff4b4]
a7f13000-a7f14000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0
a7f14000-a7f36000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
a7f36000-a8069000 r-xp 00000000 03:00 4222       /lib/libc.so.6
a8069000-a806b000 r--p 00133000 03:00 4222       /lib/libc.so.6
a806b000-a806c000 rw-p 00135000 03:00 4222       /lib/libc.so.6
a806c000-a806f000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
a806f000-a8083000 r-xp 00000000 03:00 14462      /lib/libpthread.so.0
a8083000-a8084000 r--p 00013000 03:00 14462      /lib/libpthread.so.0
a8084000-a8085000 rw-p 00014000 03:00 14462      /lib/libpthread.so.0
a8085000-a8088000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
a8088000-a80a4000 r-xp 00000000 03:00 8317       /lib/ld-linux.so.2
a80a4000-a80a5000 r--p 0001b000 03:00 8317       /lib/ld-linux.so.2
a80a5000-a80a6000 rw-p 0001c000 03:00 8317       /lib/ld-linux.so.2
afaf5000-afb0a000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0          [stack]
ffffe000-fffff000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0          [vdso]

Also there is a new entry "stack usage" in /proc/<pid>/{task/*,}/status
which will you give the current stack usage in kb.

A sample output of /proc/self/status looks like:

Name:	cat
State:	R (running)
Tgid:	507
Pid:	507
.
.
.
CapBnd:	fffffffffffffeff
voluntary_ctxt_switches:	0
nonvoluntary_ctxt_switches:	0
Stack usage:	12 kB

I also fixed stack base address in /proc/<pid>/{task/*,}/stat to the base
address of the associated thread stack and not the one of the main
process.  This makes more sense.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fs/proc/array.c now needs walk_page_range()]
Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-23 07:39:41 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
a87e84b5cd Merge branch 'for-2.6.32' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux
* 'for-2.6.32' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux: (68 commits)
  nfsd4: nfsv4 clients should cross mountpoints
  nfsd: revise 4.1 status documentation
  sunrpc/cache: avoid variable over-loading in cache_defer_req
  sunrpc/cache: use list_del_init for the list_head entries in cache_deferred_req
  nfsd: return success for non-NFS4 nfs4_state_start
  nfsd41: Refactor create_client()
  nfsd41: modify nfsd4.1 backchannel to use new xprt class
  nfsd41: Backchannel: Implement cb_recall over NFSv4.1
  nfsd41: Backchannel: cb_sequence callback
  nfsd41: Backchannel: Setup sequence information
  nfsd41: Backchannel: Server backchannel RPC wait queue
  nfsd41: Backchannel: Add sequence arguments to callback RPC arguments
  nfsd41: Backchannel: callback infrastructure
  nfsd4: use common rpc_cred for all callbacks
  nfsd4: allow nfs4 state startup to fail
  SUNRPC: Defer the auth_gss upcall when the RPC call is asynchronous
  nfsd4: fix null dereference creating nfsv4 callback client
  nfsd4: fix whitespace in NFSPROC4_CLNT_CB_NULL definition
  nfsd41: sunrpc: add new xprt class for nfsv4.1 backchannel
  sunrpc/cache: simplify cache_fresh_locked and cache_fresh_unlocked.
  ...
2009-09-22 07:54:33 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
342ff1a1b5 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (34 commits)
  trivial: fix typo in aic7xxx comment
  trivial: fix comment typo in drivers/ata/pata_hpt37x.c
  trivial: typo in kernel-parameters.txt
  trivial: fix typo in tracing documentation
  trivial: add __init/__exit macros in drivers/gpio/bt8xxgpio.c
  trivial: add __init macro/ fix of __exit macro location in ipmi_poweroff.c
  trivial: remove unnecessary semicolons
  trivial: Fix duplicated word "options" in comment
  trivial: kbuild: remove extraneous blank line after declaration of usage()
  trivial: improve help text for mm debug config options
  trivial: doc: hpfall: accept disk device to unload as argument
  trivial: doc: hpfall: reduce risk that hpfall can do harm
  trivial: SubmittingPatches: Fix reference to renumbered step
  trivial: fix typos "man[ae]g?ment" -> "management"
  trivial: media/video/cx88: add __init/__exit macros to cx88 drivers
  trivial: fix typo in CONFIG_DEBUG_FS in gcov doc
  trivial: fix missing printk space in amd_k7_smp_check
  trivial: fix typo s/ketymap/keymap/ in comment
  trivial: fix typo "to to" in multiple files
  trivial: fix typos in comments s/DGBU/DBGU/
  ...
2009-09-22 07:51:45 -07:00
KOSAKI Motohiro
495789a51a oom: make oom_score to per-process value
oom-killer kills a process, not task.  Then oom_score should be calculated
as per-process too.  it makes consistency more and makes speed up
select_bad_process().

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:39 -07:00
Moussa A. Ba
398499d5f3 pagemap clear_refs: modify to specify anon or mapped vma clearing
The patch makes the clear_refs more versatile in adding the option to
select anonymous pages or file backed pages for clearing.  This addition
has a measurable impact on user space application performance as it
decreases the number of pagewalks in scenarios where one is only
interested in a specific type of page (anonymous or file mapped).

The patch adds anonymous and file backed filters to the clear_refs interface.

echo 1 > /proc/PID/clear_refs resets the bits on all pages
echo 2 > /proc/PID/clear_refs resets the bits on anonymous pages only
echo 3 > /proc/PID/clear_refs resets the bits on file backed pages only

Any other value is ignored

Signed-off-by: Moussa A. Ba <moussa.a.ba@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jared E. Hulbert <jaredeh@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:33 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
c574358e8b proc: document `guest' column in /proc/stat
We added a new column in cpuX lines of /proc/stat, to show the amount of
time spent by a cpu servicing a guest, without updating
Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:24 -07:00
J. Bruce Fields
285a0f00c2 nfsd: revise 4.1 status documentation
Some small updates, a caveat about the minorversion control interface,
and an attempt to put missing features in context.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2009-09-21 11:13:45 -04:00
Anand Gadiyar
411c940385 trivial: fix typo "for for" in multiple files
trivial: fix typo "for for" in multiple files

Signed-off-by: Anand Gadiyar <gadiyar@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-09-21 15:14:54 +02:00
Jan Kara
1358870dea ext4: Update documentation about quota mount options
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-09-18 12:22:29 -04:00
Andi Kleen
2571873621 HWPOISON: Define a new error_remove_page address space op for async truncation
Truncating metadata pages is not safe right now before
we haven't audited all file systems.

To enable truncation only for data address space define
a new address_space callback error_remove_page.

This is used for memory_failure.c memory error handling.

This can be then set to truncate_inode_page()

This patch just defines the new operation and adds documentation.

Callers and users come in followon patches.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
2009-09-16 11:50:13 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
a9bbd210a4 Merge branch 'docs-next' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6
* 'docs-next' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6:
  Document the flex_array library.
  Doc: seq_file.txt fix wrong dd command example.
2009-09-14 17:52:32 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
33f1de6931 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-2.6-nmw
* 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-2.6-nmw:
  GFS2: Whitespace fixes
  GFS2: Remove unused sysfs file
  GFS2: Be extra careful about deallocating inodes
  GFS2: Remove no_formal_ino generating code
  GFS2: Rename eattr.[ch] as xattr.[ch]
  GFS2: Clean up of extended attribute support
  GFS2: Add explanation of extended attr on-disk format
  GFS2: Add "-o errors=panic|withdraw" mount options
  GFS2: jumping to wrong label?
  GFS2: free disk inode which is deleted by remote node -V2
  GFS2: Add a document explaining GFS2's uevents
  GFS2: Add sysfs link to device
  GFS2: Replace assertion with proper error handling
  GFS2: Improve error handling in inode allocation
  GFS2: Add some more info to uevents
  GFS2: Add online uevent to GFS2
2009-09-14 14:35:56 -07:00
Trond Myklebust
ab3bbaa8b2 Merge branch 'nfs-for-2.6.32' 2009-09-11 14:59:37 -04:00
Jesper Dangaard Brouer
e8188807b7 Doc: seq_file.txt fix wrong dd command example.
Small error in the "dd" command example, "out=" should be "of=".

Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@comx.dk>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2009-09-10 14:33:35 -06:00
Theodore Ts'o
d0646f7b63 ext4: Remove journal_checksum mount option and enable it by default
There's no real cost for the journal checksum feature, and we should
make sure it is enabled all the time.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-09-05 12:50:43 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
cf481442f2 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ericvh/v9fs
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ericvh/v9fs:
  9p: update documentation pointers
  9p: remove unnecessary v9fses->options which duplicates the mount string
  net/9p: insulate the client against an invalid error code sent by a 9p server
  9p: Add missing cast for the error return value in v9fs_get_inode
  9p: Remove redundant inode uid/gid assignment
  9p: Fix possible regressions when ->get_sb fails.
  9p: Fix v9fs show_options
  9p: Fix possible memleak in v9fs_inode_from fid.
  9p: minor comment fixes
  9p: Fix possible inode leak in v9fs_get_inode.
  9p: Check for error in return value of v9fs_fid_add
2009-08-27 12:24:08 -07:00
Trond Myklebust
e571cbf1a4 NFS: Add a dns resolver for use with NFSv4 referrals and migration
The NFSv4 and NFSv4.1 protocols both allow for the redirection of a client
from one server to another in order to support filesystem migration and
replication. For full protocol support, we need to add the ability to
convert a DNS host name into an IP address that we can feed to the RPC
client.

We'll reuse the sunrpc cache, now that it has been converted to work with
rpc_pipefs.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-08-19 18:22:15 -04:00
Anton Blanchard
0dc9aa845c AFS: Documentation updates
Fix some issues with the AFS documentation, found when testing AFS on ppc64:

- Update AFS features: reading/writing, local caching
- Typo in kafs sysfs debug file
- Use modprobe instead of insmod in example
- Update IPs for grand.central.org

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-08-19 10:40:13 -07:00
KOSAKI Motohiro
0753ba01e1 mm: revert "oom: move oom_adj value"
The commit 2ff05b2b (oom: move oom_adj value) moveed the oom_adj value to
the mm_struct.  It was a very good first step for sanitize OOM.

However Paul Menage reported the commit makes regression to his job
scheduler.  Current OOM logic can kill OOM_DISABLED process.

Why? His program has the code of similar to the following.

	...
	set_oom_adj(OOM_DISABLE); /* The job scheduler never killed by oom */
	...
	if (vfork() == 0) {
		set_oom_adj(0); /* Invoked child can be killed */
		execve("foo-bar-cmd");
	}
	....

vfork() parent and child are shared the same mm_struct.  then above
set_oom_adj(0) doesn't only change oom_adj for vfork() child, it's also
change oom_adj for vfork() parent.  Then, vfork() parent (job scheduler)
lost OOM immune and it was killed.

Actually, fork-setting-exec idiom is very frequently used in userland program.
We must not break this assumption.

Then, this patch revert commit 2ff05b2b and related commit.

Reverted commit list
---------------------
- commit 2ff05b2b4e (oom: move oom_adj value from task_struct to mm_struct)
- commit 4d8b9135c3 (oom: avoid unnecessary mm locking and scanning for OOM_DISABLE)
- commit 8123681022 (oom: only oom kill exiting tasks with attached memory)
- commit 933b787b57 (mm: copy over oom_adj value at fork time)

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-08-18 16:31:13 -07:00
Eric Van Hensbergen
7815f4be40 9p: update documentation pointers
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2009-08-17 16:49:44 -05:00
Steven Whitehouse
0aa8744584 GFS2: Add a document explaining GFS2's uevents
This will be essential reading for anybody who wants to
understand how GFS2 interacts with the userland gfs_controld,
and the details of recovery.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
2009-08-17 11:11:41 +01:00
Paul Wise
955234755c vfat: change the default from shortname=lower to shortname=mixed
Because, with "shortname=lower", copying one FAT filesystem tree to
another FAT filesystem tree using Linux results in semantically
different filesystems. (E.g.: Filenames which were once "all
uppercase" are now "all lowercase").

So, this changes the default of "shortname=lower" to "shortname=mixed".

Signed-off-by: Paul Wise <pabs3@bonedaddy.net>
[change fat_show_options()]
Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
2009-08-01 21:35:25 +09:00
Lucian Adrian Grijincu
a39ea210ec driver core: documentation: make it clear that sysfs is optional
The original text suggested that sysfs is mandatory and always
compiled in the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Lucian Adrian Grijincu <lgrijincu@ixiacom.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-07-28 13:45:23 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
7e325d3a6b update Documentation/filesystems/Locking
The rules for locking in many superblock operations has changed
significantly, so update the documentation for it.  Also correct some
older updates and ommissions.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-06-24 08:15:25 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
7e0338c0de Merge branch 'for-2.6.31' of git://fieldses.org/git/linux-nfsd
* 'for-2.6.31' of git://fieldses.org/git/linux-nfsd: (60 commits)
  SUNRPC: Fix the TCP server's send buffer accounting
  nfsd41: Backchannel: minorversion support for the back channel
  nfsd41: Backchannel: cleanup nfs4.0 callback encode routines
  nfsd41: Remove ip address collision detection case
  nfsd: optimise the starting of zero threads when none are running.
  nfsd: don't take nfsd_mutex twice when setting number of threads.
  nfsd41: sanity check client drc maxreqs
  nfsd41: move channel attributes from nfsd4_session to a nfsd4_channel_attr struct
  NFS: kill off complicated macro 'PROC'
  sunrpc: potential memory leak in function rdma_read_xdr
  nfsd: minor nfsd_vfs_write cleanup
  nfsd: Pull write-gathering code out of nfsd_vfs_write
  nfsd: track last inode only in use_wgather case
  sunrpc: align cache_clean work's timer
  nfsd: Use write gathering only with NFSv2
  NFSv4: kill off complicated macro 'PROC'
  NFSv4: do exact check about attribute specified
  knfsd: remove unreported filehandle stats counters
  knfsd: fix reply cache memory corruption
  knfsd: reply cache cleanups
  ...
2009-06-22 12:55:50 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
0732f87761 Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4:
  jbd2: clean up jbd2_journal_try_to_free_buffers()
  ext4: Don't update ctime for non-extent-mapped inodes
  ext4: Fix up whitespace issues in fs/ext4/inode.c
  ext4: Fix 64-bit block type problem on 32-bit platforms
  ext4: teach the inode allocator to use a goal inode number
  ext4: Use a hash of the topdir directory name for the Orlov parent group
  ext4: document the "abort" mount option
  ext4: move the abort flag from s_mount_opts to s_mount_flags
  ext4: update the s_last_mounted field in the superblock
  ext4: change s_mount_opt to be an unsigned int
  ext4: online defrag -- Add EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT ioctl
  ext4: avoid unnecessary spinlock in critical POSIX ACL path
  ext3: avoid unnecessary spinlock in critical POSIX ACL path
  ext4: convert instrumentation from markers to tracepoints
  jbd2: convert instrumentation from markers to tracepoints
2009-06-18 14:07:46 -07:00
Jan Kara
52b680c812 isofs: let mode and dmode mount options override rock ridge mode setting
So far, permissions set via 'mode' and/or 'dmode' mount options were
effective only if the medium had no rock ridge extensions (or was mounted
without them).  Add 'overriderockmode' mount option to indicate that these
options should override permissions set in rock ridge extensions.  Maybe
this should be default but the current behavior is there since mount
options were created so I think we should not change how they behave.

Cc: <Hans-Joachim.Baader@cjt.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-18 13:03:45 -07:00
Michael Shields
ce05b2a9db Doc fix: ext2 can only have 32,000 subdirs, not 32,768
ext2.txt says that dirs can have 32,768 subdirs, but the actual value of
EXT2_LINK_MAX is 32000.

ext3 is the same, but the doc does not mention it.  One of ext4's features
is to "fix 32000 subdirectory limit".

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-18 13:03:44 -07:00
Stefani Seibold
349888ee7b proc.txt: update kernel filesystem/proc.txt documentation
An update for the "Process-Specific Subdirectories" section to reflect the
changes till kernel 2.6.30.

Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-18 13:03:41 -07:00
Keika Kobayashi
d3d64df21d proc: export statistics for softirq to /proc
Export statistics for softirq in /proc/softirqs and /proc/stat.

1. /proc/softirqs
Implement /proc/softirqs which shows the number of softirq
for each CPU like /proc/interrupts.

2. /proc/stat
Add the "softirq" line to /proc/stat.
This line shows the number of softirq for all cpu.
The first column is the total of all softirqs and
each subsequent column is the total for particular softirq.

[kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: remove redundant for_each_possible_cpu() loop]
Signed-off-by: Keika Kobayashi <kobayashi.kk@ncos.nec.co.jp>
Reviewed-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-18 13:03:41 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
feb72ce827 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:
  get rid of BKL in fs/sysv
  get rid of BKL in fs/minix
  get rid of BKL in fs/efs
  befs ->pust_super() doesn't need BKL
  Cleanup of adfs headers
  9P doesn't need BKL in ->umount_begin()
  fuse doesn't need BKL in ->umount_begin()
  No instance of ->bmap() needs BKL
  remove unlock_kernel() left accidentally
  ext4: avoid unnecessary spinlock in critical POSIX ACL path
  ext3: avoid unnecessary spinlock in critical POSIX ACL path
2009-06-17 08:46:57 -07:00
Al Viro
fe36adf47e No instance of ->bmap() needs BKL
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-06-17 00:36:35 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
517d08699b Merge branch 'akpm'
* akpm: (182 commits)
  fbdev: bf54x-lq043fb: use kzalloc over kmalloc/memset
  fbdev: *bfin*: fix __dev{init,exit} markings
  fbdev: *bfin*: drop unnecessary calls to memset
  fbdev: bfin-t350mcqb-fb: drop unused local variables
  fbdev: blackfin has __raw I/O accessors, so use them in fb.h
  fbdev: s1d13xxxfb: add accelerated bitblt functions
  tcx: use standard fields for framebuffer physical address and length
  fbdev: add support for handoff from firmware to hw framebuffers
  intelfb: fix a bug when changing video timing
  fbdev: use framebuffer_release() for freeing fb_info structures
  radeon: P2G2CLK_ALWAYS_ONb tested twice, should 2nd be P2G2CLK_DAC_ALWAYS_ONb?
  s3c-fb: CPUFREQ frequency scaling support
  s3c-fb: fix resource releasing on error during probing
  carminefb: fix possible access beyond end of carmine_modedb[]
  acornfb: remove fb_mmap function
  mb862xxfb: use CONFIG_OF instead of CONFIG_PPC_OF
  mb862xxfb: restrict compliation of platform driver to PPC
  Samsung SoC Framebuffer driver: add Alpha Channel support
  atmel-lcdc: fix pixclock upper bound detection
  offb: use framebuffer_alloc() to allocate fb_info struct
  ...

Manually fix up conflicts due to kmemcheck in mm/slab.c
2009-06-16 19:50:13 -07:00
David Rientjes
2ff05b2b4e oom: move oom_adj value from task_struct to mm_struct
The per-task oom_adj value is a characteristic of its mm more than the
task itself since it's not possible to oom kill any thread that shares the
mm.  If a task were to be killed while attached to an mm that could not be
freed because another thread were set to OOM_DISABLE, it would have
needlessly been terminated since there is no potential for future memory
freeing.

This patch moves oomkilladj (now more appropriately named oom_adj) from
struct task_struct to struct mm_struct.  This requires task_lock() on a
task to check its oom_adj value to protect against exec, but it's already
necessary to take the lock when dereferencing the mm to find the total VM
size for the badness heuristic.

This fixes a livelock if the oom killer chooses a task and another thread
sharing the same memory has an oom_adj value of OOM_DISABLE.  This occurs
because oom_kill_task() repeatedly returns 1 and refuses to kill the
chosen task while select_bad_process() will repeatedly choose the same
task during the next retry.

Taking task_lock() in select_bad_process() to check for OOM_DISABLE and in
oom_kill_task() to check for threads sharing the same memory will be
removed in the next patch in this series where it will no longer be
necessary.

Writing to /proc/pid/oom_adj for a kthread will now return -EINVAL since
these threads are immune from oom killing already.  They simply report an
oom_adj value of OOM_DISABLE.

Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-16 19:47:43 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
23059a0df5 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hirofumi/fatfs-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hirofumi/fatfs-2.6:
  fat: split fat_generic_ioctl
  FAT: add 'errors' mount option
2009-06-16 11:29:44 -07:00
J. Bruce Fields
7eef4091a6 Merge commit 'v2.6.30' into for-2.6.31 2009-06-15 18:08:07 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
9c7cb99a82 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ryusuke/nilfs2
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ryusuke/nilfs2: (22 commits)
  nilfs2: support contiguous lookup of blocks
  nilfs2: add sync_page method to page caches of meta data
  nilfs2: use device's backing_dev_info for btree node caches
  nilfs2: return EBUSY against delete request on snapshot
  nilfs2: modify list of unsupported features in caveats
  nilfs2: enable sync_page method
  nilfs2: set bio unplug flag for the last bio in segment
  nilfs2: allow future expansion of metadata read out via get info ioctl
  NILFS2: Pagecache usage optimization on NILFS2
  nilfs2: remove nilfs_btree_operations from btree mapping
  nilfs2: remove nilfs_direct_operations from direct mapping
  nilfs2: remove bmap pointer operations
  nilfs2: remove useless b_low and b_high fields from nilfs_bmap struct
  nilfs2: remove pointless NULL check of bpop_commit_alloc_ptr function
  nilfs2: move get block functions in bmap.c into btree codes
  nilfs2: remove nilfs_bmap_delete_block
  nilfs2: remove nilfs_bmap_put_block
  nilfs2: remove header file for segment list operations
  nilfs2: eliminate removal list of segments
  nilfs2: add sufile function that can modify multiple segment usages
  ...
2009-06-15 09:13:49 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
489f7ab6c1 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (31 commits)
  trivial: remove the trivial patch monkey's name from SubmittingPatches
  trivial: Fix a typo in comment of addrconf_dad_start()
  trivial: usb: fix missing space typo in doc
  trivial: pci hotplug: adding __init/__exit macros to sgi_hotplug
  trivial: Remove the hyphen from git commands
  trivial: fix ETIMEOUT -> ETIMEDOUT typos
  trivial: Kconfig: .ko is normally not included in module names
  trivial: SubmittingPatches: fix typo
  trivial: Documentation/dell_rbu.txt: fix typos
  trivial: Fix Pavel's address in MAINTAINERS
  trivial: ftrace:fix description of trace directory
  trivial: unnecessary (void*) cast removal in sound/oss/msnd.c
  trivial: input/misc: Fix typo in Kconfig
  trivial: fix grammo in bus_for_each_dev() kerneldoc
  trivial: rbtree.txt: fix rb_entry() parameters in sample code
  trivial: spelling fix in ppc code comments
  trivial: fix typo in bio_alloc kernel doc
  trivial: Documentation/rbtree.txt: cleanup kerneldoc of rbtree.txt
  trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixes
  trivial: fix typo milisecond/millisecond for documentation and source comments.
  ...
2009-06-14 13:46:25 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
1904187a69 Merge branch 'docs-next' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6
* 'docs-next' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6:
  Document the debugfs API
  Documentation: Add "how to write a good patch summary" to SubmittingPatches
  SubmittingPatches: fix typo
  docs: Encourage better changelogs in the development process document
  Document Reported-by in SubmittingPatches
2009-06-13 13:08:34 -07:00
Theodore Ts'o
8a8a2050c8 ext4: document the "abort" mount option
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-06-13 10:08:59 -04:00
Matt LaPlante
19f5946001 trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixes
Fix various typos in documentation txts.

Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-06-12 18:01:47 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
0a33f80a83 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-2.6-nmw
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-2.6-nmw: (25 commits)
  GFS2: Merge gfs2_get_sb into gfs2_get_sb_meta
  GFS2: Fix cache coherency between truncate and O_DIRECT read
  GFS2: Fix locking issue mounting gfs2meta fs
  GFS2: Remove unused variable
  GFS2: smbd proccess hangs with flock() call.
  GFS2: Remove args subdir from gfs2 sysfs files
  GFS2: Remove lockstruct subdir from gfs2 sysfs files
  GFS2: Move gfs2_unlink_ok into ops_inode.c
  GFS2: Move gfs2_readlinki into ops_inode.c
  GFS2: Move gfs2_rmdiri into ops_inode.c
  GFS2: Merge mount.c and ops_super.c into super.c
  GFS2: Clean up some file names
  GFS2: Be more aggressive in reclaiming unlinked inodes
  GFS2: Add a rgrp bitmap full flag
  GFS2: Improve resource group error handling
  GFS2: Don't warn when delete inode fails on ro filesystem
  GFS2: Update docs
  GFS2: Umount recovery race fix
  GFS2: Remove a couple of unused sysfs entries
  GFS2: Add commit= mount option
  ...
2009-06-11 10:36:12 -07:00
Ryusuke Konishi
fb6e7113ae nilfs2: modify list of unsupported features in caveats
This clarifies missing features of nilfs as a regular filesystem.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
2009-06-10 23:41:11 +09:00
Jonathan Corbet
f89d7eaf6c Document the debugfs API
This is an updated document covering the internal API for the debugfs
filesystem.  Thanks to Shen Feng for suggesting that I put this text here
and noting that the old LWN version was rather out of date.

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Reported-by: Shen Feng <shen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2009-06-06 10:28:14 -06:00
Denis Karpov
85c7859190 FAT: add 'errors' mount option
On severe errors FAT remounts itself in read-only mode. Allow to
specify FAT fs desired behavior through 'errors' mount option:
panic, continue or remount read-only.

`mount -t [fat|vfat] -o errors=[panic,remount-ro,continue] \
	<bdev> <mount point>`

This is analog to ext2 fs 'errors' mount option.

Signed-off-by: Denis Karpov <ext-denis.2.karpov@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
2009-06-04 02:34:51 +09:00
Hugh Dickins
98f32602d4 hugh: update email address
My old address will shut down in a few days time: remove it from the tree,
and add a tmpfs (shmem filesystem) maintainer entry with the new address.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-05-21 13:14:32 -07:00
Steven Whitehouse
e9ccb73ab5 GFS2: Update docs
Update a few things which were out of date, and fix a typo.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2009-05-19 10:23:23 +01:00
Nick Piggin
b827e496c8 mm: close page_mkwrite races
Change page_mkwrite to allow implementations to return with the page
locked, and also change it's callers (in page fault paths) to hold the
lock until the page is marked dirty.  This allows the filesystem to have
full control of page dirtying events coming from the VM.

Rather than simply hold the page locked over the page_mkwrite call, we
call page_mkwrite with the page unlocked and allow callers to return with
it locked, so filesystems can avoid LOR conditions with page lock.

The problem with the current scheme is this: a filesystem that wants to
associate some metadata with a page as long as the page is dirty, will
perform this manipulation in its ->page_mkwrite.  It currently then must
return with the page unlocked and may not hold any other locks (according
to existing page_mkwrite convention).

In this window, the VM could write out the page, clearing page-dirty.  The
filesystem has no good way to detect that a dirty pte is about to be
attached, so it will happily write out the page, at which point, the
filesystem may manipulate the metadata to reflect that the page is no
longer dirty.

It is not always possible to perform the required metadata manipulation in
->set_page_dirty, because that function cannot block or fail.  The
filesystem may need to allocate some data structure, for example.

And the VM cannot mark the pte dirty before page_mkwrite, because
page_mkwrite is allowed to fail, so we must not allow any window where the
page could be written to if page_mkwrite does fail.

This solution of holding the page locked over the 3 critical operations
(page_mkwrite, setting the pte dirty, and finally setting the page dirty)
closes out races nicely, preventing page cleaning for writeout being
initiated in that window.  This provides the filesystem with a strong
synchronisation against the VM here.

- Sage needs this race closed for ceph filesystem.
- Trond for NFS (http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12913).
- I need it for fsblock.
- I suspect other filesystems may need it too (eg. btrfs).
- I have converted buffer.c to the new locking. Even simple block allocation
  under dirty pages might be susceptible to i_size changing under partial page
  at the end of file (we also have a buffer.c-side problem here, but it cannot
  be fixed properly without this patch).
- Other filesystems (eg. NFS, maybe btrfs) will need to change their
  page_mkwrite functions themselves.

[ This also moves page_mkwrite another step closer to fault, which should
  eventually allow page_mkwrite to be moved into ->fault, and thus avoiding a
  filesystem calldown and page lock/unlock cycle in __do_fault. ]

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix derefs of NULL ->mapping]
Cc: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-05-02 15:36:09 -07:00
Benny Halevy
4ba170c2bb update Documentation/filesystems/00-INDEX with new nfsd related docs.
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Cc: James Lentini <jlentini@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2009-04-28 12:54:45 -04:00
Marc Dionne
91ac033d83 CacheFiles: Fix the documentation to use the correct credential pointer names
Adjust the CacheFiles documentation to use the correct names of the credential
pointers in task_struct.

The documentation was using names from the old versions of the credentials
patches.

Signed-off-by: Marc Dionne <marc.c.dionne@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-24 13:28:30 -07:00
Adrian McMenamin
66672fefaa Documentation/filesystems: remove out of date reference to BKL being held
Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt incorrectly states that the kernel is
locked during the call to statfs (Documentation/filesystems/Locking
correctly says it is not). This patch removes the offending sentence.

remove reference to BKL being held in statfs

Signed-off-by: Adrian McMenamin <adrian@mcmen.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-04-20 23:01:16 -04:00
Evgeniy Polyakov
e0ca873916 Staging: Pohmelfs: Added IO permissions and priorities.
Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-04-17 11:06:30 -07:00
Ryusuke Konishi
458c5b0822 nilfs2: clean up sketch file
The sketch file is a file to mark checkpoints with user data.  It was
experimentally introduced in the original implementation, and now
obsolete.  The file was handled differently with regular files; the file
size got truncated when a checkpoint was created.

This stops the special treatment and will treat it as a regular file.
Most users are not affected because mkfs.nilfs2 no longer makes this file.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-07 08:31:19 -07:00
Ryusuke Konishi
962281a7ab nilfs2: add document
This adds a document describing the features, mount options, userland
tools, usage, disk format, and related URLs for the nilfs2 file system.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-07 08:31:12 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
a63856252d Merge branch 'for-2.6.30' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux
* 'for-2.6.30' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux: (81 commits)
  nfsd41: define nfsd4_set_statp as noop for !CONFIG_NFSD_V4
  nfsd41: define NFSD_DRC_SIZE_SHIFT in set_max_drc
  nfsd41: Documentation/filesystems/nfs41-server.txt
  nfsd41: CREATE_EXCLUSIVE4_1
  nfsd41: SUPPATTR_EXCLCREAT attribute
  nfsd41: support for 3-word long attribute bitmask
  nfsd: dynamically skip encoded fattr bitmap in _nfsd4_verify
  nfsd41: pass writable attrs mask to nfsd4_decode_fattr
  nfsd41: provide support for minor version 1 at rpc level
  nfsd41: control nfsv4.1 svc via /proc/fs/nfsd/versions
  nfsd41: add OPEN4_SHARE_ACCESS_WANT nfs4_stateid bmap
  nfsd41: access_valid
  nfsd41: clientid handling
  nfsd41: check encode size for sessions maxresponse cached
  nfsd41: stateid handling
  nfsd: pass nfsd4_compound_state* to nfs4_preprocess_{state,seq}id_op
  nfsd41: destroy_session operation
  nfsd41: non-page DRC for solo sequence responses
  nfsd41: Add a create session replay cache
  nfsd41: create_session operation
  ...
2009-04-06 13:25:56 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
3516c6a8dc Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging-2.6: (714 commits)
  Staging: sxg: slicoss: Specify the license for Sahara SXG and Slicoss drivers
  Staging: serqt_usb: fix build due to proc tty changes
  Staging: serqt_usb: fix checkpatch errors
  Staging: serqt_usb: add TODO file
  Staging: serqt_usb: Lindent the code
  Staging: add USB serial Quatech driver
  staging: document that the wifi staging drivers a bit better
  Staging: echo cleanup
  Staging: BUG to BUG_ON changes
  Staging: remove some pointless conditionals before kfree_skb()
  Staging: line6: fix build error, select SND_RAWMIDI
  Staging: line6: fix checkpatch errors in variax.c
  Staging: line6: fix checkpatch errors in toneport.c
  Staging: line6: fix checkpatch errors in pcm.c
  Staging: line6: fix checkpatch errors in midibuf.c
  Staging: line6: fix checkpatch errors in midi.c
  Staging: line6: fix checkpatch errors in dumprequest.c
  Staging: line6: fix checkpatch errors in driver.c
  Staging: line6: fix checkpatch errors in audio.c
  Staging: line6: fix checkpatch errors in pod.c
  ...
2009-04-05 11:06:45 -07:00
Benny Halevy
3ef1728898 nfsd41: Documentation/filesystems/nfs41-server.txt
Initial nfs41 server write up describing the status of the linux
server implementation.

[nfsd41: document unenforced nfs41 compound ordering rules.]
[get rid of CONFIG_NFSD_V4_1]
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2009-04-03 17:41:24 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
811158b147 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (28 commits)
  trivial: Update my email address
  trivial: NULL noise: drivers/mtd/tests/mtd_*test.c
  trivial: NULL noise: drivers/media/dvb/frontends/drx397xD_fw.h
  trivial: Fix misspelling of "Celsius".
  trivial: remove unused variable 'path' in alloc_file()
  trivial: fix a pdlfush -> pdflush typo in comment
  trivial: jbd header comment typo fix for JBD_PARANOID_IOFAIL
  trivial: wusb: Storage class should be before const qualifier
  trivial: drivers/char/bsr.c: Storage class should be before const qualifier
  trivial: h8300: Storage class should be before const qualifier
  trivial: fix where cgroup documentation is not correctly referred to
  trivial: Give the right path in Documentation example
  trivial: MTD: remove EOL from MODULE_DESCRIPTION
  trivial: Fix typo in bio_split()'s documentation
  trivial: PWM: fix of #endif comment
  trivial: fix typos/grammar errors in Kconfig texts
  trivial: Fix misspelling of firmware
  trivial: cgroups: documentation typo and spelling corrections
  trivial: Update contact info for Jochen Hein
  trivial: fix typo "resgister" -> "register"
  ...
2009-04-03 15:24:35 -07:00
Evgeniy Polyakov
b8523c40d5 Staging: pohmelfs: documentation.
This patch includes POHMELFS design and implementation description.
Separate file includes mount options, default parameters and usage examples.

Signed-off-by: Eveniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-04-03 14:53:33 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
3cc50ac0db Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-2.6-fscache
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-2.6-fscache: (41 commits)
  NFS: Add mount options to enable local caching on NFS
  NFS: Display local caching state
  NFS: Store pages from an NFS inode into a local cache
  NFS: Read pages from FS-Cache into an NFS inode
  NFS: nfs_readpage_async() needs to be accessible as a fallback for local caching
  NFS: Add read context retention for FS-Cache to call back with
  NFS: FS-Cache page management
  NFS: Add some new I/O counters for FS-Cache doing things for NFS
  NFS: Invalidate FsCache page flags when cache removed
  NFS: Use local disk inode cache
  NFS: Define and create inode-level cache objects
  NFS: Define and create superblock-level objects
  NFS: Define and create server-level objects
  NFS: Register NFS for caching and retrieve the top-level index
  NFS: Permit local filesystem caching to be enabled for NFS
  NFS: Add FS-Cache option bit and debug bit
  NFS: Add comment banners to some NFS functions
  FS-Cache: Make kAFS use FS-Cache
  CacheFiles: A cache that backs onto a mounted filesystem
  CacheFiles: Export things for CacheFiles
  ...
2009-04-03 10:07:43 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
9b59f0316b Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.open-osd.org/linux-open-osd
* 'for-linus' of git://git.open-osd.org/linux-open-osd:
  fs: Add exofs to Kernel build
  exofs: Documentation
  exofs: export_operations
  exofs: super_operations and file_system_type
  exofs: dir_inode and directory operations
  exofs: address_space_operations
  exofs: symlink_inode and fast_symlink_inode operations
  exofs: file and file_inode operations
  exofs: Kbuild, Headers and osd utils
2009-04-03 09:53:22 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
03c3fa0a3b Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-udf-2.6
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-udf-2.6:
  udf: Don't write integrity descriptor too often
  udf: Try anchor in block 256 first
  udf: Some type fixes and cleanups
  udf: use hardware sector size
  udf: fix novrs mount option
  udf: Fix oops when invalid character in filename occurs
  udf: return f_fsid for statfs(2)
  udf: Add checks to not underflow sector_t
  udf: fix default mode and dmode options handling
  udf: fix sparse warnings:
  udf: unsigned last[i] cannot be less than 0
  udf: implement mode and dmode mounting options
  udf: reduce stack usage of udf_get_filename
  udf: reduce stack usage of udf_load_pvoldesc
  Fix the udf code not to pass structs on stack where possible.
  Remove struct typedefs from fs/udf/ecma_167.h et al.
2009-04-03 09:50:39 -07:00
David Howells
9ae326a690 CacheFiles: A cache that backs onto a mounted filesystem
Add an FS-Cache cache-backend that permits a mounted filesystem to be used as a
backing store for the cache.

CacheFiles uses a userspace daemon to do some of the cache management - such as
reaping stale nodes and culling.  This is called cachefilesd and lives in
/sbin.  The source for the daemon can be downloaded from:

	http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/cachefs/cachefilesd.c

And an example configuration from:

	http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/cachefs/cachefilesd.conf

The filesystem and data integrity of the cache are only as good as those of the
filesystem providing the backing services.  Note that CacheFiles does not
attempt to journal anything since the journalling interfaces of the various
filesystems are very specific in nature.

CacheFiles creates a misc character device - "/dev/cachefiles" - that is used
to communication with the daemon.  Only one thing may have this open at once,
and whilst it is open, a cache is at least partially in existence.  The daemon
opens this and sends commands down it to control the cache.

CacheFiles is currently limited to a single cache.

CacheFiles attempts to maintain at least a certain percentage of free space on
the filesystem, shrinking the cache by culling the objects it contains to make
space if necessary - see the "Cache Culling" section.  This means it can be
placed on the same medium as a live set of data, and will expand to make use of
spare space and automatically contract when the set of data requires more
space.

============
REQUIREMENTS
============

The use of CacheFiles and its daemon requires the following features to be
available in the system and in the cache filesystem:

	- dnotify.

	- extended attributes (xattrs).

	- openat() and friends.

	- bmap() support on files in the filesystem (FIBMAP ioctl).

	- The use of bmap() to detect a partial page at the end of the file.

It is strongly recommended that the "dir_index" option is enabled on Ext3
filesystems being used as a cache.

=============
CONFIGURATION
=============

The cache is configured by a script in /etc/cachefilesd.conf.  These commands
set up cache ready for use.  The following script commands are available:

 (*) brun <N>%
 (*) bcull <N>%
 (*) bstop <N>%
 (*) frun <N>%
 (*) fcull <N>%
 (*) fstop <N>%

	Configure the culling limits.  Optional.  See the section on culling
	The defaults are 7% (run), 5% (cull) and 1% (stop) respectively.

	The commands beginning with a 'b' are file space (block) limits, those
	beginning with an 'f' are file count limits.

 (*) dir <path>

	Specify the directory containing the root of the cache.  Mandatory.

 (*) tag <name>

	Specify a tag to FS-Cache to use in distinguishing multiple caches.
	Optional.  The default is "CacheFiles".

 (*) debug <mask>

	Specify a numeric bitmask to control debugging in the kernel module.
	Optional.  The default is zero (all off).  The following values can be
	OR'd into the mask to collect various information:

		1	Turn on trace of function entry (_enter() macros)
		2	Turn on trace of function exit (_leave() macros)
		4	Turn on trace of internal debug points (_debug())

	This mask can also be set through sysfs, eg:

		echo 5 >/sys/modules/cachefiles/parameters/debug

==================
STARTING THE CACHE
==================

The cache is started by running the daemon.  The daemon opens the cache device,
configures the cache and tells it to begin caching.  At that point the cache
binds to fscache and the cache becomes live.

The daemon is run as follows:

	/sbin/cachefilesd [-d]* [-s] [-n] [-f <configfile>]

The flags are:

 (*) -d

	Increase the debugging level.  This can be specified multiple times and
	is cumulative with itself.

 (*) -s

	Send messages to stderr instead of syslog.

 (*) -n

	Don't daemonise and go into background.

 (*) -f <configfile>

	Use an alternative configuration file rather than the default one.

===============
THINGS TO AVOID
===============

Do not mount other things within the cache as this will cause problems.  The
kernel module contains its own very cut-down path walking facility that ignores
mountpoints, but the daemon can't avoid them.

Do not create, rename or unlink files and directories in the cache whilst the
cache is active, as this may cause the state to become uncertain.

Renaming files in the cache might make objects appear to be other objects (the
filename is part of the lookup key).

Do not change or remove the extended attributes attached to cache files by the
cache as this will cause the cache state management to get confused.

Do not create files or directories in the cache, lest the cache get confused or
serve incorrect data.

Do not chmod files in the cache.  The module creates things with minimal
permissions to prevent random users being able to access them directly.

=============
CACHE CULLING
=============

The cache may need culling occasionally to make space.  This involves
discarding objects from the cache that have been used less recently than
anything else.  Culling is based on the access time of data objects.  Empty
directories are culled if not in use.

Cache culling is done on the basis of the percentage of blocks and the
percentage of files available in the underlying filesystem.  There are six
"limits":

 (*) brun
 (*) frun

     If the amount of free space and the number of available files in the cache
     rises above both these limits, then culling is turned off.

 (*) bcull
 (*) fcull

     If the amount of available space or the number of available files in the
     cache falls below either of these limits, then culling is started.

 (*) bstop
 (*) fstop

     If the amount of available space or the number of available files in the
     cache falls below either of these limits, then no further allocation of
     disk space or files is permitted until culling has raised things above
     these limits again.

These must be configured thusly:

	0 <= bstop < bcull < brun < 100
	0 <= fstop < fcull < frun < 100

Note that these are percentages of available space and available files, and do
_not_ appear as 100 minus the percentage displayed by the "df" program.

The userspace daemon scans the cache to build up a table of cullable objects.
These are then culled in least recently used order.  A new scan of the cache is
started as soon as space is made in the table.  Objects will be skipped if
their atimes have changed or if the kernel module says it is still using them.

===============
CACHE STRUCTURE
===============

The CacheFiles module will create two directories in the directory it was
given:

 (*) cache/

 (*) graveyard/

The active cache objects all reside in the first directory.  The CacheFiles
kernel module moves any retired or culled objects that it can't simply unlink
to the graveyard from which the daemon will actually delete them.

The daemon uses dnotify to monitor the graveyard directory, and will delete
anything that appears therein.

The module represents index objects as directories with the filename "I..." or
"J...".  Note that the "cache/" directory is itself a special index.

Data objects are represented as files if they have no children, or directories
if they do.  Their filenames all begin "D..." or "E...".  If represented as a
directory, data objects will have a file in the directory called "data" that
actually holds the data.

Special objects are similar to data objects, except their filenames begin
"S..." or "T...".

If an object has children, then it will be represented as a directory.
Immediately in the representative directory are a collection of directories
named for hash values of the child object keys with an '@' prepended.  Into
this directory, if possible, will be placed the representations of the child
objects:

	INDEX     INDEX      INDEX                             DATA FILES
	========= ========== ================================= ================
	cache/@4a/I03nfs/@30/Ji000000000000000--fHg8hi8400
	cache/@4a/I03nfs/@30/Ji000000000000000--fHg8hi8400/@75/Es0g000w...DB1ry
	cache/@4a/I03nfs/@30/Ji000000000000000--fHg8hi8400/@75/Es0g000w...N22ry
	cache/@4a/I03nfs/@30/Ji000000000000000--fHg8hi8400/@75/Es0g000w...FP1ry

If the key is so long that it exceeds NAME_MAX with the decorations added on to
it, then it will be cut into pieces, the first few of which will be used to
make a nest of directories, and the last one of which will be the objects
inside the last directory.  The names of the intermediate directories will have
'+' prepended:

	J1223/@23/+xy...z/+kl...m/Epqr

Note that keys are raw data, and not only may they exceed NAME_MAX in size,
they may also contain things like '/' and NUL characters, and so they may not
be suitable for turning directly into a filename.

To handle this, CacheFiles will use a suitably printable filename directly and
"base-64" encode ones that aren't directly suitable.  The two versions of
object filenames indicate the encoding:

	OBJECT TYPE	PRINTABLE	ENCODED
	===============	===============	===============
	Index		"I..."		"J..."
	Data		"D..."		"E..."
	Special		"S..."		"T..."

Intermediate directories are always "@" or "+" as appropriate.

Each object in the cache has an extended attribute label that holds the object
type ID (required to distinguish special objects) and the auxiliary data from
the netfs.  The latter is used to detect stale objects in the cache and update
or retire them.

Note that CacheFiles will erase from the cache any file it doesn't recognise or
any file of an incorrect type (such as a FIFO file or a device file).

==========================
SECURITY MODEL AND SELINUX
==========================

CacheFiles is implemented to deal properly with the LSM security features of
the Linux kernel and the SELinux facility.

One of the problems that CacheFiles faces is that it is generally acting on
behalf of a process, and running in that process's context, and that includes a
security context that is not appropriate for accessing the cache - either
because the files in the cache are inaccessible to that process, or because if
the process creates a file in the cache, that file may be inaccessible to other
processes.

The way CacheFiles works is to temporarily change the security context (fsuid,
fsgid and actor security label) that the process acts as - without changing the
security context of the process when it the target of an operation performed by
some other process (so signalling and suchlike still work correctly).

When the CacheFiles module is asked to bind to its cache, it:

 (1) Finds the security label attached to the root cache directory and uses
     that as the security label with which it will create files.  By default,
     this is:

	cachefiles_var_t

 (2) Finds the security label of the process which issued the bind request
     (presumed to be the cachefilesd daemon), which by default will be:

	cachefilesd_t

     and asks LSM to supply a security ID as which it should act given the
     daemon's label.  By default, this will be:

	cachefiles_kernel_t

     SELinux transitions the daemon's security ID to the module's security ID
     based on a rule of this form in the policy.

	type_transition <daemon's-ID> kernel_t : process <module's-ID>;

     For instance:

	type_transition cachefilesd_t kernel_t : process cachefiles_kernel_t;

The module's security ID gives it permission to create, move and remove files
and directories in the cache, to find and access directories and files in the
cache, to set and access extended attributes on cache objects, and to read and
write files in the cache.

The daemon's security ID gives it only a very restricted set of permissions: it
may scan directories, stat files and erase files and directories.  It may
not read or write files in the cache, and so it is precluded from accessing the
data cached therein; nor is it permitted to create new files in the cache.

There are policy source files available in:

	http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/fscache/cachefilesd-0.8.tar.bz2

and later versions.  In that tarball, see the files:

	cachefilesd.te
	cachefilesd.fc
	cachefilesd.if

They are built and installed directly by the RPM.

If a non-RPM based system is being used, then copy the above files to their own
directory and run:

	make -f /usr/share/selinux/devel/Makefile
	semodule -i cachefilesd.pp

You will need checkpolicy and selinux-policy-devel installed prior to the
build.

By default, the cache is located in /var/fscache, but if it is desirable that
it should be elsewhere, than either the above policy files must be altered, or
an auxiliary policy must be installed to label the alternate location of the
cache.

For instructions on how to add an auxiliary policy to enable the cache to be
located elsewhere when SELinux is in enforcing mode, please see:

	/usr/share/doc/cachefilesd-*/move-cache.txt

When the cachefilesd rpm is installed; alternatively, the document can be found
in the sources.

==================
A NOTE ON SECURITY
==================

CacheFiles makes use of the split security in the task_struct.  It allocates
its own task_security structure, and redirects current->act_as to point to it
when it acts on behalf of another process, in that process's context.

The reason it does this is that it calls vfs_mkdir() and suchlike rather than
bypassing security and calling inode ops directly.  Therefore the VFS and LSM
may deny the CacheFiles access to the cache data because under some
circumstances the caching code is running in the security context of whatever
process issued the original syscall on the netfs.

Furthermore, should CacheFiles create a file or directory, the security
parameters with that object is created (UID, GID, security label) would be
derived from that process that issued the system call, thus potentially
preventing other processes from accessing the cache - including CacheFiles's
cache management daemon (cachefilesd).

What is required is to temporarily override the security of the process that
issued the system call.  We can't, however, just do an in-place change of the
security data as that affects the process as an object, not just as a subject.
This means it may lose signals or ptrace events for example, and affects what
the process looks like in /proc.

So CacheFiles makes use of a logical split in the security between the
objective security (task->sec) and the subjective security (task->act_as).  The
objective security holds the intrinsic security properties of a process and is
never overridden.  This is what appears in /proc, and is what is used when a
process is the target of an operation by some other process (SIGKILL for
example).

The subjective security holds the active security properties of a process, and
may be overridden.  This is not seen externally, and is used whan a process
acts upon another object, for example SIGKILLing another process or opening a
file.

LSM hooks exist that allow SELinux (or Smack or whatever) to reject a request
for CacheFiles to run in a context of a specific security label, or to create
files and directories with another security label.

This documentation is added by the patch to:

	Documentation/filesystems/caching/cachefiles.txt

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
2009-04-03 16:42:41 +01:00
David Howells
952efe7b78 FS-Cache: Add and document asynchronous operation handling
Add and document asynchronous operation handling for use by FS-Cache's data
storage and retrieval routines.

The following documentation is added to:

	Documentation/filesystems/caching/operations.txt

		       ================================
		       ASYNCHRONOUS OPERATIONS HANDLING
		       ================================

========
OVERVIEW
========

FS-Cache has an asynchronous operations handling facility that it uses for its
data storage and retrieval routines.  Its operations are represented by
fscache_operation structs, though these are usually embedded into some other
structure.

This facility is available to and expected to be be used by the cache backends,
and FS-Cache will create operations and pass them off to the appropriate cache
backend for completion.

To make use of this facility, <linux/fscache-cache.h> should be #included.

===============================
OPERATION RECORD INITIALISATION
===============================

An operation is recorded in an fscache_operation struct:

	struct fscache_operation {
		union {
			struct work_struct fast_work;
			struct slow_work slow_work;
		};
		unsigned long		flags;
		fscache_operation_processor_t processor;
		...
	};

Someone wanting to issue an operation should allocate something with this
struct embedded in it.  They should initialise it by calling:

	void fscache_operation_init(struct fscache_operation *op,
				    fscache_operation_release_t release);

with the operation to be initialised and the release function to use.

The op->flags parameter should be set to indicate the CPU time provision and
the exclusivity (see the Parameters section).

The op->fast_work, op->slow_work and op->processor flags should be set as
appropriate for the CPU time provision (see the Parameters section).

FSCACHE_OP_WAITING may be set in op->flags prior to each submission of the
operation and waited for afterwards.

==========
PARAMETERS
==========

There are a number of parameters that can be set in the operation record's flag
parameter.  There are three options for the provision of CPU time in these
operations:

 (1) The operation may be done synchronously (FSCACHE_OP_MYTHREAD).  A thread
     may decide it wants to handle an operation itself without deferring it to
     another thread.

     This is, for example, used in read operations for calling readpages() on
     the backing filesystem in CacheFiles.  Although readpages() does an
     asynchronous data fetch, the determination of whether pages exist is done
     synchronously - and the netfs does not proceed until this has been
     determined.

     If this option is to be used, FSCACHE_OP_WAITING must be set in op->flags
     before submitting the operation, and the operating thread must wait for it
     to be cleared before proceeding:

		wait_on_bit(&op->flags, FSCACHE_OP_WAITING,
			    fscache_wait_bit, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);

 (2) The operation may be fast asynchronous (FSCACHE_OP_FAST), in which case it
     will be given to keventd to process.  Such an operation is not permitted
     to sleep on I/O.

     This is, for example, used by CacheFiles to copy data from a backing fs
     page to a netfs page after the backing fs has read the page in.

     If this option is used, op->fast_work and op->processor must be
     initialised before submitting the operation:

		INIT_WORK(&op->fast_work, do_some_work);

 (3) The operation may be slow asynchronous (FSCACHE_OP_SLOW), in which case it
     will be given to the slow work facility to process.  Such an operation is
     permitted to sleep on I/O.

     This is, for example, used by FS-Cache to handle background writes of
     pages that have just been fetched from a remote server.

     If this option is used, op->slow_work and op->processor must be
     initialised before submitting the operation:

		fscache_operation_init_slow(op, processor)

Furthermore, operations may be one of two types:

 (1) Exclusive (FSCACHE_OP_EXCLUSIVE).  Operations of this type may not run in
     conjunction with any other operation on the object being operated upon.

     An example of this is the attribute change operation, in which the file
     being written to may need truncation.

 (2) Shareable.  Operations of this type may be running simultaneously.  It's
     up to the operation implementation to prevent interference between other
     operations running at the same time.

=========
PROCEDURE
=========

Operations are used through the following procedure:

 (1) The submitting thread must allocate the operation and initialise it
     itself.  Normally this would be part of a more specific structure with the
     generic op embedded within.

 (2) The submitting thread must then submit the operation for processing using
     one of the following two functions:

	int fscache_submit_op(struct fscache_object *object,
			      struct fscache_operation *op);

	int fscache_submit_exclusive_op(struct fscache_object *object,
					struct fscache_operation *op);

     The first function should be used to submit non-exclusive ops and the
     second to submit exclusive ones.  The caller must still set the
     FSCACHE_OP_EXCLUSIVE flag.

     If successful, both functions will assign the operation to the specified
     object and return 0.  -ENOBUFS will be returned if the object specified is
     permanently unavailable.

     The operation manager will defer operations on an object that is still
     undergoing lookup or creation.  The operation will also be deferred if an
     operation of conflicting exclusivity is in progress on the object.

     If the operation is asynchronous, the manager will retain a reference to
     it, so the caller should put their reference to it by passing it to:

	void fscache_put_operation(struct fscache_operation *op);

 (3) If the submitting thread wants to do the work itself, and has marked the
     operation with FSCACHE_OP_MYTHREAD, then it should monitor
     FSCACHE_OP_WAITING as described above and check the state of the object if
     necessary (the object might have died whilst the thread was waiting).

     When it has finished doing its processing, it should call
     fscache_put_operation() on it.

 (4) The operation holds an effective lock upon the object, preventing other
     exclusive ops conflicting until it is released.  The operation can be
     enqueued for further immediate asynchronous processing by adjusting the
     CPU time provisioning option if necessary, eg:

	op->flags &= ~FSCACHE_OP_TYPE;
	op->flags |= ~FSCACHE_OP_FAST;

     and calling:

	void fscache_enqueue_operation(struct fscache_operation *op)

     This can be used to allow other things to have use of the worker thread
     pools.

=====================
ASYNCHRONOUS CALLBACK
=====================

When used in asynchronous mode, the worker thread pool will invoke the
processor method with a pointer to the operation.  This should then get at the
container struct by using container_of():

	static void fscache_write_op(struct fscache_operation *_op)
	{
		struct fscache_storage *op =
			container_of(_op, struct fscache_storage, op);
	...
	}

The caller holds a reference on the operation, and will invoke
fscache_put_operation() when the processor function returns.  The processor
function is at liberty to call fscache_enqueue_operation() or to take extra
references.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
2009-04-03 16:42:39 +01:00
David Howells
36c9559022 FS-Cache: Object management state machine
Implement the cache object management state machine.

The following documentation is added to illuminate the working of this state
machine.  It will also be added as:

	Documentation/filesystems/caching/object.txt

	     ====================================================
	     IN-KERNEL CACHE OBJECT REPRESENTATION AND MANAGEMENT
	     ====================================================

==============
REPRESENTATION
==============

FS-Cache maintains an in-kernel representation of each object that a netfs is
currently interested in.  Such objects are represented by the fscache_cookie
struct and are referred to as cookies.

FS-Cache also maintains a separate in-kernel representation of the objects that
a cache backend is currently actively caching.  Such objects are represented by
the fscache_object struct.  The cache backends allocate these upon request, and
are expected to embed them in their own representations.  These are referred to
as objects.

There is a 1:N relationship between cookies and objects.  A cookie may be
represented by multiple objects - an index may exist in more than one cache -
or even by no objects (it may not be cached).

Furthermore, both cookies and objects are hierarchical.  The two hierarchies
correspond, but the cookies tree is a superset of the union of the object trees
of multiple caches:

	    NETFS INDEX TREE               :      CACHE 1     :      CACHE 2
	                                   :                  :
	                                   :   +-----------+  :
	                          +----------->|  IObject  |  :
	      +-----------+       |        :   +-----------+  :
	      |  ICookie  |-------+        :         |        :
	      +-----------+       |        :         |        :   +-----------+
	            |             +------------------------------>|  IObject  |
	            |                      :         |        :   +-----------+
	            |                      :         V        :         |
	            |                      :   +-----------+  :         |
	            V             +----------->|  IObject  |  :         |
	      +-----------+       |        :   +-----------+  :         |
	      |  ICookie  |-------+        :         |        :         V
	      +-----------+       |        :         |        :   +-----------+
	            |             +------------------------------>|  IObject  |
	      +-----+-----+                :         |        :   +-----------+
	      |           |                :         |        :         |
	      V           |                :         V        :         |
	+-----------+     |                :   +-----------+  :         |
	|  ICookie  |------------------------->|  IObject  |  :         |
	+-----------+     |                :   +-----------+  :         |
	      |           V                :         |        :         V
	      |     +-----------+          :         |        :   +-----------+
	      |     |  ICookie  |-------------------------------->|  IObject  |
	      |     +-----------+          :         |        :   +-----------+
	      V           |                :         V        :         |
	+-----------+     |                :   +-----------+  :         |
	|  DCookie  |------------------------->|  DObject  |  :         |
	+-----------+     |                :   +-----------+  :         |
	                  |                :                  :         |
	          +-------+-------+        :                  :         |
	          |               |        :                  :         |
	          V               V        :                  :         V
	    +-----------+   +-----------+  :                  :   +-----------+
	    |  DCookie  |   |  DCookie  |------------------------>|  DObject  |
	    +-----------+   +-----------+  :                  :   +-----------+
	                                   :                  :

In the above illustration, ICookie and IObject represent indices and DCookie
and DObject represent data storage objects.  Indices may have representation in
multiple caches, but currently, non-index objects may not.  Objects of any type
may also be entirely unrepresented.

As far as the netfs API goes, the netfs is only actually permitted to see
pointers to the cookies.  The cookies themselves and any objects attached to
those cookies are hidden from it.

===============================
OBJECT MANAGEMENT STATE MACHINE
===============================

Within FS-Cache, each active object is managed by its own individual state
machine.  The state for an object is kept in the fscache_object struct, in
object->state.  A cookie may point to a set of objects that are in different
states.

Each state has an action associated with it that is invoked when the machine
wakes up in that state.  There are four logical sets of states:

 (1) Preparation: states that wait for the parent objects to become ready.  The
     representations are hierarchical, and it is expected that an object must
     be created or accessed with respect to its parent object.

 (2) Initialisation: states that perform lookups in the cache and validate
     what's found and that create on disk any missing metadata.

 (3) Normal running: states that allow netfs operations on objects to proceed
     and that update the state of objects.

 (4) Termination: states that detach objects from their netfs cookies, that
     delete objects from disk, that handle disk and system errors and that free
     up in-memory resources.

In most cases, transitioning between states is in response to signalled events.
When a state has finished processing, it will usually set the mask of events in
which it is interested (object->event_mask) and relinquish the worker thread.
Then when an event is raised (by calling fscache_raise_event()), if the event
is not masked, the object will be queued for processing (by calling
fscache_enqueue_object()).

PROVISION OF CPU TIME
---------------------

The work to be done by the various states is given CPU time by the threads of
the slow work facility (see Documentation/slow-work.txt).  This is used in
preference to the workqueue facility because:

 (1) Threads may be completely occupied for very long periods of time by a
     particular work item.  These state actions may be doing sequences of
     synchronous, journalled disk accesses (lookup, mkdir, create, setxattr,
     getxattr, truncate, unlink, rmdir, rename).

 (2) Threads may do little actual work, but may rather spend a lot of time
     sleeping on I/O.  This means that single-threaded and 1-per-CPU-threaded
     workqueues don't necessarily have the right numbers of threads.

LOCKING SIMPLIFICATION
----------------------

Because only one worker thread may be operating on any particular object's
state machine at once, this simplifies the locking, particularly with respect
to disconnecting the netfs's representation of a cache object (fscache_cookie)
from the cache backend's representation (fscache_object) - which may be
requested from either end.

=================
THE SET OF STATES
=================

The object state machine has a set of states that it can be in.  There are
preparation states in which the object sets itself up and waits for its parent
object to transit to a state that allows access to its children:

 (1) State FSCACHE_OBJECT_INIT.

     Initialise the object and wait for the parent object to become active.  In
     the cache, it is expected that it will not be possible to look an object
     up from the parent object, until that parent object itself has been looked
     up.

There are initialisation states in which the object sets itself up and accesses
disk for the object metadata:

 (2) State FSCACHE_OBJECT_LOOKING_UP.

     Look up the object on disk, using the parent as a starting point.
     FS-Cache expects the cache backend to probe the cache to see whether this
     object is represented there, and if it is, to see if it's valid (coherency
     management).

     The cache should call fscache_object_lookup_negative() to indicate lookup
     failure for whatever reason, and should call fscache_obtained_object() to
     indicate success.

     At the completion of lookup, FS-Cache will let the netfs go ahead with
     read operations, no matter whether the file is yet cached.  If not yet
     cached, read operations will be immediately rejected with ENODATA until
     the first known page is uncached - as to that point there can be no data
     to be read out of the cache for that file that isn't currently also held
     in the pagecache.

 (3) State FSCACHE_OBJECT_CREATING.

     Create an object on disk, using the parent as a starting point.  This
     happens if the lookup failed to find the object, or if the object's
     coherency data indicated what's on disk is out of date.  In this state,
     FS-Cache expects the cache to create

     The cache should call fscache_obtained_object() if creation completes
     successfully, fscache_object_lookup_negative() otherwise.

     At the completion of creation, FS-Cache will start processing write
     operations the netfs has queued for an object.  If creation failed, the
     write ops will be transparently discarded, and nothing recorded in the
     cache.

There are some normal running states in which the object spends its time
servicing netfs requests:

 (4) State FSCACHE_OBJECT_AVAILABLE.

     A transient state in which pending operations are started, child objects
     are permitted to advance from FSCACHE_OBJECT_INIT state, and temporary
     lookup data is freed.

 (5) State FSCACHE_OBJECT_ACTIVE.

     The normal running state.  In this state, requests the netfs makes will be
     passed on to the cache.

 (6) State FSCACHE_OBJECT_UPDATING.

     The state machine comes here to update the object in the cache from the
     netfs's records.  This involves updating the auxiliary data that is used
     to maintain coherency.

And there are terminal states in which an object cleans itself up, deallocates
memory and potentially deletes stuff from disk:

 (7) State FSCACHE_OBJECT_LC_DYING.

     The object comes here if it is dying because of a lookup or creation
     error.  This would be due to a disk error or system error of some sort.
     Temporary data is cleaned up, and the parent is released.

 (8) State FSCACHE_OBJECT_DYING.

     The object comes here if it is dying due to an error, because its parent
     cookie has been relinquished by the netfs or because the cache is being
     withdrawn.

     Any child objects waiting on this one are given CPU time so that they too
     can destroy themselves.  This object waits for all its children to go away
     before advancing to the next state.

 (9) State FSCACHE_OBJECT_ABORT_INIT.

     The object comes to this state if it was waiting on its parent in
     FSCACHE_OBJECT_INIT, but its parent died.  The object will destroy itself
     so that the parent may proceed from the FSCACHE_OBJECT_DYING state.

(10) State FSCACHE_OBJECT_RELEASING.
(11) State FSCACHE_OBJECT_RECYCLING.

     The object comes to one of these two states when dying once it is rid of
     all its children, if it is dying because the netfs relinquished its
     cookie.  In the first state, the cached data is expected to persist, and
     in the second it will be deleted.

(12) State FSCACHE_OBJECT_WITHDRAWING.

     The object transits to this state if the cache decides it wants to
     withdraw the object from service, perhaps to make space, but also due to
     error or just because the whole cache is being withdrawn.

(13) State FSCACHE_OBJECT_DEAD.

     The object transits to this state when the in-memory object record is
     ready to be deleted.  The object processor shouldn't ever see an object in
     this state.

THE SET OF EVENTS
-----------------

There are a number of events that can be raised to an object state machine:

 (*) FSCACHE_OBJECT_EV_UPDATE

     The netfs requested that an object be updated.  The state machine will ask
     the cache backend to update the object, and the cache backend will ask the
     netfs for details of the change through its cookie definition ops.

 (*) FSCACHE_OBJECT_EV_CLEARED

     This is signalled in two circumstances:

     (a) when an object's last child object is dropped and

     (b) when the last operation outstanding on an object is completed.

     This is used to proceed from the dying state.

 (*) FSCACHE_OBJECT_EV_ERROR

     This is signalled when an I/O error occurs during the processing of some
     object.

 (*) FSCACHE_OBJECT_EV_RELEASE
 (*) FSCACHE_OBJECT_EV_RETIRE

     These are signalled when the netfs relinquishes a cookie it was using.
     The event selected depends on whether the netfs asks for the backing
     object to be retired (deleted) or retained.

 (*) FSCACHE_OBJECT_EV_WITHDRAW

     This is signalled when the cache backend wants to withdraw an object.
     This means that the object will have to be detached from the netfs's
     cookie.

Because the withdrawing releasing/retiring events are all handled by the object
state machine, it doesn't matter if there's a collision with both ends trying
to sever the connection at the same time.  The state machine can just pick
which one it wants to honour, and that effects the other.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
2009-04-03 16:42:38 +01:00
David Howells
7394daa8c6 FS-Cache: Add use of /proc and presentation of statistics
Make FS-Cache create its /proc interface and present various statistical
information through it.  Also provide the functions for updating this
information.

These features are enabled by:

	CONFIG_FSCACHE_PROC
	CONFIG_FSCACHE_STATS
	CONFIG_FSCACHE_HISTOGRAM

The /proc directory for FS-Cache is also exported so that caching modules can
add their own statistics there too.

The FS-Cache module is loadable at this point, and the statistics files can be
examined by userspace:

	cat /proc/fs/fscache/stats
	cat /proc/fs/fscache/histogram

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
2009-04-03 16:42:37 +01:00
David Howells
0dfc41d1ef FS-Cache: Add the FS-Cache cache backend API and documentation
Add the API for a generic facility (FS-Cache) by which caches may declare them
selves open for business, and may obtain work to be done from network
filesystems.  The header file is included by:

	#include <linux/fscache-cache.h>

Documentation for the API is also added to:

	Documentation/filesystems/caching/backend-api.txt

This API is not usable without the implementation of the utility functions
which will be added in further patches.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
2009-04-03 16:42:36 +01:00
David Howells
2d6fff6370 FS-Cache: Add the FS-Cache netfs API and documentation
Add the API for a generic facility (FS-Cache) by which filesystems (such as AFS
or NFS) may call on local caching capabilities without having to know anything
about how the cache works, or even if there is a cache:

	+---------+
	|         |                        +--------------+
	|   NFS   |--+                     |              |
	|         |  |                 +-->|   CacheFS    |
	+---------+  |   +----------+  |   |  /dev/hda5   |
	             |   |          |  |   +--------------+
	+---------+  +-->|          |  |
	|         |      |          |--+
	|   AFS   |----->| FS-Cache |
	|         |      |          |--+
	+---------+  +-->|          |  |
	             |   |          |  |   +--------------+
	+---------+  |   +----------+  |   |              |
	|         |  |                 +-->|  CacheFiles  |
	|  ISOFS  |--+                     |  /var/cache  |
	|         |                        +--------------+
	+---------+

General documentation and documentation of the netfs specific API are provided
in addition to the header files.

As this patch stands, it is possible to build a filesystem against the facility
and attempt to use it.  All that will happen is that all requests will be
immediately denied as if no cache is present.

Further patches will implement the core of the facility.  The facility will
transfer requests from networking filesystems to appropriate caches if
possible, or else gracefully deny them.

If this facility is disabled in the kernel configuration, then all its
operations will trivially reduce to nothing during compilation.

WHY NOT I_MAPPING?
==================

I have added my own API to implement caching rather than using i_mapping to do
this for a number of reasons.  These have been discussed a lot on the LKML and
CacheFS mailing lists, but to summarise the basics:

 (1) Most filesystems don't do hole reportage.  Holes in files are treated as
     blocks of zeros and can't be distinguished otherwise, making it difficult
     to distinguish blocks that have been read from the network and cached from
     those that haven't.

 (2) The backing inode must be fully populated before being exposed to
     userspace through the main inode because the VM/VFS goes directly to the
     backing inode and does not interrogate the front inode's VM ops.

     Therefore:

     (a) The backing inode must fit entirely within the cache.

     (b) All backed files currently open must fit entirely within the cache at
     	 the same time.

     (c) A working set of files in total larger than the cache may not be
     	 cached.

     (d) A file may not grow larger than the available space in the cache.

     (e) A file that's open and cached, and remotely grows larger than the
     	 cache is potentially stuffed.

 (3) Writes go to the backing filesystem, and can only be transferred to the
     network when the file is closed.

 (4) There's no record of what changes have been made, so the whole file must
     be written back.

 (5) The pages belong to the backing filesystem, and all metadata associated
     with that page are relevant only to the backing filesystem, and not
     anything stacked atop it.

OVERVIEW
========

FS-Cache provides (or will provide) the following facilities:

 (1) Caches can be added / removed at any time, even whilst in use.

 (2) Adds a facility by which tags can be used to refer to caches, even if
     they're not available yet.

 (3) More than one cache can be used at once.  Caches can be selected
     explicitly by use of tags.

 (4) The netfs is provided with an interface that allows either party to
     withdraw caching facilities from a file (required for (1)).

 (5) A netfs may annotate cache objects that belongs to it.  This permits the
     storage of coherency maintenance data.

 (6) Cache objects will be pinnable and space reservations will be possible.

 (7) The interface to the netfs returns as few errors as possible, preferring
     rather to let the netfs remain oblivious.

 (8) Cookies are used to represent indices, files and other objects to the
     netfs.  The simplest cookie is just a NULL pointer - indicating nothing
     cached there.

 (9) The netfs is allowed to propose - dynamically - any index hierarchy it
     desires, though it must be aware that the index search function is
     recursive, stack space is limited, and indices can only be children of
     indices.

(10) Indices can be used to group files together to reduce key size and to make
     group invalidation easier.  The use of indices may make lookup quicker,
     but that's cache dependent.

(11) Data I/O is effectively done directly to and from the netfs's pages.  The
     netfs indicates that page A is at index B of the data-file represented by
     cookie C, and that it should be read or written.  The cache backend may or
     may not start I/O on that page, but if it does, a netfs callback will be
     invoked to indicate completion.  The I/O may be either synchronous or
     asynchronous.

(12) Cookies can be "retired" upon release.  At this point FS-Cache will mark
     them as obsolete and the index hierarchy rooted at that point will get
     recycled.

(13) The netfs provides a "match" function for index searches.  In addition to
     saying whether a match was made or not, this can also specify that an
     entry should be updated or deleted.

FS-Cache maintains a virtual index tree in which all indices, files, objects
and pages are kept.  Bits of this tree may actually reside in one or more
caches.

                                           FSDEF
                                             |
                        +------------------------------------+
                        |                                    |
                       NFS                                  AFS
                        |                                    |
           +--------------------------+                +-----------+
           |                          |                |           |
        homedir                     mirror          afs.org   redhat.com
           |                          |                            |
     +------------+           +---------------+              +----------+
     |            |           |               |              |          |
   00001        00002       00007           00125        vol00001   vol00002
     |            |           |               |                         |
 +---+---+     +-----+      +---+      +------+------+            +-----+----+
 |   |   |     |     |      |   |      |      |      |            |     |    |
PG0 PG1 PG2   PG0  XATTR   PG0 PG1   DIRENT DIRENT DIRENT        R/W   R/O  Bak
                     |                                            |
                    PG0                                       +-------+
                                                              |       |
                                                            00001   00003
                                                              |
                                                          +---+---+
                                                          |   |   |
                                                         PG0 PG1 PG2

In the example above, two netfs's can be seen to be backed: NFS and AFS.  These
have different index hierarchies:

 (*) The NFS primary index will probably contain per-server indices.  Each
     server index is indexed by NFS file handles to get data file objects.
     Each data file objects can have an array of pages, but may also have
     further child objects, such as extended attributes and directory entries.
     Extended attribute objects themselves have page-array contents.

 (*) The AFS primary index contains per-cell indices.  Each cell index contains
     per-logical-volume indices.  Each of volume index contains up to three
     indices for the read-write, read-only and backup mirrors of those volumes.
     Each of these contains vnode data file objects, each of which contains an
     array of pages.

The very top index is the FS-Cache master index in which individual netfs's
have entries.

Any index object may reside in more than one cache, provided it only has index
children.  Any index with non-index object children will be assumed to only
reside in one cache.

The FS-Cache overview can be found in:

	Documentation/filesystems/caching/fscache.txt

The netfs API to FS-Cache can be found in:

	Documentation/filesystems/caching/netfs-api.txt

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
2009-04-03 16:42:36 +01:00
Shen Feng
760df93ecd documentation: update Documentation/filesystem/proc.txt and Documentation/sysctls
Now /proc/sys is described in many places and much information is
redundant.  This patch updates the proc.txt and move the /proc/sys
desciption out to the files in Documentation/sysctls.

Details are:

merge
-  2.1  /proc/sys/fs - File system data
-  2.11 /proc/sys/fs/mqueue - POSIX message queues filesystem
-  2.17 /proc/sys/fs/epoll - Configuration options for the epoll interface
with Documentation/sysctls/fs.txt.

remove
-  2.2  /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc - Miscellaneous binary formats
since it's not better then the Documentation/binfmt_misc.txt.

merge
-  2.3  /proc/sys/kernel - general kernel parameters
with Documentation/sysctls/kernel.txt

remove
-  2.5  /proc/sys/dev - Device specific parameters
since it's obsolete the sysfs is used now.

remove
-  2.6  /proc/sys/sunrpc - Remote procedure calls
since it's not better then the Documentation/sysctls/sunrpc.txt

move
-  2.7  /proc/sys/net - Networking stuff
-  2.9  Appletalk
-  2.10 IPX
to newly created Documentation/sysctls/net.txt.

remove
-  2.8  /proc/sys/net/ipv4 - IPV4 settings
since it's not better then the Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt.

add
- Chapter 3 Per-Process Parameters
to descibe /proc/<pid>/xxx parameters.

Signed-off-by: Shen Feng <shen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-02 19:04:53 -07:00
Marcin Slusarz
7ac9bcd5da udf: implement mode and dmode mounting options
"dmode" allows overriding permissions of directories and
"mode" allows overriding permissions of files.

Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2009-04-02 12:29:50 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
395d73413c Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (33 commits)
  ext4: Regularize mount options
  ext4: fix locking typo in mballoc which could cause soft lockup hangs
  ext4: fix typo which causes a memory leak on error path
  jbd2: Update locking coments
  ext4: Rename pa_linear to pa_type
  ext4: add checks of block references for non-extent inodes
  ext4: Check for an valid i_mode when reading the inode from disk
  ext4: Use WRITE_SYNC for commits which are caused by fsync()
  ext4: Add auto_da_alloc mount option
  ext4: Use struct flex_groups to calculate get_orlov_stats()
  ext4: Use atomic_t's in struct flex_groups
  ext4: remove /proc tuning knobs
  ext4: Add sysfs support
  ext4: Track lifetime disk writes
  ext4: Fix discard of inode prealloc space with delayed allocation.
  ext4: Automatically allocate delay allocated blocks on rename
  ext4: Automatically allocate delay allocated blocks on close
  ext4: add EXT4_IOC_ALLOC_DA_BLKS ioctl
  ext4: Simplify delalloc code by removing mpage_da_writepages()
  ext4: Save stack space by removing fake buffer heads
  ...
2009-04-01 10:57:49 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
e76e5b2c66 Merge branch 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6
* 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6: (88 commits)
  PCI: fix HT MSI mapping fix
  PCI: don't enable too much HT MSI mapping
  x86/PCI: make pci=lastbus=255 work when acpi is on
  PCI: save and restore PCIe 2.0 registers
  PCI: update fakephp for bus_id removal
  PCI: fix kernel oops on bridge removal
  PCI: fix conflict between SR-IOV and config space sizing
  powerpc/PCI: include pci.h in powerpc MSI implementation
  PCI Hotplug: schedule fakephp for feature removal
  PCI Hotplug: rename legacy_fakephp to fakephp
  PCI Hotplug: restore fakephp interface with complete reimplementation
  PCI: Introduce /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../rescan
  PCI: Introduce /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../remove
  PCI: Introduce /sys/bus/pci/rescan
  PCI: Introduce pci_rescan_bus()
  PCI: do not enable bridges more than once
  PCI: do not initialize bridges more than once
  PCI: always scan child buses
  PCI: pci_scan_slot() returns newly found devices
  PCI: don't scan existing devices
  ...

Fix trivial append-only conflict in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
2009-04-01 09:47:12 -07:00
Nick Piggin
c2ec175c39 mm: page_mkwrite change prototype to match fault
Change the page_mkwrite prototype to take a struct vm_fault, and return
VM_FAULT_xxx flags.  There should be no functional change.

This makes it possible to return much more detailed error information to
the VM (and also can provide more information eg.  virtual_address to the
driver, which might be important in some special cases).

This is required for a subsequent fix.  And will also make it easier to
merge page_mkwrite() with fault() in future.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org>
Cc: Felix Blyakher <felixb@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-01 08:59:14 -07:00
Boaz Harrosh
214c8adb87 exofs: Documentation
Added some documentation in exofs.txt, as well as a BUGS file.

For further reading, operation instructions, example scripts
and up to date infomation and code please see:
http://open-osd.org

Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
2009-03-31 19:44:38 +03:00
Pavel Machek
e3375ac767 trivial: document ext3 semantics of 'ro' option a bit better
ext3 has quite unexpected semantics or "ro" and defaults are
not what they are documented to be, due to mkfs override.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-03-30 15:21:56 +02:00
Theodore Ts'o
06705bff91 ext4: Regularize mount options
Add support for using the mount options "barrier" and "nobarrier", and
"auto_da_alloc" and "noauto_da_alloc", which is more consistent than
"barrier=<0|1>" or "auto_da_alloc=<0|1>".  Most other ext3/ext4 mount
options use the foo/nofoo naming convention.  We allow the old forms
of these mount options for backwards compatibility.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-03-28 10:59:57 -04:00
Greg Banks
b5cbc369db Document /proc/fs/nfsd/pool_stats
Document the format and semantics of the /proc/fs/nfsd/pool_stats file.

Signed-off-by: Greg Banks <gnb@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2009-03-27 19:24:27 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
8e9d208972 Merge branch 'bkl-removal' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6
* 'bkl-removal' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6:
  Rationalize fasync return values
  Move FASYNC bit handling to f_op->fasync()
  Use f_lock to protect f_flags
  Rename struct file->f_ep_lock
2009-03-26 16:14:02 -07:00
Jody McIntyre
1db4b2d221 trivial: fix orphan dates in ext2 documentation
Revert the change to the orphan dates of Windows 95, DOS, compression.
Add a new orphan date for OS/2.

Signed-off-by: Jody McIntyre <scjody@sun.com>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-03-23 14:21:26 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
d56ffd38a9 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (32 commits)
  ucc_geth: Fix oops when using fixed-link support
  dm9000: locking bugfix
  net: update dnet.c for bus_id removal
  dnet: DNET should depend on HAS_IOMEM
  dca: add missing copyright/license headers
  nl80211: Check that function pointer != NULL before using it
  sungem: missing net_device_ops
  be2net: fix to restore vlan ids into BE2 during a IF DOWN->UP cycle
  be2net: replenish when posting to rx-queue is starved in out of mem conditions
  bas_gigaset: correctly allocate USB interrupt transfer buffer
  smsc911x: reset last known duplex and carrier on open
  sh_eth: Fix mistake of the address of SH7763
  sh_eth: Change handling of IRQ
  netns: oops in ip[6]_frag_reasm incrementing stats
  net: kfree(napi->skb) => kfree_skb
  net: fix sctp breakage
  ipv6: fix display of local and remote sit endpoints
  net: Document /proc/sys/net/core/netdev_budget
  tulip: fix crash on iface up with shirq debug
  virtio_net: Make virtio_net support carrier detection
  ...
2009-03-23 09:25:58 -07:00
Alex Chiang
77c27c7b49 PCI: Introduce /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../remove
This patch adds an attribute named "remove" to a PCI device's sysfs
directory.  Writing a non-zero value to this attribute will remove the PCI
device and any children of it.

Trent Piepho wrote the original implementation and documentation.

Thanks to Vegard Nossum for testing under kmemcheck and finding locking
issues with the sysfs interface.

Cc: Trent Piepho <xyzzy@speakeasy.org>
Tested-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
2009-03-20 14:58:48 -07:00
Stanislaw Gruszka
e9c6a586f5 net: Document /proc/sys/net/core/netdev_budget
The NAPI poll parameter netdev_budget is not documented in
kernel-docs. Since it may have a substantial effect on at least some
network loads, it should be.

Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-18 18:51:06 -07:00