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Al Viro
84d08fa888 helper for reading ->d_count
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-07-05 18:59:33 +04:00
Al Viro
6b5e1223d9 coda: don't bother with find_inode_number()
the fallback it's using for dcache misses is actually the
same value we would've used for inumber anyway.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-06-29 12:57:20 +04:00
Al Viro
e924f25126 [readdir] convert coda
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-06-29 12:57:03 +04:00
Al Viro
bb6f619b3a [readdir] introduce ->iterate(), ctx->pos, dir_emit()
New method - ->iterate(file, ctx).  That's the replacement for ->readdir();
it takes callback from ctx->actor, uses ctx->pos instead of file->f_pos and
calls dir_emit(ctx, ...) instead of filldir(data, ...).  It does *not*
update file->f_pos (or look at it, for that matter); iterate_dir() does the
update.

Note that dir_emit() takes the offset from ctx->pos (and eventually
filldir_t will lose that argument).

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-06-29 12:46:47 +04:00
Al Viro
03d95eb2f2 lift sb_start_write() out of ->write()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-04-09 14:12:56 -04:00
Eric W. Biederman
7f78e03513 fs: Limit sys_mount to only request filesystem modules.
Modify the request_module to prefix the file system type with "fs-"
and add aliases to all of the filesystems that can be built as modules
to match.

A common practice is to build all of the kernel code and leave code
that is not commonly needed as modules, with the result that many
users are exposed to any bug anywhere in the kernel.

Looking for filesystems with a fs- prefix limits the pool of possible
modules that can be loaded by mount to just filesystems trivially
making things safer with no real cost.

Using aliases means user space can control the policy of which
filesystem modules are auto-loaded by editing /etc/modprobe.d/*.conf
with blacklist and alias directives.  Allowing simple, safe,
well understood work-arounds to known problematic software.

This also addresses a rare but unfortunate problem where the filesystem
name is not the same as it's module name and module auto-loading
would not work.  While writing this patch I saw a handful of such
cases.  The most significant being autofs that lives in the module
autofs4.

This is relevant to user namespaces because we can reach the request
module in get_fs_type() without having any special permissions, and
people get uncomfortable when a user specified string (in this case
the filesystem type) goes all of the way to request_module.

After having looked at this issue I don't think there is any
particular reason to perform any filtering or permission checks beyond
making it clear in the module request that we want a filesystem
module.  The common pattern in the kernel is to call request_module()
without regards to the users permissions.  In general all a filesystem
module does once loaded is call register_filesystem() and go to sleep.
Which means there is not much attack surface exposed by loading a
filesytem module unless the filesystem is mounted.  In a user
namespace filesystems are not mounted unless .fs_flags = FS_USERNS_MOUNT,
which most filesystems do not set today.

Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reported-by: Kees Cook <keescook@google.com>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2013-03-03 19:36:31 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
d895cb1af1 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull vfs pile (part one) from Al Viro:
 "Assorted stuff - cleaning namei.c up a bit, fixing ->d_name/->d_parent
  locking violations, etc.

  The most visible changes here are death of FS_REVAL_DOT (replaced with
  "has ->d_weak_revalidate()") and a new helper getting from struct file
  to inode.  Some bits of preparation to xattr method interface changes.

  Misc patches by various people sent this cycle *and* ocfs2 fixes from
  several cycles ago that should've been upstream right then.

  PS: the next vfs pile will be xattr stuff."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (46 commits)
  saner proc_get_inode() calling conventions
  proc: avoid extra pde_put() in proc_fill_super()
  fs: change return values from -EACCES to -EPERM
  fs/exec.c: make bprm_mm_init() static
  ocfs2/dlm: use GFP_ATOMIC inside a spin_lock
  ocfs2: fix possible use-after-free with AIO
  ocfs2: Fix oops in ocfs2_fast_symlink_readpage() code path
  get_empty_filp()/alloc_file() leave both ->f_pos and ->f_version zero
  target: writev() on single-element vector is pointless
  export kernel_write(), convert open-coded instances
  fs: encode_fh: return FILEID_INVALID if invalid fid_type
  kill f_vfsmnt
  vfs: kill FS_REVAL_DOT by adding a d_weak_revalidate dentry op
  nfsd: handle vfs_getattr errors in acl protocol
  switch vfs_getattr() to struct path
  default SET_PERSONALITY() in linux/elf.h
  ceph: prepopulate inodes only when request is aborted
  d_hash_and_lookup(): export, switch open-coded instances
  9p: switch v9fs_set_create_acl() to inode+fid, do it before d_instantiate()
  9p: split dropping the acls from v9fs_set_create_acl()
  ...
2013-02-26 20:16:07 -08:00
Al Viro
496ad9aa8e new helper: file_inode(file)
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-02-22 23:31:31 -05:00
Eric W. Biederman
17499e3329 coda: Cache permisions in struct coda_inode_info in a kuid_t.
- Change c_uid in struct coda_indoe_info from a vuid_t to a kuid_t.
- Initialize c_uid to GLOBAL_ROOT_UID instead of 0.
- Use uid_eq to compare cached kuids.

Cc: Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2013-02-13 06:00:54 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman
d83f5901bc coda: Restrict coda messages to the initial user namespace
Remove the slight chance that uids and gids in coda messages will be
interpreted in the wrong user namespace.

- Only allow processes in the initial user namespace to open the coda
  character device to communicate with coda filesystems.
- Explicitly convert the uids in the coda header into the initial user
  namespace.
- In coda_vattr_to_attr make kuids and kgids from the initial user
  namespace uids and gids in struct coda_vattr that just came from
  userspace.
- In coda_iattr_to_vattr convert kuids and kgids into uids and gids
  in the intial user namespace and store them in struct coda_vattr for
  sending to coda userspace programs.

Nothing needs to be changed with mounts as coda does not support
being mounted in anything other than the initial user namespace.

Cc: Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2013-02-13 06:00:53 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman
9fd973e085 coda: Restrict coda messages to the initial pid namespace
Remove the slight chance that pids in coda messages will be
interpreted in the wrong pid namespace.

- Explicitly send all pids in coda messages in the initial pid
  namespace.
- Only allow mounts from processes in the initial pid namespace.
- Only allow processes in the initial pid namespace to open the coda
  character device to communicate with coda.

Cc: Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2013-02-13 06:00:52 -08:00
Kirill A. Shutemov
8c0a853770 fs: push rcu_barrier() from deactivate_locked_super() to filesystems
There's no reason to call rcu_barrier() on every
deactivate_locked_super().  We only need to make sure that all delayed rcu
free inodes are flushed before we destroy related cache.

Removing rcu_barrier() from deactivate_locked_super() affects some fast
paths.  E.g.  on my machine exit_group() of a last process in IPC
namespace takes 0.07538s.  rcu_barrier() takes 0.05188s of that time.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-10-02 21:35:55 -04:00
Al Viro
2903ff019b switch simple cases of fget_light to fdget
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-09-26 22:20:08 -04:00
Al Viro
78f7d75e5d switch coda get_device_index() to fget_light()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-09-26 21:10:10 -04:00
Al Viro
ebfc3b49a7 don't pass nameidata to ->create()
boolean "does it have to be exclusive?" flag is passed instead;
Local filesystem should just ignore it - the object is guaranteed
not to be there yet.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-14 16:34:47 +04:00
Al Viro
00cd8dd3bf stop passing nameidata to ->lookup()
Just the flags; only NFS cares even about that, but there are
legitimate uses for such argument.  And getting rid of that
completely would require splitting ->lookup() into a couple
of methods (at least), so let's leave that alone for now...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-14 16:34:32 +04:00
Al Viro
0b728e1911 stop passing nameidata * to ->d_revalidate()
Just the lookup flags.  Die, bastard, die...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-14 16:34:14 +04:00
Al Viro
1d674107ea coda: use list_for_each_entry
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-14 16:32:56 +04:00
Jan Kara
dbd5768f87 vfs: Rename end_writeback() to clear_inode()
After we moved inode_sync_wait() from end_writeback() it doesn't make sense
to call the function end_writeback() anymore. Rename it to clear_inode()
which well says what the function really does - set I_CLEAR flag.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
2012-05-06 13:43:41 +08:00
David Howells
9ffc93f203 Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h
Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h preparatory to splitting and killing
it.  Performed with the following command:

perl -p -i -e 's!^#\s*include\s*<asm/system[.]h>.*\n!!' `grep -Irl '^#\s*include\s*<asm/system[.]h>' *`

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2012-03-28 18:30:03 +01:00
Al Viro
48fde701af switch open-coded instances of d_make_root() to new helper
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-03-20 21:29:35 -04:00
Al Viro
f56b0fbc64 coda: clean failure exits in coda_fill_super()
same as for cifs, move iput() to the right place, make it unconditional

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-03-20 21:29:34 -04:00
Al Viro
f4947fbce2 coda: switch coda_cnode_make() to sane API as well, clean coda_lookup()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-01-10 11:13:16 -05:00
Al Viro
0b2c4e39c0 coda: deal correctly with allocation failure from coda_cnode_makectl()
lookup should fail with ENOMEM, not silently make dentry negative.
Switched to saner calling conventions, while we are at it.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-01-10 11:13:13 -05:00
Al Viro
4acdaf27eb switch ->create() to umode_t
vfs_create() ignores everything outside of 16bit subset of its
mode argument; switching it to umode_t is obviously equivalent
and it's the only caller of the method

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-01-03 22:54:53 -05:00
Al Viro
18bb1db3e7 switch vfs_mkdir() and ->mkdir() to umode_t
vfs_mkdir() gets int, but immediately drops everything that might not
fit into umode_t and that's the only caller of ->mkdir()...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-01-03 22:54:53 -05:00
Al Viro
6b520e0565 vfs: fix the stupidity with i_dentry in inode destructors
Seeing that just about every destructor got that INIT_LIST_HEAD() copied into
it, there is no point whatsoever keeping this INIT_LIST_HEAD in inode_init_once();
the cost of taking it into inode_init_always() will be negligible for pipes
and sockets and negative for everything else.  Not to mention the removal of
boilerplate code from ->destroy_inode() instances...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-01-03 22:52:40 -05:00
Miklos Szeredi
bfe8684869 filesystems: add set_nlink()
Replace remaining direct i_nlink updates with a new set_nlink()
updater function.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Tested-by: Toshiyuki Okajima <toshi.okajima@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2011-11-02 12:53:43 +01:00
Miklos Szeredi
6d6b77f163 filesystems: add missing nlink wrappers
Replace direct i_nlink updates with the respective updater function
(inc_nlink, drop_nlink, clear_nlink, inode_dec_link_count).

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2011-11-02 12:53:43 +01:00
Joe Perches
558feb0818 fs: Convert vmalloc/memset to vzalloc
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Acked-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2011-09-15 13:56:28 +02:00
Josef Bacik
02c24a8218 fs: push i_mutex and filemap_write_and_wait down into ->fsync() handlers
Btrfs needs to be able to control how filemap_write_and_wait_range() is called
in fsync to make it less of a painful operation, so push down taking i_mutex and
the calling of filemap_write_and_wait() down into the ->fsync() handlers.  Some
file systems can drop taking the i_mutex altogether it seems, like ext3 and
ocfs2.  For correctness sake I just pushed everything down in all cases to make
sure that we keep the current behavior the same for everybody, and then each
individual fs maintainer can make up their mind about what to do from there.
Thanks,

Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 20:47:59 -04:00
Al Viro
b85fd6bdc9 don't open-code parent_ino() in assorted ->readdir()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 20:47:54 -04:00
Al Viro
ee60498f3e coda_venus_readdir(): use offsetof()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 20:47:52 -04:00
Al Viro
10556cb21a ->permission() sanitizing: don't pass flags to ->permission()
not used by the instances anymore.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 01:43:24 -04:00
Al Viro
6b419951f1 coda_ioctl_permission() is safe in RCU mode
return (mask & MAY_EXEC) ? -EACCES : 0; is non-blocking...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-06-20 10:44:19 -04:00
Sage Weil
42b850b280 coda: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir, dir rename
Coda has no problems with references to unlinked directories.

CC: Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu>
CC: coda@cs.cmu.edu
CC: codalist@coda.cs.cmu.edu
Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-05-28 01:02:53 -04:00
Sage Weil
e4eaac06bc vfs: push dentry_unhash on rename_dir into file systems
Only a few file systems need this.  Start by pushing it down into each
rename method (except gfs2 and xfs) so that it can be dealt with on a
per-fs basis.

Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-05-26 07:26:48 -04:00
Sage Weil
79bf7c732b vfs: push dentry_unhash on rmdir into file systems
Only a few file systems need this.  Start by pushing it down into each
fs rmdir method (except gfs2 and xfs) so it can be dealt with on a per-fs
basis.

This does not change behavior for any in-tree file systems.

Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-05-26 07:26:47 -04:00
Rakib Mullick
c03e3126e4 codafs: fix build break when CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL=n
Commit 0bc825d240 ("codafs: fix compile warning when CONFIG_SYSCTL=n")
introduces build breakage, when CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL=n and
CONFIG_CODA_FS=y:

  fs/built-in.o: In function `init_coda':
  psdev.c:(.init.text+0xc02): undefined reference to `coda_sysctl_init'
  psdev.c:(.init.text+0xc7c): undefined reference to `coda_sysctl_clean'
  fs/built-in.o: In function `exit_coda':
  psdev.c:(.exit.text+0xa9): undefined reference to `coda_sysctl_clean'
  make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1

Signed-off-by: Rakib Mullick <rakib.mullick@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-25 17:45:16 -07:00
Rakib Mullick
0bc825d240 codafs: fix compile warning when CONFIG_SYSCTL=n
When CONFIG_SYSCTL=n, we get the following warning:

fs/coda/sysctl.c:18: warning: `coda_tabl' defined but not used

Fix the warning by making sure coda_table and it's callee function are in
the same context.  Also clean up the code by removing extra #ifdef.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unneeded stub macros]
Signed-off-by: Rakib Mullick <rakib.mullick@gmail.com>
Cc: Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-22 17:44:16 -07:00
matt mooney
0ccd234ca0 fs: change to new flag variable
Replace EXTRA_CFLAGS with ccflags-y. And change ntfs-objs to ntfs-y
for cleaner conditional inclusion.

Signed-off-by: matt mooney <mfm@muteddisk.com>
Acked-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2011-03-17 14:02:57 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
b2034d474b 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: (41 commits)
  fs: add documentation on fallocate hole punching
  Gfs2: fail if we try to use hole punch
  Btrfs: fail if we try to use hole punch
  Ext4: fail if we try to use hole punch
  Ocfs2: handle hole punching via fallocate properly
  XFS: handle hole punching via fallocate properly
  fs: add hole punching to fallocate
  vfs: pass struct file to do_truncate on O_TRUNC opens (try )
  fix signedness mess in rw_verify_area() on 64bit architectures
  fs: fix kernel-doc for dcache::prepend_path
  fs: fix kernel-doc for dcache::d_validate
  sanitize ecryptfs ->mount()
  switch afs
  move internal-only parts of ncpfs headers to fs/ncpfs
  switch ncpfs
  switch 9p
  pass default dentry_operations to mount_pseudo()
  switch hostfs
  switch affs
  switch configfs
  ...
2011-01-13 10:27:28 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
008d23e485 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: (43 commits)
  Documentation/trace/events.txt: Remove obsolete sched_signal_send.
  writeback: fix global_dirty_limits comment runtime -> real-time
  ppc: fix comment typo singal -> signal
  drivers: fix comment typo diable -> disable.
  m68k: fix comment typo diable -> disable.
  wireless: comment typo fix diable -> disable.
  media: comment typo fix diable -> disable.
  remove doc for obsolete dynamic-printk kernel-parameter
  remove extraneous 'is' from Documentation/iostats.txt
  Fix spelling milisec -> ms in snd_ps3 module parameter description
  Fix spelling mistakes in comments
  Revert conflicting V4L changes
  i7core_edac: fix typos in comments
  mm/rmap.c: fix comment
  sound, ca0106: Fix assignment to 'channel'.
  hrtimer: fix a typo in comment
  init/Kconfig: fix typo
  anon_inodes: fix wrong function name in comment
  fix comment typos concerning "consistent"
  poll: fix a typo in comment
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts in:
 - drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.c (moved to iwl-legacy.c)
 - fs/ext4/ext4.h

Also fix missed 'diabled' typo in drivers/net/bnx2x/bnx2x.h while at it.
2011-01-13 10:05:56 -08:00
Al Viro
31a203df9c take coda-private headers out of include/linux
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-01-12 20:02:48 -05:00
Al Viro
9501e4c48e switch coda
Coda ->d_revalidate() actually checks for root, ->d_delete() is irrelevant.
So we can use the same d_op for all coda dentries

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-01-12 20:02:48 -05:00
Nick Piggin
b74c79e993 fs: provide rcu-walk aware permission i_ops
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:29 +11:00
Nick Piggin
34286d6662 fs: rcu-walk aware d_revalidate method
Require filesystems be aware of .d_revalidate being called in rcu-walk
mode (nd->flags & LOOKUP_RCU). For now do a simple push down, returning
-ECHILD from all implementations.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:29 +11:00
Nick Piggin
fb045adb99 fs: dcache reduce branches in lookup path
Reduce some branches and memory accesses in dcache lookup by adding dentry
flags to indicate common d_ops are set, rather than having to check them.
This saves a pointer memory access (dentry->d_op) in common path lookup
situations, and saves another pointer load and branch in cases where we
have d_op but not the particular operation.

Patched with:

git grep -E '[.>]([[:space:]])*d_op([[:space:]])*=' | xargs sed -e 's/\([^\t ]*\)->d_op = \(.*\);/d_set_d_op(\1, \2);/' -e 's/\([^\t ]*\)\.d_op = \(.*\);/d_set_d_op(\&\1, \2);/' -i

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:28 +11:00
Nick Piggin
fa0d7e3de6 fs: icache RCU free inodes
RCU free the struct inode. This will allow:

- Subsequent store-free path walking patch. The inode must be consulted for
  permissions when walking, so an RCU inode reference is a must.
- sb_inode_list_lock to be moved inside i_lock because sb list walkers who want
  to take i_lock no longer need to take sb_inode_list_lock to walk the list in
  the first place. This will simplify and optimize locking.
- Could remove some nested trylock loops in dcache code
- Could potentially simplify things a bit in VM land. Do not need to take the
  page lock to follow page->mapping.

The downsides of this is the performance cost of using RCU. In a simple
creat/unlink microbenchmark, performance drops by about 10% due to inability to
reuse cache-hot slab objects. As iterations increase and RCU freeing starts
kicking over, this increases to about 20%.

In cases where inode lifetimes are longer (ie. many inodes may be allocated
during the average life span of a single inode), a lot of this cache reuse is
not applicable, so the regression caused by this patch is smaller.

The cache-hot regression could largely be avoided by using SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU,
however this adds some complexity to list walking and store-free path walking,
so I prefer to implement this at a later date, if it is shown to be a win in
real situations. I haven't found a regression in any non-micro benchmark so I
doubt it will be a problem.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:26 +11:00
Nick Piggin
b5c84bf6f6 fs: dcache remove dcache_lock
dcache_lock no longer protects anything. remove it.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:23 +11:00