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2019-07-31docs: fs: convert porting to ReSTMauro Carvalho Chehab
This file has its own proper style, except that, after a while, the coding style gets violated and whitespaces are placed on different ways. As Sphinx and ReST are very sentitive to whitespace differences, I had to opt if each entry after required/mandatory/... fields should start with zero spaces or with a tab. I opted to start them all from the zero position, in order to avoid needing to break lines with more than 80 columns, with would make harder for review. Most of the other changes at porting.rst were made to use an unified notation with works nice as a text file while also produce a good html output after being parsed. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-07-21Merge branch 'work.misc' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs Pull vfs documentation typo fix from Al Viro. * 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: typo fix: it's d_make_root, not d_make_inode...
2019-07-20typo fix: it's d_make_root, not d_make_inode...Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2019-07-19Merge branch 'work.misc' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs Pull misc vfs updates from Al Viro: "Assorted stuff" * 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: perf_event_get(): don't bother with fget_raw() vfs: update d_make_root() description
2019-06-26vfs: update d_make_root() descriptionIan Kent
Clearify d_make_root() usage, error handling and cleanup requirements. Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2019-06-08docs: fs: fix broken links to vfs.txt with was renamed to vfs.rstMauro Carvalho Chehab
A recent documentation conversion renamed this file but forgot to update the links. Fixes: af96c1e304f7 ("docs: filesystems: vfs: Convert vfs.txt to RST") Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-05-07Merge branch 'work.dcache' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs Pull misc dcache updates from Al Viro: "Most of this pile is putting name length into struct name_snapshot and making use of it. The beginning of this series ("ovl_lookup_real_one(): don't bother with strlen()") ought to have been split in two (separate switch of name_snapshot to struct qstr from overlayfs reaping the trivial benefits of that), but I wanted to avoid a rebase - by the time I'd spotted that it was (a) in -next and (b) close to 5.1-final ;-/" * 'work.dcache' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: audit_compare_dname_path(): switch to const struct qstr * audit_update_watch(): switch to const struct qstr * inotify_handle_event(): don't bother with strlen() fsnotify: switch send_to_group() and ->handle_event to const struct qstr * fsnotify(): switch to passing const struct qstr * for file_name switch fsnotify_move() to passing const struct qstr * for old_name ovl_lookup_real_one(): don't bother with strlen() sysv: bury the broken "quietly truncate the long filenames" logics nsfs: unobfuscate unexport d_alloc_pseudo()
2019-05-07Merge branch 'stable-fodder' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs Pull vfs stable fodder fixes from Al Viro: - acct_on() fix for deadlock caught by overlayfs folks - autofs RCU use-after-free SNAFU (->d_manage() can be called locklessly, so we need to RCU-delay freeing the objects it looks at) - (hopefully) the end of "do we need freeing this dentry RCU-delayed" whack-a-mole. * 'stable-fodder' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: autofs: fix use-after-free in lockless ->d_manage() dcache: sort the freeing-without-RCU-delay mess for good. acct_on(): don't mess with freeze protection
2019-05-01new inode method: ->free_inode()Al Viro
A lot of ->destroy_inode() instances end with call_rcu() of a callback that does RCU-delayed part of freeing. Introduce a new method for doing just that, with saner signature. Rules: ->destroy_inode ->free_inode f g immediate call of f(), RCU-delayed call of g() f NULL immediate call of f(), no RCU-delayed calls NULL g RCU-delayed call of g() NULL NULL RCU-delayed default freeing IOW, NULL ->free_inode gives the same behaviour as now. Note that NULL, NULL is equivalent to NULL, free_inode_nonrcu; we could mandate the latter form, but that would have very little benefit beyond making rules a bit more symmetric. It would break backwards compatibility, require extra boilerplate and expected semantics for (NULL, NULL) pair would have no use whatsoever... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2019-04-09unexport d_alloc_pseudo()Al Viro
No modular uses since introducion of alloc_file_pseudo(), and the only non-modular user not in alloc_file_pseudo() had actually been wrong - should've been d_alloc_anon(). Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2019-04-09dcache: sort the freeing-without-RCU-delay mess for good.Al Viro
For lockless accesses to dentries we don't have pinned we rely (among other things) upon having an RCU delay between dropping the last reference and actually freeing the memory. On the other hand, for things like pipes and sockets we neither do that kind of lockless access, nor want to deal with the overhead of an RCU delay every time a socket gets closed. So delay was made optional - setting DCACHE_RCUACCESS in ->d_flags made sure it would happen. We tried to avoid setting it unless we knew we need it. Unfortunately, that had led to recurring class of bugs, in which we missed the need to set it. We only really need it for dentries that are created by d_alloc_pseudo(), so let's not bother with trying to be smart - just make having an RCU delay the default. The ones that do *not* get it set the replacement flag (DCACHE_NORCU) and we'd better use that sparingly. d_alloc_pseudo() is the only such user right now. FWIW, the race that finally prompted that switch had been between __lock_parent() of immediate subdirectory of what's currently the root of a disconnected tree (e.g. from open-by-handle in progress) racing with d_splice_alias() elsewhere picking another alias for the same inode, either on outright corrupted fs image, or (in case of open-by-handle on NFS) that subdirectory having been just moved on server. It's not easy to hit, so the sky is not falling, but that's not the first race on similar missed cases and the logics for settinf DCACHE_RCUACCESS has gotten ridiculously convoluted. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2018-11-02Merge tag 'xfs-4.20-merge-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfs-linuxLinus Torvalds
Pull vfs dedup fixes from Dave Chinner: "This reworks the vfs data cloning infrastructure. We discovered many issues with these interfaces late in the 4.19 cycle - the worst of them (data corruption, setuid stripping) were fixed for XFS in 4.19-rc8, but a larger rework of the infrastructure fixing all the problems was needed. That rework is the contents of this pull request. Rework the vfs_clone_file_range and vfs_dedupe_file_range infrastructure to use a common .remap_file_range method and supply generic bounds and sanity checking functions that are shared with the data write path. The current VFS infrastructure has problems with rlimit, LFS file sizes, file time stamps, maximum filesystem file sizes, stripping setuid bits, etc and so they are addressed in these commits. We also introduce the ability for the ->remap_file_range methods to return short clones so that clones for vfs_copy_file_range() don't get rejected if the entire range can't be cloned. It also allows filesystems to sliently skip deduplication of partial EOF blocks if they are not capable of doing so without requiring errors to be thrown to userspace. Existing filesystems are converted to user the new remap_file_range method, and both XFS and ocfs2 are modified to make use of the new generic checking infrastructure" * tag 'xfs-4.20-merge-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfs-linux: (28 commits) xfs: remove [cm]time update from reflink calls xfs: remove xfs_reflink_remap_range xfs: remove redundant remap partial EOF block checks xfs: support returning partial reflink results xfs: clean up xfs_reflink_remap_blocks call site xfs: fix pagecache truncation prior to reflink ocfs2: remove ocfs2_reflink_remap_range ocfs2: support partial clone range and dedupe range ocfs2: fix pagecache truncation prior to reflink ocfs2: truncate page cache for clone destination file before remapping vfs: clean up generic_remap_file_range_prep return value vfs: hide file range comparison function vfs: enable remap callers that can handle short operations vfs: plumb remap flags through the vfs dedupe functions vfs: plumb remap flags through the vfs clone functions vfs: make remap_file_range functions take and return bytes completed vfs: remap helper should update destination inode metadata vfs: pass remap flags to generic_remap_checks vfs: pass remap flags to generic_remap_file_range_prep vfs: combine the clone and dedupe into a single remap_file_range ...
2018-10-30vfs: combine the clone and dedupe into a single remap_file_rangeDarrick J. Wong
Combine the clone_file_range and dedupe_file_range operations into a single remap_file_range file operation dispatch since they're fundamentally the same operation. The differences between the two can be made in the prep functions. Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
2018-10-10Document d_splice_alias() calling conventions for ->lookup() users.Al Viro
Short version: it does the right thing when given NULL or ERR_PTR(...) and its calling conventions are chosen to have minimal PITA when used in ->lookup() instances. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2018-07-12document alloc_file() changesAl Viro
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2018-07-12document ->atomic_open() changesAl Viro
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2017-11-05vfs: grab the lock instead of blocking in __fd_install during resizingMateusz Guzik
Explicit locking in the fallback case provides a safe state of the table. Getting rid of blocking semantics makes __fd_install usable again in non-sleepable contexts, which easies backporting efforts. There is a side effect of slightly nicer assembly for the common case as might_sleep can now be removed. Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mguzik@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2017-07-17VFS: Differentiate mount flags (MS_*) from internal superblock flagsDavid Howells
Differentiate the MS_* flags passed to mount(2) from the internal flags set in the super_block's s_flags. s_flags are now called SB_*, with the names and the values for the moment mirroring the MS_* flags that they're equivalent to. In this patch, just the headers are altered and some kernel code where blind automated conversion isn't necessarily correct. Note that this shows up some interesting issues: (1) Some MS_* flags get translated to MNT_* flags (such as MS_NODEV -> MNT_NODEV) without passing this on to the filesystem, but some filesystems set such flags anyway. (2) The ->remount_fs() methods of some filesystems adjust the *flags argument by setting MS_* flags in it, such as MS_NOATIME - but these flags are then scrubbed by do_remount_sb() (only the occupants of MS_RMT_MASK are permitted: MS_RDONLY, MS_SYNCHRONOUS, MS_MANDLOCK, MS_I_VERSION and MS_LAZYTIME) I'm not sure what's the best way to solve all these cases. Suggested-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2017-04-03Documentation/filesystems: fix documentation for ->getattr()Eric Biggers
Following the recent merge of statx, correct the documented prototype for the ->getattr() inode operation, and add an entry to the porting file. Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2016-12-09vfs: default to generic_readlink()Miklos Szeredi
If i_op->readlink is NULL, but i_op->get_link is set then vfs_readlink() defaults to calling generic_readlink(). The IOP_DEFAULT_READLINK flag indicates that the above conditions are met and the default action can be taken. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
2016-10-10Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs Pull more vfs updates from Al Viro: ">rename2() work from Miklos + current_time() from Deepa" * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: fs: Replace current_fs_time() with current_time() fs: Replace CURRENT_TIME_SEC with current_time() for inode timestamps fs: Replace CURRENT_TIME with current_time() for inode timestamps fs: proc: Delete inode time initializations in proc_alloc_inode() vfs: Add current_time() api vfs: add note about i_op->rename changes to porting fs: rename "rename2" i_op to "rename" vfs: remove unused i_op->rename fs: make remaining filesystems use .rename2 libfs: support RENAME_NOREPLACE in simple_rename() fs: support RENAME_NOREPLACE for local filesystems ncpfs: fix unused variable warning
2016-09-27vfs: add note about i_op->rename changes to portingMiklos Szeredi
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
2016-09-22fs: Give dentry to inode_change_ok() instead of inodeJan Kara
inode_change_ok() will be resposible for clearing capabilities and IMA extended attributes and as such will need dentry. Give it as an argument to inode_change_ok() instead of an inode. Also rename inode_change_ok() to setattr_prepare() to better relect that it does also some modifications in addition to checks. Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2016-07-31get rid of 'parent' argument of ->d_compare()Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2016-05-27switch ->setxattr() to passing dentry and inode separatelyAl Viro
smack ->d_instantiate() uses ->setxattr(), so to be able to call it before we'd hashed the new dentry and attached it to inode, we need ->setxattr() instances getting the inode as an explicit argument rather than obtaining it from dentry. Similar change for ->getxattr() had been done in commit ce23e64. Unlike ->getxattr() (which is used by both selinux and smack instances of ->d_instantiate()) ->setxattr() is used only by smack one and unfortunately it got missed back then. Reported-by: Seung-Woo Kim <sw0312.kim@samsung.com> Tested-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2016-05-02lookup_open(): lock the parent shared unless O_CREAT is givenAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2016-05-02introduce a parallel variant of ->iterate()Al Viro
New method: ->iterate_shared(). Same arguments as in ->iterate(), called with the directory locked only shared. Once all filesystems switch, the old one will be gone. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2016-05-02parallel lookups: actual switch to rwsemAl Viro
ta-da! The main issue is the lack of down_write_killable(), so the places like readdir.c switched to plain inode_lock(); once killable variants of rwsem primitives appear, that'll be dealt with. lockdep side also might need more work Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2016-05-02parallel lookups machinery, part 2Al Viro
We'll need to verify that there's neither a hashed nor in-lookup dentry with desired parent/name before adding to in-lookup set. One possible solution would be to hold the parent's ->d_lock through both checks, but while the in-lookup set is relatively small at any time, dcache is not. And holding the parent's ->d_lock through something like __d_lookup_rcu() would suck too badly. So we leave the parent's ->d_lock alone, which means that we watch out for the following scenario: * we verify that there's no hashed match * existing in-lookup match gets hashed by another process * we verify that there's no in-lookup matches and decide that everything's fine. Solution: per-directory kinda-sorta seqlock, bumped around the times we hash something that used to be in-lookup or move (and hash) something in place of in-lookup. Then the above would turn into * read the counter * do dcache lookup * if no matches found, check for in-lookup matches * if there had been none of those either, check if the counter has changed; repeat if it has. The "kinda-sorta" part is due to the fact that we don't have much spare space in inode. There is a spare word (shared with i_bdev/i_cdev/i_pipe), so the counter part is not a problem, but spinlock is a different story. We could use the parent's ->d_lock, and it would be less painful in terms of contention, for __d_add() it would be rather inconvenient to grab; we could do that (using lock_parent()), but... Fortunately, we can get serialization on the counter itself, and it might be a good idea in general; we can use cmpxchg() in a loop to get from even to odd and smp_store_release() from odd to even. This commit adds the counter and updating logics; the readers will be added in the next commit. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2016-04-11->getxattr(): pass dentry and inode as separate argumentsAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2016-01-14Make sure that highmem pages are not added to symlink page cacheAl Viro
inode_nohighmem() is sufficient to make sure that page_get_link() won't try to allocate a highmem page. Moreover, it is sufficient to make sure that page_symlink/__page_symlink won't do the same thing. However, any filesystem that manually preseeds the symlink's page cache upon symlink(2) needs to make sure that the page it inserts there won't be a highmem one. Fortunately, only nfs and shmem have run afoul of that... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2015-12-30switch ->get_link() to delayed_call, kill ->put_link()Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2015-12-08replace ->follow_link() with new method that could stay in RCU modeAl Viro
new method: ->get_link(); replacement of ->follow_link(). The differences are: * inode and dentry are passed separately * might be called both in RCU and non-RCU mode; the former is indicated by passing it a NULL dentry. * when called that way it isn't allowed to block and should return ERR_PTR(-ECHILD) if it needs to be called in non-RCU mode. It's a flagday change - the old method is gone, all in-tree instances converted. Conversion isn't hard; said that, so far very few instances do not immediately bail out when called in RCU mode. That'll change in the next commits. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2015-12-08don't put symlink bodies in pagecache into highmemAl Viro
kmap() in page_follow_link_light() needed to go - allowing to hold an arbitrary number of kmaps for long is a great way to deadlocking the system. new helper (inode_nohighmem(inode)) needs to be used for pagecache symlinks inodes; done for all in-tree cases. page_follow_link_light() instrumented to yell about anything missed. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2015-07-04Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs Pull more vfs updates from Al Viro: "Assorted VFS fixes and related cleanups (IMO the most interesting in that part are f_path-related things and Eric's descriptor-related stuff). UFS regression fixes (it got broken last cycle). 9P fixes. fs-cache series, DAX patches, Jan's file_remove_suid() work" [ I'd say this is much more than "fixes and related cleanups". The file_table locking rule change by Eric Dumazet is a rather big and fundamental update even if the patch isn't huge. - Linus ] * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (49 commits) 9p: cope with bogus responses from server in p9_client_{read,write} p9_client_write(): avoid double p9_free_req() 9p: forgetting to cancel request on interrupted zero-copy RPC dax: bdev_direct_access() may sleep block: Add support for DAX reads/writes to block devices dax: Use copy_from_iter_nocache dax: Add block size note to documentation fs/file.c: __fget() and dup2() atomicity rules fs/file.c: don't acquire files->file_lock in fd_install() fs:super:get_anon_bdev: fix race condition could cause dev exceed its upper limitation vfs: avoid creation of inode number 0 in get_next_ino namei: make set_root_rcu() return void make simple_positive() public ufs: use dir_pages instead of ufs_dir_pages() pagemap.h: move dir_pages() over there remove the pointless include of lglock.h fs: cleanup slight list_entry abuse xfs: Correctly lock inode when removing suid and file capabilities fs: Call security_ops->inode_killpriv on truncate fs: Provide function telling whether file_remove_privs() will do anything ...
2015-07-01fs/file.c: don't acquire files->file_lock in fd_install()Eric Dumazet
Mateusz Guzik reported : Currently obtaining a new file descriptor results in locking fdtable twice - once in order to reserve a slot and second time to fill it. Holding the spinlock in __fd_install() is needed in case a resize is done, or to prevent a resize. Mateusz provided an RFC patch and a micro benchmark : http://people.redhat.com/~mguzik/pipebench.c A resize is an unlikely operation in a process lifetime, as table size is at least doubled at every resize. We can use RCU instead of the spinlock. __fd_install() must wait if a resize is in progress. The resize must block new __fd_install() callers from starting, and wait that ongoing install are finished (synchronize_sched()) resize should be attempted by a single thread to not waste resources. rcu_sched variant is used, as __fd_install() and expand_fdtable() run from process context. It gives us a ~30% speedup using pipebench on a dual Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2696 v2 @ 2.50GHz Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Reported-by: Mateusz Guzik <mguzik@redhat.com> Acked-by: Mateusz Guzik <mguzik@redhat.com> Tested-by: Mateusz Guzik <mguzik@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2015-06-24Merge tag 'docs-for-linus' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "The main thing here is Ingo's big subdirectory documenting feature support for each architecture. Beyond that, it's the usual pile of fixes, tweaks, and small additions" * tag 'docs-for-linus' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6: (79 commits) doc:md: fix typo in md.txt. Documentation/mic/mpssd: don't build x86 userspace when cross compiling Documentation/prctl: don't build tsc tests when cross compiling Documentation/vDSO: don't build tests when cross compiling Doc:ABI/testing: Fix typo in sysfs-bus-fcoe Doc: Docbook: Change wikipedia's URL from http to https in scsi.tmpl Doc: Change wikipedia's URL from http to https Documentation/kernel-parameters: add missing pciserial to the earlyprintk Doc:pps: Fix typo in pps.txt kbuild : Fix documentation of INSTALL_HDR_PATH Documentation: filesystems: updated struct file_operations documentation in vfs.txt kbuild: edit explanation of clean-files variable Doc: ja_JP: Fix typo in HOWTO Move freefall program from Documentation/ to tools/ Documentation: ARM: EXYNOS: Describe boot loaders interface Doc:nfc: Fix typo in nfc-hci.txt vfs: Minor documentation fix Doc: networking: txtimestamp: fix printf format warning Documentation, intel_pstate: Improve legacy mode internal governors description Documentation: extend use case for EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() ...
2015-06-05vfs: Minor documentation fixAndreas Gruenbacher
The check_acl inode operation and the IPERM_FLAG_RCU flag are long gone; update the documentation. Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2015-05-15update Documentation/filesystems/ regarding the follow_link/put_link changesAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2015-04-11->aio_read and ->aio_write removedAl Viro
no remaining users Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2015-04-11make new_sync_{read,write}() staticAl Viro
All places outside of core VFS that checked ->read and ->write for being NULL or called the methods directly are gone now, so NULL {read,write} with non-NULL {read,write}_iter will do the right thing in all cases. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2014-11-19kill f_dentry macroAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2014-11-19switch d_materialise_unique() users to d_splice_alias()Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2014-04-03mm + fs: store shadow entries in page cacheJohannes Weiner
Reclaim will be leaving shadow entries in the page cache radix tree upon evicting the real page. As those pages are found from the LRU, an iput() can lead to the inode being freed concurrently. At this point, reclaim must no longer install shadow pages because the inode freeing code needs to ensure the page tree is really empty. Add an address_space flag, AS_EXITING, that the inode freeing code sets under the tree lock before doing the final truncate. Reclaim will check for this flag before installing shadow pages. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Luigi Semenzato <semenzato@google.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Metin Doslu <metin@citusdata.com> Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Cc: Ozgun Erdogan <ozgun@citusdata.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Roman Gushchin <klamm@yandex-team.ru> Cc: Ryan Mallon <rmallon@gmail.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-11-09iget/iget5: don't bother with ->i_lock until we find a matchAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-09-10fs: remove vfs_follow_linkChristoph Hellwig
For a long time no filesystem has been using vfs_follow_link, and as seen by recent filesystem submissions any new use is accidental as well. Remove vfs_follow_link, document the replacement in Documentation/filesystems/porting and also rename __vfs_follow_link to match its only caller better. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-06-29[readdir] ->readdir() is goneAl Viro
everything's converted to ->iterate() Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-06-29[readdir] introduce iterate_dir() and dir_contextAl Viro
iterate_dir(): new helper, replacing vfs_readdir(). struct dir_context: contains the readdir callback (and will get more stuff in it), embedded into whatever data that callback wants to deal with; eventually, we'll be passing it to ->readdir() replacement instead of (data,filldir) pair. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-02-26vfs: kill FS_REVAL_DOT by adding a d_weak_revalidate dentry opJeff Layton
The following set of operations on a NFS client and server will cause server# mkdir a client# cd a server# mv a a.bak client# sleep 30 # (or whatever the dir attrcache timeout is) client# stat . stat: cannot stat `.': Stale NFS file handle Obviously, we should not be getting an ESTALE error back there since the inode still exists on the server. The problem is that the lookup code will call d_revalidate on the dentry that "." refers to, because NFS has FS_REVAL_DOT set. nfs_lookup_revalidate will see that the parent directory has changed and will try to reverify the dentry by redoing a LOOKUP. That of course fails, so the lookup code returns ESTALE. The problem here is that d_revalidate is really a bad fit for this case. What we really want to know at this point is whether the inode is still good or not, but we don't really care what name it goes by or whether the dcache is still valid. Add a new d_op->d_weak_revalidate operation and have complete_walk call that instead of d_revalidate. The intent there is to allow for a "weaker" d_revalidate that just checks to see whether the inode is still good. This is also gives us an opportunity to kill off the FS_REVAL_DOT special casing. [AV: changed method name, added note in porting, fixed confusion re having it possibly called from RCU mode (it won't be)] Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-12-20documentation: drop vmtruncateMarco Stornelli
Removed vmtruncate Signed-off-by: Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>