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Andy Adamson 591d71cbde nfs41: establish sessions-based clientid
nfsv4.1 clientid is established via EXCHANGE_ID rather than
SETCLIENTID{,_CONFIRM}

This is implemented using a new establish_clid method in
nfs4_state_recovery_ops.

nfs41: establish clientid via exchange id only if cred != NULL

>From 2.6.26 reclaimer() uses machine cred for setting up the client id
therefore it is never expected to be NULL.

Signed-off-by: Rahul Iyer <iyer@netapp.com>
[removed dprintk]
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
[nfs41: lease renewal]
[revamped patch for new nfs4_state_manager design]
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-06-17 12:25:11 -07:00
Andy Adamson a7b721037f nfs41: introduce get_state_renewal_cred
Use the machine cred for sending SEQUENCE to renew
the client's lease.

[revamp patch for new state management design starting 2.6.29]
[nfs41: support minorversion 1 for nfs4_check_lease]
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
[nfs41: get cred in exchange_id when cred arg is NULL]
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
[nfs41: use cl_machined_cred instead of cl_ex_cred]
    Since EXCHANGE_ID insists on using the machine credential, cl_ex_cred is
    not needed. nfs4_proc_exchange_id() is only called if the machine credential
    is available. Remove the credential logic from nfs4_proc_exchange_id.
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-06-17 12:25:11 -07:00
Benny Halevy 8e69514f29 nfs41: support minorversion 1 for nfs4_check_lease
[moved nfs4_get_renew_cred related changes to
 "nfs41: introduce get_state_renewal_cred"]
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-06-17 12:25:10 -07:00
Andy Adamson c3fad1b1aa nfs41: add session reset to state manager
Move the code to reset a session from the session_reclaimer to the
nfs4_state_manager.  Destroy the session, and create a new one. Treat
NFS4ERR_BADSESSION and NFS4ERR_DEADSESSION as a successful
nfs4_proc_destroy_session. Signal nfs4_proc_create_session that this is a
session reset so that the session slot table is re-used.

If the clientid is stale, set both NFS4CLNT_LEASE_EXPIRED and
NFS4CLNT_SESSION_SETUP bits and retry.

Use a switch statement in nfs4_session_recovery_handle_error for future
patche which will add handling for other errors.

Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>

[nfs41: session reset in nfs4_recovery_handle_error]
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
[nfs41: reset session on nfs4_do_reclaim session reset error]
    If nfs4_do_reclaim gets a session reset error, nfs4_recovery_handle_error
    will set the NFS4CLNT_SESSION_SETUP bit, and the state manager should
    continue processing to reset the session.
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
[move nfs4_proc_destroy_session declaration here]
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-06-17 12:25:06 -07:00
Andy Adamson 76db6d9500 nfs41: add session setup to the state manager
At mount, nfs_alloc_client sets the cl_state NFS4CLNT_LEASE_EXPIRED bit
and nfs4_alloc_session sets the NFS4CLNT_SESSION_SETUP bit, so both bits are
set when nfs4_lookup_root calls nfs4_recover_expired_lease which schedules
the nfs4_state_manager and waits for it to complete.

Place the session setup after the clientid establishment in nfs4_state_manager
so that the session is setup right after the clientid has been established
without rescheduling the state manager.

Unlike nfsv4.0, the nfs_client struct is not ready to use until the session
has been established.  Postpone marking the nfs_client struct to NFS_CS_READY
until after a successful CREATE_SESSION call so that other threads cannot use
the client until the session is established.

If the EXCHANGE_ID call fails and the session has not been setup (the
NFS4CLNT_SESSION_SETUP bit is set), mark the client with the error and return.

If the session setup CREATE_SESSION call fails with NFS4ERR_STALE_CLIENTID
which could occur due to server reboot or network partition inbetween the
EXCHANGE_ID and CREATE_SESSION call, reset the NFS4CLNT_LEASE_EXPIRED and
NFS4CLNT_SESSION_SETUP bits and try again.

If the CREATE_SESSION call fails with other errors, mark the client with
the error and return.

Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>

[nfs41: NFS_CS_SESSION_SETUP cl_cons_state for back channel setup]
  On session setup, the CREATE_SESSION reply races with the server back channel
  probe which needs to succeed to setup the back channel. Set a new
  cl_cons_state NFS_CS_SESSION_SETUP just prior to the CREATE_SESSION call
  and add it as a valid state to nfs_find_client so that the client back channel
  can find the nfs_client struct and won't drop the server backchannel probe.
  Use a new cl_cons_state so that NFSv4.0 back channel behaviour which only
  sets NFS_CS_READY is unchanged.
  Adjust waiting on the nfs_client_active_wq accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>

[nfs41: rename NFS_CS_SESSION_SETUP to NFS_CS_SESSION_INITING]
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
[nfs41: set NFS_CL_SESSION_INITING in alloc_session]
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
[nfs41: move session setup into a function]
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
[moved nfs4_proc_create_session declaration here]
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-06-17 12:25:06 -07:00
Benny Halevy c2e713dd83 nfs41: translate NFS4ERR_MINOR_VERS_MISMATCH to EPROTONOSUPPORT
To be returned to the mount command when trying to mount a v4 server
using minorversion 1.

Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-06-17 10:46:18 -07:00
Chuck Lever f738f51703 NFS: Start PF_INET6 callback listener only if IPv6 support is available
Apparently a lot of people need to disable IPv6 completely on their
distributor-built systems, which have CONFIG_IPV6_MODULE enabled at
build time.

They do this by blacklisting the ipv6.ko module.  This causes the
creation of the NFSv4 callback service listener to fail if
CONFIG_IPV6_MODULE is set, but the module cannot be loaded.

Now that the kernel's PF_INET6 RPC listeners are completely separate
from PF_INET listeners, we can always start PF_INET.  Then the NFS
client can try to start a PF_INET6 listener, but it isn't required
to be available.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-03-28 16:02:43 -04:00
Trond Myklebust dc0b027dfa NFSv4: Convert the open and close ops to use fmode
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-12-23 15:21:56 -05:00
Trond Myklebust b0d3ded1a2 NFSv4: Clean up nfs_expire_all_delegations()
Let the actual delegreturn stuff be run in the state manager thread rather
than allocating a separate kthread.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-12-23 15:21:50 -05:00
Trond Myklebust 0d62f85a81 NFSv4: Fix a BAD_SEQUENCEID condition.
We really shouldn't be resetting the sequence ids when doing state
expiration recovery, since we don't know if the server still remembers our
previous state owners. There are servers out there that do attempt to
preserve client state even if the lease has expired. Such a server would
only release that state if a conflicting OPEN request occurs.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-12-23 15:21:49 -05:00
Trond Myklebust f3c76491e7 NFSv4: Don't exit the state management if there are still tasks to do
Fix up a potential race...

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-12-23 15:21:48 -05:00
Trond Myklebust e005e8041c NFSv4: Rename the state reclaimer thread
It is really a more general purpose state management thread at this point.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-12-23 15:21:48 -05:00
Trond Myklebust 707fb4b324 NFSv4: Clean up NFS4ERR_CB_PATH_DOWN error management...
Add a delegation cleanup phase to the state management loop, and do the
NFS4ERR_CB_PATH_DOWN recovery there.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-12-23 15:21:47 -05:00
Trond Myklebust 9e33bed552 NFSv4: Add recovery for individual stateids
NFSv4 defines a number of state errors which the client does not currently
handle. Among those we should worry about are:
  NFS4ERR_ADMIN_REVOKED - the server's administrator revoked our locks
  			  and/or delegations.
  NFS4ERR_BAD_STATEID - the client and server are out of sync, possibly
                        due to a delegation return racing with an OPEN
			request.
  NFS4ERR_OPENMODE - the client attempted to do something not sanctioned
  		     by the open mode of the stateid. Should normally just
		     occur as a result of a delegation return race.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-12-23 15:21:46 -05:00
Trond Myklebust 95d35cb4c4 NFSv4: Remove nfs_client->cl_sem
Now that we're using the flags to indicate state that needs to be
recovered, as well as having implemented proper refcounting and spinlocking
on the state and open_owners, we can get rid of nfs_client->cl_sem. The
only remaining case that was dubious was the file locking, and that case is
now covered by the nfsi->rwsem.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-12-23 15:21:45 -05:00
Trond Myklebust 19e03c570e NFSv4: Ensure that file unlock requests don't conflict with state recovery
The unlock path is currently failing to take the nfs_client->cl_sem read
lock, and hence the recovery path may see locks disappear from underneath
it.
Also ensure that it takes the nfs_inode->rwsem read lock so that it there
is no conflict with delegation recalls.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-12-23 15:21:44 -05:00
Trond Myklebust fe1d81952e NFSv4: Ensure that nfs4_reclaim_open_state() doesn't depend on cl_sem
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-12-23 15:21:43 -05:00
Trond Myklebust 7eff03aec9 NFSv4: Add a recovery marking scheme for state owners
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-12-23 15:21:43 -05:00
Trond Myklebust 0f605b5600 NFSv4: Don't tell server we rebooted when not necessary
Instead of doing a full setclientid, try doing a RENEW call first.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-12-23 15:21:42 -05:00
Trond Myklebust e598d843c0 NFSv4: Remove redundant RENEW calls if we know the lease has expired
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-12-23 15:21:42 -05:00
Trond Myklebust b79a4a1b45 NFSv4: Fix state recovery when the client runs over the grace period
If the client for some reason is not able to recover all its state within
the time allotted for the grace period, and the server reboots again, the
client is not allowed to recover the state that was 'lost' using reboot
recovery.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-12-23 15:21:41 -05:00
Trond Myklebust 6dc9d57af9 NFSv4: Callers to nfs4_get_renew_cred() need to hold nfs_client->cl_lock
Ditto for nfs4_get_setclientid_cred().

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-12-23 15:21:41 -05:00
Trond Myklebust 0286001430 NFSv4: Clean up for the state loss reclaimer
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-12-23 15:21:40 -05:00
Trond Myklebust f839c4c199 NFSv4: Remove BKL from the nfsv4 state recovery
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-07-15 18:10:57 -04:00
Adrian Bunk 1d2e88e73e nfs: make nfs4_drop_state_owner() static
nfs4_drop_state_owner() can now become static.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-05-16 09:43:31 -07:00
Harvey Harrison 3110ff8048 nfs: replace remaining __FUNCTION__ occurrences
__FUNCTION__ is gcc-specific, use __func__

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-05-16 09:43:29 -07:00
Trond Myklebust a2b2bb8822 NFSv4: Attempt to use machine credentials in SETCLIENTID calls
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-04-19 16:54:59 -04:00
Trond Myklebust f6a1cc8930 SUNRPC: Add a (empty for the moment) destructor for rpc_wait_queues
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-02-28 23:17:27 -08:00
Trond Myklebust 5d00837b90 SUNRPC: Run rpc timeout functions as callbacks instead of in softirqs
An audit of the current RPC timeout functions shows that they don't really
ever need to run in the softirq context. As long as the softirq is
able to signal that the wakeup is due to a timeout (which it can do by
setting task->tk_status to -ETIMEDOUT) then the callback functions can just
run as standard task->tk_callback functions (in the rpciod/process
context).

The only possible border-line case would be xprt_timer() for the case of
UDP, when the callback is used to reduce the size of the transport
congestion window. In testing, however, the effect of moving that update
to a callback would appear to be minor.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-02-25 21:40:44 -08:00
Harvey Harrison 90dc7d2796 nfs: fix sparse warnings
fs/nfs/nfs4state.c:788:34: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer
fs/nfs/delegation.c:52:34: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer
fs/nfs/idmap.c:312:12: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer
fs/nfs/callback_xdr.c:257:6: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer
fs/nfs/callback_xdr.c:270:6: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer
fs/nfs/callback_xdr.c:281:6: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-02-20 16:15:44 -05:00
Dan Muntz 497799e7c0 NFS: missing spaces in KERN_WARNING
The warning message for a v4 server returning various bad sequence-ids is
missing spaces.

Signed-off-by: Dan Muntz <dmuntz@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-02-13 23:24:06 -05:00
Chuck Lever 5d8515caeb NFS: eliminate NIPQUAD(clp->cl_addr.sin_addr)
To ensure the NFS client displays IPv6 addresses properly, replace
address family-specific NIPQUAD() invocations with a call to the RPC
client to get a formatted string representing the remote peer's
address.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Cc: Aurelien Charbon <aurelien.charbon@ext.bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-01-30 02:05:52 -05:00
Trond Myklebust 2f74c0a056 NFSv4: Clean up the OPEN/CLOSE serialisation code
Reduce the time spent locking the rpc_sequence structure by queuing the
nfs_seqid only when we are ready to take the lock (when calling
nfs_wait_on_sequence).

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-01-30 02:05:24 -05:00
Trond Myklebust d0dc3701cb NFSv4: Give the lock stateid its own sequence queue
Sharing the open sequence queue causes a deadlock when we try to take
both a lock sequence id and and open sequence id.

This fixes the regression reported by Dimitri Puzin and Jeff Garzik: See

	http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9712

for details.

Reported-and-tested-by: Dimitri Puzin <bugs@psycast.de>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Tested-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-01-10 13:35:32 -08:00
Trond Myklebust a49c3c7736 NFSv4: Ensure that we wait for the CLOSE request to complete
Otherwise, we do end up breaking close-to-open semantics. We also end up
breaking some of the silly-rename tests in Connectathon on some setups.

Please refer to the bug-report at
	http://bugzilla.linux-nfs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=150

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-10-19 17:19:25 -04:00
Trond Myklebust cd3758e37d NFS: Replace file->private_data with calls to nfs_file_open_context()
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-10-09 17:18:31 -04:00
Trond Myklebust ba683031fa NFSv4: Fix a locking regression in nfs4_set_mode_locked()
We don't really need to clear &state->inode_states inside
nfs4_set_mode_locked, and doing so without holding the inode->i_lock would
in any case be a bug...

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-08-07 15:13:18 -04:00
Trond Myklebust 6f2e64d3e1 NFSv4: Make the NFS state model work with the nosharedcache mount option
Consider the case where the user has mounted the remote filesystem
server:/foo on the two local directories /bar and /baz using the
nosharedcache mount option. The files /bar/file and /baz/file are
represented by different inodes in the local namespace, but refer to the
same file /foo/file on the server.
Consider the case where a process opens both /bar/file and /baz/file, then
closes /bar/file: because the nfs4_state is not shared between /bar/file
and /baz/file, the kernel will see that the nfs4_state for /bar/file is no
longer referenced, so it will send off a CLOSE rpc call. Unless the
open_owners differ, then that CLOSE call will invalidate the open state on
/baz/file too.

Conclusion: we cannot share open state owners between two different
non-shared mount instances of the same filesystem.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-07-10 23:40:48 -04:00
Trond Myklebust 8bda4e4c98 NFSv4: Fix up stateid locking...
We really don't need to grab both the state->so_owner and the
inode->i_lock.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-07-10 23:40:43 -04:00
Trond Myklebust 6f43ddccb3 NFSv4: Improve the debugging of bad sequence id errors...
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-07-10 23:40:42 -04:00
Trond Myklebust 003707c722 NFSv4: Always use the delegation if we have one
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-07-10 23:40:41 -04:00
Trond Myklebust 1c816efa24 NFSv4: Fix a bug in __nfs4_find_state_byowner
The test for state->state == 0 does not tell you that the stateid is in the
process of being freed. It really tells you that the stateid is not yet
initialised...

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-07-10 23:40:40 -04:00
Trond Myklebust 9f958ab885 NFSv4: Reduce the chances of an open_owner identifier collision
Currently we just use a 32-bit counter.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-07-10 23:40:39 -04:00
Trond Myklebust 88d9093997 NFSv4: nfs_increment_open_seqid should not return a value
It is a void function...

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-07-10 23:40:39 -04:00
Trond Myklebust 7af654f8d1 NFSv4: Don't reuse expired nfs4_state_owner structs
That just confuses certain NFSv4 servers.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-07-10 23:40:38 -04:00
Trond Myklebust 27b3f949b7 NFSv4: Fix a credential reference leak in nfs4_get_state_owner()
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-07-10 23:40:38 -04:00
Trond Myklebust b39e625b6e NFSv4: Clean up nfs4_call_async()
Use rpc_run_task() instead of doing it ourselves.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-07-10 23:40:24 -04:00
Trond Myklebust 4a35bd41af NFSv4: Ensure that nfs4_do_close() doesn't race with umount
nfs4_do_close() does not currently have any way to ensure that the user
won't attempt to unmount the partition while the asynchronous RPC call
is completing. This again may cause Oopses in nfs_update_inode().

Add a vfsmount argument to nfs4_close_state to ensure that the partition
remains mounted while we're closing the file.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-07-10 23:40:24 -04:00
Trond Myklebust 10afec9081 NFS: Fix some 'sparse' warnings...
- fs/nfs/dir.c:610:8: warning: symbol 'nfs_llseek_dir' was not declared.
   Should it be static?
 - fs/nfs/dir.c:636:5: warning: symbol 'nfs_fsync_dir' was not declared.
   Should it be static?
 - fs/nfs/write.c:925:19: warning: symbol 'req' shadows an earlier one
 - fs/nfs/write.c:61:6: warning: symbol 'nfs_commit_rcu_free' was not
   declared. Should it be static?
 - fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c:793:5: warning: symbol 'nfs4_recover_expired_lease'
   was not declared. Should it be static?

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-05-14 19:33:46 -04:00
David Howells 54ceac4515 NFS: Share NFS superblocks per-protocol per-server per-FSID
The attached patch makes NFS share superblocks between mounts from the same
server and FSID over the same protocol.

It does this by creating each superblock with a false root and returning the
real root dentry in the vfsmount presented by get_sb(). The root dentry set
starts off as an anonymous dentry if we don't already have the dentry for its
inode, otherwise it simply returns the dentry we already have.

We may thus end up with several trees of dentries in the superblock, and if at
some later point one of anonymous tree roots is discovered by normal filesystem
activity to be located in another tree within the superblock, the anonymous
root is named and materialises attached to the second tree at the appropriate
point.

Why do it this way? Why not pass an extra argument to the mount() syscall to
indicate the subpath and then pathwalk from the server root to the desired
directory? You can't guarantee this will work for two reasons:

 (1) The root and intervening nodes may not be accessible to the client.

     With NFS2 and NFS3, for instance, mountd is called on the server to get
     the filehandle for the tip of a path. mountd won't give us handles for
     anything we don't have permission to access, and so we can't set up NFS
     inodes for such nodes, and so can't easily set up dentries (we'd have to
     have ghost inodes or something).

     With this patch we don't actually create dentries until we get handles
     from the server that we can use to set up their inodes, and we don't
     actually bind them into the tree until we know for sure where they go.

 (2) Inaccessible symbolic links.

     If we're asked to mount two exports from the server, eg:

	mount warthog:/warthog/aaa/xxx /mmm
	mount warthog:/warthog/bbb/yyy /nnn

     We may not be able to access anything nearer the root than xxx and yyy,
     but we may find out later that /mmm/www/yyy, say, is actually the same
     directory as the one mounted on /nnn. What we might then find out, for
     example, is that /warthog/bbb was actually a symbolic link to
     /warthog/aaa/xxx/www, but we can't actually determine that by talking to
     the server until /warthog is made available by NFS.

     This would lead to having constructed an errneous dentry tree which we
     can't easily fix. We can end up with a dentry marked as a directory when
     it should actually be a symlink, or we could end up with an apparently
     hardlinked directory.

     With this patch we need not make assumptions about the type of a dentry
     for which we can't retrieve information, nor need we assume we know its
     place in the grand scheme of things until we actually see that place.

This patch reduces the possibility of aliasing in the inode and page caches for
inodes that may be accessed by more than one NFS export. It also reduces the
number of superblocks required for NFS where there are many NFS exports being
used from a server (home directory server + autofs for example).

This in turn makes it simpler to do local caching of network filesystems, as it
can then be guaranteed that there won't be links from multiple inodes in
separate superblocks to the same cache file.

Obviously, cache aliasing between different levels of NFS protocol could still
be a problem, but at least that gives us another key to use when indexing the
cache.

This patch makes the following changes:

 (1) The server record construction/destruction has been abstracted out into
     its own set of functions to make things easier to get right.  These have
     been moved into fs/nfs/client.c.

     All the code in fs/nfs/client.c has to do with the management of
     connections to servers, and doesn't touch superblocks in any way; the
     remaining code in fs/nfs/super.c has to do with VFS superblock management.

 (2) The sequence of events undertaken by NFS mount is now reordered:

     (a) A volume representation (struct nfs_server) is allocated.

     (b) A server representation (struct nfs_client) is acquired.  This may be
     	 allocated or shared, and is keyed on server address, port and NFS
     	 version.

     (c) If allocated, the client representation is initialised.  The state
     	 member variable of nfs_client is used to prevent a race during
     	 initialisation from two mounts.

     (d) For NFS4 a simple pathwalk is performed, walking from FH to FH to find
     	 the root filehandle for the mount (fs/nfs/getroot.c).  For NFS2/3 we
     	 are given the root FH in advance.

     (e) The volume FSID is probed for on the root FH.

     (f) The volume representation is initialised from the FSINFO record
     	 retrieved on the root FH.

     (g) sget() is called to acquire a superblock.  This may be allocated or
     	 shared, keyed on client pointer and FSID.

     (h) If allocated, the superblock is initialised.

     (i) If the superblock is shared, then the new nfs_server record is
     	 discarded.

     (j) The root dentry for this mount is looked up from the root FH.

     (k) The root dentry for this mount is assigned to the vfsmount.

 (3) nfs_readdir_lookup() creates dentries for each of the entries readdir()
     returns; this function now attaches disconnected trees from alternate
     roots that happen to be discovered attached to a directory being read (in
     the same way nfs_lookup() is made to do for lookup ops).

     The new d_materialise_unique() function is now used to do this, thus
     permitting the whole thing to be done under one set of locks, and thus
     avoiding any race between mount and lookup operations on the same
     directory.

 (4) The client management code uses a new debug facility: NFSDBG_CLIENT which
     is set by echoing 1024 to /proc/net/sunrpc/nfs_debug.

 (5) Clone mounts are now called xdev mounts.

 (6) Use the dentry passed to the statfs() op as the handle for retrieving fs
     statistics rather than the root dentry of the superblock (which is now a
     dummy).

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-09-22 23:24:37 -04:00