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Ian Kent 8c13a676d5 autofs4: Remove unused code
Remove code that is not used due to the use of ->d_automount()
and ->d_manage().

Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-01-15 20:07:39 -05:00
Ian Kent b5b801779d autofs4: Add d_manage() dentry operation
This patch required a previous patch to add the ->d_automount()
dentry operation.

Add a function to use the newly defined ->d_manage() dentry operation
for blocking during mount and expire.

Whether the VFS calls the dentry operations d_automount() and d_manage()
is controled by the DMANAGED_AUTOMOUNT and DMANAGED_TRANSIT flags. autofs
uses the d_automount() operation to callback to user space to request
mount operations and the d_manage() operation to block walks into mounts
that are under construction or destruction.

In order to prevent these functions from being called unnecessarily the
DMANAGED_* flags are cleared for cases which would cause this. In the
common case the DMANAGED_AUTOMOUNT and DMANAGED_TRANSIT flags are both
set for dentrys waiting to be mounted. The DMANAGED_TRANSIT flag is
cleared upon successful mount request completion and set during expire
runs, both during the dentry expire check, and if selected for expire,
is left set until a subsequent successful mount request completes.

The exception to this is the so-called rootless multi-mount which has
no actual mount at its base. In this case the DMANAGED_AUTOMOUNT flag
is cleared upon successful mount request completion as well and set
again after a successful expire.

Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-01-15 20:07:38 -05:00
Ian Kent 10584211e4 autofs4: Add d_automount() dentry operation
Add a function to use the newly defined ->d_automount() dentry operation
for triggering mounts instead of doing the user space callback in ->lookup()
and ->d_revalidate().

Note, to be useful the subsequent patch to add the ->d_manage() dentry
operation is also needed so the discussion of functionality is deferred to
that patch.

Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-01-15 20:07:37 -05:00
David Howells db3729153e Remove the automount through follow_link() kludge code from pathwalk
Remove the automount through follow_link() kludge code from pathwalk in favour
of using d_automount().

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-01-15 20:07:36 -05:00
David Howells 01c64feac4 CIFS: Use d_automount() rather than abusing follow_link()
Make CIFS use the new d_automount() dentry operation rather than abusing
follow_link() on directories.

[NOTE: THIS IS UNTESTED!]

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Steve French <sfrench@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-01-15 20:07:35 -05:00
David Howells 36d43a4376 NFS: Use d_automount() rather than abusing follow_link()
Make NFS use the new d_automount() dentry operation rather than abusing
follow_link() on directories.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-01-15 20:07:34 -05:00
David Howells d18610b0ce AFS: Use d_automount() rather than abusing follow_link()
Make AFS use the new d_automount() dentry operation rather than abusing
follow_link() on directories.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-01-15 20:07:33 -05:00
David Howells 6f45b65672 Add an AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT flag to suppress terminal automount
Add an AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT flag to suppress terminal automounting of automount
point directories.  This can be used by fstatat() users to permit the
gathering of attributes on an automount point and also prevent
mass-automounting of a directory of automount points by ls.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-01-15 20:07:33 -05:00
David Howells cc53ce53c8 Add a dentry op to allow processes to be held during pathwalk transit
Add a dentry op (d_manage) to permit a filesystem to hold a process and make it
sleep when it tries to transit away from one of that filesystem's directories
during a pathwalk.  The operation is keyed off a new dentry flag
(DCACHE_MANAGE_TRANSIT).

The filesystem is allowed to be selective about which processes it holds and
which it permits to continue on or prohibits from transiting from each flagged
directory.  This will allow autofs to hold up client processes whilst letting
its userspace daemon through to maintain the directory or the stuff behind it
or mounted upon it.

The ->d_manage() dentry operation:

	int (*d_manage)(struct path *path, bool mounting_here);

takes a pointer to the directory about to be transited away from and a flag
indicating whether the transit is undertaken by do_add_mount() or
do_move_mount() skipping through a pile of filesystems mounted on a mountpoint.

It should return 0 if successful and to let the process continue on its way;
-EISDIR to prohibit the caller from skipping to overmounted filesystems or
automounting, and to use this directory; or some other error code to return to
the user.

->d_manage() is called with namespace_sem writelocked if mounting_here is true
and no other locks held, so it may sleep.  However, if mounting_here is true,
it may not initiate or wait for a mount or unmount upon the parameter
directory, even if the act is actually performed by userspace.

Within fs/namei.c, follow_managed() is extended to check with d_manage() first
on each managed directory, before transiting away from it or attempting to
automount upon it.

follow_down() is renamed follow_down_one() and should only be used where the
filesystem deliberately intends to avoid management steps (e.g. autofs).

A new follow_down() is added that incorporates the loop done by all other
callers of follow_down() (do_add/move_mount(), autofs and NFSD; whilst AFS, NFS
and CIFS do use it, their use is removed by converting them to use
d_automount()).  The new follow_down() calls d_manage() as appropriate.  It
also takes an extra parameter to indicate if it is being called from mount code
(with namespace_sem writelocked) which it passes to d_manage().  follow_down()
ignores automount points so that it can be used to mount on them.

__follow_mount_rcu() is made to abort rcu-walk mode if it hits a directory with
DCACHE_MANAGE_TRANSIT set on the basis that we're probably going to have to
sleep.  It would be possible to enter d_manage() in rcu-walk mode too, and have
that determine whether to abort or not itself.  That would allow the autofs
daemon to continue on in rcu-walk mode.

Note that DCACHE_MANAGE_TRANSIT on a directory should be cleared when it isn't
required as every tranist from that directory will cause d_manage() to be
invoked.  It can always be set again when necessary.

==========================
WHAT THIS MEANS FOR AUTOFS
==========================

Autofs currently uses the lookup() inode op and the d_revalidate() dentry op to
trigger the automounting of indirect mounts, and both of these can be called
with i_mutex held.

autofs knows that the i_mutex will be held by the caller in lookup(), and so
can drop it before invoking the daemon - but this isn't so for d_revalidate(),
since the lock is only held on _some_ of the code paths that call it.  This
means that autofs can't risk dropping i_mutex from its d_revalidate() function
before it calls the daemon.

The bug could manifest itself as, for example, a process that's trying to
validate an automount dentry that gets made to wait because that dentry is
expired and needs cleaning up:

	mkdir         S ffffffff8014e05a     0 32580  24956
	Call Trace:
	 [<ffffffff885371fd>] :autofs4:autofs4_wait+0x674/0x897
	 [<ffffffff80127f7d>] avc_has_perm+0x46/0x58
	 [<ffffffff8009fdcf>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x2e
	 [<ffffffff88537be6>] :autofs4:autofs4_expire_wait+0x41/0x6b
	 [<ffffffff88535cfc>] :autofs4:autofs4_revalidate+0x91/0x149
	 [<ffffffff80036d96>] __lookup_hash+0xa0/0x12f
	 [<ffffffff80057a2f>] lookup_create+0x46/0x80
	 [<ffffffff800e6e31>] sys_mkdirat+0x56/0xe4

versus the automount daemon which wants to remove that dentry, but can't
because the normal process is holding the i_mutex lock:

	automount     D ffffffff8014e05a     0 32581      1              32561
	Call Trace:
	 [<ffffffff80063c3f>] __mutex_lock_slowpath+0x60/0x9b
	 [<ffffffff8000ccf1>] do_path_lookup+0x2ca/0x2f1
	 [<ffffffff80063c89>] .text.lock.mutex+0xf/0x14
	 [<ffffffff800e6d55>] do_rmdir+0x77/0xde
	 [<ffffffff8005d229>] tracesys+0x71/0xe0
	 [<ffffffff8005d28d>] tracesys+0xd5/0xe0

which means that the system is deadlocked.

This patch allows autofs to hold up normal processes whilst the daemon goes
ahead and does things to the dentry tree behind the automouter point without
risking a deadlock as almost no locks are held in d_manage() and none in
d_automount().

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Was-Acked-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-01-15 20:07:31 -05:00
David Howells 9875cf8064 Add a dentry op to handle automounting rather than abusing follow_link()
Add a dentry op (d_automount) to handle automounting directories rather than
abusing the follow_link() inode operation.  The operation is keyed off a new
dentry flag (DCACHE_NEED_AUTOMOUNT).

This also makes it easier to add an AT_ flag to suppress terminal segment
automount during pathwalk and removes the need for the kludge code in the
pathwalk algorithm to handle directories with follow_link() semantics.

The ->d_automount() dentry operation:

	struct vfsmount *(*d_automount)(struct path *mountpoint);

takes a pointer to the directory to be mounted upon, which is expected to
provide sufficient data to determine what should be mounted.  If successful, it
should return the vfsmount struct it creates (which it should also have added
to the namespace using do_add_mount() or similar).  If there's a collision with
another automount attempt, NULL should be returned.  If the directory specified
by the parameter should be used directly rather than being mounted upon,
-EISDIR should be returned.  In any other case, an error code should be
returned.

The ->d_automount() operation is called with no locks held and may sleep.  At
this point the pathwalk algorithm will be in ref-walk mode.

Within fs/namei.c itself, a new pathwalk subroutine (follow_automount()) is
added to handle mountpoints.  It will return -EREMOTE if the automount flag was
set, but no d_automount() op was supplied, -ELOOP if we've encountered too many
symlinks or mountpoints, -EISDIR if the walk point should be used without
mounting and 0 if successful.  The path will be updated to point to the mounted
filesystem if a successful automount took place.

__follow_mount() is replaced by follow_managed() which is more generic
(especially with the patch that adds ->d_manage()).  This handles transits from
directories during pathwalk, including automounting and skipping over
mountpoints (and holding processes with the next patch).

__follow_mount_rcu() will jump out of RCU-walk mode if it encounters an
automount point with nothing mounted on it.

follow_dotdot*() does not handle automounts as you don't want to trigger them
whilst following "..".

I've also extracted the mount/don't-mount logic from autofs4 and included it
here.  It makes the mount go ahead anyway if someone calls open() or creat(),
tries to traverse the directory, tries to chdir/chroot/etc. into the directory,
or sticks a '/' on the end of the pathname.  If they do a stat(), however,
they'll only trigger the automount if they didn't also say O_NOFOLLOW.

I've also added an inode flag (S_AUTOMOUNT) so that filesystems can mark their
inodes as automount points.  This flag is automatically propagated to the
dentry as DCACHE_NEED_AUTOMOUNT by __d_instantiate().  This saves NFS and could
save AFS a private flag bit apiece, but is not strictly necessary.  It would be
preferable to do the propagation in d_set_d_op(), but that doesn't normally
have access to the inode.

[AV: fixed breakage in case if __follow_mount_rcu() fails and nameidata_drop_rcu()
succeeds in RCU case of do_lookup(); we need to fall through to non-RCU case after
that, rather than just returning with ungrabbed *path]

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Was-Acked-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-01-15 20:05:03 -05:00
Al Viro 1a8edf40e7 do_lookup() fix
do_lookup() has a path leading from LOOKUP_RCU case to non-RCU
crossing of mountpoints, which breaks things badly.  If we
hit need_revalidate: and do nothing in there, we need to come
back into LOOKUP_RCU half of things, not to done: in non-RCU
one.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-01-15 20:03:39 -05:00
Tejun Heo 0ad53eeefc afs: add afs_wq and use it instead of the system workqueue
flush_scheduled_work() is going away.  afs needs to make sure all the
works it has queued have finished before being unloaded and there can
be arbitrary number of pending works.  Add afs_wq and use it as the
flush domain instead of the system workqueue.

Also, convert cancel_delayed_work() + flush_scheduled_work() to
cancel_delayed_work_sync() in afs_mntpt_kill_timer().

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-14 09:25:11 -08:00
Akshat Aranya ba28b93a52 FS-Cache: Fix operation handling
fscache_submit_exclusive_op() adds an operation to the pending list if
other operations are pending.  Fix the check for pending ops as n_ops
must be greater than 0 at the point it is checked as it is incremented
immediately before under lock.

Signed-off-by: Akshat Aranya <aranya@nec-labs.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-14 09:23:36 -08:00
Linus Torvalds acda4721ae Merge branch 'vfs-scale-working' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/npiggin/linux-npiggin
* 'vfs-scale-working' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/npiggin/linux-npiggin:
  kernel: fix hlist_bl again
  cgroups: Fix a lockdep warning at cgroup removal
  fs: namei fix ->put_link on wrong inode in do_filp_open
2011-01-14 09:08:29 -08:00
Nick Piggin 7b9337aaf9 fs: namei fix ->put_link on wrong inode in do_filp_open
J. R. Okajima noticed that ->put_link is being attempted on the
wrong inode, and suggested the way to fix it. I changed it a bit
according to Al's suggestion to keep an explicit link path around.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-14 08:42:43 +00:00
Linus Torvalds db9effe99a Merge branch 'vfs-scale-working' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/npiggin/linux-npiggin
* 'vfs-scale-working' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/npiggin/linux-npiggin:
  fs: fix do_last error case when need_reval_dot
  nfs: add missing rcu-walk check
  fs: hlist UP debug fixup
  fs: fix dropping of rcu-walk from force_reval_path
  fs: force_reval_path drop rcu-walk before d_invalidate
  fs: small rcu-walk documentation fixes

Fixed up trivial conflicts in Documentation/filesystems/porting
2011-01-13 20:14:13 -08:00
J. R. Okajima f20877d94a fs: fix do_last error case when need_reval_dot
When open(2) without O_DIRECTORY opens an existing dir, it should return
EISDIR. In do_last(), the variable 'error' is initialized EISDIR, but it
is changed by d_revalidate() which returns any positive to represent
'the target dir is valid.'

Should we keep and return the initialized 'error' in this case.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-14 03:56:04 +00:00
Nick Piggin 657e94b673 nfs: add missing rcu-walk check
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-14 02:48:39 +00:00
Nick Piggin 90dbb77ba4 fs: fix dropping of rcu-walk from force_reval_path
As J. R. Okajima noted, force_reval_path passes in the same dentry to
d_revalidate as the one in the nameidata structure (other callers pass in a
child), so the locking breaks. This can oops with a chrooted nfs mount, for
example. Similarly there can be other problems with revalidating a dentry
which is already in nameidata of the path walk.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-14 02:36:19 +00:00
Nick Piggin bb20c18db6 fs: force_reval_path drop rcu-walk before d_invalidate
d_revalidate can return in rcu-walk mode even when it returns 0.  We can't just
call any old dcache function on rcu-walk dentry (the dentry is unstable, so
even through d_lock can safely be taken, the result may no longer be what we
expect -- careful re-checks would be required). So just drop rcu in this case.

(I missed this conversion when switching to the rcu-walk convention that Linus
suggested)

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-14 02:35:53 +00:00
Stefan Hajnoczi cb9ef8d5e3 fs/fs-writeback.c: fix sync_inodes_sb() return value kernel-doc
The sync_inodes_sb() function does not have a return value.  Remove the
outdated documentation comment.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 17:32:48 -08:00
Andrea Arcangeli 5f24ce5fd3 thp: remove PG_buddy
PG_buddy can be converted to _mapcount == -2.  So the PG_compound_lock can
be added to page->flags without overflowing (because of the sparse section
bits increasing) with CONFIG_X86_PAE=y and CONFIG_X86_PAT=y.  This also
has to move the memory hotplug code from _mapcount to lru.next to avoid
any risk of clashes.  We can't use lru.next for PG_buddy removal, but
memory hotplug can use lru.next even more easily than the mapcount
instead.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 17:32:43 -08:00
Andrea Arcangeli 79134171df thp: transparent hugepage vmstat
Add hugepage stat information to /proc/vmstat and /proc/meminfo.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 17:32:43 -08:00
Mandeep Singh Baines dabb16f639 oom: allow a non-CAP_SYS_RESOURCE proces to oom_score_adj down
We'd like to be able to oom_score_adj a process up/down as it
enters/leaves the foreground.  Currently, it is not possible to oom_adj
down without CAP_SYS_RESOURCE.  This patch allows a task to decrease its
oom_score_adj back to the value that a CAP_SYS_RESOURCE thread set it to
or its inherited value at fork.  Assuming the thread that has forked it
has oom_score_adj of 0, each process could decrease it back from 0 upon
activation unless a CAP_SYS_RESOURCE thread elevated it to something
higher.

Alternative considered:

* a setuid binary
* a daemon with CAP_SYS_RESOURCE

Since you don't wan't all processes to be able to reduce their oom_adj, a
setuid or daemon implementation would be complex.  The alternatives also
have much higher overhead.

This patch updated from original patch based on feedback from David
Rientjes.

Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 17:32:35 -08:00
Nikanth Karthikesan 2d90508f63 mm: smaps: export mlock information
Currently there is no way to find whether a process has locked its pages
in memory or not.  And which of the memory regions are locked in memory.

Add a new field "Locked" to export this information via the smaps file.

Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.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>
2011-01-13 17:32:33 -08:00
Hai Shan c32b0d4b3f fs/mpage.c: consolidate code
Merge mpage_end_io_read() and mpage_end_io_write() into mpage_end_io() to
eliminate code duplication.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Hai Shan <shan.hai@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 17:32:32 -08:00
Andrew Morton c691b9d983 sync_inode_metadata: fix comment
Use correct function name, remove incorrect apostrophe

Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 17:32:32 -08:00
Jan Kara b9543dac5b writeback: avoid livelocking WB_SYNC_ALL writeback
When wb_writeback() is called in WB_SYNC_ALL mode, work->nr_to_write is
usually set to LONG_MAX.  The logic in wb_writeback() then calls
__writeback_inodes_sb() with nr_to_write == MAX_WRITEBACK_PAGES and we
easily end up with non-positive nr_to_write after the function returns, if
the inode has more than MAX_WRITEBACK_PAGES dirty pages at the moment.

When nr_to_write is <= 0 wb_writeback() decides we need another round of
writeback but this is wrong in some cases!  For example when a single
large file is continuously dirtied, we would never finish syncing it
because each pass would be able to write MAX_WRITEBACK_PAGES and inode
dirty timestamp never gets updated (as inode is never completely clean).
Thus __writeback_inodes_sb() would write the redirtied inode again and
again.

Fix the issue by setting nr_to_write to LONG_MAX in WB_SYNC_ALL mode.  We
do not need nr_to_write in WB_SYNC_ALL mode anyway since
write_cache_pages() does livelock avoidance using page tagging in
WB_SYNC_ALL mode.

This makes wb_writeback() call __writeback_inodes_sb() only once on
WB_SYNC_ALL.  The latter function won't livelock because it works on

- a finite set of files by doing queue_io() once at the beginning
- a finite set of pages by PAGECACHE_TAG_TOWRITE page tagging

After this patch, program from http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/10/24/154 is no
longer able to stall sync forever.

[fengguang.wu@intel.com: fix locking comment]
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 17:32:32 -08:00
Jan Kara aa373cf550 writeback: stop background/kupdate works from livelocking other works
Background writeback is easily livelockable in a loop in wb_writeback() by
a process continuously re-dirtying pages (or continuously appending to a
file).  This is in fact intended as the target of background writeback is
to write dirty pages it can find as long as we are over
dirty_background_threshold.

But the above behavior gets inconvenient at times because no other work
queued in the flusher thread's queue gets processed.  In particular, since
e.g.  sync(1) relies on flusher thread to do all the IO for it, sync(1)
can hang forever waiting for flusher thread to do the work.

Generally, when a flusher thread has some work queued, someone submitted
the work to achieve a goal more specific than what background writeback
does.  Moreover by working on the specific work, we also reduce amount of
dirty pages which is exactly the target of background writeout.  So it
makes sense to give specific work a priority over a generic page cleaning.

Thus we interrupt background writeback if there is some other work to do.
We return to the background writeback after completing all the queued
work.

This may delay the writeback of expired inodes for a while, however the
expired inodes will eventually be flushed to disk as long as the other
works won't livelock.

[fengguang.wu@intel.com: update comment]
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 17:32:32 -08:00
Wu Fengguang 71927e84e0 writeback: trace wakeup event for background writeback
This tracks when balance_dirty_pages() tries to wakeup the flusher thread
for background writeback (if it was not started already).

Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 17:32:32 -08:00
Jan Kara 6585027a5e writeback: integrated background writeback work
Check whether background writeback is needed after finishing each work.

When bdi flusher thread finishes doing some work check whether any kind of
background writeback needs to be done (either because
dirty_background_ratio is exceeded or because we need to start flushing
old inodes).  If so, just do background write back.

This way, bdi_start_background_writeback() just needs to wake up the
flusher thread.  It will do background writeback as soon as there is no
other work.

This is a preparatory patch for the next patch which stops background
writeback as soon as there is other work to do.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 17:32:32 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 6254b32b57 ecryptfs: fix broken build
Stephen Rothwell reports that the vfs merge broke the build of ecryptfs.
The breakage comes from commit 66cb76666d ("sanitize ecryptfs
->mount()") which was obviously not even build tested. Tssk, tssk, Al.

This is the minimal build fixup for the situation, although I don't have
a filesystem to actually test it with.

Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 17:19:38 -08:00
Trond Myklebust 8a0eebf66e NFS: Fix NFSv3 exclusive open semantics
Commit c0204fd2b8 (NFS: Clean up
nfs4_proc_create()) broke NFSv3 exclusive open by removing the code
that passes the O_EXCL flag down to nfs3_proc_create(). This patch
reverts that offending hunk from the original commit.

Reported-by: Nick Bowler <nbowler@elliptictech.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org    [2.6.37]
Tested-by: Nick Bowler <nbowler@elliptictech.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 12:06:29 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 275220f0fc Merge branch 'for-2.6.38/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-2.6.38/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (43 commits)
  block: ensure that completion error gets properly traced
  blktrace: add missing probe argument to block_bio_complete
  block cfq: don't use atomic_t for cfq_group
  block cfq: don't use atomic_t for cfq_queue
  block: trace event block fix unassigned field
  block: add internal hd part table references
  block: fix accounting bug on cross partition merges
  kref: add kref_test_and_get
  bio-integrity: mark kintegrityd_wq highpri and CPU intensive
  block: make kblockd_workqueue smarter
  Revert "sd: implement sd_check_events()"
  block: Clean up exit_io_context() source code.
  Fix compile warnings due to missing removal of a 'ret' variable
  fs/block: type signature of major_to_index(int) to major_to_index(unsigned)
  block: convert !IS_ERR(p) && p to !IS_ERR_NOR_NULL(p)
  cfq-iosched: don't check cfqg in choose_service_tree()
  fs/splice: Pull buf->ops->confirm() from splice_from_pipe actors
  cdrom: export cdrom_check_events()
  sd: implement sd_check_events()
  sr: implement sr_check_events()
  ...
2011-01-13 10:45:01 -08:00
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 #2)
  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 a170315420 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:
  rbd: fix cleanup when trying to mount inexistent image
  net/ceph: make ceph_msgr_wq non-reentrant
  ceph: fsc->*_wq's aren't used in memory reclaim path
  ceph: Always free allocated memory in osdmap_decode()
  ceph: Makefile: Remove unnessary code
  ceph: associate requests with opening sessions
  ceph: drop redundant r_mds field
  ceph: implement DIRLAYOUTHASH feature to get dir layout from MDS
  ceph: add dir_layout to inode
2011-01-13 10:25:24 -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
Stefani Seibold 6f772fe65c cramfs: generate unique inode number for better inode cache usage
Generate a unique inode numbers for any entries in the cram file system.
For files which did not contain data's (device nodes, fifos and sockets)
the offset of the directory entry inside the cramfs plus 1 will be used as
inode number.

The + 1 for the inode will it make possible to distinguish between a file
which contains no data and files which has data, the later one has a inode
value where the lower two bits are always 0.

It also reimplements the behavior to set the size and the number of block
to 0 for special file, which is the right value for empty files, devices,
fifos and sockets

As a little benefit it will be also more compatible which older mkcramfs,
because it will never use the cramfs_inode->offset for creating a inode
number for special files.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: trivial comment fix]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 08:03:23 -08:00
Jeff Moyer d3486f8b9e aio: remove unused aio_run_iocbs()
aio_run_iocbs() is not used at all, so get rid of it.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 08:03:22 -08:00
Namhyung Kim 2e41025598 aio: remove unnecessary check
'nr >= min_nr >= 0' always satisfies 'nr >= 0' so the check is unnecesary.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 08:03:22 -08:00
Namhyung Kim e6d7202b66 fs/char_dev.c: remove unused cdev_index()
Commit 66fa12c571 ("ieee1394: remove the old IEEE 1394 driver stack")
eliminated the only user of cdev_index().  So it can be removed too.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 08:03:17 -08:00
Dave Anderson ceff1a7709 /proc/kcore: fix seeking
Commit 34aacb2920 ("procfs: Use generic_file_llseek in /proc/kcore") broke
seeking on /proc/kcore.  This changes it back to use default_llseek in
order to restore the original behavior.

The problem with generic_file_llseek is that it only allows seeks up to
inode->i_sb->s_maxbytes, which is 2GB-1 on procfs, where the memory file
offset values in the /proc/kcore PT_LOAD segments may exceed or start
beyond that offset value.

A similar revert was made for /proc/vmcore.

Signed-off-by: Dave Anderson <anderson@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 08:03:17 -08:00
Alexey Dobriyan bf33cbdf8a proc: move proc_console.c to fs/proc/consoles.c
Filename is supposed to match procfile name for random junk.

Add __init while I'm at it.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 08:03:17 -08:00
Alexey Dobriyan 3740a20c4f proc: less LOCK/UNLOCK in remove_proc_entry()
For the common case where a proc entry is being removed and nobody is in
the process of using it, save a LOCK/UNLOCK pair.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 08:03:17 -08:00
Petr Holasek a6fc86d2b4 kpagecount: add slab page checking because _mapcount is in a union
Add a PageSlab() check before adding the _mapcount value to /kpagecount.
page->_mapcount is in a union with the SLAB structure so for pages
controlled by SLAB, page_mapcount() returns nonsense.

Signed-off-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.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>
2011-01-13 08:03:17 -08:00
Jovi Zhang c6a3405846 proc: use single_open() correctly
single_open()'s third argument is for copying into seq_file->private.  Use
that, rather than open-coding it.

Signed-off-by: Jovi Zhang <bookjovi@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
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>
2011-01-13 08:03:16 -08:00
Alexey Dobriyan 6d1b6e4eff proc: ->low_ino cleanup
- ->low_ino is write-once field -- reading it under locks is unnecessary.

- /proc/$PID stuff never reaches pde_put()/free_proc_entry() --
   PROC_DYNAMIC_FIRST check never triggers.

- in proc_get_inode(), inode number always matches proc dir entry, so
  save one parameter.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 08:03:16 -08:00
Alexey Dobriyan 9d6de12f70 proc: use seq_puts()/seq_putc() where possible
For string without format specifiers, use seq_puts().
For seq_printf("\n"), use seq_putc('\n').

   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
  61866	    488	    112	  62466	   f402	fs/proc/proc.o
  61729	    488	    112	  62329	   f379	fs/proc/proc.o
  ----------------------------------------------------
  			   -139

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 08:03:16 -08:00
Alexey Dobriyan a2ade7b6ca proc: use unsigned long inside /proc/*/statm
/proc/*/statm code needlessly truncates data from unsigned long to int.
One needs only 8+ TB of RAM to make truncation visible.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 08:03:16 -08:00
Joe Perches 34e49d4f63 fs/proc/base.c, kernel/latencytop.c: convert sprintf_symbol() to %ps
Use temporary lr for struct latency_record for improved readability and
fewer columns used.  Removed trailing space from output.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <trivial@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 08:03:16 -08:00