This patch provides a new macro
KMEM_CACHE(<struct>, <flags>)
to simplify slab creation. KMEM_CACHE creates a slab with the name of the
struct, with the size of the struct and with the alignment of the struct.
Additional slab flags may be specified if necessary.
Example
struct test_slab {
int a,b,c;
struct list_head;
} __cacheline_aligned_in_smp;
test_slab_cache = KMEM_CACHE(test_slab, SLAB_PANIC)
will create a new slab named "test_slab" of the size sizeof(struct
test_slab) and aligned to the alignment of test slab. If it fails then we
panic.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
invalidate_bdev() is superfluous when truncate_inode_pages() is also
called. do call invalidate_bh_lrus() though, to avoid stale pointers.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Remove duplicate work in kill_bdev().
It currently invalidates and then truncates the bdev's mapping.
invalidate_mapping_pages() will opportunistically remove pages from the
mapping. And truncate_inode_pages() will forcefully remove all pages.
The only thing truncate doesn't do is flush the bh lrus. So do that
explicitly. This avoids (very unlikely) but possible invalid lookup
results if the same bdev is quickly re-issued.
It also will prevent extreme kernel latencies which are observed when
blockdevs which have a large amount of pagecache are unmounted, by avoiding
invalidate_mapping_pages() on that path. invalidate_mapping_pages() has no
cond_resched (it can be called under spinlock), whereas truncate_inode_pages()
has one.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: restore nrpages==0 optimisation]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Remove the destroy_dirty_buffers argument from invalidate_bdev(), it hasn't
been used in 6 years (so akpm says).
find * -name \*.[ch] | xargs grep -l invalidate_bdev |
while read file; do
quilt add $file;
sed -ie 's/invalidate_bdev(\([^,]*\),[^)]*)/invalidate_bdev(\1)/g' $file;
done
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
If we add a new flag so that we can distinguish between the first page and the
tail pages then we can avoid to use page->private in the first page.
page->private == page for the first page, so there is no real information in
there.
Freeing up page->private makes the use of compound pages more transparent.
They become more usable like real pages. Right now we have to be careful f.e.
if we are going beyond PAGE_SIZE allocations in the slab on i386 because we
can then no longer use the private field. This is one of the issues that
cause us not to support debugging for page size slabs in SLAB.
Having page->private available for SLUB would allow more meta information in
the page struct. I can probably avoid the 16 bit ints that I have in there
right now.
Also if page->private is available then a compound page may be equipped with
buffer heads. This may free up the way for filesystems to support larger
blocks than page size.
We add PageTail as an alias of PageReclaim. Compound pages cannot currently
be reclaimed. Because of the alias one needs to check PageCompound first.
The RFC for the this approach was discussed at
http://marc.info/?t=117574302800001&r=1&w=2
[nacc@us.ibm.com: fix hugetlbfs]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Adds /proc/pid/clear_refs. When any non-zero number is written to this file,
pte_mkold() and ClearPageReferenced() is called for each pte and its
corresponding page, respectively, in that task's VMAs. This file is only
writable by the user who owns the task.
It is now possible to measure _approximately_ how much memory a task is using
by clearing the reference bits with
echo 1 > /proc/pid/clear_refs
and checking the reference count for each VMA from the /proc/pid/smaps output
at a measured time interval. For example, to observe the approximate change
in memory footprint for a task, write a script that clears the references
(echo 1 > /proc/pid/clear_refs), sleeps, and then greps for Pgs_Referenced and
extracts the size in kB. Add the sizes for each VMA together for the total
referenced footprint. Moments later, repeat the process and observe the
difference.
For example, using an efficient Mozilla:
accumulated time referenced memory
---------------- -----------------
0 s 408 kB
1 s 408 kB
2 s 556 kB
3 s 1028 kB
4 s 872 kB
5 s 1956 kB
6 s 416 kB
7 s 1560 kB
8 s 2336 kB
9 s 1044 kB
10 s 416 kB
This is a valuable tool to get an approximate measurement of the memory
footprint for a task.
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes]
[mpm@selenic.com: rename for_each_pmd]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Adds an additional unsigned long field to struct mem_size_stats called
'referenced'. For each pte walked in the smaps code, this field is
incremented by PAGE_SIZE if it has pte-reference bits.
An additional line was added to the /proc/pid/smaps output for each VMA to
indicate how many pages within it are currently marked as referenced or
accessed.
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Extracts the pmd walker from smaps-specific code in fs/proc/task_mmu.c.
The new struct pmd_walker includes the struct vm_area_struct of the memory to
walk over. Iteration begins at the vma->vm_start and completes at
vma->vm_end. A pointer to another data structure may be stored in the private
field such as struct mem_size_stats, which acts as the smaps accumulator. For
each pmd in the VMA, the action function is called with a pointer to its
struct vm_area_struct, a pointer to the pmd_t, its start and end addresses,
and the private field.
The interface for walking pmd's in a VMA for fs/proc/task_mmu.c is now:
void for_each_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
void (*action)(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr,
unsigned long end,
void *private),
void *private);
Since the pmd walker is now extracted from the smaps code, smaps_one_pmd() is
invoked for each pmd in the VMA. Its behavior and efficiency is identical to
the existing implementation.
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
__block_write_full_page is calling SetPageUptodate without the page locked.
This is unusual, but not incorrect, as PG_writeback is still set.
However the next patch will require that SetPageUptodate always be called with
the page locked. Simply don't bother setting the page uptodate in this case
(it is unusual that the write path does such a thing anyway). Instead just
leave it to the read side to bring the page uptodate when it notices that all
buffers are uptodate.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Ensure pages are uptodate after returning from read_cache_page, which allows
us to cut out most of the filesystem-internal PageUptodate calls.
I didn't have a great look down the call chains, but this appears to fixes 7
possible use-before uptodate in hfs, 2 in hfsplus, 1 in jfs, a few in
ecryptfs, 1 in jffs2, and a possible cleared data overwritten with readpage in
block2mtd. All depending on whether the filler is async and/or can return
with a !uptodate page.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add a proper prototype for hugetlb_get_unmapped_area() in
include/linux/hugetlb.h.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-by: William Irwin <wli@holomorphy.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6:
[CIFS] Fix typo in cifs readme from previous commit
[CIFS] Make sec=none force an anonymous mount
[CIFS] Change semaphore to mutex for cifs lock_sem
[CIFS] Fix oops in reset_cifs_unix_caps on reconnect
[CIFS] UID/GID override on CIFS mounts to Samba
[CIFS] prefixpath mounts to servers supporting posix paths used wrong slash
[CIFS] Update cifs version to 1.49
[CIFS] Replace kmalloc/memset combination with kzalloc
[CIFS] Add IPv6 support
[CIFS] New CIFS POSIX mkdir performance improvement (part 2)
[CIFS] New CIFS POSIX mkdir performance improvement
[CIFS] Add write perm for usr to file on windows should remove r/o dos attr
[CIFS] Remove unnecessary parm to cifs_reopen_file
[CIFS] Switch cifsd to kthread_run from kernel_thread
[CIFS] Remove unnecessary checks
* 'for-linus' of git://one.firstfloor.org/home/andi/git/linux-2.6: (231 commits)
[PATCH] i386: Don't delete cpu_devs data to identify different x86 types in late_initcall
[PATCH] i386: type may be unused
[PATCH] i386: Some additional chipset register values validation.
[PATCH] i386: Add missing !X86_PAE dependincy to the 2G/2G split.
[PATCH] x86-64: Don't exclude asm-offsets.c in Documentation/dontdiff
[PATCH] i386: avoid redundant preempt_disable in __unlazy_fpu
[PATCH] i386: white space fixes in i387.h
[PATCH] i386: Drop noisy e820 debugging printks
[PATCH] x86-64: Fix allnoconfig error in genapic_flat.c
[PATCH] x86-64: Shut up warnings for vfat compat ioctls on other file systems
[PATCH] x86-64: Share identical video.S between i386 and x86-64
[PATCH] x86-64: Remove CONFIG_REORDER
[PATCH] x86-64: Print type and size correctly for unknown compat ioctls
[PATCH] i386: Remove copy_*_user BUG_ONs for (size < 0)
[PATCH] i386: Little cleanups in smpboot.c
[PATCH] x86-64: Don't enable NUMA for a single node in K8 NUMA scanning
[PATCH] x86: Use RDTSCP for synchronous get_cycles if possible
[PATCH] i386: Add X86_FEATURE_RDTSCP
[PATCH] i386: Implement X86_FEATURE_SYNC_RDTSC on i386
[PATCH] i386: Implement alternative_io for i386
...
Fix up trivial conflict in include/linux/highmem.h manually.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mfasheh/ocfs2:
ocfs2: Force use of GFP_NOFS in ocfs2_write()
ocfs2: fix sparse warnings in fs/ocfs2/cluster
ocfs2: fix sparse warnings in fs/ocfs2/dlm
ocfs2: fix sparse warnings in fs/ocfs2
[PATCH] Copy i_flags to ocfs2 inode flags on write
[PATCH] ocfs2: use __set_current_state()
ocfs2: Wrap access of directory allocations with ip_alloc_sem.
[PATCH] fs/ocfs2/: make 3 functions static
ocfs2: Implement compat_ioctl()
We had a customer report that attempting to make CIFS mount with a null
username (i.e. doing an anonymous mount) doesn't work. Looking through the
code, it looks like CIFS expects a NULL username from userspace in order
to trigger an anonymous mount. The mount.cifs code doesn't seem to ever
pass a null username to the kernel, however.
It looks also like the kernel can take a sec=none option, but it only seems
to look at it if the username is already NULL. This seems redundant and
effectively makes sec=none useless.
The following patch makes sec=none force an anonymous mount.
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
* git://git.linux-nfs.org/pub/linux/nfs-2.6: (28 commits)
NFS: Fix a compile glitch on 64-bit systems
NFS: Clean up nfs_create_request comments
spkm3: initialize hash
spkm3: remove bad kfree, unnecessary export
spkm3: fix spkm3's use of hmac
NFS4: invalidate cached acl on setacl
NFS: Fix directory caching problem - with test case and patch.
NFS: Set meaningful value for fattr->time_start in readdirplus results.
NFS: Added support to turn off the NFSv3 READDIRPLUS RPC.
SUNRPC: RPC client should retry with different versions of rpcbind
SUNRPC: remove old portmapper
NFS: switch NFSROOT to use new rpcbind client
SUNRPC: switch the RPC server to use the new rpcbind registration API
SUNRPC: switch socket-based RPC transports to use rpcbind
SUNRPC: introduce rpcbind: replacement for in-kernel portmapper
SUNRPC: Eliminate side effects from rpc_malloc
SUNRPC: RPC buffer size estimates are too large
NLM: Shrink the maximum request size of NLM4 requests
NFS: Use pgoff_t in structures and functions that pass page cache offsets
NFS: Clean up nfs_sync_mapping_wait()
...
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (49 commits)
[SCTP]: Set assoc_id correctly during INIT collision.
[SCTP]: Re-order SCTP initializations to avoid race with sctp_rcv()
[SCTP]: Fix the SO_REUSEADDR handling to be similar to TCP.
[SCTP]: Verify all destination ports in sctp_connectx.
[XFRM] SPD info TLV aggregation
[XFRM] SAD info TLV aggregationx
[AF_RXRPC]: Sort out MTU handling.
[AF_IUCV/IUCV] : Add missing section annotations
[AF_IUCV]: Implementation of a skb backlog queue
[NETLINK]: Remove bogus BUG_ON
[IPV6]: Some cleanups in include/net/ipv6.h
[TCP]: zero out rx_opt in tcp_disconnect()
[BNX2]: Fix TSO problem with small MSS.
[NET]: Rework dev_base via list_head (v3)
[TCP] Highspeed: Limited slow-start is nowadays in tcp_slow_start
[BNX2]: Update version and reldate.
[BNX2]: Print bus information for PCIE devices.
[BNX2]: Add 1-shot MSI handler for 5709.
[BNX2]: Restructure PHY event handling.
[BNX2]: Add indirect spinlock.
...
fs/nfs/pagelist.c:226: error: conflicting types for 'nfs_pageio_init'
include/linux/nfs_page.h:80: error: previous declaration of 'nfs_pageio_init' was here
Thanks to Andrew for spotting this...
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cleanup of dev_base list use, with the aim to simplify making device
list per-namespace. In almost every occasion, use of dev_base variable
and dev->next pointer could be easily replaced by for_each_netdev
loop. A few most complicated places were converted to using
first_netdev()/next_netdev().
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Adjust the new netdevice scanning code provided by Patrick McHardy:
(1) Restore the function banner comments that were dropped.
(2) Rather than using an array size of 6 in some places and an array size of
ETH_ALEN in others, pass a pointer instead and pass the array size
through so that we can actually check it.
(3) Do the buffer fill count check before checking the for_primary_ifa
condition again. This permits us to skip that check should maxbufs be
reached before we run out of interfaces.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Replace the large and complicated rtnetlink client by two simple
functions for getting the MAC address for the first ethernet device
and building a list of IPv4 addresses.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The interface array is not freed on exit.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Make miscellaneous fixes to AFS and AF_RXRPC:
(*) Make AF_RXRPC select KEYS rather than RXKAD or AFS_FS in Kconfig.
(*) Don't use FS_BINARY_MOUNTDATA.
(*) Remove a done 'TODO' item in a comemnt on afs_get_sb().
(*) Don't pass a void * as the page pointer argument of kmap_atomic() as this
breaks on m68k. Patch from Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>.
(*) Use match_*() functions rather than doing my own parsing.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Originally at http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/9/2/86
The recent change to "allow Windows blocking locks to be cancelled via a
CANCEL_LOCK call" introduced a new semaphore in struct cifsFileInfo,
lock_sem. However, semaphores used as mutexes are deprecated these days,
and there's no reason to add a new one to the kernel. Therefore, convert
lock_sem to a struct mutex (and also fix one indentation glitch on one of
the lines changed anyway).
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@digitalvampire.org>
Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
We need to work on cleaning up the relationship between kobjects, ksets and
ktypes. The removal of 'struct subsystem' is the first step of this,
especially as it is not really needed at all.
Thanks to Kay for fixing the bugs in this patch.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Fix sysfs printk format warning:
fs/sysfs/bin.c:62: warning: format '%d' expects type 'int', but argument 4 has type 'size_t'
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Propagate flags such as S_APPEND, S_IMMUTABLE, etc. from i_flags into
ocfs2-specific ip_attr. Hence, when someone sets these flags via a different
interface than ioctl, they are stored correctly.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
use __set_current_state(TASK_*) instead of current->state = TASK_*, in
fs/ocfs2
Signed-off-by: Milind Arun Choudhary <milindchoudhary@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
OCFS2_I(inode)->ip_alloc_sem is a read-write semaphore protecting
local concurrent access of ocfs2 inodes. However, ocfs2 directories were
not taking the semaphore while they accessed or modified the allocation
tree.
ocfs2_extend_dir() needs to take the semaphore in a write mode when it
adds to the allocation. All other directory users get there via
ocfs2_bread(), which takes the semaphore in read mode.
Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
This patch makes the following needlessly global functions static:
- aops.c: ocfs2_write_data_page()
- dlmglue.c: ocfs2_dump_meta_lvb_info()
- file.c: ocfs2_set_inode_size()
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
vfat implements compat handlers for these ioctls, but when they
were executed on other file systems the kernel would still complain
about an unknown compat ioctl. Just declare them as compatible
and let them be rejected when not needed by the normal path.
This makes wine runs a lot quieter
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Define a new IGNORE_IOCTL() to let a compat ioctl not be warned about even when
it is not implemented.
This is the same as COMPATIBLE_IOCTL internally, but better self documentng.
Valid reasons to use this:
- It is implemented with ->compat_ioctl on some device, but programs
call it on others too.
- The ioctl is not implemented in the native kernel, but programs
call it commonly anyways.
Most other reasons are not valid.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
The specific case I am encountering is kdump under Xen with a 64 bit
hypervisor and 32 bit kernel/userspace. The dump created is 64 bit due to
the hypervisor but the dump kernel is 32 bit for maximum compatibility.
It's possibly less likely to be useful in a purely native scenario but I
see no reason to disallow it.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Horms <horms@verge.net.au>
Cc: Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Remove some stale comments about hard limits which went away in 2.5.
Signed-off-by: Jason Uhlenkott <juhlenko@akamai.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
The ACL that the server sets may not be exactly the one we set--for
example, it may silently turn off bits that it does not support. So we
should remove any cached ACL so that any subsequent request for the ACL
will go to the server.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Try running this script in an NFS mounted directory (Client relatively
recent - 2.6.18 has the problem as does 2.6.20).
------------------------------------------------------
#!/bin/bash
#
# This script will produce the following errormessage from tar:
#
# tar: newdir/innerdir/innerfile: file changed as we read it
# create dirs
rm -rf nfstest
mkdir -p nfstest/dir/innerdir
# create files (should not be empty)
echo "Hello World!" >nfstest/dir/file
echo "Hello World!" >nfstest/dir/innerdir/innerfile
# problem only happens if we sleep before chmod
sleep 1
# change file modes
chmod -R a+r nfstest
# rename dir
mv nfstest/dir nfstest/newdir
# tar it
tar -cf nfstest/nfstest.tar -C nfstest newdir
# restore old dir name
mv nfstest/newdir nfstest/dir
--------------------------------------------------------
What happens:
The 'chmod -R' does a readdir_plus in each directory and the results
get cached in the page cache. It then updates the ctime on each file
by one second. When this happens, the post-op attributes are used to
update the ctime stored on the client to match the value in the kernel.
The 'mv' calls shrink_dcache_parent on the directory tree which
flushes all the dentries (so a new lookup will be required) but
doesn't flush the inodes or pagecache.
The 'tar' does a readdir on each directory, but (in the case of
'innerdir' at least) satisfies it from the pagecache and uses the
READDIRPLUS data to update all the inodes. In the case of
'innerdir/innerfile', the ctime is out of date.
'tar' then calls 'lstat' on innerdir/innerfile getting an old ctime.
It then opens the file (triggering a GETATTR), reads the content, and
then calls fstat to see if anything has changed. It finds that ctime
has changed and so complains.
The problem seems to be that the cache readdirplus info is kept around
for too long.
My patch below discards pagecache data for directories when
dentry_iput is called on them. This effectively removes the symptom
which convinces me that I correctly understand the problem. However
I'm not convinced that is a proper solution, as there could easily be
other races that trigger the same problem without being affected by
this 'fix'.
One possibility would be to require that readdirplus pagecache data be
only used *once* to instantiate an inode. Somehow it should then be
invalidated so that if the dentry subsequently disappears, it will
cause a new request to the server to fill in the stat data.
Another possibility is to compare the cache_change_attribute on the
inode with something similar for the readdirplus info and reject the
info from readdirplus if it is too old.
I haven't tried to implement these and would value other opinions
before I do.
Thanks,
NeilBrown
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Don't use uninitialsed value for fattr->time_start in readdirplus results.
The 'fattr' structure filled in by nfs3_decode_direct does not get a
value for ->time_start set.
Thus if an entry is for an inode that we already have in cache,
when nfs_readdir_lookup calls nfs_fhget, it will call nfs_refresh_inode
and may update the inode with out-of-date information.
Directories are read a page at a time, so each page could have a
different timestamp that "should" be used to set the time_start for
the fattr for info in that page. However storing the timestamp per
page is awkward. (We could stick in the first 4 bytes and only read 4092
bytes, but that is a bigger code change than I am interested it).
This patch ignores the readdir_plus attributes if a readdir finds the
information already in cache, and otherwise sets ->time_start to the time
the readdir request was sent to the server.
It might be nice to store - in the directory inode - the time stamp for
the earliest readdir request that is still in the page cache, so that we
don't ignore attribute data that we don't have to. This patch doesn't do
that.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
READDIRPLUS can be a performance hindrance when the client is working with
large directories. In addition, some servers still have bugs in their
implementations (e.g. Tru64 returns wrong values for the fsid).
Add a mount flag to enable users to turn it off at mount time following the
implementation in Apple's NFS client.
Signed-off-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
