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Al Viro
5c4f1ad7c6 cifs: tidy cifs_do_mount() up a bit
Acked-by: Pavel Shilovsky <piastryyy@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-06-24 18:39:42 -04:00
Al Viro
fa18f1bdce cifs: more breakage on mount failures
if cifs_get_root() fails, we end up with ->mount() returning NULL,
which is not what callers expect.  Moreover, in case of superblock
reuse we end up leaking a superblock reference...

Acked-by: Pavel Shilovsky <piastryyy@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-06-24 18:39:42 -04:00
Al Viro
ee01a14d9d cifs: close sget() races
have ->s_fs_info set by the set() callback passed to sget()

Acked-by: Pavel Shilovsky <piastryyy@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-06-24 18:39:42 -04:00
Al Viro
d757d71bfc cifs: pull freeing mountdata/dropping nls/freeing cifs_sb into cifs_umount()
all callers of cifs_umount() proceed to do the same thing; pull it into
cifs_umount() itself.

Acked-by: Pavel Shilovsky <piastryyy@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-06-24 18:39:42 -04:00
Al Viro
98ab494dd1 cifs: move cifs_umount() call into ->kill_sb()
instead of calling it manually in case if cifs_read_super() fails
to set ->s_root, just call it from ->kill_sb().  cifs_put_super()
is gone now *and* we have cifs_sb shutdown and destruction done
after the superblock is gone from ->s_instances.

Acked-by: Pavel Shilovsky <piastryyy@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-06-24 18:39:42 -04:00
Al Viro
97d1152ace cifs: pull cifs_mount() call up
... to the point prior to sget().  Now we have cifs_sb set up early
enough.

Acked-by: Pavel Shilovsky <piastryyy@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-06-24 18:39:42 -04:00
Al Viro
2a9b99516c sanitize cifs_umount() prototype
a) superblock argument is unused
b) it always returns 0

Acked-by: Pavel Shilovsky <piastryyy@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-06-24 18:39:42 -04:00
Al Viro
2ced6f6935 cifs: initialize ->tlink_tree in cifs_setup_cifs_sb()
no need to wait until cifs_read_super() and we need it done
by the time cifs_mount() will be called.

Acked-by: Pavel Shilovsky <piastryyy@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-06-24 18:39:42 -04:00
Al Viro
5d3bc605ca cifs: allocate mountdata earlier
pull mountdata allocation up, so that it won't stand in the way when
we lift cifs_mount() to location before sget().

Acked-by: Pavel Shilovsky <piastryyy@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-06-24 18:39:41 -04:00
Al Viro
d687ca380f cifs: leak on mount if we share superblock
cifs_sb and nls end up leaked...

Acked-by: Pavel Shilovsky <piastryyy@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-06-24 18:39:41 -04:00
Al Viro
2c6292ae4b cifs: don't pass superblock to cifs_mount()
To close sget() races we'll need to be able to set cifs_sb up before
we get the superblock, so we'll want to be able to do cifs_mount()
earlier.  Fortunately, it's easy to do - setting ->s_maxbytes can
be done in cifs_read_super(), ditto for ->s_time_gran and as for
putting MS_POSIXACL into ->s_flags, we can mirror it in ->mnt_cifs_flags
until cifs_read_super() is called.  Kill unused 'devname' argument,
while we are at it...

Acked-by: Pavel Shilovsky <piastryyy@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-06-24 18:39:41 -04:00
Al Viro
ca171baaad cifs: don't leak nls on mount failure
if cifs_sb allocation fails, we still need to drop nls we'd stashed
into volume_info - the one we would've copied to cifs_sb if we could
allocate the latter.

Acked-by: Pavel Shilovsky <piastryyy@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-06-24 18:39:41 -04:00
Al Viro
6d6861757d cifs: double free on mount failure
if we get to out_super with ->s_root already set (e.g. with
cifs_get_root() failure), we'll end up with cifs_put_super()
called and ->mountdata freed twice.  We'll also get cifs_sb
freed twice and cifs_sb->local_nls dropped twice.  The problem
is, we can get to out_super both with and without ->s_root,
which makes ->put_super() a bad place for such work.

Switch to ->kill_sb(), have all that work done there after
kill_anon_super().  Unlike ->put_super(), ->kill_sb() is
called by deactivate_locked_super() whether we have ->s_root
or not.

Acked-by: Pavel Shilovsky <piastryyy@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-06-24 18:39:41 -04:00
Al Viro
dd85446619 take bdi setup/destruction into cifs_mount/cifs_umount
Acked-by: Pavel Shilovsky <piastryyy@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-06-24 18:39:41 -04:00
Al Viro
ec12781f19 cifs_permission() doesn't need to bail out in RCU mode
nothing potentially blocking except generic_permission(), which
will DTRT

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-06-20 10:44:07 -04:00
Jeff Layton
3e71551364 cifs: show sec= option in /proc/mounts
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2011-06-13 20:34:34 +00:00
Steve French
96daf2b091 [CIFS] Rename three structures to avoid camel case
secMode to sec_mode
and
cifsTconInfo to cifs_tcon
and
cifsSesInfo to cifs_ses

Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2011-05-27 04:34:02 +00:00
Pavel Shilovsky
d4ffff1fa9 CIFS: Add rwpidforward mount option
Add rwpidforward mount option that switches on a mode when we forward
pid of a process who opened a file to any read and write operation.

This can prevent applications like WINE from failing on read or write
operation on a previously locked file region from the same netfd from
another process if we use mandatory brlock style.

It is actual for WINE because during a run of WINE program two processes
work on the same netfd - share the same file struct between several VFS
fds:
1) WINE-server does open and lock;
2) WINE-application does read and write.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Shilovsky <piastry@etersoft.ru>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2011-05-27 03:57:16 +00:00
Pavel Shilovsky
25c7f41e92 CIFS: Migrate to shared superblock model
Add cifs_match_super to use in sget to share superblock between mounts
that have the same //server/sharename, credentials and mount options.
It helps us to improve performance on work with future SMB2.1 leases.

Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Shilovsky <piastry@etersoft.ru>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2011-05-27 03:53:23 +00:00
Steve French
f87d39d951 [CIFS] Migrate from prefixpath logic
Now we point superblock to a server share root and set a root dentry
appropriately. This let us share superblock between mounts like
//server/sharename/foo/bar and //server/sharename/foo further.

Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Shilovsky <piastry@etersoft.ru>

Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2011-05-27 03:50:55 +00:00
Pavel Shilovsky
641a58d66d CIFS: Fix memory leak in cifs_do_mount
and simplify error handling code.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Shilovsky <piastry@etersoft.ru>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2011-05-27 03:45:37 +00:00
Pavel Shilovsky
b2e5cd33b5 CIFS: Fix undefined behavior when mount fails
Fix double kfree() calls on the same pointers and cleanup mount code.

Reviewed-and-Tested-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Shilovsky <piastry@etersoft.ru>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2011-05-25 20:02:31 +00:00
Pavel Shilovsky
724d9f1cfb CIFS: Simplify mount code for further shared sb capability
Reorganize code to get mount option at first and when get a superblock.
This lets us use shared superblock model further for equal mounts.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Shilovsky <piastry@etersoft.ru>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2011-05-24 03:07:42 +00:00
Steve French
156ecb2d8b [CIFS] Fix to problem with getattr caused by invalidate simplification patch
Fix to earlier "Simplify invalidate part (try #6)" patch
That patch caused problems with connectathon test 5.

Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Shilovsky <piastry@etersoft.ru>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2011-05-20 17:00:01 +00:00
Shirish Pargaonkar
c4aca0c09f cifs: Change key name to cifs.idmap, misc. clean-up
Change idmap key name from cifs.cifs_idmap to cifs.idmap.
Removed unused structure wksidarr and function match_sid().
Handle errors correctly in function init_cifs().

Signed-off-by: Shirish Pargaonkar <shirishpargaonkar@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2011-05-19 14:10:56 +00:00
Sean Finney
f14bcf71d1 cifs: Unconditionally copy mount options to superblock info
Previously mount options were copied and updated in the cifs_sb_info
struct only when CONFIG_CIFS_DFS_UPCALL was enabled.  Making this
information generally available allows us to remove a number of ifdefs,
extra function params, and temporary variables.

Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Finney <seanius@seanius.net>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2011-05-19 14:10:55 +00:00
Sean Finney
5167f11ec9 cifs: Use kstrndup for cifs_sb->mountdata
A relatively minor nit, but also clarified the "consensus" from the
preceding comments that it is in fact better to try for the kstrdup
early and cleanup while cleaning up is still a simple thing to do.

Reviewed-By: Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Finney <seanius@seanius.net>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Shilovsky <piastry@etersoft.ru>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2011-05-19 14:10:55 +00:00
Pavel Shilovsky
6feb9891da CIFS: Simplify invalidate part (try #5)
Simplify many places when we call cifs_revalidate/invalidate to make
it do what it exactly needs.

Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Shilovsky <piastry@etersoft.ru>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2011-05-19 14:10:52 +00:00
Pavel Shilovsky
0b81c1c405 CIFS: directio read/write cleanups
Recently introduced strictcache mode brought a new code that can be
efficiently used by directio part. That's let us add vectored operations
and break unnecessary cifs_user_read and cifs_user_write.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Shilovsky <piastry@etersoft.ru>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2011-05-19 14:10:51 +00:00
Shirish Pargaonkar
4d79dba0e0 cifs: Add idmap key and related data structures and functions (try #17 repost)
Define (global) data structures to store ids, uids and gids, to which a
SID maps.  There are two separate trees, one for SID/uid and another one
for SID/gid.

A new type of key, cifs_idmap_key_type, is used.

Keys are instantiated and searched using credential of the root by
overriding and restoring the credentials of the caller requesting the key.

Id mapping functions are invoked under config option of cifs acl.

Signed-off-by: Shirish Pargaonkar <shirishpargaonkar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2011-05-19 14:10:51 +00:00
Shirish Pargaonkar
257208736a cifs: cleanup: Rename and remove config flags
Remove config flag CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL.
Do export operations under new config flag CIFS_NFSD_EXPORT

Signed-off-by: Shirish Pargaonkar <shirishpargaonkar@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2011-05-19 14:10:49 +00:00
Steve French
0eff0e2677 Remove unused CIFSSMBNotify worker function
The CIFSSMBNotify worker is unused, pending changes to allow it to be called
via inotify, so move it into its own experimental config option so it does
not get built in, until the necessary VFS support is fixed.  It used to
be used in dnotify, but according to Jeff, inotify needs minor changes
before we can reenable this.

CC: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2011-05-19 14:10:47 +00:00
Shirish Pargaonkar
9b6763e0aa cifs: Remove unused inode number while fetching root inode
ino is unused in function cifs_root_iget().

Signed-off-by: Shirish Pargaonkar <shirishpargaonkar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2011-05-19 14:10:47 +00:00
Jeff Layton
ca83ce3d5b cifs: don't allow mmap'ed pages to be dirtied while under writeback (try #3)
This is more or less the same patch as before, but with some merge
conflicts fixed up.

If a process has a dirty page mapped into its page tables, then it has
the ability to change it while the client is trying to write the data
out to the server. If that happens after the signature has been
calculated then that signature will then be wrong, and the server will
likely reset the TCP connection.

This patch adds a page_mkwrite handler for CIFS that simply takes the
page lock. Because the page lock is held over the life of writepage and
writepages, this prevents the page from becoming writeable until
the write call has completed.

With this, we can also remove the "sign_zero_copy" module option and
always inline the pages when writing.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2011-04-12 14:19:55 +00:00
Jeff Layton
2b6c26a0a6 cifs: set ra_pages in backing_dev_info
Commit 522440ed made cifs set backing_dev_info on the mapping attached
to new inodes. This change caused a fairly significant read performance
regression, as cifs started doing page-sized reads exclusively.

By virtue of the fact that they're allocated as part of cifs_sb_info by
kzalloc, the ra_pages on cifs BDIs get set to 0, which prevents any
readahead. This forces the normal read codepaths to use readpage instead
of readpages causing a four-fold increase in the number of read calls
with the default rsize.

Fix it by setting ra_pages in the BDI to the same value as that in the
default_backing_dev_info.

Fixes https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31662

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reported-and-Tested-by: Till <till2.schaefer@uni-dortmund.de>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2011-04-12 00:56:00 +00:00
Steve French
8727c8a85f Allow user names longer than 32 bytes
We artificially limited the user name to 32 bytes, but modern servers handle
larger.  Set the maximum length to a reasonable 256, and make the user name
string dynamically allocated rather than a fixed size in session structure.
Also clean up old checkpatch warning.

Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2011-04-12 00:42:06 +00:00
Jeff Layton
bdf1b03e09 cifs: replace /proc/fs/cifs/Experimental with a module parm
This flag currently only affects whether we allow "zero-copy" writes
with signing enabled. Typically we map pages in the pagecache directly
into the write request. If signing is enabled however and the contents
of the page change after the signature is calculated but before the
write is sent then the signature will be wrong. Servers typically
respond to this by closing down the socket.

Still, this can provide a performance benefit so the "Experimental" flag
was overloaded to allow this. That's really not a good place for this
option however since it's not clear what that flag does.

Move that flag instead to a new module parameter that better describes
its purpose. That's also better since it can be set at module insertion
time by configuring modprobe.d.

Reviewed-by: Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2011-04-12 00:40:43 +00:00
Pavel Shilovsky
72432ffcf5 CIFS: Implement cifs_strict_writev (try #4)
If we don't have Exclusive oplock we write a data to the server.
Also set invalidate_mapping flag on the inode if we wrote something
to the server. Add cifs_iovec_write to let the client write iovec
buffers through CIFSSMBWrite2.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Shilovsky <piastryyy@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2011-01-25 19:30:13 +00:00
Pavel Shilovsky
a70307eeeb CIFS: Implement cifs_strict_readv (try #4)
Read from the cache if we have at least Level II oplock - otherwise
read from the server. Add cifs_user_readv to let the client read into
iovec buffers.

Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Shilovsky <piastryyy@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2011-01-20 21:42:29 +00:00
Pavel Shilovsky
7a6a19b17a CIFS: Implement cifs_file_strict_mmap (try #2)
Invalidate inode mapping if we don't have at least Level II oplock.

Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Shilovsky <piastryyy@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2011-01-20 21:42:25 +00:00
Pavel Shilovsky
8be7e6ba14 CIFS: Implement cifs_strict_fsync
Invalidate inode mapping if we don't have at least Level II oplock in
cifs_strict_fsync. Also remove filemap_write_and_wait call from cifs_fsync
because it is previously called from vfs_fsync_range. Add file operations'
structures for strict cache mode.

Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Shilovsky <piastryyy@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2011-01-20 21:42:21 +00:00
Steve French
fda3594362 [CIFS] cifs: reconnect unresponsive servers
If the server isn't responding to echoes, we don't want to leave tasks
hung waiting for it to reply. At that point, we'll want to reconnect
so that soft mounts can return an error to userspace quickly.

If the client hasn't received a reply after a specified number of echo
intervals, assume that the transport is down and attempt to reconnect
the socket.

The number of echo_intervals to wait before attempting to reconnect is
tunable via a module parameter. Setting it to 0, means that the client
will never attempt to reconnect. The default is 5.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
2011-01-20 18:06:34 +00:00
Al Viro
1c929cfe6d switch cifs
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-01-12 20:02:46 -05:00
Jeff Layton
20054bd657 cifs: use CreationTime like an i_generation field
Reduce false inode collisions by using the CreationTime like an
i_generation field. This way, even if the server ends up reusing
a uniqueid after a delete/create cycle, we can avoid matching
the inode incorrectly.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2011-01-09 23:43:00 +00:00
Steve French
acc6f11272 Merge branch 'master' of /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Conflicts:
	fs/cifs/dir.c
2011-01-09 23:18:16 +00:00
Nick Piggin
b74c79e993 fs: provide rcu-walk aware permission i_ops
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:29 +11:00
Nick Piggin
fa0d7e3de6 fs: icache RCU free inodes
RCU free the struct inode. This will allow:

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

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

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

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

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:26 +11:00
Pavel Shilovsky
a9f1b85e5b CIFS: Simplify ipv*_connect functions into one (try #4)
Make connect logic more ip-protocol independent and move RFC1001 stuff into
a separate function. Also replace union addr in TCP_Server_Info structure
with sockaddr_storage.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Shilovsky <piastryyy@gmail.com>
Reviewed-and-Tested-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2011-01-06 19:07:53 +00:00
Jeff Layton
8846399968 cifs: remove Local_System_Name
...this string is zeroed out and nothing ever changes it.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2010-12-06 22:45:19 +00:00
Suresh Jayaraman
6d20e8406f cifs: add attribute cache timeout (actimeo) tunable
Currently, the attribute cache timeout for CIFS is hardcoded to 1 second. This
means that the client might have to issue a QPATHINFO/QFILEINFO call every 1
second to verify if something has changes, which seems too expensive. On the
other hand, if the timeout is hardcoded to a higher value, workloads that
expect strict cache coherency might see unexpected results.

Making attribute cache timeout as a tunable will allow us to make a tradeoff
between performance and cache metadata correctness depending on the
application/workload needs.

Add 'actimeo' tunable that can be used to tune the attribute cache timeout.
The default timeout is set to 1 second. Also, display actimeo option value in
/proc/mounts.

It appears to me that 'actimeo' and the proposed (but not yet merged)
'strictcache' option cannot coexist, so care must be taken that we reset the
other option if one of them is set.

Changes since last post:
   - fix option parsing and handle possible values correcly

Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2010-12-02 19:32:11 +00:00