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<title>linux-toradex.git/fs/afs/fsclient.c, branch v7.0-rc2</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>Convert 'alloc_flex' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument</title>
<updated>2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-22T01:06:51+00:00</published>
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This is the exact same thing as the 'alloc_obj()' version, only much
smaller because there are a lot fewer users of the *alloc_flex()
interface.

As with alloc_obj() version, this was done entirely with mindless brute
force, using the same script, except using 'flex' in the pattern rather
than 'objs*'.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This is the exact same thing as the 'alloc_obj()' version, only much
smaller because there are a lot fewer users of the *alloc_flex()
interface.

As with alloc_obj() version, this was done entirely with mindless brute
force, using the same script, except using 'flex' in the pattern rather
than 'objs*'.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types</title>
<updated>2026-02-21T09:02:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>kees@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-21T07:49:23+00:00</published>
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This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:

Single allocations:	kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)

Array allocations:	kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)

Flex array allocations:	kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)

(where TYPE may also be *VAR)

The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
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This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:

Single allocations:	kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)

Array allocations:	kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)

Flex array allocations:	kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)

(where TYPE may also be *VAR)

The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>afs: Fix afs_server ref accounting</title>
<updated>2025-03-10T09:47:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-24T16:51:36+00:00</published>
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The current way that afs_server refs are accounted and cleaned up sometimes
cause rmmod to hang when it is waiting for cell records to be removed.  The
problem is that the cell cleanup might occasionally happen before the
server cleanup and then there's nothing that causes the cell to
garbage-collect the remaining servers as they become inactive.

Partially fix this by:

 (1) Give each afs_server record its own management timer that rather than
     relying on the cell manager's central timer to drive each individual
     cell's maintenance work item to garbage collect servers.

     This timer is set when afs_unuse_server() reduces a server's activity
     count to zero and will schedule the server's destroyer work item upon
     firing.

 (2) Give each afs_server record its own destroyer work item that removes
     the record from the cell's database, shuts down the timer, cancels any
     pending work for itself, sends an RPC to the server to cancel
     outstanding callbacks.

     This change, in combination with the timer, obviates the need to try
     and coordinate so closely between the cell record and a bunch of other
     server records to try and tear everything down in a coordinated
     fashion.  With this, the cell record is pinned until the server RCU is
     complete and namespace/module removal will wait until all the cell
     records are removed.

 (3) Now that incoming calls are mapped to servers (and thus cells) using
     data attached to an rxrpc_peer, the UUID-to-server mapping tree is
     moved from the namespace to the cell (cell-&gt;fs_servers).  This means
     there can no longer be duplicates therein - and that allows the
     mapping tree to be simpler as there doesn't need to be a chain of
     same-UUID servers that are in different cells.

 (4) The lock protecting the UUID mapping tree is switched to an
     rw_semaphore on the cell rather than a seqlock on the namespace as
     it's now only used during mounting in contexts in which we're allowed
     to sleep.

 (5) When it comes time for a cell that is being removed to purge its set
     of servers, it just needs to iterate over them and wake them up.  Once
     a server becomes inactive, its destroyer work item will observe the
     state of the cell and immediately remove that record.

 (6) When a server record is removed, it is marked AFS_SERVER_FL_EXPIRED to
     prevent reattempts at removal.  The record will be dispatched to RCU
     for destruction once its refcount reaches 0.

 (7) The AFS_SERVER_FL_UNCREATED/CREATING flags are used to synchronise
     simultaneous creation attempts.  If one attempt fails, it will abandon
     the attempt and allow another to try again.

     Note that the record can't just be abandoned when dead as it's bound
     into a server list attached to a volume and only subject to
     replacement if the server list obtained for the volume from the VLDB
     changes.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
cc: Marc Dionne &lt;marc.dionne@auristor.com&gt;
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250224234154.2014840-15-dhowells@redhat.com/ # v1
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250310094206.801057-11-dhowells@redhat.com/ # v4
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The current way that afs_server refs are accounted and cleaned up sometimes
cause rmmod to hang when it is waiting for cell records to be removed.  The
problem is that the cell cleanup might occasionally happen before the
server cleanup and then there's nothing that causes the cell to
garbage-collect the remaining servers as they become inactive.

Partially fix this by:

 (1) Give each afs_server record its own management timer that rather than
     relying on the cell manager's central timer to drive each individual
     cell's maintenance work item to garbage collect servers.

     This timer is set when afs_unuse_server() reduces a server's activity
     count to zero and will schedule the server's destroyer work item upon
     firing.

 (2) Give each afs_server record its own destroyer work item that removes
     the record from the cell's database, shuts down the timer, cancels any
     pending work for itself, sends an RPC to the server to cancel
     outstanding callbacks.

     This change, in combination with the timer, obviates the need to try
     and coordinate so closely between the cell record and a bunch of other
     server records to try and tear everything down in a coordinated
     fashion.  With this, the cell record is pinned until the server RCU is
     complete and namespace/module removal will wait until all the cell
     records are removed.

 (3) Now that incoming calls are mapped to servers (and thus cells) using
     data attached to an rxrpc_peer, the UUID-to-server mapping tree is
     moved from the namespace to the cell (cell-&gt;fs_servers).  This means
     there can no longer be duplicates therein - and that allows the
     mapping tree to be simpler as there doesn't need to be a chain of
     same-UUID servers that are in different cells.

 (4) The lock protecting the UUID mapping tree is switched to an
     rw_semaphore on the cell rather than a seqlock on the namespace as
     it's now only used during mounting in contexts in which we're allowed
     to sleep.

 (5) When it comes time for a cell that is being removed to purge its set
     of servers, it just needs to iterate over them and wake them up.  Once
     a server becomes inactive, its destroyer work item will observe the
     state of the cell and immediately remove that record.

 (6) When a server record is removed, it is marked AFS_SERVER_FL_EXPIRED to
     prevent reattempts at removal.  The record will be dispatched to RCU
     for destruction once its refcount reaches 0.

 (7) The AFS_SERVER_FL_UNCREATED/CREATING flags are used to synchronise
     simultaneous creation attempts.  If one attempt fails, it will abandon
     the attempt and allow another to try again.

     Note that the record can't just be abandoned when dead as it's bound
     into a server list attached to a volume and only subject to
     replacement if the server list obtained for the volume from the VLDB
     changes.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
cc: Marc Dionne &lt;marc.dionne@auristor.com&gt;
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250224234154.2014840-15-dhowells@redhat.com/ # v1
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250310094206.801057-11-dhowells@redhat.com/ # v4
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<entry>
<title>afs: Improve server refcount/active count tracing</title>
<updated>2025-03-10T09:47:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-14T10:16:21+00:00</published>
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Improve server refcount/active count tracing to distinguish between simply
getting/putting a ref and using/unusing the server record (which changes
the activity count as well as the refcount).  This makes it a bit easier to
work out what's going on.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
cc: Marc Dionne &lt;marc.dionne@auristor.com&gt;
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250224234154.2014840-10-dhowells@redhat.com/ # v1
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250310094206.801057-6-dhowells@redhat.com/ # v4
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<pre>
Improve server refcount/active count tracing to distinguish between simply
getting/putting a ref and using/unusing the server record (which changes
the activity count as well as the refcount).  This makes it a bit easier to
work out what's going on.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
cc: Marc Dionne &lt;marc.dionne@auristor.com&gt;
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250224234154.2014840-10-dhowells@redhat.com/ # v1
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250310094206.801057-6-dhowells@redhat.com/ # v4
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>afs: Make {Y,}FS.FetchData an asynchronous operation</title>
<updated>2024-12-20T21:34:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-12-16T20:41:15+00:00</published>
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Make FS.FetchData and YFS.FetchData an asynchronous operation in that the
request is queued in AF_RXRPC and then we return to the caller rather than
waiting.  Processing of the returning packets is then done inline if it's a
synchronous VFS/VM call (readdir, read_folio, sync DIO, prep for write) or
offloaded to a workqueue if asynchronous VM calls (eg. readahead, async
DIO).

This reduces the chain of workqueues invoking workqueues and cuts out some
of the overhead, driving rxrpc data extraction and netfslib read collection
from a thread that's going to block to completion anyway if possible.

The -&gt;done() call op is also split with -&gt;immediate_cancel() handling the
cancellation on failure to begin the call and -&gt;done() handling the rest.
This means that the AFS async FetchData code doesn't try to terminate the
netfs subrequest twice.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241216204124.3752367-26-dhowells@redhat.com
cc: Marc Dionne &lt;marc.dionne@auristor.com&gt;
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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Make FS.FetchData and YFS.FetchData an asynchronous operation in that the
request is queued in AF_RXRPC and then we return to the caller rather than
waiting.  Processing of the returning packets is then done inline if it's a
synchronous VFS/VM call (readdir, read_folio, sync DIO, prep for write) or
offloaded to a workqueue if asynchronous VM calls (eg. readahead, async
DIO).

This reduces the chain of workqueues invoking workqueues and cuts out some
of the overhead, driving rxrpc data extraction and netfslib read collection
from a thread that's going to block to completion anyway if possible.

The -&gt;done() call op is also split with -&gt;immediate_cancel() handling the
cancellation on failure to begin the call and -&gt;done() handling the rest.
This means that the AFS async FetchData code doesn't try to terminate the
netfs subrequest twice.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241216204124.3752367-26-dhowells@redhat.com
cc: Marc Dionne &lt;marc.dionne@auristor.com&gt;
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>afs: Eliminate afs_read</title>
<updated>2024-12-20T21:34:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-12-16T20:41:13+00:00</published>
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Now that directory and symlink reads go through netfslib, the afs_read
struct is mostly redundant with almost all data duplicated in the
netfs_io_request and netfs_io_subrequest structs that are also available
any time we're doing a fetch.

Eliminate afs_read by moving the one field we still need there to the
afs_call struct (we may be given a different amount of data than what we
asked for and have to track what remains of that) and using the
netfs_io_subrequest directly instead.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241216204124.3752367-24-dhowells@redhat.com
cc: Marc Dionne &lt;marc.dionne@auristor.com&gt;
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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Now that directory and symlink reads go through netfslib, the afs_read
struct is mostly redundant with almost all data duplicated in the
netfs_io_request and netfs_io_subrequest structs that are also available
any time we're doing a fetch.

Eliminate afs_read by moving the one field we still need there to the
afs_call struct (we may be given a different amount of data than what we
asked for and have to track what remains of that) and using the
netfs_io_subrequest directly instead.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241216204124.3752367-24-dhowells@redhat.com
cc: Marc Dionne &lt;marc.dionne@auristor.com&gt;
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>netfs: Drop the was_async arg from netfs_read_subreq_terminated()</title>
<updated>2024-12-20T21:34:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-12-16T20:40:59+00:00</published>
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Drop the was_async argument from netfs_read_subreq_terminated().  Almost
every caller is either in process context and passes false.  Some
filesystems delegate the call to a workqueue to avoid doing the work in
their network message queue parsing thread.

The only exception is netfs_cache_read_terminated() which handles
completion in the cache - which is usually a callback from the backing
filesystem in softirq context, though it can be from process context if an
error occurred.  In this case, delegate to a workqueue.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wiVC5Cgyz6QKXFu6fTaA6h4CjexDR-OV9kL6Vo5x9v8=A@mail.gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241216204124.3752367-10-dhowells@redhat.com
cc: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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Drop the was_async argument from netfs_read_subreq_terminated().  Almost
every caller is either in process context and passes false.  Some
filesystems delegate the call to a workqueue to avoid doing the work in
their network message queue parsing thread.

The only exception is netfs_cache_read_terminated() which handles
completion in the cache - which is usually a callback from the backing
filesystem in softirq context, though it can be from process context if an
error occurred.  In this case, delegate to a workqueue.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wiVC5Cgyz6QKXFu6fTaA6h4CjexDR-OV9kL6Vo5x9v8=A@mail.gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241216204124.3752367-10-dhowells@redhat.com
cc: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>netfs: Speed up buffered reading</title>
<updated>2024-09-12T10:20:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-01T23:40:22+00:00</published>
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Improve the efficiency of buffered reads in a number of ways:

 (1) Overhaul the algorithm in general so that it's a lot more compact and
     split the read submission code between buffered and unbuffered
     versions.  The unbuffered version can be vastly simplified.

 (2) Read-result collection is handed off to a work queue rather than being
     done in the I/O thread.  Multiple subrequests can be processes
     simultaneously.

 (3) When a subrequest is collected, any folios it fully spans are
     collected and "spare" data on either side is donated to either the
     previous or the next subrequest in the sequence.

Notes:

 (*) Readahead expansion is massively slows down fio, presumably because it
     causes a load of extra allocations, both folio and xarray, up front
     before RPC requests can be transmitted.

 (*) RDMA with cifs does appear to work, both with SIW and RXE.

 (*) PG_private_2-based reading and copy-to-cache is split out into its own
     file and altered to use folio_queue.  Note that the copy to the cache
     now creates a new write transaction against the cache and adds the
     folios to be copied into it.  This allows it to use part of the
     writeback I/O code.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
cc: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240814203850.2240469-20-dhowells@redhat.com/ # v2
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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Improve the efficiency of buffered reads in a number of ways:

 (1) Overhaul the algorithm in general so that it's a lot more compact and
     split the read submission code between buffered and unbuffered
     versions.  The unbuffered version can be vastly simplified.

 (2) Read-result collection is handed off to a work queue rather than being
     done in the I/O thread.  Multiple subrequests can be processes
     simultaneously.

 (3) When a subrequest is collected, any folios it fully spans are
     collected and "spare" data on either side is donated to either the
     previous or the next subrequest in the sequence.

Notes:

 (*) Readahead expansion is massively slows down fio, presumably because it
     causes a load of extra allocations, both folio and xarray, up front
     before RPC requests can be transmitted.

 (*) RDMA with cifs does appear to work, both with SIW and RXE.

 (*) PG_private_2-based reading and copy-to-cache is split out into its own
     file and altered to use folio_queue.  Note that the copy to the cache
     now creates a new write transaction against the cache and adds the
     folios to be copied into it.  This allows it to use part of the
     writeback I/O code.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
cc: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240814203850.2240469-20-dhowells@redhat.com/ # v2
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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<title>afs: trace: Log afs_make_call(), including server address</title>
<updated>2024-01-01T16:37:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-11-17T09:20:28+00:00</published>
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Add a tracepoint to log calls to afs_make_call(), including the destination
server address.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
cc: Marc Dionne &lt;marc.dionne@auristor.com&gt;
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
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Add a tracepoint to log calls to afs_make_call(), including the destination
server address.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
cc: Marc Dionne &lt;marc.dionne@auristor.com&gt;
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
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<entry>
<title>afs: Parse the VolSync record in the reply of a number of RPC ops</title>
<updated>2024-01-01T16:37:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-11-05T16:11:07+00:00</published>
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A number of fileserver RPC operations return a VolSync record as part of
their reply that gives some information about the state of the volume being
accessed, including:

 (1) A volume Creation timestamp.  For an RW volume, this is the time at
     which the volume was created; if it changes, the RW volume was
     presumably restored from a backup and all cached data should be
     scrubbed as Data Version numbers could regress on the files in the
     volume.

     For an RO volume, this is the time it was last snapshotted from the RW
     volume.  It is expected to advance each time this happens; if it
     regresses, cached data should be scrubbed.

 (2) A volume Update timestamp (Auristor only).  For an RW volume, this is
     updated any time any change is made to a volume or its contents.  If
     it regresses, all cached data must be scrubbed.

     For an RO volume, this is a copy of the RW volume's Update timestamp
     at the point of snapshotting.  It can be used as a version number when
     checking to see if a callback on a RO volume was due to a snapshot.
     If it regresses, all cached data must be scrubbed.

but this is currently not made use of by the in-kernel afs filesystem.

Make the afs filesystem use this by:

 (1) Add an update time field to the afs_volsync struct and use a value of
     TIME64_MIN in both that and the creation time to indicate that they
     are unset.

 (2) Add creation and update time fields to the afs_volume struct and use
     this to track the two timestamps.

 (3) Add a volsync_lock mutex to the afs_volume struct to control
     modification access for when we detect a change in these values.

 (3) Add a 'pre-op volsync' struct to the afs_operation struct to record
     the state of the volume tracking before the op.

 (4) Add a new counter, cb_scrub, to the afs_volume struct to count events
     that require all data to be scrubbed.  A copy is placed in the
     afs_vnode struct (inode) and if they no longer match, a scrub takes
     place.

 (5) When the result of an operation is being parsed, parse the VolSync
     data too, if it is provided.  Note that the two timestamps are handled
     separately, since they don't work in quite the same way.

     - If the afs_volume tracking is unset, just set it and do nothing
       else.

     - If the result timestamps are the same as the ones in afs_volume, do
       nothing.

     - If the timestamps regress, increment cb_scrub if not already done
       so.

     - If the creation timestamp on a RW volume changes, increment cb_scrub
       if not already done so.

     - If the creation timestamp on a RO volume advances, update the server
       list and see if the current server has been excluded, if so reissue
       the op.  Once over half of the replication sites have been updated,
       increment cb_ro_snapshot to indicate updates may be required and
       switch over to excluding unupdated replication sites.

     - If the creation timestamp on a Backup volume advances, just
       increment cb_ro_snapshot to trigger updates.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
cc: Marc Dionne &lt;marc.dionne@auristor.com&gt;
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
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A number of fileserver RPC operations return a VolSync record as part of
their reply that gives some information about the state of the volume being
accessed, including:

 (1) A volume Creation timestamp.  For an RW volume, this is the time at
     which the volume was created; if it changes, the RW volume was
     presumably restored from a backup and all cached data should be
     scrubbed as Data Version numbers could regress on the files in the
     volume.

     For an RO volume, this is the time it was last snapshotted from the RW
     volume.  It is expected to advance each time this happens; if it
     regresses, cached data should be scrubbed.

 (2) A volume Update timestamp (Auristor only).  For an RW volume, this is
     updated any time any change is made to a volume or its contents.  If
     it regresses, all cached data must be scrubbed.

     For an RO volume, this is a copy of the RW volume's Update timestamp
     at the point of snapshotting.  It can be used as a version number when
     checking to see if a callback on a RO volume was due to a snapshot.
     If it regresses, all cached data must be scrubbed.

but this is currently not made use of by the in-kernel afs filesystem.

Make the afs filesystem use this by:

 (1) Add an update time field to the afs_volsync struct and use a value of
     TIME64_MIN in both that and the creation time to indicate that they
     are unset.

 (2) Add creation and update time fields to the afs_volume struct and use
     this to track the two timestamps.

 (3) Add a volsync_lock mutex to the afs_volume struct to control
     modification access for when we detect a change in these values.

 (3) Add a 'pre-op volsync' struct to the afs_operation struct to record
     the state of the volume tracking before the op.

 (4) Add a new counter, cb_scrub, to the afs_volume struct to count events
     that require all data to be scrubbed.  A copy is placed in the
     afs_vnode struct (inode) and if they no longer match, a scrub takes
     place.

 (5) When the result of an operation is being parsed, parse the VolSync
     data too, if it is provided.  Note that the two timestamps are handled
     separately, since they don't work in quite the same way.

     - If the afs_volume tracking is unset, just set it and do nothing
       else.

     - If the result timestamps are the same as the ones in afs_volume, do
       nothing.

     - If the timestamps regress, increment cb_scrub if not already done
       so.

     - If the creation timestamp on a RW volume changes, increment cb_scrub
       if not already done so.

     - If the creation timestamp on a RO volume advances, update the server
       list and see if the current server has been excluded, if so reissue
       the op.  Once over half of the replication sites have been updated,
       increment cb_ro_snapshot to indicate updates may be required and
       switch over to excluding unupdated replication sites.

     - If the creation timestamp on a Backup volume advances, just
       increment cb_ro_snapshot to trigger updates.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
cc: Marc Dionne &lt;marc.dionne@auristor.com&gt;
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
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