linux-toradex.git/fs/afs/super.c, branch v3.2.7

AFS: Set s_id in the superblock to the volume name

2011-06-16T15:44:47+00:00

Set s_id in the superblock to the name of the AFS volume that this superblock
corresponds to.

Signed-off-by: David Howells 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

afs: fix sget() races, close leak on umount

2011-06-12T21:45:36+00:00

* set ->s_fs_info in set() callback passed to sget()
* allocate the thing and set it up enough for afs_test_super() before
making it visible
* have it freed in ->kill_sb() (current tree simply leaks it)
* have ->put_super() leave ->s_fs_info->volume alone; it's too early for
dropping it; do that from ->kill_sb() after having called kill_anon_super().

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

switch afs

2011-01-13T01:04:20+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

fs: icache RCU free inodes

2011-01-07T06:50:26+00:00

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

convert afs

2010-10-29T08:17:13+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

BKL: Remove BKL from afs

2010-10-04T19:10:48+00:00

The BKL is only used in put_super and fill_super, which are both protected
by the superblocks s_umount rw_semaphore. Therefore it is safe to remove
the BKL entirely.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann 
Cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
Cc: David Howells

BKL: Explicitly add BKL around get_sb/fill_super

2010-10-04T19:10:10+00:00

This patch is a preparation necessary to remove the BKL from do_new_mount().
It explicitly adds calls to lock_kernel()/unlock_kernel() around
get_sb/fill_super operations for filesystems that still uses the BKL.

I've read through all the code formerly covered by the BKL inside
do_kern_mount() and have satisfied myself that it doesn't need the BKL
any more.

do_kern_mount() is already called without the BKL when mounting the rootfs
and in nfsctl. do_kern_mount() calls vfs_kern_mount(), which is called
from various places without BKL: simple_pin_fs(), nfs_do_clone_mount()
through nfs_follow_mountpoint(), afs_mntpt_do_automount() through
afs_mntpt_follow_link(). Both later functions are actually the filesystems
follow_link inode operation. vfs_kern_mount() is calling the specified
get_sb function and lets the filesystem do its job by calling the given
fill_super function.

Therefore I think it is safe to push down the BKL from the VFS to the
low-level filesystems get_sb/fill_super operation.

[arnd: do not add the BKL to those file systems that already
       don't use it elsewhere]

Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck 
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann 
Cc: Matthew Wilcox 
Cc: Christoph Hellwig

AFS: Implement an autocell mount capability [ver #2]

2010-08-11T17:11:29+00:00

Implement the ability for the root directory of a mounted AFS filesystem to
accept lookups of arbitrary directory names, to interpet the names as the names
of cells, to look the cell names up in the DNS for AFSDB records and to mount
the root.cell volume of the nominated cell on the pseudo-directory created by
lookup.

This facility is requested by passing:

	-o autocell

to the mountpoint for which this is desired, usually the /afs mount.

To use this facility, a DNS upcall program is required for AFSDB records.  This
can be obtained from:

	http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/afs/dns.afsdb.c

It should be compiled with -lresolv and -lkeyutils and installed as, say:

	/usr/sbin/dns.afsdb

Then the following line needs to be added to /sbin/request-key.conf:

	create	dns_resolver afsdb:*	*	/usr/sbin/dns.afsdb %k

This can be tested by mounting AFS, say:

	insmod dns_resolver.ko
	insmod af-rxrpc.ko
	insmod kafs.ko rootcell=grand.central.org
	mount -t afs "#grand.central.org:root.cell." /afs -o autocell

and doing:

	ls /afs/grand.central.org/

which should show:

	archive/  cvs/  doc/  local/  project/  service/  software/  user/  www/

if it works.

Signed-off-by: Wang Lei 
Signed-off-by: David Howells 
Signed-off-by: Steve French

convert remaining ->clear_inode() to ->evict_inode()

2010-08-09T20:48:37+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

afs: add bdi backing to mount session.

2010-04-22T09:58:18+00:00

This ensures that dirty data gets flushed properly.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe