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<title>linux-toradex.git/fs/hostfs, branch v3.0.29</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>hostfs: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir, dir rename</title>
<updated>2011-05-28T05:02:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sage Weil</name>
<email>sage@newdream.net</email>
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<published>2011-05-27T20:42:07+00:00</published>
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hostfs does not have problems with references to unlinked directories.

CC: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@addtoit.com&gt;
CC: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
CC: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Signed-off-by: Sage Weil &lt;sage@newdream.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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hostfs does not have problems with references to unlinked directories.

CC: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@addtoit.com&gt;
CC: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
CC: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Signed-off-by: Sage Weil &lt;sage@newdream.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>vfs: push dentry_unhash on rename_dir into file systems</title>
<updated>2011-05-26T11:26:48+00:00</updated>
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<name>Sage Weil</name>
<email>sage@newdream.net</email>
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<published>2011-05-24T20:06:07+00:00</published>
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Only a few file systems need this.  Start by pushing it down into each
rename method (except gfs2 and xfs) so that it can be dealt with on a
per-fs basis.

Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sage Weil &lt;sage@newdream.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Only a few file systems need this.  Start by pushing it down into each
rename method (except gfs2 and xfs) so that it can be dealt with on a
per-fs basis.

Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sage Weil &lt;sage@newdream.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>vfs: push dentry_unhash on rmdir into file systems</title>
<updated>2011-05-26T11:26:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sage Weil</name>
<email>sage@newdream.net</email>
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<published>2011-05-24T20:06:06+00:00</published>
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Only a few file systems need this.  Start by pushing it down into each
fs rmdir method (except gfs2 and xfs) so it can be dealt with on a per-fs
basis.

This does not change behavior for any in-tree file systems.

Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sage Weil &lt;sage@newdream.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Only a few file systems need this.  Start by pushing it down into each
fs rmdir method (except gfs2 and xfs) so it can be dealt with on a per-fs
basis.

This does not change behavior for any in-tree file systems.

Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sage Weil &lt;sage@newdream.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>switch hostfs</title>
<updated>2011-01-13T01:03:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2011-01-12T21:47:00+00:00</published>
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-&gt;d_delete() doesn't matter for s_root anyway

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-&gt;d_delete() doesn't matter for s_root anyway

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>fs: provide rcu-walk aware permission i_ops</title>
<updated>2011-01-07T06:50:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nick Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@kernel.dk</email>
</author>
<published>2011-01-07T06:49:58+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin &lt;npiggin@kernel.dk&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin &lt;npiggin@kernel.dk&gt;
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<title>fs: dcache reduce branches in lookup path</title>
<updated>2011-01-07T06:50:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nick Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@kernel.dk</email>
</author>
<published>2011-01-07T06:49:55+00:00</published>
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Reduce some branches and memory accesses in dcache lookup by adding dentry
flags to indicate common d_ops are set, rather than having to check them.
This saves a pointer memory access (dentry-&gt;d_op) in common path lookup
situations, and saves another pointer load and branch in cases where we
have d_op but not the particular operation.

Patched with:

git grep -E '[.&gt;]([[:space:]])*d_op([[:space:]])*=' | xargs sed -e 's/\([^\t ]*\)-&gt;d_op = \(.*\);/d_set_d_op(\1, \2);/' -e 's/\([^\t ]*\)\.d_op = \(.*\);/d_set_d_op(\&amp;\1, \2);/' -i

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin &lt;npiggin@kernel.dk&gt;
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Reduce some branches and memory accesses in dcache lookup by adding dentry
flags to indicate common d_ops are set, rather than having to check them.
This saves a pointer memory access (dentry-&gt;d_op) in common path lookup
situations, and saves another pointer load and branch in cases where we
have d_op but not the particular operation.

Patched with:

git grep -E '[.&gt;]([[:space:]])*d_op([[:space:]])*=' | xargs sed -e 's/\([^\t ]*\)-&gt;d_op = \(.*\);/d_set_d_op(\1, \2);/' -e 's/\([^\t ]*\)\.d_op = \(.*\);/d_set_d_op(\&amp;\1, \2);/' -i

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin &lt;npiggin@kernel.dk&gt;
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<title>fs: icache RCU free inodes</title>
<updated>2011-01-07T06:50:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nick Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@kernel.dk</email>
</author>
<published>2011-01-07T06:49:49+00:00</published>
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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-&gt;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 &lt;npiggin@kernel.dk&gt;
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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-&gt;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 &lt;npiggin@kernel.dk&gt;
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<title>hostfs: simplify locking</title>
<updated>2011-01-07T06:50:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nick Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@kernel.dk</email>
</author>
<published>2011-01-07T06:49:29+00:00</published>
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Remove dcache_lock locking from hostfs filesystem, and move it into dcache
helpers. All that is required is a coherent path name. Protection from
concurrent modification of the namespace after path name generation is not
provided in current code, because dcache_lock is dropped before the path is
used.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin &lt;npiggin@kernel.dk&gt;
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Remove dcache_lock locking from hostfs filesystem, and move it into dcache
helpers. All that is required is a coherent path name. Protection from
concurrent modification of the namespace after path name generation is not
provided in current code, because dcache_lock is dropped before the path is
used.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin &lt;npiggin@kernel.dk&gt;
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<title>fs: change d_delete semantics</title>
<updated>2011-01-07T06:50:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nick Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@kernel.dk</email>
</author>
<published>2011-01-07T06:49:23+00:00</published>
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Change d_delete from a dentry deletion notification to a dentry caching
advise, more like -&gt;drop_inode. Require it to be constant and idempotent,
and not take d_lock. This is how all existing filesystems use the callback
anyway.

This makes fine grained dentry locking of dput and dentry lru scanning
much simpler.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin &lt;npiggin@kernel.dk&gt;
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Change d_delete from a dentry deletion notification to a dentry caching
advise, more like -&gt;drop_inode. Require it to be constant and idempotent,
and not take d_lock. This is how all existing filesystems use the callback
anyway.

This makes fine grained dentry locking of dput and dentry lru scanning
much simpler.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin &lt;npiggin@kernel.dk&gt;
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<title>convert get_sb_nodev() users</title>
<updated>2010-10-29T08:16:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2010-07-25T07:46:36+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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