linux-toradex.git/fs/kernfs, branch v4.5

wrappers for ->i_mutex access

2016-01-22T23:04:28+00:00

parallel to mutex_{lock,unlock,trylock,is_locked,lock_nested},
inode_foo(inode) being mutex_foo(&inode->i_mutex).

Please, use those for access to ->i_mutex; over the coming cycle
->i_mutex will become rwsem, with ->lookup() done with it held
only shared.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

Revert "kernfs: do not account ino_ida allocations to memcg"

2016-01-15T00:00:49+00:00

Currently, all kmem allocations (namely every kmem_cache_alloc, kmalloc,
alloc_kmem_pages call) are accounted to memory cgroup automatically.
Callers have to explicitly opt out if they don't want/need accounting
for some reason.  Such a design decision leads to several problems:

 - kmalloc users are highly sensitive to failures, many of them
   implicitly rely on the fact that kmalloc never fails, while memcg
   makes failures quite plausible.

 - A lot of objects are shared among different containers by design.
   Accounting such objects to one of containers is just unfair.
   Moreover, it might lead to pinning a dead memcg along with its kmem
   caches, which aren't tiny, which might result in noticeable increase
   in memory consumption for no apparent reason in the long run.

 - There are tons of short-lived objects. Accounting them to memcg will
   only result in slight noise and won't change the overall picture, but
   we still have to pay accounting overhead.

For more info, see

 - http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20151105144002.GB15111%40dhcp22.suse.cz
 - http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20151106090555.GK29259@esperanza

Therefore this patchset switches to the white list policy.  Now kmalloc
users have to explicitly opt in by passing __GFP_ACCOUNT flag.

Currently, the list of accounted objects is quite limited and only
includes those allocations that (1) are known to be easily triggered
from userspace and (2) can fail gracefully (for the full list see patch
no.  6) and it still misses many object types.  However, accounting only
those objects should be a satisfactory approximation of the behavior we
used to have for most sane workloads.

This patch (of 6):

Revert 499611ed451508a42d1d7d ("kernfs: do not account ino_ida allocations
to memcg").

Black-list kmem accounting policy (aka __GFP_NOACCOUNT) turned out to be
fragile and difficult to maintain, because there seem to be many more
allocations that should not be accounted than those that should be.
Besides, false accounting an allocation might result in much worse
consequences than not accounting at all, namely increased memory
consumption due to pinned dead kmem caches.

So it was decided to switch to the white-list policy.  This patch reverts
bits introducing the black-list policy.  The white-list policy will be
introduced later in the series.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov 
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Greg Thelen 
Cc: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Pekka Enberg 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: Joonsoo Kim 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next

2016-01-13T02:57:02+00:00

Pull networking updates from Davic Miller:

 1) Support busy polling generically, for all NAPI drivers.  From Eric
    Dumazet.

 2) Add byte/packet counter support to nft_ct, from Floriani Westphal.

 3) Add RSS/XPS support to mvneta driver, from Gregory Clement.

 4) Implement IPV6_HDRINCL socket option for raw sockets, from Hannes
    Frederic Sowa.

 5) Add support for T6 adapter to cxgb4 driver, from Hariprasad Shenai.

 6) Add support for VLAN device bridging to mlxsw switch driver, from
    Ido Schimmel.

 7) Add driver for Netronome NFP4000/NFP6000, from Jakub Kicinski.

 8) Provide hwmon interface to mlxsw switch driver, from Jiri Pirko.

 9) Reorganize wireless drivers into per-vendor directories just like we
    do for ethernet drivers.  From Kalle Valo.

10) Provide a way for administrators "destroy" connected sockets via the
    SOCK_DESTROY socket netlink diag operation.  From Lorenzo Colitti.

11) Add support to add/remove multicast routes via netlink, from Nikolay
    Aleksandrov.

12) Make TCP keepalive settings per-namespace, from Nikolay Borisov.

13) Add forwarding and packet duplication facilities to nf_tables, from
    Pablo Neira Ayuso.

14) Dead route support in MPLS, from Roopa Prabhu.

15) TSO support for thunderx chips, from Sunil Goutham.

16) Add driver for IBM's System i/p VNIC protocol, from Thomas Falcon.

17) Rationalize, consolidate, and more completely document the checksum
    offloading facilities in the networking stack.  From Tom Herbert.

18) Support aborting an ongoing scan in mac80211/cfg80211, from
    Vidyullatha Kanchanapally.

19) Use per-bucket spinlock for bpf hash facility, from Tom Leiming.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1375 commits)
  net: bnxt: always return values from _bnxt_get_max_rings
  net: bpf: reject invalid shifts
  phonet: properly unshare skbs in phonet_rcv()
  dwc_eth_qos: Fix dma address for multi-fragment skbs
  phy: remove an unneeded condition
  mdio: remove an unneed condition
  mdio_bus: NULL dereference on allocation error
  net: Fix typo in netdev_intersect_features
  net: freescale: mac-fec: Fix build error from phy_device API change
  net: freescale: ucc_geth: Fix build error from phy_device API change
  bonding: Prevent IPv6 link local address on enslaved devices
  IB/mlx5: Add flow steering support
  net/mlx5_core: Export flow steering API
  net/mlx5_core: Make ipv4/ipv6 location more clear
  net/mlx5_core: Enable flow steering support for the IB driver
  net/mlx5_core: Initialize namespaces only when supported by device
  net/mlx5_core: Set priority attributes
  net/mlx5_core: Connect flow tables
  net/mlx5_core: Introduce modify flow table command
  net/mlx5_core: Managing root flow table
  ...

Merge branch 'work.xattr' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

2016-01-11T21:32:10+00:00

Pull vfs xattr updates from Al Viro:
 "Andreas' xattr cleanup series.

  It's a followup to his xattr work that went in last cycle; -0.5KLoC"

* 'work.xattr' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  xattr handlers: Simplify list operation
  ocfs2: Replace list xattr handler operations
  nfs: Move call to security_inode_listsecurity into nfs_listxattr
  xfs: Change how listxattr generates synthetic attributes
  tmpfs: listxattr should include POSIX ACL xattrs
  tmpfs: Use xattr handler infrastructure
  btrfs: Use xattr handler infrastructure
  vfs: Distinguish between full xattr names and proper prefixes
  posix acls: Remove duplicate xattr name definitions
  gfs2: Remove gfs2_xattr_acl_chmod
  vfs: Remove vfs_xattr_cmp

switch ->get_link() to delayed_call, kill ->put_link()

2015-12-30T18:01:03+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

kill free_page_put_link()

2015-12-29T21:03:53+00:00

all callers are better off with kfree_put_link()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

replace ->follow_link() with new method that could stay in RCU mode

2015-12-09T03:41:54+00:00

new method: ->get_link(); replacement of ->follow_link().  The differences
are:
	* inode and dentry are passed separately
	* might be called both in RCU and non-RCU mode;
the former is indicated by passing it a NULL dentry.
	* when called that way it isn't allowed to block
and should return ERR_PTR(-ECHILD) if it needs to be called
in non-RCU mode.

It's a flagday change - the old method is gone, all in-tree instances
converted.  Conversion isn't hard; said that, so far very few instances
do not immediately bail out when called in RCU mode.  That'll change
in the next commits.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

tmpfs: listxattr should include POSIX ACL xattrs

2015-12-07T02:34:15+00:00

When a file on tmpfs has an ACL or a Default ACL, listxattr should include the
corresponding xattr name.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher 
Reviewed-by: James Morris 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

tmpfs: Use xattr handler infrastructure

2015-12-07T02:34:15+00:00

Use the VFS xattr handler infrastructure and get rid of similar code in
the filesystem.  For implementing shmem_xattr_handler_set, we need a
version of simple_xattr_set which removes the attribute when value is
NULL.  Use this to implement kernfs_iop_removexattr as well.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher 
Reviewed-by: James Morris 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

kernfs: implement kernfs_walk_and_get()

2015-11-20T20:55:52+00:00

Implement kernfs_walk_and_get() which is similar to
kernfs_find_and_get() but can walk a path instead of just a name.

v2: Use strlcpy() instead of strlen() + memcpy() as suggested by
    David.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Cc: David Miller