linux-toradex.git/include/linux/fs.h, branch v2.6.38.6

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://neil.brown.name/md

2011-02-25T19:13:26+00:00

* 'for-linus' of git://neil.brown.name/md:
  md: Fix - again - partition detection when array becomes active
  Fix over-zealous flush_disk when changing device size.
  md: avoid spinlock problem in blk_throtl_exit
  md: correctly handle probe of an 'mdp' device.
  md: don't set_capacity before array is active.
  md: Fix raid1->raid0 takeover

Fix over-zealous flush_disk when changing device size.

2011-02-24T06:25:47+00:00

There are two cases when we call flush_disk.
In one, the device has disappeared (check_disk_change) so any
data will hold becomes irrelevant.
In the oter, the device has changed size (check_disk_size_change)
so data we hold may be irrelevant.

In both cases it makes sense to discard any 'clean' buffers,
so they will be read back from the device if needed.

In the former case it makes sense to discard 'dirty' buffers
as there will never be anywhere safe to write the data.  In the
second case it *does*not* make sense to discard dirty buffers
as that will lead to file system corruption when you simply enlarge
the containing devices.

flush_disk calls __invalidate_devices.
__invalidate_device calls both invalidate_inodes and invalidate_bdev.

invalidate_inodes *does* discard I_DIRTY inodes and this does lead
to fs corruption.

invalidate_bev *does*not* discard dirty pages, but I don't really care
about that at present.

So this patch adds a flag to __invalidate_device (calling it
__invalidate_device2) to indicate whether dirty buffers should be
killed, and this is passed to invalidate_inodes which can choose to
skip dirty inodes.

flusk_disk then passes true from check_disk_change and false from
check_disk_size_change.

dm avoids tripping over this problem by calling i_size_write directly
rathher than using check_disk_size_change.

md does use check_disk_size_change and so is affected.

This regression was introduced by commit 608aeef17a which causes
check_disk_size_change to call flush_disk, so it is suitable for any
kernel since 2.6.27.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Acked-by: Jeff Moyer 
Cc: Andrew Patterson 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown

mm: prevent concurrent unmap_mapping_range() on the same inode

2011-02-24T03:52:52+00:00

Michael Leun reported that running parallel opens on a fuse filesystem
can trigger a "kernel BUG at mm/truncate.c:475"

Gurudas Pai reported the same bug on NFS.

The reason is, unmap_mapping_range() is not prepared for more than
one concurrent invocation per inode.  For example:

  thread1: going through a big range, stops in the middle of a vma and
     stores the restart address in vm_truncate_count.

  thread2: comes in with a small (e.g. single page) unmap request on
     the same vma, somewhere before restart_address, finds that the
     vma was already unmapped up to the restart address and happily
     returns without doing anything.

Another scenario would be two big unmap requests, both having to
restart the unmapping and each one setting vm_truncate_count to its
own value.  This could go on forever without any of them being able to
finish.

Truncate and hole punching already serialize with i_mutex.  Other
callers of unmap_mapping_range() do not, and it's difficult to get
i_mutex protection for all callers.  In particular ->d_revalidate(),
which calls invalidate_inode_pages2_range() in fuse, may be called
with or without i_mutex.

This patch adds a new mutex to 'struct address_space' to prevent
running multiple concurrent unmap_mapping_range() on the same mapping.

[ We'll hopefully get rid of all this with the upcoming mm
  preemptibility series by Peter Zijlstra, the "mm: Remove i_mmap_mutex
  lockbreak" patch in particular.  But that is for 2.6.39 ]

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi 
Reported-by: Michael Leun 
Reported-by: Gurudas Pai 
Tested-by: Gurudas Pai 
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

vfs: sparse: add __FMODE_EXEC

2011-02-03T00:03:19+00:00

FMODE_EXEC is a constant type of fmode_t but was used with normal integer
constants.  This results in following warnings from sparse.  Fix it using
new macro __FMODE_EXEC.

 fs/exec.c:116:58: warning: restricted fmode_t degrades to integer
 fs/exec.c:689:58: warning: restricted fmode_t degrades to integer
 fs/fcntl.c:777:9: warning: restricted fmode_t degrades to integer

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

vfs: sparse: remove a warning on OPEN_FMODE()

2011-02-03T00:03:19+00:00

AND-ing FMODE_* constant with normal integer results in following
sparse warnings. Fix it.

 fs/open.c:662:21: warning: restricted fmode_t degrades to integer
 fs/anon_inodes.c:123:34: warning: restricted fmode_t degrades to integer

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

fs: fix address space warnings in ioctl_fiemap()

2011-01-17T13:21:42+00:00

The fi_extents_start field of struct fiemap_extent_info is a
user pointer but was not marked as __user. This makes sparse
emit following warnings:

  CHECK   fs/ioctl.c
fs/ioctl.c:114:26: warning: incorrect type in argument 1 (different address spaces)
fs/ioctl.c:114:26:    expected void [noderef] *dst
fs/ioctl.c:114:26:    got struct fiemap_extent *[assigned] dest
fs/ioctl.c:202:14: warning: incorrect type in argument 1 (different address spaces)
fs/ioctl.c:202:14:    expected void const volatile [noderef] *
fs/ioctl.c:202:14:    got struct fiemap_extent *[assigned] fi_extents_start
fs/ioctl.c:212:27: warning: incorrect type in argument 1 (different address spaces)
fs/ioctl.c:212:27:    expected void [noderef] *dst
fs/ioctl.c:212:27:    got char *

Also add 'ufiemap' variable to eliminate unnecessary casts.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

fallocate should be a file operation

2011-01-17T07:25:31+00:00

Currently all filesystems except XFS implement fallocate asynchronously,
while XFS forced a commit.  Both of these are suboptimal - in case of O_SYNC
I/O we really want our allocation on disk, especially for the !KEEP_SIZE
case where we actually grow the file with user-visible zeroes.  On the
other hand always commiting the transaction is a bad idea for fast-path
uses of fallocate like for example in recent Samba versions.   Given
that block allocation is a data plane operation anyway change it from
an inode operation to a file operation so that we have the file structure
available that lets us check for O_SYNC.

This also includes moving the code around for a few of the filesystems,
and remove the already unnedded S_ISDIR checks given that we only wire
up fallocate for regular files.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6

2011-01-16T19:31:50+00:00

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (23 commits)
  sanitize vfsmount refcounting changes
  fix old umount_tree() breakage
  autofs4: Merge the remaining dentry ops tables
  Unexport do_add_mount() and add in follow_automount(), not ->d_automount()
  Allow d_manage() to be used in RCU-walk mode
  Remove a further kludge from __do_follow_link()
  autofs4: Bump version
  autofs4: Add v4 pseudo direct mount support
  autofs4: Fix wait validation
  autofs4: Clean up autofs4_free_ino()
  autofs4: Clean up dentry operations
  autofs4: Clean up inode operations
  autofs4: Remove unused code
  autofs4: Add d_manage() dentry operation
  autofs4: Add d_automount() dentry operation
  Remove the automount through follow_link() kludge code from pathwalk
  CIFS: Use d_automount() rather than abusing follow_link()
  NFS: Use d_automount() rather than abusing follow_link()
  AFS: Use d_automount() rather than abusing follow_link()
  Add an AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT flag to suppress terminal automount
  ...

Add a dentry op to handle automounting rather than abusing follow_link()

2011-01-16T01:05:03+00:00

Add a dentry op (d_automount) to handle automounting directories rather than
abusing the follow_link() inode operation.  The operation is keyed off a new
dentry flag (DCACHE_NEED_AUTOMOUNT).

This also makes it easier to add an AT_ flag to suppress terminal segment
automount during pathwalk and removes the need for the kludge code in the
pathwalk algorithm to handle directories with follow_link() semantics.

The ->d_automount() dentry operation:

	struct vfsmount *(*d_automount)(struct path *mountpoint);

takes a pointer to the directory to be mounted upon, which is expected to
provide sufficient data to determine what should be mounted.  If successful, it
should return the vfsmount struct it creates (which it should also have added
to the namespace using do_add_mount() or similar).  If there's a collision with
another automount attempt, NULL should be returned.  If the directory specified
by the parameter should be used directly rather than being mounted upon,
-EISDIR should be returned.  In any other case, an error code should be
returned.

The ->d_automount() operation is called with no locks held and may sleep.  At
this point the pathwalk algorithm will be in ref-walk mode.

Within fs/namei.c itself, a new pathwalk subroutine (follow_automount()) is
added to handle mountpoints.  It will return -EREMOTE if the automount flag was
set, but no d_automount() op was supplied, -ELOOP if we've encountered too many
symlinks or mountpoints, -EISDIR if the walk point should be used without
mounting and 0 if successful.  The path will be updated to point to the mounted
filesystem if a successful automount took place.

__follow_mount() is replaced by follow_managed() which is more generic
(especially with the patch that adds ->d_manage()).  This handles transits from
directories during pathwalk, including automounting and skipping over
mountpoints (and holding processes with the next patch).

__follow_mount_rcu() will jump out of RCU-walk mode if it encounters an
automount point with nothing mounted on it.

follow_dotdot*() does not handle automounts as you don't want to trigger them
whilst following "..".

I've also extracted the mount/don't-mount logic from autofs4 and included it
here.  It makes the mount go ahead anyway if someone calls open() or creat(),
tries to traverse the directory, tries to chdir/chroot/etc. into the directory,
or sticks a '/' on the end of the pathname.  If they do a stat(), however,
they'll only trigger the automount if they didn't also say O_NOFOLLOW.

I've also added an inode flag (S_AUTOMOUNT) so that filesystems can mark their
inodes as automount points.  This flag is automatically propagated to the
dentry as DCACHE_NEED_AUTOMOUNT by __d_instantiate().  This saves NFS and could
save AFS a private flag bit apiece, but is not strictly necessary.  It would be
preferable to do the propagation in d_set_d_op(), but that doesn't normally
have access to the inode.

[AV: fixed breakage in case if __follow_mount_rcu() fails and nameidata_drop_rcu()
succeeds in RCU case of do_lookup(); we need to fall through to non-RCU case after
that, rather than just returning with ungrabbed *path]

Signed-off-by: David Howells 
Was-Acked-by: Ian Kent 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block

2011-01-14T21:32:07+00:00

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
  block: restore multiple bd_link_disk_holder() support
  block cfq: compensate preempted queue even if it has no slice assigned
  block cfq: make queue preempt work for queues from different workload