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2009-05-26NFSv4: Fix the case where NFSv4 renewal failsTrond Myklebust
If the asynchronous lease renewal fails (usually due to a soft timeout), then we _must_ schedule state recovery in order to ensure that we don't lose the lease unnecessarily or, if the lease is already lost, that we recover the locking state promptly... Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-05-26nfs: fix build error in nfsroot with initconstSam Ravnborg
fix build error with latest kbuild adjustments to initconst. The commit a447c0932445f92ce6f4c1bd020f62c5097a7842 ("vfs: Use const for kernel parser table") changed: static match_table_t __initdata tokens = { to static match_table_t __initconst tokens = { But the missing const causes popwerpc to fail with latest updates to __initconst like this: fs/nfs/nfsroot.c:400: error: __setup_str_nfs_root_setup causes a section type conflict fs/nfs/nfsroot.c:400: error: __setup_str_nfs_root_setup causes a section type conflict The bug is only present with kbuild-next. Following patch has been build tested. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-05-18nfs: Fix NFS v4 client handling of MAY_EXEC in nfs_permission.Frank Filz
The problem is that permission checking is skipped if atomic open is possible, but when exec opens a file, it just opens it O_READONLY which means EXEC permission will not be checked at that time. This problem is observed by the following sequence (executed as root): mount -t nfs4 server:/ /mnt4 echo "ls" >/mnt4/foo chmod 744 /mnt4/foo su guest -c "mnt4/foo" Signed-off-by: Frank Filz <ffilzlnx@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Tested-by: Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@kernel.sg> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-05-09Convert obvious places to deactivate_locked_super()Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-05-09vfs: umount_begin BKL pushdownAlessio Igor Bogani
Push BKL down into ->umount_begin() Signed-off-by: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@texware.it> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-05-02NFS: Close page_mkwrite() racesTrond Myklebust
Follow up to Nick Piggin's patches to ensure that nfs_vm_page_mkwrite returns with the page lock held, and sets the VM_FAULT_LOCKED flag. See http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12913 Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-21NFS: Fix the XDR iovec calculation in nfs3_xdr_setaclargsTrond Myklebust
Commit ae46141ff08f1965b17c531b571953c39ce8b9e2 (NFSv3: Fix posix ACL code) introduces a bug in the calculation of the XDR header iovec. In the case where we are inlining the acls, we need to adjust the length of the iovec req->rq_svec, in addition to adjusting the total buffer length. Tested-by: Leonardo Chiquitto <leonardo.lists@gmail.com> Tested-by: Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-07NFS: Fix the return value in nfs_page_mkwrite()Trond Myklebust
Commit c2ec175c39f62949438354f603f4aa170846aabb ("mm: page_mkwrite change prototype to match fault") exposed a bug in the NFS implementation of page_mkwrite. We should be returning 0 on success... Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-06NFS: Fix a double free in nfs_parse_mount_options()Trond Myklebust
Due to an apparent typo, commit a67d18f89f5782806135aad4ee012ff78d45aae7 (NFS: load the rpc/rdma transport module automatically) lead to the 'proto=' mount option doing a double free, while Opt_mountproto leaks a string. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-03NFS: Add mount options to enable local caching on NFSDavid Howells
Add NFS mount options to allow the local caching support to be enabled. The attached patch makes it possible for the NFS filesystem to be told to make use of the network filesystem local caching service (FS-Cache). To be able to use this, a recent nfsutils package is required. There are three variant NFS mount options that can be added to a mount command to control caching for a mount. Only the last one specified takes effect: (*) Adding "fsc" will request caching. (*) Adding "fsc=<string>" will request caching and also specify a uniquifier. (*) Adding "nofsc" will disable caching. For example: mount warthog:/ /a -o fsc The cache of a particular superblock (NFS FSID) will be shared between all mounts of that volume, provided they have the same connection parameters and are not marked 'nosharecache'. Where it is otherwise impossible to distinguish superblocks because all the parameters are identical, but the 'nosharecache' option is supplied, a uniquifying string must be supplied, else only the first mount will be permitted to use the cache. If there's a key collision, then the second mount will disable caching and give a warning into the kernel log. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com> Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
2009-04-03NFS: Display local caching stateDavid Howells
Display the local caching state in /proc/fs/nfsfs/volumes. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com> Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
2009-04-03NFS: Store pages from an NFS inode into a local cacheDavid Howells
Store pages from an NFS inode into the cache data storage object associated with that inode. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com> Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
2009-04-03NFS: Read pages from FS-Cache into an NFS inodeDavid Howells
Read pages from an FS-Cache data storage object representing an inode into an NFS inode. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com> Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
2009-04-03NFS: nfs_readpage_async() needs to be accessible as a fallback for local cachingDavid Howells
nfs_readpage_async() needs to be non-static so that it can be used as a fallback for the local on-disk caching should an EIO crop up when reading the cache. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com> Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
2009-04-03NFS: Add read context retention for FS-Cache to call back withDavid Howells
Add read context retention so that FS-Cache can call back into NFS when a read operation on the cache fails EIO rather than reading data. This permits NFS to then fetch the data from the server instead using the appropriate security context. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com> Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
2009-04-03NFS: FS-Cache page managementDavid Howells
FS-Cache page management for NFS. This includes hooking the releasing and invalidation of pages marked with PG_fscache (aka PG_private_2) and waiting for completion of the write-to-cache flag (PG_fscache_write aka PG_owner_priv_2). Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com> Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
2009-04-03NFS: Add some new I/O counters for FS-Cache doing things for NFSDavid Howells
Add some new NFS I/O counters for FS-Cache doing things for NFS. A new line is emitted into /proc/pid/mountstats if caching is enabled that looks like: fsc: <rok> <rfl> <wok> <wfl> <unc> Where <rok> is the number of pages read successfully from the cache, <rfl> is the number of failed page reads against the cache, <wok> is the number of successful page writes to the cache, <wfl> is the number of failed page writes to the cache, and <unc> is the number of NFS pages that have been disconnected from the cache. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com> Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
2009-04-03NFS: Invalidate FsCache page flags when cache removedDavid Howells
Invalidate the FsCache page flags on the pages belonging to an inode when the cache backing that NFS inode is removed. This allows a live cache to be withdrawn. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com> Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
2009-04-03NFS: Use local disk inode cacheDavid Howells
Bind data storage objects in the local cache to NFS inodes. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com> Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
2009-04-03NFS: Define and create inode-level cache objectsDavid Howells
Define and create inode-level cache data storage objects (as managed by nfs_inode structs). Each inode-level object is created in a superblock-level index object and is itself a data storage object into which pages from the inode are stored. The inode object key is the NFS file handle for the inode. The inode object is given coherency data to carry in the auxiliary data permitted by the cache. This is a sequence made up of: (1) i_mtime from the NFS inode. (2) i_ctime from the NFS inode. (3) i_size from the NFS inode. (4) change_attr from the NFSv4 attribute data. As the cache is a persistent cache, the auxiliary data is checked when a new NFS in-memory inode is set up that matches an already existing data storage object in the cache. If the coherency data is the same, the on-disk object is retained and used; if not, it is scrapped and a new one created. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com> Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
2009-04-03NFS: Define and create superblock-level objectsDavid Howells
Define and create superblock-level cache index objects (as managed by nfs_server structs). Each superblock object is created in a server level index object and is itself an index into which inode-level objects are inserted. Ideally there would be one superblock-level object per server, and the former would be folded into the latter; however, since the "nosharecache" option exists this isn't possible. The superblock object key is a sequence consisting of: (1) Certain superblock s_flags. (2) Various connection parameters that serve to distinguish superblocks for sget(). (3) The volume FSID. (4) The security flavour. (5) The uniquifier length. (6) The uniquifier text. This is normally an empty string, unless the fsc=xyz mount option was used to explicitly specify a uniquifier. The key blob is of variable length, depending on the length of (6). The superblock object is given no coherency data to carry in the auxiliary data permitted by the cache. It is assumed that the superblock is always coherent. This patch also adds uniquification handling such that two otherwise identical superblocks, at least one of which is marked "nosharecache", won't end up trying to share the on-disk cache. It will be possible to manually provide a uniquifier through a mount option with a later patch to avoid the error otherwise produced. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com> Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
2009-04-03NFS: Define and create server-level objectsDavid Howells
Define and create server-level cache index objects (as managed by nfs_client structs). Each server object is created in the NFS top-level index object and is itself an index into which superblock-level objects are inserted. Ideally there would be one superblock-level object per server, and the former would be folded into the latter; however, since the "nosharecache" option exists this isn't possible. The server object key is a sequence consisting of: (1) NFS version (2) Server address family (eg: AF_INET or AF_INET6) (3) Server port. (4) Server IP address. The key blob is of variable length, depending on the length of (4). The server object is given no coherency data to carry in the auxiliary data permitted by the cache. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com> Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
2009-04-03NFS: Register NFS for caching and retrieve the top-level indexDavid Howells
Register NFS for caching and retrieve the top-level cache index object cookie. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com> Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
2009-04-03NFS: Permit local filesystem caching to be enabled for NFSDavid Howells
Permit local filesystem caching to be enabled for NFS in the kernel configuration. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com> Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
2009-04-03NFS: Add comment banners to some NFS functionsDavid Howells
Add comment banners to some NFS functions so that they can be modified by the NFS fscache patches for further information. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com> Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
2009-04-02Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: Remove two unneeded exports and make two symbols static in fs/mpage.c Cleanup after commit 585d3bc06f4ca57f975a5a1f698f65a45ea66225 Trim includes of fdtable.h Don't crap into descriptor table in binfmt_som Trim includes in binfmt_elf Don't mess with descriptor table in load_elf_binary() Get rid of indirect include of fs_struct.h New helper - current_umask() check_unsafe_exec() doesn't care about signal handlers sharing New locking/refcounting for fs_struct Take fs_struct handling to new file (fs/fs_struct.c) Get rid of bumping fs_struct refcount in pivot_root(2) Kill unsharing fs_struct in __set_personality()
2009-04-01Merge branch 'devel' into for-linusTrond Myklebust
2009-04-01mm: page_mkwrite change prototype to match faultNick Piggin
Change the page_mkwrite prototype to take a struct vm_fault, and return VM_FAULT_xxx flags. There should be no functional change. This makes it possible to return much more detailed error information to the VM (and also can provide more information eg. virtual_address to the driver, which might be important in some special cases). This is required for a subsequent fix. And will also make it easier to merge page_mkwrite() with fault() in future. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com> Cc: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com> Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org> Cc: Felix Blyakher <felixb@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-03-31New helper - current_umask()Al Viro
current->fs->umask is what most of fs_struct users are doing. Put that into a helper function. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-03-31proc 2/2: remove struct proc_dir_entry::ownerAlexey Dobriyan
Setting ->owner as done currently (pde->owner = THIS_MODULE) is racy as correctly noted at bug #12454. Someone can lookup entry with NULL ->owner, thus not pinning enything, and release it later resulting in module refcount underflow. We can keep ->owner and supply it at registration time like ->proc_fops and ->data. But this leaves ->owner as easy-manipulative field (just one C assignment) and somebody will forget to unpin previous/pin current module when switching ->owner. ->proc_fops is declared as "const" which should give some thoughts. ->read_proc/->write_proc were just fixed to not require ->owner for protection. rmmod'ed directories will be empty and return "." and ".." -- no harm. And directories with tricky enough readdir and lookup shouldn't be modular. We definitely don't want such modular code. Removing ->owner will also make PDE smaller. So, let's nuke it. Kudos to Jeff Layton for reminding about this, let's say, oversight. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12454 Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
2009-03-28NFS: Simplify logic to compare socket addresses in client.cChuck Lever
Callback requests from IPv4 servers are now always guaranteed to be AF_INET, and never mapped IPv4 AF_INET6 addresses. Both nfs_match_client() and nfs_find_client() can now share the same address comparison logic, so fold them together. We can also dispense with of most of the conditional compilation in here. Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-03-28Merge commit '9f4c899c0d90e1b51b6864834f3877b47c161a0e' into develTrond Myklebust
2009-03-28NFS: Start PF_INET6 callback listener only if IPv6 support is availableChuck Lever
Apparently a lot of people need to disable IPv6 completely on their distributor-built systems, which have CONFIG_IPV6_MODULE enabled at build time. They do this by blacklisting the ipv6.ko module. This causes the creation of the NFSv4 callback service listener to fail if CONFIG_IPV6_MODULE is set, but the module cannot be loaded. Now that the kernel's PF_INET6 RPC listeners are completely separate from PF_INET listeners, we can always start PF_INET. Then the NFS client can try to start a PF_INET6 listener, but it isn't required to be available. Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-03-28NFS: Revert creation of IPv6 listeners for lockd and NFSv4 callbacksChuck Lever
We're about to convert over to using separate PF_INET and PF_INET6 listeners, instead of a single PF_INET6 listener that also receives AF_INET requests and maps them to AF_INET6. Clear the way by removing the logic in lockd and the NFSv4 callback server that creates an AF_INET6 service listener. Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-03-28SUNRPC: Remove @family argument from svc_create() and svc_create_pooled()Chuck Lever
Since an RPC service listener's protocol family is specified now via svc_create_xprt(), it no longer needs to be passed to svc_create() or svc_create_pooled(). Remove that argument from the synopsis of those functions, and remove the sv_family field from the svc_serv struct. Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-03-28SUNRPC: Change svc_create_xprt() to take a @family argumentChuck Lever
The sv_family field is going away. Pass a protocol family argument to svc_create_xprt() instead of extracting the family from the passed-in svc_serv struct. Again, as this is a listener socket and not an address, we make this new argument an "int" protocol family, instead of an "sa_family_t." Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-03-27constify dentry_operations: NFSAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-03-19NFS: Optimise NFS close()Trond Myklebust
Close-to-open cache consistency rules really only require us to flush out writes on calls to close(), and require us to revalidate attributes on the very last close of the file. Currently we appear to be doing a lot of extra attribute revalidation and cache flushes. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-03-19NFS: Fix the notifications when renaming onto an existing fileTrond Myklebust
NFS appears to be returning an unnecessary "delete" notification when we're doing an atomic rename. See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=575684 The fix is to get rid of the redundant call to d_delete(). Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-03-19NFS: Fix up a mismerged patchTrond Myklebust
Move the definition of nfs_need_commit() into the #ifdef CONFIG_NFS_V3 section as originally intended in the patch "NFS: cleanup - remove struct nfs_inode->ncommit" Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-03-12NFS: Fix the fix to Bugzilla #11061, when IPv6 isn't defined...Trond Myklebust
Stephen Rothwell reports: Today's linux-next build (powerpc ppc64_defconfig) failed like this: fs/built-in.o: In function `.nfs_get_client': client.c:(.text+0x115010): undefined reference to `.__ipv6_addr_type' Fix by moving the IPV6 specific parts of commit d7371c41b0cda782256b1df759df4e8d4724584c ("Bug 11061, NFS mounts dropped") into the '#ifdef IPV6..." section. Also fix up a couple of formatting issues. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-03-11NFS: load the rpc/rdma transport module automaticallyTom Talpey
When mounting an NFS/RDMA server with the "-o proto=rdma" or "-o rdma" options, attempt to dynamically load the necessary "xprtrdma" client transport module. Doing so improves usability, while avoiding a static module dependency and any unnecesary resources. Signed-off-by: Tom Talpey <tmtalpey@gmail.com> Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-03-11NFS: Kill the "defined but not used" compile error on nommu machinesTrond Myklebust
Bryan Wu reports that when compiling NFS on nommu machines he gets a "defined but not used" error on nfs_file_mmap(). The easiest fix is simply to get rid of the special casing in NFS, and just always call generic_file_mmap() to set up the file. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-03-11NFS: Throttle page dirtying while we're flushing to diskTrond Myklebust
The following patch is a combination of a patch by myself and Peter Staubach. Trond: If we allow other processes to dirty pages while a process is doing a consistency sync to disk, we can end up never making progress. Peter: Attached is a patch which addresses a continuing problem with the NFS client generating out of order WRITE requests. While this is compliant with all of the current protocol specifications, there are servers in the market which can not handle out of order WRITE requests very well. Also, this may lead to sub-optimal block allocations in the underlying file system on the server. This may cause the read throughputs to be reduced when reading the file from the server. Peter: There has been a lot of work recently done to address out of order issues on a systemic level. However, the NFS client is still susceptible to the problem. Out of order WRITE requests can occur when pdflush is in the middle of writing out pages while the process dirtying the pages calls generic_file_buffered_write which calls generic_perform_write which calls balance_dirty_pages_rate_limited which ends up calling writeback_inodes which ends up calling back into the NFS client to writes out dirty pages for the same file that pdflush happens to be working with. Signed-off-by: Peter Staubach <staubach@redhat.com> [modification by Trond to merge the two similar patches] Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-03-11NFS: cleanup - remove struct nfs_inode->ncommitTrond Myklebust
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-03-11NFSv4: Simplify some cache consistency post-op GETATTRsTrond Myklebust
Certain asynchronous operations such as write() do not expect (or care) that other metadata such as the file owner, mode, acls, ... change. All they want to do is update and/or check the change attribute, ctime, and mtime. By skipping the file owner and group update, we also avoid having to do a potential idmapper upcall for these asynchronous RPC calls. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-03-11NFSv4: A referral is assumed to always point to a directory.Trond Myklebust
Fix a bug whereby we would fail to create a mount point for a referral. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-03-11NFSv4: Make decode_getfattr() set fattr->valid to reflect what was decodedTrond Myklebust
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-03-11NFSv4: Clean up decode_getfattr()Trond Myklebust
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-03-11NFS: Fix the type of struct nfs_fattr->modeTrond Myklebust
There is no point in using anything other than umode_t, since we copy the content pretty much directly into inode->i_mode. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
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