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2014-04-01smarter propagate_mnt()Al Viro
The current mainline has copies propagated to *all* nodes, then tears down the copies we made for nodes that do not contain counterparts of the desired mountpoint. That sets the right propagation graph for the copies (at teardown time we move the slaves of removed node to a surviving peer or directly to master), but we end up paying a fairly steep price in useless allocations. It's fairly easy to create a situation where N calls of mount(2) create exactly N bindings, with O(N^2) vfsmounts allocated and freed in process. Fortunately, it is possible to avoid those allocations/freeings. The trick is to create copies in the right order and find which one would've eventually become a master with the current algorithm. It turns out to be possible in O(nodes getting propagation) time and with no extra allocations at all. One part is that we need to make sure that eventual master will be created before its slaves, so we need to walk the propagation tree in a different order - by peer groups. And iterate through the peers before dealing with the next group. Another thing is finding the (earlier) copy that will be a master of one we are about to create; to do that we are (temporary) marking the masters of mountpoints we are attaching the copies to. Either we are in a peer of the last mountpoint we'd dealt with, or we have the following situation: we are attaching to mountpoint M, the last copy S_0 had been attached to M_0 and there are sequences S_0...S_n, M_0...M_n such that S_{i+1} is a master of S_{i}, S_{i} mounted on M{i} and we need to create a slave of the first S_{k} such that M is getting propagation from M_{k}. It means that the master of M_{k} will be among the sequence of masters of M. On the other hand, the nearest marked node in that sequence will either be the master of M_{k} or the master of M_{k-1} (the latter - in the case if M_{k-1} is a slave of something M gets propagation from, but in a wrong peer group). So we go through the sequence of masters of M until we find a marked one (P). Let N be the one before it. Then we go through the sequence of masters of S_0 until we find one (say, S) mounted on a node D that has P as master and check if D is a peer of N. If it is, S will be the master of new copy, if not - the master of S will be. That's it for the hard part; the rest is fairly simple. Iterator is in next_group(), handling of one prospective mountpoint is propagate_one(). It seems to survive all tests and gives a noticably better performance than the current mainline for setups that are seriously using shared subtrees. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-11-09RCU'd vfsmountsAl Viro
* RCU-delayed freeing of vfsmounts * vfsmount_lock replaced with a seqlock (mount_lock) * sequence number from mount_lock is stored in nameidata->m_seq and used when we exit RCU mode * new vfsmount flag - MNT_SYNC_UMOUNT. Set by umount_tree() when its caller knows that vfsmount will have no surviving references. * synchronize_rcu() done between unlocking namespace_sem in namespace_unlock() and doing pending mntput(). * new helper: legitimize_mnt(mnt, seq). Checks the mount_lock sequence number against seq, then grabs reference to mnt. Then it rechecks mount_lock again to close the race and either returns success or drops the reference it has acquired. The subtle point is that in case of MNT_SYNC_UMOUNT we can simply decrement the refcount and sod off - aforementioned synchronize_rcu() makes sure that final mntput() won't come until we leave RCU mode. We need that, since we don't want to end up with some lazy pathwalk racing with umount() and stealing the final mntput() from it - caller of umount() may expect it to return only once the fs is shut down and we don't want to break that. In other cases (i.e. with MNT_SYNC_UMOUNT absent) we have to do full-blown mntput() in case of mount_lock sequence number mismatch happening just as we'd grabbed the reference, but in those cases we won't be stealing the final mntput() from anything that would care. * mntput_no_expire() doesn't lock anything on the fast path now. Incidentally, SMP and UP cases are handled the same way - no ifdefs there. * normal pathname resolution does *not* do any writes to mount_lock. It does, of course, bump the refcounts of vfsmount and dentry in the very end, but that's it. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-07-24vfs: Lock in place mounts from more privileged usersEric W. Biederman
When creating a less privileged mount namespace or propogating mounts from a more privileged to a less privileged mount namespace lock the submounts so they may not be unmounted individually in the child mount namespace revealing what is under them. This enforces the reasonable expectation that it is not possible to see under a mount point. Most of the time mounts are on empty directories and revealing that does not matter, however I have seen an occassionaly sloppy configuration where there were interesting things concealed under a mount point that probably should not be revealed. Expirable submounts are not locked because they will eventually unmount automatically so whatever is under them already needs to be safe for unprivileged users to access. From a practical standpoint these restrictions do not appear to be significant for unprivileged users of the mount namespace. Recursive bind mounts and pivot_root continues to work, and mounts that are created in a mount namespace may be unmounted there. All of which means that the common idiom of keeping a directory of interesting files and using pivot_root to throw everything else away continues to work just fine. Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2013-03-27vfs: Add a mount flag to lock read only bind mountsEric W. Biederman
When a read-only bind mount is copied from mount namespace in a higher privileged user namespace to a mount namespace in a lesser privileged user namespace, it should not be possible to remove the the read-only restriction. Add a MNT_LOCK_READONLY mount flag to indicate that a mount must remain read-only. CC: stable@vger.kernel.org Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2012-01-03vfs: move fsnotify junk to struct mountAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-01-03vfs: move mnt_devnameAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-01-03vfs: move mnt_list to struct mountAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-01-03vfs: move the rest of int fields to struct mountAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-01-03vfs: mnt_id/mnt_group_id movedAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-01-03vfs: mnt_ns moved to struct mountAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-01-03vfs: take mnt_share/mnt_slave/mnt_slave_list and mnt_expire to struct mountAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-01-03vfs: take mnt_master to struct mountAl Viro
make IS_MNT_SLAVE take struct mount * at the same time Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-01-03vfs: take mnt_child/mnt_mounts to struct mountAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-01-03vfs: all counters taken to struct mountAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-01-03vfs: move mnt_mountpoint to struct mountAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-01-03vfs: mnt_parent moved to struct mountAl Viro
the second victim... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-01-03vfs: the first spoils - mnt_hash movedAl Viro
taken out of struct vfsmount into struct mount Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-01-03vfs: mnt_drop_write_file()Al Viro
new helper (wrapper around mnt_drop_write()) to be used in pair with mnt_want_write_file(). Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-01-03vfs: make do_kern_mount() staticAl Viro
the only user outside of fs/namespace.c has died Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-26atomic: use <linux/atomic.h>Arun Sharma
This allows us to move duplicated code in <asm/atomic.h> (atomic_inc_not_zero() for now) to <linux/atomic.h> Signed-off-by: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-16sanitize vfsmount refcounting changesAl Viro
Instead of splitting refcount between (per-cpu) mnt_count and (SMP-only) mnt_longrefs, make all references contribute to mnt_count again and keep track of how many are longterm ones. Accounting rules for longterm count: * 1 for each fs_struct.root.mnt * 1 for each fs_struct.pwd.mnt * 1 for having non-NULL ->mnt_ns * decrement to 0 happens only under vfsmount lock exclusive That allows nice common case for mntput() - since we can't drop the final reference until after mnt_longterm has reached 0 due to the rules above, mntput() can grab vfsmount lock shared and check mnt_longterm. If it turns out to be non-zero (which is the common case), we know that this is not the final mntput() and can just blindly decrement percpu mnt_count. Otherwise we grab vfsmount lock exclusive and do usual decrement-and-check of percpu mnt_count. For fs_struct.c we have mnt_make_longterm() and mnt_make_shortterm(); namespace.c uses the latter in places where we don't already hold vfsmount lock exclusive and opencodes a few remaining spots where we need to manipulate mnt_longterm. Note that we mostly revert the code outside of fs/namespace.c back to what we used to have; in particular, normal code doesn't need to care about two kinds of references, etc. And we get to keep the optimization Nick's variant had bought us... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-01-15Unexport do_add_mount() and add in follow_automount(), not ->d_automount()David Howells
Unexport do_add_mount() and make ->d_automount() return the vfsmount to be added rather than calling do_add_mount() itself. follow_automount() will then do the addition. This slightly complicates things as ->d_automount() normally wants to add the new vfsmount to an expiration list and start an expiration timer. The problem with that is that the vfsmount will be deleted if it has a refcount of 1 and the timer will not repeat if the expiration list is empty. To this end, we require the vfsmount to be returned from d_automount() with a refcount of (at least) 2. One of these refs will be dropped unconditionally. In addition, follow_automount() must get a 3rd ref around the call to do_add_mount() lest it eat a ref and return an error, leaving the mount we have open to being expired as we would otherwise have only 1 ref on it. d_automount() should also add the the vfsmount to the expiration list (by calling mnt_set_expiry()) and start the expiration timer before returning, if this mechanism is to be used. The vfsmount will be unlinked from the expiration list by follow_automount() if do_add_mount() fails. This patch also fixes the call to do_add_mount() for AFS to propagate the mount flags from the parent vfsmount. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-01-07fs: scale mntget/mntputNick Piggin
The problem that this patch aims to fix is vfsmount refcounting scalability. We need to take a reference on the vfsmount for every successful path lookup, which often go to the same mount point. The fundamental difficulty is that a "simple" reference count can never be made scalable, because any time a reference is dropped, we must check whether that was the last reference. To do that requires communication with all other CPUs that may have taken a reference count. We can make refcounts more scalable in a couple of ways, involving keeping distributed counters, and checking for the global-zero condition less frequently. - check the global sum once every interval (this will delay zero detection for some interval, so it's probably a showstopper for vfsmounts). - keep a local count and only taking the global sum when local reaches 0 (this is difficult for vfsmounts, because we can't hold preempt off for the life of a reference, so a counter would need to be per-thread or tied strongly to a particular CPU which requires more locking). - keep a local difference of increments and decrements, which allows us to sum the total difference and hence find the refcount when summing all CPUs. Then, keep a single integer "long" refcount for slow and long lasting references, and only take the global sum of local counters when the long refcount is 0. This last scheme is what I implemented here. Attached mounts and process root and working directory references are "long" references, and everything else is a short reference. This allows scalable vfsmount references during path walking over mounted subtrees and unattached (lazy umounted) mounts with processes still running in them. This results in one fewer atomic op in the fastpath: mntget is now just a per-CPU inc, rather than an atomic inc; and mntput just requires a spinlock and non-atomic decrement in the common case. However code is otherwise bigger and heavier, so single threaded performance is basically a wash. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2010-08-11vfs: remove unused MNT_STRICTATIMEMiklos Szeredi
Commit d0adde574b8487ef30f69e2d08bba769e4be513f added MNT_STRICTATIME but it isn't actually used (MS_STRICTATIME clears MNT_RELATIME and MNT_NOATIME rather than setting any mount flag). Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-07-28fsnotify/vfsmount: add fsnotify fields to struct vfsmountAndreas Gruenbacher
This patch adds the list and mask fields needed to support vfsmount marks. These are the same fields fsnotify needs on an inode. They are not used, just declared and we note where the cleanup hook should be (the function is not yet defined) Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-03-04Merge 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: (52 commits) init: Open /dev/console from rootfs mqueue: fix typo "failues" -> "failures" mqueue: only set error codes if they are really necessary mqueue: simplify do_open() error handling mqueue: apply mathematics distributivity on mq_bytes calculation mqueue: remove unneeded info->messages initialization mqueue: fix mq_open() file descriptor leak on user-space processes fix race in d_splice_alias() set S_DEAD on unlink() and non-directory rename() victims vfs: add NOFOLLOW flag to umount(2) get rid of ->mnt_parent in tomoyo/realpath hppfs can use existing proc_mnt, no need for do_kern_mount() in there Mirror MS_KERNMOUNT in ->mnt_flags get rid of useless vfsmount_lock use in put_mnt_ns() Take vfsmount_lock to fs/internal.h get rid of insanity with namespace roots in tomoyo take check for new events in namespace (guts of mounts_poll()) to namespace.c Don't mess with generic_permission() under ->d_lock in hpfs sanitize const/signedness for udf nilfs: sanitize const/signedness in dealing with ->d_name.name ... Fix up fairly trivial (famous last words...) conflicts in drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_main.c and security/tomoyo/realpath.c
2010-03-03Mirror MS_KERNMOUNT in ->mnt_flagsAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-03-03Take vfsmount_lock to fs/internal.hAl Viro
no more users left outside of fs/*.c (and very few outside of fs/namespace.c, actually) Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-03-03VFS: Clean up shared mount flag propagationValerie Aurora
The handling of mount flags in set_mnt_shared() got a little tangled up during previous cleanups, with the following problems: * MNT_PNODE_MASK is defined as a literal constant when it should be a bitwise xor of other MNT_* flags * set_mnt_shared() clears and then sets MNT_SHARED (part of MNT_PNODE_MASK) * MNT_PNODE_MASK could use a comment in mount.h * MNT_PNODE_MASK is a terrible name, change to MNT_SHARED_MASK This patch fixes these problems. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-02-17percpu: add __percpu sparse annotations to fsTejun Heo
Add __percpu sparse annotations to fs. These annotations are to make sparse consider percpu variables to be in a different address space and warn if accessed without going through percpu accessors. This patch doesn't affect normal builds. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Cc: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-06-11fs: introduce mnt_clone_writenpiggin@suse.de
This patch speeds up lmbench lat_mmap test by about another 2% after the first patch. Before: avg = 462.286 std = 5.46106 After: avg = 453.12 std = 9.58257 (50 runs of each, stddev gives a reasonable confidence) It does this by introducing mnt_clone_write, which avoids some heavyweight operations of mnt_want_write if called on a vfsmount which we know already has a write count; and mnt_want_write_file, which can call mnt_clone_write if the file is open for write. After these two patches, mnt_want_write and mnt_drop_write go from 7% on the profile down to 1.3% (including mnt_clone_write). [AV: mnt_want_write_file() should take file alone and derive mnt from it; not only all callers have that form, but that's the only mnt about which we know that it's already held for write if file is opened for write] Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-06-11fs: mnt_want_write speedupnpiggin@suse.de
This patch speeds up lmbench lat_mmap test by about 8%. lat_mmap is set up basically to mmap a 64MB file on tmpfs, fault in its pages, then unmap it. A microbenchmark yes, but it exercises some important paths in the mm. Before: avg = 501.9 std = 14.7773 After: avg = 462.286 std = 5.46106 (50 runs of each, stddev gives a reasonable confidence, but there is quite a bit of variation there still) It does this by removing the complex per-cpu locking and counter-cache and replaces it with a percpu counter in struct vfsmount. This makes the code much simpler, and avoids spinlocks (although the msync is still pretty costly, unfortunately). It results in about 900 bytes smaller code too. It does increase the size of a vfsmount, however. It should also give a speedup on large systems if CPUs are frequently operating on different mounts (because the existing scheme has to operate on an atomic in the struct vfsmount when switching between mounts). But I'm most interested in the single threaded path performance for the moment. [AV: minor cleanup] Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-03-26Add a strictatime mount optionMatthew Garrett
Add support for explicitly requesting full atime updates. This makes it possible for kernels to default to relatime but still allow userspace to override it. Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16include/linux/mount.h: remove CVS keywordAdrian Bunk
Remove a CVS keyword that wasn't updated for a long time from a comment. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-08-01[PATCH] pass struct path * to do_add_mount()Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-07-26[PATCH] vfs: use kstrdup() and check failing allocationLi Zefan
- use kstrdup() instead of kmalloc() + memcpy() - return NULL if allocating ->mnt_devname failed - mnt_devname should be const Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-04-30Remove "#ifdef __KERNEL__" checks from unexported headersRobert P. J. Day
Remove the "#ifdef __KERNEL__" tests from unexported header files in linux/include whose entire contents are wrapped in that preprocessor test. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-23[patch 4/7] vfs: mountinfo: add mount peer group IDMiklos Szeredi
Add a unique ID to each peer group using the IDR infrastructure. The identifiers are reused after the peer group dissolves. The IDR structures are protected by holding namepspace_sem for write while allocating or deallocating IDs. IDs are allocated when a previously unshared vfsmount becomes the first member of a peer group. When a new member is added to an existing group, the ID is copied from one of the old members. IDs are freed when the last member of a peer group is unshared. Setting the MNT_SHARED flag on members of a subtree is done as a separate step, after all the IDs have been allocated. This way an allocation failure can be cleaned up easilty, without affecting the propagation state. Based on design sketch by Al Viro. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-04-23[patch 3/7] vfs: mountinfo: add mount IDMiklos Szeredi
Add a unique ID to each vfsmount using the IDR infrastructure. The identifiers are reused after the vfsmount is freed. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-04-21[PATCH] move a bunch of declarations to fs/internal.hAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-04-19[PATCH] r/o bind mounts: honor mount writer counts at remountDave Hansen
Originally from: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> This is the core of the read-only bind mount patch set. Note that this does _not_ add a "ro" option directly to the bind mount operation. If you require such a mount, you must first do the bind, then follow it up with a 'mount -o remount,ro' operation: If you wish to have a r/o bind mount of /foo on bar: mount --bind /foo /bar mount -o remount,ro /bar Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-04-19[PATCH] r/o bind mounts: track numbers of writers to mountsDave Hansen
This is the real meat of the entire series. It actually implements the tracking of the number of writers to a mount. However, it causes scalability problems because there can be hundreds of cpus doing open()/close() on files on the same mnt at the same time. Even an atomic_t in the mnt has massive scalaing problems because the cacheline gets so terribly contended. This uses a statically-allocated percpu variable. All want/drop operations are local to a cpu as long that cpu operates on the same mount, and there are no writer count imbalances. Writer count imbalances happen when a write is taken on one cpu, and released on another, like when an open/close pair is performed on two Upon a remount,ro request, all of the data from the percpu variables is collected (expensive, but very rare) and we determine if there are any outstanding writers to the mount. I've written a little benchmark to sit in a loop for a couple of seconds in several cpus in parallel doing open/write/close loops. http://sr71.net/~dave/linux/openbench.c The code in here is a a worst-possible case for this patch. It does opens on a _pair_ of files in two different mounts in parallel. This should cause my code to lose its "operate on the same mount" optimization completely. This worst-case scenario causes a 3% degredation in the benchmark. I could probably get rid of even this 3%, but it would be more complex than what I have here, and I think this is getting into acceptable territory. In practice, I expect writing more than 3 bytes to a file, as well as disk I/O to mask any effects that this has. (To get rid of that 3%, we could have an #defined number of mounts in the percpu variable. So, instead of a CPU getting operate only on percpu data when it accesses only one mount, it could stay on percpu data when it only accesses N or fewer mounts.) [AV] merged fix for __clear_mnt_mount() stepping on freed vfsmount Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-04-19[PATCH] r/o bind mounts: stub functionsDave Hansen
This patch adds two function mnt_want_write() and mnt_drop_write(). These are used like a lock pair around and fs operations that might cause a write to the filesystem. Before these can become useful, we must first cover each place in the VFS where writes are performed with a want/drop pair. When that is complete, we can actually introduce code that will safely check the counts before allowing r/w<->r/o transitions to occur. Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-03-27[PATCH] do shrink_submounts() for all fs typesAl Viro
... and take it out of ->umount_begin() instances. Call with all locks already taken (by do_umount()) and leave calling release_mounts() to caller (it will do release_mounts() anyway, so we can just put into the same list). Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-03-27[PATCH] count ghost references to vfsmountsAl Viro
make propagate_mount_busy() exclude references from the vfsmounts that had been isolated by umount_tree() and are just waiting for release_mounts() to dispose of their ->mnt_parent/->mnt_mountpoint. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2007-05-09Fix misspellings collected by members of KJ list.Robert P. J. Day
Fix the misspellings of "propogate", "writting" and (oh, the shame :-) "kenrel" in the source tree. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2007-02-11[PATCH] struct vfsmount: keep mnt_count & mnt_expiry_mark away from mnt_flagsEric Dumazet
I noticed cache misses in touch_atime() that can be avoided if we keep mnt_count & mnt_expiry_mark in a different cache line than mnt_flags (mostly read) mnt_count & mnt_expiry_mark are modified each time a file is opened/closed in a file system. touch_atime() is called each time a file is read, and generally needs to read mnt_flags. Other fields of struct vfsmount are mostly read so I chose to move mnt_count & mnt_expiry_mark at the end of struct vfsmount. And adding a comment so that nobody tries to re-arrange fields to fill the holes :) On 64bits platforms, the new offsetof(mnt_count) is 0xC0 On 32bits platforms, it is 0x60, so I didnot add a ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp because it would have a too big impact on the size of this object (in particular if CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT=7) Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2006-12-13[PATCH] relative atimeValerie Henson
Add "relatime" (relative atime) support. Relative atime only updates the atime if the previous atime is older than the mtime or ctime. Like noatime, but useful for applications like mutt that need to know when a file has been read since it was last modified. A corresponding patch against mount(8) is available at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mount-relative-atime.txt Signed-off-by: Valerie Henson <val_henson@linux.intel.com> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08[PATCH] rename struct namespace to struct mnt_namespaceKirill Korotaev
Rename 'struct namespace' to 'struct mnt_namespace' to avoid confusion with other namespaces being developped for the containers : pid, uts, ipc, etc. 'namespace' variables and attributes are also renamed to 'mnt_ns' Signed-off-by: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru> Signed-off-by: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-24Merge branch 'master' of /home/trondmy/kernel/linux-2.6/Trond Myklebust
Conflicts: fs/nfs/inode.c fs/super.c Fix conflicts between patch 'NFS: Split fs/nfs/inode.c' and patch 'VFS: Permit filesystem to override root dentry on mount'