From 25985edcedea6396277003854657b5f3cb31a628 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lucas De Marchi Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:57:33 -0300 Subject: Fix common misspellings Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed. Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi --- fs/namei.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'fs/namei.c') diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index 3cb616d38d9..e6cd6113872 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ * name indicated by the symlink. The old code always complained that the * name already exists, due to not following the symlink even if its target * is nonexistent. The new semantics affects also mknod() and link() when - * the name is a symlink pointing to a non-existant name. + * the name is a symlink pointing to a non-existent name. * * I don't know which semantics is the right one, since I have no access * to standards. But I found by trial that HP-UX 9.0 has the full "new" -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2 From c1530019e311c91d14b24d8e74d233152d806e45 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tim Chen Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 11:39:29 -0700 Subject: vfs: Fix absolute RCU path walk failures due to uninitialized seq number During RCU walk in path_lookupat and path_openat, the rcu lookup frequently failed if looking up an absolute path, because when root directory was looked up, seq number was not properly set in nameidata. We dropped out of RCU walk in nameidata_drop_rcu due to mismatch in directory entry's seq number. We reverted to slow path walk that need to take references. With the following patch, I saw a 50% increase in an exim mail server benchmark throughput on a 4-socket Nehalem-EX system. Signed-off-by: Tim Chen Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen Cc: stable@kernel.org (v2.6.38) Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/namei.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'fs/namei.c') diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index e6cd6113872..54fc993e302 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -697,6 +697,7 @@ static __always_inline void set_root_rcu(struct nameidata *nd) do { seq = read_seqcount_begin(&fs->seq); nd->root = fs->root; + nd->seq = __read_seqcount_begin(&nd->root.dentry->d_seq); } while (read_seqcount_retry(&fs->seq, seq)); } } -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2