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<entry>
<title>llseek: automatically add .llseek fop</title>
<updated>2010-10-15T13:53:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2010-08-15T16:52:59+00:00</published>
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All file_operations should get a .llseek operation so we can make
nonseekable_open the default for future file operations without a
.llseek pointer.

The three cases that we can automatically detect are no_llseek, seq_lseek
and default_llseek. For cases where we can we can automatically prove that
the file offset is always ignored, we use noop_llseek, which maintains
the current behavior of not returning an error from a seek.

New drivers should normally not use noop_llseek but instead use no_llseek
and call nonseekable_open at open time.  Existing drivers can be converted
to do the same when the maintainer knows for certain that no user code
relies on calling seek on the device file.

The generated code is often incorrectly indented and right now contains
comments that clarify for each added line why a specific variant was
chosen. In the version that gets submitted upstream, the comments will
be gone and I will manually fix the indentation, because there does not
seem to be a way to do that using coccinelle.

Some amount of new code is currently sitting in linux-next that should get
the same modifications, which I will do at the end of the merge window.

Many thanks to Julia Lawall for helping me learn to write a semantic
patch that does all this.

===== begin semantic patch =====
// This adds an llseek= method to all file operations,
// as a preparation for making no_llseek the default.
//
// The rules are
// - use no_llseek explicitly if we do nonseekable_open
// - use seq_lseek for sequential files
// - use default_llseek if we know we access f_pos
// - use noop_llseek if we know we don't access f_pos,
//   but we still want to allow users to call lseek
//
@ open1 exists @
identifier nested_open;
@@
nested_open(...)
{
&lt;+...
nonseekable_open(...)
...+&gt;
}

@ open exists@
identifier open_f;
identifier i, f;
identifier open1.nested_open;
@@
int open_f(struct inode *i, struct file *f)
{
&lt;+...
(
nonseekable_open(...)
|
nested_open(...)
)
...+&gt;
}

@ read disable optional_qualifier exists @
identifier read_f;
identifier f, p, s, off;
type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
expression E;
identifier func;
@@
ssize_t read_f(struct file *f, char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
{
&lt;+...
(
   *off = E
|
   *off += E
|
   func(..., off, ...)
|
   E = *off
)
...+&gt;
}

@ read_no_fpos disable optional_qualifier exists @
identifier read_f;
identifier f, p, s, off;
type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
@@
ssize_t read_f(struct file *f, char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
{
... when != off
}

@ write @
identifier write_f;
identifier f, p, s, off;
type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
expression E;
identifier func;
@@
ssize_t write_f(struct file *f, const char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
{
&lt;+...
(
  *off = E
|
  *off += E
|
  func(..., off, ...)
|
  E = *off
)
...+&gt;
}

@ write_no_fpos @
identifier write_f;
identifier f, p, s, off;
type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
@@
ssize_t write_f(struct file *f, const char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
{
... when != off
}

@ fops0 @
identifier fops;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
 ...
};

@ has_llseek depends on fops0 @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier llseek_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
 .llseek = llseek_f,
...
};

@ has_read depends on fops0 @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier read_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
 .read = read_f,
...
};

@ has_write depends on fops0 @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier write_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
 .write = write_f,
...
};

@ has_open depends on fops0 @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier open_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
 .open = open_f,
...
};

// use no_llseek if we call nonseekable_open
////////////////////////////////////////////
@ nonseekable1 depends on !has_llseek &amp;&amp; has_open @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier nso ~= "nonseekable_open";
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...  .open = nso, ...
+.llseek = no_llseek, /* nonseekable */
};

@ nonseekable2 depends on !has_llseek @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier open.open_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...  .open = open_f, ...
+.llseek = no_llseek, /* open uses nonseekable */
};

// use seq_lseek for sequential files
/////////////////////////////////////
@ seq depends on !has_llseek @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier sr ~= "seq_read";
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...  .read = sr, ...
+.llseek = seq_lseek, /* we have seq_read */
};

// use default_llseek if there is a readdir
///////////////////////////////////////////
@ fops1 depends on !has_llseek &amp;&amp; !nonseekable1 &amp;&amp; !nonseekable2 &amp;&amp; !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier readdir_e;
@@
// any other fop is used that changes pos
struct file_operations fops = {
... .readdir = readdir_e, ...
+.llseek = default_llseek, /* readdir is present */
};

// use default_llseek if at least one of read/write touches f_pos
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
@ fops2 depends on !fops1 &amp;&amp; !has_llseek &amp;&amp; !nonseekable1 &amp;&amp; !nonseekable2 &amp;&amp; !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier read.read_f;
@@
// read fops use offset
struct file_operations fops = {
... .read = read_f, ...
+.llseek = default_llseek, /* read accesses f_pos */
};

@ fops3 depends on !fops1 &amp;&amp; !fops2 &amp;&amp; !has_llseek &amp;&amp; !nonseekable1 &amp;&amp; !nonseekable2 &amp;&amp; !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier write.write_f;
@@
// write fops use offset
struct file_operations fops = {
... .write = write_f, ...
+	.llseek = default_llseek, /* write accesses f_pos */
};

// Use noop_llseek if neither read nor write accesses f_pos
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

@ fops4 depends on !fops1 &amp;&amp; !fops2 &amp;&amp; !fops3 &amp;&amp; !has_llseek &amp;&amp; !nonseekable1 &amp;&amp; !nonseekable2 &amp;&amp; !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier read_no_fpos.read_f;
identifier write_no_fpos.write_f;
@@
// write fops use offset
struct file_operations fops = {
...
 .write = write_f,
 .read = read_f,
...
+.llseek = noop_llseek, /* read and write both use no f_pos */
};

@ depends on has_write &amp;&amp; !has_read &amp;&amp; !fops1 &amp;&amp; !fops2 &amp;&amp; !has_llseek &amp;&amp; !nonseekable1 &amp;&amp; !nonseekable2 &amp;&amp; !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier write_no_fpos.write_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
... .write = write_f, ...
+.llseek = noop_llseek, /* write uses no f_pos */
};

@ depends on has_read &amp;&amp; !has_write &amp;&amp; !fops1 &amp;&amp; !fops2 &amp;&amp; !has_llseek &amp;&amp; !nonseekable1 &amp;&amp; !nonseekable2 &amp;&amp; !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier read_no_fpos.read_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
... .read = read_f, ...
+.llseek = noop_llseek, /* read uses no f_pos */
};

@ depends on !has_read &amp;&amp; !has_write &amp;&amp; !fops1 &amp;&amp; !fops2 &amp;&amp; !has_llseek &amp;&amp; !nonseekable1 &amp;&amp; !nonseekable2 &amp;&amp; !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
+.llseek = noop_llseek, /* no read or write fn */
};
===== End semantic patch =====

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Julia Lawall &lt;julia@diku.dk&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
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<pre>
All file_operations should get a .llseek operation so we can make
nonseekable_open the default for future file operations without a
.llseek pointer.

The three cases that we can automatically detect are no_llseek, seq_lseek
and default_llseek. For cases where we can we can automatically prove that
the file offset is always ignored, we use noop_llseek, which maintains
the current behavior of not returning an error from a seek.

New drivers should normally not use noop_llseek but instead use no_llseek
and call nonseekable_open at open time.  Existing drivers can be converted
to do the same when the maintainer knows for certain that no user code
relies on calling seek on the device file.

The generated code is often incorrectly indented and right now contains
comments that clarify for each added line why a specific variant was
chosen. In the version that gets submitted upstream, the comments will
be gone and I will manually fix the indentation, because there does not
seem to be a way to do that using coccinelle.

Some amount of new code is currently sitting in linux-next that should get
the same modifications, which I will do at the end of the merge window.

Many thanks to Julia Lawall for helping me learn to write a semantic
patch that does all this.

===== begin semantic patch =====
// This adds an llseek= method to all file operations,
// as a preparation for making no_llseek the default.
//
// The rules are
// - use no_llseek explicitly if we do nonseekable_open
// - use seq_lseek for sequential files
// - use default_llseek if we know we access f_pos
// - use noop_llseek if we know we don't access f_pos,
//   but we still want to allow users to call lseek
//
@ open1 exists @
identifier nested_open;
@@
nested_open(...)
{
&lt;+...
nonseekable_open(...)
...+&gt;
}

@ open exists@
identifier open_f;
identifier i, f;
identifier open1.nested_open;
@@
int open_f(struct inode *i, struct file *f)
{
&lt;+...
(
nonseekable_open(...)
|
nested_open(...)
)
...+&gt;
}

@ read disable optional_qualifier exists @
identifier read_f;
identifier f, p, s, off;
type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
expression E;
identifier func;
@@
ssize_t read_f(struct file *f, char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
{
&lt;+...
(
   *off = E
|
   *off += E
|
   func(..., off, ...)
|
   E = *off
)
...+&gt;
}

@ read_no_fpos disable optional_qualifier exists @
identifier read_f;
identifier f, p, s, off;
type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
@@
ssize_t read_f(struct file *f, char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
{
... when != off
}

@ write @
identifier write_f;
identifier f, p, s, off;
type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
expression E;
identifier func;
@@
ssize_t write_f(struct file *f, const char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
{
&lt;+...
(
  *off = E
|
  *off += E
|
  func(..., off, ...)
|
  E = *off
)
...+&gt;
}

@ write_no_fpos @
identifier write_f;
identifier f, p, s, off;
type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
@@
ssize_t write_f(struct file *f, const char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
{
... when != off
}

@ fops0 @
identifier fops;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
 ...
};

@ has_llseek depends on fops0 @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier llseek_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
 .llseek = llseek_f,
...
};

@ has_read depends on fops0 @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier read_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
 .read = read_f,
...
};

@ has_write depends on fops0 @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier write_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
 .write = write_f,
...
};

@ has_open depends on fops0 @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier open_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
 .open = open_f,
...
};

// use no_llseek if we call nonseekable_open
////////////////////////////////////////////
@ nonseekable1 depends on !has_llseek &amp;&amp; has_open @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier nso ~= "nonseekable_open";
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...  .open = nso, ...
+.llseek = no_llseek, /* nonseekable */
};

@ nonseekable2 depends on !has_llseek @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier open.open_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...  .open = open_f, ...
+.llseek = no_llseek, /* open uses nonseekable */
};

// use seq_lseek for sequential files
/////////////////////////////////////
@ seq depends on !has_llseek @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier sr ~= "seq_read";
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...  .read = sr, ...
+.llseek = seq_lseek, /* we have seq_read */
};

// use default_llseek if there is a readdir
///////////////////////////////////////////
@ fops1 depends on !has_llseek &amp;&amp; !nonseekable1 &amp;&amp; !nonseekable2 &amp;&amp; !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier readdir_e;
@@
// any other fop is used that changes pos
struct file_operations fops = {
... .readdir = readdir_e, ...
+.llseek = default_llseek, /* readdir is present */
};

// use default_llseek if at least one of read/write touches f_pos
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
@ fops2 depends on !fops1 &amp;&amp; !has_llseek &amp;&amp; !nonseekable1 &amp;&amp; !nonseekable2 &amp;&amp; !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier read.read_f;
@@
// read fops use offset
struct file_operations fops = {
... .read = read_f, ...
+.llseek = default_llseek, /* read accesses f_pos */
};

@ fops3 depends on !fops1 &amp;&amp; !fops2 &amp;&amp; !has_llseek &amp;&amp; !nonseekable1 &amp;&amp; !nonseekable2 &amp;&amp; !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier write.write_f;
@@
// write fops use offset
struct file_operations fops = {
... .write = write_f, ...
+	.llseek = default_llseek, /* write accesses f_pos */
};

// Use noop_llseek if neither read nor write accesses f_pos
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

@ fops4 depends on !fops1 &amp;&amp; !fops2 &amp;&amp; !fops3 &amp;&amp; !has_llseek &amp;&amp; !nonseekable1 &amp;&amp; !nonseekable2 &amp;&amp; !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier read_no_fpos.read_f;
identifier write_no_fpos.write_f;
@@
// write fops use offset
struct file_operations fops = {
...
 .write = write_f,
 .read = read_f,
...
+.llseek = noop_llseek, /* read and write both use no f_pos */
};

@ depends on has_write &amp;&amp; !has_read &amp;&amp; !fops1 &amp;&amp; !fops2 &amp;&amp; !has_llseek &amp;&amp; !nonseekable1 &amp;&amp; !nonseekable2 &amp;&amp; !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier write_no_fpos.write_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
... .write = write_f, ...
+.llseek = noop_llseek, /* write uses no f_pos */
};

@ depends on has_read &amp;&amp; !has_write &amp;&amp; !fops1 &amp;&amp; !fops2 &amp;&amp; !has_llseek &amp;&amp; !nonseekable1 &amp;&amp; !nonseekable2 &amp;&amp; !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier read_no_fpos.read_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
... .read = read_f, ...
+.llseek = noop_llseek, /* read uses no f_pos */
};

@ depends on !has_read &amp;&amp; !has_write &amp;&amp; !fops1 &amp;&amp; !fops2 &amp;&amp; !has_llseek &amp;&amp; !nonseekable1 &amp;&amp; !nonseekable2 &amp;&amp; !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
+.llseek = noop_llseek, /* no read or write fn */
};
===== End semantic patch =====

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Julia Lawall &lt;julia@diku.dk&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Add a dummy printk function for the maintenance of unused printks</title>
<updated>2010-08-12T16:51:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-08-12T15:54:57+00:00</published>
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Add a dummy printk function for the maintenance of unused printks through gcc
format checking, and also so that side-effect checking is maintained too.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
Add a dummy printk function for the maintenance of unused printks through gcc
format checking, and also so that side-effect checking is maintained too.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>vfs: add helpers to get root and pwd</title>
<updated>2010-08-11T04:28:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Miklos Szeredi</name>
<email>mszeredi@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2010-08-10T09:41:36+00:00</published>
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Add three helpers that retrieve a refcounted copy of the root and cwd
from the supplied fs_struct.

 get_fs_root()
 get_fs_pwd()
 get_fs_root_and_pwd()

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Add three helpers that retrieve a refcounted copy of the root and cwd
from the supplied fs_struct.

 get_fs_root()
 get_fs_pwd()
 get_fs_root_and_pwd()

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>cachefiles: use path_get instead of lone dget</title>
<updated>2010-08-11T04:28:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Miklos Szeredi</name>
<email>mszeredi@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2010-08-10T09:41:35+00:00</published>
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Dentry references should not be acquired without a corresponding
vfsmount ref.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Dentry references should not be acquired without a corresponding
vfsmount ref.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6</title>
<updated>2010-08-10T18:26:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-08-10T18:26:52+00:00</published>
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (96 commits)
  no need for list_for_each_entry_safe()/resetting with superblock list
  Fix sget() race with failing mount
  vfs: don't hold s_umount over close_bdev_exclusive() call
  sysv: do not mark superblock dirty on remount
  sysv: do not mark superblock dirty on mount
  btrfs: remove junk sb_dirt change
  BFS: clean up the superblock usage
  AFFS: wait for sb synchronization when needed
  AFFS: clean up dirty flag usage
  cifs: truncate fallout
  mbcache: fix shrinker function return value
  mbcache: Remove unused features
  add f_flags to struct statfs(64)
  pass a struct path to vfs_statfs
  update VFS documentation for method changes.
  All filesystems that need invalidate_inode_buffers() are doing that explicitly
  convert remaining -&gt;clear_inode() to -&gt;evict_inode()
  Make -&gt;drop_inode() just return whether inode needs to be dropped
  fs/inode.c:clear_inode() is gone
  fs/inode.c:evict() doesn't care about delete vs. non-delete paths now
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts in fs/nilfs2/super.c
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (96 commits)
  no need for list_for_each_entry_safe()/resetting with superblock list
  Fix sget() race with failing mount
  vfs: don't hold s_umount over close_bdev_exclusive() call
  sysv: do not mark superblock dirty on remount
  sysv: do not mark superblock dirty on mount
  btrfs: remove junk sb_dirt change
  BFS: clean up the superblock usage
  AFFS: wait for sb synchronization when needed
  AFFS: clean up dirty flag usage
  cifs: truncate fallout
  mbcache: fix shrinker function return value
  mbcache: Remove unused features
  add f_flags to struct statfs(64)
  pass a struct path to vfs_statfs
  update VFS documentation for method changes.
  All filesystems that need invalidate_inode_buffers() are doing that explicitly
  convert remaining -&gt;clear_inode() to -&gt;evict_inode()
  Make -&gt;drop_inode() just return whether inode needs to be dropped
  fs/inode.c:clear_inode() is gone
  fs/inode.c:evict() doesn't care about delete vs. non-delete paths now
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts in fs/nilfs2/super.c
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>pass a struct path to vfs_statfs</title>
<updated>2010-08-09T20:48:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2010-07-07T16:53:11+00:00</published>
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We'll need the path to implement the flags field for statvfs support.
We do have it available in all callers except:

 - ecryptfs_statfs.  This one doesn't actually need vfs_statfs but just
   needs to do a caller to the lower filesystem statfs method.
 - sys_ustat.  Add a non-exported statfs_by_dentry helper for it which
   doesn't won't be able to fill out the flags field later on.

In addition rename the helpers for statfs vs fstatfs to do_*statfs instead
of the misleading vfs prefix.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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We'll need the path to implement the flags field for statvfs support.
We do have it available in all callers except:

 - ecryptfs_statfs.  This one doesn't actually need vfs_statfs but just
   needs to do a caller to the lower filesystem statfs method.
 - sys_ustat.  Add a non-exported statfs_by_dentry helper for it which
   doesn't won't be able to fill out the flags field later on.

In addition rename the helpers for statfs vs fstatfs to do_*statfs instead
of the misleading vfs prefix.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fscache: convert operation to use workqueue instead of slow-work</title>
<updated>2010-07-22T20:58:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-07-20T20:09:01+00:00</published>
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Make fscache operation to use only workqueue instead of combination of
workqueue and slow-work.  FSCACHE_OP_SLOW is dropped and
FSCACHE_OP_FAST is renamed to FSCACHE_OP_ASYNC and uses newly added
fscache_op_wq workqueue to execute op-&gt;processor().
fscache_operation_init_slow() is dropped and fscache_operation_init()
now takes @processor argument directly.

* Unbound workqueue is used.

* fscache_retrieval_work() is no longer necessary as OP_ASYNC now does
  the equivalent thing.

* sysctl fscache.operation_max_active added to control concurrency.
  The default value is nr_cpus clamped between 2 and
  WQ_UNBOUND_MAX_ACTIVE.

* debugfs support is dropped for now.  Tracing API based debug
  facility is planned to be added.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
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Make fscache operation to use only workqueue instead of combination of
workqueue and slow-work.  FSCACHE_OP_SLOW is dropped and
FSCACHE_OP_FAST is renamed to FSCACHE_OP_ASYNC and uses newly added
fscache_op_wq workqueue to execute op-&gt;processor().
fscache_operation_init_slow() is dropped and fscache_operation_init()
now takes @processor argument directly.

* Unbound workqueue is used.

* fscache_retrieval_work() is no longer necessary as OP_ASYNC now does
  the equivalent thing.

* sysctl fscache.operation_max_active added to control concurrency.
  The default value is nr_cpus clamped between 2 and
  WQ_UNBOUND_MAX_ACTIVE.

* debugfs support is dropped for now.  Tracing API based debug
  facility is planned to be added.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>fscache: convert object to use workqueue instead of slow-work</title>
<updated>2010-07-22T20:58:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-07-20T20:09:01+00:00</published>
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Make fscache object state transition callbacks use workqueue instead
of slow-work.  New dedicated unbound CPU workqueue fscache_object_wq
is created.  get/put callbacks are renamed and modified to take
@object and called directly from the enqueue wrapper and the work
function.  While at it, make all open coded instances of get/put to
use fscache_get/put_object().

* Unbound workqueue is used.

* work_busy() output is printed instead of slow-work flags in object
  debugging outputs.  They mean basically the same thing bit-for-bit.

* sysctl fscache.object_max_active added to control concurrency.  The
  default value is nr_cpus clamped between 4 and
  WQ_UNBOUND_MAX_ACTIVE.

* slow_work_sleep_till_thread_needed() is replaced with fscache
  private implementation fscache_object_sleep_till_congested() which
  waits on fscache_object_wq congestion.

* debugfs support is dropped for now.  Tracing API based debug
  facility is planned to be added.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
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Make fscache object state transition callbacks use workqueue instead
of slow-work.  New dedicated unbound CPU workqueue fscache_object_wq
is created.  get/put callbacks are renamed and modified to take
@object and called directly from the enqueue wrapper and the work
function.  While at it, make all open coded instances of get/put to
use fscache_get/put_object().

* Unbound workqueue is used.

* work_busy() output is printed instead of slow-work flags in object
  debugging outputs.  They mean basically the same thing bit-for-bit.

* sysctl fscache.object_max_active added to control concurrency.  The
  default value is nr_cpus clamped between 4 and
  WQ_UNBOUND_MAX_ACTIVE.

* slow_work_sleep_till_thread_needed() is replaced with fscache
  private implementation fscache_object_sleep_till_congested() which
  waits on fscache_object_wq congestion.

* debugfs support is dropped for now.  Tracing API based debug
  facility is planned to be added.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>CacheFiles: Fix error handling in cachefiles_determine_cache_security()</title>
<updated>2010-05-13T01:23:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-05-12T14:34:03+00:00</published>
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cachefiles_determine_cache_security() is expected to return with a
security override in place.  However, if set_create_files_as() fails, we
fail to do this.  In this case, we should just reinstate the security
override that was set by the caller.

Furthermore, if set_create_files_as() fails, we should dispose of the
new credentials we were in the process of creating.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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cachefiles_determine_cache_security() is expected to return with a
security override in place.  However, if set_create_files_as() fails, we
fail to do this.  In this case, we should just reinstate the security
override that was set by the caller.

Furthermore, if set_create_files_as() fails, we should dispose of the
new credentials we were in the process of creating.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>CacheFiles: Fix occasional EIO on call to vfs_unlink()</title>
<updated>2010-05-11T17:07:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-05-11T15:51:39+00:00</published>
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Fix an occasional EIO returned by a call to vfs_unlink():

	[ 4868.465413] CacheFiles: I/O Error: Unlink failed
	[ 4868.465444] FS-Cache: Cache cachefiles stopped due to I/O error
	[ 4947.320011] CacheFiles: File cache on md3 unregistering
	[ 4947.320041] FS-Cache: Withdrawing cache "mycache"
	[ 5127.348683] FS-Cache: Cache "mycache" added (type cachefiles)
	[ 5127.348716] CacheFiles: File cache on md3 registered
	[ 7076.871081] CacheFiles: I/O Error: Unlink failed
	[ 7076.871130] FS-Cache: Cache cachefiles stopped due to I/O error
	[ 7116.780891] CacheFiles: File cache on md3 unregistering
	[ 7116.780937] FS-Cache: Withdrawing cache "mycache"
	[ 7296.813394] FS-Cache: Cache "mycache" added (type cachefiles)
	[ 7296.813432] CacheFiles: File cache on md3 registered

What happens is this:

 (1) A cached NFS file is seen to have become out of date, so NFS retires the
     object and immediately acquires a new object with the same key.

 (2) Retirement of the old object is done asynchronously - so the lookup/create
     to generate the new object may be done first.

     This can be a problem as the old object and the new object must exist at
     the same point in the backing filesystem (i.e. they must have the same
     pathname).

 (3) The lookup for the new object sees that a backing file already exists,
     checks to see whether it is valid and sees that it isn't.  It then deletes
     that file and creates a new one on disk.

 (4) The retirement phase for the old file is then performed.  It tries to
     delete the dentry it has, but ext4_unlink() returns -EIO because the inode
     attached to that dentry no longer matches the inode number associated with
     the filename in the parent directory.

The trace below shows this quite well.

	[md5sum] ==&gt; __fscache_relinquish_cookie(ffff88002d12fb58{NFS.fh,ffff88002ce62100},1)
	[md5sum] ==&gt; __fscache_acquire_cookie({NFS.server},{NFS.fh},ffff88002ce62100)

NFS has retired the old cookie and asked for a new one.

	[kslowd] ==&gt; fscache_object_state_machine({OBJ52,OBJECT_ACTIVE,24})
	[kslowd] &lt;== fscache_object_state_machine() [-&gt;OBJECT_DYING]
	[kslowd] ==&gt; fscache_object_state_machine({OBJ53,OBJECT_INIT,0})
	[kslowd] &lt;== fscache_object_state_machine() [-&gt;OBJECT_LOOKING_UP]
	[kslowd] ==&gt; fscache_object_state_machine({OBJ52,OBJECT_DYING,24})
	[kslowd] &lt;== fscache_object_state_machine() [-&gt;OBJECT_RECYCLING]

The old object (OBJ52) is going through the terminal states to get rid of it,
whilst the new object - (OBJ53) - is coming into being.

	[kslowd] ==&gt; fscache_object_state_machine({OBJ53,OBJECT_LOOKING_UP,0})
	[kslowd] ==&gt; cachefiles_walk_to_object({ffff88003029d8b8},OBJ53,@68,)
	[kslowd] lookup '@68'
	[kslowd] next -&gt; ffff88002ce41bd0 positive
	[kslowd] advance
	[kslowd] lookup 'Es0g00og0_Nd_XCYe3BOzvXrsBLMlN6aw16M1htaA'
	[kslowd] next -&gt; ffff8800369faac8 positive

The new object has looked up the subdir in which the file would be in (getting
dentry ffff88002ce41bd0) and then looked up the file itself (getting dentry
ffff8800369faac8).

	[kslowd] validate 'Es0g00og0_Nd_XCYe3BOzvXrsBLMlN6aw16M1htaA'
	[kslowd] ==&gt; cachefiles_bury_object(,'@68','Es0g00og0_Nd_XCYe3BOzvXrsBLMlN6aw16M1htaA')
	[kslowd] remove ffff8800369faac8 from ffff88002ce41bd0
	[kslowd] unlink stale object
	[kslowd] &lt;== cachefiles_bury_object() = 0

It then checks the file's xattrs to see if it's valid.  NFS says that the
auxiliary data indicate the file is out of date (obvious to us - that's why NFS
ditched the old version and got a new one).  CacheFiles then deletes the old
file (dentry ffff8800369faac8).

	[kslowd] redo lookup
	[kslowd] lookup 'Es0g00og0_Nd_XCYe3BOzvXrsBLMlN6aw16M1htaA'
	[kslowd] next -&gt; ffff88002cd94288 negative
	[kslowd] create -&gt; ffff88002cd94288{ffff88002cdaf238{ino=148247}}

CacheFiles then redoes the lookup and gets a negative result in a new dentry
(ffff88002cd94288) which it then creates a file for.

	[kslowd] ==&gt; cachefiles_mark_object_active(,OBJ53)
	[kslowd] &lt;== cachefiles_mark_object_active() = 0
	[kslowd] === OBTAINED_OBJECT ===
	[kslowd] &lt;== cachefiles_walk_to_object() = 0 [148247]
	[kslowd] &lt;== fscache_object_state_machine() [-&gt;OBJECT_AVAILABLE]

The new object is then marked active and the state machine moves to the
available state - at which point NFS can start filling the object.

	[kslowd] ==&gt; fscache_object_state_machine({OBJ52,OBJECT_RECYCLING,20})
	[kslowd] ==&gt; fscache_release_object()
	[kslowd] ==&gt; cachefiles_drop_object({OBJ52,2})
	[kslowd] ==&gt; cachefiles_delete_object(,OBJ52{ffff8800369faac8})

The old object, meanwhile, goes on with being retired.  If allocation occurs
first, cachefiles_delete_object() has to wait for dir-&gt;d_inode-&gt;i_mutex to
become available before it can continue.

	[kslowd] ==&gt; cachefiles_bury_object(,'@68','Es0g00og0_Nd_XCYe3BOzvXrsBLMlN6aw16M1htaA')
	[kslowd] remove ffff8800369faac8 from ffff88002ce41bd0
	[kslowd] unlink stale object
	EXT4-fs warning (device sda6): ext4_unlink: Inode number mismatch in unlink (148247!=148193)
	CacheFiles: I/O Error: Unlink failed
	FS-Cache: Cache cachefiles stopped due to I/O error

CacheFiles then tries to delete the file for the old object, but the dentry it
has (ffff8800369faac8) no longer points to a valid inode for that directory
entry, and so ext4_unlink() returns -EIO when de-&gt;inode does not match i_ino.

	[kslowd] &lt;== cachefiles_bury_object() = -5
	[kslowd] &lt;== cachefiles_delete_object() = -5
	[kslowd] &lt;== fscache_object_state_machine() [-&gt;OBJECT_DEAD]
	[kslowd] ==&gt; fscache_object_state_machine({OBJ53,OBJECT_AVAILABLE,0})
	[kslowd] &lt;== fscache_object_state_machine() [-&gt;OBJECT_ACTIVE]

(Note that the above trace includes extra information beyond that produced by
the upstream code).

The fix is to note when an object that is being retired has had its object
deleted preemptively by a replacement object that is being created, and to
skip the second removal attempt in such a case.

Reported-by: Greg M &lt;gregm@servu.net.au&gt;
Reported-by: Mark Moseley &lt;moseleymark@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Romain DEGEZ &lt;romain.degez@smartjog.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Fix an occasional EIO returned by a call to vfs_unlink():

	[ 4868.465413] CacheFiles: I/O Error: Unlink failed
	[ 4868.465444] FS-Cache: Cache cachefiles stopped due to I/O error
	[ 4947.320011] CacheFiles: File cache on md3 unregistering
	[ 4947.320041] FS-Cache: Withdrawing cache "mycache"
	[ 5127.348683] FS-Cache: Cache "mycache" added (type cachefiles)
	[ 5127.348716] CacheFiles: File cache on md3 registered
	[ 7076.871081] CacheFiles: I/O Error: Unlink failed
	[ 7076.871130] FS-Cache: Cache cachefiles stopped due to I/O error
	[ 7116.780891] CacheFiles: File cache on md3 unregistering
	[ 7116.780937] FS-Cache: Withdrawing cache "mycache"
	[ 7296.813394] FS-Cache: Cache "mycache" added (type cachefiles)
	[ 7296.813432] CacheFiles: File cache on md3 registered

What happens is this:

 (1) A cached NFS file is seen to have become out of date, so NFS retires the
     object and immediately acquires a new object with the same key.

 (2) Retirement of the old object is done asynchronously - so the lookup/create
     to generate the new object may be done first.

     This can be a problem as the old object and the new object must exist at
     the same point in the backing filesystem (i.e. they must have the same
     pathname).

 (3) The lookup for the new object sees that a backing file already exists,
     checks to see whether it is valid and sees that it isn't.  It then deletes
     that file and creates a new one on disk.

 (4) The retirement phase for the old file is then performed.  It tries to
     delete the dentry it has, but ext4_unlink() returns -EIO because the inode
     attached to that dentry no longer matches the inode number associated with
     the filename in the parent directory.

The trace below shows this quite well.

	[md5sum] ==&gt; __fscache_relinquish_cookie(ffff88002d12fb58{NFS.fh,ffff88002ce62100},1)
	[md5sum] ==&gt; __fscache_acquire_cookie({NFS.server},{NFS.fh},ffff88002ce62100)

NFS has retired the old cookie and asked for a new one.

	[kslowd] ==&gt; fscache_object_state_machine({OBJ52,OBJECT_ACTIVE,24})
	[kslowd] &lt;== fscache_object_state_machine() [-&gt;OBJECT_DYING]
	[kslowd] ==&gt; fscache_object_state_machine({OBJ53,OBJECT_INIT,0})
	[kslowd] &lt;== fscache_object_state_machine() [-&gt;OBJECT_LOOKING_UP]
	[kslowd] ==&gt; fscache_object_state_machine({OBJ52,OBJECT_DYING,24})
	[kslowd] &lt;== fscache_object_state_machine() [-&gt;OBJECT_RECYCLING]

The old object (OBJ52) is going through the terminal states to get rid of it,
whilst the new object - (OBJ53) - is coming into being.

	[kslowd] ==&gt; fscache_object_state_machine({OBJ53,OBJECT_LOOKING_UP,0})
	[kslowd] ==&gt; cachefiles_walk_to_object({ffff88003029d8b8},OBJ53,@68,)
	[kslowd] lookup '@68'
	[kslowd] next -&gt; ffff88002ce41bd0 positive
	[kslowd] advance
	[kslowd] lookup 'Es0g00og0_Nd_XCYe3BOzvXrsBLMlN6aw16M1htaA'
	[kslowd] next -&gt; ffff8800369faac8 positive

The new object has looked up the subdir in which the file would be in (getting
dentry ffff88002ce41bd0) and then looked up the file itself (getting dentry
ffff8800369faac8).

	[kslowd] validate 'Es0g00og0_Nd_XCYe3BOzvXrsBLMlN6aw16M1htaA'
	[kslowd] ==&gt; cachefiles_bury_object(,'@68','Es0g00og0_Nd_XCYe3BOzvXrsBLMlN6aw16M1htaA')
	[kslowd] remove ffff8800369faac8 from ffff88002ce41bd0
	[kslowd] unlink stale object
	[kslowd] &lt;== cachefiles_bury_object() = 0

It then checks the file's xattrs to see if it's valid.  NFS says that the
auxiliary data indicate the file is out of date (obvious to us - that's why NFS
ditched the old version and got a new one).  CacheFiles then deletes the old
file (dentry ffff8800369faac8).

	[kslowd] redo lookup
	[kslowd] lookup 'Es0g00og0_Nd_XCYe3BOzvXrsBLMlN6aw16M1htaA'
	[kslowd] next -&gt; ffff88002cd94288 negative
	[kslowd] create -&gt; ffff88002cd94288{ffff88002cdaf238{ino=148247}}

CacheFiles then redoes the lookup and gets a negative result in a new dentry
(ffff88002cd94288) which it then creates a file for.

	[kslowd] ==&gt; cachefiles_mark_object_active(,OBJ53)
	[kslowd] &lt;== cachefiles_mark_object_active() = 0
	[kslowd] === OBTAINED_OBJECT ===
	[kslowd] &lt;== cachefiles_walk_to_object() = 0 [148247]
	[kslowd] &lt;== fscache_object_state_machine() [-&gt;OBJECT_AVAILABLE]

The new object is then marked active and the state machine moves to the
available state - at which point NFS can start filling the object.

	[kslowd] ==&gt; fscache_object_state_machine({OBJ52,OBJECT_RECYCLING,20})
	[kslowd] ==&gt; fscache_release_object()
	[kslowd] ==&gt; cachefiles_drop_object({OBJ52,2})
	[kslowd] ==&gt; cachefiles_delete_object(,OBJ52{ffff8800369faac8})

The old object, meanwhile, goes on with being retired.  If allocation occurs
first, cachefiles_delete_object() has to wait for dir-&gt;d_inode-&gt;i_mutex to
become available before it can continue.

	[kslowd] ==&gt; cachefiles_bury_object(,'@68','Es0g00og0_Nd_XCYe3BOzvXrsBLMlN6aw16M1htaA')
	[kslowd] remove ffff8800369faac8 from ffff88002ce41bd0
	[kslowd] unlink stale object
	EXT4-fs warning (device sda6): ext4_unlink: Inode number mismatch in unlink (148247!=148193)
	CacheFiles: I/O Error: Unlink failed
	FS-Cache: Cache cachefiles stopped due to I/O error

CacheFiles then tries to delete the file for the old object, but the dentry it
has (ffff8800369faac8) no longer points to a valid inode for that directory
entry, and so ext4_unlink() returns -EIO when de-&gt;inode does not match i_ino.

	[kslowd] &lt;== cachefiles_bury_object() = -5
	[kslowd] &lt;== cachefiles_delete_object() = -5
	[kslowd] &lt;== fscache_object_state_machine() [-&gt;OBJECT_DEAD]
	[kslowd] ==&gt; fscache_object_state_machine({OBJ53,OBJECT_AVAILABLE,0})
	[kslowd] &lt;== fscache_object_state_machine() [-&gt;OBJECT_ACTIVE]

(Note that the above trace includes extra information beyond that produced by
the upstream code).

The fix is to note when an object that is being retired has had its object
deleted preemptively by a replacement object that is being created, and to
skip the second removal attempt in such a case.

Reported-by: Greg M &lt;gregm@servu.net.au&gt;
Reported-by: Mark Moseley &lt;moseleymark@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Romain DEGEZ &lt;romain.degez@smartjog.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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