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* Remove do_sync_file_range()Mark Fasheh2007-05-08
| | | | | | | | | | Remove do_sync_file_range() and convert callers to just use do_sync_mapping_range(). Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mm: move common segment checks to separate helper functionDmitriy Monakhov2007-05-08
| | | | | | | | | | [akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanup] Signed-off-by: Monakhov Dmitriy <dmonakhov@openvz.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Acked-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk> Acked-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* readahead: code cleanupJan Kara2007-05-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Rename file_ra_state.prev_page to prev_index and file_ra_state.offset to prev_offset. Also update of prev_index in do_generic_mapping_read() is now moved close to the update of prev_offset. [wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn: fix it] Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: WU Fengguang <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn> Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* readahead: improve heuristic detecting sequential readsJan Kara2007-05-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Introduce ra.offset and store in it an offset where the previous read ended. This way we can detect whether reads are really sequential (and thus we should not mark the page as accessed repeatedly) or whether they are random and just happen to be in the same page (and the page should really be marked accessed again). Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Acked-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: WU Fengguang <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mm: simplify filemap_nopageNick Piggin2007-05-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | Identical block is duplicated twice: contrary to the comment, we have been re-reading the page *twice* in filemap_nopage rather than once. If any retry logic or anything is needed, it belongs in lower levels anyway. Only retry once. Linus agrees. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mm: make read_cache_page synchronousNick Piggin2007-05-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Ensure pages are uptodate after returning from read_cache_page, which allows us to cut out most of the filesystem-internal PageUptodate calls. I didn't have a great look down the call chains, but this appears to fixes 7 possible use-before uptodate in hfs, 2 in hfsplus, 1 in jfs, a few in ecryptfs, 1 in jffs2, and a possible cleared data overwritten with readpage in block2mtd. All depending on whether the filler is async and/or can return with a !uptodate page. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] dio: invalidate clean pages before dio writeZach Brown2007-03-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch fixes a user-triggerable oops that was reported by Leonid Ananiev as archived at http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/2/8/337. dio writes invalidate clean pages that intersect the written region so that subsequent buffered reads go to disk to read the new data. If this fails the interface tries to tell the caller that the cache is inconsistent by returning EIO. Before this patch we had the problem where this invalidation failure would clobber -EIOCBQUEUED as it made its way from fs/direct-io.c to fs/aio.c. Both fs/aio.c and bio completion call aio_complete() and we reference freed memory, usually oopsing. This patch addresses this problem by invalidating before the write so that we can cleanly return -EIO before ->direct_IO() has had a chance to return -EIOCBQUEUED. There is a compromise here. During the dio write we can fault in mmap()ed pages which intersect the written range with get_user_pages() if the user provided them for the source buffer. This is a crazy thing to do, but we can make it mostly work in most cases by trying the invalidation again. The compromise is that we won't return an error if this second invalidation fails if it's an AIO write and we have -EIOCBQUEUED. This was tested by having two processes race performing large O_DIRECT and buffered ordered writes. Within minutes ext3 would see a race between ext3_releasepage() and jbd holding a reference on ordered data buffers and would cause invalidation to fail, panicing the box. The test can be found in the 'aio_dio_bugs' test group in test.kernel.org/autotest. After this patch the test passes. Signed-off-by: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org> Cc: Leonid Ananiev <leonid.i.ananiev@linux.intel.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] knfsd: stop NFSD writes from being broken into lots of little writes ↵NeilBrown2007-02-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | to filesystem When NFSD receives a write request, the data is typically in a number of 1448 byte segments and writev is used to collect them together. Unfortunately, generic_file_buffered_write passes these to the filesystem one at a time, so an e.g. 32K over-write becomes a series of partial-page writes to each page, causing the filesystem to have to pre-read those pages - wasted effort. generic_file_buffered_write handles one segment of the vector at a time as it has to pre-fault in each segment to avoid deadlocks. When writing from kernel-space (and nfsd does) this is not an issue, so generic_file_buffered_write does not need to break and iovec from nfsd into little pieces. This patch avoids the splitting when get_fs is KERNEL_DS as it is from NFSd. This issue was introduced by commit 6527c2bdf1f833cc18e8f42bd97973d583e4aa83 Acked-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Norman Weathers <norman.r.weathers@conocophillips.com> Cc: Vladimir V. Saveliev <vs@namesys.com> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] Numerous fixes to kernel-doc info in source files.Robert P. J. Day2007-02-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A variety of (mostly) innocuous fixes to the embedded kernel-doc content in source files, including: * make multi-line initial descriptions single line * denote some function names, constants and structs as such * change erroneous opening '/*' to '/**' in a few places * reword some text for clarity Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] mm: remove find_trylock_pageNick Piggin2007-02-09
| | | | | | | | Remove find_trylock_page as per the removal schedule. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> [ Let's see if anybody screams ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] dio: only call aio_complete() after returning -EIOCBQUEUEDZach Brown2006-12-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The only time it is safe to call aio_complete() is when the ->ki_retry function returns -EIOCBQUEUED to the AIO core. direct_io_worker() has historically done this by relying on its caller to translate positive return codes into -EIOCBQUEUED for the aio case. It did this by trying to keep conditionals in sync. direct_io_worker() knew when finished_one_bio() was going to call aio_complete(). It would reverse the test and wait and free the dio in the cases it thought that finished_one_bio() wasn't going to. Not surprisingly, it ended up getting it wrong. 'ret' could be a negative errno from the submission path but it failed to communicate this to finished_one_bio(). direct_io_worker() would return < 0, it's callers wouldn't raise -EIOCBQUEUED, and aio_complete() would be called. In the future finished_one_bio()'s tests wouldn't reflect this and aio_complete() would be called for a second time which can manifest as an oops. The previous cleanups have whittled the sync and async completion paths down to the point where we can collapse them and clearly reassert the invariant that we must only call aio_complete() after returning -EIOCBQUEUED. direct_io_worker() will only return -EIOCBQUEUED when it is not the last to drop the dio refcount and the aio bio completion path will only call aio_complete() when it is the last to drop the dio refcount. direct_io_worker() can ensure that it is the last to drop the reference count by waiting for bios to drain. It does this for sync ops, of course, and for partial dio writes that must fall back to buffered and for aio ops that saw errors during submission. This means that operations that end up waiting, even if they were issued as aio ops, will not call aio_complete() from dio. Instead we return the return code of the operation and let the aio core call aio_complete(). This is purposely done to fix a bug where AIO DIO file extensions would call aio_complete() before their callers have a chance to update i_size. Now that direct_io_worker() is explicitly returning -EIOCBQUEUED its callers no longer have to translate for it. XFS needs to be careful not to free resources that will be used during AIO completion if -EIOCBQUEUED is returned. We maintain the previous behaviour of trying to write fs metadata for O_SYNC aio+dio writes. Signed-off-by: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com> Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Cc: Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@in.ibm.com> Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Cc: <xfs-masters@oss.sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] mm: change uses of f_{dentry,vfsmnt} to use f_pathJosef "Jeff" Sipek2006-12-08
| | | | | | | | Change all the uses of f_{dentry,vfsmnt} to f_path.{dentry,mnt} in linux/mm/. Signed-off-by: Josef "Jeff" Sipek <jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] grab swap token reorderedAshwin Chaugule2006-12-07
| | | | | | | | | | | Make sure the contention for the token happens _before_ any read-in and kicks the swap-token algo only when the VM is under pressure. Signed-off-by: Ashwin Chaugule <ashwin.chaugule@celunite.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Export should_remove_suid()Mark Fasheh2006-12-01
| | | | | | This helps us avoid replicating the same logic within file system drivers. Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
* [PATCH] mm: clean up pagecache allocationNick Piggin2006-10-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | - Consolidate page_cache_alloc - Fix splice: only the pagecache pages and filesystem data need to use mapping_gfp_mask. - Fix grab_cache_page_nowait: same as splice, also honour NUMA placement. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Merge branch 'splice' of git://brick.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds2006-10-21
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * 'splice' of git://brick.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block: [PATCH] Remove SUID when splicing into an inode [PATCH] Add lockless helpers for remove_suid() [PATCH] Introduce generic_file_splice_write_nolock() [PATCH] Take i_mutex in splice_from_pipe()
| * [PATCH] Add lockless helpers for remove_suid()Jens Axboe2006-10-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Right now users have to grab i_mutex before calling remove_suid(), in the unlikely event that a call to ->setattr() may be needed. Split up the function in two parts: - One to check if we need to remove suid - One to actually remove it The first we can call lockless. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* | [PATCH] mm: more commenting on lock orderingNick Piggin2006-10-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Clarify lockorder comments now that sys_msync dropps mmap_sem before calling do_fsync. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] direct-io: sync and invalidate file region when falling back to ↵Jeff Moyer2006-10-20
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | buffered write When direct-io falls back to buffered write, it will just leave the dirty data floating about in pagecache, pending regular writeback. But normal direct-io semantics are that IO is synchronous, and that it leaves no pagecache behind. So change the fallback-to-buffered-write code to sync the file region and to then strip away the pagecache, just as a regular direct-io write would do. Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-2.6Linus Torvalds2006-10-04
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-2.6: (292 commits) [GFS2] Fix endian bug for de_type [GFS2] Initialize SELinux extended attributes at inode creation time. [GFS2] Move logging code into log.c (mostly) [GFS2] Mark nlink cleared so VFS sees it happen [GFS2] Two redundant casts removed [GFS2] Remove uneeded endian conversion [GFS2] Remove duplicate sb reading code [GFS2] Mark metadata reads for blktrace [GFS2] Remove iflags.h, use FS_ [GFS2] Fix code style/indent in ops_file.c [GFS2] streamline-generic_file_-interfaces-and-filemap gfs fix [GFS2] Remove readv/writev methods and use aio_read/aio_write instead (gfs bits) [GFS2] inode-diet: Eliminate i_blksize from the inode structure [GFS2] inode_diet: Replace inode.u.generic_ip with inode.i_private (gfs) [GFS2] Fix typo in last patch [GFS2] Fix direct i/o logic in filemap.c [GFS2] Fix bug in Makefiles for lock modules [GFS2] Remove (extra) fs_subsys declaration [GFS2/DLM] Fix trailing whitespace [GFS2] Tidy up meta_io code ...
| * Merge branch 'master' into gfs2Steven Whitehouse2006-10-02
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| * \ Merge branch 'master' into gfs2Steven Whitehouse2006-09-28
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| * | | [GFS2] Fix typo in last patchSteven Whitehouse2006-09-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
| * | | [GFS2] Fix direct i/o logic in filemap.cSteven Whitehouse2006-09-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We shouldn't mark the file accessed in the case that it wasn't accessed. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
| * | | Merge branch 'master'Steven Whitehouse2006-07-31
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| * | | | [GFS2] Alter direct I/O pathSteven Whitehouse2006-07-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | As per comments received, alter the GFS2 direct I/O path so that it uses the standard read functions "out of the box". Needs a small change to one of the VFS functions. This reduces the size of the code quite a lot and also removes the need for one new export. Some more work remains to be done, but this is the bones of the thing. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
| * | | | Merge rsync://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6Steven Whitehouse2006-07-03
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| * | | | | [GFS2] Make file_read_actor export _GPLSteven Whitehouse2006-06-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Make file_read_actor export a _GPL export. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
| * | | | | Merge branch 'master'Steven Whitehouse2006-05-12
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| * \ \ \ \ \ Merge branch 'master'Steven Whitehouse2006-03-31
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| * | | | | | | [GFS2] Export file_read_actorSteven Whitehouse2006-01-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Export file_read_actor so that it can be used from modules since functions which take this function as an argument are already exported. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
* | | | | | | | [PATCH] mm: fix in kerneldocHenrik Kretzschmar2006-10-04
| |_|_|_|_|_|/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fixes an kerneldoc error. Signed-off-by: Henrik Kretzschmar <henne@nachtwindheim.de> Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | | | | | [PATCH] Streamline generic_file_* interfaces and filemap cleanupsBadari Pulavarty2006-10-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch cleans up generic_file_*_read/write() interfaces. Christoph Hellwig gave me the idea for this clean ups. In a nutshell, all filesystems should set .aio_read/.aio_write methods and use do_sync_read/ do_sync_write() as their .read/.write methods. This allows us to cleanup all variants of generic_file_* routines. Final available interfaces: generic_file_aio_read() - read handler generic_file_aio_write() - write handler generic_file_aio_write_nolock() - no lock write handler __generic_file_aio_write_nolock() - internal worker routine Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | | | | | [PATCH] Remove readv/writev methods and use aio_read/aio_write insteadBadari Pulavarty2006-10-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch removes readv() and writev() methods and replaces them with aio_read()/aio_write() methods. Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | | | | | [PATCH] Vectorize aio_read/aio_write fileop methodsBadari Pulavarty2006-10-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch vectorizes aio_read() and aio_write() methods to prepare for collapsing all aio & vectored operations into one interface - which is aio_read()/aio_write(). Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Michael Holzheu <HOLZHEU@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | | | | | [PATCH] BLOCK: Make it possible to disable the block layer [try #6]David Howells2006-09-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Make it possible to disable the block layer. Not all embedded devices require it, some can make do with just JFFS2, NFS, ramfs, etc - none of which require the block layer to be present. This patch does the following: (*) Introduces CONFIG_BLOCK to disable the block layer, buffering and blockdev support. (*) Adds dependencies on CONFIG_BLOCK to any configuration item that controls an item that uses the block layer. This includes: (*) Block I/O tracing. (*) Disk partition code. (*) All filesystems that are block based, eg: Ext3, ReiserFS, ISOFS. (*) The SCSI layer. As far as I can tell, even SCSI chardevs use the block layer to do scheduling. Some drivers that use SCSI facilities - such as USB storage - end up disabled indirectly from this. (*) Various block-based device drivers, such as IDE and the old CDROM drivers. (*) MTD blockdev handling and FTL. (*) JFFS - which uses set_bdev_super(), something it could avoid doing by taking a leaf out of JFFS2's book. (*) Makes most of the contents of linux/blkdev.h, linux/buffer_head.h and linux/elevator.h contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK being set. sector_div() is, however, still used in places, and so is still available. (*) Also made contingent are the contents of linux/mpage.h, linux/genhd.h and parts of linux/fs.h. (*) Makes a number of files in fs/ contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK. (*) Makes mm/bounce.c (bounce buffering) contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK. (*) set_page_dirty() doesn't call __set_page_dirty_buffers() if CONFIG_BLOCK is not enabled. (*) fs/no-block.c is created to hold out-of-line stubs and things that are required when CONFIG_BLOCK is not set: (*) Default blockdev file operations (to give error ENODEV on opening). (*) Makes some /proc changes: (*) /proc/devices does not list any blockdevs. (*) /proc/diskstats and /proc/partitions are contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK. (*) Makes some compat ioctl handling contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK. (*) If CONFIG_BLOCK is not defined, makes sys_quotactl() return -ENODEV if given command other than Q_SYNC or if a special device is specified. (*) In init/do_mounts.c, no reference is made to the blockdev routines if CONFIG_BLOCK is not defined. This does not prohibit NFS roots or JFFS2. (*) The bdflush, ioprio_set and ioprio_get syscalls can now be absent (return error ENOSYS by way of cond_syscall if so). (*) The seclvl_bd_claim() and seclvl_bd_release() security calls do nothing if CONFIG_BLOCK is not set, since they can't then happen. Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
* | | | | | | [PATCH] BLOCK: Move functions out of buffer code [try #6]David Howells2006-09-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Move some functions out of the buffering code that aren't strictly buffering specific. This is a precursor to being able to disable the block layer. (*) Moved some stuff out of fs/buffer.c: (*) The file sync and general sync stuff moved to fs/sync.c. (*) The superblock sync stuff moved to fs/super.c. (*) do_invalidatepage() moved to mm/truncate.c. (*) try_to_release_page() moved to mm/filemap.c. (*) Moved some related declarations between header files: (*) declarations for do_invalidatepage() and try_to_release_page() moved to linux/mm.h. (*) __set_page_dirty_buffers() moved to linux/buffer_head.h. Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
* | | | | | | [PATCH] mm: make filemap_nopage use NOPAGE_SIGBUSAdam Litke2006-09-29
| |_|_|_|_|/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Don't open-code NOPAGE_SIGBUS. Signed-off-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | | | | [PATCH] update some mm/ commentsNick Piggin2006-09-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Let's try to keep mm/ comments more useful and up to date. This is a start. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | | | | [PATCH] mm: non syncing lock_page()Nick Piggin2006-09-26
| |_|_|_|/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | lock_page needs the caller to have a reference on the page->mapping inode due to sync_page, ergo set_page_dirty_lock is obviously buggy according to its comments. Solve it by introducing a new lock_page_nosync which does not do a sync_page. akpm: unpleasant solution to an unpleasant problem. If it goes wrong it could cause great slowdowns while the lock_page() caller waits for kblockd to perform the unplug. And if a filesystem has special sync_page() requirements (none presently do), permanent hangs are possible. otoh, set_page_dirty_lock() is usually (always?) called against userspace pages. They are always up-to-date, so there shouldn't be any pending read I/O against these pages. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | | | [PATCH] MM: Remove rogue readahead printkAndi Kleen2006-07-29
| |_|_|/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | For some reason it triggers always with NFS root and spams the kernel logs of my nfs root boxes a lot. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | | Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivialLinus Torvalds2006-06-30
|\ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial: Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h> remove obsolete swsusp_encrypt arch/arm26/Kconfig typos Documentation/IPMI typos Kconfig: Typos in net/sched/Kconfig v9fs: do not include linux/version.h Documentation/DocBook/mtdnand.tmpl: typo fixes typo fixes: specfic -> specific typo fixes in Documentation/networking/pktgen.txt typo fixes: occuring -> occurring typo fixes: infomation -> information typo fixes: disadvantadge -> disadvantage typo fixes: aquire -> acquire typo fixes: mecanism -> mechanism typo fixes: bandwith -> bandwidth fix a typo in the RTC_CLASS help text smb is no longer maintained Manually merged trivial conflict in arch/um/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
| * | | | Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>Jörn Engel2006-06-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
* | | | | [PATCH] Light weight event countersChristoph Lameter2006-06-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The remaining counters in page_state after the zoned VM counter patches have been applied are all just for show in /proc/vmstat. They have no essential function for the VM. We use a simple increment of per cpu variables. In order to avoid the most severe races we disable preempt. Preempt does not prevent the race between an increment and an interrupt handler incrementing the same statistics counter. However, that race is exceedingly rare, we may only loose one increment or so and there is no requirement (at least not in kernel) that the vm event counters have to be accurate. In the non preempt case this results in a simple increment for each counter. For many architectures this will be reduced by the compiler to a single instruction. This single instruction is atomic for i386 and x86_64. And therefore even the rare race condition in an interrupt is avoided for both architectures in most cases. The patchset also adds an off switch for embedded systems that allows a building of linux kernels without these counters. The implementation of these counters is through inline code that hopefully results in only a single instruction increment instruction being emitted (i386, x86_64) or in the increment being hidden though instruction concurrency (EPIC architectures such as ia64 can get that done). Benefits: - VM event counter operations usually reduce to a single inline instruction on i386 and x86_64. - No interrupt disable, only preempt disable for the preempt case. Preempt disable can also be avoided by moving the counter into a spinlock. - Handling is similar to zoned VM counters. - Simple and easily extendable. - Can be omitted to reduce memory use for embedded use. References: RFC http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113512330605497&w=2 RFC http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=114988082814934&w=2 local_t http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=114991748606690&w=2 V2 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=115014808400007&r=1&w=2 V3 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=115024767022346&w=2 V4 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=115047968808926&w=2 Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | | | [PATCH] zoned vm counters: conversion of nr_pagecache to per zone counterChristoph Lameter2006-06-30
|/ / / / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently a single atomic variable is used to establish the size of the page cache in the whole machine. The zoned VM counters have the same method of implementation as the nr_pagecache code but also allow the determination of the pagecache size per zone. Remove the special implementation for nr_pagecache and make it a zoned counter named NR_FILE_PAGES. Updates of the page cache counters are always performed with interrupts off. We can therefore use the __ variant here. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | | [PATCH] generic_file_buffered_write(): handle zero-length iovec segmentsAndrew Morton2006-06-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The recent generic_file_write() deadlock fix caused generic_file_buffered_write() to loop inifinitely when presented with a zero-length iovec segment. Fix. Note that this fix deliberately avoids calling ->prepare_write(), ->commit_write() etc with a zero-length write. This is because I don't trust all filesystems to get that right. This is a cautious approach, for 2.6.17.x. For 2.6.18 we should just go ahead and call ->prepare_write() and ->commit_write() with the zero length and fix any broken filesystems. So I'll make that change once this code is stabilised and backported into 2.6.17.x. The reason for preferring to call ->prepare_write() and ->commit_write() with the zero-length segment: a zero-length segment _should_ be sufficiently uncommon that this is the correct way of handling it. We don't want to optimise for poorly-written userspace at the expense of well-written userspace. Cc: "Vladimir V. Saveliev" <vs@namesys.com> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Cc: walt <wa1ter@myrealbox.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | | [PATCH] mark address_space_operations constChristoph Hellwig2006-06-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Same as with already do with the file operations: keep them in .rodata and prevents people from doing runtime patching. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Steven French <sfrench@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | | [PATCH] generic_file_buffered_write(): deadlock on vectored writeVladimir V. Saveliev2006-06-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | generic_file_buffered_write() prefaults in user pages in order to avoid deadlock on copying from the same page as write goes to. However, it looks like there is a problem when write is vectored: fault_in_pages_readable brings in current segment or its part (maxlen). OTOH, filemap_copy_from_user_iovec is called to copy number of bytes (bytes) which may exceed current segment, so filemap_copy_from_user_iovec switches to the next segment which is not brought in yet. Pagefault is generated. That causes the deadlock if pagefault is for the same page write goes to: page being written is locked and not uptodate, pagefault will deadlock trying to lock locked page. [akpm@osdl.org: somewhat rewritten] Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | | [PATCH] readahead: backoff on I/O errorWu Fengguang2006-06-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Backoff readahead size exponentially on I/O error. Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru> described the problem as: [QUOTE] Suppose there's a CD-rom with a scratch/etc, one sector is unreadable. In order to "fix" it, one have to read it and write to another CD-rom, or something.. or just ignore the error (if it's just a skip in a video stream). Let's assume the unreadable block is number U. But current behavior is just insane. An application requests block number N, which is before U. Kernel tries to read-ahead blocks N..U. Cdrom drive tries to read it, re-read it.. for some time. Finally, when all the N..U-1 blocks are read, kernel returns block number N (as requested) to an application, successefully. Now an app requests block number N+1, and kernel tries to read blocks N+1..U+1. Retrying again as in previous step. And so on, up to when an app requests block number U-1. And when, finally, it requests block U, it receives read error. So, kernel currentry tries to re-read the same failing block as many times as the current readahead value (256 (times?) by default). This whole process already killed my cdrom drive (I posted about it to LKML several months ago) - literally, the drive has fried, and does not work anymore. Ofcourse that problem was a bug in firmware (or whatever) of the drive *too*, but.. main problem with that is current readahead logic as described above. [/QUOTE] Which was confirmed by Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>: [QUOTE] For ide-cd, it tends do only end the first part of the request on a medium error. So you may see a lot of repeats :/ [/QUOTE] With this patch, retries are expected to be reduced from, say, 256, to 5. [akpm@osdl.org: cleanups] Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | | [PATCH] Prepare for __copy_from_user_inatomic to not zero missed bytesNeilBrown2006-06-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The problem is that when we write to a file, the copy from userspace to pagecache is first done with preemption disabled, so if the source address is not immediately available the copy fails *and* *zeros* *the* *destination*. This is a problem because a concurrent read (which admittedly is an odd thing to do) might see zeros rather that was there before the write, or what was there after, or some mixture of the two (any of these being a reasonable thing to see). If the copy did fail, it will immediately be retried with preemption re-enabled so any transient problem with accessing the source won't cause an error. The first copying does not need to zero any uncopied bytes, and doing so causes the problem. It uses copy_from_user_atomic rather than copy_from_user so the simple expedient is to change copy_from_user_atomic to *not* zero out bytes on failure. The first of these two patches prepares for the change by fixing two places which assume copy_from_user_atomic does zero the tail. The two usages are very similar pieces of code which copy from a userspace iovec into one or more page-cache pages. These are changed to remove the assumption. The second patch changes __copy_from_user_inatomic* to not zero the tail. Once these are accepted, I will look at similar patches of other architectures where this is important (ppc, mips and sparc being the ones I can find). This patch: There is a problem with __copy_from_user_inatomic zeroing the tail of the buffer in the case of an error. As it is called in atomic context, the error may be transient, so it results in zeros being written where maybe they shouldn't be. In the usage in filemap, this opens a window for a well timed read to see data (zeros) which is not consistent with any ordering of reads and writes. Most cases where __copy_from_user_inatomic is called, a failure results in __copy_from_user being called immediately. As long as the latter zeros the tail, the former doesn't need to. However in *copy_from_user_iovec implementations (in both filemap and ntfs/file), it is assumed that copy_from_user_inatomic will zero the tail. This patch removes that assumption, so that after this patch it will be safe for copy_from_user_inatomic to not zero the tail. This patch also adds some commentary to filemap.h and asm-i386/uaccess.h. After this patch, all architectures that might disable preempt when kmap_atomic is called need to have their __copy_from_user_inatomic* "fixed". This includes - powerpc - i386 - mips - sparc Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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