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Mel Gorman
04f2cbe356 hugetlb: guarantee that COW faults for a process that called mmap(MAP_PRIVATE) on hugetlbfs will succeed
After patch 2 in this series, a process that successfully calls mmap() for
a MAP_PRIVATE mapping will be guaranteed to successfully fault until a
process calls fork().  At that point, the next write fault from the parent
could fail due to COW if the child still has a reference.

We only reserve pages for the parent but a copy must be made to avoid
leaking data from the parent to the child after fork().  Reserves could be
taken for both parent and child at fork time to guarantee faults but if
the mapping is large it is highly likely we will not have sufficient pages
for the reservation, and it is common to fork only to exec() immediatly
after.  A failure here would be very undesirable.

Note that the current behaviour of mainline with MAP_PRIVATE pages is
pretty bad.  The following situation is allowed to occur today.

1. Process calls mmap(MAP_PRIVATE)
2. Process calls mlock() to fault all pages and makes sure it succeeds
3. Process forks()
4. Process writes to MAP_PRIVATE mapping while child still exists
5. If the COW fails at this point, the process gets SIGKILLed even though it
   had taken care to ensure the pages existed

This patch improves the situation by guaranteeing the reliability of the
process that successfully calls mmap().  When the parent performs COW, it
will try to satisfy the allocation without using reserves.  If that fails
the parent will steal the page leaving any children without a page.
Faults from the child after that point will result in failure.  If the
child COW happens first, an attempt will be made to allocate the page
without reserves and the child will get SIGKILLed on failure.

To summarise the new behaviour:

1. If the original mapper performs COW on a private mapping with multiple
   references, it will attempt to allocate a hugepage from the pool or
   the buddy allocator without using the existing reserves. On fail, VMAs
   mapping the same area are traversed and the page being COW'd is unmapped
   where found. It will then steal the original page as the last mapper in
   the normal way.

2. The VMAs the pages were unmapped from are flagged to note that pages
   with data no longer exist. Future no-page faults on those VMAs will
   terminate the process as otherwise it would appear that data was corrupted.
   A warning is printed to the console that this situation occured.

2. If the child performs COW first, it will attempt to satisfy the COW
   from the pool if there are enough pages or via the buddy allocator if
   overcommit is allowed and the buddy allocator can satisfy the request. If
   it fails, the child will be killed.

If the pool is large enough, existing applications will not notice that
the reserves were a factor.  Existing applications depending on the
no-reserves been set are unlikely to exist as for much of the history of
hugetlbfs, pages were prefaulted at mmap(), allocating the pages at that
point or failing the mmap().

[npiggin@suse.de: fix CONFIG_HUGETLB=n build]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-24 10:47:16 -07:00
Mel Gorman
a1e78772d7 hugetlb: reserve huge pages for reliable MAP_PRIVATE hugetlbfs mappings until fork()
This patch reserves huge pages at mmap() time for MAP_PRIVATE mappings in
a similar manner to the reservations taken for MAP_SHARED mappings.  The
reserve count is accounted both globally and on a per-VMA basis for
private mappings.  This guarantees that a process that successfully calls
mmap() will successfully fault all pages in the future unless fork() is
called.

The characteristics of private mappings of hugetlbfs files behaviour after
this patch are;

1. The process calling mmap() is guaranteed to succeed all future faults until
   it forks().
2. On fork(), the parent may die due to SIGKILL on writes to the private
   mapping if enough pages are not available for the COW. For reasonably
   reliable behaviour in the face of a small huge page pool, children of
   hugepage-aware processes should not reference the mappings; such as
   might occur when fork()ing to exec().
3. On fork(), the child VMAs inherit no reserves. Reads on pages already
   faulted by the parent will succeed. Successful writes will depend on enough
   huge pages being free in the pool.
4. Quotas of the hugetlbfs mount are checked at reserve time for the mapper
   and at fault time otherwise.

Before this patch, all reads or writes in the child potentially needs page
allocations that can later lead to the death of the parent.  This applies
to reads and writes of uninstantiated pages as well as COW.  After the
patch it is only a write to an instantiated page that causes problems.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-24 10:47:16 -07:00
Kentaro Makita
da3bbdd463 fix soft lock up at NFS mount via per-SB LRU-list of unused dentries
[Summary]

 Split LRU-list of unused dentries to one per superblock to avoid soft
 lock up during NFS mounts and remounting of any filesystem.

 Previously I posted here:
 http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/3/5/590

[Descriptions]

- background

  dentry_unused is a list of dentries which are not referenced.
  dentry_unused grows up when references on directories or files are
  released.  This list can be very long if there is huge free memory.

- the problem

  When shrink_dcache_sb() is called, it scans all dentry_unused linearly
  under spin_lock(), and if dentry->d_sb is differnt from given
  superblock, scan next dentry.  This scan costs very much if there are
  many entries, and very ineffective if there are many superblocks.

  IOW, When we need to shrink unused dentries on one dentry, but scans
  unused dentries on all superblocks in the system.  For example, we scan
  500 dentries to unmount a filesystem, but scans 1,000,000 or more unused
  dentries on other superblocks.

  In our case , At mounting NFS*, shrink_dcache_sb() is called to shrink
  unused dentries on NFS, but scans 100,000,000 unused dentries on
  superblocks in the system such as local ext3 filesystems.  I hear NFS
  mounting took 1 min on some system in use.

* : NFS uses virtual filesystem in rpc layer, so NFS is affected by
  this problem.

  100,000,000 is possible number on large systems.

  Per-superblock LRU of unused dentried can reduce the cost in
  reasonable manner.

- How to fix

  I found this problem is solved by David Chinner's "Per-superblock
  unused dentry LRU lists V3"(1), so I rebase it and add some fix to
  reclaim with fairness, which is in Andrew Morton's comments(2).

  1) http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/5/25/318
  2) http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/5/25/320

  Split LRU-list of unused dentries to each superblocks.  Then, NFS
  mounting will check dentries under a superblock instead of all.  But
  this spliting will break LRU of dentry-unused.  So, I've attempted to
  make reclaim unused dentrins with fairness by calculate number of
  dentries to scan on this sb based on following way

  number of dentries to scan on this sb =
  count * (number of dentries on this sb / number of dentries in the machine)

- ToDo
 - I have to measuring performance number and do stress tests.

 - When unmount occurs during prune_dcache(), scanning on same
  superblock, It is unable to reach next superblock because it is gone
  away.  We restart scannig superblock from first one, it causes
  unfairness of reclaim unused dentries on first superblock.  But I think
  this happens very rarely.

- Test Results

  Result on 6GB boxes with excessive unused dentries.

Without patch:

$ cat /proc/sys/fs/dentry-state
10181835        10180203        45      0       0       0
# mount -t nfs 10.124.60.70:/work/kernel-src nfs
real    0m1.830s
user    0m0.001s
sys     0m1.653s

 With this patch:
$ cat /proc/sys/fs/dentry-state
10236610        10234751        45      0       0       0
# mount -t nfs 10.124.60.70:/work/kernel-src nfs
real    0m0.106s
user    0m0.002s
sys     0m0.032s

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comments]
Signed-off-by: Kentaro Makita <k-makita@np.css.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-24 10:47:15 -07:00
Jan Beulich
42b7772812 mm: remove double indirection on tlb parameter to free_pgd_range() & Co
The double indirection here is not needed anywhere and hence (at least)
confusing.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-24 10:47:15 -07:00
Adrian Bunk
c748e1340e mm/vmstat.c: proper externs
This patch adds proper extern declarations for five variables in
include/linux/vmstat.h

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>
2008-07-24 10:47:14 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
c010b2f76c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (82 commits)
  ipw2200: Call netif_*_queue() interfaces properly.
  netxen: Needs to include linux/vmalloc.h
  [netdrvr] atl1d: fix !CONFIG_PM build
  r6040: rework init_one error handling
  r6040: bump release number to 0.18
  r6040: handle RX fifo full and no descriptor interrupts
  r6040: change the default waiting time
  r6040: use definitions for magic values in descriptor status
  r6040: completely rework the RX path
  r6040: call napi_disable when puting down the interface and set lp->dev accordingly.
  mv643xx_eth: fix NETPOLL build
  r6040: rework the RX buffers allocation routine
  r6040: fix scheduling while atomic in r6040_tx_timeout
  r6040: fix null pointer access and tx timeouts
  r6040: prefix all functions with r6040
  rndis_host: support WM6 devices as modems
  at91_ether: use netstats in net_device structure
  sfc: Create one RX queue and interrupt per CPU package by default
  sfc: Use a separate workqueue for resets
  sfc: I2C adapter initialisation fixes
  ...
2008-07-22 19:09:51 -07:00
Adrian Bunk
8086cd451f netns: make get_proc_net() static
get_proc_net() can now become static.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-22 14:19:19 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
53baaaa968 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6: (79 commits)
  arm: bus_id -> dev_name() and dev_set_name() conversions
  sparc64: fix up bus_id changes in sparc core code
  3c59x: handle pci_name() being const
  MTD: handle pci_name() being const
  HP iLO driver
  sysdev: Convert the x86 mce tolerant sysdev attribute to generic attribute
  sysdev: Add utility functions for simple int/ulong variable sysdev attributes
  sysdev: Pass the attribute to the low level sysdev show/store function
  driver core: Suppress sysfs warnings for device_rename().
  kobject: Transmit return value of call_usermodehelper() to caller
  sysfs-rules.txt: reword API stability statement
  debugfs: Implement debugfs_remove_recursive()
  HOWTO: change email addresses of James in HOWTO
  always enable FW_LOADER unless EMBEDDED=y
  uio-howto.tmpl: use unique output names
  uio-howto.tmpl: use standard copyright/legal markings
  sysfs: don't call notify_change
  sysdev: fix debugging statements in registration code.
  kobject: should use kobject_put() in kset-example
  kobject: reorder kobject to save space on 64 bit builds
  ...
2008-07-22 13:13:47 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
ee1e6ab605 proc: fix /proc/*/pagemap some more
struct pagemap_walk was placed on stack, some hooks are initialized, the
rest (->pgd_entry, ->pud_entry, ->pte_entry) are valid but junk.

Reported-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: "Vegard Nossum" <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.25.x, 2.6.26.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-22 09:59:41 -07:00
John Reiser
6519108746 execve filename: document and export via auxiliary vector
The Linux kernel puts the filename argument of execve() into the new
address space.  Many developers are surprised to learn this.  Those who
know and could use it, object "But it's not documented."

Those who want to use it dislike the expression
  (char *)(1+ strlen(env[-1+ n_env]) + env[-1+ n_env])
because it requires locating the last original environment variable,
and assumes that the filename follows the characters.

This patch documents the insertion of the filename, and makes it easier
to find by adding a new tag AT_EXECFN in the ElfXX_auxv_t; see <elf.h>.

In many cases readlink("/proc/self/exe",) gives the same answer.  But if
all the original pages get unmapped, then the kernel erases the symlink
for /proc/self/exe.  This can happen when a program decompressor does a
good job of cleaning up after uncompressing directly to memory, so that
the address space of the target program looks the same as if compression
had never happened.  One example is http://upx.sourceforge.net .

One notable use of the underlying concept (what path containED the
executable) is glibc expanding $ORIGIN in DT_RUNPATH.  In practice for
the near term, it may be a good idea for user-mode code to use both
/proc/self/exe and AT_EXECFN as fall-back methods for each other.
/proc/self/exe can fail due to unmapping, AT_EXECFN can fail because it
won't be present on non-new systems.  The auxvec or {AT_EXECFN}.d_val
also can get overwritten, although in nearly all cases this would be the
result of a bug.

The runtime cost is one NEW_AUX_ENT using two words of stack space.  The
underlying value is maintained already as bprm->exec; setup_arg_pages()
in fs/exec.c slides it for stack_shift, etc.

Signed-off-by: John Reiser <jreiser@BitWagon.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-22 09:59:40 -07:00
Cornelia Huck
36ce6dad6e driver core: Suppress sysfs warnings for device_rename().
driver core: Suppress sysfs warnings for device_rename().

Renaming network devices to an already existing name is not
something we want sysfs to print a scary warning for, since the
callers can deal with this correctly. So let's introduce
sysfs_create_link_nowarn() which gets rid of the common warning.

Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-07-21 21:55:01 -07:00
Haavard Skinnemoen
9505e63756 debugfs: Implement debugfs_remove_recursive()
debugfs_remove_recursive() will remove a dentry and all its children.
Drivers can use this to zap their whole debugfs tree so that they don't
need to keep track of every single debugfs dentry they created.

It may fail to remove the whole tree in certain cases:

sh-3.2# rmmod atmel-mci < /sys/kernel/debug/mmc0/ios/clock
mmc0: card b368 removed
atmel_mci atmel_mci.0: Lost dma0chan1, falling back to PIO
sh-3.2# ls /sys/kernel/debug/mmc0/
ios

But I'm not sure if that case can be handled in any sane manner.

Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <haavard.skinnemoen@atmel.com>
Cc: Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list@drzeus.cx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-07-21 21:54:59 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
93265d13ea sysfs: don't call notify_change
sysfs_chmod_file() calls notify_change() to change the permission bits
on a sysfs file.  Replace with explicit call to sysfs_setattr() and
fsnotify_change().

This is equivalent, except that security_inode_setattr() is not
called.  This function is called by drivers, so the security checks do
not make any sense.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-07-21 21:54:57 -07:00
Kay Sievers
aab0de2451 driver core: remove KOBJ_NAME_LEN define
Kobjects do not have a limit in name size since a while, so stop
pretending that they do.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-07-21 21:54:52 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
6143b59970 device create: coda: convert device_create to device_create_drvdata
device_create() is race-prone, so use the race-free
device_create_drvdata() instead as device_create() is going away.

Cc: Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-07-21 21:54:41 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
14b395e35d Merge branch 'for-2.6.27' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux
* 'for-2.6.27' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux: (51 commits)
  nfsd: nfs4xdr.c do-while is not a compound statement
  nfsd: Use C99 initializers in fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c
  lockd: Pass "struct sockaddr *" to new failover-by-IP function
  lockd: get host reference in nlmsvc_create_block() instead of callers
  lockd: minor svclock.c style fixes
  lockd: eliminate duplicate nlmsvc_lookup_host call from nlmsvc_lock
  lockd: eliminate duplicate nlmsvc_lookup_host call from nlmsvc_testlock
  lockd: nlm_release_host() checks for NULL, caller needn't
  file lock: reorder struct file_lock to save space on 64 bit builds
  nfsd: take file and mnt write in nfs4_upgrade_open
  nfsd: document open share bit tracking
  nfsd: tabulate nfs4 xdr encoding functions
  nfsd: dprint operation names
  svcrdma: Change WR context get/put to use the kmem cache
  svcrdma: Create a kmem cache for the WR contexts
  svcrdma: Add flush_scheduled_work to module exit function
  svcrdma: Limit ORD based on client's advertised IRD
  svcrdma: Remove unused wait q from svcrdma_xprt structure
  svcrdma: Remove unneeded spin locks from __svc_rdma_free
  svcrdma: Add dma map count and WARN_ON
  ...
2008-07-20 21:21:46 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
db6d8c7a40 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (1232 commits)
  iucv: Fix bad merging.
  net_sched: Add size table for qdiscs
  net_sched: Add accessor function for packet length for qdiscs
  net_sched: Add qdisc_enqueue wrapper
  highmem: Export totalhigh_pages.
  ipv6 mcast: Omit redundant address family checks in ip6_mc_source().
  net: Use standard structures for generic socket address structures.
  ipv6 netns: Make several "global" sysctl variables namespace aware.
  netns: Use net_eq() to compare net-namespaces for optimization.
  ipv6: remove unused macros from net/ipv6.h
  ipv6: remove unused parameter from ip6_ra_control
  tcp: fix kernel panic with listening_get_next
  tcp: Remove redundant checks when setting eff_sacks
  tcp: options clean up
  tcp: Fix MD5 signatures for non-linear skbs
  sctp: Update sctp global memory limit allocations.
  sctp: remove unnecessary byteshifting, calculate directly in big-endian
  sctp: Allow only 1 listening socket with SO_REUSEADDR
  sctp: Do not leak memory on multiple listen() calls
  sctp: Support ipv6only AF_INET6 sockets.
  ...
2008-07-20 17:43:29 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
f7df406dce Merge branch 'configfs-fixup-ptr-error' of git://oss.oracle.com/git/jlbec/linux-2.6
* 'configfs-fixup-ptr-error' of git://oss.oracle.com/git/jlbec/linux-2.6:
  configfs: Allow ->make_item() and ->make_group() to return detailed errors.
  Revert "configfs: Allow ->make_item() and ->make_group() to return detailed errors."
2008-07-20 17:17:52 -07:00
Alan Cox
a352def21a tty: Ldisc revamp
Move the line disciplines towards a conventional ->ops arrangement.  For
the moment the actual 'tty_ldisc' struct in the tty is kept as part of
the tty struct but this can then be changed if it turns out that when it
all settles down we want to refcount ldiscs separately to the tty.

Pull the ldisc code out of /proc and put it with our ldisc code.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-20 17:12:34 -07:00
David S. Miller
407d819cf0 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/holtmann/bluetooth-2.6 2008-07-19 00:30:39 -07:00
Harvey Harrison
5108b27651 nfsd: nfs4xdr.c do-while is not a compound statement
The WRITEMEM macro produces sparse warnings of the form:
fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c:2668:2: warning: do-while statement is not a compound statement

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Cc: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2008-07-18 15:18:35 -04:00
J. Bruce Fields
ad1060c89c nfsd: Use C99 initializers in fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c
Thanks to problem report and original patch from Harvey Harrison.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Cc: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Cc: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
2008-07-18 15:04:58 -04:00
Pavel Emelyanov
b6fcbdb4f2 proc: consolidate per-net single-release callers
They are symmetrical to single_open ones :)

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-18 04:07:44 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov
de05c557b2 proc: consolidate per-net single_open callers
There are already 7 of them - time to kill some duplicate code.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-18 04:07:21 -07:00
David S. Miller
49997d7515 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Conflicts:

	Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt
	drivers/atm/Makefile
	drivers/net/fs_enet/fs_enet-main.c
	drivers/pci/pci-acpi.c
	net/8021q/vlan.c
	net/iucv/iucv.c
2008-07-18 02:39:39 -07:00
Joel Becker
a6795e9ebb configfs: Allow ->make_item() and ->make_group() to return detailed errors.
The configfs operations ->make_item() and ->make_group() currently
return a new item/group.  A return of NULL signifies an error.  Because
of this, -ENOMEM is the only return code bubbled up the stack.

Multiple folks have requested the ability to return specific error codes
when these operations fail.  This patch adds that ability by changing the
->make_item/group() ops to return ERR_PTR() values.  These errors are
bubbled up appropriately.  NULL returns are changed to -ENOMEM for
compatibility.

Also updated are the in-kernel users of configfs.

This is a rework of reverted commit 11c3b79218.

Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
2008-07-17 15:21:29 -07:00
Joel Becker
f89ab8619e Revert "configfs: Allow ->make_item() and ->make_group() to return detailed errors."
This reverts commit 11c3b79218.  The code
will move to PTR_ERR().

Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
2008-07-17 14:53:48 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
5b664cb235 Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mfasheh/ocfs2
* 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mfasheh/ocfs2:
  [PATCH] ocfs2: fix oops in mmap_truncate testing
  configfs: call drop_link() to cleanup after create_link() failure
  configfs: Allow ->make_item() and ->make_group() to return detailed errors.
  configfs: Fix failing mkdir() making racing rmdir() fail
  configfs: Fix deadlock with racing rmdir() and rename()
  configfs: Make configfs_new_dirent() return error code instead of NULL
  configfs: Protect configfs_dirent s_links list mutations
  configfs: Introduce configfs_dirent_lock
  ocfs2: Don't snprintf() without a format.
  ocfs2: Fix CONFIG_OCFS2_DEBUG_FS #ifdefs
  ocfs2/net: Silence build warnings on sparc64
  ocfs2: Handle error during journal load
  ocfs2: Silence an error message in ocfs2_file_aio_read()
  ocfs2: use simple_read_from_buffer()
  ocfs2: fix printk format warnings with OCFS2_FS_STATS=n
  [PATCH 2/2] ocfs2: Instrument fs cluster locks
  [PATCH 1/2] ocfs2: Add CONFIG_OCFS2_FS_STATS config option
2008-07-17 10:55:51 -07:00
Coly Li
c0420ad2ca [PATCH] ocfs2: fix oops in mmap_truncate testing
This patch fixes a mmap_truncate bug which was found by ocfs2 test suite.

In an ocfs2 cluster more than 1 node, run program mmap_truncate, which races
mmap writes and truncates from multiple processes. While the test is
running, a stat from another node forces writeout, causing an oops in
ocfs2_get_block() because it sees a buffer to write which isn't allocated.

This patch fixed the bug by clear dirty and uptodate bits in buffer, leave
the buffer unmapped and return.

Fix is suggested by Mark Fasheh, and I code up the patch.

Signed-off-by: Coly Li <coyli@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
2008-07-16 16:13:04 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
9c1be0c471 Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.infradead.org/~dedekind/ubifs-2.6
* 'for_linus' of git://git.infradead.org/~dedekind/ubifs-2.6:
  UBIFS: include to compilation
  UBIFS: add new flash file system
  UBIFS: add brief documentation
  MAINTAINERS: add UBIFS section
  do_mounts: allow UBI root device name
  VFS: export sync_sb_inodes
  VFS: move inode_lock into sync_sb_inodes
2008-07-16 15:02:57 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
8df1b049bc Merge git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6
* git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6: (82 commits)
  NFSv4: Remove BKL from the nfsv4 state recovery
  SUNRPC: Remove the BKL from the callback functions
  NFS: Remove BKL from the readdir code
  NFS: Remove BKL from the symlink code
  NFS: Remove BKL from the sillydelete operations
  NFS: Remove the BKL from the rename, rmdir and unlink operations
  NFS: Remove BKL from NFS lookup code
  NFS: Remove the BKL from nfs_link()
  NFS: Remove the BKL from the inode creation operations
  NFS: Remove BKL usage from open()
  NFS: Remove BKL usage from the write path
  NFS: Remove the BKL from the permission checking code
  NFS: Remove attribute update related BKL references
  NFS: Remove BKL requirement from attribute updates
  NFS: Protect inode->i_nlink updates using inode->i_lock
  nfs: set correct fl_len in nlmclnt_test()
  SUNRPC: Support registering IPv6 interfaces with local rpcbind daemon
  SUNRPC: Refactor rpcb_register to make rpcbindv4 support easier
  SUNRPC: None of rpcb_create's callers wants a privileged source port
  SUNRPC: Introduce a specific rpcb_create for contacting localhost
  ...
2008-07-16 14:49:49 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
3c3622dcb6 Fix compile issues in fs/compat_ioctl.c when CONFIG_BLOCK is disabled
Fix fs/compat_ioctl.c to handle CONFIG_BLOCK=n, CONFIG_SCSI=n to avoid
build errors:

In file included from include/scsi/scsi.h:12,
                 from fs/compat_ioctl.c:71:
include/scsi/scsi_cmnd.h:27:25: warning: "BLK_MAX_CDB" is not defined
include/scsi/scsi_cmnd.h:28:3: error: #error MAX_COMMAND_SIZE can not be bigger than BLK_MAX_CDB
In file included from include/scsi/scsi.h:12,
                 from fs/compat_ioctl.c:71:
include/scsi/scsi_cmnd.h: In function 'scsi_bidi_cmnd':
include/scsi/scsi_cmnd.h:182: error: implicit declaration of function 'blk_bidi_rq'
include/scsi/scsi_cmnd.h:183: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
include/scsi/scsi_cmnd.h: In function 'scsi_in':
include/scsi/scsi_cmnd.h:189: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-16 11:46:16 -07:00
Trond Myklebust
cadc723cc1 Merge branch 'bkl-removal' into next 2008-07-15 18:34:58 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
e89e896d31 Merge branch 'devel' into next
Conflicts:

	fs/nfs/file.c

Fix up the conflict with Jon Corbet's bkl-removal tree
2008-07-15 18:34:16 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
f839c4c199 NFSv4: Remove BKL from the nfsv4 state recovery
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-07-15 18:10:57 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
a86dc496b7 SUNRPC: Remove the BKL from the callback functions
Push it into those callback functions that actually need it.

Note that all the NFS operations use their own locking, so don't need the
BKL. Ditto for the rpcbind client.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-07-15 18:10:57 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
c3cc8c019c NFS: Remove BKL from the readdir code
Page accesses are serialised using the page locks, whereas all attribute
updates are serialised using the inode->i_lock.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-07-15 18:10:56 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
76566991f9 NFS: Remove BKL from the symlink code
Page cache accesses are serialised using page locks, whereas attribute
updates are serialised using inode->i_lock.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-07-15 18:10:56 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
52e2e8d37e NFS: Remove BKL from the sillydelete operations
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-07-15 18:10:55 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
bd9bb454b7 NFS: Remove the BKL from the rename, rmdir and unlink operations
Attribute updates are safe, and dentry operations are protected using VFS
level locks. Defer removing the BKL from sillyrename until a separate
patch.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-07-15 18:10:55 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
fc0f684c21 NFS: Remove BKL from NFS lookup code
All dentry-related operations are already BKL-safe, since they are
protected by the VFS locking. No extra locks should be needed in the NFS
code.

In the case of nfs_revalidate_inode(), we're only doing an attribute
update (protected by the inode->i_lock).
In the case of nfs_lookup(), we're instantiating a new dentry, so there
should be no contention possible until after we call d_materialise_unique.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-07-15 18:10:54 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
fc81af535e NFS: Remove the BKL from nfs_link()
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-07-15 18:10:54 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
f1e2eda235 NFS: Remove the BKL from the inode creation operations
nfs_instantiate() does not require the BKL, neither do the attribute
updates or the RPC code.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-07-15 18:10:53 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
bba67e0e3f NFS: Remove BKL usage from open()
All the NFSv4 stateful operations are already protected by other locks (in
particular by the rpc_sequence locks.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-07-15 18:10:53 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
b6a2e569e2 NFS: Remove BKL usage from the write path
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-07-15 18:10:52 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
4d80f2ecd5 NFS: Remove the BKL from the permission checking code
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-07-15 18:10:52 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
fa6dc9dc59 NFS: Remove attribute update related BKL references
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-07-15 18:10:51 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
a3d01454bc NFS: Remove BKL requirement from attribute updates
The main problem is dealing with inode->i_size: we need to set the
inode->i_lock on all attribute updates, and so vmtruncate won't cut it.
Make an NFS-private version of vmtruncate that has the necessary locking
semantics.

The result should be that the following inode attribute updates are
protected by inode->i_lock
	nfsi->cache_validity
	nfsi->read_cache_jiffies
	nfsi->attrtimeo
	nfsi->attrtimeo_timestamp
	nfsi->change_attr
	nfsi->last_updated
	nfsi->cache_change_attribute
	nfsi->access_cache
	nfsi->access_cache_entry_lru
	nfsi->access_cache_inode_lru
	nfsi->acl_access
	nfsi->acl_default
	nfsi->nfs_page_tree
	nfsi->ncommit
	nfsi->npages
	nfsi->open_files
	nfsi->silly_list
	nfsi->acl
	nfsi->open_states
	inode->i_size
	inode->i_atime
	inode->i_mtime
	inode->i_ctime
	inode->i_nlink
	inode->i_uid
	inode->i_gid

The following is protected by dir->i_mutex
	nfsi->cookieverf

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-07-15 18:10:51 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
1b83d70703 NFS: Protect inode->i_nlink updates using inode->i_lock
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-07-15 18:10:50 -04:00
Felix Blyakher
d67d1c7bf9 nfs: set correct fl_len in nlmclnt_test()
fcntl(F_GETLK) on an nfs client incorrectly returns
the values for the conflicting lock. fl_len value is
always 1.
If the conflicting lock is (0, 4095) the F_GETLK
request for (1024, 10) returns (0, 1), which doesn't
even cover the requested range, and is quite confusing.
The fix is trivial, set fl_end from the fl_end value
recieved from the nfs server.

Signed-off-by: Felix Blyakher <felixb@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-07-15 18:08:59 -04:00