1. 01 6月, 2016 1 次提交
  2. 02 2月, 2016 1 次提交
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      CacheFiles: Provide read-and-reset release counters for cachefilesd · a5b3a80b
      David Howells 提交于
      Provide read-and-reset objects- and blocks-released counters for cachefilesd
      to use to work out whether there's anything new that can be culled.
      
      One of the problems cachefilesd has is that if all the objects in the cache
      are pinned by inodes lying dormant in the kernel inode cache, there isn't
      anything for it to cull.  In such a case, it just spins around walking the
      filesystem tree and scanning for something to cull.  This eats up a lot of
      CPU time.
      
      By telling cachefilesd if there have been any releases, the daemon can
      sleep until there is the possibility of something to do.
      
      cachefilesd finds this information by the following means:
      
       (1) When the control fd is read, the kernel presents a list of values of
           interest.  "freleased=N" and "breleased=N" are added to this list to
           indicate the number of files released and number of blocks released
           since the last read call.  At this point the counters are reset.
      
       (2) POLLIN is signalled if the number of files released becomes greater
           than 0.
      
      Note that by 'released' it just means that the kernel has released its
      interest in those files for the moment, not necessarily that the files
      should be deleted from the cache.
      Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Reviewed-by: NSteve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      a5b3a80b
  3. 23 1月, 2016 1 次提交
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      wrappers for ->i_mutex access · 5955102c
      Al Viro 提交于
      parallel to mutex_{lock,unlock,trylock,is_locked,lock_nested},
      inode_foo(inode) being mutex_foo(&inode->i_mutex).
      
      Please, use those for access to ->i_mutex; over the coming cycle
      ->i_mutex will become rwsem, with ->lookup() done with it held
      only shared.
      Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      5955102c
  4. 16 4月, 2015 2 次提交
  5. 23 2月, 2015 1 次提交
  6. 30 9月, 2014 1 次提交
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      CacheFiles: Handle object being killed before being set up · a3b7c004
      David Howells 提交于
      If a cache object gets killed whilst in the process of being set up - for
      instance if the netfs relinquishes the cookie that the object is associated
      with - then the object's state machine will transit to the DROP_OBJECT state
      without necessarily going through the LOOKUP_OBJECT or CREATE_OBJECT states.
      
      This is a problem for CacheFiles because cachefiles_drop_object() assumes that
      object->dentry will be set upon reaching the DROP_OBJECT state and has an
      ASSERT() to that effect (see the oops below) - but object->dentry doesn't get
      set until the LOOKUP_OBJECT or CREATE_OBJECT states (and not always then if
      they fail).
      
      To fix this, just make the dentry cleanup in cachefiles_drop_object()
      conditional on the dentry actually being set and remove the assertion.
      
      	CacheFiles: Assertion failed
      	------------[ cut here ]------------
      	kernel BUG at .../fs/cachefiles/namei.c:425!
      	...
      	Workqueue: fscache_object fscache_object_work_func [fscache]
      	...
      	RIP: ... cachefiles_delete_object+0xcd/0x110 [cachefiles]
      	...
      	Call Trace:
      	 [<ffffffffa043280f>] ? cachefiles_drop_object+0xff/0x130 [cachefiles]
      	 [<ffffffffa02ac511>] ? fscache_drop_object+0xd1/0x1d0 [fscache]
      	 [<ffffffffa02ac697>] ? fscache_object_work_func+0x87/0x210 [fscache]
      	 [<ffffffff81080635>] ? process_one_work+0x155/0x450
      	 [<ffffffff81081c44>] ? worker_thread+0x114/0x370
      	 [<ffffffff81081b30>] ? manage_workers.isra.21+0x2c0/0x2c0
      	 [<ffffffff81087fcc>] ? kthread+0xbc/0xe0
      	 [<ffffffff81087f10>] ? flush_kthread_worker+0xa0/0xa0
      	 [<ffffffff8150638c>] ? ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
      	 [<ffffffff81087f10>] ? flush_kthread_worker+0xa0/0xa0
      Reported-by: NManuel Schölling <manuel.schoelling@gmx.de>
      Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Acked-by: NSteve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
      a3b7c004
  7. 07 6月, 2014 2 次提交
  8. 09 11月, 2013 1 次提交
  9. 28 9月, 2013 1 次提交
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      FS-Cache: Provide the ability to enable/disable cookies · 94d30ae9
      David Howells 提交于
      Provide the ability to enable and disable fscache cookies.  A disabled cookie
      will reject or ignore further requests to:
      
      	Acquire a child cookie
      	Invalidate and update backing objects
      	Check the consistency of a backing object
      	Allocate storage for backing page
      	Read backing pages
      	Write to backing pages
      
      but still allows:
      
      	Checks/waits on the completion of already in-progress objects
      	Uncaching of pages
      	Relinquishment of cookies
      
      Two new operations are provided:
      
       (1) Disable a cookie:
      
      	void fscache_disable_cookie(struct fscache_cookie *cookie,
      				    bool invalidate);
      
           If the cookie is not already disabled, this locks the cookie against other
           dis/enablement ops, marks the cookie as being disabled, discards or
           invalidates any backing objects and waits for cessation of activity on any
           associated object.
      
           This is a wrapper around a chunk split out of fscache_relinquish_cookie(),
           but it reinitialises the cookie such that it can be reenabled.
      
           All possible failures are handled internally.  The caller should consider
           calling fscache_uncache_all_inode_pages() afterwards to make sure all page
           markings are cleared up.
      
       (2) Enable a cookie:
      
      	void fscache_enable_cookie(struct fscache_cookie *cookie,
      				   bool (*can_enable)(void *data),
      				   void *data)
      
           If the cookie is not already enabled, this locks the cookie against other
           dis/enablement ops, invokes can_enable() and, if the cookie is not an
           index cookie, will begin the procedure of acquiring backing objects.
      
           The optional can_enable() function is passed the data argument and returns
           a ruling as to whether or not enablement should actually be permitted to
           begin.
      
           All possible failures are handled internally.  The cookie will only be
           marked as enabled if provisional backing objects are allocated.
      
      A later patch will introduce these to NFS.  Cookie enablement during nfs_open()
      is then contingent on i_writecount <= 0.  can_enable() checks for a race
      between open(O_RDONLY) and open(O_WRONLY/O_RDWR).  This simplifies NFS's cookie
      handling and allows us to get rid of open(O_RDONLY) accidentally introducing
      caching to an inode that's open for writing already.
      
      One operation has its API modified:
      
       (3) Acquire a cookie.
      
      	struct fscache_cookie *fscache_acquire_cookie(
      		struct fscache_cookie *parent,
      		const struct fscache_cookie_def *def,
      		void *netfs_data,
      		bool enable);
      
           This now has an additional argument that indicates whether the requested
           cookie should be enabled by default.  It doesn't need the can_enable()
           function because the caller must prevent multiple calls for the same netfs
           object and it doesn't need to take the enablement lock because no one else
           can get at the cookie before this returns.
      
      Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com
      94d30ae9
  10. 06 9月, 2013 1 次提交
  11. 19 6月, 2013 3 次提交
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      FS-Cache: Simplify cookie retention for fscache_objects, fixing oops · 1362729b
      David Howells 提交于
      Simplify the way fscache cache objects retain their cookie.  The way I
      implemented the cookie storage handling made synchronisation a pain (ie. the
      object state machine can't rely on the cookie actually still being there).
      
      Instead of the the object being detached from the cookie and the cookie being
      freed in __fscache_relinquish_cookie(), we defer both operations:
      
       (*) The detachment of the object from the list in the cookie now takes place
           in fscache_drop_object() and is thus governed by the object state machine
           (fscache_detach_from_cookie() has been removed).
      
       (*) The release of the cookie is now in fscache_object_destroy() - which is
           called by the cache backend just before it frees the object.
      
      This means that the fscache_cookie struct is now available to the cache all the
      way through from ->alloc_object() to ->drop_object() and ->put_object() -
      meaning that it's no longer necessary to take object->lock to guarantee access.
      
      However, __fscache_relinquish_cookie() doesn't wait for the object to go all
      the way through to destruction before letting the netfs proceed.  That would
      massively slow down the netfs.  Since __fscache_relinquish_cookie() leaves the
      cookie around, in must therefore break all attachments to the netfs - which
      includes ->def, ->netfs_data and any outstanding page read/writes.
      
      To handle this, struct fscache_cookie now has an n_active counter:
      
       (1) This starts off initialised to 1.
      
       (2) Any time the cache needs to get at the netfs data, it calls
           fscache_use_cookie() to increment it - if it is not zero.  If it was zero,
           then access is not permitted.
      
       (3) When the cache has finished with the data, it calls fscache_unuse_cookie()
           to decrement it.  This does a wake-up on it if it reaches 0.
      
       (4) __fscache_relinquish_cookie() decrements n_active and then waits for it to
           reach 0.  The initialisation to 1 in step (1) ensures that we only get
           wake ups when we're trying to get rid of the cookie.
      
      This leaves __fscache_relinquish_cookie() a lot simpler.
      
      
      ***
      This fixes a problem in the current code whereby if fscache_invalidate() is
      followed sufficiently quickly by fscache_relinquish_cookie() then it is
      possible for __fscache_relinquish_cookie() to have detached the cookie from the
      object and cleared the pointer before a thread is dispatched to process the
      invalidation state in the object state machine.
      
      Since the pending write clearance was deferred to the invalidation state to
      make it asynchronous, we need to either wait in relinquishment for the stores
      tree to be cleared in the invalidation state or we need to handle the clearance
      in relinquishment.
      
      Further, if the relinquishment code does clear the tree, then the invalidation
      state need to make the clearance contingent on still having the cookie to hand
      (since that's where the tree is rooted) and we have to prevent the cookie from
      disappearing for the duration.
      
      This can lead to an oops like the following:
      
      BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 000000000000000c
      ...
      RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8151023e>] _spin_lock+0xe/0x30
      ...
      CR2: 000000000000000c ...
      ...
      Process kslowd002 (...)
      ....
      Call Trace:
       [<ffffffffa01c3278>] fscache_invalidate_writes+0x38/0xd0 [fscache]
       [<ffffffff810096f0>] ? __switch_to+0xd0/0x320
       [<ffffffff8105e759>] ? find_busiest_queue+0x69/0x150
       [<ffffffff8110ddd4>] ? slow_work_enqueue+0x104/0x180
       [<ffffffffa01c1303>] fscache_object_slow_work_execute+0x5e3/0x9d0 [fscache]
       [<ffffffff81096b67>] ? bit_waitqueue+0x17/0xd0
       [<ffffffff8110e233>] slow_work_execute+0x233/0x310
       [<ffffffff8110e515>] slow_work_thread+0x205/0x360
       [<ffffffff81096ca0>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x40
       [<ffffffff8110e310>] ? slow_work_thread+0x0/0x360
       [<ffffffff81096936>] kthread+0x96/0xa0
       [<ffffffff8100c0ca>] child_rip+0xa/0x20
       [<ffffffff810968a0>] ? kthread+0x0/0xa0
       [<ffffffff8100c0c0>] ? child_rip+0x0/0x20
      
      The parameter to fscache_invalidate_writes() was object->cookie which is NULL.
      Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Tested-By: NMilosz Tanski <milosz@adfin.com>
      Acked-by: NJeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
      1362729b
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      FS-Cache: Fix object state machine to have separate work and wait states · caaef690
      David Howells 提交于
      Fix object state machine to have separate work and wait states as that makes
      it easier to envision.
      
      There are now three kinds of state:
      
       (1) Work state.  This is an execution state.  No event processing is performed
           by a work state.  The function attached to a work state returns a pointer
           indicating the next state to which the OSM should transition.  Returning
           NO_TRANSIT repeats the current state, but goes back to the scheduler
           first.
      
       (2) Wait state.  This is an event processing state.  No execution is
           performed by a wait state.  Wait states are just tables of "if event X
           occurs, clear it and transition to state Y".  The dispatcher returns to
           the scheduler if none of the events in which the wait state has an
           interest are currently pending.
      
       (3) Out-of-band state.  This is a special work state.  Transitions to normal
           states can be overridden when an unexpected event occurs (eg. I/O error).
           Instead the dispatcher disables and clears the OOB event and transits to
           the specified work state.  This then acts as an ordinary work state,
           though object->state points to the overridden destination.  Returning
           NO_TRANSIT resumes the overridden transition.
      
      In addition, the states have names in their definitions, so there's no need for
      tables of state names.  Further, the EV_REQUEUE event is no longer necessary as
      that is automatic for work states.
      
      Since the states are now separate structs rather than values in an enum, it's
      not possible to use comparisons other than (non-)equality between them, so use
      some object->flags to indicate what phase an object is in.
      
      The EV_RELEASE, EV_RETIRE and EV_WITHDRAW events have been squished into one
      (EV_KILL).  An object flag now carries the information about retirement.
      
      Similarly, the RELEASING, RECYCLING and WITHDRAWING states have been merged
      into an KILL_OBJECT state and additional states have been added for handling
      waiting dependent objects (JUMPSTART_DEPS and KILL_DEPENDENTS).
      
      A state has also been added for synchronising with parent object initialisation
      (WAIT_FOR_PARENT) and another for initiating look up (PARENT_READY).
      Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Tested-By: NMilosz Tanski <milosz@adfin.com>
      Acked-by: NJeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
      caaef690
  12. 21 12月, 2012 3 次提交
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      FS-Cache: Mark cancellation of in-progress operation · 1f372dff
      David Howells 提交于
      Mark as cancelled an operation that is in progress rather than pending at the
      time it is cancelled, and call fscache_complete_op() to cancel an operation so
      that blocked ops can be started.
      Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      1f372dff
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      CacheFiles: Implement invalidation · 9dc8d9bf
      David Howells 提交于
      Implement invalidation for CacheFiles.  This is in two parts:
      
       (1) Provide an invalidation method (which just truncates the backing file).
      
       (2) Abort attempts to copy anything read from the backing file whilst
           invalidation is in progress.
      
      Question: CacheFiles uses truncation in a couple of places.  It has been using
      notify_change() rather than sys_truncate() or something similar.  This means
      it bypasses a bunch of checks and suchlike that it possibly should be making
      (security, file locking, lease breaking, vfsmount write).  Should it be using
      vfs_truncate() as added by a preceding patch or should it use notify_write()
      and assume that anyone poking around in the cache files on disk gets
      everything they deserve?
      Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      9dc8d9bf
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      CacheFiles: Downgrade the requirements passed to the allocator · 5f4f9f4a
      David Howells 提交于
      Downgrade the requirements passed to the allocator in the gfp flags parameter.
      FS-Cache/CacheFiles can handle OOM conditions simply by aborting the attempt to
      store an object or a page in the cache.
      Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      5f4f9f4a
  13. 04 1月, 2012 1 次提交
  14. 31 3月, 2011 1 次提交
  15. 30 3月, 2010 1 次提交
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      include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking... · 5a0e3ad6
      Tejun Heo 提交于
      include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h
      
      percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
      included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
      in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
      universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.
      
      percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
      this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
      headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
      needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
      used as the basis of conversion.
      
        http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py
      
      The script does the followings.
      
      * Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
        only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
        gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.
      
      * When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
        blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
        to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
        core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
        alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
        doesn't seem to be any matching order.
      
      * If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
        because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
        an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
        file.
      
      The conversion was done in the following steps.
      
      1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
         over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
         and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
         files.
      
      2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
         some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
         embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
         inclusions to around 150 files.
      
      3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
         from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.
      
      4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
         e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
         APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.
      
      5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
         editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
         files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
         inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
         wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
         slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
         necessary.
      
      6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.
      
      7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
         were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
         distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
         more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
         build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).
      
         * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
         * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
         * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
         * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
         * s390 SMP allmodconfig
         * alpha SMP allmodconfig
         * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig
      
      8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
         a separate patch and serve as bisection point.
      
      Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
      6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
      If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
      headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
      the specific arch.
      Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Guess-its-ok-by: NChristoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
      Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
      5a0e3ad6
  16. 20 11月, 2009 4 次提交
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      CacheFiles: Don't log lookup/create failing with ENOBUFS · 14e69647
      David Howells 提交于
      Don't log the CacheFiles lookup/create object routined failing with ENOBUFS as
      under high memory load or high cache load they can do this quite a lot.  This
      error simply means that the requested object cannot be created on disk due to
      lack of space, or due to failure of the backing filesystem to find sufficient
      resources.
      Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      14e69647
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      CacheFiles: Catch an overly long wait for an old active object · fee096de
      David Howells 提交于
      Catch an overly long wait for an old, dying active object when we want to
      replace it with a new one.  The probability is that all the slow-work threads
      are hogged, and the delete can't get a look in.
      
      What we do instead is:
      
       (1) if there's nothing in the slow work queue, we sleep until either the dying
           object has finished dying or there is something in the slow work queue
           behind which we can queue our object.
      
       (2) if there is something in the slow work queue, we return ETIMEDOUT to
           fscache_lookup_object(), which then puts us back on the slow work queue,
           presumably behind the deletion that we're blocked by.  We are then
           deferred for a while until we work our way back through the queue -
           without blocking a slow-work thread unnecessarily.
      
      A backtrace similar to the following may appear in the log without this patch:
      
      	INFO: task kslowd004:5711 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
      	"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
      	kslowd004     D 0000000000000000     0  5711      2 0x00000080
      	 ffff88000340bb80 0000000000000046 ffff88002550d000 0000000000000000
      	 ffff88002550d000 0000000000000007 ffff88000340bfd8 ffff88002550d2a8
      	 000000000000ddf0 00000000000118c0 00000000000118c0 ffff88002550d2a8
      	Call Trace:
      	 [<ffffffff81058e21>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0xf
      	 [<ffffffffa011c4d8>] ? cachefiles_wait_bit+0x0/0xd [cachefiles]
      	 [<ffffffffa011c4e1>] cachefiles_wait_bit+0x9/0xd [cachefiles]
      	 [<ffffffff81353153>] __wait_on_bit+0x43/0x76
      	 [<ffffffff8111ae39>] ? ext3_xattr_get+0x1ec/0x270
      	 [<ffffffff813531ef>] out_of_line_wait_on_bit+0x69/0x74
      	 [<ffffffffa011c4d8>] ? cachefiles_wait_bit+0x0/0xd [cachefiles]
      	 [<ffffffff8104c125>] ? wake_bit_function+0x0/0x2e
      	 [<ffffffffa011bc79>] cachefiles_mark_object_active+0x203/0x23b [cachefiles]
      	 [<ffffffffa011c209>] cachefiles_walk_to_object+0x558/0x827 [cachefiles]
      	 [<ffffffffa011a429>] cachefiles_lookup_object+0xac/0x12a [cachefiles]
      	 [<ffffffffa00aa1e9>] fscache_lookup_object+0x1c7/0x214 [fscache]
      	 [<ffffffffa00aafc5>] fscache_object_state_machine+0xa5/0x52d [fscache]
      	 [<ffffffffa00ab4ac>] fscache_object_slow_work_execute+0x5f/0xa0 [fscache]
      	 [<ffffffff81082093>] slow_work_execute+0x18f/0x2d1
      	 [<ffffffff8108239a>] slow_work_thread+0x1c5/0x308
      	 [<ffffffff8104c0f1>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x34
      	 [<ffffffff810821d5>] ? slow_work_thread+0x0/0x308
      	 [<ffffffff8104be91>] kthread+0x7a/0x82
      	 [<ffffffff8100beda>] child_rip+0xa/0x20
      	 [<ffffffff8100b87c>] ? restore_args+0x0/0x30
      	 [<ffffffff8104be17>] ? kthread+0x0/0x82
      	 [<ffffffff8100bed0>] ? child_rip+0x0/0x20
      	1 lock held by kslowd004/5711:
      	 #0:  (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#7/1){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffffa011be64>] cachefiles_walk_to_object+0x1b3/0x827 [cachefiles]
      Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      fee096de
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      CacheFiles: Don't write a full page if there's only a partial page to cache · a17754fb
      David Howells 提交于
      cachefiles_write_page() writes a full page to the backing file for the last
      page of the netfs file, even if the netfs file's last page is only a partial
      page.
      
      This causes the EOF on the backing file to be extended beyond the EOF of the
      netfs, and thus the backing file will be truncated by cachefiles_attr_changed()
      called from cachefiles_lookup_object().
      
      So we need to limit the write we make to the backing file on that last page
      such that it doesn't push the EOF too far.
      
      Also, if a backing file that has a partial page at the end is expanded, we
      discard the partial page and refetch it on the basis that we then have a hole
      in the file with invalid data, and should the power go out...  A better way to
      deal with this could be to record a note that the partial page contains invalid
      data until the correct data is written into it.
      
      This isn't a problem for netfs's that discard the whole backing file if the
      file size changes (such as NFS).
      Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      a17754fb
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      FS-Cache: Allow the current state of all objects to be dumped · 4fbf4291
      David Howells 提交于
      Allow the current state of all fscache objects to be dumped by doing:
      
      	cat /proc/fs/fscache/objects
      
      By default, all objects and all fields will be shown.  This can be restricted
      by adding a suitable key to one of the caller's keyrings (such as the session
      keyring):
      
      	keyctl add user fscache:objlist "<restrictions>" @s
      
      The <restrictions> are:
      
      	K	Show hexdump of object key (don't show if not given)
      	A	Show hexdump of object aux data (don't show if not given)
      
      And paired restrictions:
      
      	C	Show objects that have a cookie
      	c	Show objects that don't have a cookie
      	B	Show objects that are busy
      	b	Show objects that aren't busy
      	W	Show objects that have pending writes
      	w	Show objects that don't have pending writes
      	R	Show objects that have outstanding reads
      	r	Show objects that don't have outstanding reads
      	S	Show objects that have slow work queued
      	s	Show objects that don't have slow work queued
      
      If neither side of a restriction pair is given, then both are implied.  For
      example:
      
      	keyctl add user fscache:objlist KB @s
      
      shows objects that are busy, and lists their object keys, but does not dump
      their auxiliary data.  It also implies "CcWwRrSs", but as 'B' is given, 'b' is
      not implied.
      Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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      CacheFiles: A cache that backs onto a mounted filesystem · 9ae326a6
      David Howells 提交于
      Add an FS-Cache cache-backend that permits a mounted filesystem to be used as a
      backing store for the cache.
      
      CacheFiles uses a userspace daemon to do some of the cache management - such as
      reaping stale nodes and culling.  This is called cachefilesd and lives in
      /sbin.  The source for the daemon can be downloaded from:
      
      	http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/cachefs/cachefilesd.c
      
      And an example configuration from:
      
      	http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/cachefs/cachefilesd.conf
      
      The filesystem and data integrity of the cache are only as good as those of the
      filesystem providing the backing services.  Note that CacheFiles does not
      attempt to journal anything since the journalling interfaces of the various
      filesystems are very specific in nature.
      
      CacheFiles creates a misc character device - "/dev/cachefiles" - that is used
      to communication with the daemon.  Only one thing may have this open at once,
      and whilst it is open, a cache is at least partially in existence.  The daemon
      opens this and sends commands down it to control the cache.
      
      CacheFiles is currently limited to a single cache.
      
      CacheFiles attempts to maintain at least a certain percentage of free space on
      the filesystem, shrinking the cache by culling the objects it contains to make
      space if necessary - see the "Cache Culling" section.  This means it can be
      placed on the same medium as a live set of data, and will expand to make use of
      spare space and automatically contract when the set of data requires more
      space.
      
      ============
      REQUIREMENTS
      ============
      
      The use of CacheFiles and its daemon requires the following features to be
      available in the system and in the cache filesystem:
      
      	- dnotify.
      
      	- extended attributes (xattrs).
      
      	- openat() and friends.
      
      	- bmap() support on files in the filesystem (FIBMAP ioctl).
      
      	- The use of bmap() to detect a partial page at the end of the file.
      
      It is strongly recommended that the "dir_index" option is enabled on Ext3
      filesystems being used as a cache.
      
      =============
      CONFIGURATION
      =============
      
      The cache is configured by a script in /etc/cachefilesd.conf.  These commands
      set up cache ready for use.  The following script commands are available:
      
       (*) brun <N>%
       (*) bcull <N>%
       (*) bstop <N>%
       (*) frun <N>%
       (*) fcull <N>%
       (*) fstop <N>%
      
      	Configure the culling limits.  Optional.  See the section on culling
      	The defaults are 7% (run), 5% (cull) and 1% (stop) respectively.
      
      	The commands beginning with a 'b' are file space (block) limits, those
      	beginning with an 'f' are file count limits.
      
       (*) dir <path>
      
      	Specify the directory containing the root of the cache.  Mandatory.
      
       (*) tag <name>
      
      	Specify a tag to FS-Cache to use in distinguishing multiple caches.
      	Optional.  The default is "CacheFiles".
      
       (*) debug <mask>
      
      	Specify a numeric bitmask to control debugging in the kernel module.
      	Optional.  The default is zero (all off).  The following values can be
      	OR'd into the mask to collect various information:
      
      		1	Turn on trace of function entry (_enter() macros)
      		2	Turn on trace of function exit (_leave() macros)
      		4	Turn on trace of internal debug points (_debug())
      
      	This mask can also be set through sysfs, eg:
      
      		echo 5 >/sys/modules/cachefiles/parameters/debug
      
      ==================
      STARTING THE CACHE
      ==================
      
      The cache is started by running the daemon.  The daemon opens the cache device,
      configures the cache and tells it to begin caching.  At that point the cache
      binds to fscache and the cache becomes live.
      
      The daemon is run as follows:
      
      	/sbin/cachefilesd [-d]* [-s] [-n] [-f <configfile>]
      
      The flags are:
      
       (*) -d
      
      	Increase the debugging level.  This can be specified multiple times and
      	is cumulative with itself.
      
       (*) -s
      
      	Send messages to stderr instead of syslog.
      
       (*) -n
      
      	Don't daemonise and go into background.
      
       (*) -f <configfile>
      
      	Use an alternative configuration file rather than the default one.
      
      ===============
      THINGS TO AVOID
      ===============
      
      Do not mount other things within the cache as this will cause problems.  The
      kernel module contains its own very cut-down path walking facility that ignores
      mountpoints, but the daemon can't avoid them.
      
      Do not create, rename or unlink files and directories in the cache whilst the
      cache is active, as this may cause the state to become uncertain.
      
      Renaming files in the cache might make objects appear to be other objects (the
      filename is part of the lookup key).
      
      Do not change or remove the extended attributes attached to cache files by the
      cache as this will cause the cache state management to get confused.
      
      Do not create files or directories in the cache, lest the cache get confused or
      serve incorrect data.
      
      Do not chmod files in the cache.  The module creates things with minimal
      permissions to prevent random users being able to access them directly.
      
      =============
      CACHE CULLING
      =============
      
      The cache may need culling occasionally to make space.  This involves
      discarding objects from the cache that have been used less recently than
      anything else.  Culling is based on the access time of data objects.  Empty
      directories are culled if not in use.
      
      Cache culling is done on the basis of the percentage of blocks and the
      percentage of files available in the underlying filesystem.  There are six
      "limits":
      
       (*) brun
       (*) frun
      
           If the amount of free space and the number of available files in the cache
           rises above both these limits, then culling is turned off.
      
       (*) bcull
       (*) fcull
      
           If the amount of available space or the number of available files in the
           cache falls below either of these limits, then culling is started.
      
       (*) bstop
       (*) fstop
      
           If the amount of available space or the number of available files in the
           cache falls below either of these limits, then no further allocation of
           disk space or files is permitted until culling has raised things above
           these limits again.
      
      These must be configured thusly:
      
      	0 <= bstop < bcull < brun < 100
      	0 <= fstop < fcull < frun < 100
      
      Note that these are percentages of available space and available files, and do
      _not_ appear as 100 minus the percentage displayed by the "df" program.
      
      The userspace daemon scans the cache to build up a table of cullable objects.
      These are then culled in least recently used order.  A new scan of the cache is
      started as soon as space is made in the table.  Objects will be skipped if
      their atimes have changed or if the kernel module says it is still using them.
      
      ===============
      CACHE STRUCTURE
      ===============
      
      The CacheFiles module will create two directories in the directory it was
      given:
      
       (*) cache/
      
       (*) graveyard/
      
      The active cache objects all reside in the first directory.  The CacheFiles
      kernel module moves any retired or culled objects that it can't simply unlink
      to the graveyard from which the daemon will actually delete them.
      
      The daemon uses dnotify to monitor the graveyard directory, and will delete
      anything that appears therein.
      
      The module represents index objects as directories with the filename "I..." or
      "J...".  Note that the "cache/" directory is itself a special index.
      
      Data objects are represented as files if they have no children, or directories
      if they do.  Their filenames all begin "D..." or "E...".  If represented as a
      directory, data objects will have a file in the directory called "data" that
      actually holds the data.
      
      Special objects are similar to data objects, except their filenames begin
      "S..." or "T...".
      
      If an object has children, then it will be represented as a directory.
      Immediately in the representative directory are a collection of directories
      named for hash values of the child object keys with an '@' prepended.  Into
      this directory, if possible, will be placed the representations of the child
      objects:
      
      	INDEX     INDEX      INDEX                             DATA FILES
      	========= ========== ================================= ================
      	cache/@4a/I03nfs/@30/Ji000000000000000--fHg8hi8400
      	cache/@4a/I03nfs/@30/Ji000000000000000--fHg8hi8400/@75/Es0g000w...DB1ry
      	cache/@4a/I03nfs/@30/Ji000000000000000--fHg8hi8400/@75/Es0g000w...N22ry
      	cache/@4a/I03nfs/@30/Ji000000000000000--fHg8hi8400/@75/Es0g000w...FP1ry
      
      If the key is so long that it exceeds NAME_MAX with the decorations added on to
      it, then it will be cut into pieces, the first few of which will be used to
      make a nest of directories, and the last one of which will be the objects
      inside the last directory.  The names of the intermediate directories will have
      '+' prepended:
      
      	J1223/@23/+xy...z/+kl...m/Epqr
      
      Note that keys are raw data, and not only may they exceed NAME_MAX in size,
      they may also contain things like '/' and NUL characters, and so they may not
      be suitable for turning directly into a filename.
      
      To handle this, CacheFiles will use a suitably printable filename directly and
      "base-64" encode ones that aren't directly suitable.  The two versions of
      object filenames indicate the encoding:
      
      	OBJECT TYPE	PRINTABLE	ENCODED
      	===============	===============	===============
      	Index		"I..."		"J..."
      	Data		"D..."		"E..."
      	Special		"S..."		"T..."
      
      Intermediate directories are always "@" or "+" as appropriate.
      
      Each object in the cache has an extended attribute label that holds the object
      type ID (required to distinguish special objects) and the auxiliary data from
      the netfs.  The latter is used to detect stale objects in the cache and update
      or retire them.
      
      Note that CacheFiles will erase from the cache any file it doesn't recognise or
      any file of an incorrect type (such as a FIFO file or a device file).
      
      ==========================
      SECURITY MODEL AND SELINUX
      ==========================
      
      CacheFiles is implemented to deal properly with the LSM security features of
      the Linux kernel and the SELinux facility.
      
      One of the problems that CacheFiles faces is that it is generally acting on
      behalf of a process, and running in that process's context, and that includes a
      security context that is not appropriate for accessing the cache - either
      because the files in the cache are inaccessible to that process, or because if
      the process creates a file in the cache, that file may be inaccessible to other
      processes.
      
      The way CacheFiles works is to temporarily change the security context (fsuid,
      fsgid and actor security label) that the process acts as - without changing the
      security context of the process when it the target of an operation performed by
      some other process (so signalling and suchlike still work correctly).
      
      When the CacheFiles module is asked to bind to its cache, it:
      
       (1) Finds the security label attached to the root cache directory and uses
           that as the security label with which it will create files.  By default,
           this is:
      
      	cachefiles_var_t
      
       (2) Finds the security label of the process which issued the bind request
           (presumed to be the cachefilesd daemon), which by default will be:
      
      	cachefilesd_t
      
           and asks LSM to supply a security ID as which it should act given the
           daemon's label.  By default, this will be:
      
      	cachefiles_kernel_t
      
           SELinux transitions the daemon's security ID to the module's security ID
           based on a rule of this form in the policy.
      
      	type_transition <daemon's-ID> kernel_t : process <module's-ID>;
      
           For instance:
      
      	type_transition cachefilesd_t kernel_t : process cachefiles_kernel_t;
      
      The module's security ID gives it permission to create, move and remove files
      and directories in the cache, to find and access directories and files in the
      cache, to set and access extended attributes on cache objects, and to read and
      write files in the cache.
      
      The daemon's security ID gives it only a very restricted set of permissions: it
      may scan directories, stat files and erase files and directories.  It may
      not read or write files in the cache, and so it is precluded from accessing the
      data cached therein; nor is it permitted to create new files in the cache.
      
      There are policy source files available in:
      
      	http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/fscache/cachefilesd-0.8.tar.bz2
      
      and later versions.  In that tarball, see the files:
      
      	cachefilesd.te
      	cachefilesd.fc
      	cachefilesd.if
      
      They are built and installed directly by the RPM.
      
      If a non-RPM based system is being used, then copy the above files to their own
      directory and run:
      
      	make -f /usr/share/selinux/devel/Makefile
      	semodule -i cachefilesd.pp
      
      You will need checkpolicy and selinux-policy-devel installed prior to the
      build.
      
      By default, the cache is located in /var/fscache, but if it is desirable that
      it should be elsewhere, than either the above policy files must be altered, or
      an auxiliary policy must be installed to label the alternate location of the
      cache.
      
      For instructions on how to add an auxiliary policy to enable the cache to be
      located elsewhere when SELinux is in enforcing mode, please see:
      
      	/usr/share/doc/cachefilesd-*/move-cache.txt
      
      When the cachefilesd rpm is installed; alternatively, the document can be found
      in the sources.
      
      ==================
      A NOTE ON SECURITY
      ==================
      
      CacheFiles makes use of the split security in the task_struct.  It allocates
      its own task_security structure, and redirects current->act_as to point to it
      when it acts on behalf of another process, in that process's context.
      
      The reason it does this is that it calls vfs_mkdir() and suchlike rather than
      bypassing security and calling inode ops directly.  Therefore the VFS and LSM
      may deny the CacheFiles access to the cache data because under some
      circumstances the caching code is running in the security context of whatever
      process issued the original syscall on the netfs.
      
      Furthermore, should CacheFiles create a file or directory, the security
      parameters with that object is created (UID, GID, security label) would be
      derived from that process that issued the system call, thus potentially
      preventing other processes from accessing the cache - including CacheFiles's
      cache management daemon (cachefilesd).
      
      What is required is to temporarily override the security of the process that
      issued the system call.  We can't, however, just do an in-place change of the
      security data as that affects the process as an object, not just as a subject.
      This means it may lose signals or ptrace events for example, and affects what
      the process looks like in /proc.
      
      So CacheFiles makes use of a logical split in the security between the
      objective security (task->sec) and the subjective security (task->act_as).  The
      objective security holds the intrinsic security properties of a process and is
      never overridden.  This is what appears in /proc, and is what is used when a
      process is the target of an operation by some other process (SIGKILL for
      example).
      
      The subjective security holds the active security properties of a process, and
      may be overridden.  This is not seen externally, and is used whan a process
      acts upon another object, for example SIGKILLing another process or opening a
      file.
      
      LSM hooks exist that allow SELinux (or Smack or whatever) to reject a request
      for CacheFiles to run in a context of a specific security label, or to create
      files and directories with another security label.
      
      This documentation is added by the patch to:
      
      	Documentation/filesystems/caching/cachefiles.txt
      Signed-Off-By: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Acked-by: NSteve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
      Acked-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
      Acked-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      Tested-by: NDaire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
      9ae326a6