shrink_slab() allows shrinkers to be called in parallel so the
struct shrinker can be updated concurrently. It does not provide any
exclusio for such updates, so we can get the shrinker->nr value
increasing or decreasing incorrectly.

As a result, when a shrinker repeatedly returns a value of -1 (e.g.
a VFS shrinker called w/ GFP_NOFS), the shrinker->nr goes haywire,
sometimes updating with the scan count that wasn't used, sometimes
losing it altogether. Worse is when a shrinker does work and that
update is lost due to racy updates, which means the shrinker will do
the work again!

Fix this by making the total_scan calculations independent of
shrinker->nr, and making the shrinker->nr updates atomic w.r.t. to
other updates via cmpxchg loops.
Signed-off-by: NDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

It is impossible to understand what the shrinkers are actually doing
without instrumenting the code, so add a some tracepoints to allow
insight to be gained.
Signed-off-by: NDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

... and simplify the living hell out of callers
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

d_splice_alias(NULL, dentry) is equivalent to d_add(dentry, NULL), NULL
so no need for that if (inode) ... in there (or ERR_PTR(0), for that
matter)
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

just rewind it to the beginning before vfs_readdir() and be
done with that...
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

never is...
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

it never is...
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

New helper (non-exported, fs/internal.h-only): __d_alloc(sb, name).
Allocates dentry, sets its ->d_sb to given superblock and sets
->d_op accordingly.  Old d_alloc(NULL, name) callers are converted
to that (all of them know what superblock they want).  d_alloc()
itself is left only for parent != NULl case; uses __d_alloc(),
inserts result into the list of parent's children.

Note that now ->d_sb is assign-once and never NULL *and*
->d_parent is never NULL either.
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

folded into the only caller (kern_path_create())
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

We do _NOT_ want to mkdir the path itself - we are preparing to
mknod it, after all.  Normally it'll fail with -ENOENT and
just do nothing, but if somebody has created the parent in
the meanwhile, we'll get buggered...
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

... and give it a namespace where devtmpfs would be mounted on root,
thus avoiding abuses of vfs_path_lookup() (it was never intended to
be used with LOOKUP_PARENT).  Games with credentials are also gone.
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

combination of kern_path_parent() and lookup_create().  Does *not*
expose struct nameidata to caller.  Syscalls converted to that...
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

LOOKUP_PARENT is equivalent to it now
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

... it will be set in nd->flag for all cases with non-NULL nd
(i.e. when called from do_last()).
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Instead of playing with removal of LOOKUP_OPEN, mangling (and
restoring) nd->path, just pass NULL to vfs_create().  The whole
point of what's being done there is to suppress any attempts
to open file by underlying fs, which is what nd == NULL indicates.
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

->create() instances are much happier that way...
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

All instances can cope with that now (and ceph one actually
starts working properly).
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

a) check the right flags in ->create() (LOOKUP_OPEN, not LOOKUP_CREATE)
b) default (!LOOKUP_OPEN) open_flags is O_CREAT|O_EXCL|FMODE_READ, not 0
c) lookup_instantiate_filp() should be done only with LOOKUP_OPEN;
otherwise we need to issue CLOSE, lest we leak stateid on server.
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

just open flags; switched to passing just those and
renamed to create_nfs_open_context()
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

just dentry, please...
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

instead of path_get()/path_put(), we can just use nfs_sb_{,de}active()
to pin the superblock down.
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

... and get rid of a bogus typecast, while we are at it; it's not
just that we want a function returning int and not void, but cast
to pointer to function taking void * and returning void would be
(void (*)(void *)) and not (void *)(void *), TYVM...
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

... now that inode_permission() can take MAY_NOT_BLOCK and handle it
properly.
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

not used anymore
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

cache footprint alone makes it a bad idea...
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>