1. 04 7月, 2013 1 次提交
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      mm: vmscan: take page buffers dirty and locked state into account · b4597226
      Mel Gorman 提交于
      Page reclaim keeps track of dirty and under writeback pages and uses it
      to determine if wait_iff_congested() should stall or if kswapd should
      begin writing back pages.  This fails to account for buffer pages that
      can be under writeback but not PageWriteback which is the case for
      filesystems like ext3 ordered mode.  Furthermore, PageDirty buffer pages
      can have all the buffers clean and writepage does no IO so it should not
      be accounted as congested.
      
      This patch adds an address_space operation that filesystems may
      optionally use to check if a page is really dirty or really under
      writeback.  An implementation is provided for for buffer_heads is added
      and used for block operations and ext3 in ordered mode.  By default the
      page flags are obeyed.
      
      Credit goes to Jan Kara for identifying that the page flags alone are
      not sufficient for ext3 and sanity checking a number of ideas on how the
      problem could be addressed.
      Signed-off-by: NMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
      Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
      Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
      Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
      Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
      Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
      Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
      Cc: Zlatko Calusic <zcalusic@bitsync.net>
      Cc: dormando <dormando@rydia.net>
      Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      b4597226
  2. 03 7月, 2013 1 次提交
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      vfs: export lseek_execute() to modules · 46a1c2c7
      Jie Liu 提交于
      For those file systems(btrfs/ext4/ocfs2/tmpfs) that support
      SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE functions, we end up handling the similar
      matter in lseek_execute() to update the current file offset
      to the desired offset if it is valid, ceph also does the
      simliar things at ceph_llseek().
      
      To reduce the duplications, this patch make lseek_execute()
      public accessible so that we can call it directly from the
      underlying file systems.
      
      Thanks Dave Chinner for this suggestion.
      
      [AV: call it vfs_setpos(), don't bring the removed 'inode' argument back]
      
      v2->v1:
      - Add kernel-doc comments for lseek_execute()
      - Call lseek_execute() in ceph->llseek()
      Signed-off-by: NJie Liu <jeff.liu@oracle.com>
      Cc: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
      Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
      Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@fusionio.com>
      Cc: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fusionio.com>
      Cc: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
      Cc: Ted Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
      Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
      Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
      Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
      Cc: Sage Weil <sage@inktank.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      46a1c2c7
  3. 29 6月, 2013 17 次提交
  4. 20 6月, 2013 1 次提交
  5. 22 5月, 2013 1 次提交
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      mm: change invalidatepage prototype to accept length · d47992f8
      Lukas Czerner 提交于
      Currently there is no way to truncate partial page where the end
      truncate point is not at the end of the page. This is because it was not
      needed and the functionality was enough for file system truncate
      operation to work properly. However more file systems now support punch
      hole feature and it can benefit from mm supporting truncating page just
      up to the certain point.
      
      Specifically, with this functionality truncate_inode_pages_range() can
      be changed so it supports truncating partial page at the end of the
      range (currently it will BUG_ON() if 'end' is not at the end of the
      page).
      
      This commit changes the invalidatepage() address space operation
      prototype to accept range to be invalidated and update all the instances
      for it.
      
      We also change the block_invalidatepage() in the same way and actually
      make a use of the new length argument implementing range invalidation.
      
      Actual file system implementations will follow except the file systems
      where the changes are really simple and should not change the behaviour
      in any way .Implementation for truncate_page_range() which will be able
      to accept page unaligned ranges will follow as well.
      Signed-off-by: NLukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
      Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
      d47992f8
  6. 07 5月, 2013 1 次提交
  7. 05 5月, 2013 1 次提交
  8. 01 5月, 2013 1 次提交
  9. 10 4月, 2013 2 次提交
  10. 04 3月, 2013 1 次提交
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      fs: Limit sys_mount to only request filesystem modules. · 7f78e035
      Eric W. Biederman 提交于
      Modify the request_module to prefix the file system type with "fs-"
      and add aliases to all of the filesystems that can be built as modules
      to match.
      
      A common practice is to build all of the kernel code and leave code
      that is not commonly needed as modules, with the result that many
      users are exposed to any bug anywhere in the kernel.
      
      Looking for filesystems with a fs- prefix limits the pool of possible
      modules that can be loaded by mount to just filesystems trivially
      making things safer with no real cost.
      
      Using aliases means user space can control the policy of which
      filesystem modules are auto-loaded by editing /etc/modprobe.d/*.conf
      with blacklist and alias directives.  Allowing simple, safe,
      well understood work-arounds to known problematic software.
      
      This also addresses a rare but unfortunate problem where the filesystem
      name is not the same as it's module name and module auto-loading
      would not work.  While writing this patch I saw a handful of such
      cases.  The most significant being autofs that lives in the module
      autofs4.
      
      This is relevant to user namespaces because we can reach the request
      module in get_fs_type() without having any special permissions, and
      people get uncomfortable when a user specified string (in this case
      the filesystem type) goes all of the way to request_module.
      
      After having looked at this issue I don't think there is any
      particular reason to perform any filtering or permission checks beyond
      making it clear in the module request that we want a filesystem
      module.  The common pattern in the kernel is to call request_module()
      without regards to the users permissions.  In general all a filesystem
      module does once loaded is call register_filesystem() and go to sleep.
      Which means there is not much attack surface exposed by loading a
      filesytem module unless the filesystem is mounted.  In a user
      namespace filesystems are not mounted unless .fs_flags = FS_USERNS_MOUNT,
      which most filesystems do not set today.
      Acked-by: NSerge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
      Acked-by: NKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
      Reported-by: NKees Cook <keescook@google.com>
      Signed-off-by: N"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
      7f78e035
  11. 02 3月, 2013 1 次提交
  12. 26 2月, 2013 4 次提交
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      export kernel_write(), convert open-coded instances · 7bb307e8
      Al Viro 提交于
      Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      7bb307e8
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      kill f_vfsmnt · 182be684
      Al Viro 提交于
      very few users left...
      Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      182be684
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      vfs: kill FS_REVAL_DOT by adding a d_weak_revalidate dentry op · ecf3d1f1
      Jeff Layton 提交于
      The following set of operations on a NFS client and server will cause
      
          server# mkdir a
          client# cd a
          server# mv a a.bak
          client# sleep 30  # (or whatever the dir attrcache timeout is)
          client# stat .
          stat: cannot stat `.': Stale NFS file handle
      
      Obviously, we should not be getting an ESTALE error back there since the
      inode still exists on the server. The problem is that the lookup code
      will call d_revalidate on the dentry that "." refers to, because NFS has
      FS_REVAL_DOT set.
      
      nfs_lookup_revalidate will see that the parent directory has changed and
      will try to reverify the dentry by redoing a LOOKUP. That of course
      fails, so the lookup code returns ESTALE.
      
      The problem here is that d_revalidate is really a bad fit for this case.
      What we really want to know at this point is whether the inode is still
      good or not, but we don't really care what name it goes by or whether
      the dcache is still valid.
      
      Add a new d_op->d_weak_revalidate operation and have complete_walk call
      that instead of d_revalidate. The intent there is to allow for a
      "weaker" d_revalidate that just checks to see whether the inode is still
      good. This is also gives us an opportunity to kill off the FS_REVAL_DOT
      special casing.
      
      [AV: changed method name, added note in porting, fixed confusion re
      having it possibly called from RCU mode (it won't be)]
      
      Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: NJeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      ecf3d1f1
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      switch vfs_getattr() to struct path · 3dadecce
      Al Viro 提交于
      Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      3dadecce
  13. 23 2月, 2013 1 次提交
  14. 24 1月, 2013 1 次提交
  15. 21 12月, 2012 3 次提交
  16. 18 12月, 2012 2 次提交
  17. 12 12月, 2012 1 次提交
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      mm: redefine address_space.assoc_mapping · 252aa6f5
      Rafael Aquini 提交于
      Overhaul struct address_space.assoc_mapping renaming it to
      address_space.private_data and its type is redefined to void*.  By this
      approach we consistently name the .private_* elements from struct
      address_space as well as allow extended usage for address_space
      association with other data structures through ->private_data.
      
      Also, all users of old ->assoc_mapping element are converted to reflect
      its new name and type change (->private_data).
      Signed-off-by: NRafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
      Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
      Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
      Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
      Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
      Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      252aa6f5