At some past instance Linus Trovalds wrote:
> From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> commit a84a79e4 upstream.
>
> The size is always valid, but variable-length arrays generate worse code
> for no good reason (unless the function happens to be inlined and the
> compiler sees the length for the simple constant it is).
>
> Also, there seems to be some code generation problem on POWER, where
> Henrik Bakken reports that register r28 can get corrupted under some
> subtle circumstances (interrupt happening at the wrong time?).  That all
> indicates some seriously broken compiler issues, but since variable
> length arrays are bad regardless, there's little point in trying to
> chase it down.
>
> "Just don't do that, then".

Since then any use of "variable length arrays" has become blasphemous.
Even in perfectly good, beautiful, perfectly safe code like the one
below where the variable length arrays are only used as a sizeof()
parameter, for type-safe dynamic structure allocations. GCC is not
executing any stack allocation code.

I have produced a small file which defines two functions main1(unsigned numdevs)
and main2(unsigned numdevs). main1 uses code as before with call to malloc
and main2 uses code as of after this patch. I compiled it as:
	gcc -O2 -S see_asm.c
and here is what I get:

<see_asm.s>
main1:
.LFB7:
	.cfi_startproc
	mov	%edi, %edi
	leaq	4(%rdi,%rdi), %rdi
	salq	$3, %rdi
	jmp	malloc
	.cfi_endproc
.LFE7:
	.size	main1, .-main1
	.p2align 4,,15
	.globl	main2
	.type	main2, @function
main2:
.LFB8:
	.cfi_startproc
	mov	%edi, %edi
	addq	$2, %rdi
	salq	$4, %rdi
	jmp	malloc
	.cfi_endproc
.LFE8:
	.size	main2, .-main2
	.section	.text.startup,"ax",@progbits
	.p2align 4,,15
</see_asm.s>

*Exact* same code !!!

So please seriously consider not accepting this patch and leave the
perfectly good code intact.

CC: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NBoaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

This patch addresses printks that have some context to show that they are
from fs/nfs/, but for the sake of consistency now start with NFS:
Signed-off-by: NWeston Andros Adamson <dros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

As mandated by the standard. In case of an IO error, a pNFS
objects layout driver must return it's layout. This is because
all device errors are reported to the server as part of the
layout return buffer.

This is implemented the same way PNFS_LAYOUTRET_ON_SETATTR
is done, through a bit flag on the pnfs_layoutdriver_type->flags
member. The flag is set by the layout driver that wants a
layout_return preformed at pnfs_ld_{write,read}_done in case
of an error.
(Though I have not defined a wrapper like pnfs_ld_layoutret_on_setattr
 because this code is never called outside of pnfs.c and pnfs IO
 paths)

Without this patch 3.[0-2] Kernels leak memory and have an annoying
WARN_ON after every IO error utilizing the pnfs-obj driver.

[This patch is for 3.2 Kernel. 3.1/0 Kernels need a different patch]
CC: Stable Tree <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NBoaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

The ore need suplied a r4w_get_page/r4w_put_page API
from Filesystem so it can get cache pages to read-into when
writing parial stripes.
Signed-off-by: NBoaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

Finally remove all the old raid engine, which is by now
dead code.
Signed-off-by: NBoaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

In this patch we are actually moving to the ORE.
(Object Raid Engine).

objio_state holds a pointer to an ore_io_state. Once
we have an ore_io_state at hand we can call the ore
for reading/writing. We register on the done path
to kick off the nfs io_done mechanism.

Again for Ease of reviewing the old code is "#if 0"
but is not removed so the diff command works better.
The old code will be removed in the next patch.

fs/exofs/Kconfig::ORE is modified to also be auto-included
if PNFS_OBJLAYOUT is set. Since we now depend on ORE.
(See comments in fs/exofs/Kconfig)
Signed-off-by: NBoaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

For Ease of reviewing I split the move to ore into 3 parts
	move to ore 01: ore_layout & ore_components
	move to ore 02: move to ORE
	move to ore 03: Remove old raid engine

This patch modifies the objio_lseg, layout-segment level
and devices and components arrays to use the ORE types.

Though it will be removed soon, also the raid engine
is modified to actually compile, possibly run, with
the new types. So it is the same old raid engine but
with some new ORE types.

For Ease of reviewing, some of the old code is
"#if 0" but is not removed so the diff command works
better. The old code will be removed in the 3rd patch.
Signed-off-by: NBoaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

* All instances of objlayout_io_state => objlayout_io_res
* All instances of state => oir;
* All instances of ol_state => oir;

Big but nothing to it
Signed-off-by: NBoaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

This is part of moving objio_osd to use the ORE.

objlayout_io_state had two functions:
1. It was used in the error reporting mechanism at layout_return.
   This function is kept intact.
   (Later patch will rename objlayout_io_state => objlayout_io_res)
2. Carrier of rw io members into the objio_read/write_paglist API.
   This is removed in this patch.

The {r,w}data received from NFS are passed directly to the
objio_{read,write}_paglist API. The io_engine is now allocating
it's own IO state as part of the read/write. The minimal
functionality that was part of the generic allocation is passed
to the io_engine.

So part of this patch is rename of:
	ios->ol_state.foo => ios->foo

At objlayout_{read,write}_done an objlayout_io_state is passed that
denotes the result of the IO. (Hence the later name change).
If the IO is successful objlayout calls an objio_free_result() API
immediately (Which for objio_osd causes the release of the io_state).
If the IO ended in an error it is hanged onto until reported in
layout_return and is released later through the objio_free_result()
API. (All this is not new just renamed and cleaned)
Signed-off-by: NBoaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

objlayout driver was always returning PNFS_ATTEMPTED from it's
read/write_pagelist operations. Even on error. Fix that.

Start by establishing an error return API from io-engine, by
not returning ssize_t (length-or-error) but returning "int"
0=OK, 0>Error. And clean up all return types in io-engine.

Then if io-engine returned error return PNFS_NOT_ATTEMPTED
to generic layer. (With a dprint)
Signed-off-by: NBoaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

There were bugs in the case of partial layout where olo_comp_index
is not zero. This used to work and was tested but one of the later
cleanup SQUASHMEs broke it and was not tested since.

Also add a dprint that specify those received layout parameters.
Everything else was already printed.

[Needed in v3.0]
CC: Stable Tree <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NBoaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

When we have a situation that the number of pages we want
to encode is bigger then the size of the bio. (Which can
currently happen only when all IO is going to a single device
.e.g group_width==1) then the IO is submitted short and we
report back only the amount of bytes we actually wrote/read
and all is fine. BUT ...

There was a bug that the current length counter was advanced
before the fail to add the extra page, and we come to a situation
that the CDB length was one-page longer then the actual bio size,
which is of course rejected by the osd-target.

While here also fix the bio size calculation, in the case
that we received more then one group of devices.

CC: Stable Tree <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NBoaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

Embed the necessary alias into the module rather than waiting for
someone to add it to /etc/modprobe.conf
Signed-off-by: NJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

...and ensure that we recoalese to take into account differences in
differences in block sizes when falling back to write through the MDS.
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

...and ensure that we recoalese to take into account differences in
block sizes when falling back to read through the MDS.
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

Ensure that we always get a layout before setting up the i/o request.
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

We need to ensure that the layouts are set up before we can decide to
coalesce requests. To do so, we want to further split up the struct
nfs_pageio_descriptor operations into an initialisation callback, a
coalescing test callback, and a 'do i/o' callback.

This patch cleans up the existing callback methods before adding the
'initialisation' callback.
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

1. If the intention is to coalesce requests 'prev' and 'req' then we
   have to ensure at least that we have a layout starting at
   req_offset(prev).

2. If we're only requesting a minimal layout of length desc->pg_count,
   we need to test the length actually returned by the server before
   we allow the coalescing to occur.

3. We need to deal correctly with (pgio->lseg == NULL)

4. Fixup the test guarding the pnfs_update_layout.
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

Andy's last device_cache patches, already take an extra
reference on the newly inserted device_id. So we can remove it
from obj-io.

Without this patch the device_ids are leaked.

Andy's patches are not in Linus tree yet. So I'm not sure if they are
scheduled for this Kernel or the next. This patch should be added as
part of these.

CC: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: NBoaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

Implement pg_test vector to test for max IO sizes. We calculate
a max_io_size member only once, and cache it in lseg so to not
do so on every page insert.
Signed-off-by: NBoaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
[simplify logic]
Signed-off-by: NBenny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>

Signed-off-by: NBenny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>

Signed-off-by: NBenny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>

* Define API for io-engines to report delta_space_used in IOs
* Encode the osd-layout specific information of the layoutcommit
  XDR buffer.
Signed-off-by: NBoaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: NBenny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>

An io_state pre-allocates an error information structure for each
possible osd-device that might error during IO. When IO is done if all
was well the io_state is freed. (as today). If the I/O has ended with an
error, the io_state is queued on a per-layout err_list. When eventually
encode_layoutreturn() is called, each error is properly encoded on the
XDR buffer and only then the io_state is removed from err_list and
de-allocated.

It is up to the io_engine to fill in the segment that fault and the type
of osd_error that occurred. By calling objlayout_io_set_result() for
each failing device.

In objio_osd:
* Allocate io-error descriptors space as part of io_state
* Use generic objlayout error reporting at end of io.
Signed-off-by: NBoaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: NBenny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>

With the objects layout security model, we have object capabilities
that are associated with the layout and we anticipate that the server
will issue a cb_layoutrecall for any setattr that changes security
related attributes (user/group/mode/acl) or truncates the file.

Therefore, the layout is returned before issuing the setattr to avoid
the anticipated cb_layoutrecall.
Signed-off-by: NBenny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>

With the use of the in-kernel osd library. Implement read/write
of data from/to osd-objects according to information specified
in the objects-layout.

Support for stripping over mirrors with a received stripe_unit.
There are however a few constrains which are not supported:
 1. Stripe Unit must be a multiple of PAGE_SIZE
 2. stripe length (stripe_unit * number_of_stripes) can not be
    bigger then 32bit.

Also support raid-groups and partial-layout. Partial-layout is
when not all the groups are received on the line, addressing
only a partial range of the file.

TODO:
  Only raid0! raid 4/5/6 support will come at later stage

A none supported layout will send IO through the MDS

[Important fallout from the last rebase]
Signed-off-by: NBoaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
[gfp_flags]
Signed-off-by: NBenny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>

allocate and deallocate per-inode private pnfs_layout_hdr
in preparation for I/O implementation.
Signed-off-by: NBoaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: NBenny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>

When a new layout is received in objio_alloc_lseg all device_ids
referenced are retrieved. The device information is queried for from MDS
and then the osd_device is looked-up from the osd-initiator library. The
devices are cached in a per-mount-point list, for later use. At unmount
all devices are "put" back to the library.

objlayout_get_deviceinfo(), objlayout_put_deviceinfo() middleware
API for retrieving device information given a device_id.

TODO: The device cache can get big. Cap its size. Keep an LRU and start
      to return devices which were not used, when list gets to big, or
      when new entries allocation fail.

[pnfs-obj: Bugs in new global-device-cache code]
Signed-off-by: NBoaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
[gfp_flags]
[use global device cache]
[use layout driver in global device cache]
Signed-off-by: NBenny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>

objlayout_alloc_lseg prepares an xdr_stream and calls the
raid engins objio_alloc_lseg() to allocate a private
pnfs_layout_segment.

objio_osd.c::objio_alloc_lseg() uses passed xdr_stream to
decode and store the layout_segment information in an
objio_segment struct, using the pnfs_osd_xdr.h API for
the actual parsing the layout xdr.

objlayout_free_lseg calls objio_free_lseg() to free the
allocated space.
Signed-off-by: NBoaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
[gfp_flags]
[removed "extern" from function definitions]
Signed-off-by: NBenny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>

* Define the PNFS_OBJLAYOUT Kconfig option in the nfs
  master Kconfig file.
* Add the objlayout driver to the Kernel's Kbuild system.
* Add the fs/nfs/objlayout/Kbuild file for building the
  objlayoutdriver.ko driver
* Define fs/nfs/objlayout/objio_osd.c, register the driver on module
  initialization and unregister on exit.

[pnfs-obj: remove of CONFIG_PNFS fallout]
Signed-off-by: NBoaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
[added "unsure" clause]
[depend on NFS_V4_1]
Signed-off-by: NBenny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>

Signed-off-by: NJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>

These are internal nfsd interfaces.
Signed-off-by: NJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>

nfs4_acl_add_ace() can now be removed.
Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-by: NNeil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Acked-by: NJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Simplify the memory management and code a bit by representing acls with an
array instead of a linked list.
Signed-off-by: NJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: NNeil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!