1. 23 2月, 2013 3 次提交
  2. 21 12月, 2012 1 次提交
  3. 19 9月, 2012 1 次提交
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      vfs: dcache: use DCACHE_DENTRY_KILLED instead of DCACHE_DISCONNECTED in d_kill() · b161dfa6
      Miklos Szeredi 提交于
      IBM reported a soft lockup after applying the fix for the rename_lock
      deadlock.  Commit c83ce989 ("VFS: Fix the nfs sillyrename regression
      in kernel 2.6.38") was found to be the culprit.
      
      The nfs sillyrename fix used DCACHE_DISCONNECTED to indicate that the
      dentry was killed.  This flag can be set on non-killed dentries too,
      which results in infinite retries when trying to traverse the dentry
      tree.
      
      This patch introduces a separate flag: DCACHE_DENTRY_KILLED, which is
      only set in d_kill() and makes try_to_ascend() test only this flag.
      
      IBM reported successful test results with this patch.
      Signed-off-by: NMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
      Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
      Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      b161dfa6
  4. 14 7月, 2012 2 次提交
  5. 11 5月, 2012 1 次提交
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      vfs: make it possible to access the dentry hash/len as one 64-bit entry · 26fe5750
      Linus Torvalds 提交于
      This allows comparing hash and len in one operation on 64-bit
      architectures.  Right now only __d_lookup_rcu() takes advantage of this,
      since that is the case we care most about.
      
      The use of anonymous struct/unions hides the alternate 64-bit approach
      from most users, the exception being a few cases where we initialize a
      'struct qstr' with a static initializer.  This makes the problematic
      cases use a new QSTR_INIT() helper function for that (but initializing
      just the name pointer with a "{ .name = xyzzy }" initializer remains
      valid, as does just copying another qstr structure).
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      26fe5750
  6. 05 5月, 2012 1 次提交
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      vfs: clean up __d_lookup_rcu() and dentry_cmp() interfaces · 12f8ad4b
      Linus Torvalds 提交于
      The calling conventions for __d_lookup_rcu() and dentry_cmp() are
      annoying in different ways, and there is actually one single underlying
      reason for both of the annoyances.
      
      The fundamental reason is that we do the returned dentry sequence number
      check inside __d_lookup_rcu() instead of doing it in the caller.  This
      results in two annoyances:
      
       - __d_lookup_rcu() now not only needs to return the dentry and the
         sequence number that goes along with the lookup, it also needs to
         return the inode pointer that was validated by that sequence number
         check.
      
       - and because we did the sequence number check early (to validate the
         name pointer and length) we also couldn't just pass the dentry itself
         to dentry_cmp(), we had to pass the counted string that contained the
         name.
      
      So that sequence number decision caused two separate ugly calling
      conventions.
      
      Both of these problems would be solved if we just did the sequence
      number check in the caller instead.  There's only one caller, and that
      caller already has to do the sequence number check for the parent
      anyway, so just do that.
      
      That allows us to stop returning the dentry->d_inode in that in-out
      argument (pointer-to-pointer-to-inode), so we can make the inode
      argument just a regular input inode pointer.  The caller can just load
      the inode from dentry->d_inode, and then do the sequence number check
      after that to make sure that it's synchronized with the name we looked
      up.
      
      And it allows us to just pass in the dentry to dentry_cmp(), which is
      what all the callers really wanted.  Sure, dentry_cmp() has to be a bit
      careful about the dentry (which is not stable during RCU lookup), but
      that's actually very simple.
      
      And now that dentry_cmp() can clearly see that the first string argument
      is a dentry, we can use the direct word access for that, instead of the
      careful unaligned zero-padding.  The dentry name is always properly
      aligned, since it is a single path component that is either embedded
      into the dentry itself, or was allocated with kmalloc() (see __d_alloc).
      
      Finally, this also uninlines the nasty slow-case for dentry comparisons:
      that one *does* need to do a sequence number check, since it will call
      in to the low-level filesystems, and we want to give those a stable
      inode pointer and path component length/start arguments.  Doing an extra
      sequence check for that slow case is not a problem, though.
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      12f8ad4b
  7. 21 3月, 2012 1 次提交
  8. 05 3月, 2012 1 次提交
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      vfs: move dentry_cmp from <linux/dcache.h> to fs/dcache.c · 5483f18e
      Linus Torvalds 提交于
      It's only used inside fs/dcache.c, and we're going to play games with it
      for the word-at-a-time patches.  This time we really don't even want to
      export it, because it really is an internal function to fs/dcache.c, and
      has been since it was introduced.
      
      Having it in that extremely hot header file (it's included in pretty
      much everything, thanks to <linux/fs.h>) is a disaster for testing
      different versions, and is utterly pointless.
      
      We really should have some kind of header file diet thing, where we
      figure out which parts of header files are really better off private and
      only result in more expensive compiles.
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      5483f18e
  9. 03 3月, 2012 3 次提交
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      vfs: clarify and clean up dentry_cmp() · 5707c87f
      Linus Torvalds 提交于
      It did some odd things for unclear reasons.  As this is one of the
      functions that gets changed when doing word-at-a-time compares, this is
      yet another of the "don't change any semantics, but clean things up so
      that subsequent patches don't get obscured by the cleanups".
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      5707c87f
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      vfs: uninline full_name_hash() · 0145acc2
      Linus Torvalds 提交于
      .. and also use it in lookup_one_len() rather than open-coding it.
      
      There aren't any performance-critical users, so inlining it is silly.
      But it wouldn't matter if it wasn't for the fact that the word-at-a-time
      dentry name patches want to conditionally replace the function, and
      uninlining it sets the stage for that.
      
      So again, this is a preparatory patch that doesn't change any semantics,
      and only prepares for a much cleaner and testable word-at-a-time dentry
      name accessor patch.
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      0145acc2
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      vfs: trivial __d_lookup_rcu() cleanups · 8966be90
      Linus Torvalds 提交于
      These don't change any semantics, but they clean up the code a bit and
      mark some arguments appropriately 'const'.
      
      They came up as I was doing the word-at-a-time dcache name accessor
      code, and cleaning this up now allows me to send out a smaller relevant
      interesting patch for the experimental stuff.
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      8966be90
  10. 13 1月, 2012 1 次提交
  11. 11 1月, 2012 1 次提交
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      fix shrink_dcache_parent() livelock · eaf5f907
      Miklos Szeredi 提交于
      Two (or more) concurrent calls of shrink_dcache_parent() on the same dentry may
      cause shrink_dcache_parent() to loop forever.
      
      Here's what appears to happen:
      
      1 - CPU0: select_parent(P) finds C and puts it on dispose list, returns 1
      
      2 - CPU1: select_parent(P) locks P->d_lock
      
      3 - CPU0: shrink_dentry_list() locks C->d_lock
         dentry_kill(C) tries to lock P->d_lock but fails, unlocks C->d_lock
      
      4 - CPU1: select_parent(P) locks C->d_lock,
               moves C from dispose list being processed on CPU0 to the new
      dispose list, returns 1
      
      5 - CPU0: shrink_dentry_list() finds dispose list empty, returns
      
      6 - Goto 2 with CPU0 and CPU1 switched
      
      Basically select_parent() steals the dentry from shrink_dentry_list() and thinks
      it found a new one, causing shrink_dentry_list() to think it's making progress
      and loop over and over.
      
      One way to trigger this is to make udev calls stat() on the sysfs file while it
      is going away.
      
      Having a file in /lib/udev/rules.d/ with only this one rule seems to the trick:
      
      ATTR{vendor}=="0x8086", ATTR{device}=="0x10ca", ENV{PCI_SLOT_NAME}="%k", ENV{MATCHADDR}="$attr{address}", RUN+="/bin/true"
      
      Then execute the following loop:
      
      while true; do
              echo -bond0 > /sys/class/net/bonding_masters
              echo +bond0 > /sys/class/net/bonding_masters
              echo -bond1 > /sys/class/net/bonding_masters
              echo +bond1 > /sys/class/net/bonding_masters
      done
      
      One fix would be to check all callers and prevent concurrent calls to
      shrink_dcache_parent().  But I think a better solution is to stop the
      stealing behavior.
      
      This patch adds a new dentry flag that is set when the dentry is added to the
      dispose list.  The flag is cleared in dentry_lru_del() in case the dentry gets a
      new reference just before being pruned.
      
      If the dentry has this flag, select_parent() will skip it and let
      shrink_dentry_list() retry pruning it.  With select_parent() skipping those
      dentries there will not be the appearance of progress (new dentries found) when
      there is none, hence shrink_dcache_parent() will not loop forever.
      
      Set the flag is also set in prune_dcache_sb() for consistency as suggested by
      Linus.
      Signed-off-by: NMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
      CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
      Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      eaf5f907
  12. 10 1月, 2012 1 次提交
  13. 07 12月, 2011 1 次提交
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      fix apparmor dereferencing potentially freed dentry, sanitize __d_path() API · 02125a82
      Al Viro 提交于
      __d_path() API is asking for trouble and in case of apparmor d_namespace_path()
      getting just that.  The root cause is that when __d_path() misses the root
      it had been told to look for, it stores the location of the most remote ancestor
      in *root.  Without grabbing references.  Sure, at the moment of call it had
      been pinned down by what we have in *path.  And if we raced with umount -l, we
      could have very well stopped at vfsmount/dentry that got freed as soon as
      prepend_path() dropped vfsmount_lock.
      
      It is safe to compare these pointers with pre-existing (and known to be still
      alive) vfsmount and dentry, as long as all we are asking is "is it the same
      address?".  Dereferencing is not safe and apparmor ended up stepping into
      that.  d_namespace_path() really wants to examine the place where we stopped,
      even if it's not connected to our namespace.  As the result, it looked
      at ->d_sb->s_magic of a dentry that might've been already freed by that point.
      All other callers had been careful enough to avoid that, but it's really
      a bad interface - it invites that kind of trouble.
      
      The fix is fairly straightforward, even though it's bigger than I'd like:
      	* prepend_path() root argument becomes const.
      	* __d_path() is never called with NULL/NULL root.  It was a kludge
      to start with.  Instead, we have an explicit function - d_absolute_root().
      Same as __d_path(), except that it doesn't get root passed and stops where
      it stops.  apparmor and tomoyo are using it.
      	* __d_path() returns NULL on path outside of root.  The main
      caller is show_mountinfo() and that's precisely what we pass root for - to
      skip those outside chroot jail.  Those who don't want that can (and do)
      use d_path().
      	* __d_path() root argument becomes const.  Everyone agrees, I hope.
      	* apparmor does *NOT* try to use __d_path() or any of its variants
      when it sees that path->mnt is an internal vfsmount.  In that case it's
      definitely not mounted anywhere and dentry_path() is exactly what we want
      there.  Handling of sysctl()-triggered weirdness is moved to that place.
      	* if apparmor is asked to do pathname relative to chroot jail
      and __d_path() tells it we it's not in that jail, the sucker just calls
      d_absolute_path() instead.  That's the other remaining caller of __d_path(),
      BTW.
              * seq_path_root() does _NOT_ return -ENAMETOOLONG (it's stupid anyway -
      the normal seq_file logics will take care of growing the buffer and redoing
      the call of ->show() just fine).  However, if it gets path not reachable
      from root, it returns SEQ_SKIP.  The only caller adjusted (i.e. stopped
      ignoring the return value as it used to do).
      Reviewed-by: NJohn Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>
      ACKed-by: NJohn Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
      02125a82
  14. 02 11月, 2011 1 次提交
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      vfs: add d_prune dentry operation · f0023bc6
      Sage Weil 提交于
      This adds a d_prune dentry operation that is called by the VFS prior to
      pruning (i.e. unhashing and killing) a hashed dentry from the dcache.
      Wrap dentry_lru_del() and use the new _prune() helper in the cases where we
      are about to unhash and kill the dentry.
      
      This will be used by Ceph to maintain a flag indicating whether the
      complete contents of a directory are contained in the dcache, allowing it
      to satisfy lookups and readdir without addition server communication.
      
      Renumber a few DCACHE_* #defines to group DCACHE_OP_PRUNE with the other
      DCACHE_OP_ bits.
      Signed-off-by: NSage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
      Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      f0023bc6
  15. 07 8月, 2011 1 次提交
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      vfs: renumber DCACHE_xyz flags, remove some stale ones · 830c0f0e
      Linus Torvalds 提交于
      Gcc tends to generate better code with small integers, including the
      DCACHE_xyz flag tests - so move the common ones to be first in the list.
      Also just remove the unused DCACHE_INOTIFY_PARENT_WATCHED and
      DCACHE_AUTOFS_PENDING values, their users no longer exists in the source
      tree.
      
      And add a "unlikely()" to the DCACHE_OP_COMPARE test, since we want the
      common case to be a nice straight-line fall-through.
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      830c0f0e
  16. 27 7月, 2011 1 次提交
  17. 20 7月, 2011 2 次提交
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      kill lookup_create() · ed75e95d
      Al Viro 提交于
      folded into the only caller (kern_path_create())
      Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      ed75e95d
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      fs: add a DCACHE_NEED_LOOKUP flag for d_flags · 44396f4b
      Josef Bacik 提交于
      Btrfs (and I'd venture most other fs's) stores its indexes in nice disk order
      for readdir, but unfortunately in the case of anything that stats the files in
      order that readdir spits back (like oh say ls) that means we still have to do
      the normal lookup of the file, which means looking up our other index and then
      looking up the inode.  What I want is a way to create dummy dentries when we
      find them in readdir so that when ls or anything else subsequently does a
      stat(), we already have the location information in the dentry and can go
      straight to the inode itself.  The lookup stuff just assumes that if it finds a
      dentry it is done, it doesn't perform a lookup.  So add a DCACHE_NEED_LOOKUP
      flag so that the lookup code knows it still needs to run i_op->lookup() on the
      parent to get the inode for the dentry.  I have tested this with btrfs and I
      went from something that looks like this
      
      http://people.redhat.com/jwhiter/ls-noreada.png
      
      To this
      
      http://people.redhat.com/jwhiter/ls-good.png
      
      Thats a savings of 1300 seconds, or 22 minutes.  That is a significant savings.
      Thanks,
      Signed-off-by: NJosef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      44396f4b
  18. 24 4月, 2011 1 次提交
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      vfs: get rid of insane dentry hashing rules · dea3667b
      Linus Torvalds 提交于
      The dentry hashing rules have been really quite complicated for a long
      while, in odd ways.  That made functions like __d_drop() very fragile
      and non-obvious.
      
      In particular, whether a dentry was hashed or not was indicated with an
      explicit DCACHE_UNHASHED bit.  That's despite the fact that the hash
      abstraction that the dentries use actually have a 'is this entry hashed
      or not' model (which is a simple test of the 'pprev' pointer).
      
      The reason that was done is because we used the normal 'is this entry
      unhashed' model to mark whether the dentry had _ever_ been hashed in the
      dentry hash tables, and that logic goes back many years (commit
      b3423415: "dcache: avoid RCU for never-hashed dentries").
      
      That, in turn, meant that __d_drop had totally different unhashing logic
      for the dentry hash table case and for the anonymous dcache case,
      because in order to use the "is this dentry hashed" logic as a flag for
      whether it had ever been on the RCU hash table, we had to unhash such a
      dentry differently so that we'd never think that it wasn't 'unhashed'
      and wouldn't be free'd correctly.
      
      That's just insane.  It made the logic really hard to follow, when there
      were two different kinds of "unhashed" states, and one of them (the one
      that used "list_bl_unhashed()") really had nothing at all to do with
      being unhashed per se, but with a very subtle lifetime rule instead.
      
      So turn all of it around, and make it logical.
      
      Instead of having a DENTRY_UNHASHED bit in d_flags to indicate whether
      the dentry is on the hash chains or not, use the hash chain unhashed
      logic for that.  Suddenly "d_unhashed()" just uses "list_bl_unhashed()",
      and everything makes sense.
      
      And for the lifetime rule, just use an explicit DENTRY_RCUACCEES bit.
      If we ever insert the dentry into the dentry hash table so that it is
      visible to RCU lookup, we mark it DENTRY_RCUACCESS to show that it now
      needs the RCU lifetime rules.  Now suddently that test at dentry free
      time makes sense too.
      
      And because unhashing now is sane and doesn't depend on where the dentry
      got unhashed from (because the dentry hash chain details doesn't have
      some subtle side effects), we can re-unify the __d_drop() logic and use
      common code for the unhashing.
      
      Also fix one more open-coded hash chain bit_spin_lock() that I missed in
      the previous chain locking cleanup commit.
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      dea3667b
  19. 22 3月, 2011 1 次提交
  20. 18 3月, 2011 1 次提交
  21. 16 1月, 2011 3 次提交
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      Allow d_manage() to be used in RCU-walk mode · ab90911f
      David Howells 提交于
      Allow d_manage() to be called from pathwalk when it is in RCU-walk mode as well
      as when it is in Ref-walk mode.  This permits __follow_mount_rcu() to call
      d_manage() directly.  d_manage() needs a parameter to indicate that it is in
      RCU-walk mode as it isn't allowed to sleep if in that mode (but should return
      -ECHILD instead).
      
      autofs4_d_manage() can then be set to retain RCU-walk mode if the daemon
      accesses it and otherwise request dropping back to ref-walk mode.
      Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      ab90911f
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      Add a dentry op to allow processes to be held during pathwalk transit · cc53ce53
      David Howells 提交于
      Add a dentry op (d_manage) to permit a filesystem to hold a process and make it
      sleep when it tries to transit away from one of that filesystem's directories
      during a pathwalk.  The operation is keyed off a new dentry flag
      (DCACHE_MANAGE_TRANSIT).
      
      The filesystem is allowed to be selective about which processes it holds and
      which it permits to continue on or prohibits from transiting from each flagged
      directory.  This will allow autofs to hold up client processes whilst letting
      its userspace daemon through to maintain the directory or the stuff behind it
      or mounted upon it.
      
      The ->d_manage() dentry operation:
      
      	int (*d_manage)(struct path *path, bool mounting_here);
      
      takes a pointer to the directory about to be transited away from and a flag
      indicating whether the transit is undertaken by do_add_mount() or
      do_move_mount() skipping through a pile of filesystems mounted on a mountpoint.
      
      It should return 0 if successful and to let the process continue on its way;
      -EISDIR to prohibit the caller from skipping to overmounted filesystems or
      automounting, and to use this directory; or some other error code to return to
      the user.
      
      ->d_manage() is called with namespace_sem writelocked if mounting_here is true
      and no other locks held, so it may sleep.  However, if mounting_here is true,
      it may not initiate or wait for a mount or unmount upon the parameter
      directory, even if the act is actually performed by userspace.
      
      Within fs/namei.c, follow_managed() is extended to check with d_manage() first
      on each managed directory, before transiting away from it or attempting to
      automount upon it.
      
      follow_down() is renamed follow_down_one() and should only be used where the
      filesystem deliberately intends to avoid management steps (e.g. autofs).
      
      A new follow_down() is added that incorporates the loop done by all other
      callers of follow_down() (do_add/move_mount(), autofs and NFSD; whilst AFS, NFS
      and CIFS do use it, their use is removed by converting them to use
      d_automount()).  The new follow_down() calls d_manage() as appropriate.  It
      also takes an extra parameter to indicate if it is being called from mount code
      (with namespace_sem writelocked) which it passes to d_manage().  follow_down()
      ignores automount points so that it can be used to mount on them.
      
      __follow_mount_rcu() is made to abort rcu-walk mode if it hits a directory with
      DCACHE_MANAGE_TRANSIT set on the basis that we're probably going to have to
      sleep.  It would be possible to enter d_manage() in rcu-walk mode too, and have
      that determine whether to abort or not itself.  That would allow the autofs
      daemon to continue on in rcu-walk mode.
      
      Note that DCACHE_MANAGE_TRANSIT on a directory should be cleared when it isn't
      required as every tranist from that directory will cause d_manage() to be
      invoked.  It can always be set again when necessary.
      
      ==========================
      WHAT THIS MEANS FOR AUTOFS
      ==========================
      
      Autofs currently uses the lookup() inode op and the d_revalidate() dentry op to
      trigger the automounting of indirect mounts, and both of these can be called
      with i_mutex held.
      
      autofs knows that the i_mutex will be held by the caller in lookup(), and so
      can drop it before invoking the daemon - but this isn't so for d_revalidate(),
      since the lock is only held on _some_ of the code paths that call it.  This
      means that autofs can't risk dropping i_mutex from its d_revalidate() function
      before it calls the daemon.
      
      The bug could manifest itself as, for example, a process that's trying to
      validate an automount dentry that gets made to wait because that dentry is
      expired and needs cleaning up:
      
      	mkdir         S ffffffff8014e05a     0 32580  24956
      	Call Trace:
      	 [<ffffffff885371fd>] :autofs4:autofs4_wait+0x674/0x897
      	 [<ffffffff80127f7d>] avc_has_perm+0x46/0x58
      	 [<ffffffff8009fdcf>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x2e
      	 [<ffffffff88537be6>] :autofs4:autofs4_expire_wait+0x41/0x6b
      	 [<ffffffff88535cfc>] :autofs4:autofs4_revalidate+0x91/0x149
      	 [<ffffffff80036d96>] __lookup_hash+0xa0/0x12f
      	 [<ffffffff80057a2f>] lookup_create+0x46/0x80
      	 [<ffffffff800e6e31>] sys_mkdirat+0x56/0xe4
      
      versus the automount daemon which wants to remove that dentry, but can't
      because the normal process is holding the i_mutex lock:
      
      	automount     D ffffffff8014e05a     0 32581      1              32561
      	Call Trace:
      	 [<ffffffff80063c3f>] __mutex_lock_slowpath+0x60/0x9b
      	 [<ffffffff8000ccf1>] do_path_lookup+0x2ca/0x2f1
      	 [<ffffffff80063c89>] .text.lock.mutex+0xf/0x14
      	 [<ffffffff800e6d55>] do_rmdir+0x77/0xde
      	 [<ffffffff8005d229>] tracesys+0x71/0xe0
      	 [<ffffffff8005d28d>] tracesys+0xd5/0xe0
      
      which means that the system is deadlocked.
      
      This patch allows autofs to hold up normal processes whilst the daemon goes
      ahead and does things to the dentry tree behind the automouter point without
      risking a deadlock as almost no locks are held in d_manage() and none in
      d_automount().
      Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Was-Acked-by: NIan Kent <raven@themaw.net>
      Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      cc53ce53
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      Add a dentry op to handle automounting rather than abusing follow_link() · 9875cf80
      David Howells 提交于
      Add a dentry op (d_automount) to handle automounting directories rather than
      abusing the follow_link() inode operation.  The operation is keyed off a new
      dentry flag (DCACHE_NEED_AUTOMOUNT).
      
      This also makes it easier to add an AT_ flag to suppress terminal segment
      automount during pathwalk and removes the need for the kludge code in the
      pathwalk algorithm to handle directories with follow_link() semantics.
      
      The ->d_automount() dentry operation:
      
      	struct vfsmount *(*d_automount)(struct path *mountpoint);
      
      takes a pointer to the directory to be mounted upon, which is expected to
      provide sufficient data to determine what should be mounted.  If successful, it
      should return the vfsmount struct it creates (which it should also have added
      to the namespace using do_add_mount() or similar).  If there's a collision with
      another automount attempt, NULL should be returned.  If the directory specified
      by the parameter should be used directly rather than being mounted upon,
      -EISDIR should be returned.  In any other case, an error code should be
      returned.
      
      The ->d_automount() operation is called with no locks held and may sleep.  At
      this point the pathwalk algorithm will be in ref-walk mode.
      
      Within fs/namei.c itself, a new pathwalk subroutine (follow_automount()) is
      added to handle mountpoints.  It will return -EREMOTE if the automount flag was
      set, but no d_automount() op was supplied, -ELOOP if we've encountered too many
      symlinks or mountpoints, -EISDIR if the walk point should be used without
      mounting and 0 if successful.  The path will be updated to point to the mounted
      filesystem if a successful automount took place.
      
      __follow_mount() is replaced by follow_managed() which is more generic
      (especially with the patch that adds ->d_manage()).  This handles transits from
      directories during pathwalk, including automounting and skipping over
      mountpoints (and holding processes with the next patch).
      
      __follow_mount_rcu() will jump out of RCU-walk mode if it encounters an
      automount point with nothing mounted on it.
      
      follow_dotdot*() does not handle automounts as you don't want to trigger them
      whilst following "..".
      
      I've also extracted the mount/don't-mount logic from autofs4 and included it
      here.  It makes the mount go ahead anyway if someone calls open() or creat(),
      tries to traverse the directory, tries to chdir/chroot/etc. into the directory,
      or sticks a '/' on the end of the pathname.  If they do a stat(), however,
      they'll only trigger the automount if they didn't also say O_NOFOLLOW.
      
      I've also added an inode flag (S_AUTOMOUNT) so that filesystems can mark their
      inodes as automount points.  This flag is automatically propagated to the
      dentry as DCACHE_NEED_AUTOMOUNT by __d_instantiate().  This saves NFS and could
      save AFS a private flag bit apiece, but is not strictly necessary.  It would be
      preferable to do the propagation in d_set_d_op(), but that doesn't normally
      have access to the inode.
      
      [AV: fixed breakage in case if __follow_mount_rcu() fails and nameidata_drop_rcu()
      succeeds in RCU case of do_lookup(); we need to fall through to non-RCU case after
      that, rather than just returning with ungrabbed *path]
      Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Was-Acked-by: NIan Kent <raven@themaw.net>
      Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      9875cf80
  22. 10 1月, 2011 1 次提交
  23. 07 1月, 2011 10 次提交
    • N
      fs: implement faster dentry memcmp · 9d55c369
      Nick Piggin 提交于
      The standard memcmp function on a Westmere system shows up hot in
      profiles in the `git diff` workload (both parallel and single threaded),
      and it is likely due to the costs associated with trapping into
      microcode, and little opportunity to improve memory access (dentry
      name is not likely to take up more than a cacheline).
      
      So replace it with an open-coded byte comparison. This increases code
      size by 8 bytes in the critical __d_lookup_rcu function, but the
      speedup is huge, averaging 10 runs of each:
      
      git diff st   user   sys   elapsed  CPU
      before        1.15   2.57  3.82      97.1
      after         1.14   2.35  3.61      96.8
      
      git diff mt   user   sys   elapsed  CPU
      before        1.27   3.85  1.46     349
      after         1.26   3.54  1.43     333
      
      Elapsed time for single threaded git diff at 95.0% confidence:
              -0.21  +/- 0.01
              -5.45% +/- 0.24%
      
      It's -0.66% +/- 0.06% elapsed time on my Opteron, so rep cmp costs on the
      fam10h seem to be relatively smaller, but there is still a win.
      Signed-off-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
      9d55c369
    • N
      fs: improve scalability of pseudo filesystems · 4b936885
      Nick Piggin 提交于
      Regardless of how much we possibly try to scale dcache, there is likely
      always going to be some fundamental contention when adding or removing children
      under the same parent. Pseudo filesystems do not seem need to have connected
      dentries because by definition they are disconnected.
      Signed-off-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
      4b936885
    • N
      fs: dcache per-inode inode alias locking · 873feea0
      Nick Piggin 提交于
      dcache_inode_lock can be replaced with per-inode locking. Use existing
      inode->i_lock for this. This is slightly non-trivial because we sometimes
      need to find the inode from the dentry, which requires d_inode to be
      stabilised (either with refcount or d_lock).
      Signed-off-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
      873feea0
    • N
      fs: dcache per-bucket dcache hash locking · ceb5bdc2
      Nick Piggin 提交于
      We can turn the dcache hash locking from a global dcache_hash_lock into
      per-bucket locking.
      Signed-off-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
      ceb5bdc2
    • N
      fs: rcu-walk aware d_revalidate method · 34286d66
      Nick Piggin 提交于
      Require filesystems be aware of .d_revalidate being called in rcu-walk
      mode (nd->flags & LOOKUP_RCU). For now do a simple push down, returning
      -ECHILD from all implementations.
      Signed-off-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
      34286d66
    • N
      fs: cache optimise dentry and inode for rcu-walk · 44a7d7a8
      Nick Piggin 提交于
      Put dentry and inode fields into top of data structure.  This allows RCU path
      traversal to perform an RCU dentry lookup in a path walk by touching only the
      first 56 bytes of the dentry.
      
      We also fit in 8 bytes of inline name in the first 64 bytes, so for short
      names, only 64 bytes needs to be touched to perform the lookup. We should
      get rid of the hash->prev pointer from the first 64 bytes, and fit 16 bytes
      of name in there, which will take care of 81% rather than 32% of the kernel
      tree.
      
      inode is also rearranged so that RCU lookup will only touch a single cacheline
      in the inode, plus one in the i_ops structure.
      
      This is important for directory component lookups in RCU path walking. In the
      kernel source, directory names average is around 6 chars, so this works.
      
      When we reach the last element of the lookup, we need to lock it and take its
      refcount which requires another cacheline access.
      
      Align dentry and inode operations structs, so members will be at predictable
      offsets and we can group common operations into head of structure.
      Signed-off-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
      44a7d7a8
    • N
      fs: dcache reduce branches in lookup path · fb045adb
      Nick Piggin 提交于
      Reduce some branches and memory accesses in dcache lookup by adding dentry
      flags to indicate common d_ops are set, rather than having to check them.
      This saves a pointer memory access (dentry->d_op) in common path lookup
      situations, and saves another pointer load and branch in cases where we
      have d_op but not the particular operation.
      
      Patched with:
      
      git grep -E '[.>]([[:space:]])*d_op([[:space:]])*=' | xargs sed -e 's/\([^\t ]*\)->d_op = \(.*\);/d_set_d_op(\1, \2);/' -e 's/\([^\t ]*\)\.d_op = \(.*\);/d_set_d_op(\&\1, \2);/' -i
      Signed-off-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
      fb045adb
    • N
      fs: dcache remove d_mounted · 5f57cbcc
      Nick Piggin 提交于
      Rather than keep a d_mounted count in the dentry, set a dentry flag instead.
      The flag can be cleared by checking the hash table to see if there are any
      mounts left, which is not time critical because it is performed at detach time.
      
      The mounted state of a dentry is only used to speculatively take a look in the
      mount hash table if it is set -- before following the mount, vfsmount lock is
      taken and mount re-checked without races.
      
      This saves 4 bytes on 32-bit, nothing on 64-bit but it does provide a hole I
      might use later (and some configs have larger than 32-bit spinlocks which might
      make use of the hole).
      
      Autofs4 conversion and changelog by Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>:
      In autofs4, when expring direct (or offset) mounts we need to ensure that we
      block user path walks into the autofs mount, which is covered by another mount.
      To do this we clear the mounted status so that follows stop before walking into
      the mount and are essentially blocked until the expire is completed. The
      automount daemon still finds the correct dentry for the umount due to the
      follow mount logic in fs/autofs4/root.c:autofs4_follow_link(), which is set as
      an inode operation for direct and offset mounts only and is called following
      the lookup that stopped at the covered mount.
      
      At the end of the expire the covering mount probably has gone away so the
      mounted status need not be restored. But we need to check this and only restore
      the mounted status if the expire failed.
      
      XXX: autofs may not work right if we have other mounts go over the top of it?
      Signed-off-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
      5f57cbcc
    • N
      fs: rcu-walk for path lookup · 31e6b01f
      Nick Piggin 提交于
      Perform common cases of path lookups without any stores or locking in the
      ancestor dentry elements. This is called rcu-walk, as opposed to the current
      algorithm which is a refcount based walk, or ref-walk.
      
      This results in far fewer atomic operations on every path element,
      significantly improving path lookup performance. It also avoids cacheline
      bouncing on common dentries, significantly improving scalability.
      
      The overall design is like this:
      * LOOKUP_RCU is set in nd->flags, which distinguishes rcu-walk from ref-walk.
      * Take the RCU lock for the entire path walk, starting with the acquiring
        of the starting path (eg. root/cwd/fd-path). So now dentry refcounts are
        not required for dentry persistence.
      * synchronize_rcu is called when unregistering a filesystem, so we can
        access d_ops and i_ops during rcu-walk.
      * Similarly take the vfsmount lock for the entire path walk. So now mnt
        refcounts are not required for persistence. Also we are free to perform mount
        lookups, and to assume dentry mount points and mount roots are stable up and
        down the path.
      * Have a per-dentry seqlock to protect the dentry name, parent, and inode,
        so we can load this tuple atomically, and also check whether any of its
        members have changed.
      * Dentry lookups (based on parent, candidate string tuple) recheck the parent
        sequence after the child is found in case anything changed in the parent
        during the path walk.
      * inode is also RCU protected so we can load d_inode and use the inode for
        limited things.
      * i_mode, i_uid, i_gid can be tested for exec permissions during path walk.
      * i_op can be loaded.
      
      When we reach the destination dentry, we lock it, recheck lookup sequence,
      and increment its refcount and mountpoint refcount. RCU and vfsmount locks
      are dropped. This is termed "dropping rcu-walk". If the dentry refcount does
      not match, we can not drop rcu-walk gracefully at the current point in the
      lokup, so instead return -ECHILD (for want of a better errno). This signals the
      path walking code to re-do the entire lookup with a ref-walk.
      
      Aside from the final dentry, there are other situations that may be encounted
      where we cannot continue rcu-walk. In that case, we drop rcu-walk (ie. take
      a reference on the last good dentry) and continue with a ref-walk. Again, if
      we can drop rcu-walk gracefully, we return -ECHILD and do the whole lookup
      using ref-walk. But it is very important that we can continue with ref-walk
      for most cases, particularly to avoid the overhead of double lookups, and to
      gain the scalability advantages on common path elements (like cwd and root).
      
      The cases where rcu-walk cannot continue are:
      * NULL dentry (ie. any uncached path element)
      * parent with d_inode->i_op->permission or ACLs
      * dentries with d_revalidate
      * Following links
      
      In future patches, permission checks and d_revalidate become rcu-walk aware. It
      may be possible eventually to make following links rcu-walk aware.
      
      Uncached path elements will always require dropping to ref-walk mode, at the
      very least because i_mutex needs to be grabbed, and objects allocated.
      Signed-off-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
      31e6b01f
    • N
      fs: dcache rationalise dget variants · dc0474be
      Nick Piggin 提交于
      dget_locked was a shortcut to avoid the lazy lru manipulation when we already
      held dcache_lock (lru manipulation was relatively cheap at that point).
      However, how that the lru lock is an innermost one, we never hold it at any
      caller, so the lock cost can now be avoided. We already have well working lazy
      dcache LRU, so it should be fine to defer LRU manipulations to scan time.
      Signed-off-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
      dc0474be