J.R. Okajima reports the following deadlock:

INFO: task kswapd0:305 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
kswapd0       D 0000000000000001     0   305      2 0x00000000
 ffff88001f21d4f0 0000000000000046 ffff88001fdea680 ffff88001f21c000
 ffff88001f21dfd8 ffff88001f21c000 ffff88001f21dfd8 ffff88001f21dfd8
 ffff88001fdea040 0000000000014c00 0000000000000001 ffff88001fdea040
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff8146155d>] io_schedule+0x4d/0x70
 [<ffffffff810d2be5>] sync_page+0x65/0xa0
 [<ffffffff81461b12>] __wait_on_bit_lock+0x52/0xb0
 [<ffffffff810d2b80>] ? sync_page+0x0/0xa0
 [<ffffffff810d2b64>] __lock_page+0x64/0x70
 [<ffffffff81070ce0>] ? wake_bit_function+0x0/0x40
 [<ffffffff810df1d4>] truncate_inode_pages_range+0x344/0x4a0
 [<ffffffff810df340>] truncate_inode_pages+0x10/0x20
 [<ffffffff8112cbfe>] generic_delete_inode+0x15e/0x190
 [<ffffffff8112cc8d>] generic_drop_inode+0x5d/0x80
 [<ffffffff8112bb88>] iput+0x78/0x80
 [<ffffffff811bc908>] nfs_dentry_iput+0x38/0x50
 [<ffffffff811285f4>] dentry_iput+0x84/0x110
 [<ffffffff811286ae>] d_kill+0x2e/0x60
 [<ffffffff8112912a>] dput+0x7a/0x170
 [<ffffffff8111e925>] path_put+0x15/0x40
 [<ffffffff811c3a44>] __put_nfs_open_context+0xa4/0xb0
 [<ffffffff811cb5d0>] ? nfs_free_request+0x0/0x50
 [<ffffffff811c3b0b>] put_nfs_open_context+0xb/0x10
 [<ffffffff811cb5f9>] nfs_free_request+0x29/0x50
 [<ffffffff81234b7e>] kref_put+0x8e/0xe0
 [<ffffffff811cb594>] nfs_release_request+0x14/0x20
 [<ffffffff811cf769>] nfs_find_and_lock_request+0x89/0xa0
 [<ffffffff811d1180>] nfs_wb_page+0x80/0x110
 [<ffffffff811c0770>] nfs_release_page+0x70/0x90
 [<ffffffff810d18ee>] try_to_release_page+0x5e/0x80
 [<ffffffff810e1178>] shrink_page_list+0x638/0x860
 [<ffffffff810e19de>] shrink_zone+0x63e/0xc40

We can fix this by making the call to put_nfs_open_context() happen when we
actually remove the write request from the inode (which is done by the
nfsiod thread in this case).
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org

The VM/VFS does not allow mapping->a_ops->invalidatepage() to fail.
Unfortunately, nfs_wb_page_cancel() may fail if a fatal signal occurs.
Since the NFS code assumes that the page stays mapped for as long as the
writeback is active, we can end up Oopsing (among other things).

The only safe fix here is to convert nfs_wait_on_request(), so as to make
it uninterruptible (as is already the case with wait_on_page_writeback()).
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org

The following patch is a combination of a patch by myself and Peter
Staubach.

Trond: If we allow other processes to dirty pages while a process is doing
a consistency sync to disk, we can end up never making progress.

Peter: Attached is a patch which addresses a continuing problem with
the NFS client generating out of order WRITE requests.  While
this is compliant with all of the current protocol
specifications, there are servers in the market which can not
handle out of order WRITE requests very well.  Also, this may
lead to sub-optimal block allocations in the underlying file
system on the server.  This may cause the read throughputs to
be reduced when reading the file from the server.

Peter: There has been a lot of work recently done to address out of
order issues on a systemic level.  However, the NFS client is
still susceptible to the problem.  Out of order WRITE
requests can occur when pdflush is in the middle of writing
out pages while the process dirtying the pages calls
generic_file_buffered_write which calls
generic_perform_write which calls
balance_dirty_pages_rate_limited which ends up calling
writeback_inodes which ends up calling back into the NFS
client to writes out dirty pages for the same file that
pdflush happens to be working with.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Staubach <staubach@redhat.com>
[modification by Trond to merge the two similar patches]
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

Ensure that we set/clear NFS_PAGE_TAG_LOCKED when the nfs_page is hashed.
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

By using the TASK_KILLABLE infrastructure, we can get rid of the 'intr'
mount option.  We have to use _killable everywhere instead of _interruptible
as we get rid of rpc_clnt_sigmask/sigunmask.
Signed-off-by: NLiam R. Howlett <howlett@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NMatthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>

Slab destructors were no longer supported after Christoph's
c59def9f change. They've been
BUGs for both slab and slub, and slob never supported them
either.

This rips out support for the dtor pointer from kmem_cache_create()
completely and fixes up every single callsite in the kernel (there were
about 224, not including the slab allocator definitions themselves,
or the documentation references).
Signed-off-by: NPaul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>

There is no justification for keeping a special spinlock for the exclusive
use of the NFS writeback code.
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

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

Also ensure that nfs_inode ncommit and npages are large enough to represent
all possible values for the number of pages.
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

Add a tag for requests that are waiting for a COMMIT
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

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

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

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

When processes are allowed to attempt to lock a non-contiguous range of nfs
write requests, it is possible for generic_writepages to 'wrap round' the
address space, and call writepage() on a request that is already locked by
the same process.

We avoid the deadlock by checking if the page index is contiguous with the
list of nfs write requests that is already held in our
nfs_pageio_descriptor prior to attempting to lock a new request.
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

First thing mm.h does is including sched.h solely for can_do_mlock() inline
function which has "current" dereference inside. By dealing with can_do_mlock()
mm.h can be detached from sched.h which is good. See below, why.

This patch
a) removes unconditional inclusion of sched.h from mm.h
b) makes can_do_mlock() normal function in mm/mlock.c
c) exports can_do_mlock() to not break compilation
d) adds sched.h inclusions back to files that were getting it indirectly.
e) adds less bloated headers to some files (asm/signal.h, jiffies.h) that were
   getting them indirectly

Net result is:
a) mm.h users would get less code to open, read, preprocess, parse, ... if
   they don't need sched.h
b) sched.h stops being dependency for significant number of files:
   on x86_64 allmodconfig touching sched.h results in recompile of 4083 files,
   after patch it's only 3744 (-8.3%).

Cross-compile tested on

	all arm defconfigs, all mips defconfigs, all powerpc defconfigs,
	alpha alpha-up
	arm
	i386 i386-up i386-defconfig i386-allnoconfig
	ia64 ia64-up
	m68k
	mips
	parisc parisc-up
	powerpc powerpc-up
	s390 s390-up
	sparc sparc-up
	sparc64 sparc64-up
	um-x86_64
	x86_64 x86_64-up x86_64-defconfig x86_64-allnoconfig

as well as my two usual configs.
Signed-off-by: NAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Signed-off-by: NJesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

fs/nfs/pagelist.c:226: error: conflicting types for 'nfs_pageio_init'
include/linux/nfs_page.h:80: error: previous declaration of 'nfs_pageio_init' was here

Thanks to Andrew for spotting this...
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

Remove some stale comments about hard limits which went away in 2.5.
Signed-off-by: NJason Uhlenkott <juhlenko@akamai.com>
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

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

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

Currently we do write coalescing in a very inefficient manner: one pass in
generic_writepages() in order to lock the pages for writing, then one pass
in nfs_flush_mapping() and/or nfs_sync_mapping_wait() in order to gather
the locked pages for coalescing into RPC requests of size "wsize".

In fact, it turns out there is actually a deadlock possible here since we
only start I/O on the second pass. If the user signals the process while
we're in nfs_sync_mapping_wait(), for instance, then we may exit before
starting I/O on all the requests that have been queued up.
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

Do the coalescing of read requests into block sized requests at start of
I/O as we scan through the pages instead of going through a second pass.
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

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

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

Replace all uses of kmem_cache_t with struct kmem_cache.

The patch was generated using the following script:

	#!/bin/sh
	#
	# Replace one string by another in all the kernel sources.
	#

	set -e

	for file in `find * -name "*.c" -o -name "*.h"|xargs grep -l $1`; do
		quilt add $file
		sed -e "1,\$s/$1/$2/g" $file >/tmp/$$
		mv /tmp/$$ $file
		quilt refresh
	done

The script was run like this

	sh replace kmem_cache_t "struct kmem_cache"
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

SLAB_KERNEL is an alias of GFP_KERNEL.
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

We're really accounting for the same page twice now: once in
generic_writepages(), and once in nfs_scan_dirty().
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

There is now no reason to account for the dirty pages in the NFS code,
since the VM code will now do it for us via __set_page_dirty_nobuffers(),
and set_page_writeback().

We still need to keep the accounting of stable writes, though.
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

Pass down struct writeback control.
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

* Rougly half of callers already do it by not checking return value
* Code in drivers/acpi/osl.c does the following to be sure:

	(void)kmem_cache_destroy(cache);

* Those who check it printk something, however, slab_error already printed
  the name of failed cache.
* XFS BUGs on failed kmem_cache_destroy which is not the decision
  low-level filesystem driver should make. Converted to ignore.
Signed-off-by: NAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

This makes nr_dirty a per zone counter.  Looping over all processors is
avoided during writeback state determination.

The counter aggregation for nr_dirty had to be undone in the NFS layer since
we summed up the page counts from multiple zones.  Someone more familiar with
NFS should probably review what I have done.

[akpm@osdl.org: bugfix]
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Signed-off-by: NJörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>

Builds on ARM report link problems with common configurations like
statically linked NFS (for nfsroot).  The symptom is that __init
section code references __exit section code; that won't work since
the exit sections are discarded (since they can never be called).

The best fix for these particular cases would be an "__init_or_exit"
section annotation.
Signed-off-by: NDavid Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Acked-by: NTrond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

As fs/nfs/inode.c is rather large, heterogenous and unwieldy, the attached
patch splits it up into a number of files:

 (*) fs/nfs/inode.c

     Strictly inode specific functions.

 (*) fs/nfs/super.c

     Superblock management functions for NFS and NFS4, normal access, clones
     and referrals.  The NFS4 superblock functions _could_ move out into a
     separate conditionally compiled file, but it's probably not worth it as
     there're so many common bits.

 (*) fs/nfs/namespace.c

     Some namespace-specific functions have been moved here.

 (*) fs/nfs/nfs4namespace.c

     NFS4-specific namespace functions (this could be merged into the previous
     file).  This file is conditionally compiled.

 (*) fs/nfs/internal.h

     Inter-file declarations, plus a few simple utility functions moved from
     fs/nfs/inode.c.

     Additionally, all the in-.c-file externs have been moved here, and those
     files they were moved from now includes this file.

For the most part, the functions have not been changed, only some multiplexor
functions have changed significantly.

I've also:

 (*) Added some extra banner comments above some functions.

 (*) Rearranged the function order within the files to be more logical and
     better grouped (IMO), though someone may prefer a different order.

 (*) Reduced the number of #ifdefs in .c files.

 (*) Added missing __init and __exit directives.
Signed-Off-By: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

In the case of a call to truncate_inode_pages(), we should really try to
cancel any pending writes on the page.
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

We don't need to set PG_private for readahead pages, since they never get
unlocked while I/O is in progress. However there is a small race in
nfs_readpage_release() whereby the page may be unlocked, and have
PG_private set.

Fix is to have PG_private set only for the case of writes...

Also fix a bug in nfs_clear_page_writeback(): Don't attempt to clear the
radix_tree tag if we've already deleted the radix tree entry.
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

Currently, there is no serialisation between NFS asynchronous writebacks
and truncation at the page level due to the fact that nfs_sync_inode()
cannot lock the pages that it is about to write out.

This means that it is possible to be flushing out data (and calling something
like set_page_writeback()) while the page cache is busy evicting the page.
Oops...

Use the hooks provided in try_to_release_page() to ensure that dirty pages
are always written back to storage before we evict them.
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

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

 Basically copies the VFS's method for tracking writebacks and applies
 it to the struct nfs_page.
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

 Remove the wait queue, and replace the functions that depended on it
 with wait_on_bit().
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>