Hi.

I've been looking at a bugzilla which describes a problem where
a customer was advised to use either the "noac" or "actimeo=0"
mount options to solve a consistency problem that they were
seeing in the file attributes.  It turned out that this solution
did not work reliably for them because sometimes, the local
attribute cache was believed to be valid and not timed out.
(With an attribute cache timeout of 0, the cache should always
appear to be timed out.)

In looking at this situation, it appears to me that the problem
is that the attribute cache timeout code has an off-by-one
error in it.  It is assuming that the cache is valid in the
region, [read_cache_jiffies, read_cache_jiffies + attrtimeo].  The
cache should be considered valid only in the region,
[read_cache_jiffies, read_cache_jiffies + attrtimeo).  With this
change, the options, "noac" and "actimeo=0", work as originally
expected.

This problem was previously addressed by special casing the
attrtimeo == 0 case.  However, since the problem is only an off-
by-one error, the cleaner solution is address the off-by-one
error and thus, not require the special case.

    Thanx...

        ps
Signed-off-by: NPeter Staubach <staubach@redhat.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>

Clean up:  The nfs_mount() function is not to be used outside of the
NFS client.  Move its public declaration to fs/nfs/internal.h.
Signed-off-by: NChuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

As not all files have an associated open_context (e.g. device special
files), it is safest to test for the existence of the open context
before de-referencing it.
Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

It appears that 'jiffies' timestamps do not have high enough resolution for
nfs_inode_attrs_need_update(). One problem is that a GETATTR can be
launched within < 1 jiffy of the last operation that updated the attribute.
Another problem is that RPC calls can take < 1 jiffy to execute.

We can fix this by switching the variables to use a simple global counter
that gets incremented every time we start another GETATTR call.
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

Currently, if two processes are both trying to revalidate metadata for the
same inode, they will find themselves being serialised. There is no good
justification for this now that we have improved our ability to detect
stale attribute data, so we should remove that serialisation.
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

fs.h needs path.h, not namei.h; nfs_fs.h doesn't need it at all.
Several places in the tree needed direct include.
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

* kill nameidata * argument; map the 3 bits in ->flags anybody cares
  about to new MAY_... ones and pass with the mask.
* kill redundant gfs2_iop_permission()
* sanitize ecryptfs_permission()
* fix remaining places where ->permission() instances might barf on new
  MAY_... found in mask.

The obvious next target in that direction is permission(9)

folded fix for nfs_permission() breakage from Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Clean up.
Signed-off-by: NChuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

Move the UDP/TCP default timeo/retrans settings for text mounts to
nfs_init_timeout_values(), which was were they were always being
initialised (and sanity checked) for binary mounts.
Document the default timeout values using appropriate #defines.

Ensure that we initialise and sanity check the transport protocols that
may have been specified by the user.
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

nfs_automount_list can now become static.
Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

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

When we detect that we've crossed a mountpoint on the remote server, we
must take care not to use that inode to revalidate the fsid on our
current superblock. To do so, we label the inode as a remote mountpoint,
and check for that in nfs_update_inode().
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

Signed-off-by: NBenny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

use NFS_I(inode)->flags instead
Signed-off-by: NBenny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

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>

nfs_wb_page_priority() can now become static.
Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

lookup() and sillyrename() can race one another because the sillyrename()
completion cannot take the parent directory's inode->i_mutex since the
latter may be held by whoever is calling dput().

We therefore have little option but to add extra locking to ensure that
nfs_lookup() and nfs_atomic_open() do not race with the sillyrename
completion.
If somebody has looked up the sillyrenamed file in the meantime, we just
transfer the sillydelete information to the new dentry.

Please refer to the bug-report at
	http://bugzilla.linux-nfs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=150Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

This boot parameter will allow legacy 32-bit applications which call stat()
to continue to function even if the NFSv3/v4 server uses 64-bit inode
numbers.
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

Hi,

This patch cleans up duplicate includes in
	include/linux/nfs_fs.h
Signed-off-by: NJesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

- NFS_READTIME, NFS_CHANGE_ATTR are completely unused.
- Inline the few remaining uses of NFS_ATTRTIMEO, and remove.
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

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

The lower level routines in fs/nfs/proc.c, fs/nfs/nfs3proc.c and
fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c should already be dealing with the revalidation issues.
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

We have no more users...
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

The fact that we're in the process of modifying the inode does not mean
that we should not invalidate the attribute and data caches. The defensive
thing is to always invalidate when we're confronted with inode
mtime/ctime or change_attribute updates that we do not immediately
recognise.
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

Just let the subsequent inode revalidation do the update...
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

We don't care about whether or not some other process on our client is
changing the directory while we're in nfs_lookup_revalidate(), because the
dcache will take care of ensuring local atomicity.
We can therefore remove the test for nfs_caches_unstable().
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

Also fix up the comments.
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

NFSv2 and v4 don't offer weak cache consistency attributes on WRITE calls.
In NFSv3, returning wcc data is optional. In all cases, we want to prevent
the client from invalidating our cached data whenever ->write_done()
attempts to update the inode attributes.
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

NFSv3 will correctly update atime on a readdir call, so there is no need to
set the NFS_INO_INVALID_ATIME flag unless the call to nfs_refresh_inode()
fails.
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

The reason is that if the weak cache consistency update was successful,
then we know that our client must be the only one that changed the
directory, and we've already updated the dcache to reflect the change.
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

We always want to check that the verifier and directory
cache_change_attribute match. This also allows us to remove the 'wraparound
hack' for the cache_change_attribute. If we're only checking for equality,
then we don't care about wraparound issues.
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

Currently, _nfs4_do_access() is just a copy of nfs_do_access() with added
conversion of the open flags into an access mask. This patch merges the
duplicate functionality.
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>

This helps prevent huge queues of background writes from building up
whenever the server runs out of disk or quota space, or if someone changes
the file access modes behind our backs.
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

The only user of nfs_sync_mapping_range() is nfs_getattr(), which uses it
to flush out the entire inode without sending a commit. We therefore
replace nfs_sync_mapping_range with a more appropriate helper.
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

The addition of nfs_page_mkwrite means that We should no longer need to
create requests inside nfs_writepage()
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>