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Trond Myklebust
1ae88b2e44 NFS: Fix an O_DIRECT Oops...
We can't call nfs_readdata_release()/nfs_writedata_release() without
first initialising and referencing args.context. Doing so inside
nfs_direct_read_schedule_segment()/nfs_direct_write_schedule_segment()
causes an Oops.

We should rather be calling nfs_readdata_free()/nfs_writedata_free() in
those cases.

Looking at the O_DIRECT code, the "struct nfs_direct_req" is already
referencing the nfs_open_context for us. Since the readdata and writedata
structures carry a reference to that, we can simplify things by getting rid
of the extra nfs_open_context references, so that we can replace all
instances of nfs_readdata_release()/nfs_writedata_release().

Reported-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Tested-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-08-12 08:21:39 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
405f55712d headers: smp_lock.h redux
* Remove smp_lock.h from files which don't need it (including some headers!)
* Add smp_lock.h to files which do need it
* Make smp_lock.h include conditional in hardirq.h
  It's needed only for one kernel_locked() usage which is under CONFIG_PREEMPT

  This will make hardirq.h inclusion cheaper for every PREEMPT=n config
  (which includes allmodconfig/allyesconfig, BTW)

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-07-12 12:22:34 -07:00
Andy Adamson
eedc020e71 nfs41: use rpc prepare call state for session reset
[nfs41: change nfs4_restart_rpc argument]
[nfs41: check for session not minorversion]
[nfs41: trigger the state manager for session reset]
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
[always define nfs4_restart_rpc]
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-06-17 12:25:07 -07:00
Andy Adamson
f11c88af26 nfs41: read sequence setup/done support
Implement the read rpc_call_prepare method for
asynchronuos nfs rpcs, call nfs41_setup_sequence from
respective rpc_call_validate_args methods.

Call nfs4_sequence_done from respective rpc_call_done methods.

Note that we need to pass a pointer to the nfs_server in calls data
for passing on to nfs4_sequence_done.

Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
[pnfs: client data server write validate and release]
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
[move the nfs4_sequence_free_slot call in nfs_readpage_retry from]
[nfs41: separate free slot from sequence done]
[remove nfs_readargs.nfs_server, use calldata->inode instead]
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
[nfs41: Support sessions with O_DIRECT]
Signed-off-by: Dean Hildebrand <dhildeb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
[nfs41: nfs4_sequence_free_slot use nfs_client for data server]
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-06-17 10:46:48 -07:00
Andy Adamson
5f7dbd5c75 nfs41: set up seq_res.sr_slotid
Initialize nfs4_sequence_res sr_slotid to NFS4_MAX_SLOT_TABLE.

[was nfs41: sequence res use slotid]
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
[pulled definition of struct nfs4_sequence_res.sr_slotid to here]
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-06-17 10:46:30 -07:00
David Howells
7f8e05f60c NFS: Store pages from an NFS inode into a local cache
Store pages from an NFS inode into the cache data storage object associated
with that inode.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
2009-04-03 16:42:45 +01:00
David Howells
9a9fc1c033 NFS: Read pages from FS-Cache into an NFS inode
Read pages from an FS-Cache data storage object representing an inode into an
NFS inode.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
2009-04-03 16:42:44 +01:00
David Howells
f42b293d6d NFS: nfs_readpage_async() needs to be accessible as a fallback for local caching
nfs_readpage_async() needs to be non-static so that it can be used as a
fallback for the local on-disk caching should an EIO crop up when reading the
cache.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
2009-04-03 16:42:44 +01:00
Wu Fengguang
136221fc32 nfs: remove redundant tests on reading new pages
aops->readpages() and its NFS helper readpage_async_filler() will only
be called to do readahead I/O for newly allocated pages. So it's not
necessary to test for the always 0 dirty/uptodate page flags.

The removal of nfs_wb_page() call also fixes a readahead bug: the NFS
readahead has been synchronous since 2.6.23, because that call will
clear PG_readahead, which is the reminder for asynchronous readahead.

More background: the PG_readahead page flag is shared with PG_reclaim,
one for read path and the other for write path. clear_page_dirty_for_io()
unconditionally clears PG_readahead to prevent possible readahead residuals,
assuming itself to be always called in the write path. However, NFS is one
and the only exception in that it _always_ calls clear_page_dirty_for_io()
in the read path, i.e. for readpages()/readpage().

Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <wfg@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-12-23 15:21:30 -05:00
Harvey Harrison
3110ff8048 nfs: replace remaining __FUNCTION__ occurrences
__FUNCTION__ is gcc-specific, use __func__

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-05-16 09:43:29 -07:00
Trond Myklebust
dbae4c73f0 NFS: Ensure that rpc_run_task() errors are propagated back to the caller
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-04-19 16:53:08 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
fdd1e74c89 NFS: Ensure that the read code cleans up properly when rpc_run_task() fails
In the case of readpage() we need to ensure that the pages get unlocked,
and that the error is flagged.

In the case of O_DIRECT, we need to ensure that the pages are all released.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-04-19 16:53:01 -04:00
Fred Isaman
4af68bffac nfs: remove duplicate initializations of nfs_read_data field
Signed-off-by: Fred Isaman <iisaman@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-03-19 17:59:59 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
c7c350e92a Merge branch 'hotfixes' into devel 2008-03-19 17:59:44 -04:00
Fred Isaman
f8512ad0da nfs: don't ignore return value from nfs_pageio_add_request
Ignoring the return value from nfs_pageio_add_request can cause deadlocks.

In read path:
  call nfs_pageio_add_request from readpage_async_filler
  assume at this point that there are requests already in desc, that
    can't be merged with the current request.
  so nfs_pageio_doio is fired up to clear out desc.
  assume something goes wrong in setting up the io, so desc->pg_error is set.
  This causes nfs_pageio_add_request to return 0, *WITHOUT* adding the original
    request.
  BUT, since return code is ignored, readpage_async_filler assumes it has
    been added, and does nothing further, leaving page locked.
  do_generic_mapping_read will eventually call lock_page, resulting in deadlock

In write path:
  page is marked dirty by generic_perform_write
  nfs_writepages is called
  call nfs_pageio_add_request from nfs_page_async_flush
  assume at this point that there are requests already in desc, that
    can't be merged with the current request.
  so nfs_pageio_doio is fired up to clear out desc.
  assume something goes wrong in setting up the io, so desc->pg_error is set.
  This causes nfs_page_async_flush to return 0, *WITHOUT* adding the original
    request, yet marking the request as locked (PG_BUSY) and in writeback,
    clearing dirty marks.
  The next time a write is done to the page, deadlock will result as
    nfs_write_end calls nfs_update_request

Signed-off-by: Fred Isaman <iisaman@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-03-19 17:59:02 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
5e4424af9a SUNRPC: Remove now-redundant RCU-safe rpc_task free path
Now that we've tightened up the locking rules for RPC queue wakeups, we can
remove the RCU-safe kfree calls...

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-02-28 23:26:28 -08:00
Trond Myklebust
101070ca2f NFS: Ensure that the asynchronous RPC calls complete on nfsiod.
We want to ensure that rpc_call_ops that involve mntput() are run on nfsiod
rather than on rpciod, so that they don't deadlock when the resulting
umount calls rpc_shutdown_client(). Hence we specify that read, write and
commit calls must complete on nfsiod.
Ditto for NFSv4 open, lock, locku and close asynchronous calls.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-02-25 21:40:37 -08:00
Trond Myklebust
383ba71938 NFS: Fix a deadlock with lazy umount
We can't allow rpc callback functions like task->tk_ops->rpc_call_prepare()
and task->tk_ops->rpc_call_done() to call mntput() in any way, since
that will cause a deadlock when the call to rpc_shutdown_client() attempts
to wait on 'task' to complete.

We can avoid the above deadlock by moving calls to mntput to
task->tk_ops->rpc_release() callback, since at that time the task will be
marked as completed, and so rpc_shutdown_client won't attempt to wait on
it.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-02-25 21:40:33 -08:00
Christoph Lameter
eebd2aa355 Pagecache zeroing: zero_user_segment, zero_user_segments and zero_user
Simplify page cache zeroing of segments of pages through 3 functions

zero_user_segments(page, start1, end1, start2, end2)

        Zeros two segments of the page. It takes the position where to
        start and end the zeroing which avoids length calculations and
	makes code clearer.

zero_user_segment(page, start, end)

        Same for a single segment.

zero_user(page, start, length)

        Length variant for the case where we know the length.

We remove the zero_user_page macro. Issues:

1. Its a macro. Inline functions are preferable.

2. The KM_USER0 macro is only defined for HIGHMEM.

   Having to treat this special case everywhere makes the
   code needlessly complex. The parameter for zeroing is always
   KM_USER0 except in one single case that we open code.

Avoiding KM_USER0 makes a lot of code not having to be dealing
with the special casing for HIGHMEM anymore. Dealing with
kmap is only necessary for HIGHMEM configurations. In those
configurations we use KM_USER0 like we do for a series of other
functions defined in highmem.h.

Since KM_USER0 is depends on HIGHMEM the existing zero_user_page
function could not be a macro. zero_user_* functions introduced
here can be be inline because that constant is not used when these
functions are called.

Also extract the flushing of the caches to be outside of the kmap.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix nfs and ntfs build]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix ntfs build some more]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Steven French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Cc: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Cc: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Steven French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-05 09:44:13 -08:00
Benny Halevy
3a10c30acc nfs: obliterate NFS_FLAGS macro
use NFS_I(inode)->flags instead

Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-01-30 02:06:11 -05:00
Trond Myklebust
0773769191 NFS/SUNRPC: Convert users of rpc_init_task+rpc_execute to rpc_run_task()
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-01-30 02:05:39 -05:00
Trond Myklebust
bdc7f021f3 NFS: Clean up the (commit|read|write)_setup() callback routines
Move the common code for setting up the nfs_write_data and nfs_read_data
structures into fs/nfs/read.c, fs/nfs/write.c and fs/nfs/direct.c.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-01-30 02:05:32 -05:00
Trond Myklebust
3ff7576dda SUNRPC: Clean up the initialisation of priority queue scheduling info.
We want the default scheduling priority (priority == 0) to remain
RPC_PRIORITY_NORMAL.

Also ensure that the priority wait queue scheduling is per process id
instead of sometimes being per thread, and sometimes being per inode.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-01-30 02:05:30 -05:00
Trond Myklebust
84115e1cd4 SUNRPC: Cleanup of rpc_task initialisation
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-01-30 02:05:30 -05:00
Trond Myklebust
8850df999c NFS: Fix atime revalidation in read()
NFSv3 will correctly update atime on a read() 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: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-10-09 17:19:06 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
cd3758e37d NFS: Replace file->private_data with calls to nfs_file_open_context()
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-10-09 17:18:31 -04:00
Paul Mundt
20c2df83d2 mm: Remove slab destructors from kmem_cache_create().
Slab destructors were no longer supported after Christoph's
c59def9f22 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: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2007-07-20 10:11:58 +09:00
Trond Myklebust
88be9f990f NFS: Replace vfsmount and dentry in nfs_open_context with struct path
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-07-10 23:40:23 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
de05a0cc2a NFS: Minor read optimisation...
Since PG_uptodate may now end up getting set during the call to
nfs_wb_page(), we can avoid putting a read request on the wire in those
situations.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-07-10 23:40:23 -04:00
Nate Diller
60945cb7c8 NFS: use zero_user_page
Use zero_user_page() instead of the newly deprecated memclear_highpage_flush().

Signed-off-by: Nate Diller <nate.diller@gmail.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-05-14 19:33:45 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
8d5658c949 NFS: Fix a buffer overflow in the allocation of struct nfs_read/writedata
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-04-30 22:17:07 -07:00
Trond Myklebust
8b09bee308 NFS: Cleanup for nfs_readpages()
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: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-04-30 22:17:05 -07:00
Trond Myklebust
bcb71bba7e NFS: Another cleanup of the read/write request coalescing code
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-04-30 22:17:04 -07:00
Trond Myklebust
d8a5ad75cc NFS: Cleanup the coalescing code
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-04-30 22:17:04 -07:00
Chuck Lever
a3f565b1e5 NFS: fix print format for tk_pid
The tk_pid field is an unsigned short.  The proper print format specifier for
that type is %5u, not %4d.

Also clean up some miscellaneous print formatting nits.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-02-03 15:35:09 -08:00
Trond Myklebust
8e0969f045 NFS: Remove nfs_readpage_sync()
It makes no sense to maintain 2 parallel systems for reading in pages.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-02-03 15:35:06 -08:00
Trond Myklebust
21b4e73692 Merge branch 'master' of /home/trondmy/kernel/linux-2.6/ into merge_linus 2006-12-07 16:35:17 -05:00
Christoph Lameter
e18b890bb0 [PATCH] slab: remove kmem_cache_t
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: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:25 -08:00
Christoph Lameter
e6b4f8da3a [PATCH] slab: remove SLAB_NOFS
SLAB_NOFS is an alias of GFP_NOFS.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:23 -08:00
Trond Myklebust
49a70f2786 NFS: Cleanup: add common helper nfs_page_length()
Clean up a lot of ad-hoc page length calculations in fs/nfs/write.c

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-12-06 10:46:36 -05:00
Frank Filz
a99b71c9c4 NFS: Remove use of the Big Kernel Lock around calls to rpc_execute.
Remove use of the Big Kernel Lock around calls to rpc_execute.

Signed-off-by: Frank Filz <ffilz@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-12-06 10:46:30 -05:00
Trond Myklebust
cf1308ff78 NFS: Fix missing page_unlock() in nfs_readpage
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-12-06 10:46:27 -05:00
Trond Myklebust
0b67130149 NFS: Fix asynchronous read error handling
We must always call ->read_done() before we truncate the page data, or
decide to flag an error. The reasons are that
	in NFSv2, ->read_done() is where the eof flag gets set.
	in NFSv3/v4 ->read_done() handles EJUKEBOX-type errors, and
		  v4 state recovery.

However, we need to mark the pages as uptodate before we deal with short
read errors, since we may need to modify the nfs_read_data arguments.

We therefore split the current nfs_readpage_result() into two parts:
nfs_readpage_result(), which calls ->read_done() etc, and
nfs_readpage_retry(), which subsequently handles short reads.

Note: Removing the code that retries in case of a short read also fixes a
bug in nfs_direct_read_result(), which used to return a corrupted number of
bytes.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-12-06 10:46:27 -05:00
Trond Myklebust
8aca67f0ae SUNRPC: Fix a potential race in rpc_wake_up_task()
Use RCU to ensure that we can safely call rpc_finish_wakeup after we've
called __rpc_do_wake_up_task. If not, there is a theoretical race, in which
the rpc_task finishes executing, and gets freed first.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-12-06 10:46:26 -05:00
Alexey Dobriyan
1a1d92c10d [PATCH] Really ignore kmem_cache_destroy return value
* 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: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27 08:26:10 -07:00
Trond Myklebust
5f004cf2aa NFS: Make read() return an ESTALE if the file has been deleted
Currently, a read() request will return EIO even if the file has been
deleted on the server, simply because that is what the VM will return
if the call to readpage() fails to update the page.

Ensure that readpage() marks the inode as stale if it receives an ESTALE.
Then return that error to userland.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-09-22 23:25:02 -04:00
David Howells
54ceac4515 NFS: Share NFS superblocks per-protocol per-server per-FSID
The attached patch makes NFS share superblocks between mounts from the same
server and FSID over the same protocol.

It does this by creating each superblock with a false root and returning the
real root dentry in the vfsmount presented by get_sb(). The root dentry set
starts off as an anonymous dentry if we don't already have the dentry for its
inode, otherwise it simply returns the dentry we already have.

We may thus end up with several trees of dentries in the superblock, and if at
some later point one of anonymous tree roots is discovered by normal filesystem
activity to be located in another tree within the superblock, the anonymous
root is named and materialises attached to the second tree at the appropriate
point.

Why do it this way? Why not pass an extra argument to the mount() syscall to
indicate the subpath and then pathwalk from the server root to the desired
directory? You can't guarantee this will work for two reasons:

 (1) The root and intervening nodes may not be accessible to the client.

     With NFS2 and NFS3, for instance, mountd is called on the server to get
     the filehandle for the tip of a path. mountd won't give us handles for
     anything we don't have permission to access, and so we can't set up NFS
     inodes for such nodes, and so can't easily set up dentries (we'd have to
     have ghost inodes or something).

     With this patch we don't actually create dentries until we get handles
     from the server that we can use to set up their inodes, and we don't
     actually bind them into the tree until we know for sure where they go.

 (2) Inaccessible symbolic links.

     If we're asked to mount two exports from the server, eg:

	mount warthog:/warthog/aaa/xxx /mmm
	mount warthog:/warthog/bbb/yyy /nnn

     We may not be able to access anything nearer the root than xxx and yyy,
     but we may find out later that /mmm/www/yyy, say, is actually the same
     directory as the one mounted on /nnn. What we might then find out, for
     example, is that /warthog/bbb was actually a symbolic link to
     /warthog/aaa/xxx/www, but we can't actually determine that by talking to
     the server until /warthog is made available by NFS.

     This would lead to having constructed an errneous dentry tree which we
     can't easily fix. We can end up with a dentry marked as a directory when
     it should actually be a symlink, or we could end up with an apparently
     hardlinked directory.

     With this patch we need not make assumptions about the type of a dentry
     for which we can't retrieve information, nor need we assume we know its
     place in the grand scheme of things until we actually see that place.

This patch reduces the possibility of aliasing in the inode and page caches for
inodes that may be accessed by more than one NFS export. It also reduces the
number of superblocks required for NFS where there are many NFS exports being
used from a server (home directory server + autofs for example).

This in turn makes it simpler to do local caching of network filesystems, as it
can then be guaranteed that there won't be links from multiple inodes in
separate superblocks to the same cache file.

Obviously, cache aliasing between different levels of NFS protocol could still
be a problem, but at least that gives us another key to use when indexing the
cache.

This patch makes the following changes:

 (1) The server record construction/destruction has been abstracted out into
     its own set of functions to make things easier to get right.  These have
     been moved into fs/nfs/client.c.

     All the code in fs/nfs/client.c has to do with the management of
     connections to servers, and doesn't touch superblocks in any way; the
     remaining code in fs/nfs/super.c has to do with VFS superblock management.

 (2) The sequence of events undertaken by NFS mount is now reordered:

     (a) A volume representation (struct nfs_server) is allocated.

     (b) A server representation (struct nfs_client) is acquired.  This may be
     	 allocated or shared, and is keyed on server address, port and NFS
     	 version.

     (c) If allocated, the client representation is initialised.  The state
     	 member variable of nfs_client is used to prevent a race during
     	 initialisation from two mounts.

     (d) For NFS4 a simple pathwalk is performed, walking from FH to FH to find
     	 the root filehandle for the mount (fs/nfs/getroot.c).  For NFS2/3 we
     	 are given the root FH in advance.

     (e) The volume FSID is probed for on the root FH.

     (f) The volume representation is initialised from the FSINFO record
     	 retrieved on the root FH.

     (g) sget() is called to acquire a superblock.  This may be allocated or
     	 shared, keyed on client pointer and FSID.

     (h) If allocated, the superblock is initialised.

     (i) If the superblock is shared, then the new nfs_server record is
     	 discarded.

     (j) The root dentry for this mount is looked up from the root FH.

     (k) The root dentry for this mount is assigned to the vfsmount.

 (3) nfs_readdir_lookup() creates dentries for each of the entries readdir()
     returns; this function now attaches disconnected trees from alternate
     roots that happen to be discovered attached to a directory being read (in
     the same way nfs_lookup() is made to do for lookup ops).

     The new d_materialise_unique() function is now used to do this, thus
     permitting the whole thing to be done under one set of locks, and thus
     avoiding any race between mount and lookup operations on the same
     directory.

 (4) The client management code uses a new debug facility: NFSDBG_CLIENT which
     is set by echoing 1024 to /proc/net/sunrpc/nfs_debug.

 (5) Clone mounts are now called xdev mounts.

 (6) Use the dentry passed to the statfs() op as the handle for retrieving fs
     statistics rather than the root dentry of the superblock (which is now a
     dummy).

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-09-22 23:24:37 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
7a52411107 NFS: Fix Oopsable condition in nfs_readpage_sync()
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-09-19 11:54:39 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
e9f7bee1df [PATCH] NFS: large non-page-aligned direct I/O clobbers memory
The logic in nfs_direct_read_schedule and nfs_direct_write_schedule can
allow data->npages to be one larger than rpages.  This causes a page
pointer to be written beyond the end of the pagevec in nfs_read_data (or
nfs_write_data).

Fix this by making nfs_(read|write)_alloc() calculate the size of the
pagevec array, and initialise data->npages.

Also get rid of the redundant argument to nfs_commit_alloc().

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-08 10:22:51 -07:00
Trond Myklebust
79558f3610 NFS: Fix issue with EIO on NFS read
The problem is that we may be caching writes that would extend the file and
create a hole in the region that we are reading. In this case, we need to
detect the eof from the server, ensure that we zero out the pages that
are part of the hole and mark them as up to date.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
(cherry picked from 856b603b01b99146918c093969b6cb1b1b0f1c01 commit)
2006-08-24 15:51:08 -04:00