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Eric Van Hensbergen
ee443996a3 9p: Documentation updates
The kernel-doc comments of much of the 9p system have been in disarray since
reorganization.  This patch fixes those problems, adds additional documentation
and a template book which collects the 9p information.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2008-05-14 19:23:25 -05:00
Eric Van Hensbergen
8a0dc95fd9 9p: transport API reorganization
This merges the mux.c (including the connection interface) with trans_fd
in preparation for transport API changes.  Ultimately, trans_fd will need
to be rewritten to clean it up and simplify the implementation, but this
reorganization is viewed as the first step.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2008-02-06 19:25:03 -06:00
Latchesar Ionkov
ba17674fe0 9p: attach-per-user
The 9P2000 protocol requires the authentication and permission checks to be
done in the file server. For that reason every user that accesses the file
server tree has to authenticate and attach to the server separately.
Multiple users can share the same connection to the server.

Currently v9fs does a single attach and executes all I/O operations as a
single user. This makes using v9fs in multiuser environment unsafe as it
depends on the client doing the permission checking.

This patch improves the 9P2000 support by allowing every user to attach
separately. The patch defines three modes of access (new mount option
'access'):

- attach-per-user (access=user) (default mode for 9P2000.u)
 If a user tries to access a file served by v9fs for the first time, v9fs
 sends an attach command to the server (Tattach) specifying the user. If
 the attach succeeds, the user can access the v9fs tree.
 As there is no uname->uid (string->integer) mapping yet, this mode works
 only with the 9P2000.u dialect.

- allow only one user to access the tree (access=<uid>)
 Only the user with uid can access the v9fs tree. Other users that attempt
 to access it will get EPERM error.

- do all operations as a single user (access=any) (default for 9P2000)
 V9fs does a single attach and all operations are done as a single user.
 If this mode is selected, the v9fs behavior is identical with the current
 one.

Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2007-10-17 14:31:07 -05:00
Latchesar Ionkov
bd32b82df9 9p: rename uid and gid parameters
Change the names of 'uid' and 'gid' parameters to the more appropriate
'dfltuid' and 'dfltgid'.  This also sets the default uid/gid to -2
(aka nfsnobody)

Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2007-10-17 14:31:07 -05:00
Latchesar Ionkov
2405669b25 9p: define session flags
Create more general flags field in the v9fs_session_info struct and move the
'extended' flag as a bit in the flags.

Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2007-10-17 14:31:07 -05:00
Eric Van Hensbergen
a80d923e13 9p: Make transports dynamic
This patch abstracts out the interfaces to underlying transports so that
new transports can be added as modules.  This should also allow kernel
configuration of transports without ifdef-hell.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2007-10-17 14:31:07 -05:00
Latchesar Ionkov
bd238fb431 9p: Reorganization of 9p file system code
This patchset moves non-filesystem interfaces of v9fs from fs/9p to net/9p.
It moves the transport, packet marshalling and connection layers to net/9p
leaving only the VFS related files in fs/9p.  This work is being done in
preparation for in-kernel 9p servers as well as alternate 9p clients (other
than VFS).

Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2007-07-14 15:13:40 -05:00
Eric Van Hensbergen
e03abc0c96 9p: implement optional loose read cache
While cacheing is generally frowned upon in the 9p world, it has its
place -- particularly in situations where the remote file system is
exclusive and/or read-only.  The vacfs views of venti content addressable
store are a real-world instance of such a situation.  To facilitate higher
performance for these workloads (and eventually use the fscache patches),
we have enabled a "loose" cache mode which does not attempt to maintain
any form of consistency on the page-cache or dcache.  This results in over
two orders of magnitude performance improvement for cacheable block reads
in the Bonnie benchmark.  The more aggressive use of the dcache also seems
to improve metadata operational performance.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2007-02-18 10:16:10 -06:00
Eric Van Hensbergen
42e8c509cf [PATCH] v9fs: update license boilerplate
Update license boilerplate to specify GPLv2 and remove the (at your option
clause).  This change was agreed to by all the copyright holders (approvals
can be found on v9fs-developer mailing list).

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 08:22:54 -08:00
Russ Cox
4a26c2429b [PATCH] v9fs: rename tids to tags to be consistent with Plan 9 documentation
The code talks about these things called tids, which I eventually figured
out are tags.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 08:22:54 -08:00
Latchesar Ionkov
3cf6429a26 [PATCH] v9fs: new multiplexer implementation
New multiplexer implementation. Decreases the number of kernel threads
required. Better handling when the user process receives a signal.

Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@ericvh.myip.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:14:05 -08:00
Eric Van Hensbergen
322b329ab7 [PATCH] v9fs: Support to force umount
Support for force umount

Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 13:57:57 -07:00
Eric Van Hensbergen
9e82cf6a80 [PATCH] v9fs: VFS superblock operations and glue
This part of the patch contains VFS superblock and mapping code.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 13:57:56 -07:00