kernel.git/fs/afs/super.c, branch linux-3.8.y

fs: push rcu_barrier() from deactivate_locked_super() to filesystems

2012-10-03T01:35:55Z

There's no reason to call rcu_barrier() on every deactivate_locked_super(). We only need to make sure that all delayed rcu free inodes are flushed before we destroy related cache. Removing rcu_barrier() from deactivate_locked_super() affects some fast paths. E.g. on my machine exit_group() of a last process in IPC namespace takes 0.07538s. rcu_barrier() takes 0.05188s of that time. Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Cc: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Al Viro

VFS: Pass mount flags to sget()

2012-07-14T12:38:34Z

Pass mount flags to sget() so that it can use them in initialising a new superblock before the set function is called. They could also be passed to the compare function. Signed-off-by: David Howells Signed-off-by: Al Viro

switch open-coded instances of d_make_root() to new helper

2012-03-21T01:29:35Z

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

vfs: fix the stupidity with i_dentry in inode destructors

2012-01-04T03:52:40Z

Seeing that just about every destructor got that INIT_LIST_HEAD() copied into it, there is no point whatsoever keeping this INIT_LIST_HEAD in inode_init_once(); the cost of taking it into inode_init_always() will be negligible for pipes and sockets and negative for everything else. Not to mention the removal of boilerplate code from ->destroy_inode() instances... Signed-off-by: Al Viro

AFS: Set s_id in the superblock to the volume name

2011-06-16T15:44:47Z

Set s_id in the superblock to the name of the AFS volume that this superblock corresponds to. Signed-off-by: David Howells Signed-off-by: Al Viro

afs: fix sget() races, close leak on umount

2011-06-12T21:45:36Z

* set ->s_fs_info in set() callback passed to sget() * allocate the thing and set it up enough for afs_test_super() before making it visible * have it freed in ->kill_sb() (current tree simply leaks it) * have ->put_super() leave ->s_fs_info->volume alone; it's too early for dropping it; do that from ->kill_sb() after having called kill_anon_super(). Signed-off-by: Al Viro

switch afs

2011-01-13T01:04:20Z

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

fs: icache RCU free inodes

2011-01-07T06:50:26Z

RCU free the struct inode. This will allow: - Subsequent store-free path walking patch. The inode must be consulted for permissions when walking, so an RCU inode reference is a must. - sb_inode_list_lock to be moved inside i_lock because sb list walkers who want to take i_lock no longer need to take sb_inode_list_lock to walk the list in the first place. This will simplify and optimize locking. - Could remove some nested trylock loops in dcache code - Could potentially simplify things a bit in VM land. Do not need to take the page lock to follow page->mapping. The downsides of this is the performance cost of using RCU. In a simple creat/unlink microbenchmark, performance drops by about 10% due to inability to reuse cache-hot slab objects. As iterations increase and RCU freeing starts kicking over, this increases to about 20%. In cases where inode lifetimes are longer (ie. many inodes may be allocated during the average life span of a single inode), a lot of this cache reuse is not applicable, so the regression caused by this patch is smaller. The cache-hot regression could largely be avoided by using SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU, however this adds some complexity to list walking and store-free path walking, so I prefer to implement this at a later date, if it is shown to be a win in real situations. I haven't found a regression in any non-micro benchmark so I doubt it will be a problem. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin

convert afs

2010-10-29T08:17:13Z

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

BKL: Remove BKL from afs

2010-10-04T19:10:48Z

The BKL is only used in put_super and fill_super, which are both protected by the superblocks s_umount rw_semaphore. Therefore it is safe to remove the BKL entirely. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann Cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org Cc: David Howells