kernel.git/fs/nfs/client.c, branch linux-3.3.y

module_param: make bool parameters really bool (drivers & misc)

2012-01-12T23:02:20Z

module_param(bool) used to counter-intuitively take an int. In fddd5201 (mid-2009) we allowed bool or int/unsigned int using a messy trick. It's time to remove the int/unsigned int option. For this version it'll simply give a warning, but it'll break next kernel version. Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell

NFSv4: Change the default setting of the nfs4_disable_idmapping parameter

2012-01-09T19:22:27Z

Now that the use of numeric uids/gids is officially sanctioned in RFC3530bis, it is time to change the default here to 'enabled'. By doing so, we ensure that NFSv4 copies the behaviour of NFSv3 when we're using the default AUTH_SYS authentication (i.e. when the client uses the numeric uids/gids as authentication tokens), so that when new files are created, they will appear to have the correct user/group. It also fixes a number of backward compatibility issues when migrating from NFSv3 to NFSv4 on a platform where the server uses different uid/gid mappings than the client. Note also that this setting has been successfully tested against servers that do not support numeric uids/gids at several Connectathon/Bakeathon events at this point, and the fall back to using string names/groups has been shown to work well in all those test cases. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust

NFS: Cache state owners after files are closed

2012-01-05T16:59:18Z

Servers have a finite amount of memory to store NFSv4 open and lock owners. Moreover, servers may have a difficult time determining when they can reap their state owner table, thanks to gray areas in the NFSv4 protocol specification. Thus clients should be careful to reuse state owners when possible. Currently Linux is not too careful. When a user has closed all her files on one mount point, the state owner's reference count goes to zero, and it is released. The next OPEN allocates a new one. A workload that serially opens and closes files can run through a large number of open owners this way. When a state owner's reference count goes to zero, slap it onto a free list for that nfs_server, with an expiry time. Garbage collect before looking for a state owner. This makes state owners for active users available for re-use. Now that there can be unused state owners remaining at umount time, purge the state owner free list when a server is destroyed. Also be sure not to reclaim unused state owners during state recovery. This change has benefits for the client as well. For some workloads, this approach drops the number of OPEN_CONFIRM calls from the same as the number of OPEN calls, down to just one. This reduces wire traffic and thus open(2) latency. Before this patch, untarring a kernel source tarball shows the OPEN_CONFIRM call counter steadily increasing through the test. With the patch, the OPEN_CONFIRM count remains at 1 throughout the entire untar. As long as the expiry time is kept short, I don't think garbage collection should be terribly expensive, although it does bounce the clp->cl_lock around a bit. [ At some point we should rationalize the use of the nfs_server ->destroy method. ] Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever [Trond: Fixed a garbage collection race and a few efficiency issues] Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust

SUNRPC: Clean up the RPCSEC_GSS service ticket requests

2012-01-05T15:42:38Z

Instead of hacking specific service names into gss_encode_v1_msg, we should just allow the caller to specify the service name explicitly. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust Acked-by: J. Bruce Fields

Check validity of cl_rpcclient in nfs_server_list_show

2011-10-20T23:44:04Z

As soon as the nfs_client gets created, its cl_rpcclient is set to ERR_PTR(-EINVAL). The rpc client structure is allocated later. Check if the client is ready before using the cl_rpcclient pointer. Signed-off-by: Malahal Naineni Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust

nfs: fix bug about IPv6 address scope checking

2011-10-18T16:08:10Z

The result from ipv6_addr_scope() always not be a single SCOPE, so we can't use equal to compare the result with IPV6_ADDR_SCOPE_LINKLOCAL at nfs_sockaddr_match_ipaddr6. This patch fixs the problem, and lets checking address before scope_id. Signed-off-by: Mi Jinlong Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust

pnfsblock: add device operations

2011-07-31T16:18:16Z

Signed-off-by: Jim Rees Signed-off-by: Fred Isaman Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy [upcall bugfixes] Signed-off-by: Peng Tao Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust

pnfs: ask for layout_blksize and save it in nfs_server

2011-07-31T16:18:15Z

Block layout needs it to determine IO size. Signed-off-by: Fred Isaman Signed-off-by: Tao Guo Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy Signed-off-by: Jim Rees Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust

pnfs: add set-clear layoutdriver interface

2011-07-31T16:18:15Z

To allow layout driver to issue getdevicelist at mount time, and clean up at umount time. [fixup non NFS_V4_1 set_pnfs_layoutdriver definition] [pnfs: pass mntfh down the init_pnfs path] Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy Signed-off-by: Jim Rees Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust

NFS: Convert nfs4_set_ds_client to EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL

2011-07-15T13:12:24Z

This is not part of an external ABI... Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust