kernel.git/fs/nfs, branch linux-2.6.28.y

nfs: remove redundant tests on reading new pages

2009-01-18T18:44:03Z

commit 136221fc3219b3805c48db5da065e8e3467175d4 upstream. 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 Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

fs: symlink write_begin allocation context fix

2009-01-18T18:43:46Z

commit 54566b2c1594c2326a645a3551f9d989f7ba3c5e upstream. With the write_begin/write_end aops, page_symlink was broken because it could no longer pass a GFP_NOFS type mask into the point where the allocations happened. They are done in write_begin, which would always assume that the filesystem can be entered from reclaim. This bug could cause filesystem deadlocks. The funny thing with having a gfp_t mask there is that it doesn't really allow the caller to arbitrarily tinker with the context in which it can be called. It couldn't ever be GFP_ATOMIC, for example, because it needs to take the page lock. The only thing any callers care about is __GFP_FS anyway, so turn that into a single flag. Add a new flag for write_begin, AOP_FLAG_NOFS. Filesystems can now act on this flag in their write_begin function. Change __grab_cache_page to accept a nofs argument as well, to honour that flag (while we're there, change the name to grab_cache_page_write_begin which is more instructive and does away with random leading underscores). This is really a more flexible way to go in the end anyway -- if a filesystem happens to want any extra allocations aside from the pagecache ones in ints write_begin function, it may now use GFP_KERNEL (rather than GFP_NOFS) for common case allocations (eg. ocfs2_alloc_write_ctxt, for a random example). [kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: fix ubifs] [kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: fix fuse] Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton [ Cleaned up the calling convention: just pass in the AOP flags untouched to the grab_cache_page_write_begin() function. That just simplifies everybody, and may even allow future expansion of the logic. - Linus ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

NFS: Convert nfs_attr_generation_counter into an atomic_long

2008-10-28T19:21:40Z

The most important property we need from nfs_attr_generation_counter is monotonicity, which is not guaranteed by the current system of smp memory barriers. We should convert it to an atomic_long_t, and drop the memory barriers. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust

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2008-10-27T15:40:17Z

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] move executable checking into ->permission()

2008-10-23T09:13:25Z

For execute permission on a regular files we need to check if file has any execute bits at all, regardless of capabilites. This check is normally performed by generic_permission() but was also added to the case when the filesystem defines its own ->permission() method. In the latter case the filesystem should be responsible for performing this check. Move the check from inode_permission() inside filesystems which are not calling generic_permission(). Create a helper function execute_ok() that returns true if the inode is a directory or if any execute bits are present in i_mode. Also fix up the following code: - coda control file is never executable - sysctl files are never executable - hfs_permission seems broken on MAY_EXEC, remove - hfsplus_permission is eqivalent to generic_permission(), remove Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi

[PATCH] switch all filesystems over to d_obtain_alias

2008-10-23T09:13:01Z

Switch all users of d_alloc_anon to d_obtain_alias. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Al Viro

[PATCH] make O_EXCL in nd->intent.flags visible in nd->flags

2008-10-23T09:12:56Z

New flag: LOOKUP_EXCL. Set before doing the final step of pathname resolution on the paths that have LOOKUP_CREATE and O_EXCL. Signed-off-by: Al Viro

Merge git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6

2008-10-20T16:39:20Z

* git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6: NFS: use correct fs type for v4 submounts and referrals Make nfs_file_cred more robust. NFS: Enable NFSv4 callback server to listen on AF_INET6 sockets

vmscan: split LRU lists into anon & file sets

2008-10-20T15:50:25Z

Split the LRU lists in two, one set for pages that are backed by real file systems ("file") and one for pages that are backed by memory and swap ("anon"). The latter includes tmpfs. The advantage of doing this is that the VM will not have to scan over lots of anonymous pages (which we generally do not want to swap out), just to find the page cache pages that it should evict. This patch has the infrastructure and a basic policy to balance how much we scan the anon lists and how much we scan the file lists. The big policy changes are in separate patches. [lee.schermerhorn@hp.com: collect lru meminfo statistics from correct offset] [kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: prevent incorrect oom under split_lru] [kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: fix pagevec_move_tail() doesn't treat unevictable page] [hugh@veritas.com: memcg swapbacked pages active] [hugh@veritas.com: splitlru: BDI_CAP_SWAP_BACKED] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix /proc/vmstat units] [nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp: memcg: fix handling of shmem migration] [kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: adjust Quicklists field of /proc/meminfo] [kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: fix style issue of get_scan_ratio()] Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

NFS: use correct fs type for v4 submounts and referrals

2008-10-17T17:06:48Z

Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust