As Adrian pointed out recently, there were still a couple of places where
I should have fixed my email address.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This took a little refactoring but now errors are handled cleanly. When
this code used pid_t values this wasn't necessary because you can't
leak a pid_t.
Thanks to Peter Vandrovec for spotting this.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Peter Vandrovec <vandrove@vc.cvut.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch converts the tracking of the user space watchdog process from using
a pid_t to use struct pid. This makes us safe from pid wrap around issues and
prepares the way for the pid namespace.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Petr Vandrovec <VANDROVE@vc.cvut.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
smbfs keeps track of the user space server process in conn_pid. This converts
that track to use a struct pid instead of pid_t. This keeps us safe from pid
wrap around issues and prepares the way for the pid namespace.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
activate_mm() is not the right thing to be using in use_mm(). It should be
switch_mm().
On normal x86, they're synonymous, but for the Xen patches I'm adding a
hook which assumes that activate_mm is only used the first time a new mm
is used after creation (I have another hook for dealing with dup_mm). I
think this use of activate_mm() is the only place where it could be used
a second time on an mm.
>From a quick look at the other architectures I think this is OK (most
simply implement one in terms of the other), but some are doing some
subtly different stuff between the two.
Acked-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Implement block device specific .direct_IO method instead of going through
generic direct_io_worker for block device.
direct_io_worker() is fairly complex because it needs to handle O_DIRECT on
file system, where it needs to perform block allocation, hole detection,
extents file on write, and tons of other corner cases. The end result is
that it takes tons of CPU time to submit an I/O.
For block device, the block allocation is much simpler and a tight triple
loop can be written to iterate each iovec and each page within the iovec in
order to construct/prepare bio structure and then subsequently submit it to
the block layer. This significantly speeds up O_D on block device.
[akpm@osdl.org: small speedup]
Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Update ocfs2_should_update_atime() to understand the MNT_RELATIME flag and
to test against mtime / ctime accordingly.
[akpm@osdl.org: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Cc: Valerie Henson <val_henson@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
- pipe/splice should use const pipe_buf_operations and file_operations
- struct pipe_inode_info has an unused field "start" : get rid of it.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial:
Fix inotify maintainers entry
Fix typo in new debug options.
Jon needs a new shift key.
fs: Convert kmalloc() + memset() to kzalloc() in fs/.
configfs.h: Remove dead macro definitions.
kconfig: Standardize "depends" -> "depends on" in Kconfig files
e100: replace kmalloc with kcalloc
um: replace kmalloc+memset with kzalloc
fix typo in net/ipv4/ip_fragment.c
include/linux/compiler.h: reject gcc 3 < gcc 3.2
Kconfig: fix spelling error in config KALLSYMS help text
Remove duplicate "have to" in comment
Fix small typo in drivers/serial/icom.c
Use consistent casing in help message
EXT{2,3,4}_FS: remove outdated part of the help text
Convert the single available instance of kmalloc() + memset() to
kzalloc() in the fs/ directory.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Standardize the miniscule percentage of occurrences of "depends" in
Kconfig files to "depends on", and update kconfig-language.txt to
reflect that.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Modify the OCFS2 handshake to ensure essential timeouts are configured
identically on all nodes.
Only allow changes when there are no connected peers
Improves the logic in o2net_advance_rx() which broke now that
sizeof(struct o2net_handshake) is greater than sizeof(struct o2net_msg)
Included is the field for userspace-heartbeat timeout to avoid the need for
further protocol changes.
Uses a global spinlock to ensure the decisions to update configfs entries
are made on the correct value. The region covered by the spinlock when
incrementing the counter is much larger as this is the more critical case.
Small cleanup contributed by Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Beekhof <abeekhof@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
As reported by Andy Whitcroft, at least the SLES9 initrd build process
depends on getting the kernel version from the kernel binary. It does
that by simply trawling the binary and looking for the signature of the
"linux_banner" string (the string "Linux version " to be exact. Which
is really broken in itself, but whatever..)
That got broken when the string was changed to allow /proc/version to
change the UTS release information dynamically, and "get_kernel_version"
thus returned "%s" (see commit a2ee8649ba:
"[PATCH] Fix linux banner utsname information").
This just restores "linux_banner" as a static string, which should fix
the version finding. And /proc/version simply uses a different string.
To avoid wasting even that miniscule amount of memory, the early boot
string should really be marked __initdata, but that just causes the same
bug in SLES9 to re-appear, since it will then find other occurrences of
"Linux version " first.
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Acked-by: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Steve Fox <drfickle@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch introduces a user: of the round_jiffies() function; the "5 second"
ext3/jbd wakeup.
While "every 5 seconds" doesn't sound as a problem, there can be many of these
(and these timers do add up over all the kernel). The "5 second" wakeup isn't
really timing sensitive; in addition even with rounding it'll still happen
every 5 seconds (with the exception of the very first time, which is likely to
be rounded up to somewhere closer to 6 seconds)
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch provides an improved fdtable allocation scheme, useful for
expanding fdtable file descriptor entries. The main focus is on the fdarray,
as its memory usage grows 128 times faster than that of an fdset.
The allocation algorithm sizes the fdarray in such a way that its memory usage
increases in easy page-sized chunks. The overall algorithm expands the allowed
size in powers of two, in order to amortize the cost of invoking vmalloc() for
larger allocation sizes. Namely, the following sizes for the fdarray are
considered, and the smallest that accommodates the requested fd count is
chosen:
pagesize / 4
pagesize / 2
pagesize <- memory allocator switch point
pagesize * 2
pagesize * 4
...etc...
Unlike the current implementation, this allocation scheme does not require a
loop to compute the optimal fdarray size, and can be done in efficient
straightline code.
Furthermore, since the fdarray overflows the pagesize boundary long before any
of the fdsets do, it makes sense to optimize run-time by allocating both
fdsets in a single swoop. Even together, they will still be, by far, smaller
than the fdarray. The fdtable->open_fds is now used as the anchor for the
fdset memory allocation.
Signed-off-by: Vadim Lobanov <vlobanov@speakeasy.net>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
An fdtable can either be embedded inside a files_struct or standalone (after
being expanded). When an fdtable is being discarded after all RCU references
to it have expired, we must either free it directly, in the standalone case,
or free the files_struct it is contained within, in the embedded case.
Currently the free_files field controls this behavior, but we can get rid of
it entirely, as all the necessary information is already recorded. We can
distinguish embedded and standalone fdtables using max_fds, and if it is
embedded we can divine the relevant files_struct using container_of().
Signed-off-by: Vadim Lobanov <vlobanov@speakeasy.net>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Currently, each fdtable supports three dynamically-sized arrays of data: the
fdarray and two fdsets. The code allows the number of fds supported by the
fdarray (fdtable->max_fds) to differ from the number of fds supported by each
of the fdsets (fdtable->max_fdset).
In practice, it is wasteful for these two sizes to differ: whenever we hit a
limit on the smaller-capacity structure, we will reallocate the entire fdtable
and all the dynamic arrays within it, so any delta in the memory used by the
larger-capacity structure will never be touched at all.
Rather than hogging this excess, we shouldn't even allocate it in the first
place, and keep the capacities of the fdarray and the fdsets equal. This
patch removes fdtable->max_fdset. As an added bonus, most of the supporting
code becomes simpler.
Signed-off-by: Vadim Lobanov <vlobanov@speakeasy.net>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The wait_for_more_bios() function name was poorly chosen. While looking to
clean it up it I noticed that the dio struct refcounting between the bio
completion and dio submission paths was racey.
The bio submission path was simply freeing the dio struct if
atomic_dec_and_test() indicated that it dropped the final reference.
The aio bio completion path was dereferencing its dio struct pointer *after
dropping its reference* based on the remaining number of references.
These two paths could race and result in the aio bio completion path
dereferencing a freed dio, though this was not observed in the wild.
This moves the refcount under the bio lock so that bio completion can drop
its reference and decide to wake all in one atomic step.
Once testing and waking is locked dio_await_one() can test its sleeping
condition and mark itself uninterruptible under the lock. It gets simpler
and wait_for_more_bios() disappears.
The addition of the interrupt masking spin lock acquiry in dio_bio_submit()
looks alarming. This lock acquiry existed in that path before the recent
dio completion patch set. We shouldn't expect significant performance
regression from returning to the behaviour that existed before the
completion clean up work.
This passed 4k block ext3 O_DIRECT fsx and aio-stress on an SMP machine.
Signed-off-by: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: <xfs-masters@oss.sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Tigran Aivazian
Eric W. Biederman
Al Viro
Robert P. J. Day
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Chen, Kenneth W
Mark Fasheh
Valerie Henson
Andrew Morton
Eric Dumazet
Linus Torvalds
Jan Engelhardt
Andrew Beekhof
Arjan van de Ven
Vadim Lobanov
Zach Brown