We must ensure that the readdir data is always invalidated whether or not
the weak cache consistency data update succeeds.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
We don't need to force a dentry lookup just because we're making changes to
the directory.
Don't update nfsi->cache_change_attribute in nfs_end_data_update: that
overrides the NFSv3/v4 weak consistency checking that tells us our update
was the only one, and that tells us the dcache is still valid.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
We always want to check that the verifier and directory
cache_change_attribute match. This also allows us to remove the 'wraparound
hack' for the cache_change_attribute. If we're only checking for equality,
then we don't care about wraparound issues.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
I would like to discuss the idea that the current checks for attribute
timeout using time_after are inadequate for 32bit architectures, since
time_after works correctly only when the two timestamps being compared
are within 2^31 jiffies of each other. The signed overflow caused by
comparing values more than 2^31 jiffies apart will flip the result,
causing incorrect assumptions of validity.
2^31 jiffies is a fairly large period of time (~25 days) when compared
to the lifetime of most kernel data structures, but for long lived NFS
mounts that can sit idle for months (think that for some reason autofs
cannot be used), it is easy to compare inode attribute timestamps with
very disparate or even bogus values (as in when jiffies have wrapped
many times, where the comparison doesn't even make sense).
Currently the code tests for attribute timeout by simply adding the
desired amount of jiffies to the stored timestamp and comparing that
with the current timestamp of obtained attribute data with time_after.
This is incorrect, as it returns true for the desired timeout period
and another full 2^31 range of jiffies.
In testing with artificial jumps (several small jumps, not one big
crank) of the jiffies I was able to reproduce a problem found in a
server with very long lived NFS mounts, where attributes would not be
refreshed even after touching files and directories in the server:
Initial uptime:
03:42:01 up 6 min, 0 users, load average: 0.01, 0.12, 0.07
NFS volume is mounted and time is advanced:
03:38:09 up 25 days, 2 min, 0 users, load average: 1.22, 1.05, 1.08
# ls -l /local/A/foo/bar /nfs/A/foo/bar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 17 03:38 /local/A/foo/bar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Nov 22 00:36 /nfs/A/foo/bar
# touch /local/A/foo/bar
# ls -l /local/A/foo/bar /nfs/A/foo/bar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 17 03:47 /local/A/foo/bar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Nov 22 00:36 /nfs/A/foo/bar
We can see the local mtime is updated, but the NFS mount still shows
the old value. The patch below makes it work:
Initial setup...
07:11:02 up 25 days, 1 min, 0 users, load average: 0.15, 0.03, 0.04
# ls -l /local/A/foo/bar /nfs/A/foo/bar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 11 07:11 /local/A/foo/bar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 11 07:11 /nfs/A/foo/bar
# touch /local/A/foo/bar
# ls -l /local/A/foo/bar /nfs/A/foo/bar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 11 07:14 /local/A/foo/bar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 11 07:14 /nfs/A/foo/bar
Signed-off-by: Fabio Olive Leite <fleite@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Hi.
Attached is a patch to modify the NFS client code to support
64 bit ino's, as appropriate for the system and the NFS
protocol version.
The code basically just expand the NFS interfaces for routines
which handle ino's from using ino_t to u64 and then uses the
fileid in the nfs_inode instead of i_ino in the inode. The
code paths that were updated are in the getattr method and
the readdir methods.
This should be no real change on 64 bit platforms. Since
the ino_t is an unsigned long, it would already be 64 bits
wide.
Thanx...
ps
Signed-off-by: Peter Staubach <staubach@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
The only user of nfs_sync_mapping_range() is nfs_getattr(), which uses it
to flush out the entire inode without sending a commit. We therefore
replace nfs_sync_mapping_range with a more appropriate helper.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
We need to grab the inode->i_lock atomically with the last reference put in
order to remove the open context that is being freed from the
nfsi->open_files list.
Fix by converting the kref to a standard atomic counter and then using
atomic_dec_and_lock()...
Thanks to Arnd Bergmann for pointing out the problem.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Slab destructors were no longer supported after Christoph's
c59def9f22 change. They've been
BUGs for both slab and slub, and slob never supported them
either.
This rips out support for the dtor pointer from kmem_cache_create()
completely and fixes up every single callsite in the kernel (there were
about 224, not including the slab allocator definitions themselves,
or the documentation references).
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Currently we force a synchronous call to __nfs_revalidate_inode() in
nfs_inode_set_delegation(). This not only ensures that we cannot call
nfs_inode_set_delegation from an asynchronous context, but it also slows
down any call to open().
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
There is no justification for keeping a special spinlock for the exclusive
use of the NFS writeback code.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
We don't need to revalidate the fsid on the root directory. It suffices to
revalidate it on the current directory.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
nfs4_do_close() does not currently have any way to ensure that the user
won't attempt to unmount the partition while the asynchronous RPC call
is completing. This again may cause Oopses in nfs_update_inode().
Add a vfsmount argument to nfs4_close_state to ensure that the partition
remains mounted while we're closing the file.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
First thing mm.h does is including sched.h solely for can_do_mlock() inline
function which has "current" dereference inside. By dealing with can_do_mlock()
mm.h can be detached from sched.h which is good. See below, why.
This patch
a) removes unconditional inclusion of sched.h from mm.h
b) makes can_do_mlock() normal function in mm/mlock.c
c) exports can_do_mlock() to not break compilation
d) adds sched.h inclusions back to files that were getting it indirectly.
e) adds less bloated headers to some files (asm/signal.h, jiffies.h) that were
getting them indirectly
Net result is:
a) mm.h users would get less code to open, read, preprocess, parse, ... if
they don't need sched.h
b) sched.h stops being dependency for significant number of files:
on x86_64 allmodconfig touching sched.h results in recompile of 4083 files,
after patch it's only 3744 (-8.3%).
Cross-compile tested on
all arm defconfigs, all mips defconfigs, all powerpc defconfigs,
alpha alpha-up
arm
i386 i386-up i386-defconfig i386-allnoconfig
ia64 ia64-up
m68k
mips
parisc parisc-up
powerpc powerpc-up
s390 s390-up
sparc sparc-up
sparc64 sparc64-up
um-x86_64
x86_64 x86_64-up x86_64-defconfig x86_64-allnoconfig
as well as my two usual configs.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
I have never seen a use of SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL. It is only supported by
SLAB.
I think its purpose was to have a callback after an object has been freed
to verify that the state is the constructor state again? The callback is
performed before each freeing of an object.
I would think that it is much easier to check the object state manually
before the free. That also places the check near the code object
manipulation of the object.
Also the SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL callback is only performed if the kernel was
compiled with SLAB debugging on. If there would be code in a constructor
handling SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL then it would have to be conditional on
SLAB_DEBUG otherwise it would just be dead code. But there is no such code
in the kernel. I think SLUB_DEBUG_INITIAL is too problematic to make real
use of, difficult to understand and there are easier ways to accomplish the
same effect (i.e. add debug code before kfree).
There is a related flag SLAB_CTOR_VERIFY that is frequently checked to be
clear in fs inode caches. Remove the pointless checks (they would even be
pointless without removeal of SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL) from the fs constructors.
This is the last slab flag that SLUB did not support. Remove the check for
unimplemented flags from SLUB.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
It looks like nfs_setattr() and nfs_rename() also need to test whether the
target is a regular file before calling nfs_wb_all()...
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Looks like we need a check in nfs_getattr() for a regular file. It makes
no sense to call nfs_sync_mapping_range() on anything else. I think that
should fix your problem: it will stop the NFS client from interfering
with dirty pages on that inode's mapping.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Trond Myklebust
Fabio Olive Leite
Peter Staubach
Paul Mundt
Alexey Dobriyan
Christoph Lameter
Jesper Juhl
Trond Myklebust