Userspace filesystem can request data to be retrieved from the inode's
mapping. This request is synchronous and the retrieved data is queued
as a new request. If the write to the fuse device returns an error
then the retrieve request was not completed and a reply will not be
sent.
Only present pages are returned in the retrieve reply. Retrieving
stops when it finds a non-present page and only data prior to that is
returned.
This request doesn't change the dirty state of pages.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Userspace filesystem can request data to be stored in the inode's
mapping. This request is synchronous and has no reply. If the write
to the fuse device returns an error then the store request was not
fully completed (but may have updated some pages).
If the stored data overflows the current file size, then the size is
extended, similarly to a write(2) on the filesystem.
Pages which have been completely stored are marked uptodate.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Allow userspace filesystem implementation to use splice() to write to
the fuse device. The semantics of using splice() are:
1) buffer the message header and data in a temporary pipe
2) with a *single* splice() call move the message from the temporary pipe
to the fuse device
The READ reply message has the most interesting use for this, since
now the data from an arbitrary file descriptor (which could be a
regular file, a block device or a socket) can be tranferred into the
fuse device without having to go through a userspace buffer. It will
also allow zero copy moving of pages.
One caveat is that the protocol on the fuse device requires the length
of the whole message to be written into the header. But the length of
the data transferred into the temporary pipe may not be known in
advance. The current library implementation works around this by
using vmplice to write the header and modifying the header after
splicing the data into the pipe (error handling omitted):
struct fuse_out_header out;
iov.iov_base = &out;
iov.iov_len = sizeof(struct fuse_out_header);
vmsplice(pip[1], &iov, 1, 0);
len = splice(input_fd, input_offset, pip[1], NULL, len, 0);
/* retrospectively modify the header: */
out.len = len + sizeof(struct fuse_out_header);
splice(pip[0], NULL, fuse_chan_fd(req->ch), NULL, out.len, flags);
This works since vmsplice only saves a pointer to the data, it does
not copy the data itself.
Since pipes are currently limited to 16 pages and messages need to be
spliced atomically, the length of the data is limited to 15 pages (or
60kB for 4k pages).
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Clarify how the protocol version should be negotiated between kernel
and userspace. Notably libfuse didn't correctly handle the case when
the supported major versions didn't match.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
The practical values for these limits depend on the design of the
filesystem server so let userspace set them at initialization time.
Signed-off-by: Csaba Henk <csaba@gluster.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Add notification messages that allow the filesystem to invalidate VFS
caches.
Two notifications are added:
1) inode invalidation
- invalidate cached attributes
- invalidate a range of pages in the page cache (this is optional)
2) dentry invalidation
- try to invalidate a subtree in the dentry cache
Care must be taken while accessing the 'struct super_block' for the
mount, as it can go away while an invalidation is in progress. To
prevent this, introduce a rw-semaphore, that is taken for read during
the invalidation and taken for write in the ->kill_sb callback.
Cc: Csaba Henk <csaba@gluster.com>
Cc: Anand Avati <avati@zresearch.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
CUSE enables implementing character devices in userspace. With recent
additions of ioctl and poll support, FUSE already has most of what's
necessary to implement character devices. All CUSE has to do is
bonding all those components - FUSE, chardev and the driver model -
nicely.
When client opens /dev/cuse, kernel starts conversation with
CUSE_INIT. The client tells CUSE which device it wants to create. As
the previous patch made fuse_file usable without associated
fuse_inode, CUSE doesn't create super block or inodes. It attaches
fuse_file to cdev file->private_data during open and set ff->fi to
NULL. The rest of the operation is almost identical to FUSE direct IO
case.
Each CUSE device has a corresponding directory /sys/class/cuse/DEVNAME
(which is symlink to /sys/devices/virtual/class/DEVNAME if
SYSFS_DEPRECATED is turned off) which hosts "waiting" and "abort"
among other things. Those two files have the same meaning as the FUSE
control files.
The only notable lacking feature compared to in-kernel implementation
is mmap support.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Change interface version to 7.11 after adding the IOCTL and POLL
messages.
Also clean up the <linux/fuse.h> header a bit:
- update copyright date to 2008
- fix checkpatch warning:
WARNING: Use #include <linux/types.h> instead of <asm/types.h>
- remove FUSE_MAJOR define, which is not being used any more
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Implement poll support. Polled files are indexed using kh in a RB
tree rooted at fuse_conn->polled_files.
Client should send FUSE_NOTIFY_POLL notification once after processing
FUSE_POLL which has FUSE_POLL_SCHEDULE_NOTIFY set. Sending
notification unconditionally after the latest poll or everytime file
content might have changed is inefficient but won't cause malfunction.
fuse_file_poll() can sleep and requires patches from the following
thread which allows f_op->poll() to sleep.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/726176
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Clients always used to write only in response to read requests. To
implement poll efficiently, clients should be able to issue
unsolicited notifications. This patch implements basic notification
support.
Zero fuse_out_header.unique is now accepted and considered unsolicited
notification and the error field contains notification code. This
patch doesn't implement any actual notification.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Generic ioctl support is tricky to implement because only the ioctl
implementation itself knows which memory regions need to be read
and/or written. To support this, fuse client can request retry of
ioctl specifying memory regions to read and write. Deep copying
(nested pointers) can be implemented by retrying multiple times
resolving one depth of dereference at a time.
For security and cleanliness considerations, ioctl implementation has
restricted mode where the kernel determines data transfer directions
and sizes using the _IOC_*() macros on the ioctl command. In this
mode, retry is not allowed.
For all FUSE servers, restricted mode is enforced. Unrestricted ioctl
will be used by CUSE.
Plese read the comment on top of fs/fuse/file.c::fuse_file_do_ioctl()
for more information.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Move FUSE_MINOR to miscdevice.h. While at it, de-uglify the file.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Let the client request nonseekable open using FOPEN_NONSEEKABLE and
call nonseekable_open() on the file if requested.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Add include protectors to include/linux/fuse.h and fs/fuse/fuse_i.h.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Implement the get_parent export operation by sending a LOOKUP request with
".." as the name.
Implement looking up an inode by node ID after it has been evicted from
the cache. This is done by seding a LOOKUP request with "." as the name
(for all file types, not just directories).
The filesystem can set the FUSE_EXPORT_SUPPORT flag in the INIT reply, to
indicate that it supports these special lookups.
Thanks to John Muir for the original implementation of this feature.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Prior to 2.6.26 fuse only supported single page write requests. In theory all
fuse filesystem should be able support bigger than 4k writes, as there's
nothing in the API to prevent it. Unfortunately there's a known case in
NTFS-3G where big writes cause filesystem corruption. There could also be
other filesystems, where the lack of testing with big write requests would
result in bugs.
To prevent such problems on a kernel upgrade, disable big writes by default,
but let filesystems set a flag to turn it on.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Cc: Szabolcs Szakacsits <szaka@ntfs-3g.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Some open flags (O_APPEND, O_DIRECT) can be changed with fcntl(F_SETFL, ...)
after open, but fuse currently only sends the flags to userspace in open.
To make it possible to correcly handle changing flags, send the
current value to userspace in each read and write.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
There are cases when the filesystem will be passed the buffer from a single
read or write call, namely:
1) in 'direct-io' mode (not O_DIRECT), read/write requests don't go
through the page cache, but go directly to the userspace fs
2) currently buffered writes are done with single page requests, but
if Nick's ->perform_write() patch goes it, it will be possible to
do larger write requests. But only if the original write() was
also bigger than a page.
In these cases the filesystem might want to give a hint to the app
about the optimal I/O size.
Allow the userspace filesystem to supply a blksize value to be returned by
stat() and friends. If the field is zero, it defaults to the old
PAGE_CACHE_SIZE value.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
For mandatory locking the userspace filesystem needs to know the lock
ownership for read, write and truncate operations.
This patch adds the necessary fields to the protocol.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch adds a new helper function fuse_write_fill() which makes it
possible to send WRITE requests asynchronously.
A new flag for WRITE requests is also added which indicates that this a write
from the page cache, and not a "normal" file write.
This patch is in preparation for writable mmap support.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
It is trivial to add support for flock(2) semantics to the existing protocol,
by setting the lock owner field to the file pointer, and passing a new
FUSE_LK_FLOCK flag with the locking request.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch allows fuse filesystems to implement open(..., O_TRUNC) as a single
request, instead of separate truncate and open requests.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add two new flags for setattr: FATTR_ATIME_NOW and FATTR_MTIME_NOW. These
mean, that atime or mtime should be changed to the current time.
Also it is now possible to update atime or mtime individually, not just
together.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add necessary protocol changes for supplying a file handle with the getattr
operation. Step the API version to 7.9.
This patch doesn't actually supply the file handle, because that needs some
kind of VFS support, which we haven't yet been able to agree upon.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
