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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-07-23 12:27:27 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-07-23 12:27:27 -0700 |
commit | a66d2c8f7ec1284206ca7c14569e2a607583f1e3 (patch) | |
tree | 08cf68bcef3559b370843cab8191e5cc0f740bde /Documentation | |
parent | a6be1fcbc57f95bb47ef3c8e4ee3d83731b8f21e (diff) | |
parent | 8cae6f7158ec1fa44c8a04a43db7d8020ec60437 (diff) |
Merge branch 'for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull the big VFS changes from Al Viro:
"This one is *big* and changes quite a few things around VFS. What's in there:
- the first of two really major architecture changes - death to open
intents.
The former is finally there; it was very long in making, but with
Miklos getting through really hard and messy final push in
fs/namei.c, we finally have it. Unlike his variant, this one
doesn't introduce struct opendata; what we have instead is
->atomic_open() taking preallocated struct file * and passing
everything via its fields.
Instead of returning struct file *, it returns -E... on error, 0
on success and 1 in "deal with it yourself" case (e.g. symlink
found on server, etc.).
See comments before fs/namei.c:atomic_open(). That made a lot of
goodies finally possible and quite a few are in that pile:
->lookup(), ->d_revalidate() and ->create() do not get struct
nameidata * anymore; ->lookup() and ->d_revalidate() get lookup
flags instead, ->create() gets "do we want it exclusive" flag.
With the introduction of new helper (kern_path_locked()) we are rid
of all struct nameidata instances outside of fs/namei.c; it's still
visible in namei.h, but not for long. Come the next cycle,
declaration will move either to fs/internal.h or to fs/namei.c
itself. [me, miklos, hch]
- The second major change: behaviour of final fput(). Now we have
__fput() done without any locks held by caller *and* not from deep
in call stack.
That obviously lifts a lot of constraints on the locking in there.
Moreover, it's legal now to call fput() from atomic contexts (which
has immediately simplified life for aio.c). We also don't need
anti-recursion logics in __scm_destroy() anymore.
There is a price, though - the damn thing has become partially
asynchronous. For fput() from normal process we are guaranteed
that pending __fput() will be done before the caller returns to
userland, exits or gets stopped for ptrace.
For kernel threads and atomic contexts it's done via
schedule_work(), so theoretically we might need a way to make sure
it's finished; so far only one such place had been found, but there
might be more.
There's flush_delayed_fput() (do all pending __fput()) and there's
__fput_sync() (fput() analog doing __fput() immediately). I hope
we won't need them often; see warnings in fs/file_table.c for
details. [me, based on task_work series from Oleg merged last
cycle]
- sync series from Jan
- large part of "death to sync_supers()" work from Artem; the only
bits missing here are exofs and ext4 ones. As far as I understand,
those are going via the exofs and ext4 trees resp.; once they are
in, we can put ->write_super() to the rest, along with the thread
calling it.
- preparatory bits from unionmount series (from dhowells).
- assorted cleanups and fixes all over the place, as usual.
This is not the last pile for this cycle; there's at least jlayton's
ESTALE work and fsfreeze series (the latter - in dire need of fixes,
so I'm not sure it'll make the cut this cycle). I'll probably throw
symlink/hardlink restrictions stuff from Kees into the next pile, too.
Plus there's a lot of misc patches I hadn't thrown into that one -
it's large enough as it is..."
* 'for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (127 commits)
ext4: switch EXT4_IOC_RESIZE_FS to mnt_want_write_file()
btrfs: switch btrfs_ioctl_balance() to mnt_want_write_file()
switch dentry_open() to struct path, make it grab references itself
spufs: shift dget/mntget towards dentry_open()
zoran: don't bother with struct file * in zoran_map
ecryptfs: don't reinvent the wheels, please - use struct completion
don't expose I_NEW inodes via dentry->d_inode
tidy up namei.c a bit
unobfuscate follow_up() a bit
ext3: pass custom EOF to generic_file_llseek_size()
ext4: use core vfs llseek code for dir seeks
vfs: allow custom EOF in generic_file_llseek code
vfs: Avoid unnecessary WB_SYNC_NONE writeback during sys_sync and reorder sync passes
vfs: Remove unnecessary flushing of block devices
vfs: Make sys_sync writeout also block device inodes
vfs: Create function for iterating over block devices
vfs: Reorder operations during sys_sync
quota: Move quota syncing to ->sync_fs method
quota: Split dquot_quota_sync() to writeback and cache flushing part
vfs: Move noop_backing_dev_info check from sync into writeback
...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/Locking | 11 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/porting | 21 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | 23 |
3 files changed, 39 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking index 8e2da1e06e3..e0cce2a5f82 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ be able to use diff(1). --------------------------- dentry_operations -------------------------- prototypes: - int (*d_revalidate)(struct dentry *, struct nameidata *); + int (*d_revalidate)(struct dentry *, unsigned int); int (*d_hash)(const struct dentry *, const struct inode *, struct qstr *); int (*d_compare)(const struct dentry *, const struct inode *, @@ -37,9 +37,8 @@ d_manage: no no yes (ref-walk) maybe --------------------------- inode_operations --------------------------- prototypes: - int (*create) (struct inode *,struct dentry *,umode_t, struct nameidata *); - struct dentry * (*lookup) (struct inode *,struct dentry *, struct nameid -ata *); + int (*create) (struct inode *,struct dentry *,umode_t, bool); + struct dentry * (*lookup) (struct inode *,struct dentry *, unsigned int); int (*link) (struct dentry *,struct inode *,struct dentry *); int (*unlink) (struct inode *,struct dentry *); int (*symlink) (struct inode *,struct dentry *,const char *); @@ -62,6 +61,9 @@ ata *); int (*removexattr) (struct dentry *, const char *); int (*fiemap)(struct inode *, struct fiemap_extent_info *, u64 start, u64 len); void (*update_time)(struct inode *, struct timespec *, int); + int (*atomic_open)(struct inode *, struct dentry *, + struct file *, unsigned open_flag, + umode_t create_mode, int *opened); locking rules: all may block @@ -89,6 +91,7 @@ listxattr: no removexattr: yes fiemap: no update_time: no +atomic_open: yes Additionally, ->rmdir(), ->unlink() and ->rename() have ->i_mutex on victim. diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting index 8c91d1057d9..2bef2b3843d 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting @@ -355,12 +355,10 @@ protects *all* the dcache state of a given dentry. via rcu-walk path walk (basically, if the file can have had a path name in the vfs namespace). - i_dentry and i_rcu share storage in a union, and the vfs expects -i_dentry to be reinitialized before it is freed, so an: - - INIT_LIST_HEAD(&inode->i_dentry); - -must be done in the RCU callback. + Even though i_dentry and i_rcu share storage in a union, we will +initialize the former in inode_init_always(), so just leave it alone in +the callback. It used to be necessary to clean it there, but not anymore +(starting at 3.2). -- [recommended] @@ -433,3 +431,14 @@ release it yourself. d_alloc_root() is gone, along with a lot of bugs caused by code misusing it. Replacement: d_make_root(inode). The difference is, d_make_root() drops the reference to inode if dentry allocation fails. + +-- +[mandatory] + The witch is dead! Well, 2/3 of it, anyway. ->d_revalidate() and +->lookup() do *not* take struct nameidata anymore; just the flags. +-- +[mandatory] + ->create() doesn't take struct nameidata *; unlike the previous +two, it gets "is it an O_EXCL or equivalent?" boolean argument. Note that +local filesystems can ignore tha argument - they are guaranteed that the +object doesn't exist. It's remote/distributed ones that might care... diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt index efd23f48170..aa754e01464 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt @@ -341,8 +341,8 @@ This describes how the VFS can manipulate an inode in your filesystem. As of kernel 2.6.22, the following members are defined: struct inode_operations { - int (*create) (struct inode *,struct dentry *, umode_t, struct nameidata *); - struct dentry * (*lookup) (struct inode *,struct dentry *, struct nameidata *); + int (*create) (struct inode *,struct dentry *, umode_t, bool); + struct dentry * (*lookup) (struct inode *,struct dentry *, unsigned int); int (*link) (struct dentry *,struct inode *,struct dentry *); int (*unlink) (struct inode *,struct dentry *); int (*symlink) (struct inode *,struct dentry *,const char *); @@ -364,6 +364,9 @@ struct inode_operations { ssize_t (*listxattr) (struct dentry *, char *, size_t); int (*removexattr) (struct dentry *, const char *); void (*update_time)(struct inode *, struct timespec *, int); + int (*atomic_open)(struct inode *, struct dentry *, + struct file *, unsigned open_flag, + umode_t create_mode, int *opened); }; Again, all methods are called without any locks being held, unless @@ -476,6 +479,14 @@ otherwise noted. an inode. If this is not defined the VFS will update the inode itself and call mark_inode_dirty_sync. + atomic_open: called on the last component of an open. Using this optional + method the filesystem can look up, possibly create and open the file in + one atomic operation. If it cannot perform this (e.g. the file type + turned out to be wrong) it may signal this by returning 1 instead of + usual 0 or -ve . This method is only called if the last + component is negative or needs lookup. Cached positive dentries are + still handled by f_op->open(). + The Address Space Object ======================== @@ -891,7 +902,7 @@ the VFS uses a default. As of kernel 2.6.22, the following members are defined: struct dentry_operations { - int (*d_revalidate)(struct dentry *, struct nameidata *); + int (*d_revalidate)(struct dentry *, unsigned int); int (*d_hash)(const struct dentry *, const struct inode *, struct qstr *); int (*d_compare)(const struct dentry *, const struct inode *, @@ -910,11 +921,11 @@ struct dentry_operations { dcache. Most filesystems leave this as NULL, because all their dentries in the dcache are valid - d_revalidate may be called in rcu-walk mode (nd->flags & LOOKUP_RCU). + d_revalidate may be called in rcu-walk mode (flags & LOOKUP_RCU). If in rcu-walk mode, the filesystem must revalidate the dentry without blocking or storing to the dentry, d_parent and d_inode should not be - used without care (because they can go NULL), instead nd->inode should - be used. + used without care (because they can change and, in d_inode case, even + become NULL under us). If a situation is encountered that rcu-walk cannot handle, return -ECHILD and it will be called again in ref-walk mode. |