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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-07-23 12:27:27 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-07-23 12:27:27 -0700
commita66d2c8f7ec1284206ca7c14569e2a607583f1e3 (patch)
tree08cf68bcef3559b370843cab8191e5cc0f740bde /Documentation
parenta6be1fcbc57f95bb47ef3c8e4ee3d83731b8f21e (diff)
parent8cae6f7158ec1fa44c8a04a43db7d8020ec60437 (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/Locking11
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/porting21
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt23
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.