aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
AgeCommit message (Collapse)Author
2009-09-23ath9k: Don't read NF when chip has gone through full sleep modeVasanthakumar Thiagarajan
NF value may be incorrect when we read it just after the chip has gone through a full sleep mode. Reading incorrect NF values affects RX throughput. Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-09-23ath9k: Fix rx data corruptionVasanthakumar Thiagarajan
Setting bit 20 and 25 of 0x8344 can cause occasional rx data corruption, clear them to fix this issue. Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-09-23ath9k: Fix chip wakeup issueSujith
Waking up the chip after powering it down fails sometimes. In this case the CPU is locked for 200ms. Reduce this interval to 10ms to avoid excessive busy looping. Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-09-23ath9k: Restore TSF after RESETSujith
For chips requiring RTC reset, TSF has to be restored after power on reset. Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-09-23ath9k: Revamp PCIE workaroundsVivek Natarajan
* Disable L1 state ONLY when device is in D3 mode. * Clear bit 22 of register 0x4004. * Handle power on/off properly Not setting the workarounds properly resulted in the disappearance of the card in certain cases. Signed-off-by: Vivek Natarajan <vnatarajan@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-09-23ath9k: Set default noise floor value for AR9287Vivek Natarajan
The default noise floor was never initialized for AR9287.This patch helps in reporting the correct RSSI for this version of chipset. Signed-off-by: Vivek Natarajan <vnatarajan@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-09-23b43: Implement RFKILL status for LP PHYLarry Finger
The LP (and probably N) PHY has the same radio disabled bit as the higher-revision A and G PHYs. Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-09-23b43: Remove BROKEN attribute from SDIOMichael Buesch
SDIO works (more or less), so remove the BROKEN dependency and let people test it. Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-09-23b43: fix build error if !CONFIG_B43_LEDSAlbert Herranz
Fix the following build error when CONFIG_B43_LEDS is not selected: drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c: In function 'b43_remove': drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c:4990: error: 'struct b43_leds' has no member named 'stop' drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c:4991: error: 'struct b43_leds' has no member named 'work' make[4]: *** [drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.o] Error 1 Signed-off-by: Albert Herranz <albert_herranz@yahoo.es> Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-09-23b43: Don't abuse wl->current_dev in the led workMichael Buesch
Don't abuse wl->current_dev in the LED work for checking whether we're going down. Add an explicit variable. This fixes a crash on rmmod dereferencing the wl->current_dev NULL pointer in various other places of the driver. Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-09-23b43: Add LP PHY Analog Switch SupportThomas Ilnseher
The current verison of b43 uses "b43_phyop_switch_analog_generic" for A, G and LP phys. According to the spec, this is the wrong behaviour for the LP PHY (see: http://bcm-v4.sipsolutions.net/802.11/PHY/Anacore ) While no problems on the x86 plattform where seen, this leads to a crash on the BCM5354 SoC (MIPS 32 LE plattform). This patch implements the analog switch for LP PHYs according to the specs. It fixes the crash signed-off-by: Thomas Ilnseher <illth@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-09-23b43: Disable PMQ mechanismMichael Buesch
This reduces IRQ pressure by about one third on a saturated link by disabling the PMQ mechanism. We currently don't use that mechanism. Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-09-23b43: Add optional verbose runtime statisticsMichael Buesch
This adds support for verbose runtime statistics. It defaults to off and must be enabled in debugfs, if desired. The first measurement may be incorrect, because statistics are not cleared after they got enabled through debugfs. Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-09-23b43: Fix IRQ sync for SDIOMichael Buesch
synchronize_irq is meaningless for SDIO. sdio_release_irq will sync the IRQ thread for us. Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-09-23b43: Fix SDIO interrupt handler deadlockMichael Buesch
We need to release the SDIO host before locking the driver mutex. Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-09-23b43: Do not use _irqsafe callbacksMichael Buesch
We don't need to call the irqsafe callbacks. Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-09-23b43: Add Soft-MAC SDIO device supportAlbert Herranz
This adds support for Soft-MAC SDIO devices to b43. The driver still lacks some fixes for SDIO devices, so it's currently marked as BROKEN. Signed-off-by: Albert Herranz <albert_herranz@yahoo.es> Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-09-23b43: Rewrite suspend/resume codeMichael Buesch
This removes most of the b43 suspend/resume code (it's handled by mac80211) and moves the registration of devices to the attachment phase. This is required, because we must not register/unregister devices on suspend/resume. Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-09-23cfg80211: fix SME connectJohannes Berg
There's a check saying /* we're good if we have both BSSID and channel */ if (wdev->conn->params.bssid && wdev->conn->params.channel) { but that isn't true -- we need the BSS struct. This leads to errors such as Trying to associate with 00:1b:53:11:dc:40 (SSID='TEST' freq=2412 MHz) ioctl[SIOCSIWFREQ]: No such file or directory ioctl[SIOCSIWESSID]: No such file or directory Association request to the driver failed Associated with 00:1b:53:11:dc:40 in wpa_supplicant, as reported by Holger. Instead, we really need to have the BSS struct, and if we don't, then we need to initiate a scan for it. But we may already have the BSS struct here, so hang on to it if we do and scan if we don't. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Tested-by: Holger Schurig <hs4233@mail.mn-solutions.de> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-09-23rc80211_minstrel: fix contention window calculationPavel Roskin
The contention window is supposed to be a power of two minus one, i.e. 15, 31, 63, 127... minstrel_rate_init() forgets to subtract 1, so the sequence becomes 15, 32, 66, 134... Bug reported by Dan Halperin <dhalperi@cs.washington.edu> Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-09-23ssb/sdio: fix printk format warningsRandy Dunlap
Fix printk format warnings: drivers/ssb/sdio.c:336: warning: format '%u' expects type 'unsigned int', but argument 7 has type 'size_t' drivers/ssb/sdio.c:443: warning: format '%u' expects type 'unsigned int', but argument 7 has type 'size_t' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-09-23p54usb: add Zcomax XG-705A usbidChristian Lamparter
This patch adds a new usbid for Zcomax XG-705A to the device table. Cc: stable@kernel.org Reported-by: Jari Jaakola <jari.jaakola@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-09-23ssb: Fix error when V1 SPROM extraction is forcedLarry Finger
When an SPROM revision is not recognized, the code falls back to a V1 SPROM; however, that revision is not forced in the appropriate structure. Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-09-23iwlwifi: disable powersave for 4965Johannes Berg
There's a bug in 4965 powersave that appears to be related to the way it keeps track of its data during sleep, but we haven't found it yet. Due to that, using powersave may spontaneously cause the device to SYSASSERT when transitioning from sleep to wake. Therefore, disable powersave for 4965, until (if ever, unfortunately) we can identify and fix the problem. Cf. http://bugzilla.intellinuxwireless.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1982 which was closed, but now has re-appeared with IDLE mode, which probably means we never really fixed it. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-09-23iwlwifi: find the correct first antennaWey-Yi Guy
We can not assume antenna "A" is the first valid anttena for all the NIC. Need to make sure choice the correct antenna based on h/w configuration for transmit to avoid sending frame on invalid antenna Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-09-23iwlwifi: fix potential rx buffer lossReinette Chatre
RX handling maintains a few lists that keep track of the RX buffers. Buffers move from one list to the other as they are used, replenished, and again made available for usage. In one such instance, when a buffer is used it enters the "rx_used" list. When buffers are replenished an skb is attached to the buffer and it is moved to the "rx_free" list. The problem here is that the buffer is first removed from the "rx_used" list _before_ the skb is allocated. Thus, if the skb allocation fails this buffer remains removed from the "rx_used" list and is thus lost for future usage. Fix this by first allocating the skb before trying to attach it to a list. We add an additional check to not do this unnecessarily. Reported-by: Rick Farrington <rickdic@hotmail.com> Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-09-23iwlwifi: fix HT operation in 2.4 GHz bandDaniel C Halperin
When we cleaned up the driver to properly tell mac80211 about HT rates ("iwlwifi: use iwl_hwrate_get_mac80211_idx where appropriate"), we broke internal rate indexing in 2.4 GHz band. Signed-off-by: Daniel C Halperin <daniel.c.halperin@intel.com> Tested-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-09-23b43: Fix resume failureMichael Buesch
This fixes a resume failure where a signal is pending on resume so the firmware upload fails. This removes the interruptible sleep, because we don't really need it. In the worst case (with broken firmware) the sleep loop will take 1 second. In the common case (working firmware), it will only take a few milliseconds. So we don't really need to be interruptible. Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-09-23ssb: Disable verbose SDIO coreswitchMichael Buesch
Disable SDIO coreswitch debugging. Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-09-23wireless: default CONFIG_WLAN to yLuis R. Rodriguez
When this was added no defaults were set and it seems this implies n. Default this to y. Reported-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-09-23cfg80211: minimal error handling for wext-compat freq scanningHolger Schurig
Signed-off-by: Holger Schurig <hs4233@mail.mn-solutions.de> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-09-23cfg80211: use cfg80211_wext_freq() for freq conversionHolger Schurig
WEXT's "struct iw_freq" can also be used to handle a channel. This patch now uses cfg80211_wext_freq() instead of hand-converting the frequency. That allows user-space to specify channels as well, like with SIOCSIWFREQ. Signed-off-by: Holger Schurig <hs4233@mail.mn-solutions.de> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-09-23ath9k: Fix bug in ANI channel handlingSujith
When processing MIB interrupts, OFDM and CCK error handling routines for low RSSI values have to be invoked only when the channel mode is 11G/11B. Since HT channels will also fall under the bands 2Ghz/5Ghz, check appropriately. Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-09-23b43: Force-wake queues on initMichael Buesch
Force wake the mac80211 queues on init. Under rare circumstances they may be stopped, if a DMA error or something else causes a device reset while a queue was stopped. Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-09-23hostap: Revert a toxic part of the conversion to net_device_opsMartin Decky
As the hostap driver was converted to use net_device_ops, a mistake was made in hostap_main.c (commit 5ae4efbcd2611562a8b93596be034e63495706a5). Originally, the tx_queue_len was set to 0 for every other interface than HOSTAP_INTERFACE_MASTER, but the new fragment of code sets tx_queue_len to 0 only for HOSTAP_INTERFACE_MASTER. The opposite of the previous behavior makes the driver to drop all packets in AP mode. Change the way 0 is assigned to tx_queue_len according to the original logic. Signed-off-by: Martin Decky <martin@decky.cz> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-09-14Merge branch 'osync_cleanup' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs-2.6 * 'osync_cleanup' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs-2.6: fsync: wait for data writeout completion before calling ->fsync vfs: Remove generic_osync_inode() and sync_page_range{_nolock}() fat: Opencode sync_page_range_nolock() pohmelfs: Use new syncing helper xfs: Convert sync_page_range() to simple filemap_write_and_wait_range() ocfs2: Update syncing after splicing to match generic version ntfs: Use new syncing helpers and update comments ext4: Remove syncing logic from ext4_file_write ext3: Remove syncing logic from ext3_file_write ext2: Update comment about generic_osync_inode vfs: Introduce new helpers for syncing after writing to O_SYNC file or IS_SYNC inode vfs: Rename generic_file_aio_write_nolock ocfs2: Use __generic_file_aio_write instead of generic_file_aio_write_nolock pohmelfs: Use __generic_file_aio_write instead of generic_file_aio_write_nolock vfs: Remove syncing from generic_file_direct_write() and generic_file_buffered_write() vfs: Export __generic_file_aio_write() and add some comments vfs: Introduce filemap_fdatawait_range
2009-09-14Merge branch 'master' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-2.6-nmw * 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-2.6-nmw: GFS2: Whitespace fixes GFS2: Remove unused sysfs file GFS2: Be extra careful about deallocating inodes GFS2: Remove no_formal_ino generating code GFS2: Rename eattr.[ch] as xattr.[ch] GFS2: Clean up of extended attribute support GFS2: Add explanation of extended attr on-disk format GFS2: Add "-o errors=panic|withdraw" mount options GFS2: jumping to wrong label? GFS2: free disk inode which is deleted by remote node -V2 GFS2: Add a document explaining GFS2's uevents GFS2: Add sysfs link to device GFS2: Replace assertion with proper error handling GFS2: Improve error handling in inode allocation GFS2: Add some more info to uevents GFS2: Add online uevent to GFS2
2009-09-14Merge branch 'for_linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-udf-2.6 * 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-udf-2.6: udf: Fix possible corruption when close races with write udf: Perform preallocation only for regular files udf: Remove wrong assignment in udf_symlink udf: Remove dead code
2009-09-14Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ryusuke/nilfs2 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ryusuke/nilfs2: (21 commits) fs/Kconfig: move nilfs2 outside misc filesystems nilfs2: convert nilfs_bmap_lookup to an inline function nilfs2: allow btree code to directly call dat operations nilfs2: add update functions of virtual block address to dat nilfs2: remove individual gfp constants for each metadata file nilfs2: stop zero-fill of btree path just before free it nilfs2: remove unused btree argument from btree functions nilfs2: remove nilfs_dat_abort_start and nilfs_dat_abort_free nilfs2: shorten freeze period due to GC in write operation v3 nilfs2: add more check routines in mount process nilfs2: An unassigned variable is assigned to a never used structure member nilfs2: use GFP_NOIO for bio_alloc instead of GFP_NOWAIT nilfs2: stop using periodic write_super callback nilfs2: clean up nilfs_write_super nilfs2: fix disorder of nilfs_write_super in nilfs_sync_fs nilfs2: remove redundant super block commit nilfs2: implement nilfs_show_options to display mount options in /proc/mounts nilfs2: always lookup disk block address before reading metadata block nilfs2: use semaphore to protect pointer to a writable FS-instance nilfs2: fix format string compile warning (ino_t) ...
2009-09-14Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6: cifs: consolidate reconnect logic in smb_init routines cifs: Replace wrtPending with a real reference count cifs: protect GlobalOplock_Q with its own spinlock cifs: use tcon pointer in cifs_show_options cifs: send IPv6 addr in upcall with colon delimiters [CIFS] Fix checkpatch warnings PATCH] cifs: fix broken mounts when a SSH tunnel is used (try #4) [CIFS] Memory leak in ntlmv2 hash calculation [CIFS] potential NULL dereference in parse_DFS_referrals()
2009-09-14Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-next-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-next-2.6: (21 commits) sparc64: Initial niagara2 perf counter support. sparc64: Perf counter 'nop' event is not constant. sparc64: Provide a way to specify a perf counter overflow IRQ enable bit. sparc64: Provide hypervisor tracing bit support for perf counters. sparc64: Initial hw perf counter support. sparc64: Implement a real set_perf_counter_pending(). sparc64: Use nmi_enter() and nmi_exit(), as needed. sparc64: Provide extern decls for sparc_??u_type strings. sparc64: Make touch_nmi_watchdog() actually work. sparc64: Kill unnecessary cast in profile_timer_exceptions_notify(). sparc64: Manage NMI watchdog enabling like x86. sparc: add basic support for 'perf' sparc: convert /proc/io_map, /proc/dvma_map to seq_file sparc, leon: sparc-leon specific SRMMU initialization and bootup fixes. sparc,leon: Added support for AMBAPP bus. sparc,leon: Introduce the sparc-leon CPU type. sparc,leon: Redefine MMU register access asi if CONFIG_LEON sparc,leon: CONFIG_SPARC_LEON option and leon specific files. sparc64: cheaper asm/uaccess.h inclusion SPARC: fix duplicate declaration ...
2009-09-14Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1623 commits) netxen: update copyright netxen: fix tx timeout recovery netxen: fix file firmware leak netxen: improve pci memory access netxen: change firmware write size tg3: Fix return ring size breakage netxen: build fix for INET=n cdc-phonet: autoconfigure Phonet address Phonet: back-end for autoconfigured addresses Phonet: fix netlink address dump error handling ipv6: Add IFA_F_DADFAILED flag net: Add DEVTYPE support for Ethernet based devices mv643xx_eth.c: remove unused txq_set_wrr() ucc_geth: Fix hangs after switching from full to half duplex ucc_geth: Rearrange some code to avoid forward declarations phy/marvell: Make non-aneg speed/duplex forcing work for 88E1111 PHYs drivers/net/phy: introduce missing kfree drivers/net/wan: introduce missing kfree net: force bridge module(s) to be GPL Subject: [PATCH] appletalk: Fix skb leak when ipddp interface is not loaded ... Fixed up trivial conflicts: - arch/x86/include/asm/socket.h converted to <asm-generic/socket.h> in the x86 tree. The generic header has the same new #define's, so that works out fine. - drivers/net/tun.c fix conflict between 89f56d1e9 ("tun: reuse struct sock fields") that switched over to using 'tun->socket.sk' instead of the redundantly available (and thus removed) 'tun->sk', and 2b980dbd ("lsm: Add hooks to the TUN driver") which added a new 'tun->sk' use. Noted in 'next' by Stephen Rothwell.
2009-09-14Merge branch 'x86-xen-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-xen-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86: split __phys_addr out into separate file xen: use stronger barrier after unlocking lock xen: only enable interrupts while actually blocking for spinlock xen: make -fstack-protector work under Xen
2009-09-14udf: Fix possible corruption when close races with writeJan Kara
When we close a file, we remove preallocated blocks from it. But this truncation was not protected by i_mutex and thus it could have raced with a write through a different fd and cause crashes or even filesystem corruption. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2009-09-14udf: Perform preallocation only for regular filesJan Kara
So far we preallocated blocks also for directories but that brings a problem, when to get rid of preallocated blocks we don't need. So far we removed them in udf_clear_inode() which has a disadvantage that 1) blocks are unavailable long after writing to a directory finished and thus one can get out of space unnecessarily early 2) releasing blocks from udf_clear_inode is problematic because VFS does not expect us to redirty inode there and it also slows down memory reclaim. So preallocate blocks only for regular files where we can drop preallocation in udf_release_file. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2009-09-14udf: Remove wrong assignment in udf_symlinkJan Kara
Recomputation of the pointer was wrong (it should have been just increment). Luckily, we never use the computed value. Remove it. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2009-09-14udf: Remove dead codeJan Kara
Remove code that gets never used. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2009-09-14fsync: wait for data writeout completion before calling ->fsyncChristoph Hellwig
Currenly vfs_fsync(_range) first calls filemap_fdatawrite to write out the data, the calls into ->fsync to write out the metadata and then finally calls filemap_fdatawait to wait for the data I/O to complete. What sounds like a clever micro-optimization actually is nast trap for many filesystems. For many modern filesystems i_size or other inode information is only updated on I/O completion and we need to wait for I/O to finish before we can write out the metadata. For old fashionen filesystems that instanciate blocks during the actual write and also update the metadata at that point it opens up a large window were we could expose uninitialized blocks after a crash. While a few filesystems that need it already wait for the I/O to finish inside their ->fsync methods it is rather suboptimal as it is done under the i_mutex and also always for the whole file instead of just a part as we could do for O_SYNC handling. Here is a small audit of all fsync instances in the tree: - spufs_mfc_fsync: - ps3flash_fsync: - vol_cdev_fsync: - printer_fsync: - fb_deferred_io_fsync: - bad_file_fsync: - simple_sync_file: don't care - filesystems/drivers do't use the page cache or are purely in-memory. - simple_fsync: - file_fsync: - affs_file_fsync: - fat_file_fsync: - jfs_fsync: - ubifs_fsync: - reiserfs_dir_fsync: - reiserfs_sync_file: never touch pagecache themselves. We need to wait before if we do not want to expose stale data after an allocation. - afs_fsync: - fuse_fsync_common: do the waiting writeback itself in awkward ways, would benefit from proper semantics - block_fsync: Does a filemap_write_and_wait on the block device inode. Because we now have f_mapping that is the same inode we call it on in vfs_fsync. So just removing it and letting the VFS do the work in one go would be an improvement. - btrfs_sync_file: - cifs_fsync: - xfs_file_fsync: need the wait first and currently do it themselves. would benefit from doing it outside i_mutex. - coda_fsync: - ecryptfs_fsync: - exofs_file_fsync: - shm_fsync: only passes the fsync through to the lower layer - ext3_sync_file: doesn't seem to care, comments are confusing. - ext4_sync_file: would need the wait to work correctly for delalloc mode with late i_size updates. Otherwise the ext3 comment applies. currently implemens it's own writeback and wait in an odd way, could benefit from doing it properly. - gfs2_fsync: not needed for journaled data mode, but probably harmless there. Currently writes back data asynchronously itself. Needs some major audit. - hostfs_fsync: just calls fsync/datasync on the host FD. Without the wait before data might not even be inflight yet if we're unlucky. - hpfs_file_fsync: - ncp_fsync: no-ops. Dangerous before and after. - jffs2_fsync: just calls jffs2_flush_wbuf_gc, not sure how this relates to data. - nfs_fsync_dir: just increments stats, claims all directory operations are synchronous - nfs_file_fsync: only writes out data??? Looks very odd. - nilfs_sync_file: looks like it expects all data done, but not sure from the code - ntfs_dir_fsync: - ntfs_file_fsync: appear to do their own data writeback. Very convoluted code. - ocfs2_sync_file: does it's own data writeback, but no wait. probably needs the wait. - smb_fsync: according to a comment expects all pages written already, probably needs the wait before. This patch only changes vfs_fsync_range, removal of the wait in the methods that have it is left to the filesystem maintainers. Note that most filesystems really do need an audit for their fsync methods given the gems found in this very brief audit. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2009-09-14vfs: Remove generic_osync_inode() and sync_page_range{_nolock}()Jan Kara
Remove these three functions since nobody uses them anymore. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2009-09-14fat: Opencode sync_page_range_nolock()Jan Kara
fat_cont_expand() is the only user of sync_page_range_nolock(). It's also the only user of generic_osync_inode() which does not have a file open. So opencode needed actions for FAT so that we can convert generic_osync_inode() to a standard syncing path. Update a comment about generic_osync_inode(). CC: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>