History log of /linux-master/Documentation/filesystems/netfs_library.rst
Revision Date Author Comments
# 4498a8ec 20-Nov-2023 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

netfs, fscache: Remove ->begin_cache_operation

Remove ->begin_cache_operation() in favour of just calling fscache directly.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
cc: Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com


# d56b699d 14-Aug-2023 Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>

Documentation: Fix typos

Fix typos in Documentation.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230814212822.193684-4-helgaas@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>


# fac47b43 10-Jul-2022 Xiubo Li <xiubli@redhat.com>

netfs: do not unlock and put the folio twice

check_write_begin() will unlock and put the folio when return
non-zero. So we should avoid unlocking and putting it twice in
netfs layer.

Change the way ->check_write_begin() works in the following two ways:

(1) Pass it a pointer to the folio pointer, allowing it to unlock and put
the folio prior to doing the stuff it wants to do, provided it clears
the folio pointer.

(2) Change the return values such that 0 with folio pointer set means
continue, 0 with folio pointer cleared means re-get and all error
codes indicating an error (no special treatment for -EAGAIN).

[ bagasdotme: use Sphinx code text syntax for *foliop pointer ]

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://tracker.ceph.com/issues/56423
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/cf169f43-8ee7-8697-25da-0204d1b4343e@redhat.com
Co-developed-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Xiubo Li <xiubli@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com>


# 40a81101 25-Feb-2022 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

netfs: Rename the netfs_io_request cleanup op and give it an op pointer

The netfs_io_request cleanup op is now always in a position to be given a
pointer to a netfs_io_request struct, so this can be passed in instead of
the mapping and private data arguments (both of which are included in the
struct).

So rename the ->cleanup op to ->free_request (to match ->init_request) and
pass in the I/O pointer.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com


# e81fb419 09-Jun-2022 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

netfs: Further cleanups after struct netfs_inode wrapper introduced

Change the signature of netfs helper functions to take a struct netfs_inode
pointer rather than a struct inode pointer where appropriate, thereby
relieving the need for the network filesystem to convert its internal inode
format down to the VFS inode only for netfslib to bounce it back up. For
type safety, it's better not to do that (and it's less typing too).

Give netfs_write_begin() an extra argument to pass in a pointer to the
netfs_inode struct rather than deriving it internally from the file
pointer. Note that the ->write_begin() and ->write_end() ops are intended
to be replaced in the future by netfslib code that manages this without the
need to call in twice for each page.

netfs_readpage() and similar are intended to be pointed at directly by the
address_space_operations table, so must stick to the signature dictated by
the function pointers there.

Changes
=======
- Updated the kerneldoc comments and documentation [DH].

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wgkwKyNmNdKpQkqZ6DnmUL-x9hp0YBnUGjaPFEAdxDTbw@mail.gmail.com/


# 874c8ca1 09-Jun-2022 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

netfs: Fix gcc-12 warning by embedding vfs inode in netfs_i_context

While randstruct was satisfied with using an open-coded "void *" offset
cast for the netfs_i_context <-> inode casting, __builtin_object_size() as
used by FORTIFY_SOURCE was not as easily fooled. This was causing the
following complaint[1] from gcc v12:

In file included from include/linux/string.h:253,
from include/linux/ceph/ceph_debug.h:7,
from fs/ceph/inode.c:2:
In function 'fortify_memset_chk',
inlined from 'netfs_i_context_init' at include/linux/netfs.h:326:2,
inlined from 'ceph_alloc_inode' at fs/ceph/inode.c:463:2:
include/linux/fortify-string.h:242:25: warning: call to '__write_overflow_field' declared with attribute warning: detected write beyond size of field (1st parameter); maybe use struct_group()? [-Wattribute-warning]
242 | __write_overflow_field(p_size_field, size);
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Fix this by embedding a struct inode into struct netfs_i_context (which
should perhaps be renamed to struct netfs_inode). The struct inode
vfs_inode fields are then removed from the 9p, afs, ceph and cifs inode
structs and vfs_inode is then simply changed to "netfs.inode" in those
filesystems.

Further, rename netfs_i_context to netfs_inode, get rid of the
netfs_inode() function that converted a netfs_i_context pointer to an
inode pointer (that can now be done with &ctx->inode) and rename the
netfs_i_context() function to netfs_inode() (which is now a wrapper
around container_of()).

Most of the changes were done with:

perl -p -i -e 's/vfs_inode/netfs.inode/'g \
`git grep -l 'vfs_inode' -- fs/{9p,afs,ceph,cifs}/*.[ch]`

Kees suggested doing it with a pair structure[2] and a special
declarator to insert that into the network filesystem's inode
wrapper[3], but I think it's cleaner to embed it - and then it doesn't
matter if struct randomisation reorders things.

Dave Chinner suggested using a filesystem-specific VFS_I() function in
each filesystem to convert that filesystem's own inode wrapper struct
into the VFS inode struct[4].

Version #2:
- Fix a couple of missed name changes due to a disabled cifs option.
- Rename nfs_i_context to nfs_inode
- Use "netfs" instead of "nic" as the member name in per-fs inode wrapper
structs.

[ This also undoes commit 507160f46c55 ("netfs: gcc-12: temporarily
disable '-Wattribute-warning' for now") that is no longer needed ]

Fixes: bc899ee1c898 ("netfs: Add a netfs inode context")
Reported-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Xiubo Li <xiubli@redhat.com>
cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
cc: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
cc: Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@codewreck.org>
cc: Christian Schoenebeck <linux_oss@crudebyte.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com>
cc: Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com>
cc: William Kucharski <william.kucharski@oracle.com>
cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>
cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
cc: v9fs-developer@lists.sourceforge.net
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
cc: ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org
cc: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org
cc: samba-technical@lists.samba.org
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
cc: linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/d2ad3a3d7bdd794c6efb562d2f2b655fb67756b9.camel@kernel.org/ [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220517210230.864239-1-keescook@chromium.org/ [2]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220518202212.2322058-1-keescook@chromium.org/ [3]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220524101205.GI2306852@dread.disaster.area/ [4]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/165296786831.3591209.12111293034669289733.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v1
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/165305805651.4094995.7763502506786714216.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk # v2
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 08830c8b 29-Apr-2022 Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>

fs: Add read_folio documentation

Convert all the ->readpage documentation to ->read_folio.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>


# de2a9311 22-Feb-2022 Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>

fs: Remove aop_flags parameter from netfs_write_begin()

There are no more aop flags left, so remove the parameter.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>


# 3be01750 07-Mar-2022 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

netfs: Rename read_helper.c to io.c

Rename the read_helper.c file to io.c before splitting out the buffered
read functions and some other bits.

Changes
=======
ver #2)
- Rename read_helper.c before splitting.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/164678216109.1200972.16567696909952495832.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v2
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/164692918076.2099075.8120961172717347610.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v3


# bc899ee1 29-Jun-2021 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

netfs: Add a netfs inode context

Add a netfs_i_context struct that should be included in the network
filesystem's own inode struct wrapper, directly after the VFS's inode
struct, e.g.:

struct my_inode {
struct {
/* These must be contiguous */
struct inode vfs_inode;
struct netfs_i_context netfs_ctx;
};
};

The netfs_i_context struct so far contains a single field for the network
filesystem to use - the cache cookie:

struct netfs_i_context {
...
struct fscache_cookie *cache;
};

Three functions are provided to help with this:

(1) void netfs_i_context_init(struct inode *inode,
const struct netfs_request_ops *ops);

Initialise the netfs context and set the operations.

(2) struct netfs_i_context *netfs_i_context(struct inode *inode);

Find the netfs context from the VFS inode.

(3) struct inode *netfs_inode(struct netfs_i_context *ctx);

Find the VFS inode from the netfs context.

Changes
=======
ver #4)
- Fix netfs_is_cache_enabled() to check cookie->cache_priv to see if a
cache is present[3].
- Fix netfs_skip_folio_read() to zero out all of the page, not just some
of it[3].

ver #3)
- Split out the bit to move ceph cap-getting on readahead into
ceph_init_request()[1].
- Stick in a comment to the netfs inode structs indicating the contiguity
requirements[2].

ver #2)
- Adjust documentation to match.
- Use "#if IS_ENABLED()" in netfs_i_cookie(), not "#ifdef".
- Move the cap check from ceph_readahead() to ceph_init_request() to be
called from netfslib.
- Remove ceph_readahead() and use netfs_readahead() directly instead.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/8af0d47f17d89c06bbf602496dd845f2b0bf25b3.camel@kernel.org/ [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/beaf4f6a6c2575ed489adb14b257253c868f9a5c.camel@kernel.org/ [2]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/3536452.1647421585@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ [3]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/164622984545.3564931.15691742939278418580.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v1
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/164678213320.1200972.16807551936267647470.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v2
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/164692909854.2099075.9535537286264248057.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v3
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/306388.1647595110@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v4


# f18a3785 17-Feb-2022 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

netfs: Finish off rename of netfs_read_request to netfs_io_request

Adjust helper function names and comments after mass rename of
struct netfs_read_*request to struct netfs_io_*request.

Changes
=======
ver #2)
- Make the changes in the docs also.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/164622992433.3564931.6684311087845150271.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v1
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/164678196111.1200972.5001114956865989528.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v2
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/164692892567.2099075.13895804222087028813.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v3


# 6a19114b 17-Feb-2022 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

netfs: Rename netfs_read_*request to netfs_io_*request

Rename netfs_read_*request to netfs_io_*request so that the same structures
can be used for the write helpers too.

perl -p -i -e 's/netfs_read_(request|subrequest)/netfs_io_$1/g' \
`git grep -l 'netfs_read_\(sub\|\)request'`
perl -p -i -e 's/nr_rd_ops/nr_outstanding/g' \
`git grep -l nr_rd_ops`
perl -p -i -e 's/nr_wr_ops/nr_copy_ops/g' \
`git grep -l nr_wr_ops`
perl -p -i -e 's/netfs_read_source/netfs_io_source/g' \
`git grep -l 'netfs_read_source'`
perl -p -i -e 's/netfs_io_request_ops/netfs_request_ops/g' \
`git grep -l 'netfs_io_request_ops'`
perl -p -i -e 's/init_rreq/init_request/g' \
`git grep -l 'init_rreq'`

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/164622988070.3564931.7089670190434315183.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v1
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/164678195157.1200972.366609966927368090.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v2
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/164692891535.2099075.18435198075367420588.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v3


# bee9f655 27-Jan-2022 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

netfs, cachefiles: Add a method to query presence of data in the cache

Add a netfs_cache_ops method by which a network filesystem can ask the
cache about what data it has available and where so that it can make a
multipage read more efficient.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com
Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Rohith Surabattula <rohiths@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>


# e0484344 10-Nov-2021 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

fscache: Rewrite documentation

Rewrite the fscache documentation.

Changes
=======
ver #3:
- The volume coherency data is now an arbitrarily-sized blob, not a u64.

ver #2:
- Put quoting around some bits of C being referred to in the docs[1].
- Stripped the markup off the ref to the netfs lib doc[2].

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211130175119.63d0e7aa@canb.auug.org.au/ [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211130162311.105fcfa5@canb.auug.org.au/ [2]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163819672252.215744.15454333549935901588.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v1
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163906986754.143852.17703291789683936950.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v2
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163967193834.1823006.15991526817786159772.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v3
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/164021585970.640689.3162537597817521032.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v4


# ddca5b0e 29-Nov-2021 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

netfs: Adjust docs after foliation

Adjust the netfslib docs in light of the foliation changes.

Also un-kdoc-mark netfs_skip_folio_read() since it's internal and isn't
part of the API.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com
cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163706992597.3179783.18360472879717076435.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 6abbaa5b 27-Apr-2021 Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>

fs/netfs: Add folio fscache functions

Match the page writeback functions by adding
folio_start_fscache(), folio_end_fscache(), folio_wait_fscache() and
folio_wait_fscache_killable(). Remove set_page_private_2(). Also rewrite
the kernel-doc to describe when to use the function rather than what the
function does, and include the kernel-doc in the appropriate rst file.
Saves 31 bytes of text in netfs_rreq_unlock() due to set_page_fscache()
calling page_folio() once instead of three times.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: William Kucharski <william.kucharski@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>


# fb28afcc 22-Feb-2021 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

netfs: Documentation for helper library

Add interface documentation for the netfs helper library.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
cc: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org
cc: ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org
cc: v9fs-developer@lists.sourceforge.net
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/161539533275.286939.6246011228676840978.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v4
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/161653791767.2770958.2012814194145060913.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v5
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/161789072591.6155.9448294406920216219.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v6