History log of /linux-master/fs/dcache.c
Revision Date Author Comments
# c997d683 24-Feb-2024 Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@bytedance.com>

vfs: remove SLAB_MEM_SPREAD flag usage

The SLAB_MEM_SPREAD flag used to be implemented in SLAB, which was
removed as of v6.8-rc1 (see [1]), so it became a dead flag since the
commit 16a1d968358a ("mm/slab: remove mm/slab.c and slab_def.h"). And
the series[1] went on to mark it obsolete explicitly to avoid confusion
for users. Here we can just remove all its users, which has no any
functional change.

Signed-off-by: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@bytedance.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240223-slab-cleanup-flags-v2-1-02f1753e8303@suse.cz [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240224135315.830477-1-chengming.zhou@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>


# 7e4a205f 03-Feb-2024 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Revert "get rid of DCACHE_GENOCIDE"

This reverts commit 57851607326a2beef21e67f83f4f53a90df8445a.

Unfortunately, while we only call that thing once, the callback
*can* be called more than once for the same dentry - all it
takes is rename_lock being touched while we are in d_walk().
For now let's revert it.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 1b6ae9f6 06-Nov-2023 Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>

dcache: remove unnecessary NULL check in dget_dlock()

dget_dlock() requires dentry->d_lock to be held when called, yet
contains a NULL check for dentry.

An audit of all calls to dget_dlock() shows that it is never called
with a NULL pointer (as spin_lock()/spin_unlock() would crash in these
cases):

$ git grep -W '\<dget_dlock\>'

arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/inode.c- spin_lock(&dentry->d_lock);
arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/inode.c- if (simple_positive(dentry)) {
arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/inode.c: dget_dlock(dentry);

fs/autofs/expire.c- spin_lock_nested(&child->d_lock, DENTRY_D_LOCK_NESTED);
fs/autofs/expire.c- if (simple_positive(child)) {
fs/autofs/expire.c: dget_dlock(child);

fs/autofs/root.c: dget_dlock(active);
fs/autofs/root.c- spin_unlock(&active->d_lock);

fs/autofs/root.c: dget_dlock(expiring);
fs/autofs/root.c- spin_unlock(&expiring->d_lock);

fs/ceph/dir.c- if (!spin_trylock(&dentry->d_lock))
fs/ceph/dir.c- continue;
[...]
fs/ceph/dir.c: dget_dlock(dentry);

fs/ceph/mds_client.c- spin_lock(&alias->d_lock);
[...]
fs/ceph/mds_client.c: dn = dget_dlock(alias);

fs/configfs/inode.c- spin_lock(&dentry->d_lock);
fs/configfs/inode.c- if (simple_positive(dentry)) {
fs/configfs/inode.c: dget_dlock(dentry);

fs/libfs.c: found = dget_dlock(d);
fs/libfs.c- spin_unlock(&d->d_lock);

fs/libfs.c: found = dget_dlock(child);
fs/libfs.c- spin_unlock(&child->d_lock);

fs/libfs.c: child = dget_dlock(d);
fs/libfs.c- spin_unlock(&d->d_lock);

fs/ocfs2/dcache.c: dget_dlock(dentry);
fs/ocfs2/dcache.c- spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock);

include/linux/dcache.h:static inline struct dentry *dget_dlock(struct dentry *dentry)

After taking out the NULL check, dget_dlock() becomes almost identical
to __dget_dlock(); the only difference is that dget_dlock() returns the
dentry that was passed in. These are static inline helpers, so we can
rely on the compiler to discard unused return values. We can therefore
also remove __dget_dlock() and replace calls to it by dget_dlock().

Also fix up and improve the kerneldoc comments while we're at it.

Al Viro pointed out that we can also clean up some of the callers to
make use of the returned value and provided a bit more info for the
kerneldoc.

While preparing v2 I also noticed that the tabs used in the kerneldoc
comments were causing the kerneldoc to get parsed incorrectly so I also
fixed this up (including for d_unhashed, which is otherwise unrelated).

Testing: x86 defconfig build + boot; make htmldocs for the kerneldoc
warning. objdump shows there are code generation changes.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20231022164520.915013-1-vegard.nossum@oracle.com/
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Cc: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 1b327b5a 10-Nov-2023 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

kill DCACHE_MAY_FREE

With the new ordering in __dentry_kill() it has become redundant -
it's set if and only if both DCACHE_DENTRY_KILLED and DCACHE_SHRINK_LIST
are set.

We set it in __dentry_kill(), after having set DCACHE_DENTRY_KILLED
with the only condition being that DCACHE_SHRINK_LIST is there;
all of that is done without dropping ->d_lock and the only place
that checks that flag (shrink_dentry_list()) does so under ->d_lock,
after having found the victim on its shrink list. Since DCACHE_SHRINK_LIST
is set only when placing dentry into shrink list and removed only by
shrink_dentry_list() itself, a check for DCACHE_DENTRY_KILLED in
there would be equivalent to check for DCACHE_MAY_FREE.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# ef69f050 23-Nov-2023 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

__d_unalias() doesn't use inode argument

... and hasn't since 2015.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# f9f677c5 11-Nov-2023 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

d_alloc_parallel(): in-lookup hash insertion doesn't need an RCU variant

We only search in the damn thing under hlist_bl_lock(); RCU variant
of insertion was, IIRC, pretty much cargo-culted - mea culpa...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 57851607 12-Nov-2023 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

get rid of DCACHE_GENOCIDE

... now that we never call d_genocide() other than from kill_litter_super()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 9024b4c9 11-Nov-2023 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

d_alloc_pseudo(): move setting ->d_op there from the (sole) caller

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# f2824db1 18-Nov-2023 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

kill d_instantate_anon(), fold __d_instantiate_anon() into remaining caller

now that the only user of d_instantiate_anon() is gone...
[braino fix folded - kudos to Dan Carpenter]

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 6367b491 23-Nov-2023 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

retain_dentry(): introduce a trimmed-down lockless variant

fast_dput() contains a small piece of code, preceded by scary
comments about 5 times longer than it. What is actually done there is
a trimmed-down subset of retain_dentry() - in some situations we can
tell that retain_dentry() would have returned true without ever needing
->d_lock and that's what that code checks. If these checks come true
fast_dput() can declare that we are done, without bothering with ->d_lock;
otherwise it has to take the lock and do full variant of retain_dentry()
checks.

Trimmed-down variant of the checks is hard to follow and
it's asking for trouble - if we ever decide to change the rules in
retain_dentry(), we'll have to remember to update that code. It turns
out that an equivalent variant of these checks more obviously parallel
to retain_dentry() is not just possible, but easy to unify with
retain_dentry() itself, passing it a new boolean argument ('locked')
to distinguish between the full semantics and trimmed down one.

Note that in lockless case true is returned only when locked
variant would have returned true without ever needing the lock; false
means "punt to the locking path and recheck there".

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 1c18edd1 07-Nov-2023 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

__dentry_kill(): new locking scheme

Currently we enter __dentry_kill() with parent (along with the victim
dentry and victim's inode) held locked. Then we
mark dentry refcount as dead
call ->d_prune()
remove dentry from hash
remove it from the parent's list of children
unlock the parent, don't need it from that point on
detach dentry from inode, unlock dentry and drop the inode
(via ->d_iput())
call ->d_release()
regain the lock on dentry
check if it's on a shrink list (in which case freeing its empty husk
has to be left to shrink_dentry_list()) or not (in which case we can free it
ourselves). In the former case, mark it as an empty husk, so that
shrink_dentry_list() would know it can free the sucker.
drop the lock on dentry
... and usually the caller proceeds to drop a reference on the parent,
possibly retaking the lock on it.

That is painful for a bunch of reasons, starting with the need to take locks
out of order, but not limited to that - the parent of positive dentry can
change if we drop its ->d_lock, so getting these locks has to be done with
care. Moreover, as soon as dentry is out of the parent's list of children,
shrink_dcache_for_umount() won't see it anymore, making it appear as if
the parent is inexplicably busy. We do work around that by having
shrink_dentry_list() decrement the parent's refcount first and put it on
shrink list to be evicted once we are done with __dentry_kill() of child,
but that may in some cases lead to ->d_iput() on child called after the
parent got killed. That doesn't happen in cases where in-tree ->d_iput()
instances might want to look at the parent, but that's brittle as hell.

Solution: do removal from the parent's list of children in the very
end of __dentry_kill(). As the result, the callers do not need to
lock the parent and by the time we really need the parent locked,
dentry is negative and is guaranteed not to be moved around.

It does mean that ->d_prune() will be called with parent not locked.
It also means that we might see dentries in process of being torn
down while going through the parent's list of children; those dentries
will be unhashed, negative and with refcount marked dead. In practice,
that's enough for in-tree code that looks through the list of children
to do the right thing as-is. Out-of-tree code might need to be adjusted.

Calling conventions: __dentry_kill(dentry) is called with dentry->d_lock
held, along with ->i_lock of its inode (if any). It either returns
the parent (locked, with refcount decremented to 0) or NULL (if there'd
been no parent or if refcount decrement for parent hadn't reached 0).

lock_for_kill() is adjusted for new requirements - it doesn't touch
the parent's ->d_lock at all.

Callers adjusted. Note that for dput() we don't need to bother with
fast_dput() for the parent - we just need to check retain_dentry()
for it, since its ->d_lock is still held since the moment when
__dentry_kill() had taken it to remove the victim from the list of
children.

The kludge with early decrement of parent's refcount in
shrink_dentry_list() is no longer needed - shrink_dcache_for_umount()
sees the half-killed dentries in the list of children for as long
as they are pinning the parent. They are easily recognized and
accounted for by select_collect(), so we know we are not done yet.

As the result, we always have the expected ordering for ->d_iput()/->d_release()
vs. __dentry_kill() of the parent, no exceptions. Moreover, the current
rules for shrink lists (one must make sure that shrink_dcache_for_umount()
won't happen while any dentries from the superblock in question are on
any shrink lists) are gone - shrink_dcache_for_umount() will do the
right thing in all cases, taking such dentries out. Their empty
husks (memory occupied by struct dentry itself + its external name,
if any) will remain on the shrink lists, but they are no obstacles
to filesystem shutdown. And such husks will get freed as soon as
shrink_dentry_list() of the list they are on gets to them.

Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# b4cc0734 03-Nov-2023 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

d_prune_aliases(): use a shrink list

Instead of dropping aliases one by one, restarting, etc., just
collect them into a shrink list and kill them off in one pass.

We don't really need the restarts - one alias can't pin another
(directory has only one alias, and couldn't be its own ancestor
anyway), so collecting everything that is not busy and taking it
out would take care of everything evictable that had been there
as we entered the function. And new aliases added while we'd
been dropping old ones could just as easily have appeared right
as we return to caller...

Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# f5c8a8a4 30-Oct-2023 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

switch select_collect{,2}() to use of to_shrink_list()

Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# c2e5e29f 29-Oct-2023 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

to_shrink_list(): call only if refcount is 0

The only thing it does if refcount is not zero is d_lru_del(); no
point, IMO, seeing that plain dput() does nothing of that sort...

Note that 2 of 3 current callers are guaranteed that refcount is 0.

Acked-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 5e7a5c8d 30-Oct-2023 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

fold dentry_kill() into dput()

Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 339e9e13 30-Oct-2023 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

don't try to cut corners in shrink_lock_dentry()

That is to say, do *not* treat the ->d_inode or ->d_parent changes
as "it's hard, return false; somebody must have grabbed it, so
even if has zero refcount, we don't need to bother killing it -
final dput() from whoever grabbed it would've done everything".

First of all, that is not guaranteed. It might have been dropped
by shrink_kill() handling of victim's parent, which would've found
it already on a shrink list (ours) and decided that they don't need
to put it on their shrink list.

What's more, dentry_kill() is doing pretty much the same thing,
cutting its own set of corners (it assumes that dentry can't
go from positive to negative, so its inode can change but only once
and only in one direction).

Doing that right allows to get rid of that not-quite-duplication
and removes the only reason for re-incrementing refcount before
the call of dentry_kill().

Replacement is called lock_for_kill(); called under rcu_read_lock
and with ->d_lock held. If it returns false, dentry has non-zero
refcount and the same locks are held. If it returns true,
dentry has zero refcount and all locks required by __dentry_kill()
are taken.

Part of __lock_parent() had been lifted into lock_parent() to
allow its reuse. Now it's called with rcu_read_lock already
held and dentry already unlocked.

Note that this is not the final change - locking requirements for
__dentry_kill() are going to change later in the series and the
set of locks taken by lock_for_kill() will be adjusted. Both
lock_parent() and __lock_parent() will be gone once that happens.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# f05441c7 30-Oct-2023 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

fold the call of retain_dentry() into fast_dput()

Calls of retain_dentry() happen immediately after getting false
from fast_dput() and getting true from retain_dentry() is
treated the same way as non-zero refcount would be treated by
fast_dput() - unlock dentry and bugger off.

Doing that in fast_dput() itself is simpler.

Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 2f42f1eb 29-Oct-2023 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Call retain_dentry() with refcount 0

Instead of bumping it from 0 to 1, calling retain_dentry(), then
decrementing it back to 0 (with ->d_lock held all the way through),
just leave refcount at 0 through all of that.

It will have a visible effect for ->d_delete() - now it can be
called with refcount 0 instead of 1 and it can no longer play
silly buggers with dropping/regaining ->d_lock. Not that any
in-tree instances tried to (it's pretty hard to get right).

Any out-of-tree ones will have to adjust (assuming they need any
changes).

Note that we do not need to extend rcu-critical area here - we have
verified that refcount is non-negative after having grabbed ->d_lock,
so nobody will be able to free dentry until they get into __dentry_kill(),
which won't happen until they manage to grab ->d_lock.

Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# b06c684d 30-Oct-2023 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

dentry_kill(): don't bother with retain_dentry() on slow path

We have already checked it and dentry used to look not worthy
of keeping. The only hard obstacle to evicting dentry is
non-zero refcount; everything else is advisory - e.g. memory
pressure could evict any dentry found with refcount zero.
On the slow path in dentry_kill() we had dropped and regained
->d_lock; we must recheck the refcount, but everything else
is not worth bothering with.

Note that filesystem can not count upon ->d_delete() being
called for dentry - not even once. Again, memory pressure
(as well as d_prune_aliases(), or attempted rmdir() of ancestor,
or...) will not call ->d_delete() at all.

So from the correctness point of view we are fine doing the
check only once. And it makes things simpler down the road.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# ee0c8250 29-Oct-2023 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

__dentry_kill(): get consistent rules for victim's refcount

Currently we call it with refcount equal to 1 when called from
dentry_kill(); all other callers have it equal to 0.

Make it always be called with zero refcount; on this step we
just decrement it before the calls in dentry_kill(). That is
safe, since all places that care about the value of refcount
either do that under ->d_lock or hold a reference to dentry
in question. Either is sufficient to prevent observing a
dentry immediately prior to __dentry_kill() getting called
from dentry_kill().

Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# e9d130d0 29-Oct-2023 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

make retain_dentry() neutral with respect to refcounting

retain_dentry() used to decrement refcount if and only if it returned
true. Lift those decrements into the callers.

Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 6511f6be 29-Oct-2023 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

__dput_to_list(): do decrement of refcount in the callers

... and rename it to to_shrink_list(), seeing that it no longer
does dropping any references

Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 15f23734 29-Oct-2023 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

fast_dput(): new rules for refcount

By now there is only one place in entire fast_dput() where we return
false; that happens after refcount had been decremented and found (under
->d_lock) to be zero. In that case, just prior to returning false to
caller, fast_dput() forcibly changes the refcount from 0 to 1.

Lift that resetting refcount to 1 into the callers; later in the series
it will be massaged out of existence.

Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 504e08ce 31-Oct-2023 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

fast_dput(): handle underflows gracefully

If refcount is less than 1, we should just warn, unlock dentry and
return true, so that the caller doesn't try to do anything else.

Taking care of that leaves the rest of "lockref_put_return() has
failed" case equivalent to "decrement refcount and rejoin the
normal slow path after the point where we grab ->d_lock".

NOTE: lockref_put_return() is strictly a fastpath thing - unlike
the rest of lockref primitives, it does not contain a fallback.
Caller (and it looks like fast_dput() is the only legitimate one
in the entire kernel) has to do that itself. Reasons for
lockref_put_return() failures:
* ->d_lock held by somebody
* refcount <= 0
* ... or an architecture not supporting lockref use of
cmpxchg - sparc, anything non-SMP, config with spinlock debugging...

We could add a fallback, but it would be a clumsy API - we'd have
to distinguish between:
(1) refcount > 1 - decremented, lock not held on return
(2) refcount < 1 - left alone, probably no sense to hold the lock
(3) refcount is 1, no cmphxcg - decremented, lock held on return
(4) refcount is 1, cmphxcg supported - decremented, lock *NOT* held
on return.
We want to return with no lock held in case (4); that's the whole point of that
thing. We very much do not want to have the fallback in case (3) return without
a lock, since the caller might have to retake it in that case.
So it wouldn't be more convenient than doing the fallback in the caller and
it would be very easy to screw up, especially since the test coverage would
suck - no way to test (3) and (4) on the same kernel build.

Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 15220fbf 29-Oct-2023 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

fast_dput(): having ->d_delete() is not reason to delay refcount decrement

->d_delete() is a way for filesystem to tell that dentry is not worth
keeping cached. It is not guaranteed to be called every time a dentry
has refcount drop down to zero; it is not guaranteed to be called before
dentry gets evicted. In other words, it is not suitable for any kind
of keeping track of dentry state.

None of the in-tree filesystems attempt to use it that way, fortunately.

So the contortions done by fast_dput() (as well as dentry_kill()) are
not warranted. fast_dput() certainly should treat having ->d_delete()
instance as "can't assume we'll be keeping it", but that's not different
from the way we treat e.g. DCACHE_DONTCACHE (which is rather similar
to making ->d_delete() returns true when called).

Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# cd9f84f3 30-Oct-2023 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

shrink_dentry_list(): no need to check that dentry refcount is marked dead

... we won't see DCACHE_MAY_FREE on anything that is *not* dead
and checking d_flags is just as cheap as checking refcount.

Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 3fcf5356 07-Nov-2023 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

centralize killing dentry from shrink list

new helper unifying identical bits of shrink_dentry_list() and
shring_dcache_for_umount()

Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# da549bdd 07-Nov-2023 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

dentry: switch the lists of children to hlist

Saves a pointer per struct dentry and actually makes the things less
clumsy. Cleaned the d_walk() and dcache_readdir() a bit by use
of hlist_for_... iterators.

A couple of new helpers - d_first_child() and d_next_sibling(),
to make the expressions less awful.

Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 8219cb58 10-Nov-2023 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

kill d_{is,set}_fallthru()

Introduced in 2015 and never had any in-tree users...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 6d73c9ce 29-Oct-2023 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

get rid of __dget()

fold into the sole remaining caller

Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 9d5b9475 20-Nov-2023 Joel Granados <j.granados@samsung.com>

fs: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array

This commit comes at the tail end of a greater effort to remove the
empty elements at the end of the ctl_table arrays (sentinels) which
will reduce the overall build time size of the kernel and run time
memory bloat by ~64 bytes per sentinel (further information Link :
https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZO5Yx5JFogGi%2FcBo@bombadil.infradead.org/)

Remove sentinel elements ctl_table struct. Special attention was placed in
making sure that an empty directory for fs/verity was created when
CONFIG_FS_VERITY_BUILTIN_SIGNATURES is not defined. In this case we use the
register sysctl call that expects a size.

Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <j.granados@samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>


# 0a97c01c 30-Nov-2023 Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>

list_lru: allow explicit memcg and NUMA node selection

Patch series "workload-specific and memory pressure-driven zswap
writeback", v8.

There are currently several issues with zswap writeback:

1. There is only a single global LRU for zswap, making it impossible to
perform worload-specific shrinking - an memcg under memory pressure
cannot determine which pages in the pool it owns, and often ends up
writing pages from other memcgs. This issue has been previously
observed in practice and mitigated by simply disabling
memcg-initiated shrinking:

https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230530232435.3097106-1-nphamcs@gmail.com/T/#u

But this solution leaves a lot to be desired, as we still do not
have an avenue for an memcg to free up its own memory locked up in
the zswap pool.

2. We only shrink the zswap pool when the user-defined limit is hit.
This means that if we set the limit too high, cold data that are
unlikely to be used again will reside in the pool, wasting precious
memory. It is hard to predict how much zswap space will be needed
ahead of time, as this depends on the workload (specifically, on
factors such as memory access patterns and compressibility of the
memory pages).

This patch series solves these issues by separating the global zswap LRU
into per-memcg and per-NUMA LRUs, and performs workload-specific (i.e
memcg- and NUMA-aware) zswap writeback under memory pressure. The new
shrinker does not have any parameter that must be tuned by the user, and
can be opted in or out on a per-memcg basis.

As a proof of concept, we ran the following synthetic benchmark: build the
linux kernel in a memory-limited cgroup, and allocate some cold data in
tmpfs to see if the shrinker could write them out and improved the overall
performance. Depending on the amount of cold data generated, we observe
from 14% to 35% reduction in kernel CPU time used in the kernel builds.


This patch (of 6):

The interface of list_lru is based on the assumption that the list node
and the data it represents belong to the same allocated on the correct
node/memcg. While this assumption is valid for existing slab objects LRU
such as dentries and inodes, it is undocumented, and rather inflexible for
certain potential list_lru users (such as the upcoming zswap shrinker and
the THP shrinker). It has caused us a lot of issues during our
development.

This patch changes list_lru interface so that the caller must explicitly
specify numa node and memcg when adding and removing objects. The old
list_lru_add() and list_lru_del() are renamed to list_lru_add_obj() and
list_lru_del_obj(), respectively.

It also extends the list_lru API with a new function, list_lru_putback,
which undoes a previous list_lru_isolate call. Unlike list_lru_add, it
does not increment the LRU node count (as list_lru_isolate does not
decrement the node count). list_lru_putback also allows for explicit
memcg and NUMA node selection.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231130194023.4102148-1-nphamcs@gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231130194023.4102148-2-nphamcs@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Tested-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
Cc: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>
Cc: Domenico Cerasuolo <cerasuolodomenico@gmail.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Seth Jennings <sjenning@redhat.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Vitaly Wool <vitaly.wool@konsulko.com>
Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>


# 68279f9c 11-Oct-2023 Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>

treewide: mark stuff as __ro_after_init

__read_mostly predates __ro_after_init. Many variables which are marked
__read_mostly should have been __ro_after_init from day 1.

Also, mark some stuff as "const" and "__init" while I'm at it.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: revert sysctl_nr_open_min, sysctl_nr_open_max changes due to arm warning]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style cleanups]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/4f6bb9c0-abba-4ee4-a7aa-89265e886817@p183
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>


# 771eb4fe 09-Jul-2018 Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>

fs: factor out d_mark_tmpfile()

New helper for bcachefs - bcachefs doesn't want the
inode_dec_link_count() call that d_tmpfile does, it handles i_nlink on
its own atomically with other btree updates

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>


# 8c8e7dba 17-Aug-2023 Anh Tuan Phan <tuananhlfc@gmail.com>

fs/dcache: Replace printk and WARN_ON by WARN

Use WARN instead of printk + WARN_ON as reported from coccinelle:
./fs/dcache.c:1667:1-7: SUGGESTION: printk + WARN_ON can be just WARN

Signed-off-by: Anh Tuan Phan <tuananhlfc@gmail.com>
Message-Id: <20230817163142.117706-1-tuananhlfc@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>


# 4352b8cd 08-Aug-2023 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

fs: unexport d_genocide

d_genocide is only used by built-in code.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Message-Id: <20230808161704.1099680-1-hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>


# 863f144f 23-Sep-2022 Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>

vfs: open inside ->tmpfile()

This is in preparation for adding tmpfile support to fuse, which requires
that the tmpfile creation and opening are done as a single operation.

Replace the 'struct dentry *' argument of i_op->tmpfile with
'struct file *'.

Call finish_open_simple() as the last thing in ->tmpfile() instances (may
be omitted in the error case).

Change d_tmpfile() argument to 'struct file *' as well to make callers more
readable.

Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>


# 93f6d4e1 25-Aug-2022 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

dentry: Use preempt_[dis|en]able_nested()

Replace the open coded CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT conditional
preempt_disable/enable() with the new helper.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) <brauner@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220825164131.402717-3-bigeasy@linutronix.de


# ae2a8236 11-Aug-2022 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

dcache: move the DCACHE_OP_COMPARE case out of the __d_lookup_rcu loop

__d_lookup_rcu() is one of the hottest functions in the kernel on
certain loads, and it is complicated by filesystems that might want to
have their own name compare function.

We can improve code generation by moving the test of DCACHE_OP_COMPARE
outside the loop, which makes the loop itself much simpler, at the cost
of some code duplication. But both cases end up being simpler, and the
"native" direct case-sensitive compare particularly so.

Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 4f48d5da 15-May-2022 Xiubo Li <xiubli@redhat.com>

fs/dcache: export d_same_name() helper

Compare dentry name with case-exact name, return true if names
are same, or false.

Signed-off-by: Xiubo Li <xiubli@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com>


# 50417d22 27-Jul-2022 Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>

fs/dcache: Move wakeup out of i_seq_dir write held region.

__d_add() and __d_move() wake up waiters on dentry::d_wait from within
the i_seq_dir write held region. This violates the PREEMPT_RT
constraints as the wake up acquires wait_queue_head::lock which is a
"sleeping" spinlock on RT.

There is no requirement to do so. __d_lookup_unhash() has cleared
DCACHE_PAR_LOOKUP and dentry::d_wait and returned the now unreachable wait
queue head pointer to the caller, so the actual wake up can be postponed
until the i_dir_seq write side critical section is left. The only
requirement is that dentry::lock is held across the whole sequence
including the wake up. The previous commit includes an analysis why this
is considered safe.

Move the wake up past end_dir_add() which leaves the i_dir_seq write side
critical section and enables preemption.

For non RT kernels there is no difference because preemption is still
disabled due to dentry::lock being held, but it shortens the time between
wake up and unlocking dentry::lock, which reduces the contention for the
woken up waiter.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 45f78b0a 27-Jul-2022 Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>

fs/dcache: Move the wakeup from __d_lookup_done() to the caller.

__d_lookup_done() wakes waiters on dentry->d_wait. On PREEMPT_RT we are
not allowed to do that with preemption disabled, since the wakeup
acquired wait_queue_head::lock, which is a "sleeping" spinlock on RT.

Calling it under dentry->d_lock is not a problem, since that is also a
"sleeping" spinlock on the same configs. Unfortunately, two of its
callers (__d_add() and __d_move()) are holding more than just ->d_lock
and that needs to be dealt with.

The key observation is that wakeup can be moved to any point before
dropping ->d_lock.

As a first step to solve this, move the wake up outside of the
hlist_bl_lock() held section.

This is safe because:

Waiters get inserted into ->d_wait only after they'd taken ->d_lock
and observed DCACHE_PAR_LOOKUP in flags. As long as they are
woken up (and evicted from the queue) between the moment __d_lookup_done()
has removed DCACHE_PAR_LOOKUP and dropping ->d_lock, we are safe,
since the waitqueue ->d_wait points to won't get destroyed without
having __d_lookup_done(dentry) called (under ->d_lock).

->d_wait is set only by d_alloc_parallel() and only in case when
it returns a freshly allocated in-lookup dentry. Whenever that happens,
we are guaranteed that __d_lookup_done() will be called for resulting
dentry (under ->d_lock) before the wq in question gets destroyed.

With two exceptions wq lives in call frame of the caller of
d_alloc_parallel() and we have an explicit d_lookup_done() on the
resulting in-lookup dentry before we leave that frame.

One of those exceptions is nfs_call_unlink(), where wq is embedded into
(dynamically allocated) struct nfs_unlinkdata. It is destroyed in
nfs_async_unlink_release() after an explicit d_lookup_done() on the
dentry wq went into.

Remaining exception is d_add_ci(). There wq is what we'd found in
->d_wait of d_add_ci() argument. Callers of d_add_ci() are two
instances of ->d_lookup() and they must have been given an in-lookup
dentry. Which means that they'd been called by __lookup_slow() or
lookup_open(), with wq in the call frame of one of those.

Result of d_alloc_parallel() in d_add_ci() is fed to
d_splice_alias(), which either returns non-NULL (and d_add_ci() does
d_lookup_done()) or feeds dentry to __d_add() that will do
__d_lookup_done() under ->d_lock. That concludes the analysis.

Let __d_lookup_unhash():

1) Lock the lookup hash and clear DCACHE_PAR_LOOKUP
2) Unhash the dentry
3) Retrieve and clear dentry::d_wait
4) Unlock the hash and return the retrieved waitqueue head pointer
5) Let the caller handle the wake up.
6) Rename __d_lookup_done() to __d_lookup_unhash_wake() to enforce
build failures for OOT code that used __d_lookup_done() and is not
aware of the new return value.

This does not yet solve the PREEMPT_RT problem completely because
preemption is still disabled due to i_dir_seq being held for write. This
will be addressed in subsequent steps.

An alternative solution would be to switch the waitqueue to a simple
waitqueue, but aside of Linus not being a fan of them, moving the wake up
closer to the place where dentry::lock is unlocked reduces lock contention
time for the woken up waiter.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220613140712.77932-3-bigeasy@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# cf634d54 27-Jul-2022 Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>

fs/dcache: Disable preemption on i_dir_seq write side on PREEMPT_RT

i_dir_seq is a sequence counter with a lock which is represented by the
lowest bit. The writer atomically updates the counter which ensures that it
can be modified by only one writer at a time. This requires preemption to
be disabled across the write side critical section.

On !PREEMPT_RT kernels this is implicit by the caller acquiring
dentry::lock. On PREEMPT_RT kernels spin_lock() does not disable preemption
which means that a preempting writer or reader would live lock. It's
therefore required to disable preemption explicitly.

An alternative solution would be to replace i_dir_seq with a seqlock_t for
PREEMPT_RT, but that comes with its own set of problems due to arbitrary
lock nesting. A pure sequence count with an associated spinlock is not
possible because the locks held by the caller are not necessarily related.

As the critical section is small, disabling preemption is a sensible
solution.

Reported-by: Oleg.Karfich@wago.com
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220613140712.77932-2-bigeasy@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 40a3cb0d 29-Jul-2022 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

d_add_ci(): make sure we don't miss d_lookup_done()

All callers of d_alloc_parallel() must make sure that resulting
in-lookup dentry (if any) will encounter __d_lookup_done() before
the final dput(). d_add_ci() might end up creating in-lookup
dentries; they are fed to d_splice_alias(), which will normally
make sure they meet __d_lookup_done(). However, it is possible
to end up with d_splice_alias() failing with ERR_PTR(-ELOOP)
without having done so. It takes a corrupted ntfs or case-insensitive
xfs image, but neither should end up with memory corruption...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# f53bf711 22-Mar-2022 Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>

mm: dcache: use kmem_cache_alloc_lru() to allocate dentry

Like inode cache, the dentry will also be added to its memcg list_lru. So
replace kmem_cache_alloc() with kmem_cache_alloc_lru() to allocate dentry.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220228122126.37293-8-songmuchun@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org>
Cc: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com>
Cc: Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Fam Zheng <fam.zheng@bytedance.com>
Cc: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Kari Argillander <kari.argillander@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Cc: Xiongchun Duan <duanxiongchun@bytedance.com>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# c8c0c239 21-Jan-2022 Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>

fs: move dcache sysctls to its own file

kernel/sysctl.c is a kitchen sink where everyone leaves their dirty
dishes, this makes it very difficult to maintain.

To help with this maintenance let's start by moving sysctls to places
where they actually belong. The proc sysctl maintainers do not want to
know what sysctl knobs you wish to add for your own piece of code, we
just care about the core logic.

So move the dcache sysctl clutter out of kernel/sysctl.c. This is a
small one-off entry, perhaps later we can simplify this representation,
but for now we use the helpers we have. We won't know how we can
simplify this further untl we're fully done with the cleanup.

[arnd@arndb.de: avoid unused-function warning]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211203190123.874239-2-arnd@kernel.org

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211129205548.605569-4-mcgrof@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Antti Palosaari <crope@iki.fi>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Iurii Zaikin <yzaikin@google.com>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Lukas Middendorf <kernel@tuxforce.de>
Cc: Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org>
Cc: Xiaoming Ni <nixiaoming@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 80e5d1ff5 15-Apr-2021 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

useful constants: struct qstr for ".."

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 3d742d4b 24-Feb-2021 Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>

fs: delete repeated words in comments

Delete duplicate words in fs/*.c.
The doubled words that are being dropped are:
that, be, the, in, and, for

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201224052810.25315-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 961f3c89 14-Jan-2021 Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>

fs: fix kernel-doc markups

Two markups are at the wrong place. Kernel-doc only
support having the comment just before the identifier.

Also, some identifiers have different names between their
prototypes and the kernel-doc markup.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/96b1e1b388600ab092331f6c4e88ff8e8779ce6c.1610610937.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>


# bca585d2 05-Jan-2021 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

new helper: d_find_alias_rcu()

similar to d_find_alias(inode), except that
* the caller must be holding rcu_read_lock()
* inode must not be freed until matching rcu_read_unlock()
* result is *NOT* pinned and can only be dereferenced until
the matching rcu_read_unlock().

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 77573fa3 07-Dec-2020 Hao Li <lihao2018.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>

fs: Kill DCACHE_DONTCACHE dentry even if DCACHE_REFERENCED is set

If DCACHE_REFERENCED is set, fast_dput() will return true, and then
retain_dentry() have no chance to check DCACHE_DONTCACHE. As a result,
the dentry won't be killed and the corresponding inode can't be evicted.
In the following example, the DAX policy can't take effects unless we
do a drop_caches manually.

# DCACHE_LRU_LIST will be set
echo abcdefg > test.txt

# DCACHE_REFERENCED will be set and DCACHE_DONTCACHE can't do anything
xfs_io -c 'chattr +x' test.txt

# Drop caches to make DAX changing take effects
echo 2 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches

What this patch does is preventing fast_dput() from returning true if
DCACHE_DONTCACHE is set. Then retain_dentry() will detect the
DCACHE_DONTCACHE and will return false. As a result, the dentry will be
killed and the inode will be evicted. In this way, if we change per-file
DAX policy, it will take effects automatically after this file is closed
by all processes.

I also add some comments to make the code more clear.

Signed-off-by: Hao Li <lihao2018.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 26475371 20-Jul-2020 Ahmed S. Darwish <a.darwish@linutronix.de>

vfs: Use sequence counter with associated spinlock

A sequence counter write side critical section must be protected by some
form of locking to serialize writers. A plain seqcount_t does not
contain the information of which lock must be held when entering a write
side critical section.

Use the new seqcount_spinlock_t data type, which allows to associate a
spinlock with the sequence counter. This enables lockdep to verify that
the spinlock used for writer serialization is held when the write side
critical section is entered.

If lockdep is disabled this lock association is compiled out and has
neither storage size nor runtime overhead.

Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish <a.darwish@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200720155530.1173732-19-a.darwish@linutronix.de


# 2c567af4 30-Apr-2020 Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>

fs: Introduce DCACHE_DONTCACHE

DCACHE_DONTCACHE indicates a dentry should not be cached on final
dput().

Also add a helper function to mark DCACHE_DONTCACHE on all dentries
pointing to a specific inode when that inode is being set I_DONTCACHE.

This facilitates dropping dentry references to inodes sooner which
require eviction to swap S_DAX mode.

Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>


# 32927393 24-Apr-2020 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

sysctl: pass kernel pointers to ->proc_handler

Instead of having all the sysctl handlers deal with user pointers, which
is rather hairy in terms of the BPF interaction, copy the input to and
from userspace in common code. This also means that the strings are
always NUL-terminated by the common code, making the API a little bit
safer.

As most handler just pass through the data to one of the common handlers
a lot of the changes are mechnical.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Andrey Ignatov <rdna@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 2fa6b1e0 12-Nov-2019 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

fs/namei.c: fix missing barriers when checking positivity

Pinned negative dentries can, generally, be made positive
by another thread. Conditions that prevent that are
* ->d_lock on dentry in question
* parent directory held at least shared
* nobody else could have observed the address of dentry
Most of the places working with those fall into one of those
categories; however, d_lookup() and friends need to be used
with some care. Fortunately, there's not a lot of call sites,
and with few exceptions all of those fall under one of the
cases above.

Exceptions are all in fs/namei.c - in lookup_fast(), lookup_dcache()
and mountpoint_last(). Another one is lookup_slow() - there
dcache lookup is done with parent held shared, but the result
is used after we'd drop the lock. The same happens in do_last() -
the lookup (in lookup_one()) is done with parent locked, but
result is used after unlocking.

lookup_fast(), do_last() and mountpoint_last() flat-out reject
negatives.

Most of lookup_dcache() calls are made with parent locked at least
shared; the only exception is lookup_one_len_unlocked(). It might
return pinned negative, needs serious care from callers. Fortunately,
almost nobody calls it directly anymore; all but two callers have
converted to lookup_positive_unlocked(), which rejects negatives.

lookup_slow() is called by the same lookup_one_len_unlocked() (see
above), mountpoint_last() and walk_component(). In those two negatives
are rejected.

In other words, there is a small set of places where we need to
check carefully if a pinned potentially negative dentry is, in
fact, positive. After that check we want to be sure that both
->d_inode and type bits in ->d_flags are stable and observed.
The set consists of follow_managed() (where the rejection happens
for lookup_fast(), walk_component() and do_last()), last_mountpoint()
and lookup_positive_unlocked().

Solution:
1) transition from negative to positive (in __d_set_inode_and_type())
stores ->d_inode, then uses smp_store_release() to set ->d_flags type bits.
2) aforementioned 3 places in fs/namei.c fetch ->d_flags with
smp_load_acquire() and bugger off if it type bits say "negative".
That way anyone downstream of those checks has dentry know positive pinned,
with ->d_inode and type bits of ->d_flags stable and observed.

I considered splitting off d_lookup_positive(), so that the checks could
be done right there, under ->d_lock. However, that leads to massive
duplication of rather subtle code in fs/namei.c and fs/dcache.c. It's
worse than it might seem, thanks to autofs ->d_manage() getting involved ;-/
No matter what, autofs_d_manage()/autofs_d_automount() must live with
the possibility of pinned negative dentry passed their way, becoming
positive under them - that's the intended behaviour when lookup comes
in the middle of automount in progress, so we can't keep them out of
the area that has to deal with those, more's the pity...

Reported-by: Ritesh Harjani <riteshh@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# e8400933 30-Oct-2019 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

fix dget_parent() fastpath race

We are overoptimistic about taking the fast path there; seeing
the same value in ->d_parent after having grabbed a reference
to that parent does *not* mean that it has remained our parent
all along.

That wouldn't be a big deal (in the end it is our parent and
we have grabbed the reference we are about to return), but...
the situation with barriers is messed up.

We might have hit the following sequence:

d is a dentry of /tmp/a/b
CPU1: CPU2:
parent = d->d_parent (i.e. dentry of /tmp/a)
rename /tmp/a/b to /tmp/b
rmdir /tmp/a, making its dentry negative
grab reference to parent,
end up with cached parent->d_inode (NULL)
mkdir /tmp/a, rename /tmp/b to /tmp/a/b
recheck d->d_parent, which is back to original
decide that everything's fine and return the reference we'd got.

The trouble is, caller (on CPU1) will observe dget_parent()
returning an apparently negative dentry. It actually is positive,
but CPU1 has stale ->d_inode cached.

Use d->d_seq to see if it has been moved instead of rechecking ->d_parent.
NOTE: we are *NOT* going to retry on any kind of ->d_seq mismatch;
we just go into the slow path in such case. We don't wait for ->d_seq
to become even either - again, if we are racing with renames, we
can bloody well go to slow path anyway.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 5c8b0dfc 25-Oct-2019 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

make __d_alloc() static

no users outside of fs/dcache.c

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 5facae4f 18-Sep-2019 Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>

locking/lockdep: Remove unused @nested argument from lock_release()

Since the following commit:

b4adfe8e05f1 ("locking/lockdep: Remove unused argument in __lock_release")

@nested is no longer used in lock_release(), so remove it from all
lock_release() calls and friends.

Signed-off-by: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: airlied@linux.ie
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: alexander.levin@microsoft.com
Cc: daniel@iogearbox.net
Cc: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Cc: duyuyang@gmail.com
Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Cc: hannes@cmpxchg.org
Cc: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org
Cc: jack@suse.com
Cc: jlbec@evilplan.or
Cc: joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com
Cc: joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.com
Cc: jslaby@suse.com
Cc: juri.lelli@redhat.com
Cc: maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com
Cc: mark@fasheh.com
Cc: mhocko@kernel.org
Cc: mripard@kernel.org
Cc: ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com
Cc: rodrigo.vivi@intel.com
Cc: sean@poorly.run
Cc: st@kernel.org
Cc: tj@kernel.org
Cc: tytso@mit.edu
Cc: vdavydov.dev@gmail.com
Cc: vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Cc: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1568909380-32199-1-git-send-email-cai@lca.pw
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>


# 9bdebc2b 29-Jun-2019 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Teach shrink_dcache_parent() to cope with mixed-filesystem shrink lists

Currently, running into a shrink list that contains dentries from different
filesystems can cause several unpleasant things for shrink_dcache_parent()
and for umount(2).

The first problem is that there's a window during shrink_dentry_list() between
__dentry_kill() takes a victim out and dropping reference to its parent. During
that window the parent looks like a genuine busy dentry. shrink_dcache_parent()
(or, worse yet, shrink_dcache_for_umount()) coming at that time will see no
eviction candidates and no indication that it needs to wait for some
shrink_dentry_list() to proceed further.

That applies for any shrink list that might intersect with the subtree we are
trying to shrink; the only reason it does not blow on umount(2) in the mainline
is that we unregister the memory shrinker before hitting shrink_dcache_for_umount().

Another problem happens if something in a mixed-filesystem shrink list gets
be stuck in e.g. iput(), getting umount of unrelated fs to spin waiting for
the stuck shrinker to get around to our dentries.

Solution:
1) have shrink_dentry_list() decrement the parent's refcount and
make sure it's on a shrink list (ours unless it already had been on some
other) before calling __dentry_kill(). That eliminates the window when
shrink_dcache_parent() would've blown past the entire subtree without
noticing anything with zero refcount not on shrink lists.
2) when shrink_dcache_parent() has found no eviction candidates,
but some dentries are still sitting on shrink lists, rather than
repeating the scan in hope that shrinkers have progressed, scan looking
for something on shrink lists with zero refcount. If such a thing is
found, grab rcu_read_lock() and stop the scan, with caller locking
it for eviction, dropping out of RCU and doing __dentry_kill(), with
the same treatment for parent as shrink_dentry_list() would do.

Note that right now mixed-filesystem shrink lists do not occur, so this
is not a mainline bug. Howevere, there's a bunch of uses for such
beasts (e.g. the "try and evict everything we can out of given page"
patches; there are potential uses in mount-related code, considerably
simplifying the life in fs/namespace.c, etc.)

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 49246466 26-May-2019 Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>

fsnotify: move fsnotify_nameremove() hook out of d_delete()

d_delete() was piggy backed for the fsnotify_nameremove() hook when
in fact not all callers of d_delete() care about fsnotify events.

For all callers of d_delete() that may be interested in fsnotify events,
we made sure to call one of fsnotify_{unlink,rmdir}() hooks before
calling d_delete().

Now we can move the fsnotify_nameremove() call from d_delete() to the
fsnotify_{unlink,rmdir}() hooks.

Two explicit calls to fsnotify_nameremove() from nfs/afs sillyrename
are also removed. This will cause a change of behavior - nfs/afs will
NOT generate an fsnotify delete event when renaming over a positive
dentry. This change is desirable, because it is consistent with the
behavior of all other filesystems.

Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>


# 457c8996 19-May-2019 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

treewide: Add SPDX license identifier for missed files

Add SPDX license identifiers to all files which:

- Have no license information of any form

- Have EXPORT_.*_SYMBOL_GPL inside which was used in the
initial scan/conversion to ignore the file

These files fall under the project license, GPL v2 only. The resulting SPDX
license identifier is:

GPL-2.0-only

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


# 230c6402 26-Apr-2019 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

ovl_lookup_real_one(): don't bother with strlen()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 0bf3d5c1 20-Mar-2019 Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>

fs, fscrypt: clear DCACHE_ENCRYPTED_NAME when unaliasing directory

Make __d_move() clear DCACHE_ENCRYPTED_NAME on the source dentry. This
is needed for when d_splice_alias() moves a directory's encrypted alias
to its decrypted alias as a result of the encryption key being added.

Otherwise, the decrypted alias will incorrectly be invalidated on the
next lookup, causing problems such as unmounting a mount the user just
mount()ed there.

Note that we don't have to support arbitrary moves of this flag because
fscrypt doesn't allow dentries with DCACHE_ENCRYPTED_NAME to be the
source or target of a rename().

Fixes: 28b4c263961c ("ext4 crypto: revalidate dentry after adding or removing the key")
Reported-by: Sarthak Kukreti <sarthakkukreti@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>


# ab1152dd 15-Mar-2019 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

unexport d_alloc_pseudo()

No modular uses since introducion of alloc_file_pseudo(),
and the only non-modular user not in alloc_file_pseudo()
had actually been wrong - should've been d_alloc_anon().

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 5467a68c 15-Mar-2019 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

dcache: sort the freeing-without-RCU-delay mess for good.

For lockless accesses to dentries we don't have pinned we rely
(among other things) upon having an RCU delay between dropping
the last reference and actually freeing the memory.

On the other hand, for things like pipes and sockets we neither
do that kind of lockless access, nor want to deal with the
overhead of an RCU delay every time a socket gets closed.

So delay was made optional - setting DCACHE_RCUACCESS in ->d_flags
made sure it would happen. We tried to avoid setting it unless
we knew we need it. Unfortunately, that had led to recurring
class of bugs, in which we missed the need to set it.

We only really need it for dentries that are created by
d_alloc_pseudo(), so let's not bother with trying to be smart -
just make having an RCU delay the default. The ones that do
*not* get it set the replacement flag (DCACHE_NORCU) and we'd
better use that sparingly. d_alloc_pseudo() is the only
such user right now.

FWIW, the race that finally prompted that switch had been
between __lock_parent() of immediate subdirectory of what's
currently the root of a disconnected tree (e.g. from
open-by-handle in progress) racing with d_splice_alias()
elsewhere picking another alias for the same inode, either
on outright corrupted fs image, or (in case of open-by-handle
on NFS) that subdirectory having been just moved on server.
It's not easy to hit, so the sky is not falling, but that's
not the first race on similar missed cases and the logics
for settinf DCACHE_RCUACCESS has gotten ridiculously
convoluted.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# af0c9af1 30-Jan-2019 Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>

fs/dcache: Track & report number of negative dentries

The current dentry number tracking code doesn't distinguish between
positive & negative dentries. It just reports the total number of
dentries in the LRU lists.

As excessive number of negative dentries can have an impact on system
performance, it will be wise to track the number of positive and
negative dentries separately.

This patch adds tracking for the total number of negative dentries in
the system LRU lists and reports it in the 5th field in the
/proc/sys/fs/dentry-state file. The number, however, does not include
negative dentries that are in flight but not in the LRU yet as well as
those in the shrinker lists which are on the way out anyway.

The number of positive dentries in the LRU lists can be roughly found by
subtracting the number of negative dentries from the unused count.

Matthew Wilcox had confirmed that since the introduction of the
dentry_stat structure in 2.1.60, the dummy array was there, probably for
future extension. They were not replacements of pre-existing fields.
So no sane applications that read the value of /proc/sys/fs/dentry-state
will do dummy thing if the last 2 fields of the sysctl parameter are not
zero. IOW, it will be safe to use one of the dummy array entry for
negative dentry count.

Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 1dbd449c 30-Jan-2019 Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>

fs/dcache: Fix incorrect nr_dentry_unused accounting in shrink_dcache_sb()

The nr_dentry_unused per-cpu counter tracks dentries in both the LRU
lists and the shrink lists where the DCACHE_LRU_LIST bit is set.

The shrink_dcache_sb() function moves dentries from the LRU list to a
shrink list and subtracts the dentry count from nr_dentry_unused. This
is incorrect as the nr_dentry_unused count will also be decremented in
shrink_dentry_list() via d_shrink_del().

To fix this double decrement, the decrement in the shrink_dcache_sb()
function is taken out.

Fixes: 4e717f5c1083 ("list_lru: remove special case function list_lru_dispose_all."
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 57c8a661 30-Oct-2018 Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

mm: remove include/linux/bootmem.h

Move remaining definitions and declarations from include/linux/bootmem.h
into include/linux/memblock.h and remove the redundant header.

The includes were replaced with the semantic patch below and then
semi-automated removal of duplicated '#include <linux/memblock.h>

@@
@@
- #include <linux/bootmem.h>
+ #include <linux/memblock.h>

[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: dma-direct: fix up for the removal of linux/bootmem.h]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181002185342.133d1680@canb.auug.org.au
[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: powerpc: fix up for removal of linux/bootmem.h]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181005161406.73ef8727@canb.auug.org.au
[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: x86/kaslr, ACPI/NUMA: fix for linux/bootmem.h removal]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181008190341.5e396491@canb.auug.org.au
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1536927045-23536-30-git-send-email-rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Greentime Hu <green.hu@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@pku.edu.cn>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Jonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Ley Foon Tan <lftan@altera.com>
Cc: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com>
Cc: Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com>
Cc: Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Serge Semin <fancer.lancer@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 2e03b4bc 26-Oct-2018 Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>

dcache: allocate external names from reclaimable kmalloc caches

We can use the newly introduced kmalloc-reclaimable-X caches, to allocate
external names in dcache, which will take care of the proper accounting
automatically, and also improve anti-fragmentation page grouping.

This effectively reverts commit f1782c9bc547 ("dcache: account external
names as indirectly reclaimable memory") and instead passes
__GFP_RECLAIMABLE to kmalloc(). The accounting thus moves from
NR_INDIRECTLY_RECLAIMABLE_BYTES to NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE, which is also
considered in MemAvailable calculation and overcommit decisions.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180731090649.16028-4-vbabka@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org>
Cc: Vijayanand Jitta <vjitta@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 6cd00a01 17-Aug-2018 Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>

fs/dcache.c: fix kmemcheck splat at take_dentry_name_snapshot()

Since only dentry->d_name.len + 1 bytes out of DNAME_INLINE_LEN bytes
are initialized at __d_alloc(), we can't copy the whole size
unconditionally.

WARNING: kmemcheck: Caught 32-bit read from uninitialized memory (ffff8fa27465ac50)
636f6e66696766732e746d70000000000010000000000000020000000188ffff
i i i i i i i i i i i i i u u u u u u u u u u i i i i i u u u u
^
RIP: 0010:take_dentry_name_snapshot+0x28/0x50
RSP: 0018:ffffa83000f5bdf8 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000020 RBX: ffff8fa274b20550 RCX: 0000000000000002
RDX: ffffa83000f5be40 RSI: ffff8fa27465ac50 RDI: ffffa83000f5be60
RBP: ffffa83000f5bdf8 R08: ffffa83000f5be48 R09: 0000000000000001
R10: ffff8fa27465ac00 R11: ffff8fa27465acc0 R12: ffff8fa27465ac00
R13: ffff8fa27465acc0 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
FS: 00007f79737ac8c0(0000) GS:ffffffff8fc30000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: ffff8fa274c0b000 CR3: 0000000134aa7002 CR4: 00000000000606f0
take_dentry_name_snapshot+0x28/0x50
vfs_rename+0x128/0x870
SyS_rename+0x3b2/0x3d0
entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1a/0xa4
0xffffffffffffffff

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/201709131912.GBG39012.QMJLOVFSFFOOtH@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp
Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 4c0d7cd5 09-Aug-2018 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

make sure that __dentry_kill() always invalidates d_seq, unhashed or not

RCU pathwalk relies upon the assumption that anything that changes
->d_inode of a dentry will invalidate its ->d_seq. That's almost
true - the one exception is that the final dput() of already unhashed
dentry does *not* touch ->d_seq at all. Unhashing does, though,
so for anything we'd found by RCU dcache lookup we are fine.
Unfortunately, we can *start* with an unhashed dentry or jump into
it.

We could try and be careful in the (few) places where that could
happen. Or we could just make the final dput() invalidate the damn
thing, unhashed or not. The latter is much simpler and easier to
backport, so let's do it that way.

Reported-by: "Dae R. Jeong" <threeearcat@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 90bad5e0 06-Aug-2018 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

root dentries need RCU-delayed freeing

Since mountpoint crossing can happen without leaving lazy mode,
root dentries do need the same protection against having their
memory freed without RCU delay as everything else in the tree.

It's partially hidden by RCU delay between detaching from the
mount tree and dropping the vfsmount reference, but the starting
point of pathwalk can be on an already detached mount, in which
case umount-caused RCU delay has already passed by the time the
lazy pathwalk grabs rcu_read_lock(). If the starting point
happens to be at the root of that vfsmount *and* that vfsmount
covers the entire filesystem, we get trouble.

Fixes: 48a066e72d97 ("RCU'd vsfmounts")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 7964410f 01-Aug-2018 Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>

fs: dcache: Use true and false for boolean values

Return statements in functions returning bool should use true or false
instead of an integer value.

This issue was detected with the help of Coccinelle.

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# c2b6d621 28-Jun-2018 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

new primitive: discard_new_inode()

We don't want open-by-handle picking half-set-up in-core
struct inode from e.g. mkdir() having failed halfway through.
In other words, we don't want such inodes returned by iget_locked()
on their way to extinction. However, we can't just have them
unhashed - otherwise open-by-handle immediately *after* that would've
ended up creating a new in-core inode over the on-disk one that
is in process of being freed right under us.

Solution: new flag (I_CREATING) set by insert_inode_locked() and
removed by unlock_new_inode() and a new primitive (discard_new_inode())
to be used by such halfway-through-setup failure exits instead of
unlock_new_inode() / iput() combinations. That primitive unlocks new
inode, but leaves I_CREATING in place.

iget_locked() treats finding an I_CREATING inode as failure
(-ESTALE, once we sort out the error propagation).
insert_inode_locked() treats the same as instant -EBUSY.
ilookup() treats those as icache miss.

[Fix by Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> folded in]

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# c971e6a0 28-May-2018 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

kill d_instantiate_no_diralias()

The only user is fuse_create_new_entry(), and there it's used to
mitigate the same mkdir/open-by-handle race as in nfs_mkdir().
The same solution applies - unhash the mkdir argument, then
call d_splice_alias() and if that returns a reference to preexisting
alias, dput() and report success. ->mkdir() argument left unhashed
negative with the preexisting alias moved in the right place is just
fine from the ->mkdir() callers point of view.

Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 63a67a92 23-Jun-2018 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

kill dentry_update_name_case()

the last user is gone

Spotted-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 61fec493 25-Apr-2018 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

get rid of dead code in d_find_alias()

All "try disconnected alias if nothing else fits" logics in d_find_alias()
got accidentally disabled by Neil a while ago; for most of the callers it
was the right thing to do, so fixes belong in few callers that *do* want
disconnected aliases. This just takes the now-dead code in d_find_alias()
out.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 1e2e547a 04-May-2018 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

do d_instantiate/unlock_new_inode combinations safely

For anything NFS-exported we do _not_ want to unlock new inode
before it has grown an alias; original set of fixes got the
ordering right, but missed the nasty complication in case of
lockdep being enabled - unlock_new_inode() does
lockdep_annotate_inode_mutex_key(inode)
which can only be done before anyone gets a chance to touch
->i_mutex. Unfortunately, flipping the order and doing
unlock_new_inode() before d_instantiate() opens a window when
mkdir can race with open-by-fhandle on a guessed fhandle, leading
to multiple aliases for a directory inode and all the breakage
that follows from that.

Correct solution: a new primitive (d_instantiate_new())
combining these two in the right order - lockdep annotate, then
d_instantiate(), then the rest of unlock_new_inode(). All
combinations of d_instantiate() with unlock_new_inode() should
be converted to that.

Cc: stable@kernel.org # 2.6.29 and later
Tested-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 4fb48871 19-Apr-2018 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

restore cond_resched() in shrink_dcache_parent()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 1088a640 15-Apr-2018 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

dput(): turn into explicit while() loop

No need to mess with gotos when the code yielded by straight while()
isn't any worse...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 9c5f1d30 15-Apr-2018 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

dcache: move cond_resched() into the end of __dentry_kill()

cond_resched() in shrink_dentry_list() is too early

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 3a8e3611 15-Apr-2018 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

d_walk(): kill 'finish' callback

no users left

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# ff17fa56 15-Apr-2018 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

d_invalidate(): unhash immediately

Once that is done, we can just hunt mountpoints down one by one;
no new mountpoints can be added from now on, so we don't need
anything tricky in finish() callback, etc.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 32785c05 10-Apr-2018 Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com>

fs/dcache.c: add cond_resched() in shrink_dentry_list()

As previously reported (https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/8642031/)
it's possible to call shrink_dentry_list with a large number of dentries
(> 10000). This, in turn, could trigger the softlockup detector and
possibly trigger a panic. In addition to the unmount path being
vulnerable to this scenario, at SuSE we've observed similar situation
happening during process exit on processes that touch a lot of dentries.
Here is an excerpt from a crash dump. The number after the colon are
the number of dentries on the list passed to shrink_dentry_list:

PID 99760: 10722
PID 107530: 215
PID 108809: 24134
PID 108877: 21331
PID 141708: 16487

So we want to kill between 15k-25k dentries without yielding.

And one possible call stack looks like:

4 [ffff8839ece41db0] _raw_spin_lock at ffffffff8152a5f8
5 [ffff8839ece41db0] evict at ffffffff811c3026
6 [ffff8839ece41dd0] __dentry_kill at ffffffff811bf258
7 [ffff8839ece41df0] shrink_dentry_list at ffffffff811bf593
8 [ffff8839ece41e18] shrink_dcache_parent at ffffffff811bf830
9 [ffff8839ece41e50] proc_flush_task at ffffffff8120dd61
10 [ffff8839ece41ec0] release_task at ffffffff81059ebd
11 [ffff8839ece41f08] do_exit at ffffffff8105b8ce
12 [ffff8839ece41f78] sys_exit at ffffffff8105bd53
13 [ffff8839ece41f80] system_call_fastpath at ffffffff81532909

While some of the callers of shrink_dentry_list do use cond_resched,
this is not sufficient to prevent softlockups. So just move
cond_resched into shrink_dentry_list from its callers.

David said: I've found hundreds of occurrences of warnings that we emit
when need_resched stays set for a prolonged period of time with the
stack trace that is included in the change log.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1521718946-31521-1-git-send-email-nborisov@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@suse.de>
Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# f1782c9b 10-Apr-2018 Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>

dcache: account external names as indirectly reclaimable memory

I received a report about suspicious growth of unreclaimable slabs on
some machines. I've found that it happens on machines with low memory
pressure, and these unreclaimable slabs are external names attached to
dentries.

External names are allocated using generic kmalloc() function, so they
are accounted as unreclaimable. But they are held by dentries, which
are reclaimable, and they will be reclaimed under the memory pressure.

In particular, this breaks MemAvailable calculation, as it doesn't take
unreclaimable slabs into account. This leads to a silly situation, when
a machine is almost idle, has no memory pressure and therefore has a big
dentry cache. And the resulting MemAvailable is too low to start a new
workload.

To address the issue, the NR_INDIRECTLY_RECLAIMABLE_BYTES counter is
used to track the amount of memory, consumed by external names. The
counter is increased in the dentry allocation path, if an external name
structure is allocated; and it's decreased in the dentry freeing path.

To reproduce the problem I've used the following Python script:

import os

for iter in range (0, 10000000):
try:
name = ("/some_long_name_%d" % iter) + "_" * 220
os.stat(name)
except Exception:
pass

Without this patch:
$ cat /proc/meminfo | grep MemAvailable
MemAvailable: 7811688 kB
$ python indirect.py
$ cat /proc/meminfo | grep MemAvailable
MemAvailable: 2753052 kB

With the patch:
$ cat /proc/meminfo | grep MemAvailable
MemAvailable: 7809516 kB
$ python indirect.py
$ cat /proc/meminfo | grep MemAvailable
MemAvailable: 7749144 kB

[guro@fb.com: fix indirectly reclaimable memory accounting for CONFIG_SLOB]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180312194140.19517-1-guro@fb.com
[guro@fb.com: fix indirectly reclaimable memory accounting]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180313125701.7955-1-guro@fb.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180305133743.12746-5-guro@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# cbd4a5bc 29-Mar-2018 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

d_genocide: move export to definition

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 42177007 11-Mar-2018 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

fold dentry_lock_for_move() into its sole caller and clean it up

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 076515fc 10-Mar-2018 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

make non-exchanging __d_move() copy ->d_parent rather than swap them

Currently d_move(from, to) does the following:
* name/parent of from <- old name/parent of to, from hashed there
* to is unhashed
* name of to is preserved
* if from used to be detached, to gets detached
* if from used to be attached, parent of to <- old parent of from.

That's both user-visibly bogus and complicates reasoning a lot.
Much saner semantics would be
* name/parent of from <- name/parent of to, from hashed there.
* to is unhashed
* name/parent of to is unchanged.

The price, of course, is that old parent of from might lose a reference.
However,
* all potentially cross-directory callers of d_move() have both
parents pinned directly; typically, dentries themselves are grabbed
only after we have grabbed and locked both parents. IOW, the decrement
of old parent's refcount in case of d_move() won't reach zero.
* __d_move() from d_splice_alias() is done to detached alias.
No refcount decrements in that case
* __d_move() from __d_unalias() *can* get the refcount to zero.
So let's grab a reference to alias' old parent before calling __d_unalias()
and dput() it after we'd dropped rename_lock.

That does make d_splice_alias() potentially blocking. However, it has
no callers in non-sleepable contexts (and the case where we'd grown
that dget/dput pair is _very_ rare, so performance is not an issue).

Another thing that needs adjustment is unlocking in the end of __d_move();
folded it in. And cleaned the remnants of bogus ordering from the
"lock them in the beginning" counterpart - it's never been right and
now (well, for 7 years now) we have that thing always serialized on
rename_lock anyway.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 7a5cf791 05-Mar-2018 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

split d_path() and friends into a separate file

Those parts of fs/dcache.c are pretty much self-contained.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 43986d63 25-Feb-2018 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

dcache.c: trim includes

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 8f04da2a 22-Feb-2018 John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>

fs/dcache: Avoid a try_lock loop in shrink_dentry_list()

shrink_dentry_list() holds dentry->d_lock and needs to acquire
dentry->d_inode->i_lock. This cannot be done with a spin_lock()
operation because it's the reverse of the regular lock order.
To avoid ABBA deadlocks it is done with a trylock loop.

Trylock loops are problematic in two scenarios:

1) PREEMPT_RT converts spinlocks to 'sleeping' spinlocks, which are
preemptible. As a consequence the i_lock holder can be preempted
by a higher priority task. If that task executes the trylock loop
it will do so forever and live lock.

2) In virtual machines trylock loops are problematic as well. The
VCPU on which the i_lock holder runs can be scheduled out and a
task on a different VCPU can loop for a whole time slice. In the
worst case this can lead to starvation. Commits 47be61845c77
("fs/dcache.c: avoid soft-lockup in dput()") and 046b961b45f9
("shrink_dentry_list(): take parent's d_lock earlier") are
addressing exactly those symptoms.

Avoid the trylock loop by using dentry_kill(). When pruning ancestors,
the same code applies that is used to kill a dentry in dput(). This
also has the benefit that the locking order is now the same. First
the inode is locked, then the parent.

Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# f657a666 23-Feb-2018 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

get rid of trylock loop around dentry_kill()

In case when trylock in there fails, deal with it directly in
dentry_kill(). Note that in cases when we drop and retake
->d_lock, we need to recheck whether to retain the dentry.
Another thing is that dropping/retaking ->d_lock might have
ended up with negative dentry turning into positive; that,
of course, can happen only once...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 62d9956c 06-Mar-2018 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

handle move to LRU in retain_dentry()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# a338579f 23-Feb-2018 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

dput(): consolidate the "do we need to retain it?" into an inlined helper

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 8b987a46 23-Feb-2018 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

split the slow part of lock_parent() off

Turn the "trylock failed" part into uninlined __lock_parent().

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 65d8eb5a 23-Feb-2018 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

now lock_parent() can't run into killed dentry

all remaining callers hold either a reference or ->i_lock

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 3b3f09f4 23-Feb-2018 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

get rid of trylock loop in locking dentries on shrink list

In case of trylock failure don't re-add to the list - drop the locks
and carefully get them in the right order. For shrink_dentry_list(),
somebody having grabbed a reference to dentry means that we can
kick it off-list, so if we find dentry being modified under us we
don't need to play silly buggers with retries anyway - off the list
it is.

The locking logics taken out into a helper of its own; lock_parent()
is no longer used for dentries that can be killed under us.

[fix from Eric Biggers folded]

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# c19457f0 23-Feb-2018 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

d_delete(): get rid of trylock loop

just grab ->i_lock first; we have a positive dentry, nothing's going
to happen to inode

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# c1d0c1a2 22-Feb-2018 John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>

fs/dcache: Move dentry_kill() below lock_parent()

A subsequent patch will modify dentry_kill() to call lock_parent().
Move the dentry_kill() implementation "as is" below lock_parent()
first. This will help simplify the review of the subsequent patch
with dentry_kill() changes.

Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 06080d10 22-Feb-2018 John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>

fs/dcache: Remove stale comment from dentry_kill()

Commit 0d98439ea3c6 ("vfs: use lockred "dead" flag to mark unrecoverably
dead dentries") removed the `ref' parameter in dentry_kill() but its
documentation remained. Remove it.

Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 0632a9ac 06-Mar-2018 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

take write_seqcount_invalidate() into __d_drop()

... and reorder it with making d_unhashed() true.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 8cc07c80 19-Feb-2018 Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>

fs: dcache: Use READ_ONCE when accessing i_dir_seq

i_dir_seq is subject to concurrent modification by a cmpxchg or
store-release operation, so ensure that the relaxed access in
d_alloc_parallel uses READ_ONCE.

Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 015555fd 19-Feb-2018 Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>

fs: dcache: Avoid livelock between d_alloc_parallel and __d_add

If d_alloc_parallel runs concurrently with __d_add, it is possible for
d_alloc_parallel to continuously retry whilst i_dir_seq has been
incremented to an odd value by __d_add:

CPU0:
__d_add
n = start_dir_add(dir);
cmpxchg(&dir->i_dir_seq, n, n + 1) == n

CPU1:
d_alloc_parallel
retry:
seq = smp_load_acquire(&parent->d_inode->i_dir_seq) & ~1;
hlist_bl_lock(b);
bit_spin_lock(0, (unsigned long *)b); // Always succeeds

CPU0:
__d_lookup_done(dentry)
hlist_bl_lock
bit_spin_lock(0, (unsigned long *)b); // Never succeeds

CPU1:
if (unlikely(parent->d_inode->i_dir_seq != seq)) {
hlist_bl_unlock(b);
goto retry;
}

Since the simple bit_spin_lock used to implement hlist_bl_lock does not
provide any fairness guarantees, then CPU1 can starve CPU0 of the lock
and prevent it from reaching end_dir_add(dir), therefore CPU1 cannot
exit its retry loop because the sequence number always has the bottom
bit set.

This patch resolves the livelock by not taking hlist_bl_lock in
d_alloc_parallel if the sequence counter is odd, since any subsequent
masked comparison with i_dir_seq will fail anyway.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Reported-by: Naresh Madhusudana <naresh.madhusudana@arm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 3b821409 23-Feb-2018 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

lock_parent() needs to recheck if dentry got __dentry_kill'ed under it

In case when dentry passed to lock_parent() is protected from freeing only
by the fact that it's on a shrink list and trylock of parent fails, we
could get hit by __dentry_kill() (and subsequent dentry_kill(parent))
between unlocking dentry and locking presumed parent. We need to recheck
that dentry is alive once we lock both it and parent *and* postpone
rcu_read_unlock() until after that point. Otherwise we could return
a pointer to struct dentry that already is rcu-scheduled for freeing, with
->d_lock held on it; caller's subsequent attempt to unlock it can end
up with memory corruption.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.12+, counting backports
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# babcbbc7 01-Feb-2018 Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>

fs: dcache: Revert "manually unpoison dname after allocation to shut up kasan's reports"

This reverts commit df4c0e36f1b1782b0611a77c52cc240e5c4752dd.

It's no longer needed since dentry_string_cmp() now uses
read_word_at_a_time() to avoid kasan's reports.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# bfe7aa6c 01-Feb-2018 Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>

fs/dcache: Use read_word_at_a_time() in dentry_string_cmp()

dentry_string_cmp() performs the word-at-a-time reads from 'cs' and may
read slightly more than it was requested in kmallac(). Normally this
would make KASAN to report out-of-bounds access, but this was
workarounded by commit df4c0e36f1b1 ("fs: dcache: manually unpoison
dname after allocation to shut up kasan's reports").

This workaround is not perfect, since it allows out-of-bounds access to
dentry's name for all the code, not just in dentry_string_cmp().

So it would be better to use read_word_at_a_time() instead and revert
commit df4c0e36f1b1.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# b35d786b 20-Nov-2017 Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>

dcache: delete unused d_hash_mask

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 854d3e63 20-Nov-2017 Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>

dcache: subtract d_hash_shift from 32 in advance

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# f9c34674 19-Jan-2018 Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>

vfs: factor out helpers d_instantiate_anon() and d_alloc_anon()

Those helpers are going to be used by overlayfs to implement
NFS export decode.

Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>


# e8f9e5b7 11-Jan-2018 Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>

ovl: verify directory index entries on mount

Directory index entries should have 'upper' xattr pointing to the real
upper dir. Verifying that the upper dir file handle is not stale is
expensive, so only verify stale directory index entries on mount if
NFS export feature is enabled.

Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>


# 6a9b8820 10-Jun-2017 David Windsor <dave@nullcore.net>

vfs: Define usercopy region in names_cache slab caches

VFS pathnames are stored in the names_cache slab cache, either inline
or across an entire allocation entry (when approaching PATH_MAX). These
are copied to/from userspace, so they must be entirely whitelisted.

cache object allocation:
include/linux/fs.h:
#define __getname() kmem_cache_alloc(names_cachep, GFP_KERNEL)

example usage trace:
strncpy_from_user+0x4d/0x170
getname_flags+0x6f/0x1f0
user_path_at_empty+0x23/0x40
do_mount+0x69/0xda0
SyS_mount+0x83/0xd0

fs/namei.c:
getname_flags(...):
...
result = __getname();
...
kname = (char *)result->iname;
result->name = kname;
len = strncpy_from_user(kname, filename, EMBEDDED_NAME_MAX);
...
if (unlikely(len == EMBEDDED_NAME_MAX)) {
const size_t size = offsetof(struct filename, iname[1]);
kname = (char *)result;

result = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
...
result->name = kname;
len = strncpy_from_user(kname, filename, PATH_MAX);

In support of usercopy hardening, this patch defines the entire cache
object in the names_cache slab cache as whitelisted, since it may entirely
hold name strings to be copied to/from userspace.

This patch is verbatim from Brad Spengler/PaX Team's PAX_USERCOPY
whitelisting code in the last public patch of grsecurity/PaX based on my
understanding of the code. Changes or omissions from the original code are
mine and don't reflect the original grsecurity/PaX code.

Signed-off-by: David Windsor <dave@nullcore.net>
[kees: adjust commit log, add usage trace]
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>


# 80344266 10-Jun-2017 David Windsor <dave@nullcore.net>

dcache: Define usercopy region in dentry_cache slab cache

When a dentry name is short enough, it can be stored directly in the
dentry itself (instead in a separate kmalloc allocation). These dentry
short names, stored in struct dentry.d_iname and therefore contained in
the dentry_cache slab cache, need to be coped to userspace.

cache object allocation:
fs/dcache.c:
__d_alloc(...):
...
dentry = kmem_cache_alloc(dentry_cache, ...);
...
dentry->d_name.name = dentry->d_iname;

example usage trace:
filldir+0xb0/0x140
dcache_readdir+0x82/0x170
iterate_dir+0x142/0x1b0
SyS_getdents+0xb5/0x160

fs/readdir.c:
(called via ctx.actor by dir_emit)
filldir(..., const char *name, ...):
...
copy_to_user(..., name, namlen)

fs/libfs.c:
dcache_readdir(...):
...
next = next_positive(dentry, p, 1)
...
dir_emit(..., next->d_name.name, ...)

In support of usercopy hardening, this patch defines a region in the
dentry_cache slab cache in which userspace copy operations are allowed.

This region is known as the slab cache's usercopy region. Slab caches can
now check that each dynamic copy operation involving cache-managed memory
falls entirely within the slab's usercopy region.

This patch is modified from Brad Spengler/PaX Team's PAX_USERCOPY
whitelisting code in the last public patch of grsecurity/PaX based on my
understanding of the code. Changes or omissions from the original code are
mine and don't reflect the original grsecurity/PaX code.

Signed-off-by: David Windsor <dave@nullcore.net>
[kees: adjust hunks for kmalloc-specific things moved later]
[kees: adjust commit log, provide usage trace]
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>


# 61647823 09-Nov-2017 NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>

VFS: close race between getcwd() and d_move()

d_move() will call __d_drop() and then __d_rehash()
on the dentry being moved. This creates a small window
when the dentry appears to be unhashed. Many tests
of d_unhashed() are made under ->d_lock and so are safe
from racing with this window, but some aren't.
In particular, getcwd() calls d_unlinked() (which calls
d_unhashed()) without d_lock protection, so it can race.

This races has been seen in practice with lustre, which uses d_move() as
part of name lookup. See:
https://jira.hpdd.intel.com/browse/LU-9735
It could race with a regular rename(), and result in ENOENT instead
of either the 'before' or 'after' name.

The race can be demonstrated with a simple program which
has two threads, one renaming a directory back and forth
while another calls getcwd() within that directory: it should never
fail, but does. See:
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9455345/

We could fix this race by taking d_lock and rechecking when
d_unhashed() reports true. Alternately when can remove the window,
which is the approach this patch takes.

___d_drop() is introduce which does *not* clear d_hash.pprev
so the dentry still appears to be hashed. __d_drop() calls
___d_drop(), then clears d_hash.pprev.
__d_move() now uses ___d_drop() and only clears d_hash.pprev
when not rehashing.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# f1ee6162 20-Dec-2017 NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>

VFS: don't keep disconnected dentries on d_anon

The original purpose of the per-superblock d_anon list was to
keep disconnected dentries in the cache between consecutive
requests to the NFS server. Dentries can be disconnected if
a client holds a file open and repeatedly performs IO on it,
and if the server drops the dentry, whether due to memory
pressure, server restart, or "echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches".

This purpose was thwarted by commit 75a6f82a0d10 ("freeing unlinked
file indefinitely delayed") which caused disconnected dentries
to be freed as soon as their refcount reached zero.

This means that, when a dentry being used by nfsd gets disconnected, a
new one needs to be allocated for every request (unless requests
overlap). As the dentry has no name, no parent, and no children,
there is little of value to cache. As small memory allocations are
typically fast (from per-cpu free lists) this likely has little cost.

This means that the original purpose of s_anon is no longer relevant:
there is no longer any need to keep disconnected dentries on a list so
they appear to be hashed.

However, s_anon now has a new use. When you mount an NFS filesystem,
the dentry stored in s_root is just a placebo. The "real" root dentry
is allocated using d_obtain_root() and so it kept on the s_anon list.
I don't know the reason for this, but suspect it related to NFSv4
where a mount of "server:/some/path" require NFS to look up the root
filehandle on the server, then walk down "/some" and "/path" to get
the filehandle to mount.

Whatever the reason, NFS depends on the s_anon list and on
shrink_dcache_for_umount() pruning all dentries on this list. So we
cannot simply remove s_anon.

We could just leave the code unchanged, but apart from that being
potentially confusing, the (unfair) bit-spin-lock which protects
s_anon can become a bottle neck when lots of disconnected dentries are
being created.

So this patch renames s_anon to s_roots, and stops storing
disconnected dentries on the list. Only dentries obtained with
d_obtain_root() are now stored on this list. There are many fewer of
these (only NFS and NILFS2 use the call, and only during filesystem
mount) so contention on the bit-lock will not be a problem.

Possibly an alternate solution should be found for NFS and NILFS2, but
that would require understanding their needs first.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 3382290e 24-Oct-2017 Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>

locking/barriers: Convert users of lockless_dereference() to READ_ONCE()

[ Note, this is a Git cherry-pick of the following commit:

506458efaf15 ("locking/barriers: Convert users of lockless_dereference() to READ_ONCE()")

... for easier x86 PTI code testing and back-porting. ]

READ_ONCE() now has an implicit smp_read_barrier_depends() call, so it
can be used instead of lockless_dereference() without any change in
semantics.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1508840570-22169-4-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>


# 9c565035 17-Nov-2017 Yang Shi <yang.s@alibaba-inc.com>

vfs: remove unused hardirq.h

Preempt counter APIs have been split out, currently, hardirq.h just
includes irq_enter/exit APIs which are not used by vfs at all.

So, remove the unused hardirq.h.

Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.s@alibaba-inc.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 7088efa9 09-Oct-2017 Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>

fs/dcache: Use release-acquire for name/length update

The code in __d_alloc() carefully orders filling in the NUL character
of the name (and the length, hash, and the name itself) with assigning
of the name itself. However, prepend_name() does not order the accesses
to the ->name and ->len fields, other than on TSO systems. This commit
therefore replaces prepend_name()'s READ_ONCE() of ->name with an
smp_load_acquire(), which orders against the subsequent READ_ONCE() of
->len. Because READ_ONCE() now incorporates smp_read_barrier_depends(),
prepend_name()'s smp_read_barrier_depends() is removed. Finally,
to save a line, the smp_wmb()/store pair in __d_alloc() is replaced
by smp_store_release().

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>


# 49502766 15-Nov-2017 Levin, Alexander (Sasha Levin) <alexander.levin@verizon.com>

kmemcheck: remove annotations

Patch series "kmemcheck: kill kmemcheck", v2.

As discussed at LSF/MM, kill kmemcheck.

KASan is a replacement that is able to work without the limitation of
kmemcheck (single CPU, slow). KASan is already upstream.

We are also not aware of any users of kmemcheck (or users who don't
consider KASan as a suitable replacement).

The only objection was that since KASAN wasn't supported by all GCC
versions provided by distros at that time we should hold off for 2
years, and try again.

Now that 2 years have passed, and all distros provide gcc that supports
KASAN, kill kmemcheck again for the very same reasons.

This patch (of 4):

Remove kmemcheck annotations, and calls to kmemcheck from the kernel.

[alexander.levin@verizon.com: correctly remove kmemcheck call from dma_map_sg_attrs]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171012192151.26531-1-alexander.levin@verizon.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171007030159.22241-2-alexander.levin@verizon.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Tim Hansen <devtimhansen@gmail.com>
Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegardno@ifi.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 66702eb5 23-Oct-2017 Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>

locking/atomics, fs/dcache: Convert ACCESS_ONCE() to READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE()

For several reasons, it is desirable to use {READ,WRITE}_ONCE() in
preference to ACCESS_ONCE(), and new code is expected to use one of the
former. So far, there's been no reason to change most existing uses of
ACCESS_ONCE(), as these aren't currently harmful.

However, for some features it is necessary to instrument reads and
writes separately, which is not possible with ACCESS_ONCE(). This
distinction is critical to correct operation.

It's possible to transform the bulk of kernel code using the Coccinelle
script below. However, this doesn't handle comments, leaving references
to ACCESS_ONCE() instances which have been removed. As a preparatory
step, this patch converts the dcache code and comments to use
{READ,WRITE}_ONCE() consistently.

----
virtual patch

@ depends on patch @
expression E1, E2;
@@

- ACCESS_ONCE(E1) = E2
+ WRITE_ONCE(E1, E2)

@ depends on patch @
expression E;
@@

- ACCESS_ONCE(E)
+ READ_ONCE(E)
----

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: mpe@ellerman.id.au
Cc: shuah@kernel.org
Cc: snitzer@redhat.com
Cc: thor.thayer@linux.intel.com
Cc: tj@kernel.org
Cc: will.deacon@arm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1508792849-3115-4-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>


# 506458ef 24-Oct-2017 Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>

locking/barriers: Convert users of lockless_dereference() to READ_ONCE()

READ_ONCE() now has an implicit smp_read_barrier_depends() call, so it
can be used instead of lockless_dereference() without any change in
semantics.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1508840570-22169-4-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>


# b17c070f 10-Jul-2017 Sahitya Tummala <stummala@codeaurora.org>

fs/dcache.c: fix spin lockup issue on nlru->lock

__list_lru_walk_one() acquires nlru spin lock (nlru->lock) for longer
duration if there are more number of items in the lru list. As per the
current code, it can hold the spin lock for upto maximum UINT_MAX
entries at a time. So if there are more number of items in the lru
list, then "BUG: spinlock lockup suspected" is observed in the below
path:

spin_bug+0x90
do_raw_spin_lock+0xfc
_raw_spin_lock+0x28
list_lru_add+0x28
dput+0x1c8
path_put+0x20
terminate_walk+0x3c
path_lookupat+0x100
filename_lookup+0x6c
user_path_at_empty+0x54
SyS_faccessat+0xd0
el0_svc_naked+0x24

This nlru->lock is acquired by another CPU in this path -

d_lru_shrink_move+0x34
dentry_lru_isolate_shrink+0x48
__list_lru_walk_one.isra.10+0x94
list_lru_walk_node+0x40
shrink_dcache_sb+0x60
do_remount_sb+0xbc
do_emergency_remount+0xb0
process_one_work+0x228
worker_thread+0x2e0
kthread+0xf4
ret_from_fork+0x10

Fix this lockup by reducing the number of entries to be shrinked from
the lru list to 1024 at once. Also, add cond_resched() before
processing the lru list again.

Link: http://marc.info/?t=149722864900001&r=1&w=2
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1498707575-2472-1-git-send-email-stummala@codeaurora.org
Signed-off-by: Sahitya Tummala <stummala@codeaurora.org>
Suggested-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Suggested-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexander Polakov <apolyakov@beget.ru>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 49d31c2f 07-Jul-2017 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

dentry name snapshots

take_dentry_name_snapshot() takes a safe snapshot of dentry name;
if the name is a short one, it gets copied into caller-supplied
structure, otherwise an extra reference to external name is grabbed
(those are never modified). In either case the pointer to stable
string is stored into the same structure.

dentry must be held by the caller of take_dentry_name_snapshot(),
but may be freely dropped afterwards - the snapshot will stay
until destroyed by release_dentry_name_snapshot().

Intended use:
struct name_snapshot s;

take_dentry_name_snapshot(&s, dentry);
...
access s.name
...
release_dentry_name_snapshot(&s);

Replaces fsnotify_oldname_...(), gets used in fsnotify to obtain the name
to pass down with event.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 3d375d78 06-Jul-2017 Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@oracle.com>

mm: update callers to use HASH_ZERO flag

Update dcache, inode, pid, mountpoint, and mount hash tables to use
HASH_ZERO, and remove initialization after allocations. In case of
places where HASH_EARLY was used such as in __pv_init_lock_hash the
zeroed hash table was already assumed, because memblock zeroes the
memory.

CPU: SPARC M6, Memory: 7T
Before fix:
Dentry cache hash table entries: 1073741824
Inode-cache hash table entries: 536870912
Mount-cache hash table entries: 16777216
Mountpoint-cache hash table entries: 16777216
ftrace: allocating 20414 entries in 40 pages
Total time: 11.798s

After fix:
Dentry cache hash table entries: 1073741824
Inode-cache hash table entries: 536870912
Mount-cache hash table entries: 16777216
Mountpoint-cache hash table entries: 16777216
ftrace: allocating 20414 entries in 40 pages
Total time: 3.198s

CPU: Intel Xeon E5-2630, Memory: 2.2T:
Before fix:
Dentry cache hash table entries: 536870912
Inode-cache hash table entries: 268435456
Mount-cache hash table entries: 8388608
Mountpoint-cache hash table entries: 8388608
CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
Total time: 3.245s

After fix:
Dentry cache hash table entries: 536870912
Inode-cache hash table entries: 268435456
Mount-cache hash table entries: 8388608
Mountpoint-cache hash table entries: 8388608
CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
Total time: 3.244s

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1488432825-92126-4-git-send-email-pasha.tatashin@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Babu Moger <babu.moger@oracle.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# cdf01226 04-Jul-2017 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

VFS: Provide empty name qstr

Provide an empty name (ie. "") qstr for general use.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 6916363f 27-Jun-2017 Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>

fs/dcache: init in_lookup_hashtable

in_lookup_hashtable was introduced in commit 94bdd655caba ("parallel
lookups machinery, part 3") and never initialized but since it is in
the data it is all zeros. But we need this for -RT.

Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 81be24d2 03-Jun-2017 Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>

Hang/soft lockup in d_invalidate with simultaneous calls

It's not hard to trigger a bunch of d_invalidate() on the same
dentry in parallel. They end up fighting each other - any
dentry picked for removal by one will be skipped by the rest
and we'll go for the next iteration through the entire
subtree, even if everything is being skipped. Morevoer, we
immediately go back to scanning the subtree. The only thing
we really need is to dissolve all mounts in the subtree and
as soon as we've nothing left to do, we can just unhash the
dentry and bugger off.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 563f4001 18-Apr-2017 Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>

fs: don't set *REFERENCED on single use objects

By default we set DCACHE_REFERENCED and I_REFERENCED on any dentry or
inode we create. This is problematic as this means that it takes two
trips through the LRU for any of these objects to be reclaimed,
regardless of their actual lifetime. With enough pressure from these
caches we can easily evict our working set from page cache with single
use objects. So instead only set *REFERENCED if we've already been
added to the LRU list. This means that we've been touched since the
first time we were accessed, and so more likely to need to hang out in
cache.

To illustrate this issue I wrote the following scripts

https://github.com/josefbacik/debug-scripts/tree/master/cache-pressure

on my test box. It is a single socket 4 core CPU with 16gib of RAM and
I tested on an Intel 2tib NVME drive. The cache-pressure.sh script
creates a new file system and creates 2 6.5gib files in order to take up
13gib of the 16gib of ram with pagecache. Then it runs a test program
that reads these 2 files in a loop, and keeps track of how often it has
to read bytes for each loop. On an ideal system with no pressure we
should have to read 0 bytes indefinitely. The second thing this script
does is start a fs_mark job that creates a ton of 0 length files,
putting pressure on the system with slab only allocations. On exit the
script prints out how many bytes were read by the read-file program.
The results are as follows

Without patch:
/mnt/btrfs-test/reads/file1: total read during loops 27262988288
/mnt/btrfs-test/reads/file2: total read during loops 27262976000

With patch:
/mnt/btrfs-test/reads/file2: total read during loops 18640457728
/mnt/btrfs-test/reads/file1: total read during loops 9565376512

This patch results in a 50% reduction of the amount of pages evicted
from our working set.

Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 3895dbf8 02-Jan-2017 Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>

mnt: Protect the mountpoint hashtable with mount_lock

Protecting the mountpoint hashtable with namespace_sem was sufficient
until a call to umount_mnt was added to mntput_no_expire. At which
point it became possible for multiple calls of put_mountpoint on
the same hash chain to happen on the same time.

Kristen Johansen <kjlx@templeofstupid.com> reported:
> This can cause a panic when simultaneous callers of put_mountpoint
> attempt to free the same mountpoint. This occurs because some callers
> hold the mount_hash_lock, while others hold the namespace lock. Some
> even hold both.
>
> In this submitter's case, the panic manifested itself as a GP fault in
> put_mountpoint() when it called hlist_del() and attempted to dereference
> a m_hash.pprev that had been poisioned by another thread.

Al Viro observed that the simple fix is to switch from using the namespace_sem
to the mount_lock to protect the mountpoint hash table.

I have taken Al's suggested patch moved put_mountpoint in pivot_root
(instead of taking mount_lock an additional time), and have replaced
new_mountpoint with get_mountpoint a function that does the hash table
lookup and addition under the mount_lock. The introduction of get_mounptoint
ensures that only the mount_lock is needed to manipulate the mountpoint
hashtable.

d_set_mounted is modified to only set DCACHE_MOUNTED if it is not
already set. This allows get_mountpoint to use the setting of
DCACHE_MOUNTED to ensure adding a struct mountpoint for a dentry
happens exactly once.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: ce07d891a089 ("mnt: Honor MNT_LOCKED when detaching mounts")
Reported-by: Krister Johansen <kjlx@templeofstupid.com>
Suggested-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>


# 7c0f6ba6 24-Dec-2016 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally

This was entirely automated, using the script by Al:

PATT='^[[:blank:]]*#[[:blank:]]*include[[:blank:]]*<asm/uaccess.h>'
sed -i -e "s!$PATT!#include <linux/uaccess.h>!" \
$(git grep -l "$PATT"|grep -v ^include/linux/uaccess.h)

to do the replacement at the end of the merge window.

Requested-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# f74e7b33 23-Nov-2016 Ian Kent <ikent@redhat.com>

vfs: remove unused have_submounts() function

Now that path_has_submounts() has been added have_submounts() is no
longer used so remove it.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161011053428.27645.12310.stgit@pluto.themaw.net
Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Omar Sandoval <osandov@osandov.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 01619491 23-Nov-2016 Ian Kent <ikent@redhat.com>

vfs: add path_has_submounts()

d_mountpoint() can only be used reliably to establish if a dentry is
not mounted in any namespace. It isn't aware of the possibility there
may be multiple mounts using the given dentry, possibly in a different
namespace.

Add function, path_has_submounts(), that checks is a struct path contains
mounts (or is a mountpoint itself) to handle this case.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161011053403.27645.55242.stgit@pluto.themaw.net
Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Omar Sandoval <osandov@osandov.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 6fa67e70 31-Jul-2016 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

get rid of 'parent' argument of ->d_compare()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 15d3c589 29-Jul-2016 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

fold _d_rehash() and __d_rehash() together

The only place where we feed to __d_rehash() something other than
d_hash(dentry->d_name.hash) is __d_move(), where we give it d_hash
of another dentry. Postpone rehashing until we'd switched the
names and we are rid of that exception, along with the need to
keep _d_rehash() and __d_rehash() separate.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# d614146d 28-Jul-2016 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

fold dentry_rcuwalk_invalidate() into its only remaining caller

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 47be6184 05-Jul-2016 Wei Fang <fangwei1@huawei.com>

fs/dcache.c: avoid soft-lockup in dput()

We triggered soft-lockup under stress test which
open/access/write/close one file concurrently on more than
five different CPUs:

WARN: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 11s! [who:30631]
...
[<ffffffc0003986f8>] dput+0x100/0x298
[<ffffffc00038c2dc>] terminate_walk+0x4c/0x60
[<ffffffc00038f56c>] path_lookupat+0x5cc/0x7a8
[<ffffffc00038f780>] filename_lookup+0x38/0xf0
[<ffffffc000391180>] user_path_at_empty+0x78/0xd0
[<ffffffc0003911f4>] user_path_at+0x1c/0x28
[<ffffffc00037d4fc>] SyS_faccessat+0xb4/0x230

->d_lock trylock may failed many times because of concurrently
operations, and dput() may execute a long time.

Fix this by replacing cpu_relax() with cond_resched().
dput() used to be sleepable, so make it sleepable again
should be safe.

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Wei Fang <fangwei1@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 285b102d 28-Jun-2016 Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>

vfs: new d_init method

Allow filesystem to initialize dentry at allocation time.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 9aba36de 20-Jul-2016 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

qstr constify instances in fs/dcache.c

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# d4c91a8f 25-Jun-2016 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

new helper: d_same_name()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# ae0a843c 26-Mar-2016 He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com>

dentry_cmp(): use lockless_dereference() instead of smp_read_barrier_depends()

lockless_dereference() was added which can be used in place of
hard-coding smp_read_barrier_depends().

Signed-off-by: He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 2d902671 30-Jun-2016 Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>

vfs: merge .d_select_inode() into .d_real()

The two methods essentially do the same: find the real dentry/inode
belonging to an overlay dentry. The difference is in the usage:

vfs_open() uses ->d_select_inode() and expects the function to perform
copy-up if necessary based on the open flags argument.

file_dentry() uses ->d_real() passing in the overlay dentry as well as the
underlying inode.

vfs_rename() uses ->d_select_inode() but passes zero flags. ->d_real()
with a zero inode would have worked just as well here.

This patch merges the functionality of ->d_select_inode() into ->d_real()
by adding an 'open_flags' argument to the latter.

[Al Viro] Make the signature of d_real() match that of ->d_real() again.
And constify the inode argument, while we are at it.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>


# e7d6ef97 19-Jun-2016 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

fix idiotic braino in d_alloc_parallel()

Check for d_unhashed() while searching in in-lookup hash was absolutely
wrong. Worse, it masked a deadlock on dget() done under bitlock that
nests inside ->d_lock. Thanks to J. R. Okajima for spotting it.

Spotted-by: "J. R. Okajima" <hooanon05g@gmail.com>
Wearing-brown-paperbag: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 703b5faf 09-Jun-2016 George Spelvin <linux@sciencehorizons.net>

fs/dcache.c: Save one 32-bit multiply in dcache lookup

Noe that we're mixing in the parent pointer earlier, we
don't need to use hash_32() to mix its bits. Instead, we can
just take the msbits of the hash value directly.

For those applications which use the partial_name_hash(),
move the multiply to end_name_hash.

Signed-off-by: George Spelvin <linux@sciencehorizons.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 8387ff25 10-Jun-2016 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

vfs: make the string hashes salt the hash

We always mixed in the parent pointer into the dentry name hash, but we
did it late at lookup time. It turns out that we can simplify that
lookup-time action by salting the hash with the parent pointer early
instead of late.

A few other users of our string hashes also wanted to mix in their own
pointers into the hash, and those are updated to use the same mechanism.

Hash users that don't have any particular initial salt can just use the
NULL pointer as a no-salt.

Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
Cc: George Spelvin <linux@sciencehorizons.net>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# ba65dc5e 10-Jun-2016 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

much milder d_walk() race

d_walk() relies upon the tree not getting rearranged under it without
rename_lock being touched. And we do grab rename_lock around the
places that change the tree topology. Unfortunately, branch reordering
is just as bad from d_walk() POV and we have two places that do it
without touching rename_lock - one in handling of cursors (for ramfs-style
directories) and another in autofs. autofs one is a separate story; this
commit deals with the cursors.
* mark cursor dentries explicitly at allocation time
* make __dentry_kill() leave ->d_child.next pointing to the next
non-cursor sibling, making sure that it won't be moved around unnoticed
before the parent is relocked on ascend-to-parent path in d_walk().
* make d_walk() skip cursors explicitly; strictly speaking it's
not necessary (all callbacks we pass to d_walk() are no-ops on cursors),
but it makes analysis easier.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 3d56c25e 07-Jun-2016 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

fix d_walk()/non-delayed __d_free() race

Ascend-to-parent logics in d_walk() depends on all encountered child
dentries not getting freed without an RCU delay. Unfortunately, in
quite a few cases it is not true, with hard-to-hit oopsable race as
the result.

Fortunately, the fix is simiple; right now the rule is "if it ever
been hashed, freeing must be delayed" and changing it to "if it
ever had a parent, freeing must be delayed" closes that hole and
covers all cases the old rule used to cover. Moreover, pipes and
sockets remain _not_ covered, so we do not introduce RCU delay in
the cases which are the reason for having that delay conditional
in the first place.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.2+ (and watch out for __d_materialise_dentry())
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 550dce01 29-May-2016 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

unify dentry_iput() and dentry_unlink_inode()

There is a lot of duplication between dentry_unlink_inode() and dentry_iput().
The only real difference is that dentry_unlink_inode() bumps ->d_seq and
dentry_iput() doesn't. The argument of the latter is known to have been
unhashed, so anybody who might've found it in RCU lookup would already be
doomed to a ->d_seq mismatch. And we want to avoid pointless smp_rmb() there.

This patch makes dentry_unlink_inode() bump ->d_seq only for hashed dentries.
It's safe (d_delete() calls that sucker only if we are holding the only
reference to dentry, so rehash is not going to happen) and it allows
to use dentry_unlink_inode() in __dentry_kill() and get rid of dentry_iput().

The interesting question here is profiling; it *is* a hot path, and extra
conditional jumps in there might or might not be painful.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# affda484 29-May-2016 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

trim fsnotify hooks a bit

fsnotify_d_move()/__fsnotify_d_instantiate()/__fsnotify_update_dcache_flags()
are identical to each other, regardless of the config.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# fcfd2fbf 20-May-2016 George Spelvin <linux@sciencehorizons.net>

fs/namei.c: Add hashlen_string() function

We'd like to make more use of the highly-optimized dcache hash functions
throughout the kernel, rather than have every subsystem create its own,
and a function that hashes basic null-terminated strings is required
for that.

(The name is to emphasize that it returns both hash and length.)

It's actually useful in the dcache itself, specifically d_alloc_name().
Other uses in the next patch.

full_name_hash() is also tweaked to make it more generally useful:
1) Take a "char *" rather than "unsigned char *" argument, to
be consistent with hash_name().
2) Handle zero-length inputs. If we want more callers, we don't want
to make them worry about corner cases.

Signed-off-by: George Spelvin <linux@sciencehorizons.net>


# 9902af79 15-Apr-2016 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

parallel lookups: actual switch to rwsem

ta-da!

The main issue is the lack of down_write_killable(), so the places
like readdir.c switched to plain inode_lock(); once killable
variants of rwsem primitives appear, that'll be dealt with.

lockdep side also might need more work

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# d9171b93 15-Apr-2016 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

parallel lookups machinery, part 4 (and last)

If we *do* run into an in-lookup match, we need to wait for it to
cease being in-lookup. Fortunately, we do have unused space in
in-lookup dentries - d_lru is never looked at until it stops being
in-lookup.

So we can stash a pointer to wait_queue_head from stack frame of
the caller of ->lookup(). Some precautions are needed while
waiting, but it's not that hard - we do hold a reference to dentry
we are waiting for, so it can't go away. If it's found to be
in-lookup the wait_queue_head is still alive and will remain so
at least while ->d_lock is held. Moreover, the condition we
are waiting for becomes true at the same point where everything
on that wq gets woken up, so we can just add ourselves to the
queue once.

d_alloc_parallel() gets a pointer to wait_queue_head_t from its
caller; lookup_slow() adjusted, d_add_ci() taught to use
d_alloc_parallel() if the dentry passed to it happens to be
in-lookup one (i.e. if it's been called from the parallel lookup).

That's pretty much it - all that remains is to switch ->i_mutex
to rwsem and have lookup_slow() take it shared.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 94bdd655 15-Apr-2016 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

parallel lookups machinery, part 3

We will need to be able to check if there is an in-lookup
dentry with matching parent/name. Right now it's impossible,
but as soon as start locking directories shared such beasts
will appear.

Add a secondary hash for locating those. Hash chains go through
the same space where d_alias will be once it's not in-lookup anymore.
Search is done under the same bitlock we use for modifications -
with the primary hash we can rely on d_rehash() into the wrong
chain being the worst that could happen, but here the pointers are
buggered once it's removed from the chain. On the other hand,
the chains are not going to be long and normally we'll end up
adding to the chain anyway. That allows us to avoid bothering with
->d_lock when doing the comparisons - everything is stable until
removed from chain.

New helper: d_alloc_parallel(). Right now it allocates, verifies
that no hashed and in-lookup matches exist and adds to in-lookup
hash.

Returns ERR_PTR() for error, hashed match (in the unlikely case it's
been found) or new dentry. In-lookup matches trigger BUG() for
now; that will change in the next commit when we introduce waiting
for ongoing lookup to finish. Note that in-lookup matches won't be
possible until we actually go for shared locking.

lookup_slow() switched to use of d_alloc_parallel().

Again, these commits are separated only for making it easier to
review. All this machinery will start doing something useful only
when we go for shared locking; it's just that the combination is
too large for my taste.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 84e710da 14-Apr-2016 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

parallel lookups machinery, part 2

We'll need to verify that there's neither a hashed nor in-lookup
dentry with desired parent/name before adding to in-lookup set.

One possible solution would be to hold the parent's ->d_lock through
both checks, but while the in-lookup set is relatively small at any
time, dcache is not. And holding the parent's ->d_lock through
something like __d_lookup_rcu() would suck too badly.

So we leave the parent's ->d_lock alone, which means that we watch
out for the following scenario:
* we verify that there's no hashed match
* existing in-lookup match gets hashed by another process
* we verify that there's no in-lookup matches and decide
that everything's fine.

Solution: per-directory kinda-sorta seqlock, bumped around the times
we hash something that used to be in-lookup or move (and hash)
something in place of in-lookup. Then the above would turn into
* read the counter
* do dcache lookup
* if no matches found, check for in-lookup matches
* if there had been none of those either, check if the
counter has changed; repeat if it has.

The "kinda-sorta" part is due to the fact that we don't have much spare
space in inode. There is a spare word (shared with i_bdev/i_cdev/i_pipe),
so the counter part is not a problem, but spinlock is a different story.

We could use the parent's ->d_lock, and it would be less painful in
terms of contention, for __d_add() it would be rather inconvenient to
grab; we could do that (using lock_parent()), but...

Fortunately, we can get serialization on the counter itself, and it
might be a good idea in general; we can use cmpxchg() in a loop to
get from even to odd and smp_store_release() from odd to even.

This commit adds the counter and updating logics; the readers will be
added in the next commit.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 85c7f810 14-Apr-2016 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

beginning of transition to parallel lookups - marking in-lookup dentries

marked as such when (would be) parallel lookup is about to pass them
to actual ->lookup(); unmarked when
* __d_add() is about to make it hashed, positive or not.
* __d_move() (from d_splice_alias(), directly or via
__d_unalias()) puts a preexisting dentry in its place
* in caller of ->lookup() if it has escaped all of the
above. Bug (WARN_ON, actually) if it reaches the final dput()
or d_instantiate() while still marked such.

As the result, we are guaranteed that for as long as the flag is
set, dentry will
* remain negative unhashed with positive refcount
* never have its ->d_alias looked at
* never have its ->d_lru looked at
* never have its ->d_parent and ->d_name changed

Right now we have at most one such for any given parent directory.
With parallel lookups that restriction will weaken to
* only exist when parent is locked shared
* at most one with given (parent,name) pair (comparison of
names is according to ->d_compare())
* only exist when there's no hashed dentry with the same
(parent,name)

Transition will take the next several commits; unfortunately, we'll
only be able to switch to rwsem at the end of this series. The
reason for not making it a single patch is to simplify review.

New primitives: d_in_lookup() (a predicate checking if dentry is in
the in-lookup state) and d_lookup_done() (tells the system that
we are done with lookup and if it's still marked as in-lookup, it
should cease to be such).

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 0568d705 14-Apr-2016 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

__d_add(): don't drop/regain ->d_lock

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# b9680917 10-Apr-2016 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

security_d_instantiate(): move to the point prior to attaching dentry to inode

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 798434bd 24-Mar-2016 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

__d_alloc(): treat NULL name as QSTR("/", 1)

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# d101a125 26-Mar-2016 Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>

fs: add file_dentry()

This series fixes bugs in nfs and ext4 due to 4bacc9c9234c ("overlayfs:
Make f_path always point to the overlay and f_inode to the underlay").

Regular files opened on overlayfs will result in the file being opened on
the underlying filesystem, while f_path points to the overlayfs
mount/dentry.

This confuses filesystems which get the dentry from struct file and assume
it's theirs.

Add a new helper, file_dentry() [*], to get the filesystem's own dentry
from the file. This checks file->f_path.dentry->d_flags against
DCACHE_OP_REAL, and returns file->f_path.dentry if DCACHE_OP_REAL is not
set (this is the common, non-overlayfs case).

In the uncommon case it will call into overlayfs's ->d_real() to get the
underlying dentry, matching file_inode(file).

The reason we need to check against the inode is that if the file is copied
up while being open, d_real() would return the upper dentry, while the open
file comes from the lower dentry.

[*] If possible, it's better simply to use file_inode() instead.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Tested-by: Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.2
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net>


# ed782b5a 09-Mar-2016 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

dcache.c: new helper: __d_add()

d_add() with inode->i_lock already held; common to d_add() and
d_splice_alias(). All ->lookup() instances that end up hashing
the dentry they are given will hash it here.

This almost completes the preparations to parallel lookups
proper - the only remaining bit is taking security_d_instantiate()
past d_rehash() and doing rehashing without dropping ->d_lock.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# de689f5e 09-Mar-2016 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

don't bother with __d_instantiate(dentry, NULL)

it's a no-op - bumping ->d_seq is pointless there.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 27f203f6 09-Mar-2016 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

untangle fsnotify_d_instantiate() a bit

First of all, don't bother calling it if inode is NULL -
that makes inode argument unused. Moreover, do it *before*
dropping ->d_lock, not right after that (and don't bother
grabbing ->d_lock in it, of course).

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 34d0d19d 08-Mar-2016 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

uninline d_add()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 668d0cd5 07-Mar-2016 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

replace d_add_unique() with saner primitive

new primitive: d_exact_alias(dentry, inode). If there is an unhashed
dentry with the same name/parent and given inode, rehash, grab and
return it. Otherwise, return NULL. The only caller of d_add_unique()
switched to d_exact_alias() + d_splice_alias().

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# a528aca7 28-Feb-2016 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

use ->d_seq to get coherency between ->d_inode and ->d_flags

Games with ordering and barriers are way too brittle. Just
bump ->d_seq before and after updating ->d_inode and ->d_flags
type bits, so that verifying ->d_seq would guarantee they are
coherent.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.13+
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 5955102c 22-Jan-2016 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

wrappers for ->i_mutex access

parallel to mutex_{lock,unlock,trylock,is_locked,lock_nested},
inode_foo(inode) being mutex_foo(&inode->i_mutex).

Please, use those for access to ->i_mutex; over the coming cycle
->i_mutex will become rwsem, with ->lookup() done with it held
only shared.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 5d097056 14-Jan-2016 Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>

kmemcg: account certain kmem allocations to memcg

Mark those kmem allocations that are known to be easily triggered from
userspace as __GFP_ACCOUNT/SLAB_ACCOUNT, which makes them accounted to
memcg. For the list, see below:

- threadinfo
- task_struct
- task_delay_info
- pid
- cred
- mm_struct
- vm_area_struct and vm_region (nommu)
- anon_vma and anon_vma_chain
- signal_struct
- sighand_struct
- fs_struct
- files_struct
- fdtable and fdtable->full_fds_bits
- dentry and external_name
- inode for all filesystems. This is the most tedious part, because
most filesystems overwrite the alloc_inode method.

The list is far from complete, so feel free to add more objects.
Nevertheless, it should be close to "account everything" approach and
keep most workloads within bounds. Malevolent users will be able to
breach the limit, but this was possible even with the former "account
everything" approach (simply because it did not account everything in
fact).

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 6b255391 17-Nov-2015 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

replace ->follow_link() with new method that could stay in RCU mode

new method: ->get_link(); replacement of ->follow_link(). The differences
are:
* inode and dentry are passed separately
* might be called both in RCU and non-RCU mode;
the former is indicated by passing it a NULL dentry.
* when called that way it isn't allowed to block
and should return ERR_PTR(-ECHILD) if it needs to be called
in non-RCU mode.

It's a flagday change - the old method is gone, all in-tree instances
converted. Conversion isn't hard; said that, so far very few instances
do not immediately bail out when called in RCU mode. That'll change
in the next commits.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# a6e5787f 16-Nov-2015 Yaowei Bai <baiyaowei@cmss.chinamobile.com>

fs/dcache.c: is_subdir can be boolean

This patch makes is_subdir return bool to improve
readability due to this particular function only using either
one or zero as its return value.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Yaowei Bai <baiyaowei@cmss.chinamobile.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# a03e283b 15-Aug-2015 Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>

dcache: Reduce the scope of i_lock in d_splice_alias

i_lock is only needed until __d_find_any_alias calls dget on the alias
dentry. After that the reference to new ensures that dentry_kill and
d_delete will not remove the inode from the dentry, and remove the
dentry from the inode->d_entry list.

The inode i_lock came to be held over the the __d_move calls in
d_splice_alias through a series of introduction of locks with
increasing smaller scope. First it was the dcache_lock, then
it was the dcache_inode_lock, and finally inode->i_lock.

Furthermore inode->i_lock is not held over any other calls
to d_move or __d_move so it can not provide any meaningful
rename protection.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# cde93be4 15-Aug-2015 Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>

dcache: Handle escaped paths in prepend_path

A rename can result in a dentry that by walking up d_parent
will never reach it's mnt_root. For lack of a better term
I call this an escaped path.

prepend_path is called by four different functions __d_path,
d_absolute_path, d_path, and getcwd.

__d_path only wants to see paths are connected to the root it passes
in. So __d_path needs prepend_path to return an error.

d_absolute_path similarly wants to see paths that are connected to
some root. Escaped paths are not connected to any mnt_root so
d_absolute_path needs prepend_path to return an error greater
than 1. So escaped paths will be treated like paths on lazily
unmounted mounts.

getcwd needs to prepend "(unreachable)" so getcwd also needs
prepend_path to return an error.

d_path is the interesting hold out. d_path just wants to print
something, and does not care about the weird cases. Which raises
the question what should be printed?

Given that <escaped_path>/<anything> should result in -ENOENT I
believe it is desirable for escaped paths to be printed as empty
paths. As there are not really any meaninful path components when
considered from the perspective of a mount tree.

So tweak prepend_path to return an empty path with an new error
code of 3 when it encounters an escaped path.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 4248b0da 06-Aug-2015 Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>

fs, file table: reinit files_stat.max_files after deferred memory initialisation

Dave Hansen reported the following;

My laptop has been behaving strangely with 4.2-rc2. Once I log
in to my X session, I start getting all kinds of strange errors
from applications and see this in my dmesg:

VFS: file-max limit 8192 reached

The problem is that the file-max is calculated before memory is fully
initialised and miscalculates how much memory the kernel is using. This
patch recalculates file-max after deferred memory initialisation. Note
that using memory hotplug infrastructure would not have avoided this
problem as the value is not recalculated after memory hot-add.

4.1: files_stat.max_files = 6582781
4.2-rc2: files_stat.max_files = 8192
4.2-rc2 patched: files_stat.max_files = 6562467

Small differences with the patch applied and 4.1 but not enough to matter.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reported-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Nicolai Stange <nicstange@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Alex Ng <alexng@microsoft.com>
Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 75a6f82a 07-Jul-2015 Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>

freeing unlinked file indefinitely delayed

Normally opening a file, unlinking it and then closing will have
the inode freed upon close() (provided that it's not otherwise busy and
has no remaining links, of course). However, there's one case where that
does *not* happen. Namely, if you open it by fhandle with cold dcache,
then unlink() and close().

In normal case you get d_delete() in unlink(2) notice that dentry
is busy and unhash it; on the final dput() it will be forcibly evicted from
dcache, triggering iput() and inode removal. In this case, though, we end
up with *two* dentries - disconnected (created by open-by-fhandle) and
regular one (used by unlink()). The latter will have its reference to inode
dropped just fine, but the former will not - it's considered hashed (it
is on the ->s_anon list), so it will stay around until the memory pressure
will finally do it in. As the result, we have the final iput() delayed
indefinitely. It's trivial to reproduce -

void flush_dcache(void)
{
system("mount -o remount,rw /");
}

static char buf[20 * 1024 * 1024];

main()
{
int fd;
union {
struct file_handle f;
char buf[MAX_HANDLE_SZ];
} x;
int m;

x.f.handle_bytes = sizeof(x);
chdir("/root");
mkdir("foo", 0700);
fd = open("foo/bar", O_CREAT | O_RDWR, 0600);
close(fd);
name_to_handle_at(AT_FDCWD, "foo/bar", &x.f, &m, 0);
flush_dcache();
fd = open_by_handle_at(AT_FDCWD, &x.f, O_RDWR);
unlink("foo/bar");
write(fd, buf, sizeof(buf));
system("df ."); /* 20Mb eaten */
close(fd);
system("df ."); /* should've freed those 20Mb */
flush_dcache();
system("df ."); /* should be the same as #2 */
}

will spit out something like
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root 322023 303843 1131 100% /
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root 322023 303843 1131 100% /
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root 322023 283282 21692 93% /
- inode gets freed only when dentry is finally evicted (here we trigger
than by remount; normally it would've happened in response to memory
pressure hell knows when).

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v2.6.38+; earlier ones need s/kill_it/unhash_it/
Acked-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 93e3bce6 24-May-2015 Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>

vfs: Remove incorrect debugging WARN in prepend_path

The warning message in prepend_path is unclear and outdated. It was
added as a warning that the mechanism for generating names of pseudo
files had been removed from prepend_path and d_dname should be used
instead. Unfortunately the warning reads like a general warning,
making it unclear what to do with it.

Remove the warning. The transition it was added to warn about is long
over, and I added code several years ago which in rare cases causes
the warning to fire on legitimate code, and the warning is now firing
and scaring people for no good reason.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Ivan Delalande <colona@arista.com>
Reported-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@osandov.com>
Fixes: f48cfddc6729e ("vfs: In d_path don't call d_dname on a mount point")
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>


# 4bacc9c9 18-Jun-2015 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

overlayfs: Make f_path always point to the overlay and f_inode to the underlay

Make file->f_path always point to the overlay dentry so that the path in
/proc/pid/fd is correct and to ensure that label-based LSMs have access to the
overlay as well as the underlay (path-based LSMs probably don't need it).

Using my union testsuite to set things up, before the patch I see:

[root@andromeda union-testsuite]# bash 5</mnt/a/foo107
[root@andromeda union-testsuite]# ls -l /proc/$$/fd/
...
lr-x------. 1 root root 64 Jun 5 14:38 5 -> /a/foo107
[root@andromeda union-testsuite]# stat /mnt/a/foo107
...
Device: 23h/35d Inode: 13381 Links: 1
...
[root@andromeda union-testsuite]# stat -L /proc/$$/fd/5
...
Device: 23h/35d Inode: 13381 Links: 1
...

After the patch:

[root@andromeda union-testsuite]# bash 5</mnt/a/foo107
[root@andromeda union-testsuite]# ls -l /proc/$$/fd/
...
lr-x------. 1 root root 64 Jun 5 14:22 5 -> /mnt/a/foo107
[root@andromeda union-testsuite]# stat /mnt/a/foo107
...
Device: 23h/35d Inode: 40346 Links: 1
...
[root@andromeda union-testsuite]# stat -L /proc/$$/fd/5
...
Device: 23h/35d Inode: 40346 Links: 1
...

Note the change in where /proc/$$/fd/5 points to in the ls command. It was
pointing to /a/foo107 (which doesn't exist) and now points to /mnt/a/foo107
(which is correct).

The inode accessed, however, is the lower layer. The union layer is on device
25h/37d and the upper layer on 24h/36d.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# a7c6f571 11-Jun-2015 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>

seqcount: Rename write_seqcount_barrier()

I'll shortly be introducing another seqcount primitive that's useful
to provide ordering semantics and would like to use the
write_seqcount_barrier() name for that.

Seeing how there's only one user of the current primitive, lets rename
it to invalidate, as that appears what its doing.

While there, employ lockdep_assert_held() instead of
assert_spin_locked() to not generate debug code for regular kernels.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: ktkhai@parallels.com
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: juri.lelli@gmail.com
Cc: pang.xunlei@linaro.org
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: wanpeng.li@linux.intel.com
Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150611124743.279926217@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>


# 2159184e 28-May-2015 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

d_walk() might skip too much

when we find that a child has died while we'd been trying to ascend,
we should go into the first live sibling itself, rather than its sibling.

Off-by-one in question had been introduced in "deal with deadlock in
d_walk()" and the fix needs to be backported to all branches this one
has been backported to.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.2 and later
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 4bf46a27 05-Mar-2015 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

VFS: Impose ordering on accesses of d_inode and d_flags

Impose ordering on accesses of d_inode and d_flags to avoid the need to do
this:

if (!dentry->d_inode || d_is_negative(dentry)) {

when this:

if (d_is_negative(dentry)) {

should suffice.

This check is especially problematic if a dentry can have its type field set
to something other than DENTRY_MISS_TYPE when d_inode is NULL (as in
unionmount).

What we really need to do is stick a write barrier between setting d_inode and
setting d_flags and a read barrier between reading d_flags and reading
d_inode.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 3d330dc1 10-Feb-2015 J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>

dcache: return -ESTALE not -EBUSY on distributed fs race

On a distributed filesystem it's possible for lookup to discover that a
directory it just found is already cached elsewhere in the directory
heirarchy. The dcache won't let us keep the directory in both places,
so we have to move the dentry to the new location from the place we
previously had it cached.

If the parent has changed, then this requires all the same locks as we'd
need to do a cross-directory rename. But we're already in lookup
holding one parent's i_mutex, so it's too late to acquire those locks in
the right order.

The (unreliable) solution in __d_unalias is to trylock() the required
locks and return -EBUSY if it fails.

I see no particular reason for returning -EBUSY, and -ESTALE is already
the result of some other lookup races on NFS. I think -ESTALE is the
more helpful error return. It also allows us to take advantage of the
logic Jeff Layton added in c6a9428401c0 "vfs: fix renameat to retry on
ESTALE errors" and ancestors, which hopefully resolves some of these
errors before they're returned to userspace.

I can reproduce these cases using NFS with:

ssh root@$client '
mount -olookupcache=pos '$server':'$export' /mnt/
mkdir /mnt/TO
mkdir /mnt/DIR
touch /mnt/DIR/test.txt
while true; do
strace -e open cat /mnt/DIR/test.txt 2>&1 | grep EBUSY
done
'
ssh root@$server '
while true; do
mv $export/DIR $export/TO/DIR
mv $export/TO/DIR $export/DIR
done
'

It also helps to add some other concurrent use of the directory on the
client (e.g., "ls /mnt/TO"). And you can replace the server-side mv's
by client-side mv's that are repeatedly killed. (If the client is
interrupted while waiting for the RENAME response then it's left with a
dentry that has to go under one parent or the other, but it doesn't yet
know which.)

Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@primarydata.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 44bdb5e5 28-Jan-2015 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

VFS: Split DCACHE_FILE_TYPE into regular and special types

Split DCACHE_FILE_TYPE into DCACHE_REGULAR_TYPE (dentries representing regular
files) and DCACHE_SPECIAL_TYPE (representing blockdev, chardev, FIFO and
socket files).

d_is_reg() and d_is_special() are added to detect these subtypes and
d_is_file() is left as the union of the two.

This allows a number of places that use S_ISREG(dentry->d_inode->i_mode) to
use d_is_reg(dentry) instead.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# df1a085a 28-Jan-2015 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

VFS: Add a fallthrough flag for marking virtual dentries

Add a DCACHE_FALLTHRU flag to indicate that, in a layered filesystem, this is
a virtual dentry that covers another one in a lower layer that should be used
instead. This may be recorded on medium if directory integration is stored
there.

The flag can be set with d_set_fallthru() and tested with d_is_fallthru().

Original-author: Valerie Aurora <vaurora@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# df4c0e36 13-Feb-2015 Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>

fs: dcache: manually unpoison dname after allocation to shut up kasan's reports

We need to manually unpoison rounded up allocation size for dname to avoid
kasan's reports in dentry_string_cmp(). When CONFIG_DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS=y
dentry_string_cmp may access few bytes beyound requested in kmalloc()
size.

dentry_string_cmp() relates on that fact that dentry allocated using
kmalloc and kmalloc internally round up allocation size. So this is not a
bug, but this makes kasan to complain about such accesses. To avoid such
reports we mark rounded up allocation size in shadow as accessible.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin@samsung.com>
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Konstantin Serebryany <kcc@google.com>
Cc: Dmitry Chernenkov <dmitryc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <adech.fo@gmail.com>
Cc: Yuri Gribov <tetra2005@gmail.com>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 3f97b163 12-Feb-2015 Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>

list_lru: add helpers to isolate items

Currently, the isolate callback passed to the list_lru_walk family of
functions is supposed to just delete an item from the list upon returning
LRU_REMOVED or LRU_REMOVED_RETRY, while nr_items counter is fixed by
__list_lru_walk_one after the callback returns. Since the callback is
allowed to drop the lock after removing an item (it has to return
LRU_REMOVED_RETRY then), the nr_items can be less than the actual number
of elements on the list even if we check them under the lock. This makes
it difficult to move items from one list_lru_one to another, which is
required for per-memcg list_lru reparenting - we can't just splice the
lists, we have to move entries one by one.

This patch therefore introduces helpers that must be used by callback
functions to isolate items instead of raw list_del/list_move. These are
list_lru_isolate and list_lru_isolate_move. They not only remove the
entry from the list, but also fix the nr_items counter, making sure
nr_items always reflects the actual number of elements on the list if
checked under the appropriate lock.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 503c358c 12-Feb-2015 Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>

list_lru: introduce list_lru_shrink_{count,walk}

Kmem accounting of memcg is unusable now, because it lacks slab shrinker
support. That means when we hit the limit we will get ENOMEM w/o any
chance to recover. What we should do then is to call shrink_slab, which
would reclaim old inode/dentry caches from this cgroup. This is what
this patch set is intended to do.

Basically, it does two things. First, it introduces the notion of
per-memcg slab shrinker. A shrinker that wants to reclaim objects per
cgroup should mark itself as SHRINKER_MEMCG_AWARE. Then it will be
passed the memory cgroup to scan from in shrink_control->memcg. For
such shrinkers shrink_slab iterates over the whole cgroup subtree under
the target cgroup and calls the shrinker for each kmem-active memory
cgroup.

Secondly, this patch set makes the list_lru structure per-memcg. It's
done transparently to list_lru users - everything they have to do is to
tell list_lru_init that they want memcg-aware list_lru. Then the
list_lru will automatically distribute objects among per-memcg lists
basing on which cgroup the object is accounted to. This way to make FS
shrinkers (icache, dcache) memcg-aware we only need to make them use
memcg-aware list_lru, and this is what this patch set does.

As before, this patch set only enables per-memcg kmem reclaim when the
pressure goes from memory.limit, not from memory.kmem.limit. Handling
memory.kmem.limit is going to be tricky due to GFP_NOFS allocations, and
it is still unclear whether we will have this knob in the unified
hierarchy.

This patch (of 9):

NUMA aware slab shrinkers use the list_lru structure to distribute
objects coming from different NUMA nodes to different lists. Whenever
such a shrinker needs to count or scan objects from a particular node,
it issues commands like this:

count = list_lru_count_node(lru, sc->nid);
freed = list_lru_walk_node(lru, sc->nid, isolate_func,
isolate_arg, &sc->nr_to_scan);

where sc is an instance of the shrink_control structure passed to it
from vmscan.

To simplify this, let's add special list_lru functions to be used by
shrinkers, list_lru_shrink_count() and list_lru_shrink_walk(), which
consolidate the nid and nr_to_scan arguments in the shrink_control
structure.

This will also allow us to avoid patching shrinkers that use list_lru
when we make shrink_slab() per-memcg - all we will have to do is extend
the shrink_control structure to include the target memcg and make
list_lru_shrink_{count,walk} handle this appropriately.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Suggested-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 360f5479 09-Jan-2015 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

dcache: let the dentry count go down to zero without taking d_lock

We can be more aggressive about this, if we are clever and careful. This is subtle.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# d6cb125b 24-Dec-2014 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

kill d_validate()

no users left

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 4a7795d3 19-Nov-2014 Yan, Zheng <zyan@redhat.com>

vfs: fix reference leak in d_prune_aliases()

In "d_prune_alias(): just lock the parent and call __dentry_kill()" the old
dget + d_drop + dput has been replaced with lock_parent + __dentry_kill;
unfortunately, dput() does more than just killing dentry - it also drops the
reference to parent. New variant leaks that reference and needs dput(parent)
after killing the child off.

Signed-off-by: Yan, Zheng <zyan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 08d4f772 04-Sep-2014 Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>

dcache: fix kmemcheck warning in switch_names

This patch fixes kmemcheck warning in switch_names. The function
switch_names swaps inline names of two dentries. It swaps full arrays
d_iname, no matter how many bytes are really used by the strings. Reading
data beyond string ends results in kmemcheck warning.

We fix the bug by marking both arrays as fully initialized.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.15
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# b5ae6b15 12-Oct-2014 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

merge d_materialise_unique() into d_splice_alias()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 427c77d4 12-Oct-2014 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

d_add_ci() should just accept a hashed exact match if it finds one

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# ca5358ef 26-Oct-2014 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

deal with deadlock in d_walk()

... by not hitting rename_retry for reasons other than rename having
happened. In other words, do _not_ restart when finding that
between unlocking the child and locking the parent the former got
into __dentry_kill(). Skip the killed siblings instead...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 946e51f2 26-Oct-2014 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

move d_rcu from overlapping d_child to overlapping d_alias

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 51486b900 23-Oct-2014 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

fix inode leaks on d_splice_alias() failure exits

d_splice_alias() callers expect it to either stash the inode reference
into a new alias, or drop the inode reference. That makes it possible
to just return d_splice_alias() result from ->lookup() instance, without
any extra housekeeping required.

Unfortunately, that should include the failure exits. If d_splice_alias()
returns an error, it leaves the dentry it has been given negative and
thus it *must* drop the inode reference. Easily fixed, but it goes way
back and will need backporting.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 810bb172 11-Oct-2014 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

take dname_external() into fs/dcache.c

never used outside and it's too low-level for legitimate uses outside
of fs/dcache.c anyway

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# b8314f93 10-Aug-2014 Daeseok Youn <daeseok.youn@gmail.com>

dcache: Fix no spaces at the start of a line in dcache.c

Fixed coding style in dcache.c

Signed-off-by: Daeseok Youn <daeseok.youn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 29266201 30-May-2014 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

dcache.c: call ->d_prune() regardless of d_unhashed()

the only in-tree instance checks d_unhashed() anyway,
out-of-tree code can preserve the current behaviour by
adding such check if they want it and we get an ability
to use it in cases where we *want* to be notified of
killing being inevitable before ->d_lock is dropped,
whether it's unhashed or not. In particular, autofs
would benefit from that.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 29355c39 30-May-2014 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

d_prune_alias(): just lock the parent and call __dentry_kill()

The only reason for games with ->d_prune() was __d_drop(), which
was needed only to force dput() into killing the sucker off.

Note that lock_parent() can be called under ->i_lock and won't
drop it, so dentry is safe from somebody managing to kill it
under us - it won't happen while we are holding ->i_lock.

__dentry_kill() is called only with ->d_lockref.count being 0
(here and when picked from shrink list) or 1 (dput() and dropping
the ancestors in shrink_dentry_list()), so it will never be called
twice - the first thing it's doing is making ->d_lockref.count
negative and once that happens, nothing will increment it.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 5542aa2f 13-Feb-2014 Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>

vfs: Make d_invalidate return void

Now that d_invalidate can no longer fail, stop returning a useless
return code. For the few callers that checked the return code update
remove the handling of d_invalidate failure.

Reviewed-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 1ffe46d1 13-Feb-2014 Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>

vfs: Merge check_submounts_and_drop and d_invalidate

Now that d_invalidate is the only caller of check_submounts_and_drop,
expand check_submounts_and_drop inline in d_invalidate.

Reviewed-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 8ed936b5 01-Oct-2013 Eric W. Biederman <ebiederman@twitter.com>

vfs: Lazily remove mounts on unlinked files and directories.

With the introduction of mount namespaces and bind mounts it became
possible to access files and directories that on some paths are mount
points but are not mount points on other paths. It is very confusing
when rm -rf somedir returns -EBUSY simply because somedir is mounted
somewhere else. With the addition of user namespaces allowing
unprivileged mounts this condition has gone from annoying to allowing
a DOS attack on other users in the system.

The possibility for mischief is removed by updating the vfs to support
rename, unlink and rmdir on a dentry that is a mountpoint and by
lazily unmounting mountpoints on deleted dentries.

In particular this change allows rename, unlink and rmdir system calls
on a dentry without a mountpoint in the current mount namespace to
succeed, and it allows rename, unlink, and rmdir performed on a
distributed filesystem to update the vfs cache even if when there is a
mount in some namespace on the original dentry.

There are two common patterns of maintaining mounts: Mounts on trusted
paths with the parent directory of the mount point and all ancestory
directories up to / owned by root and modifiable only by root
(i.e. /media/xxx, /dev, /dev/pts, /proc, /sys, /sys/fs/cgroup/{cpu,
cpuacct, ...}, /usr, /usr/local). Mounts on unprivileged directories
maintained by fusermount.

In the case of mounts in trusted directories owned by root and
modifiable only by root the current parent directory permissions are
sufficient to ensure a mount point on a trusted path is not removed
or renamed by anyone other than root, even if there is a context
where the there are no mount points to prevent this.

In the case of mounts in directories owned by less privileged users
races with users modifying the path of a mount point are already a
danger. fusermount already uses a combination of chdir,
/proc/<pid>/fd/NNN, and UMOUNT_NOFOLLOW to prevent these races. The
removable of global rename, unlink, and rmdir protection really adds
nothing new to consider only a widening of the attack window, and
fusermount is already safe against unprivileged users modifying the
directory simultaneously.

In principle for perfect userspace programs returning -EBUSY for
unlink, rmdir, and rename of dentires that have mounts in the local
namespace is actually unnecessary. Unfortunately not all userspace
programs are perfect so retaining -EBUSY for unlink, rmdir and rename
of dentries that have mounts in the current mount namespace plays an
important role of maintaining consistency with historical behavior and
making imperfect userspace applications hard to exploit.

v2: Remove spurious old_dentry.
v3: Optimized shrink_submounts_and_drop
Removed unsued afs label
v4: Simplified the changes to check_submounts_and_drop
Do not rename check_submounts_and_drop shrink_submounts_and_drop
Document what why we need atomicity in check_submounts_and_drop
Rely on the parent inode mutex to make d_revalidate and d_invalidate
an atomic unit.
v5: Refcount the mountpoint to detach in case of simultaneous
renames.

Reviewed-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# bafc9b75 13-Feb-2014 Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>

vfs: More precise tests in d_invalidate

The current comments in d_invalidate about what and why it is doing
what it is doing are wildly off-base. Which is not surprising as
the comments date back to last minute bug fix of the 2.2 kernel.

The big fat lie of a comment said: If it's a directory, we can't drop
it for fear of somebody re-populating it with children (even though
dropping it would make it unreachable from that root, we still might
repopulate it if it was a working directory or similar).

[AV] What we really need to avoid is multiple dentry aliases of the
same directory inode; on all filesystems that have ->d_revalidate()
we either declare all positive dentries always valid (and thus never
fed to d_invalidate()) or use d_materialise_unique() and/or d_splice_alias(),
which take care of alias prevention.

The current rules are:
- To prevent mount point leaks dentries that are mount points or that
have childrent that are mount points may not be be unhashed.
- All dentries may be unhashed.
- Directories may be rehashed with d_materialise_unique

check_submounts_and_drop implements this already for well maintained
remote filesystems so implement the current rules in d_invalidate
by just calling check_submounts_and_drop.

The one difference between d_invalidate and check_submounts_and_drop
is that d_invalidate must respect it when a d_revalidate method has
earlier called d_drop so preserve the d_unhashed check in
d_invalidate.

Reviewed-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 3ccb354d 12-Feb-2014 Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>

vfs: Document the effect of d_revalidate on d_find_alias

d_drop or check_submounts_and_drop called from d_revalidate can result
in renamed directories with child dentries being unhashed. These
renamed and drop directory dentries can be rehashed after
d_materialise_unique uses d_find_alias to find them.

Reviewed-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 8d85b484 29-Sep-2014 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Allow sharing external names after __d_move()

* external dentry names get a small structure prepended to them
(struct external_name).
* it contains an atomic refcount, matching the number of struct dentry
instances that have ->d_name.name pointing to that external name. The
first thing free_dentry() does is decrementing refcount of external name,
so the instances that are between the call of free_dentry() and
RCU-delayed actual freeing do not contribute.
* __d_move(x, y, false) makes the name of x equal to the name of y,
external or not. If y has an external name, extra reference is grabbed
and put into x->d_name.name. If x used to have an external name, the
reference to the old name is dropped and, should it reach zero, freeing
is scheduled via kfree_rcu().
* free_dentry() in dentry with external name decrements the refcount of
that name and, should it reach zero, does RCU-delayed call that will
free both the dentry and external name. Otherwise it does what it
used to do, except that __d_free() doesn't even look at ->d_name.name;
it simply frees the dentry.

All non-RCU accesses to dentry external name are safe wrt freeing since they
all should happen before free_dentry() is called. RCU accesses might run
into a dentry seen by free_dentry() or into an old name that got already
dropped by __d_move(); however, in both cases dentry must have been
alive and refer to that name at some point after we'd done rcu_read_lock(),
which means that any freeing must be still pending.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 6d13f694 29-Sep-2014 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

missing data dependency barrier in prepend_name()

AFAICS, prepend_name() is broken on SMP alpha. Disclaimer: I don't have
SMP alpha boxen to reproduce it on. However, it really looks like the race
is real.

CPU1: d_path() on /mnt/ramfs/<255-character>/foo
CPU2: mv /mnt/ramfs/<255-character> /mnt/ramfs/<63-character>

CPU2 does d_alloc(), which allocates an external name, stores the name there
including terminating NUL, does smp_wmb() and stores its address in
dentry->d_name.name. It proceeds to d_add(dentry, NULL) and d_move()
old dentry over to that. ->d_name.name value ends up in that dentry.

In the meanwhile, CPU1 gets to prepend_name() for that dentry. It fetches
->d_name.name and ->d_name.len; the former ends up pointing to new name
(64-byte kmalloc'ed array), the latter - 255 (length of the old name).
Nothing to force the ordering there, and normally that would be OK, since we'd
run into the terminating NUL and stop. Except that it's alpha, and we'd need
a data dependency barrier to guarantee that we see that store of NUL
__d_alloc() has done. In a similar situation dentry_cmp() would survive; it
does explicit smp_read_barrier_depends() after fetching ->d_name.name.
prepend_name() doesn't and it risks walking past the end of kmalloc'ed object
and possibly oops due to taking a page fault in kernel mode.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.12+
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# d2fa4a84 24-Sep-2014 Mikhail Efremov <sem@altlinux.org>

vfs: Don't exchange "short" filenames unconditionally.

Only exchange source and destination filenames
if flags contain RENAME_EXCHANGE.
In case if executable file was running and replaced by
other file /proc/PID/exe should still show correct file name,
not the old name of the file by which it was replaced.

The scenario when this bug manifests itself was like this:
* ALT Linux uses rpm and start-stop-daemon;
* during a package upgrade rpm creates a temporary file
for an executable to rename it upon successful unpacking;
* start-stop-daemon is run subsequently and it obtains
the (nonexistant) temporary filename via /proc/PID/exe
thus failing to identify the running process.

Note that "long" filenames (> DNAiME_INLINE_LEN) are still
exchanged without RENAME_EXCHANGE and this behaviour exists
long enough (should be fixed too apparently).
So this patch is just an interim workaround that restores
behavior for "short" names as it was before changes
introduced by commit da1ce0670c14 ("vfs: add cross-rename").

See https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/9/7/6 for details.

AV: the comments about being more careful with ->d_name.hash
than with ->d_name.name are from back in 2.3.40s; they
became obsolete by 2.3.60s, when we started to unhash the
target instead of swapping hash chain positions followed
by d_delete() as we used to do when dcache was first
introduced.

Acked-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: da1ce0670c14 "vfs: add cross-rename"
Signed-off-by: Mikhail Efremov <sem@altlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# a28ddb87 24-Sep-2014 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

fold swapping ->d_name.hash into switch_names()

and do it along with ->d_name.len there

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 986c0194 26-Sep-2014 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

fold unlocking the children into dentry_unlock_parents_for_move()

... renaming it into dentry_unlock_for_move() and making it more
symmetric with dentry_lock_for_move().

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 63cf427a 26-Sep-2014 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

kill __d_materialise_dentry()

it folds into __d_move() now

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 4453641f 26-Sep-2014 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

__d_materialise_dentry(): flip the order of arguments

... thus making it much closer to (now unreachable, BTW) IS_ROOT(dentry)
case in __d_move(). A bit more and it'll fold in.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 9d8cd306 26-Sep-2014 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

__d_move(): fold manipulations with ->d_child/->d_subdirs

list_del() + list_add() is a slightly pessimised list_move()
list_del() + INIT_LIST_HEAD() is a slightly pessimised list_del_init()

Interleaving those makes the resulting code even worse. And harder to follow...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 8527dd71 26-Sep-2014 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

don't open-code d_rehash() in d_materialise_unique()

... and get rid of duplicate BUG_ON() there

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 5cc3821b 26-Sep-2014 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

pull rehashing and unlocking the target dentry into __d_materialise_dentry()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 6f18493e 11-Sep-2014 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

move the call of __d_drop(anon) into __d_materialise_unique(dentry, anon)

and lock the right list there

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 99d263d4 13-Sep-2014 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

vfs: fix bad hashing of dentries

Josef Bacik found a performance regression between 3.2 and 3.10 and
narrowed it down to commit bfcfaa77bdf0 ("vfs: use 'unsigned long'
accesses for dcache name comparison and hashing"). He reports:

"The test case is essentially

for (i = 0; i < 1000000; i++)
mkdir("a$i");

On xfs on a fio card this goes at about 20k dir/sec with 3.2, and 12k
dir/sec with 3.10. This is because we spend waaaaay more time in
__d_lookup on 3.10 than in 3.2.

The new hashing function for strings is suboptimal for <
sizeof(unsigned long) string names (and hell even > sizeof(unsigned
long) string names that I've tested). I broke out the old hashing
function and the new one into a userspace helper to get real numbers
and this is what I'm getting:

Old hash table had 1000000 entries, 0 dupes, 0 max dupes
New hash table had 12628 entries, 987372 dupes, 900 max dupes
We had 11400 buckets with a p50 of 30 dupes, p90 of 240 dupes, p99 of 567 dupes for the new hash

My test does the hash, and then does the d_hash into a integer pointer
array the same size as the dentry hash table on my system, and then
just increments the value at the address we got to see how many
entries we overlap with.

As you can see the old hash function ended up with all 1 million
entries in their own bucket, whereas the new one they are only
distributed among ~12.5k buckets, which is why we're using so much
more CPU in __d_lookup".

The reason for this hash regression is two-fold:

- On 64-bit architectures the down-mixing of the original 64-bit
word-at-a-time hash into the final 32-bit hash value is very
simplistic and suboptimal, and just adds the two 32-bit parts
together.

In particular, because there is no bit shuffling and the mixing
boundary is also a byte boundary, similar character patterns in the
low and high word easily end up just canceling each other out.

- the old byte-at-a-time hash mixed each byte into the final hash as it
hashed the path component name, resulting in the low bits of the hash
generally being a good source of hash data. That is not true for the
word-at-a-time case, and the hash data is distributed among all the
bits.

The fix is the same in both cases: do a better job of mixing the bits up
and using as much of the hash data as possible. We already have the
"hash_32|64()" functions to do that.

Reported-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 49c7dd28 31-Jul-2014 Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>

fs: mark __d_obtain_alias static

Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 95ad5c29 11-Mar-2014 J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>

dcache: d_splice_alias should detect loops

I believe this can only happen in the case of a corrupted filesystem.
So -EIO looks like the appropriate error.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 8d80d7da 16-Jan-2014 J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>

dcache: d_find_alias needn't recheck IS_ROOT && DCACHE_DISCONNECTED

If we get to this point and discover the dentry is not a root dentry, or
not DCACHE_DISCONNECTED--great, we always prefer that anyway.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 52ed46f0 16-Jan-2014 J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>

dcache: remove unused d_find_alias parameter

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 1a0a397e 14-Feb-2014 J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>

dcache: d_obtain_alias callers don't all want DISCONNECTED

There are a few d_obtain_alias callers that are using it to get the
root of a filesystem which may already have an alias somewhere else.

This is not the same as the filehandle-lookup case, and none of them
actually need DCACHE_DISCONNECTED set.

It isn't really a serious problem, but it would really be clearer if we
reserved DCACHE_DISCONNECTED for those cases where it's actually needed.

In the btrfs case this was causing a spurious printk from
nfsd/nfsfh.c:fh_verify when it found an unexpected DCACHE_DISCONNECTED
dentry. Josef worked around this by unsetting DCACHE_DISCONNECTED
manually in 3a0dfa6a12e "Btrfs: unset DCACHE_DISCONNECTED when mounting
default subvol", and this replaces that workaround.

Cc: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# da093a9b 17-Feb-2014 J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>

dcache: d_splice_alias should ignore DCACHE_DISCONNECTED

Any IS_ROOT() alias should be safe to use; there's nothing special about
DCACHE_DISCONNECTED dentries.

Note that this is in fact useful for filesystems such as btrfs which can
legimately encounter a directory with a preexisting IS_ROOT alias on a
lookup that crosses into a subvolume. (Those aliases are currently
marked DCACHE_DISCONNECTED--but not really for any good reason, and
we'll change that soon.)

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 908790fa 17-Feb-2014 J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>

dcache: d_splice_alias mustn't create directory aliases

Currently if d_splice_alias finds a directory with an alias that is not
IS_ROOT or not DCACHE_DISCONNECTED, it creates a duplicate directory.

Duplicate directory dentries are unacceptable; it is better just to
error out.

(In the case of a local filesystem the most likely case is filesystem
corruption: for example, perhaps two directories point to the same child
directory, and the other parent has already been found and cached.)

Note that distributed filesystems may encounter this case in normal
operation if a remote host moves a directory to a location different
from the one we last cached in the dcache. For that reason, such
filesystems should instead use d_materialise_unique, which tries to move
the old directory alias to the right place instead of erroring out.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 75a2352d 17-Feb-2014 J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>

dcache: close d_move race in d_splice_alias

d_splice_alias will d_move an IS_ROOT() directory dentry into place if
one exists. This should be safe as long as the dentry remains IS_ROOT,
but I can't see what guarantees that: once we drop the i_lock all we
hold here is the i_mutex on an unrelated parent directory.

Instead copy the logic of d_materialise_unique.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 3f70bd51 18-Feb-2014 J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>

dcache: move d_splice_alias

Just a trivial move to locate it near (similar) d_materialise_unique
code and save some forward references in a following patch.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# c2338f2d 11-Jun-2014 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

lock_parent: don't step on stale ->d_parent of all-but-freed one

Dentry that had been through (or into) __dentry_kill() might be seen
by shrink_dentry_list(); that's normal, it'll be taken off the shrink
list and freed if __dentry_kill() has already finished. The problem
is, its ->d_parent might be pointing to already freed dentry, so
lock_parent() needs to be careful.

We need to check that dentry hasn't already gone into __dentry_kill()
*and* grab rcu_read_lock() before dropping ->d_lock - the latter makes
sure that whatever we see in ->d_parent after dropping ->d_lock it
won't be freed until we drop rcu_read_lock().

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 1f7e0616 06-Jun-2014 Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>

fs: convert use of typedef ctl_table to struct ctl_table

This typedef is unnecessary and should just be removed.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 9f12600f 31-May-2014 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

dcache: add missing lockdep annotation

lock_parent() very much on purpose does nested locking of dentries, and
is careful to maintain the right order (lock parent first). But because
it didn't annotate the nested locking order, lockdep thought it might be
a deadlock on d_lock, and complained.

Add the proper annotation for the inner locking of the child dentry to
make lockdep happy.

Introduced by commit 046b961b45f9 ("shrink_dentry_list(): take parent's
->d_lock earlier").

Reported-and-tested-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 8cbf74da 29-May-2014 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

dentry_kill() doesn't need the second argument now

it's 1 in the only remaining caller.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# b2b80195 29-May-2014 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

dealing with the rest of shrink_dentry_list() livelock

We have the same problem with ->d_lock order in the inner loop, where
we are dropping references to ancestors. Same solution, basically -
instead of using dentry_kill() we use lock_parent() (introduced in the
previous commit) to get that lock in a safe way, recheck ->d_count
(in case if lock_parent() has ended up dropping and retaking ->d_lock
and somebody managed to grab a reference during that window), trylock
the inode->i_lock and use __dentry_kill() to do the rest.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 046b961b 29-May-2014 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

shrink_dentry_list(): take parent's ->d_lock earlier

The cause of livelocks there is that we are taking ->d_lock on
dentry and its parent in the wrong order, forcing us to use
trylock on the parent's one. d_walk() takes them in the right
order, and unfortunately it's not hard to create a situation
when shrink_dentry_list() can't make progress since trylock
keeps failing, and shrink_dcache_parent() or check_submounts_and_drop()
keeps calling d_walk() disrupting the very shrink_dentry_list() it's
waiting for.

Solution is straightforward - if that trylock fails, let's unlock
the dentry itself and take locks in the right order. We need to
stabilize ->d_parent without holding ->d_lock, but that's doable
using RCU. And we'd better do that in the very beginning of the
loop in shrink_dentry_list(), since the checks on refcount, etc.
would need to be redone anyway.

That deals with a half of the problem - killing dentries on the
shrink list itself. Another one (dropping their parents) is
in the next commit.

locking parent is interesting - it would be easy to do rcu_read_lock(),
lock whatever we think is a parent, lock dentry itself and check
if the parent is still the right one. Except that we need to check
that *before* locking the dentry, or we are risking taking ->d_lock
out of order. Fortunately, once the D1 is locked, we can check if
D2->d_parent is equal to D1 without the need to lock D2; D2->d_parent
can start or stop pointing to D1 only under D1->d_lock, so taking
D1->d_lock is enough. In other words, the right solution is
rcu_read_lock/lock what looks like parent right now/check if it's
still our parent/rcu_read_unlock/lock the child.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# ff2fde99 28-May-2014 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

expand dentry_kill(dentry, 0) in shrink_dentry_list()

Result will be massaged to saner shape in the next commits. It is
ugly, no questions - the point of that one is to be a provably
equivalent transformation (and it might be worth splitting a bit
more).

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# e55fd011 28-May-2014 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

split dentry_kill()

... into trylocks and everything else. The latter (actual killing)
is __dentry_kill().

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 64fd72e0 28-May-2014 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

lift the "already marked killed" case into shrink_dentry_list()

It can happen only when dentry_kill() is called with unlock_on_failure
equal to 0 - other callers had dentry pinned until the moment they've
got ->d_lock and DCACHE_DENTRY_KILLED is set only after lockref_mark_dead().

IOW, only one of three call sites of dentry_kill() might end up reaching
that code. Just move it there.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 60942f2f 02-May-2014 Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>

dcache: don't need rcu in shrink_dentry_list()

Since now the shrink list is private and nobody can free the dentry while
it is on the shrink list, we can remove RCU protection from this.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 9c8c10e2 02-May-2014 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

more graceful recovery in umount_collect()

Start with shrink_dcache_parent(), then scan what remains.

First of all, BUG() is very much an overkill here; we are holding
->s_umount, and hitting BUG() means that a lot of interesting stuff
will be hanging after that point (sync(2), for example). Moreover,
in cases when there had been more than one leak, we'll be better
off reporting all of them. And more than just the last component
of pathname - %pd is there for just such uses...

That was the last user of dentry_lru_del(), so kill it off...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# fe91522a 02-May-2014 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

don't remove from shrink list in select_collect()

If we find something already on a shrink list, just increment
data->found and do nothing else. Loops in shrink_dcache_parent() and
check_submounts_and_drop() will do the right thing - everything we
did put into our list will be evicted and if there had been nothing,
but data->found got non-zero, well, we have somebody else shrinking
those guys; just try again.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 41edf278 01-May-2014 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

dentry_kill(): don't try to remove from shrink list

If the victim in on the shrink list, don't remove it from there.
If shrink_dentry_list() manages to remove it from the list before
we are done - fine, we'll just free it as usual. If not - mark
it with new flag (DCACHE_MAY_FREE) and leave it there.

Eventually, shrink_dentry_list() will get to it, remove the sucker
from shrink list and call dentry_kill(dentry, 0). Which is where
we'll deal with freeing.

Since now dentry_kill(dentry, 0) may happen after or during
dentry_kill(dentry, 1), we need to recognize that (by seeing
DCACHE_DENTRY_KILLED already set), unlock everything
and either free the sucker (in case DCACHE_MAY_FREE has been
set) or leave it for ongoing dentry_kill(dentry, 1) to deal with.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 01b60351 29-Apr-2014 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

expand the call of dentry_lru_del() in dentry_kill()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# b4f0354e 29-Apr-2014 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

new helper: dentry_free()

The part of old d_free() that dealt with actual freeing of dentry.
Taken out of dentry_kill() into a separate function.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 5c47e6d0 29-Apr-2014 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

fold try_prune_one_dentry()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 03b3b889 29-Apr-2014 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

fold d_kill() and d_free()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 22213318 18-Apr-2014 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

fix races between __d_instantiate() and checks of dentry flags

in non-lazy walk we need to be careful about dentry switching from
negative to positive - both ->d_flags and ->d_inode are updated,
and in some places we might see only one store. The cases where
dentry has been obtained by dcache lookup with ->i_mutex held on
parent are safe - ->d_lock and ->i_mutex provide all the barriers
we need. However, there are several places where we run into
trouble:
* do_last() fetches ->d_inode, then checks ->d_flags and
assumes that inode won't be NULL unless d_is_negative() is true.
Race with e.g. creat() - we might have fetched the old value of
->d_inode (still NULL) and new value of ->d_flags (already not
DCACHE_MISS_TYPE). Lin Ming has observed and reported the resulting
oops.
* a bunch of places checks ->d_inode for being non-NULL,
then checks ->d_flags for "is it a symlink". Race with symlink(2)
in case if our CPU sees ->d_inode update first - we see non-NULL
there, but ->d_flags still contains DCACHE_MISS_TYPE instead of
DCACHE_SYMLINK_TYPE. Result: false negative on "should we follow
link here?", with subsequent unpleasantness.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.13 and 3.14 need that one
Reported-and-tested-by: Lin Ming <minggr@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# da1ce067 01-Apr-2014 Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>

vfs: add cross-rename

If flags contain RENAME_EXCHANGE then exchange source and destination files.
There's no restriction on the type of the files; e.g. a directory can be
exchanged with a symlink.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>


# e825196d 22-Mar-2014 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

make prepend_name() work correctly when called with negative *buflen

In all callchains leading to prepend_name(), the value left in *buflen
is eventually discarded unused if prepend_name() has returned a negative.
So we are free to do what prepend() does, and subtract from *buflen
*before* checking for underflow (which turns into checking the sign
of subtraction result, of course).

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 31bbe16f 03-Jan-2014 David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>

drm: add pseudo filesystem for shared inodes

Our current DRM design uses a single address_space for all users of the
same DRM device. However, there is no way to create an anonymous
address_space without an underlying inode. Therefore, we wait for the
first ->open() callback on a registered char-dev and take-over the inode
of the char-dev. This worked well so far, but has several drawbacks:
- We screw with FS internals and rely on some non-obvious invariants like
inode->i_mapping being the same as inode->i_data for char-devs.
- We don't have any address_space prior to the first ->open() from
user-space. This leads to ugly fallback code and we cannot allocate
global objects early.

As pointed out by Al-Viro, fs/anon_inode.c is *not* supposed to be used by
drivers for anonymous inode-allocation. Therefore, this patch follows the
proposed alternative solution and adds a pseudo filesystem mount-point to
DRM. We can then allocate private inodes including a private address_space
for each DRM device at initialization time.

Note that we could use:
sysfs_get_inode(sysfs_mnt->mnt_sb, drm_device->dev->kobj.sd);
to get access to the underlying sysfs-inode of a "struct device" object.
However, most of this information is currently hidden and it's not clear
whether this address_space is suitable for driver access. Thus, unless
linux allows anonymous address_space objects or driver-core provides a
public inode per device, we're left with our own private internal mount
point.

Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>


# f6500801 25-Jan-2014 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

__dentry_path() fixes

* we need to save the starting point for restarts
* reject pathologically short buffers outright

Spotted-by: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Spotted-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# a8323da0 20-Jan-2014 Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>

vfs: Remove second variable named error in __dentry_path

In commit 232d2d60aa5469bb097f55728f65146bd49c1d25
Author: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>
Date: Mon Sep 9 12:18:13 2013 -0400

dcache: Translating dentry into pathname without taking rename_lock

The __dentry_path locking was changed and the variable error was
intended to be moved outside of the loop. Unfortunately the inner
declaration of error was not removed. Resulting in a version of
__dentry_path that will never return an error.

Remove the problematic inner declaration of error and allow
__dentry_path to return errors once again.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# a5c21dce 12-Dec-2013 Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>

dcache: allow word-at-a-time name hashing with big-endian CPUs

When explicitly hashing the end of a string with the word-at-a-time
interface, we have to be careful which end of the word we pick up.

On big-endian CPUs, the upper-bits will contain the data we're after, so
ensure we generate our masks accordingly (and avoid hashing whatever
random junk may have been sitting after the string).

This patch adds a new dcache helper, bytemask_from_count, which creates
a mask appropriate for the CPU endianness.

Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# f48cfddc 08-Nov-2013 Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>

vfs: In d_path don't call d_dname on a mount point

Aditya Kali (adityakali@google.com) wrote:
> Commit bf056bfa80596a5d14b26b17276a56a0dcb080e5:
> "proc: Fix the namespace inode permission checks." converted
> the namespace files into symlinks. The same commit changed
> the way namespace bind mounts appear in /proc/mounts:
> $ mount --bind /proc/self/ns/ipc /mnt/ipc
> Originally:
> $ cat /proc/mounts | grep ipc
> proc /mnt/ipc proc rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec 0 0
>
> After commit bf056bfa80596a5d14b26b17276a56a0dcb080e5:
> $ cat /proc/mounts | grep ipc
> proc ipc:[4026531839] proc rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec 0 0
>
> This breaks userspace which expects the 2nd field in
> /proc/mounts to be a valid path.

The symlink /proc/<pid>/ns/{ipc,mnt,net,pid,user,uts} point to
dentries allocated with d_alloc_pseudo that we can mount, and
that have interesting names printed out with d_dname.

When these files are bind mounted /proc/mounts is not currently
displaying the mount point correctly because d_dname is called instead
of just displaying the path where the file is mounted.

Solve this by adding an explicit check to distinguish mounted pseudo
inodes and unmounted pseudo inodes. Unmounted pseudo inodes always
use mount of their filesstem as the mnt_root in their path making
these two cases easy to distinguish.

CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Reported-by: Aditya Kali <adityakali@google.com>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>


# 31dec132 25-Oct-2013 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

fold try_to_ascend() into the sole remaining caller

There used to be a bunch of tree-walkers in dcache.c, all alike.
try_to_ascend() had been introduced to abstract a piece of logics
duplicated in all of them. These days all these tree-walkers are
implemented via the same iterator (d_walk()), which is the only
remaining caller of try_to_ascend(), so let's fold it back...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 482db906 25-Oct-2013 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

dcache.c: get rid of pointless macros

D_HASH{MASK,BITS} are used once each, both in the same function (d_hash()).
At this point they are actively misguiding - they imply that values are
compiler constants, which is no longer true.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 2bc74feb 25-Oct-2013 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

take read_seqbegin_or_lock() and friends to seqlock.h

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# ede4cebc 13-Nov-2013 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

prepend_path() needs to reinitialize dentry/vfsmount/mnt on restarts

... and equivalent is needed in 3.12; it's broken there as well

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 4ec6c2ae 13-Nov-2013 Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

fix unpaired rcu lock in prepend_path()

Signed-off-by: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# f80de2cd 18-Jul-2012 J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>

dcache: don't clear DCACHE_DISCONNECTED too early

DCACHE_DISCONNECTED should not be cleared until we're sure the dentry is
connected all the way up to the root of the filesystem. It *shouldn't*
be cleared as soon as the dentry is connected to a parent. That will
cause bugs at least on exportable filesystems.

Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# e1a24bb0 29-Jun-2012 J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>

dcache: Don't set DISCONNECTED on "pseudo filesystem" dentries

I can't for the life of me see any reason why anyone should care whether
a dentry that is never hooked into the dentry cache would need
DCACHE_DISCONNECTED set.

This originates from 4b936885ab04dc6e0bb0ef35e0e23c1a7364d9e5 "fs:
improve scalability of pseudo filesystems", which probably just made the
false assumption the DCACHE_DISCONNECTED was meant to be set on anything
not connected to a parent somehow.

So this is just confusing. Ideally the only uses of DCACHE_DISCONNECTED
would be in the filehandle-lookup code, which needs it to ensure
dentries are connected into the dentry tree before use.

I left d_alloc_pseudo there even though it's now equivalent to
__d_alloc(), just on the theory the name is better documentation of its
intended use outside dcache.c.

Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 7632e465 27-Jun-2012 J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>

dcache: use IS_ROOT to decide where dentry is hashed

Every hashed dentry is either hashed in the dentry_hashtable, or a
superblock's s_anon list.

__d_drop() assumes it can determine which is the case by checking
DCACHE_DISCONNECTED; this is not true.

It is true that when DCACHE_DISCONNECTED is cleared, the dentry is not
only hashed on dentry_hashtable, but is fully connected to its parents
back to the root.

But the converse is *not* true: fs/exportfs/expfs.c:reconnect_path()
attempts to connect a directory (found by filehandle lookup) back to
root by ascending to parents and performing lookups one at a time. It
does not clear DCACHE_DISCONNECTED until it's done, and that is not at
all an atomic process.

In particular, it is possible for DCACHE_DISCONNECTED to be set on a
dentry which is hashed on the dentry_hashtable.

Instead, use IS_ROOT() to check which hash chain a dentry is on. This
*does* work:

Dentries are hashed only by:

- d_obtain_alias, which adds an IS_ROOT() dentry to sb_anon.

- __d_rehash, called by _d_rehash: hashes to the dentry's
parent, and all callers of _d_rehash appear to have d_parent
set to a "real" parent.
- __d_rehash, called by __d_move: rehashes the moved dentry to
hash chain determined by target, and assigns target's d_parent
to its d_parent, before dropping the dentry's d_lock.

Therefore I believe it's safe for a holder of a dentry's d_lock to
assume that it is hashed on sb_anon if and only if IS_ROOT(dentry) is
true.

I believe the incorrect assumption about DCACHE_DISCONNECTED was
originally introduced by ceb5bdc2d246 "fs: dcache per-bucket dcache hash
locking".

Also add a comment while we're here.

Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# b18825a7 12-Sep-2013 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

VFS: Put a small type field into struct dentry::d_flags

Put a type field into struct dentry::d_flags to indicate if the dentry is one
of the following types that relate particularly to pathwalk:

Miss (negative dentry)
Directory
"Automount" directory (defective - no i_op->lookup())
Symlink
Other (regular, socket, fifo, device)

The type field is set to one of the first five types on a dentry by calls to
__d_instantiate() and d_obtain_alias() from information in the inode (if one is
given).

The type is cleared by dentry_unlink_inode() when it reconstitutes an existing
dentry as a negative dentry.

Accessors provided are:

d_set_type(dentry, type)
d_is_directory(dentry)
d_is_autodir(dentry)
d_is_symlink(dentry)
d_is_file(dentry)
d_is_negative(dentry)
d_is_positive(dentry)

A bunch of checks in pathname resolution switched to those.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# b61625d2 04-Oct-2013 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

fold __d_shrink() into its only remaining caller

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 48a066e7 29-Sep-2013 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

RCU'd vfsmounts

* RCU-delayed freeing of vfsmounts
* vfsmount_lock replaced with a seqlock (mount_lock)
* sequence number from mount_lock is stored in nameidata->m_seq and
used when we exit RCU mode
* new vfsmount flag - MNT_SYNC_UMOUNT. Set by umount_tree() when its
caller knows that vfsmount will have no surviving references.
* synchronize_rcu() done between unlocking namespace_sem in namespace_unlock()
and doing pending mntput().
* new helper: legitimize_mnt(mnt, seq). Checks the mount_lock sequence
number against seq, then grabs reference to mnt. Then it rechecks mount_lock
again to close the race and either returns success or drops the reference it
has acquired. The subtle point is that in case of MNT_SYNC_UMOUNT we can
simply decrement the refcount and sod off - aforementioned synchronize_rcu()
makes sure that final mntput() won't come until we leave RCU mode. We need
that, since we don't want to end up with some lazy pathwalk racing with
umount() and stealing the final mntput() from it - caller of umount() may
expect it to return only once the fs is shut down and we don't want to break
that. In other cases (i.e. with MNT_SYNC_UMOUNT absent) we have to do
full-blown mntput() in case of mount_lock sequence number mismatch happening
just as we'd grabbed the reference, but in those cases we won't be stealing
the final mntput() from anything that would care.
* mntput_no_expire() doesn't lock anything on the fast path now. Incidentally,
SMP and UP cases are handled the same way - no ifdefs there.
* normal pathname resolution does *not* do any writes to mount_lock. It does,
of course, bump the refcounts of vfsmount and dentry in the very end, but that's
it.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 42c32608 07-Nov-2013 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

switch shrink_dcache_for_umount() to use of d_walk()

we have too many iterators in fs/dcache.c...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 1ca7d67c 07-Oct-2013 John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>

seqcount: Add lockdep functionality to seqcount/seqlock structures

Currently seqlocks and seqcounts don't support lockdep.

After running across a seqcount related deadlock in the timekeeping
code, I used a less-refined and more focused variant of this patch
to narrow down the cause of the issue.

This is a first-pass attempt to properly enable lockdep functionality
on seqlocks and seqcounts.

Since seqcounts are used in the vdso gettimeofday code, I've provided
non-lockdep accessors for those needs.

I've also handled one case where there were nested seqlock writers
and there may be more edge cases.

Comments and feedback would be appreciated!

Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381186321-4906-3-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>


# 358eec18 31-Oct-2013 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

vfs: decrapify dput(), fix cache behavior under normal load

We do not want to dirty the dentry->d_flags cacheline in dput() just to
set the DCACHE_REFERENCED flag when it is already set in the common case
anyway. This way the first cacheline of the dentry (which contains the
RCU lookup information etc) can stay shared among multiple CPU's.

This finishes off some of the details of all the scalability patches
merged during the merge window.

Also don't mark dentry_kill() for inlining, since it's the uncommon path
and inlining it just makes the common path slower due to extra function
entry/exit overhead.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# b70a80e7 01-Oct-2013 Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>

vfs: introduce d_instantiate_no_diralias()

...which just returns -EBUSY if a directory alias would be created.

This is to be used by fuse mkdir to make sure that a buggy or malicious
userspace filesystem doesn't do anything nasty. Previously fuse used a
private mutex for this purpose, which can now go away.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>


# 94e92a6e 01-Oct-2013 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

move taking vfsmount_lock down into prepend_path()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 69c88dc7 19-Oct-2013 Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>

vfs: fix new kernel-doc warnings

Move kernel-doc notation to immediately before its function to eliminate
kernel-doc warnings introduced by commit db14fc3abcd5 ("vfs: add
d_walk()")

Warning(fs/dcache.c:1343): No description found for parameter 'data'
Warning(fs/dcache.c:1343): No description found for parameter 'dentry'
Warning(fs/dcache.c:1343): Excess function parameter 'parent' description in 'check_mount'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 05a8252b 15-Sep-2013 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

vfs: fix typo in comment in recent dentry work

Sedat points out that I transposed some letters in "LRU" and wrote "RLU"
instead in one of the new comments explaining the flow. Let's just fix
it.

Reported-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@jpberlin.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 89dc77bc 13-Sep-2013 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

vfs: fix dentry LRU list handling and nr_dentry_unused accounting

The LRU list changes interacted badly with our nr_dentry_unused
accounting, and even worse with the new DCACHE_LRU_LIST bit logic.

This introduces helper functions to make sure everything follows the
proper dcache d_lru list rules: the dentry cache is complicated by the
fact that some of the hotpaths don't even want to look at the LRU list
at all, and the fact that we use the same list entry in the dentry for
both the LRU list and for our temporary shrinking lists when removing
things from the LRU.

The helper functions temporarily have some extra sanity checking for the
flag bits that have to match the current LRU state of the dentry. We'll
remove that before the final 3.12 release, but considering how easy it
is to get wrong, this first cleanup version has some very particular
sanity checking.

Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 68f0d9d9 12-Sep-2013 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

vfs: make d_path() get the root path under RCU

This avoids the spinlocks and refcounts in the d_path() sequence too
(used by /proc and various other entities). See commit 8b19e34188a3 for
the equivalent getcwd() system call path.

And unlike getcwd(), d_path() doesn't copy the result to user space, so
I don't need to fear _that_ particular bug happening again.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 3272c544 12-Sep-2013 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

vfs: use __getname/__putname for getcwd() system call

It's a pathname. It should use the pathname allocators and
deallocators, and PATH_MAX instead of PAGE_SIZE. Never mind that the
two are commonly the same.

With this, the allocations scale up nicely too, and I can do getcwd()
system calls at a rate of about 300M/s, with no lock contention
anywhere.

Of course, nobody sane does that, especially since getcwd() is
traditionally a very slow operation in Unix. But this was also the
simplest way to benchmark the prepend_path() improvements by Waiman, and
once I saw the profiles I couldn't leave it well enough alone.

But apart from being an performance improvement (from using per-cpu slab
allocators instead of the raw page allocator), it's actually a valid and
real cleanup.

Signed-off-by: Linus "OCD" Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# ff812d72 12-Sep-2013 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

vfs: don't copy things to user space holding the rcu readlock

Oops. That wasn't very smart. We don't actually need the RCU lock any
more by the time we copy the cwd string to user space, but I had
stupidly surrounded the whole thing with it.

Introduced by commit 8b19e34188a3 ("vfs: make getcwd() get the root and
pwd path under rcu")

Is-a-big-hairy-idiot: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 8b19e341 12-Sep-2013 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

vfs: make getcwd() get the root and pwd path under rcu

This allows us to skip all the crazy spinlocks and reference count
updates, and instead use the fs sequence read-lock to get an atomic
snapshot of the root and cwd information.

We might want to make the rule that "prepend_path()" is always called
with the RCU lock held, but the RCU lock nests fine and this is the
minimal fix.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 5762482f 12-Sep-2013 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

vfs: move get_fs_root_and_pwd() to single caller

Let's not pollute the include files with inline functions that are only
used in a single place. Especially not if we decide we might want to
change the semantics of said function to make it more efficient..

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 18129977 12-Sep-2013 Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>

dcache: get/release read lock in read_seqbegin_or_lock() & friend

This patch modifies read_seqbegin_or_lock() and need_seqretry() to use
newly introduced read_seqlock_excl() and read_sequnlock_excl()
primitives so that they won't change the sequence number even if they
fall back to take the lock. This is OK as no change to the protected
data structure is being made.

It will prevent one fallback to lock taking from cascading into a series
of lock taking reducing performance because of the sequence number
change. It will also allow other sequence readers to go forward while
an exclusive reader lock is taken.

This patch also updates some of the inaccurate comments in the code.

Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 9b17c623 27-Aug-2013 Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>

fs: convert inode and dentry shrinking to be node aware

Now that the shrinker is passing a node in the scan control structure, we
can pass this to the the generic LRU list code to isolate reclaim to the
lists on matching nodes.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com>
Cc: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 4e717f5c 27-Aug-2013 Glauber Costa <glommer@gmail.com>

list_lru: remove special case function list_lru_dispose_all.

The list_lru implementation has one function, list_lru_dispose_all, with
only one user (the dentry code). At first, such function appears to make
sense because we are really not interested in the result of isolating each
dentry separately - all of them are going away anyway. However, it's
implementation is buggy in the following way:

When we call list_lru_dispose_all in fs/dcache.c, we scan all dentries
marking them with DCACHE_SHRINK_LIST. However, this is done without the
nlru->lock taken. The imediate result of that is that someone else may
add or remove the dentry from the LRU at the same time. When list_lru_del
happens in that scenario we will see an element that is not yet marked
with DCACHE_SHRINK_LIST (even though it will be in the future) and
obviously remove it from an lru where the element no longer is. Since
list_lru_dispose_all will in effect count down nlru's nr_items and
list_lru_del will do the same, this will lead to an imbalance.

The solution for this would not be so simple: we can obviously just keep
the lru_lock taken, but then we have no guarantees that we will be able to
acquire the dentry lock (dentry->d_lock). To properly solve this, we need
a communication mechanism between the lru and dentry code, so they can
coordinate this with each other.

Such mechanism already exists in the form of the list_lru_walk_cb
callback. So it is possible to construct a dcache-side prune function
that does the right thing only by calling list_lru_walk in a loop until no
more dentries are available.

With only one user, plus the fact that a sane solution for the problem
would involve boucing between dcache and list_lru anyway, I see little
justification to keep the special case list_lru_dispose_all in tree.

Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@openvz.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# f6041567 27-Aug-2013 Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>

dcache: convert to use new lru list infrastructure

[glommer@openvz.org: don't reintroduce double decrement of nr_unused_dentries, adapted for new LRU return codes]
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@openvz.org>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com>
Cc: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 0a234c6d 27-Aug-2013 Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>

shrinker: convert superblock shrinkers to new API

Convert superblock shrinker to use the new count/scan API, and propagate
the API changes through to the filesystem callouts. The filesystem
callouts already use a count/scan API, so it's just changing counters to
longs to match the VM API.

This requires the dentry and inode shrinker callouts to be converted to
the count/scan API. This is mainly a mechanical change.

[glommer@openvz.org: use mult_frac for fractional proportions, build fixes]
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com>
Cc: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# dd1f6b2e 27-Aug-2013 Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>

dcache: remove dentries from LRU before putting on dispose list

One of the big problems with modifying the way the dcache shrinker and LRU
implementation works is that the LRU is abused in several ways. One of
these is shrink_dentry_list().

Basically, we can move a dentry off the LRU onto a different list without
doing any accounting changes, and then use dentry_lru_prune() to remove it
from what-ever list it is now on to do the LRU accounting at that point.

This makes it -really hard- to change the LRU implementation. The use of
the per-sb LRU lock serialises movement of the dentries between the
different lists and the removal of them, and this is the only reason that
it works. If we want to break up the dentry LRU lock and lists into, say,
per-node lists, we remove the only serialisation that allows this lru
list/dispose list abuse to work.

To make this work effectively, the dispose list has to be isolated from
the LRU list - dentries have to be removed from the LRU *before* being
placed on the dispose list. This means that the LRU accounting and
isolation is completed before disposal is started, and that means we can
change the LRU implementation freely in future.

This means that dentries *must* be marked with DCACHE_SHRINK_LIST when
they are placed on the dispose list so that we don't think that parent
dentries found in try_prune_one_dentry() are on the LRU when the are
actually on the dispose list. This would result in accounting the dentry
to the LRU a second time. Hence dentry_lru_del() has to handle the
DCACHE_SHRINK_LIST case

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@openvz.org>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com>
Cc: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 19156840 27-Aug-2013 Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>

dentry: move to per-sb LRU locks

With the dentry LRUs being per-sb structures, there is no real need for
a global dentry_lru_lock. The locking can be made more fine-grained by
moving to a per-sb LRU lock, isolating the LRU operations of different
filesytsems completely from each other. The need for this is independent
of any performance consideration that may arise: in the interest of
abstracting the lru operations away, it is mandatory that each lru works
around its own lock instead of a global lock for all of them.

[glommer@openvz.org: updated changelog ]
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@openvz.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com>
Cc: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 62d36c77 27-Aug-2013 Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>

dcache: convert dentry_stat.nr_unused to per-cpu counters

Before we split up the dcache_lru_lock, the unused dentry counter needs to
be made independent of the global dcache_lru_lock. Convert it to per-cpu
counters to do this.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@openvz.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com>
Cc: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 3942c07c 27-Aug-2013 Glauber Costa <glommer@openvz.org>

fs: bump inode and dentry counters to long

This series reworks our current object cache shrinking infrastructure in
two main ways:

* Noticing that a lot of users copy and paste their own version of LRU
lists for objects, we put some effort in providing a generic version.
It is modeled after the filesystem users: dentries, inodes, and xfs
(for various tasks), but we expect that other users could benefit in
the near future with little or no modification. Let us know if you
have any issues.

* The underlying list_lru being proposed automatically and
transparently keeps the elements in per-node lists, and is able to
manipulate the node lists individually. Given this infrastructure, we
are able to modify the up-to-now hammer called shrink_slab to proceed
with node-reclaim instead of always searching memory from all over like
it has been doing.

Per-node lru lists are also expected to lead to less contention in the lru
locks on multi-node scans, since we are now no longer fighting for a
global lock. The locks usually disappear from the profilers with this
change.

Although we have no official benchmarks for this version - be our guest to
independently evaluate this - earlier versions of this series were
performance tested (details at
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.mm/100537) yielding no
visible performance regressions while yielding a better qualitative
behavior in NUMA machines.

With this infrastructure in place, we can use the list_lru entry point to
provide memcg isolation and per-memcg targeted reclaim. Historically,
those two pieces of work have been posted together. This version presents
only the infrastructure work, deferring the memcg work for a later time,
so we can focus on getting this part tested. You can see more about the
history of such work at http://lwn.net/Articles/552769/

Dave Chinner (18):
dcache: convert dentry_stat.nr_unused to per-cpu counters
dentry: move to per-sb LRU locks
dcache: remove dentries from LRU before putting on dispose list
mm: new shrinker API
shrinker: convert superblock shrinkers to new API
list: add a new LRU list type
inode: convert inode lru list to generic lru list code.
dcache: convert to use new lru list infrastructure
list_lru: per-node list infrastructure
shrinker: add node awareness
fs: convert inode and dentry shrinking to be node aware
xfs: convert buftarg LRU to generic code
xfs: rework buffer dispose list tracking
xfs: convert dquot cache lru to list_lru
fs: convert fs shrinkers to new scan/count API
drivers: convert shrinkers to new count/scan API
shrinker: convert remaining shrinkers to count/scan API
shrinker: Kill old ->shrink API.

Glauber Costa (7):
fs: bump inode and dentry counters to long
super: fix calculation of shrinkable objects for small numbers
list_lru: per-node API
vmscan: per-node deferred work
i915: bail out earlier when shrinker cannot acquire mutex
hugepage: convert huge zero page shrinker to new shrinker API
list_lru: dynamically adjust node arrays

This patch:

There are situations in very large machines in which we can have a large
quantity of dirty inodes, unused dentries, etc. This is particularly true
when umounting a filesystem, where eventually since every live object will
eventually be discarded.

Dave Chinner reported a problem with this while experimenting with the
shrinker revamp patchset. So we believe it is time for a change. This
patch just moves int to longs. Machines where it matters should have a
big long anyway.

Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@openvz.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com>
Cc: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 48f5ec21 09-Sep-2013 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

split read_seqretry_or_unlock(), convert d_walk() to resulting primitives

Separate "check if we need to retry" from "unlock if we are done and
had seq_writelock"; that allows to use these guys in d_walk(), where
we need to recheck every time we ascend back to parent, but do *not*
want to unlock until the very end. Lift rcu_read_lock/rcu_read_unlock
out into callers.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 232d2d60 08-Sep-2013 Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>

dcache: Translating dentry into pathname without taking rename_lock

When running the AIM7's short workload, Linus' lockref patch eliminated
most of the spinlock contention. However, there were still some left:

8.46% reaim [kernel.kallsyms] [k] _raw_spin_lock
|--42.21%-- d_path
| proc_pid_readlink
| SyS_readlinkat
| SyS_readlink
| system_call
| __GI___readlink
|
|--40.97%-- sys_getcwd
| system_call
| __getcwd

The big one here is the rename_lock (seqlock) contention in d_path()
and the getcwd system call. This patch will eliminate the need to take
the rename_lock while translating dentries into the full pathnames.

The need to take the rename_lock is to make sure that no rename
operation can be ongoing while the translation is in progress. However,
only one thread can take the rename_lock thus blocking all the other
threads that need it even though the translation process won't make
any change to the dentries.

This patch will replace the writer's write_seqlock/write_sequnlock
sequence of the rename_lock of the callers of the prepend_path() and
__dentry_path() functions with the reader's read_seqbegin/read_seqretry
sequence within these 2 functions. As a result, the code will have to
retry if one or more rename operations had been performed. In addition,
RCU read lock will be taken during the translation process to make sure
that no dentries will go away. To prevent live-lock from happening,
the code will switch back to take the rename_lock if read_seqretry()
fails for three times.

To further reduce spinlock contention, this patch does not take the
dentry's d_lock when copying the filename from the dentries. Instead,
it treats the name pointer and length as unreliable and just copy
the string byte-by-byte over until it hits a null byte or the end of
string as specified by the length. This should avoid stepping into
invalid memory address. The error cases are left to be handled by
the sequence number check.

The following code re-factoring are also made:
1. Move prepend('/') into prepend_name() to remove one conditional
check.
2. Move the global root check in prepend_path() back to the top of
the while loop.

With this patch, the _raw_spin_lock will now account for only 1.2%
of the total CPU cycles for the short workload. This patch also has
the effect of reducing the effect of running perf on its profile
since the perf command itself can be a heavy user of the d_path()
function depending on the complexity of the workload.

When taking the perf profile of the high-systime workload, the amount
of spinlock contention contributed by running perf without this patch
was about 16%. With this patch, the spinlock contention caused by
the running of perf will go away and we will have a more accurate
perf profile.

Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 0d98439e 08-Sep-2013 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

vfs: use lockred "dead" flag to mark unrecoverably dead dentries

This simplifies the RCU to refcounting code in particular.

I was originally intending to leave this for later, but walking through
all the dput() logic (see previous commit), I realized that the dput()
"might_sleep()" check was misleadingly weak. And I removed it as
misleading, both for performance profiling and for debugging.

However, the might_sleep() debugging case is actually true: the final
dput() can indeed sleep, if the inode of the dentry that you are
releasing ends up sleeping at iput time (see dentry_iput()). So the
problem with the might_sleep() in dput() wasn't that it wasn't true, it
was that it wasn't actually testing and triggering on the interesting
case.

In particular, just about *any* dput() can indeed sleep, if you happen
to race with another thread deleting the file in question, and you then
lose the race to the be the last dput() for that file. But because it's
a very rare race, the debugging code would never trigger it in practice.

Why is this problematic? The new d_rcu_to_refcount() (see commit
15570086b590: "vfs: reimplement d_rcu_to_refcount() using
lockref_get_or_lock()") does a dput() for the failure case, and it does
it under the RCU lock. So potentially sleeping really is a bug.

But there's no way I'm going to fix this with the previous complicated
"lockref_get_or_lock()" interface. And rather than revert to the old
and crufty nested dentry locking code (which did get this right by
delaying the reference count updates until they were verified to be
safe), let's make forward progress.

Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 8aab6a27 08-Sep-2013 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

vfs: reorganize dput() memory accesses

This is me being a bit OCD after all the dentry optimization work this
merge window: profiles end up showing 'dput()' as a rather expensive
operation, and there were two unrelated bad reasons for that.

The first reason was reading d_lockref.count for debugging purposes,
which touches the lockref cacheline (for reads) before really need to.
More importantly, the debugging test in question is _wrong_, and has
hidden bugs. It's true that we can only sleep when the count goes down
to zero, but the test as-is hides the much more subtle bug that happens
if we race with somebody else deleting the file.

Anyway we _will_ touch that cacheline, but let's do it for a write and
in the right routine (ie in "lockref_put_or_lock()") which annotates the
costs better. So remove the misleading debug code.

The other was an unnecessary access to the cacheline that contains the
d_lru list, just to check whether we already were on the LRU list or
not. This is exactly what we have d_flags for, so that we can avoid
touching extra cache lines for the common case. So just add another bit
for "is this dentry on the LRU".

Finally, mark the tests properly likely/unlikely, so that the common
fast-paths are dense in the instruction stream.

This makes the profiles look much saner.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# eed81007 05-Sep-2013 Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>

vfs: check unlinked ancestors before mount

We check submounts before doing d_drop() on a non-empty directory dentry in
NFS (have_submounts()), but we do not exclude a racing mount. Nor do we
prevent mounts to be added to the disconnected subtree using relative paths
after the d_drop().

This patch fixes these issues by checking for unlinked (unhashed, non-root)
ancestors before proceeding with the mount. This is done with rename
seqlock taken for write and with ->d_lock grabbed on each ancestor in turn,
including our dentry itself. This ensures that the only one of
check_submounts_and_drop() or has_unlinked_ancestor() can succeed.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 848ac114 05-Sep-2013 Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>

vfs: check submounts and drop atomically

We check submounts before doing d_drop() on a non-empty directory dentry in
NFS (have_submounts()), but we do not exclude a racing mount.

Process A: have_submounts() -> returns false
Process B: mount() -> success
Process A: d_drop()

This patch prepares the ground for the fix by doing the following
operations all under the same rename lock:

have_submounts()
shrink_dcache_parent()
d_drop()

This is actually an optimization since have_submounts() and
shrink_dcache_parent() both traverse the same dentry tree separately.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
CC: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
CC: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
CC: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# db14fc3a 05-Sep-2013 Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>

vfs: add d_walk()

This one replaces three instances open coded tree walking (have_submounts,
select_parent, d_genocide) with a common helper.

In addition to slightly reducing the kernel size, this simplifies the
callers and makes them less bug prone.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 01ddc4ed 05-Sep-2013 Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>

vfs: restructure d_genocide()

It shouldn't matter when we decrement the refcount during the walk as long
as we do it exactly once.

Restructure d_genocide() to do the killing on entering the dentry instead
of when leaving it. This helps creating a common helper for tree walking.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 590fb51f 13-Aug-2013 Yan, Zheng <zheng.z.yan@intel.com>

vfs: call d_op->d_prune() before unhashing dentry

The d_prune dentry operation is used to notify filesystem when VFS
about to prune a hashed dentry from the dcache. There are three
code paths that prune dentries: shrink_dcache_for_umount_subtree(),
prune_dcache_sb() and d_prune_aliases(). For the d_prune_aliases()
case, VFS unhashes the dentry first, then call the d_prune dentry
operation. This confuses ceph_d_prune() (ceph uses the d_prune
dentry operation to maintain a flag indicating whether the complete
contents of a directory are in the dcache, pruning unhashed dentry
does not affect dir's completeness)

This patch fixes the issue by calling the d_prune dentry operation
in d_prune_aliases(), before unhashing the dentry. Also make VFS
only call the d_prune dentry operation for hashed dentry, to avoid
calling the d_prune dentry operation twice when dentry is pruned
by d_prune_aliases().

Signed-off-by: Yan, Zheng <zheng.z.yan@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 15570086 02-Sep-2013 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

vfs: reimplement d_rcu_to_refcount() using lockref_get_or_lock()

This moves __d_rcu_to_refcount() from <linux/dcache.h> into fs/namei.c
and re-implements it using the lockref infrastructure instead. It also
adds a lot of comments about what is actually going on, because turning
a dentry that was looked up using RCU into a long-lived reference
counted entry is one of the more subtle parts of the rcu walk.

We also used to be _particularly_ subtle in unlazy_walk() where we
re-validate both the dentry and its parent using the same sequence
count. We used to do it by nesting the locks and then verifying the
sequence count just once.

That was silly, because nested locking is expensive, but the sequence
count check is not. So this just re-validates the dentry and the parent
separately, avoiding the nested locking, and making the lockref lookup
possible.

Acked-by: Waiman Long <waiman.long@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# df3d0bbc 02-Sep-2013 Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>

vfs: use lockref_get_not_zero() for optimistic lockless dget_parent()

A valid parent pointer is always going to have a non-zero reference
count, but if we look up the parent optimistically without locking, we
have to protect against the (very unlikely) race against renaming
changing the parent from under us.

We do that by using lockref_get_not_zero(), and then re-checking the
parent pointer after getting a valid reference.

[ This is a re-implementation of a chunk from the original patch by
Waiman Long: "dcache: Enable lockless update of dentry's refcount".
I've completely rewritten the patch-series and split it up, but I'm
attributing this part to Waiman as it's close enough to his earlier
patch - Linus ]

Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 98474236 28-Aug-2013 Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>

vfs: make the dentry cache use the lockref infrastructure

This just replaces the dentry count/lock combination with the lockref
structure that contains both a count and a spinlock, and does the
mechanical conversion to use the lockref infrastructure.

There are no semantic changes here, it's purely syntactic. The
reference lockref implementation uses the spinlock exactly the same way
that the old dcache code did, and the bulk of this patch is just
expanding the internal "d_count" use in the dcache code to use
"d_lockref.count" instead.

This is purely preparation for the real change to make the reference
count updates be lockless during the 3.12 merge window.

[ As with the previous commit, this is a rewritten version of a concept
originally from Waiman, so credit goes to him, blame for any errors
goes to me.

Waiman's patch had some semantic differences for taking advantage of
the lockless update in dget_parent(), while this patch is
intentionally a pure search-and-replace change with no semantic
changes. - Linus ]

Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 118b2302 23-Aug-2013 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

cope with potentially long ->d_dname() output for shmem/hugetlb

dynamic_dname() is both too much and too little for those - the
output may be well in excess of 64 bytes dynamic_dname() assumes
to be enough (thanks to ashmem feeding really long names to
shmem_file_setup()) and vsnprintf() is an overkill for those
guys.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# da53be12 21-May-2013 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Don't pass inode to ->d_hash() and ->d_compare()

Instances either don't look at it at all (the majority of cases) or
only want it to find the superblock (which can be had as dentry->d_sb).
A few cases that want more are actually safe with dentry->d_inode -
the only precaution needed is the check that it hadn't been replaced with
NULL by rmdir() or by overwriting rename(), which case should be simply
treated as cache miss.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 0b3fca1f 15-Jun-2013 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

kill find_inode_number()

the only remaining caller (in ncpfs) is guaranteed to return 0 -
we only hit it if we'd just checked that there's no dentry with
such name.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 60545d0d 06-Jun-2013 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

[O_TMPFILE] it's still short a few helpers, but infrastructure should be OK now...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 6d4ade98 14-Jun-2013 Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

GFS2: Add atomic_open support

I've restricted atomic_open to only operate on regular files, although
I still don't understand why atomic_open should not be possible also for
directories on GFS2. That can always be added in later though, if it
makes sense.

The ->atomic_open function can be passed negative dentries, which
in most cases means either ENOENT (->lookup) or a call to d_instantiate
(->create). In the GFS2 case though, we need to actually perform the
look up, since we do not know whether there has been a new inode created
on another node. The look up calls d_splice_alias which then tries to
rehash the dentry - so the solution here is to simply check for that
in d_splice_alias. The same issue is likely to affect any other cluster
filesystem implementing ->atomic_open

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields fieldses org>
Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>


# 9ed53b12 11-Mar-2013 Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>

vfs: use list_move instead of list_del/list_add

Using list_move() instead of list_del() + list_add().

Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 61572bb1 15-Apr-2013 Yan, Zheng <zheng.z.yan@intel.com>

fs: remove dentry_lru_prune()

When pruning a dentry, its ancestor dentry can also be pruned. But
the ancestor dentry does not go through dput(), so it does not get
put on the dentry LRU. Hence associating d_prune with removing the
dentry from the LRU is the wrong.

The fix is remove dentry_lru_prune(). Call file system's d_prune()
callback directly when pruning dentries.

Signed-off-by: Yan, Zheng <zheng.z.yan@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 421348f1 30-Apr-2013 Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>

fs/dcache.c: add cond_resched() to shrink_dcache_parent()

Call cond_resched() in shrink_dcache_parent() to maintain interactivity.

Before this patch:

void shrink_dcache_parent(struct dentry * parent)
{
while ((found = select_parent(parent, &dispose)) != 0)
shrink_dentry_list(&dispose);
}

select_parent() populates the dispose list with dentries which
shrink_dentry_list() then deletes. select_parent() carefully uses
need_resched() to avoid doing too much work at once. But neither
shrink_dcache_parent() nor its called functions call cond_resched(). So
once need_resched() is set select_parent() will return single dentry
dispose list which is then deleted by shrink_dentry_list(). This is
inefficient when there are a lot of dentry to process. This can cause
softlockup and hurts interactivity on non preemptable kernels.

This change adds cond_resched() in shrink_dcache_parent(). The benefit
of this is that need_resched() is quickly cleared so that future calls
to select_parent() are able to efficiently return a big batch of dentry.

These additional cond_resched() do not seem to impact performance, at
least for the workload below.

Here is a program which can cause soft lockup if other system activity
sets need_resched().

int main()
{
struct rlimit rlim;
int i;
int f[100000];
char buf[20];
struct timeval t1, t2;
double diff;

/* cleanup past run */
system("rm -rf x");

/* boost nfile rlimit */
rlim.rlim_cur = 200000;
rlim.rlim_max = 200000;
if (setrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILE, &rlim))
err(1, "setrlimit");

/* make directory for files */
if (mkdir("x", 0700))
err(1, "mkdir");

if (gettimeofday(&t1, NULL))
err(1, "gettimeofday");

/* populate directory with open files */
for (i = 0; i < 100000; i++) {
snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "x/%d", i);
f[i] = open(buf, O_CREAT);
if (f[i] == -1)
err(1, "open");
}

/* close some of the files */
for (i = 0; i < 85000; i++)
close(f[i]);

/* unlink all files, even open ones */
system("rm -rf x");

if (gettimeofday(&t2, NULL))
err(1, "gettimeofday");

diff = (((double)t2.tv_sec * 1000000 + t2.tv_usec) -
((double)t1.tv_sec * 1000000 + t1.tv_usec));

printf("done: %g elapsed\n", diff/1e6);
return 0;
}

Signed-off-by: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 7ea600b5 26-Mar-2013 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Nest rename_lock inside vfsmount_lock

... lest we get livelocks between path_is_under() and d_path() and friends.

The thing is, wrt fairness lglocks are more similar to rwsems than to rwlocks;
it is possible to have thread B spin on attempt to take lock shared while thread
A is already holding it shared, if B is on lower-numbered CPU than A and there's
a thread C spinning on attempt to take the same lock exclusive.

As the result, we need consistent ordering between vfsmount_lock (lglock) and
rename_lock (seq_lock), even though everything that takes both is going to take
vfsmount_lock only shared.

Spotted-by: Brad Spengler <spender@grsecurity.net>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# b67bfe0d 27-Feb-2013 Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>

hlist: drop the node parameter from iterators

I'm not sure why, but the hlist for each entry iterators were conceived

list_for_each_entry(pos, head, member)

The hlist ones were greedy and wanted an extra parameter:

hlist_for_each_entry(tpos, pos, head, member)

Why did they need an extra pos parameter? I'm not quite sure. Not only
they don't really need it, it also prevents the iterator from looking
exactly like the list iterator, which is unfortunate.

Besides the semantic patch, there was some manual work required:

- Fix up the actual hlist iterators in linux/list.h
- Fix up the declaration of other iterators based on the hlist ones.
- A very small amount of places were using the 'node' parameter, this
was modified to use 'obj->member' instead.
- Coccinelle didn't handle the hlist_for_each_entry_safe iterator
properly, so those had to be fixed up manually.

The semantic patch which is mostly the work of Peter Senna Tschudin is here:

@@
iterator name hlist_for_each_entry, hlist_for_each_entry_continue, hlist_for_each_entry_from, hlist_for_each_entry_rcu, hlist_for_each_entry_rcu_bh, hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu_bh, for_each_busy_worker, ax25_uid_for_each, ax25_for_each, inet_bind_bucket_for_each, sctp_for_each_hentry, sk_for_each, sk_for_each_rcu, sk_for_each_from, sk_for_each_safe, sk_for_each_bound, hlist_for_each_entry_safe, hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu, nr_neigh_for_each, nr_neigh_for_each_safe, nr_node_for_each, nr_node_for_each_safe, for_each_gfn_indirect_valid_sp, for_each_gfn_sp, for_each_host;

type T;
expression a,c,d,e;
identifier b;
statement S;
@@

-T b;
<+... when != b
(
hlist_for_each_entry(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_continue(a,
- b,
c) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_from(a,
- b,
c) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_rcu(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_rcu_bh(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu_bh(a,
- b,
c) S
|
for_each_busy_worker(a, c,
- b,
d) S
|
ax25_uid_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
ax25_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
inet_bind_bucket_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
sctp_for_each_hentry(a,
- b,
c) S
|
sk_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
sk_for_each_rcu(a,
- b,
c) S
|
sk_for_each_from
-(a, b)
+(a)
S
+ sk_for_each_from(a) S
|
sk_for_each_safe(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
sk_for_each_bound(a,
- b,
c) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_safe(a,
- b,
c, d, e) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu(a,
- b,
c) S
|
nr_neigh_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
nr_neigh_for_each_safe(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
nr_node_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
nr_node_for_each_safe(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
- for_each_gfn_sp(a, c, d, b) S
+ for_each_gfn_sp(a, c, d) S
|
- for_each_gfn_indirect_valid_sp(a, c, d, b) S
+ for_each_gfn_indirect_valid_sp(a, c, d) S
|
for_each_host(a,
- b,
c) S
|
for_each_host_safe(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
for_each_mesh_entry(a,
- b,
c, d) S
)
...+>

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: drop bogus change from net/ipv4/raw.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: drop bogus hunk from net/ipv6/raw.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: checkpatch fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warnings]
[akpm@linux-foudnation.org: redo intrusive kvm changes]
Tested-by: Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.senna@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# ecf3d1f1 20-Feb-2013 Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>

vfs: kill FS_REVAL_DOT by adding a d_weak_revalidate dentry op

The following set of operations on a NFS client and server will cause

server# mkdir a
client# cd a
server# mv a a.bak
client# sleep 30 # (or whatever the dir attrcache timeout is)
client# stat .
stat: cannot stat `.': Stale NFS file handle

Obviously, we should not be getting an ESTALE error back there since the
inode still exists on the server. The problem is that the lookup code
will call d_revalidate on the dentry that "." refers to, because NFS has
FS_REVAL_DOT set.

nfs_lookup_revalidate will see that the parent directory has changed and
will try to reverify the dentry by redoing a LOOKUP. That of course
fails, so the lookup code returns ESTALE.

The problem here is that d_revalidate is really a bad fit for this case.
What we really want to know at this point is whether the inode is still
good or not, but we don't really care what name it goes by or whether
the dcache is still valid.

Add a new d_op->d_weak_revalidate operation and have complete_walk call
that instead of d_revalidate. The intent there is to allow for a
"weaker" d_revalidate that just checks to see whether the inode is still
good. This is also gives us an opportunity to kill off the FS_REVAL_DOT
special casing.

[AV: changed method name, added note in porting, fixed confusion re
having it possibly called from RCU mode (it won't be)]

Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 4f522a24 11-Feb-2013 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

d_hash_and_lookup(): export, switch open-coded instances

* calling conventions change - ERR_PTR() is returned on ->d_hash() errors;
NULL is just for dcache miss now.
* exported, open-coded instances in ncpfs and cifs converted.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 740da42e 30-Jan-2013 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

__d_materialise_unique() is too generic

Its first argument is always non-root, while the second one is
always root.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# da2d8455 24-Jan-2013 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

constify d_lookup() arguments

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# a713ca2a 24-Jan-2013 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

constify __d_lookup() arguments

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# ad8ca374 14-Jan-2013 Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>

vfs: remove d_path_with_unreachable

The last caller was removed >2 years ago in commit 7b2a69ba7.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# b911a6bd 08-Nov-2012 NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>

vfs: d_obtain_alias() needs to use "/" as default name.

NFS appears to use d_obtain_alias() to create the root dentry rather than
d_make_root. This can cause 'prepend_path()' to complain that the root
has a weird name if an NFS filesystem is lazily unmounted. e.g. if
"/mnt" is an NFS mount then

{ cd /mnt; umount -l /mnt ; ls -l /proc/self/cwd; }

will cause a WARN message like
WARNING: at /home/git/linux/fs/dcache.c:2624 prepend_path+0x1d7/0x1e0()
...
Root dentry has weird name <>

to appear in kernel logs.

So change d_obtain_alias() to use "/" rather than "" as the anonymous
name.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 39e3c955 28-Nov-2012 Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>

vfs: remove DCACHE_NEED_LOOKUP

The code that relied on that flag was ripped out of btrfs quite some
time ago, and never added back. Josef indicated that he was going to
take a different approach to the problem in btrfs, and that we
could just eliminate this flag.

Cc: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 8110e16d 17-Sep-2012 Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>

vfs: dcache: fix deadlock in tree traversal

IBM reported a deadlock in select_parent(). This was found to be caused
by taking rename_lock when already locked when restarting the tree
traversal.

There are two cases when the traversal needs to be restarted:

1) concurrent d_move(); this can only happen when not already locked,
since taking rename_lock protects against concurrent d_move().

2) racing with final d_put() on child just at the moment of ascending
to parent; rename_lock doesn't protect against this rare race, so it
can happen when already locked.

Because of case 2, we need to be able to handle restarting the traversal
when rename_lock is already held. This patch fixes all three callers of
try_to_ascend().

IBM reported that the deadlock is gone with this patch.

[ I rewrote the patch to be smaller and just do the "goto again" if the
lock was already held, but credit goes to Miklos for the real work.
- Linus ]

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# fd517909 18-Sep-2012 J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>

trivial select_parent documentation fix

"Search list for X" sounds like you're trying to find X on a list.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 1fe0c023 19-Sep-2012 Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>

vfs: delete surplus inode NULL check

Each iteration of d_delete we reload inode from dentry->d_inode and
then call S_ISDIR(inode-i_mode), so inode cannot possibly be NULL
shortly afterwards unless something went horribly wrong.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# b161dfa6 17-Sep-2012 Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>

vfs: dcache: use DCACHE_DENTRY_KILLED instead of DCACHE_DISCONNECTED in d_kill()

IBM reported a soft lockup after applying the fix for the rename_lock
deadlock. Commit c83ce989cb5f ("VFS: Fix the nfs sillyrename regression
in kernel 2.6.38") was found to be the culprit.

The nfs sillyrename fix used DCACHE_DISCONNECTED to indicate that the
dentry was killed. This flag can be set on non-killed dentries too,
which results in infinite retries when trying to traverse the dentry
tree.

This patch introduces a separate flag: DCACHE_DENTRY_KILLED, which is
only set in d_kill() and makes try_to_ascend() test only this flag.

IBM reported successful test results with this patch.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# ee3efa91 08-Jun-2012 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

__d_unalias() should refuse to move mountpoints

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# b3d9b7a3 09-Jun-2012 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

vfs: switch i_dentry/d_alias to hlist

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# f7a99c5b 08-Jun-2012 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

get rid of ->mnt_longterm

it's enough to set ->mnt_ns of internal vfsmounts to something
distinct from all struct mnt_namespace out there; then we can
just use the check for ->mnt_ns != NULL in the fast path of
mntput_no_expire()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 32ba9c3f 08-Jun-2012 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Revert "vfs: stop d_splice_alias creating directory aliases"

This reverts commit 7732a557b1342c6e6966efb5f07effcf99f56167 (and commit
3f50fff4dace23d3cfeb195d5cd4ee813cee68b7, which was a follow-up
cleanup).

We're chasing an elusive bug that Dave Jones can apparently reproduce
using his system call fuzzer tool, and that looks like some kind of
locking ordering problem on the directory i_mutex chain. Our i_mutex
locking is rather complex, and depends on the topological ordering of
the directories, which is why we have been very wary of splicing
directory entries around.

Of course, we really don't want to ever see aliased unconnected
directories anyway, so none of this should ever happen, but this revert
aims to basically get us back to a known older state.

Bruce points to some of the previous discussion at

http://marc.info/?i=<20110310105821.GE22723@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>

and in particular a long post from Neil:

http://marc.info/?i=<20110311150749.2fa2be66@notabene.brown>

It should be noted that it's possible that Dave's problems come from
other changes altohgether, including possibly just the fact that Dave
constantly is teachning his fuzzer new tricks. So what appears to be a
new bug could in fact be an old one that just gets newly triggered, but
reverting these patches as "still under heavy discussion" is the right
thing regardless.

Requested-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 3f50fff4 09-May-2012 J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>

vfs: remove unused __d_splice_alias argument

Nobody sets want_disconn any more.

Reported-by: Peng Tao <bergwolf@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 7732a557 09-May-2012 J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>

vfs: stop d_splice_alias creating directory aliases

A directory should never have more than one dentry pointing to it.

But d_splice_alias() will add one if it finds a directory with an
already-existing non-DISCONNECTED dentry.

I can't find an obvious reproducer, but I also can't see what prevents
d_splice_alias() from encountering such a case.

It therefore seems safest to allow d_splice_alias to use any dentry it
finds.

(Prior to the removal of dentry_unhash() from vfs_rmdir(), around v3.0,
this could cause an nfsd deadlock like this:

- Somebody attempts to remove a non-empty directory.
- The dentry_unhash() in vfs_rmdir() unhashes the dentry
pointing to the non-empty directory.
- ->rmdir() then fails with -ENOTEMPTY
- Before the vfs_rmdir() caller reaches dput(), an nfsd process
in rename looks up the directory by filehandle; at the end of
that lookup, this dentry is found by d_alloc_anon(), and a
reference is taken on it, preventing dput() from removing it.
- A regular lookup of the directory calls d_splice_alias(),
finds only an unhashed (not a DISCONNECTED) dentry, and
insteads adds a new one, so the directory now has two
dentries.
- The nfsd process in rename, which was previously looking up
the source directory of the rename, now looks up the target
directory (which is the same), and gets the dentry newly
created by the previous lookup.
- The rename, seeing two different dentries, assumes this is a
cross-directory rename and attempts to take the i_mutex on the
directory twice.

That reproducer no longer exists, but I don't think there was anything
fundamentally incorrect about the vfs_rmdir() behavior there, so I think
the real fault was here in d_splice_alias().)

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 962830df 07-May-2012 Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>

brlocks/lglocks: API cleanups

lglocks and brlocks are currently generated with some complicated macros
in lglock.h. But there's no reason to not just use common utility
functions and put all the data into a common data structure.

In preparation, this patch changes the API to look more like normal
function calls with pointers, not magic macros.

The patch is rather large because I move over all users in one go to keep
it bisectable. This impacts the VFS somewhat in terms of lines changed.
But no actual behaviour change.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: checkpatch fixes]
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 31fe62b9 23-May-2012 Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>

mm: add a low limit to alloc_large_system_hash

UDP stack needs a minimum hash size value for proper operation and also
uses alloc_large_system_hash() for proper NUMA distribution of its hash
tables and automatic sizing depending on available system memory.

On some low memory situations, udp_table_init() must ignore the
alloc_large_system_hash() result and reallocs a bigger memory area.

As we cannot easily free old hash table, we leak it and kmemleak can
issue a warning.

This patch adds a low limit parameter to alloc_large_system_hash() to
solve this problem.

We then specify UDP_HTABLE_SIZE_MIN for UDP/UDPLite hash table
allocation.

Reported-by: Mark Asselstine <mark.asselstine@windriver.com>
Reported-by: Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>


# 2e321806 21-May-2012 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Revert "vfs: remove unnecessary d_unhashed() check from __d_lookup_rcu"

This reverts commit 8c01a529b861ba97c7d78368e6a5d4d42e946f75.

It turns out the d_unhashed() check isn't unnecessary after all: while
it's true that unhashing will increment the sequence numbers, that does
not necessarily invalidate the RCU lookup, because it might have seen
the dentry pointer (before it got unhashed), but by the time it loaded
the sequence number, it could have seen the *new* sequence number (after
it got unhashed).

End result: we might look up an unhashed dentry that is about to be
freed, with the sequence number never indicating anything bad about it.
So checking that the dentry is still hashed (*after* reading the sequence
number) is indeed the proper fix, and was never unnecessary.

Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 6326c71f 21-May-2012 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

vfs: be even more careful about dentry RCU name lookups

Miklos Szeredi points out that we need to also worry about memory
odering when doing the dentry name comparison asynchronously with RCU.

In particular, doing a rename can do a memcpy() of one dentry name over
another, and we want to make sure that any unlocked reader will always
see the proper terminating NUL character, so that it won't ever run off
the allocation.

Rather than having to be extra careful with the name copy or at lookup
time for each character, this resolves the issue by making sure that all
names that are inlined in the dentry always have a NUL character at the
end of the name allocation. If we do that at dentry allocation time, we
know that no future name copy will ever change that final NUL to
anything else, so there are no memory ordering issues.

So even if a concurrent rename ends up overwriting the NUL character
that terminates the original name, we always know that there is one
final NUL at the end, and there is no worry about the lockless RCU
lookup traversing the name too far.

The out-of-line allocations are never copied over, so we can just make
sure that we write the name (with terminating NULL) and do a write
barrier before we expose the name to anything else by setting it in the
dentry.

Reported-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 26fe5750 10-May-2012 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

vfs: make it possible to access the dentry hash/len as one 64-bit entry

This allows comparing hash and len in one operation on 64-bit
architectures. Right now only __d_lookup_rcu() takes advantage of this,
since that is the case we care most about.

The use of anonymous struct/unions hides the alternate 64-bit approach
from most users, the exception being a few cases where we initialize a
'struct qstr' with a static initializer. This makes the problematic
cases use a new QSTR_INIT() helper function for that (but initializing
just the name pointer with a "{ .name = xyzzy }" initializer remains
valid, as does just copying another qstr structure).

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# ee983e89 10-May-2012 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

vfs: move dentry name length comparison from dentry_cmp() into callers

All callers do want to check the dentry length, but some of them can
check the length and the hash together, so doing it in dentry_cmp() can
be counter-productive.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 94753db5 10-May-2012 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

vfs: do the careful dentry name access for all dentry_cmp cases

Commit 12f8ad4b0533 ("vfs: clean up __d_lookup_rcu() and dentry_cmp()
interfaces") did the careful ACCESS_ONCE() of the dentry name only for
the word-at-a-time case, even though the issue is generic.

Admittedly I don't really see gcc ever reloading the value in the middle
of the loop, so the ACCESS_ONCE() protects us from a fairly theoretical
issue. But better safe than sorry.

Also, this consolidates the common parts of the word-at-a-time and
bytewise logic, which includes checking the length. We'll be changing
that later.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 8c01a529 10-May-2012 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

vfs: remove unnecessary d_unhashed() check from __d_lookup_rcu

The check for d_unhashed() is not strictly incorrect, but at the same
time it is also not sensible. The actual dentry removal from the dentry
hash chains is totally asynchronous to the __d_lookup_rcu() logic, and
we depend on __d_drop() updating the sequence number to invalidate any
lookup of an unhashed dentry.

So checking d_unhashed() is not incorrect, but it's not useful either:
the code has to work correctly even without it. So just remove it.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 12f8ad4b 04-May-2012 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

vfs: clean up __d_lookup_rcu() and dentry_cmp() interfaces

The calling conventions for __d_lookup_rcu() and dentry_cmp() are
annoying in different ways, and there is actually one single underlying
reason for both of the annoyances.

The fundamental reason is that we do the returned dentry sequence number
check inside __d_lookup_rcu() instead of doing it in the caller. This
results in two annoyances:

- __d_lookup_rcu() now not only needs to return the dentry and the
sequence number that goes along with the lookup, it also needs to
return the inode pointer that was validated by that sequence number
check.

- and because we did the sequence number check early (to validate the
name pointer and length) we also couldn't just pass the dentry itself
to dentry_cmp(), we had to pass the counted string that contained the
name.

So that sequence number decision caused two separate ugly calling
conventions.

Both of these problems would be solved if we just did the sequence
number check in the caller instead. There's only one caller, and that
caller already has to do the sequence number check for the parent
anyway, so just do that.

That allows us to stop returning the dentry->d_inode in that in-out
argument (pointer-to-pointer-to-inode), so we can make the inode
argument just a regular input inode pointer. The caller can just load
the inode from dentry->d_inode, and then do the sequence number check
after that to make sure that it's synchronized with the name we looked
up.

And it allows us to just pass in the dentry to dentry_cmp(), which is
what all the callers really wanted. Sure, dentry_cmp() has to be a bit
careful about the dentry (which is not stable during RCU lookup), but
that's actually very simple.

And now that dentry_cmp() can clearly see that the first string argument
is a dentry, we can use the direct word access for that, instead of the
careful unaligned zero-padding. The dentry name is always properly
aligned, since it is a single path component that is either embedded
into the dentry itself, or was allocated with kmalloc() (see __d_alloc).

Finally, this also uninlines the nasty slow-case for dentry comparisons:
that one *does* need to do a sequence number check, since it will call
in to the low-level filesystems, and we want to give those a stable
inode pointer and path component length/start arguments. Doing an extra
sequence check for that slow case is not a problem, though.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# e419b4cc 03-May-2012 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

vfs: make word-at-a-time accesses handle a non-existing page

It turns out that there are more cases than CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC that
can have holes in the kernel address space: it seems to happen easily
with Xen, and it looks like the AMD gart64 code will also punch holes
dynamically.

Actually hitting that case is still very unlikely, so just do the
access, and take an exception and fix it up for the very unlikely case
of it being a page-crosser with no next page.

And hey, this abstraction might even help other architectures that have
other issues with unaligned word accesses than the possible missing next
page. IOW, this could do the byte order magic too.

Peter Anvin fixed a thinko in the shifting for the exception case.

Reported-and-tested-by: Jana Saout <jana@saout.de>
Cc: Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# b18dafc8 26-Mar-2012 Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>

vfs: fix d_ancestor() case in d_materialize_unique

In d_materialise_unique() there are 3 subcases to the 'aliased dentry'
case; in two subcases the inode i_lock is properly released but this
does not occur in the -ELOOP subcase.

This seems to have been introduced by commit 1836750115f2 ("fix loop
checks in d_materialise_unique()").

Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.0+
[ Added a comment, and moved the unlock to where we generate the -ELOOP,
which seems to be more natural.

You probably can't actually trigger this without a buggy network file
server - d_materialize_unique() is for finding aliases on non-local
filesystems, and the d_ancestor() case is for a hardlinked directory
loop.

But we should be robust in the case of such buggy servers anyway. ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 1f1e6e52 18-Mar-2012 Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>

fs: fix kernel-doc warnings in dcache.c

Fix kernel-doc warnings in fs/dcache.c:

Warning(fs/dcache.c:1743): No description found for parameter 'seqp'
Warning(fs/dcache.c:1743): Excess function parameter 'seq' description in '__d_lookup_rcu'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 32991ab3 12-Feb-2012 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

vfs: d_alloc_root() gone

all callers converted to d_make_root() by now

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 6d7d1a0d 19-Mar-2012 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

vfs: get rid of batshit-insane pointless dentry hash calculations

For some odd historical reason, the final mixing round for the dentry
cache hash table lookup had an insane "xor with big constant" logic. In
two places.

The big constant that is being xor'ed is GOLDEN_RATIO_PRIME, which is a
fairly random-looking number that is designed to be *multiplied* with so
that the bits get spread out over a whole long-word.

But xor'ing with it is insane. It doesn't really even change the hash -
it really only shifts the hash around in the hash table. To make
matters worse, the insane big constant is different on 32-bit and 64-bit
builds, even though the name hash bits we use are always 32-bit (and the
bits from the pointer we mix in effectively are too).

It's all total voodoo programming, in other words.

Now, some testing and analysis of the hash chains shows that the rest of
the hash function seems to be fairly good. It does pick the right bits
of the parent dentry pointer, for example, and while it's generally a
bad idea to use an xor to mix down the upper bits (because if there is a
repeating pattern, the xor can cause "destructive interference"), it
seems to not have been a disaster.

For example, replacing the hash with the normal "hash_long()" code (that
uses the GOLDEN_RATIO_PRIME constant correctly, btw) actually just makes
the hash worse. The hand-picked hash knew which bits of the pointer had
the highest entropy, and hash_long() ends up mixing bits less optimally
at least in some trivial tests.

So the hash function overall seems fine, it just has that really odd
"shift result around by a constant xor".

So get rid of the silly xor, and replace the down-mixing of the bits
with an add instead of an xor that tends to not have the same kind of
destructive interference issues. Some stats on the resulting hash
chains shows that they look statistically identical before and after,
but the code is simpler and no longer makes you go "WTF?".

Also, the incoming hash really is just "unsigned int", not a long, and
there's no real point to worry about the high 26 bits of the dentry
pointer for the 64-bit case, because they are all going to be identical
anyway.

So also change the hashing to be done in the more natural 'unsigned int'
that is the real size of the actual hashed data anyway.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# bfcfaa77 06-Mar-2012 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

vfs: use 'unsigned long' accesses for dcache name comparison and hashing

Ok, this is hacky, and only works on little-endian machines with goo
unaligned handling. And even then only with CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
disabled, since it can access up to 7 bytes after the pathname.

But it runs like a bat out of hell.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 5483f18e 04-Mar-2012 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

vfs: move dentry_cmp from <linux/dcache.h> to fs/dcache.c

It's only used inside fs/dcache.c, and we're going to play games with it
for the word-at-a-time patches. This time we really don't even want to
export it, because it really is an internal function to fs/dcache.c, and
has been since it was introduced.

Having it in that extremely hot header file (it's included in pretty
much everything, thanks to <linux/fs.h>) is a disaster for testing
different versions, and is utterly pointless.

We really should have some kind of header file diet thing, where we
figure out which parts of header files are really better off private and
only result in more expensive compiles.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 8966be90 02-Mar-2012 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

vfs: trivial __d_lookup_rcu() cleanups

These don't change any semantics, but they clean up the code a bit and
mark some arguments appropriately 'const'.

They came up as I was doing the word-at-a-time dcache name accessor
code, and cleaning this up now allows me to send out a smaller relevant
interesting patch for the experimental stuff.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 630d9c47 16-Nov-2011 Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>

fs: reduce the use of module.h wherever possible

For files only using THIS_MODULE and/or EXPORT_SYMBOL, map
them onto including export.h -- or if the file isn't even
using those, then just delete the include. Fix up any implicit
include dependencies that were being masked by module.h along
the way.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>


# 074b8517 08-Feb-2012 Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>

vfs: fix panic in __d_lookup() with high dentry hashtable counts

When the number of dentry cache hash table entries gets too high
(2147483648 entries), as happens by default on a 16TB system, use of a
signed integer in the dcache_init() initialization loop prevents the
dentry_hashtable from getting initialized, causing a panic in
__d_lookup(). Fix this in dcache_init() and similar areas.

Signed-off-by: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 46f72b34 10-Jan-2012 Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>

vfs: export symbol d_find_any_alias()

Ceph needs this.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>


# eaf5f907 10-Jan-2012 Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>

fix shrink_dcache_parent() livelock

Two (or more) concurrent calls of shrink_dcache_parent() on the same dentry may
cause shrink_dcache_parent() to loop forever.

Here's what appears to happen:

1 - CPU0: select_parent(P) finds C and puts it on dispose list, returns 1

2 - CPU1: select_parent(P) locks P->d_lock

3 - CPU0: shrink_dentry_list() locks C->d_lock
dentry_kill(C) tries to lock P->d_lock but fails, unlocks C->d_lock

4 - CPU1: select_parent(P) locks C->d_lock,
moves C from dispose list being processed on CPU0 to the new
dispose list, returns 1

5 - CPU0: shrink_dentry_list() finds dispose list empty, returns

6 - Goto 2 with CPU0 and CPU1 switched

Basically select_parent() steals the dentry from shrink_dentry_list() and thinks
it found a new one, causing shrink_dentry_list() to think it's making progress
and loop over and over.

One way to trigger this is to make udev calls stat() on the sysfs file while it
is going away.

Having a file in /lib/udev/rules.d/ with only this one rule seems to the trick:

ATTR{vendor}=="0x8086", ATTR{device}=="0x10ca", ENV{PCI_SLOT_NAME}="%k", ENV{MATCHADDR}="$attr{address}", RUN+="/bin/true"

Then execute the following loop:

while true; do
echo -bond0 > /sys/class/net/bonding_masters
echo +bond0 > /sys/class/net/bonding_masters
echo -bond1 > /sys/class/net/bonding_masters
echo +bond1 > /sys/class/net/bonding_masters
done

One fix would be to check all callers and prevent concurrent calls to
shrink_dcache_parent(). But I think a better solution is to stop the
stealing behavior.

This patch adds a new dentry flag that is set when the dentry is added to the
dispose list. The flag is cleared in dentry_lru_del() in case the dentry gets a
new reference just before being pruned.

If the dentry has this flag, select_parent() will skip it and let
shrink_dentry_list() retry pruning it. With select_parent() skipping those
dentries there will not be the appearance of progress (new dentries found) when
there is none, hence shrink_dcache_parent() will not loop forever.

Set the flag is also set in prune_dcache_sb() for consistency as suggested by
Linus.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# adc0e91a 08-Jan-2012 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

vfs: new helper - d_make_root()

d_alloc_root() with iput() in case of allocation failure...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# b48f03b3 23-Aug-2011 Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>

dcache: use a dispose list in select_parent

select_parent currently abuses the dentry cache LRU to provide
cleanup features for child dentries that need to be freed. It moves
them to the tail of the LRU, then tells shrink_dcache_parent() to
calls __shrink_dcache_sb to unconditionally move them to a dispose
list (as DCACHE_REFERENCED is ignored). __shrink_dcache_sb() has to
relock the dentries to move them off the LRU onto the dispose list,
but otherwise does not touch the dentries that select_parent() moved
to the tail of the LRU. It then passses the dispose list to
shrink_dentry_list() which tries to free the dentries.

IOWs, the use of __shrink_dcache_sb() is superfluous - we can build
exactly the same list of dentries for disposal directly in
select_parent() and call shrink_dentry_list() instead of calling
__shrink_dcache_sb() to do that. This means that we avoid long holds
on the lru lock walking the LRU moving dentries to the dispose list
We also avoid the need to relock each dentry just to move it off the
LRU, reducing the numebr of times we lock each dentry to dispose of
them in shrink_dcache_parent() from 3 to 2 times.

Further, we remove one of the two callers of __shrink_dcache_sb().
This also means that __shrink_dcache_sb can be moved into back into
prune_dcache_sb() and we no longer have to handle referenced
dentries conditionally, simplifying the code.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 143c8c91 24-Nov-2011 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

vfs: mnt_ns moved to struct mount

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# a73324da 24-Nov-2011 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

vfs: move mnt_mountpoint to struct mount

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 0714a533 24-Nov-2011 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

vfs: now it can be done - make mnt_parent point to struct mount

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 3376f34f 24-Nov-2011 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

vfs: mnt_parent moved to struct mount

the second victim...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 676da58d 24-Nov-2011 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

vfs: spread struct mount - mnt_has_parent

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# afac7cba 23-Nov-2011 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

vfs: more mnt_parent cleanups

a) mount --move is checking that ->mnt_parent is non-NULL before
looking if that parent happens to be shared; ->mnt_parent is never
NULL and it's not even an misspelled !mnt_has_parent()

b) pivot_root open-codes is_path_reachable(), poorly.

c) so does path_is_under(), while we are at it.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# b2dba1af 23-Nov-2011 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

vfs: new internal helper: mnt_has_parent(mnt)

vfsmounts have ->mnt_parent pointing either to a different vfsmount
or to itself; it's never NULL and termination condition in loops
traversing the tree towards root is mnt == mnt->mnt_parent. At least
one place (see the next patch) is confused about what's going on;
let's add an explicit helper checking it right way and use it in
all places where we need it. Not that there had been too many,
but...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 02125a82 05-Dec-2011 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

fix apparmor dereferencing potentially freed dentry, sanitize __d_path() API

__d_path() API is asking for trouble and in case of apparmor d_namespace_path()
getting just that. The root cause is that when __d_path() misses the root
it had been told to look for, it stores the location of the most remote ancestor
in *root. Without grabbing references. Sure, at the moment of call it had
been pinned down by what we have in *path. And if we raced with umount -l, we
could have very well stopped at vfsmount/dentry that got freed as soon as
prepend_path() dropped vfsmount_lock.

It is safe to compare these pointers with pre-existing (and known to be still
alive) vfsmount and dentry, as long as all we are asking is "is it the same
address?". Dereferencing is not safe and apparmor ended up stepping into
that. d_namespace_path() really wants to examine the place where we stopped,
even if it's not connected to our namespace. As the result, it looked
at ->d_sb->s_magic of a dentry that might've been already freed by that point.
All other callers had been careful enough to avoid that, but it's really
a bad interface - it invites that kind of trouble.

The fix is fairly straightforward, even though it's bigger than I'd like:
* prepend_path() root argument becomes const.
* __d_path() is never called with NULL/NULL root. It was a kludge
to start with. Instead, we have an explicit function - d_absolute_root().
Same as __d_path(), except that it doesn't get root passed and stops where
it stops. apparmor and tomoyo are using it.
* __d_path() returns NULL on path outside of root. The main
caller is show_mountinfo() and that's precisely what we pass root for - to
skip those outside chroot jail. Those who don't want that can (and do)
use d_path().
* __d_path() root argument becomes const. Everyone agrees, I hope.
* apparmor does *NOT* try to use __d_path() or any of its variants
when it sees that path->mnt is an internal vfsmount. In that case it's
definitely not mounted anywhere and dentry_path() is exactly what we want
there. Handling of sysctl()-triggered weirdness is moved to that place.
* if apparmor is asked to do pathname relative to chroot jail
and __d_path() tells it we it's not in that jail, the sucker just calls
d_absolute_path() instead. That's the other remaining caller of __d_path(),
BTW.
* seq_path_root() does _NOT_ return -ENAMETOOLONG (it's stupid anyway -
the normal seq_file logics will take care of growing the buffer and redoing
the call of ->show() just fine). However, if it gets path not reachable
from root, it returns SEQ_SKIP. The only caller adjusted (i.e. stopped
ignoring the return value as it used to do).

Reviewed-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>
ACKed-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org


# dd179946 16-Aug-2011 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

VFS: Log the fact that we've given ELOOP rather than creating a loop

To prevent an NFS server from being used to create a directory loop in an NFS
superblock on the client, the following patch was committed:

commit 1836750115f20b774e55c032a3893e8c5bdf41ed
Author: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Date: Tue Jul 12 21:42:24 2011 -0400
Subject: fix loop checks in d_materialise_unique()

This causes ELOOP to be reported to anyone trying to access the dentry that
would otherwise cause the kernel to complete the loop.

However, no indication is given to the caller as to why an operation that ought
to work doesn't. The fault is with the kernel, which doesn't want to try and
solve the problem as it gets horrendously messy if there's another mountpoint
somewhere in the trees being spliced that can't be moved[*].

[*] The real problem is that we don't handle the excision of a subtree that
gets moved _out_ of what we can see. This can happen on the server where a
directory is merely moved between two other dirs on the same filesystem, but
where destination dir is not accessible by the client.

So, given the choice to return ELOOP rather than trying to reconfigure the
dentry tree, we should give the caller some indication of why they aren't being
allowed to make what should be a legitimate request and log a message.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Sachin Prabhu <sprabhu@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 50e69630 07-Nov-2011 Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>

vfs: d_invalidate() should leave mountpoints alone

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# f0023bc6 28-Oct-2011 Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>

vfs: add d_prune dentry operation

This adds a d_prune dentry operation that is called by the VFS prior to
pruning (i.e. unhashing and killing) a hashed dentry from the dcache.
Wrap dentry_lru_del() and use the new _prune() helper in the cases where we
are about to unhash and kill the dentry.

This will be used by Ceph to maintain a flag indicating whether the
complete contents of a directory are contained in the dcache, allowing it
to satisfy lookups and readdir without addition server communication.

Renumber a few DCACHE_* #defines to group DCACHE_OP_PRUNE with the other
DCACHE_OP_ bits.

Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>


# 830c0f0e 06-Aug-2011 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

vfs: renumber DCACHE_xyz flags, remove some stale ones

Gcc tends to generate better code with small integers, including the
DCACHE_xyz flag tests - so move the common ones to be first in the list.
Also just remove the unused DCACHE_INOTIFY_PARENT_WATCHED and
DCACHE_AUTOFS_PENDING values, their users no longer exists in the source
tree.

And add a "unlikely()" to the DCACHE_OP_COMPARE test, since we want the
common case to be a nice straight-line fall-through.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 2af14162 03-Aug-2011 Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>

fs/dcache.c: fix new kernel-doc warning

Fix new kernel-doc warning in fs/dcache.c:

Warning(fs/dcache.c:797): No description found for parameter 'sb'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 43c1c9cd 07-Jun-2011 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

VFS: Reorganise shrink_dcache_for_umount_subtree() after demise of dcache_lock

Reorganise shrink_dcache_for_umount_subtree() in light of the demise of
dcache_lock. Without that dcache_lock, there is no need for the batching of
removal of dentries from the system under it (we wanted to make intensive use
of the locked data whilst we held it, but didn't want to hold it for long at a
time).

This works, provided the preceding patch is correct in its removal of locking
on dentry->d_lock on the basis that no one should be locking these dentries any
more as the whole superblock is defunct.

With this patch, the calls to dentry_lru_del() and __d_shrink() are placed at
the point where each dentry is detached handled.

It is possible that, as an alternative, the batching should still be done -
but only for dentry_lru_del() of all a dentry's children in one go. In such a
case, the batching would be done under dcache_lru_lock.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# c6627c60 07-Jun-2011 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

VFS: Remove dentry->d_lock locking from shrink_dcache_for_umount_subtree()

Locks of the dcache_lock were replaced by locks of dentry->d_lock in commits
such as:

2304450783dfde7b0b94ae234edd0dbffa865073
2fd6b7f50797f2e993eea59e0a0b8c6399c811dc

as part of the RCU-based pathwalk changes, despite the fact that the caller
(shrink_dcache_for_umount()) notes in the banner comment the reasons that
d_lock is not necessary in these functions:

/*
* destroy the dentries attached to a superblock on unmounting
* - we don't need to use dentry->d_lock because:
* - the superblock is detached from all mountings and open files, so the
* dentry trees will not be rearranged by the VFS
* - s_umount is write-locked, so the memory pressure shrinker will ignore
* any dentries belonging to this superblock that it comes across
* - the filesystem itself is no longer permitted to rearrange the dentries
* in this superblock
*/

So remove these locks. If the locks are actually necessary, then this banner
comment should be altered instead.

The hash table chains are protected by 1-bit locks in the hash table heads, so
those shouldn't be a problem.

Note that to make this work, __d_drop() has to be split so that the RCUwalk
barrier can be avoided. This causes problems otherwise as it has an assertion
that dentry->d_lock is locked - but there is no need for that as no one else
can be trying to access this dentry, except to step over it (and that should
be handled by d_free(), I think).

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 35f40ef0 07-Jun-2011 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

VFS: Remove detached-dentry counter from shrink_dcache_for_umount_subtree()

Remove the detached-dentry counter from shrink_dcache_for_umount_subtree() as
the value it computes is no longer used as of commit
312d3ca856d369bb04d0443846b85b4cdde6fa8a which made the nr_dentry counters
summed per-CPU rather than global atomic.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# c46c8877 26-Jul-2011 Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>

vfs: document locking requirements for d_move, __d_move and d_materialise_unique

Adding a comment to d_materialise_unique per Al's request...

d_move and __d_move have some pretty substantial locking requirements,
but they are not clearly documented. Add some comments spelling them
out. Also, document the requirement for the i_mutex of the parent in
d_materialise_unique.

Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# b91da88f 21-Jul-2011 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

vfs: drop conditional inode prefetch in __do_lookup_rcu

It seems to hurt performance in real life. Yes, the inode will be used
later, but the conditional doesn't seem to predict all that well
(negative dentries are not uncommon) and it looks like the cost of
prefetching is simply higher than depending on the cache doing the right
thing.

As usual.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 86c98e8c 18-Jul-2011 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Remove dead code in dget_parent()

->d_parent is never NULL...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 4513d899 17-Jul-2011 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

switch d_add_ci() to d_splice_alias() in "found negative" case as well

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# b0d40c92 07-Jul-2011 Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>

superblock: introduce per-sb cache shrinker infrastructure

With context based shrinkers, we can implement a per-superblock
shrinker that shrinks the caches attached to the superblock. We
currently have global shrinkers for the inode and dentry caches that
split up into per-superblock operations via a coarse proportioning
method that does not batch very well. The global shrinkers also
have a dependency - dentries pin inodes - so we have to be very
careful about how we register the global shrinkers so that the
implicit call order is always correct.

With a per-sb shrinker callout, we can encode this dependency
directly into the per-sb shrinker, hence avoiding the need for
strictly ordering shrinker registrations. We also have no need for
any proportioning code for the shrinker subsystem already provides
this functionality across all shrinkers. Allowing the shrinker to
operate on a single superblock at a time means that we do less
superblock list traversals and locking and reclaim should batch more
effectively. This should result in less CPU overhead for reclaim and
potentially faster reclaim of items from each filesystem.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# a9049376 08-Jul-2011 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

make d_splice_alias(ERR_PTR(err), dentry) = ERR_PTR(err)

... and simplify the living hell out of callers

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# a4464dbc 07-Jul-2011 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Make ->d_sb assign-once and always non-NULL

New helper (non-exported, fs/internal.h-only): __d_alloc(sb, name).
Allocates dentry, sets its ->d_sb to given superblock and sets
->d_op accordingly. Old d_alloc(NULL, name) callers are converted
to that (all of them know what superblock they want). d_alloc()
itself is left only for parent != NULl case; uses __d_alloc(),
inserts result into the list of parent's children.

Note that now ->d_sb is assign-once and never NULL *and*
->d_parent is never NULL either.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 44396f4b 31-May-2011 Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>

fs: add a DCACHE_NEED_LOOKUP flag for d_flags

Btrfs (and I'd venture most other fs's) stores its indexes in nice disk order
for readdir, but unfortunately in the case of anything that stats the files in
order that readdir spits back (like oh say ls) that means we still have to do
the normal lookup of the file, which means looking up our other index and then
looking up the inode. What I want is a way to create dummy dentries when we
find them in readdir so that when ls or anything else subsequently does a
stat(), we already have the location information in the dentry and can go
straight to the inode itself. The lookup stuff just assumes that if it finds a
dentry it is done, it doesn't perform a lookup. So add a DCACHE_NEED_LOOKUP
flag so that the lookup code knows it still needs to run i_op->lookup() on the
parent to get the inode for the dentry. I have tested this with btrfs and I
went from something that looks like this

http://people.redhat.com/jwhiter/ls-noreada.png

To this

http://people.redhat.com/jwhiter/ls-good.png

Thats a savings of 1300 seconds, or 22 minutes. That is a significant savings.
Thanks,

Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 18367501 12-Jul-2011 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

fix loop checks in d_materialise_unique()

Both __d_unalias() and __d_materialise_dentry() need loop prevention.
Grab rename_lock in caller, check for loops there...

As a side benefit, we have dentry_lock_for_move() called only under
rename_lock, which seriously reduces deadlock potential of the
execrable "locking order" used for ->d_lock.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 1495f230 24-May-2011 Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>

vmscan: change shrinker API by passing shrink_control struct

Change each shrinker's API by consolidating the existing parameters into
shrink_control struct. This will simplify any further features added w/o
touching each file of shrinker.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warning]
[kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: fix up new shrinker API]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix xfs warning]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: update gfs2]
Signed-off-by: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 268bb0ce 20-May-2011 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

sanitize <linux/prefetch.h> usage

Commit e66eed651fd1 ("list: remove prefetching from regular list
iterators") removed the include of prefetch.h from list.h, which
uncovered several cases that had apparently relied on that rather
obscure header file dependency.

So this fixes things up a bit, using

grep -L linux/prefetch.h $(git grep -l '[^a-z_]prefetchw*(' -- '*.[ch]')
grep -L 'prefetchw*(' $(git grep -l 'linux/prefetch.h' -- '*.[ch]')

to guide us in finding files that either need <linux/prefetch.h>
inclusion, or have it despite not needing it.

There are more of them around (mostly network drivers), but this gets
many core ones.

Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 1879fd6a 25-Apr-2011 Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>

add hlist_bl_lock/unlock helpers

Now that the whole dcache_hash_bucket crap is gone, go all the way and
also remove the weird locking layering violations for locking the hash
buckets. Add hlist_bl_lock/unlock helpers to move the locking into the
list abstraction instead of requiring each caller to open code it.
After all allowing for the bit locks is the whole point of these helpers
over the plain hlist variant.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# dea3667b 24-Apr-2011 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

vfs: get rid of insane dentry hashing rules

The dentry hashing rules have been really quite complicated for a long
while, in odd ways. That made functions like __d_drop() very fragile
and non-obvious.

In particular, whether a dentry was hashed or not was indicated with an
explicit DCACHE_UNHASHED bit. That's despite the fact that the hash
abstraction that the dentries use actually have a 'is this entry hashed
or not' model (which is a simple test of the 'pprev' pointer).

The reason that was done is because we used the normal 'is this entry
unhashed' model to mark whether the dentry had _ever_ been hashed in the
dentry hash tables, and that logic goes back many years (commit
b3423415fbc2: "dcache: avoid RCU for never-hashed dentries").

That, in turn, meant that __d_drop had totally different unhashing logic
for the dentry hash table case and for the anonymous dcache case,
because in order to use the "is this dentry hashed" logic as a flag for
whether it had ever been on the RCU hash table, we had to unhash such a
dentry differently so that we'd never think that it wasn't 'unhashed'
and wouldn't be free'd correctly.

That's just insane. It made the logic really hard to follow, when there
were two different kinds of "unhashed" states, and one of them (the one
that used "list_bl_unhashed()") really had nothing at all to do with
being unhashed per se, but with a very subtle lifetime rule instead.

So turn all of it around, and make it logical.

Instead of having a DENTRY_UNHASHED bit in d_flags to indicate whether
the dentry is on the hash chains or not, use the hash chain unhashed
logic for that. Suddenly "d_unhashed()" just uses "list_bl_unhashed()",
and everything makes sense.

And for the lifetime rule, just use an explicit DENTRY_RCUACCEES bit.
If we ever insert the dentry into the dentry hash table so that it is
visible to RCU lookup, we mark it DENTRY_RCUACCESS to show that it now
needs the RCU lifetime rules. Now suddently that test at dentry free
time makes sense too.

And because unhashing now is sane and doesn't depend on where the dentry
got unhashed from (because the dentry hash chain details doesn't have
some subtle side effects), we can re-unify the __d_drop() logic and use
common code for the unhashing.

Also fix one more open-coded hash chain bit_spin_lock() that I missed in
the previous chain locking cleanup commit.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# b07ad996 23-Apr-2011 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

vfs: get rid of 'struct dcache_hash_bucket' abstraction

It's a useless abstraction for 'hlist_bl_head', and it doesn't actually
help anything - quite the reverse. All the users end up having to know
about the hlist_bl_head details anyway, using 'struct hlist_bl_node *'
etc. So it just makes the code look confusing.

And the cost of it is extra '&b->head' syntactic noise, but more
importantly it spuriously makes the hash table dentry list look
different from the per-superblock DCACHE_DISCONNECTED dentry list.

As a result, the code ended up using ad-hoc locking for one case and
special helper functions for what is really another totally identical
case in the very same function.

Make it all look and work the same.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 7ebfa57f 15-Apr-2011 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

vfs: fix incorrect dentry_update_name_case() BUG_ON() test

The case we should be verifying when updating the dentry name is that
the _parent_ inode (the directory) semaphore is held, not the semaphore
for the dentry itself. It's the directory locking that rename and
readdir() etc all care about.

The comment just above even says so - but then the BUG_ON() still
checked the dentry inode itself.

Very few people noticed, because this helper function really isn't used
for very much, so you had to be using ncpfs to ever hit it.

I think I should just remove the BUG_ON (the function really has just
one user), but let's run with it fixed for a while before getting rid of
it entirely.

Reported-and-tested-by: Bongani Hlope <bonganih@bankservafrica.com>
Reported-and-tested-by: Bernd Feige <bernd.feige@uniklinik-freiburg.de>
Cc: Petr Vandrovec <petr@vandrovec.name>,
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 24ff6663 18-Nov-2010 Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>

fs: call security_d_instantiate in d_obtain_alias V2

While trying to track down some NFS problems with BTRFS, I kept noticing I was
getting -EACCESS for no apparent reason. Eric Paris and printk() helped me
figure out that it was SELinux that was giving me grief, with the following
denial

type=AVC msg=audit(1290013638.413:95): avc: denied { 0x800000 } for pid=1772
comm="nfsd" name="" dev=sda1 ino=256 scontext=system_u:system_r:kernel_t:s0
tcontext=system_u:object_r:unlabeled_t:s0 tclass=file

Turns out this is because in d_obtain_alias if we can't find an alias we create
one and do all the normal instantiation stuff, but we don't do the
security_d_instantiate.

Usually we are protected from getting a hashed dentry that hasn't yet run
security_d_instantiate() by the parent's i_mutex, but obviously this isn't an
option there, so in order to deal with the case that a second thread comes in
and finds our new dentry before we get to run security_d_instantiate(), we go
ahead and call it if we find a dentry already. Eric assures me that this is ok
as the code checks to see if the dentry has been initialized already so calling
security_d_instantiate() against the same dentry multiple times is ok. With
this patch I'm no longer getting errant -EACCESS values.

Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# c83ce989 15-Mar-2011 Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

VFS: Fix the nfs sillyrename regression in kernel 2.6.38

The new vfs locking scheme introduced in 2.6.38 breaks NFS sillyrename
because the latter relies on being able to determine the parent
directory of the dentry in the ->iput() callback in order to send the
appropriate unlink rpc call.

Looking at the code that cares about races with dput(), there doesn't
seem to be anything that specifically uses d_parent as a test for
whether or not there is a race:
- __d_lookup_rcu(), __d_lookup() all test for d_hashed() after d_parent
- shrink_dcache_for_umount() is safe since nothing else can rearrange
the dentries in that super block.
- have_submount(), select_parent() and d_genocide() can test for a
deletion if we set the DCACHE_DISCONNECTED flag when the dentry
is removed from the parent's d_subdirs list.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org (2.6.38, needs commit c826cb7dfce8 "dcache.c:
create helper function for duplicated functionality" )
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# c826cb7d 15-Mar-2011 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

dcache.c: create helper function for duplicated functionality

This creates a helper function for he "try to ascend into the parent
directory" case, which was written out in triplicate before. With all
the locking and subtle sequence number stuff, we really don't want to
duplicate that kind of code.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# d891eedb 18-Jan-2011 J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>

fs/dcache: allow d_obtain_alias() to return unhashed dentries

Without this patch, inodes are not promptly freed on last close of an
unlinked file by an nfs client:

client$ mount -tnfs4 server:/export/ /mnt/
client$ tail -f /mnt/FOO
...
server$ df -i /export
server$ rm /export/FOO
(^C the tail -f)
server$ df -i /export
server$ echo 2 >/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
server$ df -i /export

the df's will show that the inode is not freed on the filesystem until
the last step, when it could have been freed after killing the client's
tail -f. On-disk data won't be deallocated either, leading to possible
spurious ENOSPC.

This occurs because when the client does the close, it arrives in a
compound with a putfh and a close, processed like:

- putfh: look up the filehandle.  The only alias found for the
inode will be DCACHE_UNHASHED alias referenced by the filp
this, so it creates a new DCACHE_DISCONECTED dentry and
returns that instead.
- close: closes the existing filp, which is destroyed
immediately by dput() since it's DCACHE_UNHASHED.
- end of the compound: release the reference
to the current filehandle, and dput() the new
DCACHE_DISCONECTED dentry, which gets put on the
unused list instead of being destroyed immediately.

Nick Piggin suggested fixing this by allowing d_obtain_alias to return
the unhashed dentry that is referenced by the filp, instead of making it
create a new dentry.

Leave __d_find_alias() alone to avoid changing behavior of other
callers.

Also nfsd doesn't need all the checks of __d_find_alias(); any dentry,
hashed or unhashed, disconnected or not, should work.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# b0a4bb83 21-Jan-2011 Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>

fs: update comments to point correct document

dcache-locking.txt is not exist any more, and the path was not
correct anyway. Fix it.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>


# ff5fdb61 22-Jan-2011 Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>

fs: fix new dcache.c kernel-doc warnings

Fix new fs/dcache.c kernel-doc warnings:

Warning(fs/dcache.c:184): No description found for parameter 'dentry'
Warning(fs/dcache.c:296): No description found for parameter 'parent'
Warning(fs/dcache.c:1985): No description found for parameter 'dparent'
Warning(fs/dcache.c:1985): Excess function parameter 'parent' description in 'd_validate'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 9875cf80 14-Jan-2011 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

Add a dentry op to handle automounting rather than abusing follow_link()

Add a dentry op (d_automount) to handle automounting directories rather than
abusing the follow_link() inode operation. The operation is keyed off a new
dentry flag (DCACHE_NEED_AUTOMOUNT).

This also makes it easier to add an AT_ flag to suppress terminal segment
automount during pathwalk and removes the need for the kludge code in the
pathwalk algorithm to handle directories with follow_link() semantics.

The ->d_automount() dentry operation:

struct vfsmount *(*d_automount)(struct path *mountpoint);

takes a pointer to the directory to be mounted upon, which is expected to
provide sufficient data to determine what should be mounted. If successful, it
should return the vfsmount struct it creates (which it should also have added
to the namespace using do_add_mount() or similar). If there's a collision with
another automount attempt, NULL should be returned. If the directory specified
by the parameter should be used directly rather than being mounted upon,
-EISDIR should be returned. In any other case, an error code should be
returned.

The ->d_automount() operation is called with no locks held and may sleep. At
this point the pathwalk algorithm will be in ref-walk mode.

Within fs/namei.c itself, a new pathwalk subroutine (follow_automount()) is
added to handle mountpoints. It will return -EREMOTE if the automount flag was
set, but no d_automount() op was supplied, -ELOOP if we've encountered too many
symlinks or mountpoints, -EISDIR if the walk point should be used without
mounting and 0 if successful. The path will be updated to point to the mounted
filesystem if a successful automount took place.

__follow_mount() is replaced by follow_managed() which is more generic
(especially with the patch that adds ->d_manage()). This handles transits from
directories during pathwalk, including automounting and skipping over
mountpoints (and holding processes with the next patch).

__follow_mount_rcu() will jump out of RCU-walk mode if it encounters an
automount point with nothing mounted on it.

follow_dotdot*() does not handle automounts as you don't want to trigger them
whilst following "..".

I've also extracted the mount/don't-mount logic from autofs4 and included it
here. It makes the mount go ahead anyway if someone calls open() or creat(),
tries to traverse the directory, tries to chdir/chroot/etc. into the directory,
or sticks a '/' on the end of the pathname. If they do a stat(), however,
they'll only trigger the automount if they didn't also say O_NOFOLLOW.

I've also added an inode flag (S_AUTOMOUNT) so that filesystems can mark their
inodes as automount points. This flag is automatically propagated to the
dentry as DCACHE_NEED_AUTOMOUNT by __d_instantiate(). This saves NFS and could
save AFS a private flag bit apiece, but is not strictly necessary. It would be
preferable to do the propagation in d_set_d_op(), but that doesn't normally
have access to the inode.

[AV: fixed breakage in case if __follow_mount_rcu() fails and nameidata_drop_rcu()
succeeds in RCU case of do_lookup(); we need to fall through to non-RCU case after
that, rather than just returning with ungrabbed *path]

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Was-Acked-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 6f7f7caa 14-Jan-2011 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Turn d_set_d_op() BUG_ON() into WARN_ON_ONCE()

It's indicative of a real problem, and it actually triggers with
autofs4, but the BUG_ON() is excessive. The autofs4 case is being fixed
(to only set d_op in the ->lookup method) but not merged yet. In the
meantime this gets the code limping along.

Reported-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Cc: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 208898c1 18-Nov-2010 Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>

fs: fix kernel-doc for dcache::prepend_path

Fix function kernel-doc warning for prepend_path():

Warning(fs/dcache.c:1924): missing initial short description on line:

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 1c977540 18-Nov-2010 Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>

fs: fix kernel-doc for dcache::d_validate

Fix function parameter kernel-doc for d_validate():

Warning(fs/dcache.c:1495): No description found for parameter 'parent'
Warning(fs/dcache.c:1495): Excess function parameter 'dparent' description in 'd_validate'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# c8aebb0c 18-Dec-2010 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

per-superblock default ->d_op

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 9d55c369 06-Jan-2011 Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>

fs: implement faster dentry memcmp

The standard memcmp function on a Westmere system shows up hot in
profiles in the `git diff` workload (both parallel and single threaded),
and it is likely due to the costs associated with trapping into
microcode, and little opportunity to improve memory access (dentry
name is not likely to take up more than a cacheline).

So replace it with an open-coded byte comparison. This increases code
size by 8 bytes in the critical __d_lookup_rcu function, but the
speedup is huge, averaging 10 runs of each:

git diff st user sys elapsed CPU
before 1.15 2.57 3.82 97.1
after 1.14 2.35 3.61 96.8

git diff mt user sys elapsed CPU
before 1.27 3.85 1.46 349
after 1.26 3.54 1.43 333

Elapsed time for single threaded git diff at 95.0% confidence:
-0.21 +/- 0.01
-5.45% +/- 0.24%

It's -0.66% +/- 0.06% elapsed time on my Opteron, so rep cmp costs on the
fam10h seem to be relatively smaller, but there is still a win.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>


# e1bb5782 06-Jan-2011 Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>

fs: prefetch inode data in dcache lookup

This makes single threaded git diff -1.25% +/- 0.05% elapsed time on my
2s12c24t Westmere system, and -0.86% +/- 0.05% on my 2s8c Barcelona, by
prefetching the important first cacheline of the inode in while we do the
actual name compare and other operations on the dentry.

There was no measurable slowdown in the single file stat case, or the creat
case (where negative dentries would be common).

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>


# 4b936885 06-Jan-2011 Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>

fs: improve scalability of pseudo filesystems

Regardless of how much we possibly try to scale dcache, there is likely
always going to be some fundamental contention when adding or removing children
under the same parent. Pseudo filesystems do not seem need to have connected
dentries because by definition they are disconnected.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>


# 873feea0 06-Jan-2011 Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>

fs: dcache per-inode inode alias locking

dcache_inode_lock can be replaced with per-inode locking. Use existing
inode->i_lock for this. This is slightly non-trivial because we sometimes
need to find the inode from the dentry, which requires d_inode to be
stabilised (either with refcount or d_lock).

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>


# ceb5bdc2 06-Jan-2011 Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>

fs: dcache per-bucket dcache hash locking

We can turn the dcache hash locking from a global dcache_hash_lock into
per-bucket locking.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>


# 44a7d7a8 06-Jan-2011 Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>

fs: cache optimise dentry and inode for rcu-walk

Put dentry and inode fields into top of data structure. This allows RCU path
traversal to perform an RCU dentry lookup in a path walk by touching only the
first 56 bytes of the dentry.

We also fit in 8 bytes of inline name in the first 64 bytes, so for short
names, only 64 bytes needs to be touched to perform the lookup. We should
get rid of the hash->prev pointer from the first 64 bytes, and fit 16 bytes
of name in there, which will take care of 81% rather than 32% of the kernel
tree.

inode is also rearranged so that RCU lookup will only touch a single cacheline
in the inode, plus one in the i_ops structure.

This is important for directory component lookups in RCU path walking. In the
kernel source, directory names average is around 6 chars, so this works.

When we reach the last element of the lookup, we need to lock it and take its
refcount which requires another cacheline access.

Align dentry and inode operations structs, so members will be at predictable
offsets and we can group common operations into head of structure.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>


# fb045adb 06-Jan-2011 Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>

fs: dcache reduce branches in lookup path

Reduce some branches and memory accesses in dcache lookup by adding dentry
flags to indicate common d_ops are set, rather than having to check them.
This saves a pointer memory access (dentry->d_op) in common path lookup
situations, and saves another pointer load and branch in cases where we
have d_op but not the particular operation.

Patched with:

git grep -E '[.>]([[:space:]])*d_op([[:space:]])*=' | xargs sed -e 's/\([^\t ]*\)->d_op = \(.*\);/d_set_d_op(\1, \2);/' -e 's/\([^\t ]*\)\.d_op = \(.*\);/d_set_d_op(\&\1, \2);/' -i

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>


# 5f57cbcc 06-Jan-2011 Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>

fs: dcache remove d_mounted

Rather than keep a d_mounted count in the dentry, set a dentry flag instead.
The flag can be cleared by checking the hash table to see if there are any
mounts left, which is not time critical because it is performed at detach time.

The mounted state of a dentry is only used to speculatively take a look in the
mount hash table if it is set -- before following the mount, vfsmount lock is
taken and mount re-checked without races.

This saves 4 bytes on 32-bit, nothing on 64-bit but it does provide a hole I
might use later (and some configs have larger than 32-bit spinlocks which might
make use of the hole).

Autofs4 conversion and changelog by Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>:
In autofs4, when expring direct (or offset) mounts we need to ensure that we
block user path walks into the autofs mount, which is covered by another mount.
To do this we clear the mounted status so that follows stop before walking into
the mount and are essentially blocked until the expire is completed. The
automount daemon still finds the correct dentry for the umount due to the
follow mount logic in fs/autofs4/root.c:autofs4_follow_link(), which is set as
an inode operation for direct and offset mounts only and is called following
the lookup that stopped at the covered mount.

At the end of the expire the covering mount probably has gone away so the
mounted status need not be restored. But we need to check this and only restore
the mounted status if the expire failed.

XXX: autofs may not work right if we have other mounts go over the top of it?

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>


# 31e6b01f 06-Jan-2011 Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>

fs: rcu-walk for path lookup

Perform common cases of path lookups without any stores or locking in the
ancestor dentry elements. This is called rcu-walk, as opposed to the current
algorithm which is a refcount based walk, or ref-walk.

This results in far fewer atomic operations on every path element,
significantly improving path lookup performance. It also avoids cacheline
bouncing on common dentries, significantly improving scalability.

The overall design is like this:
* LOOKUP_RCU is set in nd->flags, which distinguishes rcu-walk from ref-walk.
* Take the RCU lock for the entire path walk, starting with the acquiring
of the starting path (eg. root/cwd/fd-path). So now dentry refcounts are
not required for dentry persistence.
* synchronize_rcu is called when unregistering a filesystem, so we can
access d_ops and i_ops during rcu-walk.
* Similarly take the vfsmount lock for the entire path walk. So now mnt
refcounts are not required for persistence. Also we are free to perform mount
lookups, and to assume dentry mount points and mount roots are stable up and
down the path.
* Have a per-dentry seqlock to protect the dentry name, parent, and inode,
so we can load this tuple atomically, and also check whether any of its
members have changed.
* Dentry lookups (based on parent, candidate string tuple) recheck the parent
sequence after the child is found in case anything changed in the parent
during the path walk.
* inode is also RCU protected so we can load d_inode and use the inode for
limited things.
* i_mode, i_uid, i_gid can be tested for exec permissions during path walk.
* i_op can be loaded.

When we reach the destination dentry, we lock it, recheck lookup sequence,
and increment its refcount and mountpoint refcount. RCU and vfsmount locks
are dropped. This is termed "dropping rcu-walk". If the dentry refcount does
not match, we can not drop rcu-walk gracefully at the current point in the
lokup, so instead return -ECHILD (for want of a better errno). This signals the
path walking code to re-do the entire lookup with a ref-walk.

Aside from the final dentry, there are other situations that may be encounted
where we cannot continue rcu-walk. In that case, we drop rcu-walk (ie. take
a reference on the last good dentry) and continue with a ref-walk. Again, if
we can drop rcu-walk gracefully, we return -ECHILD and do the whole lookup
using ref-walk. But it is very important that we can continue with ref-walk
for most cases, particularly to avoid the overhead of double lookups, and to
gain the scalability advantages on common path elements (like cwd and root).

The cases where rcu-walk cannot continue are:
* NULL dentry (ie. any uncached path element)
* parent with d_inode->i_op->permission or ACLs
* dentries with d_revalidate
* Following links

In future patches, permission checks and d_revalidate become rcu-walk aware. It
may be possible eventually to make following links rcu-walk aware.

Uncached path elements will always require dropping to ref-walk mode, at the
very least because i_mutex needs to be grabbed, and objects allocated.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>


# 77812a1e 06-Jan-2011 Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>

fs: consolidate dentry kill sequence

The tricky locking for disposing of a dentry is duplicated 3 times in the
dcache (dput, pruning a dentry from the LRU, and pruning its ancestors).
Consolidate them all into a single function dentry_kill.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>


# ec33679d 06-Jan-2011 Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>

fs: use RCU in shrink_dentry_list to reduce lock nesting

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>


# be182bff 06-Jan-2011 Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>

fs: reduce dcache_inode_lock width in lru scanning

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>


# 89e60548 06-Jan-2011 Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>

fs: dcache reduce prune_one_dentry locking

prune_one_dentry can avoid quite a bit of locking in the common case where
ancestors have an elevated refcount. Alternatively, we could have gone the
other way and made fewer trylocks in the case where d_count goes to zero, but
is probably less common.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>


# a734eb45 06-Jan-2011 Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>

fs: dcache reduce d_parent locking

Use RCU to simplify locking in dget_parent.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>


# dc0474be 06-Jan-2011 Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>

fs: dcache rationalise dget variants

dget_locked was a shortcut to avoid the lazy lru manipulation when we already
held dcache_lock (lru manipulation was relatively cheap at that point).
However, how that the lru lock is an innermost one, we never hold it at any
caller, so the lock cost can now be avoided. We already have well working lazy
dcache LRU, so it should be fine to defer LRU manipulations to scan time.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>


# 357f8e65 06-Jan-2011 Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>

fs: dcache reduce dcache_inode_lock

dcache_inode_lock can be avoided in d_delete() and d_materialise_unique()
in cases where it is not required.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>


# 89ad485f 06-Jan-2011 Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>

fs: dcache reduce locking in d_alloc

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>


# 61f3dee4 06-Jan-2011 Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>

fs: dcache reduce dput locking

It is possible to run dput without taking data structure locks up-front. In
many cases where we don't kill the dentry anyway, these locks are not required.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>


# 58db63d0 06-Jan-2011 Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>

fs: dcache avoid starvation in dcache multi-step operations

Long lived dcache "multi-step" operations which retry on rename seq can
be starved with a lot of rename activity. If they fail after the 1st pass,
take the rename_lock for writing to avoid further starvation.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>


# b5c84bf6 06-Jan-2011 Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>

fs: dcache remove dcache_lock

dcache_lock no longer protects anything. remove it.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>


# 949854d0 06-Jan-2011 Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>

fs: Use rename lock and RCU for multi-step operations

The remaining usages for dcache_lock is to allow atomic, multi-step read-side
operations over the directory tree by excluding modifications to the tree.
Also, to walk in the leaf->root direction in the tree where we don't have
a natural d_lock ordering.

This could be accomplished by taking every d_lock, but this would mean a
huge number of locks and actually gets very tricky.

Solve this instead by using the rename seqlock for multi-step read-side
operations, retry in case of a rename so we don't walk up the wrong parent.
Concurrent dentry insertions are not serialised against. Concurrent deletes
are tricky when walking up the directory: our parent might have been deleted
when dropping locks so also need to check and retry for that.

We can also use the rename lock in cases where livelock is a worry (and it
is introduced in subsequent patch).

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>


# 9abca360 06-Jan-2011 Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>

fs: increase d_name lock coverage

Cover d_name with d_lock in more cases, where there may be concurrent
modification to it.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>


# b23fb0a6 06-Jan-2011 Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>

fs: scale inode alias list

Add a new lock, dcache_inode_lock, to protect the inode's i_dentry list
from concurrent modification. d_alias is also protected by d_lock.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>


# 2fd6b7f5 06-Jan-2011 Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>

fs: dcache scale subdirs

Protect d_subdirs and d_child with d_lock, except in filesystems that aren't
using dcache_lock for these anyway (eg. using i_mutex).

Note: if we change the locking rule in future so that ->d_child protection is
provided only with ->d_parent->d_lock, it may allow us to reduce some locking.
But it would be an exception to an otherwise regular locking scheme, so we'd
have to see some good results. Probably not worthwhile.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>


# da502956 06-Jan-2011 Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>

fs: dcache scale d_unhashed

Protect d_unhashed(dentry) condition with d_lock. This means keeping
DCACHE_UNHASHED bit in synch with hash manipulations.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>


# b7ab39f6 06-Jan-2011 Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>

fs: dcache scale dentry refcount

Make d_count non-atomic and protect it with d_lock. This allows us to ensure a
0 refcount dentry remains 0 without dcache_lock. It is also fairly natural when
we start protecting many other dentry members with d_lock.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>


# 23044507 06-Jan-2011 Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>

fs: dcache scale lru

Add a new lock, dcache_lru_lock, to protect the dcache LRU list from concurrent
modification. d_lru is also protected by d_lock, which allows LRU lists to be
accessed without the lru lock, using RCU in future patches.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>


# 789680d1 06-Jan-2011 Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>

fs: dcache scale hash

Add a new lock, dcache_hash_lock, to protect the dcache hash table from
concurrent modification. d_hash is also protected by d_lock.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>


# ec2447c2 06-Jan-2011 Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>

hostfs: simplify locking

Remove dcache_lock locking from hostfs filesystem, and move it into dcache
helpers. All that is required is a coherent path name. Protection from
concurrent modification of the namespace after path name generation is not
provided in current code, because dcache_lock is dropped before the path is
used.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>


# b1e6a015 06-Jan-2011 Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>

fs: change d_hash for rcu-walk

Change d_hash so it may be called from lock-free RCU lookups. See similar
patch for d_compare for details.

For in-tree filesystems, this is just a mechanical change.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>


# 621e155a 06-Jan-2011 Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>

fs: change d_compare for rcu-walk

Change d_compare so it may be called from lock-free RCU lookups. This
does put significant restrictions on what may be done from the callback,
however there don't seem to have been any problems with in-tree fses.
If some strange use case pops up that _really_ cannot cope with the
rcu-walk rules, we can just add new rcu-unaware callbacks, which would
cause name lookup to drop out of rcu-walk mode.

For in-tree filesystems, this is just a mechanical change.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>


# fb2d5b86 06-Jan-2011 Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>

fs: name case update method

smpfs and ncpfs want to update a live dentry name in-place. Rather than
have them open code the locking, provide a documented dcache API.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>


# fe15ce44 06-Jan-2011 Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>

fs: change d_delete semantics

Change d_delete from a dentry deletion notification to a dentry caching
advise, more like ->drop_inode. Require it to be constant and idempotent,
and not take d_lock. This is how all existing filesystems use the callback
anyway.

This makes fine grained dentry locking of dput and dentry lru scanning
much simpler.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>


# 3e880fb5 06-Jan-2011 Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>

fs: use fast counters for vfs caches

percpu_counter library generates quite nasty code, so unless you need
to dynamically allocate counters or take fast approximate value, a
simple per cpu set of counters is much better.

The percpu_counter can never be made to work as well, because it has an
indirection from pointer to percpu memory, and it can't use direct
this_cpu_inc interfaces because it doesn't use static PER_CPU data, so
code will always be worse.

In the fastpath, it is the difference between this:

incl %gs:nr_dentry # nr_dentry

and this:

movl percpu_counter_batch(%rip), %edx # percpu_counter_batch,
movl $1, %esi #,
movq $nr_dentry, %rdi #,
call __percpu_counter_add # (plus I clobber registers)

__percpu_counter_add:
pushq %rbp #
movq %rsp, %rbp #,
subq $32, %rsp #,
movq %rbx, -24(%rbp) #,
movq %r12, -16(%rbp) #,
movq %r13, -8(%rbp) #,
movq %rdi, %rbx # fbc, fbc
#APP
# 216 "/home/npiggin/usr/src/linux-2.6/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h" 1
movq %gs:kernel_stack,%rax #, pfo_ret__
# 0 "" 2
#NO_APP
incl -8124(%rax) # <variable>.preempt_count
movq 32(%rdi), %r12 # <variable>.counters, tcp_ptr__
#APP
# 78 "lib/percpu_counter.c" 1
add %gs:this_cpu_off, %r12 # this_cpu_off, tcp_ptr__
# 0 "" 2
#NO_APP
movslq (%r12),%r13 #* tcp_ptr__, tmp73
movslq %edx,%rax # batch, batch
addq %rsi, %r13 # amount, count
cmpq %rax, %r13 # batch, count
jge .L27 #,
negl %edx # tmp76
movslq %edx,%rdx # tmp76, tmp77
cmpq %rdx, %r13 # tmp77, count
jg .L28 #,
.L27:
movq %rbx, %rdi # fbc,
call _raw_spin_lock #
addq %r13, 8(%rbx) # count, <variable>.count
movq %rbx, %rdi # fbc,
movl $0, (%r12) #,* tcp_ptr__
call _raw_spin_unlock #
.L29:
#APP
# 216 "/home/npiggin/usr/src/linux-2.6/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h" 1
movq %gs:kernel_stack,%rax #, pfo_ret__
# 0 "" 2
#NO_APP
decl -8124(%rax) # <variable>.preempt_count
movq -8136(%rax), %rax #, D.14625
testb $8, %al #, D.14625
jne .L32 #,
.L31:
movq -24(%rbp), %rbx #,
movq -16(%rbp), %r12 #,
movq -8(%rbp), %r13 #,
leave
ret
.p2align 4,,10
.p2align 3
.L28:
movl %r13d, (%r12) # count,*
jmp .L29 #
.L32:
call preempt_schedule #
.p2align 4,,6
jmp .L31 #
.size __percpu_counter_add, .-__percpu_counter_add
.p2align 4,,15

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>


# 86c8749e 06-Jan-2011 Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>

vfs: revert per-cpu nr_unused counters for dentry and inodes

The nr_unused counters count the number of objects on an LRU, and as such they
are synchronized with LRU object insertion and removal and scanning, and
protected under the LRU lock.

Making it per-cpu does not actually get any concurrency improvements because of
this lock, and summing the counter is much slower, and
incrementing/decrementing it costs more code size and is slower too.

These counters should stay per-LRU, which currently means global.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>


# 786a5e15 06-Jan-2011 Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>

fs: d_validate fixes

d_validate has been broken for a long time.

kmem_ptr_validate does not guarantee that a pointer can be dereferenced
if it can go away at any time. Even rcu_read_lock doesn't help, because
the pointer might be queued in RCU callbacks but not executed yet.

So the parent cannot be checked, nor the name hashed. The dentry pointer
can not be touched until it can be verified under lock. Hashing simply
cannot be used.

Instead, verify the parent/child relationship by traversing parent's
d_child list. It's slow, but only ncpfs and the destaged smbfs care
about it, at this point.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>


# d3a23e16 05-Jan-2011 Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>

Revert "fs: use RCU read side protection in d_validate"

This reverts commit 3825bdb7ed920845961f32f364454bee5f469abb.

You cannot dget() a dentry without having a reference, or holding
a lock that guarantees it remains valid.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>


# 3825bdb7 10-Oct-2010 Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>

fs: use RCU read side protection in d_validate

d_validate does a purely read lookup in the dentry hash, so use RCU read side
locking instead of dcache_lock. Split out from a larget patch by
Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# a4633357 10-Oct-2010 Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>

fs: clean up dentry lru modification

Always do a list_del_init on the LRU to make sure the list_empty invariant for
not beeing on the LRU always holds true, and fold dentry_lru_del_init into
dentry_lru_del. Replace the dentry_lru_add_tail primitive with a
dentry_lru_move_tail operations that simpler when the dentry already is one
the list, which is always is. Move the list_empty into dentry_lru_add to
fit the scheme of the other lru helpers, and simplify locking once we
move to a separate LRU lock.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 3049cfe2 10-Oct-2010 Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>

fs: split __shrink_dcache_sb

Currently __shrink_dcache_sb has an extremly awkward calling convention
because it tries to please very different callers. Split out the
main loop into a shrink_dentry_list helper, which gets called directly
from shrink_dcache_sb for the cases where all dentries need to be pruned,
or from __shrink_dcache_sb for pruning only a certain number of dentries.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 265ac902 10-Oct-2010 Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>

fs: improve DCACHE_REFERENCED usage

dentry referenced bit is only set when installing the dentry back
onto the LRU. However with lazy LRU, the dentry can already be on
the LRU list at dput time, thus missing out on setting the referenced
bit. Fix this.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 312d3ca8 10-Oct-2010 Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>

fs: use percpu counter for nr_dentry and nr_dentry_unused

The nr_dentry stat is a globally touched cacheline and atomic operation
twice over the lifetime of a dentry. It is used for the benfit of userspace
only. Turn it into a per-cpu counter and always decrement it in d_free instead
of doing various batching operations to reduce lock hold times in the callers.

Based on an earlier patch from Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 9c82ab9c 10-Oct-2010 Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>

fs: simplify __d_free

Remove d_callback and always call __d_free with a RCU head.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# be148247 10-Oct-2010 Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>

fs: take dcache_lock inside __d_path

All callers take dcache_lock just around the call to __d_path, so
take the lock into it in preparation of getting rid of dcache_lock.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 99b7db7b 17-Aug-2010 Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>

fs: brlock vfsmount_lock

fs: brlock vfsmount_lock

Use a brlock for the vfsmount lock. It must be taken for write whenever
modifying the mount hash or associated fields, and may be taken for read when
performing mount hash lookups.

A new lock is added for the mnt-id allocator, so it doesn't need to take
the heavy vfsmount write-lock.

The number of atomics should remain the same for fastpath rlock cases, though
code would be slightly slower due to per-cpu access. Scalability is not not be
much improved in common cases yet, due to other locks (ie. dcache_lock) getting
in the way. However path lookups crossing mountpoints should be one case where
scalability is improved (currently requiring the global lock).

The slowpath is slower due to use of brlock. On a 64 core, 64 socket, 32 node
Altix system (high latency to remote nodes), a simple umount microbenchmark
(mount --bind mnt mnt2 ; umount mnt2 loop 1000 times), before this patch it
took 6.8s, afterwards took 7.1s, about 5% slower.

Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# b04f784e 17-Aug-2010 Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>

fs: remove extra lookup in __lookup_hash

fs: remove extra lookup in __lookup_hash

Optimize lookup for create operations, where no dentry should often be
common-case. In cases where it is not, such as unlink, the added overhead
is much smaller than the removed.

Also, move comments about __d_lookup racyness to the __d_lookup call site.
d_lookup is intuitive; __d_lookup is what needs commenting. So in that same
vein, add kerneldoc comments to __d_lookup and clean up some of the comments:

- We are interested in how the RCU lookup works here, particularly with
renames. Make that explicit, and point to the document where it is explained
in more detail.
- RCU is pretty standard now, and macros make implementations pretty mindless.
If we want to know about RCU barrier details, we look in RCU code.
- Delete some boring legacy comments because we don't care much about how the
code used to work, more about the interesting parts of how it works now. So
comments about lazy LRU may be interesting, but would better be done in the
LRU or refcount management code.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# cd956a1c 14-Aug-2010 Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>

fs/dcache: fix function param name in kernel-doc

Fix parameter name in kernel-doc notation (causes a warning).

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 8df9d1a4 10-Aug-2010 Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>

vfs: show unreachable paths in getcwd and proc

Prepend "(unreachable)" to path strings if the path is not reachable
from the current root.

Two places updated are
- the return string from getcwd()
- and symlinks under /proc/$PID.

Other uses of d_path() are left unchanged (we know that some old
software crashes if /proc/mounts is changed).

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# ffd1f4ed 10-Aug-2010 Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>

vfs: only add " (deleted)" where necessary

__d_path() has 4 callers:

d_path()
sys_getcwd()
seq_path_root()
tomoyo_realpath_from_path2()

Of these the only one which needs the " (deleted)" ending is d_path().

sys_getcwd() checks for existence before calling __d_path().

seq_path_root() is used to show the mountpoint path in
/proc/PID/mountinfo, which is always a positive.

And tomoyo doesn't want the deleted ending.

Create a helper "path_with_deleted()" as subsequent patches will need
this in multiple places.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# f2eb6575 10-Aug-2010 Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>

vfs: add prepend_path() helper

Split off prepend_path() from __d_path(). This new helper takes an
end-of-buffer pointer and buffer-length pointer just like the other
prepend_* functions. Move the " (deleted)" postfix out to __d_path().

This patch doesn't change any functionality but paves the way for the
following patches.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 98dc568b 10-Aug-2010 Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>

vfs: __d_path: dont prepend the name of the root dentry

In the old times pseudo-filesystems set the name of theroot dentry to
some prefix like "pipe:" and the name of the child dentry to "[123]"
and relied on a hack in __d_path() to replace the preceding slash with
the root's name to get "pipe:[123]".

Then the d_dname() dentry operation was introduced which solved the
same problem without having to pre-fill the name in each dentry.

Currently the following pseudo filesystems exist in the kernel:

perfmon
mtd
anon_inode
bdev
pipe
socket

Of these only perfmon, anon_inode, pipe and socket create
sub-dentries, all of which have now been switched to using d_dname().

bdev and mtd only create inodes.

This means that now the hack to overwrite the slash can be removed, so
for unreachable paths (e.g. within a detached mount) the path string
won't be polluted with garbage. For these cases a subsequent patch
will add a prefix, indicating that the path is unreachable.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# f7ad3c6b 10-Aug-2010 Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>

vfs: add helpers to get root and pwd

Add three helpers that retrieve a refcounted copy of the root and cwd
from the supplied fs_struct.

get_fs_root()
get_fs_pwd()
get_fs_root_and_pwd()

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# dca33252 24-Jul-2010 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

no need for list_for_each_entry_safe()/resetting with superblock list

just delay __put_super() a bit

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# c103135c 06-Jun-2010 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

new helper: __dentry_path()

builds path relative to fs root, called under dcache_lock,
doesn't append any nonsense to unlinked ones.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 7f8275d0 18-Jul-2010 Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>

mm: add context argument to shrinker callback

The current shrinker implementation requires the registered callback
to have global state to work from. This makes it difficult to shrink
caches that are not global (e.g. per-filesystem caches). Pass the shrinker
structure to the callback so that users can embed the shrinker structure
in the context the shrinker needs to operate on and get back to it in the
callback via container_of().

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>


# 57439f87 23-Jun-2010 npiggin@suse.de <npiggin@suse.de>

fs: fix superblock iteration race

list_for_each_entry_safe is not suitable to protect against concurrent
modification of the list. 6754af6 introduced a race in sb walking.

list_for_each_entry can use the trick of pinning the current entry in
the list before we drop and retake the lock because it subsequently
follows cur->next. However list_for_each_entry_safe saves n=cur->next
for following before entering the loop body, so when the lock is
dropped, n may be deleted.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Frank Mayhar <fmayhar@google.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 79893c17 22-Mar-2010 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

fix prune_dcache()/umount() race

... and get rid of the last __put_super_and_need_restart() caller

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 551de6f3 22-Mar-2010 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Leave superblocks on s_list until the end

We used to remove from s_list and s_instances at the same
time. So let's *not* do the former and skip superblocks
that have empty s_instances in the loops over s_list.

The next step, of course, will be to get rid of rescan logics
in those loops.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 13e3c5e5 21-May-2010 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

clean DCACHE_CANT_MOUNT in d_delete()

We set the "it's dead, don't mount on it" flag _and_ do not remove it if
we turn the damn thing negative and leave it around. And if it goes
positive afterwards, well...

Fortunately, there's only one place where that needs to be caught:
only d_delete() can turn the sucker negative without immediately freeing
it; all other places that can lead to ->d_iput() call are followed by
unconditionally freeing struct dentry in question. So the fix is obvious:

Addresses https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16014
Reported-by: Adam Tkac <vonsch@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Adam Tkac <vonsch@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.34.x]

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 4919c5e4 03-Mar-2010 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

fix race in d_splice_alias()

rehashing the negative placeholder opens a race with d_lookup();
we unhash it almost immediately (by d_move()), but the race
window is there. Since d_move() doesn't rely on target being
hashed, we don't need that d_rehash() at all.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 2096f759 30-Jan-2010 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

New helper: path_is_under(path1, path2)

Analog of is_subdir for vfsmount,dentry pairs, moved from audit_tree.c

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# ec4f8605 05-Jan-2010 H Hartley Sweeten <hartleys@visionengravers.com>

fs/dcache.c: CodingStyle cleanup

Cleanup EXPORT* macros according to Documantation/CodingStyle.

Move EXPORT* macros to the line immediately after the closing
function brace.

Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# ef26ca97 29-Sep-2009 H Hartley Sweeten <hartleys@visionengravers.com>

libfs: move EXPORT_SYMBOL for d_alloc_name

The EXPORT_SYMBOL for d_alloc_name is in fs/libfs.c but the function
is in fs/dcache.c. Move the EXPORT_SYMBOL to the line immediately
after the closing function brace line in fs/dcache.c as mentioned
in Documentation/CodingStyle.

Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 613afbf8 16-Jul-2009 Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>

sched: Pull up the might_sleep() check into cond_resched()

might_sleep() is called late-ish in cond_resched(), after the
need_resched()/preempt enabled/system running tests are
checked.

It's better to check the sleeps while atomic earlier and not
depend on some environment datas that reduce the chances to
detect a problem.

Also define cond_resched_*() helpers as macros, so that the
FILE/LINE reported in the sleeping while atomic warning
displays the real origin and not sched.h

Changes in v2:

- Call __might_sleep() directly instead of might_sleep() which
may call cond_resched()

- Turn cond_resched() into a macro so that the file:line
couple reported refers to the caller of cond_resched() and
not __cond_resched() itself.

Changes in v3:

- Also propagate this __might_sleep() pull up to
cond_resched_lock() and cond_resched_softirq()

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1247725694-6082-6-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>


# f3da392e 03-May-2009 Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>

dcache: extrace and use d_unlinked()

d_unlinked() will be used in middle-term to ban checkpointing when opened
but unlinked file is detected, and in long term, to detect such situation
and special case on it.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# c490d79b 26-Apr-2009 npiggin@suse.de <npiggin@suse.de>

fs: dcache fix LRU ordering

Fix ordering of LRU when moving referenced dentries to the head of the list
(they should go to the head of the list in the same order as they were found
from the tail, rather than reverse order).

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 24b6f16e 18-Apr-2009 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

No need for crossing to mountpoint in audit_tag_tree()

is_under() will DTRT anyway. And yes, is_subdir() behaviour
is intentional.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# e5824c97 29-Mar-2009 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Trim includes of fdtable.h

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 5ad4e53b 29-Mar-2009 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Get rid of indirect include of fs_struct.h

Don't pull it in sched.h; very few files actually need it and those
can include directly. sched.h itself only needs forward declaration
of struct fs_struct;

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# b6520c81 05-Jan-2009 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

cleanup d_add_ci

Make sure that comments describe what's going on and not how, and always
use __d_instantiate instead of two separate branches, one with
d_instantiate and one with __d_instantiate.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# adc48720 27-Feb-2009 Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>

EXPORT_SYMBOL(d_obtain_alias) rather than EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL

Commit 4ea3ada2955e4519befa98ff55dd62d6dfbd1705 declares d_obtain_alias()
as EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL where it's supposed to replace d_alloc_anon which was
previously declared as EXPORT_SYMBOL and thus available to any loadable
module.

This patch reverts that.

Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 3cdad428 14-Jan-2009 Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>

[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 20

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>


# 9a8d5bb4 07-Jan-2009 Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>

generic swap(): dcache: use swap() instead of private do_switch()

Use the new generic implementation.

Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# b6b3fdea 10-Dec-2008 Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>

filp_cachep can be static in fs/file_table.c

Instead of creating the "filp" kmem_cache in vfs_caches_init(),
we can do it a litle be later in files_init(), so that filp_cachep
is static to fs/file_table.c

Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 52afeefb 01-Dec-2008 Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>

expand some comments (d_path / seq_path)

Explain that you really need to use the return value of d_path rather than
the buffer you passed into it.

Also fix the comment for seq_path(), the function arguments changed
recently but the comment hadn't been updated in sync.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# be42c4c4 01-Dec-2008 Zhaolei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>

correct wrong function name of d_put in kernel document and source comment

no function named d_put(), it should be dput().

Impact: fix document and comment, no functionality changed

Signed-off-by: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fuijtsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# dc711ca3 03-Nov-2008 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

fix switch_names() breakage in short-to-short case

We want ->name.len to match the resulting name on *both*
source and target

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# c2452f32 01-Dec-2008 Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>

shrink struct dentry

struct dentry is one of the most critical structures in the kernel. So it's
sad to see it going neglected.

With CONFIG_PROFILING turned on (which is probably the common case at least
for distros and kernel developers), sizeof(struct dcache) == 208 here
(64-bit). This gives 19 objects per slab.

I packed d_mounted into a hole, and took another 4 bytes off the inline
name length to take the padding out from the end of the structure. This
shinks it to 200 bytes. I could have gone the other way and increased the
length to 40, but I'm aiming for a magic number, read on...

I then got rid of the d_cookie pointer. This shrinks it to 192 bytes. Rant:
why was this ever a good idea? The cookie system should increase its hash
size or use a tree or something if lookups are a problem. Also the "fast
dcookie lookups" in oprofile should be moved into the dcookie code -- how
can oprofile possibly care about the dcookie_mutex? It gets dropped after
get_dcookie() returns so it can't be providing any sort of protection.

At 192 bytes, 21 objects fit into a 4K page, saving about 3MB on my system
with ~140 000 entries allocated. 192 is also a multiple of 64, so we get
nice cacheline alignment on 64 and 32 byte line systems -- any given dentry
will now require 3 cachelines to touch all fields wheras previously it
would require 4.

I know the inline name size was chosen quite carefully, however with the
reduction in cacheline footprint, it should actually be just about as fast
to do a name lookup for a 36 character name as it was before the patch (and
faster for other sizes). The memory footprint savings for names which are
<= 32 or > 36 bytes long should more than make up for the memory cost for
33-36 byte names.

Performance is a feature...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# fd217f4d 21-Oct-2008 Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>

[PATCH] fs: add a sanity check in d_free

Hi Al,

remember that debug session we did at KS? You suggested this patch back
then....

From 7751eaf30474b8cbfaea64795805a17eab05ac53 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:51:17 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] fs: add a sanity check in d_free

we're seeing some corruption in the dentry->d_alias list that
appears like a free of an entry still on the list; this patch
adds a WARN_ON() to catch this scenario, as suggested by Al Viro

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>


# 5cec56de 13-Oct-2008 Qinghuang Feng <qhfeng.kernel@gmail.com>

[PATCH] fs/dcache.c: update comment of d_validate()

Parameters @hash and @len have been removed since 2.4.3,
now just to delete them.

Signed-off-by: Qinghuang Feng <qhfeng.kernel@gmail.com>


# 8f3dfaa5 15-Oct-2008 OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>

[PATCH vfs-2.6 4/6] vfs: remove unnecessary fsnotify_d_instantiate()

This calls d_move(), so fsnotify_d_instantiate() is unnecessary like
rename path.

Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>


# 360da900 15-Oct-2008 OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>

[PATCH vfs-2.6 3/6] vfs: add __d_instantiate() helper

This adds __d_instantiate() for users which is already taking
dcache_lock, and replace with it.

The part of d_add_ci() isn't equivalent. But it should be needed
fsnotify_d_instantiate() actually, because the path is to add the
inode to negative dentry. fsnotify_d_instantiate() should be called
after change from negative to positive.

Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>


# e2761a11 15-Oct-2008 OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>

[PATCH vfs-2.6 2/6] vfs: add d_ancestor()

This adds d_ancestor() instead of d_isparent(), then use it.

If new_dentry == old_dentry, is_subdir() returns 1, looks strange.
"new_dentry == old_dentry" is not subdir obviously. But I'm not
checking callers for now, so this keeps current behavior.

Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>


# 871c0067 15-Oct-2008 OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>

[PATCH vfs-2.6 1/6] vfs: replace parent == dentry->d_parent by IS_ROOT()

Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>


# 9308a612 11-Aug-2008 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

[PATCH] kill d_alloc_anon

Remove d_alloc_anon now that no users are left.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 44003728 11-Aug-2008 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

[PATCH] switch all filesystems over to d_obtain_alias

Switch all users of d_alloc_anon to d_obtain_alias.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 4ea3ada2 11-Aug-2008 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

[PATCH] new helper: d_obtain_alias

The calling conventions of d_alloc_anon are rather unfortunate for all
users, and it's name is not very descriptive either.

Add d_obtain_alias as a new exported helper that drops the inode
reference in the failure case, too and allows to pass-through NULL
pointers and inodes to allow for tail-calls in the export operations.

Incidentally this helper already existed as a private function in
libfs.c as exportfs_d_alloc so kill that one and switch the callers
to d_obtain_alias.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# d0185c08 29-Sep-2008 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Fix NULL pointer dereference in proc_sys_compare

The VFS interface for the 'd_compare()' is a bit special (read: 'odd'),
because it really just essentially replaces a memcmp(). The filesystem
is supposed to just compare the two names with whatever case-independent
or other function.

And when I say 'is supposed to', I obviously mean that 'procfs does odd
things, and actually looks at the dentry that we don't even pass down,
rather than just the name'. Which results in problems, because we
actually call d_compare before we have even verified that the dentry is
still hashed at all.

And that causes a problm since the inode that procfs looks at may have
been free'd and the d_inode pointer is NULL. procfs just assumes that
all dentries are positive, since procfs itself never generates a
negative one. But memory pressure will still result in the dentry
getting torn down, and as it is removed by RCU, it still remains visible
on some lists - and to d_compare.

If the filesystem just did a name comparison, we wouldn't care. And we
could just fix procfs to know about negative dentries too. But rather
than have the low-level filesystems know about internal VFS details,
just move the check for a unhashed dentry up a bit, so that we will only
call d_compare on dentries that are still active.

The actual oops this caused didn't look like a NULL pointer dereference
because procfs did a 'container_of(inode, struct proc_inode, vfs_inode)'
to get at its internal proc_inode information from the inode pointer,
and accessed a field below the inode. So the oops would look something
like

BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at fffffffffffffff0
IP: [<ffffffff802bc6c6>] proc_sys_compare+0x36/0x50

and was seen on both x86-64 (Alexey Dobriyan and Hugh Dickins) and
ppc64 (Hugh Dickins).

Reported-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Reviewed-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-of-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# e45b590b 07-Aug-2008 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

[PATCH] change d_add_ci argument ordering

As pointed out during review d_add_ci argument order should match d_add,
so switch the dentry and inode arguments.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 9403540c 21-May-2008 Barry Naujok <bnaujok@sgi.com>

dcache: Add case-insensitive support d_ci_add() routine

This add a dcache entry to the dcache for lookup, but changing the name
that is associated with the entry rather than the one passed in to the
lookup routine.

First, it sees if the case-exact match already exists in the dcache and
uses it if one exists. Otherwise, it allocates a new node with the new
name and splices it into the dcache.

Original code from ntfs_lookup in fs/ntfs/namei.c by Anton Altaparmakov.

Signed-off-by: Barry Naujok <bnaujok@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>


# f3c6ba98 25-Jul-2008 Kentaro Makita <k-makita@np.css.fujitsu.com>

vfs: add cond_resched_lock while scanning dentry LRU lists

Add cond_resched_lock(&dcache_lock) while scanning LRU lists on
superblocks in __shrink_dcache_sb()

Signed-off-by: Kentaro Makita <k-makita@np.css.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# da3bbdd4 23-Jul-2008 Kentaro Makita <k-makita@np.css.fujitsu.com>

fix soft lock up at NFS mount via per-SB LRU-list of unused dentries

[Summary]

Split LRU-list of unused dentries to one per superblock to avoid soft
lock up during NFS mounts and remounting of any filesystem.

Previously I posted here:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/3/5/590

[Descriptions]

- background

dentry_unused is a list of dentries which are not referenced.
dentry_unused grows up when references on directories or files are
released. This list can be very long if there is huge free memory.

- the problem

When shrink_dcache_sb() is called, it scans all dentry_unused linearly
under spin_lock(), and if dentry->d_sb is differnt from given
superblock, scan next dentry. This scan costs very much if there are
many entries, and very ineffective if there are many superblocks.

IOW, When we need to shrink unused dentries on one dentry, but scans
unused dentries on all superblocks in the system. For example, we scan
500 dentries to unmount a filesystem, but scans 1,000,000 or more unused
dentries on other superblocks.

In our case , At mounting NFS*, shrink_dcache_sb() is called to shrink
unused dentries on NFS, but scans 100,000,000 unused dentries on
superblocks in the system such as local ext3 filesystems. I hear NFS
mounting took 1 min on some system in use.

* : NFS uses virtual filesystem in rpc layer, so NFS is affected by
this problem.

100,000,000 is possible number on large systems.

Per-superblock LRU of unused dentried can reduce the cost in
reasonable manner.

- How to fix

I found this problem is solved by David Chinner's "Per-superblock
unused dentry LRU lists V3"(1), so I rebase it and add some fix to
reclaim with fairness, which is in Andrew Morton's comments(2).

1) http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/5/25/318
2) http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/5/25/320

Split LRU-list of unused dentries to each superblocks. Then, NFS
mounting will check dentries under a superblock instead of all. But
this spliting will break LRU of dentry-unused. So, I've attempted to
make reclaim unused dentrins with fairness by calculate number of
dentries to scan on this sb based on following way

number of dentries to scan on this sb =
count * (number of dentries on this sb / number of dentries in the machine)

- ToDo
- I have to measuring performance number and do stress tests.

- When unmount occurs during prune_dcache(), scanning on same
superblock, It is unable to reach next superblock because it is gone
away. We restart scannig superblock from first one, it causes
unfairness of reclaim unused dentries on first superblock. But I think
this happens very rarely.

- Test Results

Result on 6GB boxes with excessive unused dentries.

Without patch:

$ cat /proc/sys/fs/dentry-state
10181835 10180203 45 0 0 0
# mount -t nfs 10.124.60.70:/work/kernel-src nfs
real 0m1.830s
user 0m0.001s
sys 0m1.653s

With this patch:
$ cat /proc/sys/fs/dentry-state
10236610 10234751 45 0 0 0
# mount -t nfs 10.124.60.70:/work/kernel-src nfs
real 0m0.106s
user 0m0.002s
sys 0m0.032s

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comments]
Signed-off-by: Kentaro Makita <k-makita@np.css.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# cdd16d02 23-Jun-2008 Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>

[patch 2/3] vfs: dcache cleanups

Comment from Al Viro: add prepend_name() wrapper.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 31f3e0b3 23-Jun-2008 Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>

[patch 1/3] vfs: dcache sparse fixes

Fix the following sparse warnings:

fs/dcache.c:2183:19: warning: symbol 'filp_cachep' was not declared. Should it be static?
fs/dcache.c:115:3: warning: context imbalance in 'dentry_iput' - unexpected unlock
fs/dcache.c:188:2: warning: context imbalance in 'dput' - different lock contexts for basic block
fs/dcache.c:400:2: warning: context imbalance in 'prune_one_dentry' - different lock contexts for basic block
fs/dcache.c:431:22: warning: context imbalance in 'prune_dcache' - different lock contexts for basic block
fs/dcache.c:563:2: warning: context imbalance in 'shrink_dcache_sb' - different lock contexts for basic block
fs/dcache.c:1385:6: warning: context imbalance in 'd_delete' - wrong count at exit
fs/dcache.c:1636:2: warning: context imbalance in '__d_unalias' - unexpected unlock
fs/dcache.c:1735:2: warning: context imbalance in 'd_materialise_unique' - different lock contexts for basic block

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# be285c71 16-Jun-2008 Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>

[patch 3/3] vfs: make d_path() consistent across mount operations

The path that __d_path() computes can become slightly inconsistent when it
races with mount operations: it grabs the vfsmount_lock when traversing mount
points but immediately drops it again, only to re-grab it when it reaches the
next mount point. The result is that the filename computed is not always
consisent, and the file may never have had that name. (This is unlikely, but
still possible.)

Fix this by grabbing the vfsmount_lock for the whole duration of
__d_path().

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: John Johansen <jjohansen@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 20d4fdc1 09-Jun-2008 Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>

[patch 2/4] fs: make struct file arg to d_path const

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 9d1bc601 27-Mar-2008 Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>

[patch 2/7] vfs: mountinfo: add seq_file_root()

Add a new function:

seq_file_root()

This is similar to seq_path(), but calculates the path relative to the
given root, instead of current->fs->root. If the path was unreachable
from root, then modify the root parameter to reflect this.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 6092d048 27-Mar-2008 Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>

[patch 1/7] vfs: mountinfo: add dentry_path()

[mszeredi@suse.cz] split big patch into managable chunks

Add the following functions:

dentry_path()
seq_dentry()

These are similar to d_path() and seq_path(). But instead of
calculating the path within a mount namespace, they calculate the path
from the root of the filesystem to a given dentry, ignoring mounts
completely.

Signed-off-by: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 4a0962ab 14-Feb-2008 Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>

dentries: Extract common code to remove dentry from lru

Extract the common code to remove a dentry from the lru into a new function
dentry_lru_remove().

Two call sites used list_del() instead of list_del_init(). AFAIK the
performance of both is the same. dentry_lru_remove() does a list_del_init().

As a result dentry->d_lru is now always empty when a dentry is freed.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# cf28b486 14-Feb-2008 Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>

d_path: Make d_path() use a struct path

d_path() is used on a <dentry,vfsmount> pair. Lets use a struct path to
reflect this.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build in mm/memory.c]
Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Acked-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# a03a8a70 14-Feb-2008 Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>

d_path: kerneldoc cleanup

Move and update d_path() kernel API documentation.

Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 329c97f0 14-Feb-2008 Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>

One less parameter to __d_path

All callers to __d_path pass the dentry and vfsmount of a struct path to
__d_path. Pass the struct path directly, instead.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 6ac08c39 14-Feb-2008 Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>

Use struct path in fs_struct

* Use struct path in fs_struct.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 0d71bd59 06-Feb-2008 Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>

inotify: remove debug code

The inotify debugging code is supposed to verify that the
DCACHE_INOTIFY_PARENT_WATCHED scalability optimisation does not result in
notifications getting lost nor extra needless locking generated.

Unfortunately there are also some races in the debugging code. And it isn't
very good at finding problems anyway. So remove it for now.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Robert Love <rlove@google.com>
Cc: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz>
Cc: Yan Zheng <yanzheng@21cn.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# e8462caa 06-Feb-2008 Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>

fs: use hlist_unhashed

Use hlist_unhashed() instead of opencoded equivalent.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 321bcf92 21-Oct-2007 J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>

dcache: don't expose uninitialized memory in /proc/<pid>/fd/<fd>

Well, it's not especially important that target->d_iname get the contents
of dentry->d_iname, but it's important that it get initialized with
*something*, otherwise we're just exposing some random piece of memory to
anyone who reads the link at /proc/<pid>/fd/<fd> for the deleted file, when
it's still held open by someone.

I've run a test program that copies a short (<36 character) name ontop of a
long (>=36 character) name and see that the first time I run it, without
this patch, I get unpredicatable results out of /proc/<pid>/fd/<fd>.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 74c3cbe3 22-Jul-2007 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

[PATCH] audit: watching subtrees

New kind of audit rule predicates: "object is visible in given subtree".
The part that can be sanely implemented, that is. Limitations:
* if you have hardlink from outside of tree, you'd better watch
it too (or just watch the object itself, obviously)
* if you mount something under a watched tree, tell audit
that new chunk should be added to watched subtrees
* if you umount something in a watched tree and it's still mounted
elsewhere, you will get matches on events happening there. New command
tells audit to recalculate the trees, trimming such sources of false
positives.

Note that it's _not_ about path - if something mounted in several places
(multiple mount, bindings, different namespaces, etc.), the match does
_not_ depend on which one we are using for access.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# f77e3498 17-Oct-2007 Denis Cheng <crquan@gmail.com>

vfs: use the predefined d_unhashed inline function instead

Signed-off-by: Denis Cheng <crquan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 37c42524 17-Oct-2007 Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>

shrink_dcache_sb speedup

This patch makes shrink_dcache_sb consistent with dentry pruning policy.

On the first pass we iterate over dentry unused list and prepare some
dentries for removal.

However, since the existing code moves evicted dentries to the beginning of
the LRU it can happen that fresh dentries from other superblocks will be
inserted *before* our dentries.

This can result in significant slowdown of shrink_dcache_sb(). Moreover,
for virtual filesystems like unionfs which can call dput() during dentries
kill existing code results in O(n^2) complexity.

We observed 2 minutes shrink_dcache_sb() with only 35000 dentries.

To avoid this effects we propose to isolate sb dentries at the end
of LRU list.

Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrey Mirkin <amirkin@openvz.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# bc154b1e 17-Oct-2007 J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>

dcache: trivial comment fix

As it stands this comment is confusing, and not quite grammatical.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 85864e10 17-Oct-2007 Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>

clean out unused code in dentry pruning

It looks like in the end all pruners want parents removed.

So remove unused code and function arguments.

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>


# 74bf17cf 17-Oct-2007 Denis Cheng <crquan@gmail.com>

fs: remove the unused mempages parameter

Since the mempages parameter is actually not used, they should be removed.

Now there is only files_init use the mempages parameter,

files_init(mempages);

but I don't think the adaptation to mempages in files_init is really
useful; and if files_init also changed to the prototype void (*func)(void),
the wrapper vfs_caches_init would also not need the mempages parameter.

Signed-off-by: Denis Cheng <crquan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# e12ba74d 16-Oct-2007 Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>

Group short-lived and reclaimable kernel allocations

This patch marks a number of allocations that are either short-lived such as
network buffers or are reclaimable such as inode allocations. When something
like updatedb is called, long-lived and unmovable kernel allocations tend to
be spread throughout the address space which increases fragmentation.

This patch groups these allocations together as much as possible by adding a
new MIGRATE_TYPE. The MIGRATE_RECLAIMABLE type is for allocations that can be
reclaimed on demand, but not moved. i.e. they can be migrated by deleting
them and re-reading the information from elsewhere.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 20c2df83 19-Jul-2007 Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>

mm: Remove slab destructors from kmem_cache_create().

Slab destructors were no longer supported after Christoph's
c59def9f222d44bb7e2f0a559f2906191a0862d7 change. They've been
BUGs for both slab and slub, and slob never supported them
either.

This rips out support for the dtor pointer from kmem_cache_create()
completely and fixes up every single callsite in the kernel (there were
about 224, not including the slab allocator definitions themselves,
or the documentation references).

Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>


# 8e1f936b 17-Jul-2007 Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

mm: clean up and kernelify shrinker registration

I can never remember what the function to register to receive VM pressure
is called. I have to trace down from __alloc_pages() to find it.

It's called "set_shrinker()", and it needs Your Help.

1) Don't hide struct shrinker. It contains no magic.
2) Don't allocate "struct shrinker". It's not helpful.
3) Call them "register_shrinker" and "unregister_shrinker".
4) Call the function "shrink" not "shrinker".
5) Reduce the 17 lines of waffly comments to 13, but document it properly.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# e63340ae 08-May-2007 Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>

header cleaning: don't include smp_lock.h when not used

Remove includes of <linux/smp_lock.h> where it is not used/needed.
Suggested by Al Viro.

Builds cleanly on x86_64, i386, alpha, ia64, powerpc, sparc,
sparc64, and arm (all 59 defconfigs).

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# c23fbb6b 08-May-2007 Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>

VFS: delay the dentry name generation on sockets and pipes

1) Introduces a new method in 'struct dentry_operations'. This method
called d_dname() might be called from d_path() to build a pathname for
special filesystems. It is called without locks.

Future patches (if we succeed in having one common dentry for all
pipes/sockets) may need to change prototype of this method, but we now
use : char *d_dname(struct dentry *dentry, char *buffer, int buflen);

2) Adds a dynamic_dname() helper function that eases d_dname() implementations

3) Defines d_dname method for sockets : No more sprintf() at socket
creation. This is delayed up to the moment someone does an access to
/proc/pid/fd/...

4) Defines d_dname method for pipes : No more sprintf() at pipe
creation. This is delayed up to the moment someone does an access to
/proc/pid/fd/...

A benchmark consisting of 1.000.000 calls to pipe()/close()/close() gives a
*nice* speedup on my Pentium(M) 1.6 Ghz :

3.090 s instead of 3.450 s

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 24c32d73 08-May-2007 Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

mm: shrink parent dentries when shrinking slab

Teach the dentry slab shrinker to aggressively shrink parent dentries when
shrinking the dentry cache.

This is done to attempt to improve the situation where the dentry slab cache
gets a lot of internal fragmentation due to pages containing directory
dentries. It is expected that this change will cause some of those dentries
to be reaped earlier, and with less scanning.

Needs careful testing.

Cc: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# d52b9086 08-May-2007 Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>

fix quadratic behavior of shrink_dcache_parent()

The time shrink_dcache_parent() takes, grows quadratically with the depth
of the tree under 'parent'. This starts to get noticable at about 10,000.

These kinds of depths don't occur normally, and filesystems which invoke
shrink_dcache_parent() via d_invalidate() seem to have other depth
dependent timings, so it's not even easy to expose this problem.

However with FUSE it's easy to create a deep tree and d_invalidate()
will also get called. This can make a syscall hang for a very long
time.

This is the original discovery of the problem by Russ Cox:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.fuse.devel/3826

The following patch fixes the quadratic behavior, by optionally allowing
prune_dcache() to prune ancestors of a dentry in one go, instead of doing
it one at a time.

Common code in dput() and prune_one_dentry() is extracted into a new helper
function d_kill().

shrink_dcache_parent() as well as shrink_dcache_sb() are converted to use
the ancestry-pruner option. Only for shrink_dcache_memory() is this
behavior not desirable, so it keeps using the old algorithm.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 0a31bd5f 06-May-2007 Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>

KMEM_CACHE(): simplify slab cache creation

This patch provides a new macro

KMEM_CACHE(<struct>, <flags>)

to simplify slab creation. KMEM_CACHE creates a slab with the name of the
struct, with the size of the struct and with the alignment of the struct.
Additional slab flags may be specified if necessary.

Example

struct test_slab {
int a,b,c;
struct list_head;
} __cacheline_aligned_in_smp;

test_slab_cache = KMEM_CACHE(test_slab, SLAB_PANIC)

will create a new slab named "test_slab" of the size sizeof(struct
test_slab) and aligned to the alignment of test slab. If it fails then we
panic.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 552ce544 13-Feb-2007 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>

Revert "[PATCH] Fix d_path for lazy unmounts"

This reverts commit eb3dfb0cb1f4a44e2d0553f89514ce9f2a9fcaf1.

It causes some strange Gnome problem with dbus-daemon getting stuck, so
we'll revert it until that problem is understood.

Reported by both walt and Greg KH, who both independently git-bisected
the problem to this commit.

Andreas is looking at it.

Reported-by: walt <wa1ter@myrealbox.com>
Reported-by: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Acked-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# eb3dfb0c 12-Feb-2007 Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>

[PATCH] Fix d_path for lazy unmounts

Here is a bugfix to d_path.

First, when d_path() hits a lazily unmounted mount point, it tries to
prepend the name of the lazily unmounted dentry to the path name. It gets
this wrong, and also overwrites the slash that separates the name from the
following pathname component. This is demonstrated by the attached test
case, which prints "getcwd returned d_path-bugsubdir" with the bug. The
correct result would be "getcwd returned d_path-bug/subdir".

It could be argued that the name of the root dentry should not be part of
the result of d_path in the first place. On the other hand, what the
unconnected namespace was once reachable as may provide some useful hints
to users, and so that seems okay.

Second, it isn't always possible to tell from the __d_path result whether
the specified root and rootmnt (i.e., the chroot) was reached: lazy
unmounts of bind mounts will produce a path that does start with a
non-slash so we can tell from that, but other lazy unmounts will produce a
path that starts with a slash, just like "ordinary" paths.

The attached patch cleans up __d_path() to fix the bug with overlapping
pathname components. It also adds a @fail_deleted argument, which allows
to get rid of some of the mess in sys_getcwd(). Grabbing the dcache_lock
can then also be moved into __d_path(). The patch also makes sure that
paths will only start with a slash for paths which are connected to the
root and rootmnt.

The @fail_deleted argument could be added to d_path() as well: this would
allow callers to recognize deleted files, without having to resort to the
ambiguous check for the " (deleted)" string at the end of the pathnames.
This is not currently done, but it might be worthwhile.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# b3423415 06-Dec-2006 Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>

[PATCH] dcache: avoid RCU for never-hashed dentries

Some dentries don't need to be globally visible in dentry hashtable.
(pipes & sockets)

Such dentries dont need to wait for a RCU grace period at delete time.
Being able to free them permits a better CPU cache use (hot cache)

This patch combined with (dont insert pipe dentries into dentry_hashtable)
reduced time of { pipe(p); close(p[0]); close(p[1]);} on my UP machine (1.6
GHz Pentium-M) from 3.23 us to 2.86 us (But this patch does not depend on
other patches, only bench results)

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>


# e18b890b 06-Dec-2006 Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>

[PATCH] slab: remove kmem_cache_t

Replace all uses of kmem_cache_t with struct kmem_cache.

The patch was generated using the following script:

#!/bin/sh
#
# Replace one string by another in all the kernel sources.
#

set -e

for file in `find * -name "*.c" -o -name "*.h"|xargs grep -l $1`; do
quilt add $file
sed -e "1,\$s/$1/$2/g" $file >/tmp/$$
mv /tmp/$$ $file
quilt refresh
done

The script was run like this

sh replace kmem_cache_t "struct kmem_cache"

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>


# f8713576 28-Oct-2006 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

[PATCH] VFS: Fix an error in unused dentry counting

With Vasily Averin <vvs@sw.ru>

Fix an error in unused dentry counting in shrink_dcache_for_umount_subtree()
in which the count is modified without the dcache_lock held.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Vasily Averin <vvs@sw.ru>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>


# 6eac3f93 28-Oct-2006 Vasily Averin <vvs@sw.ru>

[PATCH] missing unused dentry in prune_dcache()?

On the the following patch:
http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.6/gnupatch@449b144ecSF1rYskg3q-SeR2vf88zg

# ChangeSet
# 2006/06/22 15:05:57-07:00 neilb@suse.de
# [PATCH] Fix dcache race during umount

# If prune_dcache finds a dentry that it cannot free, it leaves it where it
# is (at the tail of the list) and exits, on the assumption that some other
# thread will be removing that dentry soon.

However as far as I see this comment is not correct: when we cannot take
s_umount rw_semaphore (for example because it was taken in do_remount) this
dentry is already extracted from dentry_unused list and we do not add it
into the list again. Therefore dentry will not be found by prune_dcache()
and shrink_dcache_sb() and will leave in memory very long time until the
partition will be unmounted.

The patch adds this dentry into tail of the dentry_unused list.

Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@sw.ru>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>


# 9eaef27b 21-Oct-2006 Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

[PATCH] VFS: Make d_materialise_unique() enforce directory uniqueness

If the caller tries to instantiate a directory using an inode that already
has a dentry alias, then we attempt to rename the existing dentry instead
of instantiating a new one. Fail with an ELOOP error if the rename would
affect one of our parent directories.

This behaviour is needed in order to avoid issues such as

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7178

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>


# c636ebdb 11-Oct-2006 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

[PATCH] VFS: Destroy the dentries contributed by a superblock on unmounting

The attached patch destroys all the dentries attached to a superblock in one go
by:

(1) Destroying the tree rooted at s_root.

(2) Destroying every entry in the anon list, one at a time.

(3) Each entry in the anon list has its subtree consumed from the leaves
inwards.

This reduces the amount of work generic_shutdown_super() does, and avoids
iterating through the dentry_unused list.

Note that locking is almost entirely absent in the shrink_dcache_for_umount*()
functions added by this patch. This is because:

(1) at the point the filesystem calls generic_shutdown_super(), it is not
permitted to further touch the superblock's set of dentries, and nor may
it remove aliases from inodes;

(2) the dcache memory shrinker now skips dentries that are being unmounted;
and

(3) the superblock no longer has any external references through which the VFS
can reach it.

Given these points, the only locking we need to do is when we remove dentries
from the unused list and the name hashes, which we do a directory's worth at a
time.

We also don't need to guard against reference counts going to zero unexpectedly
and removing bits of the tree we're working on as nothing else can call dput().

A cut down version of dentry_iput() has been folded into
shrink_dcache_for_umount_subtree() function. Apart from not needing to unlock
things, it also doesn't need to check for inotify watches.

In this version of the patch, the complaint about a dentry still being in use
has been expanded from a single BUG_ON() and now gives much more information.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Acked-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>


# 21c0d8fd 04-Oct-2006 NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>

[PATCH] knfsd: close a race-opportunity in d_splice_alias

There is a possible race in d_splice_alias. Though __d_find_alias(inode, 1)
will only return a dentry with DCACHE_DISCONNECTED set, it is possible for it
to get cleared before the BUG_ON, and it is is not possible to lock against
that.

There are a couple of problems here. Firstly, the code doesn't match the
comment. The comment describes a 'disconnected' dentry as being IS_ROOT as
well as DCACHE_DISCONNECTED, however there is not testing of IS_ROOT anythere.

A dentry is marked DCACHE_DISCONNECTED when allocated with d_alloc_anon, and
remains DCACHE_DISCONNECTED while a path is built up towards the root. So a
dentry can have a valid name and a valid parent and even grandparent, but will
still be DCACHE_DISCONNECTED until a path to the root is created. Once the
path to the root is complete, everything in the path gets DCACHE_DISCONNECTED
cleared. So the fact that DCACHE_DISCONNECTED isn't enough to say that a
dentry is free to be spliced in with a given name. This can only be allowed
if the dentry does not yet have a name, so the IS_ROOT test is needed too.

However even adding that test to __d_find_alias isn't enough. As
d_splice_alias drops dcache_lock before calling d_move to perform the splice,
it could race with another thread calling d_splice_alias to splice the inode
in with a different name in a different part of the tree (in the case where a
file has hard links). So that splicing code is only really safe for
directories (as we know that directories only have one link). For
directories, the caller of d_splice_alias will be holding i_mutex on the
(unique) parent so there is no room for a race.

A consequence of this is that a non-directory will never benefit from being
spliced into a pre-exisiting dentry, but that isn't a problem. It is
perfectly OK for a non-directory to have multiple dentries, some anonymous,
some not. And the comment for d_splice_alias says that it only happens for
directories anyway.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>


# 07f3f05c 30-Sep-2006 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

[PATCH] BLOCK: Move extern declarations out of fs/*.c into header files [try #6]

Create a new header file, fs/internal.h, for common definitions local to the
sources in the fs/ directory.

Move extern definitions that should be in header files from fs/*.c to
fs/internal.h or other main header files where they span directories.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>


# 770bfad8 22-Aug-2006 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

NFS: Add dentry materialisation op

The attached patch adds a new directory cache management function that prepares
a disconnected anonymous function to be connected into the dentry tree. The
anonymous dentry is transferred the name and parentage from another dentry.

The following changes were made in [try #2]:

(*) d_materialise_dentry() now switches the parentage of the two nodes around
correctly when one or other of them is self-referential.

The following changes were made in [try #7]:

(*) d_instantiate_unique() has had the interior part split out as function
__d_instantiate_unique(). Callers of this latter function must be holding
the appropriate locks.

(*) _d_rehash() has been added as a wrapper around __d_rehash() to call it
with the most obvious hash list (the one from the name). d_rehash() now
calls _d_rehash().

(*) d_materialise_dentry() is now __d_materialise_dentry() and is static.

(*) d_materialise_unique() added to perform the combination of d_find_alias(),
d_materialise_dentry() and d_add_unique() that the NFS client was doing
twice, all within a single dcache_lock critical section. This reduces the
number of times two different spinlocks were being accessed.

The following further changes were made:

(*) Add the dentries onto their parents d_subdirs lists.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>


# a90b9c05 03-Jul-2006 Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

[PATCH] lockdep: annotate dcache

Teach special (recursive) locking code to the lock validator. Has no effect
on non-lockdep kernels.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>


# e4d91918 03-Jul-2006 Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

[PATCH] lockdep: locking init debugging improvement

Locking init improvement:

- introduce and use __SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED for array initializations,
to pass in the name string of locks, used by debugging

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>


# 6ab3d562 30-Jun-2006 Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>

Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>

Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>


# 1bfba4e8 26-Jun-2006 Akinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com>

[PATCH] core: use list_move()

This patch converts the combination of list_del(A) and list_add(A, B) to
list_move(A, B).

Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>


# 8e13059a 26-Jun-2006 Akinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com>

[PATCH] use list_add_tail() instead of list_add()

This patch converts list_add(A, B.prev) to list_add_tail(A, &B) for
readability.

Acked-by: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
Cc: Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu>
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
AOLed-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>


# f58a1ebb 25-Jun-2006 Hua Zhong <hzhong@gmail.com>

[PATCH] remove unlikely(sb) in prune_dcache

likely profiling shows that the following is a miss.

After boot:
[+- ] Type | # True | # False | Function:Filename@Line
+unlikely | 1074| 0 prune_dcache()@:fs/dcache.c@409

After a bonnie++ run:
+unlikely | 66716| 19584 prune_dcache()@:fs/dcache.c@409

So remove it.

Signed-off-by: Hua Zhong <hzhong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>


# 454e2398 23-Jun-2006 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

[PATCH] VFS: Permit filesystem to override root dentry on mount

Extend the get_sb() filesystem operation to take an extra argument that
permits the VFS to pass in the target vfsmount that defines the mountpoint.

The filesystem is then required to manually set the superblock and root dentry
pointers. For most filesystems, this should be done with simple_set_mnt()
which will set the superblock pointer and then set the root dentry to the
superblock's s_root (as per the old default behaviour).

The get_sb() op now returns an integer as there's now no need to return the
superblock pointer.

This patch permits a superblock to be implicitly shared amongst several mount
points, such as can be done with NFS to avoid potential inode aliasing. In
such a case, simple_set_mnt() would not be called, and instead the mnt_root
and mnt_sb would be set directly.

The patch also makes the following changes:

(*) the get_sb_*() convenience functions in the core kernel now take a vfsmount
pointer argument and return an integer, so most filesystems have to change
very little.

(*) If one of the convenience function is not used, then get_sb() should
normally call simple_set_mnt() to instantiate the vfsmount. This will
always return 0, and so can be tail-called from get_sb().

(*) generic_shutdown_super() now calls shrink_dcache_sb() to clean up the
dcache upon superblock destruction rather than shrink_dcache_anon().

This is required because the superblock may now have multiple trees that
aren't actually bound to s_root, but that still need to be cleaned up. The
currently called functions assume that the whole tree is rooted at s_root,
and that anonymous dentries are not the roots of trees which results in
dentries being left unculled.

However, with the way NFS superblock sharing are currently set to be
implemented, these assumptions are violated: the root of the filesystem is
simply a dummy dentry and inode (the real inode for '/' may well be
inaccessible), and all the vfsmounts are rooted on anonymous[*] dentries
with child trees.

[*] Anonymous until discovered from another tree.

(*) The documentation has been adjusted, including the additional bit of
changing ext2_* into foo_* in the documentation.

[akpm@osdl.org: convert ipath_fs, do other stuff]
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>


# d702ccb3 22-Jun-2006 Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>

[PATCH] prune_one_dentry() tweaks

- Add description of d_lock handling to comments over prune_one_dentry().

- It has three callsites - uninline it, saving 200 bytes of text.

Cc: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Cc: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>


# 0feae5c4 22-Jun-2006 NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>

[PATCH] Fix dcache race during umount

The race is that the shrink_dcache_memory shrinker could get called while a
filesystem is being unmounted, and could try to prune a dentry belonging to
that filesystem.

If it does, then it will call in to iput on the inode while the dentry is
no longer able to be found by the umounting process. If iput takes a
while, generic_shutdown_super could get all the way though
shrink_dcache_parent and shrink_dcache_anon and invalidate_inodes without
ever waiting on this particular inode.

Eventually the superblock gets freed anyway and if the iput tried to touch
it (which some filesystems certainly do), it will lose. The promised
"Self-destruct in 5 seconds" doesn't lead to a nice day.

The race is closed by holding s_umount while calling prune_one_dentry on
someone else's dentry. As a down_read_trylock is used,
shrink_dcache_memory will no longer try to prune the dentry of a filesystem
that is being unmounted, and unmount will not be able to start until any
such active prune_one_dentry completes.

This requires that prune_dcache *knows* which filesystem (if any) it is
doing the prune on behalf of so that it can be careful of other
filesystems. shrink_dcache_memory isn't called it on behalf of any
filesystem, and so is careful of everything.

shrink_dcache_anon is now passed a super_block rather than the s_anon list
out of the superblock, so it can get the s_anon list itself, and can pass
the superblock down to prune_dcache.

If prune_dcache finds a dentry that it cannot free, it leaves it where it
is (at the tail of the list) and exits, on the assumption that some other
thread will be removing that dentry soon. To try to make sure that some
work gets done, a limited number of dnetries which are untouchable are
skipped over while choosing the dentry to work on.

I believe this race was first found by Kirill Korotaev.

Cc: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Acked-by: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Cc: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>


# 3e7e241f 31-Mar-2006 Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>

[PATCH] dcache: Add helper d_hash_and_lookup

It is very common to hash a dentry and then to call lookup. If we take fs
specific hash functions into account the full hash logic can get ugly.
Further full_name_hash as an inline function is almost 100 bytes on x86 so
having a non-inline choice in some cases can measurably decrease code size.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>


# 7a2bd3f7 31-Mar-2006 Amy Griffis <amy.griffis@hp.com>

[PATCH] inotify: IN_DELETE events missing

IN_DELETE events are no longer generated for the removal of a file from a
watched directory.

This seems to be a result of clearing DCACHE_INOTIFY_PARENT_WATCHED in
d_delete() directly before calling fsnotify_nameremove().

Assuming the flag doesn't need to be cleared before dentry_iput(), this
should do the trick.

Signed-off-by: Amy Griffis <amy.griffis@hp.com>
Cc: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>
Acked-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>


# 3be7d29f 26-Mar-2006 Artem B. Bityuckiy <dedekind@infradead.org>

Remove ugly debugging stuff

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>


# fa3536cc 26-Mar-2006 Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>

[PATCH] Use __read_mostly on some hot fs variables

I discovered on oprofile hunting on a SMP platform that dentry lookups were
slowed down because d_hash_mask, d_hash_shift and dentry_hashtable were in
a cache line that contained inodes_stat. So each time inodes_stats is
changed by a cpu, other cpus have to refill their cache line.

This patch moves some variables to the __read_mostly section, in order to
avoid false sharing. RCU dentry lookups can go full speed.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>


# 28133c7b 26-Mar-2006 Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>

BUG_ON() Conversion in fs/dcache.c

this changes if() BUG(); constructs to BUG_ON() which is
cleaner and can better optimized away

Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>


# 2ab13460 25-Mar-2006 Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>

[PATCH] Reduce sched latency in shrink_dcache_sb()

This patch reduces scheduling latency in shrink_dcache_sb() noticed during
remounting of big partitions with many cached dentries. The same latency
fix was applied to select_parent() long ago.

Signed-off-by: Denis Lunev <den@sw.ru>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@sw.ru>
Signed-off-by: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>


# c32ccd87 25-Mar-2006 Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>

[PATCH] inotify: lock avoidance with parent watch status in dentry

Previous inotify work avoidance is good when inotify is completely unused,
but it breaks down if even a single watch is in place anywhere in the
system. Robin Holt notices that udev is one such culprit - it slows down a
512-thread application on a 512 CPU system from 6 seconds to 22 minutes.

Solve this by adding a flag in the dentry that tells inotify whether or not
its parent inode has a watch on it. Event queueing to parent will skip
taking locks if this flag is cleared. Setting and clearing of this flag on
all child dentries versus event delivery: this is no in terms of race
cases, and that was shown to be equivalent to always performing the check.

The essential behaviour is that activity occuring _after_ a watch has been
added and _before_ it has been removed, will generate events.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
Cc: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>


# 214fda1f 25-Mar-2006 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

[PATCH] Optimise d_find_alias()

The attached patch optimises d_find_alias() to only take the spinlock if
there's anything in the the inode's alias list. If there isn't, it returns
NULL immediately.

With respect to the superblock sharing patch, this should reduce by one the
number of times the dcache_lock is taken by nfs_lookup() for ordinary
directory lookups.

Only in the case where there's already a dentry for particular directory inode
(such as might happen when another mountpoint is rooted at that dentry) will
the lock then be taken the extra time.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>


# b0196009 24-Mar-2006 Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>

[PATCH] cpuset memory spread slab cache hooks

Change the kmem_cache_create calls for certain slab caches to support cpuset
memory spreading.

See the previous patches, cpuset_mem_spread, for an explanation of cpuset
memory spreading, and cpuset_mem_spread_slab_cache for the slab cache support
for memory spreading.

The slab caches marked for now are: dentry_cache, inode_cache, some xfs slab
caches, and buffer_head. This list may change over time. In particular,
other file system types that are used extensively on large NUMA systems may
want to allow for spreading their directory and inode slab cache entries.

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>


# 529bf6be 07-Mar-2006 Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>

[PATCH] fix file counting

I have benchmarked this on an x86_64 NUMA system and see no significant
performance difference on kernbench. Tested on both x86_64 and powerpc.

The way we do file struct accounting is not very suitable for batched
freeing. For scalability reasons, file accounting was
constructor/destructor based. This meant that nr_files was decremented
only when the object was removed from the slab cache. This is susceptible
to slab fragmentation. With RCU based file structure, consequent batched
freeing and a test program like Serge's, we just speed this up and end up
with a very fragmented slab -

llm22:~ # cat /proc/sys/fs/file-nr
587730 0 758844

At the same time, I see only a 2000+ objects in filp cache. The following
patch I fixes this problem.

This patch changes the file counting by removing the filp_count_lock.
Instead we use a separate percpu counter, nr_files, for now and all
accesses to it are through get_nr_files() api. In the sysctl handler for
nr_files, we populate files_stat.nr_files before returning to user.

Counting files as an when they are created and destroyed (as opposed to
inside slab) allows us to correctly count open files with RCU.

Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>


# 47ba87e0 03-Feb-2006 Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>

[PATCH] make "struct d_cookie" depend on CONFIG_PROFILING

Shrinks "struct dentry" from 128 bytes to 124 on x86, allowing 31 objects
per slab instead of 30.

Cc: John Levon <levon@movementarian.org>
Cc: Philippe Elie <phil.el@wanadoo.fr>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>


# 858119e1 14-Jan-2006 Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>

[PATCH] Unlinline a bunch of other functions

Remove the "inline" keyword from a bunch of big functions in the kernel with
the goal of shrinking it by 30kb to 40kb

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>


# e866cfa9 09-Jan-2006 Oleg Drokin <green@linuxhacker.ru>

[PATCH] d_instantiate_unique / NFS inode leakage

If we have found aliased dentry that we return, inode reference is not
dropped and inode is not attached anywhere, so it seems the reference to
inode is leaked in that case.

Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>,
Cc: <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>


# 5160ee6f 08-Jan-2006 Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>

[PATCH] shrink dentry struct

Some long time ago, dentry struct was carefully tuned so that on 32 bits
UP, sizeof(struct dentry) was exactly 128, ie a power of 2, and a multiple
of memory cache lines.

Then RCU was added and dentry struct enlarged by two pointers, with nice
results for SMP, but not so good on UP, because breaking the above tuning
(128 + 8 = 136 bytes)

This patch reverts this unwanted side effect, by using an union (d_u),
where d_rcu and d_child are placed so that these two fields can share their
memory needs.

At the time d_free() is called (and d_rcu is really used), d_child is known
to be empty and not touched by the dentry freeing.

Lockless lookups only access d_name, d_parent, d_lock, d_op, d_flags (so
the previous content of d_child is not needed if said dentry was unhashed
but still accessed by a CPU because of RCU constraints)

As dentry cache easily contains millions of entries, a size reduction is
worth the extra complexity of the ugly C union.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@epoch.ncsc.mil>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>


# 665a7583 07-Nov-2005 Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>

[PATCH] Remove hlist_for_each_rcu() API, convert existing use to hlist_for_each_entry_rcu

Remove the hlist_for_each_rcu() API, which is used only in one place, and
is trivially converted to hlist_for_each_entry_rcu(), making the code
shorter and more readable. Any out-of-tree uses may be similarly
converted.

Signed-off-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>


# 27496a8c 21-Oct-2005 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

[PATCH] gfp_t: fs/*

- ->releasepage() annotated (s/int/gfp_t), instances updated
- missing gfp_t in fs/* added
- fixed misannotation from the original sweep caught by bitwise checks:
XFS used __nocast both for gfp_t and for flags used by XFS allocator.
The latter left with unsigned int __nocast; we might want to add a
different type for those but for now let's leave them alone. That,
BTW, is a case when __nocast use had been actively confusing - it had
been used in the same code for two different and similar types, with
no way to catch misuses. Switch of gfp_t to bitwise had caught that
immediately...

One tricky bit is left alone to be dealt with later - mapping->flags is
a mix of gfp_t and error indications. Left alone for now.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>


# f805fbda 19-Sep-2005 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>

Make fsnotify possibly work better for the inode removal case

Checking i_nlink is dubious, but the alternatives look even
less appetizing.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>


# 0cdca3f9 10-Sep-2005 Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>

[PATCH] janitor: fs/dcache.c: list_for_each*

First one is list_for_each_entry (thanks maks), second 2 list_for_each_safe.

Signed-off-by: Maximilian Attems <janitor@sternwelten.at>
Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>


# 7a91bf7f 08-Aug-2005 John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>

[PATCH] fsnotify_name/inoderemove

The patch below unhooks fsnotify from vfs_unlink & vfs_rmdir. It
introduces two new fsnotify calls, that are hooked in at the dcache
level. This not only more closely matches how the VFS layer works, it
also avoids the problem with locking and inode lifetimes.

The two functions are

- fsnotify_nameremove -- called when a directory entry is going away.
It notifies the PARENT of the deletion. This is called from
d_delete().

- inoderemove -- called when the files inode itself is going away. It
notifies the inode that is being deleted. This is called from
dentry_iput().

Signed-off-by: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>


# 75c96f85 05-May-2005 Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>

[PATCH] make some things static

This patch makes some needlessly global identifiers static.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>


# 1da177e4 16-Apr-2005 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org>

Linux-2.6.12-rc2

Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!