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Trond Myklebust
11de3b11e0 NFS: Fix a memory leak in nfs_readdir
We need to ensure that the entries in the nfs_cache_array get cleared
when the page is removed from the page cache. To do so, we use the
freepage address_space operation.

Change nfs_readdir_clear_array to use kmap_atomic(), so that the
function can be safely called from all contexts.

Finally, modify the cache_page_release helper to call
nfs_readdir_clear_array directly, when dealing with an anonymous
page from 'uncached_readdir'.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-12-02 09:58:00 -05:00
Benny Halevy
e5e940170b NFS: create and destroy inode's layout cache
At the start of the io paths, try to grab the relevant layout
information.  This will initiate the inode's layout cache, but
stubs ensure the cache stays empty.

Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Dean Hildebrand <dhildebz@umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Marc Eshel <eshel@almaden.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Tao Guo <guotao@nrchpc.ac.cn>
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Labiaga <ricardo.labiaga@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Fred Isaman <iisaman@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-10-24 18:07:10 -04:00
Bryan Schumaker
0715dc632a NFS: remove readdir plus limit
We will now use readdir plus even on directories that are very large.

Signed-off-by: Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-10-23 15:27:32 -04:00
Bryan Schumaker
955a857e06 NFS: new idmapper
This patch creates a new idmapper system that uses the request-key function to
place a call into userspace to map user and group ids to names.  The old
idmapper was single threaded, which prevented more than one request from running
at a single time.  This means that a user would have to wait for an upcall to
finish before accessing a cached result.

The upcall result is stored on a keyring of type id_resolver.  See the file
Documentation/filesystems/nfs/idmapper.txt for instructions.

Signed-off-by: Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@netapp.com>
[Trond: fix up the return value of nfs_idmap_lookup_name and clean up code]
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-10-07 18:48:49 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
5c78f58e2d NFS: Really fix put_nfs_open_context()
In nfs_open_revalidate(), if the open_context() call returns an inode that
is not the same as dentry->d_inode, then we will call
put_nfs_open_context() with a valid dentry->d_inode, but without the
context being part of the nfsi->open_files list.

In this case too, we want to just skip the list removal, but we do want to
call the ->close_context() callback in order to close the NFSv4 state.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
2010-09-29 14:41:36 -04:00
Benny Halevy
ef84303ebc NFS: handle inode==NULL in __put_nfs_open_context
inode may be NULL when put_nfs_open_context is called from nfs_atomic_lookup
before d_add_unique(dentry, inode)

Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-09-23 12:22:09 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
609588928f NFS: Convert nfsiod to use alloc_workqueue()
create_singlethread_workqueue() is deprecated.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-09-21 16:55:31 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
cd9a1c0e5a NFSv4: Clean up nfs4_atomic_open
Start moving the 'struct nameidata' dependent code out of the lower level
NFS code in preparation for the removal of open intents.

Instead of the struct nameidata, we pass down a partially initialised
struct nfs_open_context that will be fully initialised by the atomic open
upon success.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-09-17 10:56:50 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
5f248c9c25 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (96 commits)
  no need for list_for_each_entry_safe()/resetting with superblock list
  Fix sget() race with failing mount
  vfs: don't hold s_umount over close_bdev_exclusive() call
  sysv: do not mark superblock dirty on remount
  sysv: do not mark superblock dirty on mount
  btrfs: remove junk sb_dirt change
  BFS: clean up the superblock usage
  AFFS: wait for sb synchronization when needed
  AFFS: clean up dirty flag usage
  cifs: truncate fallout
  mbcache: fix shrinker function return value
  mbcache: Remove unused features
  add f_flags to struct statfs(64)
  pass a struct path to vfs_statfs
  update VFS documentation for method changes.
  All filesystems that need invalidate_inode_buffers() are doing that explicitly
  convert remaining ->clear_inode() to ->evict_inode()
  Make ->drop_inode() just return whether inode needs to be dropped
  fs/inode.c:clear_inode() is gone
  fs/inode.c:evict() doesn't care about delete vs. non-delete paths now
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts in fs/nilfs2/super.c
2010-08-10 11:26:52 -07:00
Al Viro
b57922d97f convert remaining ->clear_inode() to ->evict_inode()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-08-09 16:48:37 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
1b924e5f87 NFS: Clean up the callers of nfs_wb_all()
There is no need to flush out writes before calling nfs_wb_all().

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-08-03 22:06:40 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
f11ac8db5d NFSv4: Ensure that we track the NFSv4 lock state in read/write requests.
This patch fixes bugzilla entry 14501:
  https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14501

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-07-30 14:41:56 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
d7cf8dd012 NFSv4: Allow attribute caching with 'noac' mounts if client holds a delegation
If the server has given us a delegation on a file, we _know_ that we can
cache the attribute information even when the user has specified 'noac'.

Reviewed-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-05-14 15:09:30 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
987f8dfc98 NFS: Reduce stack footprint of nfs_setattr()
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-05-14 15:09:27 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
a3cba2aad9 NFS: Reduce stack footprint of nfs_revalidate_inode()
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-05-14 15:09:24 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
2d36bfde85 NFS: Add helper functions for allocating filehandles and fattr structs
NFS Filehandles and struct fattr are really too large to be allocated on
the stack. This patch adds in a couple of helper functions to allocate them
dynamically instead.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-05-14 15:09:21 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
1544fa0f7a NFS: Fix the mode calculation in nfs_find_open_context
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-04-09 19:08:16 -04:00
Tejun Heo
5a0e3ad6af include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h
percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
Trond Myklebust
b4d2314bb8 NFSv4: Don't ignore the NFS_INO_REVAL_FORCED flag in nfs_revalidate_inode()
If the NFS_INO_REVAL_FORCED flag is set, that means that we don't yet have
an up to date attribute cache. Even if we hold a delegation, we must
put a GETATTR on the wire.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
2010-03-10 15:21:44 -05:00
Trond Myklebust
3fa04ecd72 Merge branch 'writeback-for-2.6.34' into nfs-for-2.6.34 2010-03-05 15:46:18 -05:00
Trond Myklebust
1cda707d52 NFS: Remove requirement for inode->i_mutex from nfs_invalidate_mapping
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-03-05 15:44:56 -05:00
Trond Myklebust
5cf95214cc NFS: Clean up nfs_sync_mapping
Remove the redundant call to filemap_write_and_wait().

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-03-05 15:44:56 -05:00
Trond Myklebust
acdc53b214 NFS: Replace __nfs_write_mapping with sync_inode()
Now that we have correct COMMIT semantics in writeback_single_inode, we can
reduce and simplify nfs_wb_all(). Also replace nfs_wb_nocommit() with a
call to filemap_write_and_wait(), which doesn't need to hold the
inode->i_mutex.

With that done, we can eliminate nfs_write_mapping() altogether.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-03-05 15:44:55 -05:00
Trond Myklebust
ff778d02bf NFS: Add a count of the number of unstable writes carried by an inode
In order to know when we should do opportunistic commits of the unstable
writes, when the VM is doing a background flush, we add a field to count
the number of unstable writes.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-03-05 15:44:54 -05:00
Trond Myklebust
8fc795f703 NFS: Cleanup - move nfs_write_inode() into fs/nfs/write.c
The sole purpose of nfs_write_inode is to commit unstable writes, so
move it into fs/nfs/write.c, and make nfs_commit_inode static.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-03-05 15:44:53 -05:00
Christoph Hellwig
a9185b41a4 pass writeback_control to ->write_inode
This gives the filesystem more information about the writeback that
is happening.  Trond requested this for the NFS unstable write handling,
and other filesystems might benefit from this too by beeing able to
distinguish between the different callers in more detail.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-03-05 13:25:52 -05:00
Christoph Hellwig
26821ed40b make sure data is on disk before calling ->write_inode
Similar to the fsync issue fixed a while ago in commit
2daea67e96 we need to write for data to
actually hit the disk before writing out the metadata to guarantee
data integrity for filesystems that modify the inode in the data I/O
completion path.  Currently XFS and NFS handle this manually, and AFS
has a write_inode method that does nothing but waiting for data, while
others are possibly missing out on this.

Fortunately this change has a lot less impact than the fsync change
as none of the write_inode methods starts data writeout of any form
by itself.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-03-05 13:25:10 -05:00
Al Viro
6eae7974d0 Switch alloc_nfs_open_context() to struct path
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-03-03 14:07:56 -05:00
Chuck Lever
f895c53f8a NFS: Make close(2) asynchronous when closing NFS O_DIRECT files
For NFSv2 and v3:

O_DIRECT writes are always synchronous, and aren't cached, so nothing
should be flushed when closing an NFS O_DIRECT file descriptor.  Thus
there are no write errors to report on close(2).

In addition, there's no cached data to verify on the next open(2),
so we don't need clean GETATTR results at close time to compare with.

Thus, there's no need for the nfs_revalidate_inode() call when closing
an NFS O_DIRECT file.  This reduces the number of synchronous
on-the-wire requests for a simple open-write-close of an NFS O_DIRECT
file by roughly 20%.

For NFSv4:

Call nfs4_do_close() with wait set to zero when closing an NFS
O_DIRECT file.  The CLOSE will go on the wire, but the application
won't wait for it to complete.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-02-10 08:31:05 -05:00
Trond Myklebust
9b4b351346 NFS: Don't clobber the attribute type in nfs_update_inode()
If the NFS_ATTR_FATTR_TYPE field isn't set in fattr->valid, then we should
not set the S_IFMT part of inode->i_mode.

Reported-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-02-03 08:27:35 -05:00
npiggin@suse.de
c08d3b0e33 truncate: use new helpers
Update some fs code to make use of new helper functions introduced
in the previous patch. Should be no significant change in behaviour
(except CIFS now calls send_sig under i_lock, via inode_newsize_ok).

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com
Cc: linux-cifs-client@lists.samba.org
Cc: sfrench@samba.org
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-09-24 08:41:47 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
e571cbf1a4 NFS: Add a dns resolver for use with NFSv4 referrals and migration
The NFSv4 and NFSv4.1 protocols both allow for the redirection of a client
from one server to another in order to support filesystem migration and
replication. For full protocol support, we need to add the ability to
convert a DNS host name into an IP address that we can feed to the RPC
client.

We'll reuse the sunrpc cache, now that it has been converted to work with
rpc_pipefs.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-08-19 18:22:15 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
62ab460cf5 NFSv4: Add 'server capability' flags for NFSv4 recommended attributes
If the NFSv4 server doesn't support a POSIX attribute, the generic NFS code
needs to know that, so that it don't keep trying to poll for it.

However, by the same count, if the NFSv4 server does support that
attribute, then we should ensure that the inode metadata is appropriately
labelled as being untrusted. For instance, if we don't know the correct
value of the file's uid, we should certainly not be caching ACLs or ACCESS
results.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-08-09 15:06:19 -04:00
Alexey Dobriyan
405f55712d headers: smp_lock.h redux
* Remove smp_lock.h from files which don't need it (including some headers!)
* Add smp_lock.h to files which do need it
* Make smp_lock.h include conditional in hardirq.h
  It's needed only for one kernel_locked() usage which is under CONFIG_PREEMPT

  This will make hardirq.h inclusion cheaper for every PREEMPT=n config
  (which includes allmodconfig/allyesconfig, BTW)

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-07-12 12:22:34 -07:00
David Howells
ef79c097bb NFS: Use local disk inode cache
Bind data storage objects in the local cache to NFS inodes.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
2009-04-03 16:42:43 +01:00
David Howells
8ec442ae4c NFS: Register NFS for caching and retrieve the top-level index
Register NFS for caching and retrieve the top-level cache index object cookie.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
2009-04-03 16:42:42 +01:00
Trond Myklebust
7fe5c398fc NFS: Optimise NFS close()
Close-to-open cache consistency rules really only require us to flush out
writes on calls to close(), and require us to revalidate attributes on the
very last close of the file.

Currently we appear to be doing a lot of extra attribute revalidation
and cache flushes.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-03-19 15:35:50 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
72cb77f4a5 NFS: Throttle page dirtying while we're flushing to disk
The following patch is a combination of a patch by myself and Peter
Staubach.

Trond: If we allow other processes to dirty pages while a process is doing
a consistency sync to disk, we can end up never making progress.

Peter: Attached is a patch which addresses a continuing problem with
the NFS client generating out of order WRITE requests.  While
this is compliant with all of the current protocol
specifications, there are servers in the market which can not
handle out of order WRITE requests very well.  Also, this may
lead to sub-optimal block allocations in the underlying file
system on the server.  This may cause the read throughputs to
be reduced when reading the file from the server.

Peter: There has been a lot of work recently done to address out of
order issues on a systemic level.  However, the NFS client is
still susceptible to the problem.  Out of order WRITE
requests can occur when pdflush is in the middle of writing
out pages while the process dirtying the pages calls
generic_file_buffered_write which calls
generic_perform_write which calls
balance_dirty_pages_rate_limited which ends up calling
writeback_inodes which ends up calling back into the NFS
client to writes out dirty pages for the same file that
pdflush happens to be working with.

Signed-off-by: Peter Staubach <staubach@redhat.com>
[modification by Trond to merge the two similar patches]
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-03-11 14:10:30 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
fb8a1f11b6 NFS: cleanup - remove struct nfs_inode->ncommit
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-03-11 14:10:29 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
9e6e70f8d8 NFSv4: Support NFSv4 optional attributes in the struct nfs_fattr
Currently, filling struct nfs_fattr is more or less an all or nothing
operation, since NFSv2 and NFSv3 have only mandatory attributes.
In NFSv4, some attributes are optional, and so we may simply not be able to
fill in those fields. Furthermore, NFSv4 allows you to specify which
attributes you are interested in retrieving, thus permitting you to
optimise away retrieval of attributes that you know will no change...

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-03-11 14:10:24 -04:00
NeilBrown
37d9d76d8b NFS: flush cached directory information slightly more readily.
If cached directory contents becomes incorrect, there is no way to
flush the contents.  This contrasts with files where file locking is
the recommended way to ensure cache consistency between multiple
applications (a read-lock always flushes the cache).

Also while changes to files often change the size of the file (thus
triggering a cache flush), changes to directories often do not change
the apparent size (as the size is often rounded to a block size).

So it is particularly important with directories to avoid the
possibility of an incorrect cache wherever possible.

When the link count on a directory changes it implies a change in the
number of child directories, and so a change in the contents of this
directory.  So use that as a trigger to flush cached contents.

When the ctime changes but the mtime does not, there are two possible
reasons.
 1/ The owner/mode information has been changed.
 2/ utimes has been used to set the mtime backwards.

In the first case, a data-cache flush is not required.
In the second case it is.

So on the basis that correctness trumps performance, flush the
directory contents cache in this case also.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-03-11 14:10:23 -04:00
Suresh Jayaraman
2b57dc6cf9 NFS: Minor __nfs_revalidate_inode cleanup
Remove redundant NFS_STALE() check, a leftover due to the commit
691beb13cd

Signed-off-by: Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-03-11 14:10:22 -04:00
Peter Staubach
64672d55d9 optimize attribute timeouts for "noac" and "actimeo=0"
Hi.

I've been looking at a bugzilla which describes a problem where
a customer was advised to use either the "noac" or "actimeo=0"
mount options to solve a consistency problem that they were
seeing in the file attributes.  It turned out that this solution
did not work reliably for them because sometimes, the local
attribute cache was believed to be valid and not timed out.
(With an attribute cache timeout of 0, the cache should always
appear to be timed out.)

In looking at this situation, it appears to me that the problem
is that the attribute cache timeout code has an off-by-one
error in it.  It is assuming that the cache is valid in the
region, [read_cache_jiffies, read_cache_jiffies + attrtimeo].  The
cache should be considered valid only in the region,
[read_cache_jiffies, read_cache_jiffies + attrtimeo).  With this
change, the options, "noac" and "actimeo=0", work as originally
expected.

This problem was previously addressed by special casing the
attrtimeo == 0 case.  However, since the problem is only an off-
by-one error, the cleaner solution is address the off-by-one
error and thus, not require the special case.

    Thanx...

        ps

Signed-off-by: Peter Staubach <staubach@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-12-23 15:21:56 -05:00
Trond Myklebust
dc0b027dfa NFSv4: Convert the open and close ops to use fmode
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-12-23 15:21:56 -05:00
Trond Myklebust
ae05f26940 NFS: Convert nfs_attr_generation_counter into an atomic_long
The most important property we need from nfs_attr_generation_counter is
monotonicity, which is not guaranteed by the current system of smp memory
barriers. We should convert it to an atomic_long_t, and drop the memory
barriers.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-10-28 15:21:40 -04:00
Alan Cox
526719ba51 Switch to a valid email address...
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-27 08:40:17 -07:00
Trond Myklebust
011935a0a7 NFS: Fix a resolution problem with nfs_inode->cache_change_attribute
The cache_change_attribute is used to decide whether or not a directory has
changed, in which case we may need to look it up again. Again, the use of
'jiffies' leads to an issue of resolution.

Once again, the fix is to change nfs_inode->cache_change_attribute, and
just make it a simple counter.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-10-14 19:24:50 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
4704f0e274 NFS: Fix the resolution problem with nfs_inode_attrs_need_update()
It appears that 'jiffies' timestamps do not have high enough resolution for
nfs_inode_attrs_need_update(). One problem is that a GETATTR can be
launched within < 1 jiffy of the last operation that updated the attribute.
Another problem is that RPC calls can take < 1 jiffy to execute.

We can fix this by switching the variables to use a simple global counter
that gets incremented every time we start another GETATTR call.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-10-14 19:23:17 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
921615f111 NFS: Changes to inode->i_nlinks must set the NFS_INO_INVALID_ATTR flag
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-10-14 19:23:07 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
03254e65a6 NFS: Fix attribute updates
This fixes a regression seen when running the Connectathon testsuite
against an ext3 filesystem. The reason was that the inode was constantly
being marked as 'just updated' by the jiffy wraparound test.
This again meant that newer GETATTR calls were failing to pass the
nfs_inode_attrs_need_update() test unless the changes caused a ctime update
on the server, since they were perceived as having been started before the
latest inode update.

Given that nfs_inode_attrs_need_update() already checks for wraparound
of nfsi->last_updated, we can drop the buggy "protection" in
nfs_update_inode().

Also make a slight micro-optimisation of nfs_inode_attrs_need_update(): we
are more often going to see time_after(fattr->time_start, nfsi->last_updated)
be true, rather than seeing an update of ctime/size, so put that test
first to ensure that we optimise away the ctime/size tests.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-10-09 13:34:07 -04:00