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Trond Myklebust cc85906110 Merge branch 'devel' into for-linus 2009-04-01 13:28:15 -04:00
Nick Piggin c2ec175c39 mm: page_mkwrite change prototype to match fault
Change the page_mkwrite prototype to take a struct vm_fault, and return
VM_FAULT_xxx flags.  There should be no functional change.

This makes it possible to return much more detailed error information to
the VM (and also can provide more information eg.  virtual_address to the
driver, which might be important in some special cases).

This is required for a subsequent fix.  And will also make it easier to
merge page_mkwrite() with fault() in future.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org>
Cc: Felix Blyakher <felixb@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-01 08:59:14 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan 99b7623380 proc 2/2: remove struct proc_dir_entry::owner
Setting ->owner as done currently (pde->owner = THIS_MODULE) is racy
as correctly noted at bug #12454. Someone can lookup entry with NULL
->owner, thus not pinning enything, and release it later resulting
in module refcount underflow.

We can keep ->owner and supply it at registration time like ->proc_fops
and ->data.

But this leaves ->owner as easy-manipulative field (just one C assignment)
and somebody will forget to unpin previous/pin current module when
switching ->owner. ->proc_fops is declared as "const" which should give
some thoughts.

->read_proc/->write_proc were just fixed to not require ->owner for
protection.

rmmod'ed directories will be empty and return "." and ".." -- no harm.
And directories with tricky enough readdir and lookup shouldn't be modular.
We definitely don't want such modular code.

Removing ->owner will also make PDE smaller.

So, let's nuke it.

Kudos to Jeff Layton for reminding about this, let's say, oversight.

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12454

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
2009-03-31 01:14:44 +04:00
Chuck Lever 3c8c45dfab NFS: Simplify logic to compare socket addresses in client.c
Callback requests from IPv4 servers are now always guaranteed to be
AF_INET, and never mapped IPv4 AF_INET6 addresses.  Both
nfs_match_client() and nfs_find_client() can now share the same
address comparison logic, so fold them together.

We can also dispense with of most of the conditional compilation
in here.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-03-28 16:51:04 -04:00
Trond Myklebust d188262d60 Merge commit '9f4c899c0d90e1b51b6864834f3877b47c161a0e' into devel 2009-03-28 16:50:58 -04:00
Chuck Lever f738f51703 NFS: Start PF_INET6 callback listener only if IPv6 support is available
Apparently a lot of people need to disable IPv6 completely on their
distributor-built systems, which have CONFIG_IPV6_MODULE enabled at
build time.

They do this by blacklisting the ipv6.ko module.  This causes the
creation of the NFSv4 callback service listener to fail if
CONFIG_IPV6_MODULE is set, but the module cannot be loaded.

Now that the kernel's PF_INET6 RPC listeners are completely separate
from PF_INET listeners, we can always start PF_INET.  Then the NFS
client can try to start a PF_INET6 listener, but it isn't required
to be available.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-03-28 16:02:43 -04:00
Chuck Lever 26298caaca NFS: Revert creation of IPv6 listeners for lockd and NFSv4 callbacks
We're about to convert over to using separate PF_INET and PF_INET6
listeners, instead of a single PF_INET6 listener that also receives
AF_INET requests and maps them to AF_INET6.

Clear the way by removing the logic in lockd and the NFSv4 callback
server that creates an AF_INET6 service listener.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-03-28 15:55:06 -04:00
Chuck Lever 49a9072f29 SUNRPC: Remove @family argument from svc_create() and svc_create_pooled()
Since an RPC service listener's protocol family is specified now via
svc_create_xprt(), it no longer needs to be passed to svc_create() or
svc_create_pooled().  Remove that argument from the synopsis of those
functions, and remove the sv_family field from the svc_serv struct.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-03-28 15:54:48 -04:00
Chuck Lever 9652ada3fb SUNRPC: Change svc_create_xprt() to take a @family argument
The sv_family field is going away.  Pass a protocol family argument to
svc_create_xprt() instead of extracting the family from the passed-in
svc_serv struct.

Again, as this is a listener socket and not an address, we make this
new argument an "int" protocol family, instead of an "sa_family_t."

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-03-28 15:54:36 -04:00
Al Viro f786aa90e0 constify dentry_operations: NFS
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-03-27 14:43:59 -04:00
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 b1e4adf4ea NFS: Fix the notifications when renaming onto an existing file
NFS appears to be returning an unnecessary "delete" notification when
we're doing an atomic rename. See

  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=575684

The fix is to get rid of the redundant call to d_delete().

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-03-19 15:35:49 -04:00
Trond Myklebust 47c6256420 NFS: Fix up a mismerged patch
Move the definition of nfs_need_commit() into the #ifdef CONFIG_NFS_V3
section as originally intended in the patch "NFS: cleanup - remove
struct nfs_inode->ncommit"

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-03-19 15:17:40 -04:00
Trond Myklebust 9f4c899c0d NFS: Fix the fix to Bugzilla #11061, when IPv6 isn't defined...
Stephen Rothwell reports:

Today's linux-next build (powerpc ppc64_defconfig) failed like this:

fs/built-in.o: In function `.nfs_get_client':
client.c:(.text+0x115010): undefined reference to `.__ipv6_addr_type'

Fix by moving the IPV6 specific parts of commit
d7371c41b0 ("Bug 11061, NFS mounts dropped")
into the '#ifdef IPV6..." section.

Also fix up a couple of formatting issues.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-03-12 14:51:32 -04:00
Tom Talpey a67d18f89f NFS: load the rpc/rdma transport module automatically
When mounting an NFS/RDMA server with the "-o proto=rdma" or
"-o rdma" options, attempt to dynamically load the necessary
"xprtrdma" client transport module. Doing so improves usability,
while avoiding a static module dependency and any unnecesary
resources.

Signed-off-by: Tom Talpey <tmtalpey@gmail.com>
Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-03-11 14:37:56 -04:00
Trond Myklebust e1ebfd33be NFS: Kill the "defined but not used" compile error on nommu machines
Bryan Wu reports that when compiling NFS on nommu machines he gets a
"defined but not used" error on nfs_file_mmap().

The easiest fix is simply to get rid of the special casing in NFS, and
just always call generic_file_mmap() to set up the file.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-03-11 14:37:54 -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 a65318bf3a NFSv4: Simplify some cache consistency post-op GETATTRs
Certain asynchronous operations such as write() do not expect
(or care) that other metadata such as the file owner, mode, acls, ...
change. All they want to do is update and/or check the change attribute,
ctime, and mtime.
By skipping the file owner and group update, we also avoid having to do a
potential idmapper upcall for these asynchronous RPC calls.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-03-11 14:10:28 -04:00
Trond Myklebust 69aaaae18f NFSv4: A referral is assumed to always point to a directory.
Fix a bug whereby we would fail to create a mount point for a referral.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-03-11 14:10:28 -04:00
Trond Myklebust 409924e4c9 NFSv4: Make decode_getfattr() set fattr->valid to reflect what was decoded
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-03-11 14:10:27 -04:00
Trond Myklebust f26c7a7887 NFSv4: Clean up decode_getfattr()
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-03-11 14:10:26 -04:00
Trond Myklebust bca794785c NFS: Fix the type of struct nfs_fattr->mode
There is no point in using anything other than umode_t, since we copy the
content pretty much directly into inode->i_mode.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-03-11 14:10:26 -04:00
Trond Myklebust 1ca277d88d NFS: Shrink the struct nfs_fattr
We don't need the bitmap[] field anymore, since the 'valid' field tells us
all we need to know about which attributes were filled in...
Also move the pre-op attributes in order to improve the structure packing.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-03-11 14:10:25 -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
Trond Myklebust 78f945f88e NFSv4: Ignore errors on the post-op attributes in SETATTR calls
There is no need to fail or retry a SETATTR call just because the post-op
GETATTR failed.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-03-11 14:10:23 -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
Ian Dall d7371c41b0 Bug 11061, NFS mounts dropped
Addresses: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11061

sockaddr structures can't be reliably compared using memcmp() because
there are padding bytes in the structure which can't be guaranteed to
be the same even when the sockaddr structures refer to the same
socket. Instead compare all the relevant fields. In the case of IPv6
sin6_flowinfo is not compared because it only affects QoS and
sin6_scope_id is only compared if the address is "link local" because
"link local" addresses need only be unique to a specific link.

Signed-off-by: Ian Dall <ian@beware.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-03-10 20:33:22 -04:00
Suresh Jayaraman a71ee337b3 NFS: Handle -ESTALE error in access()
Hi Trond,

I have been looking at a bugreport where trying to open applications on KDE
on a NFS mounted home fails temporarily. There have been multiple reports on
different kernel versions pointing to this common issue:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12557
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/269954
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=508866.html

This issue can be reproducible consistently by doing this on a NFS mounted
home (KDE):
1. Open 2 xterm sessions
2. From one of the xterm session, do "ssh -X <remote host>"
3. "stat ~/.Xauthority" on the remote SSH session
4. Close the two xterm sessions
5. On the server do a "stat ~/.Xauthority"
6. Now on the client, try to open xterm
This will fail.

Even if the filehandle had become stale, the NFS client should invalidate
the cache/inode and should repeat LOOKUP. Looking at the packet capture when
the failure occurs shows that there were two subsequent ACCESS() calls with
the same filehandle and both fails with -ESTALE error.

I have tested the fix below. Now the client issue a LOOKUP after the
ACCESS() call fails with -ESTALE. If all this makes sense to you, can you
consider this for inclusion?

Thanks,


If the server returns an -ESTALE error due to stale filehandle in response to
an ACCESS() call, we need to invalidate the cache and inode so that LOOKUP()
can be retried. Without this change, the nfs client retries ACCESS() with the
same filehandle, fails again and could lead to temporary failure of
applications running on nfs mounted home.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-03-10 20:33:21 -04:00
Trond Myklebust ae46141ff0 NFSv3: Fix posix ACL code
Fix a memory leak due to allocation in the XDR layer. In cases where the
RPC call needs to be retransmitted, we end up allocating new pages without
clearing the old ones. Fix this by moving the allocation into
nfs3_proc_setacls().

Also fix an issue discovered by Kevin Rudd, whereby the amount of memory
reserved for the acls in the xdr_buf->head was miscalculated, and causing
corruption.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-03-10 20:33:18 -04:00
Trond Myklebust ef95d31e6d NFS: Fix misparsing of nfsv4 fs_locations attribute (take 2)
The changeset ea31a4437c (nfs: Fix
misparsing of nfsv4 fs_locations attribute) causes the mountpath that is
calculated at the beginning of try_location() to be clobbered when we
later strncpy a non-nul terminated hostname using an incorrect buffer
length.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-03-10 20:33:17 -04:00
Alexey Dobriyan 97afe47ac3 fs/Kconfig: move nfs out
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
2009-01-22 13:16:00 +03:00
Nick Piggin 54566b2c15 fs: symlink write_begin allocation context fix
With the write_begin/write_end aops, page_symlink was broken because it
could no longer pass a GFP_NOFS type mask into the point where the
allocations happened.  They are done in write_begin, which would always
assume that the filesystem can be entered from reclaim.  This bug could
cause filesystem deadlocks.

The funny thing with having a gfp_t mask there is that it doesn't really
allow the caller to arbitrarily tinker with the context in which it can be
called.  It couldn't ever be GFP_ATOMIC, for example, because it needs to
take the page lock.  The only thing any callers care about is __GFP_FS
anyway, so turn that into a single flag.

Add a new flag for write_begin, AOP_FLAG_NOFS.  Filesystems can now act on
this flag in their write_begin function.  Change __grab_cache_page to
accept a nofs argument as well, to honour that flag (while we're there,
change the name to grab_cache_page_write_begin which is more instructive
and does away with random leading underscores).

This is really a more flexible way to go in the end anyway -- if a
filesystem happens to want any extra allocations aside from the pagecache
ones in ints write_begin function, it may now use GFP_KERNEL (rather than
GFP_NOFS) for common case allocations (eg.  ocfs2_alloc_write_ctxt, for a
random example).

[kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: fix ubifs]
[kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: fix fuse]
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>		[2.6.28.x]
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
[ Cleaned up the calling convention: just pass in the AOP flags
  untouched to the grab_cache_page_write_begin() function.  That
  just simplifies everybody, and may even allow future expansion of the
  logic.   - Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-04 13:33:20 -08:00
Trond Myklebust 08cc36cbd1 Merge branch 'devel' into next 2008-12-30 16:51:43 -05:00
WANG Cong 46f72f57d2 fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c: make nfs4_map_errors() static
nfs4_map_errors() can become static.

Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <wangcong@zeuux.org>
Cc: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-12-30 16:35:55 -05:00
Olga Kornievskaia 945b34a772 rpc: allow gss callbacks to client
This patch adds client-side support to allow for callbacks other than
AUTH_SYS.

Signed-off-by: Olga Kornievskaia <aglo@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-12-23 16:18:34 -05:00
Andy Adamson cf8cdbe5bd NFS: remove unused status from encode routines
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson<andros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-12-23 16:06:18 -05:00
Andy Adamson d017931cff NFS: increment number of operations in each encode routine
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson<andros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-12-23 16:06:17 -05:00
Benny Halevy 49c2559e29 NFS: fix comment placement in nfs4xdr.c
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-12-23 16:06:16 -05:00
Andy Adamson 05d564fe00 NFS: fix tabs in nfs4xdr.c
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson<andros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-12-23 16:06:15 -05:00
Andy Adamson 6c0195a468 NFS: remove white space from nfs4xdr.c
Clean-up

Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson<andros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-12-23 16:06:15 -05:00
Benny Halevy 374130770e nfs: remove incorrect usage of nfs4 compound response hdr.status
3 call sites look at hdr.status before returning success.
hdr.status must be zero in this case so there's no point in this.

Currently, hdr.status is correctly processed at decode_op_hdr time
if the op status cannot be decoded.

Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-12-23 16:06:14 -05:00
Benny Halevy aadf615211 nfs: return compound hdr.status when there are no op replies
When there are no op replies encoded in the compound reply
hdr.status still contains the overall status of the compound
rpc.  This can happen, e.g., when the server returns a
NFS4ERR_MINOR_VERS_MISMATCH error.

Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-12-23 16:06:13 -05:00
Trond Myklebust 027b6ca021 NFSv4: Fix an infinite loop in the NFS state recovery code
Marten Gajda <marten.gajda@fernuni-hagen.de> states:

I tracked the problem down to the function nfs4_do_open_expired.
Within this function _nfs4_open_expired is called and may return
-NFS4ERR_DELAY. When a further call to _nfs4_open_expired is
executed and does not return -NFS4ERR_DELAY the "exception.retry"
variable is not reset to 0, causing the loop to iterate again
(and as long as err != -NFS4ERR_DELAY, probably forever)

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-12-23 16:04:13 -05:00
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 7a50c60e46 NFS: Use delegations to optimise ACCESS calls
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-12-23 15:21:55 -05:00
Trond Myklebust 15860ab1d7 NFSv4: Ensure that we set the verifier when revalidating delegated dentries
This ensures that we don't have to look up the dentry again after we return
the delegation if we know that the directory didn't change.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-12-23 15:21:54 -05:00
Trond Myklebust 5584c30630 NFSv4: Clean up is_atomic_open()
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-12-23 15:21:54 -05:00