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Trond Myklebust
2b2ec7554c NFS: Fix the return value in nfs_page_mkwrite()
Commit c2ec175c39 ("mm: page_mkwrite
change prototype to match fault") exposed a bug in the NFS
implementation of page_mkwrite.  We should be returning 0 on success...

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-07 14:07:03 -07:00
Trond Myklebust
d508afb437 NFS: Fix a double free in nfs_parse_mount_options()
Due to an apparent typo, commit a67d18f89f
(NFS: load the rpc/rdma transport module automatically) lead to the
'proto=' mount option doing a double free, while Opt_mountproto leaks a
string.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-06 17:19:48 -07:00
David Howells
b797cac748 NFS: Add mount options to enable local caching on NFS
Add NFS mount options to allow the local caching support to be enabled.

The attached patch makes it possible for the NFS filesystem to be told to make
use of the network filesystem local caching service (FS-Cache).

To be able to use this, a recent nfsutils package is required.

There are three variant NFS mount options that can be added to a mount command
to control caching for a mount.  Only the last one specified takes effect:

 (*) Adding "fsc" will request caching.

 (*) Adding "fsc=<string>" will request caching and also specify a uniquifier.

 (*) Adding "nofsc" will disable caching.

For example:

	mount warthog:/ /a -o fsc

The cache of a particular superblock (NFS FSID) will be shared between all
mounts of that volume, provided they have the same connection parameters and
are not marked 'nosharecache'.

Where it is otherwise impossible to distinguish superblocks because all the
parameters are identical, but the 'nosharecache' option is supplied, a
uniquifying string must be supplied, else only the first mount will be
permitted to use the cache.

If there's a key collision, then the second mount will disable caching and give
a warning into the kernel log.

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 16:42:48 +01:00
David Howells
5d1acff159 NFS: Display local caching state
Display the local caching state in /proc/fs/nfsfs/volumes.

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 16:42:47 +01:00
David Howells
7f8e05f60c NFS: Store pages from an NFS inode into a local cache
Store pages from an NFS inode into the cache data storage object associated
with that inode.

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 16:42:45 +01:00
David Howells
9a9fc1c033 NFS: Read pages from FS-Cache into an NFS inode
Read pages from an FS-Cache data storage object representing an inode into an
NFS inode.

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 16:42:44 +01:00
David Howells
f42b293d6d NFS: nfs_readpage_async() needs to be accessible as a fallback for local caching
nfs_readpage_async() needs to be non-static so that it can be used as a
fallback for the local on-disk caching should an EIO crop up when reading the
cache.

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 16:42:44 +01:00
David Howells
1fcdf53488 NFS: Add read context retention for FS-Cache to call back with
Add read context retention so that FS-Cache can call back into NFS when a read
operation on the cache fails EIO rather than reading data.  This permits NFS to
then fetch the data from the server instead using the appropriate security
context.

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 16:42:44 +01:00
David Howells
545db45f0f NFS: FS-Cache page management
FS-Cache page management for NFS.  This includes hooking the releasing and
invalidation of pages marked with PG_fscache (aka PG_private_2) and waiting for
completion of the write-to-cache flag (PG_fscache_write aka PG_owner_priv_2).

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 16:42:44 +01:00
David Howells
6a51091d07 NFS: Add some new I/O counters for FS-Cache doing things for NFS
Add some new NFS I/O counters for FS-Cache doing things for NFS.  A new line is
emitted into /proc/pid/mountstats if caching is enabled that looks like:

	fsc: <rok> <rfl> <wok> <wfl> <unc>

Where <rok> is the number of pages read successfully from the cache, <rfl> is
the number of failed page reads against the cache, <wok> is the number of
successful page writes to the cache, <wfl> is the number of failed page writes
to the cache, and <unc> is the number of NFS pages that have been disconnected
from the cache.

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
d599064a1b NFS: Invalidate FsCache page flags when cache removed
Invalidate the FsCache page flags on the pages belonging to an inode when the
cache backing that NFS inode is removed.

This allows a live cache to be withdrawn.

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
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
10329a5d48 NFS: Define and create inode-level cache objects
Define and create inode-level cache data storage objects (as managed by
nfs_inode structs).

Each inode-level object is created in a superblock-level index object and is
itself a data storage object into which pages from the inode are stored.

The inode object key is the NFS file handle for the inode.

The inode object is given coherency data to carry in the auxiliary data
permitted by the cache.  This is a sequence made up of:

 (1) i_mtime from the NFS inode.

 (2) i_ctime from the NFS inode.

 (3) i_size from the NFS inode.

 (4) change_attr from the NFSv4 attribute data.

As the cache is a persistent cache, the auxiliary data is checked when a new
NFS in-memory inode is set up that matches an already existing data storage
object in the cache.  If the coherency data is the same, the on-disk object is
retained and used; if not, it is scrapped and a new one created.

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
08734048b3 NFS: Define and create superblock-level objects
Define and create superblock-level cache index objects (as managed by
nfs_server structs).

Each superblock object is created in a server level index object and is itself
an index into which inode-level objects are inserted.

Ideally there would be one superblock-level object per server, and the former
would be folded into the latter; however, since the "nosharecache" option
exists this isn't possible.

The superblock object key is a sequence consisting of:

 (1) Certain superblock s_flags.

 (2) Various connection parameters that serve to distinguish superblocks for
     sget().

 (3) The volume FSID.

 (4) The security flavour.

 (5) The uniquifier length.

 (6) The uniquifier text.  This is normally an empty string, unless the fsc=xyz
     mount option was used to explicitly specify a uniquifier.

The key blob is of variable length, depending on the length of (6).

The superblock object is given no coherency data to carry in the auxiliary data
permitted by the cache.  It is assumed that the superblock is always coherent.

This patch also adds uniquification handling such that two otherwise identical
superblocks, at least one of which is marked "nosharecache", won't end up
trying to share the on-disk cache.  It will be possible to manually provide a
uniquifier through a mount option with a later patch to avoid the error
otherwise produced.

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
David Howells
147272813e NFS: Define and create server-level objects
Define and create server-level cache index objects (as managed by nfs_client
structs).

Each server object is created in the NFS top-level index object and is itself
an index into which superblock-level objects are inserted.

Ideally there would be one superblock-level object per server, and the former
would be folded into the latter; however, since the "nosharecache" option
exists this isn't possible.

The server object key is a sequence consisting of:

 (1) NFS version

 (2) Server address family (eg: AF_INET or AF_INET6)

 (3) Server port.

 (4) Server IP address.

The key blob is of variable length, depending on the length of (4).

The server object is given no coherency data to carry in the auxiliary data
permitted by the cache.

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
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
David Howells
3b9ce977b2 NFS: Permit local filesystem caching to be enabled for NFS
Permit local filesystem caching to be enabled for NFS in the kernel
configuration.

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
David Howells
6b9b3514aa NFS: Add comment banners to some NFS functions
Add comment banners to some NFS functions so that they can be modified by the
NFS fscache patches for further information.

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 16:42:41 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
8fe74cf053 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:
  Remove two unneeded exports and make two symbols static in fs/mpage.c
  Cleanup after commit 585d3bc06f
  Trim includes of fdtable.h
  Don't crap into descriptor table in binfmt_som
  Trim includes in binfmt_elf
  Don't mess with descriptor table in load_elf_binary()
  Get rid of indirect include of fs_struct.h
  New helper - current_umask()
  check_unsafe_exec() doesn't care about signal handlers sharing
  New locking/refcounting for fs_struct
  Take fs_struct handling to new file (fs/fs_struct.c)
  Get rid of bumping fs_struct refcount in pivot_root(2)
  Kill unsharing fs_struct in __set_personality()
2009-04-02 21:09:10 -07:00
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
Al Viro
ce3b0f8d5c New helper - current_umask()
current->fs->umask is what most of fs_struct users are doing.
Put that into a helper function.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-03-31 23:00:26 -04:00
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