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Linus Torvalds
6733e54b66 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse:
  FUSE: Notifying the kernel of deletion.
  fuse: support ioctl on directories
  fuse: Use kcalloc instead of kzalloc to allocate array
  fuse: llseek optimize SEEK_CUR and SEEK_SET
2012-01-12 12:39:21 -08:00
Al Viro
541af6a074 fuse: propagate umode_t
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-01-03 22:55:07 -05:00
John Muir
451d0f5999 FUSE: Notifying the kernel of deletion.
Allows a FUSE file-system to tell the kernel when a file or directory is
deleted. If the specified dentry has the specified inode number, the kernel will
unhash it.

The current 'fuse_notify_inval_entry' does not cause the kernel to clean up
directories that are in use properly, and as a result the users of those
directories see incorrect semantics from the file-system. The error condition
seen when 'fuse_notify_inval_entry' is used to notify of a deleted directory is
avoided when 'fuse_notify_delete' is used instead.

The following scenario demonstrates the difference:
1. User A chdirs into 'testdir' and starts reading 'testfile'.
2. User B rm -rf 'testdir'.
3. User B creates 'testdir'.
4. User C chdirs into 'testdir'.

If you run the above within the same machine on any file-system (including fuse
file-systems), there is no problem: user C is able to chdir into the new
testdir. The old testdir is removed from the dentry tree, but still open by user
A.

If operations 2 and 3 are performed via the network such that the fuse
file-system uses one of the notify functions to tell the kernel that the nodes
are gone, then the following error occurs for user C while user A holds the
original directory open:

muirj@empacher:~> ls /test/testdir
ls: cannot access /test/testdir: No such file or directory

The issue here is that the kernel still has a dentry for testdir, and so it is
requesting the attributes for the old directory, while the file-system is
responding that the directory no longer exists.

If on the other hand, if the file-system can notify the kernel that the
directory is deleted using the new 'fuse_notify_delete' function, then the above
ls will find the new directory as expected.

Signed-off-by: John Muir <john@jmuir.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2011-12-13 11:58:49 +01:00
Miklos Szeredi
b18da0c56e fuse: support ioctl on directories
Multiplexing filesystems may want to support ioctls on the underlying
files and directores (e.g. FS_IOC_{GET,SET}FLAGS).

Ioctl support on directories was missing so add it now.

Reported-by: Antonio SJ Musumeci <bile@landofbile.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2011-12-13 11:58:49 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
051732bcbe Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse:
  fuse: check size of FUSE_NOTIFY_INVAL_ENTRY message
  fuse: mark pages accessed when written to
  fuse: delete dead .write_begin and .write_end aops
  fuse: fix flock
  fuse: fix non-ANSI void function notation
2011-08-24 09:14:42 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
37fb3a30b4 fuse: fix flock
Commit a9ff4f87 "fuse: support BSD locking semantics" overlooked a
number of issues with supporing flock locks over existing POSIX
locking infrastructure:

  - it's not backward compatible, passing flock(2) calls to userspace
    unconditionally (if userspace sets FUSE_POSIX_LOCKS)

  - it doesn't cater for the fact that flock locks are automatically
    unlocked on file release

  - it doesn't take into account the fact that flock exclusive locks
    (write locks) don't need an fd opened for write.

The last one invalidates the original premise of the patch that flock
locks can be emulated with POSIX locks.

This patch fixes the first two issues.  The last one needs to be fixed
in userspace if the filesystem assumed that a write lock will happen
only on a file operned for write (as in the case of the current fuse
library).

Reported-by: Sebastian Pipping <webmaster@hartwork.org>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2011-08-08 16:08:08 +02:00
Josef Bacik
02c24a8218 fs: push i_mutex and filemap_write_and_wait down into ->fsync() handlers
Btrfs needs to be able to control how filemap_write_and_wait_range() is called
in fsync to make it less of a painful operation, so push down taking i_mutex and
the calling of filemap_write_and_wait() down into the ->fsync() handlers.  Some
file systems can drop taking the i_mutex altogether it seems, like ext3 and
ocfs2.  For correctness sake I just pushed everything down in all cases to make
sure that we keep the current behavior the same for everybody, and then each
individual fs maintainer can make up their mind about what to do from there.
Thanks,

Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 20:47:59 -04:00
Miklos Szeredi
07d5f69b45 fuse: reduce size of struct fuse_request
Reduce the size of struct fuse_request by removing cuse_init_out from
the request structure and allocating it dinamically instead.

CC: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2011-03-21 13:58:05 +01:00
Miklos Szeredi
5a18ec176c fuse: fix hang of single threaded fuseblk filesystem
Single threaded NTFS-3G could get stuck if a delayed RELEASE reply
triggered a DESTROY request via path_put().

Fix this by

 a) making RELEASE requests synchronous, whenever possible, on fuseblk
 filesystems

 b) if not possible (triggered by an asynchronous read/write) then do
 the path_put() in a separate thread with schedule_work().

Reported-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2011-02-25 14:44:58 +01:00
Miklos Szeredi
02c048b919 fuse: allow batching of FORGET requests
Terje Malmedal reports that a fuse filesystem with 32 million inodes
on a machine with lots of memory can take up to 30 minutes to process
FORGET requests when all those inodes are evicted from the icache.

To solve this, create a BATCH_FORGET request that allows up to about
8000 FORGET requests to be sent in a single message.

This request is only sent if userspace supports interface version 7.16
or later, otherwise fall back to sending individual FORGET messages.

Reported-by: Terje Malmedal <terje.malmedal@usit.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2010-12-07 20:16:56 +01:00
Miklos Szeredi
07e77dca8a fuse: separate queue for FORGET requests
Terje Malmedal reports that a fuse filesystem with 32 million inodes
on a machine with lots of memory can go unresponsive for up to 30
minutes when all those inodes are evicted from the icache.

The reason is that FORGET messages, sent when the inode is evicted,
are queued up together with regular filesystem requests, and while the
huge queue of FORGET messages are processed no other filesystem
operation can proceed.

Since a full fuse request structure is allocated for each inode, these
take up quite a bit of memory as well.

To solve these issues, create a slim 'fuse_forget_link' structure
containing just the minimum of information required to send the FORGET
request and chain these on a separate queue.

When userspace is asking for a request make sure that FORGET and
non-FORGET requests are selected fairly: for each 8 non-FORGET allow
16 FORGET requests.  This will make sure FORGETs do not pile up, yet
other requests are also allowed to proceed while the queued FORGETs
are processed.

Reported-by: Terje Malmedal <terje.malmedal@usit.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2010-12-07 20:16:56 +01:00
Miklos Szeredi
2d45ba381a fuse: add retrieve request
Userspace filesystem can request data to be retrieved from the inode's
mapping.  This request is synchronous and the retrieved data is queued
as a new request.  If the write to the fuse device returns an error
then the retrieve request was not completed and a reply will not be
sent.

Only present pages are returned in the retrieve reply.  Retrieving
stops when it finds a non-present page and only data prior to that is
returned.

This request doesn't change the dirty state of pages.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2010-07-12 14:41:40 +02:00
Miklos Szeredi
a1d75f2582 fuse: add store request
Userspace filesystem can request data to be stored in the inode's
mapping.  This request is synchronous and has no reply.  If the write
to the fuse device returns an error then the store request was not
fully completed (but may have updated some pages).

If the stored data overflows the current file size, then the size is
extended, similarly to a write(2) on the filesystem.

Pages which have been completely stored are marked uptodate.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2010-07-12 14:41:40 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
003386fff3 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse:
  mm: export generic_pipe_buf_*() to modules
  fuse: support splice() reading from fuse device
  fuse: allow splice to move pages
  mm: export remove_from_page_cache() to modules
  mm: export lru_cache_add_*() to modules
  fuse: support splice() writing to fuse device
  fuse: get page reference for readpages
  fuse: use get_user_pages_fast()
  fuse: remove unneeded variable
2010-05-30 09:16:14 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
7ea8085910 drop unused dentry argument to ->fsync
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-05-27 22:05:02 -04:00
Miklos Szeredi
ce534fb052 fuse: allow splice to move pages
When splicing buffers to the fuse device with SPLICE_F_MOVE, try to
move pages from the pipe buffer into the page cache.  This allows
populating the fuse filesystem's cache without ever touching the page
contents, i.e. zero copy read capability.

The following steps are performed when trying to move a page into the
page cache:

 - buf->ops->confirm() to make sure the new page is uptodate
 - buf->ops->steal() to try to remove the new page from it's previous place
 - remove_from_page_cache() on the old page
 - add_to_page_cache_locked() on the new page

If any of the above steps fail (non fatally) then the code falls back
to copying the page.  In particular ->steal() will fail if there are
external references (other than the page cache and the pipe buffer) to
the page.

Also since the remove_from_page_cache() + add_to_page_cache_locked()
are non-atomic it is possible that the page cache is repopulated in
between the two and add_to_page_cache_locked() will fail.  This could
be fixed by creating a new atomic replace_page_cache_page() function.

fuse_readpages_end() needed to be reworked so it works even if
page->mapping is NULL for some or all pages which can happen if the
add_to_page_cache_locked() failed.

A number of sanity checks were added to make sure the stolen pages
don't have weird flags set, etc...  These could be moved into generic
splice/steal code.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2010-05-25 15:06:07 +02:00
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
Csaba Henk
79a9d99434 fuse: add fusectl interface to max_background
Make the max_background and congestion_threshold parameters of a FUSE
mount tunable at runtime by adding the respective knobs to its directory
within the fusectl filesystem.

Signed-off-by: Csaba Henk <csaba@gluster.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2009-09-16 14:15:29 +02:00
Csaba Henk
7a6d3c8b30 fuse: make the number of max background requests and congestion threshold tunable
The practical values for these limits depend on the design of the
filesystem server so let userspace set them at initialization time.

Signed-off-by: Csaba Henk <csaba@gluster.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2009-07-07 17:28:52 +02:00
John Muir
3b463ae0c6 fuse: invalidation reverse calls
Add notification messages that allow the filesystem to invalidate VFS
caches.

Two notifications are added:

 1) inode invalidation

   - invalidate cached attributes
   - invalidate a range of pages in the page cache (this is optional)

 2) dentry invalidation

   - try to invalidate a subtree in the dentry cache

Care must be taken while accessing the 'struct super_block' for the
mount, as it can go away while an invalidation is in progress.  To
prevent this, introduce a rw-semaphore, that is taken for read during
the invalidation and taken for write in the ->kill_sb callback.

Cc: Csaba Henk <csaba@gluster.com>
Cc: Anand Avati <avati@zresearch.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2009-06-30 20:12:24 +02:00
Miklos Szeredi
e0a43ddcc0 fuse: allow umask processing in userspace
This patch lets filesystems handle masking the file mode on creation.
This is needed if filesystem is using ACLs.

 - The CREATE, MKDIR and MKNOD requests are extended with a "umask"
   parameter.

 - A new FUSE_DONT_MASK flag is added to the INIT request/reply.  With
   this the filesystem may request that the create mode is not masked.

CC: Jean-Pierre André <jean-pierre.andre@wanadoo.fr>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2009-06-30 20:12:23 +02:00
Tejun Heo
08cbf542bf fuse: export symbols to be used by CUSE
Export the following symbols for CUSE.

fuse_conn_put()
fuse_conn_get()
fuse_conn_kill()
fuse_send_init()
fuse_do_open()
fuse_sync_release()
fuse_direct_io()
fuse_do_ioctl()
fuse_file_poll()
fuse_request_alloc()
fuse_get_req()
fuse_put_request()
fuse_request_send()
fuse_abort_conn()
fuse_dev_release()
fuse_dev_operations

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2009-04-28 16:56:42 +02:00
Tejun Heo
a325f9b922 fuse: update fuse_conn_init() and separate out fuse_conn_kill()
Update fuse_conn_init() such that it doesn't take @sb and move bdi
registration into a separate function.  Also separate out
fuse_conn_kill() from fuse_put_super().

These will be used to implement cuse.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2009-04-28 16:56:41 +02:00
Miklos Szeredi
8b0797a498 fuse: don't use inode in fuse_sync_release()
Make fuse_sync_release() a generic helper function that doesn't need a
struct inode pointer.  This makes it suitable for use by CUSE.

Change return value of fuse_release_common() from int to void.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2009-04-28 16:56:39 +02:00
Miklos Szeredi
91fe96b403 fuse: create fuse_do_open() helper for CUSE
Create a helper for sending an OPEN request that doesn't need a struct
inode pointer.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2009-04-28 16:56:37 +02:00
Miklos Szeredi
c7b7143c63 fuse: clean up args in fuse_finish_open() and fuse_release_fill()
Move setting ff->fh, ff->nodeid and file->private_data outside
fuse_finish_open().  Add ->open_flags member to struct fuse_file.

This simplifies the argument passing to fuse_finish_open() and
fuse_release_fill(), and paves the way for creating an open helper
that doesn't need an inode pointer.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2009-04-28 16:56:37 +02:00
Miklos Szeredi
2106cb1893 fuse: don't use inode in helpers called by fuse_direct_io()
Use ff->fc and ff->nodeid instead of passing down the inode.

This prepares this function for use by CUSE, where the inode is not
owned by a fuse filesystem.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2009-04-28 16:56:37 +02:00
Miklos Szeredi
da5e471457 fuse: add members to struct fuse_file
Add new members ->fc and ->nodeid to struct fuse_file.  This will aid
in converting functions for use by CUSE, where the inode is not owned
by a fuse filesystem.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2009-04-28 16:56:36 +02:00
Miklos Szeredi
b0be46ebf7 fuse: use struct path in release structure
Use struct path instead of separate dentry and vfsmount in
req->misc.release.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2009-04-28 16:56:36 +02:00
Al Viro
4269590a72 constify dentry_operations: FUSE
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-03-27 14:44:01 -04:00
Tejun Heo
43901aabd7 fuse: add fuse_conn->release()
Add fuse_conn->release() so that fuse_conn can be embedded in other
structures.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2008-11-26 12:03:56 +01:00
Tejun Heo
0d179aa592 fuse: separate out fuse_conn_init() from new_conn()
Separate out fuse_conn_init() from new_conn() and while at it
initialize fuse_conn->entry during conn initialization.

This will be used by CUSE.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2008-11-26 12:03:55 +01:00
Tejun Heo
b93f858ab2 fuse: add fuse_ prefix to several functions
Add fuse_ prefix to request_send*() and get_root_inode() as some of
those functions will be exported for CUSE.  With or without CUSE
export, having the function names scoped is a good idea for
debuggability.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2008-11-26 12:03:55 +01:00
Tejun Heo
95668a69a4 fuse: implement poll support
Implement poll support.  Polled files are indexed using kh in a RB
tree rooted at fuse_conn->polled_files.

Client should send FUSE_NOTIFY_POLL notification once after processing
FUSE_POLL which has FUSE_POLL_SCHEDULE_NOTIFY set.  Sending
notification unconditionally after the latest poll or everytime file
content might have changed is inefficient but won't cause malfunction.

fuse_file_poll() can sleep and requires patches from the following
thread which allows f_op->poll() to sleep.

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/726176

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2008-11-26 12:03:55 +01:00
Tejun Heo
acf99433d9 fuse: add file kernel handle
The file handle, fuse_file->fh, is opaque value supplied by userland
FUSE server and uniqueness is not guaranteed.  Add file kernel handle,
fuse_file->kh, which is allocated by the kernel on file allocation and
guaranteed to be unique.

This will be used by poll to match notification to the respective file
but can be used for other purposes where unique file handle is
necessary.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2008-11-26 12:03:55 +01:00
Miklos Szeredi
1729a16c2c fuse: style fixes
Fix coding style errors reported by checkpatch and others.  Uptdate
copyright date to 2008.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2008-11-26 12:03:54 +01:00
Tejun Heo
29d434b39c fuse: add include protectors
Add include protectors to include/linux/fuse.h and fs/fuse/fuse_i.h.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2008-10-16 16:08:57 +02:00
Miklos Szeredi
33670fa296 fuse: nfs export special lookups
Implement the get_parent export operation by sending a LOOKUP request with
".." as the name.

Implement looking up an inode by node ID after it has been evicted from
the cache.  This is done by seding a LOOKUP request with "." as the name
(for all file types, not just directories).

The filesystem can set the FUSE_EXPORT_SUPPORT flag in the INIT reply, to
indicate that it supports these special lookups.

Thanks to John Muir for the original implementation of this feature.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:48 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
dbd561d236 fuse: add export operations
Implement export_operations, to allow fuse filesystems to be exported to
NFS.  This feature has been in the out-of-tree fuse module, and is widely
used and tested.

It has not been originally merged into mainline, because doing the NFS
export in userspace was thought to be a cleaner and more efficient way of
doing it, than through the kernel.

While that is true, it would also have involved a lot of duplicated effort
at reimplementing NFS exporting (all the different versions of the
protocol).  This effort was unfortunately not undertaken by anyone, so we
are left with doing it the easy but less efficient way.

If this feature goes in, the out-of-tree fuse module can go away,
which would have several advantages:

  - not having to maintain two versions
  - less confusion for users
  - no bugs due to kernel API changes

Comment from hch:
 - Use the same fh_type values as XFS, since we use the same fh encoding.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:48 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
78bb6cb9a8 fuse: add flag to turn on big writes
Prior to 2.6.26 fuse only supported single page write requests.  In theory all
fuse filesystem should be able support bigger than 4k writes, as there's
nothing in the API to prevent it.  Unfortunately there's a known case in
NTFS-3G where big writes cause filesystem corruption.  There could also be
other filesystems, where the lack of testing with big write requests would
result in bugs.

To prevent such problems on a kernel upgrade, disable big writes by default,
but let filesystems set a flag to turn it on.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Cc: Szabolcs Szakacsits <szaka@ntfs-3g.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-05-13 08:02:26 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
b48badf013 fuse: fix node ID type
Node ID is 64bit but it is passed as unsigned long to some functions.  This
breakage wasn't noticed, because libfuse uses unsigned long too.

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>
2008-04-30 08:29:51 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
5c5c5e51b2 fuse: update file size on short read
If the READ request returned a short count, then either

  - cached size is incorrect
  - filesystem is buggy, as short reads are only allowed on EOF

So assume that the size is wrong and refresh it, so that cached read() doesn't
zero fill the missing chunk.

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>
2008-04-30 08:29:50 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
3be5a52b30 fuse: support writable mmap
Quoting Linus (3 years ago, FUSE inclusion discussions):

  "User-space filesystems are hard to get right. I'd claim that they
   are almost impossible, unless you limit them somehow (shared
   writable mappings are the nastiest part - if you don't have those,
   you can reasonably limit your problems by limiting the number of
   dirty pages you accept through normal "write()" calls)."

Instead of attempting the impossible, I've just waited for the dirty page
accounting infrastructure to materialize (thanks to Peter Zijlstra and
others).  This nicely solved the biggest problem: limiting the number of pages
used for write caching.

Some small details remained, however, which this largish patch attempts to
address.  It provides a page writeback implementation for fuse, which is
completely safe against VM related deadlocks.  Performance may not be very
good for certain usage patterns, but generally it should be acceptable.

It has been tested extensively with fsx-linux and bash-shared-mapping.

Fuse page writeback design
--------------------------

fuse_writepage() allocates a new temporary page with GFP_NOFS|__GFP_HIGHMEM.
It copies the contents of the original page, and queues a WRITE request to the
userspace filesystem using this temp page.

The writeback is finished instantly from the MM's point of view: the page is
removed from the radix trees, and the PageDirty and PageWriteback flags are
cleared.

For the duration of the actual write, the NR_WRITEBACK_TEMP counter is
incremented.  The per-bdi writeback count is not decremented until the actual
write completes.

On dirtying the page, fuse waits for a previous write to finish before
proceeding.  This makes sure, there can only be one temporary page used at a
time for one cached page.

This approach is wasteful in both memory and CPU bandwidth, so why is this
complication needed?

The basic problem is that there can be no guarantee about the time in which
the userspace filesystem will complete a write.  It may be buggy or even
malicious, and fail to complete WRITE requests.  We don't want unrelated parts
of the system to grind to a halt in such cases.

Also a filesystem may need additional resources (particularly memory) to
complete a WRITE request.  There's a great danger of a deadlock if that
allocation may wait for the writepage to finish.

Currently there are several cases where the kernel can block on page
writeback:

  - allocation order is larger than PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER
  - page migration
  - throttle_vm_writeout (through NR_WRITEBACK)
  - sync(2)

Of course in some cases (fsync, msync) we explicitly want to allow blocking.
So for these cases new code has to be added to fuse, since the VM is not
tracking writeback pages for us any more.

As an extra safetly measure, the maximum dirty ratio allocated to a single
fuse filesystem is set to 1% by default.  This way one (or several) buggy or
malicious fuse filesystems cannot slow down the rest of the system by hogging
dirty memory.

With appropriate privileges, this limit can be raised through
'/sys/class/bdi/<bdi>/max_ratio'.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-30 08:29:50 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
b6f2fcbcfc mm: bdi: expose the BDI object in sysfs for FUSE
Register FUSE's backing_dev_info under sysfs with the name "fuse-MAJOR:MINOR"

Make the fuse control filesystem use s_dev instead of a fuse specific ID.
This makes it easier to match directories under /sys/fs/fuse/connections/ with
directories under /sys/class/bdi, and with actual mounts.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-30 08:29:49 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
d12def1bcb fuse: limit queued background requests
Libfuse basically creates a new thread for each new request.  This is fine for
synchronous requests, which are naturally limited.  However background
requests (especially writepage) can cause a thread creation storm.

To avoid this, limit the number of background requests available to userspace.

This is done by introducing another queue for background requests, and a
counter for the number of "active" requests, which are currently available for
userspace.

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>
2008-02-06 10:41:13 -08:00
Miklos Szeredi
b57d426445 fuse: save space in struct fuse_req
Move the fields 'dentry' and 'vfsmount' into the request specific union, since
these are only used for the RELEASE request.

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>
2008-02-06 10:41:13 -08:00
Miklos Szeredi
a6643094e7 fuse: pass open flags to read and write
Some open flags (O_APPEND, O_DIRECT) can be changed with fcntl(F_SETFL, ...)
after open, but fuse currently only sends the flags to userspace in open.

To make it possible to correcly handle changing flags, send the
current value to userspace in each read and write.

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>
2007-11-29 09:24:54 -08:00
Miklos Szeredi
bcb4be809d fuse: fix reading past EOF
Currently reading a fuse file will stop at cached i_size and return
EOF, even though the file might have grown since the attributes were
last updated.

So detect if trying to read past EOF, and refresh the attributes
before continuing with the read.

Thanks to mpb for the report.

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>
2007-11-29 09:24:54 -08:00
Miklos Szeredi
f33321141b fuse: add support for mandatory locking
For mandatory locking the userspace filesystem needs to know the lock
ownership for read, write and truncate operations.

This patch adds the necessary fields to the protocol.

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>
2007-10-18 14:37:31 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
b25e82e567 fuse: add helper for asynchronous writes
This patch adds a new helper function fuse_write_fill() which makes it
possible to send WRITE requests asynchronously.

A new flag for WRITE requests is also added which indicates that this a write
from the page cache, and not a "normal" file write.

This patch is in preparation for writable mmap support.

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>
2007-10-18 14:37:31 -07:00