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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sage/ceph-client
Pull ceph fixes from Sage Weil:
"Jim's fix closes a narrow race introduced with the msgr changes. One
fix resolves problems with debugfs initialization that Yan found when
multiple client instances are created (e.g., two clusters mounted, or
rbd + cephfs), another one fixes problems with mounting a nonexistent
server subdirectory, and the last one fixes a divide by zero error
from unsanitized ioctl input that Dan Carpenter found."
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sage/ceph-client:
ceph: avoid divide by zero in __validate_layout()
libceph: avoid truncation due to racing banners
ceph: tolerate (and warn on) extraneous dentry from mds
libceph: delay debugfs initialization until we learn global_id
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Pull NFS client bugfixes from Trond Myklebust:
- NFSv3 mounts need to fail if the FSINFO rpc call fails
- Ensure that the NFS commit cache gets torn down when we unload the
NFS module.
- Fix memory scribble issues when interrupting a LAYOUTGET rpc call
- Fix NFSv4 legacy idmapper regressions
- Fix issues with the NFSv4 getacl command
- Fix a regression when using the legacy "mount -t nfs4"
* tag 'nfs-for-3.6-3' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/linux-nfs:
NFSv3: Ensure that do_proc_get_root() reports errors correctly
NFSv4: Ensure that nfs4_alloc_client cleans up on error.
NFS: return -ENOKEY when the upcall fails to map the name
NFS: Clear key construction data if the idmap upcall fails
NFSv4: Don't use private xdr_stream fields in decode_getacl
NFSv4: Fix the acl cache size calculation
NFSv4: Fix pointer arithmetic in decode_getacl
NFS: Alias the nfs module to nfs4
NFS: Fix a regression when loading the NFS v4 module
NFSv4.1: Remove a bogus BUG_ON() in nfs4_layoutreturn_done
pnfs-obj: Better IO pattern in case of unaligned offset
NFS41: add pg_layout_private to nfs_pageio_descriptor
pnfs: nfs4_proc_layoutget returns void
pnfs: defer release of pages in layoutget
nfs: tear down caches in nfs_init_writepagecache when allocation fails
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull assorted fixes - mostly vfs - from Al Viro:
"Assorted fixes, with an unexpected detour into vfio refcounting logics
(fell out when digging in an analog of eventpoll race in there)."
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
task_work: add a scheduling point in task_work_run()
fs: fix fs/namei.c kernel-doc warnings
eventpoll: use-after-possible-free in epoll_create1()
vfio: grab vfio_device reference *before* exposing the sucker via fd_install()
vfio: get rid of vfio_device_put()/vfio_group_get_device* races
vfio: get rid of open-coding kref_put_mutex
introduce kref_put_mutex()
vfio: don't dereference after kfree...
mqueue: lift mnt_want_write() outside ->i_mutex, clean up a bit
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Fix kernel-doc warnings in fs/namei.c:
Warning(fs/namei.c:360): No description found for parameter 'inode'
Warning(fs/namei.c:672): No description found for parameter 'nd'
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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As soon as we'd installed the file into descriptor table, it can
get closed by another thread. Freeing ep in process...
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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If "l->stripe_unit" is zero the the mod on the next line will cause a
divide by zero bug. This comes from the copy_from_user() in
ceph_ioctl_set_layout_policy(). Passing 0 is valid, though (it means
"do not change") so avoid the % check in that case.
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@inktank.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <elder@inktank.com>
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If the MDS gives us a dentry and we weren't prepared to handle it,
WARN_ON_ONCE instead of crashing.
Reported-by: Yan, Zheng <zheng.z.yan@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@inktank.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <elder@inktank.com>
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compat_sys_{read,write}v() need the same "pass a copy of file->f_pos" thing
as sys_{read,write}{,v}().
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The debugfs directory includes the cluster fsid and our unique global_id.
We need to delay the initialization of the debug entry until we have
learned both the fsid and our global_id from the monitor or else the
second client can't create its debugfs entry and will fail (and multiple
client instances aren't properly reflected in debugfs).
Reported by: Yan, Zheng <zheng.z.yan@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@inktank.com>
Reviewed-by: Yehuda Sadeh <yehuda@inktank.com>
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If the rpc call to NFS3PROC_FSINFO fails, then we need to report that
error so that the mount fails. Otherwise we can end up with a
superblock with completely unusable values for block sizes, maxfilesize,
etc.
Reported-by: Yuanming Chen <hikvision_linux@163.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
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Any pointer that was allocated through nfs_alloc_client() needs to be
freed via a call to nfs_free_client().
Reported-by: Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/vfs
Pull vfs fixes from Miklos Szeredi.
This mainly fixes some confusion about whether the open 'mode' variable
passed around should contain the full file type (S_IFREG etc)
information or just the permission mode. In particular, the lack of
proper file type information had confused fuse.
* 'vfs-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/vfs:
vfs: fix propagation of atomic_open create error on negative dentry
fuse: check create mode in atomic open
vfs: pass right create mode to may_o_create()
vfs: atomic_open(): fix create mode usage
vfs: canonicalize create mode in build_open_flags()
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4
Pull ext4 bug fixes from Ted Ts'o:
"The following are all bug fixes and regressions. The most notable are
the ones which cause problems for ext4 on RAID --- a performance
problem when mounting very large filesystems, and a kernel OOPS when
doing an rm -rf on large directory hierarchies on fast devices."
* tag 'ext4_for_linus_stable' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4:
ext4: fix kernel BUG on large-scale rm -rf commands
ext4: fix long mount times on very big file systems
ext4: don't call ext4_error while block group is locked
ext4: avoid kmemcheck complaint from reading uninitialized memory
ext4: make sure the journal sb is written in ext4_clear_journal_err()
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In some cases when an autofs indirect mount is contained in a file
system that is marked as shared (such as when systemd does the
equivalent of "mount --make-rshared /" early in the boot), mounts
stop expiring.
When this happens the first expiry check on a mountpoint dentry in
autofs_expire_indirect() sees a mountpoint dentry with a higher
than minimal reference count. Consequently the dentry is condidered
busy and the actual expiry check is never done.
This particular check was originally meant as an optimisation to
detect a path walk in progress but with the addition of rcu-walk
it can be ineffective anyway.
Removing the test allows automounts to expire again since the
actual expire check doesn't rely on the dentry reference count.
Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Commit 968dee7722: "ext4: fix hole punch failure when depth is greater
than 0" introduced a regression in v3.5.1/v3.6-rc1 which caused kernel
crashes when users ran run "rm -rf" on large directory hierarchy on
ext4 filesystems on RAID devices:
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000028
Process rm (pid: 18229, threadinfo ffff8801276bc000, task ffff880123631710)
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff81236483>] ? __ext4_handle_dirty_metadata+0x83/0x110
[<ffffffff812353d3>] ext4_ext_truncate+0x193/0x1d0
[<ffffffff8120a8cf>] ? ext4_mark_inode_dirty+0x7f/0x1f0
[<ffffffff81207e05>] ext4_truncate+0xf5/0x100
[<ffffffff8120cd51>] ext4_evict_inode+0x461/0x490
[<ffffffff811a1312>] evict+0xa2/0x1a0
[<ffffffff811a1513>] iput+0x103/0x1f0
[<ffffffff81196d84>] do_unlinkat+0x154/0x1c0
[<ffffffff8118cc3a>] ? sys_newfstatat+0x2a/0x40
[<ffffffff81197b0b>] sys_unlinkat+0x1b/0x50
[<ffffffff816135e9>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
Code: 8b 4d 20 0f b7 41 02 48 8d 04 40 48 8d 04 81 49 89 45 18 0f b7 49 02 48 83 c1 01 49 89 4d 00 e9 ae f8 ff ff 0f 1f 00 49 8b 45 28 <48> 8b 40 28 49 89 45 20 e9 85 f8 ff ff 0f 1f 80 00 00 00
RIP [<ffffffff81233164>] ext4_ext_remove_space+0xa34/0xdf0
This could be reproduced as follows:
The problem in commit 968dee7722 was that caused the variable 'i' to
be left uninitialized if the truncate required more space than was
available in the journal. This resulted in the function
ext4_ext_truncate_extend_restart() returning -EAGAIN, which caused
ext4_ext_remove_space() to restart the truncate operation after
starting a new jbd2 handle.
Reported-by: Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@google.com>
Reported-by: Marti Raudsepp <marti@juffo.org>
Tested-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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Commit 8aeb00ff85a: "ext4: fix overhead calculation used by
ext4_statfs()" introduced a O(n**2) calculation which makes very large
file systems take forever to mount. Fix this with an optimization for
non-bigalloc file systems. (For bigalloc file systems the overhead
needs to be set in the the superblock.)
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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While in ext4_validate_block_bitmap(), if an block allocation bitmap
is found to be invalid, we call ext4_error() while the block group is
still locked. This causes ext4_commit_super() to call a function
which might sleep while in an atomic context.
There's no need to keep the block group locked at this point, so hoist
the ext4_error() call up to ext4_validate_block_bitmap() and release
the block group spinlock before calling ext4_error().
The reported stack trace can be found at:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.ext4/33731
Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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This allows the normal error-paths to handle the error, rather than
making a special call to complete_request_key() just for this instance.
Signed-off-by: Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@netapp.com>
Tested-by: William Dauchy <wdauchy@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org [>= 3.4]
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
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idmap_pipe_downcall already clears this field if the upcall succeeds,
but if it fails (rpc.idmapd isn't running) the field will still be set
on the next call triggering a BUG_ON(). This patch tries to handle all
possible ways that the upcall could fail and clear the idmap key data
for each one.
Signed-off-by: Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@netapp.com>
Tested-by: William Dauchy <wdauchy@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org [>= 3.4]
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
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Instead of using the private field xdr->p from struct xdr_stream,
use the public xdr_stream_pos().
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
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Currently, we do not take into account the size of the 16 byte
struct nfs4_cached_acl header, when deciding whether or not we should
cache the acl data. Consequently, we will end up allocating an
8k buffer in order to fit a maximum size 4k acl.
This patch adjusts the calculation so that we limit the cache size
to 4k for the acl header+data.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
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Resetting the cursor xdr->p to a previous value is not a safe
practice: if the xdr_stream has crossed out of the initial iovec,
then a bunch of other fields would need to be reset too.
Fix this issue by using xdr_enter_page() so that the buffer gets
page aligned at the bitmap _before_ we decode it.
Also fix the confusion of the ACL length with the page buffer length
by not adding the base offset to the ACL length...
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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This allows distros to remove the line from their modprobe
configuration.
Signed-off-by: Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@netapp.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
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Some systems have a modprobe.d/nfs.conf file that sets an nfs4 alias
pointing to nfs.ko, rather than nfs4.ko. This can prevent the v4 module
from loading on mount, since the kernel sees that something named "nfs4"
has already been loaded. To work around this, I've renamed the modules
to "nfsv2.ko" "nfsv3.ko" and "nfsv4.ko".
I also had to move the nfs4_fs_type back to nfs.ko to ensure that `mount
-t nfs4` still works.
Signed-off-by: Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
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Following a report of a crash during an automount expire I found that
the locking in fs/autofs4/expire.c:get_next_positive_subdir() was wrong.
Not only is the locking wrong but the function is more complex than it
needs to be.
The function is meant to calculate (and dget) the next entry in the list
of directories contained in the root of an autofs mount point (an autofs
indirect mount to be precise). The main problem was that the d_lock of
the owner of the list was not being taken when walking the list, which
lead to list corruption under load. The only other lock that needs to
be taken is against the next dentry candidate so it can be checked for
usability.
Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse
Pull fuse updates from Miklos Szeredi.
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse:
fuse: verify all ioctl retry iov elements
fuse: add missing INIT flag descriptions
fuse: add missing INIT flags
fuse: update attributes on aio_read
fuse: invalidate inode mapping if mtime changes
fuse: add FUSE_AUTO_INVAL_DATA init flag
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If ->atomic_open() returns -ENOENT, we take care to return the create
error (e.g., EACCES), if any. Do the same when ->atomic_open() returns 1
and provides a negative dentry.
This fixes a regression where an unprivileged open O_CREAT fails with
ENOENT instead of EACCES, introduced with the new atomic_open code. It
is tested by the open/08.t test in the pjd posix test suite, and was
observed on top of fuse (backed by ceph-fuse).
Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@inktank.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
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Verify that the VFS is passing us a complete create mode with the S_IFREG to
atomic open.
Reported-by: Steve <steveamigauk@yahoo.co.uk>
Reported-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Tested-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
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Pass the umask-ed create mode to may_o_create() instead of the original one.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Tested-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
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Don't mask S_ISREG off the create mode before passing to ->atomic_open(). Other
methods (->create, ->mknod) also get the complete file mode and filesystems
expect it.
Reported-by: Steve <steveamigauk@yahoo.co.uk>
Reported-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Tested-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
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Userspace can pass weird create mode in open(2) that we canonicalize to
"(mode & S_IALLUGO) | S_IFREG" in vfs_create().
The problem is that we use the uncanonicalized mode before calling vfs_create()
with unforseen consequences.
So do the canonicalization early in build_open_flags().
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Tested-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/linux-btrfs
Pull btrfs merge fix from Chris Mason:
"This fixes a merge error in rc1. The calls to mnt_want_write should
have been removed."
* 'for-linus-3.6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/linux-btrfs:
Btrfs: remove mnt_want_write call in btrfs_mksubvol
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We got a recursive lock in mksubvol because the caller already held
a lock. I think we got into this due to a merge error. Commit a874a63
removed the mnt_want_write call from btrfs_mksubvol and added a
replacement call to mnt_want_write_file in btrfs_ioctl_snap_create_transid.
Commit e7848683 however tried to move all calls to mnt_want_write above
i_mutex. So somewhere while merging this, it got mixed up. The
solution is to remove the mnt_want_write call completely from
mksubvol.
Reported-by: David Sterba <dave@jikos.cz>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Block <ablock84@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@fusionio.com>
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Ever since commit 0a57cdac3f (NFSv4.1 send layoutreturn to fence
disconnected data server) we've been sending layoutreturn calls
while there is potentially still outstanding I/O to the data
servers. The reason we do this is to avoid races between replayed
writes to the MDS and the original writes to the DS.
When this happens, the BUG_ON() in nfs4_layoutreturn_done can
be triggered because it assumes that we would never call
layoutreturn without knowing that all I/O to the DS is
finished. The fix is to remove the BUG_ON() now that the
assumptions behind the test are obsolete.
Reported-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Reported-by: Tigran Mkrtchyan <tigran.mkrtchyan@desy.de>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org [>=3.5]
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Commit 7572777eef78ebdee1ecb7c258c0ef94d35bad16 attempted to verify that
the total iovec from the client doesn't overflow iov_length() but it
only checked the first element. The iovec could still overflow by
starting with a small element. The obvious fix is to check all the
elements.
The overflow case doesn't look dangerous to the kernel as the copy is
limited by the length after the overflow. This fix restores the
intention of returning an error instead of successfully copying less
than the iovec represented.
I found this by code inspection. I built it but don't have a test case.
I'm cc:ing stable because the initial commit did as well.
Signed-off-by: Zach Brown <zab@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
CC: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [2.6.37+]
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Commit 03179fe923 introduced a kmemcheck complaint in
ext4_da_get_block_prep() because we save and restore
ei->i_da_metadata_calc_last_lblock even though it is left
uninitialized in the case where i_da_metadata_calc_len is zero.
This doesn't hurt anything, but silencing the kmemcheck complaint
makes it easier for people to find real bugs.
Addresses https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45631
(which is marked as a regression).
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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After we transfer set the EXT4_ERROR_FS bit in the file system
superblock, it's not enough to call jbd2_journal_clear_err() to clear
the error indication from journal superblock --- we need to call
jbd2_journal_update_sb_errno() as well. Otherwise, when the root file
system is mounted read-only, the journal is replayed, and the error
indicator is transferred to the superblock --- but the s_errno field
in the jbd2 superblock is left set (since although we cleared it in
memory, we never flushed it out to disk).
This can end up confusing e2fsck. We should make e2fsck more robust
in this case, but the kernel shouldn't be leaving things in this
confused state, either.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
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This one ought to be __mnt_drop_write(), to match __mnt_want_write()
in the beginning...
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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The pdflush thread is long gone, so this patch removes references to pdflush
from UBIFS comments.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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The pdflush thread is long gone, so this patch removes references to pdflush
from gfs comments.
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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The '->write_super' superblock method is gone, and this patch removes all the
references to 'write_super' from ntfs.
Cc: KONISHI Ryusuke <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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The '->write_super' superblock method is gone, and this patch removes all the
references to 'write_super' from hfs.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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The pdflush thread is long gone, so this patch removes references to pdflush
from vfs comments.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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The '->write_super' superblock method is gone, and this patch removes all the
references to 'write_super' from various jbd and jbd2.
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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The pdflush thread is long gone, so this patch removes references to pdflush
from btrfs comments.
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@fusionio.com>
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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The '->write_super' superblock method is gone, and this patch removes all the
references to 'write_super' from btrfs.
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@fusionio.com>
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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The pdflush thread is long gone, so this patch removes references to pdflush
from ext4 comments.
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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The '->write_super' superblock method is gone, and this patch removes all the
references to 'write_super' from ext3.
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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The '->write_super' superblock method is gone, and this patch removes all the
references to 'write_super' from ext3.
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Finally we can kill the 'sync_supers' kernel thread along with the
'->write_super()' superblock operation because all the users are gone.
Now every file-system is supposed to self-manage own superblock and
its dirty state.
The nice thing about killing this thread is that it improves power management.
Indeed, 'sync_supers' is a source of monotonic system wake-ups - it woke up
every 5 seconds no matter what - even if there were no dirty superblocks and
even if there were no file-systems using this service (e.g., btrfs and
journalled ext4 do not need it). So it was wasting power most of the time. And
because the thread was in the core of the kernel, all systems had to have it.
So I am quite happy to make it go away.
Interestingly, this thread is a left-over from the pdflush kernel thread which
was a self-forking kernel thread responsible for all the write-back in old
Linux kernels. It was turned into per-block device BDI threads, and
'sync_supers' was a left-over. Thus, R.I.P, pdflush as well.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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