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Josh Boyer 607566aecc CacheFiles: Fix memory leak in cachefiles_check_auxdata error paths
In cachefiles_check_auxdata(), we allocate auxbuf but fail to free it if
we determine there's an error or that the data is stale.

Further, assigning the output of vfs_getxattr() to auxbuf->len gives
problems with checking for errors as auxbuf->len is a u16.  We don't
actually need to set auxbuf->len, so keep the length in a variable for
now.  We shouldn't need to check the upper limit of the buffer as an
overflow there should be indicated by -ERANGE.

While we're at it, fscache_check_aux() returns an enum value, not an
int, so assign it to an appropriately typed variable rather than to ret.

Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Hongyi Jia <jiayisuse@gmail.com>
cc: Milosz Tanski <milosz@adfin.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-09-20 15:15:42 -07:00
David Howells 5002d7bef8 CacheFiles: Implement interface to check cache consistency
Implement the FS-Cache interface to check the consistency of a cache object in
CacheFiles.

Original-author: Hongyi Jia <jiayisuse@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Hongyi Jia <jiayisuse@gmail.com>
cc: Milosz Tanski <milosz@adfin.com>
2013-09-06 09:17:30 +01:00
Mel Gorman a0b8cab3b9 mm: remove lru parameter from __pagevec_lru_add and remove parts of pagevec API
Now that the LRU to add a page to is decided at LRU-add time, remove the
misleading lru parameter from __pagevec_lru_add.  A consequence of this
is that the pagevec_lru_add_file, pagevec_lru_add_anon and similar
helpers are misleading as the caller no longer has direct control over
what LRU the page is added to.  Unused helpers are removed by this patch
and existing users of pagevec_lru_add_file() are converted to use
lru_cache_add_file() directly and use the per-cpu pagevecs instead of
creating their own pagevec.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Alexey Lyahkov <alexey.lyashkov@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Perepechko <anserper@ya.ru>
Cc: Robin Dong <sanbai@taobao.com>
Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Bernd Schubert <bernd.schubert@fastmail.fm>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-07-03 16:07:31 -07:00
Haicheng Li 2144bc78d4 cachefiles: remove unused macro list_to_page()
Signed-off-by: Haicheng Li <haicheng.li@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Tested-By: Milosz Tanski <milosz@adfin.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
2013-06-19 14:16:47 +01:00
David Howells 1362729b16 FS-Cache: Simplify cookie retention for fscache_objects, fixing oops
Simplify the way fscache cache objects retain their cookie.  The way I
implemented the cookie storage handling made synchronisation a pain (ie. the
object state machine can't rely on the cookie actually still being there).

Instead of the the object being detached from the cookie and the cookie being
freed in __fscache_relinquish_cookie(), we defer both operations:

 (*) The detachment of the object from the list in the cookie now takes place
     in fscache_drop_object() and is thus governed by the object state machine
     (fscache_detach_from_cookie() has been removed).

 (*) The release of the cookie is now in fscache_object_destroy() - which is
     called by the cache backend just before it frees the object.

This means that the fscache_cookie struct is now available to the cache all the
way through from ->alloc_object() to ->drop_object() and ->put_object() -
meaning that it's no longer necessary to take object->lock to guarantee access.

However, __fscache_relinquish_cookie() doesn't wait for the object to go all
the way through to destruction before letting the netfs proceed.  That would
massively slow down the netfs.  Since __fscache_relinquish_cookie() leaves the
cookie around, in must therefore break all attachments to the netfs - which
includes ->def, ->netfs_data and any outstanding page read/writes.

To handle this, struct fscache_cookie now has an n_active counter:

 (1) This starts off initialised to 1.

 (2) Any time the cache needs to get at the netfs data, it calls
     fscache_use_cookie() to increment it - if it is not zero.  If it was zero,
     then access is not permitted.

 (3) When the cache has finished with the data, it calls fscache_unuse_cookie()
     to decrement it.  This does a wake-up on it if it reaches 0.

 (4) __fscache_relinquish_cookie() decrements n_active and then waits for it to
     reach 0.  The initialisation to 1 in step (1) ensures that we only get
     wake ups when we're trying to get rid of the cookie.

This leaves __fscache_relinquish_cookie() a lot simpler.


***
This fixes a problem in the current code whereby if fscache_invalidate() is
followed sufficiently quickly by fscache_relinquish_cookie() then it is
possible for __fscache_relinquish_cookie() to have detached the cookie from the
object and cleared the pointer before a thread is dispatched to process the
invalidation state in the object state machine.

Since the pending write clearance was deferred to the invalidation state to
make it asynchronous, we need to either wait in relinquishment for the stores
tree to be cleared in the invalidation state or we need to handle the clearance
in relinquishment.

Further, if the relinquishment code does clear the tree, then the invalidation
state need to make the clearance contingent on still having the cookie to hand
(since that's where the tree is rooted) and we have to prevent the cookie from
disappearing for the duration.

This can lead to an oops like the following:

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 000000000000000c
...
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8151023e>] _spin_lock+0xe/0x30
...
CR2: 000000000000000c ...
...
Process kslowd002 (...)
....
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffffa01c3278>] fscache_invalidate_writes+0x38/0xd0 [fscache]
 [<ffffffff810096f0>] ? __switch_to+0xd0/0x320
 [<ffffffff8105e759>] ? find_busiest_queue+0x69/0x150
 [<ffffffff8110ddd4>] ? slow_work_enqueue+0x104/0x180
 [<ffffffffa01c1303>] fscache_object_slow_work_execute+0x5e3/0x9d0 [fscache]
 [<ffffffff81096b67>] ? bit_waitqueue+0x17/0xd0
 [<ffffffff8110e233>] slow_work_execute+0x233/0x310
 [<ffffffff8110e515>] slow_work_thread+0x205/0x360
 [<ffffffff81096ca0>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x40
 [<ffffffff8110e310>] ? slow_work_thread+0x0/0x360
 [<ffffffff81096936>] kthread+0x96/0xa0
 [<ffffffff8100c0ca>] child_rip+0xa/0x20
 [<ffffffff810968a0>] ? kthread+0x0/0xa0
 [<ffffffff8100c0c0>] ? child_rip+0x0/0x20

The parameter to fscache_invalidate_writes() was object->cookie which is NULL.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Tested-By: Milosz Tanski <milosz@adfin.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
2013-06-19 14:16:47 +01:00
David Howells caaef6900b FS-Cache: Fix object state machine to have separate work and wait states
Fix object state machine to have separate work and wait states as that makes
it easier to envision.

There are now three kinds of state:

 (1) Work state.  This is an execution state.  No event processing is performed
     by a work state.  The function attached to a work state returns a pointer
     indicating the next state to which the OSM should transition.  Returning
     NO_TRANSIT repeats the current state, but goes back to the scheduler
     first.

 (2) Wait state.  This is an event processing state.  No execution is
     performed by a wait state.  Wait states are just tables of "if event X
     occurs, clear it and transition to state Y".  The dispatcher returns to
     the scheduler if none of the events in which the wait state has an
     interest are currently pending.

 (3) Out-of-band state.  This is a special work state.  Transitions to normal
     states can be overridden when an unexpected event occurs (eg. I/O error).
     Instead the dispatcher disables and clears the OOB event and transits to
     the specified work state.  This then acts as an ordinary work state,
     though object->state points to the overridden destination.  Returning
     NO_TRANSIT resumes the overridden transition.

In addition, the states have names in their definitions, so there's no need for
tables of state names.  Further, the EV_REQUEUE event is no longer necessary as
that is automatic for work states.

Since the states are now separate structs rather than values in an enum, it's
not possible to use comparisons other than (non-)equality between them, so use
some object->flags to indicate what phase an object is in.

The EV_RELEASE, EV_RETIRE and EV_WITHDRAW events have been squished into one
(EV_KILL).  An object flag now carries the information about retirement.

Similarly, the RELEASING, RECYCLING and WITHDRAWING states have been merged
into an KILL_OBJECT state and additional states have been added for handling
waiting dependent objects (JUMPSTART_DEPS and KILL_DEPENDENTS).

A state has also been added for synchronising with parent object initialisation
(WAIT_FOR_PARENT) and another for initiating look up (PARENT_READY).

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Tested-By: Milosz Tanski <milosz@adfin.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
2013-06-19 14:16:47 +01:00
David Howells 493f7bc114 FS-Cache: Wrap checks on object state
Wrap checks on object state (mostly outside of fs/fscache/object.c) with
inline functions so that the mechanism can be replaced.

Some of the state checks within object.c are left as-is as they will be
replaced.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Tested-By: Milosz Tanski <milosz@adfin.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
2013-06-19 14:16:47 +01:00
J. Bruce Fields 6bd5e82b09 CacheFiles: name i_mutex lock class explicitly
Just some cleanup.

(And note the caller of this function may, for example, call vfs_unlink
on a child, so the "1" (I_MUTEX_PARENT) really was what was intended
here.)

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Tested-By: Milosz Tanski <milosz@adfin.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
2013-06-19 14:16:47 +01:00
Al Viro 03d95eb2f2 lift sb_start_write() out of ->write()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-04-09 14:12:56 -04:00
David Howells 1f372dff1d FS-Cache: Mark cancellation of in-progress operation
Mark as cancelled an operation that is in progress rather than pending at the
time it is cancelled, and call fscache_complete_op() to cancel an operation so
that blocked ops can be started.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2012-12-20 22:34:00 +00:00
David Howells c2d35bfe4b FS-Cache: Don't mask off the object event mask when printing it
Don't mask off the object event mask when printing it.  That way it can be seen
if threre are bits set that shouldn't be.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2012-12-20 22:08:53 +00:00
David Howells b4cf1e08c8 CacheFiles: Add missing retrieval completions
CacheFiles is missing some calls to fscache_retrieval_complete() in the error
handling/collision paths of its reader functions.

This can be seen by the following assertion tripping in fscache_put_operation()
whereby the operation being destroyed is still in the in-progress state and has
not been cancelled or completed:

FS-Cache: Assertion failed
3 == 5 is false
------------[ cut here ]------------
kernel BUG at fs/fscache/operation.c:408!
invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
CPU 2
Modules linked in: xfs ioatdma dca loop joydev evdev
psmouse dcdbas pcspkr serio_raw i5000_edac edac_core i5k_amb shpchp
pci_hotplug sg sr_mod]

Pid: 8062, comm: httpd Not tainted 3.1.0-rc8 #1 Dell Inc. PowerEdge 1950/0DT097
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff81197b24>]  [<ffffffff81197b24>] fscache_put_operation+0x304/0x330
RSP: 0018:ffff880062f739d8  EFLAGS: 00010296
RAX: 0000000000000025 RBX: ffff8800c5122e84 RCX: ffffffff81ddf040
RDX: 00000000ffffffff RSI: 0000000000000082 RDI: ffffffff81ddef30
RBP: ffff880062f739f8 R08: 0000000000000005 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000003 R12: ffff8800c5122e40
R13: ffff880037a2cd20 R14: ffff880087c7a058 R15: ffff880087c7a000
FS:  00007f63dcf636e0(0000) GS:ffff88022fc80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f0c0a91f000 CR3: 0000000062ec2000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Process httpd (pid: 8062, threadinfo ffff880062f72000, task ffff880087e58000)
Stack:
 ffff880062f73bf8 0000000000000000 ffff880062f73bf8 ffff880037a2cd20
 ffff880062f73a68 ffffffff8119aa7e ffff88006540e000 ffff880062f73ad4
 ffff88008e9a4308 ffff880037a2cd20 ffff880062f73a48 ffff8800c5122e40
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff8119aa7e>] __fscache_read_or_alloc_pages+0x1fe/0x530
 [<ffffffff81250780>] __nfs_readpages_from_fscache+0x70/0x1c0
 [<ffffffff8123142a>] nfs_readpages+0xca/0x1e0
 [<ffffffff815f3c06>] ? rpc_do_put_task+0x36/0x50
 [<ffffffff8122755b>] ? alloc_nfs_open_context+0x4b/0x110
 [<ffffffff815ecd1a>] ? rpc_call_sync+0x5a/0x70
 [<ffffffff810e7e9a>] __do_page_cache_readahead+0x1ca/0x270
 [<ffffffff810e7f61>] ra_submit+0x21/0x30
 [<ffffffff810e818d>] ondemand_readahead+0x11d/0x250
 [<ffffffff810e83b6>] page_cache_sync_readahead+0x36/0x60
 [<ffffffff810dffa4>] generic_file_aio_read+0x454/0x770
 [<ffffffff81224ce1>] nfs_file_read+0xe1/0x130
 [<ffffffff81121bd9>] do_sync_read+0xd9/0x120
 [<ffffffff8114088f>] ? mntput+0x1f/0x40
 [<ffffffff811238cb>] ? fput+0x1cb/0x260
 [<ffffffff81122938>] vfs_read+0xc8/0x180
 [<ffffffff81122af5>] sys_read+0x55/0x90

Reported-by: Mark Moseley <moseleymark@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2012-12-20 22:07:40 +00:00
David Howells 9dc8d9bfe4 CacheFiles: Implement invalidation
Implement invalidation for CacheFiles.  This is in two parts:

 (1) Provide an invalidation method (which just truncates the backing file).

 (2) Abort attempts to copy anything read from the backing file whilst
     invalidation is in progress.

Question: CacheFiles uses truncation in a couple of places.  It has been using
notify_change() rather than sys_truncate() or something similar.  This means
it bypasses a bunch of checks and suchlike that it possibly should be making
(security, file locking, lease breaking, vfsmount write).  Should it be using
vfs_truncate() as added by a preceding patch or should it use notify_write()
and assume that anyone poking around in the cache files on disk gets
everything they deserve?

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2012-12-20 22:06:08 +00:00
David Howells 9f10523f89 FS-Cache: Fix operation state management and accounting
Fix the state management of internal fscache operations and the accounting of
what operations are in what states.

This is done by:

 (1) Give struct fscache_operation a enum variable that directly represents the
     state it's currently in, rather than spreading this knowledge over a bunch
     of flags, who's processing the operation at the moment and whether it is
     queued or not.

     This makes it easier to write assertions to check the state at various
     points and to prevent invalid state transitions.

 (2) Add an 'operation complete' state and supply a function to indicate the
     completion of an operation (fscache_op_complete()) and make things call
     it.  The final call to fscache_put_operation() can then check that an op
     in the appropriate state (complete or cancelled).

 (3) Adjust the use of object->n_ops, ->n_in_progress, ->n_exclusive to better
     govern the state of an object:

	(a) The ->n_ops is now the number of extant operations on the object
	    and is now decremented by fscache_put_operation() only.

	(b) The ->n_in_progress is simply the number of objects that have been
	    taken off of the object's pending queue for the purposes of being
	    run.  This is decremented by fscache_op_complete() only.

	(c) The ->n_exclusive is the number of exclusive ops that have been
	    submitted and queued or are in progress.  It is decremented by
	    fscache_op_complete() and by fscache_cancel_op().

     fscache_put_operation() and fscache_operation_gc() now no longer try to
     clean up ->n_exclusive and ->n_in_progress.  That was leading to double
     decrements against fscache_cancel_op().

     fscache_cancel_op() now no longer decrements ->n_ops.  That was leading to
     double decrements against fscache_put_operation().

     fscache_submit_exclusive_op() now decides whether it has to queue an op
     based on ->n_in_progress being > 0 rather than ->n_ops > 0 as the latter
     will persist in being true even after all preceding operations have been
     cancelled or completed.  Furthermore, if an object is active and there are
     runnable ops against it, there must be at least one op running.

 (4) Add a remaining-pages counter (n_pages) to struct fscache_retrieval and
     provide a function to record completion of the pages as they complete.

     When n_pages reaches 0, the operation is deemed to be complete and
     fscache_op_complete() is called.

     Add calls to fscache_retrieval_complete() anywhere we've finished with a
     page we've been given to read or allocate for.  This includes places where
     we just return pages to the netfs for reading from the server and where
     accessing the cache fails and we discard the proposed netfs page.

The bugs in the unfixed state management manifest themselves as oopses like the
following where the operation completion gets out of sync with return of the
cookie by the netfs.  This is possible because the cache unlocks and returns
all the netfs pages before recording its completion - which means that there's
nothing to stop the netfs discarding them and returning the cookie.


FS-Cache: Cookie 'NFS.fh' still has outstanding reads
------------[ cut here ]------------
kernel BUG at fs/fscache/cookie.c:519!
invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
CPU 1
Modules linked in: cachefiles nfs fscache auth_rpcgss nfs_acl lockd sunrpc

Pid: 400, comm: kswapd0 Not tainted 3.1.0-rc7-fsdevel+ #1090                  /DG965RY
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffffa007050a>]  [<ffffffffa007050a>] __fscache_relinquish_cookie+0x170/0x343 [fscache]
RSP: 0018:ffff8800368cfb00  EFLAGS: 00010282
RAX: 000000000000003c RBX: ffff880023cc8790 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000002f2e RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: ffffffff813ab86c
RBP: ffff8800368cfb50 R08: 0000000000000002 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: ffff88003a1b7890 R11: ffff88001df6e488 R12: ffff880023d8ed98
R13: ffff880023cc8798 R14: 0000000000000004 R15: ffff88003b8bf370
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88003bd00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
CR2: 00000000008ba008 CR3: 0000000023d93000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Process kswapd0 (pid: 400, threadinfo ffff8800368ce000, task ffff88003b8bf040)
Stack:
 ffff88003b8bf040 ffff88001df6e528 ffff88001df6e528 ffffffffa00b46b0
 ffff88003b8bf040 ffff88001df6e488 ffff88001df6e620 ffffffffa00b46b0
 ffff88001ebd04c8 0000000000000004 ffff8800368cfb70 ffffffffa00b2c91
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffffa00b2c91>] nfs_fscache_release_inode_cookie+0x3b/0x47 [nfs]
 [<ffffffffa008f25f>] nfs_clear_inode+0x3c/0x41 [nfs]
 [<ffffffffa0090df1>] nfs4_evict_inode+0x2f/0x33 [nfs]
 [<ffffffff810d8d47>] evict+0xa1/0x15c
 [<ffffffff810d8e2e>] dispose_list+0x2c/0x38
 [<ffffffff810d9ebd>] prune_icache_sb+0x28c/0x29b
 [<ffffffff810c56b7>] prune_super+0xd5/0x140
 [<ffffffff8109b615>] shrink_slab+0x102/0x1ab
 [<ffffffff8109d690>] balance_pgdat+0x2f2/0x595
 [<ffffffff8103e009>] ? process_timeout+0xb/0xb
 [<ffffffff8109dba3>] kswapd+0x270/0x289
 [<ffffffff8104c5ea>] ? __init_waitqueue_head+0x46/0x46
 [<ffffffff8109d933>] ? balance_pgdat+0x595/0x595
 [<ffffffff8104bf7a>] kthread+0x7f/0x87
 [<ffffffff813ad6b4>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
 [<ffffffff81026b98>] ? finish_task_switch+0x45/0xc0
 [<ffffffff813abcdd>] ? retint_restore_args+0xe/0xe
 [<ffffffff8104befb>] ? __init_kthread_worker+0x53/0x53
 [<ffffffff813ad6b0>] ? gs_change+0xb/0xb

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2012-12-20 21:58:26 +00:00
David Howells 37491a1339 CacheFiles: Make some debugging statements conditional
Downgrade some debugging statements to not unconditionally print stuff, but
rather be conditional on the appropriate module parameter setting.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2012-12-20 21:58:25 +00:00
David Howells 5f4f9f4af1 CacheFiles: Downgrade the requirements passed to the allocator
Downgrade the requirements passed to the allocator in the gfp flags parameter.
FS-Cache/CacheFiles can handle OOM conditions simply by aborting the attempt to
store an object or a page in the cache.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2012-12-20 21:58:25 +00:00
David Howells c4d6d8dbf3 CacheFiles: Fix the marking of cached pages
Under some circumstances CacheFiles defers the marking of pages with PG_fscache
so that it can take advantage of pagevecs to reduce the number of calls to
fscache_mark_pages_cached() and the netfs's hook to keep track of this.

There are, however, two problems with this:

 (1) It can lead to the PG_fscache mark being applied _after_ the page is set
     PG_uptodate and unlocked (by the call to fscache_end_io()).

 (2) CacheFiles's ref on the page is dropped immediately following
     fscache_end_io() - and so may not still be held when the mark is applied.
     This can lead to the page being passed back to the allocator before the
     mark is applied.

Fix this by, where appropriate, marking the page before calling
fscache_end_io() and releasing the page.  This means that we can't take
advantage of pagevecs and have to make a separate call for each page to the
marking routines.

The symptoms of this are Bad Page state errors cropping up under memory
pressure, for example:

BUG: Bad page state in process tar  pfn:002da
page:ffffea0000009fb0 count:0 mapcount:0 mapping:          (null) index:0x1447
page flags: 0x1000(private_2)
Pid: 4574, comm: tar Tainted: G        W   3.1.0-rc4-fsdevel+ #1064
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff8109583c>] ? dump_page+0xb9/0xbe
 [<ffffffff81095916>] bad_page+0xd5/0xea
 [<ffffffff81095d82>] get_page_from_freelist+0x35b/0x46a
 [<ffffffff810961f3>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x362/0x662
 [<ffffffff810989da>] __do_page_cache_readahead+0x13a/0x267
 [<ffffffff81098942>] ? __do_page_cache_readahead+0xa2/0x267
 [<ffffffff81098d7b>] ra_submit+0x1c/0x20
 [<ffffffff8109900a>] ondemand_readahead+0x28b/0x29a
 [<ffffffff81098ee2>] ? ondemand_readahead+0x163/0x29a
 [<ffffffff810990ce>] page_cache_sync_readahead+0x38/0x3a
 [<ffffffff81091d8a>] generic_file_aio_read+0x2ab/0x67e
 [<ffffffffa008cfbe>] nfs_file_read+0xa4/0xc9 [nfs]
 [<ffffffff810c22c4>] do_sync_read+0xba/0xfa
 [<ffffffff81177a47>] ? security_file_permission+0x7b/0x84
 [<ffffffff810c25dd>] ? rw_verify_area+0xab/0xc8
 [<ffffffff810c29a4>] vfs_read+0xaa/0x13a
 [<ffffffff810c2a79>] sys_read+0x45/0x6c
 [<ffffffff813ac37b>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

As can be seen, PG_private_2 (== PG_fscache) is set in the page flags.

Instrumenting fscache_mark_pages_cached() to verify whether page->mapping was
set appropriately showed that sometimes it wasn't.  This led to the discovery
that sometimes the page has apparently been reclaimed by the time the marker
got to see it.

Reported-by: M. Stevens <m@tippett.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
2012-12-20 21:54:30 +00:00
Justin Lecher 98c350cda2 fs: cachefiles: add support for large files in filesystem caching
Support the caching of large files.

Addresses https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31182

Signed-off-by: Justin Lecher <jlec@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@suse.com>
Tested-by: Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@suse.com>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-30 17:25:21 -07:00
Al Viro 765927b2d5 switch dentry_open() to struct path, make it grab references itself
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-23 00:01:29 +04:00
Al Viro 312b63fba9 don't pass nameidata * to vfs_create()
all we want is a boolean flag, same as the method gets now

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-14 16:34:50 +04:00
Al Viro 68ac1234fb switch touch_atime to struct path
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-03-20 21:29:41 -04:00
Al Viro ff01bb4832 fs: move code out of buffer.c
Move invalidate_bdev, block_sync_page into fs/block_dev.c.  Export
kill_bdev as well, so brd doesn't have to open code it.  Reduce
buffer_head.h requirement accordingly.

Removed a rather large comment from invalidate_bdev, as it looked a bit
obsolete to bother moving.  The small comment replacing it says enough.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-01-03 22:54:07 -05:00
Al Viro e7f5909707 kill useless checks for sb->s_op == NULL
never is...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 01:44:21 -04:00
Al Viro fb408e6ccc get rid of pointless checks for dentry->sb == NULL
it never is...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 01:44:19 -04:00
Lucas De Marchi 25985edced Fix common misspellings
Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
David Howells 821404434f CacheFiles: Add calls to path-based security hooks
Add calls to path-based security hooks into CacheFiles as, unlike inode-based
security, these aren't implicit in the vfs_mkdir() and similar calls.

Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2011-01-24 10:49:45 +11:00
Arnd Bergmann 6038f373a3 llseek: automatically add .llseek fop
All file_operations should get a .llseek operation so we can make
nonseekable_open the default for future file operations without a
.llseek pointer.

The three cases that we can automatically detect are no_llseek, seq_lseek
and default_llseek. For cases where we can we can automatically prove that
the file offset is always ignored, we use noop_llseek, which maintains
the current behavior of not returning an error from a seek.

New drivers should normally not use noop_llseek but instead use no_llseek
and call nonseekable_open at open time.  Existing drivers can be converted
to do the same when the maintainer knows for certain that no user code
relies on calling seek on the device file.

The generated code is often incorrectly indented and right now contains
comments that clarify for each added line why a specific variant was
chosen. In the version that gets submitted upstream, the comments will
be gone and I will manually fix the indentation, because there does not
seem to be a way to do that using coccinelle.

Some amount of new code is currently sitting in linux-next that should get
the same modifications, which I will do at the end of the merge window.

Many thanks to Julia Lawall for helping me learn to write a semantic
patch that does all this.

===== begin semantic patch =====
// This adds an llseek= method to all file operations,
// as a preparation for making no_llseek the default.
//
// The rules are
// - use no_llseek explicitly if we do nonseekable_open
// - use seq_lseek for sequential files
// - use default_llseek if we know we access f_pos
// - use noop_llseek if we know we don't access f_pos,
//   but we still want to allow users to call lseek
//
@ open1 exists @
identifier nested_open;
@@
nested_open(...)
{
<+...
nonseekable_open(...)
...+>
}

@ open exists@
identifier open_f;
identifier i, f;
identifier open1.nested_open;
@@
int open_f(struct inode *i, struct file *f)
{
<+...
(
nonseekable_open(...)
|
nested_open(...)
)
...+>
}

@ read disable optional_qualifier exists @
identifier read_f;
identifier f, p, s, off;
type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
expression E;
identifier func;
@@
ssize_t read_f(struct file *f, char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
{
<+...
(
   *off = E
|
   *off += E
|
   func(..., off, ...)
|
   E = *off
)
...+>
}

@ read_no_fpos disable optional_qualifier exists @
identifier read_f;
identifier f, p, s, off;
type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
@@
ssize_t read_f(struct file *f, char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
{
... when != off
}

@ write @
identifier write_f;
identifier f, p, s, off;
type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
expression E;
identifier func;
@@
ssize_t write_f(struct file *f, const char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
{
<+...
(
  *off = E
|
  *off += E
|
  func(..., off, ...)
|
  E = *off
)
...+>
}

@ write_no_fpos @
identifier write_f;
identifier f, p, s, off;
type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
@@
ssize_t write_f(struct file *f, const char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
{
... when != off
}

@ fops0 @
identifier fops;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
 ...
};

@ has_llseek depends on fops0 @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier llseek_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
 .llseek = llseek_f,
...
};

@ has_read depends on fops0 @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier read_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
 .read = read_f,
...
};

@ has_write depends on fops0 @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier write_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
 .write = write_f,
...
};

@ has_open depends on fops0 @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier open_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
 .open = open_f,
...
};

// use no_llseek if we call nonseekable_open
////////////////////////////////////////////
@ nonseekable1 depends on !has_llseek && has_open @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier nso ~= "nonseekable_open";
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...  .open = nso, ...
+.llseek = no_llseek, /* nonseekable */
};

@ nonseekable2 depends on !has_llseek @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier open.open_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...  .open = open_f, ...
+.llseek = no_llseek, /* open uses nonseekable */
};

// use seq_lseek for sequential files
/////////////////////////////////////
@ seq depends on !has_llseek @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier sr ~= "seq_read";
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...  .read = sr, ...
+.llseek = seq_lseek, /* we have seq_read */
};

// use default_llseek if there is a readdir
///////////////////////////////////////////
@ fops1 depends on !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier readdir_e;
@@
// any other fop is used that changes pos
struct file_operations fops = {
... .readdir = readdir_e, ...
+.llseek = default_llseek, /* readdir is present */
};

// use default_llseek if at least one of read/write touches f_pos
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
@ fops2 depends on !fops1 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier read.read_f;
@@
// read fops use offset
struct file_operations fops = {
... .read = read_f, ...
+.llseek = default_llseek, /* read accesses f_pos */
};

@ fops3 depends on !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier write.write_f;
@@
// write fops use offset
struct file_operations fops = {
... .write = write_f, ...
+	.llseek = default_llseek, /* write accesses f_pos */
};

// Use noop_llseek if neither read nor write accesses f_pos
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

@ fops4 depends on !fops1 && !fops2 && !fops3 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier read_no_fpos.read_f;
identifier write_no_fpos.write_f;
@@
// write fops use offset
struct file_operations fops = {
...
 .write = write_f,
 .read = read_f,
...
+.llseek = noop_llseek, /* read and write both use no f_pos */
};

@ depends on has_write && !has_read && !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier write_no_fpos.write_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
... .write = write_f, ...
+.llseek = noop_llseek, /* write uses no f_pos */
};

@ depends on has_read && !has_write && !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier read_no_fpos.read_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
... .read = read_f, ...
+.llseek = noop_llseek, /* read uses no f_pos */
};

@ depends on !has_read && !has_write && !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
+.llseek = noop_llseek, /* no read or write fn */
};
===== End semantic patch =====

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
2010-10-15 15:53:27 +02:00
David Howells 12fdff3fc2 Add a dummy printk function for the maintenance of unused printks
Add a dummy printk function for the maintenance of unused printks through gcc
format checking, and also so that side-effect checking is maintained too.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-12 09:51:35 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi f7ad3c6be9 vfs: add helpers to get root and pwd
Add three helpers that retrieve a refcounted copy of the root and cwd
from the supplied fs_struct.

 get_fs_root()
 get_fs_pwd()
 get_fs_root_and_pwd()

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-08-11 00:28:20 -04:00
Miklos Szeredi 542ce7a9bc cachefiles: use path_get instead of lone dget
Dentry references should not be acquired without a corresponding
vfsmount ref.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-08-11 00:28:20 -04:00
Linus Torvalds 5f248c9c25 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (96 commits)
  no need for list_for_each_entry_safe()/resetting with superblock list
  Fix sget() race with failing mount
  vfs: don't hold s_umount over close_bdev_exclusive() call
  sysv: do not mark superblock dirty on remount
  sysv: do not mark superblock dirty on mount
  btrfs: remove junk sb_dirt change
  BFS: clean up the superblock usage
  AFFS: wait for sb synchronization when needed
  AFFS: clean up dirty flag usage
  cifs: truncate fallout
  mbcache: fix shrinker function return value
  mbcache: Remove unused features
  add f_flags to struct statfs(64)
  pass a struct path to vfs_statfs
  update VFS documentation for method changes.
  All filesystems that need invalidate_inode_buffers() are doing that explicitly
  convert remaining ->clear_inode() to ->evict_inode()
  Make ->drop_inode() just return whether inode needs to be dropped
  fs/inode.c:clear_inode() is gone
  fs/inode.c:evict() doesn't care about delete vs. non-delete paths now
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts in fs/nilfs2/super.c
2010-08-10 11:26:52 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig ebabe9a900 pass a struct path to vfs_statfs
We'll need the path to implement the flags field for statvfs support.
We do have it available in all callers except:

 - ecryptfs_statfs.  This one doesn't actually need vfs_statfs but just
   needs to do a caller to the lower filesystem statfs method.
 - sys_ustat.  Add a non-exported statfs_by_dentry helper for it which
   doesn't won't be able to fill out the flags field later on.

In addition rename the helpers for statfs vs fstatfs to do_*statfs instead
of the misleading vfs prefix.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-08-09 16:48:42 -04:00
Tejun Heo 8af7c12436 fscache: convert operation to use workqueue instead of slow-work
Make fscache operation to use only workqueue instead of combination of
workqueue and slow-work.  FSCACHE_OP_SLOW is dropped and
FSCACHE_OP_FAST is renamed to FSCACHE_OP_ASYNC and uses newly added
fscache_op_wq workqueue to execute op->processor().
fscache_operation_init_slow() is dropped and fscache_operation_init()
now takes @processor argument directly.

* Unbound workqueue is used.

* fscache_retrieval_work() is no longer necessary as OP_ASYNC now does
  the equivalent thing.

* sysctl fscache.operation_max_active added to control concurrency.
  The default value is nr_cpus clamped between 2 and
  WQ_UNBOUND_MAX_ACTIVE.

* debugfs support is dropped for now.  Tracing API based debug
  facility is planned to be added.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2010-07-22 22:58:47 +02:00
Tejun Heo 8b8edefa2f fscache: convert object to use workqueue instead of slow-work
Make fscache object state transition callbacks use workqueue instead
of slow-work.  New dedicated unbound CPU workqueue fscache_object_wq
is created.  get/put callbacks are renamed and modified to take
@object and called directly from the enqueue wrapper and the work
function.  While at it, make all open coded instances of get/put to
use fscache_get/put_object().

* Unbound workqueue is used.

* work_busy() output is printed instead of slow-work flags in object
  debugging outputs.  They mean basically the same thing bit-for-bit.

* sysctl fscache.object_max_active added to control concurrency.  The
  default value is nr_cpus clamped between 4 and
  WQ_UNBOUND_MAX_ACTIVE.

* slow_work_sleep_till_thread_needed() is replaced with fscache
  private implementation fscache_object_sleep_till_congested() which
  waits on fscache_object_wq congestion.

* debugfs support is dropped for now.  Tracing API based debug
  facility is planned to be added.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2010-07-22 22:58:34 +02:00
David Howells 7ac512aa82 CacheFiles: Fix error handling in cachefiles_determine_cache_security()
cachefiles_determine_cache_security() is expected to return with a
security override in place.  However, if set_create_files_as() fails, we
fail to do this.  In this case, we should just reinstate the security
override that was set by the caller.

Furthermore, if set_create_files_as() fails, we should dispose of the
new credentials we were in the process of creating.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-12 18:23:58 -07:00
David Howells c61ea31dac CacheFiles: Fix occasional EIO on call to vfs_unlink()
Fix an occasional EIO returned by a call to vfs_unlink():

	[ 4868.465413] CacheFiles: I/O Error: Unlink failed
	[ 4868.465444] FS-Cache: Cache cachefiles stopped due to I/O error
	[ 4947.320011] CacheFiles: File cache on md3 unregistering
	[ 4947.320041] FS-Cache: Withdrawing cache "mycache"
	[ 5127.348683] FS-Cache: Cache "mycache" added (type cachefiles)
	[ 5127.348716] CacheFiles: File cache on md3 registered
	[ 7076.871081] CacheFiles: I/O Error: Unlink failed
	[ 7076.871130] FS-Cache: Cache cachefiles stopped due to I/O error
	[ 7116.780891] CacheFiles: File cache on md3 unregistering
	[ 7116.780937] FS-Cache: Withdrawing cache "mycache"
	[ 7296.813394] FS-Cache: Cache "mycache" added (type cachefiles)
	[ 7296.813432] CacheFiles: File cache on md3 registered

What happens is this:

 (1) A cached NFS file is seen to have become out of date, so NFS retires the
     object and immediately acquires a new object with the same key.

 (2) Retirement of the old object is done asynchronously - so the lookup/create
     to generate the new object may be done first.

     This can be a problem as the old object and the new object must exist at
     the same point in the backing filesystem (i.e. they must have the same
     pathname).

 (3) The lookup for the new object sees that a backing file already exists,
     checks to see whether it is valid and sees that it isn't.  It then deletes
     that file and creates a new one on disk.

 (4) The retirement phase for the old file is then performed.  It tries to
     delete the dentry it has, but ext4_unlink() returns -EIO because the inode
     attached to that dentry no longer matches the inode number associated with
     the filename in the parent directory.

The trace below shows this quite well.

	[md5sum] ==> __fscache_relinquish_cookie(ffff88002d12fb58{NFS.fh,ffff88002ce62100},1)
	[md5sum] ==> __fscache_acquire_cookie({NFS.server},{NFS.fh},ffff88002ce62100)

NFS has retired the old cookie and asked for a new one.

	[kslowd] ==> fscache_object_state_machine({OBJ52,OBJECT_ACTIVE,24})
	[kslowd] <== fscache_object_state_machine() [->OBJECT_DYING]
	[kslowd] ==> fscache_object_state_machine({OBJ53,OBJECT_INIT,0})
	[kslowd] <== fscache_object_state_machine() [->OBJECT_LOOKING_UP]
	[kslowd] ==> fscache_object_state_machine({OBJ52,OBJECT_DYING,24})
	[kslowd] <== fscache_object_state_machine() [->OBJECT_RECYCLING]

The old object (OBJ52) is going through the terminal states to get rid of it,
whilst the new object - (OBJ53) - is coming into being.

	[kslowd] ==> fscache_object_state_machine({OBJ53,OBJECT_LOOKING_UP,0})
	[kslowd] ==> cachefiles_walk_to_object({ffff88003029d8b8},OBJ53,@68,)
	[kslowd] lookup '@68'
	[kslowd] next -> ffff88002ce41bd0 positive
	[kslowd] advance
	[kslowd] lookup 'Es0g00og0_Nd_XCYe3BOzvXrsBLMlN6aw16M1htaA'
	[kslowd] next -> ffff8800369faac8 positive

The new object has looked up the subdir in which the file would be in (getting
dentry ffff88002ce41bd0) and then looked up the file itself (getting dentry
ffff8800369faac8).

	[kslowd] validate 'Es0g00og0_Nd_XCYe3BOzvXrsBLMlN6aw16M1htaA'
	[kslowd] ==> cachefiles_bury_object(,'@68','Es0g00og0_Nd_XCYe3BOzvXrsBLMlN6aw16M1htaA')
	[kslowd] remove ffff8800369faac8 from ffff88002ce41bd0
	[kslowd] unlink stale object
	[kslowd] <== cachefiles_bury_object() = 0

It then checks the file's xattrs to see if it's valid.  NFS says that the
auxiliary data indicate the file is out of date (obvious to us - that's why NFS
ditched the old version and got a new one).  CacheFiles then deletes the old
file (dentry ffff8800369faac8).

	[kslowd] redo lookup
	[kslowd] lookup 'Es0g00og0_Nd_XCYe3BOzvXrsBLMlN6aw16M1htaA'
	[kslowd] next -> ffff88002cd94288 negative
	[kslowd] create -> ffff88002cd94288{ffff88002cdaf238{ino=148247}}

CacheFiles then redoes the lookup and gets a negative result in a new dentry
(ffff88002cd94288) which it then creates a file for.

	[kslowd] ==> cachefiles_mark_object_active(,OBJ53)
	[kslowd] <== cachefiles_mark_object_active() = 0
	[kslowd] === OBTAINED_OBJECT ===
	[kslowd] <== cachefiles_walk_to_object() = 0 [148247]
	[kslowd] <== fscache_object_state_machine() [->OBJECT_AVAILABLE]

The new object is then marked active and the state machine moves to the
available state - at which point NFS can start filling the object.

	[kslowd] ==> fscache_object_state_machine({OBJ52,OBJECT_RECYCLING,20})
	[kslowd] ==> fscache_release_object()
	[kslowd] ==> cachefiles_drop_object({OBJ52,2})
	[kslowd] ==> cachefiles_delete_object(,OBJ52{ffff8800369faac8})

The old object, meanwhile, goes on with being retired.  If allocation occurs
first, cachefiles_delete_object() has to wait for dir->d_inode->i_mutex to
become available before it can continue.

	[kslowd] ==> cachefiles_bury_object(,'@68','Es0g00og0_Nd_XCYe3BOzvXrsBLMlN6aw16M1htaA')
	[kslowd] remove ffff8800369faac8 from ffff88002ce41bd0
	[kslowd] unlink stale object
	EXT4-fs warning (device sda6): ext4_unlink: Inode number mismatch in unlink (148247!=148193)
	CacheFiles: I/O Error: Unlink failed
	FS-Cache: Cache cachefiles stopped due to I/O error

CacheFiles then tries to delete the file for the old object, but the dentry it
has (ffff8800369faac8) no longer points to a valid inode for that directory
entry, and so ext4_unlink() returns -EIO when de->inode does not match i_ino.

	[kslowd] <== cachefiles_bury_object() = -5
	[kslowd] <== cachefiles_delete_object() = -5
	[kslowd] <== fscache_object_state_machine() [->OBJECT_DEAD]
	[kslowd] ==> fscache_object_state_machine({OBJ53,OBJECT_AVAILABLE,0})
	[kslowd] <== fscache_object_state_machine() [->OBJECT_ACTIVE]

(Note that the above trace includes extra information beyond that produced by
the upstream code).

The fix is to note when an object that is being retired has had its object
deleted preemptively by a replacement object that is being created, and to
skip the second removal attempt in such a case.

Reported-by: Greg M <gregm@servu.net.au>
Reported-by: Mark Moseley <moseleymark@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Romain DEGEZ <romain.degez@smartjog.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-11 10:07:53 -07:00
Tejun Heo 5a0e3ad6af include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h
percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

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

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

The script does the followings.

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

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

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

The conversion was done in the following steps.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
David Howells 8f9941aecc CacheFiles: Fix a race in cachefiles_delete_object() vs rename
cachefiles_delete_object() can race with rename.  It gets the parent directory
of the object it's asked to delete, then locks it - but rename may have changed
the object's parent between the get and the completion of the lock.

However, if such a circumstance is detected, we abandon our attempt to delete
the object - since it's no longer in the index key path, it won't be seen
again by lookups of that key.  The assumption is that cachefilesd may have
culled it by renaming it to the graveyard for later destruction.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-02-20 10:06:35 -05:00
Al Viro b65a9cfc2c Untangling ima mess, part 2: deal with counters
* do ima_get_count() in __dentry_open()
* stop doing that in followups
* move ima_path_check() to right after nameidata_to_filp()
* don't bump counters on it

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-12-16 12:16:47 -05:00
Al Viro b0446be4be switch cachefiles to kern_path()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-12-16 12:16:44 -05:00
André Goddard Rosa e7d2860b69 tree-wide: convert open calls to remove spaces to skip_spaces() lib function
Makes use of skip_spaces() defined in lib/string.c for removing leading
spaces from strings all over the tree.

It decreases lib.a code size by 47 bytes and reuses the function tree-wide:
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  64688     584     592   65864   10148 (TOTALS-BEFORE)
  64641     584     592   65817   10119 (TOTALS-AFTER)

Also, while at it, if we see (*str && isspace(*str)), we can be sure to
remove the first condition (*str) as the second one (isspace(*str)) also
evaluates to 0 whenever *str == 0, making it redundant. In other words,
"a char equals zero is never a space".

Julia Lawall tried the semantic patch (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr) below,
and found occurrences of this pattern on 3 more files:
    drivers/leds/led-class.c
    drivers/leds/ledtrig-timer.c
    drivers/video/output.c

@@
expression str;
@@

( // ignore skip_spaces cases
while (*str &&  isspace(*str)) { \(str++;\|++str;\) }
|
- *str &&
isspace(*str)
)

Signed-off-by: André Goddard Rosa <andre.goddard@gmail.com>
Cc: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Samuel Ortiz <samuel@sortiz.org>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 08:53:32 -08:00
Marc Dionne 3350b2acdd CacheFiles: Update IMA counters when using dentry_open
When IMA is active, using dentry_open without updating the
IMA counters will result in free/open imbalance errors when
fput is eventually called.

Signed-off-by: Marc Dionne <marc.c.dionne@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-01 07:35:11 -08:00
David Howells 14e69647c8 CacheFiles: Don't log lookup/create failing with ENOBUFS
Don't log the CacheFiles lookup/create object routined failing with ENOBUFS as
under high memory load or high cache load they can do this quite a lot.  This
error simply means that the requested object cannot be created on disk due to
lack of space, or due to failure of the backing filesystem to find sufficient
resources.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2009-11-19 18:12:08 +00:00
David Howells fee096deb4 CacheFiles: Catch an overly long wait for an old active object
Catch an overly long wait for an old, dying active object when we want to
replace it with a new one.  The probability is that all the slow-work threads
are hogged, and the delete can't get a look in.

What we do instead is:

 (1) if there's nothing in the slow work queue, we sleep until either the dying
     object has finished dying or there is something in the slow work queue
     behind which we can queue our object.

 (2) if there is something in the slow work queue, we return ETIMEDOUT to
     fscache_lookup_object(), which then puts us back on the slow work queue,
     presumably behind the deletion that we're blocked by.  We are then
     deferred for a while until we work our way back through the queue -
     without blocking a slow-work thread unnecessarily.

A backtrace similar to the following may appear in the log without this patch:

	INFO: task kslowd004:5711 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
	"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
	kslowd004     D 0000000000000000     0  5711      2 0x00000080
	 ffff88000340bb80 0000000000000046 ffff88002550d000 0000000000000000
	 ffff88002550d000 0000000000000007 ffff88000340bfd8 ffff88002550d2a8
	 000000000000ddf0 00000000000118c0 00000000000118c0 ffff88002550d2a8
	Call Trace:
	 [<ffffffff81058e21>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0xf
	 [<ffffffffa011c4d8>] ? cachefiles_wait_bit+0x0/0xd [cachefiles]
	 [<ffffffffa011c4e1>] cachefiles_wait_bit+0x9/0xd [cachefiles]
	 [<ffffffff81353153>] __wait_on_bit+0x43/0x76
	 [<ffffffff8111ae39>] ? ext3_xattr_get+0x1ec/0x270
	 [<ffffffff813531ef>] out_of_line_wait_on_bit+0x69/0x74
	 [<ffffffffa011c4d8>] ? cachefiles_wait_bit+0x0/0xd [cachefiles]
	 [<ffffffff8104c125>] ? wake_bit_function+0x0/0x2e
	 [<ffffffffa011bc79>] cachefiles_mark_object_active+0x203/0x23b [cachefiles]
	 [<ffffffffa011c209>] cachefiles_walk_to_object+0x558/0x827 [cachefiles]
	 [<ffffffffa011a429>] cachefiles_lookup_object+0xac/0x12a [cachefiles]
	 [<ffffffffa00aa1e9>] fscache_lookup_object+0x1c7/0x214 [fscache]
	 [<ffffffffa00aafc5>] fscache_object_state_machine+0xa5/0x52d [fscache]
	 [<ffffffffa00ab4ac>] fscache_object_slow_work_execute+0x5f/0xa0 [fscache]
	 [<ffffffff81082093>] slow_work_execute+0x18f/0x2d1
	 [<ffffffff8108239a>] slow_work_thread+0x1c5/0x308
	 [<ffffffff8104c0f1>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x34
	 [<ffffffff810821d5>] ? slow_work_thread+0x0/0x308
	 [<ffffffff8104be91>] kthread+0x7a/0x82
	 [<ffffffff8100beda>] child_rip+0xa/0x20
	 [<ffffffff8100b87c>] ? restore_args+0x0/0x30
	 [<ffffffff8104be17>] ? kthread+0x0/0x82
	 [<ffffffff8100bed0>] ? child_rip+0x0/0x20
	1 lock held by kslowd004/5711:
	 #0:  (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#7/1){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffffa011be64>] cachefiles_walk_to_object+0x1b3/0x827 [cachefiles]

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2009-11-19 18:12:05 +00:00
David Howells d0e27b7808 CacheFiles: Better showing of debugging information in active object problems
Show more debugging information if cachefiles_mark_object_active() is asked to
activate an active object.

This may happen, for instance, if the netfs tries to register an object with
the same key multiple times.

The code is changed to (a) get the appropriate object lock to protect the
cookie pointer whilst we dereference it, and (b) get and display the cookie key
if available.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2009-11-19 18:12:02 +00:00
David Howells 6511de33c8 CacheFiles: Mark parent directory locks as I_MUTEX_PARENT to keep lockdep happy
Mark parent directory locks as I_MUTEX_PARENT in the callers of
cachefiles_bury_object() so that lockdep doesn't complain when that invokes
vfs_unlink():

=============================================
[ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ]
2.6.32-rc6-cachefs #47
---------------------------------------------
kslowd002/3089 is trying to acquire lock:
 (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#7){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff810bbf72>] vfs_unlink+0x8b/0x128

but task is already holding lock:
 (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#7){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffffa00e4e61>] cachefiles_walk_to_object+0x1b0/0x831 [cachefiles]

other info that might help us debug this:
1 lock held by kslowd002/3089:
 #0:  (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#7){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffffa00e4e61>] cachefiles_walk_to_object+0x1b0/0x831 [cachefiles]

stack backtrace:
Pid: 3089, comm: kslowd002 Not tainted 2.6.32-rc6-cachefs #47
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff8105ad7b>] __lock_acquire+0x1649/0x16e3
 [<ffffffff8118170e>] ? inode_has_perm+0x5f/0x61
 [<ffffffff8105ae6c>] lock_acquire+0x57/0x6d
 [<ffffffff810bbf72>] ? vfs_unlink+0x8b/0x128
 [<ffffffff81353ac3>] mutex_lock_nested+0x54/0x292
 [<ffffffff810bbf72>] ? vfs_unlink+0x8b/0x128
 [<ffffffff8118179e>] ? selinux_inode_permission+0x8e/0x90
 [<ffffffff8117e271>] ? security_inode_permission+0x1c/0x1e
 [<ffffffff810bb4fb>] ? inode_permission+0x99/0xa5
 [<ffffffff810bbf72>] vfs_unlink+0x8b/0x128
 [<ffffffff810adb19>] ? kfree+0xed/0xf9
 [<ffffffffa00e3f00>] cachefiles_bury_object+0xb6/0x420 [cachefiles]
 [<ffffffff81058e21>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0xf
 [<ffffffffa00e7e24>] ? cachefiles_check_object_xattr+0x233/0x293 [cachefiles]
 [<ffffffffa00e51b0>] cachefiles_walk_to_object+0x4ff/0x831 [cachefiles]
 [<ffffffff81032238>] ? finish_task_switch+0x0/0xb2
 [<ffffffffa00e3429>] cachefiles_lookup_object+0xac/0x12a [cachefiles]
 [<ffffffffa00741e9>] fscache_lookup_object+0x1c7/0x214 [fscache]
 [<ffffffffa0074fc5>] fscache_object_state_machine+0xa5/0x52d [fscache]
 [<ffffffffa00754ac>] fscache_object_slow_work_execute+0x5f/0xa0 [fscache]
 [<ffffffff81082093>] slow_work_execute+0x18f/0x2d1
 [<ffffffff8108239a>] slow_work_thread+0x1c5/0x308
 [<ffffffff8104c0f1>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x34
 [<ffffffff810821d5>] ? slow_work_thread+0x0/0x308
 [<ffffffff8104be91>] kthread+0x7a/0x82
 [<ffffffff8100beda>] child_rip+0xa/0x20
 [<ffffffff8100b87c>] ? restore_args+0x0/0x30
 [<ffffffff8104be17>] ? kthread+0x0/0x82
 [<ffffffff8100bed0>] ? child_rip+0x0/0x20

Signed-off-by: Daivd Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2009-11-19 18:11:58 +00:00
David Howells 5e929b33c3 CacheFiles: Handle truncate unlocking the page we're reading
Handle truncate unlocking the page we're attempting to read from the backing
device before the read has completed.

This was causing reports like the following to occur:

	Pid: 4765, comm: kslowd Not tainted 2.6.30.1 #1
	Call Trace:
	 [<ffffffffa0331d7a>] ? cachefiles_read_waiter+0xd9/0x147 [cachefiles]
	 [<ffffffff804b74bd>] ? __wait_on_bit+0x60/0x6f
	 [<ffffffff8022bbbb>] ? __wake_up_common+0x3f/0x71
	 [<ffffffff8022cc32>] ? __wake_up+0x30/0x44
	 [<ffffffff8024a41f>] ? __wake_up_bit+0x28/0x2d
	 [<ffffffffa003a793>] ? ext3_truncate+0x4d7/0x8ed [ext3]
	 [<ffffffff80281f90>] ? pagevec_lookup+0x17/0x1f
	 [<ffffffff8028c2ff>] ? unmap_mapping_range+0x59/0x1ff
	 [<ffffffff8022cc32>] ? __wake_up+0x30/0x44
	 [<ffffffff8028e286>] ? vmtruncate+0xc2/0xe2
	 [<ffffffff802b82cf>] ? inode_setattr+0x22/0x10a
	 [<ffffffffa003baa5>] ? ext3_setattr+0x17b/0x1e6 [ext3]
	 [<ffffffff802b853d>] ? notify_change+0x186/0x2c9
	 [<ffffffffa032d9de>] ? cachefiles_attr_changed+0x133/0x1cd [cachefiles]
	 [<ffffffffa032df7f>] ? cachefiles_lookup_object+0xcf/0x12a [cachefiles]
	 [<ffffffffa0318165>] ? fscache_lookup_object+0x110/0x122 [fscache]
	 [<ffffffffa03188c3>] ? fscache_object_slow_work_execute+0x590/0x6bc
	[fscache]
	 [<ffffffff80278f82>] ? slow_work_thread+0x285/0x43a
	 [<ffffffff8024a446>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x2e
	 [<ffffffff80278cfd>] ? slow_work_thread+0x0/0x43a
	 [<ffffffff8024a317>] ? kthread+0x54/0x81
	 [<ffffffff8020c93a>] ? child_rip+0xa/0x20
	 [<ffffffff8024a2c3>] ? kthread+0x0/0x81
	 [<ffffffff8020c930>] ? child_rip+0x0/0x20
	CacheFiles: I/O Error: Readpage failed on backing file 200000000000810
	FS-Cache: Cache cachefiles stopped due to I/O error

Reported-by: Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de>
Reported-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Reported-by: Duc Le Minh <duclm.vn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2009-11-19 18:11:55 +00:00
David Howells a17754fb8c CacheFiles: Don't write a full page if there's only a partial page to cache
cachefiles_write_page() writes a full page to the backing file for the last
page of the netfs file, even if the netfs file's last page is only a partial
page.

This causes the EOF on the backing file to be extended beyond the EOF of the
netfs, and thus the backing file will be truncated by cachefiles_attr_changed()
called from cachefiles_lookup_object().

So we need to limit the write we make to the backing file on that last page
such that it doesn't push the EOF too far.

Also, if a backing file that has a partial page at the end is expanded, we
discard the partial page and refetch it on the basis that we then have a hole
in the file with invalid data, and should the power go out...  A better way to
deal with this could be to record a note that the partial page contains invalid
data until the correct data is written into it.

This isn't a problem for netfs's that discard the whole backing file if the
file size changes (such as NFS).

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2009-11-19 18:11:52 +00:00
David Howells 4fbf4291aa FS-Cache: Allow the current state of all objects to be dumped
Allow the current state of all fscache objects to be dumped by doing:

	cat /proc/fs/fscache/objects

By default, all objects and all fields will be shown.  This can be restricted
by adding a suitable key to one of the caller's keyrings (such as the session
keyring):

	keyctl add user fscache:objlist "<restrictions>" @s

The <restrictions> are:

	K	Show hexdump of object key (don't show if not given)
	A	Show hexdump of object aux data (don't show if not given)

And paired restrictions:

	C	Show objects that have a cookie
	c	Show objects that don't have a cookie
	B	Show objects that are busy
	b	Show objects that aren't busy
	W	Show objects that have pending writes
	w	Show objects that don't have pending writes
	R	Show objects that have outstanding reads
	r	Show objects that don't have outstanding reads
	S	Show objects that have slow work queued
	s	Show objects that don't have slow work queued

If neither side of a restriction pair is given, then both are implied.  For
example:

	keyctl add user fscache:objlist KB @s

shows objects that are busy, and lists their object keys, but does not dump
their auxiliary data.  It also implies "CcWwRrSs", but as 'B' is given, 'b' is
not implied.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2009-11-19 18:11:04 +00:00
Christoph Hellwig 5af7926ff3 enforce ->sync_fs is only called for rw superblock
Make sure a superblock really is writeable by checking MS_RDONLY
under s_umount.  sync_filesystems needed some re-arragement for
that, but all but one sync_filesystem caller had the correct locking
already so that we could add that check there.  cachefiles grew
s_umount locking.

I've also added a WARN_ON to sync_filesystem to assert this for
future callers.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-06-11 21:36:06 -04:00
Jan Kara 60b0680fa2 vfs: Rename fsync_super() to sync_filesystem() (version 4)
Rename the function so that it better describe what it really does. Also
remove the unnecessary include of buffer_head.h.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-06-11 21:36:04 -04:00
David Howells 911e690e70 CacheFiles: Fixup renamed filenames in comments in internal.h
Fix up renamed filenames in comments in fs/cachefiles/internal.h.

Originally, the files were all called cf-xxx.c, but they got renamed to
just xxx.c.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-05-27 10:20:13 -07:00
David Howells 9ae326a690 CacheFiles: A cache that backs onto a mounted filesystem
Add an FS-Cache cache-backend that permits a mounted filesystem to be used as a
backing store for the cache.

CacheFiles uses a userspace daemon to do some of the cache management - such as
reaping stale nodes and culling.  This is called cachefilesd and lives in
/sbin.  The source for the daemon can be downloaded from:

	http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/cachefs/cachefilesd.c

And an example configuration from:

	http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/cachefs/cachefilesd.conf

The filesystem and data integrity of the cache are only as good as those of the
filesystem providing the backing services.  Note that CacheFiles does not
attempt to journal anything since the journalling interfaces of the various
filesystems are very specific in nature.

CacheFiles creates a misc character device - "/dev/cachefiles" - that is used
to communication with the daemon.  Only one thing may have this open at once,
and whilst it is open, a cache is at least partially in existence.  The daemon
opens this and sends commands down it to control the cache.

CacheFiles is currently limited to a single cache.

CacheFiles attempts to maintain at least a certain percentage of free space on
the filesystem, shrinking the cache by culling the objects it contains to make
space if necessary - see the "Cache Culling" section.  This means it can be
placed on the same medium as a live set of data, and will expand to make use of
spare space and automatically contract when the set of data requires more
space.

============
REQUIREMENTS
============

The use of CacheFiles and its daemon requires the following features to be
available in the system and in the cache filesystem:

	- dnotify.

	- extended attributes (xattrs).

	- openat() and friends.

	- bmap() support on files in the filesystem (FIBMAP ioctl).

	- The use of bmap() to detect a partial page at the end of the file.

It is strongly recommended that the "dir_index" option is enabled on Ext3
filesystems being used as a cache.

=============
CONFIGURATION
=============

The cache is configured by a script in /etc/cachefilesd.conf.  These commands
set up cache ready for use.  The following script commands are available:

 (*) brun <N>%
 (*) bcull <N>%
 (*) bstop <N>%
 (*) frun <N>%
 (*) fcull <N>%
 (*) fstop <N>%

	Configure the culling limits.  Optional.  See the section on culling
	The defaults are 7% (run), 5% (cull) and 1% (stop) respectively.

	The commands beginning with a 'b' are file space (block) limits, those
	beginning with an 'f' are file count limits.

 (*) dir <path>

	Specify the directory containing the root of the cache.  Mandatory.

 (*) tag <name>

	Specify a tag to FS-Cache to use in distinguishing multiple caches.
	Optional.  The default is "CacheFiles".

 (*) debug <mask>

	Specify a numeric bitmask to control debugging in the kernel module.
	Optional.  The default is zero (all off).  The following values can be
	OR'd into the mask to collect various information:

		1	Turn on trace of function entry (_enter() macros)
		2	Turn on trace of function exit (_leave() macros)
		4	Turn on trace of internal debug points (_debug())

	This mask can also be set through sysfs, eg:

		echo 5 >/sys/modules/cachefiles/parameters/debug

==================
STARTING THE CACHE
==================

The cache is started by running the daemon.  The daemon opens the cache device,
configures the cache and tells it to begin caching.  At that point the cache
binds to fscache and the cache becomes live.

The daemon is run as follows:

	/sbin/cachefilesd [-d]* [-s] [-n] [-f <configfile>]

The flags are:

 (*) -d

	Increase the debugging level.  This can be specified multiple times and
	is cumulative with itself.

 (*) -s

	Send messages to stderr instead of syslog.

 (*) -n

	Don't daemonise and go into background.

 (*) -f <configfile>

	Use an alternative configuration file rather than the default one.

===============
THINGS TO AVOID
===============

Do not mount other things within the cache as this will cause problems.  The
kernel module contains its own very cut-down path walking facility that ignores
mountpoints, but the daemon can't avoid them.

Do not create, rename or unlink files and directories in the cache whilst the
cache is active, as this may cause the state to become uncertain.

Renaming files in the cache might make objects appear to be other objects (the
filename is part of the lookup key).

Do not change or remove the extended attributes attached to cache files by the
cache as this will cause the cache state management to get confused.

Do not create files or directories in the cache, lest the cache get confused or
serve incorrect data.

Do not chmod files in the cache.  The module creates things with minimal
permissions to prevent random users being able to access them directly.

=============
CACHE CULLING
=============

The cache may need culling occasionally to make space.  This involves
discarding objects from the cache that have been used less recently than
anything else.  Culling is based on the access time of data objects.  Empty
directories are culled if not in use.

Cache culling is done on the basis of the percentage of blocks and the
percentage of files available in the underlying filesystem.  There are six
"limits":

 (*) brun
 (*) frun

     If the amount of free space and the number of available files in the cache
     rises above both these limits, then culling is turned off.

 (*) bcull
 (*) fcull

     If the amount of available space or the number of available files in the
     cache falls below either of these limits, then culling is started.

 (*) bstop
 (*) fstop

     If the amount of available space or the number of available files in the
     cache falls below either of these limits, then no further allocation of
     disk space or files is permitted until culling has raised things above
     these limits again.

These must be configured thusly:

	0 <= bstop < bcull < brun < 100
	0 <= fstop < fcull < frun < 100

Note that these are percentages of available space and available files, and do
_not_ appear as 100 minus the percentage displayed by the "df" program.

The userspace daemon scans the cache to build up a table of cullable objects.
These are then culled in least recently used order.  A new scan of the cache is
started as soon as space is made in the table.  Objects will be skipped if
their atimes have changed or if the kernel module says it is still using them.

===============
CACHE STRUCTURE
===============

The CacheFiles module will create two directories in the directory it was
given:

 (*) cache/

 (*) graveyard/

The active cache objects all reside in the first directory.  The CacheFiles
kernel module moves any retired or culled objects that it can't simply unlink
to the graveyard from which the daemon will actually delete them.

The daemon uses dnotify to monitor the graveyard directory, and will delete
anything that appears therein.

The module represents index objects as directories with the filename "I..." or
"J...".  Note that the "cache/" directory is itself a special index.

Data objects are represented as files if they have no children, or directories
if they do.  Their filenames all begin "D..." or "E...".  If represented as a
directory, data objects will have a file in the directory called "data" that
actually holds the data.

Special objects are similar to data objects, except their filenames begin
"S..." or "T...".

If an object has children, then it will be represented as a directory.
Immediately in the representative directory are a collection of directories
named for hash values of the child object keys with an '@' prepended.  Into
this directory, if possible, will be placed the representations of the child
objects:

	INDEX     INDEX      INDEX                             DATA FILES
	========= ========== ================================= ================
	cache/@4a/I03nfs/@30/Ji000000000000000--fHg8hi8400
	cache/@4a/I03nfs/@30/Ji000000000000000--fHg8hi8400/@75/Es0g000w...DB1ry
	cache/@4a/I03nfs/@30/Ji000000000000000--fHg8hi8400/@75/Es0g000w...N22ry
	cache/@4a/I03nfs/@30/Ji000000000000000--fHg8hi8400/@75/Es0g000w...FP1ry

If the key is so long that it exceeds NAME_MAX with the decorations added on to
it, then it will be cut into pieces, the first few of which will be used to
make a nest of directories, and the last one of which will be the objects
inside the last directory.  The names of the intermediate directories will have
'+' prepended:

	J1223/@23/+xy...z/+kl...m/Epqr

Note that keys are raw data, and not only may they exceed NAME_MAX in size,
they may also contain things like '/' and NUL characters, and so they may not
be suitable for turning directly into a filename.

To handle this, CacheFiles will use a suitably printable filename directly and
"base-64" encode ones that aren't directly suitable.  The two versions of
object filenames indicate the encoding:

	OBJECT TYPE	PRINTABLE	ENCODED
	===============	===============	===============
	Index		"I..."		"J..."
	Data		"D..."		"E..."
	Special		"S..."		"T..."

Intermediate directories are always "@" or "+" as appropriate.

Each object in the cache has an extended attribute label that holds the object
type ID (required to distinguish special objects) and the auxiliary data from
the netfs.  The latter is used to detect stale objects in the cache and update
or retire them.

Note that CacheFiles will erase from the cache any file it doesn't recognise or
any file of an incorrect type (such as a FIFO file or a device file).

==========================
SECURITY MODEL AND SELINUX
==========================

CacheFiles is implemented to deal properly with the LSM security features of
the Linux kernel and the SELinux facility.

One of the problems that CacheFiles faces is that it is generally acting on
behalf of a process, and running in that process's context, and that includes a
security context that is not appropriate for accessing the cache - either
because the files in the cache are inaccessible to that process, or because if
the process creates a file in the cache, that file may be inaccessible to other
processes.

The way CacheFiles works is to temporarily change the security context (fsuid,
fsgid and actor security label) that the process acts as - without changing the
security context of the process when it the target of an operation performed by
some other process (so signalling and suchlike still work correctly).

When the CacheFiles module is asked to bind to its cache, it:

 (1) Finds the security label attached to the root cache directory and uses
     that as the security label with which it will create files.  By default,
     this is:

	cachefiles_var_t

 (2) Finds the security label of the process which issued the bind request
     (presumed to be the cachefilesd daemon), which by default will be:

	cachefilesd_t

     and asks LSM to supply a security ID as which it should act given the
     daemon's label.  By default, this will be:

	cachefiles_kernel_t

     SELinux transitions the daemon's security ID to the module's security ID
     based on a rule of this form in the policy.

	type_transition <daemon's-ID> kernel_t : process <module's-ID>;

     For instance:

	type_transition cachefilesd_t kernel_t : process cachefiles_kernel_t;

The module's security ID gives it permission to create, move and remove files
and directories in the cache, to find and access directories and files in the
cache, to set and access extended attributes on cache objects, and to read and
write files in the cache.

The daemon's security ID gives it only a very restricted set of permissions: it
may scan directories, stat files and erase files and directories.  It may
not read or write files in the cache, and so it is precluded from accessing the
data cached therein; nor is it permitted to create new files in the cache.

There are policy source files available in:

	http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/fscache/cachefilesd-0.8.tar.bz2

and later versions.  In that tarball, see the files:

	cachefilesd.te
	cachefilesd.fc
	cachefilesd.if

They are built and installed directly by the RPM.

If a non-RPM based system is being used, then copy the above files to their own
directory and run:

	make -f /usr/share/selinux/devel/Makefile
	semodule -i cachefilesd.pp

You will need checkpolicy and selinux-policy-devel installed prior to the
build.

By default, the cache is located in /var/fscache, but if it is desirable that
it should be elsewhere, than either the above policy files must be altered, or
an auxiliary policy must be installed to label the alternate location of the
cache.

For instructions on how to add an auxiliary policy to enable the cache to be
located elsewhere when SELinux is in enforcing mode, please see:

	/usr/share/doc/cachefilesd-*/move-cache.txt

When the cachefilesd rpm is installed; alternatively, the document can be found
in the sources.

==================
A NOTE ON SECURITY
==================

CacheFiles makes use of the split security in the task_struct.  It allocates
its own task_security structure, and redirects current->act_as to point to it
when it acts on behalf of another process, in that process's context.

The reason it does this is that it calls vfs_mkdir() and suchlike rather than
bypassing security and calling inode ops directly.  Therefore the VFS and LSM
may deny the CacheFiles access to the cache data because under some
circumstances the caching code is running in the security context of whatever
process issued the original syscall on the netfs.

Furthermore, should CacheFiles create a file or directory, the security
parameters with that object is created (UID, GID, security label) would be
derived from that process that issued the system call, thus potentially
preventing other processes from accessing the cache - including CacheFiles's
cache management daemon (cachefilesd).

What is required is to temporarily override the security of the process that
issued the system call.  We can't, however, just do an in-place change of the
security data as that affects the process as an object, not just as a subject.
This means it may lose signals or ptrace events for example, and affects what
the process looks like in /proc.

So CacheFiles makes use of a logical split in the security between the
objective security (task->sec) and the subjective security (task->act_as).  The
objective security holds the intrinsic security properties of a process and is
never overridden.  This is what appears in /proc, and is what is used when a
process is the target of an operation by some other process (SIGKILL for
example).

The subjective security holds the active security properties of a process, and
may be overridden.  This is not seen externally, and is used whan a process
acts upon another object, for example SIGKILLing another process or opening a
file.

LSM hooks exist that allow SELinux (or Smack or whatever) to reject a request
for CacheFiles to run in a context of a specific security label, or to create
files and directories with another security label.

This documentation is added by the patch to:

	Documentation/filesystems/caching/cachefiles.txt

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