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Linus Torvalds 9883035ae7 pipes: add a "packetized pipe" mode for writing
The actual internal pipe implementation is already really about
individual packets (called "pipe buffers"), and this simply exposes that
as a special packetized mode.

When we are in the packetized mode (marked by O_DIRECT as suggested by
Alan Cox), a write() on a pipe will not merge the new data with previous
writes, so each write will get a pipe buffer of its own.  The pipe
buffer is then marked with the PIPE_BUF_FLAG_PACKET flag, which in turn
will tell the reader side to break the read at that boundary (and throw
away any partial packet contents that do not fit in the read buffer).

End result: as long as you do writes less than PIPE_BUF in size (so that
the pipe doesn't have to split them up), you can now treat the pipe as a
packet interface, where each read() system call will read one packet at
a time.  You can just use a sufficiently big read buffer (PIPE_BUF is
sufficient, since bigger than that doesn't guarantee atomicity anyway),
and the return value of the read() will naturally give you the size of
the packet.

NOTE! We do not support zero-sized packets, and zero-sized reads and
writes to a pipe continue to be no-ops.  Also note that big packets will
currently be split at write time, but that the size at which that
happens is not really specified (except that it's bigger than PIPE_BUF).
Currently that limit is the system page size, but we might want to
explicitly support bigger packets some day.

The main user for this is going to be the autofs packet interface,
allowing us to stop having to care so deeply about exact packet sizes
(which have had bugs with 32/64-bit compatibility modes).  But user
space can create packetized pipes with "pipe2(fd, O_DIRECT)", which will
fail with an EINVAL on kernels that do not support this interface.

Tested-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Cc: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org  # needed for systemd/autofs interaction fix
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-04-29 13:12:42 -07:00
Muthu Kumar b502bd1152 magic.h: move some FS magic numbers into magic.h
- Move open-coded filesystem magic numbers into magic.h

- Rearrange magic.h so that the filesystem-related constants are grouped
  together.

Signed-off-by: Muthukumar R <muthur@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-23 16:58:31 -07:00
Cong Wang e8e3c3d66f fs: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
Acked-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
2012-03-20 21:48:21 +08:00
Sasha Levin 2ccd4f4d47 pipe: fail cleanly when root tries F_SETPIPE_SZ with big size
When a user with the CAP_SYS_RESOURCE cap tries to F_SETPIPE_SZ a pipe
with size bigger than kmalloc() can alloc it spits out an ugly warning:

  ------------[ cut here ]------------
  WARNING: at mm/page_alloc.c:2095 __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x5d3/0x7a0()
  Pid: 733, comm: a.out Not tainted 3.2.0-rc1+ #4
  Call Trace:
     warn_slowpath_common+0x75/0xb0
     warn_slowpath_null+0x15/0x20
     __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x5d3/0x7a0
     __get_free_pages+0x12/0x50
     __kmalloc+0x12b/0x150
     pipe_set_size+0x75/0x120
     pipe_fcntl+0xf8/0x140
     do_fcntl+0x2d4/0x410
     sys_fcntl+0x66/0xa0
     system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
  ---[ end trace 432f702e6db7b5ee ]---

Instead, make kcalloc() handle the overflow case and fail quietly.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: switch to sizeof(*bufs) for 80-column niceness]
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-01-12 20:13:04 -08:00
Al Viro 84b92d39f9 vfs: pipe.c is really non-modular
... so no exitcalls there.  Not much would work if pipe(2) would stop
working, after all...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-01-03 22:52:41 -05:00
Pavel Emelyanov d70ef97baf fs/pipe.c: add ->statfs callback for pipefs
Currently a statfs on a pipe's /proc/<pid>/fd/ link returns -ENOSYS.  Wire
pipfs up so that the statfs succeeds.

This is required by checkpoint-restart in the userspace to make it
possible to distinguish pipes from fifos.

When we dump information about task's open files we use the /proc/pid/fd
directoy's symlinks and the fact that opening any of them gives us exactly
the same dentry->inode pair as the original process has.  Now if a task
we're dumping has opened pipe and fifo we need to detect this and act
accordingly.  Knowing that an fd with type S_ISFIFO resides on a pipefs is
the most precise way.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-10-31 17:30:51 -07:00
Eric Dumazet a209dfc7b0 vfs: dont chain pipe/anon/socket on superblock s_inodes list
Workloads using pipes and sockets hit inode_sb_list_lock contention.

superblock s_inodes list is needed for quota, dirty, pagecache and
fsnotify management. pipe/anon/socket fs are clearly not candidates for
these.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-26 12:57:09 -04:00
Tim Chen 423e0ab086 VFS : mount lock scalability for internal mounts
For a number of file systems that don't have a mount point (e.g. sockfs
and pipefs), they are not marked as long term. Therefore in
mntput_no_expire, all locks in vfs_mount lock are taken instead of just
local cpu's lock to aggregate reference counts when we release
reference to file objects.  In fact, only local lock need to have been
taken to update ref counts as these file systems are in no danger of
going away until we are ready to unregister them.

The attached patch marks file systems using kern_mount without
mount point as long term.  The contentions of vfs_mount lock
is now eliminated.  Before un-registering such file system,
kern_unmount should be called to remove the long term flag and
make the mount point ready to be freed.

Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-24 10:08:32 -04:00
Linus Torvalds 28e58ee8ce Fix broken "pipe: use event aware wakeups" optimization
Commit e462c448fd ("pipe: use event aware wakeups") optimized the pipe
event wakeup calls to avoid wakeups if the events do not match the
requested set.

However, the optimization was buggy, in that it didn't actually use the
correct sets for the events: when we make room for more data to be
written, the pipe poll() routine will return both the POLLOUT _and_
POLLWRNORM bits.  Similarly for read.

And most critically, when a pipe is released, that will potentially
result in POLLHUP|POLLERR (depending on whether it was the last reader
or writer), not just the regular POLLIN|POLLOUT.

This bug showed itself as a hung gnome-screensaver-dialog process, stuck
forever (or at least until it was poked by a signal or by being traced)
in a poll() system call.

Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-20 16:21:59 -08:00
Al Viro f03c65993b sanitize vfsmount refcounting changes
Instead of splitting refcount between (per-cpu) mnt_count
and (SMP-only) mnt_longrefs, make all references contribute
to mnt_count again and keep track of how many are longterm
ones.

Accounting rules for longterm count:
	* 1 for each fs_struct.root.mnt
	* 1 for each fs_struct.pwd.mnt
	* 1 for having non-NULL ->mnt_ns
	* decrement to 0 happens only under vfsmount lock exclusive

That allows nice common case for mntput() - since we can't drop the
final reference until after mnt_longterm has reached 0 due to the rules
above, mntput() can grab vfsmount lock shared and check mnt_longterm.
If it turns out to be non-zero (which is the common case), we know
that this is not the final mntput() and can just blindly decrement
percpu mnt_count.  Otherwise we grab vfsmount lock exclusive and
do usual decrement-and-check of percpu mnt_count.

For fs_struct.c we have mnt_make_longterm() and mnt_make_shortterm();
namespace.c uses the latter in places where we don't already hold
vfsmount lock exclusive and opencodes a few remaining spots where
we need to manipulate mnt_longterm.

Note that we mostly revert the code outside of fs/namespace.c back
to what we used to have; in particular, normal code doesn't need
to care about two kinds of references, etc.  And we get to keep
the optimization Nick's variant had bought us...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-01-16 13:47:07 -05:00
Linus Torvalds b2034d474b 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: (41 commits)
  fs: add documentation on fallocate hole punching
  Gfs2: fail if we try to use hole punch
  Btrfs: fail if we try to use hole punch
  Ext4: fail if we try to use hole punch
  Ocfs2: handle hole punching via fallocate properly
  XFS: handle hole punching via fallocate properly
  fs: add hole punching to fallocate
  vfs: pass struct file to do_truncate on O_TRUNC opens (try #2)
  fix signedness mess in rw_verify_area() on 64bit architectures
  fs: fix kernel-doc for dcache::prepend_path
  fs: fix kernel-doc for dcache::d_validate
  sanitize ecryptfs ->mount()
  switch afs
  move internal-only parts of ncpfs headers to fs/ncpfs
  switch ncpfs
  switch 9p
  pass default dentry_operations to mount_pseudo()
  switch hostfs
  switch affs
  switch configfs
  ...
2011-01-13 10:27:28 -08:00
Davide Libenzi e462c448fd pipe: use event aware wakeups
Send the events the wakeup refers to, so that epoll, and even the new poll
code in fs/select.c can avoid wakeups if the events do not match the
requested set.

Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 08:03:15 -08:00
Al Viro c74a1cbb3c pass default dentry_operations to mount_pseudo()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-01-12 20:03:43 -05:00
Nick Piggin b3e19d924b fs: scale mntget/mntput
The problem that this patch aims to fix is vfsmount refcounting scalability.
We need to take a reference on the vfsmount for every successful path lookup,
which often go to the same mount point.

The fundamental difficulty is that a "simple" reference count can never be made
scalable, because any time a reference is dropped, we must check whether that
was the last reference. To do that requires communication with all other CPUs
that may have taken a reference count.

We can make refcounts more scalable in a couple of ways, involving keeping
distributed counters, and checking for the global-zero condition less
frequently.

- check the global sum once every interval (this will delay zero detection
  for some interval, so it's probably a showstopper for vfsmounts).

- keep a local count and only taking the global sum when local reaches 0 (this
  is difficult for vfsmounts, because we can't hold preempt off for the life of
  a reference, so a counter would need to be per-thread or tied strongly to a
  particular CPU which requires more locking).

- keep a local difference of increments and decrements, which allows us to sum
  the total difference and hence find the refcount when summing all CPUs. Then,
  keep a single integer "long" refcount for slow and long lasting references,
  and only take the global sum of local counters when the long refcount is 0.

This last scheme is what I implemented here. Attached mounts and process root
and working directory references are "long" references, and everything else is
a short reference.

This allows scalable vfsmount references during path walking over mounted
subtrees and unattached (lazy umounted) mounts with processes still running
in them.

This results in one fewer atomic op in the fastpath: mntget is now just a
per-CPU inc, rather than an atomic inc; and mntput just requires a spinlock
and non-atomic decrement in the common case. However code is otherwise bigger
and heavier, so single threaded performance is basically a wash.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:33 +11:00
Nick Piggin 4b936885ab fs: improve scalability of pseudo filesystems
Regardless of how much we possibly try to scale dcache, there is likely
always going to be some fundamental contention when adding or removing children
under the same parent. Pseudo filesystems do not seem need to have connected
dentries because by definition they are disconnected.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:32 +11:00
Nick Piggin fb045adb99 fs: dcache reduce branches in lookup path
Reduce some branches and memory accesses in dcache lookup by adding dentry
flags to indicate common d_ops are set, rather than having to check them.
This saves a pointer memory access (dentry->d_op) in common path lookup
situations, and saves another pointer load and branch in cases where we
have d_op but not the particular operation.

Patched with:

git grep -E '[.>]([[:space:]])*d_op([[:space:]])*=' | xargs sed -e 's/\([^\t ]*\)->d_op = \(.*\);/d_set_d_op(\1, \2);/' -e 's/\([^\t ]*\)\.d_op = \(.*\);/d_set_d_op(\&\1, \2);/' -i

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:28 +11:00
Nick Piggin ff0c7d15f9 fs: avoid inode RCU freeing for pseudo fs
Pseudo filesystems that don't put inode on RCU list or reachable by
rcu-walk dentries do not need to RCU free their inodes.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:26 +11:00
Linus Torvalds 7208364652 Un-inline get_pipe_info() helper function
This avoids some include-file hell, and the function isn't really
important enough to be inlined anyway.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-11-28 16:27:19 -08:00
Linus Torvalds c66fb34794 Export 'get_pipe_info()' to other users
And in particular, use it in 'pipe_fcntl()'.

The other pipe functions do not need to use the 'careful' version, since
they are only ever called for things that are already known to be pipes.

The normal read/write/ioctl functions are called through the file
operations structures, so if a file isn't a pipe, they'd never get
called.  But pipe_fcntl() is special, and called directly from the
generic fcntl code, and needs to use the same careful function that the
splice code is using.

Cc: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-11-28 14:09:57 -08:00
Al Viro 51139adac9 convert get_sb_pseudo() users
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-10-29 04:16:33 -04:00
Christoph Hellwig 85fe4025c6 fs: do not assign default i_ino in new_inode
Instead of always assigning an increasing inode number in new_inode
move the call to assign it into those callers that actually need it.
For now callers that need it is estimated conservatively, that is
the call is added to all filesystems that do not assign an i_ino
by themselves.  For a few more filesystems we can avoid assigning
any inode number given that they aren't user visible, and for others
it could be done lazily when an inode number is actually needed,
but that's left for later patches.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-10-25 21:26:11 -04:00
Nicolas Kaiser e5953cbdff pipe: fix failure to return error code on ->confirm()
The arguments were transposed, we want to assign the error code to
'ret', which is being returned.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Kaiser <nikai@nikai.net>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-10-21 14:56:33 +02:00
Miklos Szeredi 6db40cf047 pipe: fix check in "set size" fcntl
As it stands this check compares the number of pages to the page size.
This makes no sense and makes the fcntl fail in almost any sane case.

Fix it by checking if nr_pages is not zero (it can become zero only if
arg is too big and round_pipe_size() overflows).

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-06-10 19:08:34 +02:00
Miklos Szeredi 1d862f4122 pipe: fix pipe buffer resizing
pipe_set_size() needs to copy pipe bufs from the old circular buffer
to the new.

The current code gets this wrong in multiple ways, resulting in oops.

Test program is available here:
  http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mszeredi/piperesize/

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-06-10 19:08:34 +02:00
Jens Axboe ff9da691c0 pipe: change /proc/sys/fs/pipe-max-pages to byte sized interface
This changes the interface to be based on bytes instead. The API
matches that of F_SETPIPE_SZ in that it rounds up the passed in
size so that the resulting page array is a power-of-2 in size.

The proc file is renamed to /proc/sys/fs/pipe-max-size to
reflect this change.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-06-03 14:54:39 +02:00
Jens Axboe 419f8367ea pipe: change the privilege required for growing a pipe beyond system max
Change it to CAP_SYS_RESOURCE, as that more accurately models what
we want to control.

Suggested-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-06-03 12:45:28 +02:00
Jens Axboe 6a6ca57de9 pipe: adjust minimum pipe size to 1 page
We don't need to pages to guarantee the POSIX requirement
that upto a page size write must be atomic to an empty
pipe.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-06-03 12:44:30 +02:00
Jens Axboe b4ca761577 Merge branch 'master' into for-linus
Conflicts:
	fs/pipe.c

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-06-01 12:42:12 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 003386fff3 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse:
  mm: export generic_pipe_buf_*() to modules
  fuse: support splice() reading from fuse device
  fuse: allow splice to move pages
  mm: export remove_from_page_cache() to modules
  mm: export lru_cache_add_*() to modules
  fuse: support splice() writing to fuse device
  fuse: get page reference for readpages
  fuse: use get_user_pages_fast()
  fuse: remove unneeded variable
2010-05-30 09:16:14 -07:00
Julia Lawall cc967be547 fs: Add missing mutex_unlock
Add a mutex_unlock missing on the error path.  At other exists from the
function that return an error flag, the mutex is unlocked, so do the same
here.

The semantic match that finds this problem is as follows:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

// <smpl>
@@
expression E1;
@@

* mutex_lock(E1,...);
  <+... when != E1
  if (...) {
    ... when != E1
*   return ...;
  }
  ...+>
* mutex_unlock(E1,...);
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-05-27 22:03:09 -04:00
Miklos Szeredi 51921cb746 mm: export generic_pipe_buf_*() to modules
This is needed by fuse device code which wants to create pipe buffers.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2010-05-26 08:44:22 +02:00
Jens Axboe b9598db340 pipe: make F_{GET,SET}PIPE_SZ deal with byte sizes
Instead of requiring an exact number of pages as the argument and
return value, change the API to deal with number of bytes instead.

This also relaxes the requirement that the passed in size must
result in a power-of-2 page array size. Round up to the nearest
power-of-2 automatically and return the resulting size of the pipe
on success.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-05-24 19:34:43 +02:00
Jens Axboe 0191f8697b pipe: F_SETPIPE_SZ should return -EPERM for non-root
If the passed in size is larger than what has been set as the
system wide limit and the user is not root, we want to return
permission denied (not invalid value).

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-05-24 19:15:57 +02:00
Jens Axboe b492e95be0 pipe: set lower and upper limit on max pages in the pipe page array
We need at least two to guarantee proper POSIX behaviour, so
never allow a smaller limit than that.

Also expose a /proc/sys/fs/pipe-max-pages sysctl file that allows
root to define a sane upper limit. Make it default to 16 times the
default size, which is 16 pages.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-05-21 21:12:52 +02:00
Jens Axboe 35f3d14dbb pipe: add support for shrinking and growing pipes
This patch adds F_GETPIPE_SZ and F_SETPIPE_SZ fcntl() actions for
growing and shrinking the size of a pipe and adjusts pipe.c and splice.c
(and relay and network splice) usage to work with these larger (or smaller)
pipes.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-05-21 21:12:40 +02:00
Nick Piggin a3a065e3f1 fs: no games with DCACHE_UNHASHED
Filesystems outside the regular namespace do not have to clear DCACHE_UNHASHED
in order to have a working /proc/$pid/fd/XXX. Nothing in proc prevents the
fd link from being used if its dentry is not in the hash.

Also, it does not get put into the dcache hash if DCACHE_UNHASHED is clear;
that depends on the filesystem calling d_add or d_rehash.

So delete the misleading comments and needless code.

Acked-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-12-17 10:51:40 -05:00
Al Viro d231412db6 switch create_read_pipe() to alloc_file()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-12-16 12:16:43 -05:00
Al Viro 2c48b9c455 switch alloc_file() to passing struct path
... and have the caller grab both mnt and dentry; kill
leak in infiniband, while we are at it.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-12-16 12:16:42 -05:00
Earl Chew ad3960243e fs: pipe.c null pointer dereference
This patch fixes a null pointer exception in pipe_rdwr_open() which
generates the stack trace:

> Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000028 RIP:
>  [<ffffffff802899a5>] pipe_rdwr_open+0x35/0x70
>  [<ffffffff8028125c>] __dentry_open+0x13c/0x230
>  [<ffffffff8028143d>] do_filp_open+0x2d/0x40
>  [<ffffffff802814aa>] do_sys_open+0x5a/0x100
>  [<ffffffff8021faf3>] sysenter_do_call+0x1b/0x67

The failure mode is triggered by an attempt to open an anonymous
pipe via /proc/pid/fd/* as exemplified by this script:

=============================================================
while : ; do
   { echo y ; sleep 1 ; } | { while read ; do echo z$REPLY; done ; } &
   PID=$!
   OUT=$(ps -efl | grep 'sleep 1' | grep -v grep |
        { read PID REST ; echo $PID; } )
   OUT="${OUT%% *}"
   DELAY=$((RANDOM * 1000 / 32768))
   usleep $((DELAY * 1000 + RANDOM % 1000 ))
   echo n > /proc/$OUT/fd/1                 # Trigger defect
done
=============================================================

Note that the failure window is quite small and I could only
reliably reproduce the defect by inserting a small delay
in pipe_rdwr_open(). For example:

 static int
 pipe_rdwr_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
 {
       msleep(100);
       mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);

Although the defect was observed in pipe_rdwr_open(), I think it
makes sense to replicate the change through all the pipe_*_open()
functions.

The core of the change is to verify that inode->i_pipe has not
been released before attempting to manipulate it. If inode->i_pipe
is no longer present, return ENOENT to indicate so.

The comment about potentially using atomic_t for i_pipe->readers
and i_pipe->writers has also been removed because it is no longer
relevant in this context. The inode->i_mutex lock must be used so
that inode->i_pipe can be dealt with correctly.

Signed-off-by: Earl Chew <earl_chew@agilent.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-10-22 08:11:44 +09:00
Peter Zijlstra 023d43c7b5 lockdep: Fix lockdep annotation for pipe_double_lock()
The presumed use of the pipe_double_lock() routine is to lock 2 locks in
a deadlock free way by ordering the locks by their address. However it
fails to keep the specified lock classes in order and explicitly
annotates a deadlock.

Rectify this.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
LKML-Reference: <1248163763.15751.11098.camel@twins>
2009-07-22 21:14:14 +02:00
Miklos Szeredi 6818173bd6 splice: implement default splice_read method
If f_op->splice_read() is not implemented, fall back to a plain read.
Use vfs_readv() to read into previously allocated pages.

This will allow splice and functions using splice, such as the loop
device, to work on all filesystems.  This includes "direct_io" files
in fuse which bypass the page cache.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-05-11 14:13:10 +02:00
Miklos Szeredi 61e0d47c33 splice: add helpers for locking pipe inode
There are lots of sequences like this, especially in splice code:

	if (pipe->inode)
		mutex_lock(&pipe->inode->i_mutex);
	/* do something */
	if (pipe->inode)
		mutex_unlock(&pipe->inode->i_mutex);

so introduce helpers which do the conditional locking and unlocking.
Also replace the inode_double_lock() call with a pipe_double_lock()
helper to avoid spreading the use of this functionality beyond the
pipe code.

This patch is just a cleanup, and should cause no behavioral changes.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-04-15 12:10:12 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 3ae5080f4c 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: (37 commits)
  fs: avoid I_NEW inodes
  Merge code for single and multiple-instance mounts
  Remove get_init_pts_sb()
  Move common mknod_ptmx() calls into caller
  Parse mount options just once and copy them to super block
  Unroll essentials of do_remount_sb() into devpts
  vfs: simple_set_mnt() should return void
  fs: move bdev code out of buffer.c
  constify dentry_operations: rest
  constify dentry_operations: configfs
  constify dentry_operations: sysfs
  constify dentry_operations: JFS
  constify dentry_operations: OCFS2
  constify dentry_operations: GFS2
  constify dentry_operations: FAT
  constify dentry_operations: FUSE
  constify dentry_operations: procfs
  constify dentry_operations: ecryptfs
  constify dentry_operations: CIFS
  constify dentry_operations: AFS
  ...
2009-03-27 16:23:12 -07:00
Al Viro 3ba13d179e constify dentry_operations: rest
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-03-27 14:44:03 -04:00
Cheng Renquan 10f303ae1e do_pipe cleanup: drop its last user in arch/alpha/
The last user of do_pipe is in arch/alpha/, after replacing it with
do_pipe_flags, the do_pipe can be totally dropped.

Signed-off-by: Cheng Renquan <crquan@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-03-27 14:43:58 -04:00
Jonathan Corbet 60aa49243d Rationalize fasync return values
Most fasync implementations do something like:

     return fasync_helper(...);

But fasync_helper() will return a positive value at times - a feature used
in at least one place.  Thus, a number of other drivers do:

     err = fasync_helper(...);
     if (err < 0)
             return err;
     return 0;

In the interests of consistency and more concise code, it makes sense to
map positive return values onto zero where ->fasync() is called.

Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2009-03-16 08:34:35 -06:00
Oleg Nesterov e5bc49ba74 pipe_rdwr_fasync: fix the error handling to prevent the leak/crash
If the second fasync_helper() fails, pipe_rdwr_fasync() returns the error
but leaves the file on ->fasync_readers.

This was always wrong, but since 233e70f422
"saner FASYNC handling on file close" we have the new problem.  Because in
this case setfl() doesn't set FASYNC bit, __fput() will not do
->fasync(0), and we leak fasync_struct with ->fa_file pointing to the
freed file.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-03-12 16:20:23 -07:00
Heiko Carstens 2b66421995 [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 33
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2009-01-14 14:15:32 +01:00
Heiko Carstens d4e82042c4 [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 32
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2009-01-14 14:15:31 +01:00
Heiko Carstens 1134723e96 [CVE-2009-0029] Remove __attribute__((weak)) from sys_pipe/sys_pipe2
Remove __attribute__((weak)) from common code sys_pipe implemantation.
IA64, ALPHA, SUPERH (32bit) and SPARC (32bit) have own implemantations
with the same name. Just rename them.
For sys_pipe2 there is no architecture specific implementation.

Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2009-01-14 14:15:15 +01:00
Al Viro 157cf649a7 sanitize audit_fd_pair()
* no allocations
* return void

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-01-04 15:14:41 -05:00
David Howells da9592edeb CRED: Wrap task credential accesses in the filesystem subsystem
Wrap access to task credentials so that they can be separated more easily from
the task_struct during the introduction of COW creds.

Change most current->(|e|s|fs)[ug]id to current_(|e|s|fs)[ug]id().

Change some task->e?[ug]id to task_e?[ug]id().  In some places it makes more
sense to use RCU directly rather than a convenient wrapper; these will be
addressed by later patches.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-14 10:39:05 +11:00
Al Viro 233e70f422 saner FASYNC handling on file close
As it is, all instances of ->release() for files that have ->fasync()
need to remember to evict file from fasync lists; forgetting that
creates a hole and we actually have a bunch that *does* forget.

So let's keep our lives simple - let __fput() check FASYNC in
file->f_flags and call ->fasync() there if it's been set.  And lose that
crap in ->release() instances - leaving it there is still valid, but we
don't have to bother anymore.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-01 09:49:46 -07:00
Denys Vlasenko d2d9648ec6 [PATCH] reuse xxx_fifo_fops for xxx_pipe_fops
Merge fifo and pipe file_operations.

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-07-26 20:53:06 -04:00
Ulrich Drepper be61a86d72 flag parameters: NONBLOCK in pipe
This patch adds O_NONBLOCK support to pipe2.  It is minimally more involved
than the patches for eventfd et.al but still trivial.  The interfaces of the
create_write_pipe and create_read_pipe helper functions were changed and the
one other caller as well.

The following test must be adjusted for architectures other than x86 and
x86-64 and in case the syscall numbers changed.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/syscall.h>

#ifndef __NR_pipe2
# ifdef __x86_64__
#  define __NR_pipe2 293
# elif defined __i386__
#  define __NR_pipe2 331
# else
#  error "need __NR_pipe2"
# endif
#endif

int
main (void)
{
  int fds[2];
  if (syscall (__NR_pipe2, fds, 0) == -1)
    {
      puts ("pipe2(0) failed");
      return 1;
    }
  for (int i = 0; i < 2; ++i)
    {
      int fl = fcntl (fds[i], F_GETFL);
      if (fl == -1)
        {
          puts ("fcntl failed");
          return 1;
        }
      if (fl & O_NONBLOCK)
        {
          printf ("pipe2(0) set non-blocking mode for fds[%d]\n", i);
          return 1;
        }
      close (fds[i]);
    }

  if (syscall (__NR_pipe2, fds, O_NONBLOCK) == -1)
    {
      puts ("pipe2(O_NONBLOCK) failed");
      return 1;
    }
  for (int i = 0; i < 2; ++i)
    {
      int fl = fcntl (fds[i], F_GETFL);
      if (fl == -1)
        {
          puts ("fcntl failed");
          return 1;
        }
      if ((fl & O_NONBLOCK) == 0)
        {
          printf ("pipe2(O_NONBLOCK) does not set non-blocking mode for fds[%d]\n", i);
          return 1;
        }
      close (fds[i]);
    }

  puts ("OK");

  return 0;
}
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-24 10:47:29 -07:00
Ulrich Drepper ed8cae8ba0 flag parameters: pipe
This patch introduces the new syscall pipe2 which is like pipe but it also
takes an additional parameter which takes a flag value.  This patch implements
the handling of O_CLOEXEC for the flag.  I did not add support for the new
syscall for the architectures which have a special sys_pipe implementation.  I
think the maintainers of those archs have the chance to go with the unified
implementation but that's up to them.

The implementation introduces do_pipe_flags.  I did that instead of changing
all callers of do_pipe because some of the callers are written in assembler.
I would probably screw up changing the assembly code.  To avoid breaking code
do_pipe is now a small wrapper around do_pipe_flags.  Once all callers are
changed over to do_pipe_flags the old do_pipe function can be removed.

The following test must be adjusted for architectures other than x86 and
x86-64 and in case the syscall numbers changed.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/syscall.h>

#ifndef __NR_pipe2
# ifdef __x86_64__
#  define __NR_pipe2 293
# elif defined __i386__
#  define __NR_pipe2 331
# else
#  error "need __NR_pipe2"
# endif
#endif

int
main (void)
{
  int fd[2];
  if (syscall (__NR_pipe2, fd, 0) != 0)
    {
      puts ("pipe2(0) failed");
      return 1;
    }
  for (int i = 0; i < 2; ++i)
    {
      int coe = fcntl (fd[i], F_GETFD);
      if (coe == -1)
        {
          puts ("fcntl failed");
          return 1;
        }
      if (coe & FD_CLOEXEC)
        {
          printf ("pipe2(0) set close-on-exit for fd[%d]\n", i);
          return 1;
        }
    }
  close (fd[0]);
  close (fd[1]);

  if (syscall (__NR_pipe2, fd, O_CLOEXEC) != 0)
    {
      puts ("pipe2(O_CLOEXEC) failed");
      return 1;
    }
  for (int i = 0; i < 2; ++i)
    {
      int coe = fcntl (fd[i], F_GETFD);
      if (coe == -1)
        {
          puts ("fcntl failed");
          return 1;
        }
      if ((coe & FD_CLOEXEC) == 0)
        {
          printf ("pipe2(O_CLOEXEC) does not set close-on-exit for fd[%d]\n", i);
          return 1;
        }
    }
  close (fd[0]);
  close (fd[1]);

  puts ("OK");

  return 0;
}
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-24 10:47:28 -07:00
Jan Blunck c8e7f449b2 [patch 1/4] vfs: path_{get,put}() cleanups
Here are some more places where path_{get,put}() can be used instead of
dput()/mntput() pair.

Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-06-23 11:52:29 -04:00
Ulrich Drepper ba719baeab sys_pipe(): fix file descriptor leaks
Remember to close the files if copy_to_user() failed.

Spotted by dm.n9107@gmail.com.

Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: DM <dm.n9107@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-05-08 10:46:56 -07:00
Ulrich Drepper d35c7b0e54 unified (weak) sys_pipe implementation
This replaces the duplicated arch-specific versions of "sys_pipe()" with
one unified implementation.  This removes almost 250 lines of duplicated
code.

It's marked __weak, so that *if* an architecture wants to override the
default implementation it can do so by simply having its own replacement
version, since many architectures use alternate calling conventions for
the 'pipe()' system call for legacy reasons (ie traditional UNIX
implementations often return the two file descriptors in registers)

I still haven't changed the cris version even though Linus says the BKL
isn't needed.  The arch maintainer can easily do it if there are really
no obstacles.

Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-05-03 13:50:33 -07:00
Al Viro ed15243717 [PATCH] double-free of inode on alloc_file() failure exit in create_write_pipe()
Duh...  Fortunately, the bug is quite recent (post-2.6.25) and, embarrassingly,
mine ;-/

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-04-22 19:54:57 -04:00
Dave Hansen 430e285e08 [PATCH] fix up new filp allocators
Some new uses of get_empty_filp() have crept in; switched
to alloc_file() to make sure that pieces of initialization
won't be missing.

We really need to kill get_empty_filp().

[AV] fixed dentry leak on failure exit in anon_inode_getfd()

Cc: Erez Zadok <ezk@cs.sunysb.edu>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: "J Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-03-19 06:54:05 -04:00
Randy Dunlap b51d63c6d3 kernel-doc: fix fs/pipe.c notation
Fix several kernel-doc notation errors in fs/pipe.c.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-13 16:21:19 -08:00
Andi Kleen d59d0b1b88 BKL-Removal: convert pipe to use unlocked_ioctl too
No BKL needed in pipe_ioctl

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-08 09:22:38 -08:00
Ingo Molnar 71e20f1873 sched: affine sync wakeups
make sync wakeups affine for cache-cold tasks: if a cache-cold task
is woken up by a sync wakeup then use the opportunity to migrate it
straight away. (the two tasks are 'related' because they communicate)

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-15 17:00:19 +02:00
Mike Galbraith af92723262 sched: cleanup, remove the TASK_NONINTERACTIVE flag
Here's another piece of low hanging obsolete fruit.

Remove obsolete TASK_NONINTERACTIVE.

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-15 17:00:13 +02:00
Randy Dunlap 79685b8dee docbook: add pipes, other fixes
Fix some typos in pipe.c and splice.c.
Add pipes API to kernel-api.tmpl.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-07-27 08:08:51 +02:00
Jens Axboe 0845718daf pipe: add documentation and comments
As per Andrew Mortons request, here's a set of documentation for
the generic pipe_buf_operations hooks, the pipe, and pipe_buffer
structures.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-07-10 08:04:16 +02:00
Jens Axboe cac36bb06e pipe: change the ->pin() operation to ->confirm()
The name 'pin' was badly chosen, it doesn't pin a pipe buffer
in the most commonly used sense in the kernel. So change the
name to 'confirm', after debating this issue with Hugh
Dickins a bit.

A good return from ->confirm() means that the buffer is really
there, and that the contents are good.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-07-10 08:04:15 +02:00
Eric Dumazet c23fbb6bcb VFS: delay the dentry name generation on sockets and pipes
1) Introduces a new method in 'struct dentry_operations'.  This method
   called d_dname() might be called from d_path() to build a pathname for
   special filesystems.  It is called without locks.

   Future patches (if we succeed in having one common dentry for all
   pipes/sockets) may need to change prototype of this method, but we now
   use : char *d_dname(struct dentry *dentry, char *buffer, int buflen);

2) Adds a dynamic_dname() helper function that eases d_dname() implementations

3) Defines d_dname method for sockets : No more sprintf() at socket
   creation.  This is delayed up to the moment someone does an access to
   /proc/pid/fd/...

4) Defines d_dname method for pipes : No more sprintf() at pipe
   creation.  This is delayed up to the moment someone does an access to
   /proc/pid/fd/...

A benchmark consisting of 1.000.000 calls to pipe()/close()/close() gives a
*nice* speedup on my Pentium(M) 1.6 Ghz :

3.090 s instead of 3.450 s

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:03 -07:00
Al Viro db3495099d [PATCH] AUDIT_FD_PAIR
Provide an audit record of the descriptor pair returned by pipe() and
socketpair().  Rewritten from the original posted to linux-audit by
John D. Ramsdell <ramsdell@mitre.org>

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2007-02-17 21:30:15 -05:00
Al Viro 5ccac88eeb [PATCH] fix leaks on pipe(2) failure exits
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-21 00:16:03 -08:00
Eric Dumazet d4c3cca941 [PATCH] constify pipe_buf_operations
- pipe/splice should use const pipe_buf_operations and file_operations

- struct pipe_inode_info has an unused field "start" : get rid of it.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-13 09:05:47 -08:00
Josef "Jeff" Sipek 0f7fc9e4d0 [PATCH] VFS: change struct file to use struct path
This patch changes struct file to use struct path instead of having
independent pointers to struct dentry and struct vfsmount, and converts all
users of f_{dentry,vfsmnt} in fs/ to use f_path.{dentry,mnt}.

Additionally, it adds two #define's to make the transition easier for users of
the f_dentry and f_vfsmnt.

Signed-off-by: Josef "Jeff" Sipek <jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08 08:28:41 -08:00
Eric Dumazet d18de5a272 [PATCH] don't insert pipe dentries into dentry_hashtable.
We currently insert pipe dentries into the global dentry hashtable.  This
is suboptimal because there is currently no way these entries can be used
for a lookup().  (/proc/xxx/fd/xxx uses a different mechanism).  Inserting
them in dentry hashtable slows dcache lookups.

To let __dpath() still work correctly (ie not adding a " (deleted)") after
dentry name, we do :

 - Right after d_alloc(), pretend they are hashed by clearing the
   DCACHE_UNHASHED bit.

 - Call d_instantiate() instead of d_add() : dentry is not inserted in
   hash table.

__dpath() & friends work as intended during dentry lifetime.

 - At dismantle time, once dput() must clear the dentry, setting again
   DCACHE_UNHASHED bit inside the custom d_delete() function provided by
   pipe code, so that dput() can just kill_it.

This patch, combined with (avoid RCU for never hashed dentries) reduced
time of { pipe(p); close(p[0]); close(p[1]);} on my UP machine (1.6GHz
Pentium-M) from 3.23 us to 2.86 us (But this patch does not depend on other
patches, only bench results)

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Acked-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:41 -08:00
Andi Kleen d6cbd281d1 [PATCH] Some cleanup in the pipe code
Split the big and hard to read do_pipe function into smaller pieces.

This creates new create_write_pipe/free_write_pipe/create_read_pipe
functions.  These functions are made global so that they can be used by
other parts of the kernel.

The resulting code is more generic and easier to read and has cleaner error
handling and less gotos.

[akpm@osdl.org: cleanup]
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-01 00:39:33 -07:00
Badari Pulavarty ee0b3e671b [PATCH] Remove readv/writev methods and use aio_read/aio_write instead
This patch removes readv() and writev() methods and replaces them with
aio_read()/aio_write() methods.

Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-01 00:39:28 -07:00
Theodore Ts'o ba52de123d [PATCH] inode-diet: Eliminate i_blksize from the inode structure
This eliminates the i_blksize field from struct inode.  Filesystems that want
to provide a per-inode st_blksize can do so by providing their own getattr
routine instead of using the generic_fillattr() function.

Note that some filesystems were providing pretty much random (and incorrect)
values for i_blksize.

[bunk@stusta.de: cleanup]
[akpm@osdl.org: generic_fillattr() fix]
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27 08:26:18 -07:00
David Howells 454e2398be [PATCH] VFS: Permit filesystem to override root dentry on mount
Extend the get_sb() filesystem operation to take an extra argument that
permits the VFS to pass in the target vfsmount that defines the mountpoint.

The filesystem is then required to manually set the superblock and root dentry
pointers.  For most filesystems, this should be done with simple_set_mnt()
which will set the superblock pointer and then set the root dentry to the
superblock's s_root (as per the old default behaviour).

The get_sb() op now returns an integer as there's now no need to return the
superblock pointer.

This patch permits a superblock to be implicitly shared amongst several mount
points, such as can be done with NFS to avoid potential inode aliasing.  In
such a case, simple_set_mnt() would not be called, and instead the mnt_root
and mnt_sb would be set directly.

The patch also makes the following changes:

 (*) the get_sb_*() convenience functions in the core kernel now take a vfsmount
     pointer argument and return an integer, so most filesystems have to change
     very little.

 (*) If one of the convenience function is not used, then get_sb() should
     normally call simple_set_mnt() to instantiate the vfsmount. This will
     always return 0, and so can be tail-called from get_sb().

 (*) generic_shutdown_super() now calls shrink_dcache_sb() to clean up the
     dcache upon superblock destruction rather than shrink_dcache_anon().

     This is required because the superblock may now have multiple trees that
     aren't actually bound to s_root, but that still need to be cleaned up. The
     currently called functions assume that the whole tree is rooted at s_root,
     and that anonymous dentries are not the roots of trees which results in
     dentries being left unculled.

     However, with the way NFS superblock sharing are currently set to be
     implemented, these assumptions are violated: the root of the filesystem is
     simply a dummy dentry and inode (the real inode for '/' may well be
     inaccessible), and all the vfsmounts are rooted on anonymous[*] dentries
     with child trees.

     [*] Anonymous until discovered from another tree.

 (*) The documentation has been adjusted, including the additional bit of
     changing ext2_* into foo_* in the documentation.

[akpm@osdl.org: convert ipath_fs, do other stuff]
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23 07:42:45 -07:00
Jens Axboe 330ab71619 [PATCH] vmsplice: restrict stealing a little more
Apply the same rules as the anon pipe pages, only allow stealing
if no one else is using the page.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-05-02 15:29:57 +02:00
Jens Axboe f6762b7ad8 [PATCH] pipe: enable atomic copying of pipe data to/from user space
The pipe ->map() method uses kmap() to virtually map the pages, which
is both slow and has known scalability issues on SMP. This patch enables
atomic copying of pipe pages, by pre-faulting data and using kmap_atomic()
instead.

lmbench bw_pipe and lat_pipe measurements agree this is a Good Thing. Here
are results from that on a UP machine with highmem (1.5GiB of RAM), running
first a UP kernel, SMP kernel, and SMP kernel patched.

Vanilla-UP:
Pipe bandwidth: 1622.28 MB/sec
Pipe bandwidth: 1610.59 MB/sec
Pipe bandwidth: 1608.30 MB/sec
Pipe latency: 7.3275 microseconds
Pipe latency: 7.2995 microseconds
Pipe latency: 7.3097 microseconds

Vanilla-SMP:
Pipe bandwidth: 1382.19 MB/sec
Pipe bandwidth: 1317.27 MB/sec
Pipe bandwidth: 1355.61 MB/sec
Pipe latency: 9.6402 microseconds
Pipe latency: 9.6696 microseconds
Pipe latency: 9.6153 microseconds

Patched-SMP:
Pipe bandwidth: 1578.70 MB/sec
Pipe bandwidth: 1579.95 MB/sec
Pipe bandwidth: 1578.63 MB/sec
Pipe latency: 9.1654 microseconds
Pipe latency: 9.2266 microseconds
Pipe latency: 9.1527 microseconds

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-05-01 20:02:05 +02:00
Jens Axboe f84d751994 [PATCH] pipe: introduce ->pin() buffer operation
The ->map() function is really expensive on highmem machines right now,
since it has to use the slower kmap() instead of kmap_atomic(). Splice
rarely needs to access the virtual address of a page, so it's a waste
of time doing it.

Introduce ->pin() to take over the responsibility of making sure the
page data is valid. ->map() is then reduced to just kmap(). That way we
can also share a most of the pipe buffer ops between pipe.c and splice.c

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-05-01 19:59:03 +02:00
Jens Axboe 0568b409c7 [PATCH] splice: fix bugs in pipe_to_file()
Found by Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>, fixed by me.

- Only allow full pages to go to the page cache.
- Check page != buf->page instead of using PIPE_BUF_FLAG_STOLEN.
- Remember to clear 'stolen' if add_to_page_cache() fails.

And as a cleanup on that:

- Make the bottom fall-through logic a little less convoluted. Also make
  the steal path hold an extra reference to the page, so we don't have
  to differentiate between stolen and non-stolen at the end.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-05-01 19:50:48 +02:00
Jens Axboe 46e678c96b [PATCH] splice: fix bugs with stealing regular pipe pages
- Check that page has suitable count for stealing in the regular pipes.
- pipe_to_file() assumes that the page is locked on succesful steal, so
  do that in the pipe steal hook
- Missing unlock_page() in add_to_page_cache() failure.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-04-30 16:36:32 +02:00
Jens Axboe 70524490ee [PATCH] splice: add support for sys_tee()
Basically an in-kernel implementation of tee, which uses splice and the
pipe buffers as an intelligent way to pass data around by reference.

Where the user space tee consumes the input and produces a stdout and
file output, this syscall merely duplicates the data inside a pipe to
another pipe. No data is copied, the output just grabs a reference to the
input pipe data.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-04-11 15:51:17 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 341b446bc5 [PATCH] another round of fs/pipe.c cleanups
make pipe.c a bit more readable and hackable.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-04-11 13:57:45 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 923f4f2394 [PATCH] pipe.c/fifo.c code cleanups
more code cleanups after the macro conversion:

 - standardize on 'struct pipe_inode_info *pipe' variable names
 - introduce 'pipe' temporaries to reduce mass inode->i_pipe dereferencing

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-04-11 13:53:33 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 9aeedfc471 [PATCH] get rid of the PIPE_*() macros
get rid of the PIPE_*() macros. Scripted transformation.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-04-11 13:53:10 +02:00
Jens Axboe b92ce55893 [PATCH] splice: add direct fd <-> fd splicing support
It's more efficient for sendfile() emulation. Basically we cache an
internal private pipe and just use that as the intermediate area for
pages. Direct splicing is not available from sys_splice(), it is only
meant to be used for sendfile() emulation.

Additional patch from Ingo Molnar to avoid the PIPE_BUFFERS loop at
exit for the normal fast path.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-04-11 13:52:07 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 3a326a2ce8 [PATCH] introduce a "kernel-internal pipe object" abstraction
separate out the 'internal pipe object' abstraction, and make it
usable to splice. This cleans up and fixes several aspects of the
internal splice APIs and the pipe code:

 - pipes: the allocation and freeing of pipe_inode_info is now more symmetric
   and more streamlined with existing kernel practices.

 - splice: small micro-optimization: less pointer dereferencing in splice
   methods

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Update XFS for the ->splice_read/->splice_write changes.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-04-10 15:18:35 +02:00
Jens Axboe 3e7ee3e7b3 [PATCH] splice: fix page stealing LRU handling.
Originally from Nick Piggin, just adapted to the newer branch.

You can't check PageLRU without holding zone->lru_lock.  The page
release code can get away with it only because the page refcount is 0 at
that point. Also, you can't reliably remove pages from the LRU unless
the refcount is 0. Ever.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-04-02 23:11:04 +02:00
Jens Axboe 4f6f0bd2ff [PATCH] splice: improve writeback and clean up page stealing
By cleaning up the writeback logic (killing write_one_page() and the manual
set_page_dirty()), we can get rid of ->stolen inside the pipe_buffer and
just keep it local in pipe_to_file().

This also adds dirty page balancing logic and O_SYNC handling.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-04-02 23:04:46 +02:00
Jens Axboe 5abc97aa25 [PATCH] splice: add support for SPLICE_F_MOVE flag
This enables the caller to migrate pages from one address space page
cache to another.  In buzz word marketing, you can do zero-copy file
copies!

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-30 12:28:18 -08:00
Jens Axboe 5274f052e7 [PATCH] Introduce sys_splice() system call
This adds support for the sys_splice system call. Using a pipe as a
transport, it can connect to files or sockets (latter as output only).

From the splice.c comments:

   "splice": joining two ropes together by interweaving their strands.

   This is the "extended pipe" functionality, where a pipe is used as
   an arbitrary in-memory buffer. Think of a pipe as a small kernel
   buffer that you can use to transfer data from one end to the other.

   The traditional unix read/write is extended with a "splice()" operation
   that transfers data buffers to or from a pipe buffer.

   Named by Larry McVoy, original implementation from Linus, extended by
   Jens to support splicing to files and fixing the initial implementation
   bugs.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-30 12:28:18 -08:00
Arjan van de Ven 4b6f5d20b0 [PATCH] Make most file operations structs in fs/ const
This is a conversion to make the various file_operations structs in fs/
const.  Basically a regexp job, with a few manual fixups

The goal is both to increase correctness (harder to accidentally write to
shared datastructures) and reducing the false sharing of cachelines with
things that get dirty in .data (while .rodata is nicely read only and thus
cache clean)

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-28 09:16:06 -08:00
Eric Dumazet fa3536cc14 [PATCH] Use __read_mostly on some hot fs variables
I discovered on oprofile hunting on a SMP platform that dentry lookups were
slowed down because d_hash_mask, d_hash_shift and dentry_hashtable were in
a cache line that contained inodes_stat.  So each time inodes_stats is
changed by a cpu, other cpus have to refill their cache line.

This patch moves some variables to the __read_mostly section, in order to
avoid false sharing.  RCU dentry lookups can go full speed.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-26 08:56:56 -08:00
Oliver Neukum 11b0b5abb2 [PATCH] use kzalloc and kcalloc in core fs code
Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.name>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 08:23:00 -08:00
Linus Torvalds a19cbd4bf2 Mark the pipe file operations static
They aren't used (nor even really usable) outside of pipe.c anyway

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-08 14:03:09 -08:00
Arjan van de Ven 858119e159 [PATCH] Unlinline a bunch of other functions
Remove the "inline" keyword from a bunch of big functions in the kernel with
the goal of shrinking it by 30kb to 40kb

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-14 18:27:06 -08:00
Christoph Hellwig 870f481793 [PATCH] replace inode_update_time with file_update_time
To allow various options to work per-mount instead of per-sb we need a
struct vfsmount when updating ctime and mtime.  This preparation patch
replaces the inode_update_time routine with a file_update_atime routine so
we can easily get at the vfsmount.  (and the file makes more sense in this
context anyway).  Also get rid of the unused second argument - we always
want to update the ctime when calling this routine.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:30 -08:00
Jes Sorensen 1b1dcc1b57 [PATCH] mutex subsystem, semaphore to mutex: VFS, ->i_sem
This patch converts the inode semaphore to a mutex. I have tested it on
XFS and compiled as much as one can consider on an ia64. Anyway your
luck with it might be different.

Modified-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

(finished the conversion)

Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2006-01-09 15:59:24 -08:00