The goal is to create a generic NFS module with code that does not
depend on what versions of NFS are enabled.
Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>
The access cache is used during RCU-walk path lookups, so it is best
to avoid locking if possible as taking a lock kills concurrency.
The rbtree is not rcu-safe and cannot easily be made so.
Instead we simply check the last (i.e. most recent) entry on the LRU
list. If this doesn't match, then we return -ECHILD and retry in
lock/refcount mode.
This requires freeing the nfs_access_entry struct with rcu, and
requires using rcu access primatives when adding entries to the lru, and
when examining the last entry.
Calling put_rpccred before kfree_rcu looks a bit odd, but as
put_rpccred already provides rcu protection, we know that the cred will
not actually be freed until the next grace period, so any concurrent
access will be safe.
This patch provides about 5% performance improvement on a stat-heavy
synthetic work load with 4 threads on a 2-core CPU.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>
This requires nfs_check_verifier to take an rcu_walk flag, and requires
an rcu version of nfs_revalidate_inode which returns -ECHILD rather
than making an RPC call.
With this, nfs_lookup_revalidate can call nfs_neg_need_reval in
RCU-walk mode.
We can also move the LOOKUP_RCU check past the nfs_check_verifier()
call in nfs_lookup_revalidate.
If RCU_WALK prevents nfs_check_verifier or nfs_neg_need_reval from
doing a full check, they return a status indicating that a revalidation
is required. As this revalidation will not be possible in RCU_WALK
mode, -ECHILD will ultimately be returned, which is the desired result.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>
Pull vfs updates from Al Viro:
"This the bunch that sat in -next + lock_parent() fix. This is the
minimal set; there's more pending stuff.
In particular, I really hope to get acct.c fixes merged this cycle -
we need that to deal sanely with delayed-mntput stuff. In the next
pile, hopefully - that series is fairly short and localized
(kernel/acct.c, fs/super.c and fs/namespace.c). In this pile: more
iov_iter work. Most of prereqs for ->splice_write with sane locking
order are there and Kent's dio rewrite would also fit nicely on top of
this pile"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (70 commits)
lock_parent: don't step on stale ->d_parent of all-but-freed one
kill generic_file_splice_write()
ceph: switch to iter_file_splice_write()
shmem: switch to iter_file_splice_write()
nfs: switch to iter_splice_write_file()
fs/splice.c: remove unneeded exports
ocfs2: switch to iter_file_splice_write()
->splice_write() via ->write_iter()
bio_vec-backed iov_iter
optimize copy_page_{to,from}_iter()
bury generic_file_aio_{read,write}
lustre: get rid of messing with iovecs
ceph: switch to ->write_iter()
ceph_sync_direct_write: stop poking into iov_iter guts
ceph_sync_read: stop poking into iov_iter guts
new helper: copy_page_from_iter()
fuse: switch to ->write_iter()
btrfs: switch to ->write_iter()
ocfs2: switch to ->write_iter()
xfs: switch to ->write_iter()
...
Combining these functions will let me make a single nfs_rw_common_ops
struct (see the next patch).
Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>
At this point, the only difference between nfs_read_data and
nfs_write_data is the write verifier.
Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>
...and move the prototype for nfs_sillyrename to internal.h.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>
Try to detect 'ls -l' by having nfs_getattr() look at whether or not
there is an opendir() file descriptor for the parent directory.
If so, then assume that we want to force use of readdirplus in order
to avoid the multiple GETATTR calls over the wire.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>
Highlights:
- Fix several races in nfs_revalidate_mapping
- NFSv4.1 slot leakage in the pNFS files driver
- Stable fix for a slot leak in nfs40_sequence_done
- Don't reject NFSv4 servers that support ACLs with only ALLOW aces
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Merge tag 'nfs-for-3.14-2' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/linux-nfs
Pull NFS client bugfixes from Trond Myklebust:
"Highlights:
- Fix several races in nfs_revalidate_mapping
- NFSv4.1 slot leakage in the pNFS files driver
- Stable fix for a slot leak in nfs40_sequence_done
- Don't reject NFSv4 servers that support ACLs with only ALLOW aces"
* tag 'nfs-for-3.14-2' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/linux-nfs:
nfs: initialize the ACL support bits to zero.
NFSv4.1: Cleanup
NFSv4.1: Clean up nfs41_sequence_done
NFSv4: Fix a slot leak in nfs40_sequence_done
NFSv4.1 free slot before resending I/O to MDS
nfs: add memory barriers around NFS_INO_INVALID_DATA and NFS_INO_INVALIDATING
NFS: Fix races in nfs_revalidate_mapping
sunrpc: turn warn_gssd() log message into a dprintk()
NFS: fix the handling of NFS_INO_INVALID_DATA flag in nfs_revalidate_mapping
nfs: handle servers that support only ALLOW ACE type.
There is a possible race in how the nfs_invalidate_mapping function is
handled. Currently, we go and invalidate the pages in the file and then
clear NFS_INO_INVALID_DATA.
The problem is that it's possible for a stale page to creep into the
mapping after the page was invalidated (i.e., via readahead). If another
writer comes along and sets the flag after that happens but before
invalidate_inode_pages2 returns then we could clear the flag
without the cache having been properly invalidated.
So, we must clear the flag first and then invalidate the pages. Doing
this however, opens another race:
It's possible to have two concurrent read() calls that end up in
nfs_revalidate_mapping at the same time. The first one clears the
NFS_INO_INVALID_DATA flag and then goes to call nfs_invalidate_mapping.
Just before calling that though, the other task races in, checks the
flag and finds it cleared. At that point, it trusts that the mapping is
good and gets the lock on the page, allowing the read() to be satisfied
from the cache even though the data is no longer valid.
These effects are easily manifested by running diotest3 from the LTP
test suite on NFS. That program does a series of DIO writes and buffered
reads. The operations are serialized and page-aligned but the existing
code fails the test since it occasionally allows a read to come out of
the cache incorrectly. While mixing direct and buffered I/O isn't
recommended, I believe it's possible to hit this in other ways that just
use buffered I/O, though that situation is much harder to reproduce.
The problem is that the checking/clearing of that flag and the
invalidation of the mapping really need to be atomic. Fix this by
serializing concurrent invalidations with a bitlock.
At the same time, we also need to allow other places that check
NFS_INO_INVALID_DATA to check whether we might be in the middle of
invalidating the file, so fix up a couple of places that do that
to look for the new NFS_INO_INVALIDATING flag.
Doing this requires us to be careful not to set the bitlock
unnecessarily, so this code only does that if it believes it will
be doing an invalidation.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>
This causes a small behaviour change in that we don't bother to set
ACLs on file creation if the mode bit can express the access permissions
fully, and thus behaving identical to local filesystems.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
When CONFIG_NFS_V4_2 is toggled nfsd and lockd will be recompiled,
instead of only the nfs client. This patch moves a small amount of code
into the client directory to avoid unnecessary recompiles.
Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <bjschuma@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Use i_writecount to control whether to get an fscache cookie in nfs_open() as
NFS does not do write caching yet. I *think* this is the cause of a problem
encountered by Mark Moseley whereby __fscache_uncache_page() gets a NULL
pointer dereference because cookie->def is NULL:
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000010
IP: [<ffffffff812a1903>] __fscache_uncache_page+0x23/0x160
PGD 0
Thread overran stack, or stack corrupted
Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
Modules linked in: ...
CPU: 7 PID: 18993 Comm: php Not tainted 3.11.1 #1
Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R420/072XWF, BIOS 1.3.5 08/21/2012
task: ffff8804203460c0 ti: ffff880420346640
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff812a1903>] __fscache_uncache_page+0x23/0x160
RSP: 0018:ffff8801053af878 EFLAGS: 00210286
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff8800be2f8780 RCX: ffff88022ffae5e8
RDX: 0000000000004c66 RSI: ffffea00055ff440 RDI: ffff8800be2f8780
RBP: ffff8801053af898 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000003
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffea00055ff440
R13: 0000000000001000 R14: ffff8800c50be538 R15: 0000000000000000
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88042fc60000(0063) knlGS:00000000e439c700
CS: 0010 DS: 002b ES: 002b CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000000000010 CR3: 0000000001d8f000 CR4: 00000000000607f0
Stack:
...
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff81365a72>] __nfs_fscache_invalidate_page+0x42/0x70
[<ffffffff813553d5>] nfs_invalidate_page+0x75/0x90
[<ffffffff811b8f5e>] truncate_inode_page+0x8e/0x90
[<ffffffff811b90ad>] truncate_inode_pages_range.part.12+0x14d/0x620
[<ffffffff81d6387d>] ? __mutex_lock_slowpath+0x1fd/0x2e0
[<ffffffff811b95d3>] truncate_inode_pages_range+0x53/0x70
[<ffffffff811b969d>] truncate_inode_pages+0x2d/0x40
[<ffffffff811b96ff>] truncate_pagecache+0x4f/0x70
[<ffffffff81356840>] nfs_setattr_update_inode+0xa0/0x120
[<ffffffff81368de4>] nfs3_proc_setattr+0xc4/0xe0
[<ffffffff81357f78>] nfs_setattr+0xc8/0x150
[<ffffffff8122d95b>] notify_change+0x1cb/0x390
[<ffffffff8120a55b>] do_truncate+0x7b/0xc0
[<ffffffff8121f96c>] do_last+0xa4c/0xfd0
[<ffffffff8121ffbc>] path_openat+0xcc/0x670
[<ffffffff81220a0e>] do_filp_open+0x4e/0xb0
[<ffffffff8120ba1f>] do_sys_open+0x13f/0x2b0
[<ffffffff8126aaf6>] compat_SyS_open+0x36/0x50
[<ffffffff81d7204c>] sysenter_dispatch+0x7/0x24
The code at the instruction pointer was disassembled:
> (gdb) disas __fscache_uncache_page
> Dump of assembler code for function __fscache_uncache_page:
> ...
> 0xffffffff812a18ff <+31>: mov 0x48(%rbx),%rax
> 0xffffffff812a1903 <+35>: cmpb $0x0,0x10(%rax)
> 0xffffffff812a1907 <+39>: je 0xffffffff812a19cd <__fscache_uncache_page+237>
These instructions make up:
ASSERTCMP(cookie->def->type, !=, FSCACHE_COOKIE_TYPE_INDEX);
That cmpb is the faulting instruction (%rax is 0). So cookie->def is NULL -
which presumably means that the cookie has already been at least partway
through __fscache_relinquish_cookie().
What I think may be happening is something like a three-way race on the same
file:
PROCESS 1 PROCESS 2 PROCESS 3
=============== =============== ===============
open(O_TRUNC|O_WRONLY)
open(O_RDONLY)
open(O_WRONLY)
-->nfs_open()
-->nfs_fscache_set_inode_cookie()
nfs_fscache_inode_lock()
nfs_fscache_disable_inode_cookie()
__fscache_relinquish_cookie()
nfs_inode->fscache = NULL
<--nfs_fscache_set_inode_cookie()
-->nfs_open()
-->nfs_fscache_set_inode_cookie()
nfs_fscache_inode_lock()
nfs_fscache_enable_inode_cookie()
__fscache_acquire_cookie()
nfs_inode->fscache = cookie
<--nfs_fscache_set_inode_cookie()
<--nfs_open()
-->nfs_setattr()
...
...
-->nfs_invalidate_page()
-->__nfs_fscache_invalidate_page()
cookie = nfsi->fscache
-->nfs_open()
-->nfs_fscache_set_inode_cookie()
nfs_fscache_inode_lock()
nfs_fscache_disable_inode_cookie()
-->__fscache_relinquish_cookie()
-->__fscache_uncache_page(cookie)
<crash>
<--__fscache_relinquish_cookie()
nfs_inode->fscache = NULL
<--nfs_fscache_set_inode_cookie()
What is needed is something to prevent process #2 from reacquiring the cookie
- and I think checking i_writecount should do the trick.
It's also possible to have a two-way race on this if the file is opened
O_TRUNC|O_RDONLY instead.
Reported-by: Mark Moseley <moseleymark@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
If an NFS client does
mkdir("dir");
fd = open("dir/file");
unlink("dir/file");
close(fd);
rmdir("dir");
then the asynchronous nature of the sillyrename operation means that
we can end up getting EBUSY for the rmdir() in the above test. Fix
that by ensuring that we wait for any in-progress sillyrenames
before sending the rmdir() to the server.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
NFS: Make nfs_attribute_cache_expired() non-static so we can call it from
nfs_readdir().
Signed-off-by: Scott Mayhew <smayhew@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* labeled-nfs:
NFS: Apply v4.1 capabilities to v4.2
NFS: Add in v4.2 callback operation
NFS: Make callbacks minor version generic
Kconfig: Add Kconfig entry for Labeled NFS V4 client
NFS: Extend NFS xattr handlers to accept the security namespace
NFS: Client implementation of Labeled-NFS
NFS: Add label lifecycle management
NFS:Add labels to client function prototypes
NFSv4: Extend fattr bitmaps to support all 3 words
NFSv4: Introduce new label structure
NFSv4: Add label recommended attribute and NFSv4 flags
NFSv4.2: Added NFS v4.2 support to the NFS client
SELinux: Add new labeling type native labels
LSM: Add flags field to security_sb_set_mnt_opts for in kernel mount data.
Security: Add Hook to test if the particular xattr is part of a MAC model.
Security: Add hook to calculate context based on a negative dentry.
NFS: Add NFSv4.2 protocol constants
Conflicts:
fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c
This patch implements the client transport and handling support for labeled
NFS. The patch adds two functions to encode and decode the security label
recommended attribute which makes use of the LSM hooks added earlier. It also
adds code to grab the label from the file attribute structures and encode the
label to be sent back to the server.
Acked-by: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthew N. Dodd <Matthew.Dodd@sparta.com>
Signed-off-by: Miguel Rodel Felipe <Rodel_FM@dsi.a-star.edu.sg>
Signed-off-by: Phua Eu Gene <PHUA_Eu_Gene@dsi.a-star.edu.sg>
Signed-off-by: Khin Mi Mi Aung <Mi_Mi_AUNG@dsi.a-star.edu.sg>
Signed-off-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
After looking at all of the nfsv4 operations the label structure has been added
to the prototypes of the functions which can transmit label data.
Signed-off-by: Matthew N. Dodd <Matthew.Dodd@sparta.com>
Signed-off-by: Miguel Rodel Felipe <Rodel_FM@dsi.a-star.edu.sg>
Signed-off-by: Phua Eu Gene <PHUA_Eu_Gene@dsi.a-star.edu.sg>
Signed-off-by: Khin Mi Mi Aung <Mi_Mi_AUNG@dsi.a-star.edu.sg>
Signed-off-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
In order to mimic the way that NFSv4 ACLs are implemented we have created a
structure to be used to pass label data up and down the call chain. This patch
adds the new structure and new members to the required NFSv4 call structures.
Signed-off-by: Matthew N. Dodd <Matthew.Dodd@sparta.com>
Signed-off-by: Miguel Rodel Felipe <Rodel_FM@dsi.a-star.edu.sg>
Signed-off-by: Phua Eu Gene <PHUA_Eu_Gene@dsi.a-star.edu.sg>
Signed-off-by: Khin Mi Mi Aung <Mi_Mi_AUNG@dsi.a-star.edu.sg>
Signed-off-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
State recovery currently relies on being able to find a valid
nfs_open_context in the inode->open_files list.
We therefore need to put the nfs_open_context on the list while
we're still protected by the sp->so_reclaim_seqcount in order
to avoid reboot races.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
This will later allow NFS locking code to wait for readahead to complete
before releasing byte range locks.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
If the state recovery failed, we want to ensure that the application
doesn't try to use the same file descriptor for more reads or writes.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
The OPEN operation has no way to differentiate an open for read and an
open for execution - both look like read to the server. This allowed
users to read files that didn't have READ access but did have EXEC access,
which is obviously wrong.
This patch adds an ACCESS call to the OPEN compound to handle the
difference between OPENs for reading and execution. Since we're going
through the trouble of calling ACCESS, we check all possible access bits
and cache the results hopefully avoiding an ACCESS call in the future.
Signed-off-by: Weston Andros Adamson <dros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
If the server reboots before it can commit the unstable writes to disk,
then nfs_commit_release_pages() will detect this when it compares the
verifier returned by COMMIT to the one returned by WRITE. When this
happens, the client needs to resend those writes in order to guarantee
that they make it to stable storage.
This patch adds a signalling mechanism to notify fsync() that it
needs to retry all writes before it can exit.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
We want to be able to pass on the information that the page was not
dirtied under a lock. Instead of adding a flag parameter, do this
by passing a pointer to a 'struct nfs_lock_owner' that may be NULL.
Also reuse this structure in struct nfs_lock_context to carry the
fl_owner_t and pid_t.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
When the NFS_COOKIEVERF helper macro was converted into a static
inline function in commit 99fadcd764 (nfs: convert NFS_*(inode)
helpers to static inline), we broke the initialisation of the
readdir cookies, since that depended on doing a memset with an
argument of 'sizeof(NFS_COOKIEVERF(inode))' which therefore
changed from sizeof(be32 cookieverf[2]) to sizeof(be32 *).
At this point, NFS_COOKIEVERF seems to be more of an obfuscation
than a helper, so the best thing would be to just get rid of it.
Also see: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46881
Reported-by: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Reported-by: David Binderman <dcb314@hotmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Merge Andrew's second set of patches:
- MM
- a few random fixes
- a couple of RTC leftovers
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (120 commits)
rtc/rtc-88pm80x: remove unneed devm_kfree
rtc/rtc-88pm80x: assign ret only when rtc_register_driver fails
mm: hugetlbfs: close race during teardown of hugetlbfs shared page tables
tmpfs: distribute interleave better across nodes
mm: remove redundant initialization
mm: warn if pg_data_t isn't initialized with zero
mips: zero out pg_data_t when it's allocated
memcg: gix memory accounting scalability in shrink_page_list
mm/sparse: remove index_init_lock
mm/sparse: more checks on mem_section number
mm/sparse: optimize sparse_index_alloc
memcg: add mem_cgroup_from_css() helper
memcg: further prevent OOM with too many dirty pages
memcg: prevent OOM with too many dirty pages
mm: mmu_notifier: fix freed page still mapped in secondary MMU
mm: memcg: only check anon swapin page charges for swap cache
mm: memcg: only check swap cache pages for repeated charging
mm: memcg: split swapin charge function into private and public part
mm: memcg: remove needless !mm fixup to init_mm when charging
mm: memcg: remove unneeded shmem charge type
...
Implement the new swapfile a_ops for NFS and hook up ->direct_IO. This
will set the NFS socket to SOCK_MEMALLOC and run socket reconnect under
PF_MEMALLOC as well as reset SOCK_MEMALLOC before engaging the protocol
->connect() method.
PF_MEMALLOC should allow the allocation of struct socket and related
objects and the early (re)setting of SOCK_MEMALLOC should allow us to
receive the packets required for the TCP connection buildup.
[jlayton@redhat.com: Restore PF_MEMALLOC task flags in all cases]
[dfeng@redhat.com: Fix handling of multiple swap files]
[a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl: Original patch]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: Xiaotian Feng <dfeng@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch exports symbols needed by the v4 module. In addition, I also
switch over to using IS_ENABLED() to check if CONFIG_NFS_V4 or
CONFIG_NFS_V4_MODULE are set.
The module (nfs4.ko) will be created in the same directory as nfs.ko and
will be automatically loaded the first time you try to mount over NFS v4.
Signed-off-by: Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
This patch moves the NFS v3 file and directory inode functions into
files that are only compiled whet CONFIG_NFS_V3 is enabled.
Signed-off-by: Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
This patch moves the NFS v2 file and directory inode functions into
files that are only compiled whet CONFIG_NFS_V2 is enabled.
Signed-off-by: Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Keep track of the number of bytes read or written via buffered, direct, and
mem-mapped i/o for use by mdsthreshold size_io hints.
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
fs/nfs/nfs4state.c does not yet have any dprintk() call sites, and I'm
about to introduce some. We will need a new flag for enabling them.
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
While the use of READDIRPLUS is significantly more efficient than
READDIR followed by many LOOKUP calls, it is still less efficient
than just READDIR if the attributes are not required.
This patch tracks when lookups are attempted on the directory,
and uses that information to selectively disable READDIRPLUS
on that directory.
The first 'readdir' call is always served using READDIRPLUS.
Subsequent calls only use READDIRPLUS if there was a successful
lookup or revalidation on a child in the mean time.
Credit for the original idea should go to Neil Brown. See:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-nfs/msg19996.html
However, the implementation in this patch differs from Neil's
in that it focuses on tracking lookups rather than calls to
stat().
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
It is COMMIT that is handled the most differently between
the paged and direct paths. Create a structure that encapsulates
everything either path needs to know about the commit state.
We could use void to hide some of the layout driver stuff, but
Trond suggests pulling it out to ensure type checking, given the
huge changes being made, and the fact that it doesn't interfere
with other drivers.
Signed-off-by: Fred Isaman <iisaman@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
In order to avoid duplicating all the data in nfs_read_data whenever we
split it up into multiple RPC calls (either due to a short read result
or due to rsize < PAGE_SIZE), we split out the bits that are the same
per RPC call into a separate "header" structure.
The goal this patch moves towards is to have a single header
refcounted by several rpc_data structures. Thus, want to always refer
from rpc_data to the header, and not the other way. This patch comes
close to that ideal, but the directio code currently needs some
special casing, isolated in the nfs_direct_[read_write]hdr_release()
functions. This will be dealt with in a future patch.
Signed-off-by: Fred Isaman <iisaman@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Commits don't need the vectors of pages, etc. that writes do. Split out
a separate structure for the commit operation.
Signed-off-by: Fred Isaman <iisaman@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
This allows us to turn on/off the dprintk() debugging interfaces for
those distributions that don't ship the 'rpcdebug' utility.
It also allows us to add Kbuild dependencies. Specifically, we already
know that dprintk() in general relies on CONFIG_SYSCTL. Now it turns out
that the NFS dprintks depend on CONFIG_CRC32 after we added support
for the filehandle hash.
Reported-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
The radix tree is only being used to compile lists of reqs needing commit.
It is simpler to just put the reqs directly into a list.
Signed-off-by: Fred Isaman <iisaman@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
For debugging, introduce a simplistic function to print NFS file
handles on the system console. The main function is hooked into the
dprintk debugging facility, but you can directly call the helper,
_nfs_display_fhandle(), if you want to print a handle unconditionally.
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
No need to duplicate them in both callers; make it return
ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM) on allocation failure instead of NULL and
it'll be able to report rpc_lookup_cred() failures just
fine. Callers are much happier that way...
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
commit d953126 changed how nfs_atomic_lookup handles an -EISDIR return
from an OPEN call. Prior to that patch, that caused the client to fall
back to doing a normal lookup. When that patch went in, the code began
returning that error to userspace. The d_revalidate codepath however
never had the corresponding change, so it was still possible to end up
with a NULL ctx->state pointer after that.
That patch caused a regression. When we attempt to open a directory that
does not have a cached dentry, that open now errors out with EISDIR. If
you attempt the same open with a cached dentry, it will succeed.
Fix this by reverting the change in nfs_atomic_lookup and allowing
attempts to open directories to fall back to a normal lookup
Also, add a NFSv4-specific f_ops->open routine that just returns
-ENOTDIR. This should never be called if things are working properly,
but if it ever is, then the dprintk may help in debugging.
To facilitate this, a new file_operations field is also added to the
nfs_rpc_ops struct.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Current pnfs_layoutcommit_inode can not handle parallel layoutcommit.
And as Trond suggested , there is no need for client to optimize for
parallel layoutcommit. So add NFS_INO_LAYOUTCOMMITTING flag to
mark inflight layoutcommit and serialize lalyoutcommit with it.
Also mark_inode_dirty_sync if pnfs_layoutcommit_inode fails to issue
layoutcommit.
Reported-by: Vitaliy Gusev <gusev.vitaliy@nexenta.com>
Signed-off-by: Peng Tao <peng_tao@emc.com>
Signed-off-by: Jim Rees <rees@umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6:
xfs: Fix build breakage in xfs_iops.c when CONFIG_FS_POSIX_ACL is not set
VFS: Reorganise shrink_dcache_for_umount_subtree() after demise of dcache_lock
VFS: Remove dentry->d_lock locking from shrink_dcache_for_umount_subtree()
VFS: Remove detached-dentry counter from shrink_dcache_for_umount_subtree()
switch posix_acl_chmod() to umode_t
switch posix_acl_from_mode() to umode_t
switch posix_acl_equiv_mode() to umode_t *
switch posix_acl_create() to umode_t *
block: initialise bd_super in bdget()
vfs: avoid call to inode_lru_list_del() if possible
vfs: avoid taking inode_hash_lock on pipes and sockets
vfs: conditionally call inode_wb_list_del()
VFS: Fix automount for negative autofs dentries
Btrfs: load the key from the dir item in readdir into a fake dentry
devtmpfs: missing initialialization in never-hit case
hppfs: missing include
If the directory contents change, then we have to accept that the
file->f_pos value may shrink if we do a 'search-by-cookie'. In that
case, we should turn off the loop detection and let the NFS client
try to recover.
The patch also fixes a second loop detection bug by ensuring
that after turning on the ctx->duped flag, we read at least one new
cookie into ctx->dir_cookie before attempting to match with
ctx->dup_cookie.
Reported-by: Petr Vandrovec <petr@vandrovec.name>
Cc: stable@kernel.org [2.6.39+]
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
The filelayout driver sends LAYOUTCOMMIT only when COMMIT goes to
the data server (as opposed to the MDS) and the data server WRITE
is not NFS_FILE_SYNC.
Only whole file layout support means that there is only one IOMODE_RW layout
segment.
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexandros Batsakis <batsakis@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Dean Hildebrand <dhildeb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Fred Isaman <iisaman@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Mingyang Guo <guomingyang@nrchpc.ac.cn>
Signed-off-by: Tao Guo <guotao@nrchpc.ac.cn>
Signed-off-by: Zhang Jingwang <zhangjingwang@nrchpc.ac.cn>
Tested-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Fred Isaman <iisaman@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Implement all the hooks created in the previous patches.
This requires exporting quite a few functions and adding a few
structure fields.
Signed-off-by: Fred Isaman <iisaman@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
We create three major hooks for the pnfs code.
pnfs_mark_request_commit() is called during writeback_done from
nfs_mark_request_commit, which gives the driver an opportunity to
claim it wants control over commiting a particular req.
pnfs_choose_commit_list() is called from nfs_scan_list
to choose which list a given req should be added to, based on
where we intend to send it for COMMIT. It is up to the driver
to have preallocated list headers for each destination it may need.
pnfs_commit_list() is how the driver actually takes control, it is
used instead of nfs_commit_list().
In order to pass information between the above functions, we create
a union in nfs_page to hold a lseg (which is possible because the req is
not on any list while in transition), and add some flags to indicate
if we need to use the pnfs code.
Signed-off-by: Fred Isaman <iisaman@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Some filesystems (such as ext4) can return the same cookie value for
multiple files. If we try to start a readdir with one of these cookies,
the server will return the first file found with a cookie of the same
value. This can cause the client to enter an infinite loop.
Signed-off-by: Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
nfs_opendir() created a context that held much more information than we
need for a readdir. This patch introduces a slimmed-down
nfs_open_dir_context that contains only the cookie and the cred used for
RPC operations. The new context will eventually be used to help detect
readdir loops.
Signed-off-by: Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
If we're only doing a single write, and there are no other unstable
writes being queued up, we might want to just flip to using a stable
write RPC call.
Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
The return values are not used by any callers.
Signed-off-by: Fred Isaman <iisaman@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Make NFS use the new d_automount() dentry operation rather than abusing
follow_link() on directories.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
We need to ensure that the entries in the nfs_cache_array get cleared
when the page is removed from the page cache. To do so, we use the
freepage address_space operation.
Change nfs_readdir_clear_array to use kmap_atomic(), so that the
function can be safely called from all contexts.
Finally, modify the cache_page_release helper to call
nfs_readdir_clear_array directly, when dealing with an anonymous
page from 'uncached_readdir'.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* 'nfs-for-2.6.37' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6:
net/sunrpc: Use static const char arrays
nfs4: fix channel attribute sanity-checks
NFSv4.1: Use more sensible names for 'initialize_mountpoint'
NFSv4.1: pnfs: filelayout: add driver's LAYOUTGET and GETDEVICEINFO infrastructure
NFSv4.1: pnfs: add LAYOUTGET and GETDEVICEINFO infrastructure
NFS: client needs to maintain list of inodes with active layouts
NFS: create and destroy inode's layout cache
NFSv4.1: pnfs: filelayout: introduce minimal file layout driver
NFSv4.1: pnfs: full mount/umount infrastructure
NFS: set layout driver
NFS: ask for layouttypes during v4 fsinfo call
NFS: change stateid to be a union
NFSv4.1: pnfsd, pnfs: protocol level pnfs constants
SUNRPC: define xdr_decode_opaque_fixed
NFSD: remove duplicate NFS4_STATEID_SIZE
* 'nfs-for-2.6.37' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6: (67 commits)
SUNRPC: Cleanup duplicate assignment in rpcauth_refreshcred
nfs: fix unchecked value
Ask for time_delta during fsinfo probe
Revalidate caches on lock
SUNRPC: After calling xprt_release(), we must restart from call_reserve
NFSv4: Fix up the 'dircount' hint in encode_readdir
NFSv4: Clean up nfs4_decode_dirent
NFSv4: nfs4_decode_dirent must clear entry->fattr->valid
NFSv4: Fix a regression in decode_getfattr
NFSv4: Fix up decode_attr_filehandle() to handle the case of empty fh pointer
NFS: Ensure we check all allocation return values in new readdir code
NFS: Readdir plus in v4
NFS: introduce generic decode_getattr function
NFS: check xdr_decode for errors
NFS: nfs_readdir_filler catch all errors
NFS: readdir with vmapped pages
NFS: remove page size checking code
NFS: decode_dirent should use an xdr_stream
SUNRPC: Add a helper function xdr_inline_peek
NFS: remove readdir plus limit
...
At the start of the io paths, try to grab the relevant layout
information. This will initiate the inode's layout cache, but
stubs ensure the cache stays empty.
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Dean Hildebrand <dhildebz@umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Marc Eshel <eshel@almaden.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Tao Guo <guotao@nrchpc.ac.cn>
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Labiaga <ricardo.labiaga@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Fred Isaman <iisaman@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
This driver just registers itself and supplies trivial mount/umount functions.
Signed-off-by: Dean Hildebrand <dhildebz@umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Marc Eshel <eshel@almaden.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Fred Isaman <iisaman@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Put in the infrastructure that uses information returned from the
server at mount to select a layout driver module.
In this patch, a stub is used that always returns "no driver found".
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Labiaga <Ricardo.Labiaga@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Dean Hildebrand <dhildebz@umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Marc Eshel <eshel@almaden.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Fred Isaman <iisaman@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
...since that's where most of the sillyrenaming code lives. A comment
block is added to the beginning as well to clarify how sillyrenaming
works. Also, make nfs_async_unlink static as nfs_sillyrename is the only
caller.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Start moving the 'struct nameidata' dependent code out of the lower level
NFS code in preparation for the removal of open intents.
Instead of the struct nameidata, we pass down a partially initialised
struct nfs_open_context that will be fully initialised by the atomic open
upon success.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Replace duplicate code in NFSROOT for mounting an NFS server on '/'
with logic that uses the existing mainline text-based logic in the NFS
client.
Add documenting comments where appropriate.
Note that this means NFSROOT mounts now use the same default settings
as v2/v3 mounts done via mount(2) from user space.
vers=3,tcp,rsize=<negotiated default>,wsize=<negotiated default>
As before, however, no version/protocol negotiation with the server is
done.
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* 'nfs-for-2.6.36' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6: (42 commits)
NFS: NFSv4.1 is no longer a "developer only" feature
NFS: NFS_V4 is no longer an EXPERIMENTAL feature
NFS: Fix /proc/mount for legacy binary interface
NFS: Fix the locking in nfs4_callback_getattr
SUNRPC: Defer deleting the security context until gss_do_free_ctx()
SUNRPC: prevent task_cleanup running on freed xprt
SUNRPC: Reduce asynchronous RPC task stack usage
SUNRPC: Move the bound cred to struct rpc_rqst
SUNRPC: Clean up of rpc_bindcred()
SUNRPC: Move remaining RPC client related task initialisation into clnt.c
SUNRPC: Ensure that rpc_exit() always wakes up a sleeping task
SUNRPC: Make the credential cache hashtable size configurable
SUNRPC: Store the hashtable size in struct rpc_cred_cache
NFS: Ensure the AUTH_UNIX credcache is allocated dynamically
NFS: Fix the NFS users of rpc_restart_call()
SUNRPC: The function rpc_restart_call() should return success/failure
NFSv4: Get rid of the bogus RPC_ASSASSINATED(task) checks
NFSv4: Clean up the process of renewing the NFSv4 lease
NFSv4.1: Handle NFS4ERR_DELAY on SEQUENCE correctly
NFS: nfs_rename() should not have to flush out writebacks
...
nfs_commit_inode() needs to be defined irrespectively of whether or not
we are supporting NFSv3 and NFSv4.
Allow the compiler to optimise away code in the NFSv2-only case by
converting it into an inlined stub function.
Reported-and-tested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16056
If other processes are blocked waiting for kswapd to free up some memory so
that they can make progress, then we cannot allow kswapd to block on those
processes.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
NFS Filehandles and struct fattr are really too large to be allocated on
the stack. This patch adds in a couple of helper functions to allocate them
dynamically instead.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Commit 2c61be0a94 (NFS: Ensure that the WRITE
and COMMIT RPC calls are always uninterruptible) exposed a race on file
close. In order to ensure correct close-to-open behaviour, we want to wait
for all outstanding background commit operations to complete.
This patch adds an inode flag that indicates if a commit operation is under
way, and provides a mechanism to allow ->write_inode() to wait for its
completion if this is a data integrity flush.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Now that we have correct COMMIT semantics in writeback_single_inode, we can
reduce and simplify nfs_wb_all(). Also replace nfs_wb_nocommit() with a
call to filemap_write_and_wait(), which doesn't need to hold the
inode->i_mutex.
With that done, we can eliminate nfs_write_mapping() altogether.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
In order to know when we should do opportunistic commits of the unstable
writes, when the VM is doing a background flush, we add a field to count
the number of unstable writes.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
The sole purpose of nfs_write_inode is to commit unstable writes, so
move it into fs/nfs/write.c, and make nfs_commit_inode static.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* remove asm/atomic.h inclusion from kref.h -- not needed, linux/types.h
is enough for atomic_t
* remove linux/kref.h inclusion from files which do not need it.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We can't call nfs_readdata_release()/nfs_writedata_release() without
first initialising and referencing args.context. Doing so inside
nfs_direct_read_schedule_segment()/nfs_direct_write_schedule_segment()
causes an Oops.
We should rather be calling nfs_readdata_free()/nfs_writedata_free() in
those cases.
Looking at the O_DIRECT code, the "struct nfs_direct_req" is already
referencing the nfs_open_context for us. Since the readdata and writedata
structures carry a reference to that, we can simplify things by getting rid
of the extra nfs_open_context references, so that we can replace all
instances of nfs_readdata_release()/nfs_writedata_release().
Reported-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Tested-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
nfs_readpage_async() needs to be non-static so that it can be used as a
fallback for the local on-disk caching should an EIO crop up when reading the
cache.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
Bind data storage objects in the local cache to NFS inodes.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
Add FS-Cache option bit to nfs_server struct. This is set to indicate local
on-disk caching is enabled for a particular superblock.
Also add debug bit for local caching operations.
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>
The following patch is a combination of a patch by myself and Peter
Staubach.
Trond: If we allow other processes to dirty pages while a process is doing
a consistency sync to disk, we can end up never making progress.
Peter: Attached is a patch which addresses a continuing problem with
the NFS client generating out of order WRITE requests. While
this is compliant with all of the current protocol
specifications, there are servers in the market which can not
handle out of order WRITE requests very well. Also, this may
lead to sub-optimal block allocations in the underlying file
system on the server. This may cause the read throughputs to
be reduced when reading the file from the server.
Peter: There has been a lot of work recently done to address out of
order issues on a systemic level. However, the NFS client is
still susceptible to the problem. Out of order WRITE
requests can occur when pdflush is in the middle of writing
out pages while the process dirtying the pages calls
generic_file_buffered_write which calls
generic_perform_write which calls
balance_dirty_pages_rate_limited which ends up calling
writeback_inodes which ends up calling back into the NFS
client to writes out dirty pages for the same file that
pdflush happens to be working with.
Signed-off-by: Peter Staubach <staubach@redhat.com>
[modification by Trond to merge the two similar patches]
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Hi.
I've been looking at a bugzilla which describes a problem where
a customer was advised to use either the "noac" or "actimeo=0"
mount options to solve a consistency problem that they were
seeing in the file attributes. It turned out that this solution
did not work reliably for them because sometimes, the local
attribute cache was believed to be valid and not timed out.
(With an attribute cache timeout of 0, the cache should always
appear to be timed out.)
In looking at this situation, it appears to me that the problem
is that the attribute cache timeout code has an off-by-one
error in it. It is assuming that the cache is valid in the
region, [read_cache_jiffies, read_cache_jiffies + attrtimeo]. The
cache should be considered valid only in the region,
[read_cache_jiffies, read_cache_jiffies + attrtimeo). With this
change, the options, "noac" and "actimeo=0", work as originally
expected.
This problem was previously addressed by special casing the
attrtimeo == 0 case. However, since the problem is only an off-
by-one error, the cleaner solution is address the off-by-one
error and thus, not require the special case.
Thanx...
ps
Signed-off-by: Peter Staubach <staubach@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Anna Schumaker