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Julia Lawall f1d9e4586e fs/9p: change simple_strtol to simple_strtoul
Since v9ses->uid is unsigned, it would seem better to use simple_strtoul that
simple_strtol.

A simplified version of the semantic patch that makes this change is as
follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/)

// <smpl>
@r2@
long e;
position p;
@@

e = simple_strtol@p(...)

@@
position p != r2.p;
type T;
T e;
@@

e =
- simple_strtol@p
+ simple_strtoul
  (...)
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Acked-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2008-12-19 16:50:22 -06:00
Wu Fengguang 7dd0cdc51c 9p: convert d_iname references to d_name.name
d_iname is rubbish for long file names.
Use d_name.name in printks instead.

Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <wfg@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2008-12-19 16:47:40 -06:00
Duane Griffin 6ff232070a 9p: Remove potentially bad parameter from function entry debug print.
Signed-off-by: Duane Griffin <duaneg@dghda.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2008-12-19 16:45:21 -06:00
Eric Van Hensbergen ea2e7996fc 9p: fix format warning
This patch fixes a format warning which appears on 64-bit builds.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2008-10-22 18:48:45 -05:00
Magnus Deininger 57c7b4e68e 9p: fix device file handling
In v9fs_get_inode(), for block, as well as char devices (in theory), 
the function init_special_inode() is called to set up callback functions 
for file ops. this function uses the file mode's value to determine whether 
to use block or char dev functions. In v9fs_inode_from_fid(), the function 
p9mode2unixmode() is used, but for all devices it initially returns S_IFBLK, 
then uses v9fs_get_inode() to initialise a new inode, then finally uses 
v9fs_stat2inode(), which would determine whether the inode is a block or 
character device. However, at that point init_special_inode() had already 
decided to use the block device functions, so even if the inode's mode is 
turned to a character device, the block functions are still used to operate 
on them. The attached patch simply calls init_special_inode() again for devices 
after parsing device node data in v9fs_stat2inode() so that the proper functions 
are used.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2008-10-17 12:44:46 -05:00
Eric Van Hensbergen 02da398b95 9p: eliminate depricated conv functions
Remove depricated conv functions which have been replaced with new 
protocol routines.

This patch also reworks the one instance of the file-system code which
directly calls conversion routines (to accomplish unpacking dirreads).

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2008-10-17 11:06:57 -05:00
Eric Van Hensbergen 51a87c552d 9p: rework client code to use new protocol support functions
Now that the new protocol functions are in place, this patch switches
the client code to using the new support code.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2008-10-17 11:04:45 -05:00
Eric Van Hensbergen 06b55b464e 9p: move dirread to fs layer
Currently reading a directory is implemented in the client code.
This function is not actually a wire operation, but a meta operation 
which calls read operations and processes the results.

This patch moves this functionality to the fs layer and calls component
wire operations instead of constructing their packets.  This provides a 
cleaner separation and will help when we reorganize the client functions
and protocol processing methods.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2008-10-17 11:04:43 -05:00
Eric Van Hensbergen dfb0ec2e13 9p: adjust 9p vfs write operation
Currently, the 9p net wire operation ensures that all data is sent by sending
multiple packets if the data requested is larger than the msize.  This is
better handled in the vfs code so that we can simplify wire operations to 
being concerned with only putting data onto and taking data off of the wire.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2008-10-17 11:04:43 -05:00
Eric Van Hensbergen fbedadc16e 9p: move readn meta-function from client to fs layer
There are a couple of methods in the client code which aren't actually
wire operations.  To keep things organized cleaner, these operations are
being moved to the fs layer.

This patch moves the readn meta-function (which executes multiple wire
reads until a buffer is full) to the fs layer.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2008-10-17 11:04:43 -05:00
Eric Van Hensbergen 0fc9655ec6 9p: consolidate read/write functions
Currently there are two separate versions of read and write.  One for
dealing with user buffers and the other for dealing with kernel buffers.
There is a tremendous amount of code duplication in the otherwise
identical versions of these functions.  This patch adds an additional
user buffer parameter to read and write and conditionalizes handling of
the buffer on whether the kernel buffer or the user buffer is populated.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2008-10-17 11:04:42 -05:00
Eric Van Hensbergen 8b81ef589a 9p: consolidate transport structure
Right now there is a transport module structure which provides per-transport
type functions and data and a transport structure which contains per-instance
public data as well as function pointers to instance specific functions.

This patch moves public transport visible instance data to the client
structure (which in some cases had duplicate data) and consolidates the
functions into the transport module structure.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2008-10-17 11:04:41 -05:00
Steven Whitehouse a447c09324 vfs: Use const for kernel parser table
This is a much better version of a previous patch to make the parser
tables constant. Rather than changing the typedef, we put the "const" in
all the various places where its required, allowing the __initconst
exception for nfsroot which was the cause of the previous trouble.

This was posted for review some time ago and I believe its been in -mm
since then.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <aviro@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-13 10:10:37 -07:00
Julien Brunel 62aa528e02 9p: use an IS_ERR test rather than a NULL test
In case of error, the function p9_client_walk returns an ERR pointer, but
never returns a NULL pointer.  So a NULL test that comes after an IS_ERR
test should be deleted.

The semantic match that finds this problem is as follows:
(http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/)

// <smpl>
@match_bad_null_test@
expression x, E;
statement S1,S2;
@@
x = p9_client_walk(...)
... when != x = E
*  if (x != NULL)
S1 else S2
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julien Brunel <brunel@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-24 16:22:22 -05:00
Al Viro 59af1584bf [PATCH] fix ->llseek() for a bunch of directories
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-08-25 01:18:09 -04:00
Eric Van Hensbergen 2e4bef41a0 9p: fix O_APPEND in legacy mode
The legacy protocol's open operation doesn't handle an append operation
(it is expected that the client take care of it).  We were incorrectly
passing the extended protocol's flag through even in legacy mode.  This
was reported in bugzilla report #10689.  This patch fixes the problem
by disallowing extended protocol open modes from being passed in legacy
mode and implemented append functionality on the client side by adding
a seek after the open.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2008-07-03 09:59:03 -05:00
Eric Van Hensbergen 887b3ece65 9p: fix error path during early mount
There was some cleanup issues during early mount which would trigger
a kernel bug for certain types of failure.  This patch reorganizes the
cleanup to get rid of the bad behavior.

This also merges the 9pnet and 9pnet_fd modules for the purpose of
configuration and initialization.  Keeping the fd transport separate
from the core 9pnet code seemed like a good idea at the time, but in
practice has caused more harm and confusion than good.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2008-05-14 19:23:27 -05:00
Jim Meyering ab31267dfe fs/9p/v9fs.c (v9fs_parse_options): Handle kstrdup and match_strdup failure. Now that this function can fail, return an int, diagnose other option-parsing failures, and adjust the sole caller: (v9fs_session_init): Handle kstrdup failure. Propagate any new v9fs_parse_options failure "up".
Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
Cc: Ron Minnich <rminnich@sandia.gov>
Cc: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2008-05-14 19:23:25 -05:00
Eric Van Hensbergen ee443996a3 9p: Documentation updates
The kernel-doc comments of much of the 9p system have been in disarray since
reorganization.  This patch fixes those problems, adds additional documentation
and a template book which collects the 9p information.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2008-05-14 19:23:25 -05:00
Markus Armbruster b32a09db4f add match_strlcpy() us it to make v9fs make uname and remotename parsing more robust
match_strcpy() is a somewhat creepy function: the caller needs to make sure
that the destination buffer is big enough, and when he screws up or
forgets, match_strcpy() happily overruns the buffer.

There's exactly one customer: v9fs_parse_options().  I believe it currently
can't overflow its buffer, but that's not exactly obvious.

The source string is a substing of the mount options.  The kernel silently
truncates those to PAGE_SIZE bytes, including the terminating zero.  See
compat_sys_mount() and do_mount().

The destination buffer is obtained from __getname(), which allocates from
name_cachep, which is initialized by vfs_caches_init() for size PATH_MAX.

We're safe as long as PATH_MAX <= PAGE_SIZE.  PATH_MAX is 4096.  As far as
I know, the smallest PAGE_SIZE is also 4096.

Here's a patch that makes the code a bit more obviously correct.  It
doesn't depend on PATH_MAX <= PAGE_SIZE.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Cc: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Cc: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2008-05-14 19:23:25 -05:00
Al Viro 42faad9965 [PATCH] restore sane ->umount_begin() API
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-04-25 09:23:25 -04:00
Matthew Wilcox cb688371e2 fs: Remove unnecessary inclusions of asm/semaphore.h
None of these files use any of the functionality promised by
asm/semaphore.h.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
2008-04-18 22:16:44 -04:00
David Howells e231c2ee64 Convert ERR_PTR(PTR_ERR(p)) instances to ERR_CAST(p)
Convert instances of ERR_PTR(PTR_ERR(p)) to ERR_CAST(p) using:

perl -spi -e 's/ERR_PTR[(]PTR_ERR[(](.*)[)][)]/ERR_CAST(\1)/' `grep -rl 'ERR_PTR[(]*PTR_ERR' fs crypto net security`

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-07 08:42:26 -08:00
Eric Van Hensbergen 8a0dc95fd9 9p: transport API reorganization
This merges the mux.c (including the connection interface) with trans_fd
in preparation for transport API changes.  Ultimately, trans_fd will need
to be rewritten to clean it up and simplify the implementation, but this
reorganization is viewed as the first step.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2008-02-06 19:25:03 -06:00
Eric Van Hensbergen 14b8869ff4 9p: fix mmap to be read-only
v9fs was allowing writable mmap which could lead to kernel BUG() cases.
This sets the mmap function to generic_file_readonly_mmap which (correctly)
returns an error to applications which open mmap for writing.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2008-02-06 19:25:05 -06:00
Anthony Liguori d199d652c5 9p: add support for sticky bit
GDM gets unhappy if /var/gdm doesn't have the sticky bit set.  This patch adds
support for the sticky bit in much the same way setuid/setgid is supported.

With this patch, I can launch X from a v9fs rootfs (although I quickly run out
of fds in the server once gnome starts up).

Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2008-02-06 19:25:06 -06:00
Eric Van Hensbergen c55703d807 9p: fix bug in attach-per-user
When a new user attached at a directory other than the root, he would end
up in the parent directory of the cwd.  This was due to a logic error in
the code which attaches the user at the mount point and walks back to the
cwd.  This patch fixes that.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2008-02-06 19:25:08 -06:00
Latchesar Ionkov 8999e04f3b 9p: use copy of the options value instead of original
v9fs_parse_options function uses strsep which modifies the value of the
v9ses->options field. That modified value is later passed to the function
that creates the transport potentially making the transport creation
function to fail.

This patch creates a copy of v9ses->option field that v9fs_parse_options
function uses instead of the original value.

Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Acked-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2007-11-06 08:02:53 -06:00
Latchesar Ionkov dda6b022f3 9p: fix memory leak in v9fs_get_sb
This patch fixes a memory leak in v9fs_get_sb.

Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Acked-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2007-11-06 08:02:53 -06:00
Latchesar Ionkov 22150c4f0f 9p: v9fs_vfs_rename incorrect clunk order
In v9fs_vfs_rename function labels don't match the fids that are clunked.
The correct clunk order is clunking newdirfid first and then olddirfid next.

Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2007-10-23 13:48:33 -05:00
Adrian Bunk 0a976297e1 9p: fix memleak in fs/9p/v9fs.c
This patch fixes a memory leak introduced by
commit ba17674fe0.

Spotted by the Coverity checker.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2007-10-23 13:48:50 -05:00
Eric Van Hensbergen fb0466c3ae 9p: fix bad kconfig cross-dependency
This patch moves transport dynamic registration and matching to the net
module to prevent a bad Kconfig dependency between the net and fs 9p modules.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2007-10-17 14:31:07 -05:00
Eric Van Hensbergen 50fd801067 9p: soften invalidation in loose_mode
Loose mode in 9p utilizes the page cache without respecting coherency with
the server.  Any writes previously invaldiated the entire mapping for a file.
This patch softens the behavior to only invalidate the region of the actual
write.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2007-10-17 14:31:07 -05:00
Latchesar Ionkov ba17674fe0 9p: attach-per-user
The 9P2000 protocol requires the authentication and permission checks to be
done in the file server. For that reason every user that accesses the file
server tree has to authenticate and attach to the server separately.
Multiple users can share the same connection to the server.

Currently v9fs does a single attach and executes all I/O operations as a
single user. This makes using v9fs in multiuser environment unsafe as it
depends on the client doing the permission checking.

This patch improves the 9P2000 support by allowing every user to attach
separately. The patch defines three modes of access (new mount option
'access'):

- attach-per-user (access=user) (default mode for 9P2000.u)
 If a user tries to access a file served by v9fs for the first time, v9fs
 sends an attach command to the server (Tattach) specifying the user. If
 the attach succeeds, the user can access the v9fs tree.
 As there is no uname->uid (string->integer) mapping yet, this mode works
 only with the 9P2000.u dialect.

- allow only one user to access the tree (access=<uid>)
 Only the user with uid can access the v9fs tree. Other users that attempt
 to access it will get EPERM error.

- do all operations as a single user (access=any) (default for 9P2000)
 V9fs does a single attach and all operations are done as a single user.
 If this mode is selected, the v9fs behavior is identical with the current
 one.

Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2007-10-17 14:31:07 -05:00
Latchesar Ionkov bd32b82df9 9p: rename uid and gid parameters
Change the names of 'uid' and 'gid' parameters to the more appropriate
'dfltuid' and 'dfltgid'.  This also sets the default uid/gid to -2
(aka nfsnobody)

Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2007-10-17 14:31:07 -05:00
Latchesar Ionkov 2405669b25 9p: define session flags
Create more general flags field in the v9fs_session_info struct and move the
'extended' flag as a bit in the flags.

Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2007-10-17 14:31:07 -05:00
Eric Van Hensbergen a80d923e13 9p: Make transports dynamic
This patch abstracts out the interfaces to underlying transports so that
new transports can be added as modules.  This should also allow kernel
configuration of transports without ifdef-hell.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2007-10-17 14:31:07 -05:00
Pavel Emelyanov 66abe5f257 9PFS: clean up explicit check for mandatory locks
The __mandatory_lock(inode) macro makes the same check, but makes the code
more readable.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Cc: Ron Minnich <rminnich@sandia.gov>
Cc: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-09 18:32:46 -04:00
Eric Van Hensbergen fbcb7599e4 9p: remove deprecated v9fs_fid_lookup_remove()
This patch removes the v9fs_fid_lookup_remove which is no longer used.

Based on original patch from Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> which
used #if 0 to isolate the code.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2007-08-23 10:13:45 -05:00
Eric Van Hensbergen 10fa16e75c 9p: fix debug compilation error
s/9p/v9fs.c: In function 'v9fs_parse_options':
fs/9p/v9fs.c:134: error: 'p9_debug_level' undeclared (first use in this function)

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2007-07-16 16:03:25 -05:00
Eric Van Hensbergen 9e2f6688c0 9p: re-enable mount time debug option
During reorganization, the mount time debug option was removed in favor
of module-load-time parameters.  However, the mount time option is still
a useful for feature during debug and for user-fault isolation when the
module is compiled into the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2007-07-14 15:14:14 -05:00
Eric Van Hensbergen 9523a841b1 9p: cache meta-data when cache=loose
This patch expands the impact of the loose cache mode to allow for cached
metadata increasing the performance of directory listings and other metadata
read operations.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2007-07-14 15:14:08 -05:00
Latchesar Ionkov bd238fb431 9p: Reorganization of 9p file system code
This patchset moves non-filesystem interfaces of v9fs from fs/9p to net/9p.
It moves the transport, packet marshalling and connection layers to net/9p
leaving only the VFS related files in fs/9p.  This work is being done in
preparation for in-kernel 9p servers as well as alternate 9p clients (other
than VFS).

Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2007-07-14 15:13:40 -05:00
Alexey Dobriyan e8edc6e03a Detach sched.h from mm.h
First thing mm.h does is including sched.h solely for can_do_mlock() inline
function which has "current" dereference inside. By dealing with can_do_mlock()
mm.h can be detached from sched.h which is good. See below, why.

This patch
a) removes unconditional inclusion of sched.h from mm.h
b) makes can_do_mlock() normal function in mm/mlock.c
c) exports can_do_mlock() to not break compilation
d) adds sched.h inclusions back to files that were getting it indirectly.
e) adds less bloated headers to some files (asm/signal.h, jiffies.h) that were
   getting them indirectly

Net result is:
a) mm.h users would get less code to open, read, preprocess, parse, ... if
   they don't need sched.h
b) sched.h stops being dependency for significant number of files:
   on x86_64 allmodconfig touching sched.h results in recompile of 4083 files,
   after patch it's only 3744 (-8.3%).

Cross-compile tested on

	all arm defconfigs, all mips defconfigs, all powerpc defconfigs,
	alpha alpha-up
	arm
	i386 i386-up i386-defconfig i386-allnoconfig
	ia64 ia64-up
	m68k
	mips
	parisc parisc-up
	powerpc powerpc-up
	s390 s390-up
	sparc sparc-up
	sparc64 sparc64-up
	um-x86_64
	x86_64 x86_64-up x86_64-defconfig x86_64-allnoconfig

as well as my two usual configs.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-21 09:18:19 -07:00
Randy Dunlap e63340ae6b header cleaning: don't include smp_lock.h when not used
Remove includes of <linux/smp_lock.h> where it is not used/needed.
Suggested by Al Viro.

Builds cleanly on x86_64, i386, alpha, ia64, powerpc, sparc,
sparc64, and arm (all 59 defconfigs).

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:07 -07:00
Latchesar Ionkov c959df9f01 v9fs: don't use primary fid when removing file
v9fs_insert uses v9fs_fid_lookup (which also locks the fid) to get the
primary fid associated with the dentry and destroys the v9fs_fid struct
after removing the file.  If another process called v9fs_fid_lookup on the
same dentry, it may wait undefinitely for the fid's lock (as the struct is
freed).

This patch changes v9fs_remove to use a cloned fid, so the primary fid is
not locked and freed.

Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@hera.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-04-24 08:23:08 -07:00
Adrian Bunk d32b687e2e 9p: make struct v9fs_cached_file_operations static
This patch makes te needlessly global struct v9fs_cached_file_operations
static.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2007-03-26 18:14:44 +00:00
Eric Van Hensbergen e03abc0c96 9p: implement optional loose read cache
While cacheing is generally frowned upon in the 9p world, it has its
place -- particularly in situations where the remote file system is
exclusive and/or read-only.  The vacfs views of venti content addressable
store are a real-world instance of such a situation.  To facilitate higher
performance for these workloads (and eventually use the fscache patches),
we have enabled a "loose" cache mode which does not attempt to maintain
any form of consistency on the page-cache or dcache.  This results in over
two orders of magnitude performance improvement for cacheable block reads
in the Bonnie benchmark.  The more aggressive use of the dcache also seems
to improve metadata operational performance.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2007-02-18 10:16:10 -06:00
Eric W. Biederman 2c0463a9ae 9p: Use kthread_stop instead of sending a SIGKILL.
Since the kthread api does not bump the reference count on
processes that tracked it is not safe allow user space to
kill the threads, as I still retain a pointer to the task_struct.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2007-02-18 10:16:10 -06:00
Josef 'Jeff' Sipek ee9b6d61a2 [PATCH] Mark struct super_operations const
This patch is inspired by Arjan's "Patch series to mark struct
file_operations and struct inode_operations const".

Compile tested with gcc & sparse.

Signed-off-by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-12 09:48:47 -08:00