Ensure fast symlink targets are NUL-terminated, even if corrupted
on-disk.
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: adilger@sun.com
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Duane Griffin <duaneg@dghda.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Ensure fast symlink targets are NUL-terminated, even if corrupted
on-disk.
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Duane Griffin <duaneg@dghda.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Ensure fast symlink targets are NUL-terminated, even if corrupted
on-disk.
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Duane Griffin <duaneg@dghda.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
On-disk data corruption could cause a page link to have its i_size set
to PAGE_SIZE (or a multiple thereof) and its contents all non-NUL.
NUL-terminate the link name to ensure this doesn't cause further
problems for the kernel.
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Duane Griffin <duaneg@dghda.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
The result from readlink is being used to index into the link name
buffer without checking whether it is a valid length. If readlink
returns an error this will fault or cause memory corruption.
Cc: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@canonical.com>
Cc: ecryptfs-devel@lists.launchpad.net
Signed-off-by: Duane Griffin <duaneg@dghda.com>
Acked-by: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
The extra semicolon serves no purpose.
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Reviewed-by: Richard Genoud <richard.genoud@gmail.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
struct dentry is one of the most critical structures in the kernel. So it's
sad to see it going neglected.
With CONFIG_PROFILING turned on (which is probably the common case at least
for distros and kernel developers), sizeof(struct dcache) == 208 here
(64-bit). This gives 19 objects per slab.
I packed d_mounted into a hole, and took another 4 bytes off the inline
name length to take the padding out from the end of the structure. This
shinks it to 200 bytes. I could have gone the other way and increased the
length to 40, but I'm aiming for a magic number, read on...
I then got rid of the d_cookie pointer. This shrinks it to 192 bytes. Rant:
why was this ever a good idea? The cookie system should increase its hash
size or use a tree or something if lookups are a problem. Also the "fast
dcookie lookups" in oprofile should be moved into the dcookie code -- how
can oprofile possibly care about the dcookie_mutex? It gets dropped after
get_dcookie() returns so it can't be providing any sort of protection.
At 192 bytes, 21 objects fit into a 4K page, saving about 3MB on my system
with ~140 000 entries allocated. 192 is also a multiple of 64, so we get
nice cacheline alignment on 64 and 32 byte line systems -- any given dentry
will now require 3 cachelines to touch all fields wheras previously it
would require 4.
I know the inline name size was chosen quite carefully, however with the
reduction in cacheline footprint, it should actually be just about as fast
to do a name lookup for a 36 character name as it was before the patch (and
faster for other sizes). The memory footprint savings for names which are
<= 32 or > 36 bytes long should more than make up for the memory cost for
33-36 byte names.
Performance is a feature...
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Reorder struct inotify_device to remove 8 bytes of padding on 64bit
builds, reducing size to 128 bytes . Therefore allocating from a smaller
slab & using one fewer cachelines.
Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk>
----
Hi,
patch against 2.6.28-rc7.
built & tested on AMDX2 desktop.
I've not been able to send this to the listed inotify maintainers, I
just get mail failures. So I guessed filesystem was the best home for
it, hope that's ok.
regards
Richard
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Add new LSM hooks for path-based checks. Call them on directory-modifying
operations at the points where we still know the vfsmount involved.
Signed-off-by: Kentaro Takeda <takedakn@nttdata.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Toshiharu Harada <haradats@nttdata.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs: (184 commits)
[XFS] Fix race in xfs_write() between direct and buffered I/O with DMAPI
[XFS] handle unaligned data in xfs_bmbt_disk_get_all
[XFS] avoid memory allocations in xfs_fs_vcmn_err
[XFS] Fix speculative allocation beyond eof
[XFS] Remove XFS_BUF_SHUT() and friends
[XFS] Use the incore inode size in xfs_file_readdir()
[XFS] set b_error from bio error in xfs_buf_bio_end_io
[XFS] use inode_change_ok for setattr permission checking
[XFS] add a FMODE flag to make XFS invisible I/O less hacky
[XFS] resync headers with libxfs
[XFS] simplify projid check in xfs_rename
[XFS] replace b_fspriv with b_mount
[XFS] Remove unused tracing code
[XFS] Remove unnecessary assertion
[XFS] Remove unused variable in ktrace_free()
[XFS] Check return value of xfs_buf_get_noaddr()
[XFS] Fix hang after disallowed rename across directory quota domains
[XFS] Fix compile with CONFIG_COMPAT enabled
move inode tracing out of xfs_vnode.
move vn_iowait / vn_iowake into xfs_aops.c
...
* git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6: (70 commits)
fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c: make nfs4_map_errors() static
rpc: add service field to new upcall
rpc: add target field to new upcall
nfsd: support callbacks with gss flavors
rpc: allow gss callbacks to client
rpc: pass target name down to rpc level on callbacks
nfsd: pass client principal name in rsc downcall
rpc: implement new upcall
rpc: store pointer to pipe inode in gss upcall message
rpc: use count of pipe openers to wait for first open
rpc: track number of users of the gss upcall pipe
rpc: call release_pipe only on last close
rpc: add an rpc_pipe_open method
rpc: minor gss_alloc_msg cleanup
rpc: factor out warning code from gss_pipe_destroy_msg
rpc: remove unnecessary assignment
NFS: remove unused status from encode routines
NFS: increment number of operations in each encode routine
NFS: fix comment placement in nfs4xdr.c
NFS: fix tabs in nfs4xdr.c
...
* 'for-2.6.29' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (43 commits)
bio: get rid of bio_vec clearing
bounce: don't rely on a zeroed bio_vec list
cciss: simplify parameters to deregister_disk function
cfq-iosched: fix race between exiting queue and exiting task
loop: Do not call loop_unplug for not configured loop device.
loop: Flush possible running bios when loop device is released.
alpha: remove dead BIO_VMERGE_BOUNDARY
Get rid of CONFIG_LSF
block: make blk_softirq_init() static
block: use min_not_zero in blk_queue_stack_limits
block: add one-hit cache for disk partition lookup
cfq-iosched: remove limit of dispatch depth of max 4 times quantum
nbd: tell the block layer that it is not a rotational device
block: get rid of elevator_t typedef
aio: make the lookup_ioctx() lockless
bio: add support for inlining a number of bio_vecs inside the bio
bio: allow individual slabs in the bio_set
bio: move the slab pointer inside the bio_set
bio: only mempool back the largest bio_vec slab cache
block: don't use plugging on SSD devices
...
* 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, sparseirq: clean up Kconfig entry
x86: turn CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ off by default
sparseirq: fix numa_migrate_irq_desc dependency and comments
sparseirq: add kernel-doc notation for new member in irq_desc, -v2
locking, irq: enclose irq_desc_lock_class in CONFIG_LOCKDEP
sparseirq, xen: make sure irq_desc is allocated for interrupts
sparseirq: fix !SMP building, #2
x86, sparseirq: move irq_desc according to smp_affinity, v7
proc: enclose desc variable of show_stat() in CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ
sparse irqs: add irqnr.h to the user headers list
sparse irqs: handle !GENIRQ platforms
sparseirq: fix !SMP && !PCI_MSI && !HT_IRQ build
sparseirq: fix Alpha build failure
sparseirq: fix typo in !CONFIG_IO_APIC case
x86, MSI: pass irq_cfg and irq_desc
x86: MSI start irq numbering from nr_irqs_gsi
x86: use NR_IRQS_LEGACY
sparse irq_desc[] array: core kernel and x86 changes
genirq: record IRQ_LEVEL in irq_desc[]
irq.h: remove padding from irq_desc on 64bits
* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
hrtimers: fix warning in kernel/hrtimer.c
x86: make sure we really have an hpet mapping before using it
x86: enable HPET on Fujitsu u9200
linux/timex.h: cleanup for userspace
posix-timers: simplify de_thread()->exit_itimers() path
posix-timers: check ->it_signal instead of ->it_pid to validate the timer
posix-timers: use "struct pid*" instead of "struct task_struct*"
nohz: suppress needless timer reprogramming
clocksource, acpi_pm.c: put acpi_pm_read_slow() under CONFIG_PCI
nohz: no softirq pending warnings for offline cpus
hrtimer: removing all ur callback modes, fix
hrtimer: removing all ur callback modes, fix hotplug
hrtimer: removing all ur callback modes
x86: correct link to HPET timer specification
rtc-cmos: export second NVRAM bank
Fixed up conflicts in sound/drivers/pcsp/pcsp.c and sound/core/hrtimer.c
manually.
nfs4_map_errors() can become static.
Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <wangcong@zeuux.org>
Cc: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
We don't need to clear the memory used for adding bio_vec entries,
since nobody should be looking at members unitialized. Any valid
use should be below bio->bi_vcnt, and that members up until that count
must be valid since they were added through bio_add_page().
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
We have two seperate config entries for large devices/files. One
is CONFIG_LBD that guards just the devices, the other is CONFIG_LSF
that handles large files. This doesn't make a lot of sense, you typically
want both or none. So get rid of CONFIG_LSF and change CONFIG_LBD wording
to indicate that it covers both.
Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
The mm->ioctx_list is currently protected by a reader-writer lock,
so we always grab that lock on the read side for doing ioctx
lookups. As the workload is extremely reader biased, turn this into
an rcu hlist so we can make lookup_ioctx() lockless. Get rid of
the rwlock and use a spinlock for providing update side exclusion.
There's usually only 1 entry on this list, so it doesn't make sense
to look into fancier data structures.
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
When we go and allocate a bio for IO, we actually do two allocations.
One for the bio itself, and one for the bi_io_vec that holds the
actual pages we are interested in.
This feature inlines a definable amount of io vecs inside the bio
itself, so we eliminate the bio_vec array allocation for IO's up
to a certain size. It defaults to 4 vecs, which is typically 16k
of IO.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Instead of having a global bio slab cache, add a reference to one
in each bio_set that is created. This allows for personalized slabs
in each bio_set, so that they can have bios of different sizes.
This means we can personalize the bios we return. File systems may
want to embed the bio inside another structure, to avoid allocation
more items (and stuffing them in ->bi_private) after the get a bio.
Or we may want to embed a number of bio_vecs directly at the end
of a bio, to avoid doing two allocations to return a bio. This is now
possible.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
We only very rarely need the mempool backing, so it makes sense to
get rid of all but one of the mempool in a bio_set. So keep the
largest bio_vec count mempool so we can always honor the largest
allocation, and "upgrade" callers that fail.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Allow the scsi request REQ_QUIET flag to be propagated to the buffer
file system layer. The basic ideas is to pass the flag from the scsi
request to the bio (block IO) and then to the buffer layer. The buffer
layer can then suppress needless printks.
This patch declutters the kernel log by removed the 40-50 (per lun)
buffer io error messages seen during a boot in my multipath setup . It
is a good chance any real errors will be missed in the "noise" it the
logs without this patch.
During boot I see blocks of messages like
"
__ratelimit: 211 callbacks suppressed
Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242879
Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242879
Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242847
Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 1
Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242878
Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242879
Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242879
Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242879
Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242879
Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242872
"
in my logs.
My disk environment is multipath fiber channel using the SCSI_DH_RDAC
code and multipathd. This topology includes an "active" and "ghost"
path for each lun. IO's to the "ghost" path will never complete and the
SCSI layer, via the scsi device handler rdac code, quick returns the IOs
to theses paths and sets the REQ_QUIET scsi flag to suppress the scsi
layer messages.
I am wanting to extend the QUIET behavior to include the buffer file
system layer to deal with these errors as well. I have been running this
patch for a while now on several boxes without issue. A few runs of
bonnie++ show no noticeable difference in performance in my setup.
Thanks for John Stultz for the quiet_error finalization.
Submitted-by: Keith Mannthey <kmannth@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: (144 commits)
powerpc/44x: Support 16K/64K base page sizes on 44x
powerpc: Force memory size to be a multiple of PAGE_SIZE
powerpc/32: Wire up the trampoline code for kdump
powerpc/32: Add the ability for a classic ppc kernel to be loaded at 32M
powerpc/32: Allow __ioremap on RAM addresses for kdump kernel
powerpc/32: Setup OF properties for kdump
powerpc/32/kdump: Implement crash_setup_regs() using ppc_save_regs()
powerpc: Prepare xmon_save_regs for use with kdump
powerpc: Remove default kexec/crash_kernel ops assignments
powerpc: Make default kexec/crash_kernel ops implicit
powerpc: Setup OF properties for ppc32 kexec
powerpc/pseries: Fix cpu hotplug
powerpc: Fix KVM build on ppc440
powerpc/cell: add QPACE as a separate Cell platform
powerpc/cell: fix build breakage with CONFIG_SPUFS disabled
powerpc/mpc5200: fix error paths in PSC UART probe function
powerpc/mpc5200: add rts/cts handling in PSC UART driver
powerpc/mpc5200: Make PSC UART driver update serial errors counters
powerpc/mpc5200: Remove obsolete code from mpc5200 MDIO driver
powerpc/mpc5200: Add MDMA/UDMA support to MPC5200 ATA driver
...
Fix trivial conflict in drivers/char/Makefile as per Paul's directions
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1429 commits)
net: Allow dependancies of FDDI & Tokenring to be modular.
igb: Fix build warning when DCA is disabled.
net: Fix warning fallout from recent NAPI interface changes.
gro: Fix potential use after free
sfc: If AN is enabled, always read speed/duplex from the AN advertising bits
sfc: When disabling the NIC, close the device rather than unregistering it
sfc: SFT9001: Add cable diagnostics
sfc: Add support for multiple PHY self-tests
sfc: Merge top-level functions for self-tests
sfc: Clean up PHY mode management in loopback self-test
sfc: Fix unreliable link detection in some loopback modes
sfc: Generate unique names for per-NIC workqueues
802.3ad: use standard ethhdr instead of ad_header
802.3ad: generalize out mac address initializer
802.3ad: initialize ports LACPDU from const initializer
802.3ad: remove typedef around ad_system
802.3ad: turn ports is_individual into a bool
802.3ad: turn ports is_enabled into a bool
802.3ad: make ntt bool
ixgbe: Fix set_ringparam in ixgbe to use the same memory pools.
...
Fixed trivial IPv4/6 address printing conflicts in fs/cifs/connect.c due
to the conversion to %pI (in this networking merge) and the addition of
doing IPv6 addresses (from the earlier merge of CIFS).
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6: (31 commits)
[CIFS] Remove redundant test
[CIFS] make sure that DFS pathnames are properly formed
Remove an already-checked error condition in SendReceiveBlockingLock
Streamline SendReceiveBlockingLock: Use "goto out:" in an error condition
Streamline SendReceiveBlockingLock: Use "goto out:" in an error condition
[CIFS] Streamline SendReceive[2] by using "goto out:" in an error condition
Slightly streamline SendReceive[2]
Check the return value of cifs_sign_smb[2]
[CIFS] Cleanup: Move the check for too large R/W requests
[CIFS] Slightly simplify wait_for_free_request(), remove an unnecessary "else" branch
Simplify allocate_mid() slightly: Remove some unnecessary "else" branches
[CIFS] In SendReceive, move consistency check out of the mutexed region
cifs: store password in tcon
cifs: have calc_lanman_hash take more granular args
cifs: zero out session password before freeing it
cifs: fix wait_for_response to time out sleeping processes correctly
[CIFS] Can not mount with prefixpath if root directory of share is inaccessible
[CIFS] various minor cleanups pointed out by checkpatch script
[CIFS] fix typo
[CIFS] remove sparse warning
...
Fix trivial conflict in fs/cifs/cifs_fs_sb.h due to comment changes for
the CIFS_MOUNT_xyz bit definitions between cifs updates and security
updates.
* 'tracing-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (241 commits)
sched, trace: update trace_sched_wakeup()
tracing/ftrace: don't trace on early stage of a secondary cpu boot, v3
Revert "x86: disable X86_PTRACE_BTS"
ring-buffer: prevent false positive warning
ring-buffer: fix dangling commit race
ftrace: enable format arguments checking
x86, bts: memory accounting
x86, bts: add fork and exit handling
ftrace: introduce tracing_reset_online_cpus() helper
tracing: fix warnings in kernel/trace/trace_sched_switch.c
tracing: fix warning in kernel/trace/trace.c
tracing/ring-buffer: remove unused ring_buffer size
trace: fix task state printout
ftrace: add not to regex on filtering functions
trace: better use of stack_trace_enabled for boot up code
trace: add a way to enable or disable the stack tracer
x86: entry_64 - introduce FTRACE_ frame macro v2
tracing/ftrace: add the printk-msg-only option
tracing/ftrace: use preempt_enable_no_resched_notrace in ring_buffer_time_stamp()
x86, bts: correctly report invalid bts records
...
Fixed up trivial conflict in scripts/recordmcount.pl due to SH bits
being already partly merged by the SH merge.
In fs/cifs/cifssmb.c, pLockData is tested for being NULL at the beginning
of the function, and not reassigned subsequently.
A simplified version of the semantic patch that makes this change is as
follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/)
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
The paths in a DFS request are supposed to only have a single preceding
backslash, but we are sending them with a double backslash. This is
exposing a bug in Windows where it also sends a path in the response
that has a double backslash.
The existing code that builds the mount option string however expects a
double backslash prefix in a couple of places when it tries to use the
path returned by build_path_from_dentry. Fix compose_mount_options to
expect properly formed DFS paths (single backslash at front).
Also clean up error handling in that function. There was a possible
NULL pointer dereference and situations where a partially built option
string would be returned.
Tested against Samba 3.0.28-ish server and Samba 3.3 and Win2k8.
CC: Stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Remove an already-checked error condition in SendReceiveBlockingLock
Signed-off-by: Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Streamline SendReceiveBlockingLock: Use "goto out:" in an error condition
Signed-off-by: Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Streamline SendReceiveBlockingLock: Use "goto out:" in an error condition
Signed-off-by: Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Slightly streamline SendReceive[2]
Remove an else branch by naming the error condition what it is
Signed-off-by: Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
This is no functional change, because in the "if" branch we do an early
"return 0;".
Signed-off-by: Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Simplify allocate_mid() slightly: Remove some unnecessary "else" branches
Signed-off-by: Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org>
Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
inbuf->smb_buf_length does not change in in wait_for_free_request() or in
allocate_mid(), so we can check it early.
Signed-off-by: Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org>
Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
cifs: store password in tcon
Each tcon has its own password for share-level security. Store it in
the tcon and wipe it clean and free it when freeing the tcon. When
doing the tree connect with share-level security, use the tcon password
instead of the session password.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
cifs: have calc_lanman_hash take more granular args
We need to use this routine to encrypt passwords associated with the
tcon too. Don't assume that the password will be attached to the
smb_session.
Also, make some of the values in the lower encryption functions
const since they aren't changed.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
cifs: zero out session password before freeing it
...just to be on the safe side.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
cifs: fix wait_for_response to time out sleeping processes correctly
The current scheme that CIFS uses to sleep and wait for a response is
not quite what we want. After sending a request, wait_for_response puts
the task to sleep with wait_event(). One of the conditions for
wait_event is a timeout (using time_after()).
The problem with this is that there is no guarantee that the process
will ever be woken back up. If the server stops sending data, then
cifs_demultiplex_thread will leave its response queue sleeping.
I think the only thing that saves us here is the fact that
cifs_dnotify_thread periodically (every 15s) wakes up sleeping processes
on all response_q's that have calls in flight. This makes for
unnecessary wakeups of some processes. It also means large variability
in the timeouts since they're all woken up at once.
Instead of this, put the tasks to sleep with wait_event_timeout. This
makes them wake up on their own if they time out. With this change,
cifs_dnotify_thread should no longer be needed.
I've been testing this in conjunction with some other patches that I'm
working on. It doesn't seem to affect performance at all with with heavy
I/O. Identical iozone -ac runs complete in almost exactly the same time
(<1% difference in times).
Thanks to Wasrshi Nimara for initially pointing this out. Wasrshi, it
would be nice to know whether this patch also helps your testcase.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Cc: Wasrshi Nimara <warshinimara@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Windows allows you to deny access to the top of a share, but permit access to
a directory lower in the path. With the prefixpath feature of cifs
(ie mounting \\server\share\directory\subdirectory\etc.) this should have
worked if the user specified a prefixpath which put the root of the mount
at a directory to which he had access, but we still were doing a lookup
on the root of the share (null path) when we should have been doing it on
the prefixpath subdirectory.
This fixes Samba bug # 5925
Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Duane Griffin