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427 Commits

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Al Viro 3e1dd9aa82 orangefs: use DEFINE_MUTEX (and mutex_init() had been too late)
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
2016-01-23 12:42:43 -05:00
Mike Marshall cf0c27715b Orangefs: make gossip statement more palatable to xtensa
Thanks to Intel's kbuild test robot

Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
2016-01-19 12:04:40 -05:00
Mike Marshall 1808f8cc6c Orangefs: add verification to decode_dirents
Also add comments to decode_dirents and make it more readable.

Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
2016-01-15 13:10:52 -05:00
Mike Marshall be57366e14 Orangefs: make .statfs gossip_debug more complete.
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
2016-01-13 11:38:14 -05:00
Mike Marshall 569dbfc6b3 Orangefs: define a minimum compatible userspace version.
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
2016-01-13 11:36:25 -05:00
Mike Marshall 4c27b327b8 Orangefs: change ORANGEFS_VERSION from "Unknown" to "upstream"
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
2016-01-13 11:34:59 -05:00
Mike Marshall c817e266e4 Orangefs: rename orangefs_kernel_op_s.aio_ref_count to just ref_count.
The op structure's ref_count member hasn't got anything to do with
asynchronous I/O.

Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
2016-01-13 11:29:05 -05:00
Mike Marshall b3ae4755f5 Orangefs: implement .write_iter
Until now, orangefs_devreq_write_iter has just been a wrapper for
the old-fashioned orangefs_devreq_writev... linux would call
.write_iter with "struct kiocb *iocb" and "struct iov_iter *iter"
and .write_iter would just:

        return pvfs2_devreq_writev(iocb->ki_filp,
                                   iter->iov,
                                   iter->nr_segs,
                                   &iocb->ki_pos);

Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
2016-01-13 11:18:12 -05:00
Martin Brandenburg 7d2214858f orangefs: Fix some more global namespace pollution.
This only changes the names of things, so there is no functional change.

Signed-off-by: Martin Brandenburg <martin@omnibond.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
2016-01-04 16:21:46 -05:00
Richard Weinberger c146c0b87f orangefs: Don't pollute global namespace
Prefix public functions with "orangefs_" do don't
pollute the global namespace.

This fixes a build issue on UML which also has block_signals().

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Signed-off-by: Martin Brandenburg <martin@omnibond.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
2016-01-04 16:21:37 -05:00
Julia Lawall acaca36dd9 OrangeFS: constify export_operations structures
This export_operations structure is never modified, so declare it as const.
Most other structures of this type are already const.

Done with the help of Coccinelle.

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
2016-01-04 11:06:12 -05:00
Mike Marshall f987f4c28a Orangefs: don't trigger copy_attributes_to_inode from d_revalidate.
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
2015-12-30 13:04:28 -05:00
Arnd Bergmann eb57bcc271 orangefs: fix typo in ornagefs_inode_lock
Orangefs fails to build on 32-bit SMP configurations due to a simple
misspelling, this does the obvious fix.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Fixes: 575e946125 ("Orangefs: change pvfs2 filenames to orangefs")
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
2015-12-28 10:31:21 -05:00
Nicholas Mc Guire dde58ca436 Orangefs: use kzalloc for kmalloc + memset 0
This is an API consolidation only. The use of kmalloc + memset to 0
should be equivalent to kzalloc in this case.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@osadl.org>
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
2015-12-28 10:30:51 -05:00
Mike Marshall 62441fa53b Orangefs: validate resp.listxattr.returned_count
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
2015-12-17 16:11:40 -05:00
Mike Marshall fef8b67ce6 Orangefs: don't use deprecated xattr defines.
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
2015-12-17 14:36:34 -05:00
Martin Brandenburg b09d10df5a orangefs: Do not unref if there is no bufmap.
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Brandenburg <martin@omnibond.com>
2015-12-17 14:35:45 -05:00
Martin Brandenburg 765a75b34a orangefs: Remove useless inline qualifier from bufmap functions.
All callers were outside of the file these functions were declared in,
so nothing was ever inlined anyway.

Further this happens before I/O and any speedup by not having to do a
call will be dwarfed by the time it takes to talk to the server.

Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Brandenburg <martin@omnibond.com>
2015-12-17 14:34:53 -05:00
Martin Brandenburg bf89f58432 orangefs: Change visibility of several bufmap helpers to static.
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Brandenburg <martin@omnibond.com>
2015-12-17 14:34:17 -05:00
Martin Brandenburg a762ae6dc5 orangefs: Remove ``aligned'' upcall and downcall length macros.
There was previously MAX_ALIGNED_DEV_REQ_(UP|DOWN)SIZE macros which
evaluated to MAX_DEV_REQ_(UP|DOWN)SIZE+8. As it is unclear what this is
for, other than creating a situation where we accept more data than we
can parse, it is removed.

Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Brandenburg <martin@omnibond.com>
2015-12-17 14:33:38 -05:00
Martin Brandenburg 90d26aa808 Orangefs: do not finalize bufmap if it was never initialized.
Found by the infant Orangefs fuzzer...

Signed-off-by: Martin Brandenburg <martin@omnibond.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
2015-12-15 15:37:53 -05:00
Mike Marshall ce6c414e17 Orangefs: Don't wait the old-fashioned way.
Get rid of add_wait_queue, set_current_state, etc, and use the
wait_event() model.

Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
2015-12-14 14:54:46 -05:00
Mike Marshall 97f100277c Orangefs: de-uglify orangefs_devreq_writev, and devorangefs-req.c in general
AV dislikes many parts of orangefs_devreq_writev. Besides making
orangefs_devreq_writev more easily readable and better commented,
this patch makes an effort to address some of the problems:

 > The 5th is quietly ignored unless trailer_size is positive and
 > status is zero. If trailer_size > 0 && status == 0, you verify that
 > the length of the 5th segment is no more than trailer_size and copy
 > it to vmalloc'ed buffer. Without bothering to zero the rest of that
 > buffer out.

It was just wrong to allow a 5th segment that is not exactly equal to
trailer_size. Now that that's fixed, there's nothing to zero out in
the vmalloced buffer - it is exactly the right size to hold the
5th segment.

 > Another API bogosity: when the 5th segment is present, successful writev()
 > returns the sum of sizes of the first 4.

Added size of 5th segment to writev return...

 > if concatenation of the first 4 segments is longer than
 > 16 + sizeof(struct pvfs2_downcall_s) by no more than sizeof(long) => whine
 > and proceed with garbage.

If 4th segment isn't exactly sizeof(struct pvfs2_downcall_s), whine and fail.

 > if the 32bit value 4 bytes into op->downcall is zero and 64bit
 > value following it is non-zero, the latter is interpreted as the size of
 > trailer data.

The latter is what userspace claimed was the length of the trailer data.
The kernel module now compares it to the trailer iovec's iov_len as a
sanity check.

 > if there's no trailer, the 5th segment (if present) is completely ignored.

Whine and fail if there should be no trailer, yet a 5th segment is present.

 > if vmalloc fails, act as if status (32bit at offset 5 into
 > op->downcall) had been -ENOMEM and don't look at the 5th segment at all.

whine and fail with -ENOMEM.

Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
2015-12-14 13:32:05 -05:00
Mike Marshall b4cf67a2ba Orangef: remove overlooked old-style userspace debug parts
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
2015-12-11 11:00:12 -05:00
Mike Marshall b5e376ea8b Orangefs: improve comments
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
2015-12-11 10:50:42 -05:00
Mike Marshall 7cec28e91d Orangefs: don't keep checking stuff in on Friday afternoon.
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
2015-12-11 10:46:22 -05:00
Mike Marshall e91f1c8043 Orangefs: don't expose internal details of pathname resolution to userspace.
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
2015-12-04 13:06:55 -05:00
Mike Marshall 575e946125 Orangefs: change pvfs2 filenames to orangefs
Also changed references within source files that referred to
header files whose names had changed.

Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
2015-12-04 12:56:14 -05:00
Yi Liu 8bb8aefd5a OrangeFS: Change almost all instances of the string PVFS2 to OrangeFS.
OrangeFS was formerly known as PVFS2 and retains the name in many places.

I leave the device /dev/pvfs2-req since this affects userspace.

I leave the filesystem type pvfs2 since this affects userspace. Further
the OrangeFS sysint library reads fstab for an entry of type pvfs2
independently of kernel mounts.

I leave extended attribute keys user.pvfs2 and system.pvfs2 as the
sysint library understands these.

I leave references to userspace binaries still named pvfs2.

I leave the filenames.

Signed-off-by: Yi Liu <yi9@clemson.edu>
[martin@omnibond.com: clairify above constraints and merge]
Signed-off-by: Martin Brandenburg <martin@omnibond.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
2015-12-03 14:45:44 -05:00
Al Viro 555fa0fa61 fs: out of bounds on stack in iov_iter_advance
On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 10:19:48AM +0000, Al Viro wrote:

> I'll cook the minimal fixup for API change after I get some sleep and
> send it your way, unless somebody gets there first...

This should do it - switches ->ioctl() to pvfs2_inode_[gs]etxattr() and
converts xattr_handler ->[gs]et() to new API.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
2015-11-16 11:27:24 -05:00
Martin Brandenburg 24c8d0804b Orangefs: Clean up pvfs2_devreq_read.
* Kick invalid arguments out early, so handling them does not clutter
  the code.
* Avoid possibility of race by not releasing lock until completely done.
* Do not leak ops (memory) in certain error condition.
* Check for more error conditions.
* Put module name in all error and debug logs.
* Document behavior.

Signed-off-by: Martin Brandenburg <martin@omnibond.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
2015-11-13 14:50:20 -05:00
Martin Brandenburg f0ed4418d4 Orangefs: Remove upcall trailers which are not used.
Also removes remnants of iox (readx/writex) which previously used
trailers, but no longer exist.

Signed-off-by: Martin Brandenburg <martin@omnibond.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
2015-11-13 14:43:11 -05:00
Mike Marshall b5bbc84328 Orangefs: fix gossip statement
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
2015-11-13 14:39:15 -05:00
Martin Brandenburg 6d0dd7684c Orangefs: Remove unused #defines from signal blocking code.
Signed-off-by: Martin Brandenburg <martin@omnibond.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
2015-11-13 13:36:51 -05:00
Mike Marshall 3f1b6947dc Orangefs: set pos after generic_write_checks
if we are appending, generic_write_checks would have updated
pos to the end of the file...

Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
2015-11-13 13:05:11 -05:00
Al Viro 8092895f75 orangefs: validate the response in decode_dirents()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
2015-11-13 12:02:12 -05:00
Al Viro ade1d48b78 orangefs: don't leave uninitialized data in ->trailer_buf
minimal fix; it would be better to reject such requests outright.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
2015-11-13 11:57:34 -05:00
Al Viro 9be68b0871 orangefs: get rid of dec_string and enc_string
The latter is never used, the former has one user and would be
better off spelled out right there.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
2015-11-13 11:56:17 -05:00
Al Viro ef4af94edc orangefs: switch decode_dirents() to use of kcalloc()
gets rid of multiplication overflow

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
2015-11-13 11:55:39 -05:00
Al Viro 5714156be2 orangefs: sanitize pvfs2_convert_time_field()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
2015-11-13 11:54:05 -05:00
Al Viro aada5c5872 orangefs: kill pointless ->link() and ->mknod()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
2015-11-13 11:53:24 -05:00
Al Viro 75992b0fa9 pvfs2_fill_sb(): use kzalloc()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
2015-11-13 11:52:52 -05:00
Al Viro 5c0dbbc64b orangefs: kill struct pvfs2_mount_sb_info_s
The only reason for that thing used to be the API of mount_nodev()
callback;  since we are calling pvfs2_fill_sb() ourselves now,
we don't have to shove everything into a single structure.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
2015-11-13 11:39:31 -05:00
Al Viro b05a785109 orangefs: double iput() in case of d_make_root() failure
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
2015-11-13 11:38:51 -05:00
Al Viro 16742f2d7c orangefs: use get_user_pages_fast(), not get_user_pages()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
2015-11-13 11:38:02 -05:00
Al Viro a0435ca18e orangefs: kill kmap/kunmap wrappers
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
2015-11-13 11:37:19 -05:00
Al Viro 74f68fce2a orangefs: make pvfs2_inode_read() take iov_iter
... and make the only caller use page-backed iov_iter,
getting rid of kmap/kunmap *and* of the bug with
attempted use of iovec-backed copy_page_to_iter()
on a kernel pointer.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
2015-11-13 11:36:31 -05:00
Al Viro 0071ed1ec6 orangefs: make do_readv_writev() take iov_iter
no need to build a copy of what the caller already has;
what's more, we want the one given to caller properly
advanced *and* we shouldn't depend upon it being an
iovec-backed one.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
2015-11-13 11:35:28 -05:00
Al Viro dc4067f671 orangefs: don't bother with splitting iovecs
copy_page_{to,from}_iter() advances it just fine *and* it has no
problem with partially consumed segments.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
2015-11-13 11:23:02 -05:00
Al Viro 3c2fcfcb68 orangefs: make wait_for_direct_io() take iov_iter
incidentally, insane or compromised server returning *more* than
requested on read should not oops the kernel - initialize the
iov_iter for read according to the iovec we've got.  That's why
pvfs_bufmap_copy_to_iovec() needed a separate size argument - we
shouldn't abuse iov_iter_count(iter) for passing that.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
2015-11-13 11:21:37 -05:00
Al Viro a5c126a522 orangefs: make precopy_buffers() take iov_iter
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
2015-11-13 11:18:50 -05:00
Al Viro 5f0e3c953f orangefs: make postcopy_buffers() take iov_iter
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
2015-11-13 11:11:55 -05:00
Al Viro 34204fde4c pvfs_bufmap_copy_from_iovec(): don't rely upon size being equal to iov_iter_count(iter)
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
2015-11-13 10:57:53 -05:00
Al Viro 5c278228bb orangefs: explicitly pass the size to pvfs_bufmap_copy_to_iovec()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
2015-11-13 10:25:01 -05:00
Mike Marshall 548049495c Orangefs: fix some checkpatch.pl complaints that had creeped in.
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
2015-10-05 13:44:24 -04:00
Martin Brandenburg 894ac432b4 Orangefs: Clean up error decoding.
Errors from the server need to be decoded. A bunch of code was imported from
the server to do this but much of it is convoluted and not even needed. The
result is better but still as convoluted as required by the protocol.

Signed-off-by: Martin Brandenburg <martin@omnibond.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
2015-10-03 12:04:46 -04:00
Martin Brandenburg 353908035f Orangefs: Use readonly mmap since writepage is not implemented.
Previously the code silently failed to update the disk. Now it will not
allow writable and shared mmaps.

Signed-off-by: Martin Brandenburg <martin@omnibond.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
2015-10-03 11:44:39 -04:00
Mike Marshall 1be21f865a Orangefs: don't use mount_nodev, use sget directly.
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
2015-10-03 11:44:37 -04:00
Mike Marshall 8c3905adea Orangefs: update signal blocking code before Oleg sees it.
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
2015-10-03 11:44:36 -04:00
Mike Marshall 50e01586f4 Orangefs: Don't opencode memcpy.
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
2015-10-03 11:44:35 -04:00
Mike Marshall f957ae2dec Orangefs: choose return codes from among the expected ones.
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
2015-10-03 11:44:34 -04:00
Mike Marshall d6fe654b7b Orangefs: put PVFS_util_min out of its misery.
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
2015-10-03 11:44:33 -04:00
Mike Marshall 88309aae3d Orangefs: fix dir_emit code in pvfs2_readdir.
Al Viro glanced at readdir and surmised that getdents
would misbehave the way it was written... and sure enough.

Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
2015-10-03 11:44:32 -04:00
Mike Marshall 4d1c44043b Orangefs: use iov_iter interface
replace opencoded pvfs_bufmap_copy_to_kernel_iovec,
pvfs_bufmap_copy_to_user_iovec, pvfs_bufmap_copy_iovec_from_kernel,
and pvfs_bufmap_copy_iovec_from_user with pvfs_bufmap_copy_to_iovec
and pvfs_bufmap_copy_from_iovec, which both use the iov_iter
interface.

Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
2015-10-03 11:44:00 -04:00
Guenter Roeck 81b784b11e Orangefs: Swap order of include files
spinlock_types.h requires types from linux/types.h.
Including spinlock_types.h first may result in the following build errors,
as seen with arm:allmodconfig.

arch/arm/include/asm/spinlock_types.h:12:3: error: unknown type name 'u32'
arch/arm/include/asm/spinlock_types.h:16:4: error: unknown type name 'u16'

Fixes: deb4fb58ff73 ("Orangefs: kernel client part 2")
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
2015-10-03 11:40:08 -04:00
Sasha Levin cb987f3cbe fs: orangefs: remove execute priviliges from module params
This makes no sense and causes warnings on boot.

Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
2015-10-03 11:40:06 -04:00
Mike Marshall f0566532fe Orangefs: use inode_set_bytes for directories
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
2015-10-03 11:40:05 -04:00
Mike Marshall c36316b74e Orangefs: large integer implicitly truncated to unsigned type
make.cross ARCH=tile doesn't like "inode->i_bytes = PAGE_CACHE_SIZE;",
so cast PAGE_CACHE_SIZE to unsigned short.

Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
2015-10-03 11:40:04 -04:00
Mike Marshall eeaa3d448c Orangefs: address problems found by static checker
Don't check for negative rc from boolean.

  Don't pointlessly initialize variables, it short-circuits
  gcc's uninitialized variable warnings. And max_new_nr_segs
  can never be zero, so don't check for it.

  Preserve original kstrdup pointer for freeing later.

  Don't check for negative value in unsigned variable.

Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
2015-10-03 11:40:03 -04:00
Mike Marshall 84d02150de Orangefs: sooth most sparse complaints
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
2015-10-03 11:40:02 -04:00
Mike Marshall 2c590d5fb6 Orangefs: kernel client update 1.
Stephen Rothwell noticed that orangefs would not compile
on powerpc...

Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
2015-10-03 11:40:01 -04:00
Mike Marshall 07f01962e3 Orangefs: kernel client part 7
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
2015-10-03 11:40:00 -04:00
Mike Marshall 1182fca3bc Orangefs: kernel client part 5
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
2015-10-03 11:39:57 -04:00
Mike Marshall f7be4ee07f Orangefs: kernel client part 4
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
2015-10-03 11:39:56 -04:00
Mike Marshall 274dcf55bd Orangefs: kernel client part 3
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
2015-10-03 11:39:55 -04:00
Mike Marshall 5db11c21a9 Orangefs: kernel client part 2
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
2015-10-03 11:39:54 -04:00
Mike Marshall f7ab093f74 Orangefs: kernel client part 1
OrangeFS (formerly PVFS) is an lgpl licensed userspace networked parallel
file system. OrangeFS can be accessed through included system utilities,
user integration libraries, MPI-IO and can be used by the Hadoop
ecosystem as an alternative to the HDFS filesystem. OrangeFS is used
widely for parallel science, data analytics and engineering applications.

While applications often don't require Orangefs to be mounted into
the VFS, users do like to be able to access their files in the normal way.
The Orangefs kernel client allows Orangefs filesystems to be mounted as
a VFS. The kernel client communicates with a userspace daemon which in
turn communicates with the Orangefs server daemons that implement the
filesystem. The server daemons (there's almost always more than one)
need not be running on the same host as the kernel client.

Orangefs filesystems can also be mounted with FUSE, and we
ship code and instructions to facilitate that, but most of our users
report preferring to use our kernel module instead. Further, as an example
of a problem we can't solve with fuse, we have in the works a
not-yet-ready-for-prime-time version of a file_operations lock function
that accounts for the server daemons being distributed across more
than one running kernel.

Many people and organizations, including Clemson University,
Argonne National Laboratories and Acxiom Corporation have
helped to create what has become Orangefs over more than twenty
years. Some of the more recent contributors to the kernel client
include:

  Mike Marshall
  Christoph Hellwig
  Randy Martin
  Becky Ligon
  Walt Ligon
  Michael Moore
  Rob Ross
  Phil Carnes

Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
2015-10-03 11:39:53 -04:00