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568 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Al Viro
083c73c253 fix oops in fs/9p late mount failure
if 9P ->get_sb() fails late (at root inode or root dentry
allocation), we'll hit its ->kill_sb() with NULL ->s_root

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-01-26 22:22:27 -05:00
Al Viro
204f2f0e82 Kill 9p readlink()
For symlinks generic_readlink() will work just fine and for directories
we don't want ->readlink() at all.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-01-14 09:05:25 -05:00
David Howells
6f05416432 9p: fix build breakage introduced by FS-Cache
While building 2.6.32-rc8-git2 for Fedora I noticed the following thinko
in commit 201a15428b ("FS-Cache: Handle
pages pending storage that get evicted under OOM conditions"):

  fs/9p/cache.c: In function '__v9fs_fscache_release_page':
  fs/9p/cache.c:346: error: 'vnode' undeclared (first use in this function)
  fs/9p/cache.c:346: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
  fs/9p/cache.c:346: error: for each function it appears in.)
  make[2]: *** [fs/9p/cache.o] Error 1

Fix the 9P filesystem to correctly construct the argument to
fscache_maybe_release_page().

Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Feng <dfeng@redhat.com> [from identical patch]
Signed-off-by: Stefan Lippers-Hollmann <s.l-h@gmx.de> [from identical patch]
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-01 07:35:11 -08:00
David Howells
201a15428b FS-Cache: Handle pages pending storage that get evicted under OOM conditions
Handle netfs pages that the vmscan algorithm wants to evict from the pagecache
under OOM conditions, but that are waiting for write to the cache.  Under these
conditions, vmscan calls the releasepage() function of the netfs, asking if a
page can be discarded.

The problem is typified by the following trace of a stuck process:

	kslowd005     D 0000000000000000     0  4253      2 0x00000080
	 ffff88001b14f370 0000000000000046 ffff880020d0d000 0000000000000007
	 0000000000000006 0000000000000001 ffff88001b14ffd8 ffff880020d0d2a8
	 000000000000ddf0 00000000000118c0 00000000000118c0 ffff880020d0d2a8
	Call Trace:
	 [<ffffffffa00782d8>] __fscache_wait_on_page_write+0x8b/0xa7 [fscache]
	 [<ffffffff8104c0f1>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x34
	 [<ffffffffa0078240>] ? __fscache_check_page_write+0x63/0x70 [fscache]
	 [<ffffffffa00b671d>] nfs_fscache_release_page+0x4e/0xc4 [nfs]
	 [<ffffffffa00927f0>] nfs_release_page+0x3c/0x41 [nfs]
	 [<ffffffff810885d3>] try_to_release_page+0x32/0x3b
	 [<ffffffff81093203>] shrink_page_list+0x316/0x4ac
	 [<ffffffff8109372b>] shrink_inactive_list+0x392/0x67c
	 [<ffffffff813532fa>] ? __mutex_unlock_slowpath+0x100/0x10b
	 [<ffffffff81058df0>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x10c/0x130
	 [<ffffffff8135330e>] ? mutex_unlock+0x9/0xb
	 [<ffffffff81093aa2>] shrink_list+0x8d/0x8f
	 [<ffffffff81093d1c>] shrink_zone+0x278/0x33c
	 [<ffffffff81052d6c>] ? ktime_get_ts+0xad/0xba
	 [<ffffffff81094b13>] try_to_free_pages+0x22e/0x392
	 [<ffffffff81091e24>] ? isolate_pages_global+0x0/0x212
	 [<ffffffff8108e743>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x3dc/0x5cf
	 [<ffffffff81089529>] grab_cache_page_write_begin+0x65/0xaa
	 [<ffffffff8110f8c0>] ext3_write_begin+0x78/0x1eb
	 [<ffffffff81089ec5>] generic_file_buffered_write+0x109/0x28c
	 [<ffffffff8103cb69>] ? current_fs_time+0x22/0x29
	 [<ffffffff8108a509>] __generic_file_aio_write+0x350/0x385
	 [<ffffffff8108a588>] ? generic_file_aio_write+0x4a/0xae
	 [<ffffffff8108a59e>] generic_file_aio_write+0x60/0xae
	 [<ffffffff810b2e82>] do_sync_write+0xe3/0x120
	 [<ffffffff8104c0f1>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x34
	 [<ffffffff810b18e1>] ? __dentry_open+0x1a5/0x2b8
	 [<ffffffff810b1a76>] ? dentry_open+0x82/0x89
	 [<ffffffffa00e693c>] cachefiles_write_page+0x298/0x335 [cachefiles]
	 [<ffffffffa0077147>] fscache_write_op+0x178/0x2c2 [fscache]
	 [<ffffffffa0075656>] fscache_op_execute+0x7a/0xd1 [fscache]
	 [<ffffffff81082093>] slow_work_execute+0x18f/0x2d1
	 [<ffffffff8108239a>] slow_work_thread+0x1c5/0x308
	 [<ffffffff8104c0f1>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x34
	 [<ffffffff810821d5>] ? slow_work_thread+0x0/0x308
	 [<ffffffff8104be91>] kthread+0x7a/0x82
	 [<ffffffff8100beda>] child_rip+0xa/0x20
	 [<ffffffff8100b87c>] ? restore_args+0x0/0x30
	 [<ffffffff8102ef83>] ? tg_shares_up+0x171/0x227
	 [<ffffffff8104be17>] ? kthread+0x0/0x82
	 [<ffffffff8100bed0>] ? child_rip+0x0/0x20

In the above backtrace, the following is happening:

 (1) A page storage operation is being executed by a slow-work thread
     (fscache_write_op()).

 (2) FS-Cache farms the operation out to the cache to perform
     (cachefiles_write_page()).

 (3) CacheFiles is then calling Ext3 to perform the actual write, using Ext3's
     standard write (do_sync_write()) under KERNEL_DS directly from the netfs
     page.

 (4) However, for Ext3 to perform the write, it must allocate some memory, in
     particular, it must allocate at least one page cache page into which it
     can copy the data from the netfs page.

 (5) Under OOM conditions, the memory allocator can't immediately come up with
     a page, so it uses vmscan to find something to discard
     (try_to_free_pages()).

 (6) vmscan finds a clean netfs page it might be able to discard (possibly the
     one it's trying to write out).

 (7) The netfs is called to throw the page away (nfs_release_page()) - but it's
     called with __GFP_WAIT, so the netfs decides to wait for the store to
     complete (__fscache_wait_on_page_write()).

 (8) This blocks a slow-work processing thread - possibly against itself.

The system ends up stuck because it can't write out any netfs pages to the
cache without allocating more memory.

To avoid this, we make FS-Cache cancel some writes that aren't in the middle of
actually being performed.  This means that some data won't make it into the
cache this time.  To support this, a new FS-Cache function is added
fscache_maybe_release_page() that replaces what the netfs releasepage()
functions used to do with respect to the cache.

The decisions fscache_maybe_release_page() makes are counted and displayed
through /proc/fs/fscache/stats on a line labelled "VmScan".  There are four
counters provided: "nos=N" - pages that weren't pending storage; "gon=N" -
pages that were pending storage when we first looked, but weren't by the time
we got the object lock; "bsy=N" - pages that we ignored as they were actively
being written when we looked; and "can=N" - pages that we cancelled the storage
of.

What I'd really like to do is alter the behaviour of the cancellation
heuristics, depending on how necessary it is to expel pages.  If there are
plenty of other pages that aren't waiting to be written to the cache that
could be ejected first, then it would be nice to hold up on immediate
cancellation of cache writes - but I don't see a way of doing that.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2009-11-19 18:11:35 +00:00
Eric Van Hensbergen
3e2796a90c 9p: fix readdir corner cases
The patch below also addresses a couple of other corner cases in readdir
seen with a large (e.g. 64k) msize.  I'm not sure what people think of
my co-opting of fid->aux here.  I'd be happy to rework if there's a better
way.

When the size of the user supplied buffer passed to readdir is smaller
than the data returned in one go by the 9P read request, v9fs_dir_readdir()
currently discards extra data so that, on the next call, a 9P read
request will be issued with offset < previous offset + bytes returned,
which voilates the constraint described in paragraph 3 of read(5) description.
This patch preseves the leftover data in fid->aux for use in the next call.

Signed-off-by: Jim Garlick <garlick@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2009-11-02 08:43:45 -06:00
Martin Stava
2511cd0b3b 9p: fix readlink
I do not know if you've looked on the patch, but unfortunately it is
incorrect. A suggested better version is in this email (the old
version didn't work in case the user provided buffer was not long
enough - it incorrectly appended null byte on a position of last char,
and thus broke the contract of the readlink method). However, I'm
still not sure this is 100% correct thing to do, I think readlink is
supposed to return buffer without last null byte in all cases, but we
do return last null byte (even the old version).. on the other hand it
is likely unspecified what is in the remaining part of the buffer, so
null character may be fine there ;):

Signed-off-by: Martin Stava <martin.stava@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2009-11-02 08:43:45 -06:00
Martin Stava
f91b90993f 9p: fix a small bug in readdir for long directories
Here is a proposed patch for bug in readdir. Listing of dirs with
many files fails without this patch.

Signed-off-by: Martin Stava <martin.stava@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2009-11-02 08:43:44 -06:00
Abhishek Kulkarni
60e78d2c99 9p: Add fscache support to 9p
This patch adds a persistent, read-only caching facility for
9p clients using the FS-Cache caching backend.

When the fscache facility is enabled, each inode is associated
with a corresponding vcookie which is an index into the FS-Cache
indexing tree. The FS-Cache indexing tree is indexed at 3 levels:
- session object associated with each mount.
- inode/vcookie
- actual data (pages)

A cache tag is chosen randomly for each session. These tags can
be read off /sys/fs/9p/caches and can be passed as a mount-time
parameter to re-attach to the specified caching session.

Signed-off-by: Abhishek Kulkarni <adkulkar@umail.iu.edu>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2009-09-23 13:03:46 -05:00
Abhishek Kulkarni
637d020a02 9p: Fix the incorrect update of inode size in v9fs_file_write()
When using the cache=loose flags, the inode's size was not being
updated correctly on a remote write. Thus subsequent reads of
the whole file resulted in a truncated read. Fix it.

Signed-off-by: Abhishek Kulkarni <adkulkar@umail.iu.edu>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2009-09-23 13:03:46 -05:00
Abhishek Kulkarni
7549ae3e81 9p: Use the i_size_[read, write]() macros instead of using inode->i_size directly.
Change all occurrence of inode->i_size with i_size_read() or i_size_write()
as appropriate.

Signed-off-by: Abhishek Kulkarni <adkulkar@umail.iu.edu>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2009-09-23 13:03:46 -05:00
Abhishek Kulkarni
4b53e4b500 9p: remove unnecessary v9fses->options which duplicates the mount string
The mount options string is saved in sb->s_options. This patch removes
the redundant duplicating of the mount options. Also, since we are not
displaying anything special in show options, we replace v9fs_show_options
with generic_show_options for now.

Signed-off-by: Abhishek Kulkarni <adkulkar@umail.iu.edu>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2009-08-17 16:42:28 -05:00
Abhishek Kulkarni
48559b4c30 9p: Add missing cast for the error return value in v9fs_get_inode
Cast the error return value (ENOMEM) in v9fs_get_inode() to its
correct type using ERR_PTR.

Signed-off-by: Abhishek Kulkarni <adkulkar@umail.iu.edu>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2009-08-17 16:35:08 -05:00
Abhishek Kulkarni
4d3297ca5b 9p: Remove redundant inode uid/gid assignment
Remove a redundant update of inode's i_uid and i_gid
after v9fs_get_inode() since the latter already sets up
a new inode and sets the proper uid and gid values.

Signed-off-by: Abhishek Kulkarni <adkulkar@umail.iu.edu>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2009-08-17 16:27:58 -05:00
Abhishek Kulkarni
1b5ab3e867 9p: Fix possible regressions when ->get_sb fails.
->get_sb can fail causing some badness. this patch fixes
   * clear sb->fs_s_info in kill_sb.
   * deactivate_locked_super() calls kill_sb (v9fs_kill_super) which closes the
     destroys the client, clunks all its fids and closes the v9fs session.
     Attempting to do it twice will cause an oops.

Signed-off-by: Abhishek Kulkarni <adkulkar@umail.iu.edu>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2009-08-17 16:27:57 -05:00
Abhishek Kulkarni
4f4038328d 9p: Fix v9fs show_options
Add the delimiter ',' before the options when they are passed
and check if no option parameters are passed to prevent displaying
NULL in /proc/mounts.

Signed-off-by: Abhishek Kulkarni <adkulkar@umail.iu.edu>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2009-08-17 16:27:57 -05:00
Abhishek Kulkarni
02bc35672b 9p: Fix possible memleak in v9fs_inode_from fid.
Add missing p9stat_free in v9fs_inode_from_fid to avoid
any possible leaks.

Signed-off-by: Abhishek Kulkarni <adkulkar@umail.iu.edu>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2009-08-17 16:27:57 -05:00
Abhishek Kulkarni
0e15597ebf 9p: minor comment fixes
Fix the comments -- mostly the improper and/or missing descriptions
of function parameters.

Signed-off-by: Abhishek Kulkarni <adkulkar@umail.iu.edu>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2009-08-17 16:27:57 -05:00
Abhishek Kulkarni
2bb541157f 9p: Fix possible inode leak in v9fs_get_inode.
Add a missing iput when cleaning up if v9fs_get_inode
fails after returning a valid inode.

Signed-off-by: Abhishek Kulkarni <adkulkar@umail.iu.edu>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2009-08-17 16:27:57 -05:00
Abhishek Kulkarni
50fb6d2bd7 9p: Check for error in return value of v9fs_fid_add
Check if v9fs_fid_add was successful or not based on its
return value.

Signed-off-by: Abhishek Kulkarni <adkulkar@umail.iu.edu>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2009-08-17 16:27:57 -05:00
Abhishek Kulkarni
9c9ad6162e 9p: Fix incorrect parameters to v9fs_file_readn.
Fix v9fs_vfs_readpage. The offset and size parameters to v9fs_file_readn
were interchanged and hence passed incorrectly.

Signed-off-by: Abhishek Kulkarni <adkulkar@umail.iu.edu>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2009-07-14 15:54:42 -05:00
Al Viro
ee450f796f 9P doesn't need BKL in ->umount_begin()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-06-17 00:36:36 -04:00
Al Viro
c96f585737 Fix a leak in failure exit in 9p ->get_sb()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-05-09 10:49:40 -04:00
Al Viro
6f5bbff9a1 Convert obvious places to deactivate_locked_super()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-05-09 10:49:40 -04:00
Alessio Igor Bogani
67e55205ec vfs: umount_begin BKL pushdown
Push BKL down into ->umount_begin()

Signed-off-by: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@texware.it>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-05-09 10:49:38 -04:00
Sukadev Bhattiprolu
a3ec947c85 vfs: simple_set_mnt() should return void
simple_set_mnt() is defined as returning 'int' but always returns 0.
Callers assume simple_set_mnt() never fails and don't properly cleanup if
it were to _ever_ fail.  For instance, get_sb_single() and get_sb_nodev()
should:

        up_write(sb->s_unmount);
        deactivate_super(sb);

if simple_set_mnt() fails.

Since simple_set_mnt() never fails, would be cleaner if it did not
return anything.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.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>
2009-03-27 14:44:03 -04:00
Al Viro
a488257ce5 constify dentry_operations: 9p
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-03-27 14:44:00 -04:00
Alexey Dobriyan
0fcb440889 fs/Kconfig: move 9p out
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
2009-01-22 13:16:01 +03:00
James Morris
cbacc2c7f0 Merge branch 'next' into for-linus 2008-12-25 11:40:09 +11:00
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
David Howells
f8b9d53a31 CRED: Wrap task credential accesses in 9P2000 filesystem
Wrap access to task credentials so that they can be separated more easily from
the task_struct during the introduction of COW creds.

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

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

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Cc: Ron Minnich <rminnich@sandia.gov>
Cc: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Cc: v9fs-developer@lists.sourceforge.net
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-14 10:38:44 +11:00
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
Arjan van de Ven
754661f143 [PATCH] mark struct inode_operations const 1
Many struct inode_operations in the kernel can be "const".  Marking them const
moves these to the .rodata section, which avoids false sharing with potential
dirty data.  In addition it'll catch accidental writes at compile time to
these shared resources.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-12 09:48:46 -08:00
Andrew Morton
fc0ecff698 [PATCH] remove invalidate_inode_pages()
Convert all calls to invalidate_inode_pages() into open-coded calls to
invalidate_mapping_pages().

Leave the invalidate_inode_pages() wrapper in place for now, marked as
deprecated.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11 10:51:31 -08:00
Adrian Bunk
835d90c421 [PATCH] v9fs_vfs_mkdir(): fix a double free
Fix a double free of "dfid" introduced by commit
da977b2c7e and spotted by the Coverity
checker.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-09 09:25:47 -08:00
Eric Van Hensbergen
e540eb45a5 [PATCH] 9p: null terminate error strings for debug print
We weren't properly NULL terminating protocol error strings for our debug
printk resulting in garbage being included in the output when debug was
enabled.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-01-26 13:51:00 -08:00
Eric Van Hensbergen
da977b2c7e [PATCH] 9p: fix segfault caused by race condition in meta-data operations
Running dbench multithreaded exposed a race condition where fid structures
were removed while in use.  This patch adds semaphores to meta-data operations
to protect the fid structure.  Some cleanup of error-case handling in the
inode operations is also included.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-01-26 13:51:00 -08:00
Eric Van Hensbergen
621997cd39 [PATCH] 9p: fix rename return code
9p doesn't handle renames between directories -- however, we were returning
EPERM instead of EXDEV when we detected this case.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergren <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-01-26 13:50:59 -08:00
Eric Van Hensbergen
f94b347059 [PATCH] 9p: fix bogus return code checks during initialization
There is a simple logic error in init_v9fs - the return code checks are
reversed.  This patch fixes the return code and adds some messages to prevent
module initialization from failing silently.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-01-26 13:50:59 -08:00
Josef "Jeff" Sipek
d6f787bcee [PATCH] 9p: change uses of f_{dentry,vfsmnt} to use f_path
Change all the uses of f_{dentry,vfsmnt} to f_path.{dentry,mnt} in the 9p
filesystem.

Signed-off-by: Josef "Jeff" Sipek <jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08 08:28:43 -08:00
Mika Kukkonen
736c4b8572 [PATCH] Function v9fs_get_idpool returns int, not u32 as called twice in fs/9p/vfs_inode.c
Function v9fs_get_idpool returns int, not u32.  Actually it returns -1 on
errors, and these two callers check if the value is smaller than 0, which
was caught by gcc with extra warning flags.  Compile tested only but should
be OK, as the value computed in v9fs_get_idpool() is also int.

Signed-of-by: Mika Kukkonen <mikukkon@iki.fi>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Cc: Ron Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
Cc: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:33 -08:00
David Howells
9db7372445 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Conflicts:

	drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c
	include/linux/libata.h

Futher merge of Linus's head and compilation fixups.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2006-12-05 17:01:28 +00:00
Al Viro
914e26379d [PATCH] severing fs.h, radix-tree.h -> sched.h
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2006-12-04 02:00:24 -05:00
David Howells
c4028958b6 WorkStruct: make allyesconfig
Fix up for make allyesconfig.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2006-11-22 14:57:56 +00:00
Dave Hansen
d8c76e6f45 [PATCH] r/o bind mount prepwork: inc_nlink() helper
This is mostly included for parity with dec_nlink(), where we will have some
more hooks.  This one should stay pretty darn straightforward for now.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-01 00:39:30 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
d826380b30 [PATCH] 9p: fix leak on error path
If register_filesystem() fails mux workqueue must be killed.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Cc: Ron Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
Cc: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:20 -07:00
Theodore Ts'o
ba52de123d [PATCH] inode-diet: Eliminate i_blksize from the inode structure
This eliminates the i_blksize field from struct inode.  Filesystems that want
to provide a per-inode st_blksize can do so by providing their own getattr
routine instead of using the generic_fillattr() function.

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

[bunk@stusta.de: cleanup]
[akpm@osdl.org: generic_fillattr() fix]
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27 08:26:18 -07:00
Eric Van Hensbergen
834a9b8ca7 [PATCH] 9p: fix fid behavior on failed remove
Based on a bug report from Russ Ross <russruss@gmail.com>

According to the spec:

"The remove request asks the file server both to remove the file
 represented by fid and to clunk the fid, even if the remove fails."

but the Linux client seems to expect the fid to be valid after a failed
remove attempt.  Specifically, I'm getting this behavior when attempting to
remove a non-empty directory.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-31 13:28:44 -07:00
Russ Ross
4c90c68aca [PATCH] 9p: fix marshalling bug in tcreate with empty extension field
Signed-off-by: Russ Ross <russross@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-31 13:28:44 -07:00
Jörn Engel
6ab3d5624e Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>
Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
Paul Collins
779cbf0bbc v9fs: do not include linux/version.h
I noticed that part of v9fs was being rebuilt when version.h changed.

Signed-off-by: Paul Collins <paul@ondioline.org>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-06-30 18:50:03 +02:00
Latchesar Ionkov
9d7fa40098 [PATCH] v9fs: fix fid check in v9fs_create
Fix an incorrect check whether a fid was allocated in v9fs_create and if it
should be freed on error.

Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@ericvh.myip.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-28 14:59:05 -07:00
Latchesar Ionkov
94374e7cc3 [PATCH] v9fs: return the correct error when interrupted by signal
If a signal interrupts the user process, v9fs sends a flush request to the
file server and waits for its response.  It error code is incorrectly set
to the error code of the flush message instead of ERESTARTSYS.  The patch
sets the error code to the correct value.

Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@ericvh.myip.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-28 14:59:05 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
f5e54d6e53 [PATCH] mark address_space_operations const
Same as with already do with the file operations: keep them in .rodata and
prevents people from doing runtime patching.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Steven French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-28 14:59:04 -07:00
Andreas Mohr
d6e05edc59 spelling fixes
acquired (aquired)
contiguous (contigious)
successful (succesful, succesfull)
surprise (suprise)
whether (weather)
some other misspellings

Signed-off-by: Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-06-26 18:35:02 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
1d77062b14 Merge git://git.linux-nfs.org/pub/linux/nfs-2.6
* git://git.linux-nfs.org/pub/linux/nfs-2.6: (51 commits)
  nfs: remove nfs_put_link()
  nfs-build-fix-99
  git-nfs-build-fixes
  Merge branch 'odirect'
  NFS: alloc nfs_read/write_data as direct I/O is scheduled
  NFS: Eliminate nfs_get_user_pages()
  NFS: refactor nfs_direct_free_user_pages
  NFS: remove user_addr, user_count, and pos from nfs_direct_req
  NFS: "open code" the NFS direct write rescheduler
  NFS: Separate functions for counting outstanding NFS direct I/Os
  NLM: Fix reclaim races
  NLM: sem to mutex conversion
  locks.c: add the fl_owner to nlm_compare_locks
  NFS: Display the chosen RPCSEC_GSS security flavour in /proc/mounts
  NFS: Split fs/nfs/inode.c
  NFS: Fix typo in nfs_do_clone_mount()
  NFS: Fix compile errors introduced by referrals patches
  NFSv4: Ensure that referral mounts bind to a reserved port
  NFSv4: A root pathname is sent as a zero component4
  NFSv4: Follow a referral
  ...
2006-06-25 10:54:14 -07:00
Eric Sesterhenn
099a71d995 [PATCH] Remove needless checks in fs/9p/vfs_inode.c
coverity found two needless checks in vfs_inode.c (cid #1165 and #1164)
In both cases inode is always NULL when we goto error; either because it
is still initialized to NULL or is set to NULL explicitly. This patch
simply removes these checks to save some code.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Cc: Ron Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
Cc: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:20 -07:00
Florin Malita
0710d36a0f [PATCH] 9pfs: missing result check in v9fs_vfs_readlink() and v9fs_vfs_link()
__getname() may fail and return NULL (as pointed out by Coverity 437 &
1220).

Signed-off-by: Florin Malita <fmalita@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Cc: <rminnich@lanl.gov>
Cc: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:15 -07:00
Trond Myklebust
816724e65c Merge branch 'master' of /home/trondmy/kernel/linux-2.6/
Conflicts:

	fs/nfs/inode.c
	fs/super.c

Fix conflicts between patch 'NFS: Split fs/nfs/inode.c' and patch
'VFS: Permit filesystem to override root dentry on mount'
2006-06-24 13:07:53 -04:00
David Howells
454e2398be [PATCH] VFS: Permit filesystem to override root dentry on mount
Extend the get_sb() filesystem operation to take an extra argument that
permits the VFS to pass in the target vfsmount that defines the mountpoint.

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

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

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

The patch also makes the following changes:

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

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

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

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

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

     [*] Anonymous until discovered from another tree.

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

[akpm@osdl.org: convert ipath_fs, do other stuff]
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23 07:42:45 -07:00
Trond Myklebust
8b512d9a88 VFS: Remove dependency of ->umount_begin() call on MNT_FORCE
Allow filesystems to decide to perform pre-umount processing whether or not
MNT_FORCE is set.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-06-09 09:34:18 -04:00
Latchesar Ionkov
41e5a6ac80 [PATCH] v9fs: signal handling fixes
Multiple races can happen when v9fs is interrupted by a signal and Tflush
message is sent to the server.  After v9fs sends Tflush it doesn't wait
until it receives Rflush, and possibly the response of the original
message.  This behavior may confuse v9fs what fids are allocated by the
file server.

This patch fixes the races and the fid allocation.

Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@hera.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-15 11:20:56 -07:00
Latchesar Ionkov
343f1fe6f2 [PATCH] v9fs: Twalk memory leak
v9fs leaks memory if the file server responds with Rerror to a Twalk
message.  The patch fixes the leak.

Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@hera.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-15 11:20:56 -07:00
Eric Van Hensbergen
00fbc6dfe7 [PATCH] 9p: handle sget() failure
Handle a failing sget() in v9fs_get_sb().

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11 06:18:41 -07:00
Arjan van de Ven
4b6f5d20b0 [PATCH] Make most file operations structs in fs/ const
This is a conversion to make the various file_operations structs in fs/
const.  Basically a regexp job, with a few manual fixups

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

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-28 09:16:06 -08:00
Eric Van Hensbergen
67543e508d [PATCH] 9p: fix name consistency problems
There were a number of conflicting naming schemes used in the v9fs project.
The directory was fs/9p, but MAINTAINERS and Documentation referred to
v9fs.  The module name itself was 9p2000, and the file system type was 9P.
This patch attempts to clean that up, changing all references to 9p in
order to match the directory name.  We'll also start using 9p instead of
v9fs as our patch prefix.

There is also a minor consistency cleanup in the options changing the name
option to uname in order to more closely match the Plan 9 options.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergevan <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 08:22:54 -08:00
Eric Van Hensbergen
42e8c509cf [PATCH] v9fs: update license boilerplate
Update license boilerplate to specify GPLv2 and remove the (at your option
clause).  This change was agreed to by all the copyright holders (approvals
can be found on v9fs-developer mailing list).

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 08:22:54 -08:00
Eugene Teo
c0291a05f8 [PATCH] v9fs: fix vfs_inode dereference before NULL check
__getname, which in turn will call kmem_cache_alloc, may return NULL.

Coverity bug #977

Signed-off-by: Eugene Teo <eugene.teo@eugeneteo.net>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 08:22:54 -08:00
Latchesar Ionkov
16cce6d27e [PATCH] v9fs: add extension field to Tcreate
Implement a new way of creating special files.  Instead of Tcreate+Twstat,
add one more field to Tcreate that contains special file description.

Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 08:22:54 -08:00
Latchesar Ionkov
5174fdab9f [PATCH] v9fs: print 9p messages
Print 9p messages.

Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@ericvh.myip.org>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 08:22:54 -08:00
Russ Cox
4a26c2429b [PATCH] v9fs: rename tids to tags to be consistent with Plan 9 documentation
The code talks about these things called tids, which I eventually figured
out are tags.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 08:22:54 -08:00
Russ Cox
27979bb2ff [PATCH] v9fs: consolidate trans_sock into trans_fd
Here is a new trans_fd.c that replaces the current trans_fd.c and
trans_sock.c.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 08:22:54 -08:00
Adrian Bunk
29c6e48601 [PATCH] fs/9p/: possible cleanups
- mux.c: v9fs_poll_mux() was inline but not static resuling in needless
         object size bloat
- mux.c: remove all "inline"s: gcc should know best what to inline
- #if 0 the following unused global functions:
  - 9p.c: v9fs_v9fs_t_flush()
  - conv.c: v9fs_create_tauth()
  - mux.c: v9fs_mux_rpcnb()

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@ericvh.myip.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24 07:33:21 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
4f7a07b887 [PATCH] convert fs/9p/ to mutexes, fix locking bugs
Convert fs/9p/mux.c from semaphore to mutex.

NOTE: fixed locking bugs in the process - the code was using semaphores
the other way around.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@ericvh.myip.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-23 07:38:10 -08:00
Latchesar Ionkov
5e7a99ac45 [PATCH] v9fs: assign dentry ops to negative dentries
If a file is not found in v9fs_vfs_lookup, the function creates negative
dentry, but doesn't assign any dentry ops.  This leaves the negative entry
in the cache (there is no d_delete to mark it for removal).  If the file is
created outside of the mounted v9fs filesystem, the file shows up in the
directory with weird permissions.

This patch assigns the default v9fs dentry ops to the negative dentry.

Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-22 07:53:55 -08:00
Eric Van Hensbergen
8532159f55 [PATCH] v9fs: fix overzealous dropping of dentry which breaks dcache
There is a d_drop in dir_release which caused problems as it invalidates
dcache entries too soon.  This was likely a part of the wierd cwd behavior
folks were seeing.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-17 07:51:25 -08:00
Latchesar Ionkov
731805b494 [PATCH] v9fs: fix for access to unitialized variables or freed memory
Miscellaneous fixes related to accessing uninitialized variables or memory
that was already freed.

Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@ericvh.myip.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-08 14:14:02 -08:00
Eric Van Hensbergen
46f6dac259 [PATCH] v9fs: simplify fid mapping
v9fs has been plagued by an over-complicated approach trying to map Linux
dentry semantics to Plan 9 fid semantics.  Our previous approach called for
aggressive flushing of the dcache resulting in several problems (including
wierd cwd behavior when running /bin/pwd).

This patch dramatically simplifies our handling of this fid management.  Fids
will not be clunked as promptly, but the new approach is more functionally
correct.  We now clunk un-open fids only when their dentry ref_count reaches 0
(and d_delete is called).

Another simplification is we no longer seek to match fids to the process-id or
uid of the action initiator.  The uid-matching will need to be revisited when
we fix the security model.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-02 08:33:07 -08:00
Eric Van Hensbergen
74b8054c73 [PATCH] v9fs: fix bug in atomic create open fix
Lucho's atomic create+open fix had a bug in the super block initialization
causing all mounts to fail.  He was freeing an fcall too early.  This patch
fixes that oversight.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-02 08:33:07 -08:00
Latchesar Ionkov
6a3124a394 [PATCH] v9fs: fix atomic create open
In order to assure atomic create+open v9fs stores the open fid produced by
v9fs_vfs_create in the dentry, from where v9fs_file_open retrieves it and
associates it with the open file.

This patch modifies v9fs to use nameidata.intent.open values to do the atomic
create+open.

Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-02 08:33:07 -08:00
Eric Van Hensbergen
e1c9211755 [PATCH] v9fs: update documentation and fix debug flag
Minor updates to the documentation to bring them into sync with current
websites and available features.  The debug flag was switched back to hex
to match the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-20 20:00:11 -08:00
Latchesar Ionkov
034b91a3b6 [PATCH] v9fs: fix corner cases when flushing request
When v9fs_mux_rpc sends a 9P message, it may be put in the queue of unsent
request.  If the user process receives a signal, v9fs_mux_rpc sets the
request error to ERREQFLUSH and assigns NULL to request's send message.  If
the message was still in the unsent queue, v9fs_write_work would produce an
oops while processing it.

The patch makes sure that requests that are being flushed are moved to the
pending requests queue safely.

If a request is being flushed, don't remove it from the list of pending
requests even if it receives a reply before the flush is acknoledged.  The
request will be removed during from the Rflush handler (v9fs_mux_flush_cb).

Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@ericvh.myip.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-03 08:32:06 -08:00
Latchesar Ionkov
05818a004a [PATCH] v9fs: v9fs_put_str fix
v9fs_put_str used to store pointer to the source string, instead of the
cbuf copy.  This patch corrects it.

Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@ericvh.myip.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-03 08:32:06 -08:00
Latchesar Ionkov
93c615feff [PATCH] v9fs: symlink support fixes
Two symlink fixes, v9fs_readlink didn't copy the last character of the
symlink name, v9fs_vfs_follow_link incorrectly called strlen of newly
allocated buffer instead of PATH_MAX.

Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-03 08:32:06 -08:00
Eric Van Hensbergen
147b31cf09 [PATCH] v9fs: add readpage support
v9fs mmap support was originally removed from v9fs at Al Viro's request,
but recently there have been requests from folks who want readpage
functionality (primarily to enable execution of files mounted via 9P).
This patch adds readpage support (but not writepage which contained most of
the objectionable code).  It passes fsx-linux (and other regressions) so it
should be relatively safe.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:22 -08:00
Arjan van de Ven
858119e159 [PATCH] Unlinline a bunch of other functions
Remove the "inline" keyword from a bunch of big functions in the kernel with
the goal of shrinking it by 30kb to 40kb

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-14 18:27:06 -08:00
Christoph Hellwig
0d456fa426 [PATCH] 9p: remove superflous MS_NODIRATIME assignment
MS_NOATIME implies MS_NODIRATIME

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@ericvh.myip.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:33 -08:00
Adrian Bunk
943ffb587c spelling: s/retreive/retrieve/
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-01-10 00:10:13 +01:00
Latchesar Ionkov
1dac06b20d [PATCH] v9fs: handle kthread_create failure, minor bugfixes
- remove unnecessary -ENOMEM assignments
- return correct value when buf_check_size for second time in a buffer
- handle failures when create_workqueue and kthread_create are called
- use kzalloc instead of kmalloc/memset 0
- v9fs_str_copy and v9fs_str_compare were buggy, were used only in one
  place, correct the logic and move it to the place it is used.

Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@ericvh.myip.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:14:06 -08:00
Latchesar Ionkov
531b1094b7 [PATCH] v9fs: zero copy implementation
Performance enhancement reducing the number of copies in the data and
stat paths.

Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@ericvh.myip.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:14:06 -08:00
Latchesar Ionkov
d8da097afb [PATCH] v9fs: fix fid management in v9fs_create
v9fs_create doesn't manage correctly the fids when it is called to create a
directory..  The fid created by the create 9P call (newfid) and the one
created by walking to already created file (wfidno) are not used
consistently.

This patch cleans up the usage of newfid and wfidno.

Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@ericvh.myip.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:14:05 -08:00
Latchesar Ionkov
3cf6429a26 [PATCH] v9fs: new multiplexer implementation
New multiplexer implementation. Decreases the number of kernel threads
required. Better handling when the user process receives a signal.

Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@ericvh.myip.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:14:05 -08:00
Eric Van Hensbergen
f5ef3c105b [PATCH] v9fs: fix fd_close
If a 9pfs server crashes, v9fs_fd_close() is called.  Subsequently, in
cleaning up by performing a umount() on the FS that was provided by this
server v9fs_fd_close() is called again, and uses the old, freed valus of
trans->priv.  This patch ensures that trans->priv can be freed only once,
otherwise this function bails early.

Signed-off-by: Michal Ostrowski <mostrows@watson.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:14:05 -08:00
OGAWA Hirofumi
28fd129827 [PATCH] Fix and add EXPORT_SYMBOL(filemap_write_and_wait)
This patch add EXPORT_SYMBOL(filemap_write_and_wait) and use it.

See mm/filemap.c:

And changes the filemap_write_and_wait() and filemap_write_and_wait_range().

Current filemap_write_and_wait() doesn't wait if filemap_fdatawrite()
returns error.  However, even if filemap_fdatawrite() returned an
error, it may have submitted the partially data pages to the device.
(e.g. in the case of -ENOSPC)

<quotation>
Andrew Morton writes,

If filemap_fdatawrite() returns an error, this might be due to some
I/O problem: dead disk, unplugged cable, etc.  Given the generally
crappy quality of the kernel's handling of such exceptions, there's a
good chance that the filemap_fdatawait() will get stuck in D state
forever.
</quotation>

So, this patch doesn't wait if filemap_fdatawrite() returns the -EIO.

Trond, could you please review the nfs part?  Especially I'm not sure,
nfs must use the "filemap_fdatawrite(inode->i_mapping) == 0", or not.

Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:13:47 -08:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
14c850212e [INET_SOCK]: Move struct inet_sock & helper functions to net/inet_sock.h
To help in reducing the number of include dependencies, several files were
touched as they were getting needed headers indirectly for stuff they use.

Thanks also to Alan Menegotto for pointing out that net/dccp/proto.c had
linux/dccp.h include twice.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-03 13:11:21 -08:00
Latchesar Ionkov
a93a117eaa [PATCH] v9fs: fix memory leak in v9fs dentry code
Assign the appropriate dentry operations to the dentry. Fixes memory leak.

Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-28 14:42:25 -08:00
Olaf Hering
733482e445 [PATCH] changing CONFIG_LOCALVERSION rebuilds too much, for no good reason
This patch removes almost all inclusions of linux/version.h.  The 3
#defines are unused in most of the touched files.

A few drivers use the simple KERNEL_VERSION(a,b,c) macro, which is
unfortunatly in linux/version.h.

There are also lots of #ifdef for long obsolete kernels, this was not
touched.  In a few places, the linux/version.h include was move to where
the LINUX_VERSION_CODE was used.

quilt vi `find * -type f -name "*.[ch]"|xargs grep -El '(UTS_RELEASE|LINUX_VERSION_CODE|KERNEL_VERSION|linux/version.h)'|grep -Ev '(/(boot|coda|drm)/|~$)'`

search pattern:
/UTS_RELEASE\|LINUX_VERSION_CODE\|KERNEL_VERSION\|linux\/\(utsname\|version\).h

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-09 07:55:57 -08:00
Jesper Juhl
f99d49adf5 [PATCH] kfree cleanup: fs
This is the fs/ part of the big kfree cleanup patch.

Remove pointless checks for NULL prior to calling kfree() in fs/.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:54:06 -08:00
Tim Schmielau
8c65b4a604 [PATCH] fix remaining missing includes
Fix more include file problems that surfaced since I submitted the previous
fix-missing-includes.patch.  This should now allow not to include sched.h
from module.h, which is done by a followup patch.

Signed-off-by: Tim Schmielau <tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:53:41 -08:00
Davi Arnaut
ce44eeb690 [PATCH] V9FS: 'names_cache' memory leak
Data allocated with "__getname()" should always be free'd with "__putname()"
because of the AUDITSYSCALL code.

Signed-off-by: Davi Arnaut <davi.arnaut@gmail.com>
Cc: <rminnich@lanl.gov>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@ericvh.myip.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:53:39 -08:00
Latchesar Ionkov
19cba8abd6 [PATCH] v9fs: remove additional buffer allocation from v9fs_file_read and v9fs_file_write
v9fs_file_read and v9fs_file_write use kmalloc to allocate buffers as big
as the data buffer received as parameter.  kmalloc cannot be used to
allocate buffers bigger than 128K, so reading/writing data in chunks bigger
than 128k fails.

This patch reorganizes v9fs_file_read and v9fs_file_write to allocate only
buffers as big as the maximum data that can be sent in one 9P message.

Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-11 09:46:54 -07:00
Al Viro
192eaa28ba [PATCH] missing ERR_PTR in 9fs
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-30 08:42:23 -07:00
Latchesar Ionkov
0b8dd17762 [PATCH] v9fs: fix races in fid allocation
Fid management cleanup.  The patch attempts to fix the races in dentry's
fid management.

Dentries don't keep the opened fids anymore, they are moved to the file
structs.  Ideally there should be no more than one fid with fidcreate equal
to zero in the dentry's list of fids.

v9fs_fid_create initializes the important fields (fid, fidcreated) before
v9fs_fid is added to the list.  v9fs_fid_lookup returns only fids that are
not created by v9fs_create.  v9fs_fid_get_created returns the fid created
by the same process by v9fs_create (if any) and removes it from dentry's
list

Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-28 07:46:40 -07:00
Latchesar Ionkov
f71626a461 [PATCH] v9fs: don't free root dentry & inode if error occurs in v9fs_get_sb
If error occurs while in v9fs_get_sb after it calles sget, the dentry object
of the root and its inode may be freed twice -- once while handling the error
in v9fs_get_sb, and second time when v9fs_get_sb calles deactivate_super
(which in turn calls v9fs_kill_super)

The patch removes the unnecessary code that frees the root dentry and its
inode.

Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-22 22:17:33 -07:00
Latchesar Ionkov
a1f9d8d23f [PATCH] v9fs: replace strlen on newly allocated by __getname buffers to PATH_MAX
v9fs_vfs_readlink allocates space for the link using __getname and
errorneously uses strlen on the newly allocated buffer to check if the buffer
passed by the user is bigger than the one returned by __getname.

The patch replaces the strlen usage to PATH_MAX, which is the actual size of
the buffers returned by __getname.

Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-22 22:17:33 -07:00
Latchesar Ionkov
a8e63bff52 [PATCH] v9fs: make copy of the transport prototype instead of using it directly
When a new session is created it uses a template object of the specified
transport type to instantiate its own copy.  The code for the making a copy of
the template object was lost, and the object itself is attached to the v9fs
session.  This leads to many sessions using the same transport instead of
having their own copy.

The patch puts back the code that makes a copy of the template object.

Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-22 22:17:33 -07:00
Latchesar Ionkov
5b06767623 [PATCH] v9fs: allocate the Rwalk qid array from the right conv buffer
When v9fs_deserealize_fcall deserializes a Rwalk message, it incorrectly
allocates space for the qid array in the source instead of the destination
buffer.

Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-22 22:17:33 -07:00
Latchesar Ionkov
d06a8fb130 [PATCH] v9fs: make conv functions to check for conv buffer overflow
buf_check_size function checks if the conv buffer has enough space for the
performed operation, but it doesn't return the result back to the calling
function, only logs an error in the log.

The report-back-error functionality was lost when buf_check_size was
converted from macro to inline function. The return in the macro used to
exit from the functions that include it, after the conversion it just exits
from the inline function itself.

The patch makes buf_check_size to return flag and all functions that use
it check if they should perform the operation, or exit.

Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-22 22:17:33 -07:00
Eric Van Hensbergen
cb2e87a65d [PATCH] v9fs: fix handling of malformed 9P messages
This patch attempts to do a better job of cleaning up after detecting errors
on the transport.  This should also improve error reporting on broken
connections to servers.

Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 13:57:58 -07:00
Eric Van Hensbergen
b501611a6f [PATCH] v9fs: readlink extended mode check
LANL reported some issues with random crashes during mount of legacy protocol
servers (9P2000 versus 9P2000.u) -- crash was always happening in readlink
(which should never happen in legacy mode).  Added some sanity conditionals to
the get_inode code which should prevent the errors LANL was seeing.  Code
tested benign through regression.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 13:57:58 -07:00
Eric Van Hensbergen
5d58bec5b7 [PATCH] v9fs: Fix support for special files (devices, named pipes, etc.)
Fix v9fs special files (block, char devices) support.

Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 13:57:58 -07:00
Eric Van Hensbergen
73c592b9b8 [PATCH] v9fs: Clean-up vfs_inode and setattr functions
Cleanup code in v9fs vfs_inode as suggested by Alexey Dobriyan.  Did some
major revamping of the v9fs setattr code to remove unnecessary allocations and
clean up some dead-code.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 13:57:57 -07:00
Eric Van Hensbergen
1346f51ede [PATCH] v9fs: Change error magic numbers to defined constants
Change magic error numbers to system defined constants in v9fs error.h As
suggested by Jan-Benedict Glaw.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 13:57:57 -07:00
Eric Van Hensbergen
3ed8491c8a [PATCH] v9fs: debug and support routines
This part of the patch contains debug and other misc routines.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 13:57:57 -07:00
Eric Van Hensbergen
322b329ab7 [PATCH] v9fs: Support to force umount
Support for force umount

Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 13:57:57 -07:00
Eric Van Hensbergen
426cc91aa6 [PATCH] v9fs: transport modules
This part of the patch contains transport routines.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 13:57:57 -07:00
Eric Van Hensbergen
b8cf945b31 [PATCH] v9fs: 9P protocol implementation
This part of the patch contains the 9P protocol functions.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 13:57:56 -07:00
Eric Van Hensbergen
9e82cf6a80 [PATCH] v9fs: VFS superblock operations and glue
This part of the patch contains VFS superblock and mapping code.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 13:57:56 -07:00
Eric Van Hensbergen
2bad847151 [PATCH] v9fs: VFS inode operations
This part of the patch contains the VFS inode interfaces.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 13:57:56 -07:00
Eric Van Hensbergen
e69e7fe5b0 [PATCH] v9fs: VFS file, dentry, and directory operations
This part of the patch contains the VFS file, dentry & directory interfaces.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 13:57:56 -07:00
Eric Van Hensbergen
93fa58cb83 [PATCH] v9fs: Documentation, Makefiles, Configuration
OVERVIEW

V9FS is a distributed file system for Linux which provides an
implementation of the Plan 9 resource sharing protocol 9P.  It can be
used to share all sorts of resources: static files, synthetic file servers
(such as /proc or /sys), devices, and application file servers (such as
FUSE).

BACKGROUND

Plan 9 (http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9) is a research operating
system and associated applications suite developed by the Computing
Science Research Center of AT&T Bell Laboratories (now a part of
Lucent Technologies), the same group that developed UNIX , C, and C++.
Plan 9 was initially released in 1993 to universities, and then made
generally available in 1995. Its core operating systems code laid the
foundation for the Inferno Operating System released as a product by
Lucent Bell-Labs in 1997. The Inferno venture was the only commercial
embodiment of Plan 9 and is currently maintained as a product by Vita
Nuova (http://www.vitanuova.com). After updated releases in 2000 and
2002, Plan 9 was open-sourced under the OSI approved Lucent Public
License in 2003.

The Plan 9 project was started by Ken Thompson and Rob Pike in 1985.
Their intent was to explore potential solutions to some of the
shortcomings of UNIX in the face of the widespread use of high-speed
networks to connect machines. In UNIX, networking was an afterthought
and UNIX clusters became little more than a network of stand-alone
systems. Plan 9 was designed from first principles as a seamless
distributed system with integrated secure network resource sharing.
Applications and services were architected in such a way as to allow
for implicit distribution across a cluster of systems. Configuring an
environment to use remote application components or services in place
of their local equivalent could be achieved with a few simple command
line instructions. For the most part, application implementations
operated independent of the location of their actual resources.

Commercial operating systems haven't changed much in the 20 years
since Plan 9 was conceived. Network and distributed systems support is
provided by a patchwork of middle-ware, with an endless number of
packages supplying pieces of the puzzle. Matters are complicated by
the use of different complicated protocols for individual services,
and separate implementations for kernel and application resources.
The V9FS project (http://v9fs.sourceforge.net) is an attempt to bring
Plan 9's unified approach to resource sharing to Linux and other
operating systems via support for the 9P2000 resource sharing
protocol.

V9FS HISTORY

V9FS was originally developed by Ron Minnich and Maya Gokhale at Los
Alamos National Labs (LANL) in 1997.  In November of 2001, Greg Watson
setup a SourceForge project as a public repository for the code which
supported the Linux 2.4 kernel.

About a year ago, I picked up the initial attempt Ron Minnich had
made to provide 2.6 support and got the code integrated into a 2.6.5
kernel.   I then went through a line-for-line re-write attempting to
clean-up the code while more closely following the Linux Kernel style
guidelines.  I co-authored a paper with Ron Minnich on the V9FS Linux
support including performance comparisons to NFSv3 using Bonnie and
PostMark - this paper appeared at the USENIX/FREENIX 2005
conference in April 2005:
( http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix05/tech/freenix/hensbergen.html ).

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION/REQUEST FOR COMMENTS

Our 2.6 kernel support is stabilizing and we'd like to begin pursuing
its integration into the official kernel tree.  We would appreciate any
review, comments, critiques, and additions from this community and are
actively seeking people to join our project and help us produce
something that would be acceptable and useful to the Linux community.

STATUS

The code is reasonably stable, although there are no doubt corner cases
our regression tests haven't discovered yet.  It is in regular use by several
of the developers and has been tested on x86 and PowerPC
(32-bit and 64-bit) in both small and large (LANL cluster) deployments.
Our current regression tests include fsx, bonnie, and postmark.

It was our intention to keep things as simple as possible for this
release -- trying to focus on correctness within the core of the
protocol support versus a rich set of features.  For example: a more
complete security model and cache layer are in the road map, but
excluded from this release.   Additionally, we have removed support for
mmap operations at Al Viro's request.

PERFORMANCE

Detailed performance numbers and analysis are included in the FREENIX
paper, but we show comparable performance to NFSv3 for large file
operations based on the Bonnie benchmark, and superior performance for
many small file operations based on the PostMark benchmark.   Somewhat
preliminary graphs (from the FREENIX paper) are available
(http://v9fs.sourceforge.net/perf/index.html).

RESOURCES

The source code is available in a few different forms:

tarballs: http://v9fs.sf.net
CVSweb: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/v9fs/linux-9p/
CVS: :pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/v9fs/linux-9p
Git: rsync://v9fs.graverobber.org/v9fs (webgit: http://v9fs.graverobber.org)
9P: tcp!v9fs.graverobber.org!6564

The user-level server is available from either the Plan 9 distribution
or from http://v9fs.sf.net
Other support applications are still being developed, but preliminary
version can be downloaded from sourceforge.

Documentation on the protocol has historically been the Plan 9 Man
pages (http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/man/5/INDEX.html), but there is
an effort under way to write a more complete Internet-Draft style
specification (http://v9fs.sf.net/rfc).

There are a couple of mailing lists supporting v9fs, but the most used
is v9fs-developer@lists.sourceforge.net -- please direct/cc your
comments there so the other v9fs contibutors can participate in the
conversation.  There is also an IRC channel: irc://freenode.net/#v9fs

This part of the patch contains Documentation, Makefiles, and configuration
file changes.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 13:57:56 -07:00