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Trond Myklebust
259875efed NFS: set transport defaults after mount option parsing is finished
Move the UDP/TCP default timeo/retrans settings for text mounts to
nfs_init_timeout_values(), which was were they were always being
initialised (and sanity checked) for binary mounts.
Document the default timeout values using appropriate #defines.

Ensure that we initialise and sanity check the transport protocols that
may have been specified by the user.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-07-09 12:09:38 -04:00
Harvey Harrison
3110ff8048 nfs: replace remaining __FUNCTION__ occurrences
__FUNCTION__ is gcc-specific, use __func__

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-05-16 09:43:29 -07:00
Denis V. Lunev
34b37235c6 nfs: use proc_create to setup de->proc_fops
Use proc_create() to make sure that ->proc_fops be setup before gluing PDE to
main tree.

Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-29 08:06:20 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
36a5aeb878 proc: remove proc_root_fs
Use creation by full path instead: "fs/foo".

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-29 08:06:18 -07:00
Trond Myklebust
7c67db3a8a NFSv4: Reintroduce machine creds
We need to try to ensure that we always use the same credentials whenever
we re-establish the clientid on the server. If not, the server won't
recognise that we're the same client, and so may not allow us to recover
state.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-04-19 16:54:56 -04:00
Chuck Lever
3f8400d1f1 NFS: Save the values of the "mount*=" mount options
Save the value of the mountproto= mountport= mountvers= and mountaddr=
options so that these values can be displayed later via
nfs_show_options().

This preserves the intent of the original mount options, should the file
system need to be remounted based on what's displayed in /proc/mounts.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-03-19 18:00:22 -04:00
Chuck Lever
f22d6d79fe NFS: Save the value of the "port=" mount option
During a remount based on the mount options displayed in /proc/mounts, we
want to preserve the original behavior of the mount request.  Let's save
the original setting of the "port=" mount option in the mount's nfs_server
structure.

This allows us to simplify the default behavior of port setting for NFSv4
mounts: by default, NFSv2/3 mounts first try an RPC bind to determine the
NFS server's port, unless the user specified the "port=" mount option;
Users can force the client to skip the RPC bind by explicitly specifying
"port=<value>".

NFSv4, by contrast, assumes the NFS server port is 2049 and skips the RPC
bind, unless the user specifies "port=".  Users can force an RPC bind for
NFSv4 by explicitly specifying "port=0".

I added a couple of extra comments to clarify this behavior.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-03-19 18:00:19 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
f6a1cc8930 SUNRPC: Add a (empty for the moment) destructor for rpc_wait_queues
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-02-28 23:17:27 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
75659ca0c1 Merge branch 'task_killable' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/willy/misc
* 'task_killable' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/willy/misc: (22 commits)
  Remove commented-out code copied from NFS
  NFS: Switch from intr mount option to TASK_KILLABLE
  Add wait_for_completion_killable
  Add wait_event_killable
  Add schedule_timeout_killable
  Use mutex_lock_killable in vfs_readdir
  Add mutex_lock_killable
  Use lock_page_killable
  Add lock_page_killable
  Add fatal_signal_pending
  Add TASK_WAKEKILL
  exit: Use task_is_*
  signal: Use task_is_*
  sched: Use task_contributes_to_load, TASK_ALL and TASK_NORMAL
  ptrace: Use task_is_*
  power: Use task_is_*
  wait: Use TASK_NORMAL
  proc/base.c: Use task_is_*
  proc/array.c: Use TASK_REPORT
  perfmon: Use task_is_*
  ...

Fixed up conflicts in NFS/sunrpc manually..
2008-02-01 11:45:47 +11:00
Trond Myklebust
3fbd67ad61 NFSv4: Iterate through all nfs_clients when the server recalls a delegation
The same delegation may have been handed out to more than one nfs_client.
Ensure that if a recall occurs, we return all instances.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-01-30 02:06:12 -05:00
Chuck Lever
883bb163f8 NLM: Introduce an arguments structure for nlmclnt_init()
Clean up: pass 5 arguments to nlmclnt_init() in a structure similar to the
new nfs_client_initdata structure.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
2008-01-30 02:06:07 -05:00
Chuck Lever
9289e7f91a NFS: Invoke nlmclnt_init during NFS mount processing
Cache an appropriate nlm_host structure in the NFS client's mount point
metadata for later use.

Note that there is no need to set NFS_MOUNT_NONLM in the error case -- if
nfs_start_lockd() returns a non-zero value, its callers ensure that the
mount request fails outright.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-01-30 02:06:07 -05:00
Trond Myklebust
59dca3b28c NFS: Fix the 'proto=' mount option
Currently, if you have a server mounted using networking protocol, you
cannot specify a different value using the 'proto=' option on another
mountpoint.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-01-30 02:06:00 -05:00
Trond Myklebust
331702337f NFS: Support per-mountpoint timeout parameters.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-01-30 02:05:59 -05:00
Trond Myklebust
7a3e3e18e4 NFS: Ensure that we respect NFS_MAX_TCP_TIMEOUT
It isn't sufficient just to limit timeout->to_initval, we also need to
limit to_maxval.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-01-30 02:05:59 -05:00
Chuck Lever
4c56801770 NFS: Support non-IPv4 addresses in nfs_parsed_mount_data
Replace the nfs_server and mount_server address fields in the
nfs_parsed_mount_data structure with a "struct sockaddr_storage"
instead of a "struct sockaddr_in".

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Cc: Aurelien Charbon <aurelien.charbon@ext.bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-01-30 02:05:57 -05:00
Chuck Lever
6677d09513 NFS: Adjust nfs_clone_mount structure to store "struct sockaddr *"
Change the addr field in the nfs_clone_mount structure to store a "struct
sockaddr *" to support non-IPv4 addresses in the NFS client.

Note this is mostly a cosmetic change, and does not actually allow
referrals using IPv6 addresses.  The existing referral code assumes that
the server returns a string that represents an IPv4 address.  This code
needs to support hostnames and IPv6 addresses as well as IPv4 addresses,
thus it will need to be reorganized completely (to handle DNS resolution
in user space).

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Cc: Aurelien Charbon <aurelien.charbon@ext.bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-01-30 02:05:56 -05:00
Chuck Lever
dcecae0ff4 NFS: Change nfs4_set_client() to accept struct sockaddr *
Adjust the arguments and callers of nfs4_set_client() to pass a "struct
sockaddr *" instead of a "struct sockaddr_in *" to support non-IPv4
addresses in the NFS client.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Cc: Aurelien Charbon <aurelien.charbon@ext.bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-01-30 02:05:56 -05:00
Chuck Lever
d7422c472b NFS: Change nfs_get_client() to take sockaddr *
Adjust arguments and callers of nfs_get_client() to pass a
"struct sockaddr *" instead of "struct sockaddr_in *" to support
non-IPv4 addresses.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Cc: Aurelien Charbon <aurelien.charbon@ext.bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-01-30 02:05:55 -05:00
Chuck Lever
ff052645c9 NFS: Change nfs_find_client() to take "struct sockaddr *"
Adjust arguments and callers of nfs_find_client() to pass a
"struct sockaddr *" instead of "struct sockaddr_in *" to support non-IPv4
addresses.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Cc: Aurelien Charbon <aurelien.charbon@ext.bull.net>

Trond: Also fix up protocol version number argument in nfs_find_client() to
use the correct u32 type.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-01-30 02:05:55 -05:00
Chuck Lever
6e4cffd7b2 NFS: Expand server address storage in nfs_client struct
Prepare for managing larger addresses in the NFS client by widening the
nfs_client struct's cl_addr field.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Cc: Aurelien Charbon <aurelien.charbon@ext.bull.net>

(Modified to work with the new parameters for nfs_alloc_client)
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-01-30 02:05:54 -05:00
Trond Myklebust
3b0d3f93d0 NFS: Add support for AF_INET6 addresses in __nfs_find_client()
Introduce AF_INET6-specific address checking to __nfs_find_client().

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-01-30 02:05:54 -05:00
Chuck Lever
5d8515caeb NFS: eliminate NIPQUAD(clp->cl_addr.sin_addr)
To ensure the NFS client displays IPv6 addresses properly, replace
address family-specific NIPQUAD() invocations with a call to the RPC
client to get a formatted string representing the remote peer's
address.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Cc: Aurelien Charbon <aurelien.charbon@ext.bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-01-30 02:05:52 -05:00
Trond Myklebust
40c553193d NFS: Remove the redundant nfs_client->cl_nfsversion
We can get the same information from the rpc_ops structure instead.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-01-30 02:05:49 -05:00
Trond Myklebust
c81468a1a7 NFS: Clean up the nfs_find_client function.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-01-30 02:05:48 -05:00
Trond Myklebust
3a498026ee NFS: Clean up the nfs_client initialisation
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-01-30 02:05:48 -05:00
Chuck Lever
d45273ed6f NFS: Clean up address comparison in __nfs_find_client()
The address comparison in the __nfs_find_client() function is deceptive.
It uses a memcmp() to check a pair of u32 fields for equality.  Not only is
this inefficient, but usually memcmp() is used for comparing two *whole*
sockaddr_in's (which includes comparisons of the address family and port
number), so it's easy to mistake the comparison here for a whole sockaddr
comparison, which it isn't.

So for clarity and efficiency, we replace the memcmp() with a simple test
for equality between the two s_addr fields.  This should have no
behavioral effect.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-01-30 02:05:46 -05:00
Steve Dickson
ef818a28fa NFS: Stop sillyname renames and unmounts from racing
Added an active/deactive mechanism to the nfs_server structure
allowing async operations to hold off umount until the
operations are done.

Signed-off-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-01-30 02:05:24 -05:00
Trond Myklebust
5cef338b30 NFSv2/v3: Fix a memory leak when using -onolock
Neil Brown said:
> Hi Trond,
> 
> We found that a machine which made moderately heavy use of
> 'automount' was leaking some nfs data structures - particularly the
> 4K allocated by rpc_alloc_iostats.
> It turns out that this only happens with filesystems with -onolock
> set.

> The problem is that if NFS_MOUNT_NONLM is set, nfs_start_lockd doesn't
> set server->destroy, so when the filesystem is unmounted, the
> ->client_acl is not shutdown, and so several resources are still
> held.  Multiple mount/umount cycles will slowly eat away memory
> several pages at a time.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Acked-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2007-12-11 22:01:56 -05:00
Matthew Wilcox
150030b78a NFS: Switch from intr mount option to TASK_KILLABLE
By using the TASK_KILLABLE infrastructure, we can get rid of the 'intr'
mount option.  We have to use _killable everywhere instead of _interruptible
as we get rid of rpc_clnt_sigmask/sigunmask.

Signed-off-by: Liam R. Howlett <howlett@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
2007-12-06 17:40:25 -05:00
Peter Zijlstra
e0bf68ddec mm: bdi init hooks
provide BDI constructor/destructor hooks

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: compile fix]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:45 -07:00
\"Talpey, Thomas\
2cf7ff7a37 NFS: support RDMA mounts
Adds hooks to the string-based NFS mount to support an "rdma" protocol option.

Signed-off-by: Tom Talpey <tmt@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-10-09 17:18:00 -04:00
\"Talpey, Thomas\
0896a725a1 NFS/SUNRPC: use transport protocol naming
Instead of an { address family, raw IP protocol number }-tuple, use the
newly-defined RPC identifier when creating clients in the upper layers.

Signed-off-by: Tom Talpey <tmt@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-10-09 17:17:53 -04:00
\"Talpey, Thomas\
91ea40b9c6 NFS: use in-kernel mount argument structure for nfsv4 mounts
The user-visible nfs4_mount_data does not contain sufficient data to
describe new mount options, and also is now a legacy structure. Replace
it with the internal nfs_parsed_mount_data for nfsv4 in-kernel use.

Signed-off-by: Tom Talpey <tmt@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-10-09 17:17:28 -04:00
\"Talpey, Thomas\
2283f8d6ed NFS: use in-kernel mount argument structure for nfsv[23] mounts
The user-visible nfs_mount_data does not contain sufficient data to
describe new mount options, and also is now a legacy structure. Replace
it with the internal nfs_parsed_mount_data for nfsv[23] in-kernel use.

Signed-off-by: Tom Talpey <tmt@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-10-09 17:17:26 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
54af3bb543 NFS: Fix an Oops in encode_lookup()
It doesn't look as if the NFS file name limit is being initialised correctly
in the struct nfs_server. Make sure that we limit whatever is being set in
nfs_probe_fsinfo() and nfs_init_server().

Also ensure that readdirplus and nfs4_path_walk respect our file name
limits.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-09-28 15:36:42 -07:00
Pavel Emelianov
259902ea95 Make NFS client use seq_list_xxx helpers
This includes /proc/fs/nfsfs/servers and /proc/fs/nfsfs/volumes entries.

Both need to show the header and use the list_head.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:42 -07:00
Trond Myklebust
9f958ab885 NFSv4: Reduce the chances of an open_owner identifier collision
Currently we just use a 32-bit counter.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-07-10 23:40:39 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
7af654f8d1 NFSv4: Don't reuse expired nfs4_state_owner structs
That just confuses certain NFSv4 servers.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-07-10 23:40:38 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
f61534dfd3 SUNRPC: Remove redundant calls to rpciod_up()/rpciod_down()
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-07-10 23:40:30 -04:00
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
Steve Dickson
74dd34e6e8 NFS: Added support to turn off the NFSv3 READDIRPLUS RPC.
READDIRPLUS can be a performance hindrance when the client is working with
large directories. In addition, some servers still have bugs in their
implementations (e.g. Tru64 returns wrong values for the fsid).

Add a mount flag to enable users to turn it off at mount time following the
implementation in Apple's NFS client.

Signed-off-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-04-30 22:17:16 -07:00
Trond Myklebust
d9bc125caf Merge branch 'master' of /home/trondmy/kernel/linux-2.6/
Conflicts:

	net/sunrpc/auth_gss/gss_krb5_crypto.c
	net/sunrpc/auth_gss/gss_spkm3_token.c
	net/sunrpc/clnt.c

Merge with mainline and fix conflicts.
2007-02-12 22:43:25 -08:00
Chuck Lever
43d78ef2ba NFS: disconnect before retrying NFSv4 requests over TCP
RFC3530 section 3.1.1 states an NFSv4 client MUST NOT send a request
twice on the same connection unless it is the NULL procedure.  Section
3.1.1 suggests that the client should disconnect and reconnect if it
wants to retry a request.

Implement this by adding an rpc_clnt flag that an ULP can use to
specify that the underlying transport should be disconnected on a
major timeout.  The NFSv4 client asserts this new flag, and requests
no retries after a minor retransmit timeout.

Note that disconnecting on a retransmit is in general not safe to do
if the RPC client does not reuse the TCP port number when reconnecting.

See http://bugzilla.linux-nfs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-02-12 22:40:45 -08:00
Arjan van de Ven
00977a59b9 [PATCH] mark struct file_operations const 6
Many struct file_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 09:48:45 -08:00
Trond Myklebust
f2d0d85e58 NFSv4: Fix Oops in nfs4_create_referral_server
The filehandle that is passed into nfs4_create_referral_server is
not initialised. The expectation is that nfs4_create_referral_server will
initialise it, and return it to the caller.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-02-03 15:35:03 -08:00
David Howells
65f27f3844 WorkStruct: Pass the work_struct pointer instead of context data
Pass the work_struct pointer to the work function rather than context data.
The work function can use container_of() to work out the data.

For the cases where the container of the work_struct may go away the moment the
pending bit is cleared, it is made possible to defer the release of the
structure by deferring the clearing of the pending bit.

To make this work, an extra flag is introduced into the management side of the
work_struct.  This governs auto-release of the structure upon execution.

Ordinarily, the work queue executor would release the work_struct for further
scheduling or deallocation by clearing the pending bit prior to jumping to the
work function.  This means that, unless the driver makes some guarantee itself
that the work_struct won't go away, the work function may not access anything
else in the work_struct or its container lest they be deallocated..  This is a
problem if the auxiliary data is taken away (as done by the last patch).

However, if the pending bit is *not* cleared before jumping to the work
function, then the work function *may* access the work_struct and its container
with no problems.  But then the work function must itself release the
work_struct by calling work_release().

In most cases, automatic release is fine, so this is the default.  Special
initiators exist for the non-auto-release case (ending in _NAR).


Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2006-11-22 14:55:48 +00:00
David Howells
52bad64d95 WorkStruct: Separate delayable and non-delayable events.
Separate delayable work items from non-delayable work items be splitting them
into a separate structure (delayed_work), which incorporates a work_struct and
the timer_list removed from work_struct.

The work_struct struct is huge, and this limits it's usefulness.  On a 64-bit
architecture it's nearly 100 bytes in size.  This reduces that by half for the
non-delayable type of event.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2006-11-22 14:54:01 +00:00
Trond Myklebust
13bbc06af8 [PATCH] NFS: Fix NFSv4 callback regression
The change in semantics for nfs_find_client() introduced by David breaks the
NFSv4 callback channel.

Also, replace another completely broken BUG_ON() in nfs_find_client().  In
initialised clients, clp->cl_cons_state == 0, and callers of that function
should in any case never want to see clients that are uninitialised.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-20 10:26:39 -07:00