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Author SHA1 Message Date
Jan Kara
5fa0613ea5 ocfs2: Silence false lockdep warnings
Create separate lockdep lock classes for system file's i_mutexes. They are
used to guard allocations and similar things and thus rank differently
than i_mutex of a regular file or directory.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2008-01-25 15:05:44 -08:00
Mark Fasheh
53fc622b9e [PATCH 2/2] ocfs2: cluster aware flock()
Hook up ocfs2_flock(), using the new flock lock type in dlmglue.c. A new
mount option, "localflocks" is added so that users can revert to old
functionality as need be.

Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2008-01-25 15:05:43 -08:00
Sunil Mushran
2fbe8d1ebe ocfs2: Local alloc window size changeable via mount option
Local alloc is a performance optimization in ocfs2 in which a node
takes a window of bits from the global bitmap and then uses that for
all small local allocations. This window size is fixed to 8MB currently.
This patch allows users to specify the window size in MB including
disabling it by passing in 0. If the number specified is too large,
the fs will use the default value of 8MB.

mount -o localalloc=X /dev/sdX /mntpoint

Signed-off-by: Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2008-01-25 15:05:43 -08:00
Mark Fasheh
d147b3d630 ocfs2: Support commit= mount option
Mostly taken from ext3. This allows the user to set the jbd commit interval,
in seconds. The default of 5 seconds stays the same, but now users can
easily increase the commit interval. Typically, this would be increased in
order to benefit performance at the expense of data-safety.

Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2008-01-25 15:05:42 -08:00
Tao Ma
e9d578a8f2 ocfs2: Initalize bitmap_cpg of ocfs2_super to be the maximum.
This value is initialized from global_bitmap->id2.i_chain.cl_cpg. If there
is only 1 group, it will be equal to the total clusters in the volume. So
as for online resize, it should change for all the nodes in the cluster.
It isn't easy and there is no corresponding lock for it.

bitmap_cpg is only used in 2 areas:
1. Check whether the suballoc is too large for us to allocate from the global
   bitmap, so it is little used. And now the suballoc size is 2048, it rarely
   meet this situation and the check is almost useless.
2. Calculate which group a cluster belongs to. We use it during truncate to
   figure out which cluster group an extent belongs too. But we should be OK
   if we increase it though as the cluster group calculated shouldn't change
   and we only ever have a small bitmap_cpg on file systems with a single
   cluster group.

Signed-off-by: Tao Ma <tao.ma@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2008-01-25 14:48:54 -08:00
Mark Fasheh
e63aecb651 ocfs2: Rename ocfs2_meta_[un]lock
Call this the "inode_lock" now, since it covers both data and meta data.
This patch makes no functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2008-01-25 14:46:01 -08:00
Mark Fasheh
c934a92d05 ocfs2: Remove data locks
The meta lock now covers both meta data and data, so this just removes the
now-redundant data lock.

Combining locks saves us a round of lock mastery per inode and one less lock
to ping between nodes during read/write.

We don't lose much - since meta locks were always held before a data lock
(and at the same level) ordered writeout mode (the default) ensured that
flushing for the meta data lock also pushed out data anyways.

Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2008-01-25 14:45:57 -08:00
Mark Fasheh
34d024f843 ocfs2: Remove mount/unmount votes
The node maps that are set/unset by these votes are no longer relevant, thus
we can remove the mount and umount votes. Since those are the last two
remaining votes, we can also remove the entire vote infrastructure.

The vote thread has been renamed to the downconvert thread, and the small
amount of functionality related to managing it has been moved into
fs/ocfs2/dlmglue.c. All references to votes have been removed or updated.

Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2008-01-25 14:45:34 -08:00
Mark Fasheh
6f7b056ea9 ocfs2: Remove fs dependency on ocfs2_heartbeat module
Now that the dlm exposes domain information to us, we don't need generic
node up / node down callbacks. And since the DLM is only telling us when a
node goes down unexpectedly, we no longer need to optimize away node down
callbacks via the umount map.

Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2008-01-25 14:36:40 -08:00
Mark Fasheh
e001e796e4 ocfs2: Reset journal parameters after s_mount_opt update
Right now we're just setting them from the existing parameters, not the
new ones that a remount specified.

Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2007-11-27 16:47:01 -08:00
Christoph Lameter
4ba9b9d0ba Slab API: remove useless ctor parameter and reorder parameters
Slab constructors currently have a flags parameter that is never used.  And
the order of the arguments is opposite to other slab functions.  The object
pointer is placed before the kmem_cache pointer.

Convert

        ctor(void *object, struct kmem_cache *s, unsigned long flags)

to

        ctor(struct kmem_cache *s, void *object)

throughout the kernel

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coupla fixes]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
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
Denis Cheng
bddb8eb37f [PATCH] fs/ocfs2/: removed unneeded initial value and function's return value
Signed-off-by: Denis Cheng <crquan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2007-10-12 11:54:34 -07:00
Sunil Mushran
d550071c03 ocfs2: Implement show_options()
Implement sops->show_options() so as to allow /proc/mounts to show the mount
options.

Signed-off-by: Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2007-10-12 11:54:33 -07:00
Mark Fasheh
19b613d410 ocfs2: Clear slot map when umounting a local volume
This is technically harmless (recovery will clean it out later), but leaves
a bogus entry in the slot_map which really shouldn't be there.

Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2007-10-12 11:54:33 -07:00
Tiger Yang
c0123adef6 [PATCH] ocfs2: fix mount option parsing
For some mount option types, ocfs2_parse_options() will try to access
sb->s_fs_info to get at the ocfs2 private superblock. Unfortunately, that
hasn't been allocated yet and will cause a kernel crash.

Fix this by storing options in a struct which can then get pushed into the
ocfs2_super once it's been allocated later. If we need more options which
store to the ocfs2_super in the future, we can just fields to this struct.

Signed-off-by: Tiger Yang <tiger.yang@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2007-09-11 11:38:48 -07:00
Mark Fasheh
e0dceaf0a4 ocfs2: set non-default s_time_gran during mount
We need to manually set this to '1' during mount, otherwise inode_setattr()
will chop off the nanosecond portion of our timestamps.

Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2007-08-09 17:27:58 -07:00
Mark Fasheh
5a25403175 ocfs2: Fix max offset calculations
ocfs2_max_file_offset() was over-estimating the largest file size for
several cases. This wasn't really a problem before, but now that we support
sparse files, it needs to be more accurate.

Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2007-08-09 17:25:49 -07:00
Mark Fasheh
a00cce356b ocfs2: use s_maxbytes directly in ocfs2_change_file_space()
There's no need to recalculate things via ocfs2_max_file_offset() as we've
already done that to fill s_maxbytes, so use that instead. We can also
un-export ocfs2_max_file_offset() then.

Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2007-08-09 17:25:07 -07:00
Paul Mundt
20c2df83d2 mm: Remove slab destructors from kmem_cache_create().
Slab destructors were no longer supported after Christoph's
c59def9f22 change. They've been
BUGs for both slab and slub, and slob never supported them
either.

This rips out support for the dtor pointer from kmem_cache_create()
completely and fixes up every single callsite in the kernel (there were
about 224, not including the slab allocator definitions themselves,
or the documentation references).

Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2007-07-20 10:11:58 +09:00
Mark Fasheh
b25801038d ocfs2: Support xfs style space reservation ioctls
We re-use the RESVSP/UNRESVSP ioctls from xfs which allow the user to
allocate and deallocate regions to a file without zeroing data or changing
i_size.

Though renamed, the structure passed in from user is identical to struct
xfs_flock64. The three fields that are actually used right now are l_whence,
l_start and l_len.

This should get ocfs2 immediate compatibility with userspace software using
the pre-existing xfs ioctls.

Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2007-07-10 17:32:09 -07:00
Sunil Mushran
baf4661a82 ocfs2: Add "preferred slot" mount option
ocfs2 will attempt to assign the node the slot# provided in the mount
option. Failure to assign the preferred slot is not an error. This small
feature can be useful for automated testing.

Signed-off-by: Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2007-07-10 17:19:54 -07:00
Christoph Lameter
a35afb830f Remove SLAB_CTOR_CONSTRUCTOR
SLAB_CTOR_CONSTRUCTOR is always specified. No point in checking it.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Steven French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz>
Cc: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-17 05:23:04 -07:00
Christoph Lameter
50953fe9e0 slab allocators: Remove SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL flag
I have never seen a use of SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL.  It is only supported by
SLAB.

I think its purpose was to have a callback after an object has been freed
to verify that the state is the constructor state again?  The callback is
performed before each freeing of an object.

I would think that it is much easier to check the object state manually
before the free.  That also places the check near the code object
manipulation of the object.

Also the SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL callback is only performed if the kernel was
compiled with SLAB debugging on.  If there would be code in a constructor
handling SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL then it would have to be conditional on
SLAB_DEBUG otherwise it would just be dead code.  But there is no such code
in the kernel.  I think SLUB_DEBUG_INITIAL is too problematic to make real
use of, difficult to understand and there are easier ways to accomplish the
same effect (i.e.  add debug code before kfree).

There is a related flag SLAB_CTOR_VERIFY that is frequently checked to be
clear in fs inode caches.  Remove the pointless checks (they would even be
pointless without removeal of SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL) from the fs constructors.

This is the last slab flag that SLUB did not support.  Remove the check for
unimplemented flags from SLUB.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-07 12:12:57 -07:00
Mark Fasheh
1ca1a111b1 ocfs2: fix sparse warnings in fs/ocfs2
None of these are actually harmful, but the noise makes looking for real
problems difficult.

Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2007-05-02 15:08:08 -07:00
Mark Fasheh
8341897882 ocfs2: Cache extent records
The extent map code was ripped out earlier because of an inability to deal
with holes. This patch adds back a simpler caching scheme requiring far less
code.

Our old extent map caching was designed back when meta data block caching in
Ocfs2 didn't work very well, resulting in many disk reads. These days our
metadata caching is much better, resulting in no un-necessary disk reads. As
a result, extent caching doesn't have to be as fancy, nor does it have to
cache as many extents. Keeping the last 3 extents seen should be sufficient
to give us a small performance boost on some streaming workloads.

Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2007-04-26 15:10:40 -07:00
Mark Fasheh
363041a5f7 ocfs2: temporarily remove extent map caching
The code in extent_map.c is not prepared to deal with a subtree being
rotated between lookups. This can happen when filling holes in sparse files.
Instead of a lengthy patch to update the code (which would likely lose the
benefit of caching subtree roots), we remove most of the algorithms and
implement a simple path based lookup. A less ambitious extent caching scheme
will be added in a later patch.

Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2007-04-26 15:01:31 -07:00
Tiger Yang
500086300e ocfs2: Remove delete inode vote
Ocfs2 currently does cluster-wide node messaging to check the open state of
an inode during delete. This patch removes that mechanism in favor of an
inode cluster lock which is taken at shared read when an inode is first read
and dropped in clear_inode(). This allows a deleting node to test the
liveness of an inode by attempting to take an exclusive lock.

Signed-off-by: Tiger Yang <tiger.yang@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2007-04-26 14:39:48 -07:00
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
Robert P. J. Day
cd86128088 [PATCH] Fix numerous kcalloc() calls, convert to kzalloc()
All kcalloc() calls of the form "kcalloc(1,...)" are converted to the
equivalent kzalloc() calls, and a few kcalloc() calls with the incorrect
ordering of the first two arguments are fixed.

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Cc: Adam Belay <ambx1@neo.rr.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-13 09:05:52 -08:00
Sunil Mushran
c271c5c22b ocfs2: local mounts
This allows users to format an ocfs2 file system with a special flag,
OCFS2_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_LOCAL_MOUNT. When the file system sees this flag, it
will not use any cluster services, nor will it require a cluster
configuration, thus acting like a 'local' file system.

Signed-off-by: Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2006-12-07 17:37:53 -08:00
Alexey Dobriyan
4a6e617a4b [PATCH] fs/*: trivial vsnprintf() conversion
It would very lame to get buffer overflow via one of the following.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:35 -08:00
Christoph Lameter
e18b890bb0 [PATCH] slab: remove kmem_cache_t
Replace all uses of kmem_cache_t with struct kmem_cache.

The patch was generated using the following script:

	#!/bin/sh
	#
	# Replace one string by another in all the kernel sources.
	#

	set -e

	for file in `find * -name "*.c" -o -name "*.h"|xargs grep -l $1`; do
		quilt add $file
		sed -e "1,\$s/$1/$2/g" $file >/tmp/$$
		mv /tmp/$$ $file
		quilt refresh
	done

The script was run like this

	sh replace kmem_cache_t "struct kmem_cache"

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:25 -08:00
Christoph Lameter
e6b4f8da3a [PATCH] slab: remove SLAB_NOFS
SLAB_NOFS is an alias of GFP_NOFS.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:23 -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
Tiger Yang
7f1a37e31f ocfs2: core atime update functions
This patch adds the core routines for updating atime in ocfs2.

Signed-off-by: Tiger Yang <tiger.yang@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2006-12-01 18:28:51 -08:00
Mark Fasheh
4bcec1847a ocfs2: remove unused handle argument from ocfs2_meta_lock_full()
Now that this is unused and all callers pass NULL, we can safely remove it.

Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2006-12-01 18:28:05 -08:00
Mark Fasheh
daf29e9cda ocfs2: remove unused ocfs2_handle_add_lock()
This gets us rid of a slab we no longer need, as well as removing the
majority of what's left on ocfs2_journal_handle.

ocfs2_commit_unstarted_handle() has no more real work to do, so remove that
function too.

Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2006-12-01 18:27:58 -08:00
Mark Fasheh
02928a71ae ocfs2: remove unused ocfs2_handle_add_inode()
We can also delete the unused infrastructure which was once in place to
support this functionality. ocfs2_inode_private loses ip_handle and
ip_handle_list. ocfs2_journal_handle loses handle_list.

Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2006-12-01 18:27:55 -08:00
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
Alexey Dobriyan
2ecd05ae68 [PATCH] fs/*: use BUILD_BUG_ON
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11 11:14:23 -07:00
Mark Fasheh
24c19ef404 ocfs2: Remove i_generation from inode lock names
OCFS2 puts inode meta data in the "lock value block" provided by the DLM.
Typically, i_generation is encoded in the lock name so that a deleted inode
on and a new one in the same block don't share the same lvb.

Unfortunately, that scheme means that the read in ocfs2_read_locked_inode()
is potentially thrown away as soon as the meta data lock is taken - we
cannot encode the lock name without first knowing i_generation, which
requires a disk read.

This patch encodes i_generation in the inode meta data lvb, and removes the
value from the inode meta data lock name. This way, the read can be covered
by a lock, and at the same time we can distinguish between an up to date and
a stale LVB.

This will help cold-cache stat(2) performance in particular.

Since this patch changes the protocol version, we take the opportunity to do
a minor re-organization of two of the LVB fields.

Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2006-09-24 13:50:46 -07:00
Mark Fasheh
1ba9da2ffa ocfs2: manually d_move() during ocfs2_rename()
Make use of FS_RENAME_DOES_D_MOVE to avoid a race condition that can occur
during ->rename() if we d_move() outside of the parent directory cluster
locks, and another node discovers the new name (created during the rename)
and unlinks it. d_move() will unconditionally rehash a dentry - which will
leave stale data in the system.

Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2006-09-24 13:50:45 -07:00
Mark Fasheh
101ebf256d ocfs2: limit cluster bitmap information saved at mount
We were storing cluster count on the ocfs2_super structure, but never
actually using it so remove that. Also, we don't want to populate the
uptodate cache with the unlocked block read - it is technically safe as is,
but we should change it for correctness.

Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2006-08-07 11:04:07 -07:00
Mark Fasheh
784270435b ocfs2: clean up some osb fields
Get rid of osb->uuid, osb->proc_sub_dir, and osb->osb_id. Those fields were
unused, or could easily be removed. As a result, we also no longer need
MAX_OSB_ID or ocfs2_globals_lock.

Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2006-06-29 16:10:13 -07:00
Mark Fasheh
a75a6e4c3a ocfs2: fix init of uuid_net_key
ocfs2_initialize_super() should be copying from the beginning of the uuid.

Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2006-06-29 16:06:43 -07:00
Sunil Mushran
781ee3e2b1 ocfs2: Cleanup message prints
Signed-off-by: Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2006-06-29 15:56:26 -07:00
David Howells
726c334223 [PATCH] VFS: Permit filesystem to perform statfs with a known root dentry
Give the statfs superblock operation a dentry pointer rather than a superblock
pointer.

This complements the get_sb() patch.  That reduced the significance of
sb->s_root, allowing NFS to place a fake root there.  However, NFS does
require a dentry to use as a target for the statfs operation.  This permits
the root in the vfsmount to be used instead.

linux/mount.h has been added where necessary to make allyesconfig build
successfully.

Interest has also been expressed for use with the FUSE and XFS filesystems.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.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
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
Mark Fasheh
b0697053f9 ocfs2: don't use MLF* in the file system
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2006-03-24 14:58:28 -08:00
Paul Jackson
fffb60f93c [PATCH] cpuset memory spread: slab cache format
Rewrap the overly long source code lines resulting from the previous
patch's addition of the slab cache flag SLAB_MEM_SPREAD.  This patch
contains only formatting changes, and no function change.

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24 07:33:23 -08:00