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Josef Bacik
22735068d5 drivers: fix up various ->llseek() implementations
Fix up a few ->llseek() implementations that won't deal with SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA
properly.  Make them future proof so that if we ever add new options they will
return -EINVAL.  Thanks,

Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 20:47:58 -04:00
Josef Bacik
06222e491e fs: handle SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA properly in all fs's that define their own llseek
This converts everybody to handle SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA properly.  In some cases
we just return -EINVAL, in others we do the normal generic thing, and in others
we're simply making sure that the properly due-dilligence is done.  For example
in NFS/CIFS we need to make sure the file size is update properly for the
SEEK_HOLE and SEEK_DATA case, but since it calls the generic llseek stuff itself
that is all we have to do.  Thanks,

Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 20:47:58 -04:00
Josef Bacik
c334b1138b Ext4: handle SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA generically
Since Ext4 has its own lseek we need to make sure it handles
SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA.  For now just do the same thing that is done in the generic
case, somebody else can come along and make it do fancy things later.  Thanks,

Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 20:47:57 -04:00
Josef Bacik
b26751575a Btrfs: implement our own ->llseek
In order to handle SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA we need to implement our own llseek.
Basically for the normal SEEK_*'s we will just defer to the generic helper, and
for SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA we will use our fiemap helper to figure out the nearest
hole or data.  Currently this helper doesn't check for delalloc bytes for
prealloc space, so for now treat prealloc as data until that is fixed.  Thanks,

Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 20:47:56 -04:00
Josef Bacik
982d816581 fs: add SEEK_HOLE and SEEK_DATA flags
This just gets us ready to support the SEEK_HOLE and SEEK_DATA flags.  Turns out
using fiemap in things like cp cause more problems than it solves, so lets try
and give userspace an interface that doesn't suck.  We need to match solaris
here, and the definitions are

*o* If /whence/ is SEEK_HOLE, the offset of the start of the
next hole greater than or equal to the supplied offset
is returned. The definition of a hole is provided near
the end of the DESCRIPTION.

*o* If /whence/ is SEEK_DATA, the file pointer is set to the
start of the next non-hole file region greater than or
equal to the supplied offset.

So in the generic case the entire file is data and there is a virtual hole at
the end.  That means we will just return i_size for SEEK_HOLE and will return
the same offset for SEEK_DATA.  This is how Solaris does it so we have to do it
the same way.

Thanks,

Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 20:47:56 -04:00
Christoph Hellwig
b4d5b10fb2 reiserfs: make reiserfs default to barrier=flush
Change the default reiserfs mount option to barrier=flush.  Based on a patch
from Jeff Mahoney in the SuSE tree.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 20:47:55 -04:00
Christoph Hellwig
00eacd66cd ext3: make ext3 mount default to barrier=1
This patch turns on barriers by default for ext3.  mount -o barrier=0
will turn them off.  Based on a patch from Chris Mason in the SuSE tree.

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Acked-by: Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 20:47:54 -04:00
Al Viro
b85fd6bdc9 don't open-code parent_ino() in assorted ->readdir()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 20:47:54 -04:00
Al Viro
2def9e4ec7 minix_getattr(): don't bother with ->d_parent
we can find superblock easier, TYVM...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 20:47:53 -04:00
Al Viro
ee60498f3e coda_venus_readdir(): use offsetof()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 20:47:52 -04:00
Al Viro
c066b65abf arm: don't create useless copies to pass into debugfs_create_dir()
its first argument is const char * and it's really not modified...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 20:47:52 -04:00
Al Viro
12520c438f switch assorted clock drivers to debugfs_remove_recursive()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 20:47:51 -04:00
Kay Sievers
f15146380d fs: seq_file - add event counter to simplify poll() support
Moving the event counter into the dynamically allocated 'struc seq_file'
allows poll() support without the need to allocate its own tracking
structure.

All current users are switched over to use the new counter.

Requested-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org
Acked-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Tested-by: Lucas De Marchi lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 20:47:50 -04:00
Christoph Hellwig
72c5052ddc fs: move inode_dio_done to the end_io handler
For filesystems that delay their end_io processing we should keep our
i_dio_count until the the processing is done.  Enable this by moving
the inode_dio_done call to the end_io handler if one exist.  Note that
the actual move to the workqueue for ext4 and XFS is not done in
this patch yet, but left to the filesystem maintainers.  At least
for XFS it's not needed yet either as XFS has an internal equivalent
to i_dio_count.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 20:47:50 -04:00
Christoph Hellwig
aacfc19c62 fs: simplify the blockdev_direct_IO prototype
Simple filesystems always pass inode->i_sb_bdev as the block device
argument, and never need a end_io handler.  Let's simply things for
them and for my grepping activity by dropping these arguments.  The
only thing not falling into that scheme is ext4, which passes and
end_io handler without needing special flags (yet), but given how
messy the direct I/O code there is use of __blockdev_direct_IO
in one instead of two out of three cases isn't going to make a large
difference anyway.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 20:47:49 -04:00
Christoph Hellwig
df2d6f2658 fs: always maintain i_dio_count
Maintain i_dio_count for all filesystems, not just those using DIO_LOCKING.
This these filesystems to also protect truncate against direct I/O requests
by using common code.  Right now the only non-DIO_LOCKING filesystem that
appears to do so is XFS, which uses an opencoded variant of the i_dio_count
scheme.

Behaviour doesn't change for filesystems never calling inode_dio_wait.
For ext4 behaviour changes when using the dioread_nonlock option, which
previously was missing any protection between truncate and direct I/O reads.
For ocfs2 that handcrafted i_dio_count manipulations are replaced with
the common code now enable.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 20:47:48 -04:00
Christoph Hellwig
562c72aa57 fs: move inode_dio_wait calls into ->setattr
Let filesystems handle waiting for direct I/O requests themselves instead
of doing it beforehand.  This means filesystem-specific locks to prevent
new dio referenes from appearing can be held.  This is important to allow
generalizing i_dio_count to non-DIO_LOCKING filesystems.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 20:47:47 -04:00
Christoph Hellwig
11b80f459a rw_semaphore: remove up/down_read_non_owner
Now that the last users is gone these can be removed.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 20:47:47 -04:00
Christoph Hellwig
bd5fe6c5eb fs: kill i_alloc_sem
i_alloc_sem is a rather special rw_semaphore.  It's the last one that may
be released by a non-owner, and it's write side is always mirrored by
real exclusion.  It's intended use it to wait for all pending direct I/O
requests to finish before starting a truncate.

Replace it with a hand-grown construct:

 - exclusion for truncates is already guaranteed by i_mutex, so it can
   simply fall way
 - the reader side is replaced by an i_dio_count member in struct inode
   that counts the number of pending direct I/O requests.  Truncate can't
   proceed as long as it's non-zero
 - when i_dio_count reaches non-zero we wake up a pending truncate using
   wake_up_bit on a new bit in i_flags
 - new references to i_dio_count can't appear while we are waiting for
   it to read zero because the direct I/O count always needs i_mutex
   (or an equivalent like XFS's i_iolock) for starting a new operation.

This scheme is much simpler, and saves the space of a spinlock_t and a
struct list_head in struct inode (typically 160 bits on a non-debug 64-bit
system).

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 20:47:46 -04:00
Christoph Hellwig
f9b5570d7f fs: simplify handling of zero sized reads in __blockdev_direct_IO
Reject zero sized reads as soon as we know our I/O length, and don't
borther with locks or allocations that might have to be cleaned up
otherwise.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 20:47:45 -04:00
Jan Kara
9ea7df534e ext4: Rewrite ext4_page_mkwrite() to use generic helpers
Rewrite ext4_page_mkwrite() to use __block_page_mkwrite() helper. This
removes the need of using i_alloc_sem to avoid races with truncate which
seems to be the wrong locking order according to lock ordering documented in
mm/rmap.c. Also calling ext4_da_write_begin() as used by the old code seems to
be problematic because we can decide to flush delay-allocated blocks which
will acquire s_umount semaphore - again creating unpleasant lock dependency
if not directly a deadlock.

Also add a check for frozen filesystem so that we don't busyloop in page fault
when the filesystem is frozen.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 20:47:45 -04:00
Christoph Hellwig
5826869158 fat: remove i_alloc_sem abuse
Add a new rw_semaphore to protect bmap against truncate.  Previous
i_alloc_sem was abused for this, but it's going away in this series.

Note that we can't simply use i_mutex, given that the swapon code
calls ->bmap under it.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 20:47:44 -04:00
Tobias Klauser
8c5dc70aae VFS: Fixup kerneldoc for generic_permission()
The flags parameter went away in
d749519b444db985e40b897f73ce1898b11f997e

Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 20:47:43 -04:00
Tomasz Stanislawski
e46ebd2782 anonfd: fix missing declaration
The forward declaration of struct file_operations is
added to avoid compilation warnings.

Signed-off-by: Tomasz Stanislawski <t.stanislaws@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 20:47:43 -04:00
Dave Chinner
8daaa83145 xfs: make use of new shrinker callout for the inode cache
Convert the inode reclaim shrinker to use the new per-sb shrinker
operations. This allows much bigger reclaim batches to be used, and
allows the XFS inode cache to be shrunk in proportion with the VFS
dentry and inode caches. This avoids the problem of the VFS caches
being shrunk significantly before the XFS inode cache is shrunk
resulting in imbalances in the caches during reclaim.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 20:47:42 -04:00
Dave Chinner
8ab47664d5 vfs: increase shrinker batch size
Now that the per-sb shrinker is responsible for shrinking 2 or more
caches, increase the batch size to keep econmies of scale for
shrinking each cache.  Increase the shrinker batch size to 1024
objects.

To allow for a large increase in batch size, add a conditional
reschedule to prune_icache_sb() so that we don't hold the LRU spin
lock for too long. This mirrors the behaviour of the
__shrink_dcache_sb(), and allows us to increase the batch size
without needing to worry about problems caused by long lock hold
times.

To ensure that filesystems using the per-sb shrinker callouts don't
cause problems, document that the object freeing method must
reschedule appropriately inside loops.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 20:47:41 -04:00
Dave Chinner
0e1fdafd93 superblock: add filesystem shrinker operations
Now we have a per-superblock shrinker implementation, we can add a
filesystem specific callout to it to allow filesystem internal
caches to be shrunk by the superblock shrinker.

Rather than perpetuate the multipurpose shrinker callback API (i.e.
nr_to_scan == 0 meaning "tell me how many objects freeable in the
cache), two operations will be added. The first will return the
number of objects that are freeable, the second is the actual
shrinker call.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 20:47:41 -04:00
Dave Chinner
4f8c19fdf3 inode: remove iprune_sem
Now that we have per-sb shrinkers with a lifecycle that is a subset
of the superblock lifecycle and can reliably detect a filesystem
being unmounted, there is not longer any race condition for the
iprune_sem to protect against. Hence we can remove it.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 20:47:40 -04:00
Dave Chinner
b0d40c92ad superblock: introduce per-sb cache shrinker infrastructure
With context based shrinkers, we can implement a per-superblock
shrinker that shrinks the caches attached to the superblock. We
currently have global shrinkers for the inode and dentry caches that
split up into per-superblock operations via a coarse proportioning
method that does not batch very well.  The global shrinkers also
have a dependency - dentries pin inodes - so we have to be very
careful about how we register the global shrinkers so that the
implicit call order is always correct.

With a per-sb shrinker callout, we can encode this dependency
directly into the per-sb shrinker, hence avoiding the need for
strictly ordering shrinker registrations. We also have no need for
any proportioning code for the shrinker subsystem already provides
this functionality across all shrinkers. Allowing the shrinker to
operate on a single superblock at a time means that we do less
superblock list traversals and locking and reclaim should batch more
effectively. This should result in less CPU overhead for reclaim and
potentially faster reclaim of items from each filesystem.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 20:47:10 -04:00
Dave Chinner
12ad3ab661 superblock: move pin_sb_for_writeback() to fs/super.c
The per-sb shrinker has the same requirement as the writeback
threads of ensuring that the superblock is usable and pinned for the
time it takes to run the work. Both need to take a passive reference
to the sb, take a read lock on the s_umount lock and then only
continue if an unmount is not in progress.

pin_sb_for_writeback() does this exactly, so move it to fs/super.c
and rename it to grab_super_passive() and exporting it via
fs/internal.h for all the VFS code to be able to use.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 01:44:38 -04:00
Dave Chinner
09cc9fc7a7 inode: move to per-sb LRU locks
With the inode LRUs moving to per-sb structures, there is no longer
a need for a global inode_lru_lock. The locking can be made more
fine-grained by moving to a per-sb LRU lock, isolating the LRU
operations of different filesytsems completely from each other.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 01:44:36 -04:00
Dave Chinner
98b745c647 inode: Make unused inode LRU per superblock
The inode unused list is currently a global LRU. This does not match
the other global filesystem cache - the dentry cache - which uses
per-superblock LRU lists. Hence we have related filesystem object
types using different LRU reclaimation schemes.

To enable a per-superblock filesystem cache shrinker, both of these
caches need to have per-sb unused object LRU lists. Hence this patch
converts the global inode LRU to per-sb LRUs.

The patch only does rudimentary per-sb propotioning in the shrinker
infrastructure, as this gets removed when the per-sb shrinker
callouts are introduced later on.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 01:44:35 -04:00
Dave Chinner
fcb94f72d3 inode: convert inode_stat.nr_unused to per-cpu counters
Before we split up the inode_lru_lock, the unused inode counter
needs to be made independent of the global inode_lru_lock. Convert
it to per-cpu counters to do this.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 01:44:34 -04:00
Dave Chinner
e9299f5058 vmscan: add customisable shrinker batch size
For shrinkers that have their own cond_resched* calls, having
shrink_slab break the work down into small batches is not
paticularly efficient. Add a custom batchsize field to the struct
shrinker so that shrinkers can use a larger batch size if they
desire.

A value of zero (uninitialised) means "use the default", so
behaviour is unchanged by this patch.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 01:44:32 -04:00
Dave Chinner
3567b59aa8 vmscan: reduce wind up shrinker->nr when shrinker can't do work
When a shrinker returns -1 to shrink_slab() to indicate it cannot do
any work given the current memory reclaim requirements, it adds the
entire total_scan count to shrinker->nr. The idea ehind this is that
whenteh shrinker is next called and can do work, it will do the work
of the previously aborted shrinker call as well.

However, if a filesystem is doing lots of allocation with GFP_NOFS
set, then we get many, many more aborts from the shrinkers than we
do successful calls. The result is that shrinker->nr winds up to
it's maximum permissible value (twice the current cache size) and
then when the next shrinker call that can do work is issued, it
has enough scan count built up to free the entire cache twice over.

This manifests itself in the cache going from full to empty in a
matter of seconds, even when only a small part of the cache is
needed to be emptied to free sufficient memory.

Under metadata intensive workloads on ext4 and XFS, I'm seeing the
VFS caches increase memory consumption up to 75% of memory (no page
cache pressure) over a period of 30-60s, and then the shrinker
empties them down to zero in the space of 2-3s. This cycle repeats
over and over again, with the shrinker completely trashing the inode
and dentry caches every minute or so the workload continues.

This behaviour was made obvious by the shrink_slab tracepoints added
earlier in the series, and made worse by the patch that corrected
the concurrent accounting of shrinker->nr.

To avoid this problem, stop repeated small increments of the total
scan value from winding shrinker->nr up to a value that can cause
the entire cache to be freed. We still need to allow it to wind up,
so use the delta as the "large scan" threshold check - if the delta
is more than a quarter of the entire cache size, then it is a large
scan and allowed to cause lots of windup because we are clearly
needing to free lots of memory.

If it isn't a large scan then limit the total scan to half the size
of the cache so that windup never increases to consume the whole
cache. Reducing the total scan limit further does not allow enough
wind-up to maintain the current levels of performance, whilst a
higher threshold does not prevent the windup from freeing the entire
cache under sustained workloads.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 01:44:31 -04:00
Dave Chinner
acf92b485c vmscan: shrinker->nr updates race and go wrong
shrink_slab() allows shrinkers to be called in parallel so the
struct shrinker can be updated concurrently. It does not provide any
exclusio for such updates, so we can get the shrinker->nr value
increasing or decreasing incorrectly.

As a result, when a shrinker repeatedly returns a value of -1 (e.g.
a VFS shrinker called w/ GFP_NOFS), the shrinker->nr goes haywire,
sometimes updating with the scan count that wasn't used, sometimes
losing it altogether. Worse is when a shrinker does work and that
update is lost due to racy updates, which means the shrinker will do
the work again!

Fix this by making the total_scan calculations independent of
shrinker->nr, and making the shrinker->nr updates atomic w.r.t. to
other updates via cmpxchg loops.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 01:44:29 -04:00
Dave Chinner
095760730c vmscan: add shrink_slab tracepoints
It is impossible to understand what the shrinkers are actually doing
without instrumenting the code, so add a some tracepoints to allow
insight to be gained.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 01:44:27 -04:00
Al Viro
a9049376ee make d_splice_alias(ERR_PTR(err), dentry) = ERR_PTR(err)
... and simplify the living hell out of callers

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 01:44:26 -04:00
Al Viro
0c1aa9a952 deuglify squashfs_lookup()
d_splice_alias(NULL, dentry) is equivalent to d_add(dentry, NULL), NULL
so no need for that if (inode) ... in there (or ERR_PTR(0), for that
matter)

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 01:44:24 -04:00
Al Viro
5b4b299cc7 nfsd4_list_rec_dir(): don't bother with reopening rec_file
just rewind it to the beginning before vfs_readdir() and be
done with that...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 01:44:23 -04:00
Al Viro
e7f5909707 kill useless checks for sb->s_op == NULL
never is...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 01:44:21 -04:00
Al Viro
0ee5dc676a btrfs: kill magical embedded struct superblock
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 01:44:20 -04:00
Al Viro
fb408e6ccc get rid of pointless checks for dentry->sb == NULL
it never is...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 01:44:19 -04:00
Al Viro
a4464dbc0c Make ->d_sb assign-once and always non-NULL
New helper (non-exported, fs/internal.h-only): __d_alloc(sb, name).
Allocates dentry, sets its ->d_sb to given superblock and sets
->d_op accordingly.  Old d_alloc(NULL, name) callers are converted
to that (all of them know what superblock they want).  d_alloc()
itself is left only for parent != NULl case; uses __d_alloc(),
inserts result into the list of parent's children.

Note that now ->d_sb is assign-once and never NULL *and*
->d_parent is never NULL either.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 01:44:17 -04:00
Al Viro
e3c3d9c838 unexport kern_path_parent()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 01:44:16 -04:00
Al Viro
e0a0124936 switch vfs_path_lookup() to struct path
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 01:44:14 -04:00
Al Viro
ed75e95de5 kill lookup_create()
folded into the only caller (kern_path_create())

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 01:44:12 -04:00
Al Viro
5da4e68944 devtmpfs: get rid of bogus mkdir in create_path()
We do _NOT_ want to mkdir the path itself - we are preparing to
mknod it, after all.  Normally it'll fail with -ENOENT and
just do nothing, but if somebody has created the parent in
the meanwhile, we'll get buggered...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 01:44:11 -04:00
Al Viro
69753a0f14 switch devtmpfs to kern_path_create()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 01:44:10 -04:00
Al Viro
2780f1ff6a switch devtmpfs object creation/removal to separate kernel thread
... and give it a namespace where devtmpfs would be mounted on root,
thus avoiding abuses of vfs_path_lookup() (it was never intended to
be used with LOOKUP_PARENT).  Games with credentials are also gone.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 01:44:09 -04:00