We don't care about whether or not some other process on our client is
changing the directory while we're in nfs_lookup_revalidate(), because the
dcache will take care of ensuring local atomicity.
We can therefore remove the test for nfs_caches_unstable().
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
NFSv3 will correctly update atime on a readdir call, so there is no need to
set the NFS_INO_INVALID_ATIME flag unless the call to nfs_refresh_inode()
fails.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
We don't need to force a dentry lookup just because we're making changes to
the directory.
Don't update nfsi->cache_change_attribute in nfs_end_data_update: that
overrides the NFSv3/v4 weak consistency checking that tells us our update
was the only one, and that tells us the dcache is still valid.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Currently, _nfs4_do_access() is just a copy of nfs_do_access() with added
conversion of the open flags into an access mask. This patch merges the
duplicate functionality.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
nfs_set_verifier() and nfs_refresh_verifier() do exactly the same thing, so
replace one with the other.
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
The nfs_renew_times() function plants the current time in jiffies in
dentry->d_time. But a call to nfs_renew_times() is always followed by
another call that overwrites dentry->d_time. Get rid of the
nfs_renew_times() calls.
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Negative dentries need to be reverified after an asynchronous unlink.
Quoth Trond:
"Unfortunately I don't think that we can avoid revalidating the
resulting negative dentry since the UNLINK call is asynchronous,
and so the new verifier on the directory will only be known a
posteriori."
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
I would like to discuss the idea that the current checks for attribute
timeout using time_after are inadequate for 32bit architectures, since
time_after works correctly only when the two timestamps being compared
are within 2^31 jiffies of each other. The signed overflow caused by
comparing values more than 2^31 jiffies apart will flip the result,
causing incorrect assumptions of validity.
2^31 jiffies is a fairly large period of time (~25 days) when compared
to the lifetime of most kernel data structures, but for long lived NFS
mounts that can sit idle for months (think that for some reason autofs
cannot be used), it is easy to compare inode attribute timestamps with
very disparate or even bogus values (as in when jiffies have wrapped
many times, where the comparison doesn't even make sense).
Currently the code tests for attribute timeout by simply adding the
desired amount of jiffies to the stored timestamp and comparing that
with the current timestamp of obtained attribute data with time_after.
This is incorrect, as it returns true for the desired timeout period
and another full 2^31 range of jiffies.
In testing with artificial jumps (several small jumps, not one big
crank) of the jiffies I was able to reproduce a problem found in a
server with very long lived NFS mounts, where attributes would not be
refreshed even after touching files and directories in the server:
Initial uptime:
03:42:01 up 6 min, 0 users, load average: 0.01, 0.12, 0.07
NFS volume is mounted and time is advanced:
03:38:09 up 25 days, 2 min, 0 users, load average: 1.22, 1.05, 1.08
# ls -l /local/A/foo/bar /nfs/A/foo/bar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 17 03:38 /local/A/foo/bar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Nov 22 00:36 /nfs/A/foo/bar
# touch /local/A/foo/bar
# ls -l /local/A/foo/bar /nfs/A/foo/bar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 17 03:47 /local/A/foo/bar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Nov 22 00:36 /nfs/A/foo/bar
We can see the local mtime is updated, but the NFS mount still shows
the old value. The patch below makes it work:
Initial setup...
07:11:02 up 25 days, 1 min, 0 users, load average: 0.15, 0.03, 0.04
# ls -l /local/A/foo/bar /nfs/A/foo/bar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 11 07:11 /local/A/foo/bar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 11 07:11 /nfs/A/foo/bar
# touch /local/A/foo/bar
# ls -l /local/A/foo/bar /nfs/A/foo/bar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 11 07:14 /local/A/foo/bar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 11 07:14 /nfs/A/foo/bar
Signed-off-by: Fabio Olive Leite <fleite@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Hi.
Attached is a patch to modify the NFS client code to support
64 bit ino's, as appropriate for the system and the NFS
protocol version.
The code basically just expand the NFS interfaces for routines
which handle ino's from using ino_t to u64 and then uses the
fileid in the nfs_inode instead of i_ino in the inode. The
code paths that were updated are in the getattr method and
the readdir methods.
This should be no real change on 64 bit platforms. Since
the ino_t is an unsigned long, it would already be 64 bits
wide.
Thanx...
ps
Signed-off-by: Peter Staubach <staubach@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
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>
Fix a couple of bugs:
- Don't rely on the parent dentry still being valid when the call completes.
Fixes a race with shrink_dcache_for_umount_subtree()
- Don't remove the file if the filehandle has been labelled as stale.
Fix a couple of inefficiencies
- Remove the global list of sillyrenamed files. Instead we can cache the
sillyrename information in the dentry->d_fsdata
- Move common code from unlink_setup/unlink_done into fs/nfs/unlink.c
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
nfs_symlink() allocates a GFP_KERNEL page for the pagecache. Most
pagecache pages are allocated using GFP_HIGHUSER, and there's no reason
not to do that in nfs_symlink() as well.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
We don't need to revalidate the fsid on the root directory. It suffices to
revalidate it on the current directory.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
A number of race conditions may currently ensue if the user presses ^C
and then unmounts the partition while an asynchronous open() is in
progress.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
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>
- fs/nfs/dir.c:610:8: warning: symbol 'nfs_llseek_dir' was not declared.
Should it be static?
- fs/nfs/dir.c:636:5: warning: symbol 'nfs_fsync_dir' was not declared.
Should it be static?
- fs/nfs/write.c:925:19: warning: symbol 'req' shadows an earlier one
- fs/nfs/write.c:61:6: warning: symbol 'nfs_commit_rcu_free' was not
declared. Should it be static?
- fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c:793:5: warning: symbol 'nfs4_recover_expired_lease'
was not declared. Should it be static?
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
The check for nfs_attribute_timeout(dir) in nfs_check_verifier is
redundant: nfs_lookup_revalidate() will already call nfs_revalidate_inode()
on the parent dir when necessary.
The only case where this is not done is the case of a negative dentry. Fix
this case by moving up the revalidation code.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
dentry verifiers are always set to the parent directory's
cache_change_attribute. There is no reason to be testing for anything other
than equality when we're trying to find out if the dentry has been checked
since the last time the directory was modified.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Ensure pages are uptodate after returning from read_cache_page, which allows
us to cut out most of the filesystem-internal PageUptodate calls.
I didn't have a great look down the call chains, but this appears to fixes 7
possible use-before uptodate in hfs, 2 in hfsplus, 1 in jfs, a few in
ecryptfs, 1 in jffs2, and a possible cleared data overwritten with readpage in
block2mtd. All depending on whether the filler is async and/or can return
with a !uptodate page.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Try running this script in an NFS mounted directory (Client relatively
recent - 2.6.18 has the problem as does 2.6.20).
------------------------------------------------------
#!/bin/bash
#
# This script will produce the following errormessage from tar:
#
# tar: newdir/innerdir/innerfile: file changed as we read it
# create dirs
rm -rf nfstest
mkdir -p nfstest/dir/innerdir
# create files (should not be empty)
echo "Hello World!" >nfstest/dir/file
echo "Hello World!" >nfstest/dir/innerdir/innerfile
# problem only happens if we sleep before chmod
sleep 1
# change file modes
chmod -R a+r nfstest
# rename dir
mv nfstest/dir nfstest/newdir
# tar it
tar -cf nfstest/nfstest.tar -C nfstest newdir
# restore old dir name
mv nfstest/newdir nfstest/dir
--------------------------------------------------------
What happens:
The 'chmod -R' does a readdir_plus in each directory and the results
get cached in the page cache. It then updates the ctime on each file
by one second. When this happens, the post-op attributes are used to
update the ctime stored on the client to match the value in the kernel.
The 'mv' calls shrink_dcache_parent on the directory tree which
flushes all the dentries (so a new lookup will be required) but
doesn't flush the inodes or pagecache.
The 'tar' does a readdir on each directory, but (in the case of
'innerdir' at least) satisfies it from the pagecache and uses the
READDIRPLUS data to update all the inodes. In the case of
'innerdir/innerfile', the ctime is out of date.
'tar' then calls 'lstat' on innerdir/innerfile getting an old ctime.
It then opens the file (triggering a GETATTR), reads the content, and
then calls fstat to see if anything has changed. It finds that ctime
has changed and so complains.
The problem seems to be that the cache readdirplus info is kept around
for too long.
My patch below discards pagecache data for directories when
dentry_iput is called on them. This effectively removes the symptom
which convinces me that I correctly understand the problem. However
I'm not convinced that is a proper solution, as there could easily be
other races that trigger the same problem without being affected by
this 'fix'.
One possibility would be to require that readdirplus pagecache data be
only used *once* to instantiate an inode. Somehow it should then be
invalidated so that if the dentry subsequently disappears, it will
cause a new request to the server to fill in the stat data.
Another possibility is to compare the cache_change_attribute on the
inode with something similar for the readdirplus info and reject the
info from readdirplus if it is too old.
I haven't tried to implement these and would value other opinions
before I do.
Thanks,
NeilBrown
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Don't use uninitialsed value for fattr->time_start in readdirplus results.
The 'fattr' structure filled in by nfs3_decode_direct does not get a
value for ->time_start set.
Thus if an entry is for an inode that we already have in cache,
when nfs_readdir_lookup calls nfs_fhget, it will call nfs_refresh_inode
and may update the inode with out-of-date information.
Directories are read a page at a time, so each page could have a
different timestamp that "should" be used to set the time_start for
the fattr for info in that page. However storing the timestamp per
page is awkward. (We could stick in the first 4 bytes and only read 4092
bytes, but that is a bigger code change than I am interested it).
This patch ignores the readdir_plus attributes if a readdir finds the
information already in cache, and otherwise sets ->time_start to the time
the readdir request was sent to the server.
It might be nice to store - in the directory inode - the time stamp for
the earliest readdir request that is still in the page cache, so that we
don't ignore attribute data that we don't have to. This patch doesn't do
that.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
It looks like nfs_setattr() and nfs_rename() also need to test whether the
target is a regular file before calling nfs_wb_all()...
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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>
nfs_lookup_revalidate and friends are not serialised, so it is currently
quite possible for the dentry to be revalidated, and then have the
updated verifier replaced with an older value by another process.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
If the fileid of the cached dentry fails to match that returned by
the readdir call, then we should also d_drop. Try to take into account the
fact that on NFSv4, readdir may return the "mounted_on_fileid" by looking
for submounts.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Make sure that nfs_readdir_lookup() handles negative dentries correctly.
If d_lookup() returns a negative dentry, then we need to d_drop() that
since readdir shows that it should be positive.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
When a file is being scheduled for deletion by means of the sillyrename
mechanism, it makes sense to start out writeback of the dirty data as
soon as possible in order to ensure that the delete can occur. Examples of
cases where this is an issue include "rm -rf", which will busy-wait until
the file is closed, and the sillyrename completes.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Prevent the call to invalidate_inode_pages2() from racing with file writes
by taking the inode->i_mutex across the page cache flush and invalidate.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Change all the uses of f_{dentry,vfsmnt} to f_path.{dentry,mnt} in the nfs
client code.
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>
If someone has renamed a directory on the server, triggering the d_move
code in d_materialise_unique(), then we need to invalidate the cached
directory information in the source parent directory.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
If the caller tries to instantiate a directory using an inode that already
has a dentry alias, then we attempt to rename the existing dentry instead
of instantiating a new one. Fail with an ELOOP error if the rename would
affect one of our parent directories.
This behaviour is needed in order to avoid issues such as
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7178
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
on-the-wire data is big-endian
[in large part pulled from Alexey's patch]
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Acked-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The original code confused a zero return code from pagevec_add() as success.
Test plan:
None.
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
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>
If invalidate_inode_pages2() fails, then it should in principle just be
because the current process was signalled. In that case, we just want to
ensure that the inode's page cache remains marked as invalid.
Also add a helper to allow the O_DIRECT code to simply mark the page cache as
invalid once it is finished writing, instead of calling
invalidate_inode_pages2() itself.
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>
Some filesystems, instead of simply decrementing i_nlink, simply zero it
during an unlink operation. We need to catch these in addition to the
decrement operations.
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>
When a filesystem decrements i_nlink to zero, it means that a write must be
performed in order to drop the inode from the filesystem.
We're shortly going to have keep filesystems from being remounted r/o between
the time that this i_nlink decrement and that write occurs.
So, add a little helper function to do the decrements. We'll tie into it in a
bit to note when i_nlink hits zero.
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>
Some file systems want to manually d_move() the dentries involved in a
rename. We can do this by making use of the FS_ODD_RENAME flag if we just
have nfs_rename() unconditionally do the d_move(). While there, we rename
the flag to be more descriptive.
OCFS2 uses this to protect that part of the rename operation with a cluster
lock.
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
If the open intents tell us that a given lookup is going to result in a,
exclusive create, we currently optimize away the lookup call itself. The
reason is that the lookup would not be atomic with the create RPC call, so
why do it in the first place?
A problem occurs, however, if the VFS aborts the exclusive create operation
after the lookup, but before the call to create the file/directory: in this
case we will end up with a hashed negative dentry in the dcache that has
never been looked up.
Fix this by only actually hashing the dentry once the create operation has
been successfully completed.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Now that we have a copy of the symlink path in the page cache, we can pass
a struct page down to the XDR routines instead of a string buffer.
Test plan:
Connectathon, all NFS versions.
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Currently the NFS client does not cache symlinks it creates. They get
cached only when the NFS client reads them back from the server.
Copy the symlink into the page cache before sending it.
Test plan:
Connectathon, all NFS versions.
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
If the LOOKUP or GETATTR in nfs_instantiate fail, nfs_instantiate will do a
d_drop before returning. But some callers already do a d_drop in the case
of an error return. Make certain we do only one d_drop in all error paths.
This issue was introduced because over time, the symlink proc API diverged
slightly from the create/mkdir/mknod proc API. To prevent other coding
mistakes of this type, change the symlink proc API to be more like
create/mkdir/mknod and move the nfs_instantiate call into the symlink proc
routines so it is used in exactly the same way for create, mkdir, mknod,
and symlink.
Test plan:
Connectathon, all versions of NFS.
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
In the early days of NFS, there was no duplicate reply cache on the server.
Thus retransmitted non-idempotent requests often found that the request had
already completed on the server. To avoid passing an unanticipated return
code to unsuspecting applications, NFS clients would often shunt error
codes that implied the request had been retried but already completed.
Thanks to NFS over TCP, duplicate reply caches on the server, and network
performance and reliability improvements, it is safe to remove such checks.
Test plan:
None.
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
The attached patch makes NFS share superblocks between mounts from the same
server and FSID over the same protocol.
It does this by creating each superblock with a false root and returning the
real root dentry in the vfsmount presented by get_sb(). The root dentry set
starts off as an anonymous dentry if we don't already have the dentry for its
inode, otherwise it simply returns the dentry we already have.
We may thus end up with several trees of dentries in the superblock, and if at
some later point one of anonymous tree roots is discovered by normal filesystem
activity to be located in another tree within the superblock, the anonymous
root is named and materialises attached to the second tree at the appropriate
point.
Why do it this way? Why not pass an extra argument to the mount() syscall to
indicate the subpath and then pathwalk from the server root to the desired
directory? You can't guarantee this will work for two reasons:
(1) The root and intervening nodes may not be accessible to the client.
With NFS2 and NFS3, for instance, mountd is called on the server to get
the filehandle for the tip of a path. mountd won't give us handles for
anything we don't have permission to access, and so we can't set up NFS
inodes for such nodes, and so can't easily set up dentries (we'd have to
have ghost inodes or something).
With this patch we don't actually create dentries until we get handles
from the server that we can use to set up their inodes, and we don't
actually bind them into the tree until we know for sure where they go.
(2) Inaccessible symbolic links.
If we're asked to mount two exports from the server, eg:
mount warthog:/warthog/aaa/xxx /mmm
mount warthog:/warthog/bbb/yyy /nnn
We may not be able to access anything nearer the root than xxx and yyy,
but we may find out later that /mmm/www/yyy, say, is actually the same
directory as the one mounted on /nnn. What we might then find out, for
example, is that /warthog/bbb was actually a symbolic link to
/warthog/aaa/xxx/www, but we can't actually determine that by talking to
the server until /warthog is made available by NFS.
This would lead to having constructed an errneous dentry tree which we
can't easily fix. We can end up with a dentry marked as a directory when
it should actually be a symlink, or we could end up with an apparently
hardlinked directory.
With this patch we need not make assumptions about the type of a dentry
for which we can't retrieve information, nor need we assume we know its
place in the grand scheme of things until we actually see that place.
This patch reduces the possibility of aliasing in the inode and page caches for
inodes that may be accessed by more than one NFS export. It also reduces the
number of superblocks required for NFS where there are many NFS exports being
used from a server (home directory server + autofs for example).
This in turn makes it simpler to do local caching of network filesystems, as it
can then be guaranteed that there won't be links from multiple inodes in
separate superblocks to the same cache file.
Obviously, cache aliasing between different levels of NFS protocol could still
be a problem, but at least that gives us another key to use when indexing the
cache.
This patch makes the following changes:
(1) The server record construction/destruction has been abstracted out into
its own set of functions to make things easier to get right. These have
been moved into fs/nfs/client.c.
All the code in fs/nfs/client.c has to do with the management of
connections to servers, and doesn't touch superblocks in any way; the
remaining code in fs/nfs/super.c has to do with VFS superblock management.
(2) The sequence of events undertaken by NFS mount is now reordered:
(a) A volume representation (struct nfs_server) is allocated.
(b) A server representation (struct nfs_client) is acquired. This may be
allocated or shared, and is keyed on server address, port and NFS
version.
(c) If allocated, the client representation is initialised. The state
member variable of nfs_client is used to prevent a race during
initialisation from two mounts.
(d) For NFS4 a simple pathwalk is performed, walking from FH to FH to find
the root filehandle for the mount (fs/nfs/getroot.c). For NFS2/3 we
are given the root FH in advance.
(e) The volume FSID is probed for on the root FH.
(f) The volume representation is initialised from the FSINFO record
retrieved on the root FH.
(g) sget() is called to acquire a superblock. This may be allocated or
shared, keyed on client pointer and FSID.
(h) If allocated, the superblock is initialised.
(i) If the superblock is shared, then the new nfs_server record is
discarded.
(j) The root dentry for this mount is looked up from the root FH.
(k) The root dentry for this mount is assigned to the vfsmount.
(3) nfs_readdir_lookup() creates dentries for each of the entries readdir()
returns; this function now attaches disconnected trees from alternate
roots that happen to be discovered attached to a directory being read (in
the same way nfs_lookup() is made to do for lookup ops).
The new d_materialise_unique() function is now used to do this, thus
permitting the whole thing to be done under one set of locks, and thus
avoiding any race between mount and lookup operations on the same
directory.
(4) The client management code uses a new debug facility: NFSDBG_CLIENT which
is set by echoing 1024 to /proc/net/sunrpc/nfs_debug.
(5) Clone mounts are now called xdev mounts.
(6) Use the dentry passed to the statfs() op as the handle for retrieving fs
statistics rather than the root dentry of the superblock (which is now a
dummy).
Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Move the rpc_ops from the nfs_server struct to the nfs_client struct as they're
common to all server records of a particular NFS protocol version.
Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
