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Jens Axboe
7eaceaccab block: remove per-queue plugging
Code has been converted over to the new explicit on-stack plugging,
and delay users have been converted to use the new API for that.
So lets kill off the old plugging along with aops->sync_page().

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-10 08:52:07 +01:00
Al Viro
c35eebe993 switch fuse
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-01-12 20:02:44 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
7d44b04401 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse:
  fuse: fix ioctl ABI
  fuse: allow batching of FORGET requests
  fuse: separate queue for FORGET requests
  fuse: ioctl cleanup

Fix up trivial conflict in fs/fuse/inode.c due to RCU lookup having done
the RCU-freeing of the inode in fuse_destroy_inode().
2011-01-10 07:43:54 -08:00
Nick Piggin
fb045adb99 fs: dcache reduce branches in lookup path
Reduce some branches and memory accesses in dcache lookup by adding dentry
flags to indicate common d_ops are set, rather than having to check them.
This saves a pointer memory access (dentry->d_op) in common path lookup
situations, and saves another pointer load and branch in cases where we
have d_op but not the particular operation.

Patched with:

git grep -E '[.>]([[:space:]])*d_op([[:space:]])*=' | xargs sed -e 's/\([^\t ]*\)->d_op = \(.*\);/d_set_d_op(\1, \2);/' -e 's/\([^\t ]*\)\.d_op = \(.*\);/d_set_d_op(\&\1, \2);/' -i

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:28 +11:00
Nick Piggin
fa0d7e3de6 fs: icache RCU free inodes
RCU free the struct inode. This will allow:

- Subsequent store-free path walking patch. The inode must be consulted for
  permissions when walking, so an RCU inode reference is a must.
- sb_inode_list_lock to be moved inside i_lock because sb list walkers who want
  to take i_lock no longer need to take sb_inode_list_lock to walk the list in
  the first place. This will simplify and optimize locking.
- Could remove some nested trylock loops in dcache code
- Could potentially simplify things a bit in VM land. Do not need to take the
  page lock to follow page->mapping.

The downsides of this is the performance cost of using RCU. In a simple
creat/unlink microbenchmark, performance drops by about 10% due to inability to
reuse cache-hot slab objects. As iterations increase and RCU freeing starts
kicking over, this increases to about 20%.

In cases where inode lifetimes are longer (ie. many inodes may be allocated
during the average life span of a single inode), a lot of this cache reuse is
not applicable, so the regression caused by this patch is smaller.

The cache-hot regression could largely be avoided by using SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU,
however this adds some complexity to list walking and store-free path walking,
so I prefer to implement this at a later date, if it is shown to be a win in
real situations. I haven't found a regression in any non-micro benchmark so I
doubt it will be a problem.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:26 +11:00
Miklos Szeredi
07e77dca8a fuse: separate queue for FORGET requests
Terje Malmedal reports that a fuse filesystem with 32 million inodes
on a machine with lots of memory can go unresponsive for up to 30
minutes when all those inodes are evicted from the icache.

The reason is that FORGET messages, sent when the inode is evicted,
are queued up together with regular filesystem requests, and while the
huge queue of FORGET messages are processed no other filesystem
operation can proceed.

Since a full fuse request structure is allocated for each inode, these
take up quite a bit of memory as well.

To solve these issues, create a slim 'fuse_forget_link' structure
containing just the minimum of information required to send the FORGET
request and chain these on a separate queue.

When userspace is asking for a request make sure that FORGET and
non-FORGET requests are selected fairly: for each 8 non-FORGET allow
16 FORGET requests.  This will make sure FORGETs do not pile up, yet
other requests are also allowed to proceed while the queued FORGETs
are processed.

Reported-by: Terje Malmedal <terje.malmedal@usit.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2010-12-07 20:16:56 +01:00
Al Viro
3c26ff6e49 convert get_sb_nodev() users
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-10-29 04:16:31 -04:00
Al Viro
152a083666 new helper: mount_bdev()
... and switch of the obvious get_sb_bdev() users to ->mount()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-10-29 04:16:13 -04:00
Al Viro
b57922d97f convert remaining ->clear_inode() to ->evict_inode()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-08-09 16:48:37 -04:00
Daniel Mack
3ad2f3fbb9 tree-wide: Assorted spelling fixes
In particular, several occurances of funny versions of 'success',
'unknown', 'therefore', 'acknowledge', 'argument', 'achieve', 'address',
'beginning', 'desirable', 'separate' and 'necessary' are fixed.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Mack <daniel@caiaq.de>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-02-09 11:13:56 +01:00
npiggin@suse.de
c08d3b0e33 truncate: use new helpers
Update some fs code to make use of new helper functions introduced
in the previous patch. Should be no significant change in behaviour
(except CIFS now calls send_sig under i_lock, via inode_newsize_ok).

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com
Cc: linux-cifs-client@lists.samba.org
Cc: sfrench@samba.org
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-09-24 08:41:47 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
9eead2a811 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse:
  fuse: add fusectl interface to max_background
  fuse: limit user-specified values of max background requests
  fuse: use drop_nlink() instead of direct nlink manipulation
  fuse: document protocol version negotiation
  fuse: make the number of max background requests and congestion threshold tunable
2009-09-18 09:23:03 -07:00
Jens Axboe
32a88aa1b6 fs: Assign bdi in super_block
We do this automatically in get_sb_bdev() from the set_bdev_super()
callback. Filesystems that have their own private backing_dev_info
must assign that in ->fill_super().

Note that ->s_bdi assignment is required for proper writeback!

Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-16 15:18:51 +02:00
Csaba Henk
79a9d99434 fuse: add fusectl interface to max_background
Make the max_background and congestion_threshold parameters of a FUSE
mount tunable at runtime by adding the respective knobs to its directory
within the fusectl filesystem.

Signed-off-by: Csaba Henk <csaba@gluster.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2009-09-16 14:15:29 +02:00
Csaba Henk
487ea5af63 fuse: limit user-specified values of max background requests
An untrusted user could DoS the system if s/he were allowed to accumulate an
arbitrary number of pending background requests by setting the above limits
to extremely high values in INIT. This patch excludes this possibility by
imposing global upper limits on the possible values of per-mount "max
background requests" and "congestion threshold" parameters for unprivileged
FUSE filesystems.

These global limits are implemented as module parameters.

Signed-off-by: Csaba Henk <csaba@gluster.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2009-09-16 14:15:29 +02:00
Jens Axboe
d993831fa7 writeback: add name to backing_dev_info
This enables us to track who does what and print info. Its main use
is catching dirty inodes on the default_backing_dev_info, so we can
fix that up.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-11 09:20:26 +02:00
Csaba Henk
7a6d3c8b30 fuse: make the number of max background requests and congestion threshold tunable
The practical values for these limits depend on the design of the
filesystem server so let userspace set them at initialization time.

Signed-off-by: Csaba Henk <csaba@gluster.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2009-07-07 17:28:52 +02:00
John Muir
3b463ae0c6 fuse: invalidation reverse calls
Add notification messages that allow the filesystem to invalidate VFS
caches.

Two notifications are added:

 1) inode invalidation

   - invalidate cached attributes
   - invalidate a range of pages in the page cache (this is optional)

 2) dentry invalidation

   - try to invalidate a subtree in the dentry cache

Care must be taken while accessing the 'struct super_block' for the
mount, as it can go away while an invalidation is in progress.  To
prevent this, introduce a rw-semaphore, that is taken for read during
the invalidation and taken for write in the ->kill_sb callback.

Cc: Csaba Henk <csaba@gluster.com>
Cc: Anand Avati <avati@zresearch.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2009-06-30 20:12:24 +02:00
Miklos Szeredi
e0a43ddcc0 fuse: allow umask processing in userspace
This patch lets filesystems handle masking the file mode on creation.
This is needed if filesystem is using ACLs.

 - The CREATE, MKDIR and MKNOD requests are extended with a "umask"
   parameter.

 - A new FUSE_DONT_MASK flag is added to the INIT request/reply.  With
   this the filesystem may request that the create mode is not masked.

CC: Jean-Pierre André <jean-pierre.andre@wanadoo.fr>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2009-06-30 20:12:23 +02:00
Al Viro
66c6af2e8b fuse doesn't need BKL in ->umount_begin()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-06-17 00:36:36 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
c34752bc8b Merge branch 'cuse' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse
* 'cuse' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse:
  CUSE: implement CUSE - Character device in Userspace
  fuse: export symbols to be used by CUSE
  fuse: update fuse_conn_init() and separate out fuse_conn_kill()
  fuse: don't use inode in fuse_file_poll
  fuse: don't use inode in fuse_do_ioctl() helper
  fuse: don't use inode in fuse_sync_release()
  fuse: create fuse_do_open() helper for CUSE
  fuse: clean up args in fuse_finish_open() and fuse_release_fill()
  fuse: don't use inode in helpers called by fuse_direct_io()
  fuse: add members to struct fuse_file
  fuse: prepare fuse_direct_io() for CUSE
  fuse: clean up fuse_write_fill()
  fuse: use struct path in release structure
  fuse: misc cleanups
2009-06-12 09:31:20 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
a6aeeebf51 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse:
  fuse: destroy bdi on error
2009-05-13 16:32:57 -07:00
Alessio Igor Bogani
67e55205ec vfs: umount_begin BKL pushdown
Push BKL down into ->umount_begin()

Signed-off-by: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@texware.it>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-05-09 10:49:38 -04:00
Tejun Heo
08cbf542bf fuse: export symbols to be used by CUSE
Export the following symbols for CUSE.

fuse_conn_put()
fuse_conn_get()
fuse_conn_kill()
fuse_send_init()
fuse_do_open()
fuse_sync_release()
fuse_direct_io()
fuse_do_ioctl()
fuse_file_poll()
fuse_request_alloc()
fuse_get_req()
fuse_put_request()
fuse_request_send()
fuse_abort_conn()
fuse_dev_release()
fuse_dev_operations

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2009-04-28 16:56:42 +02:00
Tejun Heo
a325f9b922 fuse: update fuse_conn_init() and separate out fuse_conn_kill()
Update fuse_conn_init() such that it doesn't take @sb and move bdi
registration into a separate function.  Also separate out
fuse_conn_kill() from fuse_put_super().

These will be used to implement cuse.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2009-04-28 16:56:41 +02:00
Miklos Szeredi
fd9db72977 fuse: destroy bdi on error
Destroy bdi on error in fuse_fill_super().

This was an omission from commit 26c3679101
"fuse: destroy bdi on umount", which moved the bdi_destroy() call from
fuse_conn_put() to fuse_put_super().

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
CC: stable@kernel.org
2009-04-28 16:56:35 +02:00
Miklos Szeredi
26c3679101 fuse: destroy bdi on umount
If a fuse filesystem is unmounted but the device file descriptor
remains open and a new mount reuses the old device number, then the
mount fails with EEXIST and the following warning is printed in the
kernel log:

  WARNING: at fs/sysfs/dir.c:462 sysfs_add_one+0x35/0x3d()
  sysfs: duplicate filename '0:15' can not be created

The cause is that the bdi belonging to the fuse filesystem was
destoryed only after the device file was released.  Fix this by
calling bdi_destroy() from fuse_put_super() instead.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
CC: stable@kernel.org
2009-01-26 15:00:59 +01:00
Miklos Szeredi
c2b8f00690 fuse: fuse_fill_super error handling cleanup
Clean up error handling for the whole of fuse_fill_super() function.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2009-01-26 15:00:58 +01:00
Miklos Szeredi
3ddf1e7f57 fuse: fix missing fput on error
Fix the leaking file reference if allocation or initialization of
fuse_conn failed.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
CC: stable@kernel.org
2009-01-26 15:00:58 +01:00
Tejun Heo
43901aabd7 fuse: add fuse_conn->release()
Add fuse_conn->release() so that fuse_conn can be embedded in other
structures.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2008-11-26 12:03:56 +01:00
Tejun Heo
0d179aa592 fuse: separate out fuse_conn_init() from new_conn()
Separate out fuse_conn_init() from new_conn() and while at it
initialize fuse_conn->entry during conn initialization.

This will be used by CUSE.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2008-11-26 12:03:55 +01:00
Tejun Heo
b93f858ab2 fuse: add fuse_ prefix to several functions
Add fuse_ prefix to request_send*() and get_root_inode() as some of
those functions will be exported for CUSE.  With or without CUSE
export, having the function names scoped is a good idea for
debuggability.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2008-11-26 12:03:55 +01:00
Tejun Heo
95668a69a4 fuse: implement poll support
Implement poll support.  Polled files are indexed using kh in a RB
tree rooted at fuse_conn->polled_files.

Client should send FUSE_NOTIFY_POLL notification once after processing
FUSE_POLL which has FUSE_POLL_SCHEDULE_NOTIFY set.  Sending
notification unconditionally after the latest poll or everytime file
content might have changed is inefficient but won't cause malfunction.

fuse_file_poll() can sleep and requires patches from the following
thread which allows f_op->poll() to sleep.

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/726176

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2008-11-26 12:03:55 +01:00
Tejun Heo
acf99433d9 fuse: add file kernel handle
The file handle, fuse_file->fh, is opaque value supplied by userland
FUSE server and uniqueness is not guaranteed.  Add file kernel handle,
fuse_file->kh, which is allocated by the kernel on file allocation and
guaranteed to be unique.

This will be used by poll to match notification to the respective file
but can be used for other purposes where unique file handle is
necessary.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2008-11-26 12:03:55 +01:00
Tejun Heo
e9bb09dd6c fuse: don't let fuse_req->end() put the base reference
fuse_req->end() was supposed to be put the base reference but there's
no reason why it should.  It only makes things more complex.  Move it
out of ->end() and make it the responsibility of request_end().

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2008-11-26 12:03:54 +01:00
Miklos Szeredi
1729a16c2c fuse: style fixes
Fix coding style errors reported by checkpatch and others.  Uptdate
copyright date to 2008.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2008-11-26 12:03:54 +01:00
Christoph Hellwig
440037287c [PATCH] switch all filesystems over to d_obtain_alias
Switch all users of d_alloc_anon to d_obtain_alias.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-10-23 05:13:01 -04:00
Julia Lawall
17e18ab6ff fuse: add missing fuse_request_free
The error handling code for the second call to fuse_request_alloc should
include freeing the result of the first one.

This bug was found by the Coccinelle project:

  http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2008-10-16 16:08:56 +02:00
Steven Whitehouse
a447c09324 vfs: Use const for kernel parser table
This is a much better version of a previous patch to make the parser
tables constant. Rather than changing the typedef, we put the "const" in
all the various places where its required, allowing the __initconst
exception for nfsroot which was the cause of the previous trouble.

This was posted for review some time ago and I believe its been in -mm
since then.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <aviro@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-13 10:10:37 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
51cc50685a SL*B: drop kmem cache argument from constructor
Kmem cache passed to constructor is only needed for constructors that are
themselves multiplexeres.  Nobody uses this "feature", nor does anybody uses
passed kmem cache in non-trivial way, so pass only pointer to object.

Non-trivial places are:
	arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c
	arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c

This is flag day, yes.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jon Tollefson <kniht@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix mm/slab.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix ubifs]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-26 12:00:07 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
33670fa296 fuse: nfs export special lookups
Implement the get_parent export operation by sending a LOOKUP request with
".." as the name.

Implement looking up an inode by node ID after it has been evicted from
the cache.  This is done by seding a LOOKUP request with "." as the name
(for all file types, not just directories).

The filesystem can set the FUSE_EXPORT_SUPPORT flag in the INIT reply, to
indicate that it supports these special lookups.

Thanks to John Muir for the original implementation of this feature.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:48 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
dbd561d236 fuse: add export operations
Implement export_operations, to allow fuse filesystems to be exported to
NFS.  This feature has been in the out-of-tree fuse module, and is widely
used and tested.

It has not been originally merged into mainline, because doing the NFS
export in userspace was thought to be a cleaner and more efficient way of
doing it, than through the kernel.

While that is true, it would also have involved a lot of duplicated effort
at reimplementing NFS exporting (all the different versions of the
protocol).  This effort was unfortunately not undertaken by anyone, so we
are left with doing it the easy but less efficient way.

If this feature goes in, the out-of-tree fuse module can go away,
which would have several advantages:

  - not having to maintain two versions
  - less confusion for users
  - no bugs due to kernel API changes

Comment from hch:
 - Use the same fh_type values as XFS, since we use the same fh encoding.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:48 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
f948d56435 fuse: fix thinko in max I/O size calucation
Use max not min to enforce a lower limit on the max I/O size.

This bug was introduced by "fuse: fix max i/o size calculation" (commit
e5d9a0df07).

Thanks to Brian Wang for noticing.

Reported-by: Brian Wang <ywang221@hotmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Szabolcs Szakacsits <szaka@ntfs-3g.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-06-17 18:08:10 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
03fb0bce01 fuse: fix bdi naming conflict
Fuse allocates a separate bdi for each filesystem, and registers them
in sysfs with "MAJOR:MINOR" of sb->s_dev (st_dev).  This works fine for
anon devices normally used by fuse, but can conflict with an already
registered BDI for "fuseblk" filesystems, where sb->s_dev represents a
real block device.  In particularl this happens if a non-partitioned
device is being mounted.

Fix by registering with a different name for "fuseblk" filesystems.

Thanks to Ioan Ionita for the bug report.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Reported-by: Ioan Ionita <opslynx@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Ioan Ionita <opslynx@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-05-24 09:56:07 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
78bb6cb9a8 fuse: add flag to turn on big writes
Prior to 2.6.26 fuse only supported single page write requests.  In theory all
fuse filesystem should be able support bigger than 4k writes, as there's
nothing in the API to prevent it.  Unfortunately there's a known case in
NTFS-3G where big writes cause filesystem corruption.  There could also be
other filesystems, where the lack of testing with big write requests would
result in bugs.

To prevent such problems on a kernel upgrade, disable big writes by default,
but let filesystems set a flag to turn it on.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Cc: Szabolcs Szakacsits <szaka@ntfs-3g.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-05-13 08:02:26 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
b48badf013 fuse: fix node ID type
Node ID is 64bit but it is passed as unsigned long to some functions.  This
breakage wasn't noticed, because libfuse uses unsigned long too.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-30 08:29:51 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
e5d9a0df07 fuse: fix max i/o size calculation
Fix a bug that Werner Baumann reported: fuse can send a bigger write request
than the maximum specified.  This only affected direct_io operation.

In addition set a sane minimum for the max_read and max_write tunables, so I/O
always makes some progress.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-30 08:29:51 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
3be5a52b30 fuse: support writable mmap
Quoting Linus (3 years ago, FUSE inclusion discussions):

  "User-space filesystems are hard to get right. I'd claim that they
   are almost impossible, unless you limit them somehow (shared
   writable mappings are the nastiest part - if you don't have those,
   you can reasonably limit your problems by limiting the number of
   dirty pages you accept through normal "write()" calls)."

Instead of attempting the impossible, I've just waited for the dirty page
accounting infrastructure to materialize (thanks to Peter Zijlstra and
others).  This nicely solved the biggest problem: limiting the number of pages
used for write caching.

Some small details remained, however, which this largish patch attempts to
address.  It provides a page writeback implementation for fuse, which is
completely safe against VM related deadlocks.  Performance may not be very
good for certain usage patterns, but generally it should be acceptable.

It has been tested extensively with fsx-linux and bash-shared-mapping.

Fuse page writeback design
--------------------------

fuse_writepage() allocates a new temporary page with GFP_NOFS|__GFP_HIGHMEM.
It copies the contents of the original page, and queues a WRITE request to the
userspace filesystem using this temp page.

The writeback is finished instantly from the MM's point of view: the page is
removed from the radix trees, and the PageDirty and PageWriteback flags are
cleared.

For the duration of the actual write, the NR_WRITEBACK_TEMP counter is
incremented.  The per-bdi writeback count is not decremented until the actual
write completes.

On dirtying the page, fuse waits for a previous write to finish before
proceeding.  This makes sure, there can only be one temporary page used at a
time for one cached page.

This approach is wasteful in both memory and CPU bandwidth, so why is this
complication needed?

The basic problem is that there can be no guarantee about the time in which
the userspace filesystem will complete a write.  It may be buggy or even
malicious, and fail to complete WRITE requests.  We don't want unrelated parts
of the system to grind to a halt in such cases.

Also a filesystem may need additional resources (particularly memory) to
complete a WRITE request.  There's a great danger of a deadlock if that
allocation may wait for the writepage to finish.

Currently there are several cases where the kernel can block on page
writeback:

  - allocation order is larger than PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER
  - page migration
  - throttle_vm_writeout (through NR_WRITEBACK)
  - sync(2)

Of course in some cases (fsync, msync) we explicitly want to allow blocking.
So for these cases new code has to be added to fuse, since the VM is not
tracking writeback pages for us any more.

As an extra safetly measure, the maximum dirty ratio allocated to a single
fuse filesystem is set to 1% by default.  This way one (or several) buggy or
malicious fuse filesystems cannot slow down the rest of the system by hogging
dirty memory.

With appropriate privileges, this limit can be raised through
'/sys/class/bdi/<bdi>/max_ratio'.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Cc: 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>
2008-04-30 08:29:50 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
b6f2fcbcfc mm: bdi: expose the BDI object in sysfs for FUSE
Register FUSE's backing_dev_info under sysfs with the name "fuse-MAJOR:MINOR"

Make the fuse control filesystem use s_dev instead of a fuse specific ID.
This makes it easier to match directories under /sys/fs/fuse/connections/ with
directories under /sys/class/bdi, and with actual mounts.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Cc: 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>
2008-04-30 08:29:49 -07:00
Al Viro
42faad9965 [PATCH] restore sane ->umount_begin() API
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-04-25 09:23:25 -04:00