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* Merge branch 'for-next' of ↵Linus Torvalds2011-01-0817-400/+701
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hch/hfsplus * 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hch/hfsplus: hfsplus: %L-to-%ll, macro correction, and remove unneeded braces hfsplus: spaces/indentation clean-up hfsplus: C99 comments clean-up hfsplus: over 80 character lines clean-up hfsplus: fix an artifact in ioctl flag checking hfsplus: flush disk caches in sync and fsync hfsplus: optimize fsync hfsplus: split up inode flags hfsplus: write up fsync for directories hfsplus: simplify fsync hfsplus: avoid useless work in hfsplus_sync_fs hfsplus: make sure sync writes out all metadata hfsplus: use raw bio access for partition tables hfsplus: use raw bio access for the volume headers hfsplus: always use hfsplus_sync_fs to write the volume header hfsplus: silence a few debug printks hfsplus: fix option parsing during remount Fix up conflicts due to VFS changes in fs/hfsplus/{hfsplus_fs.h,unicode.c}
| * hfsplus: %L-to-%ll, macro correction, and remove unneeded bracesAnton Salikhmetov2010-12-163-14/+14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Clean-up based on checkpatch.pl report against unnecessary braces (`{' and `}'), non-standard format option %Lu (%llu recommended) as well as one trailing statement in a macro definition which should have been on the next line. Signed-off-by: Anton Salikhmetov <alexo@tuxera.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@tuxera.com>
| * hfsplus: spaces/indentation clean-upAnton Salikhmetov2010-12-164-14/+14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix incorrect spaces and indentation reported by checkpatch.pl. Signed-off-by: Anton Salikhmetov <alexo@tuxera.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@tuxera.com>
| * hfsplus: C99 comments clean-upAnton Salikhmetov2010-12-163-13/+16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Match coding style restriction against C99 comments where checkpatch.pl reported errors about their usage. Signed-off-by: Anton Salikhmetov <alexo@tuxera.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@tuxera.com>
| * hfsplus: over 80 character lines clean-upAnton Salikhmetov2010-12-1616-123/+260
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Match coding style line length limitation where checkpatch.pl reported over-80-character-line warnings. Signed-off-by: Anton Salikhmetov <alexo@tuxera.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@tuxera.com>
| * hfsplus: fix an artifact in ioctl flag checkingAnton Salikhmetov2010-12-161-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix a flag checking artifact in hfsplus_ioctl_getflags() routine found while doing clean-up against assignments inside `if's. Signed-off-by: Anton Salikhmetov <alexo@tuxera.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@tuxera.com>
| * hfsplus: flush disk caches in sync and fsyncChristoph Hellwig2010-11-234-0/+21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Flush the disk cache in fsync and sync to make sure data actually is on disk on completion of these system calls. There is a nobarrier mount option to disable this behaviour. It's slightly misnamed now that barrier actually are gone, but it matches the name used by all major filesystems. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@tuxera.com>
| * hfsplus: optimize fsyncChristoph Hellwig2010-11-236-32/+78
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Avoid doing unessecary work in fsync. Do nothing unless the inode was marked dirty, and only write the various metadata inodes out if they contain any dirty state from this inode. This is archived by adding three new dirty bits to the hfsplus-specific inode which are set in the correct places. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@tuxera.com>
| * hfsplus: split up inode flagsChristoph Hellwig2010-11-234-19/+29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Split the flags field in the hfsplus inode into an extent_state flag that is locked by the extent_lock, and a new flags field that uses atomic bitops. The second will grow more flags in the next patch. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@tuxera.com>
| * hfsplus: write up fsync for directoriesChristoph Hellwig2010-11-233-1/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | fsync is supposed to not just work on regular files, but also on directories. Fortunately enough hfsplus_file_fsync works just fine for directories, so we can just wire it up. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@tuxera.com>
| * hfsplus: simplify fsyncChristoph Hellwig2010-11-231-21/+20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Remove lots of code we don't need from fsync, we just need to call ->write_inode on the inode if it's dirty, for which sync_inode_metadata is a lot more efficient than write_inode_now, and we need to write out the various metadata inodes, which we now do explicitly instead of by calling ->sync_fs. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@tuxera.com>
| * hfsplus: avoid useless work in hfsplus_sync_fsChristoph Hellwig2010-11-231-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There is no reason to write out the metadata inodes or volume headers during a non-blocking sync, as we are almost guaranteed to dirty them again during the inode writeouts. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@tuxera.com>
| * hfsplus: make sure sync writes out all metadataChristoph Hellwig2010-11-231-1/+19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | hfsplus stores all metadata except for the volume headers in special inodes. While these are marked hashed and periodically written out by the flusher threads, we can't rely on that for sync. For the case of a data integrity sync the VM has life-lock avoidance code that avoids writing inodes again that are redirtied during the sync, which is something that can happen easily for hfsplus. So make sure we explicitly write out the metadata inodes at the beginning of hfsplus_sync_fs. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@tuxera.com>
| * hfsplus: use raw bio access for partition tablesChristoph Hellwig2010-11-232-70/+71
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Switch the hfsplus partition table reding for cdroms to use our bio helpers. Again we don't rely on any caching in the buffer_heads, and this gets rid of the last buffer_head use in hfsplus. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@tuxera.com>
| * hfsplus: use raw bio access for the volume headersChristoph Hellwig2010-11-233-88/+131
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The hfsplus backup volume header is located two blocks from the end of the device. In case of device sizes that are not 4k aligned this means we can't access it using buffer_heads when using the default 4k block size. Switch to using raw bios to read/write all buffer headers. We were not relying on any caching behaviour of the buffer heads anyway. Additionally always read in the backup volume header during mount to verify that we can actually read it. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@tuxera.com>
| * hfsplus: always use hfsplus_sync_fs to write the volume headerChristoph Hellwig2010-11-231-6/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Remove opencoded writing of the volume header in hfsplus_fill_super and hfsplus_put_super and offload it to hfsplus_sync_fs. In the put_super case this means we only write the superblock once instead of twice. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@tuxera.com>
| * hfsplus: silence a few debug printksChristoph Hellwig2010-11-234-5/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Turn a few noisy debug printks that show up during xfstests into complied out debug print statements. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@tuxera.com>
| * hfsplus: fix option parsing during remountChristoph Hellwig2010-11-073-5/+30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | hfsplus only actually uses the force option during remount, but it uses the full option parser with a fake superblock to do so. This means remount will fail if any nls option is set (which happens frequently with older mount tools), even if it is the same. Fix this by adding a simpler version of the parser that only parses the force option for remount. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@tuxera.com>
* | Merge branch 'for-2.6.38' of ↵Linus Torvalds2011-01-081-19/+18
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu * 'for-2.6.38' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: (30 commits) gameport: use this_cpu_read instead of lookup x86: udelay: Use this_cpu_read to avoid address calculation x86: Use this_cpu_inc_return for nmi counter x86: Replace uses of current_cpu_data with this_cpu ops x86: Use this_cpu_ops to optimize code vmstat: User per cpu atomics to avoid interrupt disable / enable irq_work: Use per cpu atomics instead of regular atomics cpuops: Use cmpxchg for xchg to avoid lock semantics x86: this_cpu_cmpxchg and this_cpu_xchg operations percpu: Generic this_cpu_cmpxchg() and this_cpu_xchg support percpu,x86: relocate this_cpu_add_return() and friends connector: Use this_cpu operations xen: Use this_cpu_inc_return taskstats: Use this_cpu_ops random: Use this_cpu_inc_return fs: Use this_cpu_inc_return in buffer.c highmem: Use this_cpu_xx_return() operations vmstat: Use this_cpu_inc_return for vm statistics x86: Support for this_cpu_add, sub, dec, inc_return percpu: Generic support for this_cpu_add, sub, dec, inc_return ... Fixed up conflicts: in arch/x86/kernel/{apic/nmi.c, apic/x2apic_uv_x.c, process.c} as per Tejun.
| * | fs: Use this_cpu_inc_return in buffer.cChristoph Lameter2010-12-171-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | __this_cpu_inc can create a single instruction with the same effect as the _get_cpu_var(..)++ construct in buffer.c. Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
| * | Merge branch 'this_cpu_ops' into for-2.6.38Tejun Heo2010-12-1754-424/+705
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| * | | fs: Use this_cpu_xx operations in buffer.cChristoph Lameter2010-12-171-18/+17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Optimize various per cpu area operations through these new percpu operations. These operations avoid address calculations through the use of segment prefixes and multiple memory references through RMW instructions etc. Reduces code size: Before: christoph@linux-2.6$ size fs/buffer.o text data bss dec hex filename 19169 80 28 19277 4b4d fs/buffer.o After: christoph@linux-2.6$ size fs/buffer.o text data bss dec hex filename 19138 80 28 19246 4b2e fs/buffer.o V3->V4: - Move the use of this_cpu_inc_return into a later patch so that this one can go in without percpu infrastructure changes. Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
* | | | Merge branch 'for-2.6.38' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wqLinus Torvalds2011-01-085-6/+12
|\ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * 'for-2.6.38' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: (33 commits) usb: don't use flush_scheduled_work() speedtch: don't abuse struct delayed_work media/video: don't use flush_scheduled_work() media/video: explicitly flush request_module work ioc4: use static work_struct for ioc4_load_modules() init: don't call flush_scheduled_work() from do_initcalls() s390: don't use flush_scheduled_work() rtc: don't use flush_scheduled_work() mmc: update workqueue usages mfd: update workqueue usages dvb: don't use flush_scheduled_work() leds-wm8350: don't use flush_scheduled_work() mISDN: don't use flush_scheduled_work() macintosh/ams: don't use flush_scheduled_work() vmwgfx: don't use flush_scheduled_work() tpm: don't use flush_scheduled_work() sonypi: don't use flush_scheduled_work() hvsi: don't use flush_scheduled_work() xen: don't use flush_scheduled_work() gdrom: don't use flush_scheduled_work() ... Fixed up trivial conflict in drivers/media/video/bt8xx/bttv-input.c as per Tejun.
| * | | | ncpfs: don't use flush_scheduled_work()Tejun Heo2010-12-241-1/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | flush_scheduled_work() is deprecated and scheduled to be removed. Directly flush the used works on stop instead. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Petr Vandrovec <petr@vandrovec.name>
| * | | | ocfs2: don't use flush_scheduled_work()Tejun Heo2010-12-242-3/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | flush_scheduled_work() is deprecated and scheduled to be removed. * cancel_delayed_work() + flush_schedule_work() -> cancel_delayed_work_sync(). * flush qs->qs_work directly on exit instead. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
| * | | | workqueue: convert cancel_rearming_delayed_work[queue]() users to ↵Tejun Heo2010-12-152-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | cancel_delayed_work_sync() cancel_rearming_delayed_work[queue]() has been superceded by cancel_delayed_work_sync() quite some time ago. Convert all the in-kernel users. The conversions are completely equivalent and trivial. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Acked-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: Anton Vorontsov <cbou@mail.ru> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com> Cc: xfs-masters@oss.sgi.com Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
* | | | | Merge branch 'tty-next' of ↵Linus Torvalds2011-01-073-0/+116
|\ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty-2.6 * 'tty-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty-2.6: (36 commits) serial: apbuart: Fixup apbuart_console_init() TTY: Add tty ioctl to figure device node of the system console. tty: add 'active' sysfs attribute to tty0 and console device drivers: serial: apbuart: Handle OF failures gracefully Serial: Avoid unbalanced IRQ wake disable during resume tty: fix typos/errors in tty_driver.h comments pch_uart : fix warnings for 64bit compile 8250: fix uninitialized FIFOs ip2: fix compiler warning on ip2main_pci_tbl specialix: fix compiler warning on specialix_pci_tbl rocket: fix compiler warning on rocket_pci_ids 8250: add a UPIO_DWAPB32 for 32 bit accesses 8250: use container_of() instead of casting serial: omap-serial: Add support for kernel debugger serial: fix pch_uart kconfig & build drivers: char: hvc: add arm JTAG DCC console support RS485 documentation: add 16C950 UART description serial: ifx6x60: fix memory leak serial: ifx6x60: free IRQ on error Serial: EG20T: add PCH_UART driver ... Fixed up conflicts in drivers/serial/apbuart.c with evil merge that makes the code look fairly sane (unlike either side).
| * | | | | TTY: Add tty ioctl to figure device node of the system console.Werner Fink2010-12-171-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This has been in the SuSE kernels for a very long time. Signed-off-by: Werner Fink <werner@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * | | | | console: add /proc/consolesJiri Slaby2010-11-162-0/+115
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It allows users to see what consoles are currently known to the system and with what flags. It is based on Werner's patch, the part about traversing fds was removed, the code was moved to kernel/printk.c, where consoles are handled and it makes more sense to me. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> [cleanups] Signed-off-by: "Dr. Werner Fink" <werner@suse.de> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* | | | | | Merge branch 'vfs-scale-working' of ↵Linus Torvalds2011-01-07161-1416/+3454
|\ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/npiggin/linux-npiggin * 'vfs-scale-working' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/npiggin/linux-npiggin: (57 commits) fs: scale mntget/mntput fs: rename vfsmount counter helpers fs: implement faster dentry memcmp fs: prefetch inode data in dcache lookup fs: improve scalability of pseudo filesystems fs: dcache per-inode inode alias locking fs: dcache per-bucket dcache hash locking bit_spinlock: add required includes kernel: add bl_list xfs: provide simple rcu-walk ACL implementation btrfs: provide simple rcu-walk ACL implementation ext2,3,4: provide simple rcu-walk ACL implementation fs: provide simple rcu-walk generic_check_acl implementation fs: provide rcu-walk aware permission i_ops fs: rcu-walk aware d_revalidate method fs: cache optimise dentry and inode for rcu-walk fs: dcache reduce branches in lookup path fs: dcache remove d_mounted fs: fs_struct use seqlock fs: rcu-walk for path lookup ...
| * | | | | | fs: scale mntget/mntputNick Piggin2011-01-078-58/+245
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The problem that this patch aims to fix is vfsmount refcounting scalability. We need to take a reference on the vfsmount for every successful path lookup, which often go to the same mount point. The fundamental difficulty is that a "simple" reference count can never be made scalable, because any time a reference is dropped, we must check whether that was the last reference. To do that requires communication with all other CPUs that may have taken a reference count. We can make refcounts more scalable in a couple of ways, involving keeping distributed counters, and checking for the global-zero condition less frequently. - check the global sum once every interval (this will delay zero detection for some interval, so it's probably a showstopper for vfsmounts). - keep a local count and only taking the global sum when local reaches 0 (this is difficult for vfsmounts, because we can't hold preempt off for the life of a reference, so a counter would need to be per-thread or tied strongly to a particular CPU which requires more locking). - keep a local difference of increments and decrements, which allows us to sum the total difference and hence find the refcount when summing all CPUs. Then, keep a single integer "long" refcount for slow and long lasting references, and only take the global sum of local counters when the long refcount is 0. This last scheme is what I implemented here. Attached mounts and process root and working directory references are "long" references, and everything else is a short reference. This allows scalable vfsmount references during path walking over mounted subtrees and unattached (lazy umounted) mounts with processes still running in them. This results in one fewer atomic op in the fastpath: mntget is now just a per-CPU inc, rather than an atomic inc; and mntput just requires a spinlock and non-atomic decrement in the common case. However code is otherwise bigger and heavier, so single threaded performance is basically a wash. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
| * | | | | | fs: rename vfsmount counter helpersNick Piggin2011-01-071-11/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Suggested by Andreas, mnt_ prefix is clearer namespace, follows kernel conventions better, and is easier for tab complete. I introduced these names so I'll admit they were not good choices. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
| * | | | | | fs: implement faster dentry memcmpNick Piggin2011-01-071-9/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The standard memcmp function on a Westmere system shows up hot in profiles in the `git diff` workload (both parallel and single threaded), and it is likely due to the costs associated with trapping into microcode, and little opportunity to improve memory access (dentry name is not likely to take up more than a cacheline). So replace it with an open-coded byte comparison. This increases code size by 8 bytes in the critical __d_lookup_rcu function, but the speedup is huge, averaging 10 runs of each: git diff st user sys elapsed CPU before 1.15 2.57 3.82 97.1 after 1.14 2.35 3.61 96.8 git diff mt user sys elapsed CPU before 1.27 3.85 1.46 349 after 1.26 3.54 1.43 333 Elapsed time for single threaded git diff at 95.0% confidence: -0.21 +/- 0.01 -5.45% +/- 0.24% It's -0.66% +/- 0.06% elapsed time on my Opteron, so rep cmp costs on the fam10h seem to be relatively smaller, but there is still a win. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
| * | | | | | fs: prefetch inode data in dcache lookupNick Piggin2011-01-071-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This makes single threaded git diff -1.25% +/- 0.05% elapsed time on my 2s12c24t Westmere system, and -0.86% +/- 0.05% on my 2s8c Barcelona, by prefetching the important first cacheline of the inode in while we do the actual name compare and other operations on the dentry. There was no measurable slowdown in the single file stat case, or the creat case (where negative dentries would be common). Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
| * | | | | | fs: improve scalability of pseudo filesystemsNick Piggin2011-01-073-2/+14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Regardless of how much we possibly try to scale dcache, there is likely always going to be some fundamental contention when adding or removing children under the same parent. Pseudo filesystems do not seem need to have connected dentries because by definition they are disconnected. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
| * | | | | | fs: dcache per-inode inode alias lockingNick Piggin2011-01-078-59/+67
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | dcache_inode_lock can be replaced with per-inode locking. Use existing inode->i_lock for this. This is slightly non-trivial because we sometimes need to find the inode from the dentry, which requires d_inode to be stabilised (either with refcount or d_lock). Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
| * | | | | | fs: dcache per-bucket dcache hash lockingNick Piggin2011-01-072-51/+85
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We can turn the dcache hash locking from a global dcache_hash_lock into per-bucket locking. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
| * | | | | | xfs: provide simple rcu-walk ACL implementationNick Piggin2011-01-071-3/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This simple implementation just checks for no ACLs on the inode, and if so, then the rcu-walk may proceed, otherwise fail it. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
| * | | | | | btrfs: provide simple rcu-walk ACL implementationNick Piggin2011-01-072-12/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This simple implementation just checks for no ACLs on the inode, and if so, then the rcu-walk may proceed, otherwise fail it. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
| * | | | | | ext2,3,4: provide simple rcu-walk ACL implementationNick Piggin2011-01-073-6/+15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This simple implementation just checks for no ACLs on the inode, and if so, then the rcu-walk may proceed, otherwise fail it. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
| * | | | | | fs: provide simple rcu-walk generic_check_acl implementationNick Piggin2011-01-071-10/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This simple implementation just checks for no ACLs on the inode, and if so, then the rcu-walk may proceed, otherwise fail it. This could easily be extended to put acls under RCU and check them under seqlock, if need be. But this implementation is enough to show the rcu-walk aware permissions code for path lookups is working, and will handle cases where there are no ACLs or ACLs in just the final element. This patch implicity converts tmpfs to rcu-aware permission check. Subsequent patches onvert ext*, xfs, and, btrfs. Each of these uses acl/permission code in a different way, so convert them all to provide templates and proof of concept. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
| * | | | | | fs: provide rcu-walk aware permission i_opsNick Piggin2011-01-0750-130/+215
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
| * | | | | | fs: rcu-walk aware d_revalidate methodNick Piggin2011-01-0720-43/+159
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Require filesystems be aware of .d_revalidate being called in rcu-walk mode (nd->flags & LOOKUP_RCU). For now do a simple push down, returning -ECHILD from all implementations. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
| * | | | | | fs: cache optimise dentry and inode for rcu-walkNick Piggin2011-01-071-2/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Put dentry and inode fields into top of data structure. This allows RCU path traversal to perform an RCU dentry lookup in a path walk by touching only the first 56 bytes of the dentry. We also fit in 8 bytes of inline name in the first 64 bytes, so for short names, only 64 bytes needs to be touched to perform the lookup. We should get rid of the hash->prev pointer from the first 64 bytes, and fit 16 bytes of name in there, which will take care of 81% rather than 32% of the kernel tree. inode is also rearranged so that RCU lookup will only touch a single cacheline in the inode, plus one in the i_ops structure. This is important for directory component lookups in RCU path walking. In the kernel source, directory names average is around 6 chars, so this works. When we reach the last element of the lookup, we need to lock it and take its refcount which requires another cacheline access. Align dentry and inode operations structs, so members will be at predictable offsets and we can group common operations into head of structure. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
| * | | | | | fs: dcache reduce branches in lookup pathNick Piggin2011-01-0756-128/+159
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
| * | | | | | fs: dcache remove d_mountedNick Piggin2011-01-073-6/+37
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Rather than keep a d_mounted count in the dentry, set a dentry flag instead. The flag can be cleared by checking the hash table to see if there are any mounts left, which is not time critical because it is performed at detach time. The mounted state of a dentry is only used to speculatively take a look in the mount hash table if it is set -- before following the mount, vfsmount lock is taken and mount re-checked without races. This saves 4 bytes on 32-bit, nothing on 64-bit but it does provide a hole I might use later (and some configs have larger than 32-bit spinlocks which might make use of the hole). Autofs4 conversion and changelog by Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>: In autofs4, when expring direct (or offset) mounts we need to ensure that we block user path walks into the autofs mount, which is covered by another mount. To do this we clear the mounted status so that follows stop before walking into the mount and are essentially blocked until the expire is completed. The automount daemon still finds the correct dentry for the umount due to the follow mount logic in fs/autofs4/root.c:autofs4_follow_link(), which is set as an inode operation for direct and offset mounts only and is called following the lookup that stopped at the covered mount. At the end of the expire the covering mount probably has gone away so the mounted status need not be restored. But we need to check this and only restore the mounted status if the expire failed. XXX: autofs may not work right if we have other mounts go over the top of it? Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
| * | | | | | fs: fs_struct use seqlockNick Piggin2011-01-072-13/+31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Use a seqlock in the fs_struct to enable us to take an atomic copy of the complete cwd and root paths. Use this in the RCU lookup path to avoid a thread-shared spinlock in RCU lookup operations. Multi-threaded apps may now perform path lookups with scalability matching multi-process apps. Operations such as stat(2) become very scalable for multi-threaded workload. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
| * | | | | | fs: rcu-walk for path lookupNick Piggin2011-01-074-159/+794
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Perform common cases of path lookups without any stores or locking in the ancestor dentry elements. This is called rcu-walk, as opposed to the current algorithm which is a refcount based walk, or ref-walk. This results in far fewer atomic operations on every path element, significantly improving path lookup performance. It also avoids cacheline bouncing on common dentries, significantly improving scalability. The overall design is like this: * LOOKUP_RCU is set in nd->flags, which distinguishes rcu-walk from ref-walk. * Take the RCU lock for the entire path walk, starting with the acquiring of the starting path (eg. root/cwd/fd-path). So now dentry refcounts are not required for dentry persistence. * synchronize_rcu is called when unregistering a filesystem, so we can access d_ops and i_ops during rcu-walk. * Similarly take the vfsmount lock for the entire path walk. So now mnt refcounts are not required for persistence. Also we are free to perform mount lookups, and to assume dentry mount points and mount roots are stable up and down the path. * Have a per-dentry seqlock to protect the dentry name, parent, and inode, so we can load this tuple atomically, and also check whether any of its members have changed. * Dentry lookups (based on parent, candidate string tuple) recheck the parent sequence after the child is found in case anything changed in the parent during the path walk. * inode is also RCU protected so we can load d_inode and use the inode for limited things. * i_mode, i_uid, i_gid can be tested for exec permissions during path walk. * i_op can be loaded. When we reach the destination dentry, we lock it, recheck lookup sequence, and increment its refcount and mountpoint refcount. RCU and vfsmount locks are dropped. This is termed "dropping rcu-walk". If the dentry refcount does not match, we can not drop rcu-walk gracefully at the current point in the lokup, so instead return -ECHILD (for want of a better errno). This signals the path walking code to re-do the entire lookup with a ref-walk. Aside from the final dentry, there are other situations that may be encounted where we cannot continue rcu-walk. In that case, we drop rcu-walk (ie. take a reference on the last good dentry) and continue with a ref-walk. Again, if we can drop rcu-walk gracefully, we return -ECHILD and do the whole lookup using ref-walk. But it is very important that we can continue with ref-walk for most cases, particularly to avoid the overhead of double lookups, and to gain the scalability advantages on common path elements (like cwd and root). The cases where rcu-walk cannot continue are: * NULL dentry (ie. any uncached path element) * parent with d_inode->i_op->permission or ACLs * dentries with d_revalidate * Following links In future patches, permission checks and d_revalidate become rcu-walk aware. It may be possible eventually to make following links rcu-walk aware. Uncached path elements will always require dropping to ref-walk mode, at the very least because i_mutex needs to be grabbed, and objects allocated. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
| * | | | | | fs: avoid inode RCU freeing for pseudo fsNick Piggin2011-01-072-1/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pseudo filesystems that don't put inode on RCU list or reachable by rcu-walk dentries do not need to RCU free their inodes. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
| * | | | | | fs: icache RCU free inodesNick Piggin2011-01-0750-51/+415
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>