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* blkdev: cgroup whitelist permission fixChris Wright2010-08-111-4/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The cgroup device whitelist code gets confused when trying to grant permission to a disk partition that is not currently open. Part of blkdev_open() includes __blkdev_get() on the whole disk. Basically, the only ways to reliably allow a cgroup access to a partition on a block device when using the whitelist are to 1) also give it access to the whole block device or 2) make sure the partition is already open in a different context. The patch avoids the cgroup check for the whole disk case when opening a partition. Addresses https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=589662 Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Tested-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Reported-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Merge branch 'for-2.6.36' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds2010-08-101-8/+2
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * 'for-2.6.36' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (149 commits) block: make sure that REQ_* types are seen even with CONFIG_BLOCK=n xen-blkfront: fix missing out label blkdev: fix blkdev_issue_zeroout return value block: update request stacking methods to support discards block: fix missing export of blk_types.h writeback: fix bad _bh spinlock nesting drbd: revert "delay probes", feature is being re-implemented differently drbd: Initialize all members of sync_conf to their defaults [Bugz 315] drbd: Disable delay probes for the upcomming release writeback: cleanup bdi_register writeback: add new tracepoints writeback: remove unnecessary init_timer call writeback: optimize periodic bdi thread wakeups writeback: prevent unnecessary bdi threads wakeups writeback: move bdi threads exiting logic to the forker thread writeback: restructure bdi forker loop a little writeback: move last_active to bdi writeback: do not remove bdi from bdi_list writeback: simplify bdi code a little writeback: do not lose wake-ups in bdi threads ... Fixed up pretty trivial conflicts in drivers/block/virtio_blk.c and drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c as per Jens.
| * block: push down BKL into .open and .releaseArnd Bergmann2010-08-071-8/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The open and release block_device_operations are currently called with the BKL held. In order to change that, we must first make sure that all drivers that currently rely on this have no regressions. This blindly pushes the BKL into all .open and .release operations for all block drivers to prepare for the next step. The drivers can subsequently replace the BKL with their own locks or remove it completely when it can be shown that it is not needed. The functions blkdev_get and blkdev_put are the only remaining users of the big kernel lock in the block layer, besides a few uses in the ioctl code, none of which need to serialize with blkdev_{get,put}. Most of these two functions is also under the protection of bdev->bd_mutex, including the actual calls to ->open and ->release, and the common code does not access any global data structures that need the BKL. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
* | Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2010-08-101-8/+9
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (96 commits) no need for list_for_each_entry_safe()/resetting with superblock list Fix sget() race with failing mount vfs: don't hold s_umount over close_bdev_exclusive() call sysv: do not mark superblock dirty on remount sysv: do not mark superblock dirty on mount btrfs: remove junk sb_dirt change BFS: clean up the superblock usage AFFS: wait for sb synchronization when needed AFFS: clean up dirty flag usage cifs: truncate fallout mbcache: fix shrinker function return value mbcache: Remove unused features add f_flags to struct statfs(64) pass a struct path to vfs_statfs update VFS documentation for method changes. All filesystems that need invalidate_inode_buffers() are doing that explicitly convert remaining ->clear_inode() to ->evict_inode() Make ->drop_inode() just return whether inode needs to be dropped fs/inode.c:clear_inode() is gone fs/inode.c:evict() doesn't care about delete vs. non-delete paths now ... Fix up trivial conflicts in fs/nilfs2/super.c
| * | convert remaining ->clear_inode() to ->evict_inode()Al Viro2010-08-091-2/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
| * | get rid of block_write_begin_newtruncChristoph Hellwig2010-08-091-3/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Move the call to vmtruncate to get rid of accessive blocks to the callers in preparation of the new truncate sequence and rename the non-truncating version to block_write_begin. While we're at it also remove several unused arguments to block_write_begin. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
| * | sort out blockdev_direct_IO variantsChristoph Hellwig2010-08-091-3/+2
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Move the call to vmtruncate to get rid of accessive blocks to the callers in prepearation of the new truncate calling sequence. This was only done for DIO_LOCKING filesystems, so the __blockdev_direct_IO_newtrunc variant was not needed anyway. Get rid of blockdev_direct_IO_no_locking and its _newtrunc variant while at it as just opencoding the two additional paramters is shorted than the name suffix. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* | block_dev: always serialize exclusive open attemptsTejun Heo2010-08-041-2/+2
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | bd_prepare_to_claim() incorrectly allowed multiple attempts for exclusive open to progress in parallel if the attempting holders are identical. This triggered BUG_ON() as reported in the following bug. https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16393 __bd_abort_claiming() is used to finish claiming blocks and doesn't work if multiple openers are inside a claiming block. Allowing multiple parallel open attempts to continue doesn't gain anything as those are serialized down in the call chain anyway. Fix it by always allowing only single open attempt in a claiming block. This problem can easily be reproduced by adding a delay after bd_prepare_to_claim() and attempting to mount two partitions of a disk. stable: only applicable to v2.6.35 Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-by: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* block: remove duplicate BUG_ON() in bd_finish_claiming()Jens Axboe2010-06-101-1/+0
| | | | | | | | We do the same BUG_ON() just a line later when calling into __bd_abort_claiming(). Reported-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
* block: bd_start_claiming cleanupNick Piggin2010-06-101-24/+48
| | | | | | | | | | | | | I don't like the subtle multi-context code in bd_claim (ie. detects where it has been called based on bd_claiming). It seems clearer to just require a new function to finish a 2-part claim. Also improve commentary in bd_start_claiming as to how it should be used. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
* block: bd_start_claiming fix module refcountNick Piggin2010-06-101-0/+1
| | | | | | | | bd_start_claiming has an unbalanced module_put introduced in 6b4517a79. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
* fs: convert simple fs to new truncateNick Piggin2010-05-271-4/+5
| | | | | | | | | Convert simple filesystems: ramfs, configfs, sysfs, block_dev to new truncate sequence. Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* drop unused dentry argument to ->fsyncChristoph Hellwig2010-05-271-6/+1
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2010-05-211-57/+16
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (69 commits) fix handling of offsets in cris eeprom.c, get rid of fake on-stack files get rid of home-grown mutex in cris eeprom.c switch ecryptfs_write() to struct inode *, kill on-stack fake files switch ecryptfs_get_locked_page() to struct inode * simplify access to ecryptfs inodes in ->readpage() and friends AFS: Don't put struct file on the stack Ban ecryptfs over ecryptfs logfs: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function ufs: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function udf: replace inode uid,gid,mode init with helper ubifs: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function sysv: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function reiserfs: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function ramfs: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function omfs: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function bfs: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function ocfs2: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function nilfs2: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function minix: replace inode uid,gid,mode init with helper ext4: replace inode uid,gid,mode init with helper ... Trivial conflict in fs/fs-writeback.c (mark bitfields unsigned)
| * Introduce freeze_super and thaw_super for the fsfreeze ioctlJosef Bacik2010-05-211-58/+16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently the way we do freezing is by passing sb>s_bdev to freeze_bdev and then letting it do all the work. But freezing is more of an fs thing, and doesn't really have much to do with the bdev at all, all the work gets done with the super. In btrfs we do not populate s_bdev, since we can have multiple bdev's for one fs and setting s_bdev makes removing devices from a pool kind of tricky. This means that freezing a btrfs filesystem fails, which causes us to corrupt with things like tux-on-ice which use the fsfreeze mechanism. So instead of populating sb->s_bdev with a random bdev in our pool, I've broken the actual fs freezing stuff into freeze_super and thaw_super. These just take the super_block that we're freezing and does the appropriate work. It's basically just copy and pasted from freeze_bdev. I've then converted freeze_bdev over to use the new super helpers. I've tested this with ext4 and btrfs and verified everything continues to work the same as before. The only new gotcha is multiple calls to the fsfreeze ioctl will return EBUSY if the fs is already frozen. I thought this was a better solution than adding a freeze counter to the super_block, but if everybody hates this idea I'm open to suggestions. Thanks, Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
| * Move grabbing s_umount to callers of grab_super()Al Viro2010-05-211-0/+1
| | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* | Merge branch 'master' into for-2.6.35Jens Axboe2010-04-291-7/+13
|\ \ | |/ | | | | | | | | | | Conflicts: fs/block_dev.c Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
| * fs/block_dev.c: fix performance regression in O_DIRECT|O_SYNC writes to ↵Anton Blanchard2010-04-241-5/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | block devices We are seeing a large regression in database performance on recent kernels. The database opens a block device with O_DIRECT|O_SYNC and a number of threads write to different regions of the file at the same time. A simple test case is below. I haven't defined DEVICE since getting it wrong will destroy your data :) On an 3 disk LVM with a 64k chunk size we see about 17MB/sec and only a few threads in IO wait: procs -----io---- -system-- -----cpu------ r b bi bo in cs us sy id wa st 0 3 0 16170 656 2259 0 0 86 14 0 0 2 0 16704 695 2408 0 0 92 8 0 0 2 0 17308 744 2653 0 0 86 14 0 0 2 0 17933 759 2777 0 0 89 10 0 Most threads are blocking in vfs_fsync_range, which has: mutex_lock(&mapping->host->i_mutex); err = fop->fsync(file, dentry, datasync); if (!ret) ret = err; mutex_unlock(&mapping->host->i_mutex); commit 148f948ba877f4d3cdef036b1ff6d9f68986706a (vfs: Introduce new helpers for syncing after writing to O_SYNC file or IS_SYNC inode) offers some explanation of what is going on: Use these new helpers for syncing from generic VFS functions. This makes O_SYNC writes to block devices acquire i_mutex for syncing. If we really care about this, we can make block_fsync() drop the i_mutex and reacquire it before it returns. Thanks Jan for such a good commit message! As well as dropping i_mutex, Christoph suggests we should remove the call to sync_blockdev(): > sync_blockdev is an overcomplicated alias for filemap_write_and_wait on > the block device inode, which is exactly what we did just before calling > into ->fsync The patch below incorporates both suggestions. With it the testcase improves from 17MB/s to 68M/sec: procs -----io---- -system-- -----cpu------ r b bi bo in cs us sy id wa st 0 7 0 65536 1000 3878 0 0 70 30 0 0 34 0 69632 1016 3921 0 1 46 53 0 0 57 0 69632 1000 3921 0 0 55 45 0 0 53 0 69640 754 4111 0 0 81 19 0 Testcase: #define _GNU_SOURCE #include <stdio.h> #include <pthread.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <string.h> #include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/stat.h> #include <fcntl.h> #define NR_THREADS 64 #define BUFSIZE (64 * 1024) #define DEVICE "/dev/mapper/XXXXXX" #define ALIGN(VAL, SIZE) (((VAL)+(SIZE)-1) & ~((SIZE)-1)) static int fd; static void *doit(void *arg) { unsigned long offset = (long)arg; char *b, *buf; b = malloc(BUFSIZE + 1024); buf = (char *)ALIGN((unsigned long)b, 1024); memset(buf, 0, BUFSIZE); while (1) pwrite(fd, buf, BUFSIZE, offset); } int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { int flags = O_RDWR|O_DIRECT; int i; unsigned long offset = 0; if (argc > 1 && !strcmp(argv[1], "O_SYNC")) flags |= O_SYNC; fd = open(DEVICE, flags); if (fd == -1) { perror("open"); exit(1); } for (i = 0; i < NR_THREADS-1; i++) { pthread_t tid; pthread_create(&tid, NULL, doit, (void *)offset); offset += BUFSIZE; } doit((void *)offset); return 0; } Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | blkdev: generalize flags for blkdev_issue_fn functionsDmitry Monakhov2010-04-281-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The patch just convert all blkdev_issue_xxx function to common set of flags. Wait/allocation semantics preserved. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* | block: implement bd_claiming and claiming blockTejun Heo2010-04-271-24/+174
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently, device claiming for exclusive open is done after low level open - disk->fops->open() - has completed successfully. This means that exclusive open attempts while a device is already exclusively open will fail only after disk->fops->open() is called. cdrom driver issues commands during open() which means that O_EXCL open attempt can unintentionally inject commands to in-progress command stream for burning thus disturbing burning process. In most cases, this doesn't cause problems because the first command to be issued is TUR which most devices can process in the middle of burning. However, depending on how a device replies to TUR during burning, cdrom driver may end up issuing further commands. This can't be resolved trivially by moving bd_claim() before doing actual open() because that means an open attempt which will end up failing could interfere other legit O_EXCL open attempts. ie. unconfirmed open attempts can fail others. This patch resolves the problem by introducing claiming block which is started by bd_start_claiming() and terminated either by bd_claim() or bd_abort_claiming(). bd_claim() from inside a claiming block is guaranteed to succeed and once a claiming block is started, other bd_start_claiming() or bd_claim() attempts block till the current claiming block is terminated. bd_claim() can still be used standalone although now it always synchronizes against claiming blocks, so the existing users will keep working without any change. blkdev_open() and open_bdev_exclusive() are converted to use claiming blocks so that exclusive open attempts from these functions don't interfere with the existing exclusive open. This problem was discovered while investigating bko#15403. https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15403 The burning problem itself can be resolved by updating userspace probing tools to always open w/ O_EXCL. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-by: Matthias-Christian Ott <ott@mirix.org> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* | block: factor out bd_may_claim()Tejun Heo2010-04-271-18/+47
|/ | | | | | | | | Factor out bd_may_claim() from bd_claim(), add comments and apply a couple of cosmetic edits. This is to prepare for further updates to claim path. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* vfs: rename block_fsync() to blkdev_fsync()Andrew Morton2010-04-071-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Requested by hch, for consistency now it is exported. Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* raw: fsync method is now requiredAnton Blanchard2010-04-071-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit 148f948ba877f4d3cdef036b1ff6d9f68986706a (vfs: Introduce new helpers for syncing after writing to O_SYNC file or IS_SYNC inode) broke the raw driver. We now call through generic_file_aio_write -> generic_write_sync -> vfs_fsync_range. vfs_fsync_range has: if (!fop || !fop->fsync) { ret = -EINVAL; goto out; } But drivers/char/raw.c doesn't set an fsync method. We have two options: fix it or remove the raw driver completely. I'm happy to do either, the fact this has been broken for so long suggests it is rarely used. The patch below adds an fsync method to the raw driver. My knowledge of the block layer is pretty sketchy so this could do with a once over. If we instead decide to remove the raw driver, this patch might still be useful as a backport to 2.6.33 and 2.6.32. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Tested-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* freeze_bdev: don't deactivate successfully frozen MS_RDONLY sbJun'ichi Nomura2010-02-071-3/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Thanks Thomas and Christoph for testing and review. I removed 'smp_wmb()' before up_write from the previous patch, since up_write() should have necessary ordering constraints. (I.e. the change of s_frozen is visible to others after up_write) I'm quite sure the change is harmless but if you are uncomfortable with Tested-by/Reviewed-by on the modified patch, please remove them. If MS_RDONLY, freeze_bdev should just up_write(s_umount) instead of deactivate_locked_super(). Also, keep sb->s_frozen consistent so that remount can check the frozen state. Otherwise a crash reported here can happen: http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/1/16/37 http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/1/28/53 This patch should be applied for 2.6.32 stable series, too. Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Tested-by: Thomas Backlund <tmb@mandriva.org> Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* Merge branch 'for-linus' into for-2.6.33Jens Axboe2009-11-031-1/+1
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | Conflicts: block/cfq-iosched.c Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
| * block: use after free bug in __blkdev_getNeil Brown2009-10-261-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | commit 0762b8bde9729f10f8e6249809660ff2ec3ad735 (from 14 months ago) introduced a use-after-free bug which has just recently started manifesting in my md testing. I tried git bisect to find out what caused the bug to start manifesting, and it could have been the recent change to blk_unregister_queue (48c0d4d4c04) but the results were inconclusive. This patch certainly fixes my symptoms and looks correct as the two calls are now in the same order as elsewhere in that function. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* | blkdev: flush disk cache on ->fsyncChristoph Hellwig2009-10-291-1/+11
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently there is no barrier support in the block device code. That means we cannot guarantee any sort of data integerity when using the block device node with dis kwrite caches enabled. Using the raw block device node is a typical use case for virtualization (and I assume databases, too). This patch changes block_fsync to issue a cache flush and thus make fsync on block device nodes actually useful. Note that in mainline we would also need to add such code to the ->aio_write method for O_SYNC handling, but assuming that Jan's patch series for the O_SYNC rewrite goes in it will also call into ->fsync for 2.6.32. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* freeze_bdev: grab active reference to frozen superblocksChristoph Hellwig2009-09-241-60/+72
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently we held s_umount while a filesystem is frozen, despite that we might return to userspace and unlock it from a different process. Instead grab an active reference to keep the file system busy and add an explicit check for frozen filesystems in remount and reject the remount instead of blocking on s_umount. Add a new get_active_super helper to super.c for use by freeze_bdev that grabs an active reference to a superblock from a given block device. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* freeze_bdev: kill bd_mount_semChristoph Hellwig2009-09-241-7/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Now that we have the freeze count there is not much reason for bd_mount_sem anymore. The actual freeze/thaw operations are serialized using the bd_fsfreeze_mutex, and the only other place we take bd_mount_sem is get_sb_bdev which tries to prevent mounting a filesystem while the block device is frozen. Instead of add a check for bd_fsfreeze_count and return -EBUSY if a filesystem is frozen. While that is a change in user visible behaviour a failing mount is much better for this case rather than having the mount process stuck uninterruptible for a long time. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* const: make block_device_operations constAlexey Dobriyan2009-09-221-1/+1
| | | | | | Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* fs: remove bdev->bd_inode_backing_dev_infoJens Axboe2009-09-161-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It has been unused since it was introduced in: commit 520808bf20e90fdbdb320264ba7dd5cf9d47dcac Author: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Date: Fri May 21 00:46:17 2004 -0700 [PATCH] block device layer: separate backing_dev_info infrastructure So lets just kill it. Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* vfs: Rename generic_file_aio_write_nolockChristoph Hellwig2009-09-141-1/+28
| | | | | | | | | | generic_file_aio_write_nolock() is now used only by block devices and raw character device. Filesystems should use __generic_file_aio_write() in case generic_file_aio_write() doesn't suit them. So rename the function to blkdev_aio_write() and move it to fs/blockdev.c. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
* PM / Hibernate: Replace bdget call with simple atomic_inc of i_countAlan Jenkins2009-07-291-0/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Create bdgrab(). This function copies an existing reference to a block_device. It is safe to call from any context. Hibernation code wishes to copy a reference to the active swap device. Right now it calls bdget() under a spinlock, but this is wrong because bdget() can sleep. It doesn't need a full bdget() because we already hold a reference to active swap devices (and the spinlock protects against swapoff). Fixes http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13827 Signed-off-by: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
* vfs: Rename fsync_super() to sync_filesystem() (version 4)Jan Kara2009-06-111-2/+2
| | | | | | | | Rename the function so that it better describe what it really does. Also remove the unnecessary include of buffer_head.h. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* vfs: Make sys_sync() use fsync_super() (version 4)Jan Kara2009-06-111-5/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It is unnecessarily fragile to have two places (fsync_super() and do_sync()) doing data integrity sync of the filesystem. Alter __fsync_super() to accommodate needs of both callers and use it. So after this patch __fsync_super() is the only place where we gather all the calls needed to properly send all data on a filesystem to disk. Nice bonus is that we get a complete livelock avoidance and write_supers() is now only used for periodic writeback of superblocks. sync_blockdevs() introduced a couple of patches ago is gone now. [build fixes folded] Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* vfs: Make __fsync_super() a static function (version 4)Jan Kara2009-06-111-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | __fsync_super() does the same thing as fsync_super(). So change the only caller to use fsync_super() and make __fsync_super() static. This removes unnecessarily duplicated call to sync_blockdev() and prepares ground for the changes to __fsync_super() in the following patches. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds2009-06-111-0/+6
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * 'for-linus' of git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6: kmemleak: Add the corresponding MAINTAINERS entry kmemleak: Simple testing module for kmemleak kmemleak: Enable the building of the memory leak detector kmemleak: Remove some of the kmemleak false positives kmemleak: Add modules support kmemleak: Add kmemleak_alloc callback from alloc_large_system_hash kmemleak: Add the vmalloc memory allocation/freeing hooks kmemleak: Add the slub memory allocation/freeing hooks kmemleak: Add the slob memory allocation/freeing hooks kmemleak: Add the slab memory allocation/freeing hooks kmemleak: Add documentation on the memory leak detector kmemleak: Add the base support Manual conflict resolution (with the slab/earlyboot changes) in: drivers/char/vt.c init/main.c mm/slab.c
| * kmemleak: Remove some of the kmemleak false positivesCatalin Marinas2009-06-111-0/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There are allocations for which the main pointer cannot be found but they are not memory leaks. This patch fixes some of them. For more information on false positives, see Documentation/kmemleak.txt. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
* | Revert "block: implement blkdev_readpages"Jens Axboe2009-06-041-7/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This reverts commit db2dbb12dc47a50c7a4c5678f526014063e486f6. It apparently causes problems with partition table read-ahead on archs with large page sizes. Until that problem is diagnosed further, just drop the readpages support on block devices. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* | block: Do away with the notion of hardsect_sizeMartin K. Petersen2009-05-221-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Until now we have had a 1:1 mapping between storage device physical block size and the logical block sized used when addressing the device. With SATA 4KB drives coming out that will no longer be the case. The sector size will be 4KB but the logical block size will remain 512-bytes. Hence we need to distinguish between the physical block size and the logical ditto. This patch renames hardsect_size to logical_block_size. Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* | block: implement blkdev_readpagesJeff Moyer2009-04-281-0/+7
|/ | | | | | | | Doing a proper block dev ->readpages() speeds up the crazy dump(8) approach of using interleaved process IO. Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* Cleanup after commit 585d3bc06f4ca57f975a5a1f698f65a45ea66225Al Viro2009-04-011-0/+1
| | | | | | | fsync_bdev() export and a bunch of stubs for !CONFIG_BLOCK case had been left behind Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* fs: move bdev code out of buffer.cNick Piggin2009-03-271-0/+146
| | | | | | | Move some block device related code out from buffer.c and put it in block_dev.c. I'm trying to move non-buffer_head code out of buffer.c Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* filesystem freeze: implement generic freeze featureTakashi Sato2009-01-091-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The ioctls for the generic freeze feature are below. o Freeze the filesystem int ioctl(int fd, int FIFREEZE, arg) fd: The file descriptor of the mountpoint FIFREEZE: request code for the freeze arg: Ignored Return value: 0 if the operation succeeds. Otherwise, -1 o Unfreeze the filesystem int ioctl(int fd, int FITHAW, arg) fd: The file descriptor of the mountpoint FITHAW: request code for unfreeze arg: Ignored Return value: 0 if the operation succeeds. Otherwise, -1 Error number: If the filesystem has already been unfrozen, errno is set to EINVAL. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix CONFIG_BLOCK=n] Signed-off-by: Takashi Sato <t-sato@yk.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Masayuki Hamaguchi <m-hamaguchi@ys.jp.nec.com> Cc: <xfs-masters@oss.sgi.com> Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Merge branch 'for_linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-01-081-0/+15
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4 * 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (57 commits) jbd2: Fix oops in jbd2_journal_init_inode() on corrupted fs ext4: Remove "extents" mount option block: Add Kconfig help which notes that ext4 needs CONFIG_LBD ext4: Make printk's consistently prefixed with "EXT4-fs: " ext4: Add sanity checks for the superblock before mounting the filesystem ext4: Add mount option to set kjournald's I/O priority jbd2: Submit writes to the journal using WRITE_SYNC jbd2: Add pid and journal device name to the "kjournald2 starting" message ext4: Add markers for better debuggability ext4: Remove code to create the journal inode ext4: provide function to release metadata pages under memory pressure ext3: provide function to release metadata pages under memory pressure add releasepage hooks to block devices which can be used by file systems ext4: Fix s_dirty_blocks_counter if block allocation failed with nodelalloc ext4: Init the complete page while building buddy cache ext4: Don't allow new groups to be added during block allocation ext4: mark the blocks/inode bitmap beyond end of group as used ext4: Use new buffer_head flag to check uninit group bitmaps initialization ext4: Fix the race between read_inode_bitmap() and ext4_new_inode() ext4: code cleanup ...
| * add releasepage hooks to block devices which can be used by file systemsTheodore Ts'o2009-01-031-0/+15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Implement blkdev_releasepage() to release the buffer_heads and pages after we release private data belonging to a mounted filesystem. Cc: Toshiyuki Okajima <toshi.okajima@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
* | md: make devices disappear when they are no longer needed.NeilBrown2009-01-091-0/+14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently md devices, once created, never disappear until the module is unloaded. This is essentially because the gendisk holds a reference to the mddev, and the mddev holds a reference to the gendisk, this a circular reference. If we drop the reference from mddev to gendisk, then we need to ensure that the mddev is destroyed when the gendisk is destroyed. However it is not possible to hook into the gendisk destruction process to enable this. So we drop the reference from the gendisk to the mddev and destroy the gendisk when the mddev gets destroyed. However this has a complication. Between the call __blkdev_get->get_gendisk->kobj_lookup->md_probe and the call __blkdev_get->md_open there is no obvious way to hold a reference on the mddev any more, so unless something is done, it will disappear and gendisk will be destroyed prematurely. Also, once we decide to destroy the mddev, there will be an unlockable moment before the gendisk is unlinked (blk_unregister_region) during which a new reference to the gendisk can be created. We need to ensure that this reference can not be used. i.e. the ->open must fail. So: 1/ in md_probe we set a flag in the mddev (hold_active) which indicates that the array should be treated as active, even though there are no references, and no appearance of activity. This is cleared by md_release when the device is closed if it is no longer needed. This ensures that the gendisk will survive between md_probe and md_open. 2/ In md_open we check if the mddev we expect to open matches the gendisk that we did open. If there is a mismatch we return -ERESTARTSYS and modify __blkdev_get to retry from the top in that case. In the -ERESTARTSYS sys case we make sure to wait until the old gendisk (that we succeeded in opening) is really gone so we loop at most once. Some udev configurations will always open an md device when it first appears. If we allow an md device that was just created by an open to disappear on an immediate close, then this can race with such udev configurations and result in an infinite loop the device being opened and closed, then re-open due to the 'ADD' even from the first open, and then close and so on. So we make sure an md device, once created by an open, remains active at least until some md 'ioctl' has been made on it. This means that all normal usage of md devices will allow them to disappear promptly when not needed, but the worst that an incorrect usage will do it cause an inactive md device to be left in existence (it can easily be removed). As an array can be stopped by writing to a sysfs attribute echo clear > /sys/block/mdXXX/md/array_state we need to use scheduled work for deleting the gendisk and other kobjects. This allows us to wait for any pending gendisk deletion to complete by simply calling flush_scheduled_work(). Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
* | fs: fix function param name in kernel-docRandy Dunlap2009-01-061-1/+1
|/ | | | | | | | | | | Fix function parameter name in kernel-doc: Warning(linux-2.6.28-git5//fs/block_dev.c:1272): No description found for parameter 'pathname' Warning(linux-2.6.28-git5//fs/block_dev.c:1272): Excess function parameter 'path' description in 'lookup_bdev' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* fs/block_dev.c: __read_mostly improvement and sb_is_blkdev_sb utilizationDenis ChengRq2008-12-311-4/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | - iget5_locked in bdget really needs blockdev_superblock, instead of bd_mnt, so bd_mnt could be just a local variable; - blockdev_superblock really needs __read_mostly, while local var bd_mnt not; - make use of sb_is_blkdev_sb in bd_forget, instead of direct reference to blockdev_superblock. Signed-off-by: Denis ChengRq <crquan@gmail.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* [PATCH 1/2] kill FMODE_NDELAY_NOWChristoph Hellwig2008-12-041-1/+9
| | | | | | | | | | Update FMODE_NDELAY before each ioctl call so that we can kill the magic FMODE_NDELAY_NOW. It would be even better to do this directly in setfl(), but for that we'd need to have FMODE_NDELAY for all files, not just block special files. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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