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Rakib Mullick
2b72c9ccd2 nfs: Remove unused variable from write.c
When CONFIG_NFS=y and CONFIG_NFS_V3_{,V4}=n we get the following warning.

	fs/nfs/write.c: In function ‘nfs_writeback_done’:
	fs/nfs/write.c:1246:21: warning: unused variable ‘server’

 Remove the variable 'server' to fix the above warning.

Signed-off-by: Rakib Mullick <rakib.mullick@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2011-11-02 23:50:24 -04:00
Rakib Mullick
6f276e49fd nfs: Fix unused variable warning from file.c
Fix the following unused variable warning.

fs/nfs/file.c: In function ‘nfs_file_release’:
fs/nfs/file.c:140:17: warning: unused variable ‘dentry’
fs/nfs/file.c: In function ‘nfs_file_read’:
fs/nfs/file.c:237:9: warning: unused variable ‘count’

Signed-off-by: Rakib Mullick <rakib.mullick@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2011-11-02 23:49:09 -04:00
Chuck Lever
e414966b81 NFS: Remove no-op less-than-zero checks on unsigned variables.
Introduced by commit 16b374ca "NFSv4.1: pnfs: filelayout: add driver's
LAYOUTGET and GETDEVICEINFO infrastructure" (October 20, 2010).

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2011-10-31 11:52:47 -04:00
Chuck Lever
c6e6966602 NFS: Clean up nfs4_xdr_dec_secinfo()
Clean up: Remove superfluous logic at the tail of
nfs4_xdr_dec_secinfo() .

Introduced by commit 5a5ea0d4 "NFS: Add secinfo procedure" (March 24,
2011).

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2011-10-31 11:52:47 -04:00
Chuck Lever
c02f557dd0 NFS: Fix documenting comment for nfs_create_request()
Clean up: the first parameter of nfs_create_request() has been
incorrectly documented since time immemorial (OK, since before
2.6.12).

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2011-10-31 11:52:47 -04:00
Peng Tao
d743c3c9c2 NFS4: fix cb_recallany decode error
craa_type_mask is bitmap4 per RFC5661. We need to expect a length before
extracting bitmap value.

Cc: Alexandros Batsakis <batsakis@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Peng Tao <peng_tao@emc.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2011-10-31 11:51:28 -04:00
Peng Tao
92407e75ce nfs4: serialize layoutcommit
Current pnfs_layoutcommit_inode can not handle parallel layoutcommit.
And as Trond suggested , there is no need for client to optimize for
parallel layoutcommit. So add NFS_INO_LAYOUTCOMMITTING flag to
mark inflight layoutcommit and serialize lalyoutcommit with it.
Also mark_inode_dirty_sync if pnfs_layoutcommit_inode fails to issue
layoutcommit.

Reported-by: Vitaliy Gusev <gusev.vitaliy@nexenta.com>
Signed-off-by: Peng Tao <peng_tao@emc.com>
Signed-off-by: Jim Rees <rees@umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2011-10-31 11:51:28 -04:00
Stanislav Kinsbursky
e20de37757 SUNRPC: remove rpcbind clients destruction on module cleanup
Rpcbind clients destruction during SUNRPC module removing is obsolete since now
those clients are destroying during last RPC service shutdown.

Signed-off-by: Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2011-10-25 13:20:50 +02:00
Stanislav Kinsbursky
0f0c01da44 SUNRPC: remove rpcbind clients creation during service registering
We don't need this code since rpcbind clients are creating during RPC service
creation.

Signed-off-by: Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2011-10-25 13:20:35 +02:00
Stanislav Kinsbursky
16d0587090 NFSd: call svc rpcbind cleanup explicitly
We have to call svc_rpcb_cleanup() explicitly from nfsd_last_thread() since
this function is registered as service shutdown callback and thus nobody else
will done it for us.

Signed-off-by: Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2011-10-25 13:19:40 +02:00
Stanislav Kinsbursky
8e356b1e2a SUNRPC: cleanup service destruction
svc_unregister() call have to be removed from svc_destroy() since it will be
called in sv_shutdown callback.

Signed-off-by: Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2011-10-25 13:19:13 +02:00
Stanislav Kinsbursky
e40f5e29ef SUNRPC: setup rpcbind clients if service requires it
New function ("svc_uses_rpcbind") will be used to detect, that new service will
send portmapper register calls. For such services we will create rpcbind
clients and remove all stale portmap registrations.
Also, svc_rpcb_cleanup() will be set as sv_shutdown callback for such services
in case of this field wasn't initialized earlier. This will allow to destroy
rpcbind clients when no other users of them left.

Note: Currently, any creating service will be detected as portmap user.
Probably, this is wrong. But now it depends on program versions "vs_hidden"
flag.

Signed-off-by: Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2011-10-25 13:18:42 +02:00
Stanislav Kinsbursky
d99085605c SUNRPC: introduce svc helpers for prepairing rpcbind infrastructure
This helpers will be used only for those services, that will send portmapper
registration calls.

Signed-off-by: Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2011-10-25 13:18:05 +02:00
Stanislav Kinsbursky
253fb070e7 SUNRPC: use rpcbind reference counting helpers
All is simple: we just increase users counter if rpcbind clients has been
created already. Otherwise we create them and set users counter to 1.

Signed-off-by: Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2011-10-25 13:16:36 +02:00
Stanislav Kinsbursky
914edb1bb2 SUNRPC: introduce helpers for reference counted rpcbind clients
v6:
1) added write memory barrier to rpcb_set_local to make sure, that rpcbind
clients become valid before rpcb_users assignment
2) explicitly set rpcb_users to 1 instead of incrementing it (looks clearer from
my pow).

v5: fixed races with rpcb_users in rpcb_get_local()

This helpers will be used for dynamical creation and destruction of rpcbind
clients.
Variable rpcb_users is actually a counter of lauched RPC services. If rpcbind
clients has been created already, then we just increase rpcb_users.

Signed-off-by: Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2011-10-25 13:15:48 +02:00
NeilBrown
dc6f55e9f8 NFS/sunrpc: don't use a credential with extra groups.
The sunrpc layer keeps a cache of recently used credentials and
'unx_match' is used to find the credential which matches the current
process.

However unx_match allows a match when the cached credential has extra
groups at the end of uc_gids list which are not in the process group list.

So if a process with a list of (say) 4 group accesses a file and gains
access because of the last group in the list, then another process
with the same uid and gid, and a gid list being the first tree of the
gids of the original process tries to access the file, it will be
granted access even though it shouldn't as the wrong rpc credential
will be used.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
2011-10-25 11:20:58 +02:00
Malahal Naineni
940aab4902 Check validity of cl_rpcclient in nfs_server_list_show
As soon as the nfs_client gets created, its cl_rpcclient is set to
ERR_PTR(-EINVAL). The rpc client structure is allocated later. Check
if the client is ready before using the cl_rpcclient pointer.

Signed-off-by: Malahal Naineni <malahal@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2011-10-20 18:44:04 -05:00
Trond Myklebust
b6ee8cd264 NFS: Get rid of the nfs_rdata_mempool
We don't need a mempool in order to guarantee reliable NFS read performance.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2011-10-19 13:58:38 -07:00
Trond Myklebust
fba730050d NFS: Don't rely on PageError in nfs_readpage_release_partial
Don't rely on the PageError flag to tell us if one of the partial reads of
the page failed. Instead, replace that with a dedicated flag in the
struct nfs_page.

Then clean out redundant uses of the PageError flag: the VM no longer
checks it for reads.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2011-10-19 13:58:38 -07:00
Trond Myklebust
fbb5a9abf0 NFS: Get rid of unnecessary calls to ClearPageError() in read code
The generic file read code does that for us anyway.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2011-10-19 13:58:37 -07:00
Trond Myklebust
d00c5d4386 NFS: Get rid of nfs_restart_rpc()
It can trivially be replaced with rpc_restart_call_prepare.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2011-10-19 13:58:30 -07:00
Trond Myklebust
b8ef70639b NFS: Get rid of the unused nfs_write_data->flags field
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2011-10-19 13:37:34 -07:00
Trond Myklebust
a1940805d0 NFS: Get rid of the unused nfs_read_data->flags field
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2011-10-19 13:37:34 -07:00
Trond Myklebust
08ef7bd3bc NFSv4: Translate NFS4ERR_BADNAME into ENOENT when applied to a lookup
Both LOOKUP and OPEN operations may return NFS4ERR_BADNAME if we send a
an invalid name as a filename argument. As far as the application is
concerned, it just has to know that the file doesn't exist, and so
ENOENT would be the appropriate reply. We should only return EINVAL
if the filename is being used to _create_ a new object on the
remote filesystem.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2011-10-18 16:13:51 -07:00
Trond Myklebust
0c2e53f11a NFS: Remove the unused "lookupfh()" version of nfs4_proc_lookup()
...and also remove the associated nfs_v4_clientops entry.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2011-10-18 16:13:51 -07:00
Trond Myklebust
a9a4a87a59 NFS: Use the inode->i_version to cache NFSv4 change attribute information
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2011-10-18 09:14:34 -07:00
Trond Myklebust
919066d690 SUNRPC: Remove unnecessary export of rpc_sockaddr2uaddr
It is only used internally by the RPC code.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2011-10-18 09:13:32 -07:00
Trond Myklebust
d77385f238 SUNRPC: Fix rpc_sockaddr2uaddr
rpc_sockaddr2uaddr is only used by net/sunrpc/rpcb_clnt.c, where
it is used in a non-blockable context in at least one case.

Add non-blocking capability by adding a gfp_t argument

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2011-10-18 09:13:32 -07:00
H Hartley Sweeten
45402c38ee nfs/super.c: local functions should be static
commit ae50c0b5 "pnfs: client stats" added additional information to
the output of /proc/self/mountstats. The new functions introduced are
only used in this file and should be marked static.

If CONFIG_NFS_V4_1 is not defined, empty stub functions are used.  If
CONFIG_NFS_V4 is not defined these stub functions are not used at all.
Adding static for the functions results in compile warnings:

fs/nfs/super.c:743: warning: 'show_sessions' defined but not used
fs/nfs/super.c:756: warning: 'show_pnfs' defined but not used

Fix this by adding a #ifdef CONFIG_NFS_V4 guard around the two
show_ functions.

Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2011-10-18 09:08:15 -07:00
Peng Tao
7542274519 pnfsblock: fix writeback deadlock
We should check if the sector is already initialized before
trying to grab the page from page cache. Otherwise when two
pages of the same block are written back by two threads each
calling from writepage_locked, it can cause deadlock like bellow.

 [ 1080.972099] INFO: task kswapd0:25 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
 [ 1080.972377] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
 [ 1080.972812] kswapd0         D ffff88000c4926c0     0    25      2 0x00000000
 [ 1080.972816]  ffff88000df276b0 0000000000000046 ffff88000df27640 ffffffff81013ba7
 [ 1080.972821]  ffff88000c492310 ffff88000df27fd8 ffff88000df27fd8 00000000001d3440
 [ 1080.972824]  ffff88000c378000 ffff88000c492310 ffff8800175d3d40 ffff880017fc75a8
 [ 1080.972828] Call Trace:
 [ 1080.972860]  [<ffffffff81013ba7>] ? read_tsc+0x9/0x19
 [ 1080.972877]  [<ffffffff810e0b23>] ? lock_page+0x2b/0x2b
 [ 1080.972899]  [<ffffffff81475a1d>] io_schedule+0x63/0x7e
 [ 1080.972902]  [<ffffffff810e0b31>] sleep_on_page+0xe/0x12
 [ 1080.972905]  [<ffffffff81475fe8>] __wait_on_bit_lock+0x46/0x8f
 [ 1080.972916]  [<ffffffff810822d7>] ? lock_release_holdtime.part.7+0x6b/0x72
 [ 1080.972919]  [<ffffffff810e0af6>] __lock_page+0x66/0x68
 [ 1080.972928]  [<ffffffff81072705>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x3d/0x3d
 [ 1080.972932]  [<ffffffff810e0b1f>] lock_page+0x27/0x2b
 [ 1080.972934]  [<ffffffff810e0bcf>] find_lock_page+0x34/0x57
 [ 1080.972937]  [<ffffffff810e1738>] find_or_create_page+0x34/0x8a
 [ 1080.972947]  [<ffffffffa034245b>] bl_write_pagelist+0x205/0x6da [blocklayoutdriver]
 [ 1080.972951]  [<ffffffffa034145d>] ? bl_free_lseg+0x38/0x38 [blocklayoutdriver]
 [ 1080.972995]  [<ffffffffa02e27b9>] ? nfs_write_rpcsetup+0x118/0x123 [nfs]
 [ 1080.973033]  [<ffffffffa030246b>] pnfs_generic_pg_writepages+0x10b/0x1f4 [nfs]
 [ 1080.973089]  [<ffffffffa02deaae>] nfs_pageio_doio+0x1a/0x43 [nfs]
 [ 1080.973098]  [<ffffffffa02df035>] nfs_pageio_complete+0x16/0x2d [nfs]
 [ 1080.973108]  [<ffffffffa02e2d8f>] nfs_writepage_locked+0xa0/0xbf [nfs]
 [ 1080.973119]  [<ffffffffa02e36a1>] nfs_writepage+0x16/0x2b [nfs]
 [ 1080.973122]  [<ffffffff810e8762>] ? clear_page_dirty_for_io+0x87/0x9a
 [ 1080.973133]  [<ffffffff810efc5b>] shrink_page_list+0x39b/0x6c8
 [ 1080.973139]  [<ffffffff810f03bb>] shrink_inactive_list+0x22c/0x39e
 [ 1080.973144]  [<ffffffff810822d7>] ? lock_release_holdtime.part.7+0x6b/0x72
 [ 1080.973148]  [<ffffffff810f0c33>] shrink_zone+0x445/0x588
 [ 1080.973152]  [<ffffffff810f1a11>] balance_pgdat+0x2c2/0x56b
 [ 1080.973170]  [<ffffffff81254208>] ? __bitmap_weight+0x34/0x80
 [ 1080.973175]  [<ffffffff810f1f78>] kswapd+0x2be/0x2fa
 [ 1080.973179]  [<ffffffff810726c8>] ? __init_waitqueue_head+0x4b/0x4b
 [ 1080.973183]  [<ffffffff810f1cba>] ? balance_pgdat+0x56b/0x56b
 [ 1080.973187]  [<ffffffff81071f69>] kthread+0xa8/0xb0
 [ 1080.973200]  [<ffffffff814806b4>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
 [ 1080.973205]  [<ffffffff81071ec1>] ? __init_kthread_worker+0x5a/0x5a
 [ 1080.973210]  [<ffffffff814806b0>] ? gs_change+0x13/0x13
 [ 1080.973213] no locks held by kswapd0/25.

Signed-off-by: Peng Tao <peng_tao@emc.com>
Signed-off-by: Jim Rees <rees@umich.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org [3.0]
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2011-10-18 09:08:15 -07:00
Peng Tao
e6d05a757c pnfsblock: fix NULL pointer dereference
bl_add_page_to_bio returns error pointer. bio should be reset to
NULL in failure cases as the out path always calls bl_submit_bio.

Signed-off-by: Peng Tao <peng_tao@emc.com>
Signed-off-by: Jim Rees <rees@umich.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org [3.0]
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2011-10-18 09:08:14 -07:00
Peng Tao
9b7eecdcfe pnfs: recoalesce when ld read pagelist fails
For pnfs pagelist read failure, we need to pg_recoalesce and resend IO to
mds.

Signed-off-by: Peng Tao <peng_tao@emc.com>
Signed-off-by: Jim Rees <rees@umich.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org [3.0]
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2011-10-18 09:08:14 -07:00
Peng Tao
8ce160c5ef pnfs: recoalesce when ld write pagelist fails
For pnfs pagelist write failure, we need to pg_recoalesce and resend IO to
mds.

Signed-off-by: Peng Tao <peng_tao@emc.com>
Signed-off-by: Jim Rees <rees@umich.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org [3.0]
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2011-10-18 09:08:13 -07:00
Peng Tao
1b0ae06877 pnfs: make _set_lo_fail generic
file layout and block layout both use it to set mark layout io failure
bit. So make it generic.

Signed-off-by: Peng Tao <peng_tao@emc.com>
Signed-off-by: Jim Rees <rees@umich.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org [3.0]
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2011-10-18 09:08:13 -07:00
Peng Tao
760383f1ee pnfsblock: add missing rpc_put_mount and path_put
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peng Tao <peng_tao@emc.com>
Signed-off-by: Jim Rees <rees@umich.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org [3.0]
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2011-10-18 09:08:12 -07:00
Peng Tao
c1225158a8 SUNRPC/NFS: make rpc pipe upcall generic
The same function is used by idmap, gss and blocklayout code. Make it
generic.

Signed-off-by: Peng Tao <peng_tao@emc.com>
Signed-off-by: Jim Rees <rees@umich.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org [3.0]
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2011-10-18 09:08:12 -07:00
Jim Rees
fdc17abbc4 pnfsblock: fix size of upcall message
Make the status field explicitly 32 bits.  "...it's unlikely that the kernel
and userspace would differ on the size of an int here, but it might be a
good idea to go ahead and make that explicitly 32 bits in case we end up
dealing with more exotic arches at some point in the future."

Suggested-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jim Rees <rees@umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@tonian.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org [3.0]
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2011-10-18 09:08:11 -07:00
Jim Rees
516f2e24fa pnfsblock: fix return code confusion
Always return PTR_ERR, not NULL, from nfs4_blk_get_deviceinfo and
nfs4_blk_decode_device.

Check for IS_ERR, not NULL, in bl_set_layoutdriver when calling
nfs4_blk_get_deviceinfo.

Signed-off-by: Jim Rees <rees@umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@tonian.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org [3.0]
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2011-10-18 09:08:11 -07:00
Jeff Layton
2da9565235 nfs: don't try to migrate pages with active requests
nfs_find_and_lock_request will take a reference to the nfs_page and
will then put it if the req is already locked. It's possible though
that the reference will be the last one. That put then can kick off
a whole series of reference puts:

nfs_page
   nfs_open_context
      dentry
          inode

If the inode ends up being deleted, then the VFS will call
truncate_inode_pages. That function will try to take the page lock, but
it was already locked when migrate_page was called. The code
deadlocks.

Fix this by simply refusing the migration request if PagePrivate is
already set, indicating that the page is already associated with an
active read or write request.

We've had a customer test a backported version of this patch and
the preliminary results seem good.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Harshula Jayasuriya <harshula@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2011-10-18 09:08:11 -07:00
Mi Jinlong
b9dd3abbbc nfs: fix bug about IPv6 address scope checking
The result from ipv6_addr_scope() always not be a single SCOPE,
so we can't use equal to compare the result with IPV6_ADDR_SCOPE_LINKLOCAL
at nfs_sockaddr_match_ipaddr6.

This patch fixs the problem, and lets checking address before scope_id.

Signed-off-by: Mi Jinlong <mijinlong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2011-10-18 09:08:10 -07:00
Jeff Layton
3236c3e1ad nfs: don't redirty inode when ncommit == 0 in nfs_commit_unstable_pages
commit 420e3646 allowed the kernel to reduce the number of unnecessary
commit calls by skipping the commit when there are a large number of
outstanding pages.

However, the current test in nfs_commit_unstable_pages does not handle
the edge condition properly. When ncommit == 0, then that means that the
kernel doesn't need to do anything more for the inode. The current test
though in the WB_SYNC_NONE case will return true, and the inode will end
up being marked dirty. Once that happens the inode will never be clean
until there's a WB_SYNC_ALL flush.

Fix this by immediately returning from nfs_commit_unstable_pages when
ncommit == 0.

Mike noticed this problem initially in RHEL5 (2.6.18-based kernel) which
has a backported version of 420e3646. The inode cache there was growing
very large. The inode cache was unable to be shrunk since the inodes
were all marked dirty. Calling sync() would essentially "fix" the
problem -- the WB_SYNC_ALL flush would result in the inodes all being
marked clean.

What I'm not clear on is how big a problem this is in mainline kernels
as the writeback code there is very different. Either way, it seems
incorrect to re-mark the inode dirty in this case.

Reported-by: Mike McLean <mikem@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org [2.6.34+]
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2011-10-18 09:08:10 -07:00
Trond Myklebust
59b7c05fff Revert "NFS: Ensure that writeback_single_inode() calls write_inode() when syncing"
This reverts commit b80c3cb628.

The reverted commit was rendered obsolete by a VFS fix: commit
5547e8aac6 (writeback: Update dirty flags in
two steps). We now no longer need to worry about writeback_single_inode()
missing our marking the inode for COMMIT in 'do_writepages()' call.

Reverting this patch, fixes a performance regression in which the inode
would continuously get queued to the dirty list, causing the writeback
code to unnecessarily try to send a COMMIT.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust>
Tested-by: Simon Kirby <sim@hostway.ca>
Cc: stable@kernel.org [2.6.35+]
2011-10-18 09:08:09 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
899e3ee404 Linux 3.1-rc10 2011-10-17 21:06:23 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
a84a79e4d3 Avoid using variable-length arrays in kernel/sys.c
The size is always valid, but variable-length arrays generate worse code
for no good reason (unless the function happens to be inlined and the
compiler sees the length for the simple constant it is).

Also, there seems to be some code generation problem on POWER, where
Henrik Bakken reports that register r28 can get corrupted under some
subtle circumstances (interrupt happening at the wrong time?).  That all
indicates some seriously broken compiler issues, but since variable
length arrays are bad regardless, there's little point in trying to
chase it down.

"Just don't do that, then".

Reported-by: Henrik Grindal Bakken <henribak@cisco.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-10-17 08:24:24 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
8bc03e8f3a Merge branch 'fixes' of http://ftp.arm.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/arm/kernel/git-cur/linux-2.6-arm
* 'fixes' of http://ftp.arm.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/arm/kernel/git-cur/linux-2.6-arm:
  ARM: 7128/1: vic: Don't write to the read-only register VIC_IRQ_STATUS
  ARM: 7122/1: localtimer: add header linux/errno.h explicitly
  ARM: 7117/1: perf: fix HW_CACHE_* events on Cortex-A9
  ARM: 7113/1: mm: Align bank start to MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES
2011-10-16 13:08:27 -07:00
Zoltan Devai
f8be12d153 ARM: 7128/1: vic: Don't write to the read-only register VIC_IRQ_STATUS
This is unneeded and causes an abort on the SPMP8000 platform.

Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Zoltan Devai <zoss@devai.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2011-10-15 11:04:22 +01:00
Shawn Guo
bb1ac3ec95 ARM: 7122/1: localtimer: add header linux/errno.h explicitly
Per the text in  Documentation/SubmitChecklist as below, we should
explicitly have header linux/errno.h in localtimer.h for ENXIO
reference.

1: If you use a facility then #include the file that defines/declares
   that facility.  Don't depend on other header files pulling in ones
   that you use.

Otherwise, we may run into some compiling error like the following one,
if any file includes localtimer.h without CONFIG_LOCAL_TIMERS defined.

  arch/arm/include/asm/localtimer.h: In function ‘local_timer_setup’:
  arch/arm/include/asm/localtimer.h:53:10: error: ‘ENXIO’ undeclared (first use in this function)

Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2011-10-15 11:04:22 +01:00
Will Deacon
29a541f6c1 ARM: 7117/1: perf: fix HW_CACHE_* events on Cortex-A9
Using COHERENT_LINE_{MISS,HIT} for cache misses and references
respectively is completely wrong. Instead, use the L1D events which
are a better and more useful approximation despite ignoring instruction
traffic.

Reported-by: Alasdair Grant <alasdair.grant@arm.com>
Reported-by: Matt Horsnell <matt.horsnell@arm.com>
Reported-by: Michael Williams <michael.williams@arm.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Cc: Jean Pihet <j-pihet@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2011-10-15 11:04:22 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
4c41042d1d Merge branch 'hwmon-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/groeck/linux-staging
* 'hwmon-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/groeck/linux-staging:
  hwmon: (w83627ehf) Properly report thermal diode sensors
2011-10-15 08:29:09 +12:00
Linus Torvalds
e9308cfd5a Merge branch 'gpio/merge' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6
* 'gpio/merge' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6:
  gpio-pca953x: fix gpio_base
  gpio/omap: fix build error with certain OMAP1 configs
2011-10-14 17:07:52 +12:00