Rename some variables. We also unlock locks in the reverse order we
acquired as a part of cleanup.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Rename the lower bits with suffix _lo and add helper
to access the values. Also rename bg_itable_unused_hi
to bg_pad as in e2fsprogs.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
We need to make sure we update the block bitmap and clear
EXT4_BG_BLOCK_UNINIT flag with sb_bgl_lock held, since
ext4_read_block_bitmap() looks at EXT4_BG_BLOCK_UNINIT to decide
whether to initialize the block bitmap each time it is called
(introduced by commit c806e68f), and this can race with block
allocations in ext4_mb_mark_diskspace_used().
ext4_read_block_bitmap does:
spin_lock(sb_bgl_lock(EXT4_SB(sb), block_group));
if (desc->bg_flags & cpu_to_le16(EXT4_BG_BLOCK_UNINIT)) {
ext4_init_block_bitmap(sb, bh, block_group, desc);
Now on the block allocation side we do
mb_set_bits(sb_bgl_lock(sbi, ac->ac_b_ex.fe_group), bitmap_bh->b_data,
ac->ac_b_ex.fe_start, ac->ac_b_ex.fe_len);
....
spin_lock(sb_bgl_lock(sbi, ac->ac_b_ex.fe_group));
if (gdp->bg_flags & cpu_to_le16(EXT4_BG_BLOCK_UNINIT)) {
gdp->bg_flags &= cpu_to_le16(~EXT4_BG_BLOCK_UNINIT);
ie on allocation we update the bitmap then we take the sb_bgl_lock
and clear the EXT4_BG_BLOCK_UNINIT flag. What can happen is a
parallel ext4_read_block_bitmap can zero out the bitmap in between
the above mb_set_bits and spin_lock(sb_bg_lock..)
The race results in below user visible errors
EXT4-fs error (device sdb1): ext4_mb_release_inode_pa: free 100, pa_free 105
EXT4-fs error (device sdb1): mb_free_blocks: double-free of inode 0's block ..
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
The mballoc code likes to call ext4_error while it is holding locked
block groups. This can causes a scheduling in atomic context BUG. We
can't just unlock the block group and relock it after/if ext4_error
returns since that might result in race conditions in the case where
the filesystem is set to continue after finding errors.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
In ext4_mb_init_group(), if the filesystem block size is less than
PAGE_SIZE/2, the code tries to grab alloc_sem for multiple block
groups in a loop. We need to allow for this by using
down_write_nested() and passing in the loop index as a lock subclass
number. This works because no other code path needs to take multiple
alloc_sem's. Note that lockdep will fail for filesystem blocksize
smaller than to PAGE_SIZE/16k. (e.g., a 1k filesystem blocksize with
a 32k page size, or a 2k filesystem blocksize with a 64k blocksize,
etc.)
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
When we generate buddy cache (especially during resize) we need to
make sure we don't use the blocks freed but not yet comitted. This
makes sure we have the right value of free blocks count in the group
info and also in the bitmap. This also ensures the ordered mode
consistency
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Avoid freeing the transaction in __jbd2_journal_drop_transaction() so
the journal commit callback can run without holding j_list_lock, to
avoid lock contention on this spinlock.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Move some of the forward declaration of the static functions
to mballoc.c where they are used. This enables us to include
mballoc.h in other .c files. Also correct the buddy cache
documentation.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
The new groups added during resize are flagged as
need_init group. Make sure we properly initialize these
groups. When we have block size < page size and we are adding
new groups the page may still be marked uptodate even though
we haven't initialized the group. While forcing the init
of buddy cache we need to make sure other groups part of the
same page of buddy cache is not using the cache.
group_info->alloc_sem is added to ensure the same.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
cc: stable@kernel.org
With this change new blocks added during resize
are marked as free in the block bitmap and the
group is flagged with EXT4_GROUP_INFO_NEED_INIT_BIT
flag. This makes sure when mballoc tries to allocate
blocks from the new group we would reload the
buddy information using the bitmap present in the disk.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
* Change EXT4_HAS_*_FEATURE to return a boolean
* Add a function prototype for ext4_fiemap() in ext4.h
* Make ext4_ext_fiemap_cb() and ext4_xattr_fiemap() be static functions
* Add lock annotations to mb_free_blocks()
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
jbd2_log_do_checkpoint()n is one of the kernel's largest stack users.
Move the array of buffer head's from the stack of jbd2_log_do_checkpoint()
to the in-core journal structure.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Convert the unsigned longs that are most responsible for bloating the
stack usage on 64-bit systems.
Nearly all places in the ext3/4 code which uses "unsigned long" is
probably a bug, since on 32-bit systems a ulong a 32-bits, which means
we are wasting stack space on 64-bit systems.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Nearly all places in the ext3/4 code which uses "unsigned long" is
probably a bug, since on 32-bit systems a ulong a 32-bits, which means
we are wasting stack space on 64-bit systems.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
The i_ext_generation was incremented, but never used. Remove it to
slim down the ext4_inode_info structure.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Add new mount options, min_batch_time and max_batch_time, which
controls how long the jbd2 layer should wait for additional filesystem
operations to get batched with a synchronous write transaction.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Display the average commit time (which is used by the ext4 fsync
batching patch) in /proc/fs/jbd2/*/info for performance tuning
purposes.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
This patch removes the static sleep time in favor of a more self
optimizing approach where we measure the average amount of time it
takes to commit a transaction to disk and the ammount of time a
transaction has been running. If somebody does a sync write or an
fsync() traditionally we would sleep for 1 jiffies, which depending on
the value of HZ could be a significant amount of time compared to how
long it takes to commit a transaction to the underlying storage. With
this patch instead of sleeping for a jiffie, we check to see if the
amount of time this transaction has been running is less than the
average commit time, and if it is we sleep for the delta using
schedule_hrtimeout to give us a higher precision sleep time. This
greatly benefits high end storage where you could end up sleeping for
longer than it takes to commit the transaction and therefore sitting
idle instead of allowing the transaction to be committed by keeping
the sleep time to a minimum so you are sure to always be doing
something.
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
We can call ext4_mb_check_limits even after successfully allocating
the requested blocks. In that case, make sure we don't overwrite
ac_status if it already has the status AC_STATUS_FOUND. This fixes
the lockdep warning:
=============================================
[ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ]
2.6.28-rc6-autokern1 #1
---------------------------------------------
fsstress/11948 is trying to acquire lock:
(&meta_group_info[i]->alloc_sem){----}, at: [<c04d9a49>] ext4_mb_load_buddy+0x9f/0x278
.....
stack backtrace:
.....
[<c04db974>] ext4_mb_regular_allocator+0xbb5/0xd44
.....
but task is already holding lock:
(&meta_group_info[i]->alloc_sem){----}, at: [<c04d9a49>] ext4_mb_load_buddy+0x9f/0x278
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
This removes annoying blank syslog entries emitted by ext4_error() or
ext4_warning(), since these functions add their own newline.
Signed-off-by: Nick Warne <nick@ukfsn.org>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Xen doesn't report that barriers are not supported until buffer I/O is
reported as completed, instead of when the buffer I/O is submitted.
Add a check and a fallback codepath to journal_wait_on_commit_record()
to detect this case, so that attempts to mount ext4 filesystems on
LVM/devicemapper devices on Xen guests don't blow up with an "Aborting
journal on device XXX"; "Remounting filesystem read-only" error.
Thanks to Andreas Sundstrom for reporting this issue.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
A few weeks ago I posted a patch for discussion that allowed ext4 to run
without a journal. Since that time I've integrated the excellent
comments from Andreas and fixed several serious bugs. We're currently
running with this patch and generating some performance numbers against
both ext2 (with backported reservations code) and ext4 with and without
a journal. It just so happens that running without a journal is
slightly faster for most everything.
We did
iozone -T -t 4 s 2g -r 256k -T -I -i0 -i1 -i2
which creates 4 threads, each of which create and do reads and writes on
a 2G file, with a buffer size of 256K, using O_DIRECT for all file opens
to bypass the page cache. Results:
ext2 ext4, default ext4, no journal
initial writes 13.0 MB/s 15.4 MB/s 15.7 MB/s
rewrites 13.1 MB/s 15.6 MB/s 15.9 MB/s
reads 15.2 MB/s 16.9 MB/s 17.2 MB/s
re-reads 15.3 MB/s 16.9 MB/s 17.2 MB/s
random readers 5.6 MB/s 5.6 MB/s 5.7 MB/s
random writers 5.1 MB/s 5.3 MB/s 5.4 MB/s
So it seems that, so far, this was a useful exercise.
Signed-off-by: Frank Mayhar <fmayhar@google.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
I chased the cause of following ext4 oops report which is tested on
ia64 box.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12018
The cause is the size of s_mb_maxs array that is defined as "unsigned
short" in ext4_sb_info structure. If the file system's block size is
8k or greater, an unsigned short is not wide enough to contain the
value fs->blocksize << 3.
Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
The inode table has been zeroed in setup_new_group_blocks(). Mark it as
such in ext4_group_add(). Since we are currently clearing inode table
for the new block group, we should set the EXT4_BG_INODE_ZEROED flag.
If at some point in the future we don't immediately zero out the inode
table as part of the resize operation, then obviously we shouldn't do
this.
Signed-off-by: Solofo.Ramangalahy@bull.net
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Remove some completely unneeded code which which caused an ext4_error
to be generated when mounting a file system with only a single block
group.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
When iterating through the pages which have mapped buffer_heads, we
failed to update the b_state value. This results in allocating blocks
at logical offset 0.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
If the filesystem has errors, ext4_da_writepages() will return a *lot*
of errors, including lots and lots of stack dumps. While it's true
that we are dropping user data on the floor, which is unfortunate, the
stack dumps aren't helpful, and they tend to obscure the true original
root cause of the problem. So in the case where the filesystem has
aborted, return an EROFS right away.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
The convenience function do_blk_alloc() is a static function with only
one caller, so fold it into ext4_new_meta_blocks() to simplify the
code and to make it easier to understand.
To save more stack space, if count is a null pointer in
ext4_new_meta_blocks() assume that caller wanted a single block (and
if there is an error, no blocks were allocated).
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
There were only two one callers of the function ext4_new_meta_block(),
which just a very simpler wrapper function around
ext4_new_meta_blocks(). Change those two functions to call
ext4_new_meta_blocks() directly, to save code and stack space usage.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
There was only one caller of the compatibility function
ext4_new_blocks(), in balloc.c's ext4_alloc_blocks(). Change it to
call ext4_mb_new_blocks() directly, and remove ext4_new_blocks()
altogether. This cleans up the code, by removing two extra functions
from the call chain, and hopefully saving some stack usage.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
This fixes a gcc warning but it doesn't appear able to result in a
failure, since the primary way the loop is exited is the first
conditional in the for loop, and at least for a consistent filesystem,
the signed/unsigned should in practice never be exposed.
Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
The original ext3 hash algorithms assumed that variables of type char
were signed, as God and K&R intended. Unfortunately, this assumption
is not true on some architectures. Userspace support for marking
filesystems with non-native signed/unsigned chars was added two years
ago, but the kernel-side support was never added (until now).
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
The original ext3 hash algorithms assumed that variables of type char
were signed, as God and K&R intended. Unfortunately, this assumption
is not true on some architectures. Userspace support for marking
filesystems with non-native signed/unsigned chars was added two years
ago, but the kernel-side support was never added (until now).
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
fs/ext4/balloc.c:607: warning: format '%lld' expects type 'long long int', but argument 2 has type 's64'
fs/ext4/inode.c:1822: warning: format '%lld' expects type 'long long int', but argument 2 has type 's64'
fs/ext4/inode.c:1824: warning: format '%lld' expects type 'long long int', but argument 2 has type 's64'
Signed-off-by: Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
* 'audit.b61' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit-current:
audit: validate comparison operations, store them in sane form
clean up audit_rule_{add,del} a bit
make sure that filterkey of task,always rules is reported
audit rules ordering, part 2
fixing audit rule ordering mess, part 1
audit_update_lsm_rules() misses the audit_inode_hash[] ones
sanitize audit_log_capset()
sanitize audit_fd_pair()
sanitize audit_mq_open()
sanitize AUDIT_MQ_SENDRECV
sanitize audit_mq_notify()
sanitize audit_mq_getsetattr()
sanitize audit_ipc_set_perm()
sanitize audit_ipc_obj()
sanitize audit_socketcall
don't reallocate buffer in every audit_sockaddr()
With the write_begin/write_end aops, page_symlink was broken because it
could no longer pass a GFP_NOFS type mask into the point where the
allocations happened. They are done in write_begin, which would always
assume that the filesystem can be entered from reclaim. This bug could
cause filesystem deadlocks.
The funny thing with having a gfp_t mask there is that it doesn't really
allow the caller to arbitrarily tinker with the context in which it can be
called. It couldn't ever be GFP_ATOMIC, for example, because it needs to
take the page lock. The only thing any callers care about is __GFP_FS
anyway, so turn that into a single flag.
Add a new flag for write_begin, AOP_FLAG_NOFS. Filesystems can now act on
this flag in their write_begin function. Change __grab_cache_page to
accept a nofs argument as well, to honour that flag (while we're there,
change the name to grab_cache_page_write_begin which is more instructive
and does away with random leading underscores).
This is really a more flexible way to go in the end anyway -- if a
filesystem happens to want any extra allocations aside from the pagecache
ones in ints write_begin function, it may now use GFP_KERNEL (rather than
GFP_NOFS) for common case allocations (eg. ocfs2_alloc_write_ctxt, for a
random example).
[kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: fix ubifs]
[kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: fix fuse]
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.28.x]
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
[ Cleaned up the calling convention: just pass in the AOP flags
untouched to the grab_cache_page_write_begin() function. That
just simplifies everybody, and may even allow future expansion of the
logic. - Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
As suggested by Andreas Dilger, introduce a bgl_lock_ptr() helper in
<linux/blockgroup_lock.h> and add separate sb_bgl_lock() helpers to
filesystem specific header files to break the hidden dependency to
struct ext[234]_sb_info.
Also, while at it, convert the macros to static inlines to try make up
for all the times I broke Andrew Morton's tree.
Acked-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'cpus4096-for-linus-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (77 commits)
x86: setup_per_cpu_areas() cleanup
cpumask: fix compile error when CONFIG_NR_CPUS is not defined
cpumask: use alloc_cpumask_var_node where appropriate
cpumask: convert shared_cpu_map in acpi_processor* structs to cpumask_var_t
x86: use cpumask_var_t in acpi/boot.c
x86: cleanup some remaining usages of NR_CPUS where s/b nr_cpu_ids
sched: put back some stack hog changes that were undone in kernel/sched.c
x86: enable cpus display of kernel_max and offlined cpus
ia64: cpumask fix for is_affinity_mask_valid()
cpumask: convert RCU implementations, fix
xtensa: define __fls
mn10300: define __fls
m32r: define __fls
h8300: define __fls
frv: define __fls
cris: define __fls
cpumask: CONFIG_DISABLE_OBSOLETE_CPUMASK_FUNCTIONS
cpumask: zero extra bits in alloc_cpumask_var_node
cpumask: replace for_each_cpu_mask_nr with for_each_cpu in kernel/time/
cpumask: convert mm/
...
... just make it a binfmt handler like #! one.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
They are actually alpha vs. i386/arm/m68k i.e. ecoff vs. aout.
In the only place where we actually tried to handle arm and i386/m68k in
different ways (START_DATA() in coredump handling), the arm variant
works for all of them (i386 and m68k have u.start_code set to 0).
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'linux-next' of git://git.infradead.org/ubifs-2.6: (33 commits)
UBIFS: add more useful debugging prints
UBIFS: print debugging messages properly
UBIFS: fix numerous spelling mistakes
UBIFS: allow mounting when short of space
UBIFS: fix writing uncompressed files
UBIFS: fix checkpatch.pl warnings
UBIFS: fix sparse warnings
UBIFS: simplify make_free_space
UBIFS: do not lie about used blocks
UBIFS: restore budg_uncommitted_idx
UBIFS: always commit on unmount
UBIFS: use ubi_sync
UBIFS: always commit in sync_fs
UBIFS: fix file-system synchronization
UBIFS: fix constants initialization
UBIFS: avoid unnecessary calculations
UBIFS: re-calculate min_idx_size after the commit
UBIFS: use nicer 64-bit math
UBIFS: fix available blocks count
UBIFS: various comment improvements and fixes
...
* 'kvm-updates/2.6.29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/avi/kvm: (140 commits)
KVM: MMU: handle large host sptes on invlpg/resync
KVM: Add locking to virtual i8259 interrupt controller
KVM: MMU: Don't treat a global pte as such if cr4.pge is cleared
MAINTAINERS: Maintainership changes for kvm/ia64
KVM: ia64: Fix kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_[gs]et_regs()
KVM: x86: Rework user space NMI injection as KVM_CAP_USER_NMI
KVM: VMX: Fix pending NMI-vs.-IRQ race for user space irqchip
KVM: fix handling of ACK from shared guest IRQ
KVM: MMU: check for present pdptr shadow page in walk_shadow
KVM: Consolidate userspace memory capability reporting into common code
KVM: Advertise the bug in memory region destruction as fixed
KVM: use cpumask_var_t for cpus_hardware_enabled
KVM: use modern cpumask primitives, no cpumask_t on stack
KVM: Extract core of kvm_flush_remote_tlbs/kvm_reload_remote_mmus
KVM: set owner of cpu and vm file operations
anon_inodes: use fops->owner for module refcount
x86: KVM guest: kvm_get_tsc_khz: return khz, not lpj
KVM: MMU: prepopulate the shadow on invlpg
KVM: MMU: skip global pgtables on sync due to cr3 switch
KVM: MMU: collapse remote TLB flushes on root sync
...
Wrap access to task credentials so that they can be separated more easily from
the task_struct during the introduction of COW creds.
Change most current->(|e|s|fs)[ug]id to current_(|e|s|fs)[ug]id().
Change some task->e?[ug]id to task_e?[ug]id(). In some places it makes more
sense to use RCU directly rather than a convenient wrapper; these will be
addressed by later patches.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fs/devpts/inode.c:324: warning: 'compare_init_pts_sb' defined but not used
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Just nail the oddments now while this code is being touched
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To support containers, allow multiple instances of devpts filesystem, such
that indices of ptys allocated in one instance are independent of ptys
allocated in other instances of devpts.
But to preserve backward compatibility, enable this support for multiple
instances only if:
- CONFIG_DEVPTS_MULTIPLE_INSTANCES is set to Y, and
- '-o newinstance' mount option is specified while mounting devpts
To use multi-instance mount, a container startup script could:
$ ns_exec -cm /bin/bash
$ umount /dev/pts
$ mount -t devpts -o newinstance lxcpts /dev/pts
$ mount -o bind /dev/pts/ptmx /dev/ptmx
$ /usr/sbin/sshd -p 1234
where 'ns_exec -cm /bin/bash' is calls clone() with CLONE_NEWNS flag and execs
/bin/bash in the child process. A pty created by the sshd is not visible in
the original mount of /dev/pts.
USER-SPACE-IMPACT:
- See Documentation/fs/devpts.txt (included in next patch) for user-
space impact in multi-instance and mixed-mode operation.
TODO:
- Update mount(8), pts(4) man pages. Highlight impact of not
redirecting /dev/ptmx to /dev/pts/ptmx after a multi-instance mount.
Changelog[v6]:
- [Dave Hansen] Use new get_init_pts_sb() interface
- [Serge Hallyn] Don't bother displaying 'newinstance' in show_options
- [Serge Hallyn] Use macros (PARSE_REMOUNT/PARSE_MOUNT) instead of 0/1.
- [Serge Hallyn] Check error return from get_sb_single() (now
get_init_pts_sb())
- devpts_pty_kill(): don't dput error dentries
Changelog[v5]:
- Move get_sb_ref() definition to earlier patch
- Move usage info to Documentation/filesystems/devpts.txt (next patch)
- Make ptmx node even in init_pts_ns, now that default mode is 0000
(defined in earlier patch, enabled here).
- Cache ptmx dentry and use to update mode during remount
(defined in earlier patch, enabled here).
- Bugfix: explicitly ignore newinstance on remount (if newinstance was
specified on remount of initial mount, it would be ignored but
/proc/mounts would imply that the option was set)
Changelog[v4]:
- Update patch description to address H. Peter Anvin's comments
- Consolidate multi-instance mode code under new config token,
CONFIG_DEVPTS_MULTIPLE_INSTANCE.
- Move usage-details from patch description to
Documentation/fs/devpts.txt
Changelog[v3]:
- Rename new mount option to 'newinstance'
- Create ptmx nodes only in 'newinstance' mounts
- Bugfix: parse_mount_options() modifies @data but since we need to
parse the @data twice (once in devpts_get_sb() and once during
do_remount_sb()), parse a local copy of @data in devpts_get_sb().
(restructured code in devpts_get_sb() to fix this)
Changelog[v2]:
- Support both single-mount and multiple-mount semantics and
provide '-onewmnt' option to select the semantics.
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
