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Josef 'Jeff' Sipek
535f6b3735 [XFS] Replace custom AIL linked-list code with struct list_head
Replace the xfs_ail_entry_t with a struct list_head and clean the
surrounding code up. Also fixes a livelock in xfs_trans_first_push_ail()
by terminating the loop at the head of the list correctly.

SGI-PV: 978682
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30636a

Signed-off-by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <jeffpc@josefsipek.net>
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-04-18 11:41:57 +10:00
Christoph Hellwig
a45c796867 [XFS] Remove superflous xfs_readsb call in xfs_mountfs.
When xfs_mountfs is called by xfs_mount xfs_readsb was called 35 lines
above unconditionally, so there is no need to try to read the superblock
if it's not present. If any other port doesn't have the superblock read at
this point it should just call it directly from it's xfs_mount equivalent.

SGI-PV: 976035
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30603a

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Donald Douwsma <donaldd@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-04-18 11:41:46 +10:00
Niv Sardi
dfa18b1179 [XFS] kill t_sema member of struct xfs_trans
It's completely unused so we might aswell kill it. Note that there is
another t_sema in struct xlog_ticket, which is used and actually an sv_t
despite the name. That one is left untouched by this patch.

SGI-PV: 971186
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30591a

Signed-off-by: Niv Sardi <xaiki@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-04-18 11:41:35 +10:00
Christoph Hellwig
5f90150aba [XFS] cleanup vnode use in xfs_bmap.c
SGI-PV: 976035
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30553a

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-04-18 11:41:25 +10:00
Christoph Hellwig
af048193fc [XFS] cleanup vnode use in xfs_iops.c
SGI-PV: 976035
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30552a

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-04-18 11:41:14 +10:00
Christoph Hellwig
dcf49cc5cf [XFS] cleanup vnode use in xfs_lrw.c
SGI-PV: 976035
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30551a

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-04-18 11:41:04 +10:00
Christoph Hellwig
ef1f5e7ad3 [XFS] cleanup vnode use in xfs_lookup
SGI-PV: 976035
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30550a

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-04-18 11:40:55 +10:00
Christoph Hellwig
3937be5ba8 [XFS] cleanup vnode use in xfs_symlink and xfs_rename
SGI-PV: 976035
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30548a

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-04-18 11:40:45 +10:00
Christoph Hellwig
a3da789640 [XFS] cleanup vnode use in xfs_link
SGI-PV: 976035
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30547a

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-04-18 11:40:35 +10:00
Christoph Hellwig
979ebab116 [XFS] cleanup vnode use in xfs_create/mknod/mkdir
SGI-PV: 976035
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30546a

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-04-18 11:40:25 +10:00
Christoph Hellwig
bc4ac74a4e [XFS] cleanup vnode use in dmapi calls
SGI-PV: 976035
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30545a

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-04-18 11:40:15 +10:00
David Chinner
d234154125 [XFS] Use power-of-2 sized buffers to reduce overhead
Now that the ktrace_enter() code is using atomics, the non-power-of-2
buffer sizes - which require modulus operations to get the index - are
showing up as using substantial CPU in the profiles.

Force the buffer sizes to be rounded up to the nearest power of two and
use masking rather than modulus operations to convert the index counter to
the buffer index. This reduces ktrace_enter overhead to 8% of a CPU time,
and again almost halves the trace intensive test runtime.

SGI-PV: 977546
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30538a

Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-04-18 11:40:04 +10:00
David Chinner
6ee4752ffe [XFS] Use atomic counters for ktrace buffer indexes
ktrace_enter() is consuming vast amounts of CPU time due to the use of a
single global lock for protecting buffer index increments. Change it to
use per-buffer atomic counters - this reduces ktrace_enter() overhead
during a trace intensive test on a 4p machine from 58% of all CPU time to
12% and halves test runtime.

SGI-PV: 977546
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30537a

Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-04-18 11:39:55 +10:00
David Chinner
44d814ced4 [XFS] Update c/mtime correctly on truncates
XFS changes the c/mtime of an inode when truncating it to the same size.
The c/mtime is only supposed to change if the size is changed. Not to be
confused with ftruncate, where the c/mtime is supposed to be changed even
if the size is not changed.

The Linux VFS encodes this semantic difference in the flags it sends down
to ->setattr, which XFS currently ignores. We need to make XFS pay
attention to the VFS flags and hence Do The Right Thing.

SGI-PV: 977547
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30536a

Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-04-18 11:39:45 +10:00
Christoph Hellwig
24bd861d1c [XFS] don't encode parent in nfs filehandles unless nessecary
As Dave pointed out after the export ops changes we now always encode the
parent into the filehandle for regular files, but it's not actually needed
when the filesystem is export with no_subtree_check. This one-liner fixes
xfs_fs_encode_fh to skip encoding the parent unless nessecary.

SGI-PV: 976035
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30535a

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-04-18 11:39:35 +10:00
Christoph Hellwig
126468b115 [XFS] kill xfs_rwlock/xfs_rwunlock
We can just use xfs_ilock/xfs_iunlock instead and get rid of the ugly
bhv_vrwlock_t.

SGI-PV: 976035
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30533a

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-04-18 11:39:25 +10:00
Christoph Hellwig
43973964a3 [XFS] kill xfs_get_dir_entry
Instead of of xfs_get_dir_entry use a macro to get the xfs_inode from the
dentry in the callers and grab the reference manually.

Only grab the reference once as it's fine to keep it over the dmapi calls.
(And even that reference is actually superflous in Linux but I'll leave
that for another patch)

SGI-PV: 976035
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30531a

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-04-18 11:39:14 +10:00
Christoph Hellwig
a8b3acd57e [XFS] vnode cleanup in xfs_fs_subr.c
Cleanup the unneeded intermediate vnode step in the flushing helpers and
go directly from the xfs_inode to the struct address_space.

SGI-PV: 976035
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30530a

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-04-18 11:39:03 +10:00
Christoph Hellwig
db0bb7baa1 [XFS] cleanup xfs_vn_mknod
- use proper goto based unwinding instead of the current mess of
  multiple conditionals
- rename ip to inode because that's the normal convention for Linux
  inodes while ip is the convention for xfs_inodes
- remove unlikely checks for the default_acl - branches marked unlikely
  might lead to extreme branch bredictor slowdons if taken and for some
  workloads a default acl is quite common
- properly indent the switch statements
- remove xfs_has_fs_struct as nfsd has a fs_struct in any semi-recent
  kernel

SGI-PV: 976035
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30529a

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-04-18 11:38:53 +10:00
David Chinner
155cc6b784 [XFS] Use atomics for iclog reference counting
Now that we update the log tail LSN less frequently on transaction
completion, we pass the contention straight to the global log state lock
(l_iclog_lock) during transaction completion.

We currently have to take this lock to decrement the iclog reference
count. there is a reference count on each iclog, so we need to take he
global lock for all refcount changes.

When large numbers of processes are all doing small trnasctions, the iclog
reference counts will be quite high, and the state change that absolutely
requires the l_iclog_lock is the except rather than the norm.

Change the reference counting on the iclogs to use atomic_inc/dec so that
we can use atomic_dec_and_lock during transaction completion and avoid the
need for grabbing the l_iclog_lock for every reference count decrement
except the one that matters - the last.

SGI-PV: 975671
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30505a

Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-04-18 11:38:10 +10:00
David Chinner
b589334c7a [XFS] Prevent AIL lock contention during transaction completion
When hundreds of processors attempt to commit transactions at the same
time, they can contend on the AIL lock when updating the tail LSN held in
the in-core log structure.

At the moment, the tail LSN is only needed when actually writing out an
iclog, so it really does not need to be updated on every single
transaction completion - only those that result in switching iclogs and
flushing them to disk.

The result is that we reduce the number of times we need to grab the AIL
lock and the log grant lock by up to two orders of magnitude on large
processor count machines. The problem has previously been hidden by AIL
lock contention walking the AIL list which was recently solved and
uncovered this issue.

SGI-PV: 975671
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30504a

Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-04-18 11:38:01 +10:00
David Chinner
3354040897 [XFS] Use xfs_inode_clean() in more places
Remove open coded checks for the whether the inode is clean and replace
them with an inlined function.

SGI-PV: 977461
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30503a

Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-04-18 11:37:51 +10:00
David Chinner
bad5584332 [XFS] Remove the xfs_icluster structure
Remove the xfs_icluster structure and replace with a radix tree lookup.

We don't need to keep a list of inodes in each cluster around anymore as
we can look them up quickly when we need to. The only time we need to do
this now is during inode writeback.

Factor the inode cluster writeback code out of xfs_iflush and convert it
to use radix_tree_gang_lookup() instead of walking a list of inodes built
when we first read in the inodes.

This remove 3 pointers from each xfs_inode structure and the xfs_icluster
structure per inode cluster. Hence we reduce the cache footprint of the
xfs_inodes by between 5-10% depending on cluster sparseness.

To be truly efficient we need a radix_tree_gang_lookup_range() call to
stop searching once we are past the end of the cluster instead of trying
to find a full cluster's worth of inodes.

Before (ia64):

$ cat /sys/slab/xfs_inode/object_size 536

After:

$ cat /sys/slab/xfs_inode/object_size 512

SGI-PV: 977460
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30502a

Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-04-18 11:37:41 +10:00
David Chinner
a3f74ffb6d [XFS] Don't block pdflush when writing back inodes
When pdflush is writing back inodes, it can get stuck on inode cluster
buffers that are currently under I/O. This occurs when we write data to
multiple inodes in the same inode cluster at the same time.

Effectively, delayed allocation marks the inode dirty during the data
writeback. Hence if the inode cluster was flushed during the writeback of
the first inode, the writeback of the second inode will block waiting for
the inode cluster write to complete before writing it again for the newly
dirtied inode.

Basically, we want to avoid this from happening so we don't block pdflush
and slow down all of writeback. Hence we introduce a non-blocking async
inode flush flag that pdflush uses. If this flag is set, we use
non-blocking operations (e.g. try locks) whereever we can to avoid
blocking or extra I/O being issued.

SGI-PV: 970925
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30501a

Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-04-18 11:37:32 +10:00
David Chinner
4ae29b4321 [XFS] Factor xfs_itobp() and xfs_inotobp().
The only difference between the functions is one passes an inode for the
lookup, the other passes an inode number. However, they don't do the same
validity checking or set all the same state on the buffer that is returned
yet they should.

Factor the functions into a common implementation.

SGI-PV: 970925
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30500a

Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-04-18 11:37:19 +10:00
Lachlan McIlroy
e9a56b7cda [XFS] Fix regression due to refcache removal
SGI-PV: 971186
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30490a

Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Donald Douwsma <donaldd@sgi.com>
2008-04-18 11:37:06 +10:00
Donald Douwsma
163d3686bb [XFS] Remove the xfs_refcache
Remove the xfs_refcache, it was only needed while we were still
building for 2.4 kernels.

SGI-PV: 971186
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30472a

Signed-off-by: Donald Douwsma <donaldd@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-04-18 11:36:55 +10:00
Lachlan McIlroy
461aa8a225 [XFS] make inode reclaim synchronise with xfs_iflush_done()
On a forced shutdown, xfs_finish_reclaim() will skip flushing the inode.
If the inode flush lock is not already held and there is an outstanding
xfs_iflush_done() then we might free the inode prematurely. By acquiring
and releasing the flush lock we will synchronise with xfs_iflush_done().

SGI-PV: 909874
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30468a

Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
2008-04-18 11:34:54 +10:00
Niv Sardi
e12070a5dc [XFS] actually check error returned by xfs_flush_pages, clean up and
bailout if fails.

SGI-PV: 973041
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30462a

Signed-off-by: Niv Sardi <xaiki@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-04-18 11:34:47 +10:00
Paul Bolle
424b00e2c0 AFS: Do not describe debug parameters with their value
Describe debug parameters with their names (and not their values).

Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-16 07:43:48 -07:00
Jan Kara
335e92e8a5 vfs: fix possible deadlock in ext2, ext3, ext4 when using xattrs
mb_cache_entry_alloc() was allocating cache entries with GFP_KERNEL.  But
filesystems are calling this function while holding xattr_sem so possible
recursion into the fs violates locking ordering of xattr_sem and transaction
start / i_mutex for ext2-4.  Change mb_cache_entry_alloc() so that filesystems
can specify desired gfp mask and use GFP_NOFS from all of them.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-15 19:35:41 -07:00
Alexey Korolev
abe2f41430 JFFS2 Fix of panics caused by wrong condition for hole frag creation in write_begin
This fixes a regression introduced in commit
205c109a7a when switching to
write_begin/write_end operations in JFFS2.

The page offset is miscalculated, leading to corruption of the fragment
lists and subsequently to memory corruption and panics.

[ Side note: the bug is a fairly direct result of the naming.  Nick was
  likely misled by the use of "offs", since we tend to use the notion of
  "offset" not as an absolute position, but as an offset _within_ a page
  or allocation.

  Alternatively, a "pgoff_t" is a page index, but not a byte offset -
  our VM naming can be a bit confusing.

  So in this case, a VM person would likely have called this a "pos",
  not an "offs", or perhaps talked about byte offsets rather than page
  offsets (since it's counted in bytes, not pages).    - Linus ]

Signed-off-by: Alexey Korolev <akorolev@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Leonenko <vasiliy.leonenko@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-14 15:43:14 -07:00
J. Bruce Fields
19e729a928 locks: fix possible infinite loop in fcntl(F_SETLKW) over nfs
Miklos Szeredi found the bug:

	"Basically what happens is that on the server nlm_fopen() calls
	nfsd_open() which returns -EACCES, to which nlm_fopen() returns
	NLM_LCK_DENIED.

	"On the client this will turn into a -EAGAIN (nlm_stat_to_errno()),
	which in will cause fcntl_setlk() to retry forever."

So, for example, opening a file on an nfs filesystem, changing
permissions to forbid further access, then trying to lock the file,
could result in an infinite loop.

And Trond Myklebust identified the culprit, from Marc Eshel and I:

	7723ec9777 "locks: factor out
	generic/filesystem switch from setlock code"

That commit claimed to just be reshuffling code, but actually introduced
a behavioral change by calling the lock method repeatedly as long as it
returned -EAGAIN.

We assumed this would be safe, since we assumed a lock of type SETLKW
would only return with either success or an error other than -EAGAIN.
However, nfs does can in fact return -EAGAIN in this situation, and
independently of whether that behavior is correct or not, we don't
actually need this change, and it seems far safer not to depend on such
assumptions about the filesystem's ->lock method.

Therefore, revert the problematic part of the original commit.  This
leaves vfs_lock_file() and its other callers unchanged, while returning
fcntl_setlk and fcntl_setlk64 to their former behavior.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Tested-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Marc Eshel <eshel@almaden.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-14 12:22:14 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
14897e35fd Merge branch 'docs' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6
* 'docs' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6:
  Add additional examples in Documentation/spinlocks.txt
  Move sched-rt-group.txt to scheduler/
  Documentation: move rpc-cache.txt to filesystems/
  Documentation: move nfsroot.txt to filesystems/
  Spell out behavior of atomic_dec_and_lock() in kerneldoc
  Fix a typo in highres.txt
  Fixes to the seq_file document
  Fill out information on patch tags in SubmittingPatches
  Add the seq_file documentation
2008-04-11 13:24:16 -07:00
J. Bruce Fields
6ded55da6b Documentation: move nfsroot.txt to filesystems/
Documentation/ is a little large, and filesystems/ seems an obvious
place for this file.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2008-04-11 13:18:01 -06:00
Davide Libenzi
0859ab59a8 signalfd: fix for incorrect SI_QUEUE user data reporting
Michael Kerrisk found out that signalfd was not reporting back user data
pushed using sigqueue:

  http://groups.google.com/group/linux.kernel/msg/9397cab8551e3123

The following patch makes signalfd report back the ssi_ptr and ssi_int members
of the signalfd_siginfo structure.

Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-11 08:06:44 -07:00
Davide Libenzi
8d1c98b0b5 eventfd/kaio integration fix
Jeff Roberson discovered a race when using kaio eventfd based notifications.
When it occurs it can lead tomissed wakeups and hung userspace.

This patch fixes the race by moving the notification inside the spinlocked
section of kaio.  The operation is safe since eventfd spinlock and kaio one
are unrelated.

Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Cc: Jeff Roberson <jroberson@chesapeake.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-11 08:06:43 -07:00
Roland McGrath
598af051a7 asmlinkage_protect sys_io_getevents
Use asmlinkage_protect in sys_io_getevents, because GCC for i386 with
CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER=n can decide to clobber an argument word on the
stack, i.e. the user struct pt_regs.  Here the problem is not a tail
call, but just the compiler's use of the stack when it inlines and
optimizes the body of the called function.  This seems to avoid it.

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-10 17:28:26 -07:00
Roland McGrath
54a0151041 asmlinkage_protect replaces prevent_tail_call
The prevent_tail_call() macro works around the problem of the compiler
clobbering argument words on the stack, which for asmlinkage functions
is the caller's (user's) struct pt_regs.  The tail/sibling-call
optimization is not the only way that the compiler can decide to use
stack argument words as scratch space, which we have to prevent.
Other optimizations can do it too.

Until we have new compiler support to make "asmlinkage" binding on the
compiler's own use of the stack argument frame, we have work around all
the manifestations of this issue that crop up.

More cases seem to be prevented by also keeping the incoming argument
variables live at the end of the function.  This makes their original
stack slots attractive places to leave those variables, so the compiler
tends not clobber them for something else.  It's still no guarantee, but
it handles some observed cases that prevent_tail_call() did not.

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-10 17:28:26 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
5d69a029ab Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com:8090/xfs/xfs-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com:8090/xfs/xfs-2.6:
  [XFS] Ensure "both" features2 slots are consistent
  [XFS] Fix superblock features2 field alignment problem
  [XFS] remove shouting-indirection macros from xfs_sb.h
2008-04-10 13:39:29 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
999646e3f9 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
  cfq-iosched: do not leak ioc_data across iosched switches
  splice: fix infinite loop in generic_file_splice_read()
2008-04-10 13:39:07 -07:00
Roman Zippel
76b0c26af2 HFS+: fix unlink of links
Some time ago while attempting to handle invalid link counts, I botched
the unlink of links itself, so this patch fixes this now correctly, so
that only the link count of nodes that don't point to links is ignored.
Thanks to Vlado Plaga <rechner@vlado-do.de> to notify me of this
problem.

Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-10 13:37:51 -07:00
Eric Sandeen
e6957ea484 [XFS] Ensure "both" features2 slots are consistent
Since older kernels may look in the sb_bad_features2 slot for flags,
rather than zeroing it out on fixup, we should make it equal to the
sb_features2 value.

Also, if the ATTR2 flag was not found prior to features2 fixup, it was not
set in the mount flags, so re-check after the fixup so that the current
session will use the feature.

Also fix up the comments to reflect these changes.

SGI-PV: 980085
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30778a

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-04-10 16:25:26 +10:00
David Chinner
ee1c090825 [XFS] Fix superblock features2 field alignment problem
Due to the xfs_dsb_t structure not being 64 bit aligned, the last field of
the on-disk superblock can vary in location This causes problems when the
filesystem gets moved to a different platform, or there is a 32 bit
userspace and 64 bit kernel.

This patch detects the defect at mount time, logs a warning such as:

XFS: correcting sb_features alignment problem

in dmesg and corrects the problem so that everything is OK. it also
blacklists the bad field in the superblock so it does not get used for
something else later on.

SGI-PV: 977636
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30539a

Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-04-10 16:25:15 +10:00
Eric Sandeen
6211870992 [XFS] remove shouting-indirection macros from xfs_sb.h
Remove macro-to-small-function indirection from xfs_sb.h, and remove some
which are completely unused.

SGI-PV: 976035
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30528a

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
Signed-off-by: Donald Douwsma <donaldd@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-04-10 16:24:45 +10:00
Jens Axboe
8191ecd1d1 splice: fix infinite loop in generic_file_splice_read()
There's a quirky loop in generic_file_splice_read() that could go
on indefinitely, if the file splice returns 0 permanently (and not
just as a temporary condition). Get rid of the loop and pass
back -EAGAIN correctly from __generic_file_splice_read(), so we
handle that condition properly as well.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-04-10 08:24:25 +02:00
Bryan Wu
240ee83118 fix bug - executing FDPIC ELF on NFS mount triggers BUG() at mm/nommu.c:862:/do_mmap_private()
NFS needs a NOMMU version mmap function to support uClinux on NOMMU machine
http://blackfin.uclinux.org/gf/project/uclinux-dist/tracker/?action=TrackerItemEdit&tracker_id=141&tracker_item_id=3992

Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-04-08 21:06:56 -04:00
Jeff Layton
66d3aac041 NFS: initialize flags field in nfs_open_context
The nfs_open_context struct had a "flags" field added recently, but the
allocator isn't initializing it. It also looks like the allocator isn't
initializing the mode or list either, but they seem to be overwritten
by the caller, so that's less of an issue.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-04-08 21:06:53 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
1be62dc190 Be more careful about marking buffers dirty
Mikulas Patocka noted that the optimization where we check if a buffer
was already dirty (and we avoid re-dirtying it) was not really SMP-safe.

Since the read of the old status was not synchronized with anything, an
aggressive CPU re-ordering of memory accesses might have moved that read
up to before the data was even written to the buffer, and another CPU
that cleaned it again, causing the newly dirty state to never actually
hit the disk.

Admittedly this would probably never trigger in practice, but it's still
wrong.

Mikulas sent a patch that fixed the problem, but I dislike the subtlety
of the whole optimization, so this is an alternate fix that is more
explicit about the particular SMP ordering for the optimization, and
separates out the speculative reads of the buffer state into its own
conditional (and makes the memory barrier only happen if we are likely
to actually hit the optimized case in the first place).

I considered removing the optimization entirely, but Andrew argued for
it's continued existence. I'm a push-over.

Cc: Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-04 14:38:17 -07:00
Sven Schnelle
ad16df848d afs: remove smp_prcessor_id() from debug macro
Signed-off-by: Sven Schnelle <svens@stackframe.org>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-03 15:40:53 -07:00