linux-stable.git/fs/fat, branch v3.5

fat: fix non-atomic NFS i_pos read

2012-07-11T23:04:47+00:00

fat_encode_fh() can fetch an invalid i_pos value on systems where 64-bit
accesses are not atomic.  Make it use the same accessor as the rest of the
FAT code.

Signed-off-by: Steven J. Magnani 
Acked-by: OGAWA Hirofumi 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

2012-06-01T17:34:35+00:00

Pull vfs changes from Al Viro.
 "A lot of misc stuff.  The obvious groups:
   * Miklos' atomic_open series; kills the damn abuse of
     ->d_revalidate() by NFS, which was the major stumbling block for
     all work in that area.
   * ripping security_file_mmap() and dealing with deadlocks in the
     area; sanitizing the neighborhood of vm_mmap()/vm_munmap() in
     general.
   * ->encode_fh() switched to saner API; insane fake dentry in
     mm/cleancache.c gone.
   * assorted annotations in fs (endianness, __user)
   * parts of Artem's ->s_dirty work (jff2 and reiserfs parts)
   * ->update_time() work from Josef.
   * other bits and pieces all over the place.

  Normally it would've been in two or three pull requests, but
  signal.git stuff had eaten a lot of time during this cycle ;-/"

Fix up trivial conflicts in Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt (the
'truncate_range' inode method was removed by the VM changes, the VFS
update adds an 'update_time()' method), and in fs/btrfs/ulist.[ch] (due
to sparse fix added twice, with other changes nearby).

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (95 commits)
  nfs: don't open in ->d_revalidate
  vfs: retry last component if opening stale dentry
  vfs: nameidata_to_filp(): don't throw away file on error
  vfs: nameidata_to_filp(): inline __dentry_open()
  vfs: do_dentry_open(): don't put filp
  vfs: split __dentry_open()
  vfs: do_last() common post lookup
  vfs: do_last(): add audit_inode before open
  vfs: do_last(): only return EISDIR for O_CREAT
  vfs: do_last(): check LOOKUP_DIRECTORY
  vfs: do_last(): make ENOENT exit RCU safe
  vfs: make follow_link check RCU safe
  vfs: do_last(): use inode variable
  vfs: do_last(): inline walk_component()
  vfs: do_last(): make exit RCU safe
  vfs: split do_lookup()
  Btrfs: move over to use ->update_time
  fs: introduce inode operation ->update_time
  reiserfs: get rid of resierfs_sync_super
  reiserfs: mark the superblock as dirty a bit later
  ...

fat: use fat_msg_ratelimit() in fat__get_entry()

2012-06-01T00:49:28+00:00

If an application tries to lookup (opendir/readdir/stat) 5000 files on a
fatfs USB device and the device is unplugged, many message occur, shown
below.  This makes the application slow.  So use the new
fat_msg_ratelimit() decrease the messaging rate.

  #> ./file_lookup_testcase ./files_directory/
  usb 2-1.4: USB disconnect, device number 4
  FAT-fs (sda1): FAT read failed (blocknr 2631)
  FAT-fs (sda1): Directory bread(block 396816) failed
  FAT-fs (sda1): Directory bread(block 396817) failed
  FAT-fs (sda1): Directory bread(block 396818) failed
  FAT-fs (sda1): Directory bread(block 396819) failed
  FAT-fs (sda1): Directory bread(block 396820) failed
  FAT-fs (sda1): Directory bread(block 396821) failed
  FAT-fs (sda1): Directory bread(block 396822) failed
  FAT-fs (sda1): Directory bread(block 396823) failed
  FAT-fs (sda1): Directory bread(block 406824) failed
  FAT-fs (sda1): Directory bread(block 406825) failed
  FAT-fs (sda1): Directory bread(block 406826) failed
  FAT-fs (sda1): Directory bread(block 406827) failed
  FAT-fs (sda1): Directory bread(block 406828) failed
  FAT-fs (sda1): Directory bread(block 406829) failed
  FAT-fs (sda1): Directory bread(block 406830) failed
  FAT-fs (sda1): Directory bread(block 406831) failed
  FAT-fs (sda1): Directory bread(block 417696) failed
  FAT-fs (sda1): Directory bread(block 417697) failed
  FAT-fs (sda1): Directory bread(block 417698) failed
  FAT-fs (sda1): Directory bread(block 417699) failed
  FAT-fs (sda1): Directory bread(block 417700) failed
  FAT-fs (sda1): Directory bread(block 417701) failed
  FAT-fs (sda1): Directory bread(block 417702) failed
  FAT-fs (sda1): Directory bread(block 417703) failed
  FAT-fs (sda1): FAT read failed (blocknr 2631)
  FAT-fs (sda1): Directory bread(block 396816) failed
  FAT-fs (sda1): Directory bread(block 396817) failed
  FAT-fs (sda1): Directory bread(block 396818) failed
  FAT-fs (sda1): Directory bread(block 396819) failed
  FAT-fs (sda1): Directory bread(block 396820) failed
  FAT-fs (sda1): Directory bread(block 396821) failed

Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon 
Signed-off-by: Amit Sahrawat 
Acked-by: OGAWA Hirofumi 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

fat: add fat_msg_ratelimit()

2012-06-01T00:49:28+00:00

Add a fat_msg_ratelimit() to limit the message generation rate.

Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon 
Signed-off-by: Amit Sahrawat 
Acked-by: OGAWA Hirofumi 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

fat: switch to fsinfo_inode

2012-06-01T00:49:28+00:00

Currently FAT file-system maps the VFS "superblock" abstraction to the
FSINFO block.  The FSINFO block contains non-essential data about the
amount of free clusters and the next free cluster.  FAT file-system can
always find out this information by scanning the FAT table, but having it
in the FSINFO block may speed things up sometimes.  So FAT file-system
relies on the VFS superblock write-out services to make sure the FSINFO
block is written out to the media from time to time.

The whole "superblock write-out" VFS infrastructure is served by the
'sync_supers()' kernel thread, which wakes up every 5 (by default) seconds
and writes out all dirty superblock using the '->write_super()' call-back.
 But the problem with this thread is that it wastes power by waking up the
system every 5 seconds no matter what.  So we want to kill it completely
and thus, we need to make file-systems to stop using the '->write_super'
VFS service, and then remove it together with the kernel thread.

This patch switches the FAT FSINFO block management from
'->write_super()'/'->s_dirt' to 'fsinfo_inode'/'->write_inode'.  Now,
instead of setting the 's_dirt' flag, we just mark the special
'fsinfo_inode' inode as dirty and let VFS invoke the '->write_inode'
call-back when needed, where we write-out the FSINFO block.

This patch also makes sure we do not mark the 'fsinfo_inode' inode as
dirty if we are not FAT32 (FAT16 and FAT12 do not have the FSINFO block)
or if we are in R/O mode.

As a bonus, we can also remove the '->sync_fs()' and '->write_super()' FAT
call-back function because they become unneeded.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy 
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi 
Cc: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

fat: mark superblock as dirty less often

2012-06-01T00:49:28+00:00

Preparation for further changes.  It touches few functions in fatent.c and
prevents them from marking the superblock as dirty unnecessarily often.
Namely, instead of marking it as dirty in the internal tight loops - do it
only once at the end of the functions.  And instead of marking it as dirty
while holding the FAT table lock, do it outside the lock.

The reason for this patch is that marking the superblock as dirty will
soon become a little bit heavier operation, so it is cleaner to do this
only when it is necessary.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy 
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi 
Cc: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

fat: introduce mark_fsinfo_dirty helper

2012-06-01T00:49:27+00:00

A preparation patch which introduces a 'mark_fsinfo_dirty()' helper
function which just sets the 's_dirt' flag to 1 so far.  I'll add more
code to this helper later, so I do not mark it as 'inline'.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy 
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi 
Cc: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

fat: introduce special inode for managing the FSINFO block

2012-06-01T00:49:27+00:00

This is patchset makes fatfs stop using the VFS '->write_super()' method
for writing out the FSINFO block.

The final goal is to get rid of the 'sync_supers()' kernel thread.  This
kernel thread wakes up every 5 seconds (by default) and calls
'->write_super()' for all mounted file-systems.  And the bad thing is that
this is done even if all the superblocks are clean.  Moreover, some
file-systems do not even need this end they do not register the
'->write_super()' method at all (e.g., btrfs).

So 'sync_supers()' most often just generates useless wake-ups and wastes
power.  I am trying to make all file-systems independent of
'->write_super()' and plan to remove 'sync_supers()' and '->write_super'
completely once there are no more users.

The '->write_supers()' method is mostly used by baroque file-systems like
hfs, udf, etc.  Modern file-systems like btrfs and xfs do not use it.
This justifies removing this stuff from VFS completely and make every FS
self-manage own superblock.

Tested with xfstests.

This patch:

Preparation for further changes.  It introduces a special inode
('fsinfo_inode') in FAT file-system which we'll later use for managing the
FSINFO block.  Note, this there is already one special inode ('fat_inode')
which is used for managing the FAT tables.

Introduce new 'MSDOS_FSINFO_INO' constant for this special inode.  It is
safe to do because FAT file-system does not store inode numbers on the
media but generates them run-time.

I've also cleaned up the comment to existing 'MSDOS_ROOT_INO' constant,
while on it.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy 
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi 
Cc: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

->encode_fh() API change

2012-05-30T03:28:33+00:00

pass inode + parent's inode or NULL instead of dentry + bool saying
whether we want the parent or not.

NOTE: that needs ceph fix folded in.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

vfs: Rename end_writeback() to clear_inode()

2012-05-06T05:43:41+00:00

After we moved inode_sync_wait() from end_writeback() it doesn't make sense
to call the function end_writeback() anymore. Rename it to clear_inode()
which well says what the function really does - set I_CLEAR flag.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara 
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu