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<title>VFS: Make delayed_free() call free_vfsmnt()</title>
<updated>2014-04-02T03:19:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-24T12:17:54+00:00</published>
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Make delayed_free() call free_vfsmnt() so that we don't have two functions
doing the same job.  This requires the calls to mnt_free_id() in free_vfsmnt()
to be moved into the callers of that function.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Make delayed_free() call free_vfsmnt() so that we don't have two functions
doing the same job.  This requires the calls to mnt_free_id() in free_vfsmnt()
to be moved into the callers of that function.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mark struct file that had write access grabbed by open()</title>
<updated>2014-04-02T03:19:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-14T16:02:47+00:00</published>
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new flag in -&gt;f_mode - FMODE_WRITER.  Set by do_dentry_open() in case
when it has grabbed write access, checked by __fput() to decide whether
it wants to drop the sucker.  Allows to stop bothering with mnt_clone_write()
in alloc_file(), along with fewer special_file() checks.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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new flag in -&gt;f_mode - FMODE_WRITER.  Set by do_dentry_open() in case
when it has grabbed write access, checked by __fput() to decide whether
it wants to drop the sucker.  Allows to stop bothering with mnt_clone_write()
in alloc_file(), along with fewer special_file() checks.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>reduce m_start() cost...</title>
<updated>2014-04-02T03:19:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2014-02-27T19:40:10+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<pre>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>smarter propagate_mnt()</title>
<updated>2014-04-02T03:19:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2014-02-27T14:35:45+00:00</published>
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The current mainline has copies propagated to *all* nodes, then
tears down the copies we made for nodes that do not contain
counterparts of the desired mountpoint.  That sets the right
propagation graph for the copies (at teardown time we move
the slaves of removed node to a surviving peer or directly
to master), but we end up paying a fairly steep price in
useless allocations.  It's fairly easy to create a situation
where N calls of mount(2) create exactly N bindings, with
O(N^2) vfsmounts allocated and freed in process.

Fortunately, it is possible to avoid those allocations/freeings.
The trick is to create copies in the right order and find which
one would've eventually become a master with the current algorithm.
It turns out to be possible in O(nodes getting propagation) time
and with no extra allocations at all.

One part is that we need to make sure that eventual master will be
created before its slaves, so we need to walk the propagation
tree in a different order - by peer groups.  And iterate through
the peers before dealing with the next group.

Another thing is finding the (earlier) copy that will be a master
of one we are about to create; to do that we are (temporary) marking
the masters of mountpoints we are attaching the copies to.

Either we are in a peer of the last mountpoint we'd dealt with,
or we have the following situation: we are attaching to mountpoint M,
the last copy S_0 had been attached to M_0 and there are sequences
S_0...S_n, M_0...M_n such that S_{i+1} is a master of S_{i},
S_{i} mounted on M{i} and we need to create a slave of the first S_{k}
such that M is getting propagation from M_{k}.  It means that the master
of M_{k} will be among the sequence of masters of M.  On the
other hand, the nearest marked node in that sequence will either
be the master of M_{k} or the master of M_{k-1} (the latter -
in the case if M_{k-1} is a slave of something M gets propagation
from, but in a wrong peer group).

So we go through the sequence of masters of M until we find
a marked one (P).  Let N be the one before it.  Then we go through
the sequence of masters of S_0 until we find one (say, S) mounted
on a node D that has P as master and check if D is a peer of N.
If it is, S will be the master of new copy, if not - the master of S
will be.

That's it for the hard part; the rest is fairly simple.  Iterator
is in next_group(), handling of one prospective mountpoint is
propagate_one().

It seems to survive all tests and gives a noticably better performance
than the current mainline for setups that are seriously using shared
subtrees.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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The current mainline has copies propagated to *all* nodes, then
tears down the copies we made for nodes that do not contain
counterparts of the desired mountpoint.  That sets the right
propagation graph for the copies (at teardown time we move
the slaves of removed node to a surviving peer or directly
to master), but we end up paying a fairly steep price in
useless allocations.  It's fairly easy to create a situation
where N calls of mount(2) create exactly N bindings, with
O(N^2) vfsmounts allocated and freed in process.

Fortunately, it is possible to avoid those allocations/freeings.
The trick is to create copies in the right order and find which
one would've eventually become a master with the current algorithm.
It turns out to be possible in O(nodes getting propagation) time
and with no extra allocations at all.

One part is that we need to make sure that eventual master will be
created before its slaves, so we need to walk the propagation
tree in a different order - by peer groups.  And iterate through
the peers before dealing with the next group.

Another thing is finding the (earlier) copy that will be a master
of one we are about to create; to do that we are (temporary) marking
the masters of mountpoints we are attaching the copies to.

Either we are in a peer of the last mountpoint we'd dealt with,
or we have the following situation: we are attaching to mountpoint M,
the last copy S_0 had been attached to M_0 and there are sequences
S_0...S_n, M_0...M_n such that S_{i+1} is a master of S_{i},
S_{i} mounted on M{i} and we need to create a slave of the first S_{k}
such that M is getting propagation from M_{k}.  It means that the master
of M_{k} will be among the sequence of masters of M.  On the
other hand, the nearest marked node in that sequence will either
be the master of M_{k} or the master of M_{k-1} (the latter -
in the case if M_{k-1} is a slave of something M gets propagation
from, but in a wrong peer group).

So we go through the sequence of masters of M until we find
a marked one (P).  Let N be the one before it.  Then we go through
the sequence of masters of S_0 until we find one (say, S) mounted
on a node D that has P as master and check if D is a peer of N.
If it is, S will be the master of new copy, if not - the master of S
will be.

That's it for the hard part; the rest is fairly simple.  Iterator
is in next_group(), handling of one prospective mountpoint is
propagate_one().

It seems to survive all tests and gives a noticably better performance
than the current mainline for setups that are seriously using shared
subtrees.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>switch mnt_hash to hlist</title>
<updated>2014-03-30T23:18:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-21T01:10:51+00:00</published>
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fixes RCU bug - walking through hlist is safe in face of element moves,
since it's self-terminating.  Cyclic lists are not - if we end up jumping
to another hash chain, we'll loop infinitely without ever hitting the
original list head.

[fix for dumb braino folded]

Spotted by: Max Kellermann &lt;mk@cm4all.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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fixes RCU bug - walking through hlist is safe in face of element moves,
since it's self-terminating.  Cyclic lists are not - if we end up jumping
to another hash chain, we'll loop infinitely without ever hitting the
original list head.

[fix for dumb braino folded]

Spotted by: Max Kellermann &lt;mk@cm4all.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>don't bother with propagate_mnt() unless the target is shared</title>
<updated>2014-03-30T23:18:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-21T14:14:08+00:00</published>
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If the dest_mnt is not shared, propagate_mnt() does nothing -
there's no mounts to propagate to and thus no copies to create.
Might as well don't bother calling it in that case.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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If the dest_mnt is not shared, propagate_mnt() does nothing -
there's no mounts to propagate to and thus no copies to create.
Might as well don't bother calling it in that case.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>keep shadowed vfsmounts together</title>
<updated>2014-03-30T23:18:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-21T00:34:43+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
preparation to switching mnt_hash to hlist

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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preparation to switching mnt_hash to hlist

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>resizable namespace.c hashes</title>
<updated>2014-03-30T23:18:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2014-02-28T18:46:44+00:00</published>
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* switch allocation to alloc_large_system_hash()
* make sizes overridable by boot parameters (mhash_entries=, mphash_entries=)
* switch mountpoint_hashtable from list_head to hlist_head

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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* switch allocation to alloc_large_system_hash()
* make sizes overridable by boot parameters (mhash_entries=, mphash_entries=)
* switch mountpoint_hashtable from list_head to hlist_head

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'driver-core-3.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core</title>
<updated>2014-01-20T23:49:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-20T23:49:44+00:00</published>
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Pull driver core / sysfs patches from Greg KH:
 "Here's the big driver core and sysfs patch set for 3.14-rc1.

  There's a lot of work here moving sysfs logic out into a "kernfs" to
  allow other subsystems to also have a virtual filesystem with the same
  attributes of sysfs (handle device disconnect, dynamic creation /
  removal as needed / unneeded, etc)

  This is primarily being done for the cgroups filesystem, but the goal
  is to also move debugfs to it when it is ready, solving all of the
  known issues in that filesystem as well.  The code isn't completed
  yet, but all should be stable now (there is a big section that was
  reverted due to problems found when testing)

  There's also some other smaller fixes, and a driver core addition that
  allows for a "collection" of objects, that the DRM people will be
  using soon (it's in this tree to make merges after -rc1 easier)

  All of this has been in linux-next with no reported issues"

* tag 'driver-core-3.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (113 commits)
  kernfs: associate a new kernfs_node with its parent on creation
  kernfs: add struct dentry declaration in kernfs.h
  kernfs: fix get_active failure handling in kernfs_seq_*()
  Revert "kernfs: fix get_active failure handling in kernfs_seq_*()"
  Revert "kernfs: replace kernfs_node-&gt;u.completion with kernfs_root-&gt;deactivate_waitq"
  Revert "kernfs: remove KERNFS_ACTIVE_REF and add kernfs_lockdep()"
  Revert "kernfs: remove KERNFS_REMOVED"
  Revert "kernfs: restructure removal path to fix possible premature return"
  Revert "kernfs: invoke kernfs_unmap_bin_file() directly from __kernfs_remove()"
  Revert "kernfs: remove kernfs_addrm_cxt"
  Revert "kernfs: make kernfs_get_active() block if the node is deactivated but not removed"
  Revert "kernfs: implement kernfs_{de|re}activate[_self]()"
  Revert "kernfs, sysfs, driver-core: implement kernfs_remove_self() and its wrappers"
  Revert "pci: use device_remove_file_self() instead of device_schedule_callback()"
  Revert "scsi: use device_remove_file_self() instead of device_schedule_callback()"
  Revert "s390: use device_remove_file_self() instead of device_schedule_callback()"
  Revert "sysfs, driver-core: remove unused {sysfs|device}_schedule_callback_owner()"
  Revert "kernfs: remove unnecessary NULL check in __kernfs_remove()"
  kernfs: remove unnecessary NULL check in __kernfs_remove()
  drivers/base: provide an infrastructure for componentised subsystems
  ...
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Pull driver core / sysfs patches from Greg KH:
 "Here's the big driver core and sysfs patch set for 3.14-rc1.

  There's a lot of work here moving sysfs logic out into a "kernfs" to
  allow other subsystems to also have a virtual filesystem with the same
  attributes of sysfs (handle device disconnect, dynamic creation /
  removal as needed / unneeded, etc)

  This is primarily being done for the cgroups filesystem, but the goal
  is to also move debugfs to it when it is ready, solving all of the
  known issues in that filesystem as well.  The code isn't completed
  yet, but all should be stable now (there is a big section that was
  reverted due to problems found when testing)

  There's also some other smaller fixes, and a driver core addition that
  allows for a "collection" of objects, that the DRM people will be
  using soon (it's in this tree to make merges after -rc1 easier)

  All of this has been in linux-next with no reported issues"

* tag 'driver-core-3.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (113 commits)
  kernfs: associate a new kernfs_node with its parent on creation
  kernfs: add struct dentry declaration in kernfs.h
  kernfs: fix get_active failure handling in kernfs_seq_*()
  Revert "kernfs: fix get_active failure handling in kernfs_seq_*()"
  Revert "kernfs: replace kernfs_node-&gt;u.completion with kernfs_root-&gt;deactivate_waitq"
  Revert "kernfs: remove KERNFS_ACTIVE_REF and add kernfs_lockdep()"
  Revert "kernfs: remove KERNFS_REMOVED"
  Revert "kernfs: restructure removal path to fix possible premature return"
  Revert "kernfs: invoke kernfs_unmap_bin_file() directly from __kernfs_remove()"
  Revert "kernfs: remove kernfs_addrm_cxt"
  Revert "kernfs: make kernfs_get_active() block if the node is deactivated but not removed"
  Revert "kernfs: implement kernfs_{de|re}activate[_self]()"
  Revert "kernfs, sysfs, driver-core: implement kernfs_remove_self() and its wrappers"
  Revert "pci: use device_remove_file_self() instead of device_schedule_callback()"
  Revert "scsi: use device_remove_file_self() instead of device_schedule_callback()"
  Revert "s390: use device_remove_file_self() instead of device_schedule_callback()"
  Revert "sysfs, driver-core: remove unused {sysfs|device}_schedule_callback_owner()"
  Revert "kernfs: remove unnecessary NULL check in __kernfs_remove()"
  kernfs: remove unnecessary NULL check in __kernfs_remove()
  drivers/base: provide an infrastructure for componentised subsystems
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sysfs, kernfs: prepare mount path for kernfs</title>
<updated>2013-11-30T02:16:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-11-28T19:54:43+00:00</published>
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We're in the process of separating out core sysfs functionality into
kernfs which will deal with sysfs_dirents directly.  This patch
rearranges mount path so that the kernfs and sysfs parts are separate.

* As sysfs_super_info won't be visible outside kernfs proper,
  kernfs_super_ns() is added to allow kernfs users to access a
  super_block's namespace tag.

* Generic mount operation is separated out into kernfs_mount_ns().
  sysfs_mount() now just performs sysfs-specific permission check,
  acquires namespace tag, and invokes kernfs_mount_ns().

* Generic superblock release is separated out into kernfs_kill_sb()
  which can be used directly as file_system_type-&gt;kill_sb().  As sysfs
  needs to put the namespace tag, sysfs_kill_sb() wraps
  kernfs_kill_sb() with ns tag put.

* sysfs_dir_cachep init and sysfs_inode_init() are separated out into
  kernfs_init().  kernfs_init() uses only small amount of memory and
  trying to handle and propagate kernfs_init() failure doesn't make
  much sense.  Use SLAB_PANIC for sysfs_dir_cachep and make
  sysfs_inode_init() panic on failure.

  After this change, kernfs_init() should be called before
  sysfs_init(), fs/namespace.c::mnt_init() modified accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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We're in the process of separating out core sysfs functionality into
kernfs which will deal with sysfs_dirents directly.  This patch
rearranges mount path so that the kernfs and sysfs parts are separate.

* As sysfs_super_info won't be visible outside kernfs proper,
  kernfs_super_ns() is added to allow kernfs users to access a
  super_block's namespace tag.

* Generic mount operation is separated out into kernfs_mount_ns().
  sysfs_mount() now just performs sysfs-specific permission check,
  acquires namespace tag, and invokes kernfs_mount_ns().

* Generic superblock release is separated out into kernfs_kill_sb()
  which can be used directly as file_system_type-&gt;kill_sb().  As sysfs
  needs to put the namespace tag, sysfs_kill_sb() wraps
  kernfs_kill_sb() with ns tag put.

* sysfs_dir_cachep init and sysfs_inode_init() are separated out into
  kernfs_init().  kernfs_init() uses only small amount of memory and
  trying to handle and propagate kernfs_init() failure doesn't make
  much sense.  Use SLAB_PANIC for sysfs_dir_cachep and make
  sysfs_inode_init() panic on failure.

  After this change, kernfs_init() should be called before
  sysfs_init(), fs/namespace.c::mnt_init() modified accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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