linux.git/fs/afs/write.c, branch v2.6.34

make sure data is on disk before calling ->write_inode

2010-03-05T18:25:10+00:00

Similar to the fsync issue fixed a while ago in commit
2daea67e966dc0c42067ebea015ddac6834cef88 we need to write for data to
actually hit the disk before writing out the metadata to guarantee
data integrity for filesystems that modify the inode in the data I/O
completion path.  Currently XFS and NFS handle this manually, and AFS
has a write_inode method that does nothing but waiting for data, while
others are possibly missing out on this.

Fortunately this change has a lot less impact than the fsync change
as none of the write_inode methods starts data writeout of any form
by itself.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

afs: remove manual O_SYNC handling

2009-12-10T14:02:50+00:00

generic_file_aio_write already calls into ->fsync to handle O_SYNC/O_DSYNC.
Remove the duplicate manual invocation.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara

vfs: Implement proper O_SYNC semantics

2009-12-10T14:02:50+00:00

While Linux provided an O_SYNC flag basically since day 1, it took until
Linux 2.4.0-test12pre2 to actually get it implemented for filesystems,
since that day we had generic_osync_around with only minor changes and the
great "For now, when the user asks for O_SYNC, we'll actually give
O_DSYNC" comment.  This patch intends to actually give us real O_SYNC
semantics in addition to the O_DSYNC semantics.  After Jan's O_SYNC
patches which are required before this patch it's actually surprisingly
simple, we just need to figure out when to set the datasync flag to
vfs_fsync_range and when not.

This patch renames the existing O_SYNC flag to O_DSYNC while keeping it's
numerical value to keep binary compatibility, and adds a new real O_SYNC
flag.  To guarantee backwards compatiblity it is defined as expanding to
both the O_DSYNC and the new additional binary flag (__O_SYNC) to make
sure we are backwards-compatible when compiled against the new headers.

This also means that all places that don't care about the differences can
just check O_DSYNC and get the right behaviour for O_SYNC, too - only
places that actuall care need to check __O_SYNC in addition.  Drivers and
network filesystems have been updated in a fail safe way to always do the
full sync magic if O_DSYNC is set.  The few places setting O_SYNC for
lower layers are kept that way for now to stay failsafe.

We enforce that O_DSYNC is set when __O_SYNC is set early in the open path
to make sure we always get these sane options.

Note that parisc really screwed up their headers as they already define a
O_DSYNC that has always been a no-op.  We try to repair it by using it for
the new O_DSYNC and redefinining O_SYNC to send both the traditional
O_SYNC numerical value _and_ the O_DSYNC one.

Cc: Richard Henderson 
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky 
Cc: Grant Grundler 
Cc: "David S. Miller" 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Andreas Dilger 
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust 
Acked-by: Kyle McMartin 
Acked-by: Ulrich Drepper 
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara

writeback: get rid of wbc->for_writepages

2009-09-16T13:16:18+00:00

It's only set, it's never checked. Kill it.

Acked-by: Jan Kara 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

FS-Cache: Make kAFS use FS-Cache

2009-04-03T15:42:41+00:00

The attached patch makes the kAFS filesystem in fs/afs/ use FS-Cache, and
through it any attached caches.  The kAFS filesystem will use caching
automatically if it's available.

Signed-off-by: David Howells 
Acked-by: Steve Dickson 
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust 
Acked-by: Al Viro 
Tested-by: Daire Byrne

fs: symlink write_begin allocation context fix

2009-01-04T21:33:20+00:00

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 
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Cc: 		[2.6.28.x]
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
[ 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

afs: convert to new aops

2008-10-16T18:21:48+00:00

Cannot assume writes will fully complete, so this conversion goes the easy
way and always brings the page uptodate before the write.

[dhowells@redhat.com: style tweaks]
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin 
Acked-by: David Howells 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: rename page trylock

2008-08-05T04:31:34+00:00

Converting page lock to new locking bitops requires a change of page flag
operation naming, so we might as well convert it to something nicer
(!TestSetPageLocked_Lock => trylock_page, SetPageLocked => set_page_locked).

This also facilitates lockdeping of page lock.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin 
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Acked-by: Andrew Morton 
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Drop some headers from mm.h

2007-10-17T15:42:55+00:00

mm.h doesn't use directly anything from mutex.h and backing-dev.h, so
remove them and add them back to files which need them.

Cross-compile tested on many configs and archs.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

fs/afs/: possible cleanups

2007-10-17T15:42:50+00:00

This patch contains the following possible cleanups:
- make the following needlessly global functions static:
  - rxrpc.c: afs_send_pages()
  - vlocation.c: afs_vlocation_queue_for_updates()
  - write.c: afs_writepages_region()
- make the following needlessly global variables static:
  - mntpt.c: afs_mntpt_expiry_timeout
  - proc.c: afs_vlocation_states[]
  - server.c: afs_server_timeout
  - vlocation.c: afs_vlocation_timeout
  - vlocation.c: afs_vlocation_update_timeout
- #if 0 the following unused function:
  - cell.c: afs_get_cell_maybe()
- #if 0 the following unused variables:
  - callback.c: afs_vnode_update_timeout
  - cmservice.c: struct afs_cm_workqueue

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk 
Acked-by: David Howells 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds