linux.git/fs/dcache.c, branch v4.15

kmemcheck: remove annotations

2017-11-16T02:21:04+00:00

Patch series "kmemcheck: kill kmemcheck", v2.

As discussed at LSF/MM, kill kmemcheck.

KASan is a replacement that is able to work without the limitation of
kmemcheck (single CPU, slow).  KASan is already upstream.

We are also not aware of any users of kmemcheck (or users who don't
consider KASan as a suitable replacement).

The only objection was that since KASAN wasn't supported by all GCC
versions provided by distros at that time we should hold off for 2
years, and try again.

Now that 2 years have passed, and all distros provide gcc that supports
KASAN, kill kmemcheck again for the very same reasons.

This patch (of 4):

Remove kmemcheck annotations, and calls to kmemcheck from the kernel.

[alexander.levin@verizon.com: correctly remove kmemcheck call from dma_map_sg_attrs]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171012192151.26531-1-alexander.levin@verizon.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171007030159.22241-2-alexander.levin@verizon.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin 
Cc: Alexander Potapenko 
Cc: Eric W. Biederman 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Pekka Enberg 
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: Tim Hansen 
Cc: Vegard Nossum 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

locking/atomics, fs/dcache: Convert ACCESS_ONCE() to READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE()

2017-10-25T09:00:57+00:00

For several reasons, it is desirable to use {READ,WRITE}_ONCE() in
preference to ACCESS_ONCE(), and new code is expected to use one of the
former. So far, there's been no reason to change most existing uses of
ACCESS_ONCE(), as these aren't currently harmful.

However, for some features it is necessary to instrument reads and
writes separately, which is not possible with ACCESS_ONCE(). This
distinction is critical to correct operation.

It's possible to transform the bulk of kernel code using the Coccinelle
script below. However, this doesn't handle comments, leaving references
to ACCESS_ONCE() instances which have been removed. As a preparatory
step, this patch converts the dcache code and comments to use
{READ,WRITE}_ONCE() consistently.

----
virtual patch

@ depends on patch @
expression E1, E2;
@@

- ACCESS_ONCE(E1) = E2
+ WRITE_ONCE(E1, E2)

@ depends on patch @
expression E;
@@

- ACCESS_ONCE(E)
+ READ_ONCE(E)
----

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland 
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: mpe@ellerman.id.au
Cc: shuah@kernel.org
Cc: snitzer@redhat.com
Cc: thor.thayer@linux.intel.com
Cc: tj@kernel.org
Cc: will.deacon@arm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1508792849-3115-4-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

locking/barriers: Convert users of lockless_dereference() to READ_ONCE()

2017-10-24T11:17:33+00:00

READ_ONCE() now has an implicit smp_read_barrier_depends() call, so it
can be used instead of lockless_dereference() without any change in
semantics.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Paul E. McKenney 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1508840570-22169-4-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge branch 'work.mount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

2017-07-15T19:00:42+00:00

Pull ->s_options removal from Al Viro:
 "Preparations for fsmount/fsopen stuff (coming next cycle). Everything
  gets moved to explicit ->show_options(), killing ->s_options off +
  some cosmetic bits around fs/namespace.c and friends. Basically, the
  stuff needed to work with fsmount series with minimum of conflicts
  with other work.

  It's not strictly required for this merge window, but it would reduce
  the PITA during the coming cycle, so it would be nice to have those
  bits and pieces out of the way"

* 'work.mount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  isofs: Fix isofs_show_options()
  VFS: Kill off s_options and helpers
  orangefs: Implement show_options
  9p: Implement show_options
  isofs: Implement show_options
  afs: Implement show_options
  affs: Implement show_options
  befs: Implement show_options
  spufs: Implement show_options
  bpf: Implement show_options
  ramfs: Implement show_options
  pstore: Implement show_options
  omfs: Implement show_options
  hugetlbfs: Implement show_options
  VFS: Don't use save/replace_mount_options if not using generic_show_options
  VFS: Provide empty name qstr
  VFS: Make get_filesystem() return the affected filesystem
  VFS: Clean up whitespace in fs/namespace.c and fs/super.c
  Provide a function to create a NUL-terminated string from unterminated data

fs/dcache.c: fix spin lockup issue on nlru->lock

2017-07-10T23:32:33+00:00

__list_lru_walk_one() acquires nlru spin lock (nlru->lock) for longer
duration if there are more number of items in the lru list.  As per the
current code, it can hold the spin lock for upto maximum UINT_MAX
entries at a time.  So if there are more number of items in the lru
list, then "BUG: spinlock lockup suspected" is observed in the below
path:

  spin_bug+0x90
  do_raw_spin_lock+0xfc
  _raw_spin_lock+0x28
  list_lru_add+0x28
  dput+0x1c8
  path_put+0x20
  terminate_walk+0x3c
  path_lookupat+0x100
  filename_lookup+0x6c
  user_path_at_empty+0x54
  SyS_faccessat+0xd0
  el0_svc_naked+0x24

This nlru->lock is acquired by another CPU in this path -

  d_lru_shrink_move+0x34
  dentry_lru_isolate_shrink+0x48
  __list_lru_walk_one.isra.10+0x94
  list_lru_walk_node+0x40
  shrink_dcache_sb+0x60
  do_remount_sb+0xbc
  do_emergency_remount+0xb0
  process_one_work+0x228
  worker_thread+0x2e0
  kthread+0xf4
  ret_from_fork+0x10

Fix this lockup by reducing the number of entries to be shrinked from
the lru list to 1024 at once.  Also, add cond_resched() before
processing the lru list again.

Link: http://marc.info/?t=149722864900001&r=1&w=2
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1498707575-2472-1-git-send-email-stummala@codeaurora.org
Signed-off-by: Sahitya Tummala 
Suggested-by: Jan Kara 
Suggested-by: Vladimir Davydov 
Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov 
Cc: Alexander Polakov 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

2017-07-08T17:50:54+00:00

Pull misc filesystem updates from Al Viro:
 "Assorted normal VFS / filesystems stuff..."

* 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  dentry name snapshots
  Make statfs properly return read-only state after emergency remount
  fs/dcache: init in_lookup_hashtable
  minix: Deinline get_block, save 2691 bytes
  fs: Reorder inode_owner_or_capable() to avoid needless
  fs: warn in case userspace lied about modprobe return

dentry name snapshots

2017-07-08T00:09:10+00:00

take_dentry_name_snapshot() takes a safe snapshot of dentry name;
if the name is a short one, it gets copied into caller-supplied
structure, otherwise an extra reference to external name is grabbed
(those are never modified).  In either case the pointer to stable
string is stored into the same structure.

dentry must be held by the caller of take_dentry_name_snapshot(),
but may be freely dropped afterwards - the snapshot will stay
until destroyed by release_dentry_name_snapshot().

Intended use:
	struct name_snapshot s;

	take_dentry_name_snapshot(&s, dentry);
	...
	access s.name
	...
	release_dentry_name_snapshot(&s);

Replaces fsnotify_oldname_...(), gets used in fsnotify to obtain the name
to pass down with event.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

mm: update callers to use HASH_ZERO flag

2017-07-06T23:24:33+00:00

Update dcache, inode, pid, mountpoint, and mount hash tables to use
HASH_ZERO, and remove initialization after allocations.  In case of
places where HASH_EARLY was used such as in __pv_init_lock_hash the
zeroed hash table was already assumed, because memblock zeroes the
memory.

CPU: SPARC M6, Memory: 7T
Before fix:
  Dentry cache hash table entries: 1073741824
  Inode-cache hash table entries: 536870912
  Mount-cache hash table entries: 16777216
  Mountpoint-cache hash table entries: 16777216
  ftrace: allocating 20414 entries in 40 pages
  Total time: 11.798s

After fix:
  Dentry cache hash table entries: 1073741824
  Inode-cache hash table entries: 536870912
  Mount-cache hash table entries: 16777216
  Mountpoint-cache hash table entries: 16777216
  ftrace: allocating 20414 entries in 40 pages
  Total time: 3.198s

CPU: Intel Xeon E5-2630, Memory: 2.2T:
Before fix:
  Dentry cache hash table entries: 536870912
  Inode-cache hash table entries: 268435456
  Mount-cache hash table entries: 8388608
  Mountpoint-cache hash table entries: 8388608
  CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
  Total time: 3.245s

After fix:
  Dentry cache hash table entries: 536870912
  Inode-cache hash table entries: 268435456
  Mount-cache hash table entries: 8388608
  Mountpoint-cache hash table entries: 8388608
  CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
  Total time: 3.244s

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1488432825-92126-4-git-send-email-pasha.tatashin@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin 
Reviewed-by: Babu Moger 
Cc: David Miller 
Cc: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

VFS: Provide empty name qstr

2017-07-06T07:27:09+00:00

Provide an empty name (ie. "") qstr for general use.

Signed-off-by: David Howells 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

fs/dcache: init in_lookup_hashtable

2017-06-30T00:17:14+00:00

in_lookup_hashtable was introduced in commit 94bdd655caba ("parallel
lookups machinery, part 3") and never initialized but since it is in
the data it is all zeros. But we need this for -RT.

Cc: Alexander Viro 
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro