linux.git/fs/proc_namespace.c, branch v4.0

vfs: add support for a lazytime mount option

2015-02-05T07:45:00+00:00

Add a new mount option which enables a new "lazytime" mode.  This mode
causes atime, mtime, and ctime updates to only be made to the
in-memory version of the inode.  The on-disk times will only get
updated when (a) if the inode needs to be updated for some non-time
related change, (b) if userspace calls fsync(), syncfs() or sync(), or
(c) just before an undeleted inode is evicted from memory.

This is OK according to POSIX because there are no guarantees after a
crash unless userspace explicitly requests via a fsync(2) call.

For workloads which feature a large number of random write to a
preallocated file, the lazytime mount option significantly reduces
writes to the inode table.  The repeated 4k writes to a single block
will result in undesirable stress on flash devices and SMR disk
drives.  Even on conventional HDD's, the repeated writes to the inode
table block will trigger Adjacent Track Interference (ATI) remediation
latencies, which very negatively impact long tail latencies --- which
is a very big deal for web serving tiers (for example).

Google-Bug-Id: 18297052

Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

vfs: make mounts and mountstats honor root dir like mountinfo does

2014-12-17T13:27:15+00:00

As we already show mountpoints relative to the root directory, thanks
to the change made back in 2000, change show_vfsmnt() and show_vfsstat()
to skip out-of-root mountpoints the same way as show_mountinfo() does.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry V. Levin 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

vfs: cleanup show_mountinfo

2014-12-17T13:27:15+00:00

Starting with commit v3.2-rc4-1-g02125a8, seq_path_root() no longer
changes the value of its "struct path *root" argument.
Starting with commit v3.2-rc7-104-g8c9379e, the "struct path *root"
argument of seq_path_root() is const.
As result, the temporary variable "root" in show_mountinfo() that
holds a copy of struct path root is no longer needed.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry V. Levin 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

namespaces: Use task_lock and not rcu to protect nsproxy

2014-07-30T01:08:50+00:00

The synchronous syncrhonize_rcu in switch_task_namespaces makes setns
a sufficiently expensive system call that people have complained.

Upon inspect nsproxy no longer needs rcu protection for remote reads.
remote reads are rare.  So optimize for same process reads and write
by switching using rask_lock instead.

This yields a simpler to understand lock, and a faster setns system call.

In particular this fixes a performance regression observed
by Rafael David Tinoco .

This is effectively a revert of Pavel Emelyanov's commit
cf7b708c8d1d7a27736771bcf4c457b332b0f818 Make access to task's nsproxy lighter
from 2007.  The race this originialy fixed no longer exists as
do_notify_parent uses task_active_pid_ns(parent) instead of
parent->nsproxy.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman"

reduce m_start() cost...

2014-04-02T03:19:09+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

fs/proc_namespace.c: simplify testing nsp and nsp->mnt_ns

2014-01-24T00:37:02+00:00

Trivial cleanup to eliminate a goto.

Signed-off-by: Axel Lin 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

don't bother with vfsmount_lock in mounts_poll()

2013-10-25T03:34:59+00:00

wake_up_interruptible/poll_wait provide sufficient barriers;
just use ACCESS_ONCE() to fetch ns->event and that's it.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

get rid of magic in proc_namespace.c

2012-07-14T12:32:48+00:00

don't rely on proc_mounts->m being the first field; container_of()
is there for purpose.  No need to bother with ->private, while
we are at it - the same container_of will do nicely.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

brlocks/lglocks: API cleanups

2012-05-30T03:28:41+00:00

lglocks and brlocks are currently generated with some complicated macros
in lglock.h.  But there's no reason to not just use common utility
functions and put all the data into a common data structure.

In preparation, this patch changes the API to look more like normal
function calls with pointers, not magic macros.

The patch is rather large because I move over all users in one go to keep
it bisectable.  This impacts the VFS somewhat in terms of lines changed.
But no actual behaviour change.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: checkpatch fixes]
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Rusty Russell 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

vfs: switch ->show_options() to struct dentry *

2012-01-07T04:19:54+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro