linux.git/fs/read_write.c, branch v4.5-rc2

vfs: abort dedupe loop if fatal signals are pending

2016-01-23T01:29:55+00:00

If the program running dedupe receives a fatal signal during the
dedupe loop, we should bail out to avoid tying up the system.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

wrappers for ->i_mutex access

2016-01-22T23:04:28+00:00

parallel to mutex_{lock,unlock,trylock,is_locked,lock_nested},
inode_foo(inode) being mutex_foo(&inode->i_mutex).

Please, use those for access to ->i_mutex; over the coming cycle
->i_mutex will become rwsem, with ->lookup() done with it held
only shared.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

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

2016-01-13T01:11:47+00:00

Pull misc vfs updates from Al Viro:
 "All kinds of stuff.  That probably should've been 5 or 6 separate
  branches, but by the time I'd realized how large and mixed that bag
  had become it had been too close to -final to play with rebasing.

  Some fs/namei.c cleanups there, memdup_user_nul() introduction and
  switching open-coded instances, burying long-dead code, whack-a-mole
  of various kinds, several new helpers for ->llseek(), assorted
  cleanups and fixes from various people, etc.

  One piece probably deserves special mention - Neil's
  lookup_one_len_unlocked().  Similar to lookup_one_len(), but gets
  called without ->i_mutex and tries to avoid ever taking it.  That, of
  course, means that it's not useful for any directory modifications,
  but things like getting inode attributes in nfds readdirplus are fine
  with that.  I really should've asked for moratorium on lookup-related
  changes this cycle, but since I hadn't done that early enough...  I
  *am* asking for that for the coming cycle, though - I'm going to try
  and get conversion of i_mutex to rwsem with ->lookup() done under lock
  taken shared.

  There will be a patch closer to the end of the window, along the lines
  of the one Linus had posted last May - mechanical conversion of
  ->i_mutex accesses to inode_lock()/inode_unlock()/inode_trylock()/
  inode_is_locked()/inode_lock_nested().  To quote Linus back then:

    -----
    |    This is an automated patch using
    |
    |        sed 's/mutex_lock(&\(.*\)->i_mutex)/inode_lock(\1)/'
    |        sed 's/mutex_unlock(&\(.*\)->i_mutex)/inode_unlock(\1)/'
    |        sed 's/mutex_lock_nested(&\(.*\)->i_mutex,[     ]*I_MUTEX_\([A-Z0-9_]*\))/inode_lock_nested(\1, I_MUTEX_\2)/'
    |        sed 's/mutex_is_locked(&\(.*\)->i_mutex)/inode_is_locked(\1)/'
    |        sed 's/mutex_trylock(&\(.*\)->i_mutex)/inode_trylock(\1)/'
    |
    |    with a very few manual fixups
    -----

  I'm going to send that once the ->i_mutex-affecting stuff in -next
  gets mostly merged (or when Linus says he's about to stop taking
  merges)"

* 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (63 commits)
  nfsd: don't hold i_mutex over userspace upcalls
  fs:affs:Replace time_t with time64_t
  fs/9p: use fscache mutex rather than spinlock
  proc: add a reschedule point in proc_readfd_common()
  logfs: constify logfs_block_ops structures
  fcntl: allow to set O_DIRECT flag on pipe
  fs: __generic_file_splice_read retry lookup on AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE
  fs: xattr: Use kvfree()
  [s390] page_to_phys() always returns a multiple of PAGE_SIZE
  nbd: use ->compat_ioctl()
  fs: use block_device name vsprintf helper
  lib/vsprintf: add %*pg format specifier
  fs: use gendisk->disk_name where possible
  poll: plug an unused argument to do_poll
  amdkfd: don't open-code memdup_user()
  cdrom: don't open-code memdup_user()
  rsxx: don't open-code memdup_user()
  mtip32xx: don't open-code memdup_user()
  [um] mconsole: don't open-code memdup_user_nul()
  [um] hostaudio: don't open-code memdup_user()
  ...

vfs: hoist the btrfs deduplication ioctl to the vfs

2016-01-01T07:36:19+00:00

Hoist the btrfs EXTENT_SAME ioctl up to the VFS and make the name
more systematic (FIDEDUPERANGE).

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

vfs: wire up compat ioctl for CLONE/CLONE_RANGE

2016-01-01T07:36:02+00:00

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

new helpers: no_seek_end_llseek{,_size}()

2015-12-23T15:41:31+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

vfs: pull btrfs clone API to vfs layer

2015-12-08T04:11:33+00:00

The btrfs clone ioctls are now adopted by other file systems, with NFS
and CIFS already having support for them, and XFS being under active
development.  To avoid growth of various slightly incompatible
implementations, add one to the VFS.  Note that clones are different from
file copies in several ways:

 - they are atomic vs other writers
 - they support whole file clones
 - they support 64-bit legth clones
 - they do not allow partial success (aka short writes)
 - clones are expected to be a fast metadata operation

Because of that it would be rather cumbersome to try to piggyback them on
top of the recent clone_file_range infrastructure.  The converse isn't
true and the clone_file_range system call could try clone file range as
a first attempt to copy, something that further patches will enable.

Based on earlier work from Peng Tao.

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

locks: new locks_mandatory_area calling convention

2015-12-08T04:09:16+00:00

Pass a loff_t end for the last byte instead of the 32-bit count
parameter to allow full file clones even on 32-bit architectures.
While we're at it also simplify the read/write selection.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Acked-by: J. Bruce Fields 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

vfs: Add vfs_copy_file_range() support for pagecache copies

2015-12-01T19:00:55+00:00

This allows us to have an in-kernel copy mechanism that avoids frequent
switches between kernel and user space.  This is especially useful so
NFSD can support server-side copies.

The default (flags=0) means to first attempt copy acceleration, but use
the pagecache if that fails.

Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker 
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong 
Reviewed-by: Padraig Brady 
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

vfs: add copy_file_range syscall and vfs helper

2015-12-01T19:00:53+00:00

Add a copy_file_range() system call for offloading copies between
regular files.

This gives an interface to underlying layers of the storage stack which
can copy without reading and writing all the data.  There are a few
candidates that should support copy offloading in the nearer term:

- btrfs shares extent references with its clone ioctl
- NFS has patches to add a COPY command which copies on the server
- SCSI has a family of XCOPY commands which copy in the device

This system call avoids the complexity of also accelerating the creation
of the destination file by operating on an existing destination file
descriptor, not a path.

Currently the high level vfs entry point limits copy offloading to files
on the same mount and super (and not in the same file).  This can be
relaxed if we get implementations which can copy between file systems
safely.

Signed-off-by: Zach Brown 
[Anna Schumaker: Change -EINVAL to -EBADF during file verification,
                 Change flags parameter from int to unsigned int,
                 Add function to include/linux/syscalls.h,
                 Check copy len after file open mode,
                 Don't forbid ranges inside the same file,
                 Use rw_verify_area() to veriy ranges,
                 Use file_out rather than file_in,
                 Add COPY_FR_REFLINK flag]
Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker 
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro