user/sven/linux.git/Documentation/filesystems, branch v3.0.92

nilfs2: remove resize from unsupported features list

2011-07-13T07:08:59Z

Resize feature was supported by the commit 4e33f9eab07e but it was not reflected to the list of unsupported features in nilfs2.txt file. This updates the list to fix discrepancy. Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi

FS-Cache: Add a helper to bulk uncache pages on an inode

2011-07-07T20:21:56Z

Add an FS-Cache helper to bulk uncache pages on an inode. This will only work for the circumstance where the pages in the cache correspond 1:1 with the pages attached to an inode's page cache. This is required for CIFS and NFS: When disabling inode cookie, we were returning the cookie and setting cifsi->fscache to NULL but failed to invalidate any previously mapped pages. This resulted in "Bad page state" errors and manifested in other kind of errors when running fsstress. Fix it by uncaching mapped pages when we disable the inode cookie. This patch should fix the following oops and "Bad page state" errors seen during fsstress testing. ------------[ cut here ]------------ kernel BUG at fs/cachefiles/namei.c:201! invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP Pid: 5, comm: kworker/u:0 Not tainted 2.6.38.7-30.fc15.x86_64 #1 Bochs Bochs RIP: 0010: cachefiles_walk_to_object+0x436/0x745 [cachefiles] RSP: 0018:ffff88002ce6dd00 EFLAGS: 00010282 RAX: ffff88002ef165f0 RBX: ffff88001811f500 RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000100 RDI: 0000000000000282 RBP: ffff88002ce6dda0 R08: 0000000000000100 R09: ffffffff81b3a300 R10: 0000ffff00066c0a R11: 0000000000000003 R12: ffff88002ae54840 R13: ffff88002ae54840 R14: ffff880029c29c00 R15: ffff88001811f4b0 FS: 00007f394dd32720(0000) GS:ffff88002ef00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b CR2: 00007fffcb62ddf8 CR3: 000000001825f000 CR4: 00000000000006e0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Process kworker/u:0 (pid: 5, threadinfo ffff88002ce6c000, task ffff88002ce55cc0) Stack: 0000000000000246 ffff88002ce55cc0 ffff88002ce6dd58 ffff88001815dc00 ffff8800185246c0 ffff88001811f618 ffff880029c29d18 ffff88001811f380 ffff88002ce6dd50 ffffffff814757e4 ffff88002ce6dda0 ffffffff8106ac56 Call Trace: cachefiles_lookup_object+0x78/0xd4 [cachefiles] fscache_lookup_object+0x131/0x16d [fscache] fscache_object_work_func+0x1bc/0x669 [fscache] process_one_work+0x186/0x298 worker_thread+0xda/0x15d kthread+0x84/0x8c kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10 RIP cachefiles_walk_to_object+0x436/0x745 [cachefiles] ---[ end trace 1d481c9af1804caa ]--- I tested the uncaching by the following means: (1) Create a big file on my NFS server (104857600 bytes). (2) Read the file into the cache with md5sum on the NFS client. Look in /proc/fs/fscache/stats: Pages : mrk=25601 unc=0 (3) Open the file for read/write ("bash 5<>/warthog/bigfile"). Look in proc again: Pages : mrk=25601 unc=25601 Reported-by: Jeff Layton Signed-off-by: David Howells Reviewed-and-Tested-by: Suresh Jayaraman cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

rcu: Use softirq to address performance regression

2011-06-14T22:25:39Z

Commit a26ac2455ffcf3(rcu: move TREE_RCU from softirq to kthread) introduced performance regression. In an AIM7 test, this commit degraded performance by about 40%. The commit runs rcu callbacks in a kthread instead of softirq. We observed high rate of context switch which is caused by this. Out test system has 64 CPUs and HZ is 1000, so we saw more than 64k context switch per second which is caused by RCU's per-CPU kthread. A trace showed that most of the time the RCU per-CPU kthread doesn't actually handle any callbacks, but instead just does a very small amount of work handling grace periods. This means that RCU's per-CPU kthreads are making the scheduler do quite a bit of work in order to allow a very small amount of RCU-related processing to be done. Alex Shi's analysis determined that this slowdown is due to lock contention within the scheduler. Unfortunately, as Peter Zijlstra points out, the scheduler's real-time semantics require global action, which means that this contention is inherent in real-time scheduling. (Yes, perhaps someone will come up with a workaround -- otherwise, -rt is not going to do well on large SMP systems -- but this patch will work around this issue in the meantime. And "the meantime" might well be forever.) This patch therefore re-introduces softirq processing to RCU, but only for core RCU work. RCU callbacks are still executed in kthread context, so that only a small amount of RCU work runs in softirq context in the common case. This should minimize ksoftirqd execution, allowing us to skip boosting of ksoftirqd for CONFIG_RCU_BOOST=y kernels. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li Tested-by: "Alex,Shi" Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6

2011-05-28T20:03:41Z

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (36 commits) Cache xattr security drop check for write v2 fs: block_page_mkwrite should wait for writeback to finish mm: Wait for writeback when grabbing pages to begin a write configfs: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir, dir rename fat: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir, dir rename hpfs: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir, dir rename minix: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir, dir rename fuse: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir, dir rename coda: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir, dir rename afs: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir, dir rename affs: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir, dir rename 9p: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir, dir rename ncpfs: fix rename over directory with dangling references ncpfs: document dentry_unhash usage ecryptfs: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir, dir rename hostfs: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir, dir rename hfsplus: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir, dir rename hfs: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir, dir rename omfs: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir, dir rneame udf: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash from rmdir, dir rename ...

Merge branch 'docs-move' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rdunlap/linux-docs

2011-05-27T17:25:02Z

* 'docs-move' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rdunlap/linux-docs: Create Documentation/security/, move LSM-, credentials-, and keys-related files from Documentation/ to Documentation/security/, add Documentation/security/00-INDEX, and update all occurrences of Documentation/ to Documentation/security/.

fs: pass exact type of data dirties to ->dirty_inode

2011-05-27T11:04:40Z

Tell the filesystem if we just updated timestamp (I_DIRTY_SYNC) or anything else, so that the filesystem can track internally if it needs to push out a transaction for fdatasync or not. This is just the prototype change with no user for it yet. I plan to push large XFS changes for the next merge window, and getting this trivial infrastructure in this window would help a lot to avoid tree interdependencies. Also remove incorrect comments that ->dirty_inode can't block. That has been changed a long time ago, and many implementations rely on it. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Al Viro

Documentation: configfs examples crash fix

2011-05-27T00:12:34Z

When configfs_register_subsystem() fails, we unregister too many subsystems in configfs_example_init. Decrement i by one to not unregister non-registered subsystem. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby Cc: Joel Becker Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jlbec/ocfs2

2011-05-26T17:55:15Z

* 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jlbec/ocfs2: (28 commits) Ocfs2: Teach local-mounted ocfs2 to handle unwritten_extents correctly. ocfs2/dlm: Do not migrate resource to a node that is leaving the domain ocfs2/dlm: Add new dlm message DLM_BEGIN_EXIT_DOMAIN_MSG Ocfs2/move_extents: Set several trivial constraints for threshold. Ocfs2/move_extents: Let defrag handle partial extent moving. Ocfs2/move_extents: move/defrag extents within a certain range. Ocfs2/move_extents: helper to calculate the defraging length in one run. Ocfs2/move_extents: move entire/partial extent. Ocfs2/move_extents: helpers to update the group descriptor and global bitmap inode. Ocfs2/move_extents: helper to probe a proper region to move in an alloc group. Ocfs2/move_extents: helper to validate and adjust moving goal. Ocfs2/move_extents: find the victim alloc group, where the given #blk fits. Ocfs2/move_extents: defrag a range of extent. Ocfs2/move_extents: move a range of extent. Ocfs2/move_extents: lock allocators and reserve metadata blocks and data clusters for extents moving. Ocfs2/move_extents: Add basic framework and source files for extent moving. Ocfs2/move_extents: Adding new ioctl code 'OCFS2_IOC_MOVE_EXT' to ocfs2. Ocfs2/refcounttree: Publicize couple of funcs from refcounttree.c Ocfs2: Add a new code 'OCFS2_INFO_FREEFRAG' for o2info ioctl. Ocfs2: Add a new code 'OCFS2_INFO_FREEINODE' for o2info ioctl. ...

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs

2011-05-26T17:49:11Z

* 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs: xfs: correctly decrement the extent buffer index in xfs_bmap_del_extent xfs: check for valid indices in xfs_iext_get_ext and xfs_iext_idx_to_irec xfs: fix up asserts in xfs_iflush_fork xfs: do not do pointer arithmetic on extent records xfs: do not use unchecked extent indices in xfs_bunmapi xfs: do not use unchecked extent indices in xfs_bmapi xfs: do not use unchecked extent indices in xfs_bmap_add_extent_* xfs: remove if_lastex xfs: remove the unused XFS_BMAPI_RSVBLOCKS flag xfs: do not discard alloc btree blocks xfs: add online discard support

Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4

2011-05-26T16:53:20Z

* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (61 commits) jbd2: Add MAINTAINERS entry jbd2: fix a potential leak of a journal_head on an error path ext4: teach ext4_ext_split to calculate extents efficiently ext4: Convert ext4 to new truncate calling convention ext4: do not normalize block requests from fallocate() ext4: enable "punch hole" functionality ext4: add "punch hole" flag to ext4_map_blocks() ext4: punch out extents ext4: add new function ext4_block_zero_page_range() ext4: add flag to ext4_has_free_blocks ext4: reserve inodes and feature code for 'quota' feature ext4: add support for multiple mount protection ext4: ensure f_bfree returned by ext4_statfs() is non-negative ext4: protect bb_first_free in ext4_trim_all_free() with group lock ext4: only load buddy bitmap in ext4_trim_fs() when it is needed jbd2: Fix comment to match the code in jbd2__journal_start() ext4: fix waiting and sending of a barrier in ext4_sync_file() jbd2: Add function jbd2_trans_will_send_data_barrier() jbd2: fix sending of data flush on journal commit ext4: fix ext4_ext_fiemap_cb() to handle blocks before request range correctly ...