user/sven/linux.git/fs/file.c, branch v3.16.1

fs/file.c: don't open-code kvfree()

2014-05-06T21:31:10Z

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

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

2014-04-12T21:49:50Z

Pull vfs updates from Al Viro: "The first vfs pile, with deep apologies for being very late in this window. Assorted cleanups and fixes, plus a large preparatory part of iov_iter work. There's a lot more of that, but it'll probably go into the next merge window - it *does* shape up nicely, removes a lot of boilerplate, gets rid of locking inconsistencie between aio_write and splice_write and I hope to get Kent's direct-io rewrite merged into the same queue, but some of the stuff after this point is having (mostly trivial) conflicts with the things already merged into mainline and with some I want more testing. This one passes LTP and xfstests without regressions, in addition to usual beating. BTW, readahead02 in ltp syscalls testsuite has started giving failures since "mm/readahead.c: fix readahead failure for memoryless NUMA nodes and limit readahead pages" - might be a false positive, might be a real regression..." * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (63 commits) missing bits of "splice: fix racy pipe->buffers uses" cifs: fix the race in cifs_writev() ceph_sync_{,direct_}write: fix an oops on ceph_osdc_new_request() failure kill generic_file_buffered_write() ocfs2_file_aio_write(): switch to generic_perform_write() ceph_aio_write(): switch to generic_perform_write() xfs_file_buffered_aio_write(): switch to generic_perform_write() export generic_perform_write(), start getting rid of generic_file_buffer_write() generic_file_direct_write(): get rid of ppos argument btrfs_file_aio_write(): get rid of ppos kill the 5th argument of generic_file_buffered_write() kill the 4th argument of __generic_file_aio_write() lustre: don't open-code kernel_recvmsg() ocfs2: don't open-code kernel_recvmsg() drbd: don't open-code kernel_recvmsg() constify blk_rq_map_user_iov() and friends lustre: switch to kernel_sendmsg() ocfs2: don't open-code kernel_sendmsg() take iov_iter stuff to mm/iov_iter.c process_vm_access: tidy up a bit ...

get rid of files_defer_init()

2014-04-02T03:19:14Z

the only thing it's doing these days is calculation of upper limit for fs.nr_open sysctl and that can be done statically Signed-off-by: Al Viro

Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2014-03-31T18:05:24Z

Pull RCU updates from Ingo Molnar: "Main changes: - Torture-test changes, including refactoring of rcutorture and introduction of a vestigial locktorture. - Real-time latency fixes. - Documentation updates. - Miscellaneous fixes" * 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (77 commits) rcu: Provide grace-period piggybacking API rcu: Ensure kernel/rcu/rcu.h can be sourced/used stand-alone rcu: Fix sparse warning for rcu_expedited from kernel/ksysfs.c notifier: Substitute rcu_access_pointer() for rcu_dereference_raw() Documentation/memory-barriers.txt: Clarify release/acquire ordering rcutorture: Save kvm.sh output to log rcutorture: Add a lock_busted to test the test rcutorture: Place kvm-test-1-run.sh output into res directory rcutorture: Rename TREE_RCU-Kconfig.txt locktorture: Add kvm-recheck.sh plug-in for locktorture rcutorture: Gracefully handle NULL cleanup hooks locktorture: Add vestigial locktorture configuration rcutorture: Introduce "rcu" directory level underneath configs rcutorture: Rename kvm-test-1-rcu.sh rcutorture: Remove RCU dependencies from ver_functions.sh API rcutorture: Create CFcommon file for common Kconfig parameters rcutorture: Create config files for scripted test-the-test testing rcutorture: Add an rcu_busted to test the test locktorture: Add a lock-torture kernel module rcutorture: Abstract kvm-recheck.sh ...

vfs: Don't let __fdget_pos() get FMODE_PATH files

2014-03-23T04:03:12Z

Commit bd2a31d522344 ("get rid of fget_light()") introduced the __fdget_pos() function, which returns the resulting file pointer and fdput flags combined in an 'unsigned long'. However, it also changed the behavior to return files with FMODE_PATH set, which shouldn't happen because read(), write(), lseek(), etc. aren't allowed on such files. This commit restores the old behavior. This regression actually had no effect on read() and write() since FMODE_READ and FMODE_WRITE are not set on file descriptors opened with O_PATH, but it did cause lseek() on a file descriptor opened with O_PATH to fail with ESPIPE rather than EBADF. Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers Signed-off-by: Al Viro

get rid of fget_light()

2014-03-10T15:44:42Z

instead of returning the flags by reference, we can just have the low-level primitive return those in lower bits of unsigned long, with struct file * derived from the rest. Signed-off-by: Al Viro

fs: Substitute rcu_access_pointer() for rcu_dereference_raw()

2014-02-17T23:02:21Z

(Trivial patch.) If the code is looking at the RCU-protected pointer itself, but not dereferencing it, the rcu_dereference() functions can be downgraded to rcu_access_pointer(). This commit makes this downgrade in __alloc_fd(), which simply compares the RCU-protected pointer against NULL with no dereferencing. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Alexander Viro Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett

fs/file.c:fdtable: avoid triggering OOMs from alloc_fdmem

2014-02-11T00:01:41Z

Recently due to a spike in connections per second memcached on 3 separate boxes triggered the OOM killer from accept. At the time the OOM killer was triggered there was 4GB out of 36GB free in zone 1. The problem was that alloc_fdtable was allocating an order 3 page (32KiB) to hold a bitmap, and there was sufficient fragmentation that the largest page available was 8KiB. I find the logic that PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER can't fail pretty dubious but I do agree that order 3 allocations are very likely to succeed. There are always pathologies where order > 0 allocations can fail when there are copious amounts of free memory available. Using the pigeon hole principle it is easy to show that it requires 1 page more than 50% of the pages being free to guarantee an order 1 (8KiB) allocation will succeed, 1 page more than 75% of the pages being free to guarantee an order 2 (16KiB) allocation will succeed and 1 page more than 87.5% of the pages being free to guarantee an order 3 allocate will succeed. A server churning memory with a lot of small requests and replies like memcached is a common case that if anything can will skew the odds against large pages being available. Therefore let's not give external applications a practical way to kill linux server applications, and specify __GFP_NORETRY to the kmalloc in alloc_fdmem. Unless I am misreading the code and by the time the code reaches should_alloc_retry in __alloc_pages_slowpath (where __GFP_NORETRY becomes signification). We have already tried everything reasonable to allocate a page and the only thing left to do is wait. So not waiting and falling back to vmalloc immediately seems like the reasonable thing to do even if there wasn't a chance of triggering the OOM killer. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Eric Dumazet Acked-by: David Rientjes Cc: Cong Wang Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

fs: __fget_light() can use __fget() in slow path

2014-01-25T08:14:38Z

The slow path in __fget_light() can use __fget() to avoid the code duplication. Saves 232 bytes. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Al Viro

fs: factor out common code in fget_light() and fget_raw_light()

2014-01-25T08:14:37Z

Apart from FMODE_PATH check fget_light() and fget_raw_light() are identical, shift the code into the new helper, __fget_light(fd, mask). Saves 208 bytes. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Al Viro