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2014-06-07fix races between __d_instantiate() and checks of dentry flagsAl Viro
commit 22213318af7ae265bc6cd8aef2febbc2d69a2440 upstream. in non-lazy walk we need to be careful about dentry switching from negative to positive - both ->d_flags and ->d_inode are updated, and in some places we might see only one store. The cases where dentry has been obtained by dcache lookup with ->i_mutex held on parent are safe - ->d_lock and ->i_mutex provide all the barriers we need. However, there are several places where we run into trouble: * do_last() fetches ->d_inode, then checks ->d_flags and assumes that inode won't be NULL unless d_is_negative() is true. Race with e.g. creat() - we might have fetched the old value of ->d_inode (still NULL) and new value of ->d_flags (already not DCACHE_MISS_TYPE). Lin Ming has observed and reported the resulting oops. * a bunch of places checks ->d_inode for being non-NULL, then checks ->d_flags for "is it a symlink". Race with symlink(2) in case if our CPU sees ->d_inode update first - we see non-NULL there, but ->d_flags still contains DCACHE_MISS_TYPE instead of DCACHE_SYMLINK_TYPE. Result: false negative on "should we follow link here?", with subsequent unpleasantness. Reported-and-tested-by: Lin Ming <minggr@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-03-23make prepend_name() work correctly when called with negative *buflenAl Viro
In all callchains leading to prepend_name(), the value left in *buflen is eventually discarded unused if prepend_name() has returned a negative. So we are free to do what prepend() does, and subtract from *buflen *before* checking for underflow (which turns into checking the sign of subtraction result, of course). Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2014-01-26__dentry_path() fixesAl Viro
* we need to save the starting point for restarts * reject pathologically short buffers outright Spotted-by: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Spotted-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2014-01-26vfs: Remove second variable named error in __dentry_pathEric W. Biederman
In commit 232d2d60aa5469bb097f55728f65146bd49c1d25 Author: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com> Date: Mon Sep 9 12:18:13 2013 -0400 dcache: Translating dentry into pathname without taking rename_lock The __dentry_path locking was changed and the variable error was intended to be moved outside of the loop. Unfortunately the inner declaration of error was not removed. Resulting in a version of __dentry_path that will never return an error. Remove the problematic inner declaration of error and allow __dentry_path to return errors once again. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2014-01-17Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace Pull namespace fixes from Eric Biederman: "This is a set of 3 regression fixes. This fixes /proc/mounts when using "ip netns add <netns>" to display the actual mount point. This fixes a regression in clone that broke lxc-attach. This fixes a regression in the permission checks for mounting /proc that made proc unmountable if binfmt_misc was in use. Oops. My apologies for sending this pull request so late. Al Viro gave interesting review comments about the d_path fix that I wanted to address in detail before I sent this pull request. Unfortunately a bad round of colds kept from addressing that in detail until today. The executive summary of the review was: Al: Is patching d_path really sufficient? The prepend_path, d_path, d_absolute_path, and __d_path family of functions is a really mess. Me: Yes, patching d_path is really sufficient. Yes, the code is mess. No it is not appropriate to rewrite all of d_path for a regression that has existed for entirely too long already, when a two line change will do" * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: vfs: Fix a regression in mounting proc fork: Allow CLONE_PARENT after setns(CLONE_NEWPID) vfs: In d_path don't call d_dname on a mount point
2013-12-12dcache: allow word-at-a-time name hashing with big-endian CPUsWill Deacon
When explicitly hashing the end of a string with the word-at-a-time interface, we have to be careful which end of the word we pick up. On big-endian CPUs, the upper-bits will contain the data we're after, so ensure we generate our masks accordingly (and avoid hashing whatever random junk may have been sitting after the string). This patch adds a new dcache helper, bytemask_from_count, which creates a mask appropriate for the CPU endianness. Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-11-26vfs: In d_path don't call d_dname on a mount pointEric W. Biederman
Aditya Kali (adityakali@google.com) wrote: > Commit bf056bfa80596a5d14b26b17276a56a0dcb080e5: > "proc: Fix the namespace inode permission checks." converted > the namespace files into symlinks. The same commit changed > the way namespace bind mounts appear in /proc/mounts: > $ mount --bind /proc/self/ns/ipc /mnt/ipc > Originally: > $ cat /proc/mounts | grep ipc > proc /mnt/ipc proc rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec 0 0 > > After commit bf056bfa80596a5d14b26b17276a56a0dcb080e5: > $ cat /proc/mounts | grep ipc > proc ipc:[4026531839] proc rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec 0 0 > > This breaks userspace which expects the 2nd field in > /proc/mounts to be a valid path. The symlink /proc/<pid>/ns/{ipc,mnt,net,pid,user,uts} point to dentries allocated with d_alloc_pseudo that we can mount, and that have interesting names printed out with d_dname. When these files are bind mounted /proc/mounts is not currently displaying the mount point correctly because d_dname is called instead of just displaying the path where the file is mounted. Solve this by adding an explicit check to distinguish mounted pseudo inodes and unmounted pseudo inodes. Unmounted pseudo inodes always use mount of their filesstem as the mnt_root in their path making these two cases easy to distinguish. CC: stable@vger.kernel.org Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Reported-by: Aditya Kali <adityakali@google.com> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2013-11-15fold try_to_ascend() into the sole remaining callerAl Viro
There used to be a bunch of tree-walkers in dcache.c, all alike. try_to_ascend() had been introduced to abstract a piece of logics duplicated in all of them. These days all these tree-walkers are implemented via the same iterator (d_walk()), which is the only remaining caller of try_to_ascend(), so let's fold it back... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-11-15dcache.c: get rid of pointless macrosAl Viro
D_HASH{MASK,BITS} are used once each, both in the same function (d_hash()). At this point they are actively misguiding - they imply that values are compiler constants, which is no longer true. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-11-15take read_seqbegin_or_lock() and friends to seqlock.hAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-11-14Merge branch 'core-locking-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull core locking changes from Ingo Molnar: "The biggest changes: - add lockdep support for seqcount/seqlocks structures, this unearthed both bugs and required extra annotation. - move the various kernel locking primitives to the new kernel/locking/ directory" * 'core-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (21 commits) block: Use u64_stats_init() to initialize seqcounts locking/lockdep: Mark __lockdep_count_forward_deps() as static lockdep/proc: Fix lock-time avg computation locking/doc: Update references to kernel/mutex.c ipv6: Fix possible ipv6 seqlock deadlock cpuset: Fix potential deadlock w/ set_mems_allowed seqcount: Add lockdep functionality to seqcount/seqlock structures net: Explicitly initialize u64_stats_sync structures for lockdep locking: Move the percpu-rwsem code to kernel/locking/ locking: Move the lglocks code to kernel/locking/ locking: Move the rwsem code to kernel/locking/ locking: Move the rtmutex code to kernel/locking/ locking: Move the semaphore core to kernel/locking/ locking: Move the spinlock code to kernel/locking/ locking: Move the lockdep code to kernel/locking/ locking: Move the mutex code to kernel/locking/ hung_task debugging: Add tracepoint to report the hang x86/locking/kconfig: Update paravirt spinlock Kconfig description lockstat: Report avg wait and hold times lockdep, x86/alternatives: Drop ancient lockdep fixup message ...
2013-11-13prepend_path() needs to reinitialize dentry/vfsmount/mnt on restartsAl Viro
... and equivalent is needed in 3.12; it's broken there as well Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-11-13fix unpaired rcu lock in prepend_path()Li Zhong
Signed-off-by: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-11-13Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs Pull vfs updates from Al Viro: "All kinds of stuff this time around; some more notable parts: - RCU'd vfsmounts handling - new primitives for coredump handling - files_lock is gone - Bruce's delegations handling series - exportfs fixes plus misc stuff all over the place" * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (101 commits) ecryptfs: ->f_op is never NULL locks: break delegations on any attribute modification locks: break delegations on link locks: break delegations on rename locks: helper functions for delegation breaking locks: break delegations on unlink namei: minor vfs_unlink cleanup locks: implement delegations locks: introduce new FL_DELEG lock flag vfs: take i_mutex on renamed file vfs: rename I_MUTEX_QUOTA now that it's not used for quotas vfs: don't use PARENT/CHILD lock classes for non-directories vfs: pull ext4's double-i_mutex-locking into common code exportfs: fix quadratic behavior in filehandle lookup exportfs: better variable name exportfs: move most of reconnect_path to helper function exportfs: eliminate unused "noprogress" counter exportfs: stop retrying once we race with rename/remove exportfs: clear DISCONNECTED on all parents sooner exportfs: more detailed comment for path_reconnect ...
2013-11-09dcache: don't clear DCACHE_DISCONNECTED too earlyJ. Bruce Fields
DCACHE_DISCONNECTED should not be cleared until we're sure the dentry is connected all the way up to the root of the filesystem. It *shouldn't* be cleared as soon as the dentry is connected to a parent. That will cause bugs at least on exportable filesystems. Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-11-09dcache: Don't set DISCONNECTED on "pseudo filesystem" dentriesJ. Bruce Fields
I can't for the life of me see any reason why anyone should care whether a dentry that is never hooked into the dentry cache would need DCACHE_DISCONNECTED set. This originates from 4b936885ab04dc6e0bb0ef35e0e23c1a7364d9e5 "fs: improve scalability of pseudo filesystems", which probably just made the false assumption the DCACHE_DISCONNECTED was meant to be set on anything not connected to a parent somehow. So this is just confusing. Ideally the only uses of DCACHE_DISCONNECTED would be in the filehandle-lookup code, which needs it to ensure dentries are connected into the dentry tree before use. I left d_alloc_pseudo there even though it's now equivalent to __d_alloc(), just on the theory the name is better documentation of its intended use outside dcache.c. Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-11-09dcache: use IS_ROOT to decide where dentry is hashedJ. Bruce Fields
Every hashed dentry is either hashed in the dentry_hashtable, or a superblock's s_anon list. __d_drop() assumes it can determine which is the case by checking DCACHE_DISCONNECTED; this is not true. It is true that when DCACHE_DISCONNECTED is cleared, the dentry is not only hashed on dentry_hashtable, but is fully connected to its parents back to the root. But the converse is *not* true: fs/exportfs/expfs.c:reconnect_path() attempts to connect a directory (found by filehandle lookup) back to root by ascending to parents and performing lookups one at a time. It does not clear DCACHE_DISCONNECTED until it's done, and that is not at all an atomic process. In particular, it is possible for DCACHE_DISCONNECTED to be set on a dentry which is hashed on the dentry_hashtable. Instead, use IS_ROOT() to check which hash chain a dentry is on. This *does* work: Dentries are hashed only by: - d_obtain_alias, which adds an IS_ROOT() dentry to sb_anon. - __d_rehash, called by _d_rehash: hashes to the dentry's parent, and all callers of _d_rehash appear to have d_parent set to a "real" parent. - __d_rehash, called by __d_move: rehashes the moved dentry to hash chain determined by target, and assigns target's d_parent to its d_parent, before dropping the dentry's d_lock. Therefore I believe it's safe for a holder of a dentry's d_lock to assume that it is hashed on sb_anon if and only if IS_ROOT(dentry) is true. I believe the incorrect assumption about DCACHE_DISCONNECTED was originally introduced by ceb5bdc2d246 "fs: dcache per-bucket dcache hash locking". Also add a comment while we're here. Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-11-09VFS: Put a small type field into struct dentry::d_flagsDavid Howells
Put a type field into struct dentry::d_flags to indicate if the dentry is one of the following types that relate particularly to pathwalk: Miss (negative dentry) Directory "Automount" directory (defective - no i_op->lookup()) Symlink Other (regular, socket, fifo, device) The type field is set to one of the first five types on a dentry by calls to __d_instantiate() and d_obtain_alias() from information in the inode (if one is given). The type is cleared by dentry_unlink_inode() when it reconstitutes an existing dentry as a negative dentry. Accessors provided are: d_set_type(dentry, type) d_is_directory(dentry) d_is_autodir(dentry) d_is_symlink(dentry) d_is_file(dentry) d_is_negative(dentry) d_is_positive(dentry) A bunch of checks in pathname resolution switched to those. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-11-09fold __d_shrink() into its only remaining callerAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-11-09RCU'd vfsmountsAl Viro
* RCU-delayed freeing of vfsmounts * vfsmount_lock replaced with a seqlock (mount_lock) * sequence number from mount_lock is stored in nameidata->m_seq and used when we exit RCU mode * new vfsmount flag - MNT_SYNC_UMOUNT. Set by umount_tree() when its caller knows that vfsmount will have no surviving references. * synchronize_rcu() done between unlocking namespace_sem in namespace_unlock() and doing pending mntput(). * new helper: legitimize_mnt(mnt, seq). Checks the mount_lock sequence number against seq, then grabs reference to mnt. Then it rechecks mount_lock again to close the race and either returns success or drops the reference it has acquired. The subtle point is that in case of MNT_SYNC_UMOUNT we can simply decrement the refcount and sod off - aforementioned synchronize_rcu() makes sure that final mntput() won't come until we leave RCU mode. We need that, since we don't want to end up with some lazy pathwalk racing with umount() and stealing the final mntput() from it - caller of umount() may expect it to return only once the fs is shut down and we don't want to break that. In other cases (i.e. with MNT_SYNC_UMOUNT absent) we have to do full-blown mntput() in case of mount_lock sequence number mismatch happening just as we'd grabbed the reference, but in those cases we won't be stealing the final mntput() from anything that would care. * mntput_no_expire() doesn't lock anything on the fast path now. Incidentally, SMP and UP cases are handled the same way - no ifdefs there. * normal pathname resolution does *not* do any writes to mount_lock. It does, of course, bump the refcounts of vfsmount and dentry in the very end, but that's it. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-11-09switch shrink_dcache_for_umount() to use of d_walk()Al Viro
we have too many iterators in fs/dcache.c... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-11-06seqcount: Add lockdep functionality to seqcount/seqlock structuresJohn Stultz
Currently seqlocks and seqcounts don't support lockdep. After running across a seqcount related deadlock in the timekeeping code, I used a less-refined and more focused variant of this patch to narrow down the cause of the issue. This is a first-pass attempt to properly enable lockdep functionality on seqlocks and seqcounts. Since seqcounts are used in the vdso gettimeofday code, I've provided non-lockdep accessors for those needs. I've also handled one case where there were nested seqlock writers and there may be more edge cases. Comments and feedback would be appreciated! Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381186321-4906-3-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-10-31vfs: decrapify dput(), fix cache behavior under normal loadLinus Torvalds
We do not want to dirty the dentry->d_flags cacheline in dput() just to set the DCACHE_REFERENCED flag when it is already set in the common case anyway. This way the first cacheline of the dentry (which contains the RCU lookup information etc) can stay shared among multiple CPU's. This finishes off some of the details of all the scalability patches merged during the merge window. Also don't mark dentry_kill() for inlining, since it's the uncommon path and inlining it just makes the common path slower due to extra function entry/exit overhead. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-10-24vfs: introduce d_instantiate_no_diralias()Miklos Szeredi
...which just returns -EBUSY if a directory alias would be created. This is to be used by fuse mkdir to make sure that a buggy or malicious userspace filesystem doesn't do anything nasty. Previously fuse used a private mutex for this purpose, which can now go away. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2013-10-24move taking vfsmount_lock down into prepend_path()Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-10-22vfs: fix new kernel-doc warningsRandy Dunlap
Move kernel-doc notation to immediately before its function to eliminate kernel-doc warnings introduced by commit db14fc3abcd5 ("vfs: add d_walk()") Warning(fs/dcache.c:1343): No description found for parameter 'data' Warning(fs/dcache.c:1343): No description found for parameter 'dentry' Warning(fs/dcache.c:1343): Excess function parameter 'parent' description in 'check_mount' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-09-15vfs: fix typo in comment in recent dentry workLinus Torvalds
Sedat points out that I transposed some letters in "LRU" and wrote "RLU" instead in one of the new comments explaining the flow. Let's just fix it. Reported-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@jpberlin.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-09-13vfs: fix dentry LRU list handling and nr_dentry_unused accountingLinus Torvalds
The LRU list changes interacted badly with our nr_dentry_unused accounting, and even worse with the new DCACHE_LRU_LIST bit logic. This introduces helper functions to make sure everything follows the proper dcache d_lru list rules: the dentry cache is complicated by the fact that some of the hotpaths don't even want to look at the LRU list at all, and the fact that we use the same list entry in the dentry for both the LRU list and for our temporary shrinking lists when removing things from the LRU. The helper functions temporarily have some extra sanity checking for the flag bits that have to match the current LRU state of the dentry. We'll remove that before the final 3.12 release, but considering how easy it is to get wrong, this first cleanup version has some very particular sanity checking. Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-09-12Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs Pull vfs pile 4 from Al Viro: "list_lru pile, mostly" This came out of Andrew's pile, Al ended up doing the merge work so that Andrew didn't have to. Additionally, a few fixes. * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (42 commits) super: fix for destroy lrus list_lru: dynamically adjust node arrays shrinker: Kill old ->shrink API. shrinker: convert remaining shrinkers to count/scan API staging/lustre/libcfs: cleanup linux-mem.h staging/lustre/ptlrpc: convert to new shrinker API staging/lustre/obdclass: convert lu_object shrinker to count/scan API staging/lustre/ldlm: convert to shrinkers to count/scan API hugepage: convert huge zero page shrinker to new shrinker API i915: bail out earlier when shrinker cannot acquire mutex drivers: convert shrinkers to new count/scan API fs: convert fs shrinkers to new scan/count API xfs: fix dquot isolation hang xfs-convert-dquot-cache-lru-to-list_lru-fix xfs: convert dquot cache lru to list_lru xfs: rework buffer dispose list tracking xfs-convert-buftarg-lru-to-generic-code-fix xfs: convert buftarg LRU to generic code fs: convert inode and dentry shrinking to be node aware vmscan: per-node deferred work ...
2013-09-12vfs: make d_path() get the root path under RCULinus Torvalds
This avoids the spinlocks and refcounts in the d_path() sequence too (used by /proc and various other entities). See commit 8b19e34188a3 for the equivalent getcwd() system call path. And unlike getcwd(), d_path() doesn't copy the result to user space, so I don't need to fear _that_ particular bug happening again. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-09-12vfs: use __getname/__putname for getcwd() system callLinus Torvalds
It's a pathname. It should use the pathname allocators and deallocators, and PATH_MAX instead of PAGE_SIZE. Never mind that the two are commonly the same. With this, the allocations scale up nicely too, and I can do getcwd() system calls at a rate of about 300M/s, with no lock contention anywhere. Of course, nobody sane does that, especially since getcwd() is traditionally a very slow operation in Unix. But this was also the simplest way to benchmark the prepend_path() improvements by Waiman, and once I saw the profiles I couldn't leave it well enough alone. But apart from being an performance improvement (from using per-cpu slab allocators instead of the raw page allocator), it's actually a valid and real cleanup. Signed-off-by: Linus "OCD" Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-09-12vfs: don't copy things to user space holding the rcu readlockLinus Torvalds
Oops. That wasn't very smart. We don't actually need the RCU lock any more by the time we copy the cwd string to user space, but I had stupidly surrounded the whole thing with it. Introduced by commit 8b19e34188a3 ("vfs: make getcwd() get the root and pwd path under rcu") Is-a-big-hairy-idiot: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-09-12vfs: make getcwd() get the root and pwd path under rcuLinus Torvalds
This allows us to skip all the crazy spinlocks and reference count updates, and instead use the fs sequence read-lock to get an atomic snapshot of the root and cwd information. We might want to make the rule that "prepend_path()" is always called with the RCU lock held, but the RCU lock nests fine and this is the minimal fix. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-09-12vfs: move get_fs_root_and_pwd() to single callerLinus Torvalds
Let's not pollute the include files with inline functions that are only used in a single place. Especially not if we decide we might want to change the semantics of said function to make it more efficient.. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-09-12dcache: get/release read lock in read_seqbegin_or_lock() & friendWaiman Long
This patch modifies read_seqbegin_or_lock() and need_seqretry() to use newly introduced read_seqlock_excl() and read_sequnlock_excl() primitives so that they won't change the sequence number even if they fall back to take the lock. This is OK as no change to the protected data structure is being made. It will prevent one fallback to lock taking from cascading into a series of lock taking reducing performance because of the sequence number change. It will also allow other sequence readers to go forward while an exclusive reader lock is taken. This patch also updates some of the inaccurate comments in the code. Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com> To: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-09-10fs: convert inode and dentry shrinking to be node awareDave Chinner
Now that the shrinker is passing a node in the scan control structure, we can pass this to the the generic LRU list code to isolate reclaim to the lists on matching nodes. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com> Cc: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com> Cc: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@redhat.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com> Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-09-10list_lru: remove special case function list_lru_dispose_all.Glauber Costa
The list_lru implementation has one function, list_lru_dispose_all, with only one user (the dentry code). At first, such function appears to make sense because we are really not interested in the result of isolating each dentry separately - all of them are going away anyway. However, it's implementation is buggy in the following way: When we call list_lru_dispose_all in fs/dcache.c, we scan all dentries marking them with DCACHE_SHRINK_LIST. However, this is done without the nlru->lock taken. The imediate result of that is that someone else may add or remove the dentry from the LRU at the same time. When list_lru_del happens in that scenario we will see an element that is not yet marked with DCACHE_SHRINK_LIST (even though it will be in the future) and obviously remove it from an lru where the element no longer is. Since list_lru_dispose_all will in effect count down nlru's nr_items and list_lru_del will do the same, this will lead to an imbalance. The solution for this would not be so simple: we can obviously just keep the lru_lock taken, but then we have no guarantees that we will be able to acquire the dentry lock (dentry->d_lock). To properly solve this, we need a communication mechanism between the lru and dentry code, so they can coordinate this with each other. Such mechanism already exists in the form of the list_lru_walk_cb callback. So it is possible to construct a dcache-side prune function that does the right thing only by calling list_lru_walk in a loop until no more dentries are available. With only one user, plus the fact that a sane solution for the problem would involve boucing between dcache and list_lru anyway, I see little justification to keep the special case list_lru_dispose_all in tree. Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@openvz.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Acked-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-09-10dcache: convert to use new lru list infrastructureDave Chinner
[glommer@openvz.org: don't reintroduce double decrement of nr_unused_dentries, adapted for new LRU return codes] Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@openvz.org> Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com> Cc: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com> Cc: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@redhat.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com> Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-09-10shrinker: convert superblock shrinkers to new APIDave Chinner
Convert superblock shrinker to use the new count/scan API, and propagate the API changes through to the filesystem callouts. The filesystem callouts already use a count/scan API, so it's just changing counters to longs to match the VM API. This requires the dentry and inode shrinker callouts to be converted to the count/scan API. This is mainly a mechanical change. [glommer@openvz.org: use mult_frac for fractional proportions, build fixes] Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@openvz.org> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com> Cc: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com> Cc: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@redhat.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com> Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-09-10dcache: remove dentries from LRU before putting on dispose listDave Chinner
One of the big problems with modifying the way the dcache shrinker and LRU implementation works is that the LRU is abused in several ways. One of these is shrink_dentry_list(). Basically, we can move a dentry off the LRU onto a different list without doing any accounting changes, and then use dentry_lru_prune() to remove it from what-ever list it is now on to do the LRU accounting at that point. This makes it -really hard- to change the LRU implementation. The use of the per-sb LRU lock serialises movement of the dentries between the different lists and the removal of them, and this is the only reason that it works. If we want to break up the dentry LRU lock and lists into, say, per-node lists, we remove the only serialisation that allows this lru list/dispose list abuse to work. To make this work effectively, the dispose list has to be isolated from the LRU list - dentries have to be removed from the LRU *before* being placed on the dispose list. This means that the LRU accounting and isolation is completed before disposal is started, and that means we can change the LRU implementation freely in future. This means that dentries *must* be marked with DCACHE_SHRINK_LIST when they are placed on the dispose list so that we don't think that parent dentries found in try_prune_one_dentry() are on the LRU when the are actually on the dispose list. This would result in accounting the dentry to the LRU a second time. Hence dentry_lru_del() has to handle the DCACHE_SHRINK_LIST case Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@openvz.org> Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com> Cc: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com> Cc: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@redhat.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com> Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-09-10dentry: move to per-sb LRU locksDave Chinner
With the dentry LRUs being per-sb structures, there is no real need for a global dentry_lru_lock. The locking can be made more fine-grained by moving to a per-sb LRU lock, isolating the LRU operations of different filesytsems completely from each other. The need for this is independent of any performance consideration that may arise: in the interest of abstracting the lru operations away, it is mandatory that each lru works around its own lock instead of a global lock for all of them. [glommer@openvz.org: updated changelog ] Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@openvz.org> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com> Cc: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com> Cc: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@redhat.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com> Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-09-10dcache: convert dentry_stat.nr_unused to per-cpu countersDave Chinner
Before we split up the dcache_lru_lock, the unused dentry counter needs to be made independent of the global dcache_lru_lock. Convert it to per-cpu counters to do this. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@openvz.org> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com> Cc: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com> Cc: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@redhat.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com> Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-09-10fs: bump inode and dentry counters to longGlauber Costa
This series reworks our current object cache shrinking infrastructure in two main ways: * Noticing that a lot of users copy and paste their own version of LRU lists for objects, we put some effort in providing a generic version. It is modeled after the filesystem users: dentries, inodes, and xfs (for various tasks), but we expect that other users could benefit in the near future with little or no modification. Let us know if you have any issues. * The underlying list_lru being proposed automatically and transparently keeps the elements in per-node lists, and is able to manipulate the node lists individually. Given this infrastructure, we are able to modify the up-to-now hammer called shrink_slab to proceed with node-reclaim instead of always searching memory from all over like it has been doing. Per-node lru lists are also expected to lead to less contention in the lru locks on multi-node scans, since we are now no longer fighting for a global lock. The locks usually disappear from the profilers with this change. Although we have no official benchmarks for this version - be our guest to independently evaluate this - earlier versions of this series were performance tested (details at http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.mm/100537) yielding no visible performance regressions while yielding a better qualitative behavior in NUMA machines. With this infrastructure in place, we can use the list_lru entry point to provide memcg isolation and per-memcg targeted reclaim. Historically, those two pieces of work have been posted together. This version presents only the infrastructure work, deferring the memcg work for a later time, so we can focus on getting this part tested. You can see more about the history of such work at http://lwn.net/Articles/552769/ Dave Chinner (18): dcache: convert dentry_stat.nr_unused to per-cpu counters dentry: move to per-sb LRU locks dcache: remove dentries from LRU before putting on dispose list mm: new shrinker API shrinker: convert superblock shrinkers to new API list: add a new LRU list type inode: convert inode lru list to generic lru list code. dcache: convert to use new lru list infrastructure list_lru: per-node list infrastructure shrinker: add node awareness fs: convert inode and dentry shrinking to be node aware xfs: convert buftarg LRU to generic code xfs: rework buffer dispose list tracking xfs: convert dquot cache lru to list_lru fs: convert fs shrinkers to new scan/count API drivers: convert shrinkers to new count/scan API shrinker: convert remaining shrinkers to count/scan API shrinker: Kill old ->shrink API. Glauber Costa (7): fs: bump inode and dentry counters to long super: fix calculation of shrinkable objects for small numbers list_lru: per-node API vmscan: per-node deferred work i915: bail out earlier when shrinker cannot acquire mutex hugepage: convert huge zero page shrinker to new shrinker API list_lru: dynamically adjust node arrays This patch: There are situations in very large machines in which we can have a large quantity of dirty inodes, unused dentries, etc. This is particularly true when umounting a filesystem, where eventually since every live object will eventually be discarded. Dave Chinner reported a problem with this while experimenting with the shrinker revamp patchset. So we believe it is time for a change. This patch just moves int to longs. Machines where it matters should have a big long anyway. Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@openvz.org> Cc: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com> Cc: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com> Cc: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@redhat.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Cc: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com> Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-09-10Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs Pull vfs pile 3 (of many) from Al Viro: "Waiman's conversion of d_path() and bits related to it, kern_path_mountpoint(), several cleanups and fixes (exportfs one is -stable fodder, IMO). There definitely will be more... ;-/" * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: split read_seqretry_or_unlock(), convert d_walk() to resulting primitives dcache: Translating dentry into pathname without taking rename_lock autofs4 - fix device ioctl mount lookup introduce kern_path_mountpoint() rename user_path_umountat() to user_path_mountpoint_at() take unlazy_walk() into umount_lookup_last() Kill indirect include of file.h from eventfd.h, use fdget() in cgroup.c prune_super(): sb->s_op is never NULL exportfs: don't assume that ->iterate() won't feed us too long entries afs: get rid of redundant ->d_name.len checks
2013-09-09split read_seqretry_or_unlock(), convert d_walk() to resulting primitivesAl Viro
Separate "check if we need to retry" from "unlock if we are done and had seq_writelock"; that allows to use these guys in d_walk(), where we need to recheck every time we ascend back to parent, but do *not* want to unlock until the very end. Lift rcu_read_lock/rcu_read_unlock out into callers. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-09-09dcache: Translating dentry into pathname without taking rename_lockWaiman Long
When running the AIM7's short workload, Linus' lockref patch eliminated most of the spinlock contention. However, there were still some left: 8.46% reaim [kernel.kallsyms] [k] _raw_spin_lock |--42.21%-- d_path | proc_pid_readlink | SyS_readlinkat | SyS_readlink | system_call | __GI___readlink | |--40.97%-- sys_getcwd | system_call | __getcwd The big one here is the rename_lock (seqlock) contention in d_path() and the getcwd system call. This patch will eliminate the need to take the rename_lock while translating dentries into the full pathnames. The need to take the rename_lock is to make sure that no rename operation can be ongoing while the translation is in progress. However, only one thread can take the rename_lock thus blocking all the other threads that need it even though the translation process won't make any change to the dentries. This patch will replace the writer's write_seqlock/write_sequnlock sequence of the rename_lock of the callers of the prepend_path() and __dentry_path() functions with the reader's read_seqbegin/read_seqretry sequence within these 2 functions. As a result, the code will have to retry if one or more rename operations had been performed. In addition, RCU read lock will be taken during the translation process to make sure that no dentries will go away. To prevent live-lock from happening, the code will switch back to take the rename_lock if read_seqretry() fails for three times. To further reduce spinlock contention, this patch does not take the dentry's d_lock when copying the filename from the dentries. Instead, it treats the name pointer and length as unreliable and just copy the string byte-by-byte over until it hits a null byte or the end of string as specified by the length. This should avoid stepping into invalid memory address. The error cases are left to be handled by the sequence number check. The following code re-factoring are also made: 1. Move prepend('/') into prepend_name() to remove one conditional check. 2. Move the global root check in prepend_path() back to the top of the while loop. With this patch, the _raw_spin_lock will now account for only 1.2% of the total CPU cycles for the short workload. This patch also has the effect of reducing the effect of running perf on its profile since the perf command itself can be a heavy user of the d_path() function depending on the complexity of the workload. When taking the perf profile of the high-systime workload, the amount of spinlock contention contributed by running perf without this patch was about 16%. With this patch, the spinlock contention caused by the running of perf will go away and we will have a more accurate perf profile. Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-09-08vfs: use lockred "dead" flag to mark unrecoverably dead dentriesLinus Torvalds
This simplifies the RCU to refcounting code in particular. I was originally intending to leave this for later, but walking through all the dput() logic (see previous commit), I realized that the dput() "might_sleep()" check was misleadingly weak. And I removed it as misleading, both for performance profiling and for debugging. However, the might_sleep() debugging case is actually true: the final dput() can indeed sleep, if the inode of the dentry that you are releasing ends up sleeping at iput time (see dentry_iput()). So the problem with the might_sleep() in dput() wasn't that it wasn't true, it was that it wasn't actually testing and triggering on the interesting case. In particular, just about *any* dput() can indeed sleep, if you happen to race with another thread deleting the file in question, and you then lose the race to the be the last dput() for that file. But because it's a very rare race, the debugging code would never trigger it in practice. Why is this problematic? The new d_rcu_to_refcount() (see commit 15570086b590: "vfs: reimplement d_rcu_to_refcount() using lockref_get_or_lock()") does a dput() for the failure case, and it does it under the RCU lock. So potentially sleeping really is a bug. But there's no way I'm going to fix this with the previous complicated "lockref_get_or_lock()" interface. And rather than revert to the old and crufty nested dentry locking code (which did get this right by delaying the reference count updates until they were verified to be safe), let's make forward progress. Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-09-08vfs: reorganize dput() memory accessesLinus Torvalds
This is me being a bit OCD after all the dentry optimization work this merge window: profiles end up showing 'dput()' as a rather expensive operation, and there were two unrelated bad reasons for that. The first reason was reading d_lockref.count for debugging purposes, which touches the lockref cacheline (for reads) before really need to. More importantly, the debugging test in question is _wrong_, and has hidden bugs. It's true that we can only sleep when the count goes down to zero, but the test as-is hides the much more subtle bug that happens if we race with somebody else deleting the file. Anyway we _will_ touch that cacheline, but let's do it for a write and in the right routine (ie in "lockref_put_or_lock()") which annotates the costs better. So remove the misleading debug code. The other was an unnecessary access to the cacheline that contains the d_lru list, just to check whether we already were on the LRU list or not. This is exactly what we have d_flags for, so that we can avoid touching extra cache lines for the common case. So just add another bit for "is this dentry on the LRU". Finally, mark the tests properly likely/unlikely, so that the common fast-paths are dense in the instruction stream. This makes the profiles look much saner. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-09-05vfs: check unlinked ancestors before mountMiklos Szeredi
We check submounts before doing d_drop() on a non-empty directory dentry in NFS (have_submounts()), but we do not exclude a racing mount. Nor do we prevent mounts to be added to the disconnected subtree using relative paths after the d_drop(). This patch fixes these issues by checking for unlinked (unhashed, non-root) ancestors before proceeding with the mount. This is done with rename seqlock taken for write and with ->d_lock grabbed on each ancestor in turn, including our dentry itself. This ensures that the only one of check_submounts_and_drop() or has_unlinked_ancestor() can succeed. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-09-05vfs: check submounts and drop atomicallyMiklos Szeredi
We check submounts before doing d_drop() on a non-empty directory dentry in NFS (have_submounts()), but we do not exclude a racing mount. Process A: have_submounts() -> returns false Process B: mount() -> success Process A: d_drop() This patch prepares the ground for the fix by doing the following operations all under the same rename lock: have_submounts() shrink_dcache_parent() d_drop() This is actually an optimization since have_submounts() and shrink_dcache_parent() both traverse the same dentry tree separately. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> CC: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> CC: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> CC: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>