Archived
14
0
Fork 0
Commit graph

389 commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Jan Kara
556a2a45bc [PATCH] quota: reiserfs: improve quota credit estimates
Use improved credits estimates for quota operations.  Also reserve space
for a quota operation in a transaction only if filesystem was mounted with
some quota option.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-24 00:05:20 -07:00
Jan Kara
1f54587bea [PATCH] quota: ext3: Improve quota credit estimates
Use improved credits estimates for quota operations.  Also reserve a space
for a quota operation in a transaction only if filesystem was mounted with
some quota options.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-24 00:05:20 -07:00
Jan Kara
4e5117ba0a [PATCH] quota: improve credits estimates
Improve estimates on the number of needed credits for quota transaction.
Now we distinguish blocks that might need to be allocated and blocks that
only need to be rewritten.  Also we distinguish deleting of a quota
structure and creating of a new one.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-24 00:05:19 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
92198f7eaa [PATCH] pass iocb to dio_iodone_t
XFS will have to look at iocb->private to fix aio+dio.  No other filesystem
is using the blockdev_direct_IO* end_io callback.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-24 00:05:19 -07:00
David Howells
3e30148c3d [PATCH] Keys: Make request-key create an authorisation key
The attached patch makes the following changes:

 (1) There's a new special key type called ".request_key_auth".

     This is an authorisation key for when one process requests a key and
     another process is started to construct it. This type of key cannot be
     created by the user; nor can it be requested by kernel services.

     Authorisation keys hold two references:

     (a) Each refers to a key being constructed. When the key being
     	 constructed is instantiated the authorisation key is revoked,
     	 rendering it of no further use.

     (b) The "authorising process". This is either:

     	 (i) the process that called request_key(), or:

     	 (ii) if the process that called request_key() itself had an
     	      authorisation key in its session keyring, then the authorising
     	      process referred to by that authorisation key will also be
     	      referred to by the new authorisation key.

	 This means that the process that initiated a chain of key requests
	 will authorise the lot of them, and will, by default, wind up with
	 the keys obtained from them in its keyrings.

 (2) request_key() creates an authorisation key which is then passed to
     /sbin/request-key in as part of a new session keyring.

 (3) When request_key() is searching for a key to hand back to the caller, if
     it comes across an authorisation key in the session keyring of the
     calling process, it will also search the keyrings of the process
     specified therein and it will use the specified process's credentials
     (fsuid, fsgid, groups) to do that rather than the calling process's
     credentials.

     This allows a process started by /sbin/request-key to find keys belonging
     to the authorising process.

 (4) A key can be read, even if the process executing KEYCTL_READ doesn't have
     direct read or search permission if that key is contained within the
     keyrings of a process specified by an authorisation key found within the
     calling process's session keyring, and is searchable using the
     credentials of the authorising process.

     This allows a process started by /sbin/request-key to read keys belonging
     to the authorising process.

 (5) The magic KEY_SPEC_*_KEYRING key IDs when passed to KEYCTL_INSTANTIATE or
     KEYCTL_NEGATE will specify a keyring of the authorising process, rather
     than the process doing the instantiation.

 (6) One of the process keyrings can be nominated as the default to which
     request_key() should attach new keys if not otherwise specified. This is
     done with KEYCTL_SET_REQKEY_KEYRING and one of the KEY_REQKEY_DEFL_*
     constants. The current setting can also be read using this call.

 (7) request_key() is partially interruptible. If it is waiting for another
     process to finish constructing a key, it can be interrupted. This permits
     a request-key cycle to be broken without recourse to rebooting.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-Off-By: Benoit Boissinot <benoit.boissinot@ens-lyon.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-24 00:05:19 -07:00
David Howells
7888e7ff4e [PATCH] Keys: Pass session keyring to call_usermodehelper()
The attached patch makes it possible to pass a session keyring through to the
process spawned by call_usermodehelper().  This allows patch 3/3 to pass an
authorisation key through to /sbin/request-key, thus permitting better access
controls when doing just-in-time key creation.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-24 00:05:18 -07:00
David Howells
76d8aeabfe [PATCH] keys: Discard key spinlock and use RCU for key payload
The attached patch changes the key implementation in a number of ways:

 (1) It removes the spinlock from the key structure.

 (2) The key flags are now accessed using atomic bitops instead of
     write-locking the key spinlock and using C bitwise operators.

     The three instantiation flags are dealt with with the construction
     semaphore held during the request_key/instantiate/negate sequence, thus
     rendering the spinlock superfluous.

     The key flags are also now bit numbers not bit masks.

 (3) The key payload is now accessed using RCU. This permits the recursive
     keyring search algorithm to be simplified greatly since no locks need be
     taken other than the usual RCU preemption disablement. Searching now does
     not require any locks or semaphores to be held; merely that the starting
     keyring be pinned.

 (4) The keyring payload now includes an RCU head so that it can be disposed
     of by call_rcu(). This requires that the payload be copied on unlink to
     prevent introducing races in copy-down vs search-up.

 (5) The user key payload is now a structure with the data following it. It
     includes an RCU head like the keyring payload and for the same reason. It
     also contains a data length because the data length in the key may be
     changed on another CPU whilst an RCU protected read is in progress on the
     payload. This would then see the supposed RCU payload and the on-key data
     length getting out of sync.

     I'm tempted to drop the key's datalen entirely, except that it's used in
     conjunction with quota management and so is a little tricky to get rid
     of.

 (6) Update the keys documentation.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-24 00:05:18 -07:00
Thomas Graf
d675c989ed [PKT_SCHED]: Packet classification based on textsearch (ematch)
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-23 21:00:58 -07:00
Thomas Graf
3fc7e8a6d8 [NET]: skb_find_text() - Find a text pattern in skb data
Finds a pattern in the skb data according to the specified
textsearch configuration. Use textsearch_next() to retrieve
subsequent occurrences of the pattern. Returns the offset
to the first occurrence or UINT_MAX if no match was found.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-23 21:00:17 -07:00
Thomas Graf
677e90eda3 [NET]: Zerocopy sequential reading of skb data
Implements sequential reading for both linear and non-linear
skb data at zerocopy cost. The data is returned in chunks of
arbitary length, therefore random access is not possible.

Usage:
	from	 := 0
	to	 := 128
	state	 := undef
	data	 := undef
	len	 := undef
	consumed := 0

	skb_prepare_seq_read(skb, from, to, &state)
	while (len = skb_seq_read(consumed, &data, &state)) != 0 do
		/* do something with 'data' of length 'len' */
		if abort then
			/* abort read if we don't wait for
			 * skb_seq_read() to return 0 */
			skb_abort_seq_read(&state)
			return
		endif
		/* not necessary to consume all of 'len' */
		consumed += len
	done

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-23 20:59:51 -07:00
Thomas Graf
6408f79cce [LIB]: Naive finite state machine based textsearch
A finite state machine consists of n states (struct ts_fsm_token)
representing the pattern as a finite automation. The data is read
sequentially on a octet basis. Every state token specifies the number
of recurrences and the type of value accepted which can be either a
specific character or ctype based set of characters. The available
type of recurrences include 1, (0|1), [0 n], and [1 n].

The algorithm differs between strict/non-strict mode specyfing
whether the pattern has to start at the first octect. Strict mode
is enabled by default and can be disabled by inserting
TS_FSM_HEAD_IGNORE as the first token in the chain.

The runtime performance of the algorithm should be around O(n),
however while in strict mode the average runtime can be better.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-23 20:59:16 -07:00
Thomas Graf
2de4ff7bd6 [LIB]: Textsearch infrastructure.
The textsearch infrastructure provides text searching
facitilies for both linear and non-linear data.
Individual search algorithms are implemented in modules
and chosen by the user.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-23 20:49:30 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
5f8ef48d24 [TCP]: Allow choosing TCP congestion control via sockopt.
Allow using setsockopt to set TCP congestion control to use on a per
socket basis.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-23 20:37:36 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
51b0bdedb8 [NET]: Separate two usages of netdev_max_backlog.
Separate out the two uses of netdev_max_backlog. One controls the
upper bound on packets processed per softirq, the new name for this is
netdev_budget; the other controls the limit on packets queued via
netif_rx.

Increase the max_backlog default to account for faster processors.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-23 20:14:40 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
31aa02c53c [NET]: Eliminate netif_rx massive packet drops.
Eliminate the throttling behaviour when the netif receive queue fills
because it behaves badly when using high speed networks under load.
The throttling cause multiple packet drops that cause TCP to go into
slow start mode. The same effective patch has been part of BIC TCP and
H-TCP as well as part of Web100.

The existing code drops 100's of packets when the queue fills;
this changes it to individual packet drop-tail. 

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemmminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-23 20:12:48 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
34008d8c63 [NET]: Remove obsolete netif_rx congestion sensing mechanism.
Remove the congestion sensing mechanism from netif_rx, and always
return either full or empty.  Almost no driver checks the return value
from netif_rx, and those that do only use it for debug messages.

The original design of netif_rx was to do flow control based on the
receive queue, but NAPI has supplanted this and no driver uses the
feedback.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-23 20:10:00 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
c1ebcdb8c4 [NET]: Remove obsolete fastroute stats.
Remove last vestiages of fastroute code that is no longer used.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-23 20:08:59 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
056ede6cfa [TCP]: Report congestion control algorithm in tcp_diag.
Enhancement to the tcp_diag interface used by the iproute2 ss command
to report the tcp congestion control being used by a socket.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-23 12:21:28 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
317a76f9a4 [TCP]: Add pluggable congestion control algorithm infrastructure.
Allow TCP to have multiple pluggable congestion control algorithms.
Algorithms are defined by a set of operations and can be built in
or modules.  The legacy "new RENO" algorithm is used as a starting
point and fallback.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-23 12:19:55 -07:00
Adrian Bunk
4749f32da9 [PATCH] better USB_MON dependencies
This makes the USB_MON less confusing.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-23 10:04:15 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
bfb07599da [PATCH] Introduce tty_unregister_ldisc()
It's a bit strange to see tty_register_ldisc call in modules' exit
functions.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-23 09:45:35 -07:00
Benjamin LaHaise
c43dc2fd88 [PATCH] aio: make wait_queue ->task ->private
In the upcoming aio_down patch, it is useful to store a private data
pointer in the kiocb's wait_queue.  Since we provide our own wake up
function and do not require the task_struct pointer, it makes sense to
convert the task pointer into a generic private pointer.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise <benjamin.c.lahaise@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-23 09:45:34 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
9a59f452ab [PATCH] remove <linux/xattr_acl.h>
This file duplicates <linux/posix_acl_xattr.h>, using slightly different
names.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-23 09:45:33 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
f9fd27a253 [PATCH] acl endianess annotations
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-23 09:45:33 -07:00
Christoph Lameter
45778ca819 [PATCH] Remove f_error field from struct file
The following patch removes the f_error field and all checks of f_error.

Trond said:

  f_error was introduced for NFS, and made sense when we were guaranteed
  always to have a file pointer around when write errors occurred.  Since
  then, we have (for various reasons) had to introduce the nfs_open_context in
  order to track the file read/write state, and it made sense to move our
  f_error tracking there too.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-23 09:45:33 -07:00
Arnd Bergmann
bb93e3a52f [PATCH] block: add unlocked_ioctl support for block devices
This patch allows block device drivers to convert their ioctl functions to
unlocked_ioctl() like character devices and other subsystems.  All
functions that were called with the BKL held before are still used that
way, but I would not be surprised if it could be removed from the ioctl
functions in drivers/block/ioctl.c themselves.

As a side note, I found that compat_blkdev_ioctl() acquires the BKL as
well, which looks like a bug.  I have checked that every user of
disk->fops->compat_ioctl() in the current git tree gets the BKL itself, so
it could easily be removed from compat_blkdev_ioctl().

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-23 09:45:32 -07:00
Peter Osterlund
46c271bedd [PATCH] Improve CD/DVD packet driver write performance
This patch improves write performance for the CD/DVD packet writing driver.
 The logic for switching between reading and writing has been changed so
that streaming writes are no longer interrupted by read requests.

Signed-off-by: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-23 09:45:30 -07:00
Yoav Zach
ef3daeda7b [PATCH] Don't force O_LARGEFILE for 32 bit processes on ia64
In ia64 kernel, the O_LARGEFILE flag is forced when opening a file.  This
is problematic for execution of 32 bit processes, which are not largefile
aware, either by SW emulation or by HW execution.

For such processes, the problem is two-fold:

1) When trying to open a file that is larger than 4G
   the operation should fail, but it's not
2) Writing to offset larger than 4G should fail, but
   it's not

The proposed patch takes advantage of the way 32 bit processes are
identified in ia64 systems.  Such processes have PER_LINUX32 for their
personality.  With the patch, the ia64 kernel will not enforce the
O_LARGEFILE flag if the current process has PER_LINUX32 set.  The behavior
for all other architectures remains unchanged.

Signed-off-by: Yoav Zach <yoav.zach@intel.com>
Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-23 09:45:28 -07:00
Alan Cox
d6e7114481 [PATCH] setuid core dump
Add a new `suid_dumpable' sysctl:

This value can be used to query and set the core dump mode for setuid
or otherwise protected/tainted binaries. The modes are

0 - (default) - traditional behaviour.  Any process which has changed
    privilege levels or is execute only will not be dumped

1 - (debug) - all processes dump core when possible.  The core dump is
    owned by the current user and no security is applied.  This is intended
    for system debugging situations only.  Ptrace is unchecked.

2 - (suidsafe) - any binary which normally would not be dumped is dumped
    readable by root only.  This allows the end user to remove such a dump but
    not access it directly.  For security reasons core dumps in this mode will
    not overwrite one another or other files.  This mode is appropriate when
    adminstrators are attempting to debug problems in a normal environment.

(akpm:

> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(suid_dumpable);
>
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL?

No problem to me.

> >  	if (current->euid == current->uid && current->egid == current->gid)
> >  		current->mm->dumpable = 1;
>
> Should this be SUID_DUMP_USER?

Actually the feedback I had from last time was that the SUID_ defines
should go because its clearer to follow the numbers. They can go
everywhere (and there are lots of places where dumpable is tested/used
as a bool in untouched code)

> Maybe this should be renamed to `dump_policy' or something.  Doing that
> would help us catch any code which isn't using the #defines, too.

Fair comment. The patch was designed to be easy to maintain for Red Hat
rather than for merging. Changing that field would create a gigantic
diff because it is used all over the place.

)

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-23 09:45:26 -07:00
Prasanna S Panchamukhi
ea32c65cc2 [PATCH] kprobes: Temporary disarming of reentrant probe
In situations where a kprobes handler calls a routine which has a probe on it,
then kprobes_handler() disarms the new probe forever.  This patch removes the
above limitation by temporarily disarming the new probe.  When the another
probe hits while handling the old probe, the kprobes_handler() saves previous
kprobes state and handles the new probe without calling the new kprobes
registered handlers.  kprobe_post_handler() restores back the previous kprobes
state and the normal execution continues.

However on x86_64 architecture, re-rentrancy is provided only through
pre_handler().  If a routine having probe is referenced through
post_handler(), then the probes on that routine are disarmed forever, since
the exception stack is gets changed after the processor single steps the
instruction of the new probe.

This patch includes generic changes to support temporary disarming on
reentrancy of probes.

Signed-of-by: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-23 09:45:24 -07:00
Hien Nguyen
0aa55e4d7d [PATCH] kprobes: moves lock-unlock to non-arch kprobe_flush_task
This patch moves the lock/unlock of the arch specific kprobe_flush_task()
to the non-arch specific kprobe_flusk_task().

Signed-off-by: Hien Nguyen <hien@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-23 09:45:21 -07:00
Rusty Lynch
7e1048b11c [PATCH] Move kprobe [dis]arming into arch specific code
The architecture independent code of the current kprobes implementation is
arming and disarming kprobes at registration time.  The problem is that the
code is assuming that arming and disarming is a just done by a simple write
of some magic value to an address.  This is problematic for ia64 where our
instructions look more like structures, and we can not insert break points
by just doing something like:

*p->addr = BREAKPOINT_INSTRUCTION;

The following patch to 2.6.12-rc4-mm2 adds two new architecture dependent
functions:

     * void arch_arm_kprobe(struct kprobe *p)
     * void arch_disarm_kprobe(struct kprobe *p)

and then adds the new functions for each of the architectures that already
implement kprobes (spar64/ppc64/i386/x86_64).

I thought arch_[dis]arm_kprobe was the most descriptive of what was really
happening, but each of the architectures already had a disarm_kprobe()
function that was really a "disarm and do some other clean-up items as
needed when you stumble across a recursive kprobe." So...  I took the
liberty of changing the code that was calling disarm_kprobe() to call
arch_disarm_kprobe(), and then do the cleanup in the block of code dealing
with the recursive kprobe case.

So far this patch as been tested on i386, x86_64, and ppc64, but still
needs to be tested in sparc64.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Lynch <rusty.lynch@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-23 09:45:21 -07:00
Hien Nguyen
b94cce926b [PATCH] kprobes: function-return probes
This patch adds function-return probes to kprobes for the i386
architecture.  This enables you to establish a handler to be run when a
function returns.

1. API

Two new functions are added to kprobes:

	int register_kretprobe(struct kretprobe *rp);
	void unregister_kretprobe(struct kretprobe *rp);

2. Registration and unregistration

2.1 Register

  To register a function-return probe, the user populates the following
  fields in a kretprobe object and calls register_kretprobe() with the
  kretprobe address as an argument:

  kp.addr - the function's address

  handler - this function is run after the ret instruction executes, but
  before control returns to the return address in the caller.

  maxactive - The maximum number of instances of the probed function that
  can be active concurrently.  For example, if the function is non-
  recursive and is called with a spinlock or mutex held, maxactive = 1
  should be enough.  If the function is non-recursive and can never
  relinquish the CPU (e.g., via a semaphore or preemption), NR_CPUS should
  be enough.  maxactive is used to determine how many kretprobe_instance
  objects to allocate for this particular probed function.  If maxactive <=
  0, it is set to a default value (if CONFIG_PREEMPT maxactive=max(10, 2 *
  NR_CPUS) else maxactive=NR_CPUS)

  For example:

    struct kretprobe rp;
    rp.kp.addr = /* entrypoint address */
    rp.handler = /*return probe handler */
    rp.maxactive = /* e.g., 1 or NR_CPUS or 0, see the above explanation */
    register_kretprobe(&rp);

  The following field may also be of interest:

  nmissed - Initialized to zero when the function-return probe is
  registered, and incremented every time the probed function is entered but
  there is no kretprobe_instance object available for establishing the
  function-return probe (i.e., because maxactive was set too low).

2.2 Unregister

  To unregiter a function-return probe, the user calls
  unregister_kretprobe() with the same kretprobe object as registered
  previously.  If a probed function is running when the return probe is
  unregistered, the function will return as expected, but the handler won't
  be run.

3. Limitations

3.1 This patch supports only the i386 architecture, but patches for
    x86_64 and ppc64 are anticipated soon.

3.2 Return probes operates by replacing the return address in the stack
    (or in a known register, such as the lr register for ppc).  This may
    cause __builtin_return_address(0), when invoked from the return-probed
    function, to return the address of the return-probes trampoline.

3.3 This implementation uses the "Multiprobes at an address" feature in
    2.6.12-rc3-mm3.

3.4 Due to a limitation in multi-probes, you cannot currently establish
    a return probe and a jprobe on the same function.  A patch to remove
    this limitation is being tested.

This feature is required by SystemTap (http://sourceware.org/systemtap),
and reflects ideas contributed by several SystemTap developers, including
Will Cohen and Ananth Mavinakayanahalli.

Signed-off-by: Hien Nguyen <hien@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederik Deweerdt <frederik.deweerdt@laposte.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-23 09:45:21 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
84de856ed3 [PATCH] quota: consolidate code surrounding vfs_quota_on_mount
Move some code duplicated in both callers into vfs_quota_on_mount

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-23 09:45:20 -07:00
Neil Horman
ac20427ef6 [PATCH] add check to /proc/devices read routines
Patch to add check to get_chrdev_list and get_blkdev_list to prevent reads
of /proc/devices from spilling over the provided page if more than 4096
bytes of string data are generated from all the registered character and
block devices in a system

Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-23 09:45:19 -07:00
Nick Piggin
35a82d1a53 [PATCH] optimise loop driver a bit
Looks like locking can be optimised quite a lot.  Increase lock widths
slightly so lo_lock is taken fewer times per request.  Also it was quite
trivial to cover lo_pending with that lock, and remove the atomic
requirement.  This also makes memory ordering explicitly correct, which is
nice (not that I particularly saw any mem ordering bugs).

Test was reading 4 250MB files in parallel on ext2-on-tmpfs filesystem (1K
block size, 4K page size).  System is 2 socket Xeon with HT (4 thread).

intel:/home/npiggin# umount /dev/loop0 ; mount /dev/loop0 /mnt/loop ; /usr/bin/time ./mtloop.sh

Before:
0.24user 5.51system 0:02.84elapsed 202%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0.19user 5.52system 0:02.88elapsed 198%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0.19user 5.57system 0:02.89elapsed 198%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0.22user 5.51system 0:02.90elapsed 197%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0.19user 5.44system 0:02.91elapsed 193%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k

After:
0.07user 2.34system 0:01.68elapsed 143%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0.06user 2.37system 0:01.68elapsed 144%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0.06user 2.39system 0:01.68elapsed 145%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0.06user 2.36system 0:01.68elapsed 144%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0.06user 2.42system 0:01.68elapsed 147%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-23 09:45:18 -07:00
Paulo Marques
543537bd92 [PATCH] create a kstrdup library function
This patch creates a new kstrdup library function and changes the "local"
implementations in several places to use this function.

Most of the changes come from the sound and net subsystems.  The sound part
had already been acknowledged by Takashi Iwai and the net part by David S.
Miller.

I left UML alone for now because I would need more time to read the code
carefully before making changes there.

Signed-off-by: Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-23 09:45:18 -07:00
Alexander Viro
991114c6fa [PATCH] fix for prune_icache()/forced final iput() races
Based on analysis and a patch from Russ Weight <rweight@us.ibm.com>

There is a race condition that can occur if an inode is allocated and then
released (using iput) during the ->fill_super functions.  The race
condition is between kswapd and mount.

For most filesystems this can only happen in an error path when kswapd is
running concurrently.  For isofs, however, the error can occur in a more
common code path (which is how the bug was found).

The logic here is "we want final iput() to free inode *now* instead of
letting it sit in cache if fs is going down or had not quite come up".  The
problem is with kswapd seeing such inodes in the middle of being killed and
happily taking over.

The clean solution would be to tell kswapd to leave those inodes alone and
let our final iput deal with them.  I.e.  add a new flag
(I_FORCED_FREEING), set it before write_inode_now() there and make
prune_icache() leave those alone.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-23 09:45:17 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
fd450b7318 [PATCH] timers: introduce try_to_del_timer_sync()
This patch splits del_timer_sync() into 2 functions.  The new one,
try_to_del_timer_sync(), returns -1 when it hits executing timer.

It can be used in interrupt context, or when the caller hold locks which
can prevent completion of the timer's handler.

NOTE.  Currently it can't be used in interrupt context in UP case, because
->running_timer is used only with CONFIG_SMP.

Should the need arise, it is possible to kill #ifdef CONFIG_SMP in
set_running_timer(), it is cheap.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-23 09:45:16 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
55c888d6d0 [PATCH] timers fixes/improvements
This patch tries to solve following problems:

1. del_timer_sync() is racy. The timer can be fired again after
   del_timer_sync have checked all cpus and before it will recheck
   timer_pending().

2. It has scalability problems. All cpus are scanned to determine
   if the timer is running on that cpu.

   With this patch del_timer_sync is O(1) and no slower than plain
   del_timer(pending_timer), unless it has to actually wait for
   completion of the currently running timer.

   The only restriction is that the recurring timer should not use
   add_timer_on().

3. The timers are not serialized wrt to itself.

   If CPU_0 does mod_timer(jiffies+1) while the timer is currently
   running on CPU 1, it is quite possible that local interrupt on
   CPU_0 will start that timer before it finished on CPU_1.

4. The timers locking is suboptimal. __mod_timer() takes 3 locks
   at once and still requires wmb() in del_timer/run_timers.

   The new implementation takes 2 locks sequentially and does not
   need memory barriers.

Currently ->base != NULL means that the timer is pending. In that case
->base.lock is used to lock the timer. __mod_timer also takes timer->lock
because ->base can be == NULL.

This patch uses timer->entry.next != NULL as indication that the timer is
pending. So it does __list_del(), entry->next = NULL instead of list_del()
when the timer is deleted.

The ->base field is used for hashed locking only, it is initialized
in init_timer() which sets ->base = per_cpu(tvec_bases). When the
tvec_bases.lock is locked, it means that all timers which are tied
to this base via timer->base are locked, and the base itself is locked
too.

So __run_timers/migrate_timers can safely modify all timers which could
be found on ->tvX lists (pending timers).

When the timer's base is locked, and the timer removed from ->entry list
(which means that _run_timers/migrate_timers can't see this timer), it is
possible to set timer->base = NULL and drop the lock: the timer remains
locked.

This patch adds lock_timer_base() helper, which waits for ->base != NULL,
locks the ->base, and checks it is still the same.

__mod_timer() schedules the timer on the local CPU and changes it's base.
However, it does not lock both old and new bases at once. It locks the
timer via lock_timer_base(), deletes the timer, sets ->base = NULL, and
unlocks old base. Then __mod_timer() locks new_base, sets ->base = new_base,
and adds this timer. This simplifies the code, because AB-BA deadlock is not
possible. __mod_timer() also ensures that the timer's base is not changed
while the timer's handler is running on the old base.

__run_timers(), del_timer() do not change ->base anymore, they only clear
pending flag.

So del_timer_sync() can test timer->base->running_timer == timer to detect
whether it is running or not.

We don't need timer_list->lock anymore, this patch kills it.

We also don't need barriers. del_timer() and __run_timers() used smp_wmb()
before clearing timer's pending flag. It was needed because __mod_timer()
did not lock old_base if the timer is not pending, so __mod_timer()->list_add()
could race with del_timer()->list_del(). With this patch these functions are
serialized through base->lock.

One problem. TIMER_INITIALIZER can't use per_cpu(tvec_bases). So this patch
adds global

        struct timer_base_s {
                spinlock_t lock;
                struct timer_list *running_timer;
        } __init_timer_base;

which is used by TIMER_INITIALIZER. The corresponding fields in tvec_t_base_s
struct are replaced by struct timer_base_s t_base.

It is indeed ugly. But this can't have scalability problems. The global
__init_timer_base.lock is used only when __mod_timer() is called for the first
time AND the timer was compile time initialized. After that the timer migrates
to the local CPU.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Renaud Lienhart <renaud.lienhart@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-23 09:45:16 -07:00
Tejun Heo
f7d37d028d [PATCH] blk: remove BLK_TAGS_{PER_LONG|MASK}
Replace BLK_TAGS_PER_LONG with BITS_PER_LONG and remove unused BLK_TAGS_MASK.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-23 09:45:15 -07:00
Tejun Heo
fa72b903f7 [PATCH] blk: remove blk_queue_tag->real_max_depth optimization
blk_queue_tag->real_max_depth was used to optimize out unnecessary
allocations/frees on tag resize.  However, the whole thing was very broken -
tag_map was never allocated to real_max_depth resulting in access beyond the
end of the map, bits in [max_depth..real_max_depth] were set when initializing
a map and copied when resizing resulting in pre-occupied tags.

As the gain of the optimization is very small, well, almost nill, remove the
whole thing.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-23 09:45:15 -07:00
Christoph Lameter
1946089a10 [PATCH] NUMA aware block device control structure allocation
Patch to allocate the control structures for for ide devices on the node of
the device itself (for NUMA systems).  The patch depends on the Slab API
change patch by Manfred and me (in mm) and the pcidev_to_node patch that I
posted today.

Does some realignment too.

Signed-off-by: Justin M. Forbes <jmforbes@linuxtx.org>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com>
Signed-off-by: Pravin Shelar <pravin@calsoftinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Shobhit Dayal <shobhit@calsoftinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-23 09:45:09 -07:00
Andy Whitcroft
29751f6991 [PATCH] sparsemem hotplug base
Make sparse's initalization be accessible at runtime.  This allows sparse
mappings to be created after boot in a hotplug situation.

This patch is separated from the previous one just to give an indication how
much of the sparse infrastructure is *just* for hotplug memory.

The section_mem_map doesn't really store a pointer.  It stores something that
is convenient to do some math against to get a pointer.  It isn't valid to
just do *section_mem_map, so I don't think it should be stored as a pointer.

There are a couple of things I'd like to store about a section.  First of all,
the fact that it is !NULL does not mean that it is present.  There could be
such a combination where section_mem_map *is* NULL, but the math gets you
properly to a real mem_map.  So, I don't think that check is safe.

Since we're storing 32-bit-aligned structures, we have a few bits in the
bottom of the pointer to play with.  Use one bit to encode whether there's
really a mem_map there, and the other one to tell whether there's a valid
section there.  We need to distinguish between the two because sometimes
there's a gap between when a section is discovered to be present and when we
can get the mem_map for it.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Bob Picco <bob.picco@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-23 09:45:05 -07:00
Andy Whitcroft
641c767389 [PATCH] sparsemem swiss cheese numa layouts
The part of the sparsemem patch which modifies memmap_init_zone() has recently
become a problem.  It changes behavior so that there is a call to
pfn_to_page() for each individual page inside of a node's range:
node_start_pfn through node_end_pfn.  It used to simply do this once, at the
beginning of the node, but having sparsemem's non-contiguous mem_map[]s inside
of a node made it necessary to change.

Mike Kravetz recently wrote a patch which made the NUMA code accept some new
kinds of layouts.  The system's memory was laid out like this, with node 0's
memory in two pieces: one before and one after node 1's memory:

	Node 0: +++++     +++++
	Node 1:      +++++

Previous behavior before Mike's patch was to assign nodes like this:

	Node 0: 00000     XXXXX
	Node 1:      11111

Where the 'X' areas were simply thrown away.  The new behavior was to make the
pg_data_t span node 0 across all of its areas, including areas that are really
node 1's: Node 0: 000000000000000 Node 1: 11111

This wastes a little bit of mem_map space, but ends up being OK, and more
fully utilizes the system's memory.  memmap_init_zone() initializes all of the
"struct page"s for node 0, even for the "hole", but those never get used,
because there is no pfn_to_page() that resolves to those pages.  However, only
calling pfn_to_page() once, memmap_init_zone() always uses the pages that were
allocated for node0->node_mem_map because:

	struct page *start = pfn_to_page(start_pfn);
	// effectively start = &node->node_mem_map[0]
	for (page = start; page < (start + size); page++) {
		init_page_here();...
		page++;
	}

Slow, and wasteful, but generally harmless.

But, modify that to call pfn_to_page() for each loop iteration (like sparsemem
does):

	for (pfn = start_pfn; pfn < < (start_pfn + size); pfn++++) {
		page = pfn_to_page(pfn);
	}

And you end up trying to initialize node 1's pages too early, along with bogus
data from node 0.  This patch checks for those weird layouts and declines to
touch the pages, making the more frequent pfn_to_page() calls OK to do.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-23 09:45:05 -07:00
Andy Whitcroft
d41dee369b [PATCH] sparsemem memory model
Sparsemem abstracts the use of discontiguous mem_maps[].  This kind of
mem_map[] is needed by discontiguous memory machines (like in the old
CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM case) as well as memory hotplug systems.  Sparsemem
replaces DISCONTIGMEM when enabled, and it is hoped that it can eventually
become a complete replacement.

A significant advantage over DISCONTIGMEM is that it's completely separated
from CONFIG_NUMA.  When producing this patch, it became apparent in that NUMA
and DISCONTIG are often confused.

Another advantage is that sparse doesn't require each NUMA node's ranges to be
contiguous.  It can handle overlapping ranges between nodes with no problems,
where DISCONTIGMEM currently throws away that memory.

Sparsemem uses an array to provide different pfn_to_page() translations for
each SECTION_SIZE area of physical memory.  This is what allows the mem_map[]
to be chopped up.

In order to do quick pfn_to_page() operations, the section number of the page
is encoded in page->flags.  Part of the sparsemem infrastructure enables
sharing of these bits more dynamically (at compile-time) between the
page_zone() and sparsemem operations.  However, on 32-bit architectures, the
number of bits is quite limited, and may require growing the size of the
page->flags type in certain conditions.  Several things might force this to
occur: a decrease in the SECTION_SIZE (if you want to hotplug smaller areas of
memory), an increase in the physical address space, or an increase in the
number of used page->flags.

One thing to note is that, once sparsemem is present, the NUMA node
information no longer needs to be stored in the page->flags.  It might provide
speed increases on certain platforms and will be stored there if there is
room.  But, if out of room, an alternate (theoretically slower) mechanism is
used.

This patch introduces CONFIG_FLATMEM.  It is used in almost all cases where
there used to be an #ifndef DISCONTIG, because SPARSEMEM and DISCONTIGMEM
often have to compile out the same areas of code.

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Bligh <mbligh@aracnet.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Bob Picco <bob.picco@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-23 09:45:04 -07:00
Andy Whitcroft
b159d43fbf [PATCH] generify early_pfn_to_nid
Provide a default implementation for early_pfn_to_nid returning node 0.  Allow
architectures to override this with their own implementation out of
asm/mmzone.h.

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Bligh <mbligh@aracnet.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-23 09:45:04 -07:00
Dave Hansen
93b7504e3e [PATCH] Introduce new Kconfig option for NUMA or DISCONTIG
There is some confusion that arose when working on SPARSEMEM patch between
what is needed for DISCONTIG vs. NUMA.

Multiple pg_data_t's are needed for DISCONTIGMEM or NUMA, independently.
All of the current NUMA implementations require an implementation of
DISCONTIG.  Because of this, quite a lot of code which is really needed for
NUMA is actually under DISCONTIG #ifdefs.  For SPARSEMEM, we changed some
of these #ifdefs to CONFIG_NUMA, but that broke the DISCONTIG=y and NUMA=n
case.

Introducing this new NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES config option allows code that is
needed for both NUMA or DISCONTIG to be separated out from code that is
specific to DISCONTIG.

One great advantage of this approach is that it doesn't require every
architecture to be converted over.  All of the current implementations
should "just work", only the ones implementing SPARSEMEM will have to be
fixed up.

The change to free_area_init() makes it work inside, or out of the new
config option.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-23 09:45:03 -07:00
Dave Hansen
348f8b6c48 [PATCH] sparsemem base: reorganize page->flags bit operations
Generify the value fields in the page_flags.  The aim is to allow the location
and size of these fields to be varied.  Additionally we want to move away from
fixed allocations per field whilst still enforcing the overall bit utilisation
limits.  We rely on the compiler to spot and optimise the accessor functions.

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-23 09:45:01 -07:00
Dave Hansen
6f167ec721 [PATCH] sparsemem base: simple NUMA remap space allocator
Introduce a simple allocator for the NUMA remap space.  This space is very
scarce, used for structures which are best allocated node local.

This mechanism is also used on non-NUMA ia64 systems with a vmem_map to keep
the pgdat->node_mem_map initialized in a consistent place for all
architectures.

Issues:
o alloc_remap takes a node_id where we might expect a pgdat which was intended
  to allow us to allocate the pgdat's using this mechanism; which we do not yet
  do.  Could have alloc_remap_node() and alloc_remap_nid() for this purpose.

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-23 09:45:01 -07:00
Dave Hansen
408fde81c1 [PATCH] remove non-DISCONTIG use of pgdat->node_mem_map
This patch effectively eliminates direct use of pgdat->node_mem_map outside
of the DISCONTIG code.  On a flat memory system, these fields aren't
currently used, neither are they on a sparsemem system.

There was also a node_mem_map(nid) macro on many architectures.  Its use
along with the use of ->node_mem_map itself was not consistent.  It has
been removed in favor of two new, more explicit, arch-independent macros:

	pgdat_page_nr(pgdat, pagenr)
	nid_page_nr(nid, pagenr)

I called them "pgdat" and "nid" because we overload the term "node" to mean
"NUMA node", "DISCONTIG node" or "pg_data_t" in very confusing ways.  I
believe the newer names are much clearer.

These macros can be overridden in the sparsemem case with a theoretically
slower operation using node_start_pfn and pfn_to_page(), instead.  We could
make this the only behavior if people want, but I don't want to change too
much at once.  One thing at a time.

This patch removes more code than it adds.

Compile tested on alpha, alpha discontig, arm, arm-discontig, i386, i386
generic, NUMAQ, Summit, ppc64, ppc64 discontig, and x86_64.  Full list
here: http://sr71.net/patches/2.6.12/2.6.12-rc1-mhp2/configs/

Boot tested on NUMAQ, x86 SMP and ppc64 power4/5 LPARs.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin J. Bligh <mbligh@aracnet.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-23 09:45:00 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
060de20e82 Merge rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2005-06-22 23:11:50 -07:00
Shaun Pereira
ebc3f64b86 [X25]: Fast select with no restriction on response
This patch is a follow up to patch 1 regarding "Selective Sub Address
matching with call user data".  It allows use of the Fast-Select-Acceptance
optional user facility for X.25.

This patch just implements fast select with no restriction on response
(NRR).  What this means (according to ITU-T Recomendation 10/96 section
6.16) is that if in an incoming call packet, the relevant facility bits are
set for fast-select-NRR, then the called DTE can issue a direct response to
the incoming packet using a call-accepted packet that contains
call-user-data.  This patch allows such a response.  

The called DTE can also respond with a clear-request packet that contains
call-user-data.  However, this feature is currently not implemented by the
patch.

How is Fast Select Acceptance used?
By default, the system does not allow fast select acceptance (as before).
To enable a response to fast select acceptance,  
After a listen socket in created and bound as follows
	socket(AF_X25, SOCK_SEQPACKET, 0);
	bind(call_soc, (struct sockaddr *)&locl_addr, sizeof(locl_addr));
but before a listen system call is made, the following ioctl should be used.
	ioctl(call_soc,SIOCX25CALLACCPTAPPRV);
Now the listen system call can be made
	listen(call_soc, 4);
After this, an incoming-call packet will be accepted, but no call-accepted 
packet will be sent back until the following system call is made on the socket
that accepts the call
	ioctl(vc_soc,SIOCX25SENDCALLACCPT);
The network (or cisco xot router used for testing here) will allow the 
application server's call-user-data in the call-accepted packet, 
provided the call-request was made with Fast-select NRR.

Signed-off-by: Shaun Pereira <spereira@tusc.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-22 22:16:17 -07:00
Shaun Pereira
cb65d506c3 [X25]: Selective sub-address matching with call user data.
From: Shaun Pereira <spereira@tusc.com.au>

This is the first (independent of the second) patch of two that I am
working on with x25 on linux (tested with xot on a cisco router).  Details
are as follows.

Current state of module:

A server using the current implementation (2.6.11.7) of the x25 module will
accept a call request/ incoming call packet at the listening x.25 address,
from all callers to that address, as long as NO call user data is present
in the packet header.

If the server needs to choose to accept a particular call request/ incoming
call packet arriving at its listening x25 address, then the kernel has to
allow a match of call user data present in the call request packet with its
own.  This is required when multiple servers listen at the same x25 address
and device interface.  The kernel currently matches ALL call user data, if
present.

Current Changes:

This patch is a follow up to the patch submitted previously by Andrew
Hendry, and allows the user to selectively control the number of octets of
call user data in the call request packet, that the kernel will match.  By
default no call user data is matched, even if call user data is present. 
To allow call user data matching, a cudmatchlength > 0 has to be passed
into the kernel after which the passed number of octets will be matched. 
Otherwise the kernel behavior is exactly as the original implementation.

This patch also ensures that as is normally the case, no call user data
will be present in the Call accepted / call connected packet sent back to
the caller 

Future Changes on next patch:

There are cases however when call user data may be present in the call
accepted packet.  According to the X.25 recommendation (ITU-T 10/96)
section 5.2.3.2 call user data may be present in the call accepted packet
provided the fast select facility is used.  My next patch will include this
fast select utility and the ability to send up to 128 octets call user data
in the call accepted packet provided the fast select facility is used.  I
am currently testing this, again with xot on linux and cisco.  

Signed-off-by: Shaun Pereira <spereira@tusc.com.au>

(With a fix from Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>)
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-22 22:15:01 -07:00
Jeff Moyer
fbeec2e155 [NETPOLL]: allow multiple netpoll_clients to register against one interface
This patch provides support for registering multiple netpoll clients to the
same network device.  Only one of these clients may register an rx_hook,
however.  In practice, this restriction has not been problematic.  It is
worth mentioning, though, that the current design can be easily extended to
allow for the registration of multiple rx_hooks.

The basic idea of the patch is that the rx_np pointer in the netpoll_info
structure points to the struct netpoll that has rx_hook filled in.  Aside
from this one case, there is no need for a pointer from the struct
net_device to an individual struct netpoll.

A lock is introduced to protect the setting and clearing of the np_rx
pointer.  The pointer will only be cleared upon netpoll client module
removal, and the lock should be uncontested.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-22 22:05:59 -07:00
Jeff Moyer
115c1d6e61 [NETPOLL]: Introduce a netpoll_info struct
This patch introduces a netpoll_info structure, which the struct net_device
will now point to instead of pointing to a struct netpoll.  The reason for
this is two-fold: 1) fields such as the rx_flags, poll_owner, and poll_lock
should be maintained per net_device, not per netpoll;  and 2) this is a first
step in providing support for multiple netpoll clients to register against the
same net_device.

The struct netpoll is now pointed to by the netpoll_info structure.  As
such, the previous behaviour of the code is preserved.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-22 22:05:31 -07:00
Jeff Moyer
6ca4f65e6b [NETPOLL]: Set poll_owner to -1 before unlocking in netpoll_poll_unlock()
This trivial patch moves the assignment of poll_owner to -1 inside of
the lock.  This fixes a potential SMP race in the code.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-22 22:04:55 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
9092131f7e Merge rsync://client.linux-nfs.org/pub/linux/nfs-2.6 2005-06-22 14:32:15 -07:00
Trond Myklebust
8d0a8a9d0e [PATCH] NFSv4: Clean up nfs4 lock state accounting
Ensure that lock owner structures are not released prematurely.

 Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2005-06-22 16:07:42 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
ecdbf769b2 [PATCH] NLM: fix a client-side race on blocking locks.
If the lock blocks, the server may send us a GRANTED message that
 races with the reply to our LOCK request. Make sure that we catch
 the GRANTED by queueing up our request on the nlm_blocked list
 before we send off the first LOCK rpc call.

 Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2005-06-22 16:07:42 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
3da28eb1c6 [PATCH] NFS: Replace nfs_page insertion sort with a radix sort
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2005-06-22 16:07:39 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
c6a556b88a [PATCH] NFS: Make searching and waiting on busy writeback requests more efficient.
Basically copies the VFS's method for tracking writebacks and applies
 it to the struct nfs_page.

 Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2005-06-22 16:07:39 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
fe51beecc5 [PATCH] NFS: Ensure that fstat() always returns the correct mtime
Even if the file is open for writes.

 Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2005-06-22 16:07:37 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
7d52e86274 [PATCH] NFS: Cleanup of caching code, and slight optimization of writes.
Unless we're doing O_APPEND writes, we really don't care about revalidating
 the file length. Just make sure that we catch any page cache invalidations.

 Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2005-06-22 16:07:37 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
951a143b3f [PATCH] NFS: Fix the file size revalidation
Instead of looking at whether or not the file is open for writes before
 we accept to update the length using the server value, we should rather
 be looking at whether or not we are currently caching any writes.

 Failure to do so means in particular that we're not updating the file
 length correctly after obtaining a POSIX or BSD lock.

 Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2005-06-22 16:07:36 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
f0dd2136da [PATCH] NFS: Clean up readdir changes.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2005-06-22 16:07:34 -04:00
Olivier Galibert
00a9264227 [PATCH] NFS: Hide NFS server-generated readdir cookies from userland
NFSv3 currently returns the unsigned 64-bit cookie directly to
 userspace. The following patch causes the kernel to generate
 loff_t offsets for the benefit of userland.
 The current server-generated READDIR cookie is cached in the
 nfs_open_context instead of in filp->f_pos, so we still end up work
 correctly under directory insertions/deletion.

 Signed-off-by: Olivier Galibert <galibert@pobox.com>
 Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2005-06-22 16:07:33 -04:00
Andreas Gruenbacher
5c6a9f7d92 [PATCH] NFS: Cache the NFSv3 acls.
Attach acls to inodes in the icache to avoid unnecessary GETACL RPC
 round-trips.  As long as the client doesn't retrieve any acls itself, only the
 default acls of exiting directories and the default and access acls of new
 directories will end up in the cache, which preserves some memory compared to
 always caching the access and default acl of all files.

 Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
 Acked-by: Olaf Kirch <okir@suse.de>
 Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
 Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2005-06-22 16:07:25 -04:00
Andreas Gruenbacher
055ffbea05 [PATCH] NFS: Fix handling of the umask when an NFSv3 default acl is present.
NFSv3 has no concept of a umask on the server side: The client applies
 the umask locally, and sends the effective permissions to the server.
 This behavior is wrong when files are created in a directory that has a
 default ACL.  In this case, the umask is supposed to be ignored, and
 only the default ACL determines the file's effective permissions.

 Usually its the server's task to conditionally apply the umask.  But
 since the server knows nothing about the umask, we have to do it on the
 client side.  This patch tries to fetch the parent directory's default
 ACL before creating a new file, computes the appropriate create mode to
 send to the server, and finally sets the new file's access and default
 acl appropriately.

 Many thanks to Buck Huppmann <buchk@pobox.com> for sending the initial
 version of this patch, as well as for arguing why we need this change.

 Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
 Acked-by: Olaf Kirch <okir@suse.de>
 Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
 Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2005-06-22 16:07:24 -04:00
Andreas Gruenbacher
b7fa0554cf [PATCH] NFS: Add support for NFSv3 ACLs
This adds acl support fo nfs clients via the NFSACL protocol extension, by
 implementing the getxattr, listxattr, setxattr, and removexattr iops for the
 system.posix_acl_access and system.posix_acl_default attributes.  This patch
 implements a dumb version that uses no caching (and thus adds some overhead).
 (Another patch in this patchset adds caching as well.)

 Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
 Acked-by: Olaf Kirch <okir@suse.de>
 Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
 Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2005-06-22 16:07:24 -04:00
Andreas Gruenbacher
a257cdd0e2 [PATCH] NFSD: Add server support for NFSv3 ACLs.
This adds functions for encoding and decoding POSIX ACLs for the NFSACL
 protocol extension, and the GETACL and SETACL RPCs.  The implementation is
 compatible with NFSACL in Solaris.

 Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
 Acked-by: Olaf Kirch <okir@suse.de>
 Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
 Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2005-06-22 16:07:23 -04:00
Andreas Gruenbacher
9ba02638e4 [PATCH] RPC: Allow the sunrpc server to multiplex serveral programs on a single port
The NFS and NFSACL programs run on the same RPC transport.  This patch adds
 support for this by converting svc_program into a chained list of programs
 (server-side).

 Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
 Signed-off-by: Olaf Kirch <okir@suse.de>
 Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
 Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2005-06-22 16:07:22 -04:00
Andreas Gruenbacher
bd8100e7ed [PATCH] RPC: Encode and decode arbitrary XDR arrays
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
 Acked-by: Olaf Kirch <okir@suse.de>
 Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2005-06-22 16:07:20 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
7e06b53d79 [PATCH] RPC: fix accounting bug in the case of a truncated RPC message
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2005-06-22 16:07:19 -04:00
Olaf Kirch
e053d1ab62 [PATCH] RPC: Lazy RPC receive buffer allocation
Signed-off-by: Olaf Kirch <okir@suse.de>
 Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
 Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2005-06-22 16:07:19 -04:00
Andreas Gruenbacher
007e251f2b [PATCH] RPC: Allow multiple RPC client programs to share the same transport
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
 Acked-by: Olaf Kirch <okir@suse.de>
 Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2005-06-22 16:07:18 -04:00
J. Bruce Fields
e50a1c2e1f [PATCH] NFSv4: client-side caching NFSv4 ACLs
Add nfs4_acl field to the nfs_inode, and use it to cache acls.  Only cache
 acls of size up to a page.  Also prepare for up to a page of acl data even
 when the user doesn't pass in a buffer, as when they want to get the acl
 length to decide what size buffer to allocate.

 Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
 Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2005-06-22 16:07:15 -04:00
J. Bruce Fields
23ec6965c2 [PATCH] NFSv4: Client-side xdr for writing NFSv4 acls
Client-side support for NFSv4 acls: xdr encoding and decoding routines for
 writing acls

 Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
 Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2005-06-22 16:07:13 -04:00
J. Bruce Fields
029d105e66 [PATCH] NFSv4: Client-side xdr for reading NFSv4 acls
Client-side support for NFSv4 acls: xdr encoding and decoding routines for
 reading acls

 Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
 Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2005-06-22 16:07:12 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
ada70d9425 [PATCH] NFS: Add hooks to allow common NFS attribute code to clear cached acls
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2005-06-22 16:07:09 -04:00
J. Bruce Fields
92cfc62cb8 [PATCH] NFS: Allow NFS versions to support different sets of inode operations.
ACL support will require supporting additional inode operations in v4
 (getxattr, setxattr, listxattr).  This patch allows different protocol versions
 to support different inode operations by adding a file_inode_ops to the
 nfs_rpc_ops (to match the existing dir_inode_ops).

 Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
 Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2005-06-22 16:07:09 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
464a98bd70 [PATCH] NFS: cleanup: shrink struct nfs_open_context
Remove the wait queue, and replace the functions that depended on it
 with wait_on_bit().

 Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2005-06-22 16:07:08 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
96651ab341 [PATCH] RPC: Shrink struct rpc_task by switching to wait_on_bit()
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2005-06-22 16:07:07 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
a656db9987 [PATCH] NFS: Remove unused NFS inode field readdir_timestamp.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2005-06-22 16:07:07 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
4ce79717ce [PATCH] NFS: Header file cleanup...
- Move NFSv4 state definitions into a private header file.
 - Clean up gunk in nfs_fs.h

 Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2005-06-22 16:07:06 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
5ee0ed7d3a [PATCH] RPC: Make rpc_create_client() probe server for RPC program+version support
Ensure that we don't create an RPC client without checking that the server
 does indeed support the RPC program + version that we are trying to set up.

 This enables us to immediately return an error to "mount" if it turns out
 that the server is only supporting NFSv2, when we requested NFSv3 or NFSv4.

 Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2005-06-22 16:07:04 -04:00
Harald Welte
dd7f0b8092 [NETFILTER]: Fix "iptables -D" rule deletion with ipt_CLUSTERIP target.
The patch just changes the order of structure members.

Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-22 12:38:33 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
fb7a0e3653 Merge kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6.git
Do arch/ia64/defconfig by hand.
2005-06-22 12:22:12 -07:00
Randy Vinson
c124a78d8c [PATCH] I2C: Add support for Maxim/Dallas DS1374 Real-Time Clock Chip (1/2)
Add support for Maxim/Dallas DS1374 Real-Time Clock Chip

This change adds support for the Maxim/Dallas DS1374 RTC chip. This chip
is an I2C-based RTC that maintains a simple 32-bit binary seconds count
with battery backup support.

Signed-off-by: Randy Vinson <rvinson@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-06-21 21:52:06 -07:00
Jean Delvare
10c08f8100 [PATCH] I2C: rename i2c-sysfs.h to hwmon-sysfs.h
This patch renames the new linux/i2c-sysfs.h header file to
linux/hwmon-sysfs.h. This names seems to be more appropriate since this
file defines macros and structures not related to i2c but to hardware
monitoring drivers. The patch also updates the five hardware monitoring
driver which include that header file already.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-06-21 21:52:05 -07:00
Sebastian Witt
3886246a25 [PATCH] I2C: i2c-vid.h: Support for VID to reg conversion
Adds conversion from VID (mV) to register value. Used by the atxp1 I2C module.
Removed uneeded switch case.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Witt <se.witt@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-06-21 21:51:49 -07:00
Jean Delvare
b3d5496ea5 [PATCH] I2C: Kill address ranges in non-sensors i2c chip drivers
Some months ago, you killed the address ranges mechanism from all
sensors i2c chip drivers (both the module parameters and the in-code
address lists). I think it was a very good move, as the ranges can
easily be replaced by individual addresses, and this allowed for
significant cleanups in the i2c core (let alone the impressive size
shrink for all these drivers).

Unfortunately you did not do the same for non-sensors i2c chip drivers.
These need the address ranges even less, so we could get rid of the
ranges here as well for another significant i2c core cleanup. Here comes
a patch which does just that. Since the process is exactly the same as
what you did for the other drivers set already, I did not split this one
in parts.

A documentation update is included.

The change saves 308 bytes in the i2c core, and an average 1382 bytes
for chip drivers which use I2C_CLIENT_INSMOD, 126 bytes for those which
do not.

This change is required if we want to merge the sensors and non-sensors
i2c code (and we want to do this).

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Index: gregkh-2.6/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients
===================================================================
2005-06-21 21:51:48 -07:00
NeilBrown
39730960d9 [PATCH] Two small fixes for md verion-1 superblocks.
1/ Must typecast int to (sector_t) before inverting or we
 might not invert enough bits.

2/ When "bitmap_offset" was added to mdp_superblock_1, we didn't increase
   the count of words-used (96 to 100).

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-21 19:07:47 -07:00
NeilBrown
7bfa19f274 [PATCH] md: allow md to update multiple superblocks in parallel.
currently, md updates all superblocks (one on each device) in series.  It
waits for one write to complete before starting the next.  This isn't a big
problem as superblock updates don't happen that often.

However it is neater to do it in parallel, and if the drives in the array have
gone to "sleep" after a period of idleness, then waking them is parallel is
faster (and someone else should be worrying about power drain).

Futher, we will need parallel superblock updates for a future patch which
keeps the intent-logging bitmap near the superblock.

Also remove the silly code that retired superblock updates 100 times.  This
simply never made sense.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-21 19:07:47 -07:00
NeilBrown
a654b9d8f8 [PATCH] md: allow md intent bitmap to be stored near the superblock.
This provides an alternate to storing the bitmap in a separate file.  The
bitmap can be stored at a given offset from the superblock.  Obviously the
creator of the array must make sure this doesn't intersect with data....
After is good for version-0.90 superblocks.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-21 19:07:47 -07:00
NeilBrown
3d310eb7b3 [PATCH] md: fix deadlock due to md thread processing delayed requests.
Before completing a 'write' the md superblock might need to be updated.
This is best done by the md_thread.

The current code schedules this up and queues the write request for later
handling by the md_thread.

However some personalities (Raid5/raid6) will deadlock if the md_thread
tries to submit requests to its own array.

So this patch changes things so the processes submitting the request waits
for the superblock to be written and then submits the request itself.

This fixes a recently-created deadlock in raid5/raid6

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-21 19:07:46 -07:00
NeilBrown
41158c7eb2 [PATCH] md: optimise reconstruction when re-adding a recently failed drive.
When an array is degraded, bit in the intent-bitmap are never cleared.  So if
a recently failed drive is re-added, we only need to reconstruct the block
that are still reflected in the bitmap.

This patch adds support for this re-adding.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-21 19:07:46 -07:00
NeilBrown
191ea9b2c7 [PATCH] md: raid1 support for bitmap intent logging
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-21 19:07:46 -07:00
NeilBrown
77ad4bc706 [PATCH] md: enable the bitmap write-back daemon and wait for it.
Currently we don't wait for updates to the bitmap to be flushed to disk
properly.  The infrastructure all there, but it isn't being used....

A separate kernel thread (bitmap_writeback_daemon) is needed to wait for each
page as we cannot get callbacks when a page write completes.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-21 19:07:45 -07:00
NeilBrown
32a7627cf3 [PATCH] md: optimised resync using Bitmap based intent logging
With this patch, the intent to write to some block in the array can be logged
to a bitmap file.  Each bit represents some number of sectors and is set
before any update happens, and only cleared when all writes relating to all
sectors are complete.

After an unclean shutdown, information in this bitmap can be used to optimise
resync - only sectors which could be out-of-sync need to be updated.

Also if a drive is removed and then added back into an array, the recovery can
make use of the bitmap to optimise reconstruction.  This is not implemented in
this patch.

Currently the bitmap is stored in a file which must (obviously) be stored on a
separate device.

The patch only provided infrastructure.  It does not update any personalities
to bitmap intent logging.

Md arrays can still be used with no bitmap file.  This patch has minimal
impact on such arrays.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-21 19:07:43 -07:00