The attached patch makes NFS share superblocks between mounts from the same
server and FSID over the same protocol.
It does this by creating each superblock with a false root and returning the
real root dentry in the vfsmount presented by get_sb(). The root dentry set
starts off as an anonymous dentry if we don't already have the dentry for its
inode, otherwise it simply returns the dentry we already have.
We may thus end up with several trees of dentries in the superblock, and if at
some later point one of anonymous tree roots is discovered by normal filesystem
activity to be located in another tree within the superblock, the anonymous
root is named and materialises attached to the second tree at the appropriate
point.
Why do it this way? Why not pass an extra argument to the mount() syscall to
indicate the subpath and then pathwalk from the server root to the desired
directory? You can't guarantee this will work for two reasons:
(1) The root and intervening nodes may not be accessible to the client.
With NFS2 and NFS3, for instance, mountd is called on the server to get
the filehandle for the tip of a path. mountd won't give us handles for
anything we don't have permission to access, and so we can't set up NFS
inodes for such nodes, and so can't easily set up dentries (we'd have to
have ghost inodes or something).
With this patch we don't actually create dentries until we get handles
from the server that we can use to set up their inodes, and we don't
actually bind them into the tree until we know for sure where they go.
(2) Inaccessible symbolic links.
If we're asked to mount two exports from the server, eg:
mount warthog:/warthog/aaa/xxx /mmm
mount warthog:/warthog/bbb/yyy /nnn
We may not be able to access anything nearer the root than xxx and yyy,
but we may find out later that /mmm/www/yyy, say, is actually the same
directory as the one mounted on /nnn. What we might then find out, for
example, is that /warthog/bbb was actually a symbolic link to
/warthog/aaa/xxx/www, but we can't actually determine that by talking to
the server until /warthog is made available by NFS.
This would lead to having constructed an errneous dentry tree which we
can't easily fix. We can end up with a dentry marked as a directory when
it should actually be a symlink, or we could end up with an apparently
hardlinked directory.
With this patch we need not make assumptions about the type of a dentry
for which we can't retrieve information, nor need we assume we know its
place in the grand scheme of things until we actually see that place.
This patch reduces the possibility of aliasing in the inode and page caches for
inodes that may be accessed by more than one NFS export. It also reduces the
number of superblocks required for NFS where there are many NFS exports being
used from a server (home directory server + autofs for example).
This in turn makes it simpler to do local caching of network filesystems, as it
can then be guaranteed that there won't be links from multiple inodes in
separate superblocks to the same cache file.
Obviously, cache aliasing between different levels of NFS protocol could still
be a problem, but at least that gives us another key to use when indexing the
cache.
This patch makes the following changes:
(1) The server record construction/destruction has been abstracted out into
its own set of functions to make things easier to get right. These have
been moved into fs/nfs/client.c.
All the code in fs/nfs/client.c has to do with the management of
connections to servers, and doesn't touch superblocks in any way; the
remaining code in fs/nfs/super.c has to do with VFS superblock management.
(2) The sequence of events undertaken by NFS mount is now reordered:
(a) A volume representation (struct nfs_server) is allocated.
(b) A server representation (struct nfs_client) is acquired. This may be
allocated or shared, and is keyed on server address, port and NFS
version.
(c) If allocated, the client representation is initialised. The state
member variable of nfs_client is used to prevent a race during
initialisation from two mounts.
(d) For NFS4 a simple pathwalk is performed, walking from FH to FH to find
the root filehandle for the mount (fs/nfs/getroot.c). For NFS2/3 we
are given the root FH in advance.
(e) The volume FSID is probed for on the root FH.
(f) The volume representation is initialised from the FSINFO record
retrieved on the root FH.
(g) sget() is called to acquire a superblock. This may be allocated or
shared, keyed on client pointer and FSID.
(h) If allocated, the superblock is initialised.
(i) If the superblock is shared, then the new nfs_server record is
discarded.
(j) The root dentry for this mount is looked up from the root FH.
(k) The root dentry for this mount is assigned to the vfsmount.
(3) nfs_readdir_lookup() creates dentries for each of the entries readdir()
returns; this function now attaches disconnected trees from alternate
roots that happen to be discovered attached to a directory being read (in
the same way nfs_lookup() is made to do for lookup ops).
The new d_materialise_unique() function is now used to do this, thus
permitting the whole thing to be done under one set of locks, and thus
avoiding any race between mount and lookup operations on the same
directory.
(4) The client management code uses a new debug facility: NFSDBG_CLIENT which
is set by echoing 1024 to /proc/net/sunrpc/nfs_debug.
(5) Clone mounts are now called xdev mounts.
(6) Use the dentry passed to the statfs() op as the handle for retrieving fs
statistics rather than the root dentry of the superblock (which is now a
dummy).
Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Generalise the nfs_client structure by:
(1) Moving nfs_client to a more general place (nfs_fs_sb.h).
(2) Renaming its maintenance routines to be non-NFS4 specific.
(3) Move those maintenance routines to a new non-NFS4 specific file (client.c)
and move the declarations to internal.h.
(4) Make nfs_find/get_client() take a full sockaddr_in to include the port
number (will be required for NFS2/3).
(5) Make nfs_find/get_client() take the NFS protocol version (again will be
required to differentiate NFS2, 3 & 4 client records).
Also:
(6) Make nfs_client construction proceed akin to inodes, marking them as under
construction and providing a function to indicate completion.
(7) Make nfs_get_client() wait interruptibly if it finds a client that it can
share, but that client is currently being constructed.
(8) Make nfs4_create_client() use (6) and (7) instead of locking cl_sem.
Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Rename struct nfs4_client to struct nfs_client so that it can become the basis
for a general client record for NFS2 and NFS3 in addition to NFS4.
Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
This is (similar to getattr bitmap) but includes fs_locations and
mounted_on_fileid attributes. Use this bitmap for encoding in fs_locations
requests.
Note: We can probably do better by requesting locations as part of fsinfo
itself.
Signed-off-by: Manoj Naik <manoj@almaden.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Use component4-style formats for decoding list of servers and pathnames in
fs_locations.
Signed-off-by: Manoj Naik <manoj@almaden.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
NFSv4 allows for the fact that filesystems may be replicated across
several servers or that they may be migrated to a backup server in case of
failure of the primary server.
fs_locations is an NFSv4 operation for retrieving information about the
location of migrated and/or replicated filesystems.
Based on an initial implementation by Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
In RFC3530, the RENEW operation is allowed to use either
the same principal, RPC security flavour and (if RPCSEC_GSS), the same
mechanism and service that was used for SETCLIENTID_CONFIRM
OR
Any principal, RPC security flavour and service combination that
currently has an OPEN file on the server.
Choose the latter since that doesn't require us to keep credentials for
the same principal for the entire duration of the mount.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
A closer reading of RFC3530 reveals that OPEN_DOWNGRADE must always
specify a access modes that have been the argument of a previous OPEN
operation.
IOW: doing OPEN(O_RDWR) and then OPEN_DOWNGRADE(O_WRONLY) is forbidden
unless the user called OPEN(O_WRONLY)
In order to fix that, we really need to track the three possible open
states separately.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
RFC 3530 states that for OPEN_DOWNGRADE "The share_access and share_deny
bits specified must be exactly equal to the union of the share_access and
share_deny bits specified for some subset of the OPENs in effect for
current openowner on the current file.
Setattr is currently violating the NFSv4 rules for OPEN_DOWNGRADE in that
it may cause a downgrade from OPEN4_SHARE_ACCESS_BOTH to
OPEN4_SHARE_ACCESS_WRITE despite the fact that there exists no open file
with O_WRONLY access mode.
Fix the problem by replacing nfs4_find_state() with a modified version of
nfs_find_open_context().
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
We must not remove the nfs4_state structure from the inode open lists
before we are in sequence lock.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Storing a pointer to the struct rpc_task in the nfs_seqid is broken
since the nfs_seqid may be freed well after the task has been destroyed.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Make NFSv4 return the fully initialized file pointer with the
stateid that it created in the lookup w/intent.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
NFSv4 file state-changing functions such as OPEN, CLOSE, LOCK,... are all
labelled with "sequence identifiers" in order to prevent the server from
reordering RPC requests, as this could cause its file state to
become out of sync with the client.
Currently the NFS client code enforces this ordering locally using
semaphores to restrict access to structures until the RPC call is done.
This, of course, only works with synchronous RPC calls, since the
user process must first grab the semaphore.
By dropping semaphores, and instead teaching the RPC engine to hold
the RPC calls until they are ready to be sent, we can extend this
process to work nicely with asynchronous RPC calls too.
This patch adds a new list called "rpc_sequence" that defines the order
of the RPC calls to be sent. We add one such list for each state_owner.
When an RPC call is ready to be sent, it checks if it is top of the
rpc_sequence list. If so, it proceeds. If not, it goes back to sleep,
and loops until it hits top of the list.
Once the RPC call has completed, it can then bump the sequence id counter,
and remove itself from the rpc_sequence list, and then wake up the next
sleeper.
Note that the state_owner sequence ids and lock_owner sequence ids are
all indexed to the same rpc_sequence list, so OPEN, LOCK,... requests
are all ordered w.r.t. each other.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Add {get,set,list}xattr methods for nfs4. The new methods are no-ops, to be
used by subsequent ACL patch.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
David Howells