- 12 Jun, 2009 40 commits
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Rusty Russell authored
Rather than sending an interrupt on every buffer, we only send an interrupt when we're about to wait for the Guest to send us a new one. The console input and network input still send interrupts manually, but the block device, network and console output queues can simply rely on this logic to send interrupts to the Guest at the right time. The patch is cluttered by moving trigger_irq() higher in the code. In practice, two factors make this optimization less interesting: (1) we often only get one input at a time, even for networking, (2) triggering an interrupt rapidly tends to get coalesced anyway. Before: Secs RxIRQS TxIRQs 1G TCP Guest->Host: 3.72 32784 32771 1M normal pings: 99 1000004 995541 100,000 1k pings (-l 120): 5 49510 49058 After: 1G TCP Guest->Host: 3.69 32809 32769 1M normal pings: 99 1000004 996196 100,000 1k pings (-l 120): 5 52435 52361 (Note the interrupt count on 100k pings goes *up*: see next patch). Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Rusty Russell authored
We no longer need an efficient mechanism to force the Guest back into host userspace, as each device is serviced without bothering the main Guest process (aka. the Launcher). Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Rusty Russell authored
Currently lguest has three threads: the main Launcher thread, a Waker thread, and a thread for the block device (because synchronous block was simply too painful to bear). The Waker selects() on all the input file descriptors (eg. stdin, net devices, pipe to the block thread) and when one becomes readable it calls into the kernel to kick the Launcher thread out into userspace, which repeats the poll, services the device(s), and then tells the kernel to release the Waker before re-entering the kernel to run the Guest. Also, to make a slightly-decent network transmit routine, the Launcher would suppress further network interrupts while it set a timer: that signal handler would write to a pipe, which would rouse the Waker which would prod the Launcher out of the kernel to check the network device again. Now we can convert all our virtqueues to separate threads: each one has a separate eventfd for when the Guest pokes the device, and can trigger interrupts in the Guest directly. The linecount shows how much this simplifies, but to really bring it home, here's an strace analysis of single Guest->Host ping before: * Guest sends packet, notifies xmit vq, return control to Launcher * Launcher clears notification flag on xmit ring * Launcher writes packet to TUN device writev(4, [{"\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 10}, {"\366\r\224`\2058\272m\224vf\274\10\0E\0\0T\0\0@\0@\1\265"..., 98}], 2) = 108 * Launcher sets up interrupt for Guest (xmit ring is empty) write(10, "\2\0\0\0\3\0\0\0", 8) = 0 * Launcher sets up timer for interrupt mitigation setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, {it_interval={0, 0}, it_value={0, 505}}, NULL) = 0 * Launcher re-runs guest pread64(10, 0xbfa5f4d4, 4, 0) ... * Waker notices reply packet in tun device (it was in select) select(12, [0 3 4 6 11], NULL, NULL, NULL) = 1 (in [4]) * Waker kicks Launcher out of guest: pwrite64(10, "\3\0\0\0\1\0\0\0", 8, 0) = 0 * Launcher returns from running guest: ... = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable) * Launcher looks at input fds: select(7, [0 3 4 6], NULL, NULL, {0, 0}) = 1 (in [4], left {0, 0}) * Launcher reads pong from tun device: readv(4, [{"\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 10}, {"\272m\224vf\274\366\r\224`\2058\10\0E\0\0T\364\26\0\0@"..., 1518}], 2) = 108 * Launcher injects guest notification: write(10, "\2\0\0\0\2\0\0\0", 8) = 0 * Launcher rechecks fds: select(7, [0 3 4 6], NULL, NULL, {0, 0}) = 0 (Timeout) * Launcher clears Waker: pwrite64(10, "\3\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 8, 0) = 0 * Launcher reruns Guest: pread64(10, 0xbfa5f4d4, 4, 0) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted) * Signal comes in, uses pipe to wake up Launcher: --- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) @ 0 (0) --- write(8, "\0", 1) = 1 sigreturn() = ? (mask now []) * Waker sees write on pipe: select(12, [0 3 4 6 11], NULL, NULL, NULL) = 1 (in [6]) * Waker kicks Launcher out of Guest: pwrite64(10, "\3\0\0\0\1\0\0\0", 8, 0) = 0 * Launcher exits from kernel: pread64(10, 0xbfa5f4d4, 4, 0) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable) * Launcher looks to see what fd woke it: select(7, [0 3 4 6], NULL, NULL, {0, 0}) = 1 (in [6], left {0, 0}) * Launcher reads timeout fd, sets notification flag on xmit ring read(6, "\0", 32) = 1 * Launcher rechecks fds: select(7, [0 3 4 6], NULL, NULL, {0, 0}) = 0 (Timeout) * Launcher clears Waker: pwrite64(10, "\3\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 8, 0) = 0 * Launcher resumes Guest: pread64(10, "\0p\0\4", 4, 0) .... strace analysis of single Guest->Host ping after: * Guest sends packet, notifies xmit vq, creates event on eventfd. * Network xmit thread wakes from read on eventfd: read(7, "\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 8) = 8 * Network xmit thread writes packet to TUN device writev(4, [{"\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 10}, {"J\217\232FI\37j\27\375\276\0\304\10\0E\0\0T\0\0@\0@\1\265"..., 98}], 2) = 108 * Network recv thread wakes up from read on tunfd: readv(4, [{"\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 10}, {"j\27\375\276\0\304J\217\232FI\37\10\0E\0\0TiO\0\0@\1\214"..., 1518}], 2) = 108 * Network recv thread sets up interrupt for the Guest write(6, "\2\0\0\0\2\0\0\0", 8) = 0 * Network recv thread goes back to reading tunfd 13:39:42.460285 readv(4, <unfinished ...> * Network xmit thread sets up interrupt for Guest (xmit ring is empty) write(6, "\2\0\0\0\3\0\0\0", 8) = 0 * Network xmit thread goes back to reading from eventfd read(7, <unfinished ...> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Rusty Russell authored
Currently, when a Guest wants to perform I/O it calls LHCALL_NOTIFY with an address: the main Launcher process returns with this address, and figures out what device to run. A far nicer model is to let processes bind an eventfd to an address: if we find one, we simply signal the eventfd. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
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Rusty Russell authored
lguest wants to attach eventfds to guest notifications, and lguest is usually a module. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> To: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
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Rusty Russell authored
We currently only allow the Launcher process to send interrupts, but it as we already send interrupts from the hrtimer, it's a simple matter of extracting that code into a common set_interrupt routine. As we switch to a thread per virtqueue, this avoids a bottleneck through the main Launcher process. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Rusty Russell authored
1) j wasn't initialized in setup_pagetables, so they weren't set up for me causing immediate guest crashes. 2) gpte_addr should not re-read the pmd from the Guest. Especially not BUG_ON() based on the value. If we ever supported SMP guests, they could trigger that. And the Launcher could also trigger it (tho currently root-only). Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Matias Zabaljauregui authored
This version requires that host and guest have the same PAE status. NX cap is not offered to the guest, yet. Signed-off-by: Matias Zabaljauregui <zabaljauregui@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Matias Zabaljauregui authored
Add support for kvm_hypercall4(); PAE wants it. Signed-off-by: Matias Zabaljauregui <zabaljauregui at gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Matias Zabaljauregui authored
replace LHCALL_SET_PMD with LHCALL_SET_PGD hypercall name (That's really what it is, and the confusion gets worse with PAE support) Signed-off-by: Matias Zabaljauregui <zabaljauregui@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Reported-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
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Matias Zabaljauregui authored
Some cleanups and replace direct assignment with native_set_* macros which properly handle 64-bit entries when PAE is activated Signed-off-by: Matias Zabaljauregui <zabaljauregui@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Matias Zabaljauregui authored
Map switcher with executable page table entries. (This bug didn't matter before PAE and hence NX support -- RR) Signed-off-by: Matias Zabaljauregui <zabaljauregui@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Rusty Russell authored
I've never seen it here, but I can't find anywhere that says writev will write everything. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Rusty Russell authored
The "len" field in the used ring for virtio indicates the number of bytes *written* to the buffer. This means the guest doesn't have to zero the buffers in advance as it always knows the used length. Erroneously, the console and network example code puts the length *read* into that field. The guest ignores it, but it's wrong. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Matias Zabaljauregui authored
If GDT_ENTRIES were every > 256, this could become a problem. Signed-off-by: Matias Zabaljauregui <zabaljauregui at gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Roel Kluin authored
Do not go beyond ARRAY_SIZE of cpu->arch.gdt Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Rusty Russell authored
18 months ago 5bbf89fc changed to loading bzImages directly, and no longer manually ungzipping them, so we no longer need libz. Also, -m32 is useful for those on 64-bit platforms (and harmless on 32-bit). Reported-by: Ron Minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Rusty Russell authored
The downside of the last patch which made restore_flags and irq_enable check interrupts is that they are now too big to be patched directly into the callsites, so the C versions are always used. But the C versions go via PV_CALLEE_SAVE_REGS_THUNK which saves all the registers. In fact, we don't need any registers in the fast path, so we can do better than this if we actually code them in assembler. The results are in the noise, but since it's about the same amount of code, it's worth applying. 1GB Guest->Host: input(suppressed),output(suppressed) Before: Seconds: 0:16.53 Packets: 377268,753673 Interrupts: 22461,24297 Notifications: 1(5245),21303(732370) Net IRQs triggered: 377023(245),42578(711095) After: Seconds: 0:16.48 Packets: 377289,753673 Interrupts: 22281,24465 Notifications: 1(5245),21296(732377) Net IRQs triggered: 377060(229),42564(711109) Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Rusty Russell authored
lguest never checked for pending interrupts when enabling interrupts, and things still worked. However, it makes a significant difference to TCP performance, so it's time we fixed it by introducing a pending_irq flag and checking it on irq_restore and irq_enable. These two routines are now too big to patch into the 8/10 bytes patch space, so we drop that code. Note: The high latency on interrupt delivery had a very curious effect: once everything else was optimized, networking without GSO was faster than networking with GSO, since more interrupts were sent and hence a greater chance of one getting through to the Guest! Note2: (Almost) Closing the same loophole for iret doesn't have any measurable effect, so I'm leaving that patch for the moment. Before: 1GB tcpblast Guest->Host: 30.7 seconds 1GB tcpblast Guest->Host (no GSO): 76.0 seconds After: 1GB tcpblast Guest->Host: 6.8 seconds 1GB tcpblast Guest->Host (no GSO): 27.8 seconds Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Rusty Russell authored
When the Guest does the LHCALL_HALT hypercall, we go to sleep, expecting that a timer or the Waker will wake_up_process() us. But we do it in a stupid way, leaving a classic missing wakeup race. So split maybe_do_interrupt() into interrupt_pending() and try_deliver_interrupt(), and check maybe_do_interrupt() and the "break_out" flag before calling schedule. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Rusty Russell authored
20887611 (lguest: notify on empty) introduced lguest support for the VIRTIO_F_NOTIFY_ON_EMPTY flag, but in fact it turned on interrupts all the time. Because we always process one buffer at a time, the inflight count is always 0 when call trigger_irq and so we always ignore VRING_AVAIL_F_NO_INTERRUPT from the Guest. It should be looking to see if there are more buffers in the Guest's queue: if it's empty, then we force an interrupt. This makes little difference, since we usually have an empty queue; but that's the subject of another patch. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Rusty Russell authored
The Launcher could be inside the Guest on another CPU; wake_up_process will do nothing because it is "running". kick_process will knock it back into our kernel in this case, otherwise we'll miss it until the next guest exit. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Rusty Russell authored
lguest needs kick_process: wake_up_process() does nothing if a process is running, which isn't sufficient (we need it in the kernel). And lguest support is usually modular. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Rusty Russell authored
Since the Launcher process runs the Guest, it doesn't have to be very serious about its barriers: the Guest isn't running while we are (Guest is UP). Before we change to use threads to service devices, we need to fix this. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Rusty Russell authored
Copy from arch/x86/kernel/irqinit_32.c: we don't use the vectors beyond LGUEST_IRQS (if any), but we might as well set them all. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Rusty Russell authored
We hand the /dev/lguest fd everywhere; it's far neater to just make it a global (it already is, in fact, hidden in the waker_fds struct). Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Rusty Russell authored
We can't trust the values in the device descriptor table once the guest has booted, so keep local copies. They could set them to strange values then cause us to segv (they're 8 bit values, so they can't make our pointers go too wild). This becomes more important with the following patches which read them. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Randy Dunlap authored
Fix kernel-doc warnings in recently changed block/ source code. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (87 commits) nilfs2: get rid of bd_mount_sem use from nilfs nilfs2: correct exclusion control in nilfs_remount function nilfs2: simplify remaining sget() use nilfs2: get rid of sget use for checking if current mount is present nilfs2: get rid of sget use for acquiring nilfs object nilfs2: remove meaningless EBUSY case from nilfs_get_sb function remove the call to ->write_super in __sync_filesystem nilfs2: call nilfs2_write_super from nilfs2_sync_fs jffs2: call jffs2_write_super from jffs2_sync_fs ufs: add ->sync_fs sysv: add ->sync_fs hfsplus: add ->sync_fs hfs: add ->sync_fs fat: add ->sync_fs ext2: add ->sync_fs exofs: add ->sync_fs bfs: add ->sync_fs affs: add ->sync_fs sanitize ->fsync() for affs repair bfs_write_inode(), switch bfs to simple_fsync() ...
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gerg/m68knommuLinus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gerg/m68knommu: m68knommu: remove unecessary include of thread_info.h in entry.S m68knommu: enumerate INIT_THREAD fields properly headers_check fix: m68k, swab.h arch/m68knommu: Convert #ifdef DEBUG printk(KERN_DEBUG to pr_debug( m68knommu: remove obsolete reset code m68knommu: move CPU reset code for the 5272 ColdFire into its platform code m68knommu: move CPU reset code for the 528x ColdFire into its platform code m68knommu: move CPU reset code for the 527x ColdFire into its platform code m68knommu: move CPU reset code for the 523x ColdFire into its platform code m68knommu: move CPU reset code for the 520x ColdFire into its platform code m68knommu: add CPU reset code for the 532x ColdFire m68knommu: add CPU reset code for the 5249 ColdFire m68knommu: add CPU reset code for the 5206e ColdFire m68knommu: add CPU reset code for the 5206 ColdFire m68knommu: add CPU reset code for the 5407 ColdFire m68knommu: add CPU reset code for the 5307 ColdFire m68knommu: merge system reset for code ColdFire 523x family m68knommu: fix system reset for ColdFire 527x family
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Yinghai Lu authored
zalloc_cpumask_var already cleared it. Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Yinghai Lu authored
So we make sure MAXSMP gets a cleared cpumask Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Stephen Rothwell authored
Commit 925d519a ("perf_counter: unify and fix delayed counter wakeup") added global definitions. Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Ryusuke Konishi authored
This will remove every bd_mount_sem use in nilfs. The intended exclusion control was replaced by the previous patch ("nilfs2: correct exclusion control in nilfs_remount function") for nilfs_remount(), and this patch will replace remains with a new mutex that this inserts in nilfs object. Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Ryusuke Konishi authored
nilfs_remount() changes mount state of a superblock instance. Even though nilfs accesses other superblock instances during mount or remount, the mount state was not properly protected in nilfs_remount(). Moreover, nilfs_remount() has a lock order reversal problem; nilfs_get_sb() holds: 1. bdev->bd_mount_sem 2. sb->s_umount (sget acquires) and nilfs_remount() holds: 1. sb->s_umount (locked by the caller in vfs) 2. bdev->bd_mount_sem To avoid these problems, this patch divides a semaphore protecting super block instances from nilfs->ns_sem, and applies it to the mount state protection in nilfs_remount(). With this change, bd_mount_sem use is removed from nilfs_remount() and the lock order reversal will be resolved. And the new rw-semaphore, nilfs->ns_super_sem will properly protect the mount state except the modification from nilfs_error function. Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Ryusuke Konishi authored
This simplifies the test function passed on the remaining sget() callsite in nilfs. Instead of checking mount type (i.e. ro-mount/rw-mount/snapshot mount) in the test function passed to sget(), this patch first looks up the nilfs_sb_info struct which the given mount type matches, and then acquires the super block instance holding the nilfs_sb_info. Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Ryusuke Konishi authored
This stops using sget() for checking if an r/w-mount or an r/o-mount exists on the device. This elimination uses a back pointer to the current mount added to nilfs object. Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Ryusuke Konishi authored
This will change the way to obtain nilfs object in nilfs_get_sb() function. Previously, a preliminary sget() call was performed, and the nilfs object was acquired from a super block instance found by the sget() call. This patch, instead, instroduces a new dedicated function find_or_create_nilfs(); as the name implies, the function finds an existent nilfs object from a global list or creates a new one if no object is found on the device. Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Ryusuke Konishi authored
The following EBUSY case in nilfs_get_sb() is meaningless. Indeed, this error code is never returned to the caller. if (!s->s_root) { ... } else if (!(s->s_flags & MS_RDONLY)) { err = -EBUSY; } This simply removes the else case. Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Christoph Hellwig authored
Now that all filesystems provide ->sync_fs methods we can change __sync_filesystem to only call ->sync_fs. This gives us a clear separation between periodic writeouts which are driven by ->write_super and data integrity syncs that go through ->sync_fs. (modulo file_fsync which is also going away) Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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