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* VFS: (Scripted) Convert S_ISLNK/DIR/REG(dentry->d_inode) to d_is_*(dentry)David Howells2015-02-221-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Convert the following where appropriate: (1) S_ISLNK(dentry->d_inode) to d_is_symlink(dentry). (2) S_ISREG(dentry->d_inode) to d_is_reg(dentry). (3) S_ISDIR(dentry->d_inode) to d_is_dir(dentry). This is actually more complicated than it appears as some calls should be converted to d_can_lookup() instead. The difference is whether the directory in question is a real dir with a ->lookup op or whether it's a fake dir with a ->d_automount op. In some circumstances, we can subsume checks for dentry->d_inode not being NULL into this, provided we the code isn't in a filesystem that expects d_inode to be NULL if the dirent really *is* negative (ie. if we're going to use d_inode() rather than d_backing_inode() to get the inode pointer). Note that the dentry type field may be set to something other than DCACHE_MISS_TYPE when d_inode is NULL in the case of unionmount, where the VFS manages the fall-through from a negative dentry to a lower layer. In such a case, the dentry type of the negative union dentry is set to the same as the type of the lower dentry. However, if you know d_inode is not NULL at the call site, then you can use the d_is_xxx() functions even in a filesystem. There is one further complication: a 0,0 chardev dentry may be labelled DCACHE_WHITEOUT_TYPE rather than DCACHE_SPECIAL_TYPE. Strictly, this was intended for special directory entry types that don't have attached inodes. The following perl+coccinelle script was used: use strict; my @callers; open($fd, 'git grep -l \'S_IS[A-Z].*->d_inode\' |') || die "Can't grep for S_ISDIR and co. callers"; @callers = <$fd>; close($fd); unless (@callers) { print "No matches\n"; exit(0); } my @cocci = ( '@@', 'expression E;', '@@', '', '- S_ISLNK(E->d_inode->i_mode)', '+ d_is_symlink(E)', '', '@@', 'expression E;', '@@', '', '- S_ISDIR(E->d_inode->i_mode)', '+ d_is_dir(E)', '', '@@', 'expression E;', '@@', '', '- S_ISREG(E->d_inode->i_mode)', '+ d_is_reg(E)' ); my $coccifile = "tmp.sp.cocci"; open($fd, ">$coccifile") || die $coccifile; print($fd "$_\n") || die $coccifile foreach (@cocci); close($fd); foreach my $file (@callers) { chomp $file; print "Processing ", $file, "\n"; system("spatch", "--sp-file", $coccifile, $file, "--in-place", "--no-show-diff") == 0 || die "spatch failed"; } [AV: overlayfs parts skipped] Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* vfs: add support for a lazytime mount optionTheodore Ts'o2015-02-051-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add a new mount option which enables a new "lazytime" mode. This mode causes atime, mtime, and ctime updates to only be made to the in-memory version of the inode. The on-disk times will only get updated when (a) if the inode needs to be updated for some non-time related change, (b) if userspace calls fsync(), syncfs() or sync(), or (c) just before an undeleted inode is evicted from memory. This is OK according to POSIX because there are no guarantees after a crash unless userspace explicitly requests via a fsync(2) call. For workloads which feature a large number of random write to a preallocated file, the lazytime mount option significantly reduces writes to the inode table. The repeated 4k writes to a single block will result in undesirable stress on flash devices and SMR disk drives. Even on conventional HDD's, the repeated writes to the inode table block will trigger Adjacent Track Interference (ATI) remediation latencies, which very negatively impact long tail latencies --- which is a very big deal for web serving tiers (for example). Google-Bug-Id: 18297052 Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* move d_rcu from overlapping d_child to overlapping d_aliasAl Viro2014-11-031-6/+6
| | | | Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* locks: plumb a "priv" pointer into the setlease routinesJeff Layton2014-10-071-1/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In later patches, we're going to add a new lock_manager_operation to finish setting up the lease while still holding the i_lock. To do this, we'll need to pass a little bit of info in the fcntl setlease case (primarily an fasync structure). Plumb the extra pointer into there in advance of that. We declare this pointer as a void ** to make it clear that this is private info, and that the caller isn't required to set this unless the lm_setup specifically requires it. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@primarydata.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
* locks: consolidate "nolease" routinesJeff Layton2014-09-091-0/+16
| | | | | | | | | | | | GFS2 and NFS have setlease routines that always just return -EINVAL. Turn that into a generic routine that can live in fs/libfs.c. Cc: <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Cc: <cluster-devel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@primarydata.com> Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
* fs/libfs.c: add generic data flush to fsyncFabian Frederick2014-06-041-3/+31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Description by Jan Kara: "A lot of older filesystems don't properly flush volatile disk caches on fsync(2) which can lead to loss of fsynced data after power failure. This patch makes generic_file_fsync() issue proper cache flush to fix the problem. Sysadmin can use /sys/devices/.../cache_type to tell the system it should not send the cache flush." [akpm@linux-foundation.org: nuke ifdef] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warning] Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be> Suggested-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* consolidate simple ->d_delete() instancesAl Viro2013-11-151-5/+7
| | | | | | | | Rename simple_delete_dentry() to always_delete_dentry() and export it. Export simple_dentry_operations, while we are at it, and get rid of their duplicates Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* take anon inode allocation to libfs.cAl Viro2013-11-091-0/+43
| | | | Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* new helper: kfree_put_link()Al Viro2013-10-241-0/+10
| | | | | | duplicated to hell and back... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* libfs: get exports to definitions of objects being exported...Al Viro2013-10-241-35/+34
| | | | Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* make simple_lookup() usable for filesystems that set ->s_d_opAl Viro2013-07-141-1/+2
| | | | Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* [readdir] switch dcache_readdir() users to ->iterate()Al Viro2013-06-291-50/+30
| | | | | | | new helpers - dir_emit_dot(file, ctx, dentry), dir_emit_dotdot(file, ctx), dir_emit_dots(file, ctx). Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* vfs: drop vmtruncateMarco Stornelli2012-12-201-2/+0
| | | | | | | Removed vmtruncate Signed-off-by: Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* lseek: the "whence" argument is called "whence"Andrew Morton2012-12-171-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | But the kernel decided to call it "origin" instead. Fix most of the sites. Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* vfs: fix kerneldoc for generic_fh_to_parent()Yanchuan Nian2012-09-051-1/+1
| | | | | | | Wrong function name in the kerneldoc description of generic_fh_to_parent(). Signed-off-by: Yanchuan Nian <ycnian@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
* VFS: Pass mount flags to sget()David Howells2012-07-141-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | Pass mount flags to sget() so that it can use them in initialising a new superblock before the set function is called. They could also be passed to the compare function. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* stop passing nameidata to ->lookup()Al Viro2012-07-141-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | Just the flags; only NFS cares even about that, but there are legitimate uses for such argument. And getting rid of that completely would require splitting ->lookup() into a couple of methods (at least), so let's leave that alone for now... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* vfs: make it possible to access the dentry hash/len as one 64-bit entryLinus Torvalds2012-05-101-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This allows comparing hash and len in one operation on 64-bit architectures. Right now only __d_lookup_rcu() takes advantage of this, since that is the case we care most about. The use of anonymous struct/unions hides the alternate 64-bit approach from most users, the exception being a few cases where we initialize a 'struct qstr' with a static initializer. This makes the problematic cases use a new QSTR_INIT() helper function for that (but initializing just the name pointer with a "{ .name = xyzzy }" initializer remains valid, as does just copying another qstr structure). Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* dentry leak in simple_fill_super() failure exitAl Viro2012-04-091-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | d_genocide() does _not_ evict dentries; it just removes extra ref pinning each of those. Normally it's followed by shrinking the tree (it's done just before generic_shutdown_super() by kill_litter_super()), but in case of simple_fill_super() nothing of that kind will follow. Just do shrink_dcache_parent() manually. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* libfs: add simple_open()Stephen Boyd2012-04-051-0/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | debugfs and a few other drivers use an open-coded version of simple_open() to pass a pointer from the file to the read/write file ops. Add support for this simple case to libfs so that we can remove the many duplicate copies of this simple function. Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Merge tag 'module-for-3.4' of ↵Linus Torvalds2012-03-241-1/+1
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux Pull cleanup of fs/ and lib/ users of module.h from Paul Gortmaker: "Fix up files in fs/ and lib/ dirs to only use module.h if they really need it. These are trivial in scope vs the work done previously. We now have things where any few remaining cleanups can be farmed out to arch or subsystem maintainers, and I have done so when possible. What is remaining here represents the bits that don't clearly lie within a single arch/subsystem boundary, like the fs dir and the lib dir. Some duplicate includes arising from overlapping fixes from independent subsystem maintainer submissions are also quashed." Fix up trivial conflicts due to clashes with other include file cleanups (including some due to the previous bug.h cleanup pull). * tag 'module-for-3.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux: lib: reduce the use of module.h wherever possible fs: reduce the use of module.h wherever possible includecheck: delete any duplicate instances of module.h
| * fs: reduce the use of module.h wherever possiblePaul Gortmaker2012-02-281-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | For files only using THIS_MODULE and/or EXPORT_SYMBOL, map them onto including export.h -- or if the file isn't even using those, then just delete the include. Fix up any implicit include dependencies that were being masked by module.h along the way. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
* | make simple_pin_fs() pass MS_KERNMOUNT - it's a kernel-internal oneAl Viro2012-03-201-1/+1
| | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* | switch open-coded instances of d_make_root() to new helperAl Viro2012-03-201-4/+2
|/ | | | Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* fs: move code out of buffer.cAl Viro2012-01-031-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Move invalidate_bdev, block_sync_page into fs/block_dev.c. Export kill_bdev as well, so brd doesn't have to open code it. Reduce buffer_head.h requirement accordingly. Removed a rather large comment from invalidate_bdev, as it looked a bit obsolete to bother moving. The small comment replacing it says enough. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* filesystems: add set_nlink()Miklos Szeredi2011-11-021-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | Replace remaining direct i_nlink updates with a new set_nlink() updater function. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Tested-by: Toshiyuki Okajima <toshi.okajima@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
* vfs: fix dentry leak in simple_fill_super()Konstantin Khlebnikov2011-11-021-1/+3
| | | | | | | put dentry if inode allocation failed, d_genocide() cannot release it Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
* fix IN_DELETE_SELF on overwriting rename() on ramfs et.al.Al Viro2011-07-221-1/+3
| | | | | | | | On ramfs and other simple_rename() users IN_DELETE_SELF is not generated for victim of overwriting rename() if it's is a directory. Works on most of the local filesystems and really trivial to fix... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* fs: push i_mutex and filemap_write_and_wait down into ->fsync() handlersJosef Bacik2011-07-201-4/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Btrfs needs to be able to control how filemap_write_and_wait_range() is called in fsync to make it less of a painful operation, so push down taking i_mutex and the calling of filemap_write_and_wait() down into the ->fsync() handlers. Some file systems can drop taking the i_mutex altogether it seems, like ext3 and ocfs2. For correctness sake I just pushed everything down in all cases to make sure that we keep the current behavior the same for everybody, and then each individual fs maintainer can make up their mind about what to do from there. Thanks, Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* Make ->d_sb assign-once and always non-NULLAl Viro2011-07-201-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | New helper (non-exported, fs/internal.h-only): __d_alloc(sb, name). Allocates dentry, sets its ->d_sb to given superblock and sets ->d_op accordingly. Old d_alloc(NULL, name) callers are converted to that (all of them know what superblock they want). d_alloc() itself is left only for parent != NULl case; uses __d_alloc(), inserts result into the list of parent's children. Note that now ->d_sb is assign-once and never NULL *and* ->d_parent is never NULL either. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* fs/libfs.c: fix simple_attr_write() on 32bit machinesAkinobu Mita2011-07-191-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Assume that /sys/kernel/debug/dummy64 is debugfs file created by debugfs_create_x64(). # cd /sys/kernel/debug # echo 0x1234567812345678 > dummy64 # cat dummy64 0x0000000012345678 # echo 0x80000000 > dummy64 # cat dummy64 0xffffffff80000000 A value larger than INT_MAX cannot be written to the debugfs file created by debugfs_create_u64 or debugfs_create_x64 on 32bit machine. Because simple_attr_write() uses simple_strtol() for the conversion. To fix this, use simple_strtoll() instead. Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* pass default dentry_operations to mount_pseudo()Al Viro2011-01-121-1/+3
| | | | Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* fs: dcache reduce branches in lookup pathNick Piggin2011-01-071-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Reduce some branches and memory accesses in dcache lookup by adding dentry flags to indicate common d_ops are set, rather than having to check them. This saves a pointer memory access (dentry->d_op) in common path lookup situations, and saves another pointer load and branch in cases where we have d_op but not the particular operation. Patched with: git grep -E '[.>]([[:space:]])*d_op([[:space:]])*=' | xargs sed -e 's/\([^\t ]*\)->d_op = \(.*\);/d_set_d_op(\1, \2);/' -e 's/\([^\t ]*\)\.d_op = \(.*\);/d_set_d_op(\&\1, \2);/' -i Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
* fs: dcache remove dcache_lockNick Piggin2011-01-071-8/+0
| | | | | | dcache_lock no longer protects anything. remove it. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
* fs: dcache scale subdirsNick Piggin2011-01-071-6/+18
| | | | | | | | | | | | Protect d_subdirs and d_child with d_lock, except in filesystems that aren't using dcache_lock for these anyway (eg. using i_mutex). Note: if we change the locking rule in future so that ->d_child protection is provided only with ->d_parent->d_lock, it may allow us to reduce some locking. But it would be an exception to an otherwise regular locking scheme, so we'd have to see some good results. Probably not worthwhile. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
* fs: dcache scale d_unhashedNick Piggin2011-01-071-9/+20
| | | | | | | Protect d_unhashed(dentry) condition with d_lock. This means keeping DCACHE_UNHASHED bit in synch with hash manipulations. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
* fs: change d_delete semanticsNick Piggin2011-01-071-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | Change d_delete from a dentry deletion notification to a dentry caching advise, more like ->drop_inode. Require it to be constant and idempotent, and not take d_lock. This is how all existing filesystems use the callback anyway. This makes fine grained dentry locking of dput and dentry lru scanning much simpler. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
* convert get_sb_pseudo() usersAl Viro2010-10-291-8/+6
| | | | Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* new helper: ihold()Al Viro2010-10-251-1/+1
| | | | | | Clones an existing reference to inode; caller must already hold one. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* fs: add sync_inode_metadataChristoph Hellwig2010-10-251-5/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | Add a new helper to write out the inode using the writeback code, that is including the correct dirty bit and list manipulation. A few of filesystems already opencode this, and a lot of others should be using it instead of using write_inode_now which also writes out the data. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* libfs: Fix shift bug in generic_check_addressable()Joel Becker2010-09-101-4/+4
| | | | | | | | generic_check_addressable() erroneously shifts pages down by a block factor when it should be shifting up. To prevent overflow, we shift blocks down to pages. Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
* ext3/ext4: Factor out disk addressability checkPatrick J. LoPresti2010-09-101-0/+29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | As part of adding support for OCFS2 to mount huge volumes, we need to check that the sector_t and page cache of the system are capable of addressing the entire volume. An identical check already appears in ext3 and ext4. This patch moves the addressability check into its own function in fs/libfs.c and modifies ext3 and ext4 to invoke it. [Edited to -EINVAL instead of BUG_ON() for bad blocksize_bits -- Joel] Signed-off-by: Patrick LoPresti <lopresti@gmail.com> Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org Acked-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca> Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
* check ATTR_SIZE contraints in inode_change_okChristoph Hellwig2010-08-091-49/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Make sure we check the truncate constraints early on in ->setattr by adding those checks to inode_change_ok. Also clean up and document inode_change_ok to make this obvious. As a fallout we don't have to call inode_newsize_ok from simple_setsize and simplify it down to a truncate_setsize which doesn't return an error. This simplifies a lot of setattr implementations and means we use truncate_setsize almost everywhere. Get rid of fat_setsize now that it's trivial and mark ext2_setsize static to make the calling convention obvious. Keep the inode_newsize_ok in vmtruncate for now as all callers need an audit for its removal anyway. Note: setattr code in ecryptfs doesn't call inode_change_ok at all and needs a deeper audit, but that is left for later. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* default to simple_setattrChristoph Hellwig2010-08-091-5/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | With the new truncate sequence every filesystem that wants to support file size changes on disk needs to implement its own ->setattr. So instead of calling inode_setattr which supports size changes call into a simple method that doesn't support this. simple_setattr is almost what we want except that it does not mark the inode dirty after changes. Given that marking the inode dirty is a no-op for the simple in-memory filesystems that use simple_setattr currently just add the mark_inode_dirty call. Also add a WARN_ON for the presence of a truncate method to simple_setattr to catch new instances of it during the transition period. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* rename generic_setattrChristoph Hellwig2010-08-091-2/+1
| | | | | | | | | Despite its name it's now a generic implementation of ->setattr, but rather a helper to copy attributes from a struct iattr to the inode. Rename it to setattr_copy to reflect this fact. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* wrong type for 'magic' argument in simple_fill_super()Roberto Sassu2010-06-041-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | It's used to superblock ->s_magic, which is unsigned long. Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@polito.it> Reviewed-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> CC: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* fs: introduce new truncate sequencenpiggin@suse.de2010-05-271-0/+76
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Introduce a new truncate calling sequence into fs/mm subsystems. Rather than setattr > vmtruncate > truncate, have filesystems call their truncate sequence from ->setattr if filesystem specific operations are required. vmtruncate is deprecated, and truncate_pagecache and inode_newsize_ok helpers introduced previously should be used. simple_setattr is introduced for simple in-ram filesystems to implement the new truncate sequence. Eventually all filesystems should be converted to implement a setattr, and the default code in notify_change should go away. simple_setsize is also introduced to perform just the ATTR_SIZE portion of simple_setattr (ie. changing i_size and trimming pagecache). To implement the new truncate sequence: - filesystem specific manipulations (eg freeing blocks) must be done in the setattr method rather than ->truncate. - vmtruncate can not be used by core code to trim blocks past i_size in the event of write failure after allocation, so this must be performed in the fs code. - convert usage of helpers block_write_begin, nobh_write_begin, cont_write_begin, and *blockdev_direct_IO* to use _newtrunc postfixed variants. These avoid calling vmtruncate to trim blocks (see previous). - inode_setattr should not be used. generic_setattr is a new function to be used to copy simple attributes into the generic inode. - make use of the better opportunity to handle errors with the new sequence. Big problem with the previous calling sequence: the filesystem is not called until i_size has already changed. This means it is not allowed to fail the call, and also it does not know what the previous i_size was. Also, generic code calling vmtruncate to truncate allocated blocks in case of error had no good way to return a meaningful error (or, for example, atomically handle block deallocation). Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* rename the generic fsync implementationsChristoph Hellwig2010-05-271-9/+21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We don't name our generic fsync implementations very well currently. The no-op implementation for in-memory filesystems currently is called simple_sync_file which doesn't make too much sense to start with, the the generic one for simple filesystems is called simple_fsync which can lead to some confusion. This patch renames the generic file fsync method to generic_file_fsync to match the other generic_file_* routines it is supposed to be used with, and the no-op implementation to noop_fsync to make it obvious what to expect. In addition add some documentation for both methods. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* drop unused dentry argument to ->fsyncChristoph Hellwig2010-05-271-3/+3
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* FS / libfs: Implement simple_write_to_bufferJiri Slaby2010-05-101-0/+35
| | | | | | | | | | It will be used in suspend code and serves as an easy wrap around copy_from_user. Similar to simple_read_from_buffer, it takes care of transfers with proper lengths depending on available and count parameters and advances ppos appropriately. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
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