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* NFS: Don't apply NFS_MOUNT_FLAGMASK to text-based mountsTrond Myklebust2008-10-071-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | The point of introducing text-based mounts was to allow us to add functionality without having to worry about legacy binary mount formats. The mask should be there in order to ensure that binary formats don't start enabling features that they cannot support. There is no justification for applying it to the text mount path. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* NFS: Clean up nfs_sb_active/nfs_sb_deactiveTrond Myklebust2008-10-061-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | Instead of causing umount requests to block on server->active_wq while the asynchronous sillyrename deletes are executing, we can use the sb->s_active counter to obtain a reference to the super_block, and then release that reference in nfs_async_unlink_release(). Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* NFS: set transport defaults after mount option parsing is finishedTrond Myklebust2008-07-091-5/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | Move the UDP/TCP default timeo/retrans settings for text mounts to nfs_init_timeout_values(), which was were they were always being initialised (and sanity checked) for binary mounts. Document the default timeout values using appropriate #defines. Ensure that we initialise and sanity check the transport protocols that may have been specified by the user. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* nfs: replace remaining __FUNCTION__ occurrencesHarvey Harrison2008-05-161-4/+4
| | | | | | | | | | __FUNCTION__ is gcc-specific, use __func__ Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* nfs: use proc_create to setup de->proc_fopsDenis V. Lunev2008-04-291-8/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Use proc_create() to make sure that ->proc_fops be setup before gluing PDE to main tree. Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* proc: remove proc_root_fsAlexey Dobriyan2008-04-291-3/+3
| | | | | | | | Use creation by full path instead: "fs/foo". Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* NFSv4: Reintroduce machine credsTrond Myklebust2008-04-191-0/+7
| | | | | | | | | We need to try to ensure that we always use the same credentials whenever we re-establish the clientid on the server. If not, the server won't recognise that we're the same client, and so may not allow us to recover state. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* NFS: Save the values of the "mount*=" mount optionsChuck Lever2008-03-191-0/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Save the value of the mountproto= mountport= mountvers= and mountaddr= options so that these values can be displayed later via nfs_show_options(). This preserves the intent of the original mount options, should the file system need to be remounted based on what's displayed in /proc/mounts. Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* NFS: Save the value of the "port=" mount optionChuck Lever2008-03-191-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | During a remount based on the mount options displayed in /proc/mounts, we want to preserve the original behavior of the mount request. Let's save the original setting of the "port=" mount option in the mount's nfs_server structure. This allows us to simplify the default behavior of port setting for NFSv4 mounts: by default, NFSv2/3 mounts first try an RPC bind to determine the NFS server's port, unless the user specified the "port=" mount option; Users can force the client to skip the RPC bind by explicitly specifying "port=<value>". NFSv4, by contrast, assumes the NFS server port is 2049 and skips the RPC bind, unless the user specifies "port=". Users can force an RPC bind for NFSv4 by explicitly specifying "port=0". I added a couple of extra comments to clarify this behavior. Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* SUNRPC: Add a (empty for the moment) destructor for rpc_wait_queuesTrond Myklebust2008-02-281-0/+2
| | | | Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* Merge branch 'task_killable' of ↵Linus Torvalds2008-02-011-5/+1
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/willy/misc * 'task_killable' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/willy/misc: (22 commits) Remove commented-out code copied from NFS NFS: Switch from intr mount option to TASK_KILLABLE Add wait_for_completion_killable Add wait_event_killable Add schedule_timeout_killable Use mutex_lock_killable in vfs_readdir Add mutex_lock_killable Use lock_page_killable Add lock_page_killable Add fatal_signal_pending Add TASK_WAKEKILL exit: Use task_is_* signal: Use task_is_* sched: Use task_contributes_to_load, TASK_ALL and TASK_NORMAL ptrace: Use task_is_* power: Use task_is_* wait: Use TASK_NORMAL proc/base.c: Use task_is_* proc/array.c: Use TASK_REPORT perfmon: Use task_is_* ... Fixed up conflicts in NFS/sunrpc manually..
| * NFS: Switch from intr mount option to TASK_KILLABLEMatthew Wilcox2007-12-061-5/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | By using the TASK_KILLABLE infrastructure, we can get rid of the 'intr' mount option. We have to use _killable everywhere instead of _interruptible as we get rid of rpc_clnt_sigmask/sigunmask. Signed-off-by: Liam R. Howlett <howlett@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
* | NFSv4: Iterate through all nfs_clients when the server recalls a delegationTrond Myklebust2008-01-301-0/+35
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | The same delegation may have been handed out to more than one nfs_client. Ensure that if a recall occurs, we return all instances. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* | NLM: Introduce an arguments structure for nlmclnt_init()Chuck Lever2008-01-301-7/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Clean up: pass 5 arguments to nlmclnt_init() in a structure similar to the new nfs_client_initdata structure. Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
* | NFS: Invoke nlmclnt_init during NFS mount processingChuck Lever2008-01-301-13/+19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Cache an appropriate nlm_host structure in the NFS client's mount point metadata for later use. Note that there is no need to set NFS_MOUNT_NONLM in the error case -- if nfs_start_lockd() returns a non-zero value, its callers ensure that the mount request fails outright. Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* | NFS: Fix the 'proto=' mount optionTrond Myklebust2008-01-301-7/+13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently, if you have a server mounted using networking protocol, you cannot specify a different value using the 'proto=' option on another mountpoint. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* | NFS: Support per-mountpoint timeout parameters.Trond Myklebust2008-01-301-35/+47
| | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* | NFS: Ensure that we respect NFS_MAX_TCP_TIMEOUTTrond Myklebust2008-01-301-1/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | It isn't sufficient just to limit timeout->to_initval, we also need to limit to_maxval. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* | NFS: Support non-IPv4 addresses in nfs_parsed_mount_dataChuck Lever2008-01-301-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Replace the nfs_server and mount_server address fields in the nfs_parsed_mount_data structure with a "struct sockaddr_storage" instead of a "struct sockaddr_in". Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Cc: Aurelien Charbon <aurelien.charbon@ext.bull.net> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* | NFS: Adjust nfs_clone_mount structure to store "struct sockaddr *"Chuck Lever2008-01-301-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Change the addr field in the nfs_clone_mount structure to store a "struct sockaddr *" to support non-IPv4 addresses in the NFS client. Note this is mostly a cosmetic change, and does not actually allow referrals using IPv6 addresses. The existing referral code assumes that the server returns a string that represents an IPv4 address. This code needs to support hostnames and IPv6 addresses as well as IPv4 addresses, thus it will need to be reorganized completely (to handle DNS resolution in user space). Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Cc: Aurelien Charbon <aurelien.charbon@ext.bull.net> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* | NFS: Change nfs4_set_client() to accept struct sockaddr *Chuck Lever2008-01-301-10/+15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Adjust the arguments and callers of nfs4_set_client() to pass a "struct sockaddr *" instead of a "struct sockaddr_in *" to support non-IPv4 addresses in the NFS client. Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Cc: Aurelien Charbon <aurelien.charbon@ext.bull.net> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* | NFS: Change nfs_get_client() to take sockaddr *Chuck Lever2008-01-301-6/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Adjust arguments and callers of nfs_get_client() to pass a "struct sockaddr *" instead of "struct sockaddr_in *" to support non-IPv4 addresses. Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Cc: Aurelien Charbon <aurelien.charbon@ext.bull.net> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* | NFS: Change nfs_find_client() to take "struct sockaddr *"Chuck Lever2008-01-301-6/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Adjust arguments and callers of nfs_find_client() to pass a "struct sockaddr *" instead of "struct sockaddr_in *" to support non-IPv4 addresses. Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Cc: Aurelien Charbon <aurelien.charbon@ext.bull.net> Trond: Also fix up protocol version number argument in nfs_find_client() to use the correct u32 type. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* | NFS: Expand server address storage in nfs_client structChuck Lever2008-01-301-2/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Prepare for managing larger addresses in the NFS client by widening the nfs_client struct's cl_addr field. Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Cc: Aurelien Charbon <aurelien.charbon@ext.bull.net> (Modified to work with the new parameters for nfs_alloc_client) Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* | NFS: Add support for AF_INET6 addresses in __nfs_find_client()Trond Myklebust2008-01-301-2/+39
| | | | | | | | | | | | Introduce AF_INET6-specific address checking to __nfs_find_client(). Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* | NFS: eliminate NIPQUAD(clp->cl_addr.sin_addr)Chuck Lever2008-01-301-6/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | To ensure the NFS client displays IPv6 addresses properly, replace address family-specific NIPQUAD() invocations with a call to the RPC client to get a formatted string representing the remote peer's address. Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Cc: Aurelien Charbon <aurelien.charbon@ext.bull.net> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* | NFS: Remove the redundant nfs_client->cl_nfsversionTrond Myklebust2008-01-301-23/+18
| | | | | | | | | | | | We can get the same information from the rpc_ops structure instead. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* | NFS: Clean up the nfs_find_client function.Trond Myklebust2008-01-301-22/+30
| | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* | NFS: Clean up the nfs_client initialisationTrond Myklebust2008-01-301-20/+31
| | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* | NFS: Clean up address comparison in __nfs_find_client()Chuck Lever2008-01-301-2/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The address comparison in the __nfs_find_client() function is deceptive. It uses a memcmp() to check a pair of u32 fields for equality. Not only is this inefficient, but usually memcmp() is used for comparing two *whole* sockaddr_in's (which includes comparisons of the address family and port number), so it's easy to mistake the comparison here for a whole sockaddr comparison, which it isn't. So for clarity and efficiency, we replace the memcmp() with a simple test for equality between the two s_addr fields. This should have no behavioral effect. Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* | NFS: Stop sillyname renames and unmounts from racingSteve Dickson2008-01-301-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Added an active/deactive mechanism to the nfs_server structure allowing async operations to hold off umount until the operations are done. Signed-off-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* | NFSv2/v3: Fix a memory leak when using -onolockTrond Myklebust2007-12-111-3/+3
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Neil Brown said: > Hi Trond, > > We found that a machine which made moderately heavy use of > 'automount' was leaking some nfs data structures - particularly the > 4K allocated by rpc_alloc_iostats. > It turns out that this only happens with filesystems with -onolock > set. > The problem is that if NFS_MOUNT_NONLM is set, nfs_start_lockd doesn't > set server->destroy, so when the filesystem is unmounted, the > ->client_acl is not shutdown, and so several resources are still > held. Multiple mount/umount cycles will slowly eat away memory > several pages at a time. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Acked-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
* mm: bdi init hooksPeter Zijlstra2007-10-171-0/+6
| | | | | | | | | provide BDI constructor/destructor hooks [akpm@linux-foundation.org: compile fix] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* NFS: support RDMA mounts\"Talpey, Thomas\2007-10-091-0/+2
| | | | | | | Adds hooks to the string-based NFS mount to support an "rdma" protocol option. Signed-off-by: Tom Talpey <tmt@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* NFS/SUNRPC: use transport protocol naming\"Talpey, Thomas\2007-10-091-2/+3
| | | | | | | | Instead of an { address family, raw IP protocol number }-tuple, use the newly-defined RPC identifier when creating clients in the upper layers. Signed-off-by: Tom Talpey <tmt@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* NFS: use in-kernel mount argument structure for nfsv4 mounts\"Talpey, Thomas\2007-10-091-12/+12
| | | | | | | | | | The user-visible nfs4_mount_data does not contain sufficient data to describe new mount options, and also is now a legacy structure. Replace it with the internal nfs_parsed_mount_data for nfsv4 in-kernel use. Signed-off-by: Tom Talpey <tmt@netapp.com> Acked-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* NFS: use in-kernel mount argument structure for nfsv[23] mounts\"Talpey, Thomas\2007-10-091-8/+10
| | | | | | | | | | The user-visible nfs_mount_data does not contain sufficient data to describe new mount options, and also is now a legacy structure. Replace it with the internal nfs_parsed_mount_data for nfsv[23] in-kernel use. Signed-off-by: Tom Talpey <tmt@netapp.com> Acked-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* NFS: Fix an Oops in encode_lookup()Trond Myklebust2007-09-281-10/+19
| | | | | | | | | | | | It doesn't look as if the NFS file name limit is being initialised correctly in the struct nfs_server. Make sure that we limit whatever is being set in nfs_probe_fsinfo() and nfs_init_server(). Also ensure that readdirplus and nfs4_path_walk respect our file name limits. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Make NFS client use seq_list_xxx helpersPavel Emelianov2007-07-161-48/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | This includes /proc/fs/nfsfs/servers and /proc/fs/nfsfs/volumes entries. Both need to show the header and use the list_head. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org> Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* NFSv4: Reduce the chances of an open_owner identifier collisionTrond Myklebust2007-07-101-2/+1
| | | | | | Currently we just use a 32-bit counter. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* NFSv4: Don't reuse expired nfs4_state_owner structsTrond Myklebust2007-07-101-10/+0
| | | | | | That just confuses certain NFSv4 servers. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* SUNRPC: Remove redundant calls to rpciod_up()/rpciod_down()Trond Myklebust2007-07-101-15/+0
| | | | Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* Detach sched.h from mm.hAlexey Dobriyan2007-05-211-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | First thing mm.h does is including sched.h solely for can_do_mlock() inline function which has "current" dereference inside. By dealing with can_do_mlock() mm.h can be detached from sched.h which is good. See below, why. This patch a) removes unconditional inclusion of sched.h from mm.h b) makes can_do_mlock() normal function in mm/mlock.c c) exports can_do_mlock() to not break compilation d) adds sched.h inclusions back to files that were getting it indirectly. e) adds less bloated headers to some files (asm/signal.h, jiffies.h) that were getting them indirectly Net result is: a) mm.h users would get less code to open, read, preprocess, parse, ... if they don't need sched.h b) sched.h stops being dependency for significant number of files: on x86_64 allmodconfig touching sched.h results in recompile of 4083 files, after patch it's only 3744 (-8.3%). Cross-compile tested on all arm defconfigs, all mips defconfigs, all powerpc defconfigs, alpha alpha-up arm i386 i386-up i386-defconfig i386-allnoconfig ia64 ia64-up m68k mips parisc parisc-up powerpc powerpc-up s390 s390-up sparc sparc-up sparc64 sparc64-up um-x86_64 x86_64 x86_64-up x86_64-defconfig x86_64-allnoconfig as well as my two usual configs. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* header cleaning: don't include smp_lock.h when not usedRandy Dunlap2007-05-081-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | Remove includes of <linux/smp_lock.h> where it is not used/needed. Suggested by Al Viro. Builds cleanly on x86_64, i386, alpha, ia64, powerpc, sparc, sparc64, and arm (all 59 defconfigs). Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* NFS: Added support to turn off the NFSv3 READDIRPLUS RPC.Steve Dickson2007-04-301-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | READDIRPLUS can be a performance hindrance when the client is working with large directories. In addition, some servers still have bugs in their implementations (e.g. Tru64 returns wrong values for the fsid). Add a mount flag to enable users to turn it off at mount time following the implementation in Apple's NFS client. Signed-off-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* Merge branch 'master' of /home/trondmy/kernel/linux-2.6/Trond Myklebust2007-02-121-2/+2
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Conflicts: net/sunrpc/auth_gss/gss_krb5_crypto.c net/sunrpc/auth_gss/gss_spkm3_token.c net/sunrpc/clnt.c Merge with mainline and fix conflicts.
| * [PATCH] mark struct file_operations const 6Arjan van de Ven2007-02-121-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Many struct file_operations in the kernel can be "const". Marking them const moves these to the .rodata section, which avoids false sharing with potential dirty data. In addition it'll catch accidental writes at compile time to these shared resources. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | NFS: disconnect before retrying NFSv4 requests over TCPChuck Lever2007-02-121-3/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | RFC3530 section 3.1.1 states an NFSv4 client MUST NOT send a request twice on the same connection unless it is the NULL procedure. Section 3.1.1 suggests that the client should disconnect and reconnect if it wants to retry a request. Implement this by adding an rpc_clnt flag that an ULP can use to specify that the underlying transport should be disconnected on a major timeout. The NFSv4 client asserts this new flag, and requests no retries after a minor retransmit timeout. Note that disconnecting on a retransmit is in general not safe to do if the RPC client does not reuse the TCP port number when reconnecting. See http://bugzilla.linux-nfs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6 Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* | NFSv4: Fix Oops in nfs4_create_referral_serverTrond Myklebust2007-02-031-2/+7
|/ | | | | | | | The filehandle that is passed into nfs4_create_referral_server is not initialised. The expectation is that nfs4_create_referral_server will initialise it, and return it to the caller. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* WorkStruct: Pass the work_struct pointer instead of context dataDavid Howells2006-11-221-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pass the work_struct pointer to the work function rather than context data. The work function can use container_of() to work out the data. For the cases where the container of the work_struct may go away the moment the pending bit is cleared, it is made possible to defer the release of the structure by deferring the clearing of the pending bit. To make this work, an extra flag is introduced into the management side of the work_struct. This governs auto-release of the structure upon execution. Ordinarily, the work queue executor would release the work_struct for further scheduling or deallocation by clearing the pending bit prior to jumping to the work function. This means that, unless the driver makes some guarantee itself that the work_struct won't go away, the work function may not access anything else in the work_struct or its container lest they be deallocated.. This is a problem if the auxiliary data is taken away (as done by the last patch). However, if the pending bit is *not* cleared before jumping to the work function, then the work function *may* access the work_struct and its container with no problems. But then the work function must itself release the work_struct by calling work_release(). In most cases, automatic release is fine, so this is the default. Special initiators exist for the non-auto-release case (ending in _NAR). Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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