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Trond Myklebust
bcb71bba7e NFS: Another cleanup of the read/write request coalescing code
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-04-30 22:17:04 -07:00
Trond Myklebust
d8a5ad75cc NFS: Cleanup the coalescing code
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-04-30 22:17:04 -07:00
Trond Myklebust
91e59c368c NFS: Don't wait for congestion in nfs_update_request()
It is redundant, and will interfere with the call to
balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr in generic_file_write().

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-04-30 22:17:03 -07:00
Amnon Aaronsohn
1a0ba9ae48 NFS: statfs error-handling fix
The nfs statfs function returns a success code on error, and fills the
output buffer with invalid values.  The attached patch makes it return a
correct error code instead.

Signed-off-by: Amnon Aaronsohn <amnonaar@gmail.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
 (Modified patch to reinstate the dprintk())
2007-04-30 22:17:02 -07:00
Trond Myklebust
d585158b60 NFS: Fix nfs_set_page_dirty()
Be more careful about testing page->mapping.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-04-30 22:17:02 -07:00
Trond Myklebust
2b82f190c8 NFS: Fix race in nfs_set_page_dirty
Protect nfs_set_page_dirty() against races with nfs_inode_add_request.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-04-20 22:56:30 -07:00
Trond Myklebust
612c9384fd NFS: Fix the 'desynchronized value of nfs_i.ncommit' error
Redirtying a request that is already marked for commit will screw up the
accounting for NR_UNSTABLE_NFS as well as nfs_i.ncommit.
Ensure that all requests on the commit queue are labelled with the
PG_NEED_COMMIT flag, and avoid moving them onto the dirty list inside
nfs_page_mark_flush().

Also inline nfs_mark_request_dirty() into nfs_page_mark_flush() for
atomicity reasons. Avoid dropping the spinlock until we're done marking the
request in the radix tree and have added it to the ->dirty list.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-04-20 22:56:29 -07:00
Trond Myklebust
6d677e3504 NFS: Don't clear PG_writeback until after we've processed unstable writes
Ensure that we don't release the PG_writeback lock until after the page has
either been redirtied, or queued on the nfs_inode 'commit' list.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-04-20 22:56:29 -07:00
Trond Myklebust
8e821cad12 NFS: clean up the unstable write code
Get rid of the inlined #ifdefs.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-04-20 22:56:29 -07:00
Trond Myklebust
eb4cac10d9 NFS: Fix a list corruption problem
We must remove the request from whatever list it is currently on before we
can add it to the dirty list.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-04-15 16:48:11 -07:00
Trond Myklebust
5a6d41b32a NFS: Ensure PG_writeback is cleared when writeback fails
If the writebacks are cancelled via nfs_cancel_dirty_list, or due to the
memory allocation failing in nfs_flush_one/nfs_flush_multi, then we must
ensure that the PG_writeback flag is cleared.

Also ensure that we actually own the PG_writeback flag whenever we
schedule a new writeback by making nfs_set_page_writeback() return the
value of test_set_page_writeback().
The PG_writeback page flag ends up replacing the functionality of the
PG_FLUSHING nfs_page flag, so we rip that out too.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-04-14 21:46:48 -07:00
Trond Myklebust
60fa3f769f NFS: Fix two bugs in the O_DIRECT write code
Do not flag an error if the COMMIT call fails and we decide to resend the
writes. Let the resend flag the error if it fails.

If a write has failed, then nfs_direct_write_result should not attempt to
send a commit. It should just exit asap and return the error to the user.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-04-14 21:46:48 -07:00
Trond Myklebust
e1552e1998 NFS: Fix an Oops in nfs_setattr()
It looks like nfs_setattr() and nfs_rename() also need to test whether the
target is a regular file before calling nfs_wb_all()...

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-04-14 21:46:47 -07:00
Trond Myklebust
634707388b [PATCH] nfs: nfs_getattr() can't call nfs_sync_mapping_range() for non-regular files
Looks like we need a check in nfs_getattr() for a regular file. It makes
no sense to call nfs_sync_mapping_range() on anything else. I think that
should fix your problem: it will stop the NFS client from interfering
with dirty pages on that inode's mapping.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-03-16 19:25:06 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra
89a09141df [PATCH] nfs: fix congestion control
The current NFS client congestion logic is severly broken, it marks the
backing device congested during each nfs_writepages() call but doesn't
mirror this in nfs_writepage() which makes for deadlocks.  Also it
implements its own waitqueue.

Replace this by a more regular congestion implementation that puts a cap on
the number of active writeback pages and uses the bdi congestion waitqueue.

Also always use an interruptible wait since it makes sense to be able to
SIGKILL the process even for mounts without 'intr'.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-03-16 19:25:05 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
0b4d414714 [PATCH] sysctl: remove insert_at_head from register_sysctl
The semantic effect of insert_at_head is that it would allow new registered
sysctl entries to override existing sysctl entries of the same name.  Which is
pain for caching and the proc interface never implemented.

I have done an audit and discovered that none of the current users of
register_sysctl care as (excpet for directories) they do not register
duplicate sysctl entries.

So this patch simply removes the support for overriding existing entries in
the sys_sysctl interface since no one uses it or cares and it makes future
enhancments harder.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Cc: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-14 08:09:59 -08:00
Tim Schmielau
cd354f1ae7 [PATCH] remove many unneeded #includes of sched.h
After Al Viro (finally) succeeded in removing the sched.h #include in module.h
recently, it makes sense again to remove other superfluous sched.h includes.
There are quite a lot of files which include it but don't actually need
anything defined in there.  Presumably these includes were once needed for
macros that used to live in sched.h, but moved to other header files in the
course of cleaning it up.

To ease the pain, this time I did not fiddle with any header files and only
removed #includes from .c-files, which tend to cause less trouble.

Compile tested against 2.6.20-rc2 and 2.6.20-rc2-mm2 (with offsets) on alpha,
arm, i386, ia64, mips, powerpc, and x86_64 with allnoconfig, defconfig,
allmodconfig, and allyesconfig as well as a few randconfigs on x86_64 and all
configs in arch/arm/configs on arm.  I also checked that no new warnings were
introduced by the patch (actually, some warnings are removed that were emitted
by unnecessarily included header files).

Signed-off-by: Tim Schmielau <tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-14 08:09:54 -08:00
Trond Myklebust
d9bc125caf Merge branch 'master' of /home/trondmy/kernel/linux-2.6/
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.
2007-02-12 22:43:25 -08:00
Chuck Lever
43d78ef2ba NFS: disconnect before retrying NFSv4 requests over TCP
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>
2007-02-12 22:40:45 -08:00
Trond Myklebust
a301b77771 NFS: Don't use ClearPageUptodate() when writeback fails
ClearPageUptodate() will just cause races here. What we really want to do
is to invalidate the page cache.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-02-12 22:40:38 -08:00
Trond Myklebust
b0c4fddca2 NFS: Cleanup - avoid rereading 'jiffies' more than once in the same routine
Micro-optimisations for nfs_fhget() and nfs_wcc_update_inode().

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-02-12 22:40:30 -08:00
Trond Myklebust
3e7d950a52 NFS: Fix a wraparound issue with nfsi->cache_change_attribute
Fix wraparound issue with nfsi->cache_change_attribute. If it is found
to lie in the future, then update it to lie in the past. Patch based on
a suggestion by Neil Brown.

..and minor micro-optimisation: avoid reading 'jiffies' more than once in
nfs_update_inode().

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-02-12 22:40:22 -08:00
Josef 'Jeff' Sipek
ee9b6d61a2 [PATCH] Mark struct super_operations const
This patch is inspired by Arjan's "Patch series to mark struct
file_operations and struct inode_operations const".

Compile tested with gcc & sparse.

Signed-off-by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-12 09:48:47 -08:00
Arjan van de Ven
92e1d5be91 [PATCH] mark struct inode_operations const 2
Many struct inode_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>
2007-02-12 09:48:46 -08:00
Arjan van de Ven
00977a59b9 [PATCH] mark struct file_operations const 6
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>
2007-02-12 09:48:45 -08:00
Adrian Bunk
b5d5dfbd59 [PATCH] include/linux/nfsd/const.h: remove NFS_SUPER_MAGIC
NFS_SUPER_MAGIC is already defined in include/linux/magic.h

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-12 09:48:36 -08:00
Chuck Lever
27459f0940 [PATCH] knfsd: SUNRPC: Provide room in svc_rqst for larger addresses
Expand the rq_addr field to allow it to contain larger addresses.

Specifically, we replace a 'sockaddr_in' with a 'sockaddr_storage', then
everywhere the 'sockaddr_in' was referenced, we use instead an accessor
function (svc_addr_in) which safely casts the _storage to _in.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Cc: Aurelien Charbon <aurelien.charbon@ext.bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-12 09:48:36 -08:00
Chuck Lever
ad06e4bd62 [PATCH] knfsd: SUNRPC: Add a function to format the address in an svc_rqst for printing
There are loads of places where the RPC server assumes that the rq_addr fields
contains an IPv4 address.  Top among these are error and debugging messages
that display the server's IP address.

Let's refactor the address printing into a separate function that's smart
enough to figure out the difference between IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Cc: Aurelien Charbon <aurelien.charbon@ext.bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-12 09:48:35 -08:00
Chuck Lever
482fb94e1b [PATCH] knfsd: SUNRPC: allow creating an RPC service without registering with portmapper
Sometimes we need to create an RPC service but not register it with the local
portmapper.  NFSv4 delegation callback, for example.

Change the svc_makesock() API to allow optionally creating temporary or
permanent sockets, optionally registering with the local portmapper, and make
it return the ephemeral port of the new socket.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Cc: Aurelien Charbon <aurelien.charbon@ext.bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-12 09:48:35 -08:00
Trond Myklebust
588a700b26 NFSv4: /proc/mounts displays the wrong server name for referrals
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-02-03 15:35:10 -08:00
Chuck Lever
a3f565b1e5 NFS: fix print format for tk_pid
The tk_pid field is an unsigned short.  The proper print format specifier for
that type is %5u, not %4d.

Also clean up some miscellaneous print formatting nits.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-02-03 15:35:09 -08:00
Trond Myklebust
e148582e10 NFSv4: Add lockdep checks to nfs4_wait_clnt_recover()
Attempt to detect deadlocks due to caller holding locks on clp->cl_sem

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-02-03 15:35:08 -08:00
Trond Myklebust
a6a352e93d NFSv4: Don't start state recovery in nfs4_close_done()
We might not even have any open files at this point...

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-02-03 15:35:08 -08:00
Trond Myklebust
7c85d9007d NFS: Fixup some outdated comments...
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-02-03 15:35:07 -08:00
Trond Myklebust
d30c8348a4 NFS: nfs_writepages() cleanup
Strip out the call to nfs_commit_inode(), and allow that to be done by
nfs_write_inode().

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-02-03 15:35:07 -08:00
Trond Myklebust
f40313ac39 NFS: Micro-optimisation for nfs_wb_page()
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-02-03 15:35:07 -08:00
Trond Myklebust
02241bc47e NFS: Ensure that ->writepage() uses flush_stable() when reclaiming pages
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-02-03 15:35:06 -08:00
Trond Myklebust
8e0969f045 NFS: Remove nfs_readpage_sync()
It makes no sense to maintain 2 parallel systems for reading in pages.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-02-03 15:35:06 -08:00
Trond Myklebust
c228fd3aee NFSv4: Cleanups for fs_locations code.
Start long arduous project...  What the hell is

	struct dentry = {};

all about?

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-02-03 15:35:06 -08:00
Trond Myklebust
faebf4e2bb NFSv4: Don't require that NFSv4 mount paths begin with '/'
Addresses the regression noted in
  http://bugzilla.linux-nfs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134

Also mark a couple of other regressions as requiring fixing.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-02-03 15:35:05 -08:00
Trond Myklebust
c79ba787c1 NFS: Dont clobber more uptodate values in nfs_set_verifier()
nfs_lookup_revalidate and friends are not serialised, so it is currently
quite possible for the dentry to be revalidated, and then have the
updated verifier replaced with an older value by another process.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-02-03 15:35:05 -08:00
Trond Myklebust
ef75c7974b NFS: Also use readdir info to revalidate positive dentries
If the fileid of the cached dentry fails to match that returned by
the readdir call, then we should also d_drop. Try to take into account the
fact that on NFSv4, readdir may return the "mounted_on_fileid" by looking
for submounts.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-02-03 15:35:04 -08:00
Trond Myklebust
df1d5d23d3 NFS: Fix a readdir/lookup inefficiency.
Make sure that nfs_readdir_lookup() handles negative dentries correctly.
If d_lookup() returns a negative dentry, then we need to d_drop() that
since readdir shows that it should be positive.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-02-03 15:35:04 -08:00
Trond Myklebust
ccfeb50623 NFS: Fix up "rm -rf"...
When a file is being scheduled for deletion by means of the sillyrename
mechanism, it makes sense to start out writeback of the dirty data as
soon as possible in order to ensure that the delete can occur. Examples of
cases where this is an issue include "rm -rf", which will busy-wait until
the file is closed, and the sillyrename completes.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-02-03 15:35:04 -08:00
Trond Myklebust
ab91f264cf NFSv4: Fix NFS4_enc_server_caps_sz/NFS4_dec_server_caps_sz
Insert missing encode_putfh_maxsz/decode_putfh_maxsz

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-02-03 15:35:03 -08:00
Trond Myklebust
f2d0d85e58 NFSv4: Fix Oops in nfs4_create_referral_server
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>
2007-02-03 15:35:03 -08:00
Neil Brown
46bae1a9a7 [PATCH] Remove warning: VFS is out of sync with lock manager
But keep it as a dprintk

The message can be generated in a quite normal situation:
 If a 'lock' request is interrupted, then the lock client needs to
  record that the server has the lock, incase it does.
 When we come the unlock, the server might say it doesn't, even
  though we think it does (or might) and this generates the message.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-01-30 16:01:35 -08:00
Trond Myklebust
717d44e849 [PATCH] NFS: Fix races in nfs_revalidate_mapping()
Prevent the call to invalidate_inode_pages2() from racing with file writes
by taking the inode->i_mutex across the page cache flush and invalidate.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-01-24 12:31:06 -08:00
Trond Myklebust
e3db7691e9 [PATCH] NFS: Fix race in nfs_release_page()
NFS: Fix race in nfs_release_page()

    invalidate_inode_pages2() may find the dirty bit has been set on a page
    owing to the fact that the page may still be mapped after it was locked.
    Only after the call to unmap_mapping_range() are we sure that the page
    can no longer be dirtied.
    In order to fix this, NFS has hooked the releasepage() method and tries
    to write the page out between the call to unmap_mapping_range() and the
    call to remove_mapping(). This, however leads to deadlocks in the page
    reclaim code, where the page may be locked without holding a reference
    to the inode or dentry.

    Fix is to add a new address_space_operation, launder_page(), which will
    attempt to write out a dirty page without releasing the page lock.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

    Also, the bare SetPageDirty() can skew all sort of accounting leading to
    other nasties.

[akpm@osdl.org: cleanup]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2007-01-11 18:18:21 -08:00
Robert P. J. Day
5cbded585d [PATCH] getting rid of all casts of k[cmz]alloc() calls
Run this:

	#!/bin/sh
	for f in $(grep -Erl "\([^\)]*\) *k[cmz]alloc" *) ; do
	  echo "De-casting $f..."
	  perl -pi -e "s/ ?= ?\([^\)]*\) *(k[cmz]alloc) *\(/ = \1\(/" $f
	done

And then go through and reinstate those cases where code is casting pointers
to non-pointers.

And then drop a few hunks which conflicted with outstanding work.

Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>, Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Cc: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Cc: Steven French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Cc: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-13 09:05:58 -08:00