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2009-12-07NFS: Fix up the declaration of nfs4_restart_rpc when NFSv4 not configuredTrond Myklebust
Also rename it: it is used in generic code, and so should not have a 'nfs4' prefix. Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-12-05NFSv41: Clean up slot table managementTrond Myklebust
We no longer need to maintain a distinction between nfs41_sequence_done and nfs41_sequence_free_slot. This fixes a number of slot table leakages in the NFSv4.1 code. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-12-04nfs41: call free slot from nfs4_restart_rpcAndy Adamson
nfs41_sequence_free_slot can be called multiple times on SEQUENCE operation errors. No reason to inline nfs4_restart_rpc Reported-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@netapp.com> nfs_writeback_done and nfs_readpage_retry call nfs4_restart_rpc outside the error handler, and the slot is not freed prior to restarting in the rpc_prepare state during session reset. Fix this by moving the call to nfs41_sequence_free_slot from the error path of nfs41_sequence_done into nfs4_restart_rpc, and by removing the test for NFS4CLNT_SESSION_SETUP. Always free slot and goto the rpc prepare state on async errors. Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-08-12NFS: Fix an O_DIRECT Oops...Trond Myklebust
We can't call nfs_readdata_release()/nfs_writedata_release() without first initialising and referencing args.context. Doing so inside nfs_direct_read_schedule_segment()/nfs_direct_write_schedule_segment() causes an Oops. We should rather be calling nfs_readdata_free()/nfs_writedata_free() in those cases. Looking at the O_DIRECT code, the "struct nfs_direct_req" is already referencing the nfs_open_context for us. Since the readdata and writedata structures carry a reference to that, we can simplify things by getting rid of the extra nfs_open_context references, so that we can replace all instances of nfs_readdata_release()/nfs_writedata_release(). Reported-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Tested-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-07-12headers: smp_lock.h reduxAlexey Dobriyan
* Remove smp_lock.h from files which don't need it (including some headers!) * Add smp_lock.h to files which do need it * Make smp_lock.h include conditional in hardirq.h It's needed only for one kernel_locked() usage which is under CONFIG_PREEMPT This will make hardirq.h inclusion cheaper for every PREEMPT=n config (which includes allmodconfig/allyesconfig, BTW) Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-17nfs41: use rpc prepare call state for session resetAndy Adamson
[nfs41: change nfs4_restart_rpc argument] [nfs41: check for session not minorversion] [nfs41: trigger the state manager for session reset] Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com> [always define nfs4_restart_rpc] Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-06-17nfs41: read sequence setup/done supportAndy Adamson
Implement the read rpc_call_prepare method for asynchronuos nfs rpcs, call nfs41_setup_sequence from respective rpc_call_validate_args methods. Call nfs4_sequence_done from respective rpc_call_done methods. Note that we need to pass a pointer to the nfs_server in calls data for passing on to nfs4_sequence_done. Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com> [pnfs: client data server write validate and release] Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com> [move the nfs4_sequence_free_slot call in nfs_readpage_retry from] [nfs41: separate free slot from sequence done] [remove nfs_readargs.nfs_server, use calldata->inode instead] Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com> [nfs41: Support sessions with O_DIRECT] Signed-off-by: Dean Hildebrand <dhildeb@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com> [nfs41: nfs4_sequence_free_slot use nfs_client for data server] Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-06-17nfs41: set up seq_res.sr_slotidAndy Adamson
Initialize nfs4_sequence_res sr_slotid to NFS4_MAX_SLOT_TABLE. [was nfs41: sequence res use slotid] Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com> [pulled definition of struct nfs4_sequence_res.sr_slotid to here] Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-04-03NFS: Store pages from an NFS inode into a local cacheDavid Howells
Store pages from an NFS inode into the cache data storage object associated with that inode. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com> Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
2009-04-03NFS: Read pages from FS-Cache into an NFS inodeDavid Howells
Read pages from an FS-Cache data storage object representing an inode into an NFS inode. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com> Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
2009-04-03NFS: nfs_readpage_async() needs to be accessible as a fallback for local cachingDavid Howells
nfs_readpage_async() needs to be non-static so that it can be used as a fallback for the local on-disk caching should an EIO crop up when reading the cache. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com> Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
2008-12-23nfs: remove redundant tests on reading new pagesWu Fengguang
aops->readpages() and its NFS helper readpage_async_filler() will only be called to do readahead I/O for newly allocated pages. So it's not necessary to test for the always 0 dirty/uptodate page flags. The removal of nfs_wb_page() call also fixes a readahead bug: the NFS readahead has been synchronous since 2.6.23, because that call will clear PG_readahead, which is the reminder for asynchronous readahead. More background: the PG_readahead page flag is shared with PG_reclaim, one for read path and the other for write path. clear_page_dirty_for_io() unconditionally clears PG_readahead to prevent possible readahead residuals, assuming itself to be always called in the write path. However, NFS is one and the only exception in that it _always_ calls clear_page_dirty_for_io() in the read path, i.e. for readpages()/readpage(). Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <wfg@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-05-16nfs: replace remaining __FUNCTION__ occurrencesHarvey Harrison
__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>
2008-04-19NFS: Ensure that rpc_run_task() errors are propagated back to the callerTrond Myklebust
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-04-19NFS: Ensure that the read code cleans up properly when rpc_run_task() failsTrond Myklebust
In the case of readpage() we need to ensure that the pages get unlocked, and that the error is flagged. In the case of O_DIRECT, we need to ensure that the pages are all released. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-03-19nfs: remove duplicate initializations of nfs_read_data fieldFred Isaman
Signed-off-by: Fred Isaman <iisaman@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-03-19Merge branch 'hotfixes' into develTrond Myklebust
2008-03-19nfs: don't ignore return value from nfs_pageio_add_requestFred Isaman
Ignoring the return value from nfs_pageio_add_request can cause deadlocks. In read path: call nfs_pageio_add_request from readpage_async_filler assume at this point that there are requests already in desc, that can't be merged with the current request. so nfs_pageio_doio is fired up to clear out desc. assume something goes wrong in setting up the io, so desc->pg_error is set. This causes nfs_pageio_add_request to return 0, *WITHOUT* adding the original request. BUT, since return code is ignored, readpage_async_filler assumes it has been added, and does nothing further, leaving page locked. do_generic_mapping_read will eventually call lock_page, resulting in deadlock In write path: page is marked dirty by generic_perform_write nfs_writepages is called call nfs_pageio_add_request from nfs_page_async_flush assume at this point that there are requests already in desc, that can't be merged with the current request. so nfs_pageio_doio is fired up to clear out desc. assume something goes wrong in setting up the io, so desc->pg_error is set. This causes nfs_page_async_flush to return 0, *WITHOUT* adding the original request, yet marking the request as locked (PG_BUSY) and in writeback, clearing dirty marks. The next time a write is done to the page, deadlock will result as nfs_write_end calls nfs_update_request Signed-off-by: Fred Isaman <iisaman@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-02-28SUNRPC: Remove now-redundant RCU-safe rpc_task free pathTrond Myklebust
Now that we've tightened up the locking rules for RPC queue wakeups, we can remove the RCU-safe kfree calls... Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-02-25NFS: Ensure that the asynchronous RPC calls complete on nfsiod.Trond Myklebust
We want to ensure that rpc_call_ops that involve mntput() are run on nfsiod rather than on rpciod, so that they don't deadlock when the resulting umount calls rpc_shutdown_client(). Hence we specify that read, write and commit calls must complete on nfsiod. Ditto for NFSv4 open, lock, locku and close asynchronous calls. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-02-25NFS: Fix a deadlock with lazy umountTrond Myklebust
We can't allow rpc callback functions like task->tk_ops->rpc_call_prepare() and task->tk_ops->rpc_call_done() to call mntput() in any way, since that will cause a deadlock when the call to rpc_shutdown_client() attempts to wait on 'task' to complete. We can avoid the above deadlock by moving calls to mntput to task->tk_ops->rpc_release() callback, since at that time the task will be marked as completed, and so rpc_shutdown_client won't attempt to wait on it. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-02-05Pagecache zeroing: zero_user_segment, zero_user_segments and zero_userChristoph Lameter
Simplify page cache zeroing of segments of pages through 3 functions zero_user_segments(page, start1, end1, start2, end2) Zeros two segments of the page. It takes the position where to start and end the zeroing which avoids length calculations and makes code clearer. zero_user_segment(page, start, end) Same for a single segment. zero_user(page, start, length) Length variant for the case where we know the length. We remove the zero_user_page macro. Issues: 1. Its a macro. Inline functions are preferable. 2. The KM_USER0 macro is only defined for HIGHMEM. Having to treat this special case everywhere makes the code needlessly complex. The parameter for zeroing is always KM_USER0 except in one single case that we open code. Avoiding KM_USER0 makes a lot of code not having to be dealing with the special casing for HIGHMEM anymore. Dealing with kmap is only necessary for HIGHMEM configurations. In those configurations we use KM_USER0 like we do for a series of other functions defined in highmem.h. Since KM_USER0 is depends on HIGHMEM the existing zero_user_page function could not be a macro. zero_user_* functions introduced here can be be inline because that constant is not used when these functions are called. Also extract the flushing of the caches to be outside of the kmap. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix nfs and ntfs build] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix ntfs build some more] Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Steven French <sfrench@us.ibm.com> Cc: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com> Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> Cc: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com> Cc: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Cc: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com> Cc: Steven French <sfrench@us.ibm.com> Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Cc: 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>
2008-01-30nfs: obliterate NFS_FLAGS macroBenny Halevy
use NFS_I(inode)->flags instead Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-01-30NFS/SUNRPC: Convert users of rpc_init_task+rpc_execute to rpc_run_task()Trond Myklebust
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-01-30NFS: Clean up the (commit|read|write)_setup() callback routinesTrond Myklebust
Move the common code for setting up the nfs_write_data and nfs_read_data structures into fs/nfs/read.c, fs/nfs/write.c and fs/nfs/direct.c. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-01-30SUNRPC: Clean up the initialisation of priority queue scheduling info.Trond Myklebust
We want the default scheduling priority (priority == 0) to remain RPC_PRIORITY_NORMAL. Also ensure that the priority wait queue scheduling is per process id instead of sometimes being per thread, and sometimes being per inode. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-01-30SUNRPC: Cleanup of rpc_task initialisationTrond Myklebust
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-10-09NFS: Fix atime revalidation in read()Trond Myklebust
NFSv3 will correctly update atime on a read() call, so there is no need to set the NFS_INO_INVALID_ATIME flag unless the call to nfs_refresh_inode() fails. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-10-09NFS: Replace file->private_data with calls to nfs_file_open_context()Trond Myklebust
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-07-20mm: Remove slab destructors from kmem_cache_create().Paul Mundt
Slab destructors were no longer supported after Christoph's c59def9f222d44bb7e2f0a559f2906191a0862d7 change. They've been BUGs for both slab and slub, and slob never supported them either. This rips out support for the dtor pointer from kmem_cache_create() completely and fixes up every single callsite in the kernel (there were about 224, not including the slab allocator definitions themselves, or the documentation references). Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2007-07-10NFS: Replace vfsmount and dentry in nfs_open_context with struct pathTrond Myklebust
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-07-10NFS: Minor read optimisation...Trond Myklebust
Since PG_uptodate may now end up getting set during the call to nfs_wb_page(), we can avoid putting a read request on the wire in those situations. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-05-14NFS: use zero_user_pageNate Diller
Use zero_user_page() instead of the newly deprecated memclear_highpage_flush(). Signed-off-by: Nate Diller <nate.diller@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>
2007-04-30NFS: Fix a buffer overflow in the allocation of struct nfs_read/writedataTrond Myklebust
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-04-30NFS: Cleanup for nfs_readpages()Trond Myklebust
Do the coalescing of read requests into block sized requests at start of I/O as we scan through the pages instead of going through a second pass. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-04-30NFS: Another cleanup of the read/write request coalescing codeTrond Myklebust
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-04-30NFS: Cleanup the coalescing codeTrond Myklebust
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-02-03NFS: fix print format for tk_pidChuck Lever
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>
2007-02-03NFS: Remove nfs_readpage_sync()Trond Myklebust
It makes no sense to maintain 2 parallel systems for reading in pages. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-12-07Merge branch 'master' of /home/trondmy/kernel/linux-2.6/ into merge_linusTrond Myklebust
2006-12-07[PATCH] slab: remove kmem_cache_tChristoph Lameter
Replace all uses of kmem_cache_t with struct kmem_cache. The patch was generated using the following script: #!/bin/sh # # Replace one string by another in all the kernel sources. # set -e for file in `find * -name "*.c" -o -name "*.h"|xargs grep -l $1`; do quilt add $file sed -e "1,\$s/$1/$2/g" $file >/tmp/$$ mv /tmp/$$ $file quilt refresh done The script was run like this sh replace kmem_cache_t "struct kmem_cache" Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] slab: remove SLAB_NOFSChristoph Lameter
SLAB_NOFS is an alias of GFP_NOFS. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-06NFS: Cleanup: add common helper nfs_page_length()Trond Myklebust
Clean up a lot of ad-hoc page length calculations in fs/nfs/write.c Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-12-06NFS: Remove use of the Big Kernel Lock around calls to rpc_execute.Frank Filz
Remove use of the Big Kernel Lock around calls to rpc_execute. Signed-off-by: Frank Filz <ffilz@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-12-06NFS: Fix missing page_unlock() in nfs_readpageTrond Myklebust
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-12-06NFS: Fix asynchronous read error handlingTrond Myklebust
We must always call ->read_done() before we truncate the page data, or decide to flag an error. The reasons are that in NFSv2, ->read_done() is where the eof flag gets set. in NFSv3/v4 ->read_done() handles EJUKEBOX-type errors, and v4 state recovery. However, we need to mark the pages as uptodate before we deal with short read errors, since we may need to modify the nfs_read_data arguments. We therefore split the current nfs_readpage_result() into two parts: nfs_readpage_result(), which calls ->read_done() etc, and nfs_readpage_retry(), which subsequently handles short reads. Note: Removing the code that retries in case of a short read also fixes a bug in nfs_direct_read_result(), which used to return a corrupted number of bytes. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-12-06SUNRPC: Fix a potential race in rpc_wake_up_task()Trond Myklebust
Use RCU to ensure that we can safely call rpc_finish_wakeup after we've called __rpc_do_wake_up_task. If not, there is a theoretical race, in which the rpc_task finishes executing, and gets freed first. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-09-27[PATCH] Really ignore kmem_cache_destroy return valueAlexey Dobriyan
* Rougly half of callers already do it by not checking return value * Code in drivers/acpi/osl.c does the following to be sure: (void)kmem_cache_destroy(cache); * Those who check it printk something, however, slab_error already printed the name of failed cache. * XFS BUGs on failed kmem_cache_destroy which is not the decision low-level filesystem driver should make. Converted to ignore. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-22NFS: Make read() return an ESTALE if the file has been deletedTrond Myklebust
Currently, a read() request will return EIO even if the file has been deleted on the server, simply because that is what the VM will return if the call to readpage() fails to update the page. Ensure that readpage() marks the inode as stale if it receives an ESTALE. Then return that error to userland. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-09-22NFS: Share NFS superblocks per-protocol per-server per-FSIDDavid Howells
The attached patch makes NFS share superblocks between mounts from the same server and FSID over the same protocol. It does this by creating each superblock with a false root and returning the real root dentry in the vfsmount presented by get_sb(). The root dentry set starts off as an anonymous dentry if we don't already have the dentry for its inode, otherwise it simply returns the dentry we already have. We may thus end up with several trees of dentries in the superblock, and if at some later point one of anonymous tree roots is discovered by normal filesystem activity to be located in another tree within the superblock, the anonymous root is named and materialises attached to the second tree at the appropriate point. Why do it this way? Why not pass an extra argument to the mount() syscall to indicate the subpath and then pathwalk from the server root to the desired directory? You can't guarantee this will work for two reasons: (1) The root and intervening nodes may not be accessible to the client. With NFS2 and NFS3, for instance, mountd is called on the server to get the filehandle for the tip of a path. mountd won't give us handles for anything we don't have permission to access, and so we can't set up NFS inodes for such nodes, and so can't easily set up dentries (we'd have to have ghost inodes or something). With this patch we don't actually create dentries until we get handles from the server that we can use to set up their inodes, and we don't actually bind them into the tree until we know for sure where they go. (2) Inaccessible symbolic links. If we're asked to mount two exports from the server, eg: mount warthog:/warthog/aaa/xxx /mmm mount warthog:/warthog/bbb/yyy /nnn We may not be able to access anything nearer the root than xxx and yyy, but we may find out later that /mmm/www/yyy, say, is actually the same directory as the one mounted on /nnn. What we might then find out, for example, is that /warthog/bbb was actually a symbolic link to /warthog/aaa/xxx/www, but we can't actually determine that by talking to the server until /warthog is made available by NFS. This would lead to having constructed an errneous dentry tree which we can't easily fix. We can end up with a dentry marked as a directory when it should actually be a symlink, or we could end up with an apparently hardlinked directory. With this patch we need not make assumptions about the type of a dentry for which we can't retrieve information, nor need we assume we know its place in the grand scheme of things until we actually see that place. This patch reduces the possibility of aliasing in the inode and page caches for inodes that may be accessed by more than one NFS export. It also reduces the number of superblocks required for NFS where there are many NFS exports being used from a server (home directory server + autofs for example). This in turn makes it simpler to do local caching of network filesystems, as it can then be guaranteed that there won't be links from multiple inodes in separate superblocks to the same cache file. Obviously, cache aliasing between different levels of NFS protocol could still be a problem, but at least that gives us another key to use when indexing the cache. This patch makes the following changes: (1) The server record construction/destruction has been abstracted out into its own set of functions to make things easier to get right. These have been moved into fs/nfs/client.c. All the code in fs/nfs/client.c has to do with the management of connections to servers, and doesn't touch superblocks in any way; the remaining code in fs/nfs/super.c has to do with VFS superblock management. (2) The sequence of events undertaken by NFS mount is now reordered: (a) A volume representation (struct nfs_server) is allocated. (b) A server representation (struct nfs_client) is acquired. This may be allocated or shared, and is keyed on server address, port and NFS version. (c) If allocated, the client representation is initialised. The state member variable of nfs_client is used to prevent a race during initialisation from two mounts. (d) For NFS4 a simple pathwalk is performed, walking from FH to FH to find the root filehandle for the mount (fs/nfs/getroot.c). For NFS2/3 we are given the root FH in advance. (e) The volume FSID is probed for on the root FH. (f) The volume representation is initialised from the FSINFO record retrieved on the root FH. (g) sget() is called to acquire a superblock. This may be allocated or shared, keyed on client pointer and FSID. (h) If allocated, the superblock is initialised. (i) If the superblock is shared, then the new nfs_server record is discarded. (j) The root dentry for this mount is looked up from the root FH. (k) The root dentry for this mount is assigned to the vfsmount. (3) nfs_readdir_lookup() creates dentries for each of the entries readdir() returns; this function now attaches disconnected trees from alternate roots that happen to be discovered attached to a directory being read (in the same way nfs_lookup() is made to do for lookup ops). The new d_materialise_unique() function is now used to do this, thus permitting the whole thing to be done under one set of locks, and thus avoiding any race between mount and lookup operations on the same directory. (4) The client management code uses a new debug facility: NFSDBG_CLIENT which is set by echoing 1024 to /proc/net/sunrpc/nfs_debug. (5) Clone mounts are now called xdev mounts. (6) Use the dentry passed to the statfs() op as the handle for retrieving fs statistics rather than the root dentry of the superblock (which is now a dummy). Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>