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J. Bruce Fields
088406bcf6 [PATCH] nfsd: fix spurious error return from nfsd_create in async case
Commit 6264d69d7d modified the nfsd_create()
error handling in such a way that nfsd_create will usually return
nfserr_perm even when succesful, if the export has the async export option.

This introduced a regression that could cause mkdir() to always return a
permissions error, even though the directory in question was actually
succesfully created.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Acked-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-11-08 18:29:25 -08:00
J. Bruce Fields
81ac95c556 [PATCH] nfsd4: fix open-create permissions
In the case where an open creates the file, we shouldn't be rechecking
permissions to open the file; the open succeeds regardless of what the new
file's mode bits say.

This patch fixes the problem, but only by introducing yet another parameter
to nfsd_create_v3.  This is ugly.  This will be fixed by later patches.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Acked-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-11-08 18:29:23 -08:00
Al Viro
6264d69d7d [PATCH] nfsd: vfs.c endianness annotations
don't use the same variable to store NFS and host error values

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Acked-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-20 10:26:41 -07:00
J.Bruce Fields
b66285cee3 [PATCH] knfsd: nfsd4: acls: fix handling of zero-length acls
It is legal to have zero-length NFSv4 acls; they just deny everything.

Also, nfs4_acl_nfsv4_to_posix will always return with pacl and dpacl set on
success, so the caller doesn't need to check this.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-04 07:55:20 -07:00
Greg Banks
fce1456a19 [PATCH] knfsd: make nfsd readahead params cache SMP-friendly
Make the nfsd read-ahead params cache more SMP-friendly by changing the single
global list and lock into a fixed 16-bucket hashtable with per-bucket locks.
This reduces spinlock contention in nfsd_read() on read-heavy workloads on
multiprocessor servers.

Testing was on a 4 CPU 4 NIC Altix using 4 IRIX clients each doing 1K
streaming reads at full line rate.  The server had 128 nfsd threads, which
sizes the RA cache at 256 entries, of which only a handful were used.  Flat
profiling shows nfsd_read(), including the inlined nfsd_get_raparms(), taking
10.4% of each CPU.  This patch drops the contribution from nfsd() to 1.71% for
each CPU.

Signed-off-by: Greg Banks <gnb@melbourne.sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-04 07:55:16 -07:00
NeilBrown
4452435948 [PATCH] knfsd: Replace two page lists in struct svc_rqst with one
We are planning to increase RPCSVC_MAXPAGES from about 8 to about 256.  This
means we need to be a bit careful about arrays of size RPCSVC_MAXPAGES.

struct svc_rqst contains two such arrays.  However the there are never more
that RPCSVC_MAXPAGES pages in the two arrays together, so only one array is
needed.

The two arrays are for the pages holding the request, and the pages holding
the reply.  Instead of two arrays, we can simply keep an index into where the
first reply page is.

This patch also removes a number of small inline functions that probably
server to obscure what is going on rather than clarify it, and opencode the
needed functionality.

Also remove the 'rq_restailpage' variable as it is *always* 0.  i.e.  if the
response 'xdr' structure has a non-empty tail it is always in the same pages
as the head.

 check counters are initilised and incr properly
 check for consistant usage of ++ etc
 maybe extra some inlines for common approach
 general review

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Magnus Maatta <novell@kiruna.se>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-04 07:55:15 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra
12fd352038 [PATCH] nfsd: lockdep annotation
while doing a kernel make modules_install install over an NFS mount.

  =============================================
  [ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ]
  ---------------------------------------------
  nfsd/9550 is trying to acquire lock:
   (&inode->i_mutex){--..}, at: [<c034c845>] mutex_lock+0x1c/0x1f

  but task is already holding lock:
   (&inode->i_mutex){--..}, at: [<c034c845>] mutex_lock+0x1c/0x1f

  other info that might help us debug this:
  2 locks held by nfsd/9550:
   #0:  (hash_sem){..--}, at: [<cc895223>] exp_readlock+0xd/0xf [nfsd]
   #1:  (&inode->i_mutex){--..}, at: [<c034c845>] mutex_lock+0x1c/0x1f

  stack backtrace:
   [<c0103508>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x58/0x152
   [<c0103b8b>] show_trace+0xd/0x10
   [<c0103c2f>] dump_stack+0x19/0x1b
   [<c012aa57>] __lock_acquire+0x77a/0x9a3
   [<c012af4a>] lock_acquire+0x60/0x80
   [<c034c6c2>] __mutex_lock_slowpath+0xa7/0x20e
   [<c034c845>] mutex_lock+0x1c/0x1f
   [<c0162edc>] vfs_unlink+0x34/0x8a
   [<cc891d98>] nfsd_unlink+0x18f/0x1e2 [nfsd]
   [<cc89884f>] nfsd3_proc_remove+0x95/0xa2 [nfsd]
   [<cc88f0d4>] nfsd_dispatch+0xc0/0x178 [nfsd]
   [<c033e84d>] svc_process+0x3a5/0x5ed
   [<cc88f5ba>] nfsd+0x1a7/0x305 [nfsd]
   [<c0101005>] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0xb
  DWARF2 unwinder stuck at kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0xb
  Leftover inexact backtrace:
   [<c0103b8b>] show_trace+0xd/0x10
   [<c0103c2f>] dump_stack+0x19/0x1b
   [<c012aa57>] __lock_acquire+0x77a/0x9a3
   [<c012af4a>] lock_acquire+0x60/0x80
   [<c034c6c2>] __mutex_lock_slowpath+0xa7/0x20e
   [<c034c845>] mutex_lock+0x1c/0x1f
   [<c0162edc>] vfs_unlink+0x34/0x8a
   [<cc891d98>] nfsd_unlink+0x18f/0x1e2 [nfsd]
   [<cc89884f>] nfsd3_proc_remove+0x95/0xa2 [nfsd]
   [<cc88f0d4>] nfsd_dispatch+0xc0/0x178 [nfsd]
   [<c033e84d>] svc_process+0x3a5/0x5ed
   [<cc88f5ba>] nfsd+0x1a7/0x305 [nfsd]
   [<c0101005>] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0xb

  =============================================
  [ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ]
  ---------------------------------------------
  nfsd/9580 is trying to acquire lock:
   (&inode->i_mutex){--..}, at: [<c034cc1d>] mutex_lock+0x1c/0x1f

  but task is already holding lock:
   (&inode->i_mutex){--..}, at: [<c034cc1d>] mutex_lock+0x1c/0x1f

  other info that might help us debug this:
  2 locks held by nfsd/9580:
   #0:  (hash_sem){..--}, at: [<cc89522b>] exp_readlock+0xd/0xf [nfsd]
   #1:  (&inode->i_mutex){--..}, at: [<c034cc1d>] mutex_lock+0x1c/0x1f

  stack backtrace:
   [<c0103508>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x58/0x152
   [<c0103b8b>] show_trace+0xd/0x10
   [<c0103c2f>] dump_stack+0x19/0x1b
   [<c012aa63>] __lock_acquire+0x77a/0x9a3
   [<c012af56>] lock_acquire+0x60/0x80
   [<c034ca9a>] __mutex_lock_slowpath+0xa7/0x20e
   [<c034cc1d>] mutex_lock+0x1c/0x1f
   [<cc892ad1>] nfsd_setattr+0x2c8/0x499 [nfsd]
   [<cc893ede>] nfsd_create_v3+0x31b/0x4ac [nfsd]
   [<cc8984a1>] nfsd3_proc_create+0x128/0x138 [nfsd]
   [<cc88f0d4>] nfsd_dispatch+0xc0/0x178 [nfsd]
   [<c033ec1d>] svc_process+0x3a5/0x5ed
   [<cc88f5ba>] nfsd+0x1a7/0x305 [nfsd]
   [<c0101005>] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0xb
  DWARF2 unwinder stuck at kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0xb
  Leftover inexact backtrace:
   [<c0103b8b>] show_trace+0xd/0x10
   [<c0103c2f>] dump_stack+0x19/0x1b
   [<c012aa63>] __lock_acquire+0x77a/0x9a3
   [<c012af56>] lock_acquire+0x60/0x80
   [<c034ca9a>] __mutex_lock_slowpath+0xa7/0x20e
   [<c034cc1d>] mutex_lock+0x1c/0x1f
   [<cc892ad1>] nfsd_setattr+0x2c8/0x499 [nfsd]
   [<cc893ede>] nfsd_create_v3+0x31b/0x4ac [nfsd]
   [<cc8984a1>] nfsd3_proc_create+0x128/0x138 [nfsd]
   [<cc88f0d4>] nfsd_dispatch+0xc0/0x178 [nfsd]
   [<c033ec1d>] svc_process+0x3a5/0x5ed
   [<cc88f5ba>] nfsd+0x1a7/0x305 [nfsd]
   [<c0101005>] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0xb

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-02 07:57:20 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
22a3e233ca Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial:
  Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>
  remove obsolete swsusp_encrypt
  arch/arm26/Kconfig typos
  Documentation/IPMI typos
  Kconfig: Typos in net/sched/Kconfig
  v9fs: do not include linux/version.h
  Documentation/DocBook/mtdnand.tmpl: typo fixes
  typo fixes: specfic -> specific
  typo fixes in Documentation/networking/pktgen.txt
  typo fixes: occuring -> occurring
  typo fixes: infomation -> information
  typo fixes: disadvantadge -> disadvantage
  typo fixes: aquire -> acquire
  typo fixes: mecanism -> mechanism
  typo fixes: bandwith -> bandwidth
  fix a typo in the RTC_CLASS help text
  smb is no longer maintained

Manually merged trivial conflict in arch/um/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
2006-06-30 15:39:30 -07:00
J. Bruce Fields
5c04c46aec [PATCH] knfsd: nfsd: mark rqstp to prevent use of sendfile in privacy case
Add a rq_sendfile_ok flag to svc_rqst which will be cleared in the privacy
case so that the wrapping code will get copies of the read data instead of
real page cache pages.  This makes life simpler when we encrypt the response.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-30 11:25:41 -07:00
J. Bruce Fields
9ecb6a08d8 [PATCH] knfsd: nfsd4: fix open flag passing
Since nfsv4 actually keeps around the file descriptors it gets from open
(instead of just using them for a single read or write operation), we need to
make sure that we can do RDWR opens and not just RDONLY/WRONLY.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-30 11:25:40 -07:00
David M. Richter
270d56e536 [PATCH] knfsd: nfsd: fix misplaced fh_unlock() in nfsd_link()
In the event that lookup_one_len() fails in nfsd_link(), fh_unlock() is
skipped and locks are held overlong.

Patch was tested on 2.6.17-rc2 by causing lookup_one_len() to fail and
verifying that fh_unlock() gets called appropriately.

Signed-off-by: David M. Richter <richterd@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-30 11:25:40 -07:00
NeilBrown
a56f39375a [PATCH] knfsd: improve the test for cross-device-rename in nfsd
Just testing the i_sb isn't really enough, at least the vfsmnt must be the
same.  Thanks Al.

Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-30 11:25:39 -07:00
Jörn Engel
6ab3d5624e Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>
Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
David Howells
726c334223 [PATCH] VFS: Permit filesystem to perform statfs with a known root dentry
Give the statfs superblock operation a dentry pointer rather than a superblock
pointer.

This complements the get_sb() patch.  That reduced the significance of
sb->s_root, allowing NFS to place a fake root there.  However, NFS does
require a dentry to use as a target for the statfs operation.  This permits
the root in the vfsmount to be used instead.

linux/mount.h has been added where necessary to make allyesconfig build
successfully.

Interest has also been expressed for use with the FUSE and XFS filesystems.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23 07:42:45 -07:00
Florin Malita
9ccfc29c67 [PATCH] nfsd: sign conversion obscuring errors in nfsd_set_posix_acl()
Assigning the result of posix_acl_to_xattr() to an unsigned data type
(size/size_t) obscures possible errors.

Coverity CID: 1206.

Signed-off-by: Florin Malita <fmalita@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-21 12:59:17 -07:00
NeilBrown
b5872b0dcc [PATCH] knfsd: nfsd4: fix acl xattr length return
We should be using the length from the second vfs_getxattr, in case it
changed.  (Note: there's still a small race here; we could end up returning
-ENOMEM if the length increased between the first and second call.  I don't
know whether it's worth spending a lot of effort to fix that.)

This makes XFS ACLs usable on NFS exports, which they currently aren't, since
XFS appears to be returning a too-large value for vfs_getxattr() when it's
passed a NULL buffer.  So there's probably an XFS bug here too, though since
getxattr with a NULL buffer is usually used to decide how much memory to
allocate, it may be a fairly harmless bug in most cases.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11 06:18:51 -07:00
Arjan van de Ven
99ac48f54a [PATCH] mark f_ops const in the inode
Mark the f_ops members of inodes as const, as well as fix the
ripple-through this causes by places that copy this f_ops and then "do
stuff" with it.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-28 09:16:05 -08:00
NeilBrown
45bd3b3dff [PATCH] knfsd: Fix some more errno/nfserr confusion in vfs.c
nfsd_sync* return an errno, which usually needs to be converted to an errno,
sometimes immediately, sometimes a little later.

Also, nfsd_setattr returns an nfserr which SHOULDN'T be converted from
an errno (because it isn't one).

Also some tidyups of the form:
  err = XX
  err = nfserrno(err)
and
  err = XX
  if (err)
      err = nfserrno(err)
become
  err = nfserrno(XX)

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:28 -08:00
Al Viro
d75f2b9f5d [PATCH] nfsd/vfs.c: endianness fixes
Several failure exits return -E<something> instead of nfserr_<something> and
vice versa.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:27 -08:00
NeilBrown
7e8f05934d [PATCH] nfsd: remove inline from a couple of large NFS functions
These are both called from two places close together.  I could rearrange that
code so there is only one call site, but just removing the 'inline' is
probably best.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:24 -08:00
YAMAMOTO Takashi
f193fbab2e [PATCH] nfsd: check error status from nfsd_sync_dir
Change nfsd_sync_dir to return an error if ->sync fails, and pass that error
up through the stack.  This involves a number of rearrangements of error
paths, and care to distinguish between Linux -errno numbers and NFSERR
numbers.

In the 'create' routines, we continue with the 'setattr' even if a previous
sync_dir failed.

This patch is quite different from Takashi's in a few ways, but there is still
a strong lineage.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:24 -08:00
Christoph Hellwig
5be196e5f9 [PATCH] add vfs_* helpers for xattr operations
Add vfs_getxattr, vfs_setxattr and vfs_removexattr helpers for common checks
around invocation of the xattr methods.  NFSD already was missing some of the
checks and there will be more soon.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>

(James, I haven't touched selinux yet because it's doing various odd things
and I'm not sure how it would interact with the security attribute fallbacks
you added.  Could you investigate whether it could use vfs_getxattr or if not
add a __vfs_getxattr helper to share the bits it is fine with?)

For NFSv4: instead of just converting it add an nfsd_getxattr helper for the
code shared by NFSv2/3 and NFSv4 ACLs.  In fact that code isn't even
NFS-specific, but I'll wait for more users to pop up first before moving it to
common code.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:29 -08:00
Jes Sorensen
1b1dcc1b57 [PATCH] mutex subsystem, semaphore to mutex: VFS, ->i_sem
This patch converts the inode semaphore to a mutex. I have tested it on
XFS and compiled as much as one can consider on an ia64. Anyway your
luck with it might be different.

Modified-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

(finished the conversion)

Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2006-01-09 15:59:24 -08:00
Neil Brown
9f708e40fe [PATCH] knfsd: reduce stack consumption
A typical nfsd call trace is
 nfsd -> svc_process -> nfsd_dispatch -> nfsd3_proc_write ->
   nfsd_write ->nfsd_vfs_write -> vfs_writev

These add up to over 300 bytes on the stack.
Looking at each of these, I see that nfsd_write (which includes
 nfsd_vfs_write) contributes 0x8c to stack usage itself!!

It turns out this is because it puts a 'struct iattr' on the stack so
it can kill suid if needed.  The following patch saves about 50 bytes
off the stack in this call path.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:33:59 -08:00
David Shaw
a334de2866 [PATCH] knfsd: check error status from vfs_getattr and i_op->fsync
Both vfs_getattr and i_op->fsync return error statuses which nfsd was
largely ignoring.  This as noticed when exporting directories using fuse.

This patch cleans up most of the offences, which involves moving the call
to vfs_getattr out of the xdr encoding routines (where it is too late to
report an error) into the main NFS procedure handling routines.

There is still a called to vfs_gettattr (related to the ACL code) where the
status is ignored, and called to nfsd_sync_dir don't check return status
either.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:33:59 -08:00
NeilBrown
15b7a1b86d [PATCH] knfsd: fix setattr-on-symlink error return
This is a somewhat cosmetic fix to keep the SpecFS validation test from
complaining.

SpecFS want's to try chmod on symlinks, and ext3 and reiser (at least) return
ENOTSUPP.

Probably both sides are being silly, but it is easiest to simply make it a
non-issue and filter out chmod requests on symlinks at the nfsd level.

Signed-off-by: Olaf Kirch <okir@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:53:47 -08:00
Robert Love
0eeca28300 [PATCH] inotify
inotify is intended to correct the deficiencies of dnotify, particularly
its inability to scale and its terrible user interface:

        * dnotify requires the opening of one fd per each directory
          that you intend to watch. This quickly results in too many
          open files and pins removable media, preventing unmount.
        * dnotify is directory-based. You only learn about changes to
          directories. Sure, a change to a file in a directory affects
          the directory, but you are then forced to keep a cache of
          stat structures.
        * dnotify's interface to user-space is awful.  Signals?

inotify provides a more usable, simple, powerful solution to file change
notification:

        * inotify's interface is a system call that returns a fd, not SIGIO.
	  You get a single fd, which is select()-able.
        * inotify has an event that says "the filesystem that the item
          you were watching is on was unmounted."
        * inotify can watch directories or files.

Inotify is currently used by Beagle (a desktop search infrastructure),
Gamin (a FAM replacement), and other projects.

See Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt.

Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
Cc: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-12 20:38:38 -07:00
NeilBrown
a6ccbbb886 [PATCH] nfsd4: fix sync'ing of recovery directory
We need to fsync the recovery directory after writing to it, but we weren't
doing this correctly.  (For example, we weren't taking the i_sem when calling
->fsync().)

Just reuse the existing nfsd fsync code instead.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-07 18:24:07 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
334a13ec3d [PATCH] really remove xattr_acl.h
Looks like it sneaked back with the NFS ACL merge..

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-28 21:20:31 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
9a59f452ab [PATCH] remove <linux/xattr_acl.h>
This file duplicates <linux/posix_acl_xattr.h>, using slightly different
names.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-23 09:45:33 -07:00
Andreas Gruenbacher
a257cdd0e2 [PATCH] NFSD: Add server support for NFSv3 ACLs.
This adds functions for encoding and decoding POSIX ACLs for the NFSACL
 protocol extension, and the GETACL and SETACL RPCs.  The implementation is
 compatible with NFSACL in Solaris.

 Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
 Acked-by: Olaf Kirch <okir@suse.de>
 Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
 Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2005-06-22 16:07:23 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
1da177e4c3 Linux-2.6.12-rc2
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00