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David Sterba
0942caa373 btrfs: add missing options displayed in mount output
There are three missed mount options settable by user which are not
currently displayed in mount output.

Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2011-07-06 18:46:43 -04:00
Chris Mason
4b9465cb9e Btrfs: add mount -o inode_cache
This makes the inode map cache default to off until we
fix the overflow problem when the free space crcs don't fit
inside a single page.

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2011-06-04 08:03:47 -04:00
Chris Mason
4cb5300bc8 Btrfs: add mount -o auto_defrag
This will detect small random writes into files and
queue the up for an auto defrag process.  It isn't well suited to
database workloads yet, but works for smaller files such as rpm, sqlite
or bdb databases.

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2011-05-26 17:52:15 -04:00
Chris Mason
d6c0cb379c Merge branch 'cleanups_and_fixes' into inode_numbers
Conflicts:
	fs/btrfs/tree-log.c
	fs/btrfs/volumes.c

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2011-05-23 14:37:47 -04:00
Julia Lawall
b083916638 fs/btrfs: Add missing btrfs_free_path
Btrfs_alloc_path should be matched with btrfs_free_path in error-handling code.

A simplified version of the semantic match that finds this problem is as
follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

// <smpl>
@r exists@
local idexpression struct btrfs_path * x;
expression ra,rb;
position p1,p2;
@@

x = btrfs_alloc_path@p1(...)
...  when != btrfs_free_path(x,...)
     when != if (...) { ... btrfs_free_path(x,...) ...}
     when != x = ra
if(...) { ... when != x = rb
     when forall
     when != btrfs_free_path(x,...)
 \(return <+...x...+>; \| return@p2...; \) }

@script:python@
p1 << r.p1;
p2 << r.p2;
@@

cocci.print_main("alloc",p1)
cocci.print_secs("return",p2)
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2011-05-23 13:24:41 -04:00
Chris Mason
aa2dfb372a Merge branch 'allocator' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arne/btrfs-unstable-arne into inode_numbers
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2011-05-22 12:36:34 -04:00
Chris Mason
945d8962ce Merge branch 'cleanups' of git://repo.or.cz/linux-2.6/btrfs-unstable into inode_numbers
Conflicts:
	fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c
	fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c
	fs/btrfs/inode.c
	fs/btrfs/tree-log.c

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2011-05-22 12:33:42 -04:00
Miao Xie
16cdcec736 btrfs: implement delayed inode items operation
Changelog V5 -> V6:
- Fix oom when the memory load is high, by storing the delayed nodes into the
  root's radix tree, and letting btrfs inodes go.

Changelog V4 -> V5:
- Fix the race on adding the delayed node to the inode, which is spotted by
  Chris Mason.
- Merge Chris Mason's incremental patch into this patch.
- Fix deadlock between readdir() and memory fault, which is reported by
  Itaru Kitayama.

Changelog V3 -> V4:
- Fix nested lock, which is reported by Itaru Kitayama, by updating space cache
  inode in time.

Changelog V2 -> V3:
- Fix the race between the delayed worker and the task which does delayed items
  balance, which is reported by Tsutomu Itoh.
- Modify the patch address David Sterba's comment.
- Fix the bug of the cpu recursion spinlock, reported by Chris Mason

Changelog V1 -> V2:
- break up the global rb-tree, use a list to manage the delayed nodes,
  which is created for every directory and file, and used to manage the
  delayed directory name index items and the delayed inode item.
- introduce a worker to deal with the delayed nodes.

Compare with Ext3/4, the performance of file creation and deletion on btrfs
is very poor. the reason is that btrfs must do a lot of b+ tree insertions,
such as inode item, directory name item, directory name index and so on.

If we can do some delayed b+ tree insertion or deletion, we can improve the
performance, so we made this patch which implemented delayed directory name
index insertion/deletion and delayed inode update.

Implementation:
- introduce a delayed root object into the filesystem, that use two lists to
  manage the delayed nodes which are created for every file/directory.
  One is used to manage all the delayed nodes that have delayed items. And the
  other is used to manage the delayed nodes which is waiting to be dealt with
  by the work thread.
- Every delayed node has two rb-tree, one is used to manage the directory name
  index which is going to be inserted into b+ tree, and the other is used to
  manage the directory name index which is going to be deleted from b+ tree.
- introduce a worker to deal with the delayed operation. This worker is used
  to deal with the works of the delayed directory name index items insertion
  and deletion and the delayed inode update.
  When the delayed items is beyond the lower limit, we create works for some
  delayed nodes and insert them into the work queue of the worker, and then
  go back.
  When the delayed items is beyond the upper bound, we create works for all
  the delayed nodes that haven't been dealt with, and insert them into the work
  queue of the worker, and then wait for that the untreated items is below some
  threshold value.
- When we want to insert a directory name index into b+ tree, we just add the
  information into the delayed inserting rb-tree.
  And then we check the number of the delayed items and do delayed items
  balance. (The balance policy is above.)
- When we want to delete a directory name index from the b+ tree, we search it
  in the inserting rb-tree at first. If we look it up, just drop it. If not,
  add the key of it into the delayed deleting rb-tree.
  Similar to the delayed inserting rb-tree, we also check the number of the
  delayed items and do delayed items balance.
  (The same to inserting manipulation)
- When we want to update the metadata of some inode, we cached the data of the
  inode into the delayed node. the worker will flush it into the b+ tree after
  dealing with the delayed insertion and deletion.
- We will move the delayed node to the tail of the list after we access the
  delayed node, By this way, we can cache more delayed items and merge more
  inode updates.
- If we want to commit transaction, we will deal with all the delayed node.
- the delayed node will be freed when we free the btrfs inode.
- Before we log the inode items, we commit all the directory name index items
  and the delayed inode update.

I did a quick test by the benchmark tool[1] and found we can improve the
performance of file creation by ~15%, and file deletion by ~20%.

Before applying this patch:
Create files:
        Total files: 50000
        Total time: 1.096108
        Average time: 0.000022
Delete files:
        Total files: 50000
        Total time: 1.510403
        Average time: 0.000030

After applying this patch:
Create files:
        Total files: 50000
        Total time: 0.932899
        Average time: 0.000019
Delete files:
        Total files: 50000
        Total time: 1.215732
        Average time: 0.000024

[1] http://marc.info/?l=linux-btrfs&m=128212635122920&q=p3

Many thanks for Kitayama-san's help!

Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dave@jikos.cz>
Tested-by: Tsutomu Itoh <t-itoh@jp.fujitsu.com>
Tested-by: Itaru Kitayama <kitayama@cl.bb4u.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2011-05-21 09:30:56 -04:00
Arne Jansen
bcd53741cc btrfs: move btrfs_cmp_device_free_bytes to super.c
this function won't be used here anymore, so move it super.c where it is
used for df-calculation
2011-05-13 15:36:05 +02:00
David Sterba
306e16ce13 btrfs: rename variables clashing with global function names
reported by gcc -Wshadow:
page_index, page_offset, new_inode, dev_name

Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>
2011-05-02 13:57:19 +02:00
Xin Zhong
e15d054242 Btrfs: fix subvolume mount by name problem when default mount subvolume is set
We create two subvolumes (meego_root and meego_home) in
btrfs root directory. And set meego_root as default mount
subvolume. After we remount btrfs, meego_root is mounted
to top directory by default. Then when we try to mount
meego_home (subvol=meego_home) to a subdirectory, it failed.
The problem is when default mount subvolume is set to
meego_root, we search meego_home in meego_root but can not find
it. So the solution is to add a new mount option (subvolrootid)
to specify subvol id of root and search subvol name in it. For
our case, now we can use "-o subvolrootid=0,subvol=meego_home)
to mount meego_home.

Detail information can be found in meego bugzilla:
https://bugs.meego.com/show_bug.cgi?id=15055

Signed-off-by: Zhong, Xin <xin.zhong@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2011-04-11 20:26:50 -04:00
Tsutomu Itoh
200da64e0b Btrfs: fix /proc/mounts info.
Some mount options are not displayed by /proc/mounts.
This patch displays the option such as compress_type by /proc/mounts.

Ex.
  [before]
    $ mount | grep sdc2
    /dev/sdc2 on /test12 type btrfs (rw,space_cache,compress=lzo)
    $ cat /proc/mounts | grep sdc2
    /dev/sdc2 /test12 btrfs rw,relatime,compress 0 0

  [after]
    $ mount | grep sdc2
    /dev/sdc2 on /test12 type btrfs (rw,space_cache,compress=lzo)
    $ cat /proc/mounts | grep sdc2
    /dev/sdc2 /test12 btrfs rw,relatime,compress=lzo,space_cache 0 0

Signed-off-by: Tsutomu Itoh <t-itoh@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2011-04-05 01:19:41 -04:00
liubo
1abe9b8a13 Btrfs: add initial tracepoint support for btrfs
Tracepoints can provide insight into why btrfs hits bugs and be greatly
helpful for debugging, e.g
              dd-7822  [000]  2121.641088: btrfs_inode_request: root = 5(FS_TREE), gen = 4, ino = 256, blocks = 8, disk_i_size = 0, last_trans = 8, logged_trans = 0
              dd-7822  [000]  2121.641100: btrfs_inode_new: root = 5(FS_TREE), gen = 8, ino = 257, blocks = 0, disk_i_size = 0, last_trans = 0, logged_trans = 0
 btrfs-transacti-7804  [001]  2146.935420: btrfs_cow_block: root = 2(EXTENT_TREE), refs = 2, orig_buf = 29368320 (orig_level = 0), cow_buf = 29388800 (cow_level = 0)
 btrfs-transacti-7804  [001]  2146.935473: btrfs_cow_block: root = 1(ROOT_TREE), refs = 2, orig_buf = 29364224 (orig_level = 0), cow_buf = 29392896 (cow_level = 0)
 btrfs-transacti-7804  [001]  2146.972221: btrfs_transaction_commit: root = 1(ROOT_TREE), gen = 8
   flush-btrfs-2-7821  [001]  2155.824210: btrfs_chunk_alloc: root = 3(CHUNK_TREE), offset = 1103101952, size = 1073741824, num_stripes = 1, sub_stripes = 0, type = DATA
   flush-btrfs-2-7821  [001]  2155.824241: btrfs_cow_block: root = 2(EXTENT_TREE), refs = 2, orig_buf = 29388800 (orig_level = 0), cow_buf = 29396992 (cow_level = 0)
   flush-btrfs-2-7821  [001]  2155.824255: btrfs_cow_block: root = 4(DEV_TREE), refs = 2, orig_buf = 29372416 (orig_level = 0), cow_buf = 29401088 (cow_level = 0)
   flush-btrfs-2-7821  [000]  2155.824329: btrfs_cow_block: root = 3(CHUNK_TREE), refs = 2, orig_buf = 20971520 (orig_level = 0), cow_buf = 20975616 (cow_level = 0)
 btrfs-endio-wri-7800  [001]  2155.898019: btrfs_cow_block: root = 5(FS_TREE), refs = 2, orig_buf = 29384704 (orig_level = 0), cow_buf = 29405184 (cow_level = 0)
 btrfs-endio-wri-7800  [001]  2155.898043: btrfs_cow_block: root = 7(CSUM_TREE), refs = 2, orig_buf = 29376512 (orig_level = 0), cow_buf = 29409280 (cow_level = 0)

Here is what I have added:

1) ordere_extent:
        btrfs_ordered_extent_add
        btrfs_ordered_extent_remove
        btrfs_ordered_extent_start
        btrfs_ordered_extent_put

These provide critical information to understand how ordered_extents are
updated.

2) extent_map:
        btrfs_get_extent

extent_map is used in both read and write cases, and it is useful for tracking
how btrfs specific IO is running.

3) writepage:
        __extent_writepage
        btrfs_writepage_end_io_hook

Pages are cirtical resourses and produce a lot of corner cases during writeback,
so it is valuable to know how page is written to disk.

4) inode:
        btrfs_inode_new
        btrfs_inode_request
        btrfs_inode_evict

These can show where and when a inode is created, when a inode is evicted.

5) sync:
        btrfs_sync_file
        btrfs_sync_fs

These show sync arguments.

6) transaction:
        btrfs_transaction_commit

In transaction based filesystem, it will be useful to know the generation and
who does commit.

7) back reference and cow:
	btrfs_delayed_tree_ref
	btrfs_delayed_data_ref
	btrfs_delayed_ref_head
	btrfs_cow_block

Btrfs natively supports back references, these tracepoints are helpful on
understanding btrfs's COW mechanism.

8) chunk:
	btrfs_chunk_alloc
	btrfs_chunk_free

Chunk is a link between physical offset and logical offset, and stands for space
infomation in btrfs, and these are helpful on tracing space things.

9) reserved_extent:
	btrfs_reserved_extent_alloc
	btrfs_reserved_extent_free

These can show how btrfs uses its space.

Signed-off-by: Liu Bo <liubo2009@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2011-03-28 05:37:33 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
4660ba63f1 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-unstable
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-unstable:
  Btrfs: fix fiemap bugs with delalloc
  Btrfs: set FMODE_EXCL in btrfs_device->mode
  Btrfs: make btrfs_rm_device() fail gracefully
  Btrfs: Avoid accessing unmapped kernel address
  Btrfs: Fix BTRFS_IOC_SUBVOL_SETFLAGS ioctl
  Btrfs: allow balance to explicitly allocate chunks as it relocates
  Btrfs: put ENOSPC debugging under a mount option
2011-02-25 14:03:39 -08:00
Chris Mason
91435650c2 Btrfs: put ENOSPC debugging under a mount option
ENOSPC in btrfs is getting to the point where the extra debugging isn't
required.  I've put it under mount -o enospc_debug just in case someone
is having difficult problems.

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2011-02-16 15:28:36 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
cb5520f02c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-unstable
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-unstable: (33 commits)
  Btrfs: Fix page count calculation
  btrfs: Drop __exit attribute on btrfs_exit_compress
  btrfs: cleanup error handling in btrfs_unlink_inode()
  Btrfs: exclude super blocks when we read in block groups
  Btrfs: make sure search_bitmap finds something in remove_from_bitmap
  btrfs: fix return value check of btrfs_start_transaction()
  btrfs: checking NULL or not in some functions
  Btrfs: avoid uninit variable warnings in ordered-data.c
  Btrfs: catch errors from btrfs_sync_log
  Btrfs: make shrink_delalloc a little friendlier
  Btrfs: handle no memory properly in prepare_pages
  Btrfs: do error checking in btrfs_del_csums
  Btrfs: use the global block reserve if we cannot reserve space
  Btrfs: do not release more reserved bytes to the global_block_rsv than we need
  Btrfs: fix check_path_shared so it returns the right value
  btrfs: check return value of btrfs_start_ioctl_transaction() properly
  btrfs: fix return value check of btrfs_join_transaction()
  fs/btrfs/inode.c: Add missing IS_ERR test
  btrfs: fix missing break in switch phrase
  btrfs: fix several uncheck memory allocations
  ...
2011-02-07 14:06:18 -08:00
Tsutomu Itoh
98d5dc13e7 btrfs: fix return value check of btrfs_start_transaction()
The error check of btrfs_start_transaction() is added, and the mistake
of the error check on several places is corrected.

Signed-off-by: Tsutomu Itoh <t-itoh@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2011-02-01 07:17:27 -05:00
Chris Mason
eab49bec41 Merge branch 'bug-fixes' of git://repo.or.cz/linux-btrfs-devel into btrfs-38 2011-01-28 16:24:59 -05:00
Tero Roponen
3f3d0bc0df Btrfs: Free correct pointer after using strsep
We must save and free the original kstrdup()'ed pointer
because strsep() modifies its first argument.

Signed-off-by: Tero Roponen <tero.roponen@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
2011-01-27 01:05:11 +08:00
Ian Kent
bdc924bb4c Btrfs: Fix memory leak on finding existing super
We missed a memory deallocation in commit 450ba0ea.

If an existing super block is found at mount and there is no
error condition then the pre-allocated tree_root and fs_info
are no not used and are not freeded.

Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
2011-01-27 01:05:07 +08:00
Linus Torvalds
eee2a817df Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-unstable
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-unstable: (25 commits)
  Btrfs: forced readonly mounts on errors
  btrfs: Require CAP_SYS_ADMIN for filesystem rebalance
  Btrfs: don't warn if we get ENOSPC in btrfs_block_rsv_check
  btrfs: Fix memory leak in btrfs_read_fs_root_no_radix()
  btrfs: check NULL or not
  btrfs: Don't pass NULL ptr to func that may deref it.
  btrfs: mount failure return value fix
  btrfs: Mem leak in btrfs_get_acl()
  btrfs: fix wrong free space information of btrfs
  btrfs: make the chunk allocator utilize the devices better
  btrfs: restructure find_free_dev_extent()
  btrfs: fix wrong calculation of stripe size
  btrfs: try to reclaim some space when chunk allocation fails
  btrfs: fix wrong data space statistics
  fs/btrfs: Fix build of ctree
  Btrfs: fix off by one while setting block groups readonly
  Btrfs: Add BTRFS_IOC_SUBVOL_GETFLAGS/SETFLAGS ioctls
  Btrfs: Add readonly snapshots support
  Btrfs: Refactor btrfs_ioctl_snap_create()
  btrfs: Extract duplicate decompress code
  ...
2011-01-17 14:43:43 -08:00
liubo
acce952b02 Btrfs: forced readonly mounts on errors
This patch comes from "Forced readonly mounts on errors" ideas.

As we know, this is the first step in being more fault tolerant of disk
corruptions instead of just using BUG() statements.

The major content:
- add a framework for generating errors that should result in filesystems
  going readonly.
- keep FS state in disk super block.
- make sure that all of resource will be freed and released at umount time.
- make sure that fter FS is forced readonly on error, there will be no more
  disk change before FS is corrected. For this, we should stop write operation.

After this patch is applied, the conversion from BUG() to such a framework can
happen incrementally.

Signed-off-by: Liu Bo <liubo2009@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2011-01-17 15:13:08 -05:00
Miao Xie
6d07bcec96 btrfs: fix wrong free space information of btrfs
When we store data by raid profile in btrfs with two or more different size
disks, df command shows there is some free space in the filesystem, but the
user can not write any data in fact, df command shows the wrong free space
information of btrfs.

 # mkfs.btrfs -d raid1 /dev/sda9 /dev/sda10
 # btrfs-show
 Label: none  uuid: a95cd49e-6e33-45b8-8741-a36153ce4b64
 	Total devices 2 FS bytes used 28.00KB
 	devid    1 size 5.01GB used 2.03GB path /dev/sda9
 	devid    2 size 10.00GB used 2.01GB path /dev/sda10
 # btrfs device scan /dev/sda9 /dev/sda10
 # mount /dev/sda9 /mnt
 # dd if=/dev/zero of=tmpfile0 bs=4K count=9999999999
   (fill the filesystem)
 # sync
 # df -TH
 Filesystem	Type	Size	Used	Avail	Use%	Mounted on
 /dev/sda9	btrfs	17G	8.6G	5.4G	62%	/mnt
 # btrfs-show
 Label: none  uuid: a95cd49e-6e33-45b8-8741-a36153ce4b64
 	Total devices 2 FS bytes used 3.99GB
 	devid    1 size 5.01GB used 5.01GB path /dev/sda9
 	devid    2 size 10.00GB used 4.99GB path /dev/sda10

It is because btrfs cannot allocate chunks when one of the pairing disks has
no space, the free space on the other disks can not be used for ever, and should
be subtracted from the total space, but btrfs doesn't subtract this space from
the total. It is strange to the user.

This patch fixes it by calcing the free space that can be used to allocate
chunks.

Implementation:
1. get all the devices free space, and align them by stripe length.
2. sort the devices by the free space.
3. check the free space of the devices,
   3.1. if it is not zero, and then check the number of the devices that has
        more free space than this device,
        if the number of the devices is beyond the min stripe number, the free
        space can be used, and add into total free space.
        if the number of the devices is below the min stripe number, we can not
        use the free space, the check ends.
   3.2. if the free space is zero, check the next devices, goto 3.1

This implementation is just likely fake chunk allocation.

After appling this patch, df can show correct space information:
 # df -TH
 Filesystem	Type	Size	Used	Avail	Use%	Mounted on
 /dev/sda9	btrfs	17G	8.6G	0	100%	/mnt

Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2011-01-16 11:30:19 -05:00
Miao Xie
299a08b1c3 btrfs: fix wrong data space statistics
Josef has implemented mixed data/metadata chunks, we must add those chunks'
space just like data chunks.

Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2011-01-16 11:30:19 -05:00
Al Viro
af53d29ac1 switch btrfs, close races
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-01-12 20:02:47 -05:00
Li Zefan
a6fa6fae40 btrfs: Add lzo compression support
Lzo is a much faster compression algorithm than gzib, so would allow
more users to enable transparent compression, and some users can
choose from compression ratio and speed for different applications

Usage:

 # mount -t btrfs -o compress[=<zlib,lzo>] dev /mnt
or
 # mount -t btrfs -o compress-force[=<zlib,lzo>] dev /mnt

"-o compress" without argument is still allowed for compatability.

Compatibility:

If we mount a filesystem with lzo compression, it will not be able be
mounted in old kernels. One reason is, otherwise btrfs will directly
dump compressed data, which sits in inline extent, to user.

Performance:

The test copied a linux source tarball (~400M) from an ext4 partition
to the btrfs partition, and then extracted it.

(time in second)
           lzo        zlib        nocompress
copy:      10.6       21.7        14.9
extract:   70.1       94.4        66.6

(data size in MB)
           lzo        zlib        nocompress
copy:      185.87     108.69      394.49
extract:   193.80     132.36      381.21

Changelog:

v1 -> v2:
- Select LZO_COMPRESS and LZO_DECOMPRESS in btrfs Kconfig.
- Add incompability flag.
- Fix error handling in compress code.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
2010-12-22 23:15:47 +08:00
Li Zefan
261507a02c btrfs: Allow to add new compression algorithm
Make the code aware of compression type, instead of always assuming
zlib compression.

Also make the zlib workspace function as common code for all
compression types.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
2010-12-22 23:15:45 +08:00
Linus Torvalds
e13cf63f2b Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-unstable
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-unstable:
  Btrfs: prevent RAID level downgrades when space is low
  Btrfs: account for missing devices in RAID allocation profiles
  Btrfs: EIO when we fail to read tree roots
  Btrfs: fix compiler warnings
  Btrfs: Make async snapshot ioctl more generic
  Btrfs: pwrite blocked when writing from the mmaped buffer of the same page
  Btrfs: Fix a crash when mounting a subvolume
  Btrfs: fix sync subvol/snapshot creation
  Btrfs: Fix page leak in compressed writeback path
  Btrfs: do not BUG if we fail to remove the orphan item for dead snapshots
  Btrfs: fixup return code for btrfs_del_orphan_item
  Btrfs: do not do fast caching if we are allocating blocks for tree_root
  Btrfs: deal with space cache errors better
  Btrfs: fix use after free in O_DIRECT
2010-12-14 11:08:13 -08:00
Li Zefan
f106e82caa Btrfs: Fix a crash when mounting a subvolume
We should drop dentry before deactivating the superblock, otherwise
we can hit this bug:

BUG: Dentry f349a690{i=100,n=/} still in use (1) [unmount of btrfs loop1]
...

Steps to reproduce the bug:

  # mount /dev/loop1 /mnt
  # mkdir save
  # btrfs subvolume snapshot /mnt save/snap1
  # umount /mnt
  # mount -o subvol=save/snap1 /dev/loop1 /mnt
  (crash)

Reported-by: Michael Niederle <mniederle@gmx.at>
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2010-12-10 16:29:10 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
aa3fc52546 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-unstable
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-unstable: (24 commits)
  Btrfs: don't use migrate page without CONFIG_MIGRATION
  Btrfs: deal with DIO bios that span more than one ordered extent
  Btrfs: setup blank root and fs_info for mount time
  Btrfs: fix fiemap
  Btrfs - fix race between btrfs_get_sb() and umount
  Btrfs: update inode ctime when using links
  Btrfs: make sure new inode size is ok in fallocate
  Btrfs: fix typo in fallocate to make it honor actual size
  Btrfs: avoid NULL pointer deref in try_release_extent_buffer
  Btrfs: make btrfs_add_nondir take parent inode as an argument
  Btrfs: hold i_mutex when calling btrfs_log_dentry_safe
  Btrfs: use dget_parent where we can UPDATED
  Btrfs: fix more ESTALE problems with NFS
  Btrfs: handle NFS lookups properly
  btrfs: make 1-bit signed fileds unsigned
  btrfs: Show device attr correctly for symlinks
  btrfs: Set file size correctly in file clone
  btrfs: Check if dest_offset is block-size aligned before cloning file
  Btrfs: handle the space_cache option properly
  btrfs: Fix early enospc because 'unused' calculated with wrong sign.
  ...
2010-11-29 14:11:08 -08:00
Josef Bacik
450ba0ea06 Btrfs: setup blank root and fs_info for mount time
There is a problem with how we use sget, it searches through the list of supers
attached to the fs_type looking for a super with the same fs_devices as what
we're trying to mount.  This depends on sb->s_fs_info being filled, but we don't
fill that in until we get to btrfs_fill_super, so we could hit supers on the
fs_type super list that have a null s_fs_info.  In order to fix that we need to
go ahead and setup a blank root with a blank fs_info to hold fs_devices, that
way our test will work out right and then we can set s_fs_info in
btrfs_set_super, and then open_ctree will simply use our pre-allocated root and
fs_info when setting everything up.  Thanks,

Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2010-11-27 13:37:51 -05:00
Ian Kent
619c8c7639 Btrfs - fix race between btrfs_get_sb() and umount
When mounting a btrfs file system btrfs_test_super() may attempt to
use sb->s_fs_info, the btrfs root, of a super block that is going away
and that has had the btrfs root set to NULL in its ->put_super(). But
if the super block is going away it cannot be an existing super block
so we can return false in this case.

Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2010-11-27 13:37:44 -05:00
Josef Bacik
0de90876c6 Btrfs: handle the space_cache option properly
When I added the clear_cache option I screwed up and took the break out of
the space_cache case statement, so whenever you mount with space_cache you also
get clear_cache, which does you no good if you say set space_cache in fstab so
it always gets set.  This patch adds the break back in properly.

Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2010-11-21 22:26:05 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
925d169f5b Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-unstable
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-unstable: (39 commits)
  Btrfs: deal with errors from updating the tree log
  Btrfs: allow subvol deletion by unprivileged user with -o user_subvol_rm_allowed
  Btrfs: make SNAP_DESTROY async
  Btrfs: add SNAP_CREATE_ASYNC ioctl
  Btrfs: add START_SYNC, WAIT_SYNC ioctls
  Btrfs: async transaction commit
  Btrfs: fix deadlock in btrfs_commit_transaction
  Btrfs: fix lockdep warning on clone ioctl
  Btrfs: fix clone ioctl where range is adjacent to extent
  Btrfs: fix delalloc checks in clone ioctl
  Btrfs: drop unused variable in block_alloc_rsv
  Btrfs: cleanup warnings from gcc 4.6 (nonbugs)
  Btrfs: Fix variables set but not read (bugs found by gcc 4.6)
  Btrfs: Use ERR_CAST helpers
  Btrfs: use memdup_user helpers
  Btrfs: fix raid code for removing missing drives
  Btrfs: Switch the extent buffer rbtree into a radix tree
  Btrfs: restructure try_release_extent_buffer()
  Btrfs: use the flusher threads for delalloc throttling
  Btrfs: tune the chunk allocation to 5% of the FS as metadata
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts in fs/btrfs/super.c and fs/fs-writeback.c, and
remove use of INIT_RCU_HEAD in fs/btrfs/extent_io.c (that init macro was
useless and removed in commit 5e8067adfd: "rcu head remove init")
2010-10-30 09:05:48 -07:00
Sage Weil
4260f7c751 Btrfs: allow subvol deletion by unprivileged user with -o user_subvol_rm_allowed
Add a mount option user_subvol_rm_allowed that allows users to delete a
(potentially non-empty!) subvol when they would otherwise we allowed to do
an rmdir(2).  We duplicate the may_delete() checks from the core VFS code
to implement identical security checks (minus the directory size check).
We additionally require that the user has write+exec permission on the
subvol root inode.

Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2010-10-29 21:42:10 -04:00
Andi Kleen
559af82114 Btrfs: cleanup warnings from gcc 4.6 (nonbugs)
These are all the cases where a variable is set, but not read which are
not bugs as far as I can see, but simply leftovers.

Still needs more review.

Found by gcc 4.6's new warnings

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2010-10-29 15:14:37 -04:00
Julia Lawall
d0b678cb0a Btrfs: Use ERR_CAST helpers
Use ERR_CAST(x) rather than ERR_PTR(PTR_ERR(x)).  The former makes more
clear what is the purpose of the operation, which otherwise looks like a
no-op.

The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

// <smpl>
@@
type T;
T x;
identifier f;
@@

T f (...) { <+...
- ERR_PTR(PTR_ERR(x))
+ x
 ...+> }

@@
expression x;
@@

- ERR_PTR(PTR_ERR(x))
+ ERR_CAST(x)
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2010-10-29 15:14:23 -04:00
Chris Mason
6b5b817f10 Merge branch 'bug-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/josef/btrfs-work
Conflicts:
	fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2010-10-29 09:27:49 -04:00
Josef Bacik
88c2ba3b06 Btrfs: Add a clear_cache mount option
If something goes wrong with the free space cache we need a way to make sure
it's not loaded on mount and that it's cleared for everybody.  When you pass the
clear_cache option it will make it so all block groups are setup to be cleared,
which keeps them from being loaded and then they will be truncated when the
transaction is committed.  Thanks,

Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
2010-10-29 09:26:36 -04:00
Al Viro
061dbc6b90 convert btrfs
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-10-29 04:17:21 -04:00
Josef Bacik
0af3d00bad Btrfs: create special free space cache inode
In order to save free space cache, we need an inode to hold the data, and we
need a special item to point at the right inode for the right block group.  So
first, create a special item that will point to the right inode, and the number
of extent entries we will have and the number of bitmaps we will have.  We
truncate and pre-allocate space everytime to make sure it's uptodate.

This feature will be turned on as soon as you mount with -o space_cache, however
it is safe to boot into old kernels, they will just generate the cache the old
fashion way.  When you boot back into a newer kernel we will notice that we
modified and not the cache and automatically discard the cache.

Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
2010-10-28 15:59:09 -04:00
Josef Bacik
0e78340f3c Btrfs: fix error handling in btrfs_get_sb
If we failed to find the root subvol id, or the subvol=<name>, we would
deactivate the locked super and close the devices.  The problem is at this point
we have gotten the SB all setup, which includes setting super_operations, so
when we'd deactiveate the super, we'd do a close_ctree() which closes the
devices, so we'd end up closing the devices twice.  So if you do something like
this

mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/test1
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/test2 -o subvol=xxx
umount /mnt/test1

it would blow up (if subvol xxx doesn't exist).  This patch fixes that problem.
Thanks,

Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
2010-10-22 15:55:03 -04:00
Josef Bacik
89a55897a2 Btrfs: fix df regression
The new ENOSPC stuff breaks out the raid types which breaks the way we were
reporting df to the system.  This fixes it back so that Available is the total
space available to data and used is the actual bytes used by the filesystem.
This means that Available is Total - data used - all of the metadata space.
Thanks,

Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
2010-10-22 15:54:55 -04:00
Arnd Bergmann
6038f373a3 llseek: automatically add .llseek fop
All file_operations should get a .llseek operation so we can make
nonseekable_open the default for future file operations without a
.llseek pointer.

The three cases that we can automatically detect are no_llseek, seq_lseek
and default_llseek. For cases where we can we can automatically prove that
the file offset is always ignored, we use noop_llseek, which maintains
the current behavior of not returning an error from a seek.

New drivers should normally not use noop_llseek but instead use no_llseek
and call nonseekable_open at open time.  Existing drivers can be converted
to do the same when the maintainer knows for certain that no user code
relies on calling seek on the device file.

The generated code is often incorrectly indented and right now contains
comments that clarify for each added line why a specific variant was
chosen. In the version that gets submitted upstream, the comments will
be gone and I will manually fix the indentation, because there does not
seem to be a way to do that using coccinelle.

Some amount of new code is currently sitting in linux-next that should get
the same modifications, which I will do at the end of the merge window.

Many thanks to Julia Lawall for helping me learn to write a semantic
patch that does all this.

===== begin semantic patch =====
// This adds an llseek= method to all file operations,
// as a preparation for making no_llseek the default.
//
// The rules are
// - use no_llseek explicitly if we do nonseekable_open
// - use seq_lseek for sequential files
// - use default_llseek if we know we access f_pos
// - use noop_llseek if we know we don't access f_pos,
//   but we still want to allow users to call lseek
//
@ open1 exists @
identifier nested_open;
@@
nested_open(...)
{
<+...
nonseekable_open(...)
...+>
}

@ open exists@
identifier open_f;
identifier i, f;
identifier open1.nested_open;
@@
int open_f(struct inode *i, struct file *f)
{
<+...
(
nonseekable_open(...)
|
nested_open(...)
)
...+>
}

@ read disable optional_qualifier exists @
identifier read_f;
identifier f, p, s, off;
type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
expression E;
identifier func;
@@
ssize_t read_f(struct file *f, char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
{
<+...
(
   *off = E
|
   *off += E
|
   func(..., off, ...)
|
   E = *off
)
...+>
}

@ read_no_fpos disable optional_qualifier exists @
identifier read_f;
identifier f, p, s, off;
type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
@@
ssize_t read_f(struct file *f, char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
{
... when != off
}

@ write @
identifier write_f;
identifier f, p, s, off;
type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
expression E;
identifier func;
@@
ssize_t write_f(struct file *f, const char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
{
<+...
(
  *off = E
|
  *off += E
|
  func(..., off, ...)
|
  E = *off
)
...+>
}

@ write_no_fpos @
identifier write_f;
identifier f, p, s, off;
type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
@@
ssize_t write_f(struct file *f, const char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
{
... when != off
}

@ fops0 @
identifier fops;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
 ...
};

@ has_llseek depends on fops0 @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier llseek_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
 .llseek = llseek_f,
...
};

@ has_read depends on fops0 @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier read_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
 .read = read_f,
...
};

@ has_write depends on fops0 @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier write_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
 .write = write_f,
...
};

@ has_open depends on fops0 @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier open_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
 .open = open_f,
...
};

// use no_llseek if we call nonseekable_open
////////////////////////////////////////////
@ nonseekable1 depends on !has_llseek && has_open @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier nso ~= "nonseekable_open";
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...  .open = nso, ...
+.llseek = no_llseek, /* nonseekable */
};

@ nonseekable2 depends on !has_llseek @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier open.open_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...  .open = open_f, ...
+.llseek = no_llseek, /* open uses nonseekable */
};

// use seq_lseek for sequential files
/////////////////////////////////////
@ seq depends on !has_llseek @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier sr ~= "seq_read";
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...  .read = sr, ...
+.llseek = seq_lseek, /* we have seq_read */
};

// use default_llseek if there is a readdir
///////////////////////////////////////////
@ fops1 depends on !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier readdir_e;
@@
// any other fop is used that changes pos
struct file_operations fops = {
... .readdir = readdir_e, ...
+.llseek = default_llseek, /* readdir is present */
};

// use default_llseek if at least one of read/write touches f_pos
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
@ fops2 depends on !fops1 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier read.read_f;
@@
// read fops use offset
struct file_operations fops = {
... .read = read_f, ...
+.llseek = default_llseek, /* read accesses f_pos */
};

@ fops3 depends on !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier write.write_f;
@@
// write fops use offset
struct file_operations fops = {
... .write = write_f, ...
+	.llseek = default_llseek, /* write accesses f_pos */
};

// Use noop_llseek if neither read nor write accesses f_pos
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

@ fops4 depends on !fops1 && !fops2 && !fops3 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier read_no_fpos.read_f;
identifier write_no_fpos.write_f;
@@
// write fops use offset
struct file_operations fops = {
...
 .write = write_f,
 .read = read_f,
...
+.llseek = noop_llseek, /* read and write both use no f_pos */
};

@ depends on has_write && !has_read && !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier write_no_fpos.write_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
... .write = write_f, ...
+.llseek = noop_llseek, /* write uses no f_pos */
};

@ depends on has_read && !has_write && !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier read_no_fpos.read_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
... .read = read_f, ...
+.llseek = noop_llseek, /* read uses no f_pos */
};

@ depends on !has_read && !has_write && !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
+.llseek = noop_llseek, /* no read or write fn */
};
===== End semantic patch =====

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
2010-10-15 15:53:27 +02:00
Al Viro
bd55597520 convert btrfs to ->evict_inode()
NB: do we want btrfs_wait_ordered_range() on eviction of
inodes with positive i_nlink on subvolume with zero root_refs?
If not, btrfs_evict_inode() can be simplified by unconditionally
bailing out in case of i_nlink > 0 in the very beginning...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-08-09 16:48:22 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
b25b550bb1 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-unstable
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-unstable:
  Btrfs: The file argument for fsync() is never null
  Btrfs: handle ERR_PTR from posix_acl_from_xattr()
  Btrfs: avoid BUG when dropping root and reference in same transaction
  Btrfs: prohibit a operation of changing acl's mask when noacl mount option used
  Btrfs: should add a permission check for setfacl
  Btrfs: btrfs_lookup_dir_item() can return ERR_PTR
  Btrfs: btrfs_read_fs_root_no_name() returns ERR_PTRs
  Btrfs: unwind after btrfs_start_transaction() errors
  Btrfs: btrfs_iget() returns ERR_PTR
  Btrfs: handle kzalloc() failure in open_ctree()
  Btrfs: handle error returns from btrfs_lookup_dir_item()
  Btrfs: Fix BUG_ON for fs converted from extN
  Btrfs: Fix null dereference in relocation.c
  Btrfs: fix remap_file_pages error
  Btrfs: uninitialized data is check_path_shared()
  Btrfs: fix fallocate regression
  Btrfs: fix loop device on top of btrfs
2010-06-11 14:18:47 -07:00
Dan Carpenter
4cbd1149fb Btrfs: btrfs_iget() returns ERR_PTR
btrfs_iget() returns an ERR_PTR() on failure and not null.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2010-06-11 15:57:35 -04:00
Dan Carpenter
fb4f6f910c Btrfs: handle error returns from btrfs_lookup_dir_item()
If btrfs_lookup_dir_item() fails, we should can just let the mount fail
with an error.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2010-06-11 15:57:33 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
105a048a4f Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-unstable
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-unstable: (27 commits)
  Btrfs: add more error checking to btrfs_dirty_inode
  Btrfs: allow unaligned DIO
  Btrfs: drop verbose enospc printk
  Btrfs: Fix block generation verification race
  Btrfs: fix preallocation and nodatacow checks in O_DIRECT
  Btrfs: avoid ENOSPC errors in btrfs_dirty_inode
  Btrfs: move O_DIRECT space reservation to btrfs_direct_IO
  Btrfs: rework O_DIRECT enospc handling
  Btrfs: use async helpers for DIO write checksumming
  Btrfs: don't walk around with task->state != TASK_RUNNING
  Btrfs: do aio_write instead of write
  Btrfs: add basic DIO read/write support
  direct-io: do not merge logically non-contiguous requests
  direct-io: add a hook for the fs to provide its own submit_bio function
  fs: allow short direct-io reads to be completed via buffered IO
  Btrfs: Metadata ENOSPC handling for balance
  Btrfs: Pre-allocate space for data relocation
  Btrfs: Metadata ENOSPC handling for tree log
  Btrfs: Metadata reservation for orphan inodes
  Btrfs: Introduce global metadata reservation
  ...
2010-05-27 10:43:44 -07:00
Kay Sievers
578454ff7e driver core: add devname module aliases to allow module on-demand auto-loading
This adds:
  alias: devname:<name>
to some common kernel modules, which will allow the on-demand loading
of the kernel module when the device node is accessed.

Ideally all these modules would be compiled-in, but distros seems too
much in love with their modularization that we need to cover the common
cases with this new facility. It will allow us to remove a bunch of pretty
useless init scripts and modprobes from init scripts.

The static device node aliases will be carried in the module itself. The
program depmod will extract this information to a file in the module directory:
  $ cat /lib/modules/2.6.34-00650-g537b60d-dirty/modules.devname
  # Device nodes to trigger on-demand module loading.
  microcode cpu/microcode c10:184
  fuse fuse c10:229
  ppp_generic ppp c108:0
  tun net/tun c10:200
  dm_mod mapper/control c10:235

Udev will pick up the depmod created file on startup and create all the
static device nodes which the kernel modules specify, so that these modules
get automatically loaded when the device node is accessed:
  $ /sbin/udevd --debug
  ...
  static_dev_create_from_modules: mknod '/dev/cpu/microcode' c10:184
  static_dev_create_from_modules: mknod '/dev/fuse' c10:229
  static_dev_create_from_modules: mknod '/dev/ppp' c108:0
  static_dev_create_from_modules: mknod '/dev/net/tun' c10:200
  static_dev_create_from_modules: mknod '/dev/mapper/control' c10:235
  udev_rules_apply_static_dev_perms: chmod '/dev/net/tun' 0666
  udev_rules_apply_static_dev_perms: chmod '/dev/fuse' 0666

A few device nodes are switched to statically allocated numbers, to allow
the static nodes to work. This might also useful for systems which still run
a plain static /dev, which is completely unsafe to use with any dynamic minor
numbers.

Note:
The devname aliases must be limited to the *common* and *single*instance*
device nodes, like the misc devices, and never be used for conceptually limited
systems like the loop devices, which should rather get fixed properly and get a
control node for losetup to talk to, instead of creating a random number of
device nodes in advance, regardless if they are ever used.

This facility is to hide the mess distros are creating with too modualized
kernels, and just to hide that these modules are not compiled-in, and not to
paper-over broken concepts. Thanks! :)

Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk>
Cc: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Signed-Off-By: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-05-25 15:08:26 -07:00