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Linus Torvalds
cf481442f2 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ericvh/v9fs
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ericvh/v9fs:
  9p: update documentation pointers
  9p: remove unnecessary v9fses->options which duplicates the mount string
  net/9p: insulate the client against an invalid error code sent by a 9p server
  9p: Add missing cast for the error return value in v9fs_get_inode
  9p: Remove redundant inode uid/gid assignment
  9p: Fix possible regressions when ->get_sb fails.
  9p: Fix v9fs show_options
  9p: Fix possible memleak in v9fs_inode_from fid.
  9p: minor comment fixes
  9p: Fix possible inode leak in v9fs_get_inode.
  9p: Check for error in return value of v9fs_fid_add
2009-08-27 12:24:08 -07:00
Anton Blanchard
0dc9aa845c AFS: Documentation updates
Fix some issues with the AFS documentation, found when testing AFS on ppc64:

- Update AFS features: reading/writing, local caching
- Typo in kafs sysfs debug file
- Use modprobe instead of insmod in example
- Update IPs for grand.central.org

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-08-19 10:40:13 -07:00
KOSAKI Motohiro
0753ba01e1 mm: revert "oom: move oom_adj value"
The commit 2ff05b2b (oom: move oom_adj value) moveed the oom_adj value to
the mm_struct.  It was a very good first step for sanitize OOM.

However Paul Menage reported the commit makes regression to his job
scheduler.  Current OOM logic can kill OOM_DISABLED process.

Why? His program has the code of similar to the following.

	...
	set_oom_adj(OOM_DISABLE); /* The job scheduler never killed by oom */
	...
	if (vfork() == 0) {
		set_oom_adj(0); /* Invoked child can be killed */
		execve("foo-bar-cmd");
	}
	....

vfork() parent and child are shared the same mm_struct.  then above
set_oom_adj(0) doesn't only change oom_adj for vfork() child, it's also
change oom_adj for vfork() parent.  Then, vfork() parent (job scheduler)
lost OOM immune and it was killed.

Actually, fork-setting-exec idiom is very frequently used in userland program.
We must not break this assumption.

Then, this patch revert commit 2ff05b2b and related commit.

Reverted commit list
---------------------
- commit 2ff05b2b4e (oom: move oom_adj value from task_struct to mm_struct)
- commit 4d8b9135c3 (oom: avoid unnecessary mm locking and scanning for OOM_DISABLE)
- commit 8123681022 (oom: only oom kill exiting tasks with attached memory)
- commit 933b787b57 (mm: copy over oom_adj value at fork time)

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-08-18 16:31:13 -07:00
Eric Van Hensbergen
7815f4be40 9p: update documentation pointers
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2009-08-17 16:49:44 -05:00
Lucian Adrian Grijincu
a39ea210ec driver core: documentation: make it clear that sysfs is optional
The original text suggested that sysfs is mandatory and always
compiled in the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Lucian Adrian Grijincu <lgrijincu@ixiacom.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-07-28 13:45:23 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
7e325d3a6b update Documentation/filesystems/Locking
The rules for locking in many superblock operations has changed
significantly, so update the documentation for it.  Also correct some
older updates and ommissions.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-06-24 08:15:25 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
7e0338c0de Merge branch 'for-2.6.31' of git://fieldses.org/git/linux-nfsd
* 'for-2.6.31' of git://fieldses.org/git/linux-nfsd: (60 commits)
  SUNRPC: Fix the TCP server's send buffer accounting
  nfsd41: Backchannel: minorversion support for the back channel
  nfsd41: Backchannel: cleanup nfs4.0 callback encode routines
  nfsd41: Remove ip address collision detection case
  nfsd: optimise the starting of zero threads when none are running.
  nfsd: don't take nfsd_mutex twice when setting number of threads.
  nfsd41: sanity check client drc maxreqs
  nfsd41: move channel attributes from nfsd4_session to a nfsd4_channel_attr struct
  NFS: kill off complicated macro 'PROC'
  sunrpc: potential memory leak in function rdma_read_xdr
  nfsd: minor nfsd_vfs_write cleanup
  nfsd: Pull write-gathering code out of nfsd_vfs_write
  nfsd: track last inode only in use_wgather case
  sunrpc: align cache_clean work's timer
  nfsd: Use write gathering only with NFSv2
  NFSv4: kill off complicated macro 'PROC'
  NFSv4: do exact check about attribute specified
  knfsd: remove unreported filehandle stats counters
  knfsd: fix reply cache memory corruption
  knfsd: reply cache cleanups
  ...
2009-06-22 12:55:50 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
0732f87761 Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4:
  jbd2: clean up jbd2_journal_try_to_free_buffers()
  ext4: Don't update ctime for non-extent-mapped inodes
  ext4: Fix up whitespace issues in fs/ext4/inode.c
  ext4: Fix 64-bit block type problem on 32-bit platforms
  ext4: teach the inode allocator to use a goal inode number
  ext4: Use a hash of the topdir directory name for the Orlov parent group
  ext4: document the "abort" mount option
  ext4: move the abort flag from s_mount_opts to s_mount_flags
  ext4: update the s_last_mounted field in the superblock
  ext4: change s_mount_opt to be an unsigned int
  ext4: online defrag -- Add EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT ioctl
  ext4: avoid unnecessary spinlock in critical POSIX ACL path
  ext3: avoid unnecessary spinlock in critical POSIX ACL path
  ext4: convert instrumentation from markers to tracepoints
  jbd2: convert instrumentation from markers to tracepoints
2009-06-18 14:07:46 -07:00
Jan Kara
52b680c812 isofs: let mode and dmode mount options override rock ridge mode setting
So far, permissions set via 'mode' and/or 'dmode' mount options were
effective only if the medium had no rock ridge extensions (or was mounted
without them).  Add 'overriderockmode' mount option to indicate that these
options should override permissions set in rock ridge extensions.  Maybe
this should be default but the current behavior is there since mount
options were created so I think we should not change how they behave.

Cc: <Hans-Joachim.Baader@cjt.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-18 13:03:45 -07:00
Michael Shields
ce05b2a9db Doc fix: ext2 can only have 32,000 subdirs, not 32,768
ext2.txt says that dirs can have 32,768 subdirs, but the actual value of
EXT2_LINK_MAX is 32000.

ext3 is the same, but the doc does not mention it.  One of ext4's features
is to "fix 32000 subdirectory limit".

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-18 13:03:44 -07:00
Stefani Seibold
349888ee7b proc.txt: update kernel filesystem/proc.txt documentation
An update for the "Process-Specific Subdirectories" section to reflect the
changes till kernel 2.6.30.

Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-18 13:03:41 -07:00
Keika Kobayashi
d3d64df21d proc: export statistics for softirq to /proc
Export statistics for softirq in /proc/softirqs and /proc/stat.

1. /proc/softirqs
Implement /proc/softirqs which shows the number of softirq
for each CPU like /proc/interrupts.

2. /proc/stat
Add the "softirq" line to /proc/stat.
This line shows the number of softirq for all cpu.
The first column is the total of all softirqs and
each subsequent column is the total for particular softirq.

[kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: remove redundant for_each_possible_cpu() loop]
Signed-off-by: Keika Kobayashi <kobayashi.kk@ncos.nec.co.jp>
Reviewed-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-18 13:03:41 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
feb72ce827 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6:
  get rid of BKL in fs/sysv
  get rid of BKL in fs/minix
  get rid of BKL in fs/efs
  befs ->pust_super() doesn't need BKL
  Cleanup of adfs headers
  9P doesn't need BKL in ->umount_begin()
  fuse doesn't need BKL in ->umount_begin()
  No instance of ->bmap() needs BKL
  remove unlock_kernel() left accidentally
  ext4: avoid unnecessary spinlock in critical POSIX ACL path
  ext3: avoid unnecessary spinlock in critical POSIX ACL path
2009-06-17 08:46:57 -07:00
Al Viro
fe36adf47e No instance of ->bmap() needs BKL
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-06-17 00:36:35 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
517d08699b Merge branch 'akpm'
* akpm: (182 commits)
  fbdev: bf54x-lq043fb: use kzalloc over kmalloc/memset
  fbdev: *bfin*: fix __dev{init,exit} markings
  fbdev: *bfin*: drop unnecessary calls to memset
  fbdev: bfin-t350mcqb-fb: drop unused local variables
  fbdev: blackfin has __raw I/O accessors, so use them in fb.h
  fbdev: s1d13xxxfb: add accelerated bitblt functions
  tcx: use standard fields for framebuffer physical address and length
  fbdev: add support for handoff from firmware to hw framebuffers
  intelfb: fix a bug when changing video timing
  fbdev: use framebuffer_release() for freeing fb_info structures
  radeon: P2G2CLK_ALWAYS_ONb tested twice, should 2nd be P2G2CLK_DAC_ALWAYS_ONb?
  s3c-fb: CPUFREQ frequency scaling support
  s3c-fb: fix resource releasing on error during probing
  carminefb: fix possible access beyond end of carmine_modedb[]
  acornfb: remove fb_mmap function
  mb862xxfb: use CONFIG_OF instead of CONFIG_PPC_OF
  mb862xxfb: restrict compliation of platform driver to PPC
  Samsung SoC Framebuffer driver: add Alpha Channel support
  atmel-lcdc: fix pixclock upper bound detection
  offb: use framebuffer_alloc() to allocate fb_info struct
  ...

Manually fix up conflicts due to kmemcheck in mm/slab.c
2009-06-16 19:50:13 -07:00
David Rientjes
2ff05b2b4e oom: move oom_adj value from task_struct to mm_struct
The per-task oom_adj value is a characteristic of its mm more than the
task itself since it's not possible to oom kill any thread that shares the
mm.  If a task were to be killed while attached to an mm that could not be
freed because another thread were set to OOM_DISABLE, it would have
needlessly been terminated since there is no potential for future memory
freeing.

This patch moves oomkilladj (now more appropriately named oom_adj) from
struct task_struct to struct mm_struct.  This requires task_lock() on a
task to check its oom_adj value to protect against exec, but it's already
necessary to take the lock when dereferencing the mm to find the total VM
size for the badness heuristic.

This fixes a livelock if the oom killer chooses a task and another thread
sharing the same memory has an oom_adj value of OOM_DISABLE.  This occurs
because oom_kill_task() repeatedly returns 1 and refuses to kill the
chosen task while select_bad_process() will repeatedly choose the same
task during the next retry.

Taking task_lock() in select_bad_process() to check for OOM_DISABLE and in
oom_kill_task() to check for threads sharing the same memory will be
removed in the next patch in this series where it will no longer be
necessary.

Writing to /proc/pid/oom_adj for a kthread will now return -EINVAL since
these threads are immune from oom killing already.  They simply report an
oom_adj value of OOM_DISABLE.

Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-16 19:47:43 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
23059a0df5 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hirofumi/fatfs-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hirofumi/fatfs-2.6:
  fat: split fat_generic_ioctl
  FAT: add 'errors' mount option
2009-06-16 11:29:44 -07:00
J. Bruce Fields
7eef4091a6 Merge commit 'v2.6.30' into for-2.6.31 2009-06-15 18:08:07 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
9c7cb99a82 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ryusuke/nilfs2
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ryusuke/nilfs2: (22 commits)
  nilfs2: support contiguous lookup of blocks
  nilfs2: add sync_page method to page caches of meta data
  nilfs2: use device's backing_dev_info for btree node caches
  nilfs2: return EBUSY against delete request on snapshot
  nilfs2: modify list of unsupported features in caveats
  nilfs2: enable sync_page method
  nilfs2: set bio unplug flag for the last bio in segment
  nilfs2: allow future expansion of metadata read out via get info ioctl
  NILFS2: Pagecache usage optimization on NILFS2
  nilfs2: remove nilfs_btree_operations from btree mapping
  nilfs2: remove nilfs_direct_operations from direct mapping
  nilfs2: remove bmap pointer operations
  nilfs2: remove useless b_low and b_high fields from nilfs_bmap struct
  nilfs2: remove pointless NULL check of bpop_commit_alloc_ptr function
  nilfs2: move get block functions in bmap.c into btree codes
  nilfs2: remove nilfs_bmap_delete_block
  nilfs2: remove nilfs_bmap_put_block
  nilfs2: remove header file for segment list operations
  nilfs2: eliminate removal list of segments
  nilfs2: add sufile function that can modify multiple segment usages
  ...
2009-06-15 09:13:49 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
489f7ab6c1 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (31 commits)
  trivial: remove the trivial patch monkey's name from SubmittingPatches
  trivial: Fix a typo in comment of addrconf_dad_start()
  trivial: usb: fix missing space typo in doc
  trivial: pci hotplug: adding __init/__exit macros to sgi_hotplug
  trivial: Remove the hyphen from git commands
  trivial: fix ETIMEOUT -> ETIMEDOUT typos
  trivial: Kconfig: .ko is normally not included in module names
  trivial: SubmittingPatches: fix typo
  trivial: Documentation/dell_rbu.txt: fix typos
  trivial: Fix Pavel's address in MAINTAINERS
  trivial: ftrace:fix description of trace directory
  trivial: unnecessary (void*) cast removal in sound/oss/msnd.c
  trivial: input/misc: Fix typo in Kconfig
  trivial: fix grammo in bus_for_each_dev() kerneldoc
  trivial: rbtree.txt: fix rb_entry() parameters in sample code
  trivial: spelling fix in ppc code comments
  trivial: fix typo in bio_alloc kernel doc
  trivial: Documentation/rbtree.txt: cleanup kerneldoc of rbtree.txt
  trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixes
  trivial: fix typo milisecond/millisecond for documentation and source comments.
  ...
2009-06-14 13:46:25 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
1904187a69 Merge branch 'docs-next' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6
* 'docs-next' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6:
  Document the debugfs API
  Documentation: Add "how to write a good patch summary" to SubmittingPatches
  SubmittingPatches: fix typo
  docs: Encourage better changelogs in the development process document
  Document Reported-by in SubmittingPatches
2009-06-13 13:08:34 -07:00
Theodore Ts'o
8a8a2050c8 ext4: document the "abort" mount option
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-06-13 10:08:59 -04:00
Matt LaPlante
19f5946001 trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixes
Fix various typos in documentation txts.

Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-06-12 18:01:47 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
0a33f80a83 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-2.6-nmw
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-2.6-nmw: (25 commits)
  GFS2: Merge gfs2_get_sb into gfs2_get_sb_meta
  GFS2: Fix cache coherency between truncate and O_DIRECT read
  GFS2: Fix locking issue mounting gfs2meta fs
  GFS2: Remove unused variable
  GFS2: smbd proccess hangs with flock() call.
  GFS2: Remove args subdir from gfs2 sysfs files
  GFS2: Remove lockstruct subdir from gfs2 sysfs files
  GFS2: Move gfs2_unlink_ok into ops_inode.c
  GFS2: Move gfs2_readlinki into ops_inode.c
  GFS2: Move gfs2_rmdiri into ops_inode.c
  GFS2: Merge mount.c and ops_super.c into super.c
  GFS2: Clean up some file names
  GFS2: Be more aggressive in reclaiming unlinked inodes
  GFS2: Add a rgrp bitmap full flag
  GFS2: Improve resource group error handling
  GFS2: Don't warn when delete inode fails on ro filesystem
  GFS2: Update docs
  GFS2: Umount recovery race fix
  GFS2: Remove a couple of unused sysfs entries
  GFS2: Add commit= mount option
  ...
2009-06-11 10:36:12 -07:00
Ryusuke Konishi
fb6e7113ae nilfs2: modify list of unsupported features in caveats
This clarifies missing features of nilfs as a regular filesystem.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
2009-06-10 23:41:11 +09:00
Jonathan Corbet
f89d7eaf6c Document the debugfs API
This is an updated document covering the internal API for the debugfs
filesystem.  Thanks to Shen Feng for suggesting that I put this text here
and noting that the old LWN version was rather out of date.

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Reported-by: Shen Feng <shen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2009-06-06 10:28:14 -06:00
Denis Karpov
85c7859190 FAT: add 'errors' mount option
On severe errors FAT remounts itself in read-only mode. Allow to
specify FAT fs desired behavior through 'errors' mount option:
panic, continue or remount read-only.

`mount -t [fat|vfat] -o errors=[panic,remount-ro,continue] \
	<bdev> <mount point>`

This is analog to ext2 fs 'errors' mount option.

Signed-off-by: Denis Karpov <ext-denis.2.karpov@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
2009-06-04 02:34:51 +09:00
Hugh Dickins
98f32602d4 hugh: update email address
My old address will shut down in a few days time: remove it from the tree,
and add a tmpfs (shmem filesystem) maintainer entry with the new address.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-05-21 13:14:32 -07:00
Steven Whitehouse
e9ccb73ab5 GFS2: Update docs
Update a few things which were out of date, and fix a typo.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2009-05-19 10:23:23 +01:00
Nick Piggin
b827e496c8 mm: close page_mkwrite races
Change page_mkwrite to allow implementations to return with the page
locked, and also change it's callers (in page fault paths) to hold the
lock until the page is marked dirty.  This allows the filesystem to have
full control of page dirtying events coming from the VM.

Rather than simply hold the page locked over the page_mkwrite call, we
call page_mkwrite with the page unlocked and allow callers to return with
it locked, so filesystems can avoid LOR conditions with page lock.

The problem with the current scheme is this: a filesystem that wants to
associate some metadata with a page as long as the page is dirty, will
perform this manipulation in its ->page_mkwrite.  It currently then must
return with the page unlocked and may not hold any other locks (according
to existing page_mkwrite convention).

In this window, the VM could write out the page, clearing page-dirty.  The
filesystem has no good way to detect that a dirty pte is about to be
attached, so it will happily write out the page, at which point, the
filesystem may manipulate the metadata to reflect that the page is no
longer dirty.

It is not always possible to perform the required metadata manipulation in
->set_page_dirty, because that function cannot block or fail.  The
filesystem may need to allocate some data structure, for example.

And the VM cannot mark the pte dirty before page_mkwrite, because
page_mkwrite is allowed to fail, so we must not allow any window where the
page could be written to if page_mkwrite does fail.

This solution of holding the page locked over the 3 critical operations
(page_mkwrite, setting the pte dirty, and finally setting the page dirty)
closes out races nicely, preventing page cleaning for writeout being
initiated in that window.  This provides the filesystem with a strong
synchronisation against the VM here.

- Sage needs this race closed for ceph filesystem.
- Trond for NFS (http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12913).
- I need it for fsblock.
- I suspect other filesystems may need it too (eg. btrfs).
- I have converted buffer.c to the new locking. Even simple block allocation
  under dirty pages might be susceptible to i_size changing under partial page
  at the end of file (we also have a buffer.c-side problem here, but it cannot
  be fixed properly without this patch).
- Other filesystems (eg. NFS, maybe btrfs) will need to change their
  page_mkwrite functions themselves.

[ This also moves page_mkwrite another step closer to fault, which should
  eventually allow page_mkwrite to be moved into ->fault, and thus avoiding a
  filesystem calldown and page lock/unlock cycle in __do_fault. ]

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix derefs of NULL ->mapping]
Cc: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-05-02 15:36:09 -07:00
Benny Halevy
4ba170c2bb update Documentation/filesystems/00-INDEX with new nfsd related docs.
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Cc: James Lentini <jlentini@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2009-04-28 12:54:45 -04:00
Marc Dionne
91ac033d83 CacheFiles: Fix the documentation to use the correct credential pointer names
Adjust the CacheFiles documentation to use the correct names of the credential
pointers in task_struct.

The documentation was using names from the old versions of the credentials
patches.

Signed-off-by: Marc Dionne <marc.c.dionne@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-24 13:28:30 -07:00
Adrian McMenamin
66672fefaa Documentation/filesystems: remove out of date reference to BKL being held
Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt incorrectly states that the kernel is
locked during the call to statfs (Documentation/filesystems/Locking
correctly says it is not). This patch removes the offending sentence.

remove reference to BKL being held in statfs

Signed-off-by: Adrian McMenamin <adrian@mcmen.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-04-20 23:01:16 -04:00
Evgeniy Polyakov
e0ca873916 Staging: Pohmelfs: Added IO permissions and priorities.
Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-04-17 11:06:30 -07:00
Ryusuke Konishi
458c5b0822 nilfs2: clean up sketch file
The sketch file is a file to mark checkpoints with user data.  It was
experimentally introduced in the original implementation, and now
obsolete.  The file was handled differently with regular files; the file
size got truncated when a checkpoint was created.

This stops the special treatment and will treat it as a regular file.
Most users are not affected because mkfs.nilfs2 no longer makes this file.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-07 08:31:19 -07:00
Ryusuke Konishi
962281a7ab nilfs2: add document
This adds a document describing the features, mount options, userland
tools, usage, disk format, and related URLs for the nilfs2 file system.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-07 08:31:12 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
a63856252d Merge branch 'for-2.6.30' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux
* 'for-2.6.30' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux: (81 commits)
  nfsd41: define nfsd4_set_statp as noop for !CONFIG_NFSD_V4
  nfsd41: define NFSD_DRC_SIZE_SHIFT in set_max_drc
  nfsd41: Documentation/filesystems/nfs41-server.txt
  nfsd41: CREATE_EXCLUSIVE4_1
  nfsd41: SUPPATTR_EXCLCREAT attribute
  nfsd41: support for 3-word long attribute bitmask
  nfsd: dynamically skip encoded fattr bitmap in _nfsd4_verify
  nfsd41: pass writable attrs mask to nfsd4_decode_fattr
  nfsd41: provide support for minor version 1 at rpc level
  nfsd41: control nfsv4.1 svc via /proc/fs/nfsd/versions
  nfsd41: add OPEN4_SHARE_ACCESS_WANT nfs4_stateid bmap
  nfsd41: access_valid
  nfsd41: clientid handling
  nfsd41: check encode size for sessions maxresponse cached
  nfsd41: stateid handling
  nfsd: pass nfsd4_compound_state* to nfs4_preprocess_{state,seq}id_op
  nfsd41: destroy_session operation
  nfsd41: non-page DRC for solo sequence responses
  nfsd41: Add a create session replay cache
  nfsd41: create_session operation
  ...
2009-04-06 13:25:56 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
3516c6a8dc Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging-2.6: (714 commits)
  Staging: sxg: slicoss: Specify the license for Sahara SXG and Slicoss drivers
  Staging: serqt_usb: fix build due to proc tty changes
  Staging: serqt_usb: fix checkpatch errors
  Staging: serqt_usb: add TODO file
  Staging: serqt_usb: Lindent the code
  Staging: add USB serial Quatech driver
  staging: document that the wifi staging drivers a bit better
  Staging: echo cleanup
  Staging: BUG to BUG_ON changes
  Staging: remove some pointless conditionals before kfree_skb()
  Staging: line6: fix build error, select SND_RAWMIDI
  Staging: line6: fix checkpatch errors in variax.c
  Staging: line6: fix checkpatch errors in toneport.c
  Staging: line6: fix checkpatch errors in pcm.c
  Staging: line6: fix checkpatch errors in midibuf.c
  Staging: line6: fix checkpatch errors in midi.c
  Staging: line6: fix checkpatch errors in dumprequest.c
  Staging: line6: fix checkpatch errors in driver.c
  Staging: line6: fix checkpatch errors in audio.c
  Staging: line6: fix checkpatch errors in pod.c
  ...
2009-04-05 11:06:45 -07:00
Benny Halevy
3ef1728898 nfsd41: Documentation/filesystems/nfs41-server.txt
Initial nfs41 server write up describing the status of the linux
server implementation.

[nfsd41: document unenforced nfs41 compound ordering rules.]
[get rid of CONFIG_NFSD_V4_1]
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2009-04-03 17:41:24 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
811158b147 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (28 commits)
  trivial: Update my email address
  trivial: NULL noise: drivers/mtd/tests/mtd_*test.c
  trivial: NULL noise: drivers/media/dvb/frontends/drx397xD_fw.h
  trivial: Fix misspelling of "Celsius".
  trivial: remove unused variable 'path' in alloc_file()
  trivial: fix a pdlfush -> pdflush typo in comment
  trivial: jbd header comment typo fix for JBD_PARANOID_IOFAIL
  trivial: wusb: Storage class should be before const qualifier
  trivial: drivers/char/bsr.c: Storage class should be before const qualifier
  trivial: h8300: Storage class should be before const qualifier
  trivial: fix where cgroup documentation is not correctly referred to
  trivial: Give the right path in Documentation example
  trivial: MTD: remove EOL from MODULE_DESCRIPTION
  trivial: Fix typo in bio_split()'s documentation
  trivial: PWM: fix of #endif comment
  trivial: fix typos/grammar errors in Kconfig texts
  trivial: Fix misspelling of firmware
  trivial: cgroups: documentation typo and spelling corrections
  trivial: Update contact info for Jochen Hein
  trivial: fix typo "resgister" -> "register"
  ...
2009-04-03 15:24:35 -07:00
Evgeniy Polyakov
b8523c40d5 Staging: pohmelfs: documentation.
This patch includes POHMELFS design and implementation description.
Separate file includes mount options, default parameters and usage examples.

Signed-off-by: Eveniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-04-03 14:53:33 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
3cc50ac0db Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-2.6-fscache
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-2.6-fscache: (41 commits)
  NFS: Add mount options to enable local caching on NFS
  NFS: Display local caching state
  NFS: Store pages from an NFS inode into a local cache
  NFS: Read pages from FS-Cache into an NFS inode
  NFS: nfs_readpage_async() needs to be accessible as a fallback for local caching
  NFS: Add read context retention for FS-Cache to call back with
  NFS: FS-Cache page management
  NFS: Add some new I/O counters for FS-Cache doing things for NFS
  NFS: Invalidate FsCache page flags when cache removed
  NFS: Use local disk inode cache
  NFS: Define and create inode-level cache objects
  NFS: Define and create superblock-level objects
  NFS: Define and create server-level objects
  NFS: Register NFS for caching and retrieve the top-level index
  NFS: Permit local filesystem caching to be enabled for NFS
  NFS: Add FS-Cache option bit and debug bit
  NFS: Add comment banners to some NFS functions
  FS-Cache: Make kAFS use FS-Cache
  CacheFiles: A cache that backs onto a mounted filesystem
  CacheFiles: Export things for CacheFiles
  ...
2009-04-03 10:07:43 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
9b59f0316b Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.open-osd.org/linux-open-osd
* 'for-linus' of git://git.open-osd.org/linux-open-osd:
  fs: Add exofs to Kernel build
  exofs: Documentation
  exofs: export_operations
  exofs: super_operations and file_system_type
  exofs: dir_inode and directory operations
  exofs: address_space_operations
  exofs: symlink_inode and fast_symlink_inode operations
  exofs: file and file_inode operations
  exofs: Kbuild, Headers and osd utils
2009-04-03 09:53:22 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
03c3fa0a3b Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-udf-2.6
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-udf-2.6:
  udf: Don't write integrity descriptor too often
  udf: Try anchor in block 256 first
  udf: Some type fixes and cleanups
  udf: use hardware sector size
  udf: fix novrs mount option
  udf: Fix oops when invalid character in filename occurs
  udf: return f_fsid for statfs(2)
  udf: Add checks to not underflow sector_t
  udf: fix default mode and dmode options handling
  udf: fix sparse warnings:
  udf: unsigned last[i] cannot be less than 0
  udf: implement mode and dmode mounting options
  udf: reduce stack usage of udf_get_filename
  udf: reduce stack usage of udf_load_pvoldesc
  Fix the udf code not to pass structs on stack where possible.
  Remove struct typedefs from fs/udf/ecma_167.h et al.
2009-04-03 09:50:39 -07:00
David Howells
9ae326a690 CacheFiles: A cache that backs onto a mounted filesystem
Add an FS-Cache cache-backend that permits a mounted filesystem to be used as a
backing store for the cache.

CacheFiles uses a userspace daemon to do some of the cache management - such as
reaping stale nodes and culling.  This is called cachefilesd and lives in
/sbin.  The source for the daemon can be downloaded from:

	http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/cachefs/cachefilesd.c

And an example configuration from:

	http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/cachefs/cachefilesd.conf

The filesystem and data integrity of the cache are only as good as those of the
filesystem providing the backing services.  Note that CacheFiles does not
attempt to journal anything since the journalling interfaces of the various
filesystems are very specific in nature.

CacheFiles creates a misc character device - "/dev/cachefiles" - that is used
to communication with the daemon.  Only one thing may have this open at once,
and whilst it is open, a cache is at least partially in existence.  The daemon
opens this and sends commands down it to control the cache.

CacheFiles is currently limited to a single cache.

CacheFiles attempts to maintain at least a certain percentage of free space on
the filesystem, shrinking the cache by culling the objects it contains to make
space if necessary - see the "Cache Culling" section.  This means it can be
placed on the same medium as a live set of data, and will expand to make use of
spare space and automatically contract when the set of data requires more
space.

============
REQUIREMENTS
============

The use of CacheFiles and its daemon requires the following features to be
available in the system and in the cache filesystem:

	- dnotify.

	- extended attributes (xattrs).

	- openat() and friends.

	- bmap() support on files in the filesystem (FIBMAP ioctl).

	- The use of bmap() to detect a partial page at the end of the file.

It is strongly recommended that the "dir_index" option is enabled on Ext3
filesystems being used as a cache.

=============
CONFIGURATION
=============

The cache is configured by a script in /etc/cachefilesd.conf.  These commands
set up cache ready for use.  The following script commands are available:

 (*) brun <N>%
 (*) bcull <N>%
 (*) bstop <N>%
 (*) frun <N>%
 (*) fcull <N>%
 (*) fstop <N>%

	Configure the culling limits.  Optional.  See the section on culling
	The defaults are 7% (run), 5% (cull) and 1% (stop) respectively.

	The commands beginning with a 'b' are file space (block) limits, those
	beginning with an 'f' are file count limits.

 (*) dir <path>

	Specify the directory containing the root of the cache.  Mandatory.

 (*) tag <name>

	Specify a tag to FS-Cache to use in distinguishing multiple caches.
	Optional.  The default is "CacheFiles".

 (*) debug <mask>

	Specify a numeric bitmask to control debugging in the kernel module.
	Optional.  The default is zero (all off).  The following values can be
	OR'd into the mask to collect various information:

		1	Turn on trace of function entry (_enter() macros)
		2	Turn on trace of function exit (_leave() macros)
		4	Turn on trace of internal debug points (_debug())

	This mask can also be set through sysfs, eg:

		echo 5 >/sys/modules/cachefiles/parameters/debug

==================
STARTING THE CACHE
==================

The cache is started by running the daemon.  The daemon opens the cache device,
configures the cache and tells it to begin caching.  At that point the cache
binds to fscache and the cache becomes live.

The daemon is run as follows:

	/sbin/cachefilesd [-d]* [-s] [-n] [-f <configfile>]

The flags are:

 (*) -d

	Increase the debugging level.  This can be specified multiple times and
	is cumulative with itself.

 (*) -s

	Send messages to stderr instead of syslog.

 (*) -n

	Don't daemonise and go into background.

 (*) -f <configfile>

	Use an alternative configuration file rather than the default one.

===============
THINGS TO AVOID
===============

Do not mount other things within the cache as this will cause problems.  The
kernel module contains its own very cut-down path walking facility that ignores
mountpoints, but the daemon can't avoid them.

Do not create, rename or unlink files and directories in the cache whilst the
cache is active, as this may cause the state to become uncertain.

Renaming files in the cache might make objects appear to be other objects (the
filename is part of the lookup key).

Do not change or remove the extended attributes attached to cache files by the
cache as this will cause the cache state management to get confused.

Do not create files or directories in the cache, lest the cache get confused or
serve incorrect data.

Do not chmod files in the cache.  The module creates things with minimal
permissions to prevent random users being able to access them directly.

=============
CACHE CULLING
=============

The cache may need culling occasionally to make space.  This involves
discarding objects from the cache that have been used less recently than
anything else.  Culling is based on the access time of data objects.  Empty
directories are culled if not in use.

Cache culling is done on the basis of the percentage of blocks and the
percentage of files available in the underlying filesystem.  There are six
"limits":

 (*) brun
 (*) frun

     If the amount of free space and the number of available files in the cache
     rises above both these limits, then culling is turned off.

 (*) bcull
 (*) fcull

     If the amount of available space or the number of available files in the
     cache falls below either of these limits, then culling is started.

 (*) bstop
 (*) fstop

     If the amount of available space or the number of available files in the
     cache falls below either of these limits, then no further allocation of
     disk space or files is permitted until culling has raised things above
     these limits again.

These must be configured thusly:

	0 <= bstop < bcull < brun < 100
	0 <= fstop < fcull < frun < 100

Note that these are percentages of available space and available files, and do
_not_ appear as 100 minus the percentage displayed by the "df" program.

The userspace daemon scans the cache to build up a table of cullable objects.
These are then culled in least recently used order.  A new scan of the cache is
started as soon as space is made in the table.  Objects will be skipped if
their atimes have changed or if the kernel module says it is still using them.

===============
CACHE STRUCTURE
===============

The CacheFiles module will create two directories in the directory it was
given:

 (*) cache/

 (*) graveyard/

The active cache objects all reside in the first directory.  The CacheFiles
kernel module moves any retired or culled objects that it can't simply unlink
to the graveyard from which the daemon will actually delete them.

The daemon uses dnotify to monitor the graveyard directory, and will delete
anything that appears therein.

The module represents index objects as directories with the filename "I..." or
"J...".  Note that the "cache/" directory is itself a special index.

Data objects are represented as files if they have no children, or directories
if they do.  Their filenames all begin "D..." or "E...".  If represented as a
directory, data objects will have a file in the directory called "data" that
actually holds the data.

Special objects are similar to data objects, except their filenames begin
"S..." or "T...".

If an object has children, then it will be represented as a directory.
Immediately in the representative directory are a collection of directories
named for hash values of the child object keys with an '@' prepended.  Into
this directory, if possible, will be placed the representations of the child
objects:

	INDEX     INDEX      INDEX                             DATA FILES
	========= ========== ================================= ================
	cache/@4a/I03nfs/@30/Ji000000000000000--fHg8hi8400
	cache/@4a/I03nfs/@30/Ji000000000000000--fHg8hi8400/@75/Es0g000w...DB1ry
	cache/@4a/I03nfs/@30/Ji000000000000000--fHg8hi8400/@75/Es0g000w...N22ry
	cache/@4a/I03nfs/@30/Ji000000000000000--fHg8hi8400/@75/Es0g000w...FP1ry

If the key is so long that it exceeds NAME_MAX with the decorations added on to
it, then it will be cut into pieces, the first few of which will be used to
make a nest of directories, and the last one of which will be the objects
inside the last directory.  The names of the intermediate directories will have
'+' prepended:

	J1223/@23/+xy...z/+kl...m/Epqr

Note that keys are raw data, and not only may they exceed NAME_MAX in size,
they may also contain things like '/' and NUL characters, and so they may not
be suitable for turning directly into a filename.

To handle this, CacheFiles will use a suitably printable filename directly and
"base-64" encode ones that aren't directly suitable.  The two versions of
object filenames indicate the encoding:

	OBJECT TYPE	PRINTABLE	ENCODED
	===============	===============	===============
	Index		"I..."		"J..."
	Data		"D..."		"E..."
	Special		"S..."		"T..."

Intermediate directories are always "@" or "+" as appropriate.

Each object in the cache has an extended attribute label that holds the object
type ID (required to distinguish special objects) and the auxiliary data from
the netfs.  The latter is used to detect stale objects in the cache and update
or retire them.

Note that CacheFiles will erase from the cache any file it doesn't recognise or
any file of an incorrect type (such as a FIFO file or a device file).

==========================
SECURITY MODEL AND SELINUX
==========================

CacheFiles is implemented to deal properly with the LSM security features of
the Linux kernel and the SELinux facility.

One of the problems that CacheFiles faces is that it is generally acting on
behalf of a process, and running in that process's context, and that includes a
security context that is not appropriate for accessing the cache - either
because the files in the cache are inaccessible to that process, or because if
the process creates a file in the cache, that file may be inaccessible to other
processes.

The way CacheFiles works is to temporarily change the security context (fsuid,
fsgid and actor security label) that the process acts as - without changing the
security context of the process when it the target of an operation performed by
some other process (so signalling and suchlike still work correctly).

When the CacheFiles module is asked to bind to its cache, it:

 (1) Finds the security label attached to the root cache directory and uses
     that as the security label with which it will create files.  By default,
     this is:

	cachefiles_var_t

 (2) Finds the security label of the process which issued the bind request
     (presumed to be the cachefilesd daemon), which by default will be:

	cachefilesd_t

     and asks LSM to supply a security ID as which it should act given the
     daemon's label.  By default, this will be:

	cachefiles_kernel_t

     SELinux transitions the daemon's security ID to the module's security ID
     based on a rule of this form in the policy.

	type_transition <daemon's-ID> kernel_t : process <module's-ID>;

     For instance:

	type_transition cachefilesd_t kernel_t : process cachefiles_kernel_t;

The module's security ID gives it permission to create, move and remove files
and directories in the cache, to find and access directories and files in the
cache, to set and access extended attributes on cache objects, and to read and
write files in the cache.

The daemon's security ID gives it only a very restricted set of permissions: it
may scan directories, stat files and erase files and directories.  It may
not read or write files in the cache, and so it is precluded from accessing the
data cached therein; nor is it permitted to create new files in the cache.

There are policy source files available in:

	http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/fscache/cachefilesd-0.8.tar.bz2

and later versions.  In that tarball, see the files:

	cachefilesd.te
	cachefilesd.fc
	cachefilesd.if

They are built and installed directly by the RPM.

If a non-RPM based system is being used, then copy the above files to their own
directory and run:

	make -f /usr/share/selinux/devel/Makefile
	semodule -i cachefilesd.pp

You will need checkpolicy and selinux-policy-devel installed prior to the
build.

By default, the cache is located in /var/fscache, but if it is desirable that
it should be elsewhere, than either the above policy files must be altered, or
an auxiliary policy must be installed to label the alternate location of the
cache.

For instructions on how to add an auxiliary policy to enable the cache to be
located elsewhere when SELinux is in enforcing mode, please see:

	/usr/share/doc/cachefilesd-*/move-cache.txt

When the cachefilesd rpm is installed; alternatively, the document can be found
in the sources.

==================
A NOTE ON SECURITY
==================

CacheFiles makes use of the split security in the task_struct.  It allocates
its own task_security structure, and redirects current->act_as to point to it
when it acts on behalf of another process, in that process's context.

The reason it does this is that it calls vfs_mkdir() and suchlike rather than
bypassing security and calling inode ops directly.  Therefore the VFS and LSM
may deny the CacheFiles access to the cache data because under some
circumstances the caching code is running in the security context of whatever
process issued the original syscall on the netfs.

Furthermore, should CacheFiles create a file or directory, the security
parameters with that object is created (UID, GID, security label) would be
derived from that process that issued the system call, thus potentially
preventing other processes from accessing the cache - including CacheFiles's
cache management daemon (cachefilesd).

What is required is to temporarily override the security of the process that
issued the system call.  We can't, however, just do an in-place change of the
security data as that affects the process as an object, not just as a subject.
This means it may lose signals or ptrace events for example, and affects what
the process looks like in /proc.

So CacheFiles makes use of a logical split in the security between the
objective security (task->sec) and the subjective security (task->act_as).  The
objective security holds the intrinsic security properties of a process and is
never overridden.  This is what appears in /proc, and is what is used when a
process is the target of an operation by some other process (SIGKILL for
example).

The subjective security holds the active security properties of a process, and
may be overridden.  This is not seen externally, and is used whan a process
acts upon another object, for example SIGKILLing another process or opening a
file.

LSM hooks exist that allow SELinux (or Smack or whatever) to reject a request
for CacheFiles to run in a context of a specific security label, or to create
files and directories with another security label.

This documentation is added by the patch to:

	Documentation/filesystems/caching/cachefiles.txt

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>
2009-04-03 16:42:41 +01:00
David Howells
952efe7b78 FS-Cache: Add and document asynchronous operation handling
Add and document asynchronous operation handling for use by FS-Cache's data
storage and retrieval routines.

The following documentation is added to:

	Documentation/filesystems/caching/operations.txt

		       ================================
		       ASYNCHRONOUS OPERATIONS HANDLING
		       ================================

========
OVERVIEW
========

FS-Cache has an asynchronous operations handling facility that it uses for its
data storage and retrieval routines.  Its operations are represented by
fscache_operation structs, though these are usually embedded into some other
structure.

This facility is available to and expected to be be used by the cache backends,
and FS-Cache will create operations and pass them off to the appropriate cache
backend for completion.

To make use of this facility, <linux/fscache-cache.h> should be #included.

===============================
OPERATION RECORD INITIALISATION
===============================

An operation is recorded in an fscache_operation struct:

	struct fscache_operation {
		union {
			struct work_struct fast_work;
			struct slow_work slow_work;
		};
		unsigned long		flags;
		fscache_operation_processor_t processor;
		...
	};

Someone wanting to issue an operation should allocate something with this
struct embedded in it.  They should initialise it by calling:

	void fscache_operation_init(struct fscache_operation *op,
				    fscache_operation_release_t release);

with the operation to be initialised and the release function to use.

The op->flags parameter should be set to indicate the CPU time provision and
the exclusivity (see the Parameters section).

The op->fast_work, op->slow_work and op->processor flags should be set as
appropriate for the CPU time provision (see the Parameters section).

FSCACHE_OP_WAITING may be set in op->flags prior to each submission of the
operation and waited for afterwards.

==========
PARAMETERS
==========

There are a number of parameters that can be set in the operation record's flag
parameter.  There are three options for the provision of CPU time in these
operations:

 (1) The operation may be done synchronously (FSCACHE_OP_MYTHREAD).  A thread
     may decide it wants to handle an operation itself without deferring it to
     another thread.

     This is, for example, used in read operations for calling readpages() on
     the backing filesystem in CacheFiles.  Although readpages() does an
     asynchronous data fetch, the determination of whether pages exist is done
     synchronously - and the netfs does not proceed until this has been
     determined.

     If this option is to be used, FSCACHE_OP_WAITING must be set in op->flags
     before submitting the operation, and the operating thread must wait for it
     to be cleared before proceeding:

		wait_on_bit(&op->flags, FSCACHE_OP_WAITING,
			    fscache_wait_bit, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);

 (2) The operation may be fast asynchronous (FSCACHE_OP_FAST), in which case it
     will be given to keventd to process.  Such an operation is not permitted
     to sleep on I/O.

     This is, for example, used by CacheFiles to copy data from a backing fs
     page to a netfs page after the backing fs has read the page in.

     If this option is used, op->fast_work and op->processor must be
     initialised before submitting the operation:

		INIT_WORK(&op->fast_work, do_some_work);

 (3) The operation may be slow asynchronous (FSCACHE_OP_SLOW), in which case it
     will be given to the slow work facility to process.  Such an operation is
     permitted to sleep on I/O.

     This is, for example, used by FS-Cache to handle background writes of
     pages that have just been fetched from a remote server.

     If this option is used, op->slow_work and op->processor must be
     initialised before submitting the operation:

		fscache_operation_init_slow(op, processor)

Furthermore, operations may be one of two types:

 (1) Exclusive (FSCACHE_OP_EXCLUSIVE).  Operations of this type may not run in
     conjunction with any other operation on the object being operated upon.

     An example of this is the attribute change operation, in which the file
     being written to may need truncation.

 (2) Shareable.  Operations of this type may be running simultaneously.  It's
     up to the operation implementation to prevent interference between other
     operations running at the same time.

=========
PROCEDURE
=========

Operations are used through the following procedure:

 (1) The submitting thread must allocate the operation and initialise it
     itself.  Normally this would be part of a more specific structure with the
     generic op embedded within.

 (2) The submitting thread must then submit the operation for processing using
     one of the following two functions:

	int fscache_submit_op(struct fscache_object *object,
			      struct fscache_operation *op);

	int fscache_submit_exclusive_op(struct fscache_object *object,
					struct fscache_operation *op);

     The first function should be used to submit non-exclusive ops and the
     second to submit exclusive ones.  The caller must still set the
     FSCACHE_OP_EXCLUSIVE flag.

     If successful, both functions will assign the operation to the specified
     object and return 0.  -ENOBUFS will be returned if the object specified is
     permanently unavailable.

     The operation manager will defer operations on an object that is still
     undergoing lookup or creation.  The operation will also be deferred if an
     operation of conflicting exclusivity is in progress on the object.

     If the operation is asynchronous, the manager will retain a reference to
     it, so the caller should put their reference to it by passing it to:

	void fscache_put_operation(struct fscache_operation *op);

 (3) If the submitting thread wants to do the work itself, and has marked the
     operation with FSCACHE_OP_MYTHREAD, then it should monitor
     FSCACHE_OP_WAITING as described above and check the state of the object if
     necessary (the object might have died whilst the thread was waiting).

     When it has finished doing its processing, it should call
     fscache_put_operation() on it.

 (4) The operation holds an effective lock upon the object, preventing other
     exclusive ops conflicting until it is released.  The operation can be
     enqueued for further immediate asynchronous processing by adjusting the
     CPU time provisioning option if necessary, eg:

	op->flags &= ~FSCACHE_OP_TYPE;
	op->flags |= ~FSCACHE_OP_FAST;

     and calling:

	void fscache_enqueue_operation(struct fscache_operation *op)

     This can be used to allow other things to have use of the worker thread
     pools.

=====================
ASYNCHRONOUS CALLBACK
=====================

When used in asynchronous mode, the worker thread pool will invoke the
processor method with a pointer to the operation.  This should then get at the
container struct by using container_of():

	static void fscache_write_op(struct fscache_operation *_op)
	{
		struct fscache_storage *op =
			container_of(_op, struct fscache_storage, op);
	...
	}

The caller holds a reference on the operation, and will invoke
fscache_put_operation() when the processor function returns.  The processor
function is at liberty to call fscache_enqueue_operation() or to take extra
references.

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>
2009-04-03 16:42:39 +01:00
David Howells
36c9559022 FS-Cache: Object management state machine
Implement the cache object management state machine.

The following documentation is added to illuminate the working of this state
machine.  It will also be added as:

	Documentation/filesystems/caching/object.txt

	     ====================================================
	     IN-KERNEL CACHE OBJECT REPRESENTATION AND MANAGEMENT
	     ====================================================

==============
REPRESENTATION
==============

FS-Cache maintains an in-kernel representation of each object that a netfs is
currently interested in.  Such objects are represented by the fscache_cookie
struct and are referred to as cookies.

FS-Cache also maintains a separate in-kernel representation of the objects that
a cache backend is currently actively caching.  Such objects are represented by
the fscache_object struct.  The cache backends allocate these upon request, and
are expected to embed them in their own representations.  These are referred to
as objects.

There is a 1:N relationship between cookies and objects.  A cookie may be
represented by multiple objects - an index may exist in more than one cache -
or even by no objects (it may not be cached).

Furthermore, both cookies and objects are hierarchical.  The two hierarchies
correspond, but the cookies tree is a superset of the union of the object trees
of multiple caches:

	    NETFS INDEX TREE               :      CACHE 1     :      CACHE 2
	                                   :                  :
	                                   :   +-----------+  :
	                          +----------->|  IObject  |  :
	      +-----------+       |        :   +-----------+  :
	      |  ICookie  |-------+        :         |        :
	      +-----------+       |        :         |        :   +-----------+
	            |             +------------------------------>|  IObject  |
	            |                      :         |        :   +-----------+
	            |                      :         V        :         |
	            |                      :   +-----------+  :         |
	            V             +----------->|  IObject  |  :         |
	      +-----------+       |        :   +-----------+  :         |
	      |  ICookie  |-------+        :         |        :         V
	      +-----------+       |        :         |        :   +-----------+
	            |             +------------------------------>|  IObject  |
	      +-----+-----+                :         |        :   +-----------+
	      |           |                :         |        :         |
	      V           |                :         V        :         |
	+-----------+     |                :   +-----------+  :         |
	|  ICookie  |------------------------->|  IObject  |  :         |
	+-----------+     |                :   +-----------+  :         |
	      |           V                :         |        :         V
	      |     +-----------+          :         |        :   +-----------+
	      |     |  ICookie  |-------------------------------->|  IObject  |
	      |     +-----------+          :         |        :   +-----------+
	      V           |                :         V        :         |
	+-----------+     |                :   +-----------+  :         |
	|  DCookie  |------------------------->|  DObject  |  :         |
	+-----------+     |                :   +-----------+  :         |
	                  |                :                  :         |
	          +-------+-------+        :                  :         |
	          |               |        :                  :         |
	          V               V        :                  :         V
	    +-----------+   +-----------+  :                  :   +-----------+
	    |  DCookie  |   |  DCookie  |------------------------>|  DObject  |
	    +-----------+   +-----------+  :                  :   +-----------+
	                                   :                  :

In the above illustration, ICookie and IObject represent indices and DCookie
and DObject represent data storage objects.  Indices may have representation in
multiple caches, but currently, non-index objects may not.  Objects of any type
may also be entirely unrepresented.

As far as the netfs API goes, the netfs is only actually permitted to see
pointers to the cookies.  The cookies themselves and any objects attached to
those cookies are hidden from it.

===============================
OBJECT MANAGEMENT STATE MACHINE
===============================

Within FS-Cache, each active object is managed by its own individual state
machine.  The state for an object is kept in the fscache_object struct, in
object->state.  A cookie may point to a set of objects that are in different
states.

Each state has an action associated with it that is invoked when the machine
wakes up in that state.  There are four logical sets of states:

 (1) Preparation: states that wait for the parent objects to become ready.  The
     representations are hierarchical, and it is expected that an object must
     be created or accessed with respect to its parent object.

 (2) Initialisation: states that perform lookups in the cache and validate
     what's found and that create on disk any missing metadata.

 (3) Normal running: states that allow netfs operations on objects to proceed
     and that update the state of objects.

 (4) Termination: states that detach objects from their netfs cookies, that
     delete objects from disk, that handle disk and system errors and that free
     up in-memory resources.

In most cases, transitioning between states is in response to signalled events.
When a state has finished processing, it will usually set the mask of events in
which it is interested (object->event_mask) and relinquish the worker thread.
Then when an event is raised (by calling fscache_raise_event()), if the event
is not masked, the object will be queued for processing (by calling
fscache_enqueue_object()).

PROVISION OF CPU TIME
---------------------

The work to be done by the various states is given CPU time by the threads of
the slow work facility (see Documentation/slow-work.txt).  This is used in
preference to the workqueue facility because:

 (1) Threads may be completely occupied for very long periods of time by a
     particular work item.  These state actions may be doing sequences of
     synchronous, journalled disk accesses (lookup, mkdir, create, setxattr,
     getxattr, truncate, unlink, rmdir, rename).

 (2) Threads may do little actual work, but may rather spend a lot of time
     sleeping on I/O.  This means that single-threaded and 1-per-CPU-threaded
     workqueues don't necessarily have the right numbers of threads.

LOCKING SIMPLIFICATION
----------------------

Because only one worker thread may be operating on any particular object's
state machine at once, this simplifies the locking, particularly with respect
to disconnecting the netfs's representation of a cache object (fscache_cookie)
from the cache backend's representation (fscache_object) - which may be
requested from either end.

=================
THE SET OF STATES
=================

The object state machine has a set of states that it can be in.  There are
preparation states in which the object sets itself up and waits for its parent
object to transit to a state that allows access to its children:

 (1) State FSCACHE_OBJECT_INIT.

     Initialise the object and wait for the parent object to become active.  In
     the cache, it is expected that it will not be possible to look an object
     up from the parent object, until that parent object itself has been looked
     up.

There are initialisation states in which the object sets itself up and accesses
disk for the object metadata:

 (2) State FSCACHE_OBJECT_LOOKING_UP.

     Look up the object on disk, using the parent as a starting point.
     FS-Cache expects the cache backend to probe the cache to see whether this
     object is represented there, and if it is, to see if it's valid (coherency
     management).

     The cache should call fscache_object_lookup_negative() to indicate lookup
     failure for whatever reason, and should call fscache_obtained_object() to
     indicate success.

     At the completion of lookup, FS-Cache will let the netfs go ahead with
     read operations, no matter whether the file is yet cached.  If not yet
     cached, read operations will be immediately rejected with ENODATA until
     the first known page is uncached - as to that point there can be no data
     to be read out of the cache for that file that isn't currently also held
     in the pagecache.

 (3) State FSCACHE_OBJECT_CREATING.

     Create an object on disk, using the parent as a starting point.  This
     happens if the lookup failed to find the object, or if the object's
     coherency data indicated what's on disk is out of date.  In this state,
     FS-Cache expects the cache to create

     The cache should call fscache_obtained_object() if creation completes
     successfully, fscache_object_lookup_negative() otherwise.

     At the completion of creation, FS-Cache will start processing write
     operations the netfs has queued for an object.  If creation failed, the
     write ops will be transparently discarded, and nothing recorded in the
     cache.

There are some normal running states in which the object spends its time
servicing netfs requests:

 (4) State FSCACHE_OBJECT_AVAILABLE.

     A transient state in which pending operations are started, child objects
     are permitted to advance from FSCACHE_OBJECT_INIT state, and temporary
     lookup data is freed.

 (5) State FSCACHE_OBJECT_ACTIVE.

     The normal running state.  In this state, requests the netfs makes will be
     passed on to the cache.

 (6) State FSCACHE_OBJECT_UPDATING.

     The state machine comes here to update the object in the cache from the
     netfs's records.  This involves updating the auxiliary data that is used
     to maintain coherency.

And there are terminal states in which an object cleans itself up, deallocates
memory and potentially deletes stuff from disk:

 (7) State FSCACHE_OBJECT_LC_DYING.

     The object comes here if it is dying because of a lookup or creation
     error.  This would be due to a disk error or system error of some sort.
     Temporary data is cleaned up, and the parent is released.

 (8) State FSCACHE_OBJECT_DYING.

     The object comes here if it is dying due to an error, because its parent
     cookie has been relinquished by the netfs or because the cache is being
     withdrawn.

     Any child objects waiting on this one are given CPU time so that they too
     can destroy themselves.  This object waits for all its children to go away
     before advancing to the next state.

 (9) State FSCACHE_OBJECT_ABORT_INIT.

     The object comes to this state if it was waiting on its parent in
     FSCACHE_OBJECT_INIT, but its parent died.  The object will destroy itself
     so that the parent may proceed from the FSCACHE_OBJECT_DYING state.

(10) State FSCACHE_OBJECT_RELEASING.
(11) State FSCACHE_OBJECT_RECYCLING.

     The object comes to one of these two states when dying once it is rid of
     all its children, if it is dying because the netfs relinquished its
     cookie.  In the first state, the cached data is expected to persist, and
     in the second it will be deleted.

(12) State FSCACHE_OBJECT_WITHDRAWING.

     The object transits to this state if the cache decides it wants to
     withdraw the object from service, perhaps to make space, but also due to
     error or just because the whole cache is being withdrawn.

(13) State FSCACHE_OBJECT_DEAD.

     The object transits to this state when the in-memory object record is
     ready to be deleted.  The object processor shouldn't ever see an object in
     this state.

THE SET OF EVENTS
-----------------

There are a number of events that can be raised to an object state machine:

 (*) FSCACHE_OBJECT_EV_UPDATE

     The netfs requested that an object be updated.  The state machine will ask
     the cache backend to update the object, and the cache backend will ask the
     netfs for details of the change through its cookie definition ops.

 (*) FSCACHE_OBJECT_EV_CLEARED

     This is signalled in two circumstances:

     (a) when an object's last child object is dropped and

     (b) when the last operation outstanding on an object is completed.

     This is used to proceed from the dying state.

 (*) FSCACHE_OBJECT_EV_ERROR

     This is signalled when an I/O error occurs during the processing of some
     object.

 (*) FSCACHE_OBJECT_EV_RELEASE
 (*) FSCACHE_OBJECT_EV_RETIRE

     These are signalled when the netfs relinquishes a cookie it was using.
     The event selected depends on whether the netfs asks for the backing
     object to be retired (deleted) or retained.

 (*) FSCACHE_OBJECT_EV_WITHDRAW

     This is signalled when the cache backend wants to withdraw an object.
     This means that the object will have to be detached from the netfs's
     cookie.

Because the withdrawing releasing/retiring events are all handled by the object
state machine, it doesn't matter if there's a collision with both ends trying
to sever the connection at the same time.  The state machine can just pick
which one it wants to honour, and that effects the other.

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>
2009-04-03 16:42:38 +01:00
David Howells
7394daa8c6 FS-Cache: Add use of /proc and presentation of statistics
Make FS-Cache create its /proc interface and present various statistical
information through it.  Also provide the functions for updating this
information.

These features are enabled by:

	CONFIG_FSCACHE_PROC
	CONFIG_FSCACHE_STATS
	CONFIG_FSCACHE_HISTOGRAM

The /proc directory for FS-Cache is also exported so that caching modules can
add their own statistics there too.

The FS-Cache module is loadable at this point, and the statistics files can be
examined by userspace:

	cat /proc/fs/fscache/stats
	cat /proc/fs/fscache/histogram

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>
2009-04-03 16:42:37 +01:00
David Howells
0dfc41d1ef FS-Cache: Add the FS-Cache cache backend API and documentation
Add the API for a generic facility (FS-Cache) by which caches may declare them
selves open for business, and may obtain work to be done from network
filesystems.  The header file is included by:

	#include <linux/fscache-cache.h>

Documentation for the API is also added to:

	Documentation/filesystems/caching/backend-api.txt

This API is not usable without the implementation of the utility functions
which will be added in further patches.

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>
2009-04-03 16:42:36 +01:00
David Howells
2d6fff6370 FS-Cache: Add the FS-Cache netfs API and documentation
Add the API for a generic facility (FS-Cache) by which filesystems (such as AFS
or NFS) may call on local caching capabilities without having to know anything
about how the cache works, or even if there is a cache:

	+---------+
	|         |                        +--------------+
	|   NFS   |--+                     |              |
	|         |  |                 +-->|   CacheFS    |
	+---------+  |   +----------+  |   |  /dev/hda5   |
	             |   |          |  |   +--------------+
	+---------+  +-->|          |  |
	|         |      |          |--+
	|   AFS   |----->| FS-Cache |
	|         |      |          |--+
	+---------+  +-->|          |  |
	             |   |          |  |   +--------------+
	+---------+  |   +----------+  |   |              |
	|         |  |                 +-->|  CacheFiles  |
	|  ISOFS  |--+                     |  /var/cache  |
	|         |                        +--------------+
	+---------+

General documentation and documentation of the netfs specific API are provided
in addition to the header files.

As this patch stands, it is possible to build a filesystem against the facility
and attempt to use it.  All that will happen is that all requests will be
immediately denied as if no cache is present.

Further patches will implement the core of the facility.  The facility will
transfer requests from networking filesystems to appropriate caches if
possible, or else gracefully deny them.

If this facility is disabled in the kernel configuration, then all its
operations will trivially reduce to nothing during compilation.

WHY NOT I_MAPPING?
==================

I have added my own API to implement caching rather than using i_mapping to do
this for a number of reasons.  These have been discussed a lot on the LKML and
CacheFS mailing lists, but to summarise the basics:

 (1) Most filesystems don't do hole reportage.  Holes in files are treated as
     blocks of zeros and can't be distinguished otherwise, making it difficult
     to distinguish blocks that have been read from the network and cached from
     those that haven't.

 (2) The backing inode must be fully populated before being exposed to
     userspace through the main inode because the VM/VFS goes directly to the
     backing inode and does not interrogate the front inode's VM ops.

     Therefore:

     (a) The backing inode must fit entirely within the cache.

     (b) All backed files currently open must fit entirely within the cache at
     	 the same time.

     (c) A working set of files in total larger than the cache may not be
     	 cached.

     (d) A file may not grow larger than the available space in the cache.

     (e) A file that's open and cached, and remotely grows larger than the
     	 cache is potentially stuffed.

 (3) Writes go to the backing filesystem, and can only be transferred to the
     network when the file is closed.

 (4) There's no record of what changes have been made, so the whole file must
     be written back.

 (5) The pages belong to the backing filesystem, and all metadata associated
     with that page are relevant only to the backing filesystem, and not
     anything stacked atop it.

OVERVIEW
========

FS-Cache provides (or will provide) the following facilities:

 (1) Caches can be added / removed at any time, even whilst in use.

 (2) Adds a facility by which tags can be used to refer to caches, even if
     they're not available yet.

 (3) More than one cache can be used at once.  Caches can be selected
     explicitly by use of tags.

 (4) The netfs is provided with an interface that allows either party to
     withdraw caching facilities from a file (required for (1)).

 (5) A netfs may annotate cache objects that belongs to it.  This permits the
     storage of coherency maintenance data.

 (6) Cache objects will be pinnable and space reservations will be possible.

 (7) The interface to the netfs returns as few errors as possible, preferring
     rather to let the netfs remain oblivious.

 (8) Cookies are used to represent indices, files and other objects to the
     netfs.  The simplest cookie is just a NULL pointer - indicating nothing
     cached there.

 (9) The netfs is allowed to propose - dynamically - any index hierarchy it
     desires, though it must be aware that the index search function is
     recursive, stack space is limited, and indices can only be children of
     indices.

(10) Indices can be used to group files together to reduce key size and to make
     group invalidation easier.  The use of indices may make lookup quicker,
     but that's cache dependent.

(11) Data I/O is effectively done directly to and from the netfs's pages.  The
     netfs indicates that page A is at index B of the data-file represented by
     cookie C, and that it should be read or written.  The cache backend may or
     may not start I/O on that page, but if it does, a netfs callback will be
     invoked to indicate completion.  The I/O may be either synchronous or
     asynchronous.

(12) Cookies can be "retired" upon release.  At this point FS-Cache will mark
     them as obsolete and the index hierarchy rooted at that point will get
     recycled.

(13) The netfs provides a "match" function for index searches.  In addition to
     saying whether a match was made or not, this can also specify that an
     entry should be updated or deleted.

FS-Cache maintains a virtual index tree in which all indices, files, objects
and pages are kept.  Bits of this tree may actually reside in one or more
caches.

                                           FSDEF
                                             |
                        +------------------------------------+
                        |                                    |
                       NFS                                  AFS
                        |                                    |
           +--------------------------+                +-----------+
           |                          |                |           |
        homedir                     mirror          afs.org   redhat.com
           |                          |                            |
     +------------+           +---------------+              +----------+
     |            |           |               |              |          |
   00001        00002       00007           00125        vol00001   vol00002
     |            |           |               |                         |
 +---+---+     +-----+      +---+      +------+------+            +-----+----+
 |   |   |     |     |      |   |      |      |      |            |     |    |
PG0 PG1 PG2   PG0  XATTR   PG0 PG1   DIRENT DIRENT DIRENT        R/W   R/O  Bak
                     |                                            |
                    PG0                                       +-------+
                                                              |       |
                                                            00001   00003
                                                              |
                                                          +---+---+
                                                          |   |   |
                                                         PG0 PG1 PG2

In the example above, two netfs's can be seen to be backed: NFS and AFS.  These
have different index hierarchies:

 (*) The NFS primary index will probably contain per-server indices.  Each
     server index is indexed by NFS file handles to get data file objects.
     Each data file objects can have an array of pages, but may also have
     further child objects, such as extended attributes and directory entries.
     Extended attribute objects themselves have page-array contents.

 (*) The AFS primary index contains per-cell indices.  Each cell index contains
     per-logical-volume indices.  Each of volume index contains up to three
     indices for the read-write, read-only and backup mirrors of those volumes.
     Each of these contains vnode data file objects, each of which contains an
     array of pages.

The very top index is the FS-Cache master index in which individual netfs's
have entries.

Any index object may reside in more than one cache, provided it only has index
children.  Any index with non-index object children will be assumed to only
reside in one cache.

The FS-Cache overview can be found in:

	Documentation/filesystems/caching/fscache.txt

The netfs API to FS-Cache can be found in:

	Documentation/filesystems/caching/netfs-api.txt

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>
2009-04-03 16:42:36 +01:00