linux.git/Documentation/filesystems/nfs, branch v3.9.8

nfsd4: delay filling in write iovec array till after xdr decoding

2012-11-26T14:08:15+00:00

Our server rejects compounds containing more than one write operation.
It's unclear whether this is really permitted by the spec; with 4.0,
it's possibly OK, with 4.1 (which has clearer limits on compound
parameters), it's probably not OK.  No client that we're aware of has
ever done this, but in theory it could be useful.

The source of the limitation: we need an array of iovecs to pass to the
write operation.  In the worst case that array of iovecs could have
hundreds of elements (the maximum rwsize divided by the page size), so
it's too big to put on the stack, or in each compound op.  So we instead
keep a single such array in the compound argument.

We fill in that array at the time we decode the xdr operation.

But we decode every op in the compound before executing any of them.  So
once we've used that array we can't decode another write.

If we instead delay filling in that array till the time we actually
perform the write, we can reuse it.

Another option might be to switch to decoding compound ops one at a
time.  I considered doing that, but it has a number of other side
effects, and I'd rather fix just this one problem for now.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields

nfsd4: update documentation on 4.1 progress

2012-11-10T19:52:03+00:00

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields

nfsd4: implement backchannel_ctl operation

2012-11-08T00:39:58+00:00

This operation is mandatory for servers to implement.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields

Merge branch 'for-3.7' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux

2012-10-13T01:53:54+00:00

Pull nfsd update from J Bruce Fields:
 "Another relatively quiet cycle.  There was some progress on my
  remaining 4.1 todo's, but a couple of them were just of the form
  "check that we do X correctly", so didn't have much affect on the
  code.

  Other than that, a bunch of cleanup and some bugfixes (including an
  annoying NFSv4.0 state leak and a busy-loop in the server that could
  cause it to peg the CPU without making progress)."

* 'for-3.7' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux: (46 commits)
  UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/linux/sunrpc
  UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/linux/nfsd
  nfsd4: don't allow reclaims of expired clients
  nfsd4: remove redundant callback probe
  nfsd4: expire old client earlier
  nfsd4: separate session allocation and initialization
  nfsd4: clean up session allocation
  nfsd4: minor free_session cleanup
  nfsd4: new_conn_from_crses should only allocate
  nfsd4: separate connection allocation and initialization
  nfsd4: reject bad forechannel attrs earlier
  nfsd4: enforce per-client sessions/no-sessions distinction
  nfsd4: set cl_minorversion at create time
  nfsd4: don't pin clientids to pseudoflavors
  nfsd4: fix bind_conn_to_session xdr comment
  nfsd4: cast readlink() bug argument
  NFSD: pass null terminated buf to kstrtouint()
  nfsd: remove duplicate init in nfsd4_cb_recall
  nfsd4: eliminate redundant nfs4_free_stateid
  fs/nfsd/nfs4idmap.c: adjust inconsistent IS_ERR and PTR_ERR
  ...

Merge tag 'nfs-for-3.7-1' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/linux-nfs

2012-10-10T14:52:35+00:00

Pull NFS client updates from Trond Myklebust:
 "Features include:

   - Remove CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL dependency from NFSv4.1
     Aside from the issues discussed at the LKS, distros are shipping
     NFSv4.1 with all the trimmings.
   - Fix fdatasync()/fsync() for the corner case of a server reboot.
   - NFSv4 OPEN access fix: finally distinguish correctly between
     open-for-read and open-for-execute permissions in all situations.
   - Ensure that the TCP socket is closed when we're in CLOSE_WAIT
   - More idmapper bugfixes
   - Lots of pNFS bugfixes and cleanups to remove unnecessary state and
     make the code easier to read.
   - In cases where a pNFS read or write fails, allow the client to
     resume trying layoutgets after two minutes of read/write-
     through-mds.
   - More net namespace fixes to the NFSv4 callback code.
   - More net namespace fixes to the NFSv3 locking code.
   - More NFSv4 migration preparatory patches.
     Including patches to detect network trunking in both NFSv4 and
     NFSv4.1
   - pNFS block updates to optimise LAYOUTGET calls."

* tag 'nfs-for-3.7-1' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/linux-nfs: (113 commits)
  pnfsblock: cleanup nfs4_blkdev_get
  NFS41: send real read size in layoutget
  NFS41: send real write size in layoutget
  NFS: track direct IO left bytes
  NFSv4.1: Cleanup ugliness in pnfs_layoutgets_blocked()
  NFSv4.1: Ensure that the layout sequence id stays 'close' to the current
  NFSv4.1: Deal with seqid wraparound in the pNFS return-on-close code
  NFSv4 set open access operation call flag in nfs4_init_opendata_res
  NFSv4.1: Remove the dependency on CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL
  NFSv4 reduce attribute requests for open reclaim
  NFSv4: nfs4_open_done first must check that GETATTR decoded a file type
  NFSv4.1: Deal with wraparound when updating the layout "barrier" seqid
  NFSv4.1: Deal with wraparound issues when updating the layout stateid
  NFSv4.1: Always set the layout stateid if this is the first layoutget
  NFSv4.1: Fix another refcount issue in pnfs_find_alloc_layout
  NFSv4: don't put ACCESS in OPEN compound if O_EXCL
  NFSv4: don't check MAY_WRITE access bit in OPEN
  NFS: Set key construction data for the legacy upcall
  NFSv4.1: don't do two EXCHANGE_IDs on mount
  NFS: nfs41_walk_client_list(): re-lock before iterating
  ...

nfs: disintegrate UAPI for nfs

2012-10-09T22:35:22+00:00

This is to complete part of the Userspace API (UAPI) disintegration for which
the preparatory patches were pulled recently.  After these patches, userspace
headers will be segregated into:

        include/uapi/linux/.../foo.h

for the userspace interface stuff, and:

        include/linux/.../foo.h

for the strictly kernel internal stuff.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields

NFS: Add nfs4_unique_id boot parameter

2012-10-01T22:33:33+00:00

An optional boot parameter is introduced to allow client
administrators to specify a string that the Linux NFS client can
insert into its nfs_client_id4 id string, to make it both more
globally unique, and to ensure that it doesn't change even if the
client's nodename changes.

If this boot parameter is not specified, the client's nodename is
used, as before.

Client installation procedures can create a unique string (typically,
a UUID) which remains unchanged during the lifetime of that client
instance.  This works just like creating a UUID for the label of the
system's root and boot volumes.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever 
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust

ipconfig: add nameserver IPs to kernel-parameter ip=

2012-09-21T18:51:21+00:00

On small systems (e.g. embedded ones) IP addresses are often configured
by bootloaders and get assigned to kernel via parameter "ip=".  If set to
"ip=dhcp", even nameserver entries from DHCP daemons are handled. These
entries exported in /proc/net/pnp are commonly linked by /etc/resolv.conf.

To configure nameservers for networks without DHCP, this patch adds option
 and  to kernel-parameter 'ip='.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Fritz 
Tested-by: Jan Weitzel 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

nfsd: document kernel interfaces for nfsd configuration

2012-08-21T21:42:03+00:00

These are only needed by nfs-utils.  But I needed to remind myself how
they worked recently and thought this might be helpful.  It's short and
incomplete for now as I was only interested in startup, shutdown, and
configuration of listening sockets.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields

Documentation: Fix typo in multiple files in Documentation

2012-04-16T12:37:13+00:00

Correct multiple spelling typo in Documentation.

Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida 
Acked-by: Rob Landley 
Reported-by: Anders Larsen 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina