linux.git/fs/fuse, branch v2.6.35-rc4

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse

2010-05-30T16:16:14+00:00

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse:
  mm: export generic_pipe_buf_*() to modules
  fuse: support splice() reading from fuse device
  fuse: allow splice to move pages
  mm: export remove_from_page_cache() to modules
  mm: export lru_cache_add_*() to modules
  fuse: support splice() writing to fuse device
  fuse: get page reference for readpages
  fuse: use get_user_pages_fast()
  fuse: remove unneeded variable

drop unused dentry argument to ->fsync

2010-05-28T02:05:02+00:00

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

driver core: add devname module aliases to allow module on-demand auto-loading

2010-05-25T22:08:26+00:00

This adds:
  alias: devname:
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 
Cc: David S. Miller 
Cc: Miklos Szeredi 
Cc: Chris Mason 
Cc: Alasdair G Kergon 
Cc: Tigran Aivazian 
Cc: Ian Kent 
Signed-Off-By: Kay Sievers 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

fuse: support splice() reading from fuse device

2010-05-25T13:06:07+00:00

Allow userspace filesystem implementation to use splice() to read from
the fuse device.

The userspace filesystem can now transfer data coming from a WRITE
request to an arbitrary file descriptor (regular file, block device or
socket) without having to go through a userspace buffer.

The semantics of using splice() to read messages are:

 1)  with a single splice() call move the whole message from the fuse
     device to a temporary pipe
 2)  read the header from the pipe and determine the message type
 3a) if message is a WRITE then splice data from pipe to destination
 3b) else read rest of message to userspace buffer

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi

fuse: allow splice to move pages

2010-05-25T13:06:07+00:00

When splicing buffers to the fuse device with SPLICE_F_MOVE, try to
move pages from the pipe buffer into the page cache.  This allows
populating the fuse filesystem's cache without ever touching the page
contents, i.e. zero copy read capability.

The following steps are performed when trying to move a page into the
page cache:

 - buf->ops->confirm() to make sure the new page is uptodate
 - buf->ops->steal() to try to remove the new page from it's previous place
 - remove_from_page_cache() on the old page
 - add_to_page_cache_locked() on the new page

If any of the above steps fail (non fatally) then the code falls back
to copying the page.  In particular ->steal() will fail if there are
external references (other than the page cache and the pipe buffer) to
the page.

Also since the remove_from_page_cache() + add_to_page_cache_locked()
are non-atomic it is possible that the page cache is repopulated in
between the two and add_to_page_cache_locked() will fail.  This could
be fixed by creating a new atomic replace_page_cache_page() function.

fuse_readpages_end() needed to be reworked so it works even if
page->mapping is NULL for some or all pages which can happen if the
add_to_page_cache_locked() failed.

A number of sanity checks were added to make sure the stolen pages
don't have weird flags set, etc...  These could be moved into generic
splice/steal code.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi

fuse: support splice() writing to fuse device

2010-05-25T13:06:06+00:00

Allow userspace filesystem implementation to use splice() to write to
the fuse device.  The semantics of using splice() are:

 1) buffer the message header and data in a temporary pipe
 2) with a *single* splice() call move the message from the temporary pipe
    to the fuse device

The READ reply message has the most interesting use for this, since
now the data from an arbitrary file descriptor (which could be a
regular file, a block device or a socket) can be tranferred into the
fuse device without having to go through a userspace buffer.  It will
also allow zero copy moving of pages.

One caveat is that the protocol on the fuse device requires the length
of the whole message to be written into the header.  But the length of
the data transferred into the temporary pipe may not be known in
advance.  The current library implementation works around this by
using vmplice to write the header and modifying the header after
splicing the data into the pipe (error handling omitted):

	struct fuse_out_header out;

	iov.iov_base = &out;
	iov.iov_len = sizeof(struct fuse_out_header);
	vmsplice(pip[1], &iov, 1, 0);
	len = splice(input_fd, input_offset, pip[1], NULL, len, 0);
	/* retrospectively modify the header: */
	out.len = len + sizeof(struct fuse_out_header);
	splice(pip[0], NULL, fuse_chan_fd(req->ch), NULL, out.len, flags);

This works since vmsplice only saves a pointer to the data, it does
not copy the data itself.

Since pipes are currently limited to 16 pages and messages need to be
spliced atomically, the length of the data is limited to 15 pages (or
60kB for 4k pages).

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi

fuse: get page reference for readpages

2010-05-25T13:06:06+00:00

Acquire a page ref on pages in ->readpages() and release them when the
read has finished.  Not acquiring a reference didn't seem to cause any
trouble since the page is locked and will not be kicked out of the
page cache during the read.

However the following patches will want to remove the page from the
cache so a separate ref is needed.  Making the reference in req->pages
explicit also makes the code easier to understand.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi

fuse: use get_user_pages_fast()

2010-05-25T13:06:06+00:00

Replace uses of get_user_pages() with get_user_pages_fast().  It looks
nicer and should be faster in most cases.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi

fuse: remove unneeded variable

2010-05-25T13:06:05+00:00

"map" isn't needed any more after: 0bd87182d3ab18 "fuse: fix kunmap in
fuse_ioctl_copy_user" 

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter 
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi

include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h

2010-03-30T13:02:32+00:00

percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn