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  7. 23 Jun, 2006 1 commit
    • David Howells's avatar
      [PATCH] VFS: Permit filesystem to override root dentry on mount · 454e2398
      David Howells authored 
      

Extend the get_sb() filesystem operation to take an extra argument that
permits the VFS to pass in the target vfsmount that defines the mountpoint.

The filesystem is then required to manually set the superblock and root dentry
pointers.  For most filesystems, this should be done with simple_set_mnt()
which will set the superblock pointer and then set the root dentry to the
superblock's s_root (as per the old default behaviour).

The get_sb() op now returns an integer as there's now no need to return the
superblock pointer.

This patch permits a superblock to be implicitly shared amongst several mount
points, such as can be done with NFS to avoid potential inode aliasing.  In
such a case, simple_set_mnt() would not be called, and instead the mnt_root
and mnt_sb would be set directly.

The patch also makes the following changes:

 (*) the get_sb_*() convenience functions in the core kernel now take a vfsmount
     pointer argument and return an integer, so most filesystems have to change
     very little.

 (*) If one of the convenience function is not used, then get_sb() should
     normally call simple_set_mnt() to instantiate the vfsmount. This will
     always return 0, and so can be tail-called from get_sb().

 (*) generic_shutdown_super() now calls shrink_dcache_sb() to clean up the
     dcache upon superblock destruction rather than shrink_dcache_anon().

     This is required because the superblock may now have multiple trees that
     aren't actually bound to s_root, but that still need to be cleaned up. The
     currently called functions assume that the whole tree is rooted at s_root,
     and that anonymous dentries are not the roots of trees which results in
     dentries being left unculled.

     However, with the way NFS superblock sharing are currently set to be
     implemented, these assumptions are violated: the root of the filesystem is
     simply a dummy dentry and inode (the real inode for '/' may well be
     inaccessible), and all the vfsmounts are rooted on anonymous[*] dentries
     with child trees.

     [*] Anonymous until discovered from another tree.

 (*) The documentation has been adjusted, including the additional bit of
     changing ext2_* into foo_* in the documentation.

[akpm@osdl.org: convert ipath_fs, do other stuff]
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      454e2398
  9. 18 Jun, 2006 10 commits
  11. 24 May, 2006 1 commit
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  15. 18 May, 2006 1 commit
  17. 17 May, 2006 1 commit
    • Roland Dreier's avatar
      IB/mthca: Make fw_cmd_doorbell default to 0 · 1db76c14
      Roland Dreier authored 
      

Setting fw_cmd_doorbell allows FW command to be queued using posted
writes instead of requiring polling on a "go" bit, so it should be a
performance boost.  However, the option causes problems with at least
some device/firmware combinations, so set the default to 0 until we
understand what's going on better.
Signed-off-by: default avatarRoland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
      1db76c14
  19. 12 May, 2006 1 commit
    • Roland Dreier's avatar
      IB/ipath: Properly terminate PCI ID table · 6f4bb3d8
      Roland Dreier authored 
      

The ipath driver's table of PCI IDs needs a { 0, } entry at the end.
This makes all of the device aliases visible to userspace so hotplug
loads the module for all supported devices.  Without the patch,
modinfo ipath_core only shows:

    alias:          pci:v00001FC1d0000000Dsv*sd*bc*sc*i*

instead of the correct:

    alias:          pci:v00001FC1d00000010sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
    alias:          pci:v00001FC1d0000000Dsv*sd*bc*sc*i*
Signed-off-by: default avatarRoland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBryan O'Sullivan <bos@pathscale.com>
      6f4bb3d8
  21. 10 May, 2006 1 commit
  23. 09 May, 2006 1 commit
    • Roland Dreier's avatar
      IB/mthca: Fix race in reference counting · a3285aa4
      Roland Dreier authored 
      

Fix races in in destroying various objects.  If a destroy routine
waits for an object to become free by doing

	wait_event(&obj->wait, !atomic_read(&obj->refcount));
	/* now clean up and destroy the object */

and another place drops a reference to the object by doing

	if (atomic_dec_and_test(&obj->refcount))
		wake_up(&obj->wait);

then this is susceptible to a race where the wait_event() and final
freeing of the object occur between the atomic_dec_and_test() and the
wake_up().  And this is a use-after-free, since wake_up() will be
called on part of the already-freed object.

Fix this in mthca by replacing the atomic_t refcounts with plain old
integers protected by a spinlock.  This makes it possible to do the
decrement of the reference count and the wake_up() so that it appears
as a single atomic operation to the code waiting on the wait queue.

While touching this code, also simplify mthca_cq_clean(): the CQ being
cleaned cannot go away, because it still has a QP attached to it.  So
there's no reason to be paranoid and look up the CQ by number; it's
perfectly safe to use the pointer that the callers already have.
Signed-off-by: default avatarRoland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
      a3285aa4
  25. 01 May, 2006 2 commits

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