linux-dev/fs/gfs2/mount.c, branch master

GFS2: Merge mount.c and ops_super.c into super.c

2009-05-22T09:36:01Z

mount.c only contained a single function, so is not really worth retaining on its own. All of the super related code is now either in super.c or ops_fstype.c Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse

GFS2: Add commit= mount option

2009-05-13T13:49:48Z

It has always been possible to adjust the gfs2 log commit interval, but only from the sysfs interface. This adds a mount option, commit=, which will be familar to ext3 users. The sysfs interface continues to be available as well, although this might be removed in the future. Also this patch cleans up some duplicated structures in the GFS2 sysfs code. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse

GFS2: Support quota/noquota mount arguments

2009-03-24T11:21:23Z

This adds support for "quota" and "noquota" mount options in addition to the existing "quota=on/off/account" so that we are compatible with the names by which these options are more generally known. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse

GFS2: Support generation of discard requests

2009-03-24T11:21:20Z

This patch allows GFS2 to generate discard requests for blocks which are no longer useful to the filesystem (i.e. those which have been freed as the result of an unlink operation). The requests are generated at the time which those blocks become available for reuse in the filesystem. In order to use this new feature, you have to specify the "discard" mount option. The code coalesces adjacent blocks into a single extent when generating the discard requests, thus generating the minimum number. If an error occurs when the request has been sent to the block device, then it will print a message and turn off the requests for that filesystem. If the problem is temporary, then you can use remount to turn the option back on again. There is also a nodiscard mount option so that you can use remount to turn discard requests off, if required. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse

GFS2: Merge lock_dlm module into GFS2

2009-03-24T11:21:14Z

This is the big patch that I've been working on for some time now. There are many reasons for wanting to make this change such as: o Reducing overhead by eliminating duplicated fields between structures o Simplifcation of the code (reduces the code size by a fair bit) o The locking interface is now the DLM interface itself as proposed some time ago. o Fewer lookups of glocks when processing replies from the DLM o Fewer memory allocations/deallocations for each glock o Scope to do further optimisations in the future (but this patch is more than big enough for now!) Please note that (a) this patch relates to the lock_dlm module and not the DLM itself, that is still a separate module; and (b) that we retain the ability to build GFS2 as a standalone single node filesystem with out requiring the DLM. This patch needs a lot of testing, hence my keeping it I restarted my -git tree after the last merge window. That way, this has the maximum exposure before its merged. This is (modulo a few minor bug fixes) the same patch that I've been posting on and off the the last three months and its passed a number of different tests so far. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse

GFS2: Fix remount argument parsing

2009-03-24T11:21:10Z

The following patch fixes an issue relating to remount and argument parsing. After this fix is applied, remount becomes atomic in that it either succeeds changing the mount to the new state, or it fails and leaves it in the old state. Previously it was possible for the parsing of options to fail part way though and for the fs to be left in a state where some of the new arguments had been applied, but some had not. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse

GFS2: Remove ancient, unused code

2009-01-05T07:39:13Z

Remove code that used to have something to do with initrd but has been unused for a long time. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse

GFS2: Kill two daemons with one patch

2009-01-05T07:39:09Z

This patch removes the two daemons, gfs2_scand and gfs2_glockd and replaces them with a shrinker which is called from the VM. The net result is that GFS2 responds better when there is memory pressure, since it shrinks the glock cache at the same rate as the VFS shrinks the dcache and icache. There are no longer any time based criteria for shrinking glocks, they are kept until such time as the VM asks for more memory and then we demote just as many glocks as required. There are potential future changes to this code, including the possibility of sorting the glocks which are to be written back into inode number order, to get a better I/O ordering. It would be very useful to have an elevator based workqueue implementation for this, as that would automatically deal with the read I/O cases at the same time. This patch is my answer to Andrew Morton's remark, made during the initial review of GFS2, asking why GFS2 needs so many kernel threads, the answer being that it doesn't :-) This patch is a net loss of about 200 lines of code. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse

vfs: Use const for kernel parser table

2008-10-13T17:10:37Z

This is a much better version of a previous patch to make the parser tables constant. Rather than changing the typedef, we put the "const" in all the various places where its required, allowing the __initconst exception for nfsroot which was the cause of the previous trouble. This was posted for review some time ago and I believe its been in -mm since then. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse Cc: Alexander Viro Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

GFS2: Fix metafs mounts

2008-08-13T08:59:40Z

This patch is intended to fix the issues reported in bz #457798. Instead of having the metafs as a separate filesystem, it becomes a second root of gfs2. As a result it will appear as type gfs2 in /proc/mounts, but it is still possible (for backwards compatibility purposes) to mount it as type gfs2meta. A new mount flag "meta" is introduced so that its possible to tell the two cases apart in /proc/mounts. As a result it becomes possible to mount type gfs2 with -o meta and get the same result as mounting type gfs2meta. So it is possible to mount just the metafs on its own. Currently if you do this, its then impossible to mount the "normal" root of the gfs2 filesystem without first unmounting the metafs root. I'm not sure if thats a feature or a bug :-) Either way, this is a great improvement on the previous scheme and I've verified that it works ok with bind mounts on both the "normal" root and the metafs root in various combinations. There were also a bunch of functions in super.c which didn't belong there, so this moves them into ops_fstype.c where they can be static. Hopefully the mount/umount sequence is now more obvious as a result. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse Cc: Alexander Viro