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2019-05-29docs: filesystems: vfs: Convert vfs.txt to RSTTobin C. Harding1-1274/+0
vfs.txt is currently stale. If we convert it to RST this is a good first step in the process of getting the VFS documentation up to date. This patch does the following (all as a single patch so as not to introduce any new SPHINX build warnings) - Use '.. code-block:: c' for C code blocks and indent the code blocks. - Use double backticks for struct member descriptions. - Fix a couple of build warnings by guarding pointers (*) with double backticks .e.g ``*ptr``. - Add vfs to Documentation/filesystems/index.rst The member descriptions paragraph indentation was not touched. It is not pretty but these do not cause build warnings. These descriptions all need updating anyways so leave it as it is for now. Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <tobin@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-05-29docs: filesystems: vfs: Convert spaces to tabsTobin C. Harding1-62/+62
There are bunch of places with 8 spaces, in preparation for correctly indenting all code snippets (during conversion to RST) change these to use tabspaces. This patch is whitespace only. Convert instances of 8 consecutive spaces to a single tabspace. Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <tobin@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-05-29docs: filesystems: vfs: Fix pre-amble indentationTobin C. Harding1-3/+3
Currently file pre-amble contains custom indentation. RST is not going to like this, lets left-align the text. Put the copyright notices in a list in preparation for converting document to RST. Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <tobin@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-05-29docs: filesystems: vfs: Use SPDX identifierTobin C. Harding1-2/+2
Currently the licence is indicated via a custom string. We have SPDX license identifiers now for this task. Use SPDX license identifier matching current license string. Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <tobin@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-05-29docs: filesystems: vfs: Use correct initial headingTobin C. Harding1-2/+3
Kernel RST has a preferred heading adornment scheme. Currently all the heading adornments follow this scheme except the document heading. Use correct heading adornment for initial heading. Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <tobin@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-05-29docs: filesystems: vfs: Use uniform spacing around headingsTobin C. Harding1-0/+9
Currently spacing before and after headings is non-uniform. Use two blank lines before a heading and one after the heading. Use uniform spacing around headings. Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <tobin@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-05-29docs: filesystems: vfs: Use 72 character column widthTobin C. Harding1-101/+97
In preparation for conversion to RST format use the kernels favoured documentation column width. If we are going to do this we might as well do it thoroughly. Just do the paragraphs (not the indented stuff), the rest will be done during indentation fix up patch. This patch is whitespace only, no textual changes. Use 72 character column width for all paragraph sections. Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <tobin@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-05-29docs: filesystems: vfs: Use uniform space after period.Tobin C. Harding1-123/+123
Currently sometimes document has a single space after a period and sometimes it has double. Whichever we use it should be uniform. Use double space after period, be uniform. Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <tobin@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-05-29docs: filesystems: vfs: Remove space before tabTobin C. Harding1-39/+39
Currently the file has a bunch of spaces before tabspaces. This is a nuisance when patching the file because they show up whenever we touch these lines. Let's just fix them all now in preparation for doing the RST conversion. Remove spaces before tabspaces. Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <tobin@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-04-30Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt: document how ->i_link worksEric Biggers1-0/+6
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2019-04-30Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt: remove bogus "Last updated" dateEric Biggers1-2/+0
This file has actually been updated over 100 times since the claimed "Last updated" date. Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2019-02-24fs: add an iopoll method to struct file_operationsChristoph Hellwig1-0/+3
This new methods is used to explicitly poll for I/O completion for an iocb. It must be called for any iocb submitted asynchronously (that is with a non-null ki_complete) which has the IOCB_HIPRI flag set. The method is assisted by a new ki_cookie field in struct iocb to store the polling cookie. Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-11-20Documentation: Use "while" instead of "whilst"Will Deacon1-1/+1
Whilst making an unrelated change to some Documentation, Linus sayeth: | Afaik, even in Britain, "whilst" is unusual and considered more | formal, and "while" is the common word. | | [...] | | Can we just admit that we work with computers, and we don't need to | use þe eald Englisc spelling of words that most of the world never | uses? dictionary.com refers to the word as "Chiefly British", which is probably an undesirable attribute for technical documentation. Replace all occurrences under Documentation/ with "while". Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@gmail.com> Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Cc: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@google.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-10-30vfs: enable remap callers that can handle short operationsDarrick J. Wong1-1/+3
Plumb in a remap flag that enables the filesystem remap handler to shorten remapping requests for callers that can handle it. Now copy_file_range can report partial success (in case we run up against alignment problems, resource limits, etc.). We also enable CAN_SHORTEN for fideduperange to maintain existing userspace-visible behavior where xfs/btrfs shorten the dedupe range to avoid stale post-eof data exposure. Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
2018-10-30vfs: make remap_file_range functions take and return bytes completedDarrick J. Wong1-5/+5
Change the remap_file_range functions to take a number of bytes to operate upon and return the number of bytes they operated on. This is a requirement for allowing fs implementations to return short clone/dedupe results to the user, which will enable us to obey resource limits in a graceful manner. A subsequent patch will enable copy_file_range to signal to the ->clone_file_range implementation that it can handle a short length, which will be returned in the function's return value. For now the short return is not implemented anywhere so the behavior won't change -- either copy_file_range manages to clone the entire range or it tries an alternative. Neither clone ioctl can take advantage of this, alas. Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
2018-10-30vfs: combine the clone and dedupe into a single remap_file_rangeDarrick J. Wong1-7/+13
Combine the clone_file_range and dedupe_file_range operations into a single remap_file_range file operation dispatch since they're fundamentally the same operation. The differences between the two can be made in the prep functions. Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
2018-08-30vfs: add the fadvise() file operationAmir Goldstein1-0/+3
This is going to be used by overlayfs and possibly useful for other filesystems. Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
2018-08-30Documentation/filesystems: update documentation of file_operationsAmir Goldstein1-2/+16
...to kernel 4.18. Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
2018-08-21Merge tag 'ovl-update-4.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/vfsLinus Torvalds1-12/+4
Pull overlayfs updates from Miklos Szeredi: "This contains two new features: - Stack file operations: this allows removal of several hacks from the VFS, proper interaction of read-only open files with copy-up, possibility to implement fs modifying ioctls properly, and others. - Metadata only copy-up: when file is on lower layer and only metadata is modified (except size) then only copy up the metadata and continue to use the data from the lower file" * tag 'ovl-update-4.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/vfs: (66 commits) ovl: Enable metadata only feature ovl: Do not do metacopy only for ioctl modifying file attr ovl: Do not do metadata only copy-up for truncate operation ovl: add helper to force data copy-up ovl: Check redirect on index as well ovl: Set redirect on upper inode when it is linked ovl: Set redirect on metacopy files upon rename ovl: Do not set dentry type ORIGIN for broken hardlinks ovl: Add an inode flag OVL_CONST_INO ovl: Treat metacopy dentries as type OVL_PATH_MERGE ovl: Check redirects for metacopy files ovl: Move some dir related ovl_lookup_single() code in else block ovl: Do not expose metacopy only dentry from d_real() ovl: Open file with data except for the case of fsync ovl: Add helper ovl_inode_realdata() ovl: Store lower data inode in ovl_inode ovl: Fix ovl_getattr() to get number of blocks from lower ovl: Add helper ovl_dentry_lowerdata() to get lower data dentry ovl: Copy up meta inode data from lowest data inode ovl: Modify ovl_lookup() and friends to lookup metacopy dentry ...
2018-08-13Merge branch 'work.open3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfsLinus Torvalds1-8/+10
Pull vfs open-related updates from Al Viro: - "do we need fput() or put_filp()" rules are gone - it's always fput() now. We keep track of that state where it belongs - in ->f_mode. - int *opened mess killed - in finish_open(), in ->atomic_open() instances and in fs/namei.c code around do_last()/lookup_open()/atomic_open(). - alloc_file() wrappers with saner calling conventions are introduced (alloc_file_clone() and alloc_file_pseudo()); callers converted, with much simplification. - while we are at it, saner calling conventions for path_init() and link_path_walk(), simplifying things inside fs/namei.c (both on open-related paths and elsewhere). * 'work.open3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (40 commits) few more cleanups of link_path_walk() callers allow link_path_walk() to take ERR_PTR() make path_init() unconditionally paired with terminate_walk() document alloc_file() changes make alloc_file() static do_shmat(): grab shp->shm_file earlier, switch to alloc_file_clone() new helper: alloc_file_clone() create_pipe_files(): switch the first allocation to alloc_file_pseudo() anon_inode_getfile(): switch to alloc_file_pseudo() hugetlb_file_setup(): switch to alloc_file_pseudo() ocxlflash_getfile(): switch to alloc_file_pseudo() cxl_getfile(): switch to alloc_file_pseudo() ... and switch shmem_file_setup() to alloc_file_pseudo() __shmem_file_setup(): reorder allocations new wrapper: alloc_file_pseudo() kill FILE_{CREATED,OPENED} switch atomic_open() and lookup_open() to returning 0 in all success cases document ->atomic_open() changes ->atomic_open(): return 0 in all success cases get rid of 'opened' in path_openat() and the helpers downstream ...
2018-07-18vfs: remove open_flags from d_real()Miklos Szeredi1-12/+4
Opening regular files on overlayfs is now handled via ovl_open(). Remove the now unused "open_flags" argument from d_op->d_real() and the d_real() helper. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
2018-07-18Revert "vfs: add flags to d_real()"Miklos Szeredi1-1/+1
This reverts commit 495e642939114478a5237a7d91661ba93b76f15a. No user of "flags" argument of d_real() remain. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
2018-07-12document ->atomic_open() changesAl Viro1-8/+10
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2018-06-28Revert changes to convert to ->poll_mask() and aio IOCB_CMD_POLLLinus Torvalds1-13/+0
The poll() changes were not well thought out, and completely unexplained. They also caused a huge performance regression, because "->poll()" was no longer a trivial file operation that just called down to the underlying file operations, but instead did at least two indirect calls. Indirect calls are sadly slow now with the Spectre mitigation, but the performance problem could at least be largely mitigated by changing the "->get_poll_head()" operation to just have a per-file-descriptor pointer to the poll head instead. That gets rid of one of the new indirections. But that doesn't fix the new complexity that is completely unwarranted for the regular case. The (undocumented) reason for the poll() changes was some alleged AIO poll race fixing, but we don't make the common case slower and more complex for some uncommon special case, so this all really needs way more explanations and most likely a fundamental redesign. [ This revert is a revert of about 30 different commits, not reverted individually because that would just be unnecessarily messy - Linus ] Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-05-26fs: introduce new ->get_poll_head and ->poll_mask methodsChristoph Hellwig1-0/+13
->get_poll_head returns the waitqueue that the poll operation is going to sleep on. Note that this means we can only use a single waitqueue for the poll, unlike some current drivers that use two waitqueues for different events. But now that we have keyed wakeups and heavily use those for poll there aren't that many good reason left to keep the multiple waitqueues, and if there are any ->poll is still around, the driver just won't support aio poll. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
2018-05-26fs: update documentation to mention __poll_t and match the codeChristoph Hellwig1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-09-13Merge branch 'overlayfs-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/vfsLinus Torvalds1-1/+1
Pull overlayfs updates from Miklos Szeredi: "This fixes d_ino correctness in readdir, which brings overlayfs on par with normal filesystems regarding inode number semantics, as long as all layers are on the same filesystem. There are also some bug fixes, one in particular (random ioctl's shouldn't be able to modify lower layers) that touches some vfs code, but of course no-op for non-overlay fs" * 'overlayfs-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/vfs: ovl: fix false positive ESTALE on lookup ovl: don't allow writing ioctl on lower layer ovl: fix relatime for directories vfs: add flags to d_real() ovl: cleanup d_real for negative ovl: constant d_ino for non-merge dirs ovl: constant d_ino across copy up ovl: fix readdir error value ovl: check snprintf return
2017-09-04vfs: add flags to d_real()Miklos Szeredi1-1/+1
Add a separate flags argument (in addition to the open flags) to control the behavior of d_real(). Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
2017-08-26swap: Remove obsolete sentenceNikolay Borisov1-3/+1
Currently there are no ->swap_{in,out} method in address_space_operations sructure definition, so the statement that anything is going to be proxied through them is wrong. Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-07-15Merge branch 'work.mount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfsLinus Torvalds1-6/+0
Pull ->s_options removal from Al Viro: "Preparations for fsmount/fsopen stuff (coming next cycle). Everything gets moved to explicit ->show_options(), killing ->s_options off + some cosmetic bits around fs/namespace.c and friends. Basically, the stuff needed to work with fsmount series with minimum of conflicts with other work. It's not strictly required for this merge window, but it would reduce the PITA during the coming cycle, so it would be nice to have those bits and pieces out of the way" * 'work.mount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: isofs: Fix isofs_show_options() VFS: Kill off s_options and helpers orangefs: Implement show_options 9p: Implement show_options isofs: Implement show_options afs: Implement show_options affs: Implement show_options befs: Implement show_options spufs: Implement show_options bpf: Implement show_options ramfs: Implement show_options pstore: Implement show_options omfs: Implement show_options hugetlbfs: Implement show_options VFS: Don't use save/replace_mount_options if not using generic_show_options VFS: Provide empty name qstr VFS: Make get_filesystem() return the affected filesystem VFS: Clean up whitespace in fs/namespace.c and fs/super.c Provide a function to create a NUL-terminated string from unterminated data
2017-07-11VFS: Kill off s_options and helpersDavid Howells1-6/+0
Kill off s_options, save/replace_mount_options() and generic_show_options() as all filesystems now implement ->show_options() for themselves. This should make it easier to implement a context-based mount where the mount options can be passed individually over a file descriptor. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2017-07-06Documentation: flesh out the section in vfs.txt on storing and reporting writeback errorsJeff Layton1-3/+41
Let's try to make this extra clear for fs authors. Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
2017-05-08fs: semove set but not checked AOP_FLAG_UNINTERRUPTIBLE flagTetsuo Handa1-2/+1
Commit afddba49d18f ("fs: introduce write_begin, write_end, and perform_write aops") introduced AOP_FLAG_UNINTERRUPTIBLE flag which was checked in pagecache_write_begin(), but that check was removed by 4e02ed4b4a2f ("fs: remove prepare_write/commit_write"). Between these two commits, commit d9414774dc0c ("cifs: Convert cifs to new aops.") added a check in cifs_write_begin(), but that check was soon removed by commit a98ee8c1c707 ("[CIFS] fix regression in cifs_write_begin/cifs_write_end"). Therefore, AOP_FLAG_UNINTERRUPTIBLE flag is checked nowhere. Let's remove this flag. This patch has no functionality changes. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1489294781-53494-1-git-send-email-penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-04-03Documentation/filesystems: fix documentation for ->getattr()Eric Biggers1-2/+1
Following the recent merge of statx, correct the documented prototype for the ->getattr() inode operation, and add an entry to the porting file. Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2017-03-02statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info availableDavid Howells1-1/+2
Add a system call to make extended file information available, including file creation and some attribute flags where available through the underlying filesystem. The getattr inode operation is altered to take two additional arguments: a u32 request_mask and an unsigned int flags that indicate the synchronisation mode. This change is propagated to the vfs_getattr*() function. Functions like vfs_stat() are now inline wrappers around new functions vfs_statx() and vfs_statx_fd() to reduce stack usage. ======== OVERVIEW ======== The idea was initially proposed as a set of xattrs that could be retrieved with getxattr(), but the general preference proved to be for a new syscall with an extended stat structure. A number of requests were gathered for features to be included. The following have been included: (1) Make the fields a consistent size on all arches and make them large. (2) Spare space, request flags and information flags are provided for future expansion. (3) Better support for the y2038 problem [Arnd Bergmann] (tv_sec is an __s64). (4) Creation time: The SMB protocol carries the creation time, which could be exported by Samba, which will in turn help CIFS make use of FS-Cache as that can be used for coherency data (stx_btime). This is also specified in NFSv4 as a recommended attribute and could be exported by NFSD [Steve French]. (5) Lightweight stat: Ask for just those details of interest, and allow a netfs (such as NFS) to approximate anything not of interest, possibly without going to the server [Trond Myklebust, Ulrich Drepper, Andreas Dilger] (AT_STATX_DONT_SYNC). (6) Heavyweight stat: Force a netfs to go to the server, even if it thinks its cached attributes are up to date [Trond Myklebust] (AT_STATX_FORCE_SYNC). And the following have been left out for future extension: (7) Data version number: Could be used by userspace NFS servers [Aneesh Kumar]. Can also be used to modify fill_post_wcc() in NFSD which retrieves i_version directly, but has just called vfs_getattr(). It could get it from the kstat struct if it used vfs_xgetattr() instead. (There's disagreement on the exact semantics of a single field, since not all filesystems do this the same way). (8) BSD stat compatibility: Including more fields from the BSD stat such as creation time (st_btime) and inode generation number (st_gen) [Jeremy Allison, Bernd Schubert]. (9) Inode generation number: Useful for FUSE and userspace NFS servers [Bernd Schubert]. (This was asked for but later deemed unnecessary with the open-by-handle capability available and caused disagreement as to whether it's a security hole or not). (10) Extra coherency data may be useful in making backups [Andreas Dilger]. (No particular data were offered, but things like last backup timestamp, the data version number and the DOS archive bit would come into this category). (11) Allow the filesystem to indicate what it can/cannot provide: A filesystem can now say it doesn't support a standard stat feature if that isn't available, so if, for instance, inode numbers or UIDs don't exist or are fabricated locally... (This requires a separate system call - I have an fsinfo() call idea for this). (12) Store a 16-byte volume ID in the superblock that can be returned in struct xstat [Steve French]. (Deferred to fsinfo). (13) Include granularity fields in the time data to indicate the granularity of each of the times (NFSv4 time_delta) [Steve French]. (Deferred to fsinfo). (14) FS_IOC_GETFLAGS value. These could be translated to BSD's st_flags. Note that the Linux IOC flags are a mess and filesystems such as Ext4 define flags that aren't in linux/fs.h, so translation in the kernel may be a necessity (or, possibly, we provide the filesystem type too). (Some attributes are made available in stx_attributes, but the general feeling was that the IOC flags were to ext[234]-specific and shouldn't be exposed through statx this way). (15) Mask of features available on file (eg: ACLs, seclabel) [Brad Boyer, Michael Kerrisk]. (Deferred, probably to fsinfo. Finding out if there's an ACL or seclabal might require extra filesystem operations). (16) Femtosecond-resolution timestamps [Dave Chinner]. (A __reserved field has been left in the statx_timestamp struct for this - if there proves to be a need). (17) A set multiple attributes syscall to go with this. =============== NEW SYSTEM CALL =============== The new system call is: int ret = statx(int dfd, const char *filename, unsigned int flags, unsigned int mask, struct statx *buffer); The dfd, filename and flags parameters indicate the file to query, in a similar way to fstatat(). There is no equivalent of lstat() as that can be emulated with statx() by passing AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW in flags. There is also no equivalent of fstat() as that can be emulated by passing a NULL filename to statx() with the fd of interest in dfd. Whether or not statx() synchronises the attributes with the backing store can be controlled by OR'ing a value into the flags argument (this typically only affects network filesystems): (1) AT_STATX_SYNC_AS_STAT tells statx() to behave as stat() does in this respect. (2) AT_STATX_FORCE_SYNC will require a network filesystem to synchronise its attributes with the server - which might require data writeback to occur to get the timestamps correct. (3) AT_STATX_DONT_SYNC will suppress synchronisation with the server in a network filesystem. The resulting values should be considered approximate. mask is a bitmask indicating the fields in struct statx that are of interest to the caller. The user should set this to STATX_BASIC_STATS to get the basic set returned by stat(). It should be noted that asking for more information may entail extra I/O operations. buffer points to the destination for the data. This must be 256 bytes in size. ====================== MAIN ATTRIBUTES RECORD ====================== The following structures are defined in which to return the main attribute set: struct statx_timestamp { __s64 tv_sec; __s32 tv_nsec; __s32 __reserved; }; struct statx { __u32 stx_mask; __u32 stx_blksize; __u64 stx_attributes; __u32 stx_nlink; __u32 stx_uid; __u32 stx_gid; __u16 stx_mode; __u16 __spare0[1]; __u64 stx_ino; __u64 stx_size; __u64 stx_blocks; __u64 __spare1[1]; struct statx_timestamp stx_atime; struct statx_timestamp stx_btime; struct statx_timestamp stx_ctime; struct statx_timestamp stx_mtime; __u32 stx_rdev_major; __u32 stx_rdev_minor; __u32 stx_dev_major; __u32 stx_dev_minor; __u64 __spare2[14]; }; The defined bits in request_mask and stx_mask are: STATX_TYPE Want/got stx_mode & S_IFMT STATX_MODE Want/got stx_mode & ~S_IFMT STATX_NLINK Want/got stx_nlink STATX_UID Want/got stx_uid STATX_GID Want/got stx_gid STATX_ATIME Want/got stx_atime{,_ns} STATX_MTIME Want/got stx_mtime{,_ns} STATX_CTIME Want/got stx_ctime{,_ns} STATX_INO Want/got stx_ino STATX_SIZE Want/got stx_size STATX_BLOCKS Want/got stx_blocks STATX_BASIC_STATS [The stuff in the normal stat struct] STATX_BTIME Want/got stx_btime{,_ns} STATX_ALL [All currently available stuff] stx_btime is the file creation time, stx_mask is a bitmask indicating the data provided and __spares*[] are where as-yet undefined fields can be placed. Time fields are structures with separate seconds and nanoseconds fields plus a reserved field in case we want to add even finer resolution. Note that times will be negative if before 1970; in such a case, the nanosecond fields will also be negative if not zero. The bits defined in the stx_attributes field convey information about a file, how it is accessed, where it is and what it does. The following attributes map to FS_*_FL flags and are the same numerical value: STATX_ATTR_COMPRESSED File is compressed by the fs STATX_ATTR_IMMUTABLE File is marked immutable STATX_ATTR_APPEND File is append-only STATX_ATTR_NODUMP File is not to be dumped STATX_ATTR_ENCRYPTED File requires key to decrypt in fs Within the kernel, the supported flags are listed by: KSTAT_ATTR_FS_IOC_FLAGS [Are any other IOC flags of sufficient general interest to be exposed through this interface?] New flags include: STATX_ATTR_AUTOMOUNT Object is an automount trigger These are for the use of GUI tools that might want to mark files specially, depending on what they are. Fields in struct statx come in a number of classes: (0) stx_dev_*, stx_blksize. These are local system information and are always available. (1) stx_mode, stx_nlinks, stx_uid, stx_gid, stx_[amc]time, stx_ino, stx_size, stx_blocks. These will be returned whether the caller asks for them or not. The corresponding bits in stx_mask will be set to indicate whether they actually have valid values. If the caller didn't ask for them, then they may be approximated. For example, NFS won't waste any time updating them from the server, unless as a byproduct of updating something requested. If the values don't actually exist for the underlying object (such as UID or GID on a DOS file), then the bit won't be set in the stx_mask, even if the caller asked for the value. In such a case, the returned value will be a fabrication. Note that there are instances where the type might not be valid, for instance Windows reparse points. (2) stx_rdev_*. This will be set only if stx_mode indicates we're looking at a blockdev or a chardev, otherwise will be 0. (3) stx_btime. Similar to (1), except this will be set to 0 if it doesn't exist. ======= TESTING ======= The following test program can be used to test the statx system call: samples/statx/test-statx.c Just compile and run, passing it paths to the files you want to examine. The file is built automatically if CONFIG_SAMPLES is enabled. Here's some example output. Firstly, an NFS directory that crosses to another FSID. Note that the AUTOMOUNT attribute is set because transiting this directory will cause d_automount to be invoked by the VFS. [root@andromeda ~]# /tmp/test-statx -A /warthog/data statx(/warthog/data) = 0 results=7ff Size: 4096 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 1048576 directory Device: 00:26 Inode: 1703937 Links: 125 Access: (3777/drwxrwxrwx) Uid: 0 Gid: 4041 Access: 2016-11-24 09:02:12.219699527+0000 Modify: 2016-11-17 10:44:36.225653653+0000 Change: 2016-11-17 10:44:36.225653653+0000 Attributes: 0000000000001000 (-------- -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- ---m---- --------) Secondly, the result of automounting on that directory. [root@andromeda ~]# /tmp/test-statx /warthog/data statx(/warthog/data) = 0 results=7ff Size: 4096 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 1048576 directory Device: 00:27 Inode: 2 Links: 125 Access: (3777/drwxrwxrwx) Uid: 0 Gid: 4041 Access: 2016-11-24 09:02:12.219699527+0000 Modify: 2016-11-17 10:44:36.225653653+0000 Change: 2016-11-17 10:44:36.225653653+0000 Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2016-12-17Merge uncontroversial parts of branch 'readlink' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/vfsLinus Torvalds1-3/+6
Pull partial readlink cleanups from Miklos Szeredi. This is the uncontroversial part of the readlink cleanup patch-set that simplifies the default readlink handling. Miklos and Al are still discussing the rest of the series. * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/vfs: vfs: make generic_readlink() static vfs: remove ".readlink = generic_readlink" assignments vfs: default to generic_readlink() vfs: replace calling i_op->readlink with vfs_readlink() proc/self: use generic_readlink ecryptfs: use vfs_get_link() bad_inode: add missing i_op initializers
2016-12-09vfs: default to generic_readlink()Miklos Szeredi1-3/+6
If i_op->readlink is NULL, but i_op->get_link is set then vfs_readlink() defaults to calling generic_readlink(). The IOP_DEFAULT_READLINK flag indicates that the above conditions are met and the default action can be taken. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
2016-12-02vfs: change d_manage() to take a struct pathIan Kent1-1/+1
For the autofs module to be able to reliably check if a dentry is a mountpoint in a multiple namespace environment the ->d_manage() dentry operation will need to take a path argument instead of a dentry. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161011053352.27645.83962.stgit@pluto.themaw.net Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Omar Sandoval <osandov@osandov.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2016-10-30fs: remove the never implemented aio_fsync file operationChristoph Hellwig1-1/+0
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2016-10-10Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfsLinus Torvalds1-7/+2
Pull more vfs updates from Al Viro: ">rename2() work from Miklos + current_time() from Deepa" * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: fs: Replace current_fs_time() with current_time() fs: Replace CURRENT_TIME_SEC with current_time() for inode timestamps fs: Replace CURRENT_TIME with current_time() for inode timestamps fs: proc: Delete inode time initializations in proc_alloc_inode() vfs: Add current_time() api vfs: add note about i_op->rename changes to porting fs: rename "rename2" i_op to "rename" vfs: remove unused i_op->rename fs: make remaining filesystems use .rename2 libfs: support RENAME_NOREPLACE in simple_rename() fs: support RENAME_NOREPLACE for local filesystems ncpfs: fix unused variable warning
2016-10-10Merge branch 'work.xattr' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfsLinus Torvalds1-15/+30
Pull vfs xattr updates from Al Viro: "xattr stuff from Andreas This completes the switch to xattr_handler ->get()/->set() from ->getxattr/->setxattr/->removexattr" * 'work.xattr' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: vfs: Remove {get,set,remove}xattr inode operations xattr: Stop calling {get,set,remove}xattr inode operations vfs: Check for the IOP_XATTR flag in listxattr xattr: Add __vfs_{get,set,remove}xattr helpers libfs: Use IOP_XATTR flag for empty directory handling vfs: Use IOP_XATTR flag for bad-inode handling vfs: Add IOP_XATTR inode operations flag vfs: Move xattr_resolve_name to the front of fs/xattr.c ecryptfs: Switch to generic xattr handlers sockfs: Get rid of getxattr iop sockfs: getxattr: Fail with -EOPNOTSUPP for invalid attribute names kernfs: Switch to generic xattr handlers hfs: Switch to generic xattr handlers jffs2: Remove jffs2_{get,set,remove}xattr macros xattr: Remove unnecessary NULL attribute name check
2016-10-07xattr: Stop calling {get,set,remove}xattr inode operationsAndreas Gruenbacher1-15/+30
All filesystems that support xattrs by now do so via xattr handlers. They all define sb->s_xattr, and their getxattr, setxattr, and removexattr inode operations use the generic inode operations. On filesystems that don't support xattrs, the xattr inode operations are all NULL, and sb->s_xattr is also NULL. This means that we can remove the getxattr, setxattr, and removexattr inode operations and directly call the generic handlers, or better, inline expand those handlers into fs/xattr.c. Filesystems that do not support xattrs on some inodes should clear the IOP_XATTR i_opflags flag in those inodes. (Right now, some filesystems have checks to disable xattrs on some inodes in the ->list, ->get, and ->set xattr handler operations instead.) The IOP_XATTR flag is automatically cleared in inodes of filesystems that don't have xattr support. In orangefs, symlinks do have a setxattr iop but no getxattr iop. Add a check for symlinks to orangefs_inode_getxattr to preserve the current, weird behavior; that check may not be necessary though. Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2016-10-07Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivialLinus Torvalds1-1/+1
Pull trivial updates from Jiri Kosina: "The usual rocket science from the trivial tree" * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: tracing/syscalls: fix multiline in error message text lib/Kconfig.debug: fix DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH description doc: vfs: fix fadvise() sycall name x86/entry: spell EBX register correctly in documentation securityfs: fix securityfs_create_dir comment irq: Fix typo in tracepoint.xml
2016-09-29doc: vfs: fix fadvise() sycall nameAndreas Gruenbacher1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2016-09-27fs: rename "rename2" i_op to "rename"Miklos Szeredi1-1/+1
Generated patch: sed -i "s/\.rename2\t/\.rename\t\t/" `git grep -wl rename2` sed -i "s/\brename2\b/rename/g" `git grep -wl rename2` Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
2016-09-27vfs: remove unused i_op->renameMiklos Szeredi1-7/+2
No in-tree uses remain. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
2016-07-31get rid of 'parent' argument of ->d_compare()Al Viro1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2016-07-28Merge branch 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfsLinus Torvalds1-19/+32
Pull vfs updates from Al Viro: "Assorted cleanups and fixes. Probably the most interesting part long-term is ->d_init() - that will have a bunch of followups in (at least) ceph and lustre, but we'll need to sort the barrier-related rules before it can get used for really non-trivial stuff. Another fun thing is the merge of ->d_iput() callers (dentry_iput() and dentry_unlink_inode()) and a bunch of ->d_compare() ones (all except the one in __d_lookup_lru())" * 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (26 commits) fs/dcache.c: avoid soft-lockup in dput() vfs: new d_init method vfs: Update lookup_dcache() comment bdev: get rid of ->bd_inodes Remove last traces of ->sync_page new helper: d_same_name() dentry_cmp(): use lockless_dereference() instead of smp_read_barrier_depends() vfs: clean up documentation vfs: document ->d_real() vfs: merge .d_select_inode() into .d_real() unify dentry_iput() and dentry_unlink_inode() binfmt_misc: ->s_root is not going anywhere drop redundant ->owner initializations ufs: get rid of redundant checks orangefs: constify inode_operations missed comment updates from ->direct_IO() prototype change file_inode(f)->i_mapping is f->f_mapping trim fsnotify hooks a bit 9p: new helper - v9fs_parent_fid() debugfs: ->d_parent is never NULL or negative ...
2016-07-26mm: migrate: support non-lru movable page migrationMinchan Kim1-0/+11
We have allowed migration for only LRU pages until now and it was enough to make high-order pages. But recently, embedded system(e.g., webOS, android) uses lots of non-movable pages(e.g., zram, GPU memory) so we have seen several reports about troubles of small high-order allocation. For fixing the problem, there were several efforts (e,g,. enhance compaction algorithm, SLUB fallback to 0-order page, reserved memory, vmalloc and so on) but if there are lots of non-movable pages in system, their solutions are void in the long run. So, this patch is to support facility to change non-movable pages with movable. For the feature, this patch introduces functions related to migration to address_space_operations as well as some page flags. If a driver want to make own pages movable, it should define three functions which are function pointers of struct address_space_operations. 1. bool (*isolate_page) (struct page *page, isolate_mode_t mode); What VM expects on isolate_page function of driver is to return *true* if driver isolates page successfully. On returing true, VM marks the page as PG_isolated so concurrent isolation in several CPUs skip the page for isolation. If a driver cannot isolate the page, it should return *false*. Once page is successfully isolated, VM uses page.lru fields so driver shouldn't expect to preserve values in that fields. 2. int (*migratepage) (struct address_space *mapping, struct page *newpage, struct page *oldpage, enum migrate_mode); After isolation, VM calls migratepage of driver with isolated page. The function of migratepage is to move content of the old page to new page and set up fields of struct page newpage. Keep in mind that you should indicate to the VM the oldpage is no longer movable via __ClearPageMovable() under page_lock if you migrated the oldpage successfully and returns 0. If driver cannot migrate the page at the moment, driver can return -EAGAIN. On -EAGAIN, VM will retry page migration in a short time because VM interprets -EAGAIN as "temporal migration failure". On returning any error except -EAGAIN, VM will give up the page migration without retrying in this time. Driver shouldn't touch page.lru field VM using in the functions. 3. void (*putback_page)(struct page *); If migration fails on isolated page, VM should return the isolated page to the driver so VM calls driver's putback_page with migration failed page. In this function, driver should put the isolated page back to the own data structure. 4. non-lru movable page flags There are two page flags for supporting non-lru movable page. * PG_movable Driver should use the below function to make page movable under page_lock. void __SetPageMovable(struct page *page, struct address_space *mapping) It needs argument of address_space for registering migration family functions which will be called by VM. Exactly speaking, PG_movable is not a real flag of struct page. Rather than, VM reuses page->mapping's lower bits to represent it. #define PAGE_MAPPING_MOVABLE 0x2 page->mapping = page->mapping | PAGE_MAPPING_MOVABLE; so driver shouldn't access page->mapping directly. Instead, driver should use page_mapping which mask off the low two bits of page->mapping so it can get right struct address_space. For testing of non-lru movable page, VM supports __PageMovable function. However, it doesn't guarantee to identify non-lru movable page because page->mapping field is unified with other variables in struct page. As well, if driver releases the page after isolation by VM, page->mapping doesn't have stable value although it has PAGE_MAPPING_MOVABLE (Look at __ClearPageMovable). But __PageMovable is cheap to catch whether page is LRU or non-lru movable once the page has been isolated. Because LRU pages never can have PAGE_MAPPING_MOVABLE in page->mapping. It is also good for just peeking to test non-lru movable pages before more expensive checking with lock_page in pfn scanning to select victim. For guaranteeing non-lru movable page, VM provides PageMovable function. Unlike __PageMovable, PageMovable functions validates page->mapping and mapping->a_ops->isolate_page under lock_page. The lock_page prevents sudden destroying of page->mapping. Driver using __SetPageMovable should clear the flag via __ClearMovablePage under page_lock before the releasing the page. * PG_isolated To prevent concurrent isolation among several CPUs, VM marks isolated page as PG_isolated under lock_page. So if a CPU encounters PG_isolated non-lru movable page, it can skip it. Driver doesn't need to manipulate the flag because VM will set/clear it automatically. Keep in mind that if driver sees PG_isolated page, it means the page have been isolated by VM so it shouldn't touch page.lru field. PG_isolated is alias with PG_reclaim flag so driver shouldn't use the flag for own purpose. [opensource.ganesh@gmail.com: mm/compaction: remove local variable is_lru] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160618014841.GA7422@leo-test Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1464736881-24886-3-git-send-email-minchan@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Gioh Kim <gi-oh.kim@profitbricks.com> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ganesh Mahendran <opensource.ganesh@gmail.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: John Einar Reitan <john.reitan@foss.arm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-07-24vfs: new d_init methodMiklos Szeredi1-0/+3
Allow filesystem to initialize dentry at allocation time. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>