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* fs: fs_struct use seqlockNick Piggin2011-01-071-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | Use a seqlock in the fs_struct to enable us to take an atomic copy of the complete cwd and root paths. Use this in the RCU lookup path to avoid a thread-shared spinlock in RCU lookup operations. Multi-threaded apps may now perform path lookups with scalability matching multi-process apps. Operations such as stat(2) become very scalable for multi-threaded workload. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
* fs: fs_struct rwlock to spinlockNick Piggin2010-08-181-7/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | fs: fs_struct rwlock to spinlock struct fs_struct.lock is an rwlock with the read-side used to protect root and pwd members while taking references to them. Taking a reference to a path typically requires just 2 atomic ops, so the critical section is very small. Parallel read-side operations would have cacheline contention on the lock, the dentry, and the vfsmount cachelines, so the rwlock is unlikely to ever give a real parallelism increase. Replace it with a spinlock to avoid one or two atomic operations in typical path lookup fastpath. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* vfs: add helpers to get root and pwdMiklos Szeredi2010-08-111-0/+27
| | | | | | | | | | | | Add three helpers that retrieve a refcounted copy of the root and cwd from the supplied fs_struct. get_fs_root() get_fs_pwd() get_fs_root_and_pwd() Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* New locking/refcounting for fs_structAl Viro2009-03-311-5/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * all changes of current->fs are done under task_lock and write_lock of old fs->lock * refcount is not atomic anymore (same protection) * its decrements are done when removing reference from current; at the same time we decide whether to free it. * put_fs_struct() is gone * new field - ->in_exec. Set by check_unsafe_exec() if we are trying to do execve() and only subthreads share fs_struct. Cleared when finishing exec (success and failure alike). Makes CLONE_FS fail with -EAGAIN if set. * check_unsafe_exec() may fail with -EAGAIN if another execve() from subthread is in progress. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* Take fs_struct handling to new file (fs/fs_struct.c)Al Viro2009-03-311-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | Pure code move; two new helper functions for nfsd and daemonize (unshare_fs_struct() and daemonize_fs_struct() resp.; for now - the same code as used to be in callers). unshare_fs_struct() exported (for nfsd, as copy_fs_struct()/exit_fs() used to be), copy_fs_struct() and exit_fs() don't need exports anymore. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* Annotate struct fs_struct's usage count restrictionDavid Howells2009-03-281-1/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | Annotate struct fs_struct's usage count to indicate the restrictions upon it. It may not be incremented, except by clone(CLONE_FS), as this affects the check in check_unsafe_exec() in fs/exec.c. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* take init_fs to saner placeAl Viro2008-12-311-6/+0
| | | | Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* [PATCH] kill altrootAl Viro2008-07-261-2/+1
| | | | | | long overdue... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* Make set_fs_{root,pwd} take a struct pathJan Blunck2008-02-141-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | In nearly all cases the set_fs_{root,pwd}() calls work on a struct path. Change the function to reflect this and use path_get() here. Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Use struct path in fs_structJan Blunck2008-02-141-4/+2
| | | | | | | | | | * Use struct path in fs_struct. Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de> Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] Move fs_cachep to linux/fs_struct.hChristoph Lameter2006-12-071-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | fs_cachep is only used in kernel/exit.c and in kernel/fork.c. It is used to store fs_struct items so it should be placed in linux/fs_struct.h Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Linux-2.6.12-rc2v2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds2005-04-161-0/+28
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!