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2007-07-27docbook: add pipes, other fixesRandy Dunlap
Fix some typos in pipe.c and splice.c. Add pipes API to kernel-api.tmpl. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-07-20splice: fix bad unlock_page() in error caseJens Axboe
If add_to_page_cache_lru() fails, the page will not be locked. But splice jumps to an error path that does a page release and unlock, causing a BUG() in unlock_page(). Fix this by adding one more label that just releases the page. This bug was actually triggered on EL5 by gurudas pai <gurudas.pai@oracle.com> using fio. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19readahead: split ondemand readahead interface into two functionsRusty Russell
Split ondemand readahead interface into two functions. I think this makes it a little clearer for non-readahead experts (like Rusty). Internally they both call ondemand_readahead(), but the page argument is changed to an obvious boolean flag. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19readahead: pass real splice sizeFengguang Wu
Pass real splice size to page_cache_readahead_ondemand(). The splice code works in chunks of 16 pages internally. The readahead code should be told of the overall splice size, instead of the internal chunk size. Otherwize bad things may happen. Imagine some 17-page random splice reads. The code before this patch will result in two readahead calls: readahead(16); readahead(1); That leads to one 16-page I/O and one 32-page I/O: one extra I/O and 31 readahead miss pages. Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19readahead: move synchronous readahead call out of splice loopFengguang Wu
Move synchronous page_cache_readahead_ondemand() call out of splice loop. This avoids one pointless page allocation/insertion in case of non-zero ra_pages, or many pointless readahead calls in case of zero ra_pages. Note that if a user sets ra_pages to less than PIPE_BUFFERS=16 pages, he will not get expected readahead behavior anyway. The splice code works in batches of 16 pages, which can be taken as another form of synchronous readahead. Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19readahead: convert splice invocationsFengguang Wu
Convert splice reads to use on-demand readahead. Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn> Cc: Steven Pratt <slpratt@austin.ibm.com> Cc: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16splice: direct splicing updates ppos twiceJens Axboe
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> reported that he's noticed nfsd read corruption in recent kernels, and did the hard work of discovering that it's due to splice updating the file position twice. This means that the next operation would start further ahead than it should. nfsd_vfs_read() splice_direct_to_actor() while(len) { do_splice_to() [update sd->pos] -> generic_file_splice_read() [read from sd->pos] nfsd_direct_splice_actor() -> __splice_from_pipe() [update sd->pos] There's nothing wrong with the core splice code, but the direct splicing is an addon that calls both input and output paths. So it has to take care in locally caching offset so it remains correct. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-07-13splice: fix offset mangling with direct splicing (sendfile)Jens Axboe
If the output actor doesn't transfer the full amount of data, we will increment ppos too much. Two related bugs in there: - We need to break out and return actor() retval if it is shorted than what we spliced into the pipe. - Adjust ppos only according to actor() return. Also fix loop problem in generic_file_splice_read(), it should not keep going when data has already been transferred. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-07-13security: revalidate rw permissions for sys_splice and sys_vmspliceJames Morris
Revalidate read/write permissions for splice(2) and vmslice(2), in case security policy has changed since the files were opened. Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-07-10pipe: add documentation and commentsJens Axboe
As per Andrew Mortons request, here's a set of documentation for the generic pipe_buf_operations hooks, the pipe, and pipe_buffer structures. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-07-10pipe: change the ->pin() operation to ->confirm()Jens Axboe
The name 'pin' was badly chosen, it doesn't pin a pipe buffer in the most commonly used sense in the kernel. So change the name to 'confirm', after debating this issue with Hugh Dickins a bit. A good return from ->confirm() means that the buffer is really there, and that the contents are good. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-07-10splice: completely document external interface with kerneldocJens Axboe
Also add fs/splice.c as a kerneldoc target with a smaller blurb that should be expanded to better explain the overview of splice. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-07-10pipe: allow passing around of ops private pointerJens Axboe
relay needs this for proper consumption handling, and the network receive support needs it as well to lookup the sk_buff on pipe release. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-07-10splice: divorce the splice structure/function definitions from the pipe headerJens Axboe
We need to move even more stuff into the header so that folks can use the splice_to_pipe() implementation instead of open-coding a lot of pipe knowledge (see relay implementation), so move to our own header file finally. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-07-10vmsplice: add vmsplice-to-user supportJens Axboe
A bit of a cheat, it actually just copies the data to userspace. But this makes the interface nice and symmetric and enables people to build on splice, with room for future improvement in performance. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-07-10splice: abstract out actor dataJens Axboe
For direct splicing (or private splicing), the output may not be a file. So abstract out the handling into a specified actor function and put the data in the splice_desc structure earlier, so we can build on top of that. This is the first step in better splice handling for drivers, and also for implementing vmsplice _to_ user memory. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-06-15splice: only check do_wakeup in splice_to_pipe() for a real pipeJens Axboe
We only ever set do_wakeup to non-zero if the pipe has an inode backing, so it's pointless to check outside the pipe->inode check. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-06-15splice: fix leak of pages on short splice to pipeJens Axboe
If the destination pipe is full and we already transferred data, we break out instead of waiting for more pipe room. The exit logic looks at spd->nr_pages to see if we moved everything inside the spd container, but we decrement that variable in the loop to decide when spd has emptied. Instead we want to compare to the original page count in the spd, so cache that in a local variable. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-06-15splice: adjust balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited() callJens Axboe
As we have potentially dirtied more than 1 page, we should indicate as such to the dirty page balancing. So call balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr() and pass in the approximate number of pages we dirtied. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-06-08splice: __generic_file_splice_read: fix read/truncate raceJens Axboe
Original patch and description from Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>, merged and adapted to splice branch by me. Neils text follows: __generic_file_splice_read() currently samples the i_size at the start and doesn't do so again unless it needs to call ->readpage to load a page. After ->readpage it has to re-sample i_size as a truncate may have caused that page to be filled with zeros, and the read() call should not see these. However there are other activities that might cause ->readpage to be called on a page between the time that __generic_file_splice_read() samples i_size and when it finds that it has an uptodate page. These include at least read-ahead and possibly another thread performing a read So we must sample i_size *after* it has an uptodate page. Thus the current sampling at the start and after a read can be replaced with a sampling before page addition into spd. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-06-08splice: __generic_file_splice_read: fix i_size_read() length checksHugh Dickins
__generic_file_splice_read's partial page check, at eof after readpage, not only got its calculations wrong, but also reused the loff variable: causing data corruption when splicing from a non-0 offset in the file's last page (revealed by ext2 -b 1024 testing on a loop of a tmpfs file). Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-06-08splice: move balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited() outside of splice actorJens Axboe
I've seen inode related deadlocks, so move this call outside of the actor itself, which may hold the inode lock. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-06-08splice: remove do_splice_direct() symbol exportJens Axboe
It's only supposed to be used by do_sendfile(), which is never modular. So kill the export. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-06-08splice: move inode size check into generic_file_splice_read()Jens Axboe
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-05-08[PATCH] splice: always call into page_cache_readahead()Jens Axboe
Don't try to guess what the read-ahead logic will do, allow it to make its own decisions. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-05-08[PATCH] splice(): fix interaction with readaheadFengguang Wu
Eric Dumazet, thank you for disclosing this bug. Readahead logic somehow fails to populate the page range with data. It can be because 1) the readahead routine is not always called in the following lines of fs/splice.c: if (!loff || nr_pages > 1) page_cache_readahead(mapping, &in->f_ra, in, index, nr_pages); 2) even called, page_cache_readahead() wont guarantee the pages are there. It wont submit readahead I/O for pages already in the radix tree, or when (ra_pages == 0), or after 256 cache hits. In your case, it should be because of the retried reads, which lead to excessive cache hits, and disables readahead at some time. And that _one_ failure of readahead blocks the whole read process. The application receives EAGAIN and retries the read, but __generic_file_splice_read() refuse to make progress: - in the previous invocation, it has allocated a blank page and inserted it into the radix tree, but never has the chance to start I/O for it: the test of SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK goes before that. - in the retried invocation, the readahead code will neither get out of the cache hit mode, nor will it submit I/O for an already existing page. Cc: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-03-29[PATCH] splice: partial write fixDmitriy Monakhov
Currently if partial write has happened while ->commit_write() then page wasn't marked as accessed and rebalanced. Signed-off-by: Monakhov Dmitriy <dmonakhov@openvz.org> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-03-27Export __splice_from_pipe()Mark Fasheh
Ocfs2 wants to implement it's own splice write actor so that it can better manage cluster / page locks. This lets us re-use the rest of splice write while only providing our own code where it's actually important. Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-03-272/2 splice: dont readpageNick Piggin
Splice does not need to readpage to bring the page uptodate before writing to it, because prepare_write will take care of that for us. Splice is also wrong to SetPageUptodate before the page is actually uptodate. This results in the old uninitialised memory leak. This gets fixed as a matter of course when removing the readpage logic. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-03-271/2 splice: dont stealNick Piggin
Stealing pages with splice is problematic because we cannot just insert an uptodate page into the pagecache and hope the filesystem can take care of it later. We also cannot just ClearPageUptodate, then hope prepare_write does not write anything into the page, because I don't think prepare_write gives that guarantee. Remove support for SPLICE_F_MOVE for now. If we really want to bring it back, we might be able to do so with a the new filesystem buffered write aops APIs I'm working on. If we really don't want to bring it back, then we should decide that sooner rather than later, and remove the flag and all the stealing infrastructure before anybody starts using it. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2006-12-13[PATCH] constify pipe_buf_operationsEric Dumazet
- pipe/splice should use const pipe_buf_operations and file_operations - struct pipe_inode_info has an unused field "start" : get rid of it. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08[PATCH] VFS: change struct file to use struct pathJosef "Jeff" Sipek
This patch changes struct file to use struct path instead of having independent pointers to struct dentry and struct vfsmount, and converts all users of f_{dentry,vfsmnt} in fs/ to use f_path.{dentry,mnt}. Additionally, it adds two #define's to make the transition easier for users of the f_dentry and f_vfsmnt. Signed-off-by: Josef "Jeff" Sipek <jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-11-04[PATCH] splice: fix problem introduced with inode dietJens Axboe
After the inode slimming patch that unionised i_pipe/i_bdev/i_cdev, it's no longer enough to check for existance of ->i_pipe to verify that this is a pipe. Original patch from Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Final solution suggested by Linus. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-28[PATCH] mm: clean up pagecache allocationNick Piggin
- Consolidate page_cache_alloc - Fix splice: only the pagecache pages and filesystem data need to use mapping_gfp_mask. - Fix grab_cache_page_nowait: same as splice, also honour NUMA placement. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-19[PATCH] Remove SUID when splicing into an inodeJens Axboe
Originally from Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com> generic_file_splice_write() does not remove S_ISUID or S_ISGID. This is inconsistent with the way we generally write to files. Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2006-10-19[PATCH] Introduce generic_file_splice_write_nolock()Mark Fasheh
This allows file systems to manage their own i_mutex locking while still re-using the generic_file_splice_write() logic. OCFS2 in particular wants this so that it can order cluster locks within i_mutex. Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2006-10-19[PATCH] Take i_mutex in splice_from_pipe()Mark Fasheh
The splice_actor may be calling ->prepare_write() and ->commit_write(). We want i_mutex on the inode being written to before calling those so that we don't race i_size changes. The double locking behavior is done elsewhere in splice.c, and if we eventually want _nolock variants of generic_file_splice_write(), fs modules might have to replicate the nasty locking code. We introduce inode_double_lock() and inode_double_unlock() to consolidate the locking rules into one set of functions. Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2006-10-12[PATCH] splice: fix pipe_to_file() ->prepare_write() error pathJens Axboe
Don't jump to the unlock+release path, we already did that. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2006-09-30[PATCH] Update axboe@suse.de email addressJens Axboe
As people often look for the copyright in files to see who to mail, update the link to a neutral one. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2006-07-10[PATCH] splice: fix problems with sys_tee()Jens Axboe
Several issues noticed/fixed: - We cannot reliably block in link_pipe() while holding both input and output mutexes. So do preparatory checks before locking down both mutexes and doing the link. - The ipipe->nrbufs vs i check was bad, because we could have dropped the ipipe lock in-between. This causes us to potentially look at unknown buffers if we were racing with someone else reading this pipe. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-06-23[PATCH] splice: retrieve mapping after locking the pageJens Axboe
Otherwise we could be racing with truncate/mapping removal. Problem found/fixed by Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>, logic rewritten by me. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-05-04[PATCH] splice: redo page lookup if add_to_page_cache() returns -EEXISTJens Axboe
This can happen quite easily, if several processes are trying to splice the same file at the same time. It's not a failure, it just means someone raced with us in allocating this file page. So just dump the allocated page and relookup the original. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-05-04[PATCH] splice: rename remaining info variables to pipeJens Axboe
Same thing was done in fs/pipe.c and most of fs/splice.c, but we had a few missing still. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-05-04[PATCH] splice: LRU fixupsJens Axboe
Nick says that the current construct isn't safe. This goes back to the original, but sets PIPE_BUF_FLAG_LRU on user pages as well as they all seem to be on the LRU in the first place. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-05-04[PATCH] splice: fix unlocking of page on error ->prepare_write()Jens Axboe
Looking at generic_file_buffered_write(), we need to unlock_page() if prepare write fails and it isn't due to racing with truncate(). Also trim the size if ->prepare_write() fails, if we have to. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-05-02[PATCH] vmsplice: restrict stealing a little moreJens Axboe
Apply the same rules as the anon pipe pages, only allow stealing if no one else is using the page. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-05-02[PATCH] splice: fix page LRU accountingJens Axboe
Currently we rely on the PIPE_BUF_FLAG_LRU flag being set correctly to know whether we need to fiddle with page LRU state after stealing it, however for some origins we just don't know if the page is on the LRU list or not. So remove PIPE_BUF_FLAG_LRU and do this check/add manually in pipe_to_file() instead. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-05-02[PATCH] vmsplice: fix badly placed end paranthesisJens Axboe
We need to use the minium of {len, PAGE_SIZE-off}, not {len, PAGE_SIZE}-off. The latter doesn't make any sense, and could cause us to attempt negative length transfers... Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-05-01[PATCH] vmsplice: allow user to pass in gift pagesJens Axboe
If SPLICE_F_GIFT is set, the user is basically giving this pages away to the kernel. That means we can steal them for eg page cache uses instead of copying it. The data must be properly page aligned and also a multiple of the page size in length. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-05-01[PATCH] pipe: enable atomic copying of pipe data to/from user spaceJens Axboe
The pipe ->map() method uses kmap() to virtually map the pages, which is both slow and has known scalability issues on SMP. This patch enables atomic copying of pipe pages, by pre-faulting data and using kmap_atomic() instead. lmbench bw_pipe and lat_pipe measurements agree this is a Good Thing. Here are results from that on a UP machine with highmem (1.5GiB of RAM), running first a UP kernel, SMP kernel, and SMP kernel patched. Vanilla-UP: Pipe bandwidth: 1622.28 MB/sec Pipe bandwidth: 1610.59 MB/sec Pipe bandwidth: 1608.30 MB/sec Pipe latency: 7.3275 microseconds Pipe latency: 7.2995 microseconds Pipe latency: 7.3097 microseconds Vanilla-SMP: Pipe bandwidth: 1382.19 MB/sec Pipe bandwidth: 1317.27 MB/sec Pipe bandwidth: 1355.61 MB/sec Pipe latency: 9.6402 microseconds Pipe latency: 9.6696 microseconds Pipe latency: 9.6153 microseconds Patched-SMP: Pipe bandwidth: 1578.70 MB/sec Pipe bandwidth: 1579.95 MB/sec Pipe bandwidth: 1578.63 MB/sec Pipe latency: 9.1654 microseconds Pipe latency: 9.2266 microseconds Pipe latency: 9.1527 microseconds Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>