From 93b071139a956e51c98cdefd50a47981a4eb852e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Akinobu Mita Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 22:46:21 -0700 Subject: introduce memory_read_from_buffer() This patch introduces memory_read_from_buffer(). The only difference between memory_read_from_buffer() and simple_read_from_buffer() is which address space the function copies to. simple_read_from_buffer copies to user space memory. memory_read_from_buffer copies to normal memory. Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita Cc: Al Viro Cc: Doug Warzecha Cc: Zhang Rui Cc: Matt Domsch Cc: Abhay Salunke Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Markus Rechberger Cc: Kay Sievers Cc: Bob Moore Cc: Thomas Renninger Cc: Len Brown Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" Cc: Krzysztof Helt Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Martin Schwidefsky Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Peter Oberparleiter Cc: Michael Holzheu Cc: Brian King Cc: James E.J. Bottomley Cc: Andrew Vasquez Cc: Seokmann Ju Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/fs.h | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'include/linux/fs.h') diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h index f413085f748..d490779f18d 100644 --- a/include/linux/fs.h +++ b/include/linux/fs.h @@ -2000,7 +2000,10 @@ extern int simple_fill_super(struct super_block *, int, struct tree_descr *); extern int simple_pin_fs(struct file_system_type *, struct vfsmount **mount, int *count); extern void simple_release_fs(struct vfsmount **mount, int *count); -extern ssize_t simple_read_from_buffer(void __user *, size_t, loff_t *, const void *, size_t); +extern ssize_t simple_read_from_buffer(void __user *to, size_t count, + loff_t *ppos, const void *from, size_t available); +extern ssize_t memory_read_from_buffer(void *to, size_t count, loff_t *ppos, + const void *from, size_t available); #ifdef CONFIG_MIGRATION extern int buffer_migrate_page(struct address_space *, -- cgit v1.2.3 From f9f48ec72bfc9489a30bc6ddbfcf27d86a8bc651 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Denis V. Lunev" Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 16:40:38 -0700 Subject: [patch 4/4] flock: remove unused fields from file_lock_operations fl_insert and fl_remove are not used right now in the kernel. Remove them. Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Alexander Viro Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Al Viro --- include/linux/fs.h | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'include/linux/fs.h') diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h index d490779f18d..7c108082683 100644 --- a/include/linux/fs.h +++ b/include/linux/fs.h @@ -894,8 +894,6 @@ static inline int file_check_writeable(struct file *filp) typedef struct files_struct *fl_owner_t; struct file_lock_operations { - void (*fl_insert)(struct file_lock *); /* lock insertion callback */ - void (*fl_remove)(struct file_lock *); /* lock removal callback */ void (*fl_copy_lock)(struct file_lock *, struct file_lock *); void (*fl_release_private)(struct file_lock *); }; -- cgit v1.2.3 From 18ce3751ccd488c78d3827e9f6bf54e6322676fb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jens Axboe Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 09:07:34 +0200 Subject: Properly notify block layer of sync writes fsync_buffers_list() and sync_dirty_buffer() both issue async writes and then immediately wait on them. Conceptually, that makes them sync writes and we should treat them as such so that the IO schedulers can handle them appropriately. This patch fixes a write starvation issue that Lin Ming reported, where xx is stuck for more than 2 minutes because of a large number of synchronous IO in the system: INFO: task kjournald:20558 blocked for more than 120 seconds. "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. kjournald D ffff810010820978 6712 20558 2 ffff81022ddb1d10 0000000000000046 ffff81022e7baa10 ffffffff803ba6f2 ffff81022ecd0000 ffff8101e6dc9160 ffff81022ecd0348 000000008048b6cb 0000000000000086 ffff81022c4e8d30 0000000000000000 ffffffff80247537 Call Trace: [] kobject_get+0x12/0x17 [] getnstimeofday+0x2f/0x83 [] sync_buffer+0x0/0x3f [] io_schedule+0x5d/0x9f [] sync_buffer+0x3b/0x3f [] __wait_on_bit+0x40/0x6f [] sync_buffer+0x0/0x3f [] out_of_line_wait_on_bit+0x6c/0x78 [] wake_bit_function+0x0/0x23 [] sync_dirty_buffer+0x98/0xcb [] journal_commit_transaction+0x97d/0xcb6 [] lock_timer_base+0x26/0x4b [] kjournald+0xc1/0x1fb [] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x2e [] kjournald+0x0/0x1fb [] kthread+0x47/0x74 [] schedule_tail+0x28/0x5d [] child_rip+0xa/0x12 [] kthread+0x0/0x74 [] child_rip+0x0/0x12 Lin Ming confirms that this patch fixes the issue. I've run tests with it for the past week and no ill effects have been observed, so I'm proposing it for inclusion into 2.6.26. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- include/linux/fs.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include/linux/fs.h') diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h index 7c108082683..d8e2762ed14 100644 --- a/include/linux/fs.h +++ b/include/linux/fs.h @@ -83,6 +83,7 @@ extern int dir_notify_enable; #define READ_SYNC (READ | (1 << BIO_RW_SYNC)) #define READ_META (READ | (1 << BIO_RW_META)) #define WRITE_SYNC (WRITE | (1 << BIO_RW_SYNC)) +#define SWRITE_SYNC (SWRITE | (1 << BIO_RW_SYNC)) #define WRITE_BARRIER ((1 << BIO_RW) | (1 << BIO_RW_BARRIER)) #define SEL_IN 1 -- cgit v1.2.3