Currently, the attribute cache timeout for CIFS is hardcoded to 1 second. This
means that the client might have to issue a QPATHINFO/QFILEINFO call every 1
second to verify if something has changes, which seems too expensive. On the
other hand, if the timeout is hardcoded to a higher value, workloads that
expect strict cache coherency might see unexpected results.
Making attribute cache timeout as a tunable will allow us to make a tradeoff
between performance and cache metadata correctness depending on the
application/workload needs.
Add 'actimeo' tunable that can be used to tune the attribute cache timeout.
The default timeout is set to 1 second. Also, display actimeo option value in
/proc/mounts.
It appears to me that 'actimeo' and the proposed (but not yet merged)
'strictcache' option cannot coexist, so care must be taken that we reset the
other option if one of them is set.
Changes since last post:
- fix option parsing and handle possible values correcly
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Radix trees are ideal when you want to track a bunch of pointers and
can't embed a tracking structure within the target of those pointers.
The tradeoff is an increase in memory, particularly if the tree is
sparse.
In CIFS, we use the tlink_tree to track tcon_link structs. A tcon_link
can never be in more than one tlink_tree, so there's no impediment to
using a rb_tree here instead of a radix tree.
Convert the new multiuser mount code to use a rb_tree instead. This
should reduce the memory required to manage the tlink_tree.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
This is the second version of this patch, the only difference between
it and the first one is that this explicitly makes cifs_sb_master_tlink
a static inline.
Instead of keeping a tag on the master tlink in the tree, just keep a
pointer to the master in the superblock. That eliminates the need for
using the radix tree to look up a tagged entry.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Filesystems aren't really supposed to do anything with a vfsmount. It's
considered a layering violation since vfsmounts are entirely managed at
the VFS layer.
CIFS currently keeps an active reference to a vfsmount in order to
prevent the superblock vanishing before an oplock break has completed.
What we really want to do instead is to keep sb->s_active high until the
oplock break has completed. This patch borrows the scheme that NFS uses
for handling sillyrenames.
An atomic_t is added to the cifs_sb_info. When it transitions from 0 to
1, an extra reference to the superblock is taken (by bumping the
s_active value). When it transitions from 1 to 0, that reference is
dropped and a the superblock teardown may proceed if there are no more
references to it.
Also, the vfsmount pointer is removed from cifsFileInfo and from
cifs_new_fileinfo, and some bogus forward declarations are removed from
cifsfs.h.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Create a workqueue job that cleans out unused tlinks. For now, it uses
a hardcoded expire time of 10 minutes. When it's done, the work rearms
itself. On umount, the work is cancelled before tearing down the tlink
tree.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
This patch is rather large, but it's a bit difficult to do piecemeal...
For non-multiuser mounts, everything will basically work as it does
today. A call to cifs_sb_tlink will return the "master" tcon link.
Turn the tcon pointer in the cifs_sb into a radix tree that uses the
fsuid of the process as a key. The value is a new "tcon_link" struct
that contains info about a tcon that's under construction.
When a new process needs a tcon, it'll call cifs_sb_tcon. That will
then look up the tcon_link in the radix tree. If it exists and is
valid, it's returned.
If it doesn't exist, then we stuff a new tcon_link into the tree and
mark it as pending and then go and try to build the session/tcon.
If that works, the tcon pointer in the tcon_link is updated and the
pending flag is cleared.
If the construction fails, then we set the tcon pointer to an ERR_PTR
and clear the pending flag.
If the radix tree is searched and the tcon_link is marked pending
then we go to sleep and wait for the pending flag to be cleared.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
When we implement multiuser mounts, we'll need to filter filehandles
by fsuid. Add a flag for multiuser mounts and code to filter by
fsuid when it's set.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
If configured, Minshall+French Symlinks are used against
all servers. If the server supports UNIX Extensions,
we still create Minshall+French Symlinks on write,
but on read we fallback to UNIX Extension symlinks.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Add a mount option 'fsc' to enable local caching on CIFS.
I considered adding a separate debug bit for caching, but it appears that
debugging would be relatively easier with the normal CIFS_INFO level.
As the cifs-utils (userspace) changes are not done yet, this patch enables
'fsc' by default to enable testing.
Signed-off-by: Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@suse.de>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
If this mount option is set, when an application does an
fsync call then the cifs client does not send an SMB Flush
to the server (to force the server to write all dirty data
for this file immediately to disk), although cifs still sends
all dirty (cached) file data to the server and waits for the
server to respond to the write write. Since SMB Flush can be
very slow, and some servers may be reliable enough (to risk
delaying slightly flushing the data to disk on the server),
turning on this option may be useful to improve performance for
applications that fsync too much, at a small risk of server
crash. If this mount option is not set, by default cifs will
send an SMB flush request (and wait for a response) on every
fsync call.
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6: (31 commits)
[CIFS] Remove redundant test
[CIFS] make sure that DFS pathnames are properly formed
Remove an already-checked error condition in SendReceiveBlockingLock
Streamline SendReceiveBlockingLock: Use "goto out:" in an error condition
Streamline SendReceiveBlockingLock: Use "goto out:" in an error condition
[CIFS] Streamline SendReceive[2] by using "goto out:" in an error condition
Slightly streamline SendReceive[2]
Check the return value of cifs_sign_smb[2]
[CIFS] Cleanup: Move the check for too large R/W requests
[CIFS] Slightly simplify wait_for_free_request(), remove an unnecessary "else" branch
Simplify allocate_mid() slightly: Remove some unnecessary "else" branches
[CIFS] In SendReceive, move consistency check out of the mutexed region
cifs: store password in tcon
cifs: have calc_lanman_hash take more granular args
cifs: zero out session password before freeing it
cifs: fix wait_for_response to time out sleeping processes correctly
[CIFS] Can not mount with prefixpath if root directory of share is inaccessible
[CIFS] various minor cleanups pointed out by checkpatch script
[CIFS] fix typo
[CIFS] remove sparse warning
...
Fix trivial conflict in fs/cifs/cifs_fs_sb.h due to comment changes for
the CIFS_MOUNT_xyz bit definitions between cifs updates and security
updates.
Some applications/subsystems require mandatory byte range locks
(as is used for Windows/DOS/OS2 etc). Sending advisory (posix style)
byte range lock requests (instead of mandatory byte range locks) can
lead to problems for these applications (which expect that other
clients be prevented from writing to portions of the file which
they have locked and are updating). This mount option allows
mounting cifs with the new mount option "forcemand" (or
"forcemandatorylock") in order to have the cifs client use mandatory
byte range locks (ie SMB/CIFS/Windows/NTFS style locks) rather than
posix byte range lock requests, even if the server would support
posix byte range lock requests. This has no effect if the server
does not support the CIFS Unix Extensions (since posix style locks
require support for the CIFS Unix Extensions), but for mounts
to Samba servers this can be helpful for Wine and applications
that require mandatory byte range locks.
Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
CC: Alexander Bokovoy <ab@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Wrap access to task credentials so that they can be separated more easily from
the task_struct during the introduction of COW creds.
Change most current->(|e|s|fs)[ug]id to current_(|e|s|fs)[ug]id().
Change some task->e?[ug]id to task_e?[ug]id(). In some places it makes more
sense to use RCU directly rather than a convenient wrapper; these will be
addressed by later patches.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Steve French <sfrench@samba.org>
Cc: linux-cifs-client@lists.samba.org
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
when unix extensions and cifsacl support are disabled. These
permissions changes are "ephemeral" however. They are lost whenever
a share is mounted and unmounted, or when memory pressure forces
the inode out of the cache.
Because of this, we'd like to introduce a behavior change to make
CIFS behave more like local DOS/Windows filesystems. When unix
extensions and cifsacl support aren't enabled, then don't silently
ignore changes to permission bits that can't be reflected on the
server.
Still, there may be people relying on the current behavior for
certain applications. This patch adds a new "dynperm" (and a
corresponding "nodynperm") mount option that will be intended
to make the client fall back to legacy behavior when setting
these modes.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Also cifs_fs_type was made not static for ussage in dfs code.
Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <niallain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
This should be the last big batch of whitespace/formatting fixes.
checkpatch warnings for the cifs directory are down about 90% and
many of the remaining ones are harder to remove or make the code
harder to read.
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
When CIFS Unix Extensions are negotiated we get the Unix uid and gid
owners of the file from the server (on the Unix Query Path Info
levels), but if the server's uids don't match the client uid's users
were having to disable the Unix Extensions (which turned off features
they still wanted). The changeset patch allows users to override uid
and/or gid for file/directory owner with a default uid and/or gid
specified at mount (as is often done when mounting from Linux cifs
client to Windows server). This changeset also displays the uid
and gid used by default in /proc/mounts (if applicable).
Also cleans up code by adding some of the missing spaces after
"if" keywords per-kernel style guidelines (as suggested by Randy Dunlap
when he reviewed the patch).
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
over the wire (to help the case when applications break with cifs mandatory
lock behavior. Add part one of mount option for requesting case
insensitive path name matching.
Signed-off-by: Steve French (sfrench@us.ibm.com)
This should help the case of creating fifos and other special files to
servers which do not support the Unix extensions.
Signed-off-by: Steve French (sfrench@us.ibm.com)
Thanks to Martin Koeppe for his suggestions and good analysis
For handling seven special characters that shells use for filenames.
This first parts implements conversions from Unicode.
Signed-off-by: Steve French
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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!
Suresh Jayaraman
Jeff Layton
Stefan Metzmacher
Jens Axboe
Steve French
Linus Torvalds
David Howells
Igor Mammedov
Jeremy Allison
Steve French
Linus Torvalds