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Changes since 2.5.0: --- [recommended] New helpers: sb_bread(), sb_getblk(), sb_find_get_block(), set_bh(), sb_set_blocksize() and sb_min_blocksize(). Use them. (sb_find_get_block() replaces 2.4's get_hash_table()) --- [recommended] New methods: ->alloc_inode() and ->destroy_inode(). Remove inode->u.foo_inode_i Declare struct foo_inode_info { /* fs-private stuff */ struct inode vfs_inode; }; static inline struct foo_inode_info *FOO_I(struct inode *inode) { return list_entry(inode, struct foo_inode_info, vfs_inode); } Use FOO_I(inode) instead of &inode->u.foo_inode_i; Add foo_alloc_inode() and foo_destroy_inode() - the former should allocate foo_inode_info and return the address of ->vfs_inode, the latter should free FOO_I(inode) (see in-tree filesystems for examples). Make them ->alloc_inode and ->destroy_inode in your super_operations. Keep in mind that now you need explicit initialization of private data typically between calling iget_locked() and unlocking the inode. At some point that will become mandatory. --- [mandatory] Change of file_system_type method (->read_super to ->get_sb) ->read_super() is no more. Ditto for DECLARE_FSTYPE and DECLARE_FSTYPE_DEV. Turn your foo_read_super() into a function that would return 0 in case of success and negative number in case of error (-EINVAL unless you have more informative error value to report). Call it foo_fill_super(). Now declare int foo_get_sb(struct file_system_type *fs_type, int flags, const char *dev_name, void *data, struct vfsmount *mnt) { return get_sb_bdev(fs_type, flags, dev_name, data, foo_fill_super, mnt); } (or similar with s/bdev/nodev/ or s/bdev/single/, depending on the kind of filesystem). Replace DECLARE_FSTYPE... with explicit initializer and have ->get_sb set as foo_get_sb. --- [mandatory] Locking change: ->s_vfs_rename_sem is taken only by cross-directory renames. Most likely there is no need to change anything, but if you relied on global exclusion between renames for some internal purpose - you need to change your internal locking. Otherwise exclusion warranties remain the same (i.e. parents and victim are locked, etc.). --- [informational] Now we have the exclusion between ->lookup() and directory removal (by ->rmdir() and ->rename()). If you used to need that exclusion and do it by internal locking (most of filesystems couldn't care less) - you can relax your locking. --- [mandatory] ->lookup(), ->truncate(), ->create(), ->unlink(), ->mknod(), ->mkdir(), ->rmdir(), ->link(), ->lseek(), ->symlink(), ->rename() and ->readdir() are called without BKL now. Grab it on entry, drop upon return - that will guarantee the same locking you used to have. If your method or its parts do not need BKL - better yet, now you can shift lock_kernel() and unlock_kernel() so that they would protect exactly what needs to be protected. --- [mandatory] BKL is also moved from around sb operations. BKL should have been shifted into individual fs sb_op functions. If you don't need it, remove it. --- [informational] check for ->link() target not being a directory is done by callers. Feel free to drop it... --- [informational] ->link() callers hold ->i_mutex on the object we are linking to. Some of your problems might be over... --- [mandatory] new file_system_type method - kill_sb(superblock). If you are converting an existing filesystem, set it according to ->fs_flags: FS_REQUIRES_DEV - kill_block_super FS_LITTER - kill_litter_super neither - kill_anon_super FS_LITTER is gone - just remove it from fs_flags. --- [mandatory] FS_SINGLE is gone (actually, that had happened back when ->get_sb() went in - and hadn't been documented ;-/). Just remove it from fs_flags (and see ->get_sb() entry for other actions). --- [mandatory] ->setattr() is called without BKL now. Caller _always_ holds ->i_mutex, so watch for ->i_mutex-grabbing code that might be used by your ->setattr(). Callers of notify_change() need ->i_mutex now. --- [recommended] New super_block field "struct export_operations *s_export_op" for explicit support for exporting, e.g. via NFS. The structure is fully documented at its declaration in include/linux/fs.h, and in Documentation/filesystems/nfs/Exporting. Briefly it allows for the definition of decode_fh and encode_fh operations to encode and decode filehandles, and allows the filesystem to use a standard helper function for decode_fh, and provide file-system specific support for this helper, particularly get_parent. It is planned that this will be required for exporting once the code settles down a bit. [mandatory] s_export_op is now required for exporting a filesystem. isofs, ext2, ext3, resierfs, fat can be used as examples of very different filesystems. --- [mandatory] iget4() and the read_inode2 callback have been superseded by iget5_locked() which has the following prototype, struct inode *iget5_locked(struct super_block *sb, unsigned long ino, int (*test)(struct inode *, void *), int (*set)(struct inode *, void *), void *data); 'test' is an additional function that can be used when the inode number is not sufficient to identify the actual file object. 'set' should be a non-blocking function that initializes those parts of a newly created inode to allow the test function to succeed. 'data' is passed as an opaque value to both test and set functions. When the inode has been created by iget5_locked(), it will be returned with the I_NEW flag set and will still be locked. The filesystem then needs to finalize the initialization. Once the inode is initialized it must be unlocked by calling unlock_new_inode(). The filesystem is responsible for setting (and possibly testing) i_ino when appropriate. There is also a simpler iget_locked function that just takes the superblock and inode number as arguments and does the test and set for you. e.g. inode = iget_locked(sb, ino); if (inode->i_state & I_NEW) { err = read_inode_from_disk(inode); if (err < 0) { iget_failed(inode); return err; } unlock_new_inode(inode); } Note that if the process of setting up a new inode fails, then iget_failed() should be called on the inode to render it dead, and an appropriate error should be passed back to the caller. --- [recommended] ->getattr() finally getting used. See instances in nfs, minix, etc. --- [mandatory] ->revalidate() is gone. If your filesystem had it - provide ->getattr() and let it call whatever you had as ->revlidate() + (for symlinks that had ->revalidate()) add calls in ->follow_link()/->readlink(). --- [mandatory] ->d_parent changes are not protected by BKL anymore. Read access is safe if at least one of the following is true: * filesystem has no cross-directory rename() * we know that parent had been locked (e.g. we are looking at ->d_parent of ->lookup() argument). * we are called from ->rename(). * the child's ->d_lock is held Audit your code and add locking if needed. Notice that any place that is not protected by the conditions above is risky even in the old tree - you had been relying on BKL and that's prone to screwups. Old tree had quite a few holes of that kind - unprotected access to ->d_parent leading to anything from oops to silent memory corruption. --- [mandatory] FS_NOMOUNT is gone. If you use it - just set MS_NOUSER in flags (see rootfs for one kind of solution and bdev/socket/pipe for another). --- [recommended] Use bdev_read_only(bdev) instead of is_read_only(kdev). The latter is still alive, but only because of the mess in drivers/s390/block/dasd.c. As soon as it gets fixed is_read_only() will die. --- [mandatory] ->permission() is called without BKL now. Grab it on entry, drop upon return - that will guarantee the same locking you used to have. If your method or its parts do not need BKL - better yet, now you can shift lock_kernel() and unlock_kernel() so that they would protect exactly what needs to be protected. --- [mandatory] ->statfs() is now called without BKL held. BKL should have been shifted into individual fs sb_op functions where it's not clear that it's safe to remove it. If you don't need it, remove it. --- [mandatory] is_read_only() is gone; use bdev_read_only() instead. --- [mandatory] destroy_buffers() is gone; use invalidate_bdev(). --- [mandatory] fsync_dev() is gone; use fsync_bdev(). NOTE: lvm breakage is deliberate; as soon as struct block_device * is propagated in a reasonable way by that code fixing will become trivial; until then nothing can be done. [mandatory] block truncatation on error exit from ->write_begin, and ->direct_IO moved from generic methods (block_write_begin, cont_write_begin, nobh_write_begin, blockdev_direct_IO*) to callers. Take a look at ext2_write_failed and callers for an example. [mandatory] ->truncate is gone. The whole truncate sequence needs to be implemented in ->setattr, which is now mandatory for filesystems implementing on-disk size changes. Start with a copy of the old inode_setattr and vmtruncate, and the reorder the vmtruncate + foofs_vmtruncate sequence to be in order of zeroing blocks using block_truncate_page or similar helpers, size update and on finally on-disk truncation which should not fail. inode_change_ok now includes the size checks for ATTR_SIZE and must be called in the beginning of ->setattr unconditionally. [mandatory] ->clear_inode() and ->delete_inode() are gone; ->evict_inode() should be used instead. It gets called whenever the inode is evicted, whether it has remaining links or not. Caller does *not* evict the pagecache or inode-associated metadata buffers; the method has to use truncate_inode_pages_final() to get rid of those. Caller makes sure async writeback cannot be running for the inode while (or after) ->evict_inode() is called. ->drop_inode() returns int now; it's called on final iput() with inode->i_lock held and it returns true if filesystems wants the inode to be dropped. As before, generic_drop_inode() is still the default and it's been updated appropriately. generic_delete_inode() is also alive and it consists simply of return 1. Note that all actual eviction work is done by caller after ->drop_inode() returns. As before, clear_inode() must be called exactly once on each call of ->evict_inode() (as it used to be for each call of ->delete_inode()). Unlike before, if you are using inode-associated metadata buffers (i.e. mark_buffer_dirty_inode()), it's your responsibility to call invalidate_inode_buffers() before clear_inode(). NOTE: checking i_nlink in the beginning of ->write_inode() and bailing out if it's zero is not *and* *never* *had* *been* enough. Final unlink() and iput() may happen while the inode is in the middle of ->write_inode(); e.g. if you blindly free the on-disk inode, you may end up doing that while ->write_inode() is writing to it. --- [mandatory] .d_delete() now only advises the dcache as to whether or not to cache unreferenced dentries, and is now only called when the dentry refcount goes to 0. Even on 0 refcount transition, it must be able to tolerate being called 0, 1, or more times (eg. constant, idempotent). --- [mandatory] .d_compare() calling convention and locking rules are significantly changed. Read updated documentation in Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt (and look at examples of other filesystems) for guidance. --- [mandatory] .d_hash() calling convention and locking rules are significantly changed. Read updated documentation in Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt (and look at examples of other filesystems) for guidance. --- [mandatory] dcache_lock is gone, replaced by fine grained locks. See fs/dcache.c for details of what locks to replace dcache_lock with in order to protect particular things. Most of the time, a filesystem only needs ->d_lock, which protects *all* the dcache state of a given dentry. -- [mandatory] Filesystems must RCU-free their inodes, if they can have been accessed via rcu-walk path walk (basically, if the file can have had a path name in the vfs namespace). Even though i_dentry and i_rcu share storage in a union, we will initialize the former in inode_init_always(), so just leave it alone in the callback. It used to be necessary to clean it there, but not anymore (starting at 3.2). -- [recommended] vfs now tries to do path walking in "rcu-walk mode", which avoids atomic operations and scalability hazards on dentries and inodes (see Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.txt). d_hash and d_compare changes (above) are examples of the changes required to support this. For more complex filesystem callbacks, the vfs drops out of rcu-walk mode before the fs call, so no changes are required to the filesystem. However, this is costly and loses the benefits of rcu-walk mode. We will begin to add filesystem callbacks that are rcu-walk aware, shown below. Filesystems should take advantage of this where possible. -- [mandatory] d_revalidate is a callback that is made on every path element (if the filesystem provides it), which requires dropping out of rcu-walk mode. This may now be called in rcu-walk mode (nd->flags & LOOKUP_RCU). -ECHILD should be returned if the filesystem cannot handle rcu-walk. See Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt for more details. permission is an inode permission check that is called on many or all directory inodes on the way down a path walk (to check for exec permission). It must now be rcu-walk aware (mask & MAY_NOT_BLOCK). See Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt for more details. -- [mandatory] In ->fallocate() you must check the mode option passed in. If your filesystem does not support hole punching (deallocating space in the middle of a file) you must return -EOPNOTSUPP if FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE is set in mode. Currently you can only have FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE with FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE set, so the i_size should not change when hole punching, even when puching the end of a file off. -- [mandatory] ->get_sb() is gone. Switch to use of ->mount(). Typically it's just a matter of switching from calling get_sb_... to mount_... and changing the function type. If you were doing it manually, just switch from setting ->mnt_root to some pointer to returning that pointer. On errors return ERR_PTR(...). -- [mandatory] ->permission() and generic_permission()have lost flags argument; instead of passing IPERM_FLAG_RCU we add MAY_NOT_BLOCK into mask. generic_permission() has also lost the check_acl argument; ACL checking has been taken to VFS and filesystems need to provide a non-NULL ->i_op->get_acl to read an ACL from disk. -- [mandatory] If you implement your own ->llseek() you must handle SEEK_HOLE and SEEK_DATA. You can hanle this by returning -EINVAL, but it would be nicer to support it in some way. The generic handler assumes that the entire file is data and there is a virtual hole at the end of the file. So if the provided offset is less than i_size and SEEK_DATA is specified, return the same offset. If the above is true for the offset and you are given SEEK_HOLE, return the end of the file. If the offset is i_size or greater return -ENXIO in either case. [mandatory] If you have your own ->fsync() you must make sure to call filemap_write_and_wait_range() so that all dirty pages are synced out properly. You must also keep in mind that ->fsync() is not called with i_mutex held anymore, so if you require i_mutex locking you must make sure to take it and release it yourself. -- [mandatory] d_alloc_root() is gone, along with a lot of bugs caused by code misusing it. Replacement: d_make_root(inode). The difference is, d_make_root() drops the reference to inode if dentry allocation fails. -- [mandatory] The witch is dead! Well, 2/3 of it, anyway. ->d_revalidate() and ->lookup() do *not* take struct nameidata anymore; just the flags. -- [mandatory] ->create() doesn't take struct nameidata *; unlike the previous two, it gets "is it an O_EXCL or equivalent?" boolean argument. Note that local filesystems can ignore tha argument - they are guaranteed that the object doesn't exist. It's remote/distributed ones that might care... -- [mandatory] FS_REVAL_DOT is gone; if you used to have it, add ->d_weak_revalidate() in your dentry operations instead. -- [mandatory] vfs_readdir() is gone; switch to iterate_dir() instead -- [mandatory] ->readdir() is gone now; switch to ->iterate() [mandatory] vfs_follow_link has been removed. Filesystems must use nd_set_link from ->follow_link for normal symlinks, or nd_jump_link for magic /proc/<pid> style links. -- [mandatory] iget5_locked()/ilookup5()/ilookup5_nowait() test() callback used to be called with both ->i_lock and inode_hash_lock held; the former is *not* taken anymore, so verify that your callbacks do not rely on it (none of the in-tree instances did). inode_hash_lock is still held, of course, so they are still serialized wrt removal from inode hash, as well as wrt set() callback of iget5_locked(). -- [mandatory] d_materialise_unique() is gone; d_splice_alias() does everything you need now. Remember that they have opposite orders of arguments ;-/ -- [mandatory] f_dentry is gone; use f_path.dentry, or, better yet, see if you can avoid it entirely. -- [mandatory] never call ->read() and ->write() directly; use __vfs_{read,write} or wrappers; instead of checking for ->write or ->read being NULL, look for FMODE_CAN_{WRITE,READ} in file->f_mode. -- [mandatory] do _not_ use new_sync_{read,write} for ->read/->write; leave it NULL instead. -- [mandatory] ->aio_read/->aio_write are gone. Use ->read_iter/->write_iter. --- [recommended] for embedded ("fast") symlinks just set inode->i_link to wherever the symlink body is and use simple_follow_link() as ->follow_link(). -- [mandatory] calling conventions for ->follow_link() have changed. Instead of returning cookie and using nd_set_link() to store the body to traverse, we return the body to traverse and store the cookie using explicit void ** argument. nameidata isn't passed at all - nd_jump_link() doesn't need it and nd_[gs]et_link() is gone. -- [mandatory] calling conventions for ->put_link() have changed. It gets inode instead of dentry, it does not get nameidata at all and it gets called only when cookie is non-NULL. Note that link body isn't available anymore, so if you need it, store it as cookie. -- [mandatory] __fd_install() & fd_install() can now sleep. Callers should not hold a spinlock or other resources that do not allow a schedule.
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