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Brian Behlendorf 395350c85d Improve AF hard disk detection
Use the bdev_physical_block_size() interface to determine the
minimize write size which can be issued without incurring a
read-modify-write operation.  This is used to set the ashift
correctly to prevent a performance penalty when using AF hard
disks.

Unfortunately, this interface isn't entirely reliable because
it's not uncommon for disks to misreport this value.  For this
reason you may still need to manually set your ashift with:

  zpool create -o ashift=12 ...

The solution to this in the upstream Illumos source was to add
a while list of known offending drives.  Maintaining such a list
will be a burden, but it still may be worth doing if we can
detect a large number of these drives.  This should be considered
as future work.

Reported-by: Richard Yao <ryao@cs.stonybrook.edu>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #916
2012-09-04 15:35:32 -07:00
Etienne Dechamps ee5fd0bb80 Set zvol discard_granularity to the volblocksize.
Currently, zvols have a discard granularity set to 0, which suggests to
the upper layer that discard requests of arbirarily small size and
alignment can be made efficiently.

In practice however, ZFS does not handle unaligned discard requests
efficiently: indeed, it is unable to free a part of a block. It will
write zeros to the specified range instead, which is both useless and
inefficient (see dnode_free_range).

With this patch, zvol block devices expose volblocksize as their discard
granularity, so the upper layer is aware that it's not supposed to send
discard requests smaller than volblocksize.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #862
2012-08-07 14:55:31 -07:00
Richard Yao 739a1a82e0 Linux 3.5 compat, end_writeback() changed to clear_inode()
The end_writeback() function was changed by moving the call to
inode_sync_wait() earlier in to evict().   This effecitvely changes
the ordering of the sync but it does not impact the details of
the zfs implementation.

However, as part of this change end_writeback() was renamed to
clear_inode() to reflect the new semantics.  This change does
impact us and clear_inode() now maps to end_writeback() for
kernels prior to 3.5.

Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@cs.stonybrook.edu>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #784
2012-07-23 12:29:36 -07:00
Richard Yao ea1fdf46e2 Linux 3.5 compat, iops->truncate_range() removed
The vmtruncate_range() support has been removed from the kernel in
favor of using the fallocate method in the file_operations table.

Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@cs.stonybrook.edu>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #784
2012-07-23 12:29:32 -07:00
Richard Yao 756c3e5a9c Linux 3.5 compat, eops->encode_fh() takes inodes
The export_operations member ->encode_fh() has been updated to
take both the child and parent inodes.  This interface used to
take the child dentry and a bool describing if the parent is needed.

NOTE: While updating this code I noticed that we do not currently
cleanly handle the case where we're passed a connectable parent.
This code should be audited to make sure we're doing the right thing.

Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@cs.stonybrook.edu>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #784
2012-07-23 12:29:23 -07:00
Etienne Dechamps b5a28807cd Move partition scanning from userspace to module.
Currently, zpool online -e (dynamic vdev expansion) doesn't work on
whole disks because we're invoking ioctl(BLKRRPART) from userspace
while ZFS still has a partition open on the disk, which results in
EBUSY.

This patch moves the BLKRRPART invocation from the zpool utility to the
module. Specifically, this is done just before opening the device in
vdev_disk_open() which is called inside vdev_reopen(). This requires
jumping through some hoops to get to the disk device from the partition
device, and to make sure we can still open the partition after the
BLKRRPART call.

Note that this new code path is triggered on dynamic vdev expansion
only; other actions, like creating a new pool, are unchanged and still
call BLKRRPART from userspace.

This change also depends on API changes which are available in 2.6.37
and latter kernels.  The build system has been updated to detect this,
but there is no compatibility mode for older kernels.  This means that
online expansion will NOT be available in older kernels.  However, it
will still be possible to expand the vdev offline.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #808
2012-07-17 09:17:31 -07:00
Richard Yao 6a0936babc Linux 3.4 compat, d_make_root() replaces d_alloc_root()
torvalds/linux@adc0e91ab1 introduced
introduced d_make_root() as a replacement for d_alloc_root(). Further
commits appear to have removed d_alloc_root() from the Linux source
tree. This causes the following failure:

  error: implicit declaration of function 'd_alloc_root'
  [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]

To correct this we update the code to use the current d_make_root()
interface for readability.  Then we introduce an autotools check
to determine if d_make_root() is available.  If it isn't then we
define some compatibility logic which used the older d_alloc_root()
interface.

Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #776
2012-06-11 10:04:49 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf b39d3b9f7b Linux 3.3 compat, iops->create()/mkdir()/mknod()
The mode argument of iops->create()/mkdir()/mknod() was changed from
an 'int' to a 'umode_t'.  To prevent a compiler warning an autoconf
check was added to detect the API change and then correctly set a
zpl_umode_t typedef.  There is no functional change.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #701
2012-04-30 12:52:38 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf 1c5de20ae2 Add --enable-debug-dmu-tx configure option
Allow rigorous (and expensive) tx validation to be enabled/disabled
indepentantly from the standard zfs debugging.  When enabled these
checks ensure that all txs are constructed properly and that a dbuf
is never dirtied without taking the correct tx hold.

This checking is particularly helpful when adding new dmu consumers
like Lustre.  However, for established consumers such as the zpl
with no known outstanding tx construction problems this is just
overhead.

--enable-debug-dmu-tx  - Enable/disable validation of each tx as
--disable-debug-dmu-tx   it is constructed.  By default validation
                         is disabled due to performance concerns.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2012-03-23 12:25:17 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf ebe7e575ea Add .zfs control directory
Add support for the .zfs control directory.  This was accomplished
by leveraging as much of the existing ZFS infrastructure as posible
and updating it for Linux as required.  The bulk of the core
functionality is now all there with the following limitations.

*) The .zfs/snapshot directory automount support requires a 2.6.37
   or newer kernel.  The exception is RHEL6.2 which has backported
   the d_automount patches.

*) Creating/destroying/renaming snapshots with mkdir/rmdir/mv
   in the .zfs/snapshot directory works as expected.  However,
   this functionality is only available to root until zfs
   delegations are finished.

      * mkdir - create a snapshot
      * rmdir - destroy a snapshot
      * mv    - rename a snapshot

The following issues are known defeciences, but we expect them to
be addressed by future commits.

*) Add automount support for kernels older the 2.6.37.  This should
   be possible using follow_link() which is what Linux did before.

*) Accessing the .zfs/snapshot directory via NFS is not yet possible.
   The majority of the ground work for this is complete.  However,
   finishing this work will require resolving some lingering
   integration issues with the Linux NFS kernel server.

*) The .zfs/shares directory exists but no futher smb functionality
   has yet been implemented.

Contributions-by: Rohan Puri <rohan.puri15@gmail.com>
Contributiobs-by: Andrew Barnes <barnes333@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #173
2012-03-22 13:03:47 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf 4b787d75c8 Cleanly support debug packages
Allow a source rpm to be rebuilt with debugging enabled.  This
avoids the need to have to manually modify the spec file.  By
default debugging is still largely disabled.  To enable specific
debugging features use the following options with rpmbuild.

  '--with debug'               - Enables ASSERTs

  # For example:
  $ rpmbuild --rebuild --with debug zfs-modules-0.6.0-rc6.src.rpm

Additionally, ZFS_CONFIG has been added to zfs_config.h for
packages which build against these headers.  This is critical
to ensure both zfs and the dependant package are using the same
prototype and structure definitions.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2012-02-27 14:08:17 -08:00
Etienne Dechamps 30930fba21 Add support for DISCARD to ZVOLs.
DISCARD (REQ_DISCARD, BLKDISCARD) is useful for thin provisioning.
It allows ZVOL clients to discard (unmap, trim) block ranges from
a ZVOL, thus optimizing disk space usage by allowing a ZVOL to
shrink instead of just grow.

We can't use zfs_space() or zfs_freesp() here, since these functions
only work on regular files, not volumes. Fortunately we can use the
low-level function dmu_free_long_range() which does exactly what we
want.

Currently the discard operation is not added to the log. That's not
a big deal since losing discard requests cannot result in data
corruption. It would however result in disk space usage higher than
it should be. Thus adding log support to zvol_discard() is probably
a good idea for a future improvement.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2012-02-09 16:19:38 -08:00
Etienne Dechamps cb2d19010d Support the fallocate() file operation.
Currently only the (FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE) flag combination is
supported, since it's the only one that matches the behavior of
zfs_space(). This makes it pretty much useless in its current
form, but it's a start.

To support other flag combinations we would need to modify
zfs_space() to make it more flexible, or emulate the desired
functionality in zpl_fallocate().

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #334
2012-02-09 16:19:32 -08:00
Etienne Dechamps 34037afe24 Improve ZVOL queue behavior.
The Linux block device queue subsystem exposes a number of configurable
settings described in Linux block/blk-settings.c. The defaults for these
settings are tuned for hard drives, and are not optimized for ZVOLs. Proper
configuration of these options would allow upper layers (I/O scheduler) to
take better decisions about write merging and ordering.

Detailed rationale:

 - max_hw_sectors is set to unlimited (UINT_MAX). zvol_write() is able to
   handle writes of any size, so there's no reason to impose a limit. Let the
   upper layer decide.

 - max_segments and max_segment_size are set to unlimited. zvol_write() will
   copy the requests' contents into a dbuf anyway, so the number and size of
   the segments are irrelevant. Let the upper layer decide.

 - physical_block_size and io_opt are set to the ZVOL's block size. This
   has the potential to somewhat alleviate issue #361 for ZVOLs, by warning
   the upper layers that writes smaller than the volume's block size will be
   slow.

 - The NONROT flag is set to indicate this isn't a rotational device.
   Although the backing zpool might be composed of rotational devices, the
   resulting ZVOL often doesn't exhibit the same behavior due to the COW
   mechanisms used by ZFS. Setting this flag will prevent upper layers from
   making useless decisions (such as reordering writes) based on incorrect
   assumptions about the behavior of the ZVOL.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2012-02-07 16:23:06 -08:00
Etienne Dechamps b18019d2d8 Fix synchronicity for ZVOLs.
zvol_write() assumes that the write request must be written to stable storage
if rq_is_sync() is true. Unfortunately, this assumption is incorrect. Indeed,
"sync" does *not* mean what we think it means in the context of the Linux
block layer. This is well explained in linux/fs.h:

    WRITE:       A normal async write. Device will be plugged.
    WRITE_SYNC:  Synchronous write. Identical to WRITE, but passes down
                 the hint that someone will be waiting on this IO
                 shortly.
    WRITE_FLUSH: Like WRITE_SYNC but with preceding cache flush.
    WRITE_FUA:   Like WRITE_SYNC but data is guaranteed to be on
                 non-volatile media on completion.

In other words, SYNC does not *mean* that the write must be on stable storage
on completion. It just means that someone is waiting on us to complete the
write request. Thus triggering a ZIL commit for each SYNC write request on a
ZVOL is unnecessary and harmful for performance. To make matters worse, ZVOL
users have no way to express that they actually want data to be written to
stable storage, which means the ZIL is broken for ZVOLs.

The request for stable storage is expressed by the FUA flag, so we must
commit the ZIL after the write if the FUA flag is set. In addition, we must
commit the ZIL before the write if the FLUSH flag is set.

Also, we must inform the block layer that we actually support FLUSH and FUA.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2012-02-07 16:23:06 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf 47621f3d76 Linux 3.3 compat, sops->show_options()
The second argument of sops->show_options() was changed from a
'struct vfsmount *' to a 'struct dentry *'.  Add an autoconf check
to detect the API change and then conditionally define the expected
interface.  In either case we are only interested in the zfs_sb_t.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #549
2012-02-03 10:02:01 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf 166dd49de0 Linux 3.2 compat, security_inode_init_security()
The security_inode_init_security() API has been changed to include
a filesystem specific callback to write security extended attributes.
This was done to support the initialization of multiple LSM xattrs
and the EVM xattr.

This change updates the code to use the new API when it's available.
Otherwise it falls back to the previous implementation.

In addition, the ZFS_AC_KERNEL_6ARGS_SECURITY_INODE_INIT_SECURITY
autoconf test has been made more rigerous by passing the expected
types.  This is done to ensure we always properly the detect the
correct form for the security_inode_init_security() API.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #516
2012-01-12 15:06:39 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf ab26409db7 Linux 3.1 compat, super_block->s_shrink
The Linux 3.1 kernel has introduced the concept of per-filesystem
shrinkers which are directly assoicated with a super block.  Prior
to this change there was one shared global shrinker.

The zfs code relied on being able to call the global shrinker when
the arc_meta_limit was exceeded.  This would cause the VFS to drop
references on a fraction of the dentries in the dcache.  The ARC
could then safely reclaim the memory used by these entries and
honor the arc_meta_limit.  Unfortunately, when per-filesystem
shrinkers were added the old interfaces were made unavailable.

This change adds support to use the new per-filesystem shrinker
interface so we can continue to honor the arc_meta_limit.  The
major benefit of the new interface is that we can now target
only the zfs filesystem for dentry and inode pruning.  Thus we
can minimize any impact on the caching of other filesystems.

In the context of making this change several other important
issues related to managing the ARC were addressed, they include:

* The dnlc_reduce_cache() function which was called by the ARC
to drop dentries for the Posix layer was replaced with a generic
zfs_prune_t callback.  The ZPL layer now registers a callback to
drop these dentries removing a layering violation which dates
back to the Solaris code.  This callback can also be used by
other ARC consumers such as Lustre.

  arc_add_prune_callback()
  arc_remove_prune_callback()

* The arc_reduce_dnlc_percent module option has been changed to
arc_meta_prune for clarity.  The dnlc functions are specific to
Solaris's VFS and have already been largely eliminated already.
The replacement tunable now represents the number of bytes the
prune callback will request when invoked.

* Less aggressively invoke the prune callback.  We used to call
this whenever we exceeded the arc_meta_limit however that's not
strictly correct since it results in over zeleous reclaim of
dentries and inodes.  It is now only called once the arc_meta_limit
is exceeded and every effort has been made to evict other data from
the ARC cache.

* More promptly manage exceeding the arc_meta_limit.  When reading
meta data in to the cache if a buffer was unable to be recycled
notify the arc_reclaim thread to invoke the required prune.

* Added arcstat_prune kstat which is incremented when the ARC
is forced to request that a consumer prune its cache.  Remember
this will only occur when the ARC has no other choice.  If it
can evict buffers safely without invoking the prune callback
it will.

* This change is also expected to resolve the unexpect collapses
of the ARC cache.  This would occur because when exceeded just the
arc_meta_limit reclaim presure would be excerted on the arc_c
value via arc_shrink().  This effectively shrunk the entire cache
when really we just needed to reclaim meta data.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #466
Closes #292
2012-01-11 11:46:02 -08:00
Darik Horn 28eb9213d8 Linux 3.2 compat: set_nlink()
Directly changing inode->i_nlink is deprecated in Linux 3.2 by commit

  SHA: bfe8684869601dacfcb2cd69ef8cfd9045f62170

Use the new set_nlink() kernel function instead.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes: #462
2011-12-16 20:02:52 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf adcd70bd1a Linux 3.1 compat, fops->fsync()
The Linux 3.1 kernel updated the fops->fsync() callback yet again.
They now pass the requested range and delegate the responsibility
for calling filemap_write_and_wait_range() to the callback.  In
addition imutex is no longer held by the caller and the callback
is responsible for taking the lock if required.

This commit updates the code to provide a zpl_fsync() function
for the updated API.  Implementations for the previous two APIs
are also maintained for compatibility.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #445
2011-11-10 10:03:08 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf 5547c2f1bf Simplify BDI integration
Update the code to use the bdi_setup_and_register() helper to
simplify the bdi integration code.  The updated code now just
registers the bdi during mount and destroys it during unmount.

The only complication is that for 2.6.32 - 2.6.33 kernels the
helper wasn't available so in these cases the zfs code must
provide it.  Luckily the bdi_setup_and_register() function
is trivial.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #367
2011-11-08 10:19:03 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf 76659dc110 Add backing_device_info per-filesystem
For a long time now the kernel has been moving away from using the
pdflush daemon to write 'old' dirty pages to disk.  The primary reason
for this is because the pdflush daemon is single threaded and can be
a limiting factor for performance.  Since pdflush sequentially walks
the dirty inode list for each super block any delay in processing can
slow down dirty page writeback for all filesystems.

The replacement for pdflush is called bdi (backing device info).  The
bdi system involves creating a per-filesystem control structure each
with its own private sets of queues to manage writeback.  The advantage
is greater parallelism which improves performance and prevents a single
filesystem from slowing writeback to the others.

For a long time both systems co-existed in the kernel so it wasn't
strictly required to implement the bdi scheme.  However, as of
Linux 2.6.36 kernels the pdflush functionality has been retired.

Since ZFS already bypasses the page cache for most I/O this is only
an issue for mmap(2) writes which must go through the page cache.
Even then adding this missing support for newer kernels was overlooked
because there are other mechanisms which can trigger writeback.

However, there is one critical case where not implementing the bdi
functionality can cause problems.  If an application handles a page
fault it can enter the balance_dirty_pages() callpath.  This will
result in the application hanging until the number of dirty pages in
the system drops below the dirty ratio.

Without a registered backing_device_info for the filesystem the
dirty pages will not get written out.  Thus the application will hang.
As mentioned above this was less of an issue with older kernels because
pdflush would eventually write out the dirty pages.

This change adds a backing_device_info structure to the zfs_sb_t
which is already allocated per-super block.  It is then registered
when the filesystem mounted and unregistered on unmount.  It will
not be registered for mounted snapshots which are read-only.  This
change will result in flush-<pool> thread being dynamically created
and destroyed per-mounted filesystem for writeback.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #174
2011-08-04 13:37:38 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf 2cf7f52bc4 Linux compat 2.6.39: mount_nodev()
The .get_sb callback has been replaced by a .mount callback
in the file_system_type structure.  When using the new
interface the caller must now use the mount_nodev() helper.

Unfortunately, the new interface no longer passes the vfsmount
down to the zfs layers.  This poses a problem for the existing
implementation because we currently save this pointer in the
super block for latter use.  It provides our only entry point
in to the namespace layer for manipulating certain mount options.

This needed to be done originally to allow commands like
'zfs set atime=off tank' to work properly.  It also allowed me
to keep more of the original Solaris code unmodified.  Under
Solaris there is a 1-to-1 mapping between a mount point and a
file system so this is a fairly natural thing to do.  However,
under Linux they many be multiple entries in the namespace
which reference the same filesystem.  Thus keeping a back
reference from the filesystem to the namespace is complicated.

Rather than introduce some ugly hack to get the vfsmount and
continue as before.  I'm leveraging this API change to update
the ZFS code to do things in a more natural way for Linux.
This has the upside that is resolves the compatibility issue
for the long term and fixes several other minor bugs which
have been reported.

This commit updates the code to remove this vfsmount back
reference entirely.  All modifications to filesystem mount
options are now passed in to the kernel via a '-o remount'.
This is the expected Linux mechanism and allows the namespace
to properly handle any options which apply to it before passing
them on to the file system itself.

Aside from fixing the compatibility issue, removing the
vfsmount has had the benefit of simplifying the code.  This
change which fairly involved has turned out nicely.

Closes #246
Closes #217
Closes #187
Closes #248
Closes #231
2011-07-01 13:36:39 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf 5c03efc379 Linux compat 2.6.39: security_inode_init_security()
The security_inode_init_security() function now takes an additional
qstr argument which must be passed in from the dentry if available.
Passing a NULL is safe when no qstr is available the relevant
security checks will just be skipped.

Closes #246
Closes #217
Closes #187
2011-07-01 12:40:08 -07:00
Prasad Joshi b312979252 Tear down and flush the mmap region
The inode eviction should unmap the pages associated with the inode.
These pages should also be flushed to disk to avoid the data loss.
Therefore, use truncate_setsize() in evict_inode() to release the
pagecache.

The API truncate_setsize() was added in 2.6.35 kernel. To ensure
compatibility with the old kernel, the patch defines its own
truncate_setsize function.

Signed-off-by: Prasad Joshi <pjoshi@stec-inc.com>
Closes #255
2011-06-27 09:59:19 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf df554c148e Fix 'zfs set volsize=N pool/dataset'
This change fixes a kernel panic which would occur when resizing
a dataset which was not open.  The objset_t stored in the
zvol_state_t will be set to NULL when the block device is closed.
To avoid this issue we pass the correct objset_t as the third arg.

The code has also been updated to correctly notify the kernel
when the block device capacity changes.  For 2.6.28 and newer
kernels the capacity change will be immediately detected.  For
earlier kernels the capacity change will be detected when the
device is next opened.  This is a known limitation of older
kernels.

Online ext3 resize test case passes on 2.6.28+ kernels:
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/zvol bs=1M count=1 seek=1023
$ zpool create tank /tmp/zvol
$ zfs create -V 500M tank/zd0
$ mkfs.ext3 /dev/zd0
$ mkdir /mnt/zd0
$ mount /dev/zd0 /mnt/zd0
$ df -h /mnt/zd0
$ zfs set volsize=800M tank/zd0
$ resize2fs /dev/zd0
$ df -h /mnt/zd0

Original-patch-by: Fajar A. Nugraha <github@fajar.net>
Closes #68
Closes #84
2011-05-02 08:54:40 -07:00
Gunnar Beutner 055656d4f4 Implemented NFS export_operations.
Implemented the required NFS operations for exporting ZFS datasets
using the in-kernel NFS daemon.
2011-04-29 12:36:13 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf bdf4328b04 Linux 2.6.28 compat, insert_inode_locked()
Added insert_inode_locked() helper function, prior to this most callers
used insert_inode_hash().  The older method doesn't check for collisions
in the inode_hashtable but it still acceptible for use.  Fallback to
using insert_inode_hash() when insert_inode_locked() is unavailable.
2011-03-22 12:15:54 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf 45066d1f20 Linux 2.6.38 compat, blkdev_get_by_path()
The open_bdev_exclusive() function has been replaced (again) by the
more generic blkdev_get_by_path() function.  Additionally, the
counterpart function close_bdev_exclusive() has been replaced by
blkdev_put().  Because these functions are more generic versions
of the functions they replaced the compatibility macro must add
the FMODE_EXCL mask to ensure they are exclusive.

Closes #114
2011-02-23 12:29:38 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf 2c395def27 Linux 2.6.36 compat, sops->evict_inode()
The new prefered inteface for evicting an inode from the inode cache
is the ->evict_inode() callback.  It replaces both the ->delete_inode()
and ->clear_inode() callbacks which were previously used for this.
2011-02-11 13:47:51 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf f9637c6c8b Linux 2.6.33 compat, get/set xattr callbacks
The xattr handler prototypes were sanitized with the idea being that
the same handlers could be used for multiple methods.  The result of
this was the inode type was changes to a dentry, and both the get()
and set() hooks had a handler_flags argument added.  The list()
callback was similiarly effected but no autoconf check was added
because we do not use the list() callback.
2011-02-11 10:41:00 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf 7268e1bec8 Linux 2.6.35 compat, fops->fsync()
The fsync() callback in the file_operations structure used to take
3 arguments.  The callback now only takes 2 arguments because the
dentry argument was determined to be unused by all consumers.  To
handle this a compatibility prototype was added to ensure the right
prototype is used.  Our implementation never used the dentry argument
either so it's just a matter of using the right prototype.
2011-02-11 09:05:51 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf 777d4af891 Linux 2.6.35 compat, const struct xattr_handler
The const keyword was added to the 'struct xattr_handler' in the
generic Linux super_block structure.  To handle this we define an
appropriate xattr_handler_t typedef which can be used.  This was
the preferred solution because it keeps the code clean and readable.
2011-02-10 16:29:00 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf c5d915f423 Minimal libshare infrastructure
ZFS even under Solaris does not strictly require libshare to be
available.  The current implementation attempts to dlopen() the
library to access the needed symbols.  If this fails libshare
support is simply disabled.

This means that on Linux we only need the most minimal libshare
implementation.  In fact just enough to prevent the build from
failing.  Longer term we can decide if we want to implement a
libshare library like Solaris.  At best this would be an abstraction
layer between ZFS and NFS/SMB.  Alternately, we can drop libshare
entirely and directly integrate ZFS with Linux's NFS/SMB.

Finally the bare bones user-libshare.m4 test was dropped.  If we
do decide to implement libshare at some point it will surely be
as part of this package so the check is not needed.
2011-02-04 16:14:29 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf b3259b6a2b Autoconf selinux support
If libselinux is detected on your system at configure time link
against it.  This allows us to use a library call to detect if
selinux is enabled and if it is to pass the mount option:

  "context=\"system_u:object_r:file_t:s0"

For now this is required because none of the existing selinux
policies are aware of the zfs filesystem type.  Because of this
they do not properly enable xattr based labeling even though
zfs supports all of the required hooks.

Until distro's add zfs as a known xattr friendly fs type we
must use mntpoint labeling.  Alternately, end users could modify
their existing selinux policy with a little guidance.
2011-01-28 12:45:19 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf 675de5aa37 Linux 2.6.36 compat, synchronous bio flag
The name of the flag used to mark a bio as synchronous has changed
again in the 2.6.36 kernel due to the unification of the BIO_RW_*
and REQ_* flags.  The new flag is called REQ_SYNC.  To simplify
checking this flag I have introduced the vdev_disk_dio_is_sync()
helper function.  Based on the results of several new autoconf
tests it uses the correct mask to check for a synchronous bio.

Preferred interface for flagging a synchronous bio:
  2.6.12-2.6.29: BIO_RW_SYNC
  2.6.30-2.6.35: BIO_RW_SYNCIO
  2.6.36-2.6.xx: REQ_SYNC
2010-11-10 17:00:33 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf f4af6bb783 Linux 2.6.36 compat, use REQ_FAILFAST_MASK
As of linux-2.6.36 the BIO_RW_FAILFAST and REQ_FAILFAST flags
have been unified under the REQ_* names.  These flags always had
to be kept in-sync so this is a nice step forward, unfortunately
it means we need to be careful to only use the new unified flags
when the BIO_RW_* flags are not defined.  Additional autoconf
checks were added for this and if it is ever unclear which method
to use no flags are set.  This is safe but may result in longer
delays before a disk is failed.

Perferred interface for setting FAILFAST on a bio:
  2.6.12-2.6.27: BIO_RW_FAILFAST
  2.6.28-2.6.35: BIO_RW_FAILFAST_{DEV|TRANSPORT|DRIVER}
  2.6.36-2.6.xx: REQ_FAILFAST_{DEV|TRANSPORT|DRIVER}
2010-11-10 16:59:49 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf 2959d94a0a Add FAILFAST support
ZFS works best when it is notified as soon as possible when a device
failure occurs.  This allows it to immediately start any recovery
actions which may be needed.  In theory Linux supports a flag which
can be set on bio's called FAILFAST which provides this quick
notification by disabling the retry logic in the lower scsi layers.

That's the theory at least.  In practice is turns out that while the
flag exists you oddly have to set it with the BIO_RW_AHEAD flag.
And even when it's set it you may get retries in the low level
drivers decides that's the right behavior, or if you don't get the
right error codes reported to the scsi midlayer.

Unfortunately, without additional kernels patchs there's not much
which can be done to improve this.  Basically, this just means that
it may take 2-3 minutes before a ZFS is notified properly that a
device has failed.  This can be improved and I suspect I'll be
submitting patches upstream to handle this.
2010-10-12 14:55:02 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf e70e591c51 Add initial autoconf products
Add the initial products from autogen.sh.  These products will
be updated incrementally after this point as development occurs.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2010-08-31 13:42:02 -07:00