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2022-04-08fscache: Use wrapper fscache_set_cache_state() directly when relinquishingYue Hu1-1/+1
We already have the wrapper function to set cache state. Signed-off-by: Yue Hu <huyue2@coolpad.com> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jeffle Xu <jefflexu@linux.alibaba.com> cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com Link: https://listman.redhat.com/archives/linux-cachefs/2022-April/006648.html # v1
2022-01-07fscache: Count data storage objects in a cacheDavid Howells1-0/+2
Count the data storage objects that are currently allocated in a cache. This is used to pin certain cache structures until cache withdrawal is complete. Three helpers are provided to manage and make use of the count: (1) void fscache_count_object(struct fscache_cache *cache); This should be called by the cache backend to note that an object has been allocated and attached to the cache. (2) void fscache_uncount_object(struct fscache_cache *cache); This should be called by the backend to note that an object has been destroyed. This sends a wakeup event that allows cache withdrawal to proceed if it was waiting for that object. (3) void fscache_wait_for_objects(struct fscache_cache *cache); This can be used by the backend to wait for all outstanding cache object to be destroyed. Each cache's counter is displayed as part of /proc/fs/fscache/caches. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163819608594.215744.1812706538117388252.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v1 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163906911646.143852.168184059935530127.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v2 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163967111846.1823006.9868154941573671255.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v3 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/164021516219.640689.4934796654308958158.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v4
2022-01-07fscache: Add a function for a cache backend to note an I/O errorDavid Howells1-0/+20
Add a function to the backend API to note an I/O error in a cache. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163819598741.215744.891281275151382095.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v1 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163906901316.143852.15225412215771586528.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v2 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163967100721.1823006.16435671567428949398.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v3 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/164021508840.640689.11902836226570620424.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v4
2022-01-07fscache: Implement functions add/remove a cacheDavid Howells1-0/+70
Implement functions to allow the cache backend to add or remove a cache: (1) Declare a cache to be live: int fscache_add_cache(struct fscache_cache *cache, const struct fscache_cache_ops *ops, void *cache_priv); Take a previously acquired cache cookie, set the operations table and private data and mark the cache open for access. (2) Withdraw a cache from service: void fscache_withdraw_cache(struct fscache_cache *cache); This marks the cache as withdrawn and thus prevents further cache-level and volume-level accesses. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163819596022.215744.8799712491432238827.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v1 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163906896599.143852.17049208999019262884.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v2 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163967097870.1823006.3470041000971522030.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v3 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/164021505541.640689.1819714759326331054.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v4
2022-01-07fscache: Implement cache-level access helpersDavid Howells1-0/+62
Add a pair of functions to pin/unpin a cache that we're wanting to do a high-level access to (such as creating or removing a volume): bool fscache_begin_cache_access(struct fscache_cache *cache, enum fscache_access_trace why); void fscache_end_cache_access(struct fscache_cache *cache, enum fscache_access_trace why); The way the access gate works/will work is: (1) If the cache tests as not live (state is not FSCACHE_CACHE_IS_ACTIVE), then we return false to indicate access was not permitted. (2) If the cache tests as live, then we increment the n_accesses count and then recheck the liveness, ending the access if it ceased to be live. (3) When we end the access, we decrement n_accesses and wake up the any waiters if it reaches 0. (4) Whilst the cache is caching, n_accesses is kept artificially incremented to prevent wakeups from happening. (5) When the cache is taken offline, the state is changed to prevent new accesses, n_accesses is decremented and we wait for n_accesses to become 0. Note that some of this is implemented in a later patch. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163819593239.215744.7537428720603638088.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v1 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163906893368.143852.14164004598465617981.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v2 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163967093977.1823006.6967886507023056409.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v3 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/164021499995.640689.18286203753480287850.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v4
2022-01-07fscache: Implement cache registrationDavid Howells1-0/+274
Implement a register of caches and provide functions to manage it. Two functions are provided for the cache backend to use: (1) Acquire a cache cookie: struct fscache_cache *fscache_acquire_cache(const char *name) This gets the cache cookie for a cache of the specified name and moves it to the preparation state. If a nameless cache cookie exists, that will be given this name and used. (2) Relinquish a cache cookie: void fscache_relinquish_cache(struct fscache_cache *cache); This relinquishes a cache cookie, cleans it and makes it available if it's still referenced by a network filesystem. Note that network filesystems don't deal with cache cookies directly, but rather go straight to the volume registration. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163819587157.215744.13523139317322503286.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v1 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163906889665.143852.10378009165231294456.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v2 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163967085081.1823006.2218944206363626210.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v3 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/164021494847.640689.10109692261640524343.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v4
2022-01-07fscache: Remove the contents of the fscache driver, pending rewriteDavid Howells1-416/+0
Remove the code that comprises the fscache driver as it's going to be substantially rewritten, with the majority of the code being erased in the rewrite. A small piece of linux/fscache.h is left as that is #included by a bunch of network filesystems. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163819578724.215744.18210619052245724238.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v1 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163906884814.143852.6727245089843862889.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v2 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163967077097.1823006.1377665951499979089.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v3 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/164021485548.640689.13876080567388696162.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v4
2021-08-27fscache: Use refcount_t for the cookie refcount instead of atomic_tDavid Howells1-1/+1
Use refcount_t for the fscache_cookie refcount instead of atomic_t and rename the 'usage' member to 'ref' in such cases. The tracepoints that reference it change from showing "u=%d" to "r=%d". Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/162431204358.2908479.8006938388213098079.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/
2021-08-27fscache: Change %p in format strings to something elseDavid Howells1-4/+4
Change plain %p in format strings in fscache code to something more useful, since %p is now hashed before printing and thus no longer matches the contents of an oops register dump. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/160588474843.3465195.5446072310069374803.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # rfc Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/162431199509.2908479.2950631488219944294.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/
2021-08-27fscache: Remove the object list procfileDavid Howells1-1/+0
Remove the object list procfile from fscache as objects will become entirely internal to the cache. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/162431198332.2908479.5847286163455099669.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/
2020-05-05docs: filesystems: caching/backend-api.txt: convert it to ReSTMauro Carvalho Chehab1-4/+4
- Add a SPDX header; - Adjust document and section titles; - Some whitespace fixes and new line breaks; - Mark literal blocks as such; - Add table markups; - Add it to filesystems/caching/index.rst. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/5d0a61abaa87bfe913b9e2f321e74ef7af0f3dfc.1588021877.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-05-30treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 152Thomas Gleixner1-5/+1
Based on 1 normalized pattern(s): this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at your option any later version extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier GPL-2.0-or-later has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 3029 file(s). Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net> Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190527070032.746973796@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-07-25fscache: Fix reference overput in fscache_attach_object() error handlingKiran Kumar Modukuri1-1/+1
When a cookie is allocated that causes fscache_object structs to be allocated, those objects are initialised with the cookie pointer, but aren't blessed with a ref on that cookie unless the attachment is successfully completed in fscache_attach_object(). If attachment fails because the parent object was dying or there was a collision, fscache_attach_object() returns without incrementing the cookie counter - but upon failure of this function, the object is released which then puts the cookie, whether or not a ref was taken on the cookie. Fix this by taking a ref on the cookie when it is assigned in fscache_object_init(), even when we're creating a root object. Analysis from Kiran Kumar: This bug has been seen in 4.4.0-124-generic #148-Ubuntu kernel BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1776277 fscache cookie ref count updated incorrectly during fscache object allocation resulting in following Oops. kernel BUG at /build/linux-Y09MKI/linux-4.4.0/fs/fscache/internal.h:321! kernel BUG at /build/linux-Y09MKI/linux-4.4.0/fs/fscache/cookie.c:639! [Cause] Two threads are trying to do operate on a cookie and two objects. (1) One thread tries to unmount the filesystem and in process goes over a huge list of objects marking them dead and deleting the objects. cookie->usage is also decremented in following path: nfs_fscache_release_super_cookie -> __fscache_relinquish_cookie ->__fscache_cookie_put ->BUG_ON(atomic_read(&cookie->usage) <= 0); (2) A second thread tries to lookup an object for reading data in following path: fscache_alloc_object 1) cachefiles_alloc_object -> fscache_object_init -> assign cookie, but usage not bumped. 2) fscache_attach_object -> fails in cant_attach_object because the cookie's backing object or cookie's->parent object are going away 3) fscache_put_object -> cachefiles_put_object ->fscache_object_destroy ->fscache_cookie_put ->BUG_ON(atomic_read(&cookie->usage) <= 0); [NOTE from dhowells] It's unclear as to the circumstances in which (2) can take place, given that thread (1) is in nfs_kill_super(), however a conflicting NFS mount with slightly different parameters that creates a different superblock would do it. A backtrace from Kiran seems to show that this is a possibility: kernel BUG at/build/linux-Y09MKI/linux-4.4.0/fs/fscache/cookie.c:639! ... RIP: __fscache_cookie_put+0x3a/0x40 [fscache] Call Trace: __fscache_relinquish_cookie+0x87/0x120 [fscache] nfs_fscache_release_super_cookie+0x2d/0xb0 [nfs] nfs_kill_super+0x29/0x40 [nfs] deactivate_locked_super+0x48/0x80 deactivate_super+0x5c/0x60 cleanup_mnt+0x3f/0x90 __cleanup_mnt+0x12/0x20 task_work_run+0x86/0xb0 exit_to_usermode_loop+0xc2/0xd0 syscall_return_slowpath+0x4e/0x60 int_ret_from_sys_call+0x25/0x9f [Fix] Bump up the cookie usage in fscache_object_init, when it is first being assigned a cookie atomically such that the cookie is added and bumped up if its refcount is not zero. Remove the assignment in fscache_attach_object(). [Testcase] I have run ~100 hours of NFS stress tests and not seen this bug recur. [Regression Potential] - Limited to fscache/cachefiles. Fixes: ccc4fc3d11e9 ("FS-Cache: Implement the cookie management part of the netfs API") Signed-off-by: Kiran Kumar Modukuri <kiran.modukuri@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2018-04-04fscache: Attach the index key and aux data to the cookieDavid Howells1-1/+1
Attach copies of the index key and auxiliary data to the fscache cookie so that: (1) The callbacks to the netfs for this stuff can be eliminated. This can simplify things in the cache as the information is still available, even after the cache has relinquished the cookie. (2) Simplifies the locking requirements of accessing the information as we don't have to worry about the netfs object going away on us. (3) The cache can do lazy updating of the coherency information on disk. As long as the cache is flushed before reboot/poweroff, there's no need to update the coherency info on disk every time it changes. (4) Cookies can be hashed or put in a tree as the index key is easily available. This allows: (a) Checks for duplicate cookies can be made at the top fscache layer rather than down in the bowels of the cache backend. (b) Caching can be added to a netfs object that has a cookie if the cache is brought online after the netfs object is allocated. A certain amount of space is made in the cookie for inline copies of the data, but if it won't fit there, extra memory will be allocated for it. The downside of this is that live cache operation requires more memory. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@netapp.com> Tested-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
2014-06-04fs/fscache: convert printk to pr_foo()Fabian Frederick1-7/+6
All printk converted to pr_foo() except internal.h: printk(KERN_DEBUG Coalesce formats. Add pr_fmt Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-06-19FS-Cache: Fix object state machine to have separate work and wait statesDavid Howells1-15/+17
Fix object state machine to have separate work and wait states as that makes it easier to envision. There are now three kinds of state: (1) Work state. This is an execution state. No event processing is performed by a work state. The function attached to a work state returns a pointer indicating the next state to which the OSM should transition. Returning NO_TRANSIT repeats the current state, but goes back to the scheduler first. (2) Wait state. This is an event processing state. No execution is performed by a wait state. Wait states are just tables of "if event X occurs, clear it and transition to state Y". The dispatcher returns to the scheduler if none of the events in which the wait state has an interest are currently pending. (3) Out-of-band state. This is a special work state. Transitions to normal states can be overridden when an unexpected event occurs (eg. I/O error). Instead the dispatcher disables and clears the OOB event and transits to the specified work state. This then acts as an ordinary work state, though object->state points to the overridden destination. Returning NO_TRANSIT resumes the overridden transition. In addition, the states have names in their definitions, so there's no need for tables of state names. Further, the EV_REQUEUE event is no longer necessary as that is automatic for work states. Since the states are now separate structs rather than values in an enum, it's not possible to use comparisons other than (non-)equality between them, so use some object->flags to indicate what phase an object is in. The EV_RELEASE, EV_RETIRE and EV_WITHDRAW events have been squished into one (EV_KILL). An object flag now carries the information about retirement. Similarly, the RELEASING, RECYCLING and WITHDRAWING states have been merged into an KILL_OBJECT state and additional states have been added for handling waiting dependent objects (JUMPSTART_DEPS and KILL_DEPENDENTS). A state has also been added for synchronising with parent object initialisation (WAIT_FOR_PARENT) and another for initiating look up (PARENT_READY). Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Tested-By: Milosz Tanski <milosz@adfin.com> Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
2013-06-19FS-Cache: Wrap checks on object stateDavid Howells1-1/+1
Wrap checks on object state (mostly outside of fs/fscache/object.c) with inline functions so that the mechanism can be replaced. Some of the state checks within object.c are left as-is as they will be replaced. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Tested-By: Milosz Tanski <milosz@adfin.com> Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
2012-12-20FS-Cache: Limit the number of I/O error reports for a cacheDavid Howells1-4/+4
Limit the number of I/O error reports for a cache to 1 to prevent massive amounts of noise. After the first I/O error the cache is taken off line automatically, so must be restarted to resume caching. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2009-11-19FS-Cache: Add counters for entry/exit to/from cache operation functionsDavid Howells1-0/+4
Count entries to and exits from cache operation table functions. Maintain these as a single counter that's added to or removed from as appropriate. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2009-11-19FS-Cache: Allow the current state of all objects to be dumpedDavid Howells1-0/+1
Allow the current state of all fscache objects to be dumped by doing: cat /proc/fs/fscache/objects By default, all objects and all fields will be shown. This can be restricted by adding a suitable key to one of the caller's keyrings (such as the session keyring): keyctl add user fscache:objlist "<restrictions>" @s The <restrictions> are: K Show hexdump of object key (don't show if not given) A Show hexdump of object aux data (don't show if not given) And paired restrictions: C Show objects that have a cookie c Show objects that don't have a cookie B Show objects that are busy b Show objects that aren't busy W Show objects that have pending writes w Show objects that don't have pending writes R Show objects that have outstanding reads r Show objects that don't have outstanding reads S Show objects that have slow work queued s Show objects that don't have slow work queued If neither side of a restriction pair is given, then both are implied. For example: keyctl add user fscache:objlist KB @s shows objects that are busy, and lists their object keys, but does not dump their auxiliary data. It also implies "CcWwRrSs", but as 'B' is given, 'b' is not implied. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2009-04-03FS-Cache: Add and document asynchronous operation handlingDavid Howells1-1/+1
Add and document asynchronous operation handling for use by FS-Cache's data storage and retrieval routines. The following documentation is added to: Documentation/filesystems/caching/operations.txt ================================ ASYNCHRONOUS OPERATIONS HANDLING ================================ ======== OVERVIEW ======== FS-Cache has an asynchronous operations handling facility that it uses for its data storage and retrieval routines. Its operations are represented by fscache_operation structs, though these are usually embedded into some other structure. This facility is available to and expected to be be used by the cache backends, and FS-Cache will create operations and pass them off to the appropriate cache backend for completion. To make use of this facility, <linux/fscache-cache.h> should be #included. =============================== OPERATION RECORD INITIALISATION =============================== An operation is recorded in an fscache_operation struct: struct fscache_operation { union { struct work_struct fast_work; struct slow_work slow_work; }; unsigned long flags; fscache_operation_processor_t processor; ... }; Someone wanting to issue an operation should allocate something with this struct embedded in it. They should initialise it by calling: void fscache_operation_init(struct fscache_operation *op, fscache_operation_release_t release); with the operation to be initialised and the release function to use. The op->flags parameter should be set to indicate the CPU time provision and the exclusivity (see the Parameters section). The op->fast_work, op->slow_work and op->processor flags should be set as appropriate for the CPU time provision (see the Parameters section). FSCACHE_OP_WAITING may be set in op->flags prior to each submission of the operation and waited for afterwards. ========== PARAMETERS ========== There are a number of parameters that can be set in the operation record's flag parameter. There are three options for the provision of CPU time in these operations: (1) The operation may be done synchronously (FSCACHE_OP_MYTHREAD). A thread may decide it wants to handle an operation itself without deferring it to another thread. This is, for example, used in read operations for calling readpages() on the backing filesystem in CacheFiles. Although readpages() does an asynchronous data fetch, the determination of whether pages exist is done synchronously - and the netfs does not proceed until this has been determined. If this option is to be used, FSCACHE_OP_WAITING must be set in op->flags before submitting the operation, and the operating thread must wait for it to be cleared before proceeding: wait_on_bit(&op->flags, FSCACHE_OP_WAITING, fscache_wait_bit, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE); (2) The operation may be fast asynchronous (FSCACHE_OP_FAST), in which case it will be given to keventd to process. Such an operation is not permitted to sleep on I/O. This is, for example, used by CacheFiles to copy data from a backing fs page to a netfs page after the backing fs has read the page in. If this option is used, op->fast_work and op->processor must be initialised before submitting the operation: INIT_WORK(&op->fast_work, do_some_work); (3) The operation may be slow asynchronous (FSCACHE_OP_SLOW), in which case it will be given to the slow work facility to process. Such an operation is permitted to sleep on I/O. This is, for example, used by FS-Cache to handle background writes of pages that have just been fetched from a remote server. If this option is used, op->slow_work and op->processor must be initialised before submitting the operation: fscache_operation_init_slow(op, processor) Furthermore, operations may be one of two types: (1) Exclusive (FSCACHE_OP_EXCLUSIVE). Operations of this type may not run in conjunction with any other operation on the object being operated upon. An example of this is the attribute change operation, in which the file being written to may need truncation. (2) Shareable. Operations of this type may be running simultaneously. It's up to the operation implementation to prevent interference between other operations running at the same time. ========= PROCEDURE ========= Operations are used through the following procedure: (1) The submitting thread must allocate the operation and initialise it itself. Normally this would be part of a more specific structure with the generic op embedded within. (2) The submitting thread must then submit the operation for processing using one of the following two functions: int fscache_submit_op(struct fscache_object *object, struct fscache_operation *op); int fscache_submit_exclusive_op(struct fscache_object *object, struct fscache_operation *op); The first function should be used to submit non-exclusive ops and the second to submit exclusive ones. The caller must still set the FSCACHE_OP_EXCLUSIVE flag. If successful, both functions will assign the operation to the specified object and return 0. -ENOBUFS will be returned if the object specified is permanently unavailable. The operation manager will defer operations on an object that is still undergoing lookup or creation. The operation will also be deferred if an operation of conflicting exclusivity is in progress on the object. If the operation is asynchronous, the manager will retain a reference to it, so the caller should put their reference to it by passing it to: void fscache_put_operation(struct fscache_operation *op); (3) If the submitting thread wants to do the work itself, and has marked the operation with FSCACHE_OP_MYTHREAD, then it should monitor FSCACHE_OP_WAITING as described above and check the state of the object if necessary (the object might have died whilst the thread was waiting). When it has finished doing its processing, it should call fscache_put_operation() on it. (4) The operation holds an effective lock upon the object, preventing other exclusive ops conflicting until it is released. The operation can be enqueued for further immediate asynchronous processing by adjusting the CPU time provisioning option if necessary, eg: op->flags &= ~FSCACHE_OP_TYPE; op->flags |= ~FSCACHE_OP_FAST; and calling: void fscache_enqueue_operation(struct fscache_operation *op) This can be used to allow other things to have use of the worker thread pools. ===================== ASYNCHRONOUS CALLBACK ===================== When used in asynchronous mode, the worker thread pool will invoke the processor method with a pointer to the operation. This should then get at the container struct by using container_of(): static void fscache_write_op(struct fscache_operation *_op) { struct fscache_storage *op = container_of(_op, struct fscache_storage, op); ... } The caller holds a reference on the operation, and will invoke fscache_put_operation() when the processor function returns. The processor function is at liberty to call fscache_enqueue_operation() or to take extra references. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com> Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
2009-04-03FS-Cache: Add cache managementDavid Howells1-0/+249
Implement the entry points by which a cache backend may initialise, add, declare an error upon and withdraw a cache. Further, an object is created in sysfs under which each cache added will get an object created: /sys/fs/fscache/<cachetag>/ All of this is described in Documentation/filesystems/caching/backend-api.txt added by a previous patch. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com> Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
2009-04-03FS-Cache: Add cache tag handlingDavid Howells1-0/+166
Implement two features of FS-Cache: (1) The ability to request and release cache tags - names by which a cache may be known to a netfs, and thus selected for use. (2) An internal function by which a cache is selected by consulting the netfs, if the netfs wishes to be consulted. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com> Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>