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Massimo Maggi
52cd92022e Fix snapshot automounting with GrSecurity constify plugin.
./configure erroneously detects absence of dops->d_automount
when built against a GrSecurity patched kernel.

Summerized error message found in config.log:

  checking whether dops->d_automount() exists
  ...
  In function 'main': ... error: constified variable 'dops'
  cannot be local

The "dops" variable cannot be a local variable, so it's
moved to the global scope.

This test also fails if the prototype of the dops->d_automount
function pointer is changed.

Signed-off-by: Massimo Maggi <massimo@mmmm.it>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@cs.stonybrook.edu>
Closes #884
2012-08-24 08:56:38 -07:00
Prakash Surya
26e08952e6 Support building a zfs-modules-dkms sub package
This commit adds support for building a zfs-modules-dkms sub package
built around Dynamic Kernel Module Support. This is to allow building
packages using the DKMS infrastructure which is intended to ease the
burden of kernel version changes, upgrades, etc.

By default zfs-modules-dkms-* sub package will be built as part of
the 'make rpm' target.  Alternately, you can build only the DKMS
module package using the 'make rpm-dkms' target.

Examples:

    # To build packaged binaries as well as a dkms packages
    $ ./configure && make rpm

    # To build only the packaged binary utilities and dkms packages
    $ ./configure && make rpm-utils rpm-dkms

Note: Only the RHEL 5/6, CHAOS 5, and Fedora distributions are
      supported for building the dkms sub package.

Signed-off-by: Prakash Surya <surya1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #535
2012-08-08 15:21:01 -07:00
Prakash Surya
5085d55817 Add '--with-spl-timeout' option
When checking for the SPL Module.symvers file, a timeout can now be
passed in which will pause the configure step while it waits for this
file to be generated. By default, the configure behavior is unchanged as
a timeout of 0 is used. If a positive number of seconds is passed,
configure will wait that number of seconds for the Module.symvers file
before moving on.

The main motivation for this change was to support parallel execution of
'./configure && make' for the SPL and ZFS packages in preparation of
supporting DKMS based packages.

Signed-off-by: Prakash Surya <surya1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2012-08-08 15:20:55 -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
Etienne Dechamps
705741827a When checking for symbol exports, try compiling.
This patch adds a new autoconf function: ZFS_LINUX_TRY_COMPILE_SYMBOL.
This new function does the following:

 - Call LINUX_TRY_COMPILE with the specified parameters.
 - If unsuccessful, return false.
 - If successful and we're configuring with --enable-linux-builtin,
   return true.
 - Else, call CHECK_SYMBOL_EXPORT with the specified parameters and
   return the result.

All calls to CHECK_SYMBOL_EXPORT are converted to
LINUX_TRY_COMPILE_SYMBOL so that the tests work even when configuring
for builtin on a kernel which doesn't have loadable module support, or
hasn't been built yet.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #851
2012-07-26 13:42:57 -07:00
Etienne Dechamps
fc88a6dda9 Fake modpost stage for LINUX_COMPILE.
Currently, when building a test case, we're compiling an entire Linux
module from beginning to end. This includes the MODPOST stage, which
generates a "conftest.mod.c" file with some boilerplate module
declaration code.

This poses a problem when configuring for built-in on kernels which have
loadable module support disabled. In this case conftest.mod.c is
referencing disabled code, resulting in a compilation failure, thus
breaking the tests.

This patch fixes the issue by faking the modpost stage when the
--enable-linux-builtin option is provided.  It does so by forcing the
modpost command to be /bin/true, and using an empty conftest.mod.c file.
The test module still compiles fine, although the result isn't loadable,
but we don't really care at this point.

Note it is important to preserve the modpost stage when building out of
tree.  The ZFS_AC_KERNEL_BLK_END_REQUEST, ZFS_AC_KERNEL_BLK_QUEUE_FLUSH,
and ZFS_AC_KERNEL_BLK_RQ_BYTES configure checks all depend on it to
identify GPL-only symbols.

Signed-off-by: Prakash Surya <surya1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #851
2012-07-26 13:41:02 -07:00
Etienne Dechamps
319a99a3d4 Make configure builtin-aware.
This patch adds a new option to configure: --enable-linux-builtin. When
this option is used, the following happens:

 - Compilation of kernel modules is disabled.

 - A failure to find UTS_RELEASE is followed by a suggestion to run
   "make prepare" on the kernel source tree.

This patch also adds a new test which tries to compile an empty module
as a basic toolchain sanity test. If it fails and the option was
specified, the error is followed by a suggestion to run "make scripts"
on the kernel source tree.

Signed-off-by: Prakash Surya <surya1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #851
2012-07-26 13:40:18 -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
Richard Yao
ed3fc80048 Fix NULL pointer dereference on PaX/GRSecurity patched Linux 3.3 and later kernels
Support for PaX/GRSecurity patched kernels was developed against Linux
3.2.  Unfortunately, an autotools check introduced for a Linux 3.3 API
fails on PaX/GRSecurity patched kernels. This causes the module to be
built against the Linux 3.2 ABI, which results in a NULL pointer
dereference at runtime.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@cs.stonybrook.edu>
Closes #794
Closes #809
2012-07-20 12:31:45 -07:00
Richard Yao
0a6b03d3b8 Fix build failures on PaX/GRSecurity patched kernels
Gentoo Hardened kernels include the PaX/GRSecurity patches. They use a
dialect of C that relies on a GCC plugin. In particular, struct
file_operations has been marked do_const in the PaX/GRSecurity dialect,
which causes GCC to consider all instances of it as const. This caused
failures in the autotools checks and the ZFS source code.

To address this, we modify the autotools checks to take into account
differences between the PaX C dialect and the regular C dialect. We also
modify struct zfs_acl's z_ops member to be a pointer to a function
pointer table. Lastly, we modify zpl_put_link() to address a PaX change
to the function prototype of nd_get_link().  This avoids compiler errors
in the PaX/GRSecurity dialect.

Note that the change in zpl_put_link() causes a warning that becomes a
build failure when debugging is enabled. Fixing that warning requires
ryao/spl@5ca50ef459.

Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@cs.stonybrook.edu>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #484
2012-07-17 09:22:43 -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
Brian Behlendorf
fb7eb3e3e9 Move zfs.release generation to configure step
Previously, the zfs.release file was created at 'make install' time.
This is slightly problematic when the file is needed without running
'make install'. Because of this, the step creating the file was removed
from 'make install' and replaced with a more appropriate zfs.release.in
file.

As a result, the zfs.release file will now be created earlier as part
of the 'configure' step as opposed to the 'make install' step.

Signed-off-by: Prakash Surya <surya1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2012-07-12 12:22:51 -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
Ned Bass
cac1f230e0 Improve CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC error message
The configure script error message for kernels built with
CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC may give the impression that the issue is
strictly with license compliance.  To avoid confusion add some words
indicating that the linking stage will fail if the build continues.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #773
2012-06-11 09:28:04 -07:00
Ned A. Bass
821b683436 Add vdev_id for JBOD-friendly udev aliases
vdev_id parses the file /etc/zfs/vdev_id.conf to map a physical path
in a storage topology to a channel name.  The channel name is combined
with a disk enclosure slot number to create an alias that reflects the
physical location of the drive.  This is particularly helpful when it
comes to tasks like replacing failed drives.  Slot numbers may also be
re-mapped in case the default numbering is unsatisfactory.  The drive
aliases will be created as symbolic links in /dev/disk/by-vdev.

The only currently supported topologies are sas_direct and sas_switch:

o  sas_direct - a channel is uniquely identified by a PCI slot and a
   HBA port

o  sas_switch - a channel is uniquely identified by a SAS switch port

A multipath mode is supported in which dm-mpath devices are handled by
examining the first running component disk, as reported by 'multipath
-l'.  In multipath mode the configuration file should contain a
channel definition with the same name for each path to a given
enclosure.

vdev_id can replace the existing zpool_id script on systems where the
storage topology conforms to sas_direct or sas_switch.  The script
could be extended to support other topologies as well.  The advantage
of vdev_id is that it is driven by a single static input file that can
be shared across multiple nodes having a common storage toplogy.
zpool_id, on the other hand, requires a unique /etc/zfs/zdev.conf per
node and a separate slot-mapping file.  However, zpool_id provides the
flexibility of using any device names that show up in
/dev/disk/by-path, so it may still be needed on some systems.

vdev_id's functionality subsumes that of the sas_switch_id script, and
it is unlikely that anyone is using it, so sas_switch_id is removed.

Finally, /dev/disk/by-vdev is added to the list of directories that
'zpool import' will scan.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #713
2012-06-01 08:55:14 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf
e5b8562277 Extend CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC check
The CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC check at configure time was added to
detect when mutex_lock() is defined as a GPL-only symbol.  However,
the check as written only inferred this from this configuration
setting, it never actually checked.  This change introduces that
missing check to prevent false positives.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2012-06-01 08:51:56 -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
Richard Yao
76c2b24c61 Fix distribution detection
Improve the distribution detection by moving the tests for
distribution specific files first.  The Ubuntu and Debian
checks are left for last because they are the least likely
to be unique.  This is particularly true in the case of Debian
since so many distributions are based on Debian.

Since this is currently only used to identify the correct
packaging method for this system the result in many instances
is simply cosmetic.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2012-03-05 10:38:27 -08:00
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
b40a77aefc Add the release component to headers
When the original build system code was added the release
component was accidentally omited from the development header
install path.  This patch adds the missing path component so
it's always clear exactly what release your compiling against.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2012-01-18 12:19:47 -08:00
Prakash Surya
58d956b085 Run ZFS_AC_PACMAN only if $VENDOR is "arch"
Unfortunately, Arch's package manager `pacman` shares it's name with a
popular arcade video game. Thus, in order to refrain from executing the
video game when we mean to execute the package manager, ZFS_AC_PACMAN is
now only run when $VENDOR is determined to be "arch".

Signed-off-by: Prakash Surya <surya1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #517
2012-01-13 09:03:11 -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
Prakash Surya
8eaa020b46 Move Arch Linux's VENDOR check above Ubuntu's
If the lsb-release package is installed on an Arch Linux distribution,
the configure step will incorrectly detect the running distribution as
Ubuntu. This is a result of both distributions providing an
/etc/lsb-release file, and the Ubuntu VENDOR check being performed
first.

Since the Arch Linux test check's for a file more specific to the Arch
Linux distribution, moving Arch Linux's VENDOR check above Unbuntu's
check provides a quick and easy solution.

Signed-off-by: Prakash Surya <surya1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2011-12-19 12:05:10 -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
Prakash Surya
6ba3b44614 Add make rule for building Arch Linux packages
Added the necessary build infrastructure for building packages
compatible with the Arch Linux distribution. As such, one can now run:

    $ ./configure
    $ make pkg     # Alternatively, one can run 'make arch' as well

on the Arch Linux machine to create two binary packages compatible with
the pacman package manager, one for the zfs userland utilities and
another for the zfs kernel modules. The new packages can then be
installed by running:

    # pacman -U $package.pkg.tar.xz

In addition, source-only packages suitable for an Arch Linux chroot
environment or remote builder can also be build using the 'sarch' make
rule.

NOTE: Since the source dist tarball is created on the fly from the head
of the build tree, it's MD5 hash signature will be continually influx.
As a result, the md5sum variable was intentionally omitted from the
PKGBUILD files, and the '--skipinteg' makepkg option is used. This may
or may not have any serious security implications, as the source tarball
is not being downloaded from an outside source.

Signed-off-by: Prakash Surya <surya1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #491
2011-12-14 19:14:23 -08:00
Prakash Surya
b9c59ec83a Fix configure tests to play nice with GCC 4.6
As of GCC 4.6, specific kernel 2.6.32 header files do not compile
cleanly without warnings. One specific example of this is the
arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h file. Thus, a few of the configure tests
were getting hung up on this and the '-Wno-unsued-but-set-variables'
compile option had to be introduced.

Signed-off-by: Prakash Surya <surya1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #459
2011-11-29 16:14:25 -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
Prakash Surya
8366cd6a83 Convert 'if' statements to AS_IF in kernel.m4
The 'if' statements found in kernel.m4 were converted to use the
portable alternative provided by autoconf, the AS_IF macro.

Signed-off-by: Prakash Surya <surya1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2011-09-06 13:20:48 -07:00
Prakash Surya
2984e0bb0c Fix minor autoconf error message inconsistencies
A few of the autoconf error messages were inconsistent with the rest of
the build system. To be specific, the inconsistencies addressed by this
commit are the following:

 * The second line of the error message for the CONFIG_PREEMPT check
   was missing it's third asterisk.

 * A few of the error messages were prefixed by two tabs, whereas the
   majority of error messages are only prefixed by a single tab.

Signed-off-by: Prakash Surya <surya1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2011-09-06 13:20:04 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf
aa2b4896c9 Fix autoconf variable substitution in init scripts.
Change the variable substitution in the init script templates
according to the method described in the Autoconf manual;
Chapter 4.7.2: Installation Directory Variables.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2011-08-19 16:26:14 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf
ddd052aa83 Improve HAVE_EVICT_INODE check
The hardened gentoo kernel defines all of the super block
operation callbacks as const.  This prevents the autoconf test
from assigning the callback and results in a false negative.
By moving the assignment in to the declaration we can avoid
this issue and get a correct result for this patched kernel.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #296
2011-08-08 16:42:09 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf
de0a1c099b Autogen refresh for udev changes
Run autogen.sh using the same autotools versions as upstream:

 * autoconf-2.63
 * automake-1.11.1
 * libtool-2.2.6b
2011-08-08 16:30:27 -07:00
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
Kyle Fuller
5faa9c0367 Turn the init.d scripts into autoconf config files
This change ensures the paths used by the provided init scripts
always reference the prefixes provided at configure time.  The
@sbindir@ and @sysconfdir@ prefixes will be correctly replaced
at build time.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #336
2011-08-01 09:54:44 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf
0da7869690 Fix the configure CONFIG_* option detection
The latest kernels no longer define AUTOCONF_INCLUDED which was
being used to detect the new style autoconf.h kernel configure
options.  This results in the CONFIG_* checks always failing
incorrectly for newer kernels.

The fix for this is a simplification of the testing method.
Rather than attempting to explicitly include to renamed config
header.  It is simpler to unconditionally include <linux/module.h>
which must pick up the correctly named header.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #320
2011-07-22 15:07:16 -07:00
Kyle Fuller
615ab66d18 Provide a rc.d script for archlinux
Unlike most other Linux distributions archlinux installs its
init scripts in /etc/rc.d insead of /etc/init.d.  This commit
provides an archlinux rc.d script for zfs and extends the
build infrastructure to ensure it get's installed in the
correct place.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #322
2011-07-11 14:12:23 -07:00
Gunnar Beutner
46e18b3f0f Implemented sharing datasets via NFS using libshare.
The sharenfs and sharesmb properties depend on the libshare library
to export datasets via NFS and SMB. This commit implements the base
libshare functionality as well as support for managing NFS shares.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2011-07-06 09:20:28 -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