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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-10-29 20:38:10 +0300
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Merge tag 'staging-4.20-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging
Pull staging/IIO driver updates from Greg KH: "Here is the big staging and IIO driver pull request for 4.20-rc1. There are lots of things here, we ended up adding more lines than removing, thanks to a large influx of Comedi National Instrument device support. Someday soon we need to get comedi out of staging... Other than the comedi drivers, the "big" things here are: - new iio drivers - delete dgnc driver (no one used it and no one had the hardware anymore) - vbox driver updates and fixes - erofs fixes - tons and tons of tiny checkpatch fixes for almost all staging drivers All of these have been in linux-next, with the last few happening a bit "late" due to them getting stuck on my laptop during travel to the Mantainers summit" * tag 'staging-4.20-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging: (690 commits) staging: gasket: Fix sparse "incorrect type in assignment" warnings. staging: gasket: remove debug logs for callback invocation staging: gasket: remove debug logs in page table mapping calls staging: rtl8188eu: core: Use sizeof(*p) instead of sizeof(struct P) for memory allocation staging: ks7010: Remove extra blank line staging: gasket: Remove extra blank line staging: media: davinci_vpfe: Fix spelling mistake in enum staging: speakup: Add a pair of braces staging: wlan-ng: Replace long int with long staging: MAINTAINERS: remove obsolete IPX staging directory staging: MAINTAINERS: remove NCP filesystem entry staging: rtl8188eu: cleanup comparsions to false staging: gasket: Update device virtual address comment staging: gasket: sysfs: fix attribute release comment staging: gasket: apex: fix sysfs_show staging: gasket: page_table: simplify gasket_components_to_dev_address staging: gasket: page_table: fix comment in components_to_dev_address staging: gasket: page table: fixup error path allocating coherent mem staging: gasket: page_table: rearrange gasket_page_table_entry staging: gasket: page_table: remove unnecessary PTE status set to free ...
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/pohmelfs/design_notes.txt72
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/pohmelfs/info.txt99
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/pohmelfs/network_protocol.txt227
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/pohmelfs/design_notes.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/pohmelfs/design_notes.txt
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-POHMELFS: Parallel Optimized Host Message Exchange Layered File System.
-
- Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>
-
-Homepage: http://www.ioremap.net/projects/pohmelfs
-
-POHMELFS first began as a network filesystem with coherent local data and
-metadata caches but is now evolving into a parallel distributed filesystem.
-
-Main features of this FS include:
- * Locally coherent cache for data and metadata with (potentially) byte-range locks.
- Since all Linux filesystems lock the whole inode during writing, algorithm
- is very simple and does not use byte-ranges, although they are sent in
- locking messages.
- * Completely async processing of all events except creation of hard and symbolic
- links, and rename events.
- Object creation and data reading and writing are processed asynchronously.
- * Flexible object architecture optimized for network processing.
- Ability to create long paths to objects and remove arbitrarily huge
- directories with a single network command.
- (like removing the whole kernel tree via a single network command).
- * Very high performance.
- * Fast and scalable multithreaded userspace server. Being in userspace it works
- with any underlying filesystem and still is much faster than async in-kernel NFS one.
- * Client is able to switch between different servers (if one goes down, client
- automatically reconnects to second and so on).
- * Transactions support. Full failover for all operations.
- Resending transactions to different servers on timeout or error.
- * Read request (data read, directory listing, lookup requests) balancing between multiple servers.
- * Write requests are replicated to multiple servers and completed only when all of them are acked.
- * Ability to add and/or remove servers from the working set at run-time.
- * Strong authentication and possible data encryption in network channel.
- * Extended attributes support.
-
-POHMELFS is based on transactions, which are potentially long-standing objects that live
-in the client's memory. Each transaction contains all the information needed to process a given
-command (or set of commands, which is frequently used during data writing: single transactions
-can contain creation and data writing commands). Transactions are committed by all the servers
-to which they are sent and, in case of failures, are eventually resent or dropped with an error.
-For example, reading will return an error if no servers are available.
-
-POHMELFS uses a asynchronous approach to data processing. Courtesy of transactions, it is
-possible to detach replies from requests and, if the command requires data to be received, the
-caller sleeps waiting for it. Thus, it is possible to issue multiple read commands to different
-servers and async threads will pick up replies in parallel, find appropriate transactions in the
-system and put the data where it belongs (like the page or inode cache).
-
-The main feature of POHMELFS is writeback data and the metadata cache.
-Only a few non-performance critical operations use the write-through cache and
-are synchronous: hard and symbolic link creation, and object rename. Creation,
-removal of objects and data writing are asynchronous and are sent to
-the server during system writeback. Only one writer at a time is allowed for any
-given inode, which is guarded by an appropriate locking protocol.
-Because of this feature, POHMELFS is extremely fast at metadata intensive
-workloads and can fully utilize the bandwidth to the servers when doing bulk
-data transfers.
-
-POHMELFS clients operate with a working set of servers and are capable of balancing read-only
-operations (like lookups or directory listings) between them according to IO priorities.
-Administrators can add or remove servers from the set at run-time via special commands (described
-in Documentation/filesystems/pohmelfs/info.txt file). Writes are replicated to all servers, which
-are connected with write permission turned on. IO priority and permissions can be changed in
-run-time.
-
-POHMELFS is capable of full data channel encryption and/or strong crypto hashing.
-One can select any kernel supported cipher, encryption mode, hash type and operation mode
-(hmac or digest). It is also possible to use both or neither (default). Crypto configuration
-is checked during mount time and, if the server does not support it, appropriate capabilities
-will be disabled or mount will fail (if 'crypto_fail_unsupported' mount option is specified).
-Crypto performance heavily depends on the number of crypto threads, which asynchronously perform
-crypto operations and send the resulting data to server or submit it up the stack. This number
-can be controlled via a mount option.
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/pohmelfs/info.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/pohmelfs/info.txt
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-POHMELFS usage information.
-
-Mount options.
-All but index, number of crypto threads and maximum IO size can changed via remount.
-
-idx=%u
- Each mountpoint is associated with a special index via this option.
- Administrator can add or remove servers from the given index, so all mounts,
- which were attached to it, are updated.
- Default it is 0.
-
-trans_scan_timeout=%u
- This timeout, expressed in milliseconds, specifies time to scan transaction
- trees looking for stale requests, which have to be resent, or if number of
- retries exceed specified limit, dropped with error.
- Default is 5 seconds.
-
-drop_scan_timeout=%u
- Internal timeout, expressed in milliseconds, which specifies how frequently
- inodes marked to be dropped are freed. It also specifies how frequently
- the system checks that servers have to be added or removed from current working set.
- Default is 1 second.
-
-wait_on_page_timeout=%u
- Number of milliseconds to wait for reply from remote server for data reading command.
- If this timeout is exceeded, reading returns an error.
- Default is 5 seconds.
-
-trans_retries=%u
- This is the number of times that a transaction will be resent to a server that did
- not answer for the last @trans_scan_timeout milliseconds.
- When the number of resends exceeds this limit, the transaction is completed with error.
- Default is 5 resends.
-
-crypto_thread_num=%u
- Number of crypto processing threads. Threads are used both for RX and TX traffic.
- Default is 2, or no threads if crypto operations are not supported.
-
-trans_max_pages=%u
- Maximum number of pages in a single transaction. This parameter also controls
- the number of pages, allocated for crypto processing (each crypto thread has
- pool of pages, the number of which is equal to 'trans_max_pages'.
- Default is 100 pages.
-
-crypto_fail_unsupported
- If specified, mount will fail if the server does not support requested crypto operations.
- By default mount will disable non-matching crypto operations.
-
-mcache_timeout=%u
- Maximum number of milliseconds to wait for the mcache objects to be processed.
- Mcache includes locks (given lock should be granted by server), attributes (they should be
- fully received in the given timeframe).
- Default is 5 seconds.
-
-Usage examples.
-
-Add server server1.net:1025 into the working set with index $idx
-with appropriate hash algorithm and key file and cipher algorithm, mode and key file:
-$cfg A add -a server1.net -p 1025 -i $idx -K $hash_key -k $cipher_key
-
-Mount filesystem with given index $idx to /mnt mountpoint.
-Client will connect to all servers specified in the working set via previous command:
-mount -t pohmel -o idx=$idx q /mnt
-
-Change permissions to read-only (-I 1 option, '-I 2' - write-only, 3 - rw):
-$cfg A modify -a server1.net -p 1025 -i $idx -I 1
-
-Change IO priority to 123 (node with the highest priority gets read requests).
-$cfg A modify -a server1.net -p 1025 -i $idx -P 123
-
-One can check currect status of all connections in the mountstats file:
-# cat /proc/$PID/mountstats
-...
-device none mounted on /mnt with fstype pohmel
-idx addr(:port) socket_type protocol active priority permissions
-0 server1.net:1026 1 6 1 250 1
-0 server2.net:1025 1 6 1 123 3
-
-Server installation.
-
-Creating a server, which listens at port 1025 and 0.0.0.0 address.
-Working root directory (note, that server chroots there, so you have to have appropriate permissions)
-is set to /mnt, server will negotiate hash/cipher with client, in case client requested it, there
-are appropriate key files.
-Number of working threads is set to 10.
-
-# ./fserver -a 0.0.0.0 -p 1025 -r /mnt -w 10 -K hash_key -k cipher_key
-
- -A 6 - listen on ipv6 address. Default: Disabled.
- -r root - path to root directory. Default: /tmp.
- -a addr - listen address. Default: 0.0.0.0.
- -p port - listen port. Default: 1025.
- -w workers - number of workers per connected client. Default: 1.
- -K file - hash key size. Default: none.
- -k file - cipher key size. Default: none.
- -h - this help.
-
-Number of worker threads specifies how many workers will be created for each client.
-Bulk single-client transafers usually are better handled with smaller number (like 1-3).
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/pohmelfs/network_protocol.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/pohmelfs/network_protocol.txt
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-POHMELFS network protocol.
-
-Basic structure used in network communication is following command:
-
-struct netfs_cmd
-{
- __u16 cmd; /* Command number */
- __u16 csize; /* Attached crypto information size */
- __u16 cpad; /* Attached padding size */
- __u16 ext; /* External flags */
- __u32 size; /* Size of the attached data */
- __u32 trans; /* Transaction id */
- __u64 id; /* Object ID to operate on. Used for feedback.*/
- __u64 start; /* Start of the object. */
- __u64 iv; /* IV sequence */
- __u8 data[0];
-};
-
-Commands can be embedded into transaction command (which in turn has own command),
-so one can extend protocol as needed without breaking backward compatibility as long
-as old commands are supported. All string lengths include tail 0 byte.
-
-All commands are transferred over the network in big-endian. CPU endianness is used at the end peers.
-
-@cmd - command number, which specifies command to be processed. Following
- commands are used currently:
-
- NETFS_READDIR = 1, /* Read directory for given inode number */
- NETFS_READ_PAGE, /* Read data page from the server */
- NETFS_WRITE_PAGE, /* Write data page to the server */
- NETFS_CREATE, /* Create directory entry */
- NETFS_REMOVE, /* Remove directory entry */
- NETFS_LOOKUP, /* Lookup single object */
- NETFS_LINK, /* Create a link */
- NETFS_TRANS, /* Transaction */
- NETFS_OPEN, /* Open intent */
- NETFS_INODE_INFO, /* Metadata cache coherency synchronization message */
- NETFS_PAGE_CACHE, /* Page cache invalidation message */
- NETFS_READ_PAGES, /* Read multiple contiguous pages in one go */
- NETFS_RENAME, /* Rename object */
- NETFS_CAPABILITIES, /* Capabilities of the client, for example supported crypto */
- NETFS_LOCK, /* Distributed lock message */
- NETFS_XATTR_SET, /* Set extended attribute */
- NETFS_XATTR_GET, /* Get extended attribute */
-
-@ext - external flags. Used by different commands to specify some extra arguments
- like partial size of the embedded objects or creation flags.
-
-@size - size of the attached data. For NETFS_READ_PAGE and NETFS_READ_PAGES no data is attached,
- but size of the requested data is incorporated here. It does not include size of the command
- header (struct netfs_cmd) itself.
-
-@id - id of the object this command operates on. Each command can use it for own purpose.
-
-@start - start of the object this command operates on. Each command can use it for own purpose.
-
-@csize, @cpad - size and padding size of the (attached if needed) crypto information.
-
-Command specifications.
-
-@NETFS_READDIR
-This command is used to sync content of the remote dir to the client.
-
-@ext - length of the path to object.
-@size - the same.
-@id - local inode number of the directory to read.
-@start - zero.
-
-
-@NETFS_READ_PAGE
-This command is used to read data from remote server.
-Data size does not exceed local page cache size.
-
-@id - inode number.
-@start - first byte offset.
-@size - number of bytes to read plus length of the path to object.
-@ext - object path length.
-
-
-@NETFS_CREATE
-Used to create object.
-It does not require that all directories on top of the object were
-already created, it will create them automatically. Each object has
-associated @netfs_path_entry data structure, which contains creation
-mode (permissions and type) and length of the name as long as name itself.
-
-@start - 0
-@size - size of the all data structures needed to create a path
-@id - local inode number
-@ext - 0
-
-
-@NETFS_REMOVE
-Used to remove object.
-
-@ext - length of the path to object.
-@size - the same.
-@id - local inode number.
-@start - zero.
-
-
-@NETFS_LOOKUP
-Lookup information about object on server.
-
-@ext - length of the path to object.
-@size - the same.
-@id - local inode number of the directory to look object in.
-@start - local inode number of the object to look at.
-
-
-@NETFS_LINK
-Create hard of symlink.
-Command is sent as "object_path|target_path".
-
-@size - size of the above string.
-@id - parent local inode number.
-@start - 1 for symlink, 0 for hardlink.
-@ext - size of the "object_path" above.
-
-
-@NETFS_TRANS
-Transaction header.
-
-@size - incorporates all embedded command sizes including theirs header sizes.
-@start - transaction generation number - unique id used to find transaction.
-@ext - transaction flags. Unused at the moment.
-@id - 0.
-
-
-@NETFS_OPEN
-Open intent for given transaction.
-
-@id - local inode number.
-@start - 0.
-@size - path length to the object.
-@ext - open flags (O_RDWR and so on).
-
-
-@NETFS_INODE_INFO
-Metadata update command.
-It is sent to servers when attributes of the object are changed and received
-when data or metadata were updated. It operates with the following structure:
-
-struct netfs_inode_info
-{
- unsigned int mode;
- unsigned int nlink;
- unsigned int uid;
- unsigned int gid;
- unsigned int blocksize;
- unsigned int padding;
- __u64 ino;
- __u64 blocks;
- __u64 rdev;
- __u64 size;
- __u64 version;
-};
-
-It effectively mirrors stat(2) returned data.
-
-
-@ext - path length to the object.
-@size - the same plus size of the netfs_inode_info structure.
-@id - local inode number.
-@start - 0.
-
-
-@NETFS_PAGE_CACHE
-Command is only received by clients. It contains information about
-page to be marked as not up-to-date.
-
-@id - client's inode number.
-@start - last byte of the page to be invalidated. If it is not equal to
- current inode size, it will be vmtruncated().
-@size - 0
-@ext - 0
-
-
-@NETFS_READ_PAGES
-Used to read multiple contiguous pages in one go.
-
-@start - first byte of the contiguous region to read.
-@size - contains of two fields: lower 8 bits are used to represent page cache shift
- used by client, another 3 bytes are used to get number of pages.
-@id - local inode number.
-@ext - path length to the object.
-
-
-@NETFS_RENAME
-Used to rename object.
-Attached data is formed into following string: "old_path|new_path".
-
-@id - local inode number.
-@start - parent inode number.
-@size - length of the above string.
-@ext - length of the old path part.
-
-
-@NETFS_CAPABILITIES
-Used to exchange crypto capabilities with server.
-If crypto capabilities are not supported by server, then client will disable it
-or fail (if 'crypto_fail_unsupported' mount options was specified).
-
-@id - superblock index. Used to specify crypto information for group of servers.
-@size - size of the attached capabilities structure.
-@start - 0.
-@size - 0.
-@scsize - 0.
-
-@NETFS_LOCK
-Used to send lock request/release messages. Although it sends byte range request
-and is capable of flushing pages based on that, it is not used, since all Linux
-filesystems lock the whole inode.
-
-@id - lock generation number.
-@start - start of the locked range.
-@size - size of the locked range.
-@ext - lock type: read/write. Not used actually. 15'th bit is used to determine,
- if it is lock request (1) or release (0).
-
-@NETFS_XATTR_SET
-@NETFS_XATTR_GET
-Used to set/get extended attributes for given inode.
-@id - attribute generation number or xattr setting type
-@start - size of the attribute (request or attached)
-@size - name length, path len and data size for given attribute
-@ext - path length for given object