cifs has a lot of complicated functions that have to clean up things on
error, but some of them don't have all of the cleanup code
well-consolidated. Clean up and consolidate error handling in several
functions.
This is in preparation of later patches that will need to put references
to the tcon link container.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: (55 commits)
workqueue: mark init_workqueues() as early_initcall()
workqueue: explain for_each_*cwq_cpu() iterators
fscache: fix build on !CONFIG_SYSCTL
slow-work: kill it
gfs2: use workqueue instead of slow-work
drm: use workqueue instead of slow-work
cifs: use workqueue instead of slow-work
fscache: drop references to slow-work
fscache: convert operation to use workqueue instead of slow-work
fscache: convert object to use workqueue instead of slow-work
workqueue: fix how cpu number is stored in work->data
workqueue: fix mayday_mask handling on UP
workqueue: fix build problem on !CONFIG_SMP
workqueue: fix locking in retry path of maybe_create_worker()
async: use workqueue for worker pool
workqueue: remove WQ_SINGLE_CPU and use WQ_UNBOUND instead
workqueue: implement unbound workqueue
workqueue: prepare for WQ_UNBOUND implementation
libata: take advantage of cmwq and remove concurrency limitations
workqueue: fix worker management invocation without pending works
...
Fixed up conflicts in fs/cifs/* as per Tejun. Other trivial conflicts in
include/linux/workqueue.h, kernel/trace/Kconfig and kernel/workqueue.c
Read pages from a FS-Cache data storage object into a CIFS inode.
Signed-off-by: Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@suse.de>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Store pages from an CIFS inode into the data storage object associated with
that inode.
Signed-off-by: Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Takes care of invalidation and release of FS-Cache marked pages and also
invalidation of the FsCache page flag when the inode is removed.
Signed-off-by: Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@suse.de>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Define inode-level data storage objects (managed by cifsInodeInfo structs).
Each inode-level object is created in a super-block level object and is itself
a data storage object in to which pages from the inode are stored.
The inode object is keyed by UniqueId. The coherency data being used is
LastWriteTime, LastChangeTime and end of file reported by the server.
Signed-off-by: Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Workqueue can now handle high concurrency. Use system_nrt_wq
instead of slow-work.
* Updated is_valid_oplock_break() to not call cifs_oplock_break_put()
as advised by Steve French. It might cause deadlock. Instead,
reference is increased after queueing succeeded and
cifs_oplock_break() briefly grabs GlobalSMBSeslock before putting
the cfile to make sure it doesn't put before the matching get is
finished.
* Anton Blanchard reported that cifs conversion was using now gone
system_single_wq. Use system_nrt_wq which provides non-reentrance
guarantee which is enough and much better.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Steve French <sfrench@samba.org>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
It's currently possible for cifs_open to fail after it has already
called cifs_new_fileinfo. In that situation, the new fileinfo will be
leaked as the caller doesn't call fput. That in turn leads to a busy
inodes after umount problem since the fileinfo holds an extra inode
reference now. Shuffle cifs_open around a bit so that it only calls
cifs_new_fileinfo if it's going to succeed.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Reviewed-and-Tested-by: Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@suse.de>
...and ensure that we propagate the error back to avoid any surprises.
Signed-off-by: Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@suse.de>
Reviewed-and-Tested-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
...which takes a ton of unneeded arguments and does a lot more pointer
dereferencing than is really needed.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Reviewed-and-Tested-by: Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@suse.de>
The current scheme of sticking open files on a list and assuming that
cifs_open will scoop them off of it is broken and leads to "Busy
inodes after umount..." errors at unmount time.
The problem is that there is no guarantee that cifs_open will always
be called after a ->lookup or ->create operation. If there are
permissions or other problems, then it's quite likely that it *won't*
be called.
Fix this by fully instantiating the filp whenever the file is created
and pass that filp back to the VFS. If there is a problem, the VFS
can clean up the references.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Reviewed-and-Tested-by: Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@suse.de>
Having cifs_posix_open call cifs_new_fileinfo is problematic and
inconsistent with how "regular" opens work. It's also buggy as
cifs_reopen_file calls this function on a reconnect, which creates a new
struct cifsFileInfo that just gets leaked.
Push it out into the callers. This also allows us to get rid of the
"mnt" arg to cifs_posix_open.
Finally, in the event that a cifsFileInfo isn't or can't be created, we
always want to close the filehandle out on the server as the client
won't have a record of the filehandle and can't actually use it. Make
sure that CIFSSMBClose is called in those cases.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Reviewed-and-Tested-by: Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@suse.de>
Commit 315e995c63 is causing OOM kills
when stress-testing a CIFS filesystem. The VFS readpages operation takes
a page reference. The older code just handed this reference off to the
page cache, but the new code takes an extra one. The simplest fix is to
put the new reference after add_to_page_cache_lru.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
..a left over from the commit 3321b791b2.
Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
On lease break we were breaking to readonly leases always
even if write requested. Also removed experimental
ifdef around setlease code
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
While creating a file on a server which supports unix extensions
such as Samba, if a file is being created which does not supply
nameidata (i.e. nd is null), cifs client can oops when calling
cifs_posix_open.
Signed-off-by: Shirish Pargaonkar <shirishp@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
When process does fork() private_data of files with lock list stays the same
for file descriptors of the parent and of the child. While finishing the child closes
files and deletes locks from the list even if unlocking fails. When the child process
finishes the parent doesn't have lock in lock list and can't unlock previously before
fork() locked region after the child process finished.
This patch provides behaviour to save locks in lock list if unlocking fails.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Shilovsky <piastryyy@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Neaten cERROR and cFYI macros, reduce text space
~2.5K
Convert '__FILE__ ": " fmt' to '"%s: " fmt', __FILE__' to save text space
Surround macros with do {} while
Add parentheses to macros
Make statement expression macro from macro with assign
Remove now unnecessary parentheses from cFYI and cERROR uses
defconfig with CIFS support old
$ size fs/cifs/built-in.o
text data bss dec hex filename
156012 1760 148 157920 268e0 fs/cifs/built-in.o
defconfig with CIFS support old
$ size fs/cifs/built-in.o
text data bss dec hex filename
153508 1760 148 155416 25f18 fs/cifs/built-in.o
allyesconfig old:
$ size fs/cifs/built-in.o
text data bss dec hex filename
309138 3864 74824 387826 5eaf2 fs/cifs/built-in.o
allyesconfig new
$ size fs/cifs/built-in.o
text data bss dec hex filename
305655 3864 74824 384343 5dd57 fs/cifs/built-in.o
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
add_to_page_cache_lru is exported, so it should be used. Benefits over
using a private pagevec: neater code, 128 bytes fewer stack used, percpu
lru ordering is preserved, and finally don't need to flush pagevec
before returning so batching may be shared with other LRU insertions.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6:
not overwriting file_lock structure after GET_LK
cifs: Fix a kernel BUG with remote OS/2 server (try #3)
[CIFS] initialize nbytes at the beginning of CIFSSMBWrite()
[CIFS] Add mmap for direct, nobrl cifs mount types
If we have preventing lock, cifs should overwrite file_lock structure
with info about preventing lock. If we haven't preventing lock, cifs
should leave it unchanged except for the lock type (change it to F_UNLCK).
Signed-off-by: Pavel Shilovsky <piastryyy@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.
percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.
http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py
The script does the followings.
* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used,
gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.
* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains
core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
doesn't seem to be any matching order.
* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
file.
The conversion was done in the following steps.
1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400
files.
2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion,
some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added
inclusions to around 150 files.
3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.
4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.
5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h
inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each
slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
necessary.
6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.
7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).
* x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
* powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
* sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
* ia64 SMP allmodconfig
* s390 SMP allmodconfig
* alpha SMP allmodconfig
* um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig
8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
a separate patch and serve as bisection point.
Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
...to allow updating inode attributes on an existing inode by
filehandle. Change mmap and llseek codepaths to use that
instead of cifs_revalidate_dentry since they have a filehandle
readily available.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
cifs_revalidate is renamed to cifs_revalidate_dentry as a later patch
will add a by-filehandle variant.
Add a new "invalid_mapping" flag to the cifsInodeInfo that indicates
that the pagecache is considered invalid. Add a new routine to check
inode attributes whenever they're updated and set that flag if the inode
has changed on the server.
cifs_revalidate_dentry is then changed to just update the attrcache if
needed and then to zap the pagecache if it's not valid.
There are some other behavior changes in here as well. Open files are
now allowed to have their caches invalidated. I see no reason why we'd
want to keep stale data around just because a file is open. Also,
cifs_revalidate_cache uses the server_eof for revalidating the file
size since that should more closely match the size of the file on the
server.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
While Linux provided an O_SYNC flag basically since day 1, it took until
Linux 2.4.0-test12pre2 to actually get it implemented for filesystems,
since that day we had generic_osync_around with only minor changes and the
great "For now, when the user asks for O_SYNC, we'll actually give
O_DSYNC" comment. This patch intends to actually give us real O_SYNC
semantics in addition to the O_DSYNC semantics. After Jan's O_SYNC
patches which are required before this patch it's actually surprisingly
simple, we just need to figure out when to set the datasync flag to
vfs_fsync_range and when not.
This patch renames the existing O_SYNC flag to O_DSYNC while keeping it's
numerical value to keep binary compatibility, and adds a new real O_SYNC
flag. To guarantee backwards compatiblity it is defined as expanding to
both the O_DSYNC and the new additional binary flag (__O_SYNC) to make
sure we are backwards-compatible when compiled against the new headers.
This also means that all places that don't care about the differences can
just check O_DSYNC and get the right behaviour for O_SYNC, too - only
places that actuall care need to check __O_SYNC in addition. Drivers and
network filesystems have been updated in a fail safe way to always do the
full sync magic if O_DSYNC is set. The few places setting O_SYNC for
lower layers are kept that way for now to stay failsafe.
We enforce that O_DSYNC is set when __O_SYNC is set early in the open path
to make sure we always get these sane options.
Note that parisc really screwed up their headers as they already define a
O_DSYNC that has always been a no-op. We try to repair it by using it for
the new O_DSYNC and redefinining O_SYNC to send both the traditional
O_SYNC numerical value _and_ the O_DSYNC one.
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Acked-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
The patch to remove cifs_init_private introduced a locking imbalance. It
didn't remove the leftover list addition code and the unlocking in that
function. cifs_new_fileinfo does the list addition now, so there should
be no need to do it outside of that function.
pCifsInode will never be NULL, so we don't need to check for that. This
patch also gets rid of the ugly locking and unlocking across function
calls.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
...it does the same thing as cifs_fill_fileinfo, but doesn't handle the
flist ordering correctly. Also rename cifs_fill_fileinfo to a more
descriptive name and have it take an open flags arg instead of just a
write_only flag. That makes the logic in the callers a little simpler.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
This is the fourth respin of the patch to convert oplock breaks to
use the slow_work facility.
A customer of ours was testing a backport of one of the earlier
patchsets, and hit a "Busy inodes after umount..." problem. An oplock
break job had raced with a umount, and the superblock got torn down and
its memory reused. When the oplock break job tried to dereference the
inode->i_sb, the kernel oopsed.
This patchset has the oplock break job hold an inode and vfsmount
reference until the oplock break completes. With this, there should be
no need to take a tcon reference (the vfsmount implicitly holds one
already).
Currently, when an oplock break comes in there's a chance that the
oplock break job won't occur if the allocation of the oplock_q_entry
fails. There are also some rather nasty races in the allocation and
handling these structs.
Rather than allocating oplock queue entries when an oplock break comes
in, add a few extra fields to the cifsFileInfo struct. Get rid of the
dedicated cifs_oplock_thread as well and queue the oplock break job to
the slow_work thread pool.
This approach also has the advantage that the oplock break jobs can
potentially run in parallel rather than be serialized like they are
today.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
It's possible that this struct will outlive the filp to which it is
attached. If it does and it needs to do some work on the inode, then
it'll need a reference.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
cifs_posix_open takes a "poplock" argument that's intended to be used in
the actual posix open call to set the "Flags" field. It ignores this
value however and declares an "oplock" parameter on the stack that it
passes uninitialized to the CIFSPOSIXOpen function. Not only does this
mean that the oplock request flags are bogus, but the result that's
expected to be in that variable is unchanged.
Fix this, and also clean up the type of the oplock parameter used. Since
it's expected to be __u32, we should use that everywhere and not
implicitly cast it from a signed type.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Currently, cifs_close() tries to wait until all I/O is complete and then
frees the file private data. If I/O does not completely in a reasonable
amount of time it frees the structure anyway, leaving a potential use-
after-free situation.
This patch changes the wrtPending counter to a complete reference count and
lets the last user free the structure.
Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Shirish Pargaonkar <shirishp@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
cifs: rename CIFSSMBUnixSetInfo to CIFSSMBUnixSetPathInfo
...in preparation of adding a SET_FILE_INFO variant.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Fixes a regression caused by commit a6ce4932fb
When this lock was converted to a mutex, the locks were turned into
unlocks and vice-versa.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Shirish Pargaonkar <shirishp@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Stable Tree <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
FreeXid() along with freeing Xid does add a cifsFYI debug message that
prints rc (return code) as well. In some code paths where we set/return
error code after calling FreeXid(), incorrect error code is being
printed when cifsFYI is enabled.
This could be misleading in few cases. For eg.
In cifs_open() if cifs_fill_filedata() returns a valid pointer to
cifsFileInfo, FreeXid() prints rc=-13 whereas 0 is actually being
returned. Fix this by setting rc before calling FreeXid().
Basically convert
FreeXid(xid); rc = -ERR;
return -ERR; => FreeXid(xid);
return rc;
[Note that Christoph would like to replace the GetXid/FreeXid
calls, which are primarily used for debugging. This seems
like a good longer term goal, but although there is an
alternative tracing facility, there are no examples yet
available that I know of that we can use (yet) to
convert this cifs function entry/exit logging, and for
creating an identifier that we can use to correlate
all dmesg log entries for a particular vfs operation
(ie identify all log entries for a particular vfs
request to cifs: e.g. a particular close or read or write
or byte range lock call ... and just using the thread id
is harder). Eventually when a replacement
for this is available (e.g. when NFS switches over and various
samples to look at in other file systems) we can remove the
GetXid/FreeXid macro but in the meantime multiple people
use this run time configurable logging all the time
for debugging, and Suresh's patch fixes a problem
which made it harder to notice some low
memory problems in the log so it is worthwhile
to fix this problem until a better logging
approach is able to be used]
Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
...and just have the function call le64_to_cpu.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Posix open code was not properly adding the file to the
list of open files. Fix allocating cifsFileInfo
more than once, and adding twice to flist and tlist.
Also fix mode setting to be done in one place in these
paths.
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Shirish Pargaonkar <shirishp@us.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Luca Tettamanti <kronos.it@gmail.com>
Remove adding open file entry twice to lists in the file
Do not fill file info twice in case of posix opens and creates
Signed-off-by: Shirish Pargaonkar <shirishp@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
This patch by utilizing lookup intents, and thus removing a network
roundtrip in the open path, improves performance dramatically on
open (30% or more) to Samba and other servers which support the
cifs posix extensions
Signed-off-by: Shirish Pargaonkar <shirishp@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
This is the fourth version of this patch:
The first three generated a compiler warning asking for explicit curly
braces.
The first two didn't handle update the size correctly when writes that
didn't start at the eof were done.
The first patch also didn't update the size correctly when it explicitly
set via truncate().
This patch adds code to track the client's current understanding of the
size of the file on the server separate from the i_size, and then to use
this info to semi-intelligently set the timeout for writes past the EOF.
This helps prevent timeouts when trying to write large, sparse files on
windows servers.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Samba server (version 3.3.1 and earlier, and 3.2.8 and earlier) incorrectly
required the O_CREAT flag on posix open (even when a file was not being
created). This disables posix open (create is still ok) after the first
attempt returns EINVAL (and logs an error, once, recommending that they
update their server).
Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
If the network connection crashes, and we have to reopen files, preferentially
use the newer cifs posix open protocol operation if the server supports it.
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
If this mount option is set, when an application does an
fsync call then the cifs client does not send an SMB Flush
to the server (to force the server to write all dirty data
for this file immediately to disk), although cifs still sends
all dirty (cached) file data to the server and waits for the
server to respond to the write write. Since SMB Flush can be
very slow, and some servers may be reliable enough (to risk
delaying slightly flushing the data to disk on the server),
turning on this option may be useful to improve performance for
applications that fsync too much, at a small risk of server
crash. If this mount option is not set, by default cifs will
send an SMB flush request (and wait for a response) on every
fsync call.
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Jeff Layton