[V3,02/12] kernfs: implement i_generation

Commit Message

Shaohua Li June 15, 2017, 6:17 p.m. UTC

From: Shaohua Li <[e-mail]>

Set i_generation for kernfs inode. This is required to implement
exportfs operations. The generation is 32-bit, so it's possible the
generation wraps up and we find stale files. To reduce the posssibility,
we don't reuse inode numer immediately. When the inode number allocation
wraps, we increase generation number. In this way generation/inode
number consist of a 64-bit number which is unlikely duplicated. This
does make the idr tree more sparse and waste some memory. Since idr
manages 32-bit keys, idr uses a 6-level radix tree, each level covers 6
bits of the key. In a 100k inode kernfs, the worst case will have around
300k radix tree node. Each node is 576bytes, so the tree will use about
~150M memory. Sounds not too bad, if this really is a problem, we should
find better data structure.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <[e-mail]>
---
 fs/kernfs/dir.c        | 10 +++++++++-
 fs/kernfs/inode.c      |  1 +
 include/linux/kernfs.h |  2 ++
 3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Tejun Heo June 19, 2017, 6:52 p.m. UTC | #1

On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 11:17:10AM -0700, Shaohua Li wrote:
> From: Shaohua Li <[e-mail]>
> 
> Set i_generation for kernfs inode. This is required to implement
> exportfs operations. The generation is 32-bit, so it's possible the
> generation wraps up and we find stale files. To reduce the posssibility,
> we don't reuse inode numer immediately. When the inode number allocation
> wraps, we increase generation number. In this way generation/inode
> number consist of a 64-bit number which is unlikely duplicated. This
> does make the idr tree more sparse and waste some memory. Since idr
> manages 32-bit keys, idr uses a 6-level radix tree, each level covers 6
> bits of the key. In a 100k inode kernfs, the worst case will have around
> 300k radix tree node. Each node is 576bytes, so the tree will use about
> ~150M memory. Sounds not too bad, if this really is a problem, we should
> find better data structure.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <[e-mail]>

Acked-by: Tejun Heo <[e-mail]>

Thanks.

Patch

diff --git a/fs/kernfs/dir.c b/fs/kernfs/dir.c
index 8ad7a17..33f711f 100644
--- a/fs/kernfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/kernfs/dir.c
@@ -623,6 +623,8 @@  static struct kernfs_node *__kernfs_new_node(struct kernfs_root *root,
 					     unsigned flags)
 {
 	struct kernfs_node *kn;
+	u32 gen;
+	int cursor;
 	int ret;
 
 	name = kstrdup_const(name, GFP_KERNEL);
@@ -635,12 +637,17 @@  static struct kernfs_node *__kernfs_new_node(struct kernfs_root *root,
 
 	idr_preload(GFP_KERNEL);
 	spin_lock(&kernfs_idr_lock);
-	ret = idr_alloc(&root->ino_idr, kn, 1, 0, GFP_ATOMIC);
+	cursor = idr_get_cursor(&root->ino_idr);
+	ret = idr_alloc_cyclic(&root->ino_idr, kn, 1, 0, GFP_ATOMIC);
+	if (ret >= 0 && ret < cursor)
+		root->next_generation++;
+	gen = root->next_generation;
 	spin_unlock(&kernfs_idr_lock);
 	idr_preload_end();
 	if (ret < 0)
 		goto err_out2;
 	kn->ino = ret;
+	kn->generation = gen;
 
 	atomic_set(&kn->count, 1);
 	atomic_set(&kn->active, KN_DEACTIVATED_BIAS);
@@ -884,6 +891,7 @@  struct kernfs_root *kernfs_create_root(struct kernfs_syscall_ops *scops,
 
 	idr_init(&root->ino_idr);
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&root->supers);
+	root->next_generation = 1;
 
 	kn = __kernfs_new_node(root, "", S_IFDIR | S_IRUGO | S_IXUGO,
 			       KERNFS_DIR);
diff --git a/fs/kernfs/inode.c b/fs/kernfs/inode.c
index fb4b4a7..79cdae4 100644
--- a/fs/kernfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/kernfs/inode.c
@@ -220,6 +220,7 @@  static void kernfs_init_inode(struct kernfs_node *kn, struct inode *inode)
 	inode->i_private = kn;
 	inode->i_mapping->a_ops = &kernfs_aops;
 	inode->i_op = &kernfs_iops;
+	inode->i_generation = kn->generation;
 
 	set_default_inode_attr(inode, kn->mode);
 	kernfs_refresh_inode(kn, inode);
diff --git a/include/linux/kernfs.h b/include/linux/kernfs.h
index 5f5d602..8c00d28 100644
--- a/include/linux/kernfs.h
+++ b/include/linux/kernfs.h
@@ -135,6 +135,7 @@  struct kernfs_node {
 	umode_t			mode;
 	unsigned int		ino;
 	struct kernfs_iattrs	*iattr;
+	u32			generation;
 };
 
 /*
@@ -164,6 +165,7 @@  struct kernfs_root {
 
 	/* private fields, do not use outside kernfs proper */
 	struct idr		ino_idr;
+	u32			next_generation;
 	struct kernfs_syscall_ops *syscall_ops;
 
 	/* list of kernfs_super_info of this root, protected by kernfs_mutex */