On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 01:43:49PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 03:33:46PM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > Is there no old_stateid case for layout stateids? And is there any
> > chance of wraparound? (I was comparing to check_stateid_generation and
> > expecting the only difference to be the handling of the generation-zero
> > case.)
>
> 12.5.3. explicitly mentions that LAYOUTGET and LAYOUTRETURN might be
> outstading and processed in parallel, and sais that pNFS operations
> use special stateid rules. It does not explicitly say that old stateids
> are ok, but the model described in there very much requires the server
> to not reject them.
>
> > > +static inline u64
> > > +layout_end(struct nfsd4_layout_seg *seg)
> > > +{
> > > + u64 end = seg->offset + seg->length;
> > > + return end >= seg->offset ? seg->length : NFS4_MAX_UINT64;
> >
> > Shouldn't that be
> >
> > return end >= seg->offset ? end : NFS_MAX_UINT64;
> >
> > ?
>
> Yes. This is an interesting one that sneaked in, and it turns out
> besides dislabling layout merging it didn't have adverse effects.
>
> > > +}
> > > +
> > > +static void
> > > +layout_update_len(struct nfsd4_layout_seg *lo, u64 end)
> > > +{
> > > + if (end == NFS4_MAX_UINT64)
> > > + lo->length = NFS4_MAX_UINT64;
> >
> > Is this case necessary?
> >
> > > + else
> > > + lo->length = end - lo->offset;
>
>
> We use NFS4_MAX_UINT64 as a magic value for layouts until the
> field end, as specified in the standard. But because we do all
> kinds of calculations using the end value we need to propagate
> that magic from and to it.
>
> > Should any of these have OP_MODIFIES_SOMETHING set? (Basically: would
> > we be in trouble if we succesfully completed one of these operations and
> > then weren't able to encode the result?)
>
> All but GETDEVICEINFO should get it.
>
> I've implemented all your suggested changes and will send out and update
> after doing a little more testing.
Thanks!
I didn't notice anything that looked like a big problem to me, so absent
any objections I'll commit the revised versions for 3.20 once we figure
out how to handle the xfs stuff.
--b.
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