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2021-08-20Remove experimental warning in the VFS2 README.Jamie Liu
PiperOrigin-RevId: 392078690
2020-08-25Use new reference count utility throughout gvisor.Dean Deng
This uses the refs_vfs2 template in vfs2 as well as objects common to vfs1 and vfs2. Note that vfs1-only refcounts are not replaced, since vfs1 will be deleted soon anyway. The following structs now use the new tool, with leak check enabled: devpts:rootInode fuse:inode kernfs:Dentry kernfs:dir kernfs:readonlyDir kernfs:StaticDirectory proc:fdDirInode proc:fdInfoDirInode proc:subtasksInode proc:taskInode proc:tasksInode vfs:FileDescription vfs:MountNamespace vfs:Filesystem sys:dir kernel:FSContext kernel:ProcessGroup kernel:Session shm:Shm mm:aioMappable mm:SpecialMappable transport:queue And the following use the template, but because they currently are not leak checked, a TODO is left instead of enabling leak check in this patch: kernel:FDTable tun:tunEndpoint Updates #1486. PiperOrigin-RevId: 328460377
2020-06-18Remove various uses of 'whitelist'Michael Pratt
Updates #2972 PiperOrigin-RevId: 317113059
2020-06-03Take Mount reference in VFS.connectLocked.Jamie Liu
Updates #179 PiperOrigin-RevId: 314563830
2019-11-25Implement basic umounting for vfs2.Jamie Liu
This is required to test filesystems with a non-trivial implementation of FilesystemImpl.Release(). Propagation isn't handled yet, and umount isn't yet plumbed out to VirtualFilesystem.UmountAt(), but otherwise the implementation of umount is believed to be correct. - Move entering mountTable.seq writer critical sections to callers of mountTable.{insert,remove}Seqed. This is required since umount(2) must ensure that no new references are taken on the candidate mount after checking that it isn't busy, which is only possible by entering a vfs.mountTable.seq writer critical section before the check and remaining in it until after VFS.umountRecursiveLocked() is complete. (Linux does the same thing: fs/namespace.c:do_umount() => lock_mount_hash(), fs/pnode.c:propagate_mount_busy(), umount_tree(), unlock_mount_hash().) - It's not possible for dentry deletion to umount while only holding VFS.mountMu for reading, but it's also very unappealing to hold VFS.mountMu exclusively around e.g. gofer unlink RPCs. Introduce dentry.mu to avoid these problems. This means that VFS.mountMu is never acquired for reading, so change it to a sync.Mutex. PiperOrigin-RevId: 282444343
2019-07-18Sentry virtual filesystem, v2Jamie Liu
Major differences from the current ("v1") sentry VFS: - Path resolution is Filesystem-driven (FilesystemImpl methods call vfs.ResolvingPath methods) rather than VFS-driven (fs package owns a Dirent tree and calls fs.InodeOperations methods to populate it). This drastically improves performance, primarily by reducing overhead from inefficient synchronization and indirection. It also makes it possible to implement remote filesystem protocols that translate FS system calls into single RPCs, rather than having to make (at least) one RPC per path component, significantly reducing the latency of remote filesystems (especially during cold starts and for uncacheable shared filesystems). - Mounts are correctly represented as a separate check based on contextual state (current mount) rather than direct replacement in a fs.Dirent tree. This makes it possible to support (non-recursive) bind mounts and mount namespaces. Included in this CL is fsimpl/memfs, an incomplete in-memory filesystem that exists primarily to demonstrate intended filesystem implementation patterns and for benchmarking: BenchmarkVFS1TmpfsStat/1-6 3000000 497 ns/op BenchmarkVFS1TmpfsStat/2-6 2000000 676 ns/op BenchmarkVFS1TmpfsStat/3-6 2000000 904 ns/op BenchmarkVFS1TmpfsStat/8-6 1000000 1944 ns/op BenchmarkVFS1TmpfsStat/64-6 100000 14067 ns/op BenchmarkVFS1TmpfsStat/100-6 50000 21700 ns/op BenchmarkVFS2MemfsStat/1-6 10000000 197 ns/op BenchmarkVFS2MemfsStat/2-6 5000000 233 ns/op BenchmarkVFS2MemfsStat/3-6 5000000 268 ns/op BenchmarkVFS2MemfsStat/8-6 3000000 477 ns/op BenchmarkVFS2MemfsStat/64-6 500000 2592 ns/op BenchmarkVFS2MemfsStat/100-6 300000 4045 ns/op BenchmarkVFS1TmpfsMountStat/1-6 2000000 679 ns/op BenchmarkVFS1TmpfsMountStat/2-6 2000000 912 ns/op BenchmarkVFS1TmpfsMountStat/3-6 1000000 1113 ns/op BenchmarkVFS1TmpfsMountStat/8-6 1000000 2118 ns/op BenchmarkVFS1TmpfsMountStat/64-6 100000 14251 ns/op BenchmarkVFS1TmpfsMountStat/100-6 100000 22397 ns/op BenchmarkVFS2MemfsMountStat/1-6 5000000 317 ns/op BenchmarkVFS2MemfsMountStat/2-6 5000000 361 ns/op BenchmarkVFS2MemfsMountStat/3-6 5000000 387 ns/op BenchmarkVFS2MemfsMountStat/8-6 3000000 582 ns/op BenchmarkVFS2MemfsMountStat/64-6 500000 2699 ns/op BenchmarkVFS2MemfsMountStat/100-6 300000 4133 ns/op From this we can infer that, on this machine: - Constant cost for tmpfs stat() is ~160ns in VFS2 and ~280ns in VFS1. - Per-path-component cost is ~35ns in VFS2 and ~215ns in VFS1, a difference of about 6x. - The cost of crossing a mount boundary is about 80ns in VFS2 (MemfsMountStat/1 does approximately the same amount of work as MemfsStat/2, except that it also crosses a mount boundary). This is an inescapable cost of the separate mount lookup needed to support bind mounts and mount namespaces. PiperOrigin-RevId: 258853946