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@@ -86,6 +86,62 @@ Mount options
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The default is infinite. Note that the size of read requests is
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limited anyway to 32 pages (which is 128kbyte on i386).
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+Sysfs
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+~~~~~
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+
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+FUSE sets up the following hierarchy in sysfs:
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+
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+ /sys/fs/fuse/connections/N/
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+
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+where N is an increasing number allocated to each new connection.
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+
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+For each connection the following attributes are defined:
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+
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+ 'waiting'
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+
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+ The number of requests which are waiting to be transfered to
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+ userspace or being processed by the filesystem daemon. If there is
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+ no filesystem activity and 'waiting' is non-zero, then the
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+ filesystem is hung or deadlocked.
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+
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+ 'abort'
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+
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+ Writing anything into this file will abort the filesystem
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+ connection. This means that all waiting requests will be aborted an
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+ error returned for all aborted and new requests.
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+
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+Only a privileged user may read or write these attributes.
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+
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+Aborting a filesystem connection
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+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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+
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+It is possible to get into certain situations where the filesystem is
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+not responding. Reasons for this may be:
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+
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+ a) Broken userspace filesystem implementation
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+ b) Network connection down
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+ c) Accidental deadlock
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+ d) Malicious deadlock
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+(For more on c) and d) see later sections)
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+In either of these cases it may be useful to abort the connection to
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+the filesystem. There are several ways to do this:
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+
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+ - Kill the filesystem daemon. Works in case of a) and b)
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+
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+ - Kill the filesystem daemon and all users of the filesystem. Works
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+ in all cases except some malicious deadlocks
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+
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+ - Use forced umount (umount -f). Works in all cases but only if
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+ filesystem is still attached (it hasn't been lazy unmounted)
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+
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+ - Abort filesystem through the sysfs interface. Most powerful
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+ method, always works.
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+
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How do non-privileged mounts work?
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@@ -313,3 +369,10 @@ faulted with get_user_pages(). The 'req->locked' flag indicates
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when the copy is taking place, and interruption is delayed until
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this flag is unset.
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+Scenario 3 - Tricky deadlock with asynchronous read
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+---------------------------------------------------
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+
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+The same situation as above, except thread-1 will wait on page lock
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+and hence it will be uninterruptible as well. The solution is to
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+abort the connection with forced umount (if mount is attached) or
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+through the abort attribute in sysfs.
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