)]}' { "log": [ { "commit": "7e325d3a6b117c7288bfc0755410e9d9d2b71326", "tree": "37a59f2c771c31559118987d2ee91e870274ec8b", "parents": [ "f6cc746bbb3b8a8ceb8514a7906ba582607a8cf7" ], "author": { "name": "Christoph Hellwig", "email": "hch@lst.de", "time": "Fri Jun 19 20:22:37 2009 +0200" }, "committer": { "name": "Al Viro", "email": "viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk", "time": "Wed Jun 24 08:15:25 2009 -0400" }, "message": "update Documentation/filesystems/Locking\n\nThe rules for locking in many superblock operations has changed\nsignificantly, so update the documentation for it. Also correct some\nolder updates and ommissions.\n\nSigned-off-by: Christoph Hellwig \u003chch@lst.de\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Al Viro \u003cviro@zeniv.linux.org.uk\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "fe36adf47eb1f7f4972559efa30ce3d2d3f977f2", "tree": "27acbe8377f0d4a0f192daa8943c5289ac3d503d", "parents": [ "b0895513f499b8f786d292ce48589ca210ca1d6e" ], "author": { "name": "Al Viro", "email": "viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk", "time": "Tue Jun 16 13:35:01 2009 -0400" }, "committer": { "name": "Al Viro", "email": "viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk", "time": "Wed Jun 17 00:36:35 2009 -0400" }, "message": "No instance of -\u003ebmap() needs BKL\n\nSigned-off-by: Al Viro \u003cviro@zeniv.linux.org.uk\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "b827e496c893de0c0f142abfaeb8730a2fd6b37f", "tree": "a86aecd5d811f9306b9662ceb5a5a45091b62b97", "parents": [ "a5fc1abe438b87a9d128beebc377f78e2681a76d" ], "author": { "name": "Nick Piggin", "email": "npiggin@suse.de", "time": "Thu Apr 30 15:08:16 2009 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@linux-foundation.org", "time": "Sat May 02 15:36:09 2009 -0700" }, "message": "mm: close page_mkwrite races\n\nChange page_mkwrite to allow implementations to return with the page\nlocked, and also change it\u0027s callers (in page fault paths) to hold the\nlock until the page is marked dirty. This allows the filesystem to have\nfull control of page dirtying events coming from the VM.\n\nRather than simply hold the page locked over the page_mkwrite call, we\ncall page_mkwrite with the page unlocked and allow callers to return with\nit locked, so filesystems can avoid LOR conditions with page lock.\n\nThe problem with the current scheme is this: a filesystem that wants to\nassociate some metadata with a page as long as the page is dirty, will\nperform this manipulation in its -\u003epage_mkwrite. It currently then must\nreturn with the page unlocked and may not hold any other locks (according\nto existing page_mkwrite convention).\n\nIn this window, the VM could write out the page, clearing page-dirty. The\nfilesystem has no good way to detect that a dirty pte is about to be\nattached, so it will happily write out the page, at which point, the\nfilesystem may manipulate the metadata to reflect that the page is no\nlonger dirty.\n\nIt is not always possible to perform the required metadata manipulation in\n-\u003eset_page_dirty, because that function cannot block or fail. The\nfilesystem may need to allocate some data structure, for example.\n\nAnd the VM cannot mark the pte dirty before page_mkwrite, because\npage_mkwrite is allowed to fail, so we must not allow any window where the\npage could be written to if page_mkwrite does fail.\n\nThis solution of holding the page locked over the 3 critical operations\n(page_mkwrite, setting the pte dirty, and finally setting the page dirty)\ncloses out races nicely, preventing page cleaning for writeout being\ninitiated in that window. This provides the filesystem with a strong\nsynchronisation against the VM here.\n\n- Sage needs this race closed for ceph filesystem.\n- Trond for NFS (http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id\u003d12913).\n- I need it for fsblock.\n- I suspect other filesystems may need it too (eg. btrfs).\n- I have converted buffer.c to the new locking. Even simple block allocation\n under dirty pages might be susceptible to i_size changing under partial page\n at the end of file (we also have a buffer.c-side problem here, but it cannot\n be fixed properly without this patch).\n- Other filesystems (eg. NFS, maybe btrfs) will need to change their\n page_mkwrite functions themselves.\n\n[ This also moves page_mkwrite another step closer to fault, which should\n eventually allow page_mkwrite to be moved into -\u003efault, and thus avoiding a\n filesystem calldown and page lock/unlock cycle in __do_fault. ]\n\n[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix derefs of NULL -\u003emapping]\nCc: Sage Weil \u003csage@newdream.net\u003e\nCc: Trond Myklebust \u003ctrond.myklebust@fys.uio.no\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Nick Piggin \u003cnpiggin@suse.de\u003e\nCc: Valdis Kletnieks \u003cValdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu\u003e\nCc: \u003cstable@kernel.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "c2ec175c39f62949438354f603f4aa170846aabb", "tree": "f2c9bf1bec2deabe2d3a5092405b027637b6ead3", "parents": [ "c2fdf3a9b2d52842808a8e551b53b55dd9b45030" ], "author": { "name": "Nick Piggin", "email": "npiggin@suse.de", "time": "Tue Mar 31 15:23:21 2009 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@linux-foundation.org", "time": "Wed Apr 01 08:59:14 2009 -0700" }, "message": "mm: page_mkwrite change prototype to match fault\n\nChange the page_mkwrite prototype to take a struct vm_fault, and return\nVM_FAULT_xxx flags. There should be no functional change.\n\nThis makes it possible to return much more detailed error information to\nthe VM (and also can provide more information eg. virtual_address to the\ndriver, which might be important in some special cases).\n\nThis is required for a subsequent fix. And will also make it easier to\nmerge page_mkwrite() with fault() in future.\n\nSigned-off-by: Nick Piggin \u003cnpiggin@suse.de\u003e\nCc: Chris Mason \u003cchris.mason@oracle.com\u003e\nCc: Trond Myklebust \u003ctrond.myklebust@fys.uio.no\u003e\nCc: Miklos Szeredi \u003cmiklos@szeredi.hu\u003e\nCc: Steven Whitehouse \u003cswhiteho@redhat.com\u003e\nCc: Mark Fasheh \u003cmfasheh@suse.com\u003e\nCc: Joel Becker \u003cjoel.becker@oracle.com\u003e\nCc: Artem Bityutskiy \u003cdedekind@infradead.org\u003e\nCc: Felix Blyakher \u003cfelixb@sgi.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "76398425bb06b07cc3a3b1ce169c67dc9d6874ed", "tree": "e6e1800edda88b5592617a950daacf2199587a33", "parents": [ "db1dd4d376134eba0e08af523b61cc566a4ea1cd" ], "author": { "name": "Jonathan Corbet", "email": "corbet@lwn.net", "time": "Sun Feb 01 14:26:59 2009 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Jonathan Corbet", "email": "corbet@lwn.net", "time": "Mon Mar 16 08:32:27 2009 -0600" }, "message": "Move FASYNC bit handling to f_op-\u003efasync()\n\nRemoving the BKL from FASYNC handling ran into the challenge of keeping the\nsetting of the FASYNC bit in filp-\u003ef_flags atomic with regard to calls to\nthe underlying fasync() function. Andi Kleen suggested moving the handling\nof that bit into fasync(); this patch does exactly that. As a result, we\nhave a couple of internal API changes: fasync() must now manage the FASYNC\nbit, and it will be called without the BKL held.\n\nAs it happens, every fasync() implementation in the kernel with one\nexception calls fasync_helper(). So, if we make fasync_helper() set the\nFASYNC bit, we can avoid making any changes to the other fasync()\nfunctions - as long as those functions, themselves, have proper locking.\nMost fasync() implementations do nothing but call fasync_helper() - which\nhas its own lock - so they are easily verified as correct. The BKL had\nalready been pushed down into the rest.\n\nThe networking code has its own version of fasync_helper(), so that code\nhas been augmented with explicit FASYNC bit handling.\n\nCc: Al Viro \u003cviro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk\u003e\nCc: David Miller \u003cdavem@davemloft.net\u003e\nReviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig \u003chch@lst.de\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet \u003ccorbet@lwn.net\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "c4be0c1dc4cdc37b175579be1460f15ac6495e9a", "tree": "716ea88318211ed27cadcebda0fd85c1f8246edb", "parents": [ "69347a236b22c3962ea812511495e502dedfd50c" ], "author": { "name": "Takashi Sato", "email": "t-sato@yk.jp.nec.com", "time": "Fri Jan 09 16:40:58 2009 -0800" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@linux-foundation.org", "time": "Fri Jan 09 16:54:42 2009 -0800" }, "message": "filesystem freeze: add error handling of write_super_lockfs/unlockfs\n\nCurrently, ext3 in mainline Linux doesn\u0027t have the freeze feature which\nsuspends write requests. So, we cannot take a backup which keeps the\nfilesystem\u0027s consistency with the storage device\u0027s features (snapshot and\nreplication) while it is mounted.\n\nIn many case, a commercial filesystem (e.g. VxFS) has the freeze feature\nand it would be used to get the consistent backup.\n\nIf Linux\u0027s standard filesystem ext3 has the freeze feature, we can do it\nwithout a commercial filesystem.\n\nSo I have implemented the ioctls of the freeze feature.\nI think we can take the consistent backup with the following steps.\n1. Freeze the filesystem with the freeze ioctl.\n2. Separate the replication volume or create the snapshot\n with the storage device\u0027s feature.\n3. Unfreeze the filesystem with the unfreeze ioctl.\n4. Take the backup from the separated replication volume\n or the snapshot.\n\nThis patch:\n\nVFS:\nChanged the type of write_super_lockfs and unlockfs from \"void\"\nto \"int\" so that they can return an error.\nRename write_super_lockfs and unlockfs of the super block operation\nfreeze_fs and unfreeze_fs to avoid a confusion.\n\next3, ext4, xfs, gfs2, jfs:\nChanged the type of write_super_lockfs and unlockfs from \"void\"\nto \"int\" so that write_super_lockfs returns an error if needed,\nand unlockfs always returns 0.\n\nreiserfs:\nChanged the type of write_super_lockfs and unlockfs from \"void\"\nto \"int\" so that they always return 0 (success) to keep a current behavior.\n\nSigned-off-by: Takashi Sato \u003ct-sato@yk.jp.nec.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Masayuki Hamaguchi \u003cm-hamaguchi@ys.jp.nec.com\u003e\nCc: \u003cxfs-masters@oss.sgi.com\u003e\nCc: \u003clinux-ext4@vger.kernel.org\u003e\nCc: Christoph Hellwig \u003chch@lst.de\u003e\nCc: Dave Kleikamp \u003cshaggy@austin.ibm.com\u003e\nCc: Dave Chinner \u003cdavid@fromorbit.com\u003e\nCc: Alasdair G Kergon \u003cagk@redhat.com\u003e\nCc: Al Viro \u003cviro@zeniv.linux.org.uk\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "5f820f648c92a5ecc771a96b3c29aa6e90013bba", "tree": "0445b45fa33072d37b32c6ef592a4d0c102e05cc", "parents": [ "67ec7d3ab779ad9001ef57a6b4cfdf80ac9f9acc" ], "author": { "name": "Tejun Heo", "email": "htejun@gmail.com", "time": "Tue Jan 06 14:40:59 2009 -0800" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@linux-foundation.org", "time": "Tue Jan 06 15:59:12 2009 -0800" }, "message": "poll: allow f_op-\u003epoll to sleep\n\nf_op-\u003epoll is the only vfs operation which is not allowed to sleep. It\u0027s\nbecause poll and select implementation used task state to synchronize\nagainst wake ups, which doesn\u0027t have to be the case anymore as wait/wake\ninterface can now use custom wake up functions. The non-sleep restriction\ncan be a bit tricky because -\u003epoll is not called from an atomic context\nand the result of accidentally sleeping in -\u003epoll only shows up as\ntemporary busy looping when the timing is right or rather wrong.\n\nThis patch converts poll/select to use custom wake up function and use\nseparate triggered variable to synchronize against wake up events. The\nonly added overhead is an extra function call during wake up and\nnegligible.\n\nThis patch removes the one non-sleep exception from vfs locking rules and\nis beneficial to userland filesystem implementations like FUSE, 9p or\npeculiar fs like spufs as it\u0027s very difficult for those to implement\nnon-sleeping poll method.\n\nWhile at it, make the following cosmetic changes to make poll.h and\nselect.c checkpatch friendly.\n\n* s/type * symbol/type *symbol/\t\t : three places in poll.h\n* remove blank line before EXPORT_SYMBOL() : two places in select.c\n\nOleg: spotted missing barrier in poll_schedule_timeout()\nDavide: spotted missing write barrier in pollwake()\n\nSigned-off-by: Tejun Heo \u003ctj@kernel.org\u003e\nCc: Eric Van Hensbergen \u003cericvh@gmail.com\u003e\nCc: Ron Minnich \u003crminnich@sandia.gov\u003e\nCc: Ingo Molnar \u003cmingo@elte.hu\u003e\nCc: Christoph Hellwig \u003chch@infradead.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Miklos Szeredi \u003cmszeredi@suse.cz\u003e\nCc: Davide Libenzi \u003cdavidel@xmailserver.org\u003e\nCc: Brad Boyer \u003cflar@allandria.com\u003e\nCc: Al Viro \u003cviro@zeniv.linux.org.uk\u003e\nCc: Roland McGrath \u003croland@redhat.com\u003e\nCc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab \u003cmchehab@infradead.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nCc: Davide Libenzi \u003cdavidel@xmailserver.org\u003e\nCc: Oleg Nesterov \u003coleg@redhat.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "6badd79bd002788aaec27b50a74ab69ef65ab8ee", "tree": "2a47bf53a7fe2316d98cca71f0b7d01d5024a5ea", "parents": [ "b6b3fdead251d432f32f2cfce2a893ab8a658110" ], "author": { "name": "Al Viro", "email": "viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk", "time": "Fri Dec 26 00:57:40 2008 -0500" }, "committer": { "name": "Al Viro", "email": "viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk", "time": "Wed Dec 31 18:07:43 2008 -0500" }, "message": "kill -\u003edir_notify()\n\nRemove the hopelessly misguided -\u003edir_notify(). The only instance (cifs)\nhas been broken by design from the very beginning; the objects it creates\nare never destroyed, keep references to struct file they can outlive, nothing\nthat could possibly evict them exists on close(2) path *and* no locking\nwhatsoever is done to prevent races with close(), should the previous, er,\ndeficiencies someday be dealt with.\n\nSigned-off-by: Al Viro \u003cviro@zeniv.linux.org.uk\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "4e02ed4b4a2fae34aae766a5bb93ae235f60adb8", "tree": "bddfb61b7cc4a4007ae176ccb1ace5740b61da8d", "parents": [ "9b913735e53ab0da4a792bac0de8e178cc13dcfb" ], "author": { "name": "Nick Piggin", "email": "npiggin@suse.de", "time": "Wed Oct 29 14:00:55 2008 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@linux-foundation.org", "time": "Thu Oct 30 11:38:45 2008 -0700" }, "message": "fs: remove prepare_write/commit_write\n\nNothing uses prepare_write or commit_write. Remove them from the tree\ncompletely.\n\n[akpm@linux-foundation.org: schedule simple_prepare_write() for unexporting]\nSigned-off-by: Nick Piggin \u003cnpiggin@suse.de\u003e\nCc: Christoph Hellwig \u003chch@lst.de\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "adaae7215e5130e5ce1ac3ee390e5a23101b09b2", "tree": "c809c8ac79e74f9f698a5d33dd0b6f8956869294", "parents": [ "82a28c794f27aac17d7a3ebd7f14d731a11a5532" ], "author": { "name": "Christoph Hellwig", "email": "hch@lst.de", "time": "Tue Sep 09 20:02:01 2008 +0200" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@linux-foundation.org", "time": "Tue Sep 09 11:51:15 2008 -0700" }, "message": "update Documentation/filesystems/Locking for 2.6.27 changes\n\nIn the 2.6.27 circle -\u003efasync lost the BKL, and the last remaining\n-\u003eopen variant that takes the BKL is also gone. -\u003eget_sb and -\u003ekill_sb\ndidn\u0027t have BKL forever, so updated the entries while we\u0027re at that.\n\nSigned-off-by: Christoph Hellwig \u003chch@lst.de\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "28b2ee20c7cba812b6f2ccf6d722cf86d00a84dc", "tree": "e8f1efd05c38c1cb26ca3ee051a454eb685fd122", "parents": [ "0d71d10a4252a3938e6b70189bc776171c02e076" ], "author": { "name": "Rik van Riel", "email": "riel@redhat.com", "time": "Wed Jul 23 21:27:05 2008 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@linux-foundation.org", "time": "Thu Jul 24 10:47:15 2008 -0700" }, "message": "access_process_vm device memory infrastructure\n\nIn order to be able to debug things like the X server and programs using\nthe PPC Cell SPUs, the debugger needs to be able to access device memory\nthrough ptrace and /proc/pid/mem.\n\nThis patch:\n\nAdd the generic_access_phys access function and put the hooks in place\nto allow access_process_vm to access device or PPC Cell SPU memory.\n\n[riel@redhat.com: Add documentation for the vm_ops-\u003eaccess function]\nSigned-off-by: Rik van Riel \u003criel@redhat.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Benjamin Herrensmidt \u003cbenh@kernel.crashing.org\u003e\nCc: Dave Airlie \u003cairlied@linux.ie\u003e\nCc: Hugh Dickins \u003chugh@veritas.com\u003e\nCc: Paul Mackerras \u003cpaulus@samba.org\u003e\nCc: Arnd Bergmann \u003carnd@arndb.de\u003e\nAcked-by: Peter Zijlstra \u003ca.p.zijlstra@chello.nl\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "33dcdac2df54e66c447ae03f58c95c7251aa5649", "tree": "72163e37bd44452581f68d7991b14e70f37b8bba", "parents": [ "dca3c33652e437ed02c30ed3eca3cecd0cc00838" ], "author": { "name": "Christoph Hellwig", "email": "hch@lst.de", "time": "Tue Apr 29 17:46:26 2008 +0200" }, "committer": { "name": "Al Viro", "email": "viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk", "time": "Tue May 06 13:45:34 2008 -0400" }, "message": "[PATCH] kill -\u003eput_inode\n\nAnd with that last patch to affs killing the last put_inode instance we\ncan finally, after many years of transition kill this racy and awkward\ninterface.\n\n(It\u0027s kinda funny that even the description in\nDocumentation/filesystems/vfs.txt was entirely wrong..)\n\nAlso remove a very misleading comment above the defintion of\nstruct super_operations.\n\nSigned-off-by: Christoph Hellwig \u003chch@lst.de\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Al Viro \u003cviro@zeniv.linux.org.uk\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "3c18ddd160d1fcd46d1131d9ad6c594dd8e9af99", "tree": "7307ba1ae4bdb99d1363eb59b1ebefcf5295c8ef", "parents": [ "4d3d5b41a72b52555d43efbfc4ccde6ba6e5444f" ], "author": { "name": "Nick Piggin", "email": "npiggin@suse.de", "time": "Mon Apr 28 02:12:10 2008 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@linux-foundation.org", "time": "Mon Apr 28 08:58:18 2008 -0700" }, "message": "mm: remove nopage\n\nNothing in the tree uses nopage any more. Remove support for it in the\ncore mm code and documentation (and a few stray references to it in\ncomments).\n\nSigned-off-by: Nick Piggin \u003cnpiggin@suse.de\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "12debc4248a4a7f1873e47cda2cdd7faca80b099", "tree": "1ad80b77d213ea09cb746d6e4d50c4316462a452", "parents": [ "755aedc15900ff7d83dd046f632af9a680b0c28f" ], "author": { "name": "David Howells", "email": "dhowells@redhat.com", "time": "Thu Feb 07 00:15:52 2008 -0800" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org", "time": "Thu Feb 07 08:42:29 2008 -0800" }, "message": "iget: remove iget() and the read_inode() super op as being obsolete\n\nRemove the old iget() call and the read_inode() superblock operation it uses\nas these are really obsolete, and the use of read_inode() does not produce\nproper error handling (no distinction between ENOMEM and EIO when marking an\ninode bad).\n\nFurthermore, this removes the temptation to use iget() to find an inode by\nnumber in a filesystem from code outside that filesystem.\n\niget_locked() should be used instead. A new function is added in an earlier\npatch (iget_failed) that is to be called to mark an inode as bad, unlock it\nand release it should the get routine fail. Mark iget() and read_inode() as\nbeing obsolete and remove references to them from the documentation.\n\nTypically a filesystem will be modified such that the read_inode function\nbecomes an internal iget function, for example the following:\n\n\tvoid thingyfs_read_inode(struct inode *inode)\n\t{\n\t\t...\n\t}\n\nwould be changed into something like:\n\n\tstruct inode *thingyfs_iget(struct super_block *sp, unsigned long ino)\n\t{\n\t\tstruct inode *inode;\n\t\tint ret;\n\n\t\tinode \u003d iget_locked(sb, ino);\n\t\tif (!inode)\n\t\t\treturn ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);\n\t\tif (!(inode-\u003ei_state \u0026 I_NEW))\n\t\t\treturn inode;\n\n\t\t...\n\t\tunlock_new_inode(inode);\n\t\treturn inode;\n\terror:\n\t\tiget_failed(inode);\n\t\treturn ERR_PTR(ret);\n\t}\n\nand then thingyfs_iget() would be called rather than iget(), for example:\n\n\tret \u003d -EINVAL;\n\tinode \u003d iget(sb, ino);\n\tif (!inode || is_bad_inode(inode))\n\t\tgoto error;\n\nbecomes:\n\n\tinode \u003d thingyfs_iget(sb, ino);\n\tif (IS_ERR(inode)) {\n\t\tret \u003d PTR_ERR(inode);\n\t\tgoto error;\n\t}\n\nNote that is_bad_inode() does not need to be called. The error returned by\nthingyfs_iget() should render it unnecessary.\n\nSigned-off-by: David Howells \u003cdhowells@redhat.com\u003e\nAcked-by: Christoph Hellwig \u003chch@lst.de\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "3a4fa0a25da81600ea0bcd75692ae8ca6050d165", "tree": "a4de1662e645c029cf3cf58f0646cbb1959861dc", "parents": [ "18735dd8d2d37031b97f9e9e106acbaed01eb896" ], "author": { "name": "Robert P. J. Day", "email": "rpjday@mindspring.com", "time": "Fri Oct 19 23:10:43 2007 +0200" }, "committer": { "name": "Adrian Bunk", "email": "bunk@kernel.org", "time": "Fri Oct 19 23:10:43 2007 +0200" }, "message": "Fix misspellings of \"system\", \"controller\", \"interrupt\" and \"necessary\".\n\nFix the various misspellings of \"system\", controller\", \"interrupt\" and\n\"[un]necessary\".\n\nSigned-off-by: Robert P. J. Day \u003crpjday@mindspring.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Adrian Bunk \u003cbunk@kernel.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "afddba49d18f346e5cc2938b6ed7c512db18ca68", "tree": "4726e3d3b0e9e8e5b5d3b2b0cccb36446bbdf3ca", "parents": [ "637aff46f94a754207c80c8c64bf1b74f24b967d" ], "author": { "name": "Nick Piggin", "email": "npiggin@suse.de", "time": "Tue Oct 16 01:25:01 2007 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org", "time": "Tue Oct 16 09:42:55 2007 -0700" }, "message": "fs: introduce write_begin, write_end, and perform_write aops\n\nThese are intended to replace prepare_write and commit_write with more\nflexible alternatives that are also able to avoid the buffered write\ndeadlock problems efficiently (which prepare_write is unable to do).\n\n[mark.fasheh@oracle.com: API design contributions, code review and fixes]\n[akpm@linux-foundation.org: various fixes]\n[dmonakhov@sw.ru: new aop block_write_begin fix]\nSigned-off-by: Nick Piggin \u003cnpiggin@suse.de\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Mark Fasheh \u003cmark.fasheh@oracle.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Dmitriy Monakhov \u003cdmonakhov@openvz.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "d0217ac04ca6591841e5665f518e38064f4e65bd", "tree": "d3309094bb734d34773f97d642593e298a5cfcfc", "parents": [ "ed2f2f9b3ff8debdf512f7687b232c3c1d7d60d7" ], "author": { "name": "Nick Piggin", "email": "npiggin@suse.de", "time": "Thu Jul 19 01:47:03 2007 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org", "time": "Thu Jul 19 10:04:41 2007 -0700" }, "message": "mm: fault feedback #1\n\nChange -\u003efault prototype. We now return an int, which contains\nVM_FAULT_xxx code in the low byte, and FAULT_RET_xxx code in the next byte.\n FAULT_RET_ code tells the VM whether a page was found, whether it has been\nlocked, and potentially other things. This is not quite the way he wanted\nit yet, but that\u0027s changed in the next patch (which requires changes to\narch code).\n\nThis means we no longer set VM_CAN_INVALIDATE in the vma in order to say\nthat a page is locked which requires filemap_nopage to go away (because we\ncan no longer remain backward compatible without that flag), but we were\ngoing to do that anyway.\n\nstruct fault_data is renamed to struct vm_fault as Linus asked. address\nis now a void __user * that we should firmly encourage drivers not to use\nwithout really good reason.\n\nThe page is now returned via a page pointer in the vm_fault struct.\n\nSigned-off-by: Nick Piggin \u003cnpiggin@suse.de\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "ed2f2f9b3ff8debdf512f7687b232c3c1d7d60d7", "tree": "f935333e6d233ba0f119d4642b15063ba544fddf", "parents": [ "6967614761fd305b3414d9485d89dc2e0a407410" ], "author": { "name": "Mark Fasheh", "email": "mark.fasheh@oracle.com", "time": "Thu Jul 19 01:47:01 2007 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org", "time": "Thu Jul 19 10:04:41 2007 -0700" }, "message": "Document -\u003epage_mkwrite() locking\n\nThere seems to be very little documentation about this callback in general.\nThe locking in particular is a bit tricky, so it\u0027s worth having this in\nwriting.\n\nSigned-off-by: Mark Fasheh \u003cmark.fasheh@oracle.com\u003e\nCc: Nick Piggin \u003cnickpiggin@yahoo.com.au\u003e\nCc: David Howells \u003cdhowells@redhat.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "54cb8821de07f2ffcd28c380ce9b93d5784b40d7", "tree": "1de676534963d96af42863b20191bc9f80060dea", "parents": [ "d00806b183152af6d24f46f0c33f14162ca1262a" ], "author": { "name": "Nick Piggin", "email": "npiggin@suse.de", "time": "Thu Jul 19 01:46:59 2007 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org", "time": "Thu Jul 19 10:04:41 2007 -0700" }, "message": "mm: merge populate and nopage into fault (fixes nonlinear)\n\nNonlinear mappings are (AFAIKS) simply a virtual memory concept that encodes\nthe virtual address -\u003e file offset differently from linear mappings.\n\n-\u003epopulate is a layering violation because the filesystem/pagecache code\nshould need to know anything about the virtual memory mapping. The hitch here\nis that the -\u003enopage handler didn\u0027t pass down enough information (ie. pgoff).\n But it is more logical to pass pgoff rather than have the -\u003enopage function\ncalculate it itself anyway (because that\u0027s a similar layering violation).\n\nHaving the populate handler install the pte itself is likewise a nasty thing\nto be doing.\n\nThis patch introduces a new fault handler that replaces -\u003enopage and\n-\u003epopulate and (later) -\u003enopfn. Most of the old mechanism is still in place\nso there is a lot of duplication and nice cleanups that can be removed if\neveryone switches over.\n\nThe rationale for doing this in the first place is that nonlinear mappings are\nsubject to the pagefault vs invalidate/truncate race too, and it seemed stupid\nto duplicate the synchronisation logic rather than just consolidate the two.\n\nAfter this patch, MAP_NONBLOCK no longer sets up ptes for pages present in\npagecache. Seems like a fringe functionality anyway.\n\nNOPAGE_REFAULT is removed. This should be implemented with -\u003efault, and no\nusers have hit mainline yet.\n\n[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanup]\n[randy.dunlap@oracle.com: doc. fixes for readahead]\n[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]\nSigned-off-by: Nick Piggin \u003cnpiggin@suse.de\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Randy Dunlap \u003crandy.dunlap@oracle.com\u003e\nCc: Mark Fasheh \u003cmark.fasheh@oracle.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "a7bc02f4f47fd0e7860c6589f0ad000d1476f7a3", "tree": "293c8ffceab614020495be8efb68847f58b75495", "parents": [ "5886269962f94fa9185c32db3ec936c612503235" ], "author": { "name": "Artem Bityutskiy", "email": "Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com", "time": "Wed May 09 07:53:16 2007 +0200" }, "committer": { "name": "Adrian Bunk", "email": "bunk@stusta.de", "time": "Wed May 09 08:58:17 2007 +0200" }, "message": "trivial: s/i_sem /i_mutex/\n\nThis patch substitutes i_sem by i_mutex in\nDocumentation/filesystems/Locking.\nThe patch also removes a couple of trailing white-spaces.\n\nSigned-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy \u003cArtem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Adrian Bunk \u003cbunk@stusta.de\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "c23fbb6bcb3eb9cdf39a103edadf57bde8ce309c", "tree": "d79ab2278774de2c1a8061aa948ed068902e87b4", "parents": [ "2793274298c4423d79701e9a8190f2940bf3c785" ], "author": { "name": "Eric Dumazet", "email": "dada1@cosmosbay.com", "time": "Tue May 08 00:26:18 2007 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org", "time": "Tue May 08 11:15:03 2007 -0700" }, "message": "VFS: delay the dentry name generation on sockets and pipes\n\n1) Introduces a new method in \u0027struct dentry_operations\u0027. This method\n called d_dname() might be called from d_path() to build a pathname for\n special filesystems. It is called without locks.\n\n Future patches (if we succeed in having one common dentry for all\n pipes/sockets) may need to change prototype of this method, but we now\n use : char *d_dname(struct dentry *dentry, char *buffer, int buflen);\n\n2) Adds a dynamic_dname() helper function that eases d_dname() implementations\n\n3) Defines d_dname method for sockets : No more sprintf() at socket\n creation. This is delayed up to the moment someone does an access to\n /proc/pid/fd/...\n\n4) Defines d_dname method for pipes : No more sprintf() at pipe\n creation. This is delayed up to the moment someone does an access to\n /proc/pid/fd/...\n\nA benchmark consisting of 1.000.000 calls to pipe()/close()/close() gives a\n*nice* speedup on my Pentium(M) 1.6 Ghz :\n\n3.090 s instead of 3.450 s\n\nSigned-off-by: Eric Dumazet \u003cdada1@cosmosbay.com\u003e\nAcked-by: Christoph Hellwig \u003chch@infradead.org\u003e\nAcked-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "e3db7691e9f3dff3289f64e3d98583e28afe03db", "tree": "e05542d8d8bb545545c5b535381a8c1fcb369a03", "parents": [ "07031e14c1127fc7e1a5b98dfcc59f434e025104" ], "author": { "name": "Trond Myklebust", "email": "Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com", "time": "Wed Jan 10 23:15:39 2007 -0800" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@woody.osdl.org", "time": "Thu Jan 11 18:18:21 2007 -0800" }, "message": "[PATCH] NFS: Fix race in nfs_release_page()\n\n NFS: Fix race in nfs_release_page()\n\n invalidate_inode_pages2() may find the dirty bit has been set on a page\n owing to the fact that the page may still be mapped after it was locked.\n Only after the call to unmap_mapping_range() are we sure that the page\n can no longer be dirtied.\n In order to fix this, NFS has hooked the releasepage() method and tries\n to write the page out between the call to unmap_mapping_range() and the\n call to remove_mapping(). This, however leads to deadlocks in the page\n reclaim code, where the page may be locked without holding a reference\n to the inode or dentry.\n\n Fix is to add a new address_space_operation, launder_page(), which will\n attempt to write out a dirty page without releasing the page lock.\n\nSigned-off-by: Trond Myklebust \u003cTrond.Myklebust@netapp.com\u003e\n\n Also, the bare SetPageDirty() can skew all sort of accounting leading to\n other nasties.\n\n[akpm@osdl.org: cleanup]\nSigned-off-by: Peter Zijlstra \u003ca.p.zijlstra@chello.nl\u003e\nCc: Trond Myklebust \u003cTrond.Myklebust@netapp.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "70888bd5b70579e278d5ef1b7e1ec6a420d38b9e", "tree": "386b58e2592c94d2371e71eba7a6576638516241", "parents": [ "6cfd76a26d9fe2ba54b9d496a48c1d9285e5c5ed" ], "author": { "name": "Vasily Averin", "email": "vvs@sw.ru", "time": "Wed Dec 06 20:37:23 2006 -0800" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@woody.osdl.org", "time": "Thu Dec 07 08:39:36 2006 -0800" }, "message": "[PATCH] Documentation: remount_fs() needs lock_kernel\n\nFixed long-lived typo: remount_fs() needs BKL\n\nSigned-off-by: Vasily Averin \u003cvvs@sw.ru\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "027445c37282bc1ed26add45e573ad2d3e4860a5", "tree": "93eab101a938ffebaea64703033c8649df4d73f0", "parents": [ "9ea0f9499d15c49df23e7aac4332d830c40e12d0" ], "author": { "name": "Badari Pulavarty", "email": "pbadari@us.ibm.com", "time": "Sat Sep 30 23:28:46 2006 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Sun Oct 01 00:39:28 2006 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] Vectorize aio_read/aio_write fileop methods\n\nThis patch vectorizes aio_read() and aio_write() methods to prepare for\ncollapsing all aio \u0026 vectored operations into one interface - which is\naio_read()/aio_write().\n\nSigned-off-by: Badari Pulavarty \u003cpbadari@us.ibm.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Christoph Hellwig \u003chch@lst.de\u003e\nCc: Michael Holzheu \u003cHOLZHEU@de.ibm.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "5d8b2ebfa298ec4e6d9fa43e60fb013e8cd963aa", "tree": "0ed5349de7d6d667390d0a8b0136812b4eec63ba", "parents": [ "82a854ec4f46c5fbef11b06bb49078ecc5784a2d" ], "author": { "name": "Jonathan Corbet", "email": "corbet@lwn.net", "time": "Mon Jul 10 04:44:07 2006 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Mon Jul 10 13:24:15 2006 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] VFS documentation tweak\n\nAs I was looking over the get_sb() changes, I stumbled across a little\nmistake in the documentation updates. Unless we\u0027re getting into an\ninteresting new object-oriented realm, I doubt that get_sb() should really\nreturn \"struct int\"...\n\nSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet \u003ccorbet@lwn.net\u003e\nAcked-by: David Howells \u003cdhowells@redhat.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "726c334223180e3c0197cc980a432681370d4baf", "tree": "8327b354bb3dc959a6606051ae6f8d4d035e38a2", "parents": [ "454e2398be9b9fa30433fccc548db34d19aa9958" ], "author": { "name": "David Howells", "email": "dhowells@redhat.com", "time": "Fri Jun 23 02:02:58 2006 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Fri Jun 23 07:42:45 2006 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] VFS: Permit filesystem to perform statfs with a known root dentry\n\nGive the statfs superblock operation a dentry pointer rather than a superblock\npointer.\n\nThis complements the get_sb() patch. That reduced the significance of\nsb-\u003es_root, allowing NFS to place a fake root there. However, NFS does\nrequire a dentry to use as a target for the statfs operation. This permits\nthe root in the vfsmount to be used instead.\n\nlinux/mount.h has been added where necessary to make allyesconfig build\nsuccessfully.\n\nInterest has also been expressed for use with the FUSE and XFS filesystems.\n\nSigned-off-by: David Howells \u003cdhowells@redhat.com\u003e\nAcked-by: Al Viro \u003cviro@zeniv.linux.org.uk\u003e\nCc: Nathan Scott \u003cnathans@sgi.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "454e2398be9b9fa30433fccc548db34d19aa9958", "tree": "1f61cb0c3716a33b661cfc8977e9beeb480a322c", "parents": [ "1ad5544098a69d7dc1fa508cbb17e13a7a952fd8" ], "author": { "name": "David Howells", "email": "dhowells@redhat.com", "time": "Fri Jun 23 02:02:57 2006 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Fri Jun 23 07:42:45 2006 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] VFS: Permit filesystem to override root dentry on mount\n\nExtend the get_sb() filesystem operation to take an extra argument that\npermits the VFS to pass in the target vfsmount that defines the mountpoint.\n\nThe filesystem is then required to manually set the superblock and root dentry\npointers. For most filesystems, this should be done with simple_set_mnt()\nwhich will set the superblock pointer and then set the root dentry to the\nsuperblock\u0027s s_root (as per the old default behaviour).\n\nThe get_sb() op now returns an integer as there\u0027s now no need to return the\nsuperblock pointer.\n\nThis patch permits a superblock to be implicitly shared amongst several mount\npoints, such as can be done with NFS to avoid potential inode aliasing. In\nsuch a case, simple_set_mnt() would not be called, and instead the mnt_root\nand mnt_sb would be set directly.\n\nThe patch also makes the following changes:\n\n (*) the get_sb_*() convenience functions in the core kernel now take a vfsmount\n pointer argument and return an integer, so most filesystems have to change\n very little.\n\n (*) If one of the convenience function is not used, then get_sb() should\n normally call simple_set_mnt() to instantiate the vfsmount. This will\n always return 0, and so can be tail-called from get_sb().\n\n (*) generic_shutdown_super() now calls shrink_dcache_sb() to clean up the\n dcache upon superblock destruction rather than shrink_dcache_anon().\n\n This is required because the superblock may now have multiple trees that\n aren\u0027t actually bound to s_root, but that still need to be cleaned up. The\n currently called functions assume that the whole tree is rooted at s_root,\n and that anonymous dentries are not the roots of trees which results in\n dentries being left unculled.\n\n However, with the way NFS superblock sharing are currently set to be\n implemented, these assumptions are violated: the root of the filesystem is\n simply a dummy dentry and inode (the real inode for \u0027/\u0027 may well be\n inaccessible), and all the vfsmounts are rooted on anonymous[*] dentries\n with child trees.\n\n [*] Anonymous until discovered from another tree.\n\n (*) The documentation has been adjusted, including the additional bit of\n changing ext2_* into foo_* in the documentation.\n\n[akpm@osdl.org: convert ipath_fs, do other stuff]\nSigned-off-by: David Howells \u003cdhowells@redhat.com\u003e\nAcked-by: Al Viro \u003cviro@zeniv.linux.org.uk\u003e\nCc: Nathan Scott \u003cnathans@sgi.com\u003e\nCc: Roland Dreier \u003crolandd@cisco.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "2054606ad6dd6fee559fe790f190b15ed9355237", "tree": "6c097981520088c6e6d13c2950f2d9ec9ba7f480", "parents": [ "bd53b714d32a29bdf33009f812e295667e92b930" ], "author": { "name": "Nikita Danilov", "email": "nikita@clusterfs.com", "time": "Sun May 01 08:58:37 2005 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org", "time": "Sun May 01 08:58:37 2005 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] doc: Locking update\n\nMake the Locking document truer.\n\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2", "tree": "0bba044c4ce775e45a88a51686b5d9f90697ea9d", "parents": [], "author": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org", "time": "Sat Apr 16 15:20:36 2005 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org", "time": "Sat Apr 16 15:20:36 2005 -0700" }, "message": "Linux-2.6.12-rc2\n\nInitial git repository build. I\u0027m not bothering with the full history,\neven though we have it. We can create a separate \"historical\" git\narchive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it\u0027s about\n3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early\ngit days unnecessarily complicated, when we don\u0027t have a lot of good\ninfrastructure for it.\n\nLet it rip!\n" } ] }