)]}' { "log": [ { "commit": "8c744fb83da0771afa04695028e3550b798dad90", "tree": "670896a1c2594965099853a6c992907abb3a886f", "parents": [ "e4543eddfd3bf3e0d625841377fa695a519edfd4" ], "author": { "name": "Christoph Hellwig", "email": "hch@lst.de", "time": "Tue Nov 08 21:35:04 2005 -0800" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Wed Nov 09 07:55:59 2005 -0800" }, "message": "[PATCH] add a file_permission helper\n\nA few more callers of permission() just want to check for a different access\npattern on an already open file. This patch adds a wrapper for permission()\nthat takes a file in preparation of per-mount read-only support and to clean\nup the callers a little. The helper is not intended for new code, everything\nwithout the interface set in stone should use vfs_permission()\n\nSigned-off-by: Christoph Hellwig \u003chch@lst.de\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "e4543eddfd3bf3e0d625841377fa695a519edfd4", "tree": "b62546cb0038529bd8cd583333c556ad799f2081", "parents": [ "e4a53cbabc81f04e24a5570b4aa6a6384bdbfc67" ], "author": { "name": "Christoph Hellwig", "email": "hch@lst.de", "time": "Tue Nov 08 21:35:04 2005 -0800" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Wed Nov 09 07:55:58 2005 -0800" }, "message": "[PATCH] add a vfs_permission helper\n\nMost permission() calls have a struct nameidata * available. This helper\ntakes that as an argument and thus makes sure we pass it down for lookup\nintents and prepares for per-mount read-only support where we need a struct\nvfsmount for checking whether a file is writeable.\n\nSigned-off-by: Christoph Hellwig \u003chch@lst.de\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "cc4e69dee4a080f6eae3f410daec2593f4fa6f00", "tree": "b9be8984a0be5f7997d836603963dcf8f2e728ff", "parents": [ "481bed454247538e9f57d4ea37b153ccba24ba7b" ], "author": { "name": "Miklos Szeredi", "email": "miklos@szeredi.hu", "time": "Mon Nov 07 00:59:49 2005 -0800" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Mon Nov 07 07:53:42 2005 -0800" }, "message": "[PATCH] VFS: pass file pointer to filesystem from ftruncate()\n\nThis patch extends the iattr structure with a file pointer memeber, and adds\nan ATTR_FILE validity flag for this member.\n\nThis is set if do_truncate() is invoked from ftruncate() or from\ndo_coredump().\n\nThe change is source and binary compatible.\n\nSigned-off-by: Miklos Szeredi \u003cmiklos@szeredi.hu\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "6fdcc2162285a8fc96ab12ff85086c37bceaa494", "tree": "957c0a2c2c273f6f13d8b9f95412f71856b5d449", "parents": [ "5c7ad5104d8ecf2c3a6428d73748126e91b1a250" ], "author": { "name": "Peter Staubach", "email": "staubach@redhat.com", "time": "Mon Nov 07 00:59:42 2005 -0800" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Mon Nov 07 07:53:39 2005 -0800" }, "message": "[PATCH] memory leak in dentry_open()\n\nThere is a memory leak possible in dentry_open(). If get_empty_filp()\nfails, then the references to dentry and mnt need to be released. The\nattached patch adds the calls to dput() and mntput() to release these two\nreferences.\n\nSigned-off-by: Peter Staubach \u003cstaubach@redhat.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "834f2a4a1554dc5b2598038b3fe8703defcbe467", "tree": "d27a000a2dd03029e6e2472c6e13801688185b51", "parents": [ "039c4d7a82d8268ec71f59679460b41d0dd9b225" ], "author": { "name": "Trond Myklebust", "email": "Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com", "time": "Tue Oct 18 14:20:16 2005 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Trond Myklebust", "email": "Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com", "time": "Tue Oct 18 14:20:16 2005 -0700" }, "message": "VFS: Allow the filesystem to return a full file pointer on open intent\n\n This is needed by NFSv4 for atomicity reasons: our open command is in\n fact a lookup+open, so we need to be able to propagate open context\n information from lookup() into the resulting struct file\u0027s\n private_data field.\n\n Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust \u003cTrond.Myklebust@netapp.com\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "a1a5b3d93ca45613ec1d920fdb131b69b6553882", "tree": "19b5a05aca27f3f2ef1dc2169ce6c521ddfa8468", "parents": [ "873d3469db66ea08e94b0d04a96b1a4507684824" ], "author": { "name": "Peter Staubach", "email": "staubach@redhat.com", "time": "Tue Sep 13 01:25:12 2005 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Tue Sep 13 08:22:28 2005 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] open returns ENFILE but creates file anyway\n\nWhen open(O_CREAT) is called and the error, ENFILE, is returned, the file\nmay be created anyway. This is counter intuitive, against the SUS V3\nspecification, and may cause applications to misbehave if they are not\ncoded correctly to handle this semantic. The SUS V3 specification\nexplicitly states \"No files shall be created or modified if the function\nreturns -1.\".\n\nThe error, ENFILE, is used to indicate the system wide open file table is\nfull and no more file structs can be allocated.\n\nThis is due to an ordering problem. The entry in the directory is created\nbefore the file struct is allocated. If the allocation for the file struct\nfails, then the system call must return an error, but the directory entry\nwas already created and can not be safely removed.\n\nThe solution to this situation is relatively easy. The file struct should\nbe allocated before the directory entry is created. If the allocation\nfails, then the error can be returned directly. If the creation of the\ndirectory entry fails, then the file struct can be easily freed.\n\nSigned-off-by: Peter Staubach \u003cstaubach@redhat.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "ab2af1f5005069321c5d130f09cce577b03f43ef", "tree": "73a70ba486f522cd9eeeef376ede2b5a1c1b473b", "parents": [ "6e72ad2c581de121cc7e772469e2a8f6b1fd4379" ], "author": { "name": "Dipankar Sarma", "email": "dipankar@in.ibm.com", "time": "Fri Sep 09 13:04:13 2005 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Fri Sep 09 13:57:55 2005 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] files: files struct with RCU\n\nPatch to eliminate struct files_struct.file_lock spinlock on the reader side\nand use rcu refcounting rcuref_xxx api for the f_count refcounter. The\nupdates to the fdtable are done by allocating a new fdtable structure and\nsetting files-\u003efdt to point to the new structure. The fdtable structure is\nprotected by RCU thereby allowing lock-free lookup. For fd arrays/sets that\nare vmalloced, we use keventd to free them since RCU callbacks can\u0027t sleep. A\nglobal list of fdtable to be freed is not scalable, so we use a per-cpu list.\nIf keventd is already handling the current cpu\u0027s work, we use a timer to defer\nqueueing of that work.\n\nSince the last publication, this patch has been re-written to avoid using\nexplicit memory barriers and use rcu_assign_pointer(), rcu_dereference()\npremitives instead. This required that the fd information is kept in a\nseparate structure (fdtable) and updated atomically.\n\nSigned-off-by: Dipankar Sarma \u003cdipankar@in.ibm.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "badf16621c1f9d1ac753be056fce11b43d6e0be5", "tree": "3fdf833fdf2e3d3a439090743539680449ec3428", "parents": [ "c0dfb2905126e9e94edebbce8d3e05001301f52d" ], "author": { "name": "Dipankar Sarma", "email": "dipankar@in.ibm.com", "time": "Fri Sep 09 13:04:10 2005 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Fri Sep 09 13:57:55 2005 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] files: break up files struct\n\nIn order for the RCU to work, the file table array, sets and their sizes must\nbe updated atomically. Instead of ensuring this through too many memory\nbarriers, we put the arrays and their sizes in a separate structure. This\npatch takes the first step of putting the file table elements in a separate\nstructure fdtable that is embedded withing files_struct. It also changes all\nthe users to refer to the file table using files_fdtable() macro. Subsequent\napplciation of RCU becomes easier after this.\n\nSigned-off-by: Dipankar Sarma \u003cdipankar@in.ibm.com\u003e\nSigned-Off-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": "e922efc342d565a38eed3af377ff403f52148864", "tree": "b9996a96ed1bbb6e387f7ba8216f8e43ca640398", "parents": [ "ab8d11beb46f0bd0617e04205c01f5c1fe845b61" ], "author": { "name": "Miklos Szeredi", "email": "miklos@szeredi.hu", "time": "Tue Sep 06 15:18:25 2005 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Wed Sep 07 16:57:43 2005 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] remove duplicated sys_open32() code from 64bit archs\n\n64 bit architectures all implement their own compatibility sys_open(),\nwhen in fact the difference is simply not forcing the O_LARGEFILE\nflag. So use the a common function instead.\n\nSigned-off-by: Miklos Szeredi \u003cmiklos@szeredi.hu\u003e\nCc: \u003cviro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk\u003e\nCc: Christoph Hellwig \u003chch@lst.de\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "0eeca28300df110bd6ed54b31193c83b87921443", "tree": "7db42d8a18d80eca538f5b7d25e0532b8fa38b85", "parents": [ "bd4c625c061c2a38568d0add3478f59172455159" ], "author": { "name": "Robert Love", "email": "rml@novell.com", "time": "Tue Jul 12 17:06:03 2005 -0400" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Tue Jul 12 20:38:38 2005 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] inotify\n\ninotify is intended to correct the deficiencies of dnotify, particularly\nits inability to scale and its terrible user interface:\n\n * dnotify requires the opening of one fd per each directory\n that you intend to watch. This quickly results in too many\n open files and pins removable media, preventing unmount.\n * dnotify is directory-based. You only learn about changes to\n directories. Sure, a change to a file in a directory affects\n the directory, but you are then forced to keep a cache of\n stat structures.\n * dnotify\u0027s interface to user-space is awful. Signals?\n\ninotify provides a more usable, simple, powerful solution to file change\nnotification:\n\n * inotify\u0027s interface is a system call that returns a fd, not SIGIO.\n\t You get a single fd, which is select()-able.\n * inotify has an event that says \"the filesystem that the item\n you were watching is on was unmounted.\"\n * inotify can watch directories or files.\n\nInotify is currently used by Beagle (a desktop search infrastructure),\nGamin (a FAM replacement), and other projects.\n\nSee Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt.\n\nSigned-off-by: Robert Love \u003crml@novell.com\u003e\nCc: John McCutchan \u003cttb@tentacle.dhs.org\u003e\nCc: Christoph Hellwig \u003chch@lst.de\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "ceffc078528befc008c6f2c2c4decda79eabd534", "tree": "a289e10162bdef0c0d9f6533f1a647b0fe1ed7a9", "parents": [ "420edbcc09008342c7b2665453f6b370739aadb0" ], "author": { "name": "Carsten Otte", "email": "cotte@de.ibm.com", "time": "Thu Jun 23 22:05:25 2005 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org", "time": "Fri Jun 24 00:06:41 2005 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] xip: fs/mm: execute in place\n\n- generic_file* file operations do no longer have a xip/non-xip split\n- filemap_xip.c implements a new set of fops that require get_xip_page\n aop to work proper. all new fops are exported GPL-only (don\u0027t like to\n see whatever code use those except GPL modules)\n- __xip_unmap now uses page_check_address, which is no longer static\n in rmap.c, and defined in linux/rmap.h\n- mm/filemap.h is now much more clean, plainly having just Linus\u0027\n inline funcs moved here from filemap.c\n- fix includes in filemap_xip to make it build cleanly on i386\n\nSigned-off-by: Carsten Otte \u003ccotte@de.ibm.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "fed2fc18a4567d613cd35115322257c6c6c710e9", "tree": "937d8584966661b72cd7f71a6a6e4f0b97350760", "parents": [ "64ccd715d3cf498318b14b646ce5f97e7ab15bb5" ], "author": { "name": "Telemaque Ndizihiwe", "email": "telendiz@eircom.net", "time": "Thu Jun 23 00:10:33 2005 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org", "time": "Thu Jun 23 09:45:36 2005 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] sys_open() cleanup\n\nClean up tortured logic in sys_open().\n\nSigned-off-by: Telemaque Ndizihiwe \u003ctelendiz@eircom.net\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "45778ca819accab1a4a3378b3566cab0f189164f", "tree": "9214491346c8d2d91eb1a11cb6c2e6a9387e4290", "parents": [ "280dedb8d64ccfe1166ae03d3b254fc3b65de6a5" ], "author": { "name": "Christoph Lameter", "email": "christoph@graphe.net", "time": "Thu Jun 23 00:10:17 2005 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org", "time": "Thu Jun 23 09:45:33 2005 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] Remove f_error field from struct file\n\nThe following patch removes the f_error field and all checks of f_error.\n\nTrond said:\n\n f_error was introduced for NFS, and made sense when we were guaranteed\n always to have a file pointer around when write errors occurred. Since\n then, we have (for various reasons) had to introduce the nfs_open_context in\n order to track the file read/write state, and it made sense to move our\n f_error tracking there too.\n\nSigned-off-by: Christoph Lameter \u003cchristoph@lameter.com\u003e\nAcked-by: Trond Myklebust \u003ctrond.myklebust@fys.uio.no\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "ef3daeda7b58f046f94b26637d500354038d39f4", "tree": "acce3fb6a4ef5fa5c4e6962490d6f0db434fbad3", "parents": [ "44e58a6a0bd604f46be9d808408a1cd880cc9b19" ], "author": { "name": "Yoav Zach", "email": "yoav_zach@yahoo.com", "time": "Thu Jun 23 00:09:58 2005 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org", "time": "Thu Jun 23 09:45:28 2005 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] Don\u0027t force O_LARGEFILE for 32 bit processes on ia64\n\nIn ia64 kernel, the O_LARGEFILE flag is forced when opening a file. This\nis problematic for execution of 32 bit processes, which are not largefile\naware, either by SW emulation or by HW execution.\n\nFor such processes, the problem is two-fold:\n\n1) When trying to open a file that is larger than 4G\n the operation should fail, but it\u0027s not\n2) Writing to offset larger than 4G should fail, but\n it\u0027s not\n\nThe proposed patch takes advantage of the way 32 bit processes are\nidentified in ia64 systems. Such processes have PER_LINUX32 for their\npersonality. With the patch, the ia64 kernel will not enforce the\nO_LARGEFILE flag if the current process has PER_LINUX32 set. The behavior\nfor all other architectures remains unchanged.\n\nSigned-off-by: Yoav Zach \u003cyoav.zach@intel.com\u003e\nAcked-by: Tony Luck \u003ctony.luck@intel.com\u003e\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" } ] }