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2011-07-22Squashfs: Update documentation for XZ and add squashfs-tools devel treePhillip Lougher
Signed-off-by: Phillip Lougher <phillip@squashfs.org.uk>
2011-07-20fs: push i_mutex and filemap_write_and_wait down into ->fsync() handlersJosef Bacik
Btrfs needs to be able to control how filemap_write_and_wait_range() is called in fsync to make it less of a painful operation, so push down taking i_mutex and the calling of filemap_write_and_wait() down into the ->fsync() handlers. Some file systems can drop taking the i_mutex altogether it seems, like ext3 and ocfs2. For correctness sake I just pushed everything down in all cases to make sure that we keep the current behavior the same for everybody, and then each individual fs maintainer can make up their mind about what to do from there. Thanks, Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20fs: add SEEK_HOLE and SEEK_DATA flagsJosef Bacik
This just gets us ready to support the SEEK_HOLE and SEEK_DATA flags. Turns out using fiemap in things like cp cause more problems than it solves, so lets try and give userspace an interface that doesn't suck. We need to match solaris here, and the definitions are *o* If /whence/ is SEEK_HOLE, the offset of the start of the next hole greater than or equal to the supplied offset is returned. The definition of a hole is provided near the end of the DESCRIPTION. *o* If /whence/ is SEEK_DATA, the file pointer is set to the start of the next non-hole file region greater than or equal to the supplied offset. So in the generic case the entire file is data and there is a virtual hole at the end. That means we will just return i_size for SEEK_HOLE and will return the same offset for SEEK_DATA. This is how Solaris does it so we have to do it the same way. Thanks, Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20vfs: increase shrinker batch sizeDave Chinner
Now that the per-sb shrinker is responsible for shrinking 2 or more caches, increase the batch size to keep econmies of scale for shrinking each cache. Increase the shrinker batch size to 1024 objects. To allow for a large increase in batch size, add a conditional reschedule to prune_icache_sb() so that we don't hold the LRU spin lock for too long. This mirrors the behaviour of the __shrink_dcache_sb(), and allows us to increase the batch size without needing to worry about problems caused by long lock hold times. To ensure that filesystems using the per-sb shrinker callouts don't cause problems, document that the object freeing method must reschedule appropriately inside loops. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20superblock: add filesystem shrinker operationsDave Chinner
Now we have a per-superblock shrinker implementation, we can add a filesystem specific callout to it to allow filesystem internal caches to be shrunk by the superblock shrinker. Rather than perpetuate the multipurpose shrinker callback API (i.e. nr_to_scan == 0 meaning "tell me how many objects freeable in the cache), two operations will be added. The first will return the number of objects that are freeable, the second is the actual shrinker call. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20locks: rename lock-manager opsJ. Bruce Fields
Both the filesystem and the lock manager can associate operations with a lock. Confusingly, one of them (fl_release_private) actually has the same name in both operation structures. It would save some confusion to give the lock-manager ops different names. Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
2011-07-20->permission() sanitizing: document API changesAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20->permission() sanitizing: don't pass flags to ->permission()Al Viro
not used by the instances anymore. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20->permission() sanitizing: don't pass flags to ->check_acl()Al Viro
not used in the instances anymore. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-18nfsd4: update nfsv4.1 implementation notesJ. Bruce Fields
Update documentation to reflect recent progress. Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
2011-07-18debugfs: add documentation for debugfs_create_x64Akinobu Mita
debugfs_create_x64() exists. Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-07-13nilfs2: remove resize from unsupported features listRyusuke Konishi
Resize feature was supported by the commit 4e33f9eab07e but it was not reflected to the list of unsupported features in nilfs2.txt file. This updates the list to fix discrepancy. Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
2011-07-11Merge branch 'master' into for-nextJiri Kosina
Sync with Linus' tree to be able to apply pending patches that are based on newer code already present upstream.
2011-07-07FS-Cache: Add a helper to bulk uncache pages on an inodeDavid Howells
Add an FS-Cache helper to bulk uncache pages on an inode. This will only work for the circumstance where the pages in the cache correspond 1:1 with the pages attached to an inode's page cache. This is required for CIFS and NFS: When disabling inode cookie, we were returning the cookie and setting cifsi->fscache to NULL but failed to invalidate any previously mapped pages. This resulted in "Bad page state" errors and manifested in other kind of errors when running fsstress. Fix it by uncaching mapped pages when we disable the inode cookie. This patch should fix the following oops and "Bad page state" errors seen during fsstress testing. ------------[ cut here ]------------ kernel BUG at fs/cachefiles/namei.c:201! invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP Pid: 5, comm: kworker/u:0 Not tainted 2.6.38.7-30.fc15.x86_64 #1 Bochs Bochs RIP: 0010: cachefiles_walk_to_object+0x436/0x745 [cachefiles] RSP: 0018:ffff88002ce6dd00 EFLAGS: 00010282 RAX: ffff88002ef165f0 RBX: ffff88001811f500 RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000100 RDI: 0000000000000282 RBP: ffff88002ce6dda0 R08: 0000000000000100 R09: ffffffff81b3a300 R10: 0000ffff00066c0a R11: 0000000000000003 R12: ffff88002ae54840 R13: ffff88002ae54840 R14: ffff880029c29c00 R15: ffff88001811f4b0 FS: 00007f394dd32720(0000) GS:ffff88002ef00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b CR2: 00007fffcb62ddf8 CR3: 000000001825f000 CR4: 00000000000006e0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Process kworker/u:0 (pid: 5, threadinfo ffff88002ce6c000, task ffff88002ce55cc0) Stack: 0000000000000246 ffff88002ce55cc0 ffff88002ce6dd58 ffff88001815dc00 ffff8800185246c0 ffff88001811f618 ffff880029c29d18 ffff88001811f380 ffff88002ce6dd50 ffffffff814757e4 ffff88002ce6dda0 ffffffff8106ac56 Call Trace: cachefiles_lookup_object+0x78/0xd4 [cachefiles] fscache_lookup_object+0x131/0x16d [fscache] fscache_object_work_func+0x1bc/0x669 [fscache] process_one_work+0x186/0x298 worker_thread+0xda/0x15d kthread+0x84/0x8c kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10 RIP cachefiles_walk_to_object+0x436/0x745 [cachefiles] ---[ end trace 1d481c9af1804caa ]--- I tested the uncaching by the following means: (1) Create a big file on my NFS server (104857600 bytes). (2) Read the file into the cache with md5sum on the NFS client. Look in /proc/fs/fscache/stats: Pages : mrk=25601 unc=0 (3) Open the file for read/write ("bash 5<>/warthog/bigfile"). Look in proc again: Pages : mrk=25601 unc=25601 Reported-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Reviewed-and-Tested-by: Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@suse.de> cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-04UBIFS: switch self-check knobs to debugfsArtem Bityutskiy
UBIFS has many built-in self-check functions which can be enabled using the debug_chks module parameter or the corresponding sysfs file (/sys/module/ubifs/parameters/debug_chks). However, this is not flexible enough because it is not per-filesystem. This patch moves this to debugfs interfaces. We already have debugfs support, so this patch just adds more debugfs files. While looking at debugfs support I've noticed that it is racy WRT file-system unmount, and added a TODO entry for that. This problem has been there for long time and it is quite standard debugfs PITA. The plan is to fix this later. This patch is simple, but it is large because it changes many places where we check if a particular type of checks is enabled or disabled. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2011-07-04UBIFS: lessen amount of debugging check typesArtem Bityutskiy
We have too many different debugging checks - lessen the amount by merging all index-related checks into one. At the same time, move the "force in-the-gap" test to the "index checks" class, because it is too heavy for the "general" class. This patch merges TNC, Old index, and Index size check and calles this just "index checks". Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2011-06-25ext3/ext4 Documentation: remove bh/nobh since it has been deprecatedLukas Czerner
Bh and nobh mount option has been deprecated in ext4 (206f7ab4f49a2021fcb8687f25395be77711ddee) and in ext3 (4c4d3901225518ed1a4c938ba15ba09842a00770) so remove those options from documentation. Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2011-06-14rcu: Use softirq to address performance regressionShaohua Li
Commit a26ac2455ffcf3(rcu: move TREE_RCU from softirq to kthread) introduced performance regression. In an AIM7 test, this commit degraded performance by about 40%. The commit runs rcu callbacks in a kthread instead of softirq. We observed high rate of context switch which is caused by this. Out test system has 64 CPUs and HZ is 1000, so we saw more than 64k context switch per second which is caused by RCU's per-CPU kthread. A trace showed that most of the time the RCU per-CPU kthread doesn't actually handle any callbacks, but instead just does a very small amount of work handling grace periods. This means that RCU's per-CPU kthreads are making the scheduler do quite a bit of work in order to allow a very small amount of RCU-related processing to be done. Alex Shi's analysis determined that this slowdown is due to lock contention within the scheduler. Unfortunately, as Peter Zijlstra points out, the scheduler's real-time semantics require global action, which means that this contention is inherent in real-time scheduling. (Yes, perhaps someone will come up with a workaround -- otherwise, -rt is not going to do well on large SMP systems -- but this patch will work around this issue in the meantime. And "the meantime" might well be forever.) This patch therefore re-introduces softirq processing to RCU, but only for core RCU work. RCU callbacks are still executed in kthread context, so that only a small amount of RCU work runs in softirq context in the common case. This should minimize ksoftirqd execution, allowing us to skip boosting of ksoftirqd for CONFIG_RCU_BOOST=y kernels. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Tested-by: "Alex,Shi" <alex.shi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-06-13doc: fix wrong arch/i386 referencesWanlong Gao
Change all "arch/i386" to "arch/x86" in Documentaion/, since the directory has changed. Also update the files which have changed their filename in the meantime accordingly. Signed-off-by: Wanlong Gao <wanlong.gao@gmail.com> [jkosina@suse.cz: reword changelog] Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2011-05-28Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (36 commits) Cache xattr security drop check for write v2 fs: block_page_mkwrite should wait for writeback to finish mm: Wait for writeback when grabbing pages to begin a write configfs: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir, dir rename fat: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir, dir rename hpfs: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir, dir rename minix: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir, dir rename fuse: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir, dir rename coda: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir, dir rename afs: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir, dir rename affs: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir, dir rename 9p: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir, dir rename ncpfs: fix rename over directory with dangling references ncpfs: document dentry_unhash usage ecryptfs: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir, dir rename hostfs: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir, dir rename hfsplus: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir, dir rename hfs: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir, dir rename omfs: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir, dir rneame udf: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash from rmdir, dir rename ...
2011-05-27Merge branch 'docs-move' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rdunlap/linux-docs * 'docs-move' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rdunlap/linux-docs: Create Documentation/security/, move LSM-, credentials-, and keys-related files from Documentation/ to Documentation/security/, add Documentation/security/00-INDEX, and update all occurrences of Documentation/<moved_file> to Documentation/security/<moved_file>.
2011-05-27fs: pass exact type of data dirties to ->dirty_inodeChristoph Hellwig
Tell the filesystem if we just updated timestamp (I_DIRTY_SYNC) or anything else, so that the filesystem can track internally if it needs to push out a transaction for fdatasync or not. This is just the prototype change with no user for it yet. I plan to push large XFS changes for the next merge window, and getting this trivial infrastructure in this window would help a lot to avoid tree interdependencies. Also remove incorrect comments that ->dirty_inode can't block. That has been changed a long time ago, and many implementations rely on it. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-05-26Documentation: configfs examples crash fixJiri Slaby
When configfs_register_subsystem() fails, we unregister too many subsystems in configfs_example_init. Decrement i by one to not unregister non-registered subsystem. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-26Merge branch 'linux-next' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jlbec/ocfs2 * 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jlbec/ocfs2: (28 commits) Ocfs2: Teach local-mounted ocfs2 to handle unwritten_extents correctly. ocfs2/dlm: Do not migrate resource to a node that is leaving the domain ocfs2/dlm: Add new dlm message DLM_BEGIN_EXIT_DOMAIN_MSG Ocfs2/move_extents: Set several trivial constraints for threshold. Ocfs2/move_extents: Let defrag handle partial extent moving. Ocfs2/move_extents: move/defrag extents within a certain range. Ocfs2/move_extents: helper to calculate the defraging length in one run. Ocfs2/move_extents: move entire/partial extent. Ocfs2/move_extents: helpers to update the group descriptor and global bitmap inode. Ocfs2/move_extents: helper to probe a proper region to move in an alloc group. Ocfs2/move_extents: helper to validate and adjust moving goal. Ocfs2/move_extents: find the victim alloc group, where the given #blk fits. Ocfs2/move_extents: defrag a range of extent. Ocfs2/move_extents: move a range of extent. Ocfs2/move_extents: lock allocators and reserve metadata blocks and data clusters for extents moving. Ocfs2/move_extents: Add basic framework and source files for extent moving. Ocfs2/move_extents: Adding new ioctl code 'OCFS2_IOC_MOVE_EXT' to ocfs2. Ocfs2/refcounttree: Publicize couple of funcs from refcounttree.c Ocfs2: Add a new code 'OCFS2_INFO_FREEFRAG' for o2info ioctl. Ocfs2: Add a new code 'OCFS2_INFO_FREEINODE' for o2info ioctl. ...
2011-05-26Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfsLinus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs: xfs: correctly decrement the extent buffer index in xfs_bmap_del_extent xfs: check for valid indices in xfs_iext_get_ext and xfs_iext_idx_to_irec xfs: fix up asserts in xfs_iflush_fork xfs: do not do pointer arithmetic on extent records xfs: do not use unchecked extent indices in xfs_bunmapi xfs: do not use unchecked extent indices in xfs_bmapi xfs: do not use unchecked extent indices in xfs_bmap_add_extent_* xfs: remove if_lastex xfs: remove the unused XFS_BMAPI_RSVBLOCKS flag xfs: do not discard alloc btree blocks xfs: add online discard support
2011-05-26Merge branch 'for_linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4 * 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (61 commits) jbd2: Add MAINTAINERS entry jbd2: fix a potential leak of a journal_head on an error path ext4: teach ext4_ext_split to calculate extents efficiently ext4: Convert ext4 to new truncate calling convention ext4: do not normalize block requests from fallocate() ext4: enable "punch hole" functionality ext4: add "punch hole" flag to ext4_map_blocks() ext4: punch out extents ext4: add new function ext4_block_zero_page_range() ext4: add flag to ext4_has_free_blocks ext4: reserve inodes and feature code for 'quota' feature ext4: add support for multiple mount protection ext4: ensure f_bfree returned by ext4_statfs() is non-negative ext4: protect bb_first_free in ext4_trim_all_free() with group lock ext4: only load buddy bitmap in ext4_trim_fs() when it is needed jbd2: Fix comment to match the code in jbd2__journal_start() ext4: fix waiting and sending of a barrier in ext4_sync_file() jbd2: Add function jbd2_trans_will_send_data_barrier() jbd2: fix sending of data flush on journal commit ext4: fix ext4_ext_fiemap_cb() to handle blocks before request range correctly ...
2011-05-25Merge branch 'move_extents' of git://oss.oracle.com/git/tye/linux-2.6 into ↵Joel Becker
ocfs2-merge-window Conflicts: fs/ocfs2/ioctl.c
2011-05-25Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ericvh/v9fs * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ericvh/v9fs: 9p: update Documentation pointers net/9p: enable 9p to work in non-default network namespace net/9p: p9_idpool_get return -1 on error fs/9p: Don't clunk dentry fid when we fail to get a writeback inode 9p: Small cleanup in <net/9p/9p.h> 9p: remove experimental tag from tested configurations 9p: typo fixes and minor cleanups net/9p: Change linuxdoc names to match functions.
2011-05-25bitmap, irq: add smp_affinity_list interface to /proc/irqMike Travis
Manually adjusting the smp_affinity for IRQ's becomes unwieldy when the cpu count is large. Setting smp affinity to cpus 256 to 263 would be: echo 000000ff,00000000,00000000,00000000,00000000,00000000,00000000,00000000 > smp_affinity instead of: echo 256-263 > smp_affinity_list Think about what it looks like for cpus around say, 4088 to 4095. We already have many alternate "list" interfaces: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/indexY/shared_cpu_list /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/thread_siblings_list /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/core_siblings_list /sys/devices/system/node/nodeX/cpulist /sys/devices/pci***/***/local_cpulist Add a companion interface, smp_affinity_list to use cpu lists instead of cpu maps. This conforms to other companion interfaces where both a map and a list interface exists. This required adding a bitmap_parselist_user() function in a manner similar to the bitmap_parse_user() function. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: make __bitmap_parselist() static] Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-259p: update Documentation pointersEric Van Hensbergen
Update documentation pointers to include virtfs publication, 9p RFC as well as updated list of servers and alternative clients. Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2011-05-24Merge branch 'linux-next' of git://git.infradead.org/ubifs-2.6Linus Torvalds
* 'linux-next' of git://git.infradead.org/ubifs-2.6: (52 commits) UBIFS: switch to dynamic printks UBIFS: fix kernel-doc comments UBIFS: fix extremely rare mount failure UBIFS: simplify LEB recovery function further UBIFS: always cleanup the recovered LEB UBIFS: clean up LEB recovery function UBIFS: fix-up free space on mount if flag is set UBIFS: add the fixup function UBIFS: add a superblock flag for free space fix-up UBIFS: share the next_log_lnum helper UBIFS: expect corruption only in last journal head LEBs UBIFS: synchronize write-buffer before switching to the next bud UBIFS: remove BUG statement UBIFS: change bud replay function conventions UBIFS: substitute the replay tree with a replay list UBIFS: simplify replay UBIFS: store free and dirty space in the bud replay entry UBIFS: remove unnecessary stack variable UBIFS: double check that buds are replied in order UBIFS: make 2 functions static ...
2011-05-24xfs: add online discard supportChristoph Hellwig
Now that we have reliably tracking of deleted extents in a transaction we can easily implement "online" discard support which calls blkdev_issue_discard once a transaction commits. The actual discard is a two stage operation as we first have to mark the busy extent as not available for reuse before we can start the actual discard. Note that we don't bother supporting discard for the non-delaylog mode. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-05-23ocfs2: clean up mount option about atime in ocfs2.txtTiger Yang
As ocfs2 supports relatime and strictatime, we need update the relative document. Atime_quantum need work with strictatime, so only show it in procfs when mount with strictatime. Signed-off-by: Tiger Yang <tiger.yang@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
2011-05-23UBIFS: switch to dynamic printksArtem Bityutskiy
Switch to debugging using dynamic printk (pr_debug()). There is no good reason to carry custom debugging prints if there is so cool and powerful generic dynamic printk infrastructure, see Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt. With dynamic printks we can switch on/of individual prints, per-file, per-function and per format messages. This means that instead of doing old-fashioned echo 1 > /sys/module/ubifs/parameters/debug_msgs to enable general messages, we can do: echo 'format "UBIFS DBG gen" +ptlf' > control to enable general messages and additionally ask the dynamic printk infrastructure to print process ID, line number and function name. So there is no reason to keep UBIFS-specific crud if there is more powerful generic thing. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2011-05-19Create Documentation/security/,Randy Dunlap
move LSM-, credentials-, and keys-related files from Documentation/ to Documentation/security/, add Documentation/security/00-INDEX, and update all occurrences of Documentation/<moved_file> to Documentation/security/<moved_file>.
2011-05-13UBIFS: make force in-the-gaps to be a general self-checkArtem Bityutskiy
UBIFS can force itself to use the 'in-the-gaps' commit method - the last resort method which is normally invoced very very rarely. Currently this "force int-the-gaps" debugging feature is a separate test mode. But it is a bit saner to make it to be the "general" self-test check instead. This patch is just a clean-up which should make the debugging code look a bit nicer and easier to use - we have way too many debugging options. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2011-05-05rcu: move TREE_RCU from softirq to kthreadPaul E. McKenney
If RCU priority boosting is to be meaningful, callback invocation must be boosted in addition to preempted RCU readers. Otherwise, in presence of CPU real-time threads, the grace period ends, but the callbacks don't get invoked. If the callbacks don't get invoked, the associated memory doesn't get freed, so the system is still subject to OOM. But it is not reasonable to priority-boost RCU_SOFTIRQ, so this commit moves the callback invocations to a kthread, which can be boosted easily. Also add comments and properly synchronized all accesses to rcu_cpu_kthread_task, as suggested by Lai Jiangshan. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2011-05-01ext4: remove obsolete mount options from ext4's documentationTheodore Ts'o
The block reservation code from ext3 was removed long ago... Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2011-03-31Fix common misspellingsLucas De Marchi
Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed. Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
2011-03-25Merge branch 'for_linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4 * 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (43 commits) ext4: fix a BUG in mb_mark_used during trim. ext4: unused variables cleanup in fs/ext4/extents.c ext4: remove redundant set_buffer_mapped() in ext4_da_get_block_prep() ext4: add more tracepoints and use dev_t in the trace buffer ext4: don't kfree uninitialized s_group_info members ext4: add missing space in printk's in __ext4_grp_locked_error() ext4: add FITRIM to compat_ioctl. ext4: handle errors in ext4_clear_blocks() ext4: unify the ext4_handle_release_buffer() api ext4: handle errors in ext4_rename jbd2: add COW fields to struct jbd2_journal_handle jbd2: add the b_cow_tid field to journal_head struct ext4: Initialize fsync transaction ids in ext4_new_inode() ext4: Use single thread to perform DIO unwritten convertion ext4: optimize ext4_bio_write_page() when no extent conversion is needed ext4: skip orphan cleanup if fs has unknown ROCOMPAT features ext4: use the nblocks arg to ext4_truncate_restart_trans() ext4: fix missing iput of root inode for some mount error paths ext4: make FIEMAP and delayed allocation play well together ext4: suppress verbose debugging information if malloc-debug is off ... Fi up conflicts in fs/ext4/super.c due to workqueue changes
2011-03-24Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: fs: simplify iget & friends fs: pull inode->i_lock up out of writeback_single_inode fs: rename inode_lock to inode_hash_lock fs: move i_wb_list out from under inode_lock fs: move i_sb_list out from under inode_lock fs: remove inode_lock from iput_final and prune_icache fs: Lock the inode LRU list separately fs: factor inode disposal fs: protect inode->i_state with inode->i_lock autofs4: Do not potentially dereference NULL pointer returned by fget() in autofs_dev_ioctl_setpipefd() autofs4 - remove autofs4_lock autofs4 - fix d_manage() return on rcu-walk autofs4 - fix autofs4_expire_indirect() traversal autofs4 - fix dentry leak in autofs4_expire_direct() autofs4 - reinstate last used update on access vfs - check non-mountpoint dentry might block in __follow_mount_rcu()
2011-03-24fs: remove inode_lock from iput_final and prune_icacheDave Chinner
Now that inode state changes are protected by the inode->i_lock and the inode LRU manipulations by the inode_lru_lock, we can remove the inode_lock from prune_icache and the initial part of iput_final(). instead of using the inode_lock to protect the inode during iput_final, use the inode->i_lock instead. This protects the inode against new references being taken while we change the inode state to I_FREEING, as well as preventing prune_icache from grabbing the inode while we are manipulating it. Hence we no longer need the inode_lock in iput_final prior to setting I_FREEING on the inode. For prune_icache, we no longer need the inode_lock to protect the LRU list, and the inodes themselves are protected against freeing races by the inode->i_lock. Hence we can lift the inode_lock from prune_icache as well. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-03-24Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pkl/squashfs-linusLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pkl/squashfs-linus: Squashfs: Use vmalloc rather than kmalloc for zlib workspace Squashfs: handle corruption of directory structure Squashfs: wrap squashfs_mount() definition Squashfs: xz_wrapper doesn't need to include squashfs_fs_i.h anymore Squashfs: Update documentation to include compression options Squashfs: Update Kconfig help text to include xz compression Squashfs: add compression options support to xz decompressor Squashfs: extend decompressor framework to handle compression options
2011-03-24Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.open-osd.org/linux-open-osdLinus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of git://git.open-osd.org/linux-open-osd: exofs: deprecate the commands pending counter exofs: Write sbi->s_nextid as part of the Create command exofs: Add option to mount by osdname exofs: Override read-ahead to align on stripe_size exofs: simple fsync race fix exofs: Optimize read_4_write exofs: Trivial: fix some indentation and debug prints exofs: Remove redundant unlikely()
2011-03-22adfs: add hexadecimal filetype suffix optionStuart Swales
ADFS (FileCore) storage complies with the RISC OS filetype specification (12 bits of file type information is stored in the file load address, rather than using a file extension). The existing driver largely ignores this information and does not present it to the end user. It is desirable that stored filetypes be made visible to the end user to facilitate a precise copy of data and metadata from a hard disc (or image thereof) into a RISC OS emulator (such as RPCEmu) or to a network share which can be accessed by real Acorn systems. This patch implements a per-mount filetype suffix option (use -o ftsuffix=1) to present any filetype as a ,xyz hexadecimal suffix on each file. This type suffix is compatible with that used by RISC OS systems that access network servers using NFS client software and by RPCemu's host filing system. Signed-off-by: Stuart Swales <stuart.swales.croftnuisk@gmail.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-21Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfsLinus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs: (23 commits) xfs: don't name variables "panic" xfs: factor agf counter updates into a helper xfs: clean up the xfs_alloc_compute_aligned calling convention xfs: kill support/debug.[ch] xfs: Convert remaining cmn_err() callers to new API xfs: convert the quota debug prints to new API xfs: rename xfs_cmn_err_fsblock_zero() xfs: convert xfs_fs_cmn_err to new error logging API xfs: kill xfs_fs_mount_cmn_err() macro xfs: kill xfs_fs_repair_cmn_err() macro xfs: convert xfs_cmn_err to xfs_alert_tag xfs: Convert xlog_warn to new logging interface xfs: Convert linux-2.6/ files to new logging interface xfs: introduce new logging API. xfs: zero proper structure size for geometry calls xfs: enable delaylog by default xfs: more sensible inode refcounting for ialloc xfs: stop using xfs_trans_iget in the RT allocator xfs: check if device support discard in xfs_ioc_trim() xfs: prevent leaking uninitialized stack memory in FSGEOMETRY_V1 ...
2011-03-18Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: fs: call security_d_instantiate in d_obtain_alias V2 lose 'mounting_here' argument in ->d_manage() don't pass 'mounting_here' flag to follow_down() change the locking order for namespace_sem fix deadlock in pivot_root() vfs: split off vfsmount-related parts of vfs_kern_mount() Some fixes for pstore kill simple_set_mnt()
2011-03-18Merge branch 'linux-next' of git://git.infradead.org/ubifs-2.6Linus Torvalds
* 'linux-next' of git://git.infradead.org/ubifs-2.6: (25 commits) UBIFS: clean-up commentaries UBIFS: save 128KiB or more RAM UBIFS: allocate orphans scan buffer on demand UBIFS: allocate lpt dump buffer on demand UBIFS: allocate ltab checking buffer on demand UBIFS: allocate scanning buffer on demand UBIFS: allocate dump buffer on demand UBIFS: do not check data crc by default UBIFS: simplify UBIFS Kconfig menu UBIFS: print max. index node size UBIFS: handle allocation failures in UBIFS write path UBIFS: use max_write_size during recovery UBIFS: use max_write_size for write-buffers UBIFS: introduce write-buffer size field UBI: incorporate LEB offset information UBIFS: incorporate maximum write size UBI: provide LEB offset information UBI: incorporate maximum write size UBIFS: fix LEB number in printk UBIFS: restrict world-writable debugfs files ...
2011-03-18Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (47 commits) doc: CONFIG_UNEVICTABLE_LRU doesn't exist anymore Update cpuset info & webiste for cgroups dcdbas: force SMI to happen when expected arch/arm/Kconfig: remove one to many l's in the word. asm-generic/user.h: Fix spelling in comment drm: fix printk typo 'sracth' Remove one to many n's in a word Documentation/filesystems/romfs.txt: fixing link to genromfs drivers:scsi Change printk typo initate -> initiate serial, pch uart: Remove duplicate inclusion of linux/pci.h header fs/eventpoll.c: fix spelling mm: Fix out-of-date comments which refers non-existent functions drm: Fix printk typo 'failled' coh901318.c: Change initate to initiate. mbox-db5500.c Change initate to initiate. edac: correct i82975x error-info reported edac: correct i82975x mci initialisation edac: correct commented info fs: update comments to point correct document target: remove duplicate include of target/target_core_device.h from drivers/target/target_core_hba.c ... Trivial conflict in fs/eventpoll.c (spelling vs addition)
2011-03-18lose 'mounting_here' argument in ->d_manage()Al Viro
it's always false... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>