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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>md: convert cpu notifier to return encapsulate errno value</title>
<updated>2010-05-27T16:12:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Akinobu Mita</name>
<email>akinobu.mita@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-05-26T21:43:35+00:00</published>
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By the previous modification, the cpu notifier can return encapsulate
errno value.  This converts the cpu notifiers for raid5.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita &lt;akinobu.mita@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Neil Brown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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By the previous modification, the cpu notifier can return encapsulate
errno value.  This converts the cpu notifiers for raid5.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita &lt;akinobu.mita@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Neil Brown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6</title>
<updated>2010-05-22T02:37:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-05-22T02:37:45+00:00</published>
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (69 commits)
  fix handling of offsets in cris eeprom.c, get rid of fake on-stack files
  get rid of home-grown mutex in cris eeprom.c
  switch ecryptfs_write() to struct inode *, kill on-stack fake files
  switch ecryptfs_get_locked_page() to struct inode *
  simplify access to ecryptfs inodes in -&gt;readpage() and friends
  AFS: Don't put struct file on the stack
  Ban ecryptfs over ecryptfs
  logfs: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function
  ufs: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function
  udf: replace inode uid,gid,mode init with helper
  ubifs: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function
  sysv: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function
  reiserfs: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function
  ramfs: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function
  omfs: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function
  bfs: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function
  ocfs2: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function
  nilfs2: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function
  minix: replace inode uid,gid,mode init with helper
  ext4: replace inode uid,gid,mode init with helper
  ...

Trivial conflict in fs/fs-writeback.c (mark bitfields unsigned)
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (69 commits)
  fix handling of offsets in cris eeprom.c, get rid of fake on-stack files
  get rid of home-grown mutex in cris eeprom.c
  switch ecryptfs_write() to struct inode *, kill on-stack fake files
  switch ecryptfs_get_locked_page() to struct inode *
  simplify access to ecryptfs inodes in -&gt;readpage() and friends
  AFS: Don't put struct file on the stack
  Ban ecryptfs over ecryptfs
  logfs: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function
  ufs: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function
  udf: replace inode uid,gid,mode init with helper
  ubifs: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function
  sysv: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function
  reiserfs: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function
  ramfs: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function
  omfs: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function
  bfs: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function
  ocfs2: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function
  nilfs2: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function
  minix: replace inode uid,gid,mode init with helper
  ext4: replace inode uid,gid,mode init with helper
  ...

Trivial conflict in fs/fs-writeback.c (mark bitfields unsigned)
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<entry>
<title>Merge commit '3ff195b011d7decf501a4d55aeed312731094796' into for-linus</title>
<updated>2010-05-21T22:31:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>NeilBrown</name>
<email>neilb@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2010-05-21T22:31:36+00:00</published>
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Conflicts:
	drivers/md/md.c

- Resolved conflict in md_update_sb
- Added extra 'NULL' arg to new instance of sysfs_get_dirent.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
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Conflicts:
	drivers/md/md.c

- Resolved conflict in md_update_sb
- Added extra 'NULL' arg to new instance of sysfs_get_dirent.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>sanitize vfs_fsync calling conventions</title>
<updated>2010-05-21T22:31:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2010-03-22T16:32:25+00:00</published>
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Now that the last user passing a NULL file pointer is gone we can remove
the redundant dentry argument and associated hacks inside vfs_fsynmc_range.

The next step will be removig the dentry argument from -&gt;fsync, but given
the luck with the last round of method prototype changes I'd rather
defer this until after the main merge window.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Now that the last user passing a NULL file pointer is gone we can remove
the redundant dentry argument and associated hacks inside vfs_fsynmc_range.

The next step will be removig the dentry argument from -&gt;fsync, but given
the luck with the last round of method prototype changes I'd rather
defer this until after the main merge window.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sysfs: Implement sysfs tagged directory support.</title>
<updated>2010-05-21T16:37:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-03-30T18:31:26+00:00</published>
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The problem.  When implementing a network namespace I need to be able
to have multiple network devices with the same name.  Currently this
is a problem for /sys/class/net/*, /sys/devices/virtual/net/*, and
potentially a few other directories of the form /sys/ ... /net/*.

What this patch does is to add an additional tag field to the
sysfs dirent structure.  For directories that should show different
contents depending on the context such as /sys/class/net/, and
/sys/devices/virtual/net/ this tag field is used to specify the
context in which those directories should be visible.  Effectively
this is the same as creating multiple distinct directories with
the same name but internally to sysfs the result is nicer.

I am calling the concept of a single directory that looks like multiple
directories all at the same path in the filesystem tagged directories.

For the networking namespace the set of directories whose contents I need
to filter with tags can depend on the presence or absence of hotplug
hardware or which modules are currently loaded.  Which means I need
a simple race free way to setup those directories as tagged.

To achieve a reace free design all tagged directories are created
and managed by sysfs itself.

Users of this interface:
- define a type in the sysfs_tag_type enumeration.
- call sysfs_register_ns_types with the type and it's operations
- sysfs_exit_ns when an individual tag is no longer valid

- Implement mount_ns() which returns the ns of the calling process
  so we can attach it to a sysfs superblock.
- Implement ktype.namespace() which returns the ns of a syfs kobject.

Everything else is left up to sysfs and the driver layer.

For the network namespace mount_ns and namespace() are essentially
one line functions, and look to remain that.

Tags are currently represented a const void * pointers as that is
both generic, prevides enough information for equality comparisons,
and is trivial to create for current users, as it is just the
existing namespace pointer.

The work needed in sysfs is more extensive.  At each directory
or symlink creating I need to check if the directory it is being
created in is a tagged directory and if so generate the appropriate
tag to place on the sysfs_dirent.  Likewise at each symlink or
directory removal I need to check if the sysfs directory it is
being removed from is a tagged directory and if so figure out
which tag goes along with the name I am deleting.

Currently only directories which hold kobjects, and
symlinks are supported.  There is not enough information
in the current file attribute interfaces to give us anything
to discriminate on which makes it useless, and there are
no potential users which makes it an uninteresting problem
to solve.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Thery &lt;benjamin.thery@bull.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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The problem.  When implementing a network namespace I need to be able
to have multiple network devices with the same name.  Currently this
is a problem for /sys/class/net/*, /sys/devices/virtual/net/*, and
potentially a few other directories of the form /sys/ ... /net/*.

What this patch does is to add an additional tag field to the
sysfs dirent structure.  For directories that should show different
contents depending on the context such as /sys/class/net/, and
/sys/devices/virtual/net/ this tag field is used to specify the
context in which those directories should be visible.  Effectively
this is the same as creating multiple distinct directories with
the same name but internally to sysfs the result is nicer.

I am calling the concept of a single directory that looks like multiple
directories all at the same path in the filesystem tagged directories.

For the networking namespace the set of directories whose contents I need
to filter with tags can depend on the presence or absence of hotplug
hardware or which modules are currently loaded.  Which means I need
a simple race free way to setup those directories as tagged.

To achieve a reace free design all tagged directories are created
and managed by sysfs itself.

Users of this interface:
- define a type in the sysfs_tag_type enumeration.
- call sysfs_register_ns_types with the type and it's operations
- sysfs_exit_ns when an individual tag is no longer valid

- Implement mount_ns() which returns the ns of the calling process
  so we can attach it to a sysfs superblock.
- Implement ktype.namespace() which returns the ns of a syfs kobject.

Everything else is left up to sysfs and the driver layer.

For the network namespace mount_ns and namespace() are essentially
one line functions, and look to remain that.

Tags are currently represented a const void * pointers as that is
both generic, prevides enough information for equality comparisons,
and is trivial to create for current users, as it is just the
existing namespace pointer.

The work needed in sysfs is more extensive.  At each directory
or symlink creating I need to check if the directory it is being
created in is a tagged directory and if so generate the appropriate
tag to place on the sysfs_dirent.  Likewise at each symlink or
directory removal I need to check if the sysfs directory it is
being removed from is a tagged directory and if so figure out
which tag goes along with the name I am deleting.

Currently only directories which hold kobjects, and
symlinks are supported.  There is not enough information
in the current file attribute interfaces to give us anything
to discriminate on which makes it useless, and there are
no potential users which makes it an uninteresting problem
to solve.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Thery &lt;benjamin.thery@bull.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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<entry>
<title>md: don't insist on valid event count for spare devices.</title>
<updated>2010-05-18T05:28:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>NeilBrown</name>
<email>neilb@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2010-05-18T00:17:09+00:00</published>
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Devices which know that they are spares do not really need to have
an event count that matches the rest of the array, so there are no
data-in-sync issues. It is enough that the uuid matches.
So remove the requirement that the event count is up-to-date.

We currently still write out and event count on spares, but this
allows us in a year or 3 to stop doing that completely.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
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Devices which know that they are spares do not really need to have
an event count that matches the rest of the array, so there are no
data-in-sync issues. It is enough that the uuid matches.
So remove the requirement that the event count is up-to-date.

We currently still write out and event count on spares, but this
allows us in a year or 3 to stop doing that completely.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>md: simplify updating of event count to sometimes avoid updating spares.</title>
<updated>2010-05-18T05:28:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>NeilBrown</name>
<email>neilb@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2010-05-17T23:28:43+00:00</published>
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When updating the event count for a simple clean &lt;-&gt; dirty transition,
we try to avoid updating the spares so they can safely spin-down.
As the event_counts across an array must be +/- 1, this means
decrementing the event_count on a dirty-&gt;clean transition.
This is not always safe and we have to avoid the unsafe time.
We current do this with a misguided idea about it being safe or
not depending on whether the event_count is odd or even.  This
approach only works reliably in a few common instances, but easily
falls down.

So instead, simply keep internal state concerning whether it is safe
or not, and always assume it is not safe when an array is first
assembled.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
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When updating the event count for a simple clean &lt;-&gt; dirty transition,
we try to avoid updating the spares so they can safely spin-down.
As the event_counts across an array must be +/- 1, this means
decrementing the event_count on a dirty-&gt;clean transition.
This is not always safe and we have to avoid the unsafe time.
We current do this with a misguided idea about it being safe or
not depending on whether the event_count is odd or even.  This
approach only works reliably in a few common instances, but easily
falls down.

So instead, simply keep internal state concerning whether it is safe
or not, and always assume it is not safe when an array is first
assembled.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>md/raid6: Fix raid-6 read-error correction in degraded state</title>
<updated>2010-05-18T05:28:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gabriele A. Trombetti</name>
<email>g.trombetti.lkrnl1213@logicschema.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-04-28T01:51:17+00:00</published>
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Fix: Raid-6 was not trying to correct a read-error when in
singly-degraded state and was instead dropping one more device, going to
doubly-degraded state. This patch fixes this behaviour.

Tested-by: Janos Haar &lt;janos.haar@netcenter.hu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Gabriele A. Trombetti &lt;g.trombetti.lkrnl1213@logicschema.com&gt;
Reported-by: Janos Haar &lt;janos.haar@netcenter.hu&gt;
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
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Fix: Raid-6 was not trying to correct a read-error when in
singly-degraded state and was instead dropping one more device, going to
doubly-degraded state. This patch fixes this behaviour.

Tested-by: Janos Haar &lt;janos.haar@netcenter.hu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Gabriele A. Trombetti &lt;g.trombetti.lkrnl1213@logicschema.com&gt;
Reported-by: Janos Haar &lt;janos.haar@netcenter.hu&gt;
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>md: restore ability of spare drives to spin down.</title>
<updated>2010-05-18T05:28:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>NeilBrown</name>
<email>neilb@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2010-05-07T09:44:26+00:00</published>
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Some time ago we stopped the clean/active metadata updates
from being written to a 'spare' device in most cases so that
it could spin down and say spun down.  Device failure/removal
etc are still recorded on spares.

However commit 51d5668cb2e3fd1827a55 broke this 50% of the time,
depending on whether the event count is even or odd.
The change log entry said:

   This means that the alignment between 'odd/even' and
    'clean/dirty' might take a little longer to attain,

how ever the code makes no attempt to create that alignment, so it
could take arbitrarily long.

So when we find that clean/dirty is not aligned with odd/even,
force a second metadata-update immediately.  There are already cases
where a second metadata-update is needed immediately (e.g. when a
device fails during the metadata update).  We just piggy-back on that.

Reported-by: Joe Bryant &lt;tenminjoe@yahoo.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
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Some time ago we stopped the clean/active metadata updates
from being written to a 'spare' device in most cases so that
it could spin down and say spun down.  Device failure/removal
etc are still recorded on spares.

However commit 51d5668cb2e3fd1827a55 broke this 50% of the time,
depending on whether the event count is even or odd.
The change log entry said:

   This means that the alignment between 'odd/even' and
    'clean/dirty' might take a little longer to attain,

how ever the code makes no attempt to create that alignment, so it
could take arbitrarily long.

So when we find that clean/dirty is not aligned with odd/even,
force a second metadata-update immediately.  There are already cases
where a second metadata-update is needed immediately (e.g. when a
device fails during the metadata update).  We just piggy-back on that.

Reported-by: Joe Bryant &lt;tenminjoe@yahoo.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>md: Fix read balancing in RAID1 and RAID10 on drives &gt; 2TB</title>
<updated>2010-05-18T05:28:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>NeilBrown</name>
<email>neilb@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2010-05-07T22:20:17+00:00</published>
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read_balance uses a "unsigned long" for a sector number which
will get truncated beyond 2TB.
This will cause read-balancing to be non-optimal, and can cause
data to be read from the 'wrong' branch during a resync.  This has a
very small chance of returning wrong data.

Reported-by: Jordan Russell &lt;jr-list-2010@quo.to&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
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read_balance uses a "unsigned long" for a sector number which
will get truncated beyond 2TB.
This will cause read-balancing to be non-optimal, and can cause
data to be read from the 'wrong' branch during a resync.  This has a
very small chance of returning wrong data.

Reported-by: Jordan Russell &lt;jr-list-2010@quo.to&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
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