linux-toradex.git/fs/efs, branch v3.3.5

vfs: fix the stupidity with i_dentry in inode destructors

2012-01-04T03:52:40+00:00

Seeing that just about every destructor got that INIT_LIST_HEAD() copied into
it, there is no point whatsoever keeping this INIT_LIST_HEAD in inode_init_once();
the cost of taking it into inode_init_always() will be negligible for pipes
and sockets and negative for everything else.  Not to mention the removal of
boilerplate code from ->destroy_inode() instances...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

filesystems: add set_nlink()

2011-11-02T11:53:43+00:00

Replace remaining direct i_nlink updates with a new set_nlink()
updater function.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi 
Tested-by: Toshiyuki Okajima 
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig

make d_splice_alias(ERR_PTR(err), dentry) = ERR_PTR(err)

2011-07-20T05:44:26+00:00

... and simplify the living hell out of callers

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

block: remove per-queue plugging

2011-03-10T07:52:07+00:00

Code has been converted over to the new explicit on-stack plugging,
and delay users have been converted to use the new API for that.
So lets kill off the old plugging along with aops->sync_page().

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

fs: icache RCU free inodes

2011-01-07T06:50:26+00:00

RCU free the struct inode. This will allow:

- Subsequent store-free path walking patch. The inode must be consulted for
  permissions when walking, so an RCU inode reference is a must.
- sb_inode_list_lock to be moved inside i_lock because sb list walkers who want
  to take i_lock no longer need to take sb_inode_list_lock to walk the list in
  the first place. This will simplify and optimize locking.
- Could remove some nested trylock loops in dcache code
- Could potentially simplify things a bit in VM land. Do not need to take the
  page lock to follow page->mapping.

The downsides of this is the performance cost of using RCU. In a simple
creat/unlink microbenchmark, performance drops by about 10% due to inability to
reuse cache-hot slab objects. As iterations increase and RCU freeing starts
kicking over, this increases to about 20%.

In cases where inode lifetimes are longer (ie. many inodes may be allocated
during the average life span of a single inode), a lot of this cache reuse is
not applicable, so the regression caused by this patch is smaller.

The cache-hot regression could largely be avoided by using SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU,
however this adds some complexity to list walking and store-free path walking,
so I prefer to implement this at a later date, if it is shown to be a win in
real situations. I haven't found a regression in any non-micro benchmark so I
doubt it will be a problem.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin

new helper: mount_bdev()

2010-10-29T08:16:13+00:00

... and switch of the obvious get_sb_bdev() users to ->mount()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

get rid of BKL in fs/efs

2009-06-17T04:36:36+00:00

Only readdir() really needed it, and that's easily fixable by switch to
generic_file_llseek()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

fs/efs: return f_fsid for statfs(2)

2009-04-03T02:05:09+00:00

Make efs return f_fsid info for statfs(2), and do a little variable
renaming in efs_statfs().

Signed-off-by: Coly Li 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

fs/Kconfig: move efs out

2009-01-22T10:15:57+00:00

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan

[PATCH] switch all filesystems over to d_obtain_alias

2008-10-23T09:13:01+00:00

Switch all users of d_alloc_anon to d_obtain_alias.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro