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<title>linux-toradex.git/fs/hfs/inode.c, branch v3.12.43</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>truncate: drop 'oldsize' truncate_pagecache() parameter</title>
<updated>2013-09-12T22:38:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kirill A. Shutemov</name>
<email>kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-09-12T22:13:56+00:00</published>
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truncate_pagecache() doesn't care about old size since commit
cedabed49b39 ("vfs: Fix vmtruncate() regression").  Let's drop it.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi &lt;hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp&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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truncate_pagecache() doesn't care about old size since commit
cedabed49b39 ("vfs: Fix vmtruncate() regression").  Let's drop it.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi &lt;hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp&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>
<entry>
<title>aio: don't include aio.h in sched.h</title>
<updated>2013-05-08T03:16:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kent Overstreet</name>
<email>koverstreet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-07T23:19:08+00:00</published>
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Faster kernel compiles by way of fewer unnecessary includes.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix fallout]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet &lt;koverstreet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Zach Brown &lt;zab@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Felipe Balbi &lt;balbi@ti.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Fasheh &lt;mfasheh@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Joel Becker &lt;jlbec@evilplan.org&gt;
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Asai Thambi S P &lt;asamymuthupa@micron.com&gt;
Cc: Selvan Mani &lt;smani@micron.com&gt;
Cc: Sam Bradshaw &lt;sbradshaw@micron.com&gt;
Cc: Jeff Moyer &lt;jmoyer@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise &lt;bcrl@kvack.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&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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Faster kernel compiles by way of fewer unnecessary includes.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix fallout]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet &lt;koverstreet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Zach Brown &lt;zab@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Felipe Balbi &lt;balbi@ti.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Fasheh &lt;mfasheh@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Joel Becker &lt;jlbec@evilplan.org&gt;
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Asai Thambi S P &lt;asamymuthupa@micron.com&gt;
Cc: Selvan Mani &lt;smani@micron.com&gt;
Cc: Sam Bradshaw &lt;sbradshaw@micron.com&gt;
Cc: Jeff Moyer &lt;jmoyer@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise &lt;bcrl@kvack.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&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>
<entry>
<title>hfs/hfsplus: convert dprint to hfs_dbg</title>
<updated>2013-05-01T00:04:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joe Perches</name>
<email>joe@perches.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-04-30T22:27:54+00:00</published>
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Use a more current logging style.

Rename macro and uses.
Add do {} while (0) to macro.
Add DBG_ to macro.
Add and use hfs_dbg_cont variant where appropriate.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Cc: Vyacheslav Dubeyko &lt;slava@dubeyko.com&gt;
Cc: Hin-Tak Leung &lt;htl10@users.sourceforge.net&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&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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Use a more current logging style.

Rename macro and uses.
Add do {} while (0) to macro.
Add DBG_ to macro.
Add and use hfs_dbg_cont variant where appropriate.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Cc: Vyacheslav Dubeyko &lt;slava@dubeyko.com&gt;
Cc: Hin-Tak Leung &lt;htl10@users.sourceforge.net&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&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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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>hfs: add error checking for hfs_find_init()</title>
<updated>2013-05-01T00:04:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexey Khoroshilov</name>
<email>khoroshilov@ispras.ru</email>
</author>
<published>2013-04-30T22:27:52+00:00</published>
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hfs_find_init() may fail with ENOMEM, but there are places, where the
returned value is not checked.  The consequences can be very unpleasant,
e.g.  kfree uninitialized pointer and inappropriate mutex unlocking.

The patch adds checks for errors in hfs_find_init().

Found by Linux Driver Verification project (linuxtesting.org).

Signed-off-by: Alexey Khoroshilov &lt;khoroshilov@ispras.ru&gt;
Reviewed-by: Vyacheslav Dubeyko &lt;slava@dubeyko.com&gt;
Cc: Hin-Tak Leung &lt;htl10@users.sourceforge.net&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Artem Bityutskiy &lt;artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.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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hfs_find_init() may fail with ENOMEM, but there are places, where the
returned value is not checked.  The consequences can be very unpleasant,
e.g.  kfree uninitialized pointer and inappropriate mutex unlocking.

The patch adds checks for errors in hfs_find_init().

Found by Linux Driver Verification project (linuxtesting.org).

Signed-off-by: Alexey Khoroshilov &lt;khoroshilov@ispras.ru&gt;
Reviewed-by: Vyacheslav Dubeyko &lt;slava@dubeyko.com&gt;
Cc: Hin-Tak Leung &lt;htl10@users.sourceforge.net&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Artem Bityutskiy &lt;artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.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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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>new helper: file_inode(file)</title>
<updated>2013-02-23T04:31:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2013-01-23T22:07:38+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>hfs: drop vmtruncate</title>
<updated>2012-12-20T19:00:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marco Stornelli</name>
<email>marco.stornelli@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-12-15T10:53:15+00:00</published>
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Removed vmtruncate

Signed-off-by: Marco Stornelli &lt;marco.stornelli@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Removed vmtruncate

Signed-off-by: Marco Stornelli &lt;marco.stornelli@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace</title>
<updated>2012-10-02T18:11:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-10-02T18:11:09+00:00</published>
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Pull user namespace changes from Eric Biederman:
 "This is a mostly modest set of changes to enable basic user namespace
  support.  This allows the code to code to compile with user namespaces
  enabled and removes the assumption there is only the initial user
  namespace.  Everything is converted except for the most complex of the
  filesystems: autofs4, 9p, afs, ceph, cifs, coda, fuse, gfs2, ncpfs,
  nfs, ocfs2 and xfs as those patches need a bit more review.

  The strategy is to push kuid_t and kgid_t values are far down into
  subsystems and filesystems as reasonable.  Leaving the make_kuid and
  from_kuid operations to happen at the edge of userspace, as the values
  come off the disk, and as the values come in from the network.
  Letting compile type incompatible compile errors (present when user
  namespaces are enabled) guide me to find the issues.

  The most tricky areas have been the places where we had an implicit
  union of uid and gid values and were storing them in an unsigned int.
  Those places were converted into explicit unions.  I made certain to
  handle those places with simple trivial patches.

  Out of that work I discovered we have generic interfaces for storing
  quota by projid.  I had never heard of the project identifiers before.
  Adding full user namespace support for project identifiers accounts
  for most of the code size growth in my git tree.

  Ultimately there will be work to relax privlige checks from
  "capable(FOO)" to "ns_capable(user_ns, FOO)" where it is safe allowing
  root in a user names to do those things that today we only forbid to
  non-root users because it will confuse suid root applications.

  While I was pushing kuid_t and kgid_t changes deep into the audit code
  I made a few other cleanups.  I capitalized on the fact we process
  netlink messages in the context of the message sender.  I removed
  usage of NETLINK_CRED, and started directly using current-&gt;tty.

  Some of these patches have also made it into maintainer trees, with no
  problems from identical code from different trees showing up in
  linux-next.

  After reading through all of this code I feel like I might be able to
  win a game of kernel trivial pursuit."

Fix up some fairly trivial conflicts in netfilter uid/git logging code.

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: (107 commits)
  userns: Convert the ufs filesystem to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
  userns: Convert the udf filesystem to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
  userns: Convert ubifs to use kuid/kgid
  userns: Convert squashfs to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
  userns: Convert reiserfs to use kuid and kgid where appropriate
  userns: Convert jfs to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
  userns: Convert jffs2 to use kuid and kgid where appropriate
  userns: Convert hpfs to use kuid and kgid where appropriate
  userns: Convert btrfs to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
  userns: Convert bfs to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
  userns: Convert affs to use kuid/kgid wherwe appropriate
  userns: On alpha modify linux_to_osf_stat to use convert from kuids and kgids
  userns: On ia64 deal with current_uid and current_gid being kuid and kgid
  userns: On ppc convert current_uid from a kuid before printing.
  userns: Convert s390 getting uid and gid system calls to use kuid and kgid
  userns: Convert s390 hypfs to use kuid and kgid where appropriate
  userns: Convert binder ipc to use kuids
  userns: Teach security_path_chown to take kuids and kgids
  userns: Add user namespace support to IMA
  userns: Convert EVM to deal with kuids and kgids in it's hmac computation
  ...
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Pull user namespace changes from Eric Biederman:
 "This is a mostly modest set of changes to enable basic user namespace
  support.  This allows the code to code to compile with user namespaces
  enabled and removes the assumption there is only the initial user
  namespace.  Everything is converted except for the most complex of the
  filesystems: autofs4, 9p, afs, ceph, cifs, coda, fuse, gfs2, ncpfs,
  nfs, ocfs2 and xfs as those patches need a bit more review.

  The strategy is to push kuid_t and kgid_t values are far down into
  subsystems and filesystems as reasonable.  Leaving the make_kuid and
  from_kuid operations to happen at the edge of userspace, as the values
  come off the disk, and as the values come in from the network.
  Letting compile type incompatible compile errors (present when user
  namespaces are enabled) guide me to find the issues.

  The most tricky areas have been the places where we had an implicit
  union of uid and gid values and were storing them in an unsigned int.
  Those places were converted into explicit unions.  I made certain to
  handle those places with simple trivial patches.

  Out of that work I discovered we have generic interfaces for storing
  quota by projid.  I had never heard of the project identifiers before.
  Adding full user namespace support for project identifiers accounts
  for most of the code size growth in my git tree.

  Ultimately there will be work to relax privlige checks from
  "capable(FOO)" to "ns_capable(user_ns, FOO)" where it is safe allowing
  root in a user names to do those things that today we only forbid to
  non-root users because it will confuse suid root applications.

  While I was pushing kuid_t and kgid_t changes deep into the audit code
  I made a few other cleanups.  I capitalized on the fact we process
  netlink messages in the context of the message sender.  I removed
  usage of NETLINK_CRED, and started directly using current-&gt;tty.

  Some of these patches have also made it into maintainer trees, with no
  problems from identical code from different trees showing up in
  linux-next.

  After reading through all of this code I feel like I might be able to
  win a game of kernel trivial pursuit."

Fix up some fairly trivial conflicts in netfilter uid/git logging code.

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: (107 commits)
  userns: Convert the ufs filesystem to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
  userns: Convert the udf filesystem to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
  userns: Convert ubifs to use kuid/kgid
  userns: Convert squashfs to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
  userns: Convert reiserfs to use kuid and kgid where appropriate
  userns: Convert jfs to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
  userns: Convert jffs2 to use kuid and kgid where appropriate
  userns: Convert hpfs to use kuid and kgid where appropriate
  userns: Convert btrfs to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
  userns: Convert bfs to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
  userns: Convert affs to use kuid/kgid wherwe appropriate
  userns: On alpha modify linux_to_osf_stat to use convert from kuids and kgids
  userns: On ia64 deal with current_uid and current_gid being kuid and kgid
  userns: On ppc convert current_uid from a kuid before printing.
  userns: Convert s390 getting uid and gid system calls to use kuid and kgid
  userns: Convert s390 hypfs to use kuid and kgid where appropriate
  userns: Convert binder ipc to use kuids
  userns: Teach security_path_chown to take kuids and kgids
  userns: Add user namespace support to IMA
  userns: Convert EVM to deal with kuids and kgids in it's hmac computation
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>userns: Convert hfs to use kuid and kgid where appropriate</title>
<updated>2012-09-21T10:13:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-02-08T00:26:59+00:00</published>
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Acked-by: Serge Hallyn &lt;serge.hallyn@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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Acked-by: Serge Hallyn &lt;serge.hallyn@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>workqueue: deprecate flush[_delayed]_work_sync()</title>
<updated>2012-08-20T21:51:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-08-20T21:51:24+00:00</published>
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flush[_delayed]_work_sync() are now spurious.  Mark them deprecated
and convert all users to flush[_delayed]_work().

If you're cc'd and wondering what's going on: Now all workqueues are
non-reentrant and the regular flushes guarantee that the work item is
not pending or running on any CPU on return, so there's no reason to
use the sync flushes at all and they're going away.

This patch doesn't make any functional difference.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Paul Mundt &lt;lethal@linux-sh.org&gt;
Cc: Ian Campbell &lt;ian.campbell@citrix.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Mattia Dongili &lt;malattia@linux.it&gt;
Cc: Kent Yoder &lt;key@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: David Airlie &lt;airlied@linux.ie&gt;
Cc: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Karsten Keil &lt;isdn@linux-pingi.de&gt;
Cc: Bryan Wu &lt;bryan.wu@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Alasdair Kergon &lt;agk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Florian Tobias Schandinat &lt;FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw2@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Anton Vorontsov &lt;cbou@mail.ru&gt;
Cc: Sangbeom Kim &lt;sbkim73@samsung.com&gt;
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" &lt;James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen &lt;ericvh@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Steven Whitehouse &lt;swhiteho@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Petr Vandrovec &lt;petr@vandrovec.name&gt;
Cc: Mark Fasheh &lt;mfasheh@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Avi Kivity &lt;avi@redhat.com&gt; 
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flush[_delayed]_work_sync() are now spurious.  Mark them deprecated
and convert all users to flush[_delayed]_work().

If you're cc'd and wondering what's going on: Now all workqueues are
non-reentrant and the regular flushes guarantee that the work item is
not pending or running on any CPU on return, so there's no reason to
use the sync flushes at all and they're going away.

This patch doesn't make any functional difference.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Paul Mundt &lt;lethal@linux-sh.org&gt;
Cc: Ian Campbell &lt;ian.campbell@citrix.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Mattia Dongili &lt;malattia@linux.it&gt;
Cc: Kent Yoder &lt;key@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: David Airlie &lt;airlied@linux.ie&gt;
Cc: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Karsten Keil &lt;isdn@linux-pingi.de&gt;
Cc: Bryan Wu &lt;bryan.wu@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Alasdair Kergon &lt;agk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Florian Tobias Schandinat &lt;FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw2@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Anton Vorontsov &lt;cbou@mail.ru&gt;
Cc: Sangbeom Kim &lt;sbkim73@samsung.com&gt;
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" &lt;James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen &lt;ericvh@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Steven Whitehouse &lt;swhiteho@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Petr Vandrovec &lt;petr@vandrovec.name&gt;
Cc: Mark Fasheh &lt;mfasheh@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Avi Kivity &lt;avi@redhat.com&gt; 
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<title>hfs: get rid of hfs_sync_super</title>
<updated>2012-07-22T19:58:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Artem Bityutskiy</name>
<email>artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-07-12T14:28:49+00:00</published>
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This patch makes hfs stop using the VFS '-&gt;write_super()' method along with
the 's_dirt' superblock flag, because they are on their way out.

The whole "superblock write-out" VFS infrastructure is served by the
'sync_supers()' kernel thread, which wakes up every 5 (by default) seconds and
writes out all dirty superblocks using the '-&gt;write_super()' call-back.  But the
problem with this thread is that it wastes power by waking up the system every
5 seconds, even if there are no diry superblocks, or there are no client
file-systems which would need this (e.g., btrfs does not use
'-&gt;write_super()'). So we want to kill it completely and thus, we need to make
file-systems to stop using the '-&gt;write_super()' VFS service, and then remove
it together with the kernel thread.

Tested using fsstress from the LTP project.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy &lt;artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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This patch makes hfs stop using the VFS '-&gt;write_super()' method along with
the 's_dirt' superblock flag, because they are on their way out.

The whole "superblock write-out" VFS infrastructure is served by the
'sync_supers()' kernel thread, which wakes up every 5 (by default) seconds and
writes out all dirty superblocks using the '-&gt;write_super()' call-back.  But the
problem with this thread is that it wastes power by waking up the system every
5 seconds, even if there are no diry superblocks, or there are no client
file-systems which would need this (e.g., btrfs does not use
'-&gt;write_super()'). So we want to kill it completely and thus, we need to make
file-systems to stop using the '-&gt;write_super()' VFS service, and then remove
it together with the kernel thread.

Tested using fsstress from the LTP project.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy &lt;artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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