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<title>linux-toradex.git/fs/hpfs, branch v2.6.26-rc1</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>mount options: fix hpfs</title>
<updated>2008-02-08T17:22:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Miklos Szeredi</name>
<email>mszeredi@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2008-02-08T12:21:44+00:00</published>
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Add a .show_options super operation to hpfs.

Use generic_show_options() and save the complete option string in
hpfs_fill_super() and hpfs_remount_fs().

Also add a small fix: hpfs_remount_fs() should return -EINVAL on
error, instead of 1, which is not an error value.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz&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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Add a .show_options super operation to hpfs.

Use generic_show_options() and save the complete option string in
hpfs_fill_super() and hpfs_remount_fs().

Also add a small fix: hpfs_remount_fs() should return -EINVAL on
error, instead of 1, which is not an error value.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz&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>Slab API: remove useless ctor parameter and reorder parameters</title>
<updated>2007-10-17T15:42:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Lameter</name>
<email>clameter@sgi.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-10-17T06:25:51+00:00</published>
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Slab constructors currently have a flags parameter that is never used.  And
the order of the arguments is opposite to other slab functions.  The object
pointer is placed before the kmem_cache pointer.

Convert

        ctor(void *object, struct kmem_cache *s, unsigned long flags)

to

        ctor(struct kmem_cache *s, void *object)

throughout the kernel

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coupla fixes]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;clameter@sgi.com&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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Slab constructors currently have a flags parameter that is never used.  And
the order of the arguments is opposite to other slab functions.  The object
pointer is placed before the kmem_cache pointer.

Convert

        ctor(void *object, struct kmem_cache *s, unsigned long flags)

to

        ctor(struct kmem_cache *s, void *object)

throughout the kernel

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coupla fixes]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;clameter@sgi.com&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>hpfs: convert to new aops</title>
<updated>2007-10-16T16:42:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nick Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2007-10-16T08:25:10+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin &lt;npiggin@suse.de&gt;
Cc: &lt;mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz&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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Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin &lt;npiggin@suse.de&gt;
Cc: &lt;mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz&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>mm: Remove slab destructors from kmem_cache_create().</title>
<updated>2007-07-20T01:11:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Mundt</name>
<email>lethal@linux-sh.org</email>
</author>
<published>2007-07-20T01:11:58+00:00</published>
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Slab destructors were no longer supported after Christoph's
c59def9f222d44bb7e2f0a559f2906191a0862d7 change. They've been
BUGs for both slab and slub, and slob never supported them
either.

This rips out support for the dtor pointer from kmem_cache_create()
completely and fixes up every single callsite in the kernel (there were
about 224, not including the slab allocator definitions themselves,
or the documentation references).

Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt &lt;lethal@linux-sh.org&gt;
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Slab destructors were no longer supported after Christoph's
c59def9f222d44bb7e2f0a559f2906191a0862d7 change. They've been
BUGs for both slab and slub, and slob never supported them
either.

This rips out support for the dtor pointer from kmem_cache_create()
completely and fixes up every single callsite in the kernel (there were
about 224, not including the slab allocator definitions themselves,
or the documentation references).

Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt &lt;lethal@linux-sh.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sendfile: remove .sendfile from filesystems that use generic_file_sendfile()</title>
<updated>2007-07-10T06:04:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>jens.axboe@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-06-01T09:49:19+00:00</published>
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They can use generic_file_splice_read() instead. Since sys_sendfile() now
prefers that, there should be no change in behaviour.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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They can use generic_file_splice_read() instead. Since sys_sendfile() now
prefers that, there should be no change in behaviour.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Detach sched.h from mm.h</title>
<updated>2007-05-21T16:18:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexey Dobriyan</name>
<email>adobriyan@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-05-20T21:22:52+00:00</published>
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First thing mm.h does is including sched.h solely for can_do_mlock() inline
function which has "current" dereference inside. By dealing with can_do_mlock()
mm.h can be detached from sched.h which is good. See below, why.

This patch
a) removes unconditional inclusion of sched.h from mm.h
b) makes can_do_mlock() normal function in mm/mlock.c
c) exports can_do_mlock() to not break compilation
d) adds sched.h inclusions back to files that were getting it indirectly.
e) adds less bloated headers to some files (asm/signal.h, jiffies.h) that were
   getting them indirectly

Net result is:
a) mm.h users would get less code to open, read, preprocess, parse, ... if
   they don't need sched.h
b) sched.h stops being dependency for significant number of files:
   on x86_64 allmodconfig touching sched.h results in recompile of 4083 files,
   after patch it's only 3744 (-8.3%).

Cross-compile tested on

	all arm defconfigs, all mips defconfigs, all powerpc defconfigs,
	alpha alpha-up
	arm
	i386 i386-up i386-defconfig i386-allnoconfig
	ia64 ia64-up
	m68k
	mips
	parisc parisc-up
	powerpc powerpc-up
	s390 s390-up
	sparc sparc-up
	sparc64 sparc64-up
	um-x86_64
	x86_64 x86_64-up x86_64-defconfig x86_64-allnoconfig

as well as my two usual configs.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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First thing mm.h does is including sched.h solely for can_do_mlock() inline
function which has "current" dereference inside. By dealing with can_do_mlock()
mm.h can be detached from sched.h which is good. See below, why.

This patch
a) removes unconditional inclusion of sched.h from mm.h
b) makes can_do_mlock() normal function in mm/mlock.c
c) exports can_do_mlock() to not break compilation
d) adds sched.h inclusions back to files that were getting it indirectly.
e) adds less bloated headers to some files (asm/signal.h, jiffies.h) that were
   getting them indirectly

Net result is:
a) mm.h users would get less code to open, read, preprocess, parse, ... if
   they don't need sched.h
b) sched.h stops being dependency for significant number of files:
   on x86_64 allmodconfig touching sched.h results in recompile of 4083 files,
   after patch it's only 3744 (-8.3%).

Cross-compile tested on

	all arm defconfigs, all mips defconfigs, all powerpc defconfigs,
	alpha alpha-up
	arm
	i386 i386-up i386-defconfig i386-allnoconfig
	ia64 ia64-up
	m68k
	mips
	parisc parisc-up
	powerpc powerpc-up
	s390 s390-up
	sparc sparc-up
	sparc64 sparc64-up
	um-x86_64
	x86_64 x86_64-up x86_64-defconfig x86_64-allnoconfig

as well as my two usual configs.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Remove SLAB_CTOR_CONSTRUCTOR</title>
<updated>2007-05-17T12:23:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Lameter</name>
<email>clameter@sgi.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-05-17T05:10:57+00:00</published>
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SLAB_CTOR_CONSTRUCTOR is always specified. No point in checking it.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;clameter@sgi.com&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Steven French &lt;sfrench@us.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Halcrow &lt;mhalcrow@us.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi &lt;hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp&gt;
Cc: Miklos Szeredi &lt;miklos@szeredi.hu&gt;
Cc: Steven Whitehouse &lt;swhiteho@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Roman Zippel &lt;zippel@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw2@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Dave Kleikamp &lt;shaggy@austin.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Trond Myklebust &lt;trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no&gt;
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" &lt;bfields@fieldses.org&gt;
Cc: Anton Altaparmakov &lt;aia21@cantab.net&gt;
Cc: Mark Fasheh &lt;mark.fasheh@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@ucw.cz&gt;
Cc: David Chinner &lt;dgc@sgi.com&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&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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SLAB_CTOR_CONSTRUCTOR is always specified. No point in checking it.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;clameter@sgi.com&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Steven French &lt;sfrench@us.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Halcrow &lt;mhalcrow@us.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi &lt;hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp&gt;
Cc: Miklos Szeredi &lt;miklos@szeredi.hu&gt;
Cc: Steven Whitehouse &lt;swhiteho@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Roman Zippel &lt;zippel@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw2@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Dave Kleikamp &lt;shaggy@austin.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Trond Myklebust &lt;trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no&gt;
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" &lt;bfields@fieldses.org&gt;
Cc: Anton Altaparmakov &lt;aia21@cantab.net&gt;
Cc: Mark Fasheh &lt;mark.fasheh@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@ucw.cz&gt;
Cc: David Chinner &lt;dgc@sgi.com&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&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>slab allocators: Remove SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL flag</title>
<updated>2007-05-07T19:12:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Lameter</name>
<email>clameter@sgi.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-05-06T21:50:16+00:00</published>
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I have never seen a use of SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL.  It is only supported by
SLAB.

I think its purpose was to have a callback after an object has been freed
to verify that the state is the constructor state again?  The callback is
performed before each freeing of an object.

I would think that it is much easier to check the object state manually
before the free.  That also places the check near the code object
manipulation of the object.

Also the SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL callback is only performed if the kernel was
compiled with SLAB debugging on.  If there would be code in a constructor
handling SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL then it would have to be conditional on
SLAB_DEBUG otherwise it would just be dead code.  But there is no such code
in the kernel.  I think SLUB_DEBUG_INITIAL is too problematic to make real
use of, difficult to understand and there are easier ways to accomplish the
same effect (i.e.  add debug code before kfree).

There is a related flag SLAB_CTOR_VERIFY that is frequently checked to be
clear in fs inode caches.  Remove the pointless checks (they would even be
pointless without removeal of SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL) from the fs constructors.

This is the last slab flag that SLUB did not support.  Remove the check for
unimplemented flags from SLUB.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;clameter@sgi.com&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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I have never seen a use of SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL.  It is only supported by
SLAB.

I think its purpose was to have a callback after an object has been freed
to verify that the state is the constructor state again?  The callback is
performed before each freeing of an object.

I would think that it is much easier to check the object state manually
before the free.  That also places the check near the code object
manipulation of the object.

Also the SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL callback is only performed if the kernel was
compiled with SLAB debugging on.  If there would be code in a constructor
handling SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL then it would have to be conditional on
SLAB_DEBUG otherwise it would just be dead code.  But there is no such code
in the kernel.  I think SLUB_DEBUG_INITIAL is too problematic to make real
use of, difficult to understand and there are easier ways to accomplish the
same effect (i.e.  add debug code before kfree).

There is a related flag SLAB_CTOR_VERIFY that is frequently checked to be
clear in fs inode caches.  Remove the pointless checks (they would even be
pointless without removeal of SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL) from the fs constructors.

This is the last slab flag that SLUB did not support.  Remove the check for
unimplemented flags from SLUB.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;clameter@sgi.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>[PATCH] Mark struct super_operations const</title>
<updated>2007-02-12T17:48:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Josef 'Jeff' Sipek</name>
<email>jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2007-02-12T08:55:41+00:00</published>
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This patch is inspired by Arjan's "Patch series to mark struct
file_operations and struct inode_operations const".

Compile tested with gcc &amp; sparse.

Signed-off-by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek &lt;jsipek@cs.sunysb.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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This patch is inspired by Arjan's "Patch series to mark struct
file_operations and struct inode_operations const".

Compile tested with gcc &amp; sparse.

Signed-off-by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek &lt;jsipek@cs.sunysb.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>[PATCH] mark struct inode_operations const 2</title>
<updated>2007-02-12T17:48:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arjan van de Ven</name>
<email>arjan@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-02-12T08:55:39+00:00</published>
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Many struct inode_operations in the kernel can be "const".  Marking them const
moves these to the .rodata section, which avoids false sharing with potential
dirty data.  In addition it'll catch accidental writes at compile time to
these shared resources.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven &lt;arjan@linux.intel.com&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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Many struct inode_operations in the kernel can be "const".  Marking them const
moves these to the .rodata section, which avoids false sharing with potential
dirty data.  In addition it'll catch accidental writes at compile time to
these shared resources.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven &lt;arjan@linux.intel.com&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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