linux-toradex.git/fs/jffs2/file.c, branch v2.6.28.10

fs: symlink write_begin allocation context fix

2009-01-18T18:43:46+00:00

commit 54566b2c1594c2326a645a3551f9d989f7ba3c5e upstream.

With the write_begin/write_end aops, page_symlink was broken because it
could no longer pass a GFP_NOFS type mask into the point where the
allocations happened.  They are done in write_begin, which would always
assume that the filesystem can be entered from reclaim.  This bug could
cause filesystem deadlocks.

The funny thing with having a gfp_t mask there is that it doesn't really
allow the caller to arbitrarily tinker with the context in which it can be
called.  It couldn't ever be GFP_ATOMIC, for example, because it needs to
take the page lock.  The only thing any callers care about is __GFP_FS
anyway, so turn that into a single flag.

Add a new flag for write_begin, AOP_FLAG_NOFS.  Filesystems can now act on
this flag in their write_begin function.  Change __grab_cache_page to
accept a nofs argument as well, to honour that flag (while we're there,
change the name to grab_cache_page_write_begin which is more instructive
and does away with random leading underscores).

This is really a more flexible way to go in the end anyway -- if a
filesystem happens to want any extra allocations aside from the pagecache
ones in ints write_begin function, it may now use GFP_KERNEL (rather than
GFP_NOFS) for common case allocations (eg.  ocfs2_alloc_write_ctxt, for a
random example).

[kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: fix ubifs]
[kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: fix fuse]
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin 
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
[ Cleaned up the calling convention: just pass in the AOP flags
  untouched to the grab_cache_page_write_begin() function.  That
  just simplifies everybody, and may even allow future expansion of the
  logic.   - Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

[JFFS2] Use .unlocked_ioctl

2008-07-11T17:33:42+00:00

This changes the .ioctl to the .unlocked_ioctl version.

Signed-off-by: Stoyan Gaydarov 
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse

[JFFS2] semaphore->mutex conversion

2008-04-22T14:13:40+00:00

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse

JFFS2 Fix of panics caused by wrong condition for hole frag creation in write_begin

2008-04-14T22:43:14+00:00

This fixes a regression introduced in commit
205c109a7a96d9a3d8ffe64c4068b70811fef5e8 when switching to
write_begin/write_end operations in JFFS2.

The page offset is miscalculated, leading to corruption of the fragment
lists and subsequently to memory corruption and panics.

[ Side note: the bug is a fairly direct result of the naming.  Nick was
  likely misled by the use of "offs", since we tend to use the notion of
  "offset" not as an absolute position, but as an offset _within_ a page
  or allocation.

  Alternatively, a "pgoff_t" is a page index, but not a byte offset -
  our VM naming can be a bit confusing.

  So in this case, a VM person would likely have called this a "pos",
  not an "offs", or perhaps talked about byte offsets rather than page
  offsets (since it's counted in bytes, not pages).    - Linus ]

Signed-off-by: Alexey Korolev 
Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Leonenko 
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[JFFS2] Fix return value from jffs2_write_end()

2007-10-22T09:24:44+00:00

jffs2_write_end() is sometimes passing back a "written" length greater 
than the length we passed into it, leading to a BUG at mm/filemap.c:1749 
when used with unionfs.

It happens because we actually write more than was requested, to reduce 
log fragmentation. These "longer" writes are fine, but they shouldn't 
get propagated back to the vm/vfs.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin 
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse

jffs2: convert to new aops

2007-10-16T16:42:57+00:00

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin 
Cc: David Woodhouse 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

sendfile: remove .sendfile from filesystems that use generic_file_sendfile()

2007-07-10T06:04:13+00:00

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

[JFFS2] Tidy up licensing/copyright boilerplate.

2007-04-25T13:16:47+00:00

In particular, remove the bit in the LICENCE file about contacting
Red Hat for alternative arrangements. Their errant IS department broke
that arrangement a long time ago -- the policy of collecting copyright
assignments from contributors came to an end when the plug was pulled on
the servers hosting the project, without notice or reason.

We do still dual-license it for use with eCos, with the GPL+exception
licence approved by the FSF as being GPL-compatible. It's just that nobody
has the right to license it differently.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse

[PATCH] mark struct inode_operations const 2

2007-02-12T17:48:46+00:00

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

[PATCH] Streamline generic_file_* interfaces and filemap cleanups

2006-10-01T07:39:28+00:00

This patch cleans up generic_file_*_read/write() interfaces.  Christoph
Hellwig gave me the idea for this clean ups.

In a nutshell, all filesystems should set .aio_read/.aio_write methods and use
do_sync_read/ do_sync_write() as their .read/.write methods.  This allows us
to cleanup all variants of generic_file_* routines.

Final available interfaces:

generic_file_aio_read() - read handler
generic_file_aio_write() - write handler
generic_file_aio_write_nolock() - no lock write handler

__generic_file_aio_write_nolock() - internal worker routine

Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty 
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds