linux-toradex.git/fs/libfs.c, branch v2.6.34

include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h

2010-03-30T13:02:32+00:00

percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn

libfs: Unexport and kill simple_prepare_write

2010-03-03T18:00:17+00:00

Remove the EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL of simple_prepare_write

Collapse simple_prepare_write into it's only caller, though
making it simpler and clearer to understand.

Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

libfs: Open code simple_commit_write into only user

2010-03-03T18:00:16+00:00

* simple_commit_write was only called by simple_write_end.
  Open coding it makes it tiny bit less heavy on the arithmetic and
  much more readable.

* While at it use zero_user() for clearing a partial page.
* While at it add a docbook comment for simple_write_end.

Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

libfs: move EXPORT_SYMBOL for d_alloc_name

2009-12-16T17:16:48+00:00

The EXPORT_SYMBOL for d_alloc_name is in fs/libfs.c but the function
is in fs/dcache.c.  Move the EXPORT_SYMBOL to the line immediately
after the closing function brace line in fs/dcache.c as mentioned
in Documentation/CodingStyle.

Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

libfs: return error code on failed attr set

2009-09-24T11:47:30+00:00

Currently all simple_attr.set handlers return 0 on success and negative
codes on error.  Fix simple_attr_write() to return these error codes.

Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang 
Cc: Theodore Ts'o 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Christoph Hellwig 
Cc: Nick Piggin 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

libfs: make simple_read_from_buffer conventional

2009-09-24T11:47:22+00:00

Impact: have simple_read_from_buffer conform to standards

It was brought to my attention by Andrew Morton, Theodore Tso, and H.
Peter Anvin that a read from userspace should only return -EFAULT if
nothing was actually read.

Looking at the simple_read_from_buffer I noticed that this function does
not conform to that rule.  This patch fixes that function.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: simplification suggested by hpa]
[hpa@zytor.com: fix count==0 handling]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Theodore Ts'o 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

vfs: make get_sb_pseudo set s_maxbytes to value that can be cast to signed

2009-08-18T23:31:12+00:00

get_sb_pseudo sets s_maxbytes to ~0ULL which becomes negative when cast
to a signed value.  Fix it to use MAX_LFS_FILESIZE which casts properly
to a positive signed value.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton 
Reviewed-by: Johannes Weiner 
Acked-by: Steve French 
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Robert Love 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

New helper - simple_fsync()

2009-06-12T01:36:11+00:00

writes associated buffers, then does sync_inode() to write
the inode itself (and to make it clean).  Depends on
->write_inode() honouring the second argument.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

Convert obvious places to deactivate_locked_super()

2009-05-09T14:49:40+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

kmemtrace, fs: uninline simple_transaction_set()

2009-04-03T10:09:09+00:00

Impact: cleanup

We want to remove percpu.h from rcupdate.h (for upcoming kmemtrace
changes), but this is not possible currently without breaking the
build because fs.h has an implicit include file depedency: it
uses PAGE_SIZE but does not include asm/page.h which defines it.

This problem gets masked in practice because most fs.h using sites
use rcupreempt.h (and other headers) which includes percpu.h which
brings in asm/page.h indirectly.

We cannot add asm/page.h to asm/fs.h because page.h is not an
exported header.

Move simple_transaction_set() to the other simple-transaction
file helpers in fs/libfs.c.

This removes the include file hell and also reduces
kernel size a bit.

Acked-by: Al Viro 
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan 
Cc: Pekka Enberg 
Cc: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu 
Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar