linux-toradex.git/fs/pstore/inode.c, branch v3.15-rc5

fs: push sync_filesystem() down to the file system's remount_fs()

2014-03-13T14:14:33+00:00

Previously, the no-op "mount -o mount /dev/xxx" operation when the
file system is already mounted read-write causes an implied,
unconditional syncfs().  This seems pretty stupid, and it's certainly
documented or guaraunteed to do this, nor is it particularly useful,
except in the case where the file system was mounted rw and is getting
remounted read-only.

However, it's possible that there might be some file systems that are
actually depending on this behavior.  In most file systems, it's
probably fine to only call sync_filesystem() when transitioning from
read-write to read-only, and there are some file systems where this is
not needed at all (for example, for a pseudo-filesystem or something
like romfs).

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" 
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Christoph Hellwig 
Cc: Artem Bityutskiy 
Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Evgeniy Dushistov 
Cc: Jan Kara 
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi 
Cc: Anders Larsen 
Cc: Phillip Lougher 
Cc: Kees Cook 
Cc: Mikulas Patocka 
Cc: Petr Vandrovec 
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: samba-technical@lists.samba.org
Cc: codalist@coda.cs.cmu.edu
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: fuse-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: cluster-devel@redhat.com
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Cc: jfs-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-nilfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-ntfs-dev@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com
Cc: reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org

pstore: Add file extension to pstore file if compressed

2013-08-19T18:53:27+00:00

In case decompression fails, add a ".enc.z" to indicate the file has
compressed data. This will help user space utilities to figure
out the file contents.

Signed-off-by: Aruna Balakrishnaiah 
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook 
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck

pstore: d_alloc_name() doesn't return an ERR_PTR

2013-08-19T17:13:59+00:00

d_alloc_name() returns NULL on error.  Also I changed the error code
from -ENOSPC to -ENOMEM to reflect that we were short on RAM not disk
space.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter 
Acked-by: Kees Cook 
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck

Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc

2013-07-04T17:29:23+00:00

Pull powerpc updates from Ben Herrenschmidt:
 "This is the powerpc changes for the 3.11 merge window.  In addition to
  the usual bug fixes and small updates, the main highlights are:

   - Support for transparent huge pages by Aneesh Kumar for 64-bit
     server processors.  This allows the use of 16M pages as transparent
     huge pages on kernels compiled with a 64K base page size.

   - Base VFIO support for KVM on power by Alexey Kardashevskiy

   - Wiring up of our nvram to the pstore infrastructure, including
     putting compressed oopses in there by Aruna Balakrishnaiah

   - Move, rework and improve our "EEH" (basically PCI error handling
     and recovery) infrastructure.  It is no longer specific to pseries
     but is now usable by the new "powernv" platform as well (no
     hypervisor) by Gavin Shan.

   - I fixed some bugs in our math-emu instruction decoding and made it
     usable to emulate some optional FP instructions on processors with
     hard FP that lack them (such as fsqrt on Freescale embedded
     processors).

   - Support for Power8 "Event Based Branch" facility by Michael
     Ellerman.  This facility allows what is basically "userspace
     interrupts" for performance monitor events.

   - A bunch of Transactional Memory vs.  Signals bug fixes and HW
     breakpoint/watchpoint fixes by Michael Neuling.

  And more ...  I appologize in advance if I've failed to highlight
  something that somebody deemed worth it."

* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (156 commits)
  pstore: Add hsize argument in write_buf call of pstore_ftrace_call
  powerpc/fsl: add MPIC timer wakeup support
  powerpc/mpic: create mpic subsystem object
  powerpc/mpic: add global timer support
  powerpc/mpic: add irq_set_wake support
  powerpc/85xx: enable coreint for all the 64bit boards
  powerpc/8xx: Erroneous double irq_eoi() on CPM IRQ in MPC8xx
  powerpc/fsl: Enable CONFIG_E1000E in mpc85xx_smp_defconfig
  powerpc/mpic: Add get_version API both for internal and external use
  powerpc: Handle both new style and old style reserve maps
  powerpc/hw_brk: Fix off by one error when validating DAWR region end
  powerpc/pseries: Support compression of oops text via pstore
  powerpc/pseries: Re-organise the oops compression code
  pstore: Pass header size in the pstore write callback
  powerpc/powernv: Fix iommu initialization again
  powerpc/pseries: Inform the hypervisor we are using EBB regs
  powerpc/perf: Add power8 EBB support
  powerpc/perf: Core EBB support for 64-bit book3s
  powerpc/perf: Drop MMCRA from thread_struct
  powerpc/perf: Don't enable if we have zero events
  ...

pstore: Fail to unlink if a driver has not defined pstore_erase

2013-06-25T17:04:38+00:00

pstore_erase is used to erase the record from the persistent store.
So if a driver has not defined pstore_erase callback return
-EPERM instead of unlinking a file as deleting the file without
erasing its record in persistent store will give a wrong impression
to customers.

Signed-off-by: Aruna Balakrishnaiah 
Acked-by: Kees Cook 
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck

powerpc/pseries: Read common partition via pstore

2013-06-20T07:05:02+00:00

This patch exploits pstore subsystem to read details of common partition
in NVRAM to a separate file in /dev/pstore. For instance, common partition
details will be stored in a file named [common-nvram-6].

Signed-off-by: Aruna Balakrishnaiah 
Reviewed-by: Jim Keniston 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc/pseries: Read of-config partition via pstore

2013-06-20T07:04:59+00:00

This patch set exploits the pstore subsystem to read details of
of-config partition in NVRAM to a separate file in /dev/pstore.
For instance, of-config partition details will be stored in a
file named [of-nvram-5].

Signed-off-by: Aruna Balakrishnaiah 
Reviewed-by: Jim Keniston 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc/pseries: Read rtas partition via pstore

2013-06-20T07:04:52+00:00

This patch set exploits the pstore subsystem to read details of rtas partition
in NVRAM to a separate file in /dev/pstore. For instance, rtas details will be
stored in a file named [rtas-nvram-4].

Signed-off-by: Aruna Balakrishnaiah 
Reviewed-by: Jim Keniston 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

pstore: Create a convenient mount point for pstore

2013-02-12T21:07:22+00:00

Using /dev/pstore as a mount point for the pstore filesystem is slightly
awkward.  We don't normally mount filesystems in /dev/ and the /dev/pstore
file isn't created automatically by anything.  While this method will
still work, we can create a persistent mount point in sysfs.  This will
put pstore on par with things like cgroups and efivarfs.

Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer 
Acked-by: Kees Cook 
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck

lseek: the "whence" argument is called "whence"

2012-12-18T01:15:12+00:00

But the kernel decided to call it "origin" instead.  Fix most of the
sites.

Acked-by: Hugh Dickins 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds