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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>cgroups: if you list_empty() a head then don't list_del() it</title>
<updated>2011-03-27T18:35:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Phil Carmody</name>
<email>ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com</email>
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<published>2011-03-22T23:30:13+00:00</published>
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commit 8d2587970b8bdf7c8d9208e3f4bb93182aef1a0f upstream.

list_del() leaves poison in the prev and next pointers.  The next
list_empty() will compare those poisons, and say the list isn't empty.
Any list operations that assume the node is on a list because of such a
check will be fooled into dereferencing poison.  One needs to INIT the
node after the del, and fortunately there's already a wrapper for that -
list_del_init().

Some of the dels are followed by deallocations, so can be ignored, and one
can be merged with an add to make a move.  Apart from that, I erred on the
side of caution in making nodes list_empty()-queriable.

Signed-off-by: Phil Carmody &lt;ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Paul Menage &lt;menage@google.com&gt;
Cc: Li Zefan &lt;lizf@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill@shutemov.name&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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commit 8d2587970b8bdf7c8d9208e3f4bb93182aef1a0f upstream.

list_del() leaves poison in the prev and next pointers.  The next
list_empty() will compare those poisons, and say the list isn't empty.
Any list operations that assume the node is on a list because of such a
check will be fooled into dereferencing poison.  One needs to INIT the
node after the del, and fortunately there's already a wrapper for that -
list_del_init().

Some of the dels are followed by deallocations, so can be ignored, and one
can be merged with an add to make a move.  Apart from that, I erred on the
side of caution in making nodes list_empty()-queriable.

Signed-off-by: Phil Carmody &lt;ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Paul Menage &lt;menage@google.com&gt;
Cc: Li Zefan &lt;lizf@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill@shutemov.name&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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<title>Merge branch 'vfs-scale-working' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/npiggin/linux-npiggin</title>
<updated>2011-01-14T17:08:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2011-01-14T17:08:29+00:00</published>
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* 'vfs-scale-working' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/npiggin/linux-npiggin:
  kernel: fix hlist_bl again
  cgroups: Fix a lockdep warning at cgroup removal
  fs: namei fix -&gt;put_link on wrong inode in do_filp_open
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* 'vfs-scale-working' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/npiggin/linux-npiggin:
  kernel: fix hlist_bl again
  cgroups: Fix a lockdep warning at cgroup removal
  fs: namei fix -&gt;put_link on wrong inode in do_filp_open
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<title>cgroup_fs: fix cgroup use of simple_lookup()</title>
<updated>2011-01-14T16:07:48+00:00</updated>
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<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk</email>
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<published>2011-01-14T05:31:45+00:00</published>
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cgroup can't use simple_lookup(), since that'd override its desired -&gt;d_op.

Tested-by: Li Zefan &lt;lizf@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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cgroup can't use simple_lookup(), since that'd override its desired -&gt;d_op.

Tested-by: Li Zefan &lt;lizf@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>cgroups: Fix a lockdep warning at cgroup removal</title>
<updated>2011-01-14T08:46:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Li Zefan</name>
<email>lizf@cn.fujitsu.com</email>
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<published>2011-01-14T03:34:34+00:00</published>
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Commit 2fd6b7f5 ("fs: dcache scale subdirs") forgot to annotate a dentry
lock, which caused a lockdep warning.

Reported-by: Valdis Kletnieks &lt;Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan &lt;lizf@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
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Commit 2fd6b7f5 ("fs: dcache scale subdirs") forgot to annotate a dentry
lock, which caused a lockdep warning.

Reported-by: Valdis Kletnieks &lt;Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan &lt;lizf@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
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<title>switch cgroup</title>
<updated>2011-01-13T01:02:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
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<published>2010-12-21T18:29:29+00:00</published>
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switching it to s_d_op allows to kill the cgroup_lookup() kludge.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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switching it to s_d_op allows to kill the cgroup_lookup() kludge.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>fs: dcache reduce branches in lookup path</title>
<updated>2011-01-07T06:50:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nick Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@kernel.dk</email>
</author>
<published>2011-01-07T06:49:55+00:00</published>
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Reduce some branches and memory accesses in dcache lookup by adding dentry
flags to indicate common d_ops are set, rather than having to check them.
This saves a pointer memory access (dentry-&gt;d_op) in common path lookup
situations, and saves another pointer load and branch in cases where we
have d_op but not the particular operation.

Patched with:

git grep -E '[.&gt;]([[:space:]])*d_op([[:space:]])*=' | xargs sed -e 's/\([^\t ]*\)-&gt;d_op = \(.*\);/d_set_d_op(\1, \2);/' -e 's/\([^\t ]*\)\.d_op = \(.*\);/d_set_d_op(\&amp;\1, \2);/' -i

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin &lt;npiggin@kernel.dk&gt;
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Reduce some branches and memory accesses in dcache lookup by adding dentry
flags to indicate common d_ops are set, rather than having to check them.
This saves a pointer memory access (dentry-&gt;d_op) in common path lookup
situations, and saves another pointer load and branch in cases where we
have d_op but not the particular operation.

Patched with:

git grep -E '[.&gt;]([[:space:]])*d_op([[:space:]])*=' | xargs sed -e 's/\([^\t ]*\)-&gt;d_op = \(.*\);/d_set_d_op(\1, \2);/' -e 's/\([^\t ]*\)\.d_op = \(.*\);/d_set_d_op(\&amp;\1, \2);/' -i

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin &lt;npiggin@kernel.dk&gt;
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<title>fs: dcache rationalise dget variants</title>
<updated>2011-01-07T06:50:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nick Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@kernel.dk</email>
</author>
<published>2011-01-07T06:49:43+00:00</published>
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dget_locked was a shortcut to avoid the lazy lru manipulation when we already
held dcache_lock (lru manipulation was relatively cheap at that point).
However, how that the lru lock is an innermost one, we never hold it at any
caller, so the lock cost can now be avoided. We already have well working lazy
dcache LRU, so it should be fine to defer LRU manipulations to scan time.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin &lt;npiggin@kernel.dk&gt;
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dget_locked was a shortcut to avoid the lazy lru manipulation when we already
held dcache_lock (lru manipulation was relatively cheap at that point).
However, how that the lru lock is an innermost one, we never hold it at any
caller, so the lock cost can now be avoided. We already have well working lazy
dcache LRU, so it should be fine to defer LRU manipulations to scan time.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin &lt;npiggin@kernel.dk&gt;
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<title>fs: dcache remove dcache_lock</title>
<updated>2011-01-07T06:50:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nick Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@kernel.dk</email>
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<published>2011-01-07T06:49:38+00:00</published>
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dcache_lock no longer protects anything. remove it.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin &lt;npiggin@kernel.dk&gt;
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dcache_lock no longer protects anything. remove it.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin &lt;npiggin@kernel.dk&gt;
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<title>fs: dcache scale subdirs</title>
<updated>2011-01-07T06:50:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nick Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@kernel.dk</email>
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<published>2011-01-07T06:49:34+00:00</published>
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Protect d_subdirs and d_child with d_lock, except in filesystems that aren't
using dcache_lock for these anyway (eg. using i_mutex).

Note: if we change the locking rule in future so that -&gt;d_child protection is
provided only with -&gt;d_parent-&gt;d_lock, it may allow us to reduce some locking.
But it would be an exception to an otherwise regular locking scheme, so we'd
have to see some good results. Probably not worthwhile.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin &lt;npiggin@kernel.dk&gt;
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Protect d_subdirs and d_child with d_lock, except in filesystems that aren't
using dcache_lock for these anyway (eg. using i_mutex).

Note: if we change the locking rule in future so that -&gt;d_child protection is
provided only with -&gt;d_parent-&gt;d_lock, it may allow us to reduce some locking.
But it would be an exception to an otherwise regular locking scheme, so we'd
have to see some good results. Probably not worthwhile.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin &lt;npiggin@kernel.dk&gt;
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<title>fs: dcache scale dentry refcount</title>
<updated>2011-01-07T06:50:21+00:00</updated>
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<name>Nick Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@kernel.dk</email>
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<published>2011-01-07T06:49:32+00:00</published>
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Make d_count non-atomic and protect it with d_lock. This allows us to ensure a
0 refcount dentry remains 0 without dcache_lock. It is also fairly natural when
we start protecting many other dentry members with d_lock.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin &lt;npiggin@kernel.dk&gt;
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Make d_count non-atomic and protect it with d_lock. This allows us to ensure a
0 refcount dentry remains 0 without dcache_lock. It is also fairly natural when
we start protecting many other dentry members with d_lock.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin &lt;npiggin@kernel.dk&gt;
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