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2010-10-23Revert "tty: Add a new file /proc/tty/consoles"Linus Torvalds
This reverts commit f4a3e0bceb57466c31757f25e4e0ed108d1299ec. Jiri Sladby points out that the tty structure we're using may already be gone, and Al Viro doesn't hold back in complaining about the random loading of 'filp->private_data' which doesn't have to be a pointer at all, nor does checking the magic field for TTY_MAGIC prove anything. Belated review by Al: "a) global variable depending on stdin of the last opener? Affecting output of read(2)? Really? b) iterator is broken; list should be locked in ->start(), unlocked in ->stop() and *NOT* unlocked/relocked in ->next() c) ->show() ought to do nothing in case of ->device == NULL, instead of skipping those in ->next()/->start() d) regardless of the merits of the bright idea about asterisk at that line in output *and* regardless of (a), the implementation is not only atrociously ugly, it's actually very likely to be a roothole. Verifying that Cthulhu knows what number happens to be address of a tty_struct by blindly dereferencing memory at that address... Ouch. Please revert that crap." And Christoph pipes in and NAK's the approach of walking fd tables etc too. So it's pretty unanimous. Noticed-by: Jri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Requested-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Cc: Werner Fink <werner@suse.de> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-22Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty-2.6: (49 commits) serial8250: ratelimit "too much work" error serial: bfin_sport_uart: speed up sport RX sample rate to be 3% faster serial: abstraction for 8250 legacy ports serial/imx: check that the buffer is non-empty before sending it out serial: mfd: add more baud rates support jsm: Remove the uart port on errors Alchemy: Add UART PM methods. 8250: allow platforms to override PM hook. altera_uart: Don't use plain integer as NULL pointer altera_uart: Fix missing prototype for registering an early console altera_uart: Fixup type usage of port flags altera_uart: Make it possible to use Altera UART and 8250 ports together altera_uart: Add support for different address strides altera_uart: Add support for getting mapbase and IRQ from resources altera_uart: Add support for polling mode (IRQ-less) serial: Factor out uart_poll_timeout() from 8250 driver serial: mark the 8250 driver as maintained serial: 8250: Don't delay after transmitter is ready. tty: MAINTAINERS: add drivers/serial/jsm/ as maintained driver vcs: invoke the vt update callback when /dev/vcs* is written to ...
2010-10-22tty: Add a new file /proc/tty/consolesDr. Werner Fink
Add a new file /proc/tty/consoles to be able to determine the registered system console lines. If the reading process holds /dev/console open at the regular standard input stream the active device will be marked by an asterisk. Show possible operations and also decode the used flags of the listed console lines. Signed-off-by: Werner Fink <werner@suse.de> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-10-11ocfs2: Add a mount option "coherency=*" to handle cluster coherency for ↵Tristan Ye
O_DIRECT writes. Currently, the default behavior of O_DIRECT writes was allowing concurrent writing among nodes to the same file, with no cluster coherency guaranteed (no EX lock held). This can leave stale data in the cache for buffered reads on other nodes. The new mount option introduce a chance to choose two different behaviors for O_DIRECT writes: * coherency=full, as the default value, will disallow concurrent O_DIRECT writes by taking EX locks. * coherency=buffered, allow concurrent O_DIRECT writes without EX lock among nodes, which gains high performance at risk of getting stale data on other nodes. Signed-off-by: Tristan Ye <tristan.ye@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
2010-08-14bkl: Remove locked .ioctl file operationArnd Bergmann
The last user is gone, so we can safely remove this Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2010-08-11Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pkl/squashfs-linusLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pkl/squashfs-linus: Squashfs: fix checkpatch.pl warnings Squashfs: fix filename typo Squashfs: update Kconfig and documentation for LZO Squashfs: fix block size use in LZO decompressor Squashfs: Add LZO compression support squashfs: fix filename in header comment Squashfs: Make XATTR config name consistent with other file systems squashfs: fix compiler inline warning
2010-08-10Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (96 commits) no need for list_for_each_entry_safe()/resetting with superblock list Fix sget() race with failing mount vfs: don't hold s_umount over close_bdev_exclusive() call sysv: do not mark superblock dirty on remount sysv: do not mark superblock dirty on mount btrfs: remove junk sb_dirt change BFS: clean up the superblock usage AFFS: wait for sb synchronization when needed AFFS: clean up dirty flag usage cifs: truncate fallout mbcache: fix shrinker function return value mbcache: Remove unused features add f_flags to struct statfs(64) pass a struct path to vfs_statfs update VFS documentation for method changes. All filesystems that need invalidate_inode_buffers() are doing that explicitly convert remaining ->clear_inode() to ->evict_inode() Make ->drop_inode() just return whether inode needs to be dropped fs/inode.c:clear_inode() is gone fs/inode.c:evict() doesn't care about delete vs. non-delete paths now ... Fix up trivial conflicts in fs/nilfs2/super.c
2010-08-09oom: deprecate oom_adj tunableDavid Rientjes
/proc/pid/oom_adj is now deprecated so that that it may eventually be removed. The target date for removal is August 2012. A warning will be printed to the kernel log if a task attempts to use this interface. Future warning will be suppressed until the kernel is rebooted to prevent spamming the kernel log. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-09oom: badness heuristic rewriteDavid Rientjes
This a complete rewrite of the oom killer's badness() heuristic which is used to determine which task to kill in oom conditions. The goal is to make it as simple and predictable as possible so the results are better understood and we end up killing the task which will lead to the most memory freeing while still respecting the fine-tuning from userspace. Instead of basing the heuristic on mm->total_vm for each task, the task's rss and swap space is used instead. This is a better indication of the amount of memory that will be freeable if the oom killed task is chosen and subsequently exits. This helps specifically in cases where KDE or GNOME is chosen for oom kill on desktop systems instead of a memory hogging task. The baseline for the heuristic is a proportion of memory that each task is currently using in memory plus swap compared to the amount of "allowable" memory. "Allowable," in this sense, means the system-wide resources for unconstrained oom conditions, the set of mempolicy nodes, the mems attached to current's cpuset, or a memory controller's limit. The proportion is given on a scale of 0 (never kill) to 1000 (always kill), roughly meaning that if a task has a badness() score of 500 that the task consumes approximately 50% of allowable memory resident in RAM or in swap space. The proportion is always relative to the amount of "allowable" memory and not the total amount of RAM systemwide so that mempolicies and cpusets may operate in isolation; they shall not need to know the true size of the machine on which they are running if they are bound to a specific set of nodes or mems, respectively. Root tasks are given 3% extra memory just like __vm_enough_memory() provides in LSMs. In the event of two tasks consuming similar amounts of memory, it is generally better to save root's task. Because of the change in the badness() heuristic's baseline, it is also necessary to introduce a new user interface to tune it. It's not possible to redefine the meaning of /proc/pid/oom_adj with a new scale since the ABI cannot be changed for backward compatability. Instead, a new tunable, /proc/pid/oom_score_adj, is added that ranges from -1000 to +1000. It may be used to polarize the heuristic such that certain tasks are never considered for oom kill while others may always be considered. The value is added directly into the badness() score so a value of -500, for example, means to discount 50% of its memory consumption in comparison to other tasks either on the system, bound to the mempolicy, in the cpuset, or sharing the same memory controller. /proc/pid/oom_adj is changed so that its meaning is rescaled into the units used by /proc/pid/oom_score_adj, and vice versa. Changing one of these per-task tunables will rescale the value of the other to an equivalent meaning. Although /proc/pid/oom_adj was originally defined as a bitshift on the badness score, it now shares the same linear growth as /proc/pid/oom_score_adj but with different granularity. This is required so the ABI is not broken with userspace applications and allows oom_adj to be deprecated for future removal. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-09update VFS documentation for method changes.Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-08-09update documentation for the new truncate sequenceChristoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-08-07Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ryusuke/nilfs2 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ryusuke/nilfs2: (45 commits) nilfs2: reject filesystem with unsupported block size nilfs2: avoid rec_len overflow with 64KB block size nilfs2: simplify nilfs_get_page function nilfs2: reject incompatible filesystem nilfs2: add feature set fields to super block nilfs2: clarify byte offset in super block format nilfs2: apply read-ahead for nilfs_btree_lookup_contig nilfs2: introduce check flag to btree node buffer nilfs2: add btree get block function with readahead option nilfs2: add read ahead mode to nilfs_btnode_submit_block nilfs2: fix buffer head leak in nilfs_btnode_submit_block nilfs2: eliminate inline keywords in btree implementation nilfs2: get maximum number of child nodes from bmap object nilfs2: reduce repetitive calculation of max number of child nodes nilfs2: optimize calculation of min/max number of btree node children nilfs2: remove redundant pointer checks in bmap lookup functions nilfs2: get rid of nilfs_bmap_union nilfs2: unify bmap set_target_v operations nilfs2: get rid of nilfs_btree uses nilfs2: get rid of nilfs_direct uses ...
2010-08-07Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wqLinus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: (55 commits) workqueue: mark init_workqueues() as early_initcall() workqueue: explain for_each_*cwq_cpu() iterators fscache: fix build on !CONFIG_SYSCTL slow-work: kill it gfs2: use workqueue instead of slow-work drm: use workqueue instead of slow-work cifs: use workqueue instead of slow-work fscache: drop references to slow-work fscache: convert operation to use workqueue instead of slow-work fscache: convert object to use workqueue instead of slow-work workqueue: fix how cpu number is stored in work->data workqueue: fix mayday_mask handling on UP workqueue: fix build problem on !CONFIG_SMP workqueue: fix locking in retry path of maybe_create_worker() async: use workqueue for worker pool workqueue: remove WQ_SINGLE_CPU and use WQ_UNBOUND instead workqueue: implement unbound workqueue workqueue: prepare for WQ_UNBOUND implementation libata: take advantage of cmwq and remove concurrency limitations workqueue: fix worker management invocation without pending works ... Fixed up conflicts in fs/cifs/* as per Tejun. Other trivial conflicts in include/linux/workqueue.h, kernel/trace/Kconfig and kernel/workqueue.c
2010-08-06Merge branch 'linux-next' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6 * 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6: (30 commits) PCI: update for owner removal from struct device_attribute PCI: Fix warnings when CONFIG_DMI unset PCI: Do not run NVidia quirks related to MSI with MSI disabled x86/PCI: use for_each_pci_dev() PCI: use for_each_pci_dev() PCI: MSI: Restore read_msi_msg_desc(); add get_cached_msi_msg_desc() PCI: export SMBIOS provided firmware instance and label to sysfs PCI: Allow read/write access to sysfs I/O port resources x86/PCI: use host bridge _CRS info on ASRock ALiveSATA2-GLAN PCI: remove unused HAVE_ARCH_PCI_SET_DMA_MAX_SEGMENT_{SIZE|BOUNDARY} PCI: disable mmio during bar sizing PCI: MSI: Remove unsafe and unnecessary hardware access PCI: Default PCIe ASPM control to on and require !EMBEDDED to disable PCI: kernel oops on access to pci proc file while hot-removal PCI: pci-sysfs: remove casts from void* ACPI: Disable ASPM if the platform won't provide _OSC control for PCIe PCI hotplug: make sure child bridges are enabled at hotplug time PCI hotplug: shpchp: Removed check for hotplug of display devices PCI hotplug: pciehp: Fixed return value sign for pciehp_unconfigure_device PCI: Don't enable aspm before drivers have had a chance to veto it ...
2010-08-05Squashfs: update Kconfig and documentation for LZOPhillip Lougher
Update compression types supported and add some help text for the LZO Kconfig option. Also add missing "default n" line and make some trivial whitespace cleanups too. Signed-off-by: Phillip Lougher <phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk>
2010-08-05sysfs: Fix one more signature discrepancy between sysfs implementation and docs.Ira Weiny
Signed-off-by: Ira Weiny <weiny2@llnl.gov> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-08-05sysfs: fix discrepancies between implementation and documentationBart Van Assche
Fix all discrepancies I know of between the sysfs implementation and its documentation. Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@gmail.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-08-04Merge branch 'for-next' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial * 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (48 commits) Documentation: update broken web addresses. fix comment typo "choosed" -> "chosen" hostap:hostap_hw.c Fix typo in comment Fix spelling contorller -> controller in comments Kconfig.debug: FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT: typo Faul -> Fault fs/Kconfig: Fix typo Userpace -> Userspace Removing dead MACH_U300_BS26 drivers/infiniband: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data fs/ocfs2: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data libfc: use ARRAY_SIZE scsi: bfa: use ARRAY_SIZE drm: i915: use ARRAY_SIZE drm: drm_edid: use ARRAY_SIZE synclink: use ARRAY_SIZE block: cciss: use ARRAY_SIZE comment typo fixes: charater => character fix comment typos concerning "challenge" arm: plat-spear: fix typo in kerneldoc reiserfs: typo comment fix update email address ...
2010-08-04Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1443 commits) phy/marvell: add 88ec048 support igb: Program MDICNFG register prior to PHY init e1000e: correct MAC-PHY interconnect register offset for 82579 hso: Add new product ID can: Add driver for esd CAN-USB/2 device l2tp: fix export of header file for userspace can-raw: Fix skb_orphan_try handling Revert "net: remove zap_completion_queue" net: cleanup inclusion phy/marvell: add 88e1121 interface mode support u32: negative offset fix net: Fix a typo from "dev" to "ndev" igb: Use irq_synchronize per vector when using MSI-X ixgbevf: fix null pointer dereference due to filter being set for VLAN 0 e1000e: Fix irq_synchronize in MSI-X case e1000e: register pm_qos request on hardware activation ip_fragment: fix subtracting PPPOE_SES_HLEN from mtu twice net: Add getsockopt support for TCP thin-streams cxgb4: update driver version cxgb4: add new PCI IDs ... Manually fix up conflicts in: - drivers/net/e1000e/netdev.c: due to pm_qos registration infrastructure changes - drivers/net/phy/marvell.c: conflict between adding 88ec048 support and cleaning up the IDs - drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/ipw2100.c: trivial ipw2100_pm_qos_req conflict (registration change vs marking it static)
2010-08-04Documentation: update broken web addresses.Justin P. Mattock
Below you will find an updated version from the original series bunching all patches into one big patch updating broken web addresses that are located in Documentation/* Some of the addresses date as far far back as 1995 etc... so searching became a bit difficult, the best way to deal with these is to use web.archive.org to locate these addresses that are outdated. Now there are also some addresses pointing to .spec files some are located, but some(after searching on the companies site)where still no where to be found. In this case I just changed the address to the company site this way the users can contact the company and they can locate them for the users. Signed-off-by: Justin P. Mattock <justinmattock@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Weber <weber@corscience.de> Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com> Cc: Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Cc: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-07-30PCI: Allow read/write access to sysfs I/O port resourcesAlex Williamson
PCI sysfs resource files currently only allow mmap'ing. On x86 this works fine for memory backed BARs, but doesn't work at all for I/O port backed BARs. Add read/write to I/O port PCI sysfs resource files to allow userspace access to these device regions. Acked-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
2010-07-26xfs: remove obsolete osyncisosync mount optionChristoph Hellwig
Since Linux 2.6.33 the kernel has support for real O_SYNC, which made the osyncisosync option a no-op. Warn the users about this and remove the mount flag for it. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
2010-07-23nilfs2: add nodiscard mount optionRyusuke Konishi
Nilfs has "discard" mount option which issues discard/TRIM commands to underlying block device, but it lacks a complementary option and has no way to disable the feature through remount. This adds "nodiscard" option to resolve this imbalance. Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
2010-07-23nilfs2: add barrier mount optionRyusuke Konishi
Nilfs enables write barriers by default and has "nobarrier" mount option to disable this feature. But it lacks the complementary option and has no way to re-enable the feature on remount. This adds "barrier" option to resolve this imbalance. Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
2010-07-22fscache: convert object to use workqueue instead of slow-workTejun Heo
Make fscache object state transition callbacks use workqueue instead of slow-work. New dedicated unbound CPU workqueue fscache_object_wq is created. get/put callbacks are renamed and modified to take @object and called directly from the enqueue wrapper and the work function. While at it, make all open coded instances of get/put to use fscache_get/put_object(). * Unbound workqueue is used. * work_busy() output is printed instead of slow-work flags in object debugging outputs. They mean basically the same thing bit-for-bit. * sysctl fscache.object_max_active added to control concurrency. The default value is nr_cpus clamped between 4 and WQ_UNBOUND_MAX_ACTIVE. * slow_work_sleep_till_thread_needed() is replaced with fscache private implementation fscache_object_sleep_till_congested() which waits on fscache_object_wq congestion. * debugfs support is dropped for now. Tracing API based debug facility is planned to be added. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2010-06-04Merge branch 'master' into for-linusAlex Elder
2010-06-03ipconfig: document DHCP hostname and DNS recordWu Fengguang
Now it's possible to update the DNS record for $HOST_NAME with ip=::::$HOST_NAME::dhcp CC: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-06-03xfs: remove done roadmap item from xfs-delayed-logging-design.txtChristoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
2010-05-27fs: introduce new truncate sequencenpiggin@suse.de
Introduce a new truncate calling sequence into fs/mm subsystems. Rather than setattr > vmtruncate > truncate, have filesystems call their truncate sequence from ->setattr if filesystem specific operations are required. vmtruncate is deprecated, and truncate_pagecache and inode_newsize_ok helpers introduced previously should be used. simple_setattr is introduced for simple in-ram filesystems to implement the new truncate sequence. Eventually all filesystems should be converted to implement a setattr, and the default code in notify_change should go away. simple_setsize is also introduced to perform just the ATTR_SIZE portion of simple_setattr (ie. changing i_size and trimming pagecache). To implement the new truncate sequence: - filesystem specific manipulations (eg freeing blocks) must be done in the setattr method rather than ->truncate. - vmtruncate can not be used by core code to trim blocks past i_size in the event of write failure after allocation, so this must be performed in the fs code. - convert usage of helpers block_write_begin, nobh_write_begin, cont_write_begin, and *blockdev_direct_IO* to use _newtrunc postfixed variants. These avoid calling vmtruncate to trim blocks (see previous). - inode_setattr should not be used. generic_setattr is a new function to be used to copy simple attributes into the generic inode. - make use of the better opportunity to handle errors with the new sequence. Big problem with the previous calling sequence: the filesystem is not called until i_size has already changed. This means it is not allowed to fail the call, and also it does not know what the previous i_size was. Also, generic code calling vmtruncate to truncate allocated blocks in case of error had no good way to return a meaningful error (or, for example, atomically handle block deallocation). Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-05-27drop unused dentry argument to ->fsyncChristoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-05-27Documentation/filesystems/Locking: update documentation on llseek() wrt BKLJan Blunck
The inode's i_size is not protected by the big kernel lock. Therefore it does not make sense to recommend taking the BKL in filesystems llseek operations. Instead it should use the inode's mutex or use just use i_size_read() instead. Add a note that this is not protecting file->f_pos. Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-26Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pkl/squashfs-linusLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pkl/squashfs-linus: squashfs: update documentation to include description of xattr layout squashfs: fix name reading in squashfs_xattr_get squashfs: constify xattr handlers squashfs: xattr fix sparse warnings squashfs: xattr_lookup sparse fix squashfs: add xattr support configure option squashfs: add new extended inode types squashfs: add support for xattr reading squashfs: add xattr id support
2010-05-26squashfs: update documentation to include description of xattr layoutPhillip Lougher
Signed-off-by: Phillip Lougher <phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk>
2010-05-25Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfsLinus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs: xfs: Ensure inode allocation buffers are fully replayed xfs: enable background pushing of the CIL xfs: forced unmounts need to push the CIL xfs: Introduce delayed logging core code xfs: Delayed logging design documentation xfs: Improve scalability of busy extent tracking xfs: make the log ticket ID available outside the log infrastructure xfs: clean up log ticket overrun debug output xfs: Clean up XFS_BLI_* flag namespace xfs: modify buffer item reference counting xfs: allow log ticket allocation to take allocation flags xfs: Don't reuse the same transaction ID for duplicated transactions.
2010-05-25mempolicy: document cpuset interaction with tmpfs mpol mount optionLee Schermerhorn
Update Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt to describe the interaction of tmpfs mount option memory policy with tasks' cpuset mems_allowed. Note: the mount(8) man page [in the util-linux-ng package] requires similiar updates. Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-24Merge branch 'delayed-logging-for-2.6.35' into for-linusAlex Elder
2010-05-24xfs: Delayed logging design documentationDave Chinner
Document the design of the delayed logging implementation. This includes assumptions made, dead ends followed, the reasoning behind the structuring of the code, the layout of various structures, how things fit together, traps and pit-falls avoided, etc. This is all too much to document in the code itself, so do it in a separate file. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2010-05-21Merge branch 'for_linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs-2.6 * 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs-2.6: (31 commits) dquot: Detect partial write error to quota file in write_blk() and add printk_ratelimit for quota error messages ocfs2: Fix lock inversion in quotas during umount ocfs2: Use __dquot_transfer to avoid lock inversion ocfs2: Fix NULL pointer deref when writing local dquot ocfs2: Fix estimate of credits needed for quota allocation ocfs2: Fix quota locking ocfs2: Avoid unnecessary block mapping when refreshing quota info ocfs2: Do not map blocks from local quota file on each write quota: Refactor dquot_transfer code so that OCFS2 can pass in its references quota: unify quota init condition in setattr quota: remove sb_has_quota_active in get/set_info quota: unify ->set_dqblk quota: unify ->get_dqblk ext3: make barrier options consistent with ext4 quota: Make quota stat accounting lockless. suppress warning: "quotatypes" defined but not used ext3: Fix waiting on transaction during fsync jbd: Provide function to check whether transaction will issue data barrier ufs: add ufs speciffic ->setattr call BKL: Remove BKL from ext2 filesystem ...
2010-05-21ext3: make barrier options consistent with ext4Eric Sandeen
ext4 was updated to accept barrier/nobarrier mount options in addition to the older barrier=0/1. The barrier story is complex enough, we should help people by making the options the same at least, even if the defaults are different. This patch allows the barrier/nobarrier mount options for ext3, while keeping nobarrier the default. It also unconditionally displays barrier status in show_options, and prints a message at mount time if barriers are not enabled, just as ext4 does. Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2010-05-21sysfs-namespaces: add a high-level Documentation fileSerge E. Hallyn
The first three paragraphs are almost verbatim taken from Eric's commit message on the patch introducing network ns tags. The next two paragraphs I wrote to be a brief high level overview. The last section is taken from the commit message on "Implement sysfs tagged directory support", but updated. Hopefully correctly. Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-05-21Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ryusuke/nilfs2 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ryusuke/nilfs2: (23 commits) nilfs2: disallow remount of snapshot from/to a regular mount nilfs2: use huge_encode_dev/huge_decode_dev nilfs2: update comment on deactivate_super at nilfs_get_sb nilfs2: replace MS_VERBOSE with MS_SILENT nilfs2: add missing initialization of s_mode nilfs2: fix misuse of open_bdev_exclusive/close_bdev_exclusive nilfs2: enlarge s_volume_name member in nilfs_super_block nilfs2: use checkpoint number instead of timestamp to select super block nilfs2: add missing endian conversion on super block magic number nilfs2: make nilfs_sc_*_ops static nilfs2: add kernel doc comments to persistent object allocator functions nilfs2: change sc_timer from a pointer to an embedded one in struct nilfs_sc_info nilfs2: remove nilfs_segctor_init() in segment.c nilfs2: insert checkpoint number in segment summary header nilfs2: add a print message after loading nilfs2 nilfs2: cleanup multi kmem_cache_{create,destroy} code nilfs2: move out checksum routines to segment buffer code nilfs2: move pointer to super root block into logs nilfs2: change default of 'errors' mount option to 'remount-ro' mode nilfs2: Combine nilfs_btree_release_path() and nilfs_btree_free_path() ...
2010-05-21Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-2.6-nmwLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-2.6-nmw: GFS2: Fix typo GFS2: stuck in inode wait, no glocks stuck GFS2: Eliminate useless err variable GFS2: Fix writing to non-page aligned gfs2_quota structures GFS2: Add some useful messages GFS2: fix quota state reporting GFS2: Various gfs2_logd improvements GFS2: glock livelock GFS2: Clean up stuffed file copying GFS2: docs update GFS2: Remove space from slab cache name
2010-05-21Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jlbec/ocfs2 * 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jlbec/ocfs2: (47 commits) ocfs2: Silence a gcc warning. ocfs2: Don't retry xattr set in case value extension fails. ocfs2:dlm: avoid dlm->ast_lock lockres->spinlock dependency break ocfs2: Reset xattr value size after xa_cleanup_value_truncate(). fs/ocfs2/dlm: Use kstrdup fs/ocfs2/dlm: Drop memory allocation cast Ocfs2: Optimize punching-hole code. Ocfs2: Make ocfs2_find_cpos_for_left_leaf() public. Ocfs2: Fix hole punching to correctly do CoW during cluster zeroing. Ocfs2: Optimize ocfs2 truncate to use ocfs2_remove_btree_range() instead. ocfs2: Block signals for mkdir/link/symlink/O_CREAT. ocfs2: Wrap signal blocking in void functions. ocfs2/dlm: Increase o2dlm lockres hash size ocfs2: Make ocfs2_extend_trans() really extend. ocfs2/trivial: Code cleanup for allocation reservation. ocfs2: make ocfs2_adjust_resv_from_alloc simple. ocfs2: Make nointr a default mount option ocfs2/dlm: Make o2dlm domain join/leave messages KERN_NOTICE o2net: log socket state changes ocfs2: print node # when tcp fails ...
2010-05-20Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (44 commits) vlynq: make whole Kconfig-menu dependant on architecture add descriptive comment for TIF_MEMDIE task flag declaration. EEPROM: max6875: Header file cleanup EEPROM: 93cx6: Header file cleanup EEPROM: Header file cleanup agp: use NULL instead of 0 when pointer is needed rtc-v3020: make bitfield unsigned PCI: make bitfield unsigned jbd2: use NULL instead of 0 when pointer is needed cciss: fix shadows sparse warning doc: inode uses a mutex instead of a semaphore. uml: i386: Avoid redefinition of NR_syscalls fix "seperate" typos in comments cocbalt_lcdfb: correct sections doc: Change urls for sparse Powerpc: wii: Fix typo in comment i2o: cleanup some exit paths Documentation/: it's -> its where appropriate UML: Fix compiler warning due to missing task_struct declaration UML: add kernel.h include to signal.c ...
2010-05-19Merge branch 'for-2.6.35' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linuxLinus Torvalds
* 'for-2.6.35' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux: (45 commits) Revert "nfsd4: distinguish expired from stale stateids" nfsd: safer initialization order in find_file() nfs4: minor callback code simplification, comment NFSD: don't report compiled-out versions as present nfsd4: implement reclaim_complete nfsd4: nfsd4_destroy_session must set callback client under the state lock nfsd4: keep a reference count on client while in use nfsd4: mark_client_expired nfsd4: introduce nfs4_client.cl_refcount nfsd4: refactor expire_client nfsd4: extend the client_lock to cover cl_lru nfsd4: use list_move in move_to_confirmed nfsd4: fold release_session into expire_client nfsd4: rename sessionid_lock to client_lock nfsd4: fix bare destroy_session null dereference nfsd4: use local variable in nfs4svc_encode_compoundres nfsd: further comment typos sunrpc: centralise most calls to svc_xprt_received nfsd4: fix unlikely race in session replay case nfsd4: fix filehandle comment ...
2010-05-19Merge branch 'irq-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: genirq: Clear CPU mask in affinity_hint when none is provided genirq: Add CPU mask affinity hint genirq: Remove IRQF_DISABLED from core code genirq: Run irq handlers with interrupts disabled genirq: Introduce request_any_context_irq() genirq: Expose irq_desc->node in proc/irq Fixed up trivial conflicts in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
2010-05-13nfsd4: implement reclaim_completeJ. Bruce Fields
This is a mandatory operation. Also, here (not in open) is where we should be committing the reboot recovery information. Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2010-05-11revert "procfs: provide stack information for threads" and its fixup commitsRobin Holt
Originally, commit d899bf7b ("procfs: provide stack information for threads") attempted to introduce a new feature for showing where the threadstack was located and how many pages are being utilized by the stack. Commit c44972f1 ("procfs: disable per-task stack usage on NOMMU") was applied to fix the NO_MMU case. Commit 89240ba0 ("x86, fs: Fix x86 procfs stack information for threads on 64-bit") was applied to fix a bug in ia32 executables being loaded. Commit 9ebd4eba7 ("procfs: fix /proc/<pid>/stat stack pointer for kernel threads") was applied to fix a bug which had kernel threads printing a userland stack address. Commit 1306d603f ('proc: partially revert "procfs: provide stack information for threads"') was then applied to revert the stack pages being used to solve a significant performance regression. This patch nearly undoes the effect of all these patches. The reason for reverting these is it provides an unusable value in field 28. For x86_64, a fork will result in the task->stack_start value being updated to the current user top of stack and not the stack start address. This unpredictability of the stack_start value makes it worthless. That includes the intended use of showing how much stack space a thread has. Other architectures will get different values. As an example, ia64 gets 0. The do_fork() and copy_process() functions appear to treat the stack_start and stack_size parameters as architecture specific. I only partially reverted c44972f1 ("procfs: disable per-task stack usage on NOMMU") . If I had completely reverted it, I would have had to change mm/Makefile only build pagewalk.o when CONFIG_PROC_PAGE_MONITOR is configured. Since I could not test the builds without significant effort, I decided to not change mm/Makefile. I only partially reverted 89240ba0 ("x86, fs: Fix x86 procfs stack information for threads on 64-bit") . I left the KSTK_ESP() change in place as that seemed worthwhile. Signed-off-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> Cc: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-10doc: inode uses a mutex instead of a semaphore.Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
Replace the introduced i_sem by an i_mutex in the filesystem locking documentation. This was introduced [1] after all occurrences were already replaced in the same text [2]. However, the term "inode semaphore" has not been replaced then, and it's replaced now. [1] afddba49d18f346e5cc2938b6ed7c512db18ca68 [2] a7bc02f4f47fd0e7860c6589f0ad000d1476f7a3 Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@holoscopio.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-05-10fix "seperate" typos in commentsAnand Gadiyar
s/seperate/separate Signed-off-by: Anand Gadiyar <gadiyar@ti.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>