BMC/Intel-BMC/linux.git/include/linux/fs.h, branch v2.6.26

Properly notify block layer of sync writes

2008-07-01T07:07:34+00:00

fsync_buffers_list() and sync_dirty_buffer() both issue async writes and then immediately wait on them. Conceptually, that makes them sync writes and we should treat them as such so that the IO schedulers can handle them appropriately. This patch fixes a write starvation issue that Lin Ming reported, where xx is stuck for more than 2 minutes because of a large number of synchronous IO in the system: INFO: task kjournald:20558 blocked for more than 120 seconds. "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. kjournald D ffff810010820978 6712 20558 2 ffff81022ddb1d10 0000000000000046 ffff81022e7baa10 ffffffff803ba6f2 ffff81022ecd0000 ffff8101e6dc9160 ffff81022ecd0348 000000008048b6cb 0000000000000086 ffff81022c4e8d30 0000000000000000 ffffffff80247537 Call Trace: [] kobject_get+0x12/0x17 [] getnstimeofday+0x2f/0x83 [] sync_buffer+0x0/0x3f [] io_schedule+0x5d/0x9f [] sync_buffer+0x3b/0x3f [] __wait_on_bit+0x40/0x6f [] sync_buffer+0x0/0x3f [] out_of_line_wait_on_bit+0x6c/0x78 [] wake_bit_function+0x0/0x23 [] sync_dirty_buffer+0x98/0xcb [] journal_commit_transaction+0x97d/0xcb6 [] lock_timer_base+0x26/0x4b [] kjournald+0xc1/0x1fb [] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x2e [] kjournald+0x0/0x1fb [] kthread+0x47/0x74 [] schedule_tail+0x28/0x5d [] child_rip+0xa/0x12 [] kthread+0x0/0x74 [] child_rip+0x0/0x12 Lin Ming confirms that this patch fixes the issue. I've run tests with it for the past week and no ill effects have been observed, so I'm proposing it for inclusion into 2.6.26. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

[patch 4/4] flock: remove unused fields from file_lock_operations

2008-06-23T15:52:30+00:00

fl_insert and fl_remove are not used right now in the kernel. Remove them. Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Alexander Viro Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Al Viro

introduce memory_read_from_buffer()

2008-06-06T18:29:11+00:00

This patch introduces memory_read_from_buffer(). The only difference between memory_read_from_buffer() and simple_read_from_buffer() is which address space the function copies to. simple_read_from_buffer copies to user space memory. memory_read_from_buffer copies to normal memory. Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita Cc: Al Viro Cc: Doug Warzecha Cc: Zhang Rui Cc: Matt Domsch Cc: Abhay Salunke Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Markus Rechberger Cc: Kay Sievers Cc: Bob Moore Cc: Thomas Renninger Cc: Len Brown Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" Cc: Krzysztof Helt Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Martin Schwidefsky Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Peter Oberparleiter Cc: Michael Holzheu Cc: Brian King Cc: James E.J. Bottomley Cc: Andrew Vasquez Cc: Seokmann Ju Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

vfs: splice remove_suid() cleanup

2008-05-07T07:29:00+00:00

generic_file_splice_write() duplicates remove_suid() just because it doesn't hold i_mutex. But it grabs i_mutex inside splice_from_pipe() anyway, so this is rather pointless. Move locking to generic_file_splice_write() and call remove_suid() and __splice_from_pipe() instead. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

[PATCH] kill ->put_inode

2008-05-06T17:45:34+00:00

And with that last patch to affs killing the last put_inode instance we can finally, after many years of transition kill this racy and awkward interface. (It's kinda funny that even the description in Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt was entirely wrong..) Also remove a very misleading comment above the defintion of struct super_operations. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Al Viro

make vfs_ioctl() static

2008-04-29T15:06:00+00:00

Make the needlessly global vfs_ioctl() static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

make __put_super() static

2008-04-29T15:06:00+00:00

Make the needlessly global __put_super() static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

xip: support non-struct page backed memory

2008-04-28T15:58:23+00:00

Convert XIP to support non-struct page backed memory, using VM_MIXEDMAP for the user mappings. This requires the get_xip_page API to be changed to an address based one. Improve the API layering a little bit too, while we're here. This is required in order to support XIP filesystems on memory that isn't backed with struct page (but memory with struct page is still supported too). Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin Acked-by: Carsten Otte Cc: Jared Hulbert Cc: Martin Schwidefsky Cc: Heiko Carstens Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

return pfn from direct_access, for XIP

2008-04-28T15:58:23+00:00

Alter the block device ->direct_access() API to work with the new get_xip_mem() API (that requires both kaddr and pfn are returned). Some architectures will not do the right thing in their virt_to_page() for use by XIP (to translate from the kernel virtual address returned by direct_access(), to a user mappable pfn in XIP's page fault handler. However, we can't switch it to just return the pfn and not the kaddr, because we have no good way to get a kva from a pfn, and XIP requires the kva for its read(2) and write(2) handlers. So we have to return both. Signed-off-by: Jared Hulbert Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin Cc: Carsten Otte Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6

2008-04-26T02:05:55+00:00

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: [PATCH] sanitize locate_fd() [PATCH] sanitize unshare_files/reset_files_struct [PATCH] sanitize handling of shared descriptor tables in failing execve() [PATCH] close race in unshare_files() [PATCH] restore sane ->umount_begin() API cifs: timeout dfs automounts +little fix.