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authorPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2016-01-26 18:28:36 +0300
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2016-01-26 18:28:36 +0300
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Merge tag 'kvm-s390-master-4.5-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvms390/linux into HEAD
KVM: s390: Fixes for kvm/master (targeting 4.5) 1. Fallout of some bigger floating point/vector rework in s390 - memory leak -> stable 4.3+ - memory overwrite -> stable 4.4+ 2. enable KVM-VFIO for s390
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@@ -504,3 +504,24 @@ in your dentry operations instead.
[mandatory]
__fd_install() & fd_install() can now sleep. Callers should not
hold a spinlock or other resources that do not allow a schedule.
+--
+[mandatory]
+ any symlink that might use page_follow_link_light/page_put_link() must
+ have inode_nohighmem(inode) called before anything might start playing with
+ its pagecache. No highmem pages should end up in the pagecache of such
+ symlinks. That includes any preseeding that might be done during symlink
+ creation. __page_symlink() will honour the mapping gfp flags, so once
+ you've done inode_nohighmem() it's safe to use, but if you allocate and
+ insert the page manually, make sure to use the right gfp flags.
+--
+[mandatory]
+ ->follow_link() is replaced with ->get_link(); same API, except that
+ * ->get_link() gets inode as a separate argument
+ * ->get_link() may be called in RCU mode - in that case NULL
+ dentry is passed
+--
+[mandatory]
+ ->get_link() gets struct delayed_call *done now, and should do
+ set_delayed_call() where it used to set *cookie.
+ ->put_link() is gone - just give the destructor to set_delayed_call()
+ in ->get_link().