Merge branch 'master' into for-next

Fast-forward merge with Linus to be able to merge patches
based on more recent version of the tree.

4 files changed, 18 insertions, 29 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/befs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/befs.txt
index 6e49c363938e..da45e6c842b8 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/befs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/befs.txt
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ His original code can still be found at:
 Does anyone know of a more current email address for Makoto? He doesn't
 respond to the address given above...
 
-Current maintainer: Sergey S. Kostyliov <rathamahata@php4.ru>
+This filesystem doesn't have a maintainer.
 
 WHAT IS THIS DRIVER?
 ==================
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt
index 272f80d5f966..22f3a0eda1d2 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt
@@ -147,15 +147,6 @@ grpjquota=<file>	during journal replay. They replace the above
 			package for more details
 			(http://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxquota).
 
-bh		(*)	ext3 associates buffer heads to data pages to
-nobh			(a) cache disk block mapping information
-			(b) link pages into transaction to provide
-			    ordering guarantees.
-			"bh" option forces use of buffer heads.
-			"nobh" option tries to avoid associating buffer
-			heads (supported only for "writeback" mode).
-
-
 Specification
 =============
 Ext3 shares all disk implementation with the ext2 filesystem, and adds
@@ -227,5 +218,5 @@ kernel source:	<file:fs/ext3/>
 programs: 	http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/
 		http://ext2resize.sourceforge.net
 
-useful links:	http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-fs7.html
-		http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-fs8.html
+useful links:	http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-fs7/index.html
+        http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-fs8/index.html
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt
index 3ae9bc94352a..232a575a0c48 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt
@@ -68,12 +68,12 @@ Note: More extensive information for getting started with ext4 can be
     '-o barriers=[0|1]' mount option for both ext3 and ext4 filesystems
     for a fair comparison.  When tuning ext3 for best benchmark numbers,
     it is often worthwhile to try changing the data journaling mode; '-o
-    data=writeback,nobh' can be faster for some workloads.  (Note
-    however that running mounted with data=writeback can potentially
-    leave stale data exposed in recently written files in case of an
-    unclean shutdown, which could be a security exposure in some
-    situations.)  Configuring the filesystem with a large journal can
-    also be helpful for metadata-intensive workloads.
+    data=writeback' can be faster for some workloads.  (Note however that
+    running mounted with data=writeback can potentially leave stale data
+    exposed in recently written files in case of an unclean shutdown,
+    which could be a security exposure in some situations.)  Configuring
+    the filesystem with a large journal can also be helpful for
+    metadata-intensive workloads.
 
 2. Features
 ===========
@@ -272,14 +272,6 @@ grpjquota=<file>	during journal replay. They replace the above
 			package for more details
 			(http://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxquota).
 
-bh		(*)	ext4 associates buffer heads to data pages to
-nobh			(a) cache disk block mapping information
-			(b) link pages into transaction to provide
-			    ordering guarantees.
-			"bh" option forces use of buffer heads.
-			"nobh" option tries to avoid associating buffer
-			heads (supported only for "writeback" mode).
-
 stripe=n		Number of filesystem blocks that mballoc will try
 			to use for allocation size and alignment. For RAID5/6
 			systems this should be the number of data
@@ -393,8 +385,7 @@ dioread_nolock		locking. If the dioread_nolock option is specified
 			write and convert the extent to initialized after IO
 			completes. This approach allows ext4 code to avoid
 			using inode mutex, which improves scalability on high
-			speed storages. However this does not work with nobh
-			option and the mount will fail. Nor does it work with
+			speed storages. However this does not work with
 			data journaling and dioread_nolock option will be
 			ignored with kernel warning. Note that dioread_nolock
 			code path is only used for extent-based files.
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/Exporting b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/Exporting
index 87019d2b5981..09994c247289 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/Exporting
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/Exporting
@@ -92,7 +92,14 @@ For a filesystem to be exportable it must:
    1/ provide the filehandle fragment routines described below.
    2/ make sure that d_splice_alias is used rather than d_add
       when ->lookup finds an inode for a given parent and name.
-      Typically the ->lookup routine will end with a:
+
+      If inode is NULL, d_splice_alias(inode, dentry) is eqivalent to
+
+		d_add(dentry, inode), NULL
+
+      Similarly, d_splice_alias(ERR_PTR(err), dentry) = ERR_PTR(err)
+
+      Typically the ->lookup routine will simply end with a:
 
 		return d_splice_alias(inode, dentry);
 	}