Doug / smarc-fsl-linux-kernel

27 Jul, 2008

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  • e6305c43e   [PATCH] sanitize ->permission() prototype ... Browse Code »

    * kill nameidata * argument; map the 3 bits in ->flags anybody cares
    about to new MAY_... ones and pass with the mask.
    * kill redundant gfs2_iop_permission()
    * sanitize ecryptfs_permission()
    * fix remaining places where ->permission() instances might barf on new
    MAY_... found in mask.

    The obvious next target in that direction is permission(9)

    folded fix for nfs_permission() breakage from Miklos Szeredi

    Signed-off-by: Al Viro

    Al Viro
     

29 Apr, 2008

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22 Jul, 2007

1 commit

  • d3fec424b   coda: remove CODA_STORE/CODA_RELEASE upcalls ... Browse Code »

    This is an variation on the patch sent by Christoph Hellwig which kills
    file_count abuse by the Coda kernel module by moving the coda_flush
    functionality into coda_release. However part of reason we were using the
    coda_flush callback was to allow Coda to pass errors that occur during
    writeback from the userspace cache manager back to close().

    As Al Viro explained on linux-fsdevel, it is impossible to guarantee that
    such errors can in fact be returned back to the caller. There are many
    cases where the last reference to a file is not released by the close
    system call and it is also impossible to pick some close as a 'last-close'
    and delay it until all other references have been destroyed.

    The CODA_STORE/CODA_RELEASE upcall combination is clearly a broken design,
    and it is better to remove it completely.

    Signed-off-by: Jan Harkes
    Cc: Christoph Hellwig
    Cc: Al Viro
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Jan Harkes
     

20 Jul, 2007

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13 Feb, 2007

1 commit

  • c5ef1c42c   [PATCH] mark struct inode_operations const 3 ... Browse Code »

    Many struct inode_operations in the kernel can be "const". Marking them const
    moves these to the .rodata section, which avoids false sharing with potential
    dirty data. In addition it'll catch accidental writes at compile time to
    these shared resources.

    Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Arjan van de Ven
     

14 Dec, 2006

1 commit

  • 5cbded585   [PATCH] getting rid of all casts of k[cmz]alloc() calls ... Browse Code »

    Run this:

    #!/bin/sh
    for f in $(grep -Erl "\([^\)]*\) *k[cmz]alloc" *) ; do
    echo "De-casting $f..."
    perl -pi -e "s/ ?= ?\([^\)]*\) *(k[cmz]alloc) *\(/ = \1\(/" $f
    done

    And then go through and reinstate those cases where code is casting pointers
    to non-pointers.

    And then drop a few hunks which conflicted with outstanding work.

    Cc: Russell King , Ian Molton
    Cc: Mikael Starvik
    Cc: Yoshinori Sato
    Cc: Roman Zippel
    Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven
    Cc: Ralf Baechle
    Cc: Paul Mackerras
    Cc: Kyle McMartin
    Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
    Cc: Martin Schwidefsky
    Cc: "David S. Miller"
    Cc: Jeff Dike
    Cc: Greg KH
    Cc: Jens Axboe
    Cc: Paul Fulghum
    Cc: Alan Cox
    Cc: Karsten Keil
    Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab
    Cc: Jeff Garzik
    Cc: James Bottomley
    Cc: Ian Kent
    Cc: Steven French
    Cc: David Woodhouse
    Cc: Neil Brown
    Cc: Jaroslav Kysela
    Cc: Takashi Iwai
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Robert P. J. Day
     

29 Jun, 2006

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23 Jun, 2006

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  • 75e1fcc0b   [PATCH] vfs: add lock owner argument to flush operation ... Browse Code »

    Pass the POSIX lock owner ID to the flush operation.

    This is useful for filesystems which don't want to store any locking state
    in inode->i_flock but want to handle locking/unlocking POSIX locks
    internally. FUSE is one such filesystem but I think it possible that some
    network filesystems would need this also.

    Also add a flag to indicate that a POSIX locking request was generated by
    close(), so filesystems using the above feature won't send an extra locking
    request in this case.

    Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi
    Cc: Trond Myklebust
    Cc: Al Viro
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Miklos Szeredi
     

29 Mar, 2006

1 commit

  • 4b6f5d20b   [PATCH] Make most file operations structs in fs/ const ... Browse Code »

    This is a conversion to make the various file_operations structs in fs/
    const. Basically a regexp job, with a few manual fixups

    The goal is both to increase correctness (harder to accidentally write to
    shared datastructures) and reducing the false sharing of cachelines with
    things that get dirty in .data (while .rodata is nicely read only and thus
    cache clean)

    Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Arjan van de Ven
     

17 Apr, 2005

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  • 1da177e4c   Linux-2.6.12-rc2 ... Browse Code »

    Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
    even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
    archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
    3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
    git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
    infrastructure for it.

    Let it rip!

    Linus Torvalds