21 Jul, 2011

1 commit

  • Btrfs needs to be able to control how filemap_write_and_wait_range() is called
    in fsync to make it less of a painful operation, so push down taking i_mutex and
    the calling of filemap_write_and_wait() down into the ->fsync() handlers. Some
    file systems can drop taking the i_mutex altogether it seems, like ext3 and
    ocfs2. For correctness sake I just pushed everything down in all cases to make
    sure that we keep the current behavior the same for everybody, and then each
    individual fs maintainer can make up their mind about what to do from there.
    Thanks,

    Acked-by: Jan Kara
    Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik
    Signed-off-by: Al Viro

    Josef Bacik
     

10 Mar, 2011

1 commit

  • Code has been converted over to the new explicit on-stack plugging,
    and delay users have been converted to use the new API for that.
    So lets kill off the old plugging along with aops->sync_page().

    Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

    Jens Axboe
     

26 Oct, 2010

1 commit


10 Aug, 2010

1 commit


28 May, 2010

1 commit


12 Jun, 2009

1 commit

  • unfortunately, for affs (especially for affs directories) we have
    no real way to keep track of metadata ownership. So we have to
    do more or less what file_fsync() does, but we do *not* need to
    call write_super() there.

    Signed-off-by: Al Viro

    Al Viro
     

05 Jan, 2009

1 commit

  • With the write_begin/write_end aops, page_symlink was broken because it
    could no longer pass a GFP_NOFS type mask into the point where the
    allocations happened. They are done in write_begin, which would always
    assume that the filesystem can be entered from reclaim. This bug could
    cause filesystem deadlocks.

    The funny thing with having a gfp_t mask there is that it doesn't really
    allow the caller to arbitrarily tinker with the context in which it can be
    called. It couldn't ever be GFP_ATOMIC, for example, because it needs to
    take the page lock. The only thing any callers care about is __GFP_FS
    anyway, so turn that into a single flag.

    Add a new flag for write_begin, AOP_FLAG_NOFS. Filesystems can now act on
    this flag in their write_begin function. Change __grab_cache_page to
    accept a nofs argument as well, to honour that flag (while we're there,
    change the name to grab_cache_page_write_begin which is more instructive
    and does away with random leading underscores).

    This is really a more flexible way to go in the end anyway -- if a
    filesystem happens to want any extra allocations aside from the pagecache
    ones in ints write_begin function, it may now use GFP_KERNEL (rather than
    GFP_NOFS) for common case allocations (eg. ocfs2_alloc_write_ctxt, for a
    random example).

    [kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: fix ubifs]
    [kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: fix fuse]
    Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin
    Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro
    Cc: [2.6.28.x]
    Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    [ Cleaned up the calling convention: just pass in the AOP flags
    untouched to the grab_cache_page_write_begin() function. That
    just simplifies everybody, and may even allow future expansion of the
    logic. - Linus ]
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Nick Piggin
     

27 Jul, 2008

1 commit


07 May, 2008

1 commit

  • - remove affs_put_inode, so preallocations aren't discared unnecessarily
    often.
    - remove affs_drop_inode, it's called with a spinlock held, so it can't
    use a mutex.
    - make i_opencnt atomic
    - avoid direct b_count manipulations
    - a few allocation failure fixes, so that these are more gracefully
    handled now.
    Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel
    Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
    Signed-off-by: Al Viro

    Roman Zippel
     

30 Apr, 2008

1 commit

  • replace all:
    big_endian_variable = cpu_to_beX(beX_to_cpu(big_endian_variable) +
    expression_in_cpu_byteorder);
    with:
    beX_add_cpu(&big_endian_variable, expression_in_cpu_byteorder);
    generated with semantic patch

    Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz
    Cc: Roman Zippel
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Marcin Slusarz
     

29 Apr, 2008

1 commit

  • if (...) BUG(); should be replaced with BUG_ON(...) when the test has no
    side-effects to allow a definition of BUG_ON that drops the code completely.

    The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows:
    (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/)

    //
    @ disable unlikely @ expression E,f; @@

    (
    if () { BUG(); }
    |
    - if (unlikely(E)) { BUG(); }
    + BUG_ON(E);
    )

    @@ expression E,f; @@

    (
    if () { BUG(); }
    |
    - if (E) { BUG(); }
    + BUG_ON(E);
    )
    //

    Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall
    Cc: Roman Zippel
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Julia Lawall
     

17 Oct, 2007

1 commit


10 Jul, 2007

1 commit


10 May, 2007

1 commit


13 Feb, 2007

1 commit

  • 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
     

01 Oct, 2006

1 commit

  • This patch cleans up generic_file_*_read/write() interfaces. Christoph
    Hellwig gave me the idea for this clean ups.

    In a nutshell, all filesystems should set .aio_read/.aio_write methods and use
    do_sync_read/ do_sync_write() as their .read/.write methods. This allows us
    to cleanup all variants of generic_file_* routines.

    Final available interfaces:

    generic_file_aio_read() - read handler
    generic_file_aio_write() - write handler
    generic_file_aio_write_nolock() - no lock write handler

    __generic_file_aio_write_nolock() - internal worker routine

    Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty
    Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Badari Pulavarty
     

29 Jun, 2006

1 commit


29 Mar, 2006

1 commit

  • 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
     

07 Nov, 2005

1 commit


17 Apr, 2005

1 commit

  • 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