27 Sep, 2006

2 commits


21 Sep, 2006

1 commit

  • For all child objects, creation comes through mkdir(2), so duplicate names
    are prevented.

    Subsystems, though, are registered by client drivers at init_module()/__init
    time. This patch prevents duplicate subsystem names.

    Signed-off-by: Joel Becker
    Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh

    Joel Becker
     

30 Jun, 2006

1 commit


29 Jun, 2006

1 commit


27 Jun, 2006

1 commit

  • This patch converts the combination of list_del(A) and list_add(A, B) to
    list_move(A, B) under fs/.

    Cc: Ian Kent
    Acked-by: Joel Becker
    Cc: Neil Brown
    Cc: Hans Reiser
    Cc: Urban Widmark
    Acked-by: David Howells
    Acked-by: Mark Fasheh
    Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Akinobu Mita
     

25 Jun, 2006

1 commit


23 Jun, 2006

1 commit

  • Extend the get_sb() filesystem operation to take an extra argument that
    permits the VFS to pass in the target vfsmount that defines the mountpoint.

    The filesystem is then required to manually set the superblock and root dentry
    pointers. For most filesystems, this should be done with simple_set_mnt()
    which will set the superblock pointer and then set the root dentry to the
    superblock's s_root (as per the old default behaviour).

    The get_sb() op now returns an integer as there's now no need to return the
    superblock pointer.

    This patch permits a superblock to be implicitly shared amongst several mount
    points, such as can be done with NFS to avoid potential inode aliasing. In
    such a case, simple_set_mnt() would not be called, and instead the mnt_root
    and mnt_sb would be set directly.

    The patch also makes the following changes:

    (*) the get_sb_*() convenience functions in the core kernel now take a vfsmount
    pointer argument and return an integer, so most filesystems have to change
    very little.

    (*) If one of the convenience function is not used, then get_sb() should
    normally call simple_set_mnt() to instantiate the vfsmount. This will
    always return 0, and so can be tail-called from get_sb().

    (*) generic_shutdown_super() now calls shrink_dcache_sb() to clean up the
    dcache upon superblock destruction rather than shrink_dcache_anon().

    This is required because the superblock may now have multiple trees that
    aren't actually bound to s_root, but that still need to be cleaned up. The
    currently called functions assume that the whole tree is rooted at s_root,
    and that anonymous dentries are not the roots of trees which results in
    dentries being left unculled.

    However, with the way NFS superblock sharing are currently set to be
    implemented, these assumptions are violated: the root of the filesystem is
    simply a dummy dentry and inode (the real inode for '/' may well be
    inaccessible), and all the vfsmounts are rooted on anonymous[*] dentries
    with child trees.

    [*] Anonymous until discovered from another tree.

    (*) The documentation has been adjusted, including the additional bit of
    changing ext2_* into foo_* in the documentation.

    [akpm@osdl.org: convert ipath_fs, do other stuff]
    Signed-off-by: David Howells
    Acked-by: Al Viro
    Cc: Nathan Scott
    Cc: Roland Dreier
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    David Howells
     

09 Jun, 2006

1 commit


18 May, 2006

2 commits


11 Apr, 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
     

04 Feb, 2006

2 commits


10 Jan, 2006

1 commit


04 Jan, 2006

1 commit