04 Jan, 2012

1 commit


16 Jan, 2011

3 commits

  • Unexport do_add_mount() and make ->d_automount() return the vfsmount to be
    added rather than calling do_add_mount() itself. follow_automount() will then
    do the addition.

    This slightly complicates things as ->d_automount() normally wants to add the
    new vfsmount to an expiration list and start an expiration timer. The problem
    with that is that the vfsmount will be deleted if it has a refcount of 1 and
    the timer will not repeat if the expiration list is empty.

    To this end, we require the vfsmount to be returned from d_automount() with a
    refcount of (at least) 2. One of these refs will be dropped unconditionally.
    In addition, follow_automount() must get a 3rd ref around the call to
    do_add_mount() lest it eat a ref and return an error, leaving the mount we
    have open to being expired as we would otherwise have only 1 ref on it.

    d_automount() should also add the the vfsmount to the expiration list (by
    calling mnt_set_expiry()) and start the expiration timer before returning, if
    this mechanism is to be used. The vfsmount will be unlinked from the
    expiration list by follow_automount() if do_add_mount() fails.

    This patch also fixes the call to do_add_mount() for AFS to propagate the mount
    flags from the parent vfsmount.

    Signed-off-by: David Howells
    Signed-off-by: Al Viro

    David Howells
     
  • Make AFS use the new d_automount() dentry operation rather than abusing
    follow_link() on directories.

    Signed-off-by: David Howells
    Signed-off-by: Al Viro

    David Howells
     
  • Add a dentry op (d_manage) to permit a filesystem to hold a process and make it
    sleep when it tries to transit away from one of that filesystem's directories
    during a pathwalk. The operation is keyed off a new dentry flag
    (DCACHE_MANAGE_TRANSIT).

    The filesystem is allowed to be selective about which processes it holds and
    which it permits to continue on or prohibits from transiting from each flagged
    directory. This will allow autofs to hold up client processes whilst letting
    its userspace daemon through to maintain the directory or the stuff behind it
    or mounted upon it.

    The ->d_manage() dentry operation:

    int (*d_manage)(struct path *path, bool mounting_here);

    takes a pointer to the directory about to be transited away from and a flag
    indicating whether the transit is undertaken by do_add_mount() or
    do_move_mount() skipping through a pile of filesystems mounted on a mountpoint.

    It should return 0 if successful and to let the process continue on its way;
    -EISDIR to prohibit the caller from skipping to overmounted filesystems or
    automounting, and to use this directory; or some other error code to return to
    the user.

    ->d_manage() is called with namespace_sem writelocked if mounting_here is true
    and no other locks held, so it may sleep. However, if mounting_here is true,
    it may not initiate or wait for a mount or unmount upon the parameter
    directory, even if the act is actually performed by userspace.

    Within fs/namei.c, follow_managed() is extended to check with d_manage() first
    on each managed directory, before transiting away from it or attempting to
    automount upon it.

    follow_down() is renamed follow_down_one() and should only be used where the
    filesystem deliberately intends to avoid management steps (e.g. autofs).

    A new follow_down() is added that incorporates the loop done by all other
    callers of follow_down() (do_add/move_mount(), autofs and NFSD; whilst AFS, NFS
    and CIFS do use it, their use is removed by converting them to use
    d_automount()). The new follow_down() calls d_manage() as appropriate. It
    also takes an extra parameter to indicate if it is being called from mount code
    (with namespace_sem writelocked) which it passes to d_manage(). follow_down()
    ignores automount points so that it can be used to mount on them.

    __follow_mount_rcu() is made to abort rcu-walk mode if it hits a directory with
    DCACHE_MANAGE_TRANSIT set on the basis that we're probably going to have to
    sleep. It would be possible to enter d_manage() in rcu-walk mode too, and have
    that determine whether to abort or not itself. That would allow the autofs
    daemon to continue on in rcu-walk mode.

    Note that DCACHE_MANAGE_TRANSIT on a directory should be cleared when it isn't
    required as every tranist from that directory will cause d_manage() to be
    invoked. It can always be set again when necessary.

    ==========================
    WHAT THIS MEANS FOR AUTOFS
    ==========================

    Autofs currently uses the lookup() inode op and the d_revalidate() dentry op to
    trigger the automounting of indirect mounts, and both of these can be called
    with i_mutex held.

    autofs knows that the i_mutex will be held by the caller in lookup(), and so
    can drop it before invoking the daemon - but this isn't so for d_revalidate(),
    since the lock is only held on _some_ of the code paths that call it. This
    means that autofs can't risk dropping i_mutex from its d_revalidate() function
    before it calls the daemon.

    The bug could manifest itself as, for example, a process that's trying to
    validate an automount dentry that gets made to wait because that dentry is
    expired and needs cleaning up:

    mkdir S ffffffff8014e05a 0 32580 24956
    Call Trace:
    [] :autofs4:autofs4_wait+0x674/0x897
    [] avc_has_perm+0x46/0x58
    [] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x2e
    [] :autofs4:autofs4_expire_wait+0x41/0x6b
    [] :autofs4:autofs4_revalidate+0x91/0x149
    [] __lookup_hash+0xa0/0x12f
    [] lookup_create+0x46/0x80
    [] sys_mkdirat+0x56/0xe4

    versus the automount daemon which wants to remove that dentry, but can't
    because the normal process is holding the i_mutex lock:

    automount D ffffffff8014e05a 0 32581 1 32561
    Call Trace:
    [] __mutex_lock_slowpath+0x60/0x9b
    [] do_path_lookup+0x2ca/0x2f1
    [] .text.lock.mutex+0xf/0x14
    [] do_rmdir+0x77/0xde
    [] tracesys+0x71/0xe0
    [] tracesys+0xd5/0xe0

    which means that the system is deadlocked.

    This patch allows autofs to hold up normal processes whilst the daemon goes
    ahead and does things to the dentry tree behind the automouter point without
    risking a deadlock as almost no locks are held in d_manage() and none in
    d_automount().

    Signed-off-by: David Howells
    Was-Acked-by: Ian Kent
    Signed-off-by: Al Viro

    David Howells
     

15 Jan, 2011

1 commit

  • flush_scheduled_work() is going away. afs needs to make sure all the
    works it has queued have finished before being unloaded and there can
    be arbitrary number of pending works. Add afs_wq and use it as the
    flush domain instead of the system workqueue.

    Also, convert cancel_delayed_work() + flush_scheduled_work() to
    cancel_delayed_work_sync() in afs_mntpt_kill_timer().

    Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo
    Signed-off-by: David Howells
    Cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Tejun Heo
     

15 Oct, 2010

1 commit

  • All file_operations should get a .llseek operation so we can make
    nonseekable_open the default for future file operations without a
    .llseek pointer.

    The three cases that we can automatically detect are no_llseek, seq_lseek
    and default_llseek. For cases where we can we can automatically prove that
    the file offset is always ignored, we use noop_llseek, which maintains
    the current behavior of not returning an error from a seek.

    New drivers should normally not use noop_llseek but instead use no_llseek
    and call nonseekable_open at open time. Existing drivers can be converted
    to do the same when the maintainer knows for certain that no user code
    relies on calling seek on the device file.

    The generated code is often incorrectly indented and right now contains
    comments that clarify for each added line why a specific variant was
    chosen. In the version that gets submitted upstream, the comments will
    be gone and I will manually fix the indentation, because there does not
    seem to be a way to do that using coccinelle.

    Some amount of new code is currently sitting in linux-next that should get
    the same modifications, which I will do at the end of the merge window.

    Many thanks to Julia Lawall for helping me learn to write a semantic
    patch that does all this.

    ===== begin semantic patch =====
    // This adds an llseek= method to all file operations,
    // as a preparation for making no_llseek the default.
    //
    // The rules are
    // - use no_llseek explicitly if we do nonseekable_open
    // - use seq_lseek for sequential files
    // - use default_llseek if we know we access f_pos
    // - use noop_llseek if we know we don't access f_pos,
    // but we still want to allow users to call lseek
    //
    @ open1 exists @
    identifier nested_open;
    @@
    nested_open(...)
    {

    }

    @ open exists@
    identifier open_f;
    identifier i, f;
    identifier open1.nested_open;
    @@
    int open_f(struct inode *i, struct file *f)
    {

    }

    @ read disable optional_qualifier exists @
    identifier read_f;
    identifier f, p, s, off;
    type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
    expression E;
    identifier func;
    @@
    ssize_t read_f(struct file *f, char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
    {

    }

    @ read_no_fpos disable optional_qualifier exists @
    identifier read_f;
    identifier f, p, s, off;
    type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
    @@
    ssize_t read_f(struct file *f, char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
    {
    ... when != off
    }

    @ write @
    identifier write_f;
    identifier f, p, s, off;
    type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
    expression E;
    identifier func;
    @@
    ssize_t write_f(struct file *f, const char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
    {

    }

    @ write_no_fpos @
    identifier write_f;
    identifier f, p, s, off;
    type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
    @@
    ssize_t write_f(struct file *f, const char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
    {
    ... when != off
    }

    @ fops0 @
    identifier fops;
    @@
    struct file_operations fops = {
    ...
    };

    @ has_llseek depends on fops0 @
    identifier fops0.fops;
    identifier llseek_f;
    @@
    struct file_operations fops = {
    ...
    .llseek = llseek_f,
    ...
    };

    @ has_read depends on fops0 @
    identifier fops0.fops;
    identifier read_f;
    @@
    struct file_operations fops = {
    ...
    .read = read_f,
    ...
    };

    @ has_write depends on fops0 @
    identifier fops0.fops;
    identifier write_f;
    @@
    struct file_operations fops = {
    ...
    .write = write_f,
    ...
    };

    @ has_open depends on fops0 @
    identifier fops0.fops;
    identifier open_f;
    @@
    struct file_operations fops = {
    ...
    .open = open_f,
    ...
    };

    // use no_llseek if we call nonseekable_open
    ////////////////////////////////////////////
    @ nonseekable1 depends on !has_llseek && has_open @
    identifier fops0.fops;
    identifier nso ~= "nonseekable_open";
    @@
    struct file_operations fops = {
    ... .open = nso, ...
    +.llseek = no_llseek, /* nonseekable */
    };

    @ nonseekable2 depends on !has_llseek @
    identifier fops0.fops;
    identifier open.open_f;
    @@
    struct file_operations fops = {
    ... .open = open_f, ...
    +.llseek = no_llseek, /* open uses nonseekable */
    };

    // use seq_lseek for sequential files
    /////////////////////////////////////
    @ seq depends on !has_llseek @
    identifier fops0.fops;
    identifier sr ~= "seq_read";
    @@
    struct file_operations fops = {
    ... .read = sr, ...
    +.llseek = seq_lseek, /* we have seq_read */
    };

    // use default_llseek if there is a readdir
    ///////////////////////////////////////////
    @ fops1 depends on !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
    identifier fops0.fops;
    identifier readdir_e;
    @@
    // any other fop is used that changes pos
    struct file_operations fops = {
    ... .readdir = readdir_e, ...
    +.llseek = default_llseek, /* readdir is present */
    };

    // use default_llseek if at least one of read/write touches f_pos
    /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
    @ fops2 depends on !fops1 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
    identifier fops0.fops;
    identifier read.read_f;
    @@
    // read fops use offset
    struct file_operations fops = {
    ... .read = read_f, ...
    +.llseek = default_llseek, /* read accesses f_pos */
    };

    @ fops3 depends on !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
    identifier fops0.fops;
    identifier write.write_f;
    @@
    // write fops use offset
    struct file_operations fops = {
    ... .write = write_f, ...
    + .llseek = default_llseek, /* write accesses f_pos */
    };

    // Use noop_llseek if neither read nor write accesses f_pos
    ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

    @ fops4 depends on !fops1 && !fops2 && !fops3 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
    identifier fops0.fops;
    identifier read_no_fpos.read_f;
    identifier write_no_fpos.write_f;
    @@
    // write fops use offset
    struct file_operations fops = {
    ...
    .write = write_f,
    .read = read_f,
    ...
    +.llseek = noop_llseek, /* read and write both use no f_pos */
    };

    @ depends on has_write && !has_read && !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
    identifier fops0.fops;
    identifier write_no_fpos.write_f;
    @@
    struct file_operations fops = {
    ... .write = write_f, ...
    +.llseek = noop_llseek, /* write uses no f_pos */
    };

    @ depends on has_read && !has_write && !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
    identifier fops0.fops;
    identifier read_no_fpos.read_f;
    @@
    struct file_operations fops = {
    ... .read = read_f, ...
    +.llseek = noop_llseek, /* read uses no f_pos */
    };

    @ depends on !has_read && !has_write && !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
    identifier fops0.fops;
    @@
    struct file_operations fops = {
    ...
    +.llseek = noop_llseek, /* no read or write fn */
    };
    ===== End semantic patch =====

    Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann
    Cc: Julia Lawall
    Cc: Christoph Hellwig

    Arnd Bergmann
     

12 Aug, 2010

1 commit

  • Implement the ability for the root directory of a mounted AFS filesystem to
    accept lookups of arbitrary directory names, to interpet the names as the names
    of cells, to look the cell names up in the DNS for AFSDB records and to mount
    the root.cell volume of the nominated cell on the pseudo-directory created by
    lookup.

    This facility is requested by passing:

    -o autocell

    to the mountpoint for which this is desired, usually the /afs mount.

    To use this facility, a DNS upcall program is required for AFSDB records. This
    can be obtained from:

    http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/afs/dns.afsdb.c

    It should be compiled with -lresolv and -lkeyutils and installed as, say:

    /usr/sbin/dns.afsdb

    Then the following line needs to be added to /sbin/request-key.conf:

    create dns_resolver afsdb:* * /usr/sbin/dns.afsdb %k

    This can be tested by mounting AFS, say:

    insmod dns_resolver.ko
    insmod af-rxrpc.ko
    insmod kafs.ko rootcell=grand.central.org
    mount -t afs "#grand.central.org:root.cell." /afs -o autocell

    and doing:

    ls /afs/grand.central.org/

    which should show:

    archive/ cvs/ doc/ local/ project/ service/ software/ user/ www/

    if it works.

    Signed-off-by: Wang Lei
    Signed-off-by: David Howells
    Signed-off-by: Steve French

    wanglei
     

22 May, 2010

1 commit

  • Don't put struct file on the stack as it takes up quite a lot of space
    and violates lifetime rules for struct file.

    Rather than calling afs_readpage() indirectly from the directory routines by
    way of read_mapping_page(), split afs_readpage() to have afs_page_filler()
    that's given a key instead of a file and call read_cache_page(), specifying the
    new function directly. Use it in afs_readpages() as well.

    Also make use of this in afs_mntpt_check_symlink() too for the same reason.

    Reported-by: Al Viro
    Signed-off-by: Al Viro
    Signed-off-by: David Howells

    Al Viro
     

22 Apr, 2010

1 commit


30 Mar, 2010

1 commit

  • …it slab.h inclusion from percpu.h

    percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
    included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which
    in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
    universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

    percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for
    this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
    headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion
    needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
    used as the basis of conversion.

    http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

    The script does the followings.

    * Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
    only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used,
    gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

    * When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
    blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
    to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains
    core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
    alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
    doesn't seem to be any matching order.

    * If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
    because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
    an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
    file.

    The conversion was done in the following steps.

    1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
    over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
    and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400
    files.

    2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion,
    some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
    embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added
    inclusions to around 150 files.

    3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
    from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

    4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
    e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
    APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

    5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
    editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
    files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h
    inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
    wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each
    slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
    necessary.

    6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

    7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
    were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
    distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
    more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
    build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

    * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
    * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
    * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
    * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
    * s390 SMP allmodconfig
    * alpha SMP allmodconfig
    * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

    8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
    a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

    Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
    6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
    If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
    headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
    the specific arch.

    Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
    Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
    Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>

    Tejun Heo
     

09 Jul, 2009

1 commit

  • Fix various silly problems wrt mnt_namespace.h:

    - exit_mnt_ns() isn't used, remove it
    - done that, sched.h and nsproxy.h inclusions aren't needed
    - mount.h inclusion was need for vfsmount_lock, but no longer
    - remove mnt_namespace.h inclusion from files which don't use anything
    from mnt_namespace.h

    Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Alexey Dobriyan
     

12 Jun, 2009

1 commit


03 Apr, 2009

1 commit

  • The attached patch makes the kAFS filesystem in fs/afs/ use FS-Cache, and
    through it any attached caches. The kAFS filesystem will use caching
    automatically if it's available.

    Signed-off-by: David Howells
    Acked-by: Steve Dickson
    Acked-by: Trond Myklebust
    Acked-by: Al Viro
    Tested-by: Daire Byrne

    David Howells
     

01 Aug, 2008

1 commit


28 Mar, 2008

1 commit


15 Feb, 2008

3 commits

  • Use path_put() in a few places instead of {mnt,d}put()

    Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck
    Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher
    Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig
    Cc: Al Viro
    Acked-by: David Howells
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Jan Blunck
     
  • * Add path_put() functions for releasing a reference to the dentry and
    vfsmount of a struct path in the right order

    * Switch from path_release(nd) to path_put(&nd->path)

    * Rename dput_path() to path_put_conditional()

    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix cifs]
    Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck
    Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher
    Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig
    Cc:
    Cc: Al Viro
    Cc: Steven French
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Jan Blunck
     
  • This is the central patch of a cleanup series. In most cases there is no good
    reason why someone would want to use a dentry for itself. This series reflects
    that fact and embeds a struct path into nameidata.

    Together with the other patches of this series
    - it enforced the correct order of getting/releasing the reference count on
    pairs
    - it prepares the VFS for stacking support since it is essential to have a
    struct path in every place where the stack can be traversed
    - it reduces the overall code size:

    without patch series:
    text data bss dec hex filename
    5321639 858418 715768 6895825 6938d1 vmlinux

    with patch series:
    text data bss dec hex filename
    5320026 858418 715768 6894212 693284 vmlinux

    This patch:

    Switch from nd->{dentry,mnt} to nd->path.{dentry,mnt} everywhere.

    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix cifs]
    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix smack]
    Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck
    Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher
    Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig
    Cc: Al Viro
    Cc: Casey Schaufler
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Jan Blunck
     

17 Oct, 2007

1 commit

  • This patch contains the following possible cleanups:
    - make the following needlessly global functions static:
    - rxrpc.c: afs_send_pages()
    - vlocation.c: afs_vlocation_queue_for_updates()
    - write.c: afs_writepages_region()
    - make the following needlessly global variables static:
    - mntpt.c: afs_mntpt_expiry_timeout
    - proc.c: afs_vlocation_states[]
    - server.c: afs_server_timeout
    - vlocation.c: afs_vlocation_timeout
    - vlocation.c: afs_vlocation_update_timeout
    - #if 0 the following unused function:
    - cell.c: afs_get_cell_maybe()
    - #if 0 the following unused variables:
    - callback.c: afs_vnode_update_timeout
    - cmservice.c: struct afs_cm_workqueue

    Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk
    Acked-by: David Howells
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Adrian Bunk
     

12 Sep, 2007

1 commit


10 May, 2007

1 commit

  • Make some miscellaneous changes to the AFS filesystem:

    (1) Assert RCU barriers on module exit to make sure RCU has finished with
    callbacks in this module.

    (2) Correctly handle the AFS server returning a zero-length read.

    (3) Split out data zapping calls into one function (afs_zap_data).

    (4) Rename some afs_file_*() functions to afs_*() where they apply to
    non-regular files too.

    (5) Be consistent about the presentation of volume ID:vnode ID in debugging
    output.

    Signed-off-by: David Howells
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    David Howells
     

08 May, 2007

1 commit

  • Ensure pages are uptodate after returning from read_cache_page, which allows
    us to cut out most of the filesystem-internal PageUptodate calls.

    I didn't have a great look down the call chains, but this appears to fixes 7
    possible use-before uptodate in hfs, 2 in hfsplus, 1 in jfs, a few in
    ecryptfs, 1 in jffs2, and a possible cleared data overwritten with readpage in
    block2mtd. All depending on whether the filler is async and/or can return
    with a !uptodate page.

    Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin
    Cc: Hugh Dickins
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Nick Piggin
     

27 Apr, 2007

3 commits


15 Feb, 2007

1 commit

  • After Al Viro (finally) succeeded in removing the sched.h #include in module.h
    recently, it makes sense again to remove other superfluous sched.h includes.
    There are quite a lot of files which include it but don't actually need
    anything defined in there. Presumably these includes were once needed for
    macros that used to live in sched.h, but moved to other header files in the
    course of cleaning it up.

    To ease the pain, this time I did not fiddle with any header files and only
    removed #includes from .c-files, which tend to cause less trouble.

    Compile tested against 2.6.20-rc2 and 2.6.20-rc2-mm2 (with offsets) on alpha,
    arm, i386, ia64, mips, powerpc, and x86_64 with allnoconfig, defconfig,
    allmodconfig, and allyesconfig as well as a few randconfigs on x86_64 and all
    configs in arch/arm/configs on arm. I also checked that no new warnings were
    introduced by the patch (actually, some warnings are removed that were emitted
    by unnecessarily included header files).

    Signed-off-by: Tim Schmielau
    Acked-by: Russell King
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Tim Schmielau
     

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
     

09 Dec, 2006

2 commits


25 Jun, 2006

1 commit


23 Jun, 2006

1 commit

  • Add read_mapping_page() which is used for callers that pass
    mapping->a_ops->readpage as the filler for read_cache_page. This removes
    some duplication from filesystem code.

    Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Pekka Enberg
     

09 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
     

20 Aug, 2005

1 commit

  • This fixes up the symlink functions for the calling convention change:

    * afs, autofs4, befs, devfs, freevxfs, jffs2, jfs, ncpfs, procfs,
    smbfs, sysvfs, ufs, xfs - prototype change for ->follow_link()
    * befs, smbfs, xfs - same for ->put_link()

    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Al Viro
     

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