linux-stable.git/Documentation/filesystems/Locking, branch v4.0

Documentation/filesystems/Locking: ->get_sb() is long gone

2015-02-22T16:38:43+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

vfs: remove get_xip_mem

2015-02-17T01:56:03+00:00

All callers of get_xip_mem() are now gone.  Remove checks for it,
initialisers of it, documentation of it and the only implementation of it.
 Also remove mm/filemap_xip.c as it is now empty.  Also remove
documentation of the long-gone get_xip_page().

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox 
Cc: Andreas Dilger 
Cc: Boaz Harrosh 
Cc: Christoph Hellwig 
Cc: Dave Chinner 
Cc: Jan Kara 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers 
Cc: Randy Dunlap 
Cc: Ross Zwisler 
Cc: Theodore Ts'o 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

vfs: add i_op->dentry_open()

2014-10-23T22:14:35+00:00

Add a new inode operation i_op->dentry_open().  This is for stacked filesystems
that want to return a struct file from a different filesystem.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi

locks: move freeing of leases outside of i_lock

2014-10-07T18:06:13+00:00

There was only one place where we still could free a file_lock while
holding the i_lock -- lease_modify. Add a new list_head argument to the
lm_change operation, pass in a private list when calling it, and fix
those callers to dispose of the list once the lock has been dropped.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton 
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig

locks: move i_lock acquisition into generic_*_lease handlers

2014-10-07T18:06:13+00:00

Now that we have a saner internal API for managing leases, we no longer
need to mandate that the inode->i_lock be held over most of the lease
code. Push it down into generic_add_lease and generic_delete_lease.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton 
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig

locks: plumb a "priv" pointer into the setlease routines

2014-10-07T18:06:12+00:00

In later patches, we're going to add a new lock_manager_operation to
finish setting up the lease while still holding the i_lock.  To do
this, we'll need to pass a little bit of info in the fcntl setlease
case (primarily an fasync structure). Plumb the extra pointer into
there in advance of that.

We declare this pointer as a void ** to make it clear that this is
private info, and that the caller isn't required to set this unless
the lm_setup specifically requires it.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton 
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig

locks: update Locking documentation to clarify fl_release_private behavior

2014-08-14T14:08:20+00:00

Acked-by: J. Bruce Fields 
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton

new methods: ->read_iter() and ->write_iter()

2014-05-06T21:36:00+00:00

Beginning to introduce those.  Just the callers for now, and it's
clumsier than it'll eventually become; once we finish converting
aio_read and aio_write instances, the things will get nicer.

For now, these guys are in parallel to ->aio_read() and ->aio_write();
they take iocb and iov_iter, with everything in iov_iter already
validated.  File offset is passed in iocb->ki_pos, iov/nr_segs -
in iov_iter.

Main concerns in that series are stack footprint and ability to
split the damn thing cleanly.

[fix from Peter Ujfalusi  folded]

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

pass iov_iter to ->direct_IO()

2014-05-06T21:32:44+00:00

unmodified, for now

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

2014-04-12T21:49:50+00:00

Pull vfs updates from Al Viro:
 "The first vfs pile, with deep apologies for being very late in this
  window.

  Assorted cleanups and fixes, plus a large preparatory part of iov_iter
  work.  There's a lot more of that, but it'll probably go into the next
  merge window - it *does* shape up nicely, removes a lot of
  boilerplate, gets rid of locking inconsistencie between aio_write and
  splice_write and I hope to get Kent's direct-io rewrite merged into
  the same queue, but some of the stuff after this point is having
  (mostly trivial) conflicts with the things already merged into
  mainline and with some I want more testing.

  This one passes LTP and xfstests without regressions, in addition to
  usual beating.  BTW, readahead02 in ltp syscalls testsuite has started
  giving failures since "mm/readahead.c: fix readahead failure for
  memoryless NUMA nodes and limit readahead pages" - might be a false
  positive, might be a real regression..."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (63 commits)
  missing bits of "splice: fix racy pipe->buffers uses"
  cifs: fix the race in cifs_writev()
  ceph_sync_{,direct_}write: fix an oops on ceph_osdc_new_request() failure
  kill generic_file_buffered_write()
  ocfs2_file_aio_write(): switch to generic_perform_write()
  ceph_aio_write(): switch to generic_perform_write()
  xfs_file_buffered_aio_write(): switch to generic_perform_write()
  export generic_perform_write(), start getting rid of generic_file_buffer_write()
  generic_file_direct_write(): get rid of ppos argument
  btrfs_file_aio_write(): get rid of ppos
  kill the 5th argument of generic_file_buffered_write()
  kill the 4th argument of __generic_file_aio_write()
  lustre: don't open-code kernel_recvmsg()
  ocfs2: don't open-code kernel_recvmsg()
  drbd: don't open-code kernel_recvmsg()
  constify blk_rq_map_user_iov() and friends
  lustre: switch to kernel_sendmsg()
  ocfs2: don't open-code kernel_sendmsg()
  take iov_iter stuff to mm/iov_iter.c
  process_vm_access: tidy up a bit
  ...