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<title>writeback: fix a subtle race condition in I_DIRTY clearing</title>
<updated>2015-04-14T09:33:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-24T19:38:21+00:00</published>
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commit 9c6ac78eb3521c5937b2dd8a7d1b300f41092f45 upstream.

After invoking -&gt;dirty_inode(), __mark_inode_dirty() does smp_mb() and
tests inode-&gt;i_state locklessly to see whether it already has all the
necessary I_DIRTY bits set.  The comment above the barrier doesn't
contain any useful information - memory barriers can't ensure "changes
are seen by all cpus" by itself.

And it sure enough was broken.  Please consider the following
scenario.

 CPU 0					CPU 1
 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------

					enters __writeback_single_inode()
					grabs inode-&gt;i_lock
					tests PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY which is clear
 enters __set_page_dirty()
 grabs mapping-&gt;tree_lock
 sets PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY
 releases mapping-&gt;tree_lock
 leaves __set_page_dirty()

 enters __mark_inode_dirty()
 smp_mb()
 sees I_DIRTY_PAGES set
 leaves __mark_inode_dirty()
					clears I_DIRTY_PAGES
					releases inode-&gt;i_lock

Now @inode has dirty pages w/ I_DIRTY_PAGES clear.  This doesn't seem
to lead to an immediately critical problem because requeue_inode()
later checks PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY instead of I_DIRTY_PAGES when
deciding whether the inode needs to be requeued for IO and there are
enough unintentional memory barriers inbetween, so while the inode
ends up with inconsistent I_DIRTY_PAGES flag, it doesn't fall off the
IO list.

The lack of explicit barrier may also theoretically affect the other
I_DIRTY bits which deal with metadata dirtiness.  There is no
guarantee that a strong enough barrier exists between
I_DIRTY_[DATA]SYNC clearing and write_inode() writing out the dirtied
inode.  Filesystem inode writeout path likely has enough stuff which
can behave as full barrier but it's theoretically possible that the
writeout may not see all the updates from -&gt;dirty_inode().

Fix it by adding an explicit smp_mb() after I_DIRTY clearing.  Note
that I_DIRTY_PAGES needs a special treatment as it always needs to be
cleared to be interlocked with the lockless test on
__mark_inode_dirty() side.  It's cleared unconditionally and
reinstated after smp_mb() if the mapping still has dirty pages.

Also add comments explaining how and why the barriers are paired.

Lightly tested.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Zefan Li &lt;lizefan@huawei.com&gt;
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commit 9c6ac78eb3521c5937b2dd8a7d1b300f41092f45 upstream.

After invoking -&gt;dirty_inode(), __mark_inode_dirty() does smp_mb() and
tests inode-&gt;i_state locklessly to see whether it already has all the
necessary I_DIRTY bits set.  The comment above the barrier doesn't
contain any useful information - memory barriers can't ensure "changes
are seen by all cpus" by itself.

And it sure enough was broken.  Please consider the following
scenario.

 CPU 0					CPU 1
 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------

					enters __writeback_single_inode()
					grabs inode-&gt;i_lock
					tests PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY which is clear
 enters __set_page_dirty()
 grabs mapping-&gt;tree_lock
 sets PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY
 releases mapping-&gt;tree_lock
 leaves __set_page_dirty()

 enters __mark_inode_dirty()
 smp_mb()
 sees I_DIRTY_PAGES set
 leaves __mark_inode_dirty()
					clears I_DIRTY_PAGES
					releases inode-&gt;i_lock

Now @inode has dirty pages w/ I_DIRTY_PAGES clear.  This doesn't seem
to lead to an immediately critical problem because requeue_inode()
later checks PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY instead of I_DIRTY_PAGES when
deciding whether the inode needs to be requeued for IO and there are
enough unintentional memory barriers inbetween, so while the inode
ends up with inconsistent I_DIRTY_PAGES flag, it doesn't fall off the
IO list.

The lack of explicit barrier may also theoretically affect the other
I_DIRTY bits which deal with metadata dirtiness.  There is no
guarantee that a strong enough barrier exists between
I_DIRTY_[DATA]SYNC clearing and write_inode() writing out the dirtied
inode.  Filesystem inode writeout path likely has enough stuff which
can behave as full barrier but it's theoretically possible that the
writeout may not see all the updates from -&gt;dirty_inode().

Fix it by adding an explicit smp_mb() after I_DIRTY clearing.  Note
that I_DIRTY_PAGES needs a special treatment as it always needs to be
cleared to be interlocked with the lockless test on
__mark_inode_dirty() side.  It's cleared unconditionally and
reinstated after smp_mb() if the mapping still has dirty pages.

Also add comments explaining how and why the barriers are paired.

Lightly tested.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Zefan Li &lt;lizefan@huawei.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>writeback: Move I_DIRTY_PAGES handling</title>
<updated>2015-04-14T09:33:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-03T12:47:57+00:00</published>
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commit 6290be1c1dc6589eeda213aa40946b27fa4faac8 upstream.

Instead of clearing I_DIRTY_PAGES and resetting it when we didn't succeed in
writing them all, just clear the bit only when we succeeded writing all the
pages. We also move the clearing of the bit close to other i_state handling to
separate it from writeback list handling. This is desirable because list
handling will differ for flusher thread and other writeback_single_inode()
callers in future. No filesystem plays any tricks with I_DIRTY_PAGES (like
checking it in -&gt;writepages or -&gt;write_inode implementation) so this movement
is safe.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Zefan Li &lt;lizefan@huawei.com&gt;
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commit 6290be1c1dc6589eeda213aa40946b27fa4faac8 upstream.

Instead of clearing I_DIRTY_PAGES and resetting it when we didn't succeed in
writing them all, just clear the bit only when we succeeded writing all the
pages. We also move the clearing of the bit close to other i_state handling to
separate it from writeback list handling. This is desirable because list
handling will differ for flusher thread and other writeback_single_inode()
callers in future. No filesystem plays any tricks with I_DIRTY_PAGES (like
checking it in -&gt;writepages or -&gt;write_inode implementation) so this movement
is safe.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Zefan Li &lt;lizefan@huawei.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ext4: fix potential deadlock in ext4_nonda_switch()</title>
<updated>2012-10-12T20:38:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2012-09-20T02:42:36+00:00</published>
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commit 00d4e7362ed01987183e9528295de3213031309c upstream.

In ext4_nonda_switch(), if the file system is getting full we used to
call writeback_inodes_sb_if_idle().  The problem is that we can be
holding i_mutex already, and this causes a potential deadlock when
writeback_inodes_sb_if_idle() when it tries to take s_umount.  (See
lockdep output below).

As it turns out we don't need need to hold s_umount; the fact that we
are in the middle of the write(2) system call will keep the superblock
pinned.  Unfortunately writeback_inodes_sb() checks to make sure
s_umount is taken, and the VFS uses a different mechanism for making
sure the file system doesn't get unmounted out from under us.  The
simplest way of dealing with this is to just simply grab s_umount
using a trylock, and skip kicking the writeback flusher thread in the
very unlikely case that we can't take a read lock on s_umount without
blocking.

Also, we now check the cirteria for kicking the writeback thread
before we decide to whether to fall back to non-delayed writeback, so
if there are any outstanding delayed allocation writes, we try to get
them resolved as soon as possible.

   [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ]
   3.6.0-rc1-00042-gce894ca #367 Not tainted
   -------------------------------------------------------
   dd/8298 is trying to acquire lock:
    (&amp;type-&gt;s_umount_key#18){++++..}, at: [&lt;c02277d4&gt;] writeback_inodes_sb_if_idle+0x28/0x46

   but task is already holding lock:
    (&amp;sb-&gt;s_type-&gt;i_mutex_key#8){+.+...}, at: [&lt;c01ddcce&gt;] generic_file_aio_write+0x5f/0xd3

   which lock already depends on the new lock.

   2 locks held by dd/8298:
    #0:  (sb_writers#2){.+.+.+}, at: [&lt;c01ddcc5&gt;] generic_file_aio_write+0x56/0xd3
    #1:  (&amp;sb-&gt;s_type-&gt;i_mutex_key#8){+.+...}, at: [&lt;c01ddcce&gt;] generic_file_aio_write+0x5f/0xd3

   stack backtrace:
   Pid: 8298, comm: dd Not tainted 3.6.0-rc1-00042-gce894ca #367
   Call Trace:
    [&lt;c015b79c&gt;] ? console_unlock+0x345/0x372
    [&lt;c06d62a1&gt;] print_circular_bug+0x190/0x19d
    [&lt;c019906c&gt;] __lock_acquire+0x86d/0xb6c
    [&lt;c01999db&gt;] ? mark_held_locks+0x5c/0x7b
    [&lt;c0199724&gt;] lock_acquire+0x66/0xb9
    [&lt;c02277d4&gt;] ? writeback_inodes_sb_if_idle+0x28/0x46
    [&lt;c06db935&gt;] down_read+0x28/0x58
    [&lt;c02277d4&gt;] ? writeback_inodes_sb_if_idle+0x28/0x46
    [&lt;c02277d4&gt;] writeback_inodes_sb_if_idle+0x28/0x46
    [&lt;c026f3b2&gt;] ext4_nonda_switch+0xe1/0xf4
    [&lt;c0271ece&gt;] ext4_da_write_begin+0x27/0x193
    [&lt;c01dcdb0&gt;] generic_file_buffered_write+0xc8/0x1bb
    [&lt;c01ddc47&gt;] __generic_file_aio_write+0x1dd/0x205
    [&lt;c01ddce7&gt;] generic_file_aio_write+0x78/0xd3
    [&lt;c026d336&gt;] ext4_file_write+0x480/0x4a6
    [&lt;c0198c1d&gt;] ? __lock_acquire+0x41e/0xb6c
    [&lt;c0180944&gt;] ? sched_clock_cpu+0x11a/0x13e
    [&lt;c01967e9&gt;] ? trace_hardirqs_off+0xb/0xd
    [&lt;c018099f&gt;] ? local_clock+0x37/0x4e
    [&lt;c0209f2c&gt;] do_sync_write+0x67/0x9d
    [&lt;c0209ec5&gt;] ? wait_on_retry_sync_kiocb+0x44/0x44
    [&lt;c020a7b9&gt;] vfs_write+0x7b/0xe6
    [&lt;c020a9a6&gt;] sys_write+0x3b/0x64
    [&lt;c06dd4bd&gt;] syscall_call+0x7/0xb

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 00d4e7362ed01987183e9528295de3213031309c upstream.

In ext4_nonda_switch(), if the file system is getting full we used to
call writeback_inodes_sb_if_idle().  The problem is that we can be
holding i_mutex already, and this causes a potential deadlock when
writeback_inodes_sb_if_idle() when it tries to take s_umount.  (See
lockdep output below).

As it turns out we don't need need to hold s_umount; the fact that we
are in the middle of the write(2) system call will keep the superblock
pinned.  Unfortunately writeback_inodes_sb() checks to make sure
s_umount is taken, and the VFS uses a different mechanism for making
sure the file system doesn't get unmounted out from under us.  The
simplest way of dealing with this is to just simply grab s_umount
using a trylock, and skip kicking the writeback flusher thread in the
very unlikely case that we can't take a read lock on s_umount without
blocking.

Also, we now check the cirteria for kicking the writeback thread
before we decide to whether to fall back to non-delayed writeback, so
if there are any outstanding delayed allocation writes, we try to get
them resolved as soon as possible.

   [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ]
   3.6.0-rc1-00042-gce894ca #367 Not tainted
   -------------------------------------------------------
   dd/8298 is trying to acquire lock:
    (&amp;type-&gt;s_umount_key#18){++++..}, at: [&lt;c02277d4&gt;] writeback_inodes_sb_if_idle+0x28/0x46

   but task is already holding lock:
    (&amp;sb-&gt;s_type-&gt;i_mutex_key#8){+.+...}, at: [&lt;c01ddcce&gt;] generic_file_aio_write+0x5f/0xd3

   which lock already depends on the new lock.

   2 locks held by dd/8298:
    #0:  (sb_writers#2){.+.+.+}, at: [&lt;c01ddcc5&gt;] generic_file_aio_write+0x56/0xd3
    #1:  (&amp;sb-&gt;s_type-&gt;i_mutex_key#8){+.+...}, at: [&lt;c01ddcce&gt;] generic_file_aio_write+0x5f/0xd3

   stack backtrace:
   Pid: 8298, comm: dd Not tainted 3.6.0-rc1-00042-gce894ca #367
   Call Trace:
    [&lt;c015b79c&gt;] ? console_unlock+0x345/0x372
    [&lt;c06d62a1&gt;] print_circular_bug+0x190/0x19d
    [&lt;c019906c&gt;] __lock_acquire+0x86d/0xb6c
    [&lt;c01999db&gt;] ? mark_held_locks+0x5c/0x7b
    [&lt;c0199724&gt;] lock_acquire+0x66/0xb9
    [&lt;c02277d4&gt;] ? writeback_inodes_sb_if_idle+0x28/0x46
    [&lt;c06db935&gt;] down_read+0x28/0x58
    [&lt;c02277d4&gt;] ? writeback_inodes_sb_if_idle+0x28/0x46
    [&lt;c02277d4&gt;] writeback_inodes_sb_if_idle+0x28/0x46
    [&lt;c026f3b2&gt;] ext4_nonda_switch+0xe1/0xf4
    [&lt;c0271ece&gt;] ext4_da_write_begin+0x27/0x193
    [&lt;c01dcdb0&gt;] generic_file_buffered_write+0xc8/0x1bb
    [&lt;c01ddc47&gt;] __generic_file_aio_write+0x1dd/0x205
    [&lt;c01ddce7&gt;] generic_file_aio_write+0x78/0xd3
    [&lt;c026d336&gt;] ext4_file_write+0x480/0x4a6
    [&lt;c0198c1d&gt;] ? __lock_acquire+0x41e/0xb6c
    [&lt;c0180944&gt;] ? sched_clock_cpu+0x11a/0x13e
    [&lt;c01967e9&gt;] ? trace_hardirqs_off+0xb/0xd
    [&lt;c018099f&gt;] ? local_clock+0x37/0x4e
    [&lt;c0209f2c&gt;] do_sync_write+0x67/0x9d
    [&lt;c0209ec5&gt;] ? wait_on_retry_sync_kiocb+0x44/0x44
    [&lt;c020a7b9&gt;] vfs_write+0x7b/0xe6
    [&lt;c020a9a6&gt;] sys_write+0x3b/0x64
    [&lt;c06dd4bd&gt;] syscall_call+0x7/0xb

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'writeback-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux</title>
<updated>2012-03-28T17:07:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-28T17:07:27+00:00</published>
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Pull trivial writeback fixes from Wu Fengguang:
 "They've been tested in linux-next for 20 days actually."

* tag 'writeback-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux:
  writeback: Remove outdated comment
  fs: Remove bogus wait in write_inode_now()
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Pull trivial writeback fixes from Wu Fengguang:
 "They've been tested in linux-next for 20 days actually."

* tag 'writeback-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux:
  writeback: Remove outdated comment
  fs: Remove bogus wait in write_inode_now()
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'module-for-3.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux</title>
<updated>2012-03-24T17:24:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-24T17:24:31+00:00</published>
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Pull cleanup of fs/ and lib/ users of module.h from Paul Gortmaker:
 "Fix up files in fs/ and lib/ dirs to only use module.h if they really
  need it.

  These are trivial in scope vs the work done previously.  We now have
  things where any few remaining cleanups can be farmed out to arch or
  subsystem maintainers, and I have done so when possible.  What is
  remaining here represents the bits that don't clearly lie within a
  single arch/subsystem boundary, like the fs dir and the lib dir.

  Some duplicate includes arising from overlapping fixes from
  independent subsystem maintainer submissions are also quashed."

Fix up trivial conflicts due to clashes with other include file cleanups
(including some due to the previous bug.h cleanup pull).

* tag 'module-for-3.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux:
  lib: reduce the use of module.h wherever possible
  fs: reduce the use of module.h wherever possible
  includecheck: delete any duplicate instances of module.h
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Pull cleanup of fs/ and lib/ users of module.h from Paul Gortmaker:
 "Fix up files in fs/ and lib/ dirs to only use module.h if they really
  need it.

  These are trivial in scope vs the work done previously.  We now have
  things where any few remaining cleanups can be farmed out to arch or
  subsystem maintainers, and I have done so when possible.  What is
  remaining here represents the bits that don't clearly lie within a
  single arch/subsystem boundary, like the fs dir and the lib dir.

  Some duplicate includes arising from overlapping fixes from
  independent subsystem maintainer submissions are also quashed."

Fix up trivial conflicts due to clashes with other include file cleanups
(including some due to the previous bug.h cleanup pull).

* tag 'module-for-3.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux:
  lib: reduce the use of module.h wherever possible
  fs: reduce the use of module.h wherever possible
  includecheck: delete any duplicate instances of module.h
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<entry>
<title>writeback: Remove outdated comment</title>
<updated>2012-03-21T07:27:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-09T15:26:22+00:00</published>
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The comment is hopelessly outdated and misplaced. We no longer have 'bdi'
part of writeback work, the comment about blockdev super is outdated,
comment about throttling as well. Information about list handling is in
more detail at queue_io(). So just move the bit about older_than_this to
close to move_expired_inodes() and remove the rest.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
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The comment is hopelessly outdated and misplaced. We no longer have 'bdi'
part of writeback work, the comment about blockdev super is outdated,
comment about throttling as well. Information about list handling is in
more detail at queue_io(). So just move the bit about older_than_this to
close to move_expired_inodes() and remove the rest.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs: Remove bogus wait in write_inode_now()</title>
<updated>2012-03-21T07:26:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-09T15:26:07+00:00</published>
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inode_sync_wait() in write_inode_now() is just bogus. That function waits for
I_SYNC bit to be cleared but writeback_single_inode() clears the bit on return
so the wait is effectivelly a nop unless someone else submits the inode for
writeback again. All the waiting write_inode_now() needs is achieved by using
WB_SYNC_ALL writeback mode.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
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inode_sync_wait() in write_inode_now() is just bogus. That function waits for
I_SYNC bit to be cleared but writeback_single_inode() clears the bit on return
so the wait is effectivelly a nop unless someone else submits the inode for
writeback again. All the waiting write_inode_now() needs is achieved by using
WB_SYNC_ALL writeback mode.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
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<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial</title>
<updated>2012-03-21T04:12:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-21T04:12:50+00:00</published>
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Pull trivial tree from Jiri Kosina:
 "It's indeed trivial -- mostly documentation updates and a bunch of
  typo fixes from Masanari.

  There are also several linux/version.h include removals from Jesper."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (101 commits)
  kcore: fix spelling in read_kcore() comment
  constify struct pci_dev * in obvious cases
  Revert "char: Fix typo in viotape.c"
  init: fix wording error in mm_init comment
  usb: gadget: Kconfig: fix typo for 'different'
  Revert "power, max8998: Include linux/module.h just once in drivers/power/max8998_charger.c"
  writeback: fix fn name in writeback_inodes_sb_nr_if_idle() comment header
  writeback: fix typo in the writeback_control comment
  Documentation: Fix multiple typo in Documentation
  tpm_tis: fix tis_lock with respect to RCU
  Revert "media: Fix typo in mixer_drv.c and hdmi_drv.c"
  Doc: Update numastat.txt
  qla4xxx: Add missing spaces to error messages
  compiler.h: Fix typo
  security: struct security_operations kerneldoc fix
  Documentation: broken URL in libata.tmpl
  Documentation: broken URL in filesystems.tmpl
  mtd: simplify return logic in do_map_probe()
  mm: fix comment typo of truncate_inode_pages_range
  power: bq27x00: Fix typos in comment
  ...
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Pull trivial tree from Jiri Kosina:
 "It's indeed trivial -- mostly documentation updates and a bunch of
  typo fixes from Masanari.

  There are also several linux/version.h include removals from Jesper."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (101 commits)
  kcore: fix spelling in read_kcore() comment
  constify struct pci_dev * in obvious cases
  Revert "char: Fix typo in viotape.c"
  init: fix wording error in mm_init comment
  usb: gadget: Kconfig: fix typo for 'different'
  Revert "power, max8998: Include linux/module.h just once in drivers/power/max8998_charger.c"
  writeback: fix fn name in writeback_inodes_sb_nr_if_idle() comment header
  writeback: fix typo in the writeback_control comment
  Documentation: Fix multiple typo in Documentation
  tpm_tis: fix tis_lock with respect to RCU
  Revert "media: Fix typo in mixer_drv.c and hdmi_drv.c"
  Doc: Update numastat.txt
  qla4xxx: Add missing spaces to error messages
  compiler.h: Fix typo
  security: struct security_operations kerneldoc fix
  Documentation: broken URL in libata.tmpl
  Documentation: broken URL in filesystems.tmpl
  mtd: simplify return logic in do_map_probe()
  mm: fix comment typo of truncate_inode_pages_range
  power: bq27x00: Fix typos in comment
  ...
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<entry>
<title>writeback: fix fn name in writeback_inodes_sb_nr_if_idle() comment header</title>
<updated>2012-03-07T15:08:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Fengguang Wu</name>
<email>fengguang.wu@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-05T23:08:06+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
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<entry>
<title>fs: reduce the use of module.h wherever possible</title>
<updated>2012-02-29T00:31:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Gortmaker</name>
<email>paul.gortmaker@windriver.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-11-17T04:57:37+00:00</published>
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For files only using THIS_MODULE and/or EXPORT_SYMBOL, map
them onto including export.h -- or if the file isn't even
using those, then just delete the include.  Fix up any implicit
include dependencies that were being masked by module.h along
the way.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
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For files only using THIS_MODULE and/or EXPORT_SYMBOL, map
them onto including export.h -- or if the file isn't even
using those, then just delete the include.  Fix up any implicit
include dependencies that were being masked by module.h along
the way.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
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