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<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2012-06-01T17:34:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-06-01T17:34:35+00:00</published>
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Pull vfs changes from Al Viro.
 "A lot of misc stuff.  The obvious groups:
   * Miklos' atomic_open series; kills the damn abuse of
     -&gt;d_revalidate() by NFS, which was the major stumbling block for
     all work in that area.
   * ripping security_file_mmap() and dealing with deadlocks in the
     area; sanitizing the neighborhood of vm_mmap()/vm_munmap() in
     general.
   * -&gt;encode_fh() switched to saner API; insane fake dentry in
     mm/cleancache.c gone.
   * assorted annotations in fs (endianness, __user)
   * parts of Artem's -&gt;s_dirty work (jff2 and reiserfs parts)
   * -&gt;update_time() work from Josef.
   * other bits and pieces all over the place.

  Normally it would've been in two or three pull requests, but
  signal.git stuff had eaten a lot of time during this cycle ;-/"

Fix up trivial conflicts in Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt (the
'truncate_range' inode method was removed by the VM changes, the VFS
update adds an 'update_time()' method), and in fs/btrfs/ulist.[ch] (due
to sparse fix added twice, with other changes nearby).

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (95 commits)
  nfs: don't open in -&gt;d_revalidate
  vfs: retry last component if opening stale dentry
  vfs: nameidata_to_filp(): don't throw away file on error
  vfs: nameidata_to_filp(): inline __dentry_open()
  vfs: do_dentry_open(): don't put filp
  vfs: split __dentry_open()
  vfs: do_last() common post lookup
  vfs: do_last(): add audit_inode before open
  vfs: do_last(): only return EISDIR for O_CREAT
  vfs: do_last(): check LOOKUP_DIRECTORY
  vfs: do_last(): make ENOENT exit RCU safe
  vfs: make follow_link check RCU safe
  vfs: do_last(): use inode variable
  vfs: do_last(): inline walk_component()
  vfs: do_last(): make exit RCU safe
  vfs: split do_lookup()
  Btrfs: move over to use -&gt;update_time
  fs: introduce inode operation -&gt;update_time
  reiserfs: get rid of resierfs_sync_super
  reiserfs: mark the superblock as dirty a bit later
  ...
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Pull vfs changes from Al Viro.
 "A lot of misc stuff.  The obvious groups:
   * Miklos' atomic_open series; kills the damn abuse of
     -&gt;d_revalidate() by NFS, which was the major stumbling block for
     all work in that area.
   * ripping security_file_mmap() and dealing with deadlocks in the
     area; sanitizing the neighborhood of vm_mmap()/vm_munmap() in
     general.
   * -&gt;encode_fh() switched to saner API; insane fake dentry in
     mm/cleancache.c gone.
   * assorted annotations in fs (endianness, __user)
   * parts of Artem's -&gt;s_dirty work (jff2 and reiserfs parts)
   * -&gt;update_time() work from Josef.
   * other bits and pieces all over the place.

  Normally it would've been in two or three pull requests, but
  signal.git stuff had eaten a lot of time during this cycle ;-/"

Fix up trivial conflicts in Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt (the
'truncate_range' inode method was removed by the VM changes, the VFS
update adds an 'update_time()' method), and in fs/btrfs/ulist.[ch] (due
to sparse fix added twice, with other changes nearby).

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (95 commits)
  nfs: don't open in -&gt;d_revalidate
  vfs: retry last component if opening stale dentry
  vfs: nameidata_to_filp(): don't throw away file on error
  vfs: nameidata_to_filp(): inline __dentry_open()
  vfs: do_dentry_open(): don't put filp
  vfs: split __dentry_open()
  vfs: do_last() common post lookup
  vfs: do_last(): add audit_inode before open
  vfs: do_last(): only return EISDIR for O_CREAT
  vfs: do_last(): check LOOKUP_DIRECTORY
  vfs: do_last(): make ENOENT exit RCU safe
  vfs: make follow_link check RCU safe
  vfs: do_last(): use inode variable
  vfs: do_last(): inline walk_component()
  vfs: do_last(): make exit RCU safe
  vfs: split do_lookup()
  Btrfs: move over to use -&gt;update_time
  fs: introduce inode operation -&gt;update_time
  reiserfs: get rid of resierfs_sync_super
  reiserfs: mark the superblock as dirty a bit later
  ...
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<entry>
<title>fs: introduce inode operation -&gt;update_time</title>
<updated>2012-06-01T16:07:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Josef Bacik</name>
<email>josef@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-26T13:59:21+00:00</published>
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Btrfs has to make sure we have space to allocate new blocks in order to modify
the inode, so updating time can fail.  We've gotten around this by having our
own file_update_time but this is kind of a pain, and Christoph has indicated he
would like to make xfs do something different with atime updates.  So introduce
-&gt;update_time, where we will deal with i_version an a/m/c time updates and
indicate which changes need to be made.  The normal version just does what it
has always done, updates the time and marks the inode dirty, and then
filesystems can choose to do something different.

I've gone through all of the users of file_update_time and made them check for
errors with the exception of the fault code since it's complicated and I wasn't
quite sure what to do there, also Jan is going to be pushing the file time
updates into page_mkwrite for those who have it so that should satisfy btrfs and
make it not a big deal to check the file_update_time() return code in the
generic fault path. Thanks,

Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik &lt;josef@redhat.com&gt;
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Btrfs has to make sure we have space to allocate new blocks in order to modify
the inode, so updating time can fail.  We've gotten around this by having our
own file_update_time but this is kind of a pain, and Christoph has indicated he
would like to make xfs do something different with atime updates.  So introduce
-&gt;update_time, where we will deal with i_version an a/m/c time updates and
indicate which changes need to be made.  The normal version just does what it
has always done, updates the time and marks the inode dirty, and then
filesystems can choose to do something different.

I've gone through all of the users of file_update_time and made them check for
errors with the exception of the fault code since it's complicated and I wasn't
quite sure what to do there, also Jan is going to be pushing the file time
updates into page_mkwrite for those who have it so that should satisfy btrfs and
make it not a big deal to check the file_update_time() return code in the
generic fault path. Thanks,

Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik &lt;josef@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>NFS: Ensure that setattr and getattr wait for O_DIRECT write completion</title>
<updated>2012-05-31T18:41:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Trond Myklebust</name>
<email>Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-31T16:22:33+00:00</published>
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Use the same mechanism as the block devices are using, but move the
helper functions from fs/direct-io.c into fs/inode.c to remove the
dependency on CONFIG_BLOCK.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust &lt;Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Fred Isaman &lt;iisaman@netapp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Use the same mechanism as the block devices are using, but move the
helper functions from fs/direct-io.c into fs/inode.c to remove the
dependency on CONFIG_BLOCK.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust &lt;Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Fred Isaman &lt;iisaman@netapp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs: move file_remove_suid() to fs/inode.c</title>
<updated>2012-05-31T01:04:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Cong Wang</name>
<email>xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-15T06:57:33+00:00</published>
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file_remove_suid() is a generic function operates on struct file,
it almost has no relations with file mapping, so move it to fs/inode.c.

Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang &lt;xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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file_remove_suid() is a generic function operates on struct file,
it almost has no relations with file mapping, so move it to fs/inode.c.

Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang &lt;xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs: fix inode.c kernel-doc warnings</title>
<updated>2012-05-30T03:28:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Randy Dunlap</name>
<email>rdunlap@xenotime.net</email>
</author>
<published>2012-04-18T00:03:25+00:00</published>
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Fix kernel-doc warnings in fs/inode.c:

Warning(fs/inode.c:1493): No description found for parameter 'path'
Warning(fs/inode.c:1493): Excess function parameter 'mnt' description in 'touch_atime'
Warning(fs/inode.c:1493): Excess function parameter 'dentry' description in 'touch_atime'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@xenotime.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Fix kernel-doc warnings in fs/inode.c:

Warning(fs/inode.c:1493): No description found for parameter 'path'
Warning(fs/inode.c:1493): Excess function parameter 'mnt' description in 'touch_atime'
Warning(fs/inode.c:1493): Excess function parameter 'dentry' description in 'touch_atime'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@xenotime.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'writeback' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux</title>
<updated>2012-05-28T16:54:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-28T16:54:45+00:00</published>
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Pull writeback tree from Wu Fengguang:
 "Mainly from Jan Kara to avoid iput() in the flusher threads."

* tag 'writeback' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux:
  writeback: Avoid iput() from flusher thread
  vfs: Rename end_writeback() to clear_inode()
  vfs: Move waiting for inode writeback from end_writeback() to evict_inode()
  writeback: Refactor writeback_single_inode()
  writeback: Remove wb-&gt;list_lock from writeback_single_inode()
  writeback: Separate inode requeueing after writeback
  writeback: Move I_DIRTY_PAGES handling
  writeback: Move requeueing when I_SYNC set to writeback_sb_inodes()
  writeback: Move clearing of I_SYNC into inode_sync_complete()
  writeback: initialize global_dirty_limit
  fs: remove 8 bytes of padding from struct writeback_control on 64 bit builds
  mm: page-writeback.c: local functions should not be exposed globally
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Pull writeback tree from Wu Fengguang:
 "Mainly from Jan Kara to avoid iput() in the flusher threads."

* tag 'writeback' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux:
  writeback: Avoid iput() from flusher thread
  vfs: Rename end_writeback() to clear_inode()
  vfs: Move waiting for inode writeback from end_writeback() to evict_inode()
  writeback: Refactor writeback_single_inode()
  writeback: Remove wb-&gt;list_lock from writeback_single_inode()
  writeback: Separate inode requeueing after writeback
  writeback: Move I_DIRTY_PAGES handling
  writeback: Move requeueing when I_SYNC set to writeback_sb_inodes()
  writeback: Move clearing of I_SYNC into inode_sync_complete()
  writeback: initialize global_dirty_limit
  fs: remove 8 bytes of padding from struct writeback_control on 64 bit builds
  mm: page-writeback.c: local functions should not be exposed globally
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<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net</title>
<updated>2012-05-24T18:54:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-24T18:54:29+00:00</published>
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Pull more networking updates from David Miller:
 "Ok, everything from here on out will be bug fixes."

1) One final sync of wireless and bluetooth stuff from John Linville.
   These changes have all been in his tree for more than a week, and
   therefore have had the necessary -next exposure.  John was just away
   on a trip and didn't have a change to send the pull request until a
   day or two ago.

2) Put back some defines in user exposed header file areas that were
   removed during the tokenring purge.  From Stephen Hemminger and Paul
   Gortmaker.

3) A bug fix for UDP hash table allocation got lost in the pile due to
   one of those "you got it..  no I've got it.." situations.  :-)

   From Tim Bird.

4) SKB coalescing in TCP needs to have stricter checks, otherwise we'll
   try to coalesce overlapping frags and crash.  Fix from Eric Dumazet.

5) RCU routing table lookups can race with free_fib_info(), causing
   crashes when we deref the device pointers in the route.  Fix by
   releasing the net device in the RCU callback.  From Yanmin Zhang.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (293 commits)
  tcp: take care of overlaps in tcp_try_coalesce()
  ipv4: fix the rcu race between free_fib_info and ip_route_output_slow
  mm: add a low limit to alloc_large_system_hash
  ipx: restore token ring define to include/linux/ipx.h
  if: restore token ring ARP type to header
  xen: do not disable netfront in dom0
  phy/micrel: Fix ID of KSZ9021
  mISDN: Add X-Tensions USB ISDN TA XC-525
  gianfar:don't add FCB length to hard_header_len
  Bluetooth: Report proper error number in disconnection
  Bluetooth: Create flags for bt_sk()
  Bluetooth: report the right security level in getsockopt
  Bluetooth: Lock the L2CAP channel when sending
  Bluetooth: Restore locking semantics when looking up L2CAP channels
  Bluetooth: Fix a redundant and problematic incoming MTU check
  Bluetooth: Add support for Foxconn/Hon Hai AR5BBU22 0489:E03C
  Bluetooth: Fix EIR data generation for mgmt_device_found
  Bluetooth: Fix Inquiry with RSSI event mask
  Bluetooth: improve readability of l2cap_seq_list code
  Bluetooth: Fix skb length calculation
  ...
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Pull more networking updates from David Miller:
 "Ok, everything from here on out will be bug fixes."

1) One final sync of wireless and bluetooth stuff from John Linville.
   These changes have all been in his tree for more than a week, and
   therefore have had the necessary -next exposure.  John was just away
   on a trip and didn't have a change to send the pull request until a
   day or two ago.

2) Put back some defines in user exposed header file areas that were
   removed during the tokenring purge.  From Stephen Hemminger and Paul
   Gortmaker.

3) A bug fix for UDP hash table allocation got lost in the pile due to
   one of those "you got it..  no I've got it.." situations.  :-)

   From Tim Bird.

4) SKB coalescing in TCP needs to have stricter checks, otherwise we'll
   try to coalesce overlapping frags and crash.  Fix from Eric Dumazet.

5) RCU routing table lookups can race with free_fib_info(), causing
   crashes when we deref the device pointers in the route.  Fix by
   releasing the net device in the RCU callback.  From Yanmin Zhang.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (293 commits)
  tcp: take care of overlaps in tcp_try_coalesce()
  ipv4: fix the rcu race between free_fib_info and ip_route_output_slow
  mm: add a low limit to alloc_large_system_hash
  ipx: restore token ring define to include/linux/ipx.h
  if: restore token ring ARP type to header
  xen: do not disable netfront in dom0
  phy/micrel: Fix ID of KSZ9021
  mISDN: Add X-Tensions USB ISDN TA XC-525
  gianfar:don't add FCB length to hard_header_len
  Bluetooth: Report proper error number in disconnection
  Bluetooth: Create flags for bt_sk()
  Bluetooth: report the right security level in getsockopt
  Bluetooth: Lock the L2CAP channel when sending
  Bluetooth: Restore locking semantics when looking up L2CAP channels
  Bluetooth: Fix a redundant and problematic incoming MTU check
  Bluetooth: Add support for Foxconn/Hon Hai AR5BBU22 0489:E03C
  Bluetooth: Fix EIR data generation for mgmt_device_found
  Bluetooth: Fix Inquiry with RSSI event mask
  Bluetooth: improve readability of l2cap_seq_list code
  Bluetooth: Fix skb length calculation
  ...
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<entry>
<title>mm: add a low limit to alloc_large_system_hash</title>
<updated>2012-05-24T04:28:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tim Bird</name>
<email>tim.bird@am.sony.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-23T13:33:35+00:00</published>
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UDP stack needs a minimum hash size value for proper operation and also
uses alloc_large_system_hash() for proper NUMA distribution of its hash
tables and automatic sizing depending on available system memory.

On some low memory situations, udp_table_init() must ignore the
alloc_large_system_hash() result and reallocs a bigger memory area.

As we cannot easily free old hash table, we leak it and kmemleak can
issue a warning.

This patch adds a low limit parameter to alloc_large_system_hash() to
solve this problem.

We then specify UDP_HTABLE_SIZE_MIN for UDP/UDPLite hash table
allocation.

Reported-by: Mark Asselstine &lt;mark.asselstine@windriver.com&gt;
Reported-by: Tim Bird &lt;tim.bird@am.sony.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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UDP stack needs a minimum hash size value for proper operation and also
uses alloc_large_system_hash() for proper NUMA distribution of its hash
tables and automatic sizing depending on available system memory.

On some low memory situations, udp_table_init() must ignore the
alloc_large_system_hash() result and reallocs a bigger memory area.

As we cannot easily free old hash table, we leak it and kmemleak can
issue a warning.

This patch adds a low limit parameter to alloc_large_system_hash() to
solve this problem.

We then specify UDP_HTABLE_SIZE_MIN for UDP/UDPLite hash table
allocation.

Reported-by: Mark Asselstine &lt;mark.asselstine@windriver.com&gt;
Reported-by: Tim Bird &lt;tim.bird@am.sony.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>writeback: Avoid iput() from flusher thread</title>
<updated>2012-05-06T05:43:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-03T12:48:03+00:00</published>
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Doing iput() from flusher thread (writeback_sb_inodes()) can create problems
because iput() can do a lot of work - for example truncate the inode if it's
the last iput on unlinked file. Some filesystems depend on flusher thread
progressing (e.g. because they need to flush delay allocated blocks to reduce
allocation uncertainty) and so flusher thread doing truncate creates
interesting dependencies and possibilities for deadlocks.

We get rid of iput() in flusher thread by using the fact that I_SYNC inode
flag effectively pins the inode in memory. So if we take care to either hold
i_lock or have I_SYNC set, we can get away without taking inode reference
in writeback_sb_inodes().

As a side effect of these changes, we also fix possible use-after-free in
wb_writeback() because inode_wait_for_writeback() call could try to reacquire
i_lock on the inode that was already free.

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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Doing iput() from flusher thread (writeback_sb_inodes()) can create problems
because iput() can do a lot of work - for example truncate the inode if it's
the last iput on unlinked file. Some filesystems depend on flusher thread
progressing (e.g. because they need to flush delay allocated blocks to reduce
allocation uncertainty) and so flusher thread doing truncate creates
interesting dependencies and possibilities for deadlocks.

We get rid of iput() in flusher thread by using the fact that I_SYNC inode
flag effectively pins the inode in memory. So if we take care to either hold
i_lock or have I_SYNC set, we can get away without taking inode reference
in writeback_sb_inodes().

As a side effect of these changes, we also fix possible use-after-free in
wb_writeback() because inode_wait_for_writeback() call could try to reacquire
i_lock on the inode that was already free.

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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<title>vfs: Rename end_writeback() to clear_inode()</title>
<updated>2012-05-06T05:43:41+00:00</updated>
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<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
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<published>2012-05-03T12:48:02+00:00</published>
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After we moved inode_sync_wait() from end_writeback() it doesn't make sense
to call the function end_writeback() anymore. Rename it to clear_inode()
which well says what the function really does - set I_CLEAR flag.

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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After we moved inode_sync_wait() from end_writeback() it doesn't make sense
to call the function end_writeback() anymore. Rename it to clear_inode()
which well says what the function really does - set I_CLEAR flag.

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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