<feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom'>
<title>linux-stable.git/fs/jbd2, branch v4.16</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/'/>
<entry>
<title>jbd2: fix sphinx kernel-doc build warnings</title>
<updated>2018-01-10T05:27:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tobin C. Harding</name>
<email>me@tobin.cc</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-10T05:27:29+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=f69120ce6c024aa634a8fc25787205e42f0ccbe6'/>
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Sphinx emits various (26) warnings when building make target 'htmldocs'.
Currently struct definitions contain duplicate documentation, some as
kernel-docs and some as standard c89 comments.  We can reduce
duplication while cleaning up the kernel docs.

Move all kernel-docs to right above each struct member.  Use the set of
all existing comments (kernel-doc and c89).  Add documentation for
missing struct members and function arguments.

Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding &lt;me@tobin.cc&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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Sphinx emits various (26) warnings when building make target 'htmldocs'.
Currently struct definitions contain duplicate documentation, some as
kernel-docs and some as standard c89 comments.  We can reduce
duplication while cleaning up the kernel docs.

Move all kernel-docs to right above each struct member.  Use the set of
all existing comments (kernel-doc and c89).  Add documentation for
missing struct members and function arguments.

Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding &lt;me@tobin.cc&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ext4: fix up remaining files with SPDX cleanups</title>
<updated>2017-12-18T03:00:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2017-12-18T03:00:59+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=f51667685749edadb7cad45a51003e8ebf2e8426'/>
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A number of ext4 source files were skipped due because their copyright
permission statements didn't match the expected text used by the
automated conversion utilities.  I've added SPDX tags for the rest.

While looking at some of these files, I've noticed that we have quite
a bit of variation on the licenses that were used --- in particular
some of the Red Hat licenses on the jbd2 files use a GPL2+ license,
and we have some files that have a LGPL-2.1 license (which was quite
surprising).

I've not attempted to do any license changes.  Even if it is perfectly
legal to relicense to GPL 2.0-only for consistency's sake, that should
be done with ext4 developer community discussion.

Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;


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<pre>
A number of ext4 source files were skipped due because their copyright
permission statements didn't match the expected text used by the
automated conversion utilities.  I've added SPDX tags for the rest.

While looking at some of these files, I've noticed that we have quite
a bit of variation on the licenses that were used --- in particular
some of the Red Hat licenses on the jbd2 files use a GPL2+ license,
and we have some files that have a LGPL-2.1 license (which was quite
surprising).

I've not attempted to do any license changes.  Even if it is perfectly
legal to relicense to GPL 2.0-only for consistency's sake, that should
be done with ext4 developer community discussion.

Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;


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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm</title>
<updated>2017-11-17T17:51:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-17T17:51:57+00:00</published>
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Pull libnvdimm and dax updates from Dan Williams:
 "Save for a few late fixes, all of these commits have shipped in -next
  releases since before the merge window opened, and 0day has given a
  build success notification.

  The ext4 touches came from Jan, and the xfs touches have Darrick's
  reviewed-by. An xfstest for the MAP_SYNC feature has been through
  a few round of reviews and is on track to be merged.

   - Introduce MAP_SYNC and MAP_SHARED_VALIDATE, a mechanism to enable
     'userspace flush' of persistent memory updates via filesystem-dax
     mappings. It arranges for any filesystem metadata updates that may
     be required to satisfy a write fault to also be flushed ("on disk")
     before the kernel returns to userspace from the fault handler.
     Effectively every write-fault that dirties metadata completes an
     fsync() before returning from the fault handler. The new
     MAP_SHARED_VALIDATE mapping type guarantees that the MAP_SYNC flag
     is validated as supported by the filesystem's -&gt;mmap() file
     operation.

   - Add support for the standard ACPI 6.2 label access methods that
     replace the NVDIMM_FAMILY_INTEL (vendor specific) label methods.
     This enables interoperability with environments that only implement
     the standardized methods.

   - Add support for the ACPI 6.2 NVDIMM media error injection methods.

   - Add support for the NVDIMM_FAMILY_INTEL v1.6 DIMM commands for
     latch last shutdown status, firmware update, SMART error injection,
     and SMART alarm threshold control.

   - Cleanup physical address information disclosures to be root-only.

   - Fix revalidation of the DIMM "locked label area" status to support
     dynamic unlock of the label area.

   - Expand unit test infrastructure to mock the ACPI 6.2 Translate SPA
     (system-physical-address) command and error injection commands.

  Acknowledgements that came after the commits were pushed to -next:

   - 957ac8c421ad ("dax: fix PMD faults on zero-length files"):
       Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;

   - a39e596baa07 ("xfs: support for synchronous DAX faults") and
     7b565c9f965b ("xfs: Implement xfs_filemap_pfn_mkwrite() using __xfs_filemap_fault()")
        Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;darrick.wong@oracle.com&gt;"

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (49 commits)
  acpi, nfit: add 'Enable Latch System Shutdown Status' command support
  dax: fix general protection fault in dax_alloc_inode
  dax: fix PMD faults on zero-length files
  dax: stop requiring a live device for dax_flush()
  brd: remove dax support
  dax: quiet bdev_dax_supported()
  fs, dax: unify IOMAP_F_DIRTY read vs write handling policy in the dax core
  tools/testing/nvdimm: unit test clear-error commands
  acpi, nfit: validate commands against the device type
  tools/testing/nvdimm: stricter bounds checking for error injection commands
  xfs: support for synchronous DAX faults
  xfs: Implement xfs_filemap_pfn_mkwrite() using __xfs_filemap_fault()
  ext4: Support for synchronous DAX faults
  ext4: Simplify error handling in ext4_dax_huge_fault()
  dax: Implement dax_finish_sync_fault()
  dax, iomap: Add support for synchronous faults
  mm: Define MAP_SYNC and VM_SYNC flags
  dax: Allow tuning whether dax_insert_mapping_entry() dirties entry
  dax: Allow dax_iomap_fault() to return pfn
  dax: Fix comment describing dax_iomap_fault()
  ...
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<pre>
Pull libnvdimm and dax updates from Dan Williams:
 "Save for a few late fixes, all of these commits have shipped in -next
  releases since before the merge window opened, and 0day has given a
  build success notification.

  The ext4 touches came from Jan, and the xfs touches have Darrick's
  reviewed-by. An xfstest for the MAP_SYNC feature has been through
  a few round of reviews and is on track to be merged.

   - Introduce MAP_SYNC and MAP_SHARED_VALIDATE, a mechanism to enable
     'userspace flush' of persistent memory updates via filesystem-dax
     mappings. It arranges for any filesystem metadata updates that may
     be required to satisfy a write fault to also be flushed ("on disk")
     before the kernel returns to userspace from the fault handler.
     Effectively every write-fault that dirties metadata completes an
     fsync() before returning from the fault handler. The new
     MAP_SHARED_VALIDATE mapping type guarantees that the MAP_SYNC flag
     is validated as supported by the filesystem's -&gt;mmap() file
     operation.

   - Add support for the standard ACPI 6.2 label access methods that
     replace the NVDIMM_FAMILY_INTEL (vendor specific) label methods.
     This enables interoperability with environments that only implement
     the standardized methods.

   - Add support for the ACPI 6.2 NVDIMM media error injection methods.

   - Add support for the NVDIMM_FAMILY_INTEL v1.6 DIMM commands for
     latch last shutdown status, firmware update, SMART error injection,
     and SMART alarm threshold control.

   - Cleanup physical address information disclosures to be root-only.

   - Fix revalidation of the DIMM "locked label area" status to support
     dynamic unlock of the label area.

   - Expand unit test infrastructure to mock the ACPI 6.2 Translate SPA
     (system-physical-address) command and error injection commands.

  Acknowledgements that came after the commits were pushed to -next:

   - 957ac8c421ad ("dax: fix PMD faults on zero-length files"):
       Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;

   - a39e596baa07 ("xfs: support for synchronous DAX faults") and
     7b565c9f965b ("xfs: Implement xfs_filemap_pfn_mkwrite() using __xfs_filemap_fault()")
        Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;darrick.wong@oracle.com&gt;"

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (49 commits)
  acpi, nfit: add 'Enable Latch System Shutdown Status' command support
  dax: fix general protection fault in dax_alloc_inode
  dax: fix PMD faults on zero-length files
  dax: stop requiring a live device for dax_flush()
  brd: remove dax support
  dax: quiet bdev_dax_supported()
  fs, dax: unify IOMAP_F_DIRTY read vs write handling policy in the dax core
  tools/testing/nvdimm: unit test clear-error commands
  acpi, nfit: validate commands against the device type
  tools/testing/nvdimm: stricter bounds checking for error injection commands
  xfs: support for synchronous DAX faults
  xfs: Implement xfs_filemap_pfn_mkwrite() using __xfs_filemap_fault()
  ext4: Support for synchronous DAX faults
  ext4: Simplify error handling in ext4_dax_huge_fault()
  dax: Implement dax_finish_sync_fault()
  dax, iomap: Add support for synchronous faults
  mm: Define MAP_SYNC and VM_SYNC flags
  dax: Allow tuning whether dax_insert_mapping_entry() dirties entry
  dax: Allow dax_iomap_fault() to return pfn
  dax: Fix comment describing dax_iomap_fault()
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ext4: Support for synchronous DAX faults</title>
<updated>2017-11-03T13:26:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-01T15:36:45+00:00</published>
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We return IOMAP_F_DIRTY flag from ext4_iomap_begin() when asked to
prepare blocks for writing and the inode has some uncommitted metadata
changes. In the fault handler ext4_dax_fault() we then detect this case
(through VM_FAULT_NEEDDSYNC return value) and call helper
dax_finish_sync_fault() to flush metadata changes and insert page table
entry. Note that this will also dirty corresponding radix tree entry
which is what we want - fsync(2) will still provide data integrity
guarantees for applications not using userspace flushing. And
applications using userspace flushing can avoid calling fsync(2) and
thus avoid the performance overhead.

Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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We return IOMAP_F_DIRTY flag from ext4_iomap_begin() when asked to
prepare blocks for writing and the inode has some uncommitted metadata
changes. In the fault handler ext4_dax_fault() we then detect this case
(through VM_FAULT_NEEDDSYNC return value) and call helper
dax_finish_sync_fault() to flush metadata changes and insert page table
entry. Note that this will also dirty corresponding radix tree entry
which is what we want - fsync(2) will still provide data integrity
guarantees for applications not using userspace flushing. And
applications using userspace flushing can avoid calling fsync(2) and
thus avoid the performance overhead.

Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>jbd2: convert timers to use timer_setup()</title>
<updated>2017-10-18T16:40:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>keescook@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-10-18T16:40:28+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=e3c957885e4286af2e3f03277bb0cb8b049e72c9'/>
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<content type='text'>
In preparation for unconditionally passing the struct timer_list pointer to
all timer callbacks, switch to using the new timer_setup() and from_timer()
to pass the timer pointer explicitly.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.com&gt;
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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In preparation for unconditionally passing the struct timer_list pointer to
all timer callbacks, switch to using the new timer_setup() and from_timer()
to pass the timer pointer explicitly.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.com&gt;
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus-v4.13-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jlayton/linux</title>
<updated>2017-07-08T02:38:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-08T02:38:17+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=088737f44bbf6378745f5b57b035e57ee3dc4750'/>
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Pull Writeback error handling updates from Jeff Layton:
 "This pile represents the bulk of the writeback error handling fixes
  that I have for this cycle. Some of the earlier patches in this pile
  may look trivial but they are prerequisites for later patches in the
  series.

  The aim of this set is to improve how we track and report writeback
  errors to userland. Most applications that care about data integrity
  will periodically call fsync/fdatasync/msync to ensure that their
  writes have made it to the backing store.

  For a very long time, we have tracked writeback errors using two flags
  in the address_space: AS_EIO and AS_ENOSPC. Those flags are set when a
  writeback error occurs (via mapping_set_error) and are cleared as a
  side-effect of filemap_check_errors (as you noted yesterday). This
  model really sucks for userland.

  Only the first task to call fsync (or msync or fdatasync) will see the
  error. Any subsequent task calling fsync on a file will get back 0
  (unless another writeback error occurs in the interim). If I have
  several tasks writing to a file and calling fsync to ensure that their
  writes got stored, then I need to have them coordinate with one
  another. That's difficult enough, but in a world of containerized
  setups that coordination may even not be possible.

  But wait...it gets worse!

  The calls to filemap_check_errors can be buried pretty far down in the
  call stack, and there are internal callers of filemap_write_and_wait
  and the like that also end up clearing those errors. Many of those
  callers ignore the error return from that function or return it to
  userland at nonsensical times (e.g. truncate() or stat()). If I get
  back -EIO on a truncate, there is no reason to think that it was
  because some previous writeback failed, and a subsequent fsync() will
  (incorrectly) return 0.

  This pile aims to do three things:

   1) ensure that when a writeback error occurs that that error will be
      reported to userland on a subsequent fsync/fdatasync/msync call,
      regardless of what internal callers are doing

   2) report writeback errors on all file descriptions that were open at
      the time that the error occurred. This is a user-visible change,
      but I think most applications are written to assume this behavior
      anyway. Those that aren't are unlikely to be hurt by it.

   3) document what filesystems should do when there is a writeback
      error. Today, there is very little consistency between them, and a
      lot of cargo-cult copying. We need to make it very clear what
      filesystems should do in this situation.

  To achieve this, the set adds a new data type (errseq_t) and then
  builds new writeback error tracking infrastructure around that. Once
  all of that is in place, we change the filesystems to use the new
  infrastructure for reporting wb errors to userland.

  Note that this is just the initial foray into cleaning up this mess.
  There is a lot of work remaining here:

   1) convert the rest of the filesystems in a similar fashion. Once the
      initial set is in, then I think most other fs' will be fairly
      simple to convert. Hopefully most of those can in via individual
      filesystem trees.

   2) convert internal waiters on writeback to use errseq_t for
      detecting errors instead of relying on the AS_* flags. I have some
      draft patches for this for ext4, but they are not quite ready for
      prime time yet.

  This was a discussion topic this year at LSF/MM too. If you're
  interested in the gory details, LWN has some good articles about this:

      https://lwn.net/Articles/718734/
      https://lwn.net/Articles/724307/"

* tag 'for-linus-v4.13-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jlayton/linux:
  btrfs: minimal conversion to errseq_t writeback error reporting on fsync
  xfs: minimal conversion to errseq_t writeback error reporting
  ext4: use errseq_t based error handling for reporting data writeback errors
  fs: convert __generic_file_fsync to use errseq_t based reporting
  block: convert to errseq_t based writeback error tracking
  dax: set errors in mapping when writeback fails
  Documentation: flesh out the section in vfs.txt on storing and reporting writeback errors
  mm: set both AS_EIO/AS_ENOSPC and errseq_t in mapping_set_error
  fs: new infrastructure for writeback error handling and reporting
  lib: add errseq_t type and infrastructure for handling it
  mm: don't TestClearPageError in __filemap_fdatawait_range
  mm: clear AS_EIO/AS_ENOSPC when writeback initiation fails
  jbd2: don't clear and reset errors after waiting on writeback
  buffer: set errors in mapping at the time that the error occurs
  fs: check for writeback errors after syncing out buffers in generic_file_fsync
  buffer: use mapping_set_error instead of setting the flag
  mm: fix mapping_set_error call in me_pagecache_dirty
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<pre>
Pull Writeback error handling updates from Jeff Layton:
 "This pile represents the bulk of the writeback error handling fixes
  that I have for this cycle. Some of the earlier patches in this pile
  may look trivial but they are prerequisites for later patches in the
  series.

  The aim of this set is to improve how we track and report writeback
  errors to userland. Most applications that care about data integrity
  will periodically call fsync/fdatasync/msync to ensure that their
  writes have made it to the backing store.

  For a very long time, we have tracked writeback errors using two flags
  in the address_space: AS_EIO and AS_ENOSPC. Those flags are set when a
  writeback error occurs (via mapping_set_error) and are cleared as a
  side-effect of filemap_check_errors (as you noted yesterday). This
  model really sucks for userland.

  Only the first task to call fsync (or msync or fdatasync) will see the
  error. Any subsequent task calling fsync on a file will get back 0
  (unless another writeback error occurs in the interim). If I have
  several tasks writing to a file and calling fsync to ensure that their
  writes got stored, then I need to have them coordinate with one
  another. That's difficult enough, but in a world of containerized
  setups that coordination may even not be possible.

  But wait...it gets worse!

  The calls to filemap_check_errors can be buried pretty far down in the
  call stack, and there are internal callers of filemap_write_and_wait
  and the like that also end up clearing those errors. Many of those
  callers ignore the error return from that function or return it to
  userland at nonsensical times (e.g. truncate() or stat()). If I get
  back -EIO on a truncate, there is no reason to think that it was
  because some previous writeback failed, and a subsequent fsync() will
  (incorrectly) return 0.

  This pile aims to do three things:

   1) ensure that when a writeback error occurs that that error will be
      reported to userland on a subsequent fsync/fdatasync/msync call,
      regardless of what internal callers are doing

   2) report writeback errors on all file descriptions that were open at
      the time that the error occurred. This is a user-visible change,
      but I think most applications are written to assume this behavior
      anyway. Those that aren't are unlikely to be hurt by it.

   3) document what filesystems should do when there is a writeback
      error. Today, there is very little consistency between them, and a
      lot of cargo-cult copying. We need to make it very clear what
      filesystems should do in this situation.

  To achieve this, the set adds a new data type (errseq_t) and then
  builds new writeback error tracking infrastructure around that. Once
  all of that is in place, we change the filesystems to use the new
  infrastructure for reporting wb errors to userland.

  Note that this is just the initial foray into cleaning up this mess.
  There is a lot of work remaining here:

   1) convert the rest of the filesystems in a similar fashion. Once the
      initial set is in, then I think most other fs' will be fairly
      simple to convert. Hopefully most of those can in via individual
      filesystem trees.

   2) convert internal waiters on writeback to use errseq_t for
      detecting errors instead of relying on the AS_* flags. I have some
      draft patches for this for ext4, but they are not quite ready for
      prime time yet.

  This was a discussion topic this year at LSF/MM too. If you're
  interested in the gory details, LWN has some good articles about this:

      https://lwn.net/Articles/718734/
      https://lwn.net/Articles/724307/"

* tag 'for-linus-v4.13-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jlayton/linux:
  btrfs: minimal conversion to errseq_t writeback error reporting on fsync
  xfs: minimal conversion to errseq_t writeback error reporting
  ext4: use errseq_t based error handling for reporting data writeback errors
  fs: convert __generic_file_fsync to use errseq_t based reporting
  block: convert to errseq_t based writeback error tracking
  dax: set errors in mapping when writeback fails
  Documentation: flesh out the section in vfs.txt on storing and reporting writeback errors
  mm: set both AS_EIO/AS_ENOSPC and errseq_t in mapping_set_error
  fs: new infrastructure for writeback error handling and reporting
  lib: add errseq_t type and infrastructure for handling it
  mm: don't TestClearPageError in __filemap_fdatawait_range
  mm: clear AS_EIO/AS_ENOSPC when writeback initiation fails
  jbd2: don't clear and reset errors after waiting on writeback
  buffer: set errors in mapping at the time that the error occurs
  fs: check for writeback errors after syncing out buffers in generic_file_fsync
  buffer: use mapping_set_error instead of setting the flag
  mm: fix mapping_set_error call in me_pagecache_dirty
</pre>
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<entry>
<title>jbd2: don't clear and reset errors after waiting on writeback</title>
<updated>2017-07-06T11:02:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff Layton</name>
<email>jlayton@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-06T11:02:22+00:00</published>
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Resetting this flag is almost certainly racy, and will be problematic
with some coming changes.

Make filemap_fdatawait_keep_errors return int, but not clear the flag(s).
Have jbd2 call it instead of filemap_fdatawait and don't attempt to
re-set the error flag if it fails.

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: Carlos Maiolino &lt;cmaiolino@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@redhat.com&gt;
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Resetting this flag is almost certainly racy, and will be problematic
with some coming changes.

Make filemap_fdatawait_keep_errors return int, but not clear the flag(s).
Have jbd2 call it instead of filemap_fdatawait and don't attempt to
re-set the error flag if it fails.

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: Carlos Maiolino &lt;cmaiolino@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'docs-4.13' of git://git.lwn.net/linux</title>
<updated>2017-07-04T04:13:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-04T04:13:25+00:00</published>
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Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "There has been a fair amount of activity in the docs tree this time
  around. Highlights include:

   - Conversion of a bunch of security documentation into RST

   - The conversion of the remaining DocBook templates by The Amazing
     Mauro Machine. We can now drop the entire DocBook build chain.

   - The usual collection of fixes and minor updates"

* tag 'docs-4.13' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (90 commits)
  scripts/kernel-doc: handle DECLARE_HASHTABLE
  Documentation: atomic_ops.txt is core-api/atomic_ops.rst
  Docs: clean up some DocBook loose ends
  Make the main documentation title less Geocities
  Docs: Use kernel-figure in vidioc-g-selection.rst
  Docs: fix table problems in ras.rst
  Docs: Fix breakage with Sphinx 1.5 and upper
  Docs: Include the Latex "ifthen" package
  doc/kokr/howto: Only send regression fixes after -rc1
  docs-rst: fix broken links to dynamic-debug-howto in kernel-parameters
  doc: Document suitability of IBM Verse for kernel development
  Doc: fix a markup error in coding-style.rst
  docs: driver-api: i2c: remove some outdated information
  Documentation: DMA API: fix a typo in a function name
  Docs: Insert missing space to separate link from text
  doc/ko_KR/memory-barriers: Update control-dependencies example
  Documentation, kbuild: fix typo "minimun" -&gt; "minimum"
  docs: Fix some formatting issues in request-key.rst
  doc: ReSTify keys-trusted-encrypted.txt
  doc: ReSTify keys-request-key.txt
  ...
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Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "There has been a fair amount of activity in the docs tree this time
  around. Highlights include:

   - Conversion of a bunch of security documentation into RST

   - The conversion of the remaining DocBook templates by The Amazing
     Mauro Machine. We can now drop the entire DocBook build chain.

   - The usual collection of fixes and minor updates"

* tag 'docs-4.13' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (90 commits)
  scripts/kernel-doc: handle DECLARE_HASHTABLE
  Documentation: atomic_ops.txt is core-api/atomic_ops.rst
  Docs: clean up some DocBook loose ends
  Make the main documentation title less Geocities
  Docs: Use kernel-figure in vidioc-g-selection.rst
  Docs: fix table problems in ras.rst
  Docs: Fix breakage with Sphinx 1.5 and upper
  Docs: Include the Latex "ifthen" package
  doc/kokr/howto: Only send regression fixes after -rc1
  docs-rst: fix broken links to dynamic-debug-howto in kernel-parameters
  doc: Document suitability of IBM Verse for kernel development
  Doc: fix a markup error in coding-style.rst
  docs: driver-api: i2c: remove some outdated information
  Documentation: DMA API: fix a typo in a function name
  Docs: Insert missing space to separate link from text
  doc/ko_KR/memory-barriers: Update control-dependencies example
  Documentation, kbuild: fix typo "minimun" -&gt; "minimum"
  docs: Fix some formatting issues in request-key.rst
  doc: ReSTify keys-trusted-encrypted.txt
  doc: ReSTify keys-request-key.txt
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched/wait: Standardize 'struct wait_bit_queue' wait-queue entry field name</title>
<updated>2017-06-20T10:18:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-03-05T10:25:39+00:00</published>
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Rename 'struct wait_bit_queue::wait' to ::wq_entry, to more clearly
name it as a wait-queue entry.

Propagate it to a couple of usage sites where the wait-bit-queue internals
are exposed.

Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Rename 'struct wait_bit_queue::wait' to ::wq_entry, to more clearly
name it as a wait-queue entry.

Propagate it to a couple of usage sites where the wait-bit-queue internals
are exposed.

Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>jbd2: preserve original nofs flag during journal restart</title>
<updated>2017-05-22T02:32:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tahsin Erdogan</name>
<email>tahsin@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-22T02:32:23+00:00</published>
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When a transaction starts, start_this_handle() saves current
PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS value so that it can be restored at journal stop time.
Journal restart is a special case that calls start_this_handle() without
stopping the transaction. start_this_handle() isn't aware that the
original value is already stored so it overwrites it with current value.

For instance, a call sequence like below leaves PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS flag set
at the end:

  jbd2_journal_start()
  jbd2__journal_restart()
  jbd2_journal_stop()

Make jbd2__journal_restart() restore the original value before calling
start_this_handle().

Fixes: 81378da64de6 ("jbd2: mark the transaction context with the scope GFP_NOFS context")
Signed-off-by: Tahsin Erdogan &lt;tahsin@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
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When a transaction starts, start_this_handle() saves current
PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS value so that it can be restored at journal stop time.
Journal restart is a special case that calls start_this_handle() without
stopping the transaction. start_this_handle() isn't aware that the
original value is already stored so it overwrites it with current value.

For instance, a call sequence like below leaves PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS flag set
at the end:

  jbd2_journal_start()
  jbd2__journal_restart()
  jbd2_journal_stop()

Make jbd2__journal_restart() restore the original value before calling
start_this_handle().

Fixes: 81378da64de6 ("jbd2: mark the transaction context with the scope GFP_NOFS context")
Signed-off-by: Tahsin Erdogan &lt;tahsin@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
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