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<title>linux-stable.git/fs/libfs.c, branch v5.2</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>treewide: Add SPDX license identifier for missed files</title>
<updated>2019-05-21T08:50:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-19T12:08:55+00:00</published>
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Add SPDX license identifiers to all files which:

 - Have no license information of any form

 - Have EXPORT_.*_SYMBOL_GPL inside which was used in the
   initial scan/conversion to ignore the file

These files fall under the project license, GPL v2 only. The resulting SPDX
license identifier is:

  GPL-2.0-only

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Add SPDX license identifiers to all files which:

 - Have no license information of any form

 - Have EXPORT_.*_SYMBOL_GPL inside which was used in the
   initial scan/conversion to ignore the file

These files fall under the project license, GPL v2 only. The resulting SPDX
license identifier is:

  GPL-2.0-only

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2019-05-08T03:50:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-08T03:50:27+00:00</published>
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Pull misc vfs updates from Al Viro:
 "Assorted stuff, with no common topic whatsoever..."

* 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  libfs: document simple_get_link()
  Documentation/filesystems/Locking: fix -&gt;get_link() prototype
  Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt: document how -&gt;i_link works
  Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt: remove bogus "Last updated" date
  fs: use timespec64 in relatime_need_update
  fs/block_dev.c: remove unused include
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<pre>
Pull misc vfs updates from Al Viro:
 "Assorted stuff, with no common topic whatsoever..."

* 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  libfs: document simple_get_link()
  Documentation/filesystems/Locking: fix -&gt;get_link() prototype
  Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt: document how -&gt;i_link works
  Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt: remove bogus "Last updated" date
  fs: use timespec64 in relatime_need_update
  fs/block_dev.c: remove unused include
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>libfs: document simple_get_link()</title>
<updated>2019-05-01T03:59:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-04-11T23:16:30+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs: mark expected switch fall-throughs</title>
<updated>2019-04-08T23:21:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gustavo A. R. Silva</name>
<email>gustavo@embeddedor.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-01-23T08:48:28+00:00</published>
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In preparation to enabling -Wimplicit-fallthrough, mark switch cases
where we are expecting to fall through.

This patch fixes the following warnings:

fs/affs/affs.h:124:38: warning: this statement may fall through [-Wimplicit-fallthrough=]
fs/configfs/dir.c:1692:11: warning: this statement may fall through [-Wimplicit-fallthrough=]
fs/configfs/dir.c:1694:7: warning: this statement may fall through [-Wimplicit-fallthrough=]
fs/ceph/file.c:249:3: warning: this statement may fall through [-Wimplicit-fallthrough=]
fs/ext4/hash.c:233:15: warning: this statement may fall through [-Wimplicit-fallthrough=]
fs/ext4/hash.c:246:15: warning: this statement may fall through [-Wimplicit-fallthrough=]
fs/ext2/inode.c:1237:7: warning: this statement may fall through [-Wimplicit-fallthrough=]
fs/ext2/inode.c:1244:7: warning: this statement may fall through [-Wimplicit-fallthrough=]
fs/ext4/indirect.c:1182:6: warning: this statement may fall through [-Wimplicit-fallthrough=]
fs/ext4/indirect.c:1188:6: warning: this statement may fall through [-Wimplicit-fallthrough=]
fs/ext4/indirect.c:1432:6: warning: this statement may fall through [-Wimplicit-fallthrough=]
fs/ext4/indirect.c:1440:6: warning: this statement may fall through [-Wimplicit-fallthrough=]
fs/f2fs/node.c:618:8: warning: this statement may fall through [-Wimplicit-fallthrough=]
fs/f2fs/node.c:620:8: warning: this statement may fall through [-Wimplicit-fallthrough=]
fs/btrfs/ref-verify.c:522:15: warning: this statement may fall through [-Wimplicit-fallthrough=]
fs/gfs2/bmap.c:711:7: warning: this statement may fall through [-Wimplicit-fallthrough=]
fs/gfs2/bmap.c:722:7: warning: this statement may fall through [-Wimplicit-fallthrough=]
fs/jffs2/fs.c:339:6: warning: this statement may fall through [-Wimplicit-fallthrough=]
fs/nfsd/nfs4proc.c:429:12: warning: this statement may fall through [-Wimplicit-fallthrough=]
fs/ufs/util.h:62:6: warning: this statement may fall through [-Wimplicit-fallthrough=]
fs/ufs/util.h:43:6: warning: this statement may fall through [-Wimplicit-fallthrough=]
fs/fcntl.c:770:7: warning: this statement may fall through [-Wimplicit-fallthrough=]
fs/seq_file.c:319:10: warning: this statement may fall through [-Wimplicit-fallthrough=]
fs/libfs.c:148:11: warning: this statement may fall through [-Wimplicit-fallthrough=]
fs/libfs.c:150:7: warning: this statement may fall through [-Wimplicit-fallthrough=]
fs/signalfd.c:178:7: warning: this statement may fall through [-Wimplicit-fallthrough=]
fs/locks.c:1473:16: warning: this statement may fall through [-Wimplicit-fallthrough=]

Warning level 3 was used: -Wimplicit-fallthrough=3

This patch is part of the ongoing efforts to enabling
-Wimplicit-fallthrough.

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva &lt;gustavo@embeddedor.com&gt;
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In preparation to enabling -Wimplicit-fallthrough, mark switch cases
where we are expecting to fall through.

This patch fixes the following warnings:

fs/affs/affs.h:124:38: warning: this statement may fall through [-Wimplicit-fallthrough=]
fs/configfs/dir.c:1692:11: warning: this statement may fall through [-Wimplicit-fallthrough=]
fs/configfs/dir.c:1694:7: warning: this statement may fall through [-Wimplicit-fallthrough=]
fs/ceph/file.c:249:3: warning: this statement may fall through [-Wimplicit-fallthrough=]
fs/ext4/hash.c:233:15: warning: this statement may fall through [-Wimplicit-fallthrough=]
fs/ext4/hash.c:246:15: warning: this statement may fall through [-Wimplicit-fallthrough=]
fs/ext2/inode.c:1237:7: warning: this statement may fall through [-Wimplicit-fallthrough=]
fs/ext2/inode.c:1244:7: warning: this statement may fall through [-Wimplicit-fallthrough=]
fs/ext4/indirect.c:1182:6: warning: this statement may fall through [-Wimplicit-fallthrough=]
fs/ext4/indirect.c:1188:6: warning: this statement may fall through [-Wimplicit-fallthrough=]
fs/ext4/indirect.c:1432:6: warning: this statement may fall through [-Wimplicit-fallthrough=]
fs/ext4/indirect.c:1440:6: warning: this statement may fall through [-Wimplicit-fallthrough=]
fs/f2fs/node.c:618:8: warning: this statement may fall through [-Wimplicit-fallthrough=]
fs/f2fs/node.c:620:8: warning: this statement may fall through [-Wimplicit-fallthrough=]
fs/btrfs/ref-verify.c:522:15: warning: this statement may fall through [-Wimplicit-fallthrough=]
fs/gfs2/bmap.c:711:7: warning: this statement may fall through [-Wimplicit-fallthrough=]
fs/gfs2/bmap.c:722:7: warning: this statement may fall through [-Wimplicit-fallthrough=]
fs/jffs2/fs.c:339:6: warning: this statement may fall through [-Wimplicit-fallthrough=]
fs/nfsd/nfs4proc.c:429:12: warning: this statement may fall through [-Wimplicit-fallthrough=]
fs/ufs/util.h:62:6: warning: this statement may fall through [-Wimplicit-fallthrough=]
fs/ufs/util.h:43:6: warning: this statement may fall through [-Wimplicit-fallthrough=]
fs/fcntl.c:770:7: warning: this statement may fall through [-Wimplicit-fallthrough=]
fs/seq_file.c:319:10: warning: this statement may fall through [-Wimplicit-fallthrough=]
fs/libfs.c:148:11: warning: this statement may fall through [-Wimplicit-fallthrough=]
fs/libfs.c:150:7: warning: this statement may fall through [-Wimplicit-fallthrough=]
fs/signalfd.c:178:7: warning: this statement may fall through [-Wimplicit-fallthrough=]
fs/locks.c:1473:16: warning: this statement may fall through [-Wimplicit-fallthrough=]

Warning level 3 was used: -Wimplicit-fallthrough=3

This patch is part of the ongoing efforts to enabling
-Wimplicit-fallthrough.

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva &lt;gustavo@embeddedor.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs, dax: prepare for dax-specific address_space_operations</title>
<updated>2018-03-30T18:34:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-07T23:26:44+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=f44c77630d26ca2c2a60b20c47dd9ce07c4361b3'/>
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<content type='text'>
In preparation for the dax implementation to start associating dax pages
to inodes via page-&gt;mapping, we need to provide a 'struct
address_space_operations' instance for dax. Define some generic VFS aops
helpers for dax. These noop implementations are there in the dax case to
prevent the VFS from falling back to operations with page-cache
assumptions, dax_writeback_mapping_range() may not be referenced in the
FS_DAX=n case.

Cc: Jeff Moyer &lt;jmoyer@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;mawilcox@microsoft.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Suggested-by: Dave Chinner &lt;david@fromorbit.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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In preparation for the dax implementation to start associating dax pages
to inodes via page-&gt;mapping, we need to provide a 'struct
address_space_operations' instance for dax. Define some generic VFS aops
helpers for dax. These noop implementations are there in the dax case to
prevent the VFS from falling back to operations with page-cache
assumptions, dax_writeback_mapping_range() may not be referenced in the
FS_DAX=n case.

Cc: Jeff Moyer &lt;jmoyer@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;mawilcox@microsoft.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Suggested-by: Dave Chinner &lt;david@fromorbit.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Rename superblock flags (MS_xyz -&gt; SB_xyz)</title>
<updated>2017-11-27T21:05:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-27T21:05:09+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=1751e8a6cb935e555fcdbcb9ab4f0446e322ca3e'/>
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This is a pure automated search-and-replace of the internal kernel
superblock flags.

The s_flags are now called SB_*, with the names and the values for the
moment mirroring the MS_* flags that they're equivalent to.

Note how the MS_xyz flags are the ones passed to the mount system call,
while the SB_xyz flags are what we then use in sb-&gt;s_flags.

The script to do this was:

    # places to look in; re security/*: it generally should *not* be
    # touched (that stuff parses mount(2) arguments directly), but
    # there are two places where we really deal with superblock flags.
    FILES="drivers/mtd drivers/staging/lustre fs ipc mm \
            include/linux/fs.h include/uapi/linux/bfs_fs.h \
            security/apparmor/apparmorfs.c security/apparmor/include/lib.h"
    # the list of MS_... constants
    SYMS="RDONLY NOSUID NODEV NOEXEC SYNCHRONOUS REMOUNT MANDLOCK \
          DIRSYNC NOATIME NODIRATIME BIND MOVE REC VERBOSE SILENT \
          POSIXACL UNBINDABLE PRIVATE SLAVE SHARED RELATIME KERNMOUNT \
          I_VERSION STRICTATIME LAZYTIME SUBMOUNT NOREMOTELOCK NOSEC BORN \
          ACTIVE NOUSER"

    SED_PROG=
    for i in $SYMS; do SED_PROG="$SED_PROG -e s/MS_$i/SB_$i/g"; done

    # we want files that contain at least one of MS_...,
    # with fs/namespace.c and fs/pnode.c excluded.
    L=$(for i in $SYMS; do git grep -w -l MS_$i $FILES; done| sort|uniq|grep -v '^fs/namespace.c'|grep -v '^fs/pnode.c')

    for f in $L; do sed -i $f $SED_PROG; done

Requested-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
This is a pure automated search-and-replace of the internal kernel
superblock flags.

The s_flags are now called SB_*, with the names and the values for the
moment mirroring the MS_* flags that they're equivalent to.

Note how the MS_xyz flags are the ones passed to the mount system call,
while the SB_xyz flags are what we then use in sb-&gt;s_flags.

The script to do this was:

    # places to look in; re security/*: it generally should *not* be
    # touched (that stuff parses mount(2) arguments directly), but
    # there are two places where we really deal with superblock flags.
    FILES="drivers/mtd drivers/staging/lustre fs ipc mm \
            include/linux/fs.h include/uapi/linux/bfs_fs.h \
            security/apparmor/apparmorfs.c security/apparmor/include/lib.h"
    # the list of MS_... constants
    SYMS="RDONLY NOSUID NODEV NOEXEC SYNCHRONOUS REMOUNT MANDLOCK \
          DIRSYNC NOATIME NODIRATIME BIND MOVE REC VERBOSE SILENT \
          POSIXACL UNBINDABLE PRIVATE SLAVE SHARED RELATIME KERNMOUNT \
          I_VERSION STRICTATIME LAZYTIME SUBMOUNT NOREMOTELOCK NOSEC BORN \
          ACTIVE NOUSER"

    SED_PROG=
    for i in $SYMS; do SED_PROG="$SED_PROG -e s/MS_$i/SB_$i/g"; done

    # we want files that contain at least one of MS_...,
    # with fs/namespace.c and fs/pnode.c excluded.
    L=$(for i in $SYMS; do git grep -w -l MS_$i $FILES; done| sort|uniq|grep -v '^fs/namespace.c'|grep -v '^fs/pnode.c')

    for f in $L; do sed -i $f $SED_PROG; done

Requested-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs: convert __generic_file_fsync to use errseq_t based reporting</title>
<updated>2017-07-06T11:02:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff Layton</name>
<email>jlayton@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-06T11:02:29+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=383aa543c2f46f245d652c0e5c77390f07ece657'/>
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<content type='text'>
Many simple, block-based filesystems use generic_file_fsync as their
fsync operation. Some others (ext* and fat) also call this function
to handle syncing out data.

Switch this code over to use errseq_t based error reporting so that
all of these filesystems get reliable error reporting via fsync,
fdatasync and msync.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@redhat.com&gt;
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Many simple, block-based filesystems use generic_file_fsync as their
fsync operation. Some others (ext* and fat) also call this function
to handle syncing out data.

Switch this code over to use errseq_t based error reporting so that
all of these filesystems get reliable error reporting via fsync,
fdatasync and msync.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs: check for writeback errors after syncing out buffers in generic_file_fsync</title>
<updated>2017-07-06T11:02:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff Layton</name>
<email>jlayton@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-06T11:02:21+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=dac257f7419c732be3e491bbbb568a82df60208a'/>
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ext2 currently does a test+clear of the AS_EIO flag, which is
is problematic for some coming changes.

What we really need to do instead is call filemap_check_errors
in __generic_file_fsync after syncing out the buffers. That
will be sufficient for this case, and help other callers detect
these errors properly as well.

With that, we don't need to twiddle it in ext2.

Suggested-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;mawilcox@microsoft.com&gt;
</content>
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ext2 currently does a test+clear of the AS_EIO flag, which is
is problematic for some coming changes.

What we really need to do instead is call filemap_check_errors
in __generic_file_fsync after syncing out the buffers. That
will be sufficient for this case, and help other callers detect
these errors properly as well.

With that, we don't need to twiddle it in ext2.

Suggested-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;mawilcox@microsoft.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs: constify tree_descr arrays passed to simple_fill_super()</title>
<updated>2017-04-27T03:54:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-03-26T04:15:37+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=cda37124f4e95ad5ccb11394a5802b0972668b32'/>
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<content type='text'>
simple_fill_super() is passed an array of tree_descr structures which
describe the files to create in the filesystem's root directory.  Since
these arrays are never modified intentionally, they should be 'const' so
that they are placed in .rodata and benefit from memory protection.
This patch updates the function signature and all users, and also
constifies tree_descr.name.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<pre>
simple_fill_super() is passed an array of tree_descr structures which
describe the files to create in the filesystem's root directory.  Since
these arrays are never modified intentionally, they should be 'const' so
that they are placed in .rodata and benefit from memory protection.
This patch updates the function signature and all users, and also
constifies tree_descr.name.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'rebased-statx' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2017-03-03T19:38:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-03-03T19:38:56+00:00</published>
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Pull vfs 'statx()' update from Al Viro.

This adds the new extended stat() interface that internally subsumes our
previous stat interfaces, and allows user mode to specify in more detail
what kind of information it wants.

It also allows for some explicit synchronization information to be
passed to the filesystem, which can be relevant for network filesystems:
is the cached value ok, or do you need open/close consistency, or what?

From David Howells.

Andreas Dilger points out that the first version of the extended statx
interface was posted June 29, 2010:

    https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-fsdevel/msg33831.html

* 'rebased-statx' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available
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Pull vfs 'statx()' update from Al Viro.

This adds the new extended stat() interface that internally subsumes our
previous stat interfaces, and allows user mode to specify in more detail
what kind of information it wants.

It also allows for some explicit synchronization information to be
passed to the filesystem, which can be relevant for network filesystems:
is the cached value ok, or do you need open/close consistency, or what?

From David Howells.

Andreas Dilger points out that the first version of the extended statx
interface was posted June 29, 2010:

    https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-fsdevel/msg33831.html

* 'rebased-statx' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available
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