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<title>linux-stable.git/fs/ncpfs, branch v4.3</title>
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<title>ncpfs: successful rename() should invalidate caches for parents</title>
<updated>2015-06-14T15:31:39+00:00</updated>
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<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
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<published>2015-06-06T13:15:55+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>VFS: normal filesystems (and lustre): d_inode() annotations</title>
<updated>2015-04-15T19:06:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2015-03-17T22:25:59+00:00</published>
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that's the bulk of filesystem drivers dealing with inodes of their own

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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that's the bulk of filesystem drivers dealing with inodes of their own

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>switch generic_write_checks() to iocb and iter</title>
<updated>2015-04-12T02:30:21+00:00</updated>
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<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
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<published>2015-04-09T16:55:47+00:00</published>
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... returning -E... upon error and amount of data left in iter after
(possible) truncation upon success.  Note, that normal case gives
a non-zero (positive) return value, so any tests for != 0 _must_ be
updated.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;

Conflicts:
	fs/ext4/file.c
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... returning -E... upon error and amount of data left in iter after
(possible) truncation upon success.  Note, that normal case gives
a non-zero (positive) return value, so any tests for != 0 _must_ be
updated.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;

Conflicts:
	fs/ext4/file.c
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<title>generic_write_checks(): drop isblk argument</title>
<updated>2015-04-12T02:29:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
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<published>2015-04-04T08:05:48+00:00</published>
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all remaining callers are passing 0; some just obscure that fact.

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all remaining callers are passing 0; some just obscure that fact.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>make new_sync_{read,write}() static</title>
<updated>2015-04-12T02:29:40+00:00</updated>
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<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
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<published>2015-04-03T19:41:18+00:00</published>
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All places outside of core VFS that checked -&gt;read and -&gt;write for being NULL or
called the methods directly are gone now, so NULL {read,write} with non-NULL
{read,write}_iter will do the right thing in all cases.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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All places outside of core VFS that checked -&gt;read and -&gt;write for being NULL or
called the methods directly are gone now, so NULL {read,write} with non-NULL
{read,write}_iter will do the right thing in all cases.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>ncpfs: switch to -&gt;read_iter/-&gt;write_iter</title>
<updated>2015-04-12T02:28:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
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<published>2015-04-03T03:30:18+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2015-02-17T22:56:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2015-02-17T22:56:45+00:00</published>
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Pull misc VFS updates from Al Viro:
 "This cycle a lot of stuff sits on topical branches, so I'll be sending
  more or less one pull request per branch.

  This is the first pile; more to follow in a few.  In this one are
  several misc commits from early in the cycle (before I went for
  separate branches), plus the rework of mntput/dput ordering on umount,
  switching to use of fs_pin instead of convoluted games in
  namespace_unlock()"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  switch the IO-triggering parts of umount to fs_pin
  new fs_pin killing logics
  allow attaching fs_pin to a group not associated with some superblock
  get rid of the second argument of acct_kill()
  take count and rcu_head out of fs_pin
  dcache: let the dentry count go down to zero without taking d_lock
  pull bumping refcount into -&gt;kill()
  kill pin_put()
  mode_t whack-a-mole: chelsio
  file-&gt;f_path.dentry is pinned down for as long as the file is open...
  get rid of lustre_dump_dentry()
  gut proc_register() a bit
  kill d_validate()
  ncpfs: get rid of d_validate() nonsense
  selinuxfs: don't open-code d_genocide()
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Pull misc VFS updates from Al Viro:
 "This cycle a lot of stuff sits on topical branches, so I'll be sending
  more or less one pull request per branch.

  This is the first pile; more to follow in a few.  In this one are
  several misc commits from early in the cycle (before I went for
  separate branches), plus the rework of mntput/dput ordering on umount,
  switching to use of fs_pin instead of convoluted games in
  namespace_unlock()"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  switch the IO-triggering parts of umount to fs_pin
  new fs_pin killing logics
  allow attaching fs_pin to a group not associated with some superblock
  get rid of the second argument of acct_kill()
  take count and rcu_head out of fs_pin
  dcache: let the dentry count go down to zero without taking d_lock
  pull bumping refcount into -&gt;kill()
  kill pin_put()
  mode_t whack-a-mole: chelsio
  file-&gt;f_path.dentry is pinned down for as long as the file is open...
  get rid of lustre_dump_dentry()
  gut proc_register() a bit
  kill d_validate()
  ncpfs: get rid of d_validate() nonsense
  selinuxfs: don't open-code d_genocide()
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<entry>
<title>ncpfs: get rid of d_validate() nonsense</title>
<updated>2015-01-26T04:16:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-25T02:41:47+00:00</published>
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What we want is to have non-counting references to children in
pagecache of parent directory, and avoid picking them after a child
has been freed.  Fine, so let's just have -&gt;d_prune() clear
parent's inode "has directory contents in page cache" flag.
That way we don't need -&gt;d_fsdata for storing offsets, so we can
use it as a quick and dirty "is it referenced from page cache"
flag.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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What we want is to have non-counting references to children in
pagecache of parent directory, and avoid picking them after a child
has been freed.  Fine, so let's just have -&gt;d_prune() clear
parent's inode "has directory contents in page cache" flag.
That way we don't need -&gt;d_fsdata for storing offsets, so we can
use it as a quick and dirty "is it referenced from page cache"
flag.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>fs: remove mapping-&gt;backing_dev_info</title>
<updated>2015-01-20T21:03:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
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<published>2015-01-14T09:42:37+00:00</published>
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Now that we never use the backing_dev_info pointer in struct address_space
we can simply remove it and save 4 to 8 bytes in every inode.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Acked-by: Ryusuke Konishi &lt;konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp&gt;
Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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Now that we never use the backing_dev_info pointer in struct address_space
we can simply remove it and save 4 to 8 bytes in every inode.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Acked-by: Ryusuke Konishi &lt;konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp&gt;
Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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<title>fs: introduce f_op-&gt;mmap_capabilities for nommu mmap support</title>
<updated>2015-01-20T21:02:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
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<published>2015-01-14T09:42:32+00:00</published>
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Since "BDI: Provide backing device capability information [try #3]" the
backing_dev_info structure also provides flags for the kind of mmap
operation available in a nommu environment, which is entirely unrelated
to it's original purpose.

Introduce a new nommu-only file operation to provide this information to
the nommu mmap code instead.  Splitting this from the backing_dev_info
structure allows to remove lots of backing_dev_info instance that aren't
otherwise needed, and entirely gets rid of the concept of providing a
backing_dev_info for a character device.  It also removes the need for
the mtd_inodefs filesystem.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Brian Norris &lt;computersforpeace@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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Since "BDI: Provide backing device capability information [try #3]" the
backing_dev_info structure also provides flags for the kind of mmap
operation available in a nommu environment, which is entirely unrelated
to it's original purpose.

Introduce a new nommu-only file operation to provide this information to
the nommu mmap code instead.  Splitting this from the backing_dev_info
structure allows to remove lots of backing_dev_info instance that aren't
otherwise needed, and entirely gets rid of the concept of providing a
backing_dev_info for a character device.  It also removes the need for
the mtd_inodefs filesystem.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Brian Norris &lt;computersforpeace@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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