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<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2013-07-14T18:42:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-14T18:42:26+00:00</published>
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Pull more vfs stuff from Al Viro:
 "O_TMPFILE ABI changes, Oleg's fput() series, misc cleanups, including
  making simple_lookup() usable for filesystems with non-NULL s_d_op,
  which allows us to get rid of quite a bit of ugliness"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  sunrpc: now we can just set -&gt;s_d_op
  cgroup: we can use simple_lookup() now
  efivarfs: we can use simple_lookup() now
  make simple_lookup() usable for filesystems that set -&gt;s_d_op
  configfs: don't open-code d_alloc_name()
  __rpc_lookup_create_exclusive: pass string instead of qstr
  rpc_create_*_dir: don't bother with qstr
  llist: llist_add() can use llist_add_batch()
  llist: fix/simplify llist_add() and llist_add_batch()
  fput: turn "list_head delayed_fput_list" into llist_head
  fs/file_table.c:fput(): add comment
  Safer ABI for O_TMPFILE
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Pull more vfs stuff from Al Viro:
 "O_TMPFILE ABI changes, Oleg's fput() series, misc cleanups, including
  making simple_lookup() usable for filesystems with non-NULL s_d_op,
  which allows us to get rid of quite a bit of ugliness"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  sunrpc: now we can just set -&gt;s_d_op
  cgroup: we can use simple_lookup() now
  efivarfs: we can use simple_lookup() now
  make simple_lookup() usable for filesystems that set -&gt;s_d_op
  configfs: don't open-code d_alloc_name()
  __rpc_lookup_create_exclusive: pass string instead of qstr
  rpc_create_*_dir: don't bother with qstr
  llist: llist_add() can use llist_add_batch()
  llist: fix/simplify llist_add() and llist_add_batch()
  fput: turn "list_head delayed_fput_list" into llist_head
  fs/file_table.c:fput(): add comment
  Safer ABI for O_TMPFILE
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<entry>
<title>fput: turn "list_head delayed_fput_list" into llist_head</title>
<updated>2013-07-13T09:29:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Oleg Nesterov</name>
<email>oleg@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-08T21:24:16+00:00</published>
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fput() and delayed_fput() can use llist and avoid the locking.

This is unlikely path, it is not that this change can improve
the performance, but this way the code looks simpler.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Andrey Vagin &lt;avagin@openvz.org&gt;
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Huang Ying &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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fput() and delayed_fput() can use llist and avoid the locking.

This is unlikely path, it is not that this change can improve
the performance, but this way the code looks simpler.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Andrey Vagin &lt;avagin@openvz.org&gt;
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Huang Ying &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'akpm' (updates from Andrew Morton)</title>
<updated>2013-07-09T20:33:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-09T20:33:36+00:00</published>
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Merge second patch-bomb from Andrew Morton:
 - misc fixes
 - audit stuff
 - fanotify/inotify/dnotify things
 - most of the rest of MM.  The new cache shrinker code from Glauber and
   Dave Chinner probably isn't quite stabilized yet.
 - ptrace
 - ipc
 - partitions
 - reboot cleanups
 - add LZ4 decompressor, use it for kernel compression

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (118 commits)
  lib/scatterlist: error handling in __sg_alloc_table()
  scsi_debug: fix do_device_access() with wrap around range
  crypto: talitos: use sg_pcopy_to_buffer()
  lib/scatterlist: introduce sg_pcopy_from_buffer() and sg_pcopy_to_buffer()
  lib/scatterlist: factor out sg_miter_get_next_page() from sg_miter_next()
  crypto: add lz4 Cryptographic API
  lib: add lz4 compressor module
  arm: add support for LZ4-compressed kernel
  lib: add support for LZ4-compressed kernel
  decompressor: add LZ4 decompressor module
  lib: add weak clz/ctz functions
  reboot: move arch/x86 reboot= handling to generic kernel
  reboot: arm: change reboot_mode to use enum reboot_mode
  reboot: arm: prepare reboot_mode for moving to generic kernel code
  reboot: arm: remove unused restart_mode fields from some arm subarchs
  reboot: unicore32: prepare reboot_mode for moving to generic kernel code
  reboot: x86: prepare reboot_mode for moving to generic kernel code
  reboot: checkpatch.pl the new kernel/reboot.c file
  reboot: move shutdown/reboot related functions to kernel/reboot.c
  reboot: remove -stable friendly PF_THREAD_BOUND define
  ...
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Merge second patch-bomb from Andrew Morton:
 - misc fixes
 - audit stuff
 - fanotify/inotify/dnotify things
 - most of the rest of MM.  The new cache shrinker code from Glauber and
   Dave Chinner probably isn't quite stabilized yet.
 - ptrace
 - ipc
 - partitions
 - reboot cleanups
 - add LZ4 decompressor, use it for kernel compression

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (118 commits)
  lib/scatterlist: error handling in __sg_alloc_table()
  scsi_debug: fix do_device_access() with wrap around range
  crypto: talitos: use sg_pcopy_to_buffer()
  lib/scatterlist: introduce sg_pcopy_from_buffer() and sg_pcopy_to_buffer()
  lib/scatterlist: factor out sg_miter_get_next_page() from sg_miter_next()
  crypto: add lz4 Cryptographic API
  lib: add lz4 compressor module
  arm: add support for LZ4-compressed kernel
  lib: add support for LZ4-compressed kernel
  decompressor: add LZ4 decompressor module
  lib: add weak clz/ctz functions
  reboot: move arch/x86 reboot= handling to generic kernel
  reboot: arm: change reboot_mode to use enum reboot_mode
  reboot: arm: prepare reboot_mode for moving to generic kernel code
  reboot: arm: remove unused restart_mode fields from some arm subarchs
  reboot: unicore32: prepare reboot_mode for moving to generic kernel code
  reboot: x86: prepare reboot_mode for moving to generic kernel code
  reboot: checkpatch.pl the new kernel/reboot.c file
  reboot: move shutdown/reboot related functions to kernel/reboot.c
  reboot: remove -stable friendly PF_THREAD_BOUND define
  ...
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<entry>
<title>page migration: fix wrong comment in address_space_operations.migratepage()</title>
<updated>2013-07-09T17:33:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tang Chen</name>
<email>tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-08T23:00:21+00:00</published>
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There is no parameter "sync" in address_space_operations-&gt;migratepage().
It should be migrate_mode.  And the comment is for MIGRATE_ASYNC.

Signed-off-by: Tang Chen &lt;tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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There is no parameter "sync" in address_space_operations-&gt;migratepage().
It should be migrate_mode.  And the comment is for MIGRATE_ASYNC.

Signed-off-by: Tang Chen &lt;tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>locks: move file_lock_list to a set of percpu hlist_heads and convert file_lock_lock to an lglock</title>
<updated>2013-07-08T09:36:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff Layton</name>
<email>jlayton@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-06-21T12:58:22+00:00</published>
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The file_lock_list is only used for /proc/locks. The vastly common case
is for locks to be put onto the list and come off again, without ever
being traversed.

Help optimize for this use-case by moving to percpu hlist_head-s. At the
same time, we can make the locking less contentious by moving to an
lglock. When iterating over the lists for /proc/locks, we must take the
global lock and then iterate over each CPU's list in turn.

This change necessitates a new fl_link_cpu field to keep track of which
CPU the entry is on. On x86_64 at least, this field is placed within an
existing hole in the struct to avoid growing the size.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: J. Bruce Fields &lt;bfields@fieldses.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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The file_lock_list is only used for /proc/locks. The vastly common case
is for locks to be put onto the list and come off again, without ever
being traversed.

Help optimize for this use-case by moving to percpu hlist_head-s. At the
same time, we can make the locking less contentious by moving to an
lglock. When iterating over the lists for /proc/locks, we must take the
global lock and then iterate over each CPU's list in turn.

This change necessitates a new fl_link_cpu field to keep track of which
CPU the entry is on. On x86_64 at least, this field is placed within an
existing hole in the struct to avoid growing the size.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: J. Bruce Fields &lt;bfields@fieldses.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm: vmscan: take page buffers dirty and locked state into account</title>
<updated>2013-07-03T23:07:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mel Gorman</name>
<email>mgorman@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-03T22:02:05+00:00</published>
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Page reclaim keeps track of dirty and under writeback pages and uses it
to determine if wait_iff_congested() should stall or if kswapd should
begin writing back pages.  This fails to account for buffer pages that
can be under writeback but not PageWriteback which is the case for
filesystems like ext3 ordered mode.  Furthermore, PageDirty buffer pages
can have all the buffers clean and writepage does no IO so it should not
be accounted as congested.

This patch adds an address_space operation that filesystems may
optionally use to check if a page is really dirty or really under
writeback.  An implementation is provided for for buffer_heads is added
and used for block operations and ext3 in ordered mode.  By default the
page flags are obeyed.

Credit goes to Jan Kara for identifying that the page flags alone are
not sufficient for ext3 and sanity checking a number of ideas on how the
problem could be addressed.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki &lt;kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Valdis Kletnieks &lt;Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu&gt;
Cc: Zlatko Calusic &lt;zcalusic@bitsync.net&gt;
Cc: dormando &lt;dormando@rydia.net&gt;
Cc: Trond Myklebust &lt;trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Page reclaim keeps track of dirty and under writeback pages and uses it
to determine if wait_iff_congested() should stall or if kswapd should
begin writing back pages.  This fails to account for buffer pages that
can be under writeback but not PageWriteback which is the case for
filesystems like ext3 ordered mode.  Furthermore, PageDirty buffer pages
can have all the buffers clean and writepage does no IO so it should not
be accounted as congested.

This patch adds an address_space operation that filesystems may
optionally use to check if a page is really dirty or really under
writeback.  An implementation is provided for for buffer_heads is added
and used for block operations and ext3 in ordered mode.  By default the
page flags are obeyed.

Credit goes to Jan Kara for identifying that the page flags alone are
not sufficient for ext3 and sanity checking a number of ideas on how the
problem could be addressed.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki &lt;kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Valdis Kletnieks &lt;Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu&gt;
Cc: Zlatko Calusic &lt;zcalusic@bitsync.net&gt;
Cc: dormando &lt;dormando@rydia.net&gt;
Cc: Trond Myklebust &lt;trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2013-07-03T16:10:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-03T16:10:19+00:00</published>
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Pull second set of VFS changes from Al Viro:
 "Assorted f_pos race fixes, making do_splice_direct() safe to call with
  i_mutex on parent, O_TMPFILE support, Jeff's locks.c series,
  -&gt;d_hash/-&gt;d_compare calling conventions changes from Linus, misc
  stuff all over the place."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (63 commits)
  Document -&gt;tmpfile()
  ext4: -&gt;tmpfile() support
  vfs: export lseek_execute() to modules
  lseek_execute() doesn't need an inode passed to it
  block_dev: switch to fixed_size_llseek()
  cpqphp_sysfs: switch to fixed_size_llseek()
  tile-srom: switch to fixed_size_llseek()
  proc_powerpc: switch to fixed_size_llseek()
  ubi/cdev: switch to fixed_size_llseek()
  pci/proc: switch to fixed_size_llseek()
  isapnp: switch to fixed_size_llseek()
  lpfc: switch to fixed_size_llseek()
  locks: give the blocked_hash its own spinlock
  locks: add a new "lm_owner_key" lock operation
  locks: turn the blocked_list into a hashtable
  locks: convert fl_link to a hlist_node
  locks: avoid taking global lock if possible when waking up blocked waiters
  locks: protect most of the file_lock handling with i_lock
  locks: encapsulate the fl_link list handling
  locks: make "added" in __posix_lock_file a bool
  ...
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Pull second set of VFS changes from Al Viro:
 "Assorted f_pos race fixes, making do_splice_direct() safe to call with
  i_mutex on parent, O_TMPFILE support, Jeff's locks.c series,
  -&gt;d_hash/-&gt;d_compare calling conventions changes from Linus, misc
  stuff all over the place."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (63 commits)
  Document -&gt;tmpfile()
  ext4: -&gt;tmpfile() support
  vfs: export lseek_execute() to modules
  lseek_execute() doesn't need an inode passed to it
  block_dev: switch to fixed_size_llseek()
  cpqphp_sysfs: switch to fixed_size_llseek()
  tile-srom: switch to fixed_size_llseek()
  proc_powerpc: switch to fixed_size_llseek()
  ubi/cdev: switch to fixed_size_llseek()
  pci/proc: switch to fixed_size_llseek()
  isapnp: switch to fixed_size_llseek()
  lpfc: switch to fixed_size_llseek()
  locks: give the blocked_hash its own spinlock
  locks: add a new "lm_owner_key" lock operation
  locks: turn the blocked_list into a hashtable
  locks: convert fl_link to a hlist_node
  locks: avoid taking global lock if possible when waking up blocked waiters
  locks: protect most of the file_lock handling with i_lock
  locks: encapsulate the fl_link list handling
  locks: make "added" in __posix_lock_file a bool
  ...
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<entry>
<title>vfs: export lseek_execute() to modules</title>
<updated>2013-07-03T12:23:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jie Liu</name>
<email>jeff.liu@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-06-25T04:02:13+00:00</published>
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For those file systems(btrfs/ext4/ocfs2/tmpfs) that support
SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE functions, we end up handling the similar
matter in lseek_execute() to update the current file offset
to the desired offset if it is valid, ceph also does the
simliar things at ceph_llseek().

To reduce the duplications, this patch make lseek_execute()
public accessible so that we can call it directly from the
underlying file systems.

Thanks Dave Chinner for this suggestion.

[AV: call it vfs_setpos(), don't bring the removed 'inode' argument back]

v2-&gt;v1:
- Add kernel-doc comments for lseek_execute()
- Call lseek_execute() in ceph-&gt;llseek()

Signed-off-by: Jie Liu &lt;jeff.liu@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Chinner &lt;dchinner@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;andi@firstfloor.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Chris Mason &lt;chris.mason@fusionio.com&gt;
Cc: Josef Bacik &lt;jbacik@fusionio.com&gt;
Cc: Ben Myers &lt;bpm@sgi.com&gt;
Cc: Ted Tso &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Fasheh &lt;mfasheh@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Joel Becker &lt;jlbec@evilplan.org&gt;
Cc: Sage Weil &lt;sage@inktank.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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For those file systems(btrfs/ext4/ocfs2/tmpfs) that support
SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE functions, we end up handling the similar
matter in lseek_execute() to update the current file offset
to the desired offset if it is valid, ceph also does the
simliar things at ceph_llseek().

To reduce the duplications, this patch make lseek_execute()
public accessible so that we can call it directly from the
underlying file systems.

Thanks Dave Chinner for this suggestion.

[AV: call it vfs_setpos(), don't bring the removed 'inode' argument back]

v2-&gt;v1:
- Add kernel-doc comments for lseek_execute()
- Call lseek_execute() in ceph-&gt;llseek()

Signed-off-by: Jie Liu &lt;jeff.liu@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Chinner &lt;dchinner@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;andi@firstfloor.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Chris Mason &lt;chris.mason@fusionio.com&gt;
Cc: Josef Bacik &lt;jbacik@fusionio.com&gt;
Cc: Ben Myers &lt;bpm@sgi.com&gt;
Cc: Ted Tso &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Fasheh &lt;mfasheh@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Joel Becker &lt;jlbec@evilplan.org&gt;
Cc: Sage Weil &lt;sage@inktank.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4</title>
<updated>2013-07-02T16:39:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-02T16:39:34+00:00</published>
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Pull ext4 update from Ted Ts'o:
 "Lots of bug fixes, cleanups and optimizations.  In the bug fixes
  category, of note is a fix for on-line resizing file systems where the
  block size is smaller than the page size (i.e., file systems 1k blocks
  on x86, or more interestingly file systems with 4k blocks on Power or
  ia64 systems.)

  In the cleanup category, the ext4's punch hole implementation was
  significantly improved by Lukas Czerner, and now supports bigalloc
  file systems.  In addition, Jan Kara significantly cleaned up the
  write submission code path.  We also improved error checking and added
  a few sanity checks.

  In the optimizations category, two major optimizations deserve
  mention.  The first is that ext4_writepages() is now used for
  nodelalloc and ext3 compatibility mode.  This allows writes to be
  submitted much more efficiently as a single bio request, instead of
  being sent as individual 4k writes into the block layer (which then
  relied on the elevator code to coalesce the requests in the block
  queue).  Secondly, the extent cache shrink mechanism, which was
  introduce in 3.9, no longer has a scalability bottleneck caused by the
  i_es_lru spinlock.  Other optimizations include some changes to reduce
  CPU usage and to avoid issuing empty commits unnecessarily."

* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (86 commits)
  ext4: optimize starting extent in ext4_ext_rm_leaf()
  jbd2: invalidate handle if jbd2_journal_restart() fails
  ext4: translate flag bits to strings in tracepoints
  ext4: fix up error handling for mpage_map_and_submit_extent()
  jbd2: fix theoretical race in jbd2__journal_restart
  ext4: only zero partial blocks in ext4_zero_partial_blocks()
  ext4: check error return from ext4_write_inline_data_end()
  ext4: delete unnecessary C statements
  ext3,ext4: don't mess with dir_file-&gt;f_pos in htree_dirblock_to_tree()
  jbd2: move superblock checksum calculation to jbd2_write_superblock()
  ext4: pass inode pointer instead of file pointer to punch hole
  ext4: improve free space calculation for inline_data
  ext4: reduce object size when !CONFIG_PRINTK
  ext4: improve extent cache shrink mechanism to avoid to burn CPU time
  ext4: implement error handling of ext4_mb_new_preallocation()
  ext4: fix corruption when online resizing a fs with 1K block size
  ext4: delete unused variables
  ext4: return FIEMAP_EXTENT_UNKNOWN for delalloc extents
  jbd2: remove debug dependency on debug_fs and update Kconfig help text
  jbd2: use a single printk for jbd_debug()
  ...
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Pull ext4 update from Ted Ts'o:
 "Lots of bug fixes, cleanups and optimizations.  In the bug fixes
  category, of note is a fix for on-line resizing file systems where the
  block size is smaller than the page size (i.e., file systems 1k blocks
  on x86, or more interestingly file systems with 4k blocks on Power or
  ia64 systems.)

  In the cleanup category, the ext4's punch hole implementation was
  significantly improved by Lukas Czerner, and now supports bigalloc
  file systems.  In addition, Jan Kara significantly cleaned up the
  write submission code path.  We also improved error checking and added
  a few sanity checks.

  In the optimizations category, two major optimizations deserve
  mention.  The first is that ext4_writepages() is now used for
  nodelalloc and ext3 compatibility mode.  This allows writes to be
  submitted much more efficiently as a single bio request, instead of
  being sent as individual 4k writes into the block layer (which then
  relied on the elevator code to coalesce the requests in the block
  queue).  Secondly, the extent cache shrink mechanism, which was
  introduce in 3.9, no longer has a scalability bottleneck caused by the
  i_es_lru spinlock.  Other optimizations include some changes to reduce
  CPU usage and to avoid issuing empty commits unnecessarily."

* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (86 commits)
  ext4: optimize starting extent in ext4_ext_rm_leaf()
  jbd2: invalidate handle if jbd2_journal_restart() fails
  ext4: translate flag bits to strings in tracepoints
  ext4: fix up error handling for mpage_map_and_submit_extent()
  jbd2: fix theoretical race in jbd2__journal_restart
  ext4: only zero partial blocks in ext4_zero_partial_blocks()
  ext4: check error return from ext4_write_inline_data_end()
  ext4: delete unnecessary C statements
  ext3,ext4: don't mess with dir_file-&gt;f_pos in htree_dirblock_to_tree()
  jbd2: move superblock checksum calculation to jbd2_write_superblock()
  ext4: pass inode pointer instead of file pointer to punch hole
  ext4: improve free space calculation for inline_data
  ext4: reduce object size when !CONFIG_PRINTK
  ext4: improve extent cache shrink mechanism to avoid to burn CPU time
  ext4: implement error handling of ext4_mb_new_preallocation()
  ext4: fix corruption when online resizing a fs with 1K block size
  ext4: delete unused variables
  ext4: return FIEMAP_EXTENT_UNKNOWN for delalloc extents
  jbd2: remove debug dependency on debug_fs and update Kconfig help text
  jbd2: use a single printk for jbd_debug()
  ...
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<entry>
<title>locks: add a new "lm_owner_key" lock operation</title>
<updated>2013-06-29T08:57:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff Layton</name>
<email>jlayton@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-06-21T12:58:19+00:00</published>
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Currently, the hashing that the locking code uses to add these values
to the blocked_hash is simply calculated using fl_owner field. That's
valid in most cases except for server-side lockd, which validates the
owner of a lock based on fl_owner and fl_pid.

In the case where you have a small number of NFS clients doing a lot
of locking between different processes, you could end up with all
the blocked requests sitting in a very small number of hash buckets.

Add a new lm_owner_key operation to the lock_manager_operations that
will generate an unsigned long to use as the key in the hashtable.
That function is only implemented for server-side lockd, and simply
XORs the fl_owner and fl_pid.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: J. Bruce Fields &lt;bfields@fieldses.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Currently, the hashing that the locking code uses to add these values
to the blocked_hash is simply calculated using fl_owner field. That's
valid in most cases except for server-side lockd, which validates the
owner of a lock based on fl_owner and fl_pid.

In the case where you have a small number of NFS clients doing a lot
of locking between different processes, you could end up with all
the blocked requests sitting in a very small number of hash buckets.

Add a new lm_owner_key operation to the lock_manager_operations that
will generate an unsigned long to use as the key in the hashtable.
That function is only implemented for server-side lockd, and simply
XORs the fl_owner and fl_pid.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: J. Bruce Fields &lt;bfields@fieldses.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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