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<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2015-04-27T00:22:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-26T22:48:49+00:00</published>
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Pull fourth vfs update from Al Viro:
 "d_inode() annotations from David Howells (sat in for-next since before
  the beginning of merge window) + four assorted fixes"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  RCU pathwalk breakage when running into a symlink overmounting something
  fix I_DIO_WAKEUP definition
  direct-io: only inc/dec inode-&gt;i_dio_count for file systems
  fs/9p: fix readdir()
  VFS: assorted d_backing_inode() annotations
  VFS: fs/inode.c helpers: d_inode() annotations
  VFS: fs/cachefiles: d_backing_inode() annotations
  VFS: fs library helpers: d_inode() annotations
  VFS: assorted weird filesystems: d_inode() annotations
  VFS: normal filesystems (and lustre): d_inode() annotations
  VFS: security/: d_inode() annotations
  VFS: security/: d_backing_inode() annotations
  VFS: net/: d_inode() annotations
  VFS: net/unix: d_backing_inode() annotations
  VFS: kernel/: d_inode() annotations
  VFS: audit: d_backing_inode() annotations
  VFS: Fix up some -&gt;d_inode accesses in the chelsio driver
  VFS: Cachefiles should perform fs modifications on the top layer only
  VFS: AF_UNIX sockets should call mknod on the top layer only
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Pull fourth vfs update from Al Viro:
 "d_inode() annotations from David Howells (sat in for-next since before
  the beginning of merge window) + four assorted fixes"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  RCU pathwalk breakage when running into a symlink overmounting something
  fix I_DIO_WAKEUP definition
  direct-io: only inc/dec inode-&gt;i_dio_count for file systems
  fs/9p: fix readdir()
  VFS: assorted d_backing_inode() annotations
  VFS: fs/inode.c helpers: d_inode() annotations
  VFS: fs/cachefiles: d_backing_inode() annotations
  VFS: fs library helpers: d_inode() annotations
  VFS: assorted weird filesystems: d_inode() annotations
  VFS: normal filesystems (and lustre): d_inode() annotations
  VFS: security/: d_inode() annotations
  VFS: security/: d_backing_inode() annotations
  VFS: net/: d_inode() annotations
  VFS: net/unix: d_backing_inode() annotations
  VFS: kernel/: d_inode() annotations
  VFS: audit: d_backing_inode() annotations
  VFS: Fix up some -&gt;d_inode accesses in the chelsio driver
  VFS: Cachefiles should perform fs modifications on the top layer only
  VFS: AF_UNIX sockets should call mknod on the top layer only
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<entry>
<title>fix I_DIO_WAKEUP definition</title>
<updated>2015-04-24T19:45:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Sandeen</name>
<email>sandeen@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-16T20:04:56+00:00</published>
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I_DIO_WAKEUP is never directly used, but fix it up anyway.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen &lt;sandeen@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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I_DIO_WAKEUP is never directly used, but fix it up anyway.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen &lt;sandeen@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>direct-io: only inc/dec inode-&gt;i_dio_count for file systems</title>
<updated>2015-04-24T19:45:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>axboe@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-15T23:05:48+00:00</published>
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do_blockdev_direct_IO() increments and decrements the inode
-&gt;i_dio_count for each IO operation. It does this to protect against
truncate of a file. Block devices don't need this sort of protection.

For a capable multiqueue setup, this atomic int is the only shared
state between applications accessing the device for O_DIRECT, and it
presents a scaling wall for that. In my testing, as much as 30% of
system time is spent incrementing and decrementing this value. A mixed
read/write workload improved from ~2.5M IOPS to ~9.6M IOPS, with
better latencies too. Before:

clat percentiles (usec):
 |  1.00th=[   33],  5.00th=[   34], 10.00th=[   34], 20.00th=[   34],
 | 30.00th=[   34], 40.00th=[   34], 50.00th=[   35], 60.00th=[   35],
 | 70.00th=[   35], 80.00th=[   35], 90.00th=[   37], 95.00th=[   80],
 | 99.00th=[   98], 99.50th=[  151], 99.90th=[  155], 99.95th=[  155],
 | 99.99th=[  165]

After:

clat percentiles (usec):
 |  1.00th=[   95],  5.00th=[  108], 10.00th=[  129], 20.00th=[  149],
 | 30.00th=[  155], 40.00th=[  161], 50.00th=[  167], 60.00th=[  171],
 | 70.00th=[  177], 80.00th=[  185], 90.00th=[  201], 95.00th=[  270],
 | 99.00th=[  390], 99.50th=[  398], 99.90th=[  418], 99.95th=[  422],
 | 99.99th=[  438]

In other setups, Robert Elliott reported seeing good performance
improvements:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/4/3/557

The more applications accessing the device, the worse it gets.

Add a new direct-io flags, DIO_SKIP_DIO_COUNT, which tells
do_blockdev_direct_IO() that it need not worry about incrementing
or decrementing the inode i_dio_count for this caller.

Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Elliott, Robert (Server Storage) &lt;elliott@hp.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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do_blockdev_direct_IO() increments and decrements the inode
-&gt;i_dio_count for each IO operation. It does this to protect against
truncate of a file. Block devices don't need this sort of protection.

For a capable multiqueue setup, this atomic int is the only shared
state between applications accessing the device for O_DIRECT, and it
presents a scaling wall for that. In my testing, as much as 30% of
system time is spent incrementing and decrementing this value. A mixed
read/write workload improved from ~2.5M IOPS to ~9.6M IOPS, with
better latencies too. Before:

clat percentiles (usec):
 |  1.00th=[   33],  5.00th=[   34], 10.00th=[   34], 20.00th=[   34],
 | 30.00th=[   34], 40.00th=[   34], 50.00th=[   35], 60.00th=[   35],
 | 70.00th=[   35], 80.00th=[   35], 90.00th=[   37], 95.00th=[   80],
 | 99.00th=[   98], 99.50th=[  151], 99.90th=[  155], 99.95th=[  155],
 | 99.99th=[  165]

After:

clat percentiles (usec):
 |  1.00th=[   95],  5.00th=[  108], 10.00th=[  129], 20.00th=[  149],
 | 30.00th=[  155], 40.00th=[  161], 50.00th=[  167], 60.00th=[  171],
 | 70.00th=[  177], 80.00th=[  185], 90.00th=[  201], 95.00th=[  270],
 | 99.00th=[  390], 99.50th=[  398], 99.90th=[  418], 99.95th=[  422],
 | 99.99th=[  438]

In other setups, Robert Elliott reported seeing good performance
improvements:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/4/3/557

The more applications accessing the device, the worse it gets.

Add a new direct-io flags, DIO_SKIP_DIO_COUNT, which tells
do_blockdev_direct_IO() that it need not worry about incrementing
or decrementing the inode i_dio_count for this caller.

Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Elliott, Robert (Server Storage) &lt;elliott@hp.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)</title>
<updated>2015-04-17T13:04:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-17T13:04:38+00:00</published>
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Merge third patchbomb from Andrew Morton:

 - various misc things

 - a couple of lib/ optimisations

 - provide DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST_ULL()

 - checkpatch updates

 - rtc tree

 - befs, nilfs2, hfs, hfsplus, fatfs, adfs, affs, bfs

 - ptrace fixes

 - fork() fixes

 - seccomp cleanups

 - more mmap_sem hold time reductions from Davidlohr

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (138 commits)
  proc: show locks in /proc/pid/fdinfo/X
  docs: add missing and new /proc/PID/status file entries, fix typos
  drivers/rtc/rtc-at91rm9200.c: make IO endian agnostic
  Documentation/spi/spidev_test.c: fix warning
  drivers/rtc/rtc-s5m.c: allow usage on device type different than main MFD type
  .gitignore: ignore *.tar
  MAINTAINERS: add Mediatek SoC mailing list
  tomoyo: reduce mmap_sem hold for mm-&gt;exe_file
  powerpc/oprofile: reduce mmap_sem hold for exe_file
  oprofile: reduce mmap_sem hold for mm-&gt;exe_file
  mips: ip32: add platform data hooks to use DS1685 driver
  lib/Kconfig: fix up HAVE_ARCH_BITREVERSE help text
  x86: switch to using asm-generic for seccomp.h
  sparc: switch to using asm-generic for seccomp.h
  powerpc: switch to using asm-generic for seccomp.h
  parisc: switch to using asm-generic for seccomp.h
  mips: switch to using asm-generic for seccomp.h
  microblaze: use asm-generic for seccomp.h
  arm: use asm-generic for seccomp.h
  seccomp: allow COMPAT sigreturn overrides
  ...
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Merge third patchbomb from Andrew Morton:

 - various misc things

 - a couple of lib/ optimisations

 - provide DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST_ULL()

 - checkpatch updates

 - rtc tree

 - befs, nilfs2, hfs, hfsplus, fatfs, adfs, affs, bfs

 - ptrace fixes

 - fork() fixes

 - seccomp cleanups

 - more mmap_sem hold time reductions from Davidlohr

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (138 commits)
  proc: show locks in /proc/pid/fdinfo/X
  docs: add missing and new /proc/PID/status file entries, fix typos
  drivers/rtc/rtc-at91rm9200.c: make IO endian agnostic
  Documentation/spi/spidev_test.c: fix warning
  drivers/rtc/rtc-s5m.c: allow usage on device type different than main MFD type
  .gitignore: ignore *.tar
  MAINTAINERS: add Mediatek SoC mailing list
  tomoyo: reduce mmap_sem hold for mm-&gt;exe_file
  powerpc/oprofile: reduce mmap_sem hold for exe_file
  oprofile: reduce mmap_sem hold for mm-&gt;exe_file
  mips: ip32: add platform data hooks to use DS1685 driver
  lib/Kconfig: fix up HAVE_ARCH_BITREVERSE help text
  x86: switch to using asm-generic for seccomp.h
  sparc: switch to using asm-generic for seccomp.h
  powerpc: switch to using asm-generic for seccomp.h
  parisc: switch to using asm-generic for seccomp.h
  mips: switch to using asm-generic for seccomp.h
  microblaze: use asm-generic for seccomp.h
  arm: use asm-generic for seccomp.h
  seccomp: allow COMPAT sigreturn overrides
  ...
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<entry>
<title>proc: show locks in /proc/pid/fdinfo/X</title>
<updated>2015-04-17T13:04:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrey Vagin</name>
<email>avagin@openvz.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-16T19:49:38+00:00</published>
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Let's show locks which are associated with a file descriptor in
its fdinfo file.

Currently we don't have a reliable way to determine who holds a lock.  We
can find some information in /proc/locks, but PID which is reported there
can be wrong.  For example, a process takes a lock, then forks a child and
dies.  In this case /proc/locks contains the parent pid, which can be
reused by another process.

$ cat /proc/locks
...
6: FLOCK  ADVISORY  WRITE 324 00:13:13431 0 EOF
...

$ ps -C rpcbind
  PID TTY          TIME CMD
  332 ?        00:00:00 rpcbind

$ cat /proc/332/fdinfo/4
pos:	0
flags:	0100000
mnt_id:	22
lock:	1: FLOCK  ADVISORY  WRITE 324 00:13:13431 0 EOF

$ ls -l /proc/332/fd/4
lr-x------ 1 root root 64 Mar  5 14:43 /proc/332/fd/4 -&gt; /run/rpcbind.lock

$ ls -l /proc/324/fd/
total 0
lrwx------ 1 root root 64 Feb 27 14:50 0 -&gt; /dev/pts/0
lrwx------ 1 root root 64 Feb 27 14:50 1 -&gt; /dev/pts/0
lrwx------ 1 root root 64 Feb 27 14:49 2 -&gt; /dev/pts/0

You can see that the process with the 324 pid doesn't hold the lock.

This information is required for proper dumping and restoring file
locks.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Vagin &lt;avagin@openvz.org&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Acked-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@poochiereds.net&gt;
Acked-by: "J. Bruce Fields" &lt;bfields@fieldses.org&gt;
Acked-by: Cyrill Gorcunov &lt;gorcunov@openvz.org&gt;
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov &lt;xemul@parallels.com&gt;
Cc: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.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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Let's show locks which are associated with a file descriptor in
its fdinfo file.

Currently we don't have a reliable way to determine who holds a lock.  We
can find some information in /proc/locks, but PID which is reported there
can be wrong.  For example, a process takes a lock, then forks a child and
dies.  In this case /proc/locks contains the parent pid, which can be
reused by another process.

$ cat /proc/locks
...
6: FLOCK  ADVISORY  WRITE 324 00:13:13431 0 EOF
...

$ ps -C rpcbind
  PID TTY          TIME CMD
  332 ?        00:00:00 rpcbind

$ cat /proc/332/fdinfo/4
pos:	0
flags:	0100000
mnt_id:	22
lock:	1: FLOCK  ADVISORY  WRITE 324 00:13:13431 0 EOF

$ ls -l /proc/332/fd/4
lr-x------ 1 root root 64 Mar  5 14:43 /proc/332/fd/4 -&gt; /run/rpcbind.lock

$ ls -l /proc/324/fd/
total 0
lrwx------ 1 root root 64 Feb 27 14:50 0 -&gt; /dev/pts/0
lrwx------ 1 root root 64 Feb 27 14:50 1 -&gt; /dev/pts/0
lrwx------ 1 root root 64 Feb 27 14:49 2 -&gt; /dev/pts/0

You can see that the process with the 324 pid doesn't hold the lock.

This information is required for proper dumping and restoring file
locks.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Vagin &lt;avagin@openvz.org&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Acked-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@poochiereds.net&gt;
Acked-by: "J. Bruce Fields" &lt;bfields@fieldses.org&gt;
Acked-by: Cyrill Gorcunov &lt;gorcunov@openvz.org&gt;
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov &lt;xemul@parallels.com&gt;
Cc: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.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>mm: rcu-protected get_mm_exe_file()</title>
<updated>2015-04-17T13:04:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Konstantin Khlebnikov</name>
<email>khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-16T19:47:56+00:00</published>
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This patch removes mm-&gt;mmap_sem from mm-&gt;exe_file read side.
Also it kills dup_mm_exe_file() and moves exe_file duplication into
dup_mmap() where both mmap_sems are locked.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment typo]
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov &lt;khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru&gt;
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dbueso@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" &lt;paulmck@us.ibm.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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This patch removes mm-&gt;mmap_sem from mm-&gt;exe_file read side.
Also it kills dup_mm_exe_file() and moves exe_file duplication into
dup_mmap() where both mmap_sems are locked.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment typo]
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov &lt;khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru&gt;
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dbueso@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" &lt;paulmck@us.ibm.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>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2015-04-17T03:27:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-17T03:27:56+00:00</published>
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Pull third hunk of vfs changes from Al Viro:
 "This contains the -&gt;direct_IO() changes from Omar + saner
  generic_write_checks() + dealing with fcntl()/{read,write}() races
  (mirroring O_APPEND/O_DIRECT into iocb-&gt;ki_flags and instead of
  repeatedly looking at -&gt;f_flags, which can be changed by fcntl(2),
  check -&gt;ki_flags - which cannot) + infrastructure bits for dhowells'
  d_inode annotations + Christophs switch of /dev/loop to
  vfs_iter_write()"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (30 commits)
  block: loop: switch to VFS ITER_BVEC
  configfs: Fix inconsistent use of file_inode() vs file-&gt;f_path.dentry-&gt;d_inode
  VFS: Make pathwalk use d_is_reg() rather than S_ISREG()
  VFS: Fix up debugfs to use d_is_dir() in place of S_ISDIR()
  VFS: Combine inode checks with d_is_negative() and d_is_positive() in pathwalk
  NFS: Don't use d_inode as a variable name
  VFS: Impose ordering on accesses of d_inode and d_flags
  VFS: Add owner-filesystem positive/negative dentry checks
  nfs: generic_write_checks() shouldn't be done on swapout...
  ocfs2: use __generic_file_write_iter()
  mirror O_APPEND and O_DIRECT into iocb-&gt;ki_flags
  switch generic_write_checks() to iocb and iter
  ocfs2: move generic_write_checks() before the alignment checks
  ocfs2_file_write_iter: stop messing with ppos
  udf_file_write_iter: reorder and simplify
  fuse: -&gt;direct_IO() doesn't need generic_write_checks()
  ext4_file_write_iter: move generic_write_checks() up
  xfs_file_aio_write_checks: switch to iocb/iov_iter
  generic_write_checks(): drop isblk argument
  blkdev_write_iter: expand generic_file_checks() call in there
  ...
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Pull third hunk of vfs changes from Al Viro:
 "This contains the -&gt;direct_IO() changes from Omar + saner
  generic_write_checks() + dealing with fcntl()/{read,write}() races
  (mirroring O_APPEND/O_DIRECT into iocb-&gt;ki_flags and instead of
  repeatedly looking at -&gt;f_flags, which can be changed by fcntl(2),
  check -&gt;ki_flags - which cannot) + infrastructure bits for dhowells'
  d_inode annotations + Christophs switch of /dev/loop to
  vfs_iter_write()"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (30 commits)
  block: loop: switch to VFS ITER_BVEC
  configfs: Fix inconsistent use of file_inode() vs file-&gt;f_path.dentry-&gt;d_inode
  VFS: Make pathwalk use d_is_reg() rather than S_ISREG()
  VFS: Fix up debugfs to use d_is_dir() in place of S_ISDIR()
  VFS: Combine inode checks with d_is_negative() and d_is_positive() in pathwalk
  NFS: Don't use d_inode as a variable name
  VFS: Impose ordering on accesses of d_inode and d_flags
  VFS: Add owner-filesystem positive/negative dentry checks
  nfs: generic_write_checks() shouldn't be done on swapout...
  ocfs2: use __generic_file_write_iter()
  mirror O_APPEND and O_DIRECT into iocb-&gt;ki_flags
  switch generic_write_checks() to iocb and iter
  ocfs2: move generic_write_checks() before the alignment checks
  ocfs2_file_write_iter: stop messing with ppos
  udf_file_write_iter: reorder and simplify
  fuse: -&gt;direct_IO() doesn't need generic_write_checks()
  ext4_file_write_iter: move generic_write_checks() up
  xfs_file_aio_write_checks: switch to iocb/iov_iter
  generic_write_checks(): drop isblk argument
  blkdev_write_iter: expand generic_file_checks() call in there
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)</title>
<updated>2015-04-15T23:39:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-15T23:39:15+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=eea3a00264cf243a28e4331566ce67b86059339d'/>
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Merge second patchbomb from Andrew Morton:

 - the rest of MM

 - various misc bits

 - add ability to run /sbin/reboot at reboot time

 - printk/vsprintf changes

 - fiddle with seq_printf() return value

* akpm: (114 commits)
  parisc: remove use of seq_printf return value
  lru_cache: remove use of seq_printf return value
  tracing: remove use of seq_printf return value
  cgroup: remove use of seq_printf return value
  proc: remove use of seq_printf return value
  s390: remove use of seq_printf return value
  cris fasttimer: remove use of seq_printf return value
  cris: remove use of seq_printf return value
  openrisc: remove use of seq_printf return value
  ARM: plat-pxa: remove use of seq_printf return value
  nios2: cpuinfo: remove use of seq_printf return value
  microblaze: mb: remove use of seq_printf return value
  ipc: remove use of seq_printf return value
  rtc: remove use of seq_printf return value
  power: wakeup: remove use of seq_printf return value
  x86: mtrr: if: remove use of seq_printf return value
  linux/bitmap.h: improve BITMAP_{LAST,FIRST}_WORD_MASK
  MAINTAINERS: CREDITS: remove Stefano Brivio from B43
  .mailmap: add Ricardo Ribalda
  CREDITS: add Ricardo Ribalda Delgado
  ...
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<pre>
Merge second patchbomb from Andrew Morton:

 - the rest of MM

 - various misc bits

 - add ability to run /sbin/reboot at reboot time

 - printk/vsprintf changes

 - fiddle with seq_printf() return value

* akpm: (114 commits)
  parisc: remove use of seq_printf return value
  lru_cache: remove use of seq_printf return value
  tracing: remove use of seq_printf return value
  cgroup: remove use of seq_printf return value
  proc: remove use of seq_printf return value
  s390: remove use of seq_printf return value
  cris fasttimer: remove use of seq_printf return value
  cris: remove use of seq_printf return value
  openrisc: remove use of seq_printf return value
  ARM: plat-pxa: remove use of seq_printf return value
  nios2: cpuinfo: remove use of seq_printf return value
  microblaze: mb: remove use of seq_printf return value
  ipc: remove use of seq_printf return value
  rtc: remove use of seq_printf return value
  power: wakeup: remove use of seq_printf return value
  x86: mtrr: if: remove use of seq_printf return value
  linux/bitmap.h: improve BITMAP_{LAST,FIRST}_WORD_MASK
  MAINTAINERS: CREDITS: remove Stefano Brivio from B43
  .mailmap: add Ricardo Ribalda
  CREDITS: add Ricardo Ribalda Delgado
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>dax: use pfn_mkwrite to update c/mtime + freeze protection</title>
<updated>2015-04-15T23:35:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Boaz Harrosh</name>
<email>boaz@plexistor.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-15T23:15:14+00:00</published>
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From: Yigal Korman &lt;yigal@plexistor.com&gt;

[v1]
Without this patch, c/mtime is not updated correctly when mmap'ed page is
first read from and then written to.

A new xfstest is submitted for testing this (generic/080)

[v2]
Jan Kara has pointed out that if we add the
sb_start/end_pagefault pair in the new pfn_mkwrite we
are then fixing another bug where: A user could start
writing to the page while filesystem is frozen.

Signed-off-by: Yigal Korman &lt;yigal@plexistor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh &lt;boaz@plexistor.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Chinner &lt;david@fromorbit.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&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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<pre>
From: Yigal Korman &lt;yigal@plexistor.com&gt;

[v1]
Without this patch, c/mtime is not updated correctly when mmap'ed page is
first read from and then written to.

A new xfstest is submitted for testing this (generic/080)

[v2]
Jan Kara has pointed out that if we add the
sb_start/end_pagefault pair in the new pfn_mkwrite we
are then fixing another bug where: A user could start
writing to the page while filesystem is frozen.

Signed-off-by: Yigal Korman &lt;yigal@plexistor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh &lt;boaz@plexistor.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Chinner &lt;david@fromorbit.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>vfs: delete vfs_readdir function declaration</title>
<updated>2015-04-15T23:35:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zhang Zhen</name>
<email>zhenzhang.zhang@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-15T23:12:51+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=f2b91d8d385d2cef3a1e3b3846f2dde4a6720c43'/>
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<content type='text'>
vfs_readdir() was replaced by iterate_dir() in commit 5c0ba4e0762e
("[readdir] introduce iterate_dir() and dir_context").

Signed-off-by: Zhang Zhen &lt;zhenzhang.zhang@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&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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<pre>
vfs_readdir() was replaced by iterate_dir() in commit 5c0ba4e0762e
("[readdir] introduce iterate_dir() and dir_context").

Signed-off-by: Zhang Zhen &lt;zhenzhang.zhang@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&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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</div>
</content>
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