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<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2016-12-18T02:44:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-12-18T02:44:00+00:00</published>
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Pull more vfs updates from Al Viro:
 "In this pile:

   - autofs-namespace series
   - dedupe stuff
   - more struct path constification"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (40 commits)
  ocfs2: implement the VFS clone_range, copy_range, and dedupe_range features
  ocfs2: charge quota for reflinked blocks
  ocfs2: fix bad pointer cast
  ocfs2: always unlock when completing dio writes
  ocfs2: don't eat io errors during _dio_end_io_write
  ocfs2: budget for extent tree splits when adding refcount flag
  ocfs2: prohibit refcounted swapfiles
  ocfs2: add newlines to some error messages
  ocfs2: convert inode refcount test to a helper
  simple_write_end(): don't zero in short copy into uptodate
  exofs: don't mess with simple_write_{begin,end}
  9p: saner -&gt;write_end() on failing copy into non-uptodate page
  fix gfs2_stuffed_write_end() on short copies
  fix ceph_write_end()
  nfs_write_end(): fix handling of short copies
  vfs: refactor clone/dedupe_file_range common functions
  fs: try to clone files first in vfs_copy_file_range
  vfs: misc struct path constification
  namespace.c: constify struct path passed to a bunch of primitives
  quota: constify struct path in quota_on
  ...
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Pull more vfs updates from Al Viro:
 "In this pile:

   - autofs-namespace series
   - dedupe stuff
   - more struct path constification"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (40 commits)
  ocfs2: implement the VFS clone_range, copy_range, and dedupe_range features
  ocfs2: charge quota for reflinked blocks
  ocfs2: fix bad pointer cast
  ocfs2: always unlock when completing dio writes
  ocfs2: don't eat io errors during _dio_end_io_write
  ocfs2: budget for extent tree splits when adding refcount flag
  ocfs2: prohibit refcounted swapfiles
  ocfs2: add newlines to some error messages
  ocfs2: convert inode refcount test to a helper
  simple_write_end(): don't zero in short copy into uptodate
  exofs: don't mess with simple_write_{begin,end}
  9p: saner -&gt;write_end() on failing copy into non-uptodate page
  fix gfs2_stuffed_write_end() on short copies
  fix ceph_write_end()
  nfs_write_end(): fix handling of short copies
  vfs: refactor clone/dedupe_file_range common functions
  fs: try to clone files first in vfs_copy_file_range
  vfs: misc struct path constification
  namespace.c: constify struct path passed to a bunch of primitives
  quota: constify struct path in quota_on
  ...
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<entry>
<title>mm: join struct fault_env and vm_fault</title>
<updated>2016-12-15T00:04:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2016-12-14T23:06:58+00:00</published>
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Currently we have two different structures for passing fault information
around - struct vm_fault and struct fault_env.  DAX will need more
information in struct vm_fault to handle its faults so the content of
that structure would become event closer to fault_env.  Furthermore it
would need to generate struct fault_env to be able to call some of the
generic functions.  So at this point I don't think there's much use in
keeping these two structures separate.  Just embed into struct vm_fault
all that is needed to use it for both purposes.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1479460644-25076-2-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.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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Currently we have two different structures for passing fault information
around - struct vm_fault and struct fault_env.  DAX will need more
information in struct vm_fault to handle its faults so the content of
that structure would become event closer to fault_env.  Furthermore it
would need to generate struct fault_env to be able to call some of the
generic functions.  So at this point I don't think there's much use in
keeping these two structures separate.  Just embed into struct vm_fault
all that is needed to use it for both purposes.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1479460644-25076-2-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.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>vfs: change d_manage() to take a struct path</title>
<updated>2016-12-03T03:15:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ian Kent</name>
<email>ikent@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-11-23T21:03:41+00:00</published>
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For the autofs module to be able to reliably check if a dentry is a
mountpoint in a multiple namespace environment the -&gt;d_manage() dentry
operation will need to take a path argument instead of a dentry.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161011053352.27645.83962.stgit@pluto.themaw.net
Signed-off-by: Ian Kent &lt;raven@themaw.net&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Omar Sandoval &lt;osandov@osandov.com&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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For the autofs module to be able to reliably check if a dentry is a
mountpoint in a multiple namespace environment the -&gt;d_manage() dentry
operation will need to take a path argument instead of a dentry.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161011053352.27645.83962.stgit@pluto.themaw.net
Signed-off-by: Ian Kent &lt;raven@themaw.net&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Omar Sandoval &lt;osandov@osandov.com&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>fs: remove the never implemented aio_fsync file operation</title>
<updated>2016-10-30T17:09:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-30T16:42:02+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&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>2016-10-11T03:16:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-11T03:16:43+00:00</published>
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Pull more vfs updates from Al Viro:
 "&gt;rename2() work from Miklos + current_time() from Deepa"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  fs: Replace current_fs_time() with current_time()
  fs: Replace CURRENT_TIME_SEC with current_time() for inode timestamps
  fs: Replace CURRENT_TIME with current_time() for inode timestamps
  fs: proc: Delete inode time initializations in proc_alloc_inode()
  vfs: Add current_time() api
  vfs: add note about i_op-&gt;rename changes to porting
  fs: rename "rename2" i_op to "rename"
  vfs: remove unused i_op-&gt;rename
  fs: make remaining filesystems use .rename2
  libfs: support RENAME_NOREPLACE in simple_rename()
  fs: support RENAME_NOREPLACE for local filesystems
  ncpfs: fix unused variable warning
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Pull more vfs updates from Al Viro:
 "&gt;rename2() work from Miklos + current_time() from Deepa"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  fs: Replace current_fs_time() with current_time()
  fs: Replace CURRENT_TIME_SEC with current_time() for inode timestamps
  fs: Replace CURRENT_TIME with current_time() for inode timestamps
  fs: proc: Delete inode time initializations in proc_alloc_inode()
  vfs: Add current_time() api
  vfs: add note about i_op-&gt;rename changes to porting
  fs: rename "rename2" i_op to "rename"
  vfs: remove unused i_op-&gt;rename
  fs: make remaining filesystems use .rename2
  libfs: support RENAME_NOREPLACE in simple_rename()
  fs: support RENAME_NOREPLACE for local filesystems
  ncpfs: fix unused variable warning
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<entry>
<title>xattr: Stop calling {get,set,remove}xattr inode operations</title>
<updated>2016-10-08T00:10:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andreas Gruenbacher</name>
<email>agruenba@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-29T15:48:44+00:00</published>
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All filesystems that support xattrs by now do so via xattr handlers.
They all define sb-&gt;s_xattr, and their getxattr, setxattr, and
removexattr inode operations use the generic inode operations.  On
filesystems that don't support xattrs, the xattr inode operations are
all NULL, and sb-&gt;s_xattr is also NULL.

This means that we can remove the getxattr, setxattr, and removexattr
inode operations and directly call the generic handlers, or better,
inline expand those handlers into fs/xattr.c.

Filesystems that do not support xattrs on some inodes should clear the
IOP_XATTR i_opflags flag in those inodes.  (Right now, some filesystems
have checks to disable xattrs on some inodes in the -&gt;list, -&gt;get, and
-&gt;set xattr handler operations instead.)  The IOP_XATTR flag is
automatically cleared in inodes of filesystems that don't have xattr
support.

In orangefs, symlinks do have a setxattr iop but no getxattr iop.  Add a
check for symlinks to orangefs_inode_getxattr to preserve the current,
weird behavior; that check may not be necessary though.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher &lt;agruenba@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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All filesystems that support xattrs by now do so via xattr handlers.
They all define sb-&gt;s_xattr, and their getxattr, setxattr, and
removexattr inode operations use the generic inode operations.  On
filesystems that don't support xattrs, the xattr inode operations are
all NULL, and sb-&gt;s_xattr is also NULL.

This means that we can remove the getxattr, setxattr, and removexattr
inode operations and directly call the generic handlers, or better,
inline expand those handlers into fs/xattr.c.

Filesystems that do not support xattrs on some inodes should clear the
IOP_XATTR i_opflags flag in those inodes.  (Right now, some filesystems
have checks to disable xattrs on some inodes in the -&gt;list, -&gt;get, and
-&gt;set xattr handler operations instead.)  The IOP_XATTR flag is
automatically cleared in inodes of filesystems that don't have xattr
support.

In orangefs, symlinks do have a setxattr iop but no getxattr iop.  Add a
check for symlinks to orangefs_inode_getxattr to preserve the current,
weird behavior; that check may not be necessary though.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher &lt;agruenba@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>fs: rename "rename2" i_op to "rename"</title>
<updated>2016-09-27T09:03:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Miklos Szeredi</name>
<email>mszeredi@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-27T09:03:58+00:00</published>
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Generated patch:

sed -i "s/\.rename2\t/\.rename\t\t/" `git grep -wl rename2`
sed -i "s/\brename2\b/rename/g" `git grep -wl rename2`

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
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Generated patch:

sed -i "s/\.rename2\t/\.rename\t\t/" `git grep -wl rename2`
sed -i "s/\brename2\b/rename/g" `git grep -wl rename2`

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>vfs: remove unused i_op-&gt;rename</title>
<updated>2016-09-27T09:03:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Miklos Szeredi</name>
<email>mszeredi@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-27T09:03:58+00:00</published>
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No in-tree uses remain.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
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No in-tree uses remain.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>get rid of 'parent' argument of -&gt;d_compare()</title>
<updated>2016-07-31T20:37:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2016-07-31T20:37:25+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm</title>
<updated>2016-07-29T00:38:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-07-29T00:22:07+00:00</published>
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Pull libnvdimm updates from Dan Williams:

 - Replace pcommit with ADR / directed-flushing.

   The pcommit instruction, which has not shipped on any product, is
   deprecated.  Instead, the requirement is that platforms implement
   either ADR, or provide one or more flush addresses per nvdimm.

   ADR (Asynchronous DRAM Refresh) flushes data in posted write buffers
   to the memory controller on a power-fail event.

   Flush addresses are defined in ACPI 6.x as an NVDIMM Firmware
   Interface Table (NFIT) sub-structure: "Flush Hint Address Structure".
   A flush hint is an mmio address that when written and fenced assures
   that all previous posted writes targeting a given dimm have been
   flushed to media.

 - On-demand ARS (address range scrub).

   Linux uses the results of the ACPI ARS commands to track bad blocks
   in pmem devices.  When latent errors are detected we re-scrub the
   media to refresh the bad block list, userspace can also request a
   re-scrub at any time.

 - Support for the Microsoft DSM (device specific method) command
   format.

 - Support for EDK2/OVMF virtual disk device memory ranges.

 - Various fixes and cleanups across the subsystem.

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (41 commits)
  libnvdimm-btt: Delete an unnecessary check before the function call "__nd_device_register"
  nfit: do an ARS scrub on hitting a latent media error
  nfit: move to nfit/ sub-directory
  nfit, libnvdimm: allow an ARS scrub to be triggered on demand
  libnvdimm: register nvdimm_bus devices with an nd_bus driver
  pmem: clarify a debug print in pmem_clear_poison
  x86/insn: remove pcommit
  Revert "KVM: x86: add pcommit support"
  nfit, tools/testing/nvdimm/: unify shutdown paths
  libnvdimm: move -&gt;module to struct nvdimm_bus_descriptor
  nfit: cleanup acpi_nfit_init calling convention
  nfit: fix _FIT evaluation memory leak + use after free
  tools/testing/nvdimm: add manufacturing_{date|location} dimm properties
  tools/testing/nvdimm: add virtual ramdisk range
  acpi, nfit: treat virtual ramdisk SPA as pmem region
  pmem: kill __pmem address space
  pmem: kill wmb_pmem()
  libnvdimm, pmem: use nvdimm_flush() for namespace I/O writes
  fs/dax: remove wmb_pmem()
  libnvdimm, pmem: flush posted-write queues on shutdown
  ...
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Pull libnvdimm updates from Dan Williams:

 - Replace pcommit with ADR / directed-flushing.

   The pcommit instruction, which has not shipped on any product, is
   deprecated.  Instead, the requirement is that platforms implement
   either ADR, or provide one or more flush addresses per nvdimm.

   ADR (Asynchronous DRAM Refresh) flushes data in posted write buffers
   to the memory controller on a power-fail event.

   Flush addresses are defined in ACPI 6.x as an NVDIMM Firmware
   Interface Table (NFIT) sub-structure: "Flush Hint Address Structure".
   A flush hint is an mmio address that when written and fenced assures
   that all previous posted writes targeting a given dimm have been
   flushed to media.

 - On-demand ARS (address range scrub).

   Linux uses the results of the ACPI ARS commands to track bad blocks
   in pmem devices.  When latent errors are detected we re-scrub the
   media to refresh the bad block list, userspace can also request a
   re-scrub at any time.

 - Support for the Microsoft DSM (device specific method) command
   format.

 - Support for EDK2/OVMF virtual disk device memory ranges.

 - Various fixes and cleanups across the subsystem.

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (41 commits)
  libnvdimm-btt: Delete an unnecessary check before the function call "__nd_device_register"
  nfit: do an ARS scrub on hitting a latent media error
  nfit: move to nfit/ sub-directory
  nfit, libnvdimm: allow an ARS scrub to be triggered on demand
  libnvdimm: register nvdimm_bus devices with an nd_bus driver
  pmem: clarify a debug print in pmem_clear_poison
  x86/insn: remove pcommit
  Revert "KVM: x86: add pcommit support"
  nfit, tools/testing/nvdimm/: unify shutdown paths
  libnvdimm: move -&gt;module to struct nvdimm_bus_descriptor
  nfit: cleanup acpi_nfit_init calling convention
  nfit: fix _FIT evaluation memory leak + use after free
  tools/testing/nvdimm: add manufacturing_{date|location} dimm properties
  tools/testing/nvdimm: add virtual ramdisk range
  acpi, nfit: treat virtual ramdisk SPA as pmem region
  pmem: kill __pmem address space
  pmem: kill wmb_pmem()
  libnvdimm, pmem: use nvdimm_flush() for namespace I/O writes
  fs/dax: remove wmb_pmem()
  libnvdimm, pmem: flush posted-write queues on shutdown
  ...
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