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<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6</title>
<updated>2011-03-25T02:01:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-03-25T02:01:30+00:00</published>
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6:
  fs: simplify iget &amp; friends
  fs: pull inode-&gt;i_lock up out of writeback_single_inode
  fs: rename inode_lock to inode_hash_lock
  fs: move i_wb_list out from under inode_lock
  fs: move i_sb_list out from under inode_lock
  fs: remove inode_lock from iput_final and prune_icache
  fs: Lock the inode LRU list separately
  fs: factor inode disposal
  fs: protect inode-&gt;i_state with inode-&gt;i_lock
  autofs4: Do not potentially dereference NULL pointer returned by fget() in autofs_dev_ioctl_setpipefd()
  autofs4 - remove autofs4_lock
  autofs4 - fix d_manage() return on rcu-walk
  autofs4 - fix autofs4_expire_indirect() traversal
  autofs4 - fix dentry leak in autofs4_expire_direct()
  autofs4 - reinstate last used update on access
  vfs - check non-mountpoint dentry might block in __follow_mount_rcu()
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6:
  fs: simplify iget &amp; friends
  fs: pull inode-&gt;i_lock up out of writeback_single_inode
  fs: rename inode_lock to inode_hash_lock
  fs: move i_wb_list out from under inode_lock
  fs: move i_sb_list out from under inode_lock
  fs: remove inode_lock from iput_final and prune_icache
  fs: Lock the inode LRU list separately
  fs: factor inode disposal
  fs: protect inode-&gt;i_state with inode-&gt;i_lock
  autofs4: Do not potentially dereference NULL pointer returned by fget() in autofs_dev_ioctl_setpipefd()
  autofs4 - remove autofs4_lock
  autofs4 - fix d_manage() return on rcu-walk
  autofs4 - fix autofs4_expire_indirect() traversal
  autofs4 - fix dentry leak in autofs4_expire_direct()
  autofs4 - reinstate last used update on access
  vfs - check non-mountpoint dentry might block in __follow_mount_rcu()
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<entry>
<title>fs: protect inode-&gt;i_state with inode-&gt;i_lock</title>
<updated>2011-03-25T01:16:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dave Chinner</name>
<email>dchinner@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-03-22T11:23:36+00:00</published>
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Protect inode state transitions and validity checks with the
inode-&gt;i_lock. This enables us to make inode state transitions
independently of the inode_lock and is the first step to peeling
away the inode_lock from the code.

This requires that __iget() is done atomically with i_state checks
during list traversals so that we don't race with another thread
marking the inode I_FREEING between the state check and grabbing the
reference.

Also remove the unlock_new_inode() memory barrier optimisation
required to avoid taking the inode_lock when clearing I_NEW.
Simplify the code by simply taking the inode-&gt;i_lock around the
state change and wakeup. Because the wakeup is no longer tricky,
remove the wake_up_inode() function and open code the wakeup where
necessary.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner &lt;dchinner@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Protect inode state transitions and validity checks with the
inode-&gt;i_lock. This enables us to make inode state transitions
independently of the inode_lock and is the first step to peeling
away the inode_lock from the code.

This requires that __iget() is done atomically with i_state checks
during list traversals so that we don't race with another thread
marking the inode I_FREEING between the state check and grabbing the
reference.

Also remove the unlock_new_inode() memory barrier optimisation
required to avoid taking the inode_lock when clearing I_NEW.
Simplify the code by simply taking the inode-&gt;i_lock around the
state change and wakeup. Because the wakeup is no longer tricky,
remove the wake_up_inode() function and open code the wakeup where
necessary.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner &lt;dchinner@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>fs: make fsync_buffers_list() plug</title>
<updated>2011-03-17T09:51:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>jaxboe@fusionio.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-03-17T09:51:40+00:00</published>
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It used WRITE_SYNC_PLUG before and potentially submits a batch
of IO, so lets enable plugging for this case.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jaxboe@fusionio.com&gt;
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It used WRITE_SYNC_PLUG before and potentially submits a batch
of IO, so lets enable plugging for this case.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jaxboe@fusionio.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>block: kill off REQ_UNPLUG</title>
<updated>2011-03-10T07:52:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>jaxboe@fusionio.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-03-09T10:56:30+00:00</published>
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With the plugging now being explicitly controlled by the
submitter, callers need not pass down unplugging hints
to the block layer. If they want to unplug, it's because they
manually plugged on their own - in which case, they should just
unplug at will.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jaxboe@fusionio.com&gt;
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With the plugging now being explicitly controlled by the
submitter, callers need not pass down unplugging hints
to the block layer. If they want to unplug, it's because they
manually plugged on their own - in which case, they should just
unplug at will.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jaxboe@fusionio.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>block: remove per-queue plugging</title>
<updated>2011-03-10T07:52:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>jaxboe@fusionio.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-03-10T07:52:07+00:00</published>
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Code has been converted over to the new explicit on-stack plugging,
and delay users have been converted to use the new API for that.
So lets kill off the old plugging along with aops-&gt;sync_page().

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jaxboe@fusionio.com&gt;
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Code has been converted over to the new explicit on-stack plugging,
and delay users have been converted to use the new API for that.
So lets kill off the old plugging along with aops-&gt;sync_page().

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jaxboe@fusionio.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>fs: Use this_cpu_inc_return in buffer.c</title>
<updated>2010-12-17T14:18:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Lameter</name>
<email>cl@linux.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-12-06T17:40:05+00:00</published>
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__this_cpu_inc can create a single instruction with the same effect
as the _get_cpu_var(..)++ construct in buffer.c.

Cc: Wu Fengguang &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
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__this_cpu_inc can create a single instruction with the same effect
as the _get_cpu_var(..)++ construct in buffer.c.

Cc: Wu Fengguang &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>fs: Use this_cpu_xx operations in buffer.c</title>
<updated>2010-12-17T14:07:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Lameter</name>
<email>cl@linux.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-12-06T17:16:28+00:00</published>
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Optimize various per cpu area operations through these new percpu
operations.  These operations avoid address calculations through the
use of segment prefixes and multiple memory references through RMW
instructions etc.

Reduces code size:

Before:

christoph@linux-2.6$ size fs/buffer.o
   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
  19169	     80	     28	  19277	   4b4d	fs/buffer.o

After:

christoph@linux-2.6$ size fs/buffer.o
   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
  19138	     80	     28	  19246	   4b2e	fs/buffer.o

V3-&gt;V4:
	- Move the use of this_cpu_inc_return into a later patch so that
	  this one can go in without percpu infrastructure changes.

Cc: Wu Fengguang &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
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Optimize various per cpu area operations through these new percpu
operations.  These operations avoid address calculations through the
use of segment prefixes and multiple memory references through RMW
instructions etc.

Reduces code size:

Before:

christoph@linux-2.6$ size fs/buffer.o
   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
  19169	     80	     28	  19277	   4b4d	fs/buffer.o

After:

christoph@linux-2.6$ size fs/buffer.o
   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
  19138	     80	     28	  19246	   4b2e	fs/buffer.o

V3-&gt;V4:
	- Move the use of this_cpu_inc_return into a later patch so that
	  this one can go in without percpu infrastructure changes.

Cc: Wu Fengguang &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6</title>
<updated>2010-10-27T00:58:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-10-27T00:58:44+00:00</published>
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (52 commits)
  split invalidate_inodes()
  fs: skip I_FREEING inodes in writeback_sb_inodes
  fs: fold invalidate_list into invalidate_inodes
  fs: do not drop inode_lock in dispose_list
  fs: inode split IO and LRU lists
  fs: switch bdev inode bdi's correctly
  fs: fix buffer invalidation in invalidate_list
  fsnotify: use dget_parent
  smbfs: use dget_parent
  exportfs: use dget_parent
  fs: use RCU read side protection in d_validate
  fs: clean up dentry lru modification
  fs: split __shrink_dcache_sb
  fs: improve DCACHE_REFERENCED usage
  fs: use percpu counter for nr_dentry and nr_dentry_unused
  fs: simplify __d_free
  fs: take dcache_lock inside __d_path
  fs: do not assign default i_ino in new_inode
  fs: introduce a per-cpu last_ino allocator
  new helper: ihold()
  ...
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (52 commits)
  split invalidate_inodes()
  fs: skip I_FREEING inodes in writeback_sb_inodes
  fs: fold invalidate_list into invalidate_inodes
  fs: do not drop inode_lock in dispose_list
  fs: inode split IO and LRU lists
  fs: switch bdev inode bdi's correctly
  fs: fix buffer invalidation in invalidate_list
  fsnotify: use dget_parent
  smbfs: use dget_parent
  exportfs: use dget_parent
  fs: use RCU read side protection in d_validate
  fs: clean up dentry lru modification
  fs: split __shrink_dcache_sb
  fs: improve DCACHE_REFERENCED usage
  fs: use percpu counter for nr_dentry and nr_dentry_unused
  fs: simplify __d_free
  fs: take dcache_lock inside __d_path
  fs: do not assign default i_ino in new_inode
  fs: introduce a per-cpu last_ino allocator
  new helper: ihold()
  ...
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<entry>
<title>fs/buffer.c: remove duplicated assignment to b_private</title>
<updated>2010-10-26T23:52:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Namhyung Kim</name>
<email>namhyung@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-10-26T21:22:31+00:00</published>
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bh-&gt;b_private is initialized within init_buffer(), thus this assignment is
redundant.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@gmail.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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bh-&gt;b_private is initialized within init_buffer(), thus this assignment is
redundant.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@gmail.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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<entry>
<title>writeback: remove nonblocking/encountered_congestion references</title>
<updated>2010-10-26T23:52:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Wu Fengguang</name>
<email>fengguang.wu@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-10-26T21:21:26+00:00</published>
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This removes more dead code that was somehow missed by commit 0d99519efef
(writeback: remove unused nonblocking and congestion checks).  There are
no behavior change except for the removal of two entries from one of the
ext4 tracing interface.

The nonblocking checks in -&gt;writepages are no longer used because the
flusher now prefer to block on get_request_wait() than to skip inodes on
IO congestion.  The latter will lead to more seeky IO.

The nonblocking checks in -&gt;writepage are no longer used because it's
redundant with the WB_SYNC_NONE check.

We no long set -&gt;nonblocking in VM page out and page migration, because
a) it's effectively redundant with WB_SYNC_NONE in current code
b) it's old semantic of "Don't get stuck on request queues" is mis-behavior:
   that would skip some dirty inodes on congestion and page out others, which
   is unfair in terms of LRU age.

Inspired by Christoph Hellwig. Thanks!

Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Sage Weil &lt;sage@newdream.net&gt;
Cc: Steve French &lt;sfrench@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Chris Mason &lt;chris.mason@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.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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This removes more dead code that was somehow missed by commit 0d99519efef
(writeback: remove unused nonblocking and congestion checks).  There are
no behavior change except for the removal of two entries from one of the
ext4 tracing interface.

The nonblocking checks in -&gt;writepages are no longer used because the
flusher now prefer to block on get_request_wait() than to skip inodes on
IO congestion.  The latter will lead to more seeky IO.

The nonblocking checks in -&gt;writepage are no longer used because it's
redundant with the WB_SYNC_NONE check.

We no long set -&gt;nonblocking in VM page out and page migration, because
a) it's effectively redundant with WB_SYNC_NONE in current code
b) it's old semantic of "Don't get stuck on request queues" is mis-behavior:
   that would skip some dirty inodes on congestion and page out others, which
   is unfair in terms of LRU age.

Inspired by Christoph Hellwig. Thanks!

Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Sage Weil &lt;sage@newdream.net&gt;
Cc: Steve French &lt;sfrench@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Chris Mason &lt;chris.mason@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.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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