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<title>linux.git/fs/ext3/inode.c, branch v2.6.26</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>ext3: fix test ext_generic_write_end() copied return value</title>
<updated>2008-04-30T02:01:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Roel Kluin</name>
<email>12o3l@tiscali.nl</email>
</author>
<published>2008-04-30T02:01:27+00:00</published>
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'copied' is unsigned, whereas 'ret2' is not. The test (copied &lt; 0) fails

Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin &lt;12o3l@tiscali.nl&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;

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'copied' is unsigned, whereas 'ret2' is not. The test (copied &lt; 0) fails

Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin &lt;12o3l@tiscali.nl&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ext3: replace remaining __FUNCTION__ occurrences</title>
<updated>2008-04-28T15:58:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Harvey Harrison</name>
<email>harvey.harrison@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-04-28T09:16:15+00:00</published>
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__FUNCTION__ is gcc-specific, use __func__

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison &lt;harvey.harrison@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-ext4@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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__FUNCTION__ is gcc-specific, use __func__

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison &lt;harvey.harrison@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-ext4@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>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ext3: use ext3_get_group_desc()</title>
<updated>2008-04-28T15:58:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Akinobu Mita</name>
<email>akinobu.mita@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-04-28T09:16:08+00:00</published>
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Use ext3_get_group_desc()

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita &lt;akinobu.mita@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-ext4@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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Use ext3_get_group_desc()

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita &lt;akinobu.mita@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-ext4@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>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ext*: spelling fix prefered -&gt; preferred</title>
<updated>2008-04-21T22:45:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Benoit Boissinot</name>
<email>benoit.boissinot@ens-lyon.org</email>
</author>
<published>2008-04-21T22:45:55+00:00</published>
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Spelling fix: prefered -&gt; preferred

Signed-off-by: Benoit Boissinot &lt;benoit.boissinot@ens-lyon.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl &lt;jesper.juhl@gmail.com&gt;
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Spelling fix: prefered -&gt; preferred

Signed-off-by: Benoit Boissinot &lt;benoit.boissinot@ens-lyon.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl &lt;jesper.juhl@gmail.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>iget: stop EXT3 from using iget() and read_inode()</title>
<updated>2008-02-07T16:42:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-02-07T08:15:36+00:00</published>
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Stop the EXT3 filesystem from using iget() and read_inode().  Replace
ext3_read_inode() with ext3_iget(), and call that instead of iget().
ext3_iget() then uses iget_locked() directly and returns a proper error code
instead of an inode in the event of an error.

ext3_fill_super() returns any error incurred when getting the root inode
instead of EINVAL.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Acked-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&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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Stop the EXT3 filesystem from using iget() and read_inode().  Replace
ext3_read_inode() with ext3_iget(), and call that instead of iget().
ext3_iget() then uses iget_locked() directly and returns a proper error code
instead of an inode in the event of an error.

ext3_fill_super() returns any error incurred when getting the root inode
instead of EINVAL.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Acked-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ext3: fix lock inversion in direct IO</title>
<updated>2008-02-06T18:41:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2008-02-06T09:40:21+00:00</published>
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We cannot start transaction in ext3_direct_IO() and just let it last during
the whole write because dio_get_page() acquires mmap_sem which ranks above
transaction start (e.g.  because we have dependency chain
mmap_sem-&gt;PageLock-&gt;journal_start, or because we update atime while holding
mmap_sem) and thus deadlocks could happen.  We solve the problem by
starting a transaction separately for each ext3_get_block() call.

We *could* have a problem that we allocate a block and before its data are
written out the machine crashes and thus we expose stale data.  But that
does not happen because for hole-filling generic code falls back to
buffered writes and for file extension, we add inode to orphan list and
thus in case of crash, journal replay will truncate inode back to the
original size.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Zach Brown &lt;zach.brown@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Badari Pulavarty &lt;pbadari@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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We cannot start transaction in ext3_direct_IO() and just let it last during
the whole write because dio_get_page() acquires mmap_sem which ranks above
transaction start (e.g.  because we have dependency chain
mmap_sem-&gt;PageLock-&gt;journal_start, or because we update atime while holding
mmap_sem) and thus deadlocks could happen.  We solve the problem by
starting a transaction separately for each ext3_get_block() call.

We *could* have a problem that we allocate a block and before its data are
written out the machine crashes and thus we expose stale data.  But that
does not happen because for hole-filling generic code falls back to
buffered writes and for file extension, we add inode to orphan list and
thus in case of crash, journal replay will truncate inode back to the
original size.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Zach Brown &lt;zach.brown@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Badari Pulavarty &lt;pbadari@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;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ext[234]: remove unused argument for ext[234]_find_goal()</title>
<updated>2008-02-06T18:41:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Akinobu Mita</name>
<email>akinobu.mita@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-02-06T09:40:16+00:00</published>
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The argument chain for ext[234]_find_goal() is not used.  This patch removes
it and fixes comment as well.

Cc: &lt;linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita &lt;akinobu.mita@gmail.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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<pre>
The argument chain for ext[234]_find_goal() is not used.  This patch removes
it and fixes comment as well.

Cc: &lt;linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita &lt;akinobu.mita@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Pagecache zeroing: zero_user_segment, zero_user_segments and zero_user</title>
<updated>2008-02-05T17:44:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Lameter</name>
<email>clameter@sgi.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-02-05T06:28:29+00:00</published>
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Simplify page cache zeroing of segments of pages through 3 functions

zero_user_segments(page, start1, end1, start2, end2)

        Zeros two segments of the page. It takes the position where to
        start and end the zeroing which avoids length calculations and
	makes code clearer.

zero_user_segment(page, start, end)

        Same for a single segment.

zero_user(page, start, length)

        Length variant for the case where we know the length.

We remove the zero_user_page macro. Issues:

1. Its a macro. Inline functions are preferable.

2. The KM_USER0 macro is only defined for HIGHMEM.

   Having to treat this special case everywhere makes the
   code needlessly complex. The parameter for zeroing is always
   KM_USER0 except in one single case that we open code.

Avoiding KM_USER0 makes a lot of code not having to be dealing
with the special casing for HIGHMEM anymore. Dealing with
kmap is only necessary for HIGHMEM configurations. In those
configurations we use KM_USER0 like we do for a series of other
functions defined in highmem.h.

Since KM_USER0 is depends on HIGHMEM the existing zero_user_page
function could not be a macro. zero_user_* functions introduced
here can be be inline because that constant is not used when these
functions are called.

Also extract the flushing of the caches to be outside of the kmap.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix nfs and ntfs build]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix ntfs build some more]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;clameter@sgi.com&gt;
Cc: Steven French &lt;sfrench@us.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Halcrow &lt;mhalcrow@us.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Whitehouse &lt;swhiteho@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Trond Myklebust &lt;trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no&gt;
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" &lt;bfields@fieldses.org&gt;
Cc: Anton Altaparmakov &lt;aia21@cantab.net&gt;
Cc: Mark Fasheh &lt;mark.fasheh@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: David Chinner &lt;dgc@sgi.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Halcrow &lt;mhalcrow@us.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Steven French &lt;sfrench@us.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Whitehouse &lt;swhiteho@redhat.com&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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Simplify page cache zeroing of segments of pages through 3 functions

zero_user_segments(page, start1, end1, start2, end2)

        Zeros two segments of the page. It takes the position where to
        start and end the zeroing which avoids length calculations and
	makes code clearer.

zero_user_segment(page, start, end)

        Same for a single segment.

zero_user(page, start, length)

        Length variant for the case where we know the length.

We remove the zero_user_page macro. Issues:

1. Its a macro. Inline functions are preferable.

2. The KM_USER0 macro is only defined for HIGHMEM.

   Having to treat this special case everywhere makes the
   code needlessly complex. The parameter for zeroing is always
   KM_USER0 except in one single case that we open code.

Avoiding KM_USER0 makes a lot of code not having to be dealing
with the special casing for HIGHMEM anymore. Dealing with
kmap is only necessary for HIGHMEM configurations. In those
configurations we use KM_USER0 like we do for a series of other
functions defined in highmem.h.

Since KM_USER0 is depends on HIGHMEM the existing zero_user_page
function could not be a macro. zero_user_* functions introduced
here can be be inline because that constant is not used when these
functions are called.

Also extract the flushing of the caches to be outside of the kmap.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix nfs and ntfs build]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix ntfs build some more]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;clameter@sgi.com&gt;
Cc: Steven French &lt;sfrench@us.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Halcrow &lt;mhalcrow@us.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Whitehouse &lt;swhiteho@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Trond Myklebust &lt;trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no&gt;
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" &lt;bfields@fieldses.org&gt;
Cc: Anton Altaparmakov &lt;aia21@cantab.net&gt;
Cc: Mark Fasheh &lt;mark.fasheh@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: David Chinner &lt;dgc@sgi.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Halcrow &lt;mhalcrow@us.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Steven French &lt;sfrench@us.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Whitehouse &lt;swhiteho@redhat.com&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;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>JBD: Fix JBD warnings when compiling with CONFIG_JBD_DEBUG</title>
<updated>2007-10-19T18:53:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jose R. Santos</name>
<email>jrs@us.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-10-19T06:39:23+00:00</published>
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Note from Mingming's JBD2 fix:

Noticed all warnings are occurs when the debug level is 0.  Then found the
"jbd2: Move jbd2-debug file to debugfs" patch
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=0f49d5d019afa4e94253bfc92f0daca3badb990b

changed the jbd2_journal_enable_debug from int type to u8, makes the
jbd_debug comparision is always true when the debugging level is 0.  Thus
the compile warning occurs.

Thought about changing the jbd2_journal_enable_debug data type back to int,
but can't, because the jbd2-debug is moved to debug fs, where calling
debugfs_create_u8() to create the debugfs entry needs the value to be u8
type.

Even if we changed the data type back to int, the code is still buggy,
kernel should not print jbd2 debug message if the jbd2_journal_enable_debug
is set to 0.  But this is not the case.

The fix is change the level of debugging to 1.  The same should fixed in
ext3/JBD, but currently ext3 jbd-debug via /proc fs is broken, so we
probably should fix it all together.

Signed-off-by: Jose R. Santos &lt;jrs@us.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-ext4@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;
</content>
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Note from Mingming's JBD2 fix:

Noticed all warnings are occurs when the debug level is 0.  Then found the
"jbd2: Move jbd2-debug file to debugfs" patch
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=0f49d5d019afa4e94253bfc92f0daca3badb990b

changed the jbd2_journal_enable_debug from int type to u8, makes the
jbd_debug comparision is always true when the debugging level is 0.  Thus
the compile warning occurs.

Thought about changing the jbd2_journal_enable_debug data type back to int,
but can't, because the jbd2-debug is moved to debug fs, where calling
debugfs_create_u8() to create the debugfs entry needs the value to be u8
type.

Even if we changed the data type back to int, the code is still buggy,
kernel should not print jbd2 debug message if the jbd2_journal_enable_debug
is set to 0.  But this is not the case.

The fix is change the level of debugging to 1.  The same should fixed in
ext3/JBD, but currently ext3 jbd-debug via /proc fs is broken, so we
probably should fix it all together.

Signed-off-by: Jose R. Santos &lt;jrs@us.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-ext4@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>sparse pointer use of zero as null</title>
<updated>2007-10-18T21:37:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephen Hemminger</name>
<email>shemminger@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2007-10-18T10:07:05+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Get rid of sparse related warnings from places that use integer as NULL
pointer.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger &lt;shemminger@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Jeff Garzik &lt;jeff@garzik.org&gt;
Cc: Matt Mackall &lt;mpm@selenic.com&gt;
Cc: Ian Kent &lt;raven@themaw.net&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Davide Libenzi &lt;davidel@xmailserver.org&gt;
Cc: Stephen Smalley &lt;sds@tycho.nsa.gov&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
Get rid of sparse related warnings from places that use integer as NULL
pointer.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger &lt;shemminger@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Jeff Garzik &lt;jeff@garzik.org&gt;
Cc: Matt Mackall &lt;mpm@selenic.com&gt;
Cc: Ian Kent &lt;raven@themaw.net&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Davide Libenzi &lt;davidel@xmailserver.org&gt;
Cc: Stephen Smalley &lt;sds@tycho.nsa.gov&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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