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<title>ext4: nuke pdflush from comments</title>
<updated>2012-08-04T08:15:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Artem Bityutskiy</name>
<email>artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-07-25T15:12:04+00:00</published>
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The pdflush thread is long gone, so this patch removes references to pdflush
from ext4 comments.

Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Andreas Dilger &lt;adilger.kernel@dilger.ca&gt;
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy &lt;artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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The pdflush thread is long gone, so this patch removes references to pdflush
from ext4 comments.

Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Andreas Dilger &lt;adilger.kernel@dilger.ca&gt;
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy &lt;artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ext4: nuke write_super from comments</title>
<updated>2012-08-04T08:15:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Artem Bityutskiy</name>
<email>artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-07-25T15:12:03+00:00</published>
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The '-&gt;write_super' superblock method is gone, and this patch removes all the
references to 'write_super' from ext3.

Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Andreas Dilger &lt;adilger.kernel@dilger.ca&gt;
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy &lt;artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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The '-&gt;write_super' superblock method is gone, and this patch removes all the
references to 'write_super' from ext3.

Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Andreas Dilger &lt;adilger.kernel@dilger.ca&gt;
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy &lt;artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com&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>2012-08-01T17:26:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-08-01T17:26:23+00:00</published>
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Pull second vfs pile from Al Viro:
 "The stuff in there: fsfreeze deadlock fixes by Jan (essentially, the
  deadlock reproduced by xfstests 068), symlink and hardlink restriction
  patches, plus assorted cleanups and fixes.

  Note that another fsfreeze deadlock (emergency thaw one) is *not*
  dealt with - the series by Fernando conflicts a lot with Jan's, breaks
  userland ABI (FIFREEZE semantics gets changed) and trades the deadlock
  for massive vfsmount leak; this is going to be handled next cycle.
  There probably will be another pull request, but that stuff won't be
  in it."

Fix up trivial conflicts due to unrelated changes next to each other in
drivers/{staging/gdm72xx/usb_boot.c, usb/gadget/storage_common.c}

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (54 commits)
  delousing target_core_file a bit
  Documentation: Correct s_umount state for freeze_fs/unfreeze_fs
  fs: Remove old freezing mechanism
  ext2: Implement freezing
  btrfs: Convert to new freezing mechanism
  nilfs2: Convert to new freezing mechanism
  ntfs: Convert to new freezing mechanism
  fuse: Convert to new freezing mechanism
  gfs2: Convert to new freezing mechanism
  ocfs2: Convert to new freezing mechanism
  xfs: Convert to new freezing code
  ext4: Convert to new freezing mechanism
  fs: Protect write paths by sb_start_write - sb_end_write
  fs: Skip atime update on frozen filesystem
  fs: Add freezing handling to mnt_want_write() / mnt_drop_write()
  fs: Improve filesystem freezing handling
  switch the protection of percpu_counter list to spinlock
  nfsd: Push mnt_want_write() outside of i_mutex
  btrfs: Push mnt_want_write() outside of i_mutex
  fat: Push mnt_want_write() outside of i_mutex
  ...
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Pull second vfs pile from Al Viro:
 "The stuff in there: fsfreeze deadlock fixes by Jan (essentially, the
  deadlock reproduced by xfstests 068), symlink and hardlink restriction
  patches, plus assorted cleanups and fixes.

  Note that another fsfreeze deadlock (emergency thaw one) is *not*
  dealt with - the series by Fernando conflicts a lot with Jan's, breaks
  userland ABI (FIFREEZE semantics gets changed) and trades the deadlock
  for massive vfsmount leak; this is going to be handled next cycle.
  There probably will be another pull request, but that stuff won't be
  in it."

Fix up trivial conflicts due to unrelated changes next to each other in
drivers/{staging/gdm72xx/usb_boot.c, usb/gadget/storage_common.c}

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (54 commits)
  delousing target_core_file a bit
  Documentation: Correct s_umount state for freeze_fs/unfreeze_fs
  fs: Remove old freezing mechanism
  ext2: Implement freezing
  btrfs: Convert to new freezing mechanism
  nilfs2: Convert to new freezing mechanism
  ntfs: Convert to new freezing mechanism
  fuse: Convert to new freezing mechanism
  gfs2: Convert to new freezing mechanism
  ocfs2: Convert to new freezing mechanism
  xfs: Convert to new freezing code
  ext4: Convert to new freezing mechanism
  fs: Protect write paths by sb_start_write - sb_end_write
  fs: Skip atime update on frozen filesystem
  fs: Add freezing handling to mnt_want_write() / mnt_drop_write()
  fs: Improve filesystem freezing handling
  switch the protection of percpu_counter list to spinlock
  nfsd: Push mnt_want_write() outside of i_mutex
  btrfs: Push mnt_want_write() outside of i_mutex
  fat: Push mnt_want_write() outside of i_mutex
  ...
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<entry>
<title>ext4: Convert to new freezing mechanism</title>
<updated>2012-07-31T05:45:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2012-06-12T14:20:38+00:00</published>
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We remove most of frozen checks since upper layer takes care of blocking all
writes. We have to handle protection in ext4_page_mkwrite() in a special way
because we cannot use generic block_page_mkwrite(). Also we add a freeze
protection to ext4_evict_inode() so that iput() of unlinked inode cannot modify
a frozen filesystem (we cannot easily instrument ext4_journal_start() /
ext4_journal_stop() with freeze protection because we are missing the
superblock pointer in ext4_journal_stop() in nojournal mode).

CC: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
CC: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/897421
Tested-by: Kamal Mostafa &lt;kamal@canonical.com&gt;
Tested-by: Peter M. Petrakis &lt;peter.petrakis@canonical.com&gt;
Tested-by: Dann Frazier &lt;dann.frazier@canonical.com&gt;
Tested-by: Massimo Morana &lt;massimo.morana@canonical.com&gt;
Acked-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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We remove most of frozen checks since upper layer takes care of blocking all
writes. We have to handle protection in ext4_page_mkwrite() in a special way
because we cannot use generic block_page_mkwrite(). Also we add a freeze
protection to ext4_evict_inode() so that iput() of unlinked inode cannot modify
a frozen filesystem (we cannot easily instrument ext4_journal_start() /
ext4_journal_stop() with freeze protection because we are missing the
superblock pointer in ext4_journal_stop() in nojournal mode).

CC: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
CC: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/897421
Tested-by: Kamal Mostafa &lt;kamal@canonical.com&gt;
Tested-by: Peter M. Petrakis &lt;peter.petrakis@canonical.com&gt;
Tested-by: Dann Frazier &lt;dann.frazier@canonical.com&gt;
Tested-by: Massimo Morana &lt;massimo.morana@canonical.com&gt;
Acked-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ext4: use memweight()</title>
<updated>2012-07-31T00:25:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Akinobu Mita</name>
<email>akinobu.mita@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-07-30T21:41:08+00:00</published>
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Convert ext4_count_free() to use memweight() instead of table lookup
based counting clear bits implementation.  This change only affects the
code segments enabled by EXT4FS_DEBUG.

Note that this memweight() call can't be replaced with a single
bitmap_weight() call, although the pointer to the memory area is aligned
to long-word boundary.  Because the size of the memory area may not be a
multiple of BITS_PER_LONG, then it returns wrong value on big-endian
architecture.

This also includes the following change.

- Remove unnecessary map == NULL check in ext4_count_free() which
  always takes non-null pointer as the memory area.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita &lt;akinobu.mita@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Andreas Dilger &lt;adilger.kernel@dilger.ca&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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Convert ext4_count_free() to use memweight() instead of table lookup
based counting clear bits implementation.  This change only affects the
code segments enabled by EXT4FS_DEBUG.

Note that this memweight() call can't be replaced with a single
bitmap_weight() call, although the pointer to the memory area is aligned
to long-word boundary.  Because the size of the memory area may not be a
multiple of BITS_PER_LONG, then it returns wrong value on big-endian
architecture.

This also includes the following change.

- Remove unnecessary map == NULL check in ext4_count_free() which
  always takes non-null pointer as the memory area.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita &lt;akinobu.mita@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Andreas Dilger &lt;adilger.kernel@dilger.ca&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 tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4</title>
<updated>2012-07-28T03:52:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-07-28T03:52:25+00:00</published>
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Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:
 "The usual collection of bug fixes and optimizations.  Perhaps of
  greatest note is a speed up for parallel, non-allocating DIO writes,
  since we no longer take the i_mutex lock in that case.

  For bug fixes, we fix an incorrect overhead calculation which caused
  slightly incorrect results for df(1) and statfs(2).  We also fixed
  bugs in the metadata checksum feature."

* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (23 commits)
  ext4: undo ext4_calc_metadata_amount if we fail to claim space
  ext4: don't let i_reserved_meta_blocks go negative
  ext4: fix hole punch failure when depth is greater than 0
  ext4: remove unnecessary argument from __ext4_handle_dirty_metadata()
  ext4: weed out ext4_write_super
  ext4: remove unnecessary superblock dirtying
  ext4: convert last user of ext4_mark_super_dirty() to ext4_handle_dirty_super()
  ext4: remove useless marking of superblock dirty
  ext4: fix ext4 mismerge back in January
  ext4: remove dynamic array size in ext4_chksum()
  ext4: remove unused variable in ext4_update_super()
  ext4: make quota as first class supported feature
  ext4: don't take the i_mutex lock when doing DIO overwrites
  ext4: add a new nolock flag in ext4_map_blocks
  ext4: split ext4_file_write into buffered IO and direct IO
  ext4: remove an unused statement in ext4_mb_get_buddy_page_lock()
  ext4: fix out-of-date comments in extents.c
  ext4: use s_csum_seed instead of i_csum_seed for xattr block
  ext4: use proper csum calculation in ext4_rename
  ext4: fix overhead calculation used by ext4_statfs()
  ...
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Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:
 "The usual collection of bug fixes and optimizations.  Perhaps of
  greatest note is a speed up for parallel, non-allocating DIO writes,
  since we no longer take the i_mutex lock in that case.

  For bug fixes, we fix an incorrect overhead calculation which caused
  slightly incorrect results for df(1) and statfs(2).  We also fixed
  bugs in the metadata checksum feature."

* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (23 commits)
  ext4: undo ext4_calc_metadata_amount if we fail to claim space
  ext4: don't let i_reserved_meta_blocks go negative
  ext4: fix hole punch failure when depth is greater than 0
  ext4: remove unnecessary argument from __ext4_handle_dirty_metadata()
  ext4: weed out ext4_write_super
  ext4: remove unnecessary superblock dirtying
  ext4: convert last user of ext4_mark_super_dirty() to ext4_handle_dirty_super()
  ext4: remove useless marking of superblock dirty
  ext4: fix ext4 mismerge back in January
  ext4: remove dynamic array size in ext4_chksum()
  ext4: remove unused variable in ext4_update_super()
  ext4: make quota as first class supported feature
  ext4: don't take the i_mutex lock when doing DIO overwrites
  ext4: add a new nolock flag in ext4_map_blocks
  ext4: split ext4_file_write into buffered IO and direct IO
  ext4: remove an unused statement in ext4_mb_get_buddy_page_lock()
  ext4: fix out-of-date comments in extents.c
  ext4: use s_csum_seed instead of i_csum_seed for xattr block
  ext4: use proper csum calculation in ext4_rename
  ext4: fix overhead calculation used by ext4_statfs()
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2012-07-23T19:27:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-07-23T19:27:27+00:00</published>
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Pull the big VFS changes from Al Viro:
 "This one is *big* and changes quite a few things around VFS.  What's in there:

   - the first of two really major architecture changes - death to open
     intents.

     The former is finally there; it was very long in making, but with
     Miklos getting through really hard and messy final push in
     fs/namei.c, we finally have it.  Unlike his variant, this one
     doesn't introduce struct opendata; what we have instead is
     -&gt;atomic_open() taking preallocated struct file * and passing
     everything via its fields.

     Instead of returning struct file *, it returns -E...  on error, 0
     on success and 1 in "deal with it yourself" case (e.g.  symlink
     found on server, etc.).

     See comments before fs/namei.c:atomic_open().  That made a lot of
     goodies finally possible and quite a few are in that pile:
     -&gt;lookup(), -&gt;d_revalidate() and -&gt;create() do not get struct
     nameidata * anymore; -&gt;lookup() and -&gt;d_revalidate() get lookup
     flags instead, -&gt;create() gets "do we want it exclusive" flag.

     With the introduction of new helper (kern_path_locked()) we are rid
     of all struct nameidata instances outside of fs/namei.c; it's still
     visible in namei.h, but not for long.  Come the next cycle,
     declaration will move either to fs/internal.h or to fs/namei.c
     itself.  [me, miklos, hch]

   - The second major change: behaviour of final fput().  Now we have
     __fput() done without any locks held by caller *and* not from deep
     in call stack.

     That obviously lifts a lot of constraints on the locking in there.
     Moreover, it's legal now to call fput() from atomic contexts (which
     has immediately simplified life for aio.c).  We also don't need
     anti-recursion logics in __scm_destroy() anymore.

     There is a price, though - the damn thing has become partially
     asynchronous.  For fput() from normal process we are guaranteed
     that pending __fput() will be done before the caller returns to
     userland, exits or gets stopped for ptrace.

     For kernel threads and atomic contexts it's done via
     schedule_work(), so theoretically we might need a way to make sure
     it's finished; so far only one such place had been found, but there
     might be more.

     There's flush_delayed_fput() (do all pending __fput()) and there's
     __fput_sync() (fput() analog doing __fput() immediately).  I hope
     we won't need them often; see warnings in fs/file_table.c for
     details.  [me, based on task_work series from Oleg merged last
     cycle]

   - sync series from Jan

   - large part of "death to sync_supers()" work from Artem; the only
     bits missing here are exofs and ext4 ones.  As far as I understand,
     those are going via the exofs and ext4 trees resp.; once they are
     in, we can put -&gt;write_super() to the rest, along with the thread
     calling it.

   - preparatory bits from unionmount series (from dhowells).

   - assorted cleanups and fixes all over the place, as usual.

  This is not the last pile for this cycle; there's at least jlayton's
  ESTALE work and fsfreeze series (the latter - in dire need of fixes,
  so I'm not sure it'll make the cut this cycle).  I'll probably throw
  symlink/hardlink restrictions stuff from Kees into the next pile, too.
  Plus there's a lot of misc patches I hadn't thrown into that one -
  it's large enough as it is..."

* 'for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (127 commits)
  ext4: switch EXT4_IOC_RESIZE_FS to mnt_want_write_file()
  btrfs: switch btrfs_ioctl_balance() to mnt_want_write_file()
  switch dentry_open() to struct path, make it grab references itself
  spufs: shift dget/mntget towards dentry_open()
  zoran: don't bother with struct file * in zoran_map
  ecryptfs: don't reinvent the wheels, please - use struct completion
  don't expose I_NEW inodes via dentry-&gt;d_inode
  tidy up namei.c a bit
  unobfuscate follow_up() a bit
  ext3: pass custom EOF to generic_file_llseek_size()
  ext4: use core vfs llseek code for dir seeks
  vfs: allow custom EOF in generic_file_llseek code
  vfs: Avoid unnecessary WB_SYNC_NONE writeback during sys_sync and reorder sync passes
  vfs: Remove unnecessary flushing of block devices
  vfs: Make sys_sync writeout also block device inodes
  vfs: Create function for iterating over block devices
  vfs: Reorder operations during sys_sync
  quota: Move quota syncing to -&gt;sync_fs method
  quota: Split dquot_quota_sync() to writeback and cache flushing part
  vfs: Move noop_backing_dev_info check from sync into writeback
  ...
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Pull the big VFS changes from Al Viro:
 "This one is *big* and changes quite a few things around VFS.  What's in there:

   - the first of two really major architecture changes - death to open
     intents.

     The former is finally there; it was very long in making, but with
     Miklos getting through really hard and messy final push in
     fs/namei.c, we finally have it.  Unlike his variant, this one
     doesn't introduce struct opendata; what we have instead is
     -&gt;atomic_open() taking preallocated struct file * and passing
     everything via its fields.

     Instead of returning struct file *, it returns -E...  on error, 0
     on success and 1 in "deal with it yourself" case (e.g.  symlink
     found on server, etc.).

     See comments before fs/namei.c:atomic_open().  That made a lot of
     goodies finally possible and quite a few are in that pile:
     -&gt;lookup(), -&gt;d_revalidate() and -&gt;create() do not get struct
     nameidata * anymore; -&gt;lookup() and -&gt;d_revalidate() get lookup
     flags instead, -&gt;create() gets "do we want it exclusive" flag.

     With the introduction of new helper (kern_path_locked()) we are rid
     of all struct nameidata instances outside of fs/namei.c; it's still
     visible in namei.h, but not for long.  Come the next cycle,
     declaration will move either to fs/internal.h or to fs/namei.c
     itself.  [me, miklos, hch]

   - The second major change: behaviour of final fput().  Now we have
     __fput() done without any locks held by caller *and* not from deep
     in call stack.

     That obviously lifts a lot of constraints on the locking in there.
     Moreover, it's legal now to call fput() from atomic contexts (which
     has immediately simplified life for aio.c).  We also don't need
     anti-recursion logics in __scm_destroy() anymore.

     There is a price, though - the damn thing has become partially
     asynchronous.  For fput() from normal process we are guaranteed
     that pending __fput() will be done before the caller returns to
     userland, exits or gets stopped for ptrace.

     For kernel threads and atomic contexts it's done via
     schedule_work(), so theoretically we might need a way to make sure
     it's finished; so far only one such place had been found, but there
     might be more.

     There's flush_delayed_fput() (do all pending __fput()) and there's
     __fput_sync() (fput() analog doing __fput() immediately).  I hope
     we won't need them often; see warnings in fs/file_table.c for
     details.  [me, based on task_work series from Oleg merged last
     cycle]

   - sync series from Jan

   - large part of "death to sync_supers()" work from Artem; the only
     bits missing here are exofs and ext4 ones.  As far as I understand,
     those are going via the exofs and ext4 trees resp.; once they are
     in, we can put -&gt;write_super() to the rest, along with the thread
     calling it.

   - preparatory bits from unionmount series (from dhowells).

   - assorted cleanups and fixes all over the place, as usual.

  This is not the last pile for this cycle; there's at least jlayton's
  ESTALE work and fsfreeze series (the latter - in dire need of fixes,
  so I'm not sure it'll make the cut this cycle).  I'll probably throw
  symlink/hardlink restrictions stuff from Kees into the next pile, too.
  Plus there's a lot of misc patches I hadn't thrown into that one -
  it's large enough as it is..."

* 'for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (127 commits)
  ext4: switch EXT4_IOC_RESIZE_FS to mnt_want_write_file()
  btrfs: switch btrfs_ioctl_balance() to mnt_want_write_file()
  switch dentry_open() to struct path, make it grab references itself
  spufs: shift dget/mntget towards dentry_open()
  zoran: don't bother with struct file * in zoran_map
  ecryptfs: don't reinvent the wheels, please - use struct completion
  don't expose I_NEW inodes via dentry-&gt;d_inode
  tidy up namei.c a bit
  unobfuscate follow_up() a bit
  ext3: pass custom EOF to generic_file_llseek_size()
  ext4: use core vfs llseek code for dir seeks
  vfs: allow custom EOF in generic_file_llseek code
  vfs: Avoid unnecessary WB_SYNC_NONE writeback during sys_sync and reorder sync passes
  vfs: Remove unnecessary flushing of block devices
  vfs: Make sys_sync writeout also block device inodes
  vfs: Create function for iterating over block devices
  vfs: Reorder operations during sys_sync
  quota: Move quota syncing to -&gt;sync_fs method
  quota: Split dquot_quota_sync() to writeback and cache flushing part
  vfs: Move noop_backing_dev_info check from sync into writeback
  ...
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<entry>
<title>ext4: undo ext4_calc_metadata_amount if we fail to claim space</title>
<updated>2012-07-23T04:00:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2012-07-23T04:00:20+00:00</published>
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The function ext4_calc_metadata_amount() has side effects, although
it's not obvious from its function name.  So if we fail to claim
space, regardless of whether we retry to claim the space again, or
return an error, we need to undo these side effects.

Otherwise we can end up incorrectly calculating the number of metadata
blocks needed for the operation, which was responsible for an xfstests
failure for test #271 when using an ext2 file system with delalloc
enabled.

Reported-by: Brian Foster &lt;bfoster@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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The function ext4_calc_metadata_amount() has side effects, although
it's not obvious from its function name.  So if we fail to claim
space, regardless of whether we retry to claim the space again, or
return an error, we need to undo these side effects.

Otherwise we can end up incorrectly calculating the number of metadata
blocks needed for the operation, which was responsible for an xfstests
failure for test #271 when using an ext2 file system with delalloc
enabled.

Reported-by: Brian Foster &lt;bfoster@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ext4: don't let i_reserved_meta_blocks go negative</title>
<updated>2012-07-23T03:59:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Brian Foster</name>
<email>bfoster@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-07-23T03:59:40+00:00</published>
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If we hit a condition where we have allocated metadata blocks that
were not appropriately reserved, we risk underflow of
ei-&gt;i_reserved_meta_blocks.  In turn, this can throw
sbi-&gt;s_dirtyclusters_counter significantly out of whack and undermine
the nondelalloc fallback logic in ext4_nonda_switch().  Warn if this
occurs and set i_allocated_meta_blocks to avoid this problem.

This condition is reproduced by xfstests 270 against ext2 with
delalloc enabled:

Mar 28 08:58:02 localhost kernel: [  171.526344] EXT4-fs (loop1): delayed block allocation failed for inode 14 at logical offset 64486 with max blocks 64 with error -28
Mar 28 08:58:02 localhost kernel: [  171.526346] EXT4-fs (loop1): This should not happen!! Data will be lost

270 ultimately fails with an inconsistent filesystem and requires an
fsck to repair.  The cause of the error is an underflow in
ext4_da_update_reserve_space() due to an unreserved meta block
allocation.

Signed-off-by: Brian Foster &lt;bfoster@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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If we hit a condition where we have allocated metadata blocks that
were not appropriately reserved, we risk underflow of
ei-&gt;i_reserved_meta_blocks.  In turn, this can throw
sbi-&gt;s_dirtyclusters_counter significantly out of whack and undermine
the nondelalloc fallback logic in ext4_nonda_switch().  Warn if this
occurs and set i_allocated_meta_blocks to avoid this problem.

This condition is reproduced by xfstests 270 against ext2 with
delalloc enabled:

Mar 28 08:58:02 localhost kernel: [  171.526344] EXT4-fs (loop1): delayed block allocation failed for inode 14 at logical offset 64486 with max blocks 64 with error -28
Mar 28 08:58:02 localhost kernel: [  171.526346] EXT4-fs (loop1): This should not happen!! Data will be lost

270 ultimately fails with an inconsistent filesystem and requires an
fsck to repair.  The cause of the error is an underflow in
ext4_da_update_reserve_space() due to an unreserved meta block
allocation.

Signed-off-by: Brian Foster &lt;bfoster@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ext4: fix hole punch failure when depth is greater than 0</title>
<updated>2012-07-23T02:49:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ashish Sangwan</name>
<email>ashishsangwan2@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-07-23T02:49:08+00:00</published>
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Whether to continue removing extents or not is decided by the return
value of function ext4_ext_more_to_rm() which checks 2 conditions:
a) if there are no more indexes to process.
b) if the number of entries are decreased in the header of "depth -1".

In case of hole punch, if the last block to be removed is not part of
the last extent index than this index will not be deleted, hence the
number of valid entries in the extent header of "depth - 1" will
remain as it is and ext4_ext_more_to_rm will return 0 although the
required blocks are not yet removed.

This patch fixes the above mentioned problem as instead of removing
the extents from the end of file, it starts removing the blocks from
the particular extent from which removing blocks is actually required
and continue backward until done.

Signed-off-by: Ashish Sangwan &lt;ashish.sangwan2@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon &lt;linkinjeon@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Lukas Czerner &lt;lczerner@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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Whether to continue removing extents or not is decided by the return
value of function ext4_ext_more_to_rm() which checks 2 conditions:
a) if there are no more indexes to process.
b) if the number of entries are decreased in the header of "depth -1".

In case of hole punch, if the last block to be removed is not part of
the last extent index than this index will not be deleted, hence the
number of valid entries in the extent header of "depth - 1" will
remain as it is and ext4_ext_more_to_rm will return 0 although the
required blocks are not yet removed.

This patch fixes the above mentioned problem as instead of removing
the extents from the end of file, it starts removing the blocks from
the particular extent from which removing blocks is actually required
and continue backward until done.

Signed-off-by: Ashish Sangwan &lt;ashish.sangwan2@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon &lt;linkinjeon@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Lukas Czerner &lt;lczerner@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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