linux.git/fs/gfs2/eaops.c, branch master

GFS2: Clean up of extended attribute support

2009-08-26T17:41:32+00:00

This has been on my list for some time. We need to change the way
in which we handle extended attributes to allow faster file creation
times (by reducing the number of transactions required) and the
extended attribute code is the main obstacle to this.

In addition to that, the VFS provides a way to demultiplex the xattr
calls which we ought to be using, rather than rolling our own. This
patch changes the GFS2 code to use that VFS feature and as a result
the code shrinks by a couple of hundred lines or so, and becomes
easier to read.

I'm planning on doing further clean up work in this area, but this
patch is a good start. The cleaned up code also uses the more usual
"xattr" shorthand, I plan to eliminate the use of "eattr" eventually
and in the mean time it serves as a flag as to which bits of the code
have been updated.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse

GFS2: Merge lock_dlm module into GFS2

2009-03-24T11:21:14+00:00

This is the big patch that I've been working on for some time
now. There are many reasons for wanting to make this change
such as:
 o Reducing overhead by eliminating duplicated fields between structures
 o Simplifcation of the code (reduces the code size by a fair bit)
 o The locking interface is now the DLM interface itself as proposed
   some time ago.
 o Fewer lookups of glocks when processing replies from the DLM
 o Fewer memory allocations/deallocations for each glock
 o Scope to do further optimisations in the future (but this patch is
   more than big enough for now!)

Please note that (a) this patch relates to the lock_dlm module and
not the DLM itself, that is still a separate module; and (b) that
we retain the ability to build GFS2 as a standalone single node
filesystem with out requiring the DLM.

This patch needs a lot of testing, hence my keeping it I restarted
my -git tree after the last merge window. That way, this has the maximum
exposure before its merged. This is (modulo a few minor bug fixes) the
same patch that I've been posting on and off the the last three months
and its passed a number of different tests so far.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse

[GFS2] Remove unrequired code

2008-01-25T08:08:13+00:00

Signed-off-by: Fabio M. Di Nitto 
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse

[GFS2] Fix build warnings

2008-01-25T08:08:11+00:00

Hi Steven,

Steven Whitehouse wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Now in the -nmw git tree. Thanks,
>
> Steve.
>
> On Wed, 2007-11-21 at 11:54 -0600, Ryan O'Hara wrote:

this patch introduces a bunch of build warnings by leaving around

struct inode *inode = &ip->i_inode;

The patch in attachment cleans them up. Please apply.

Signed-off-by: Fabio Massimo Di Nitto 
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse

[GFS2] remove unnecessary permission checks

2008-01-25T08:08:08+00:00

Remove read/write permission() checks from xattr operations.
VFS layer is already handling permission for xattrs via the
xattr_permission() call, so there is no need for gfs2 to
check permissions. Futhermore, using permission() for SELinux
xattrs ops is incorrect.

Signed-off-by: Ryan O'Hara 
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse

[GFS2] mark struct *_operations const

2007-10-10T07:55:03+00:00

these struct *_operations are all method tables, thus should be const.

Signed-off-by: Denis Cheng 
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse

Remove capability.h from mm.h

2007-07-16T16:05:45+00:00

I forgot to remove capability.h from mm.h while removing sched.h!  This
patch remedies that, because the only inline function which was using
CAP_something was made out of line.

Cross-compile tested without regressions on:

	all powerpc defconfigs
	all mips defconfigs
	all m68k defconfigs
	all arm defconfigs
	all ia64 defconfigs

	alpha alpha-allnoconfig alpha-defconfig alpha-up
	arm
	i386 i386-allnoconfig i386-defconfig i386-up
	ia64 ia64-allnoconfig ia64-defconfig ia64-up
	m68k
	mips
	parisc parisc-allnoconfig parisc-defconfig parisc-up
	powerpc powerpc-up
	s390 s390-allnoconfig s390-defconfig s390-up
	sparc sparc-allnoconfig sparc-defconfig sparc-up
	sparc64 sparc64-allnoconfig sparc64-defconfig sparc64-up
	um-x86_64
	x86_64 x86_64-allnoconfig x86_64-defconfig x86_64-up

as well as my two usual configs.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] remove many unneeded #includes of sched.h

2007-02-14T16:09:54+00:00

After Al Viro (finally) succeeded in removing the sched.h #include in module.h
recently, it makes sense again to remove other superfluous sched.h includes.
There are quite a lot of files which include it but don't actually need
anything defined in there.  Presumably these includes were once needed for
macros that used to live in sched.h, but moved to other header files in the
course of cleaning it up.

To ease the pain, this time I did not fiddle with any header files and only
removed #includes from .c-files, which tend to cause less trouble.

Compile tested against 2.6.20-rc2 and 2.6.20-rc2-mm2 (with offsets) on alpha,
arm, i386, ia64, mips, powerpc, and x86_64 with allnoconfig, defconfig,
allmodconfig, and allyesconfig as well as a few randconfigs on x86_64 and all
configs in arch/arm/configs on arm.  I also checked that no new warnings were
introduced by the patch (actually, some warnings are removed that were emitted
by unnecessarily included header files).

Signed-off-by: Tim Schmielau 
Acked-by: Russell King 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[GFS2] Shrink gfs2_inode (3) - di_mode

2006-11-30T15:34:14+00:00

This removes the duplicate di_mode field in favour of using the
inode->i_mode field. This saves 4 bytes.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse

[GFS2/DLM] Fix trailing whitespace

2006-09-25T13:26:04+00:00

As per Andrew Morton's request, removed trailing whitespace.

Cc: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse