linux.git/fs/jffs2, branch v3.6

don't expose I_NEW inodes via dentry->d_inode

2012-07-22T20:00:58+00:00

	d_instantiate(dentry, inode);
	unlock_new_inode(inode);

is a bad idea; do it the other way round...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

don't pass nameidata to ->create()

2012-07-14T12:34:47+00:00

boolean "does it have to be exclusive?" flag is passed instead;
Local filesystem should just ignore it - the object is guaranteed
not to be there yet.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

stop passing nameidata to ->lookup()

2012-07-14T12:34:32+00:00

Just the flags; only NFS cares even about that, but there are
legitimate uses for such argument.  And getting rid of that
completely would require splitting ->lookup() into a couple
of methods (at least), so let's leave that alone for now...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

Merge tag 'for-linus-3.5-20120601' of git://git.infradead.org/linux-mtd

2012-06-01T23:55:42+00:00

Pull mtd update from David Woodhouse:
 - More robust parsing especially of xattr data in JFFS2
 - Updates to mxc_nand and gpmi drivers to support new boards and device tree
 - Improve consistency of information about ECC strength in NAND devices
 - Clean up partition handling of plat_nand
 - Support NAND drivers without dedicated access to OOB area
 - BCH hardware ECC support for OMAP
 - Other fixes and cleanups, and a few new device IDs

Fixed trivial conflict in drivers/mtd/nand/gpmi-nand/gpmi-nand.c due to
added include files next to each other.

* tag 'for-linus-3.5-20120601' of git://git.infradead.org/linux-mtd: (75 commits)
  mtd: mxc_nand: move ecc strengh setup before nand_scan_tail
  mtd: block2mtd: fix recursive call of mtd_writev
  mtd: gpmi-nand: define ecc.strength
  mtd: of_parts: fix breakage in Kconfig
  mtd: nand: fix scan_read_raw_oob
  mtd: docg3 fix in-middle of blocks reads
  mtd: cfi_cmdset_0002: Slight cleanup of fixup messages
  mtd: add fixup for S29NS512P NOR flash.
  jffs2: allow to complete xattr integrity check on first GC scan
  jffs2: allow to discriminate between recoverable and non-recoverable errors
  mtd: nand: omap: add support for hardware BCH ecc
  ARM: OMAP3: gpmc: add BCH ecc api and modes
  mtd: nand: check the return code of 'read_oob/read_oob_raw'
  mtd: nand: remove 'sndcmd' parameter of 'read_oob/read_oob_raw'
  mtd: m25p80: Add support for Winbond W25Q80BW
  jffs2: get rid of jffs2_sync_super
  jffs2: remove unnecessary GC pass on sync
  jffs2: remove unnecessary GC pass on umount
  jffs2: remove lock_super
  mtd: gpmi: add gpmi support for mx6q
  ...

jffs2: get rid of jffs2_sync_super

2012-05-31T01:04:52+00:00

Currently JFFS2 file-system maps the VFS "superblock" abstraction to the
write-buffer. Namely, it uses VFS services to synchronize the write-buffer
periodically.

The whole "superblock write-out" VFS infrastructure is served by the
'sync_supers()' kernel thread, which wakes up every 5 (by default) seconds and
writes out all dirty superblock using the '->write_super()' call-back. But the
problem with this thread is that it wastes power by waking up the system every
5 seconds no matter what. So we want to kill it completely and thus, we need to
make file-systems to stop using the '->write_super' VFS service, and then
remove it together with the kernel thread.

This patch switches the JFFS2 write-buffer management from
'->write_super()'/'->s_dirt' to a delayed work. Instead of setting the 's_dirt'
flag we just schedule a delayed work for synchronizing the write-buffer.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

jffs2: remove unnecessary GC pass on sync

2012-05-31T01:04:51+00:00

We do not need to call 'jffs2_write_super()' on sync. This function
causes a GC pass to make sure the current contents is pushed out with
the data which we already have on the media.

But this is not needed on unmount and only slows sync down unnecessarily.
It is enough to just sync the write-buffer.

This call was added by one of the generic VFS rework patch-sets,
see d579ed00aa96a7f7486978540a0d7cecaff742ae.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

jffs2: remove unnecessary GC pass on umount

2012-05-31T01:04:51+00:00

We do not need to call 'jffs2_write_super()' on unmount. This function
causes a GC pass to make sure the current contents is pushed out with
the data which we already have on the media.

But this is not needed on unmount and only slows unmount down unnecessarily.
It is enough to just sync the write-buffer.

This call was added by one of the generic VFS rework patch-sets,
see 8c85e125124a473d6f3e9bb187b0b84207f81d91.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

jffs2: remove lock_super

2012-05-31T01:04:51+00:00

We do not need 'lock_super()'/'unlock_super()' in JFFS2 - kill them.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

Merge tag 'writeback' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux

2012-05-28T16:54:45+00:00

Pull writeback tree from Wu Fengguang:
 "Mainly from Jan Kara to avoid iput() in the flusher threads."

* tag 'writeback' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux:
  writeback: Avoid iput() from flusher thread
  vfs: Rename end_writeback() to clear_inode()
  vfs: Move waiting for inode writeback from end_writeback() to evict_inode()
  writeback: Refactor writeback_single_inode()
  writeback: Remove wb->list_lock from writeback_single_inode()
  writeback: Separate inode requeueing after writeback
  writeback: Move I_DIRTY_PAGES handling
  writeback: Move requeueing when I_SYNC set to writeback_sb_inodes()
  writeback: Move clearing of I_SYNC into inode_sync_complete()
  writeback: initialize global_dirty_limit
  fs: remove 8 bytes of padding from struct writeback_control on 64 bit builds
  mm: page-writeback.c: local functions should not be exposed globally

jffs2: allow to complete xattr integrity check on first GC scan

2012-05-14T04:32:36+00:00

Unlike file data integrity the xattr data integrity was not checked
before some explicit access to the attribute was made.

This could leave in the system a number of corrupted extended attributes
which will be detected only at access time and possibly at a very late
time compared to the time the corruption actually happened.

This patch adds the ability to check for extended attribute integrity
on first GC scan pass (similar to file data integrity check). This allows
for all present attributes to be completly verified before any use of them.

In order to work correctly this patch also needs the patch allowing
JFFS2 to discriminate between recoverable and non recoverable errors
on extended attributes.

Signed-off-by: Jean-Christophe DUBOIS 
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy 
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse