linux.git/fs/jfs, branch v2.6.16

[PATCH] JFS: Take logsync lock before testing mp->lsn

2006-03-14T22:00:48+00:00

This fixes a race where lsn could be cleared before taking the lock

Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] capable/capability.h (fs/)

2006-01-12T02:42:13+00:00

fs: Use  where capable() is used.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap 
Acked-by: Tim Schmielau 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] remove jfs xattr permission checks

2006-01-10T16:01:29+00:00

remove checks now in the VFS

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] move xattr permission checks into the VFS

2006-01-10T16:01:29+00:00


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From: Christoph Hellwig 

The xattr code has rather complex permission checks because the rules are very
different for different attribute namespaces.  This patch moves as much as we
can into the generic code.  Currently all the major disk based filesystems
duplicate these checks, while many minor filesystems or network filesystems
lack some or all of them.

To do this we need defines for the extended attribute names in common code, I
moved them up from JFS which had the nicest defintions.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Acked-by: Dave Kleikamp 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] mutex subsystem, semaphore to mutex: VFS, ->i_sem

2006-01-09T23:59:24+00:00

This patch converts the inode semaphore to a mutex. I have tested it on
XFS and compiled as much as one can consider on an ia64. Anyway your
luck with it might be different.

Modified-by: Ingo Molnar 

(finished the conversion)

Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

[PATCH] Fix and add EXPORT_SYMBOL(filemap_write_and_wait)

2006-01-09T04:13:47+00:00

This patch add EXPORT_SYMBOL(filemap_write_and_wait) and use it.

See mm/filemap.c:

And changes the filemap_write_and_wait() and filemap_write_and_wait_range().

Current filemap_write_and_wait() doesn't wait if filemap_fdatawrite()
returns error.  However, even if filemap_fdatawrite() returned an
error, it may have submitted the partially data pages to the device.
(e.g. in the case of -ENOSPC)


Andrew Morton writes,

If filemap_fdatawrite() returns an error, this might be due to some
I/O problem: dead disk, unplugged cable, etc.  Given the generally
crappy quality of the kernel's handling of such exceptions, there's a
good chance that the filemap_fdatawait() will get stuck in D state
forever.


So, this patch doesn't wait if filemap_fdatawrite() returns the -EIO.

Trond, could you please review the nfs part?  Especially I'm not sure,
nfs must use the "filemap_fdatawrite(inode->i_mapping) == 0", or not.

Acked-by: Trond Myklebust 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

JFS: set i_ctime & i_mtime on target directory when creating links

2005-10-31T22:53:04+00:00

jfs has never been setting i_ctime or i_mtime when creating either hard
or symbolic links.  I'm surprised nobody had noticed until now.

Thanks to Chris Spiegel for reporting the problem.

Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp

[PATCH] mm: split page table lock

2005-10-30T04:40:42+00:00

Christoph Lameter demonstrated very poor scalability on the SGI 512-way, with
a many-threaded application which concurrently initializes different parts of
a large anonymous area.

This patch corrects that, by using a separate spinlock per page table page, to
guard the page table entries in that page, instead of using the mm's single
page_table_lock.  (But even then, page_table_lock is still used to guard page
table allocation, and anon_vma allocation.)

In this implementation, the spinlock is tucked inside the struct page of the
page table page: with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case it overflows - which it would in
the case of 32-bit PA-RISC with spinlock debugging enabled.

Splitting the lock is not quite for free: another cacheline access.  Ideally,
I suppose we would use split ptlock only for multi-threaded processes on
multi-cpu machines; but deciding that dynamically would have its own costs.
So for now enable it by config, at some number of cpus - since the Kconfig
language doesn't support inequalities, let preprocessor compare that with
NR_CPUS.  But I don't think it's worth being user-configurable: for good
testing of both split and unsplit configs, split now at 4 cpus, and perhaps
change that to 8 later.

There is a benefit even for singly threaded processes: kswapd can be attacking
one part of the mm while another part is busy faulting.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shaggy/jfs-2.6

2005-10-28T19:44:24+00:00

JFS: make sure right-most xtree pages have header.next set to zero

2005-10-28T18:27:40+00:00

The xtTruncate code was only doing this for leaf pages.  When a file is
horribly fragmented, we may truncate a file leaving an internal page with
an invalid head.next field, which may cause a stale page to be referenced.

Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp