linux.git/fs/libfs.c, branch v2.6.37

convert get_sb_pseudo() users

2010-10-29T08:16:33+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

new helper: ihold()

2010-10-26T01:26:11+00:00

Clones an existing reference to inode; caller must already hold one.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

fs: add sync_inode_metadata

2010-10-26T01:18:19+00:00

Add a new helper to write out the inode using the writeback code,
that is including the correct dirty bit and list manipulation.  A few
of filesystems already opencode this, and a lot of others should be
using it instead of using write_inode_now which also writes out the
data.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

libfs: Fix shift bug in generic_check_addressable()

2010-09-10T15:42:48+00:00

generic_check_addressable() erroneously shifts pages down by a block
factor when it should be shifting up.  To prevent overflow, we shift
blocks down to pages.

Signed-off-by: Joel Becker

ext3/ext4: Factor out disk addressability check

2010-09-10T15:41:42+00:00

As part of adding support for OCFS2 to mount huge volumes, we need to
check that the sector_t and page cache of the system are capable of
addressing the entire volume.

An identical check already appears in ext3 and ext4.  This patch moves
the addressability check into its own function in fs/libfs.c and
modifies ext3 and ext4 to invoke it.

[Edited to -EINVAL instead of BUG_ON() for bad blocksize_bits -- Joel]

Signed-off-by: Patrick LoPresti 
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Andreas Dilger 
Signed-off-by: Joel Becker

check ATTR_SIZE contraints in inode_change_ok

2010-08-09T20:47:39+00:00

Make sure we check the truncate constraints early on in ->setattr by adding
those checks to inode_change_ok.  Also clean up and document inode_change_ok
to make this obvious.

As a fallout we don't have to call inode_newsize_ok from simple_setsize and
simplify it down to a truncate_setsize which doesn't return an error.  This
simplifies a lot of setattr implementations and means we use truncate_setsize
almost everywhere.  Get rid of fat_setsize now that it's trivial and mark
ext2_setsize static to make the calling convention obvious.

Keep the inode_newsize_ok in vmtruncate for now as all callers need an
audit for its removal anyway.

Note: setattr code in ecryptfs doesn't call inode_change_ok at all and
needs a deeper audit, but that is left for later.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

default to simple_setattr

2010-08-09T20:47:36+00:00

With the new truncate sequence every filesystem that wants to support file
size changes on disk needs to implement its own ->setattr.  So instead
of calling inode_setattr which supports size changes call into a simple
method that doesn't support this.  simple_setattr is almost what we
want except that it does not mark the inode dirty after changes.  Given
that marking the inode dirty is a no-op for the simple in-memory filesystems
that use simple_setattr currently just add the mark_inode_dirty call.

Also add a WARN_ON for the presence of a truncate method to simple_setattr
to catch new instances of it during the transition period.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

rename generic_setattr

2010-08-09T20:47:35+00:00

Despite its name it's now a generic implementation of ->setattr, but
rather a helper to copy attributes from a struct iattr to the inode.
Rename it to setattr_copy to reflect this fact.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

wrong type for 'magic' argument in simple_fill_super()

2010-06-04T21:16:28+00:00

It's used to superblock ->s_magic, which is unsigned long.

Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu 
Reviewed-by: Mimi Zohar 
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris 
CC: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

fs: introduce new truncate sequence

2010-05-28T02:15:33+00:00

Introduce a new truncate calling sequence into fs/mm subsystems. Rather than
setattr > vmtruncate > truncate, have filesystems call their truncate sequence
from ->setattr if filesystem specific operations are required. vmtruncate is
deprecated, and truncate_pagecache and inode_newsize_ok helpers introduced
previously should be used.

simple_setattr is introduced for simple in-ram filesystems to implement
the new truncate sequence. Eventually all filesystems should be converted
to implement a setattr, and the default code in notify_change should go
away.

simple_setsize is also introduced to perform just the ATTR_SIZE portion
of simple_setattr (ie. changing i_size and trimming pagecache).

To implement the new truncate sequence:
- filesystem specific manipulations (eg freeing blocks) must be done in
  the setattr method rather than ->truncate.
- vmtruncate can not be used by core code to trim blocks past i_size in
  the event of write failure after allocation, so this must be performed
  in the fs code.
- convert usage of helpers block_write_begin, nobh_write_begin,
  cont_write_begin, and *blockdev_direct_IO* to use _newtrunc postfixed
  variants. These avoid calling vmtruncate to trim blocks (see previous).
- inode_setattr should not be used. generic_setattr is a new function
  to be used to copy simple attributes into the generic inode.
- make use of the better opportunity to handle errors with the new sequence.

Big problem with the previous calling sequence: the filesystem is not called
until i_size has already changed.  This means it is not allowed to fail the
call, and also it does not know what the previous i_size was. Also, generic
code calling vmtruncate to truncate allocated blocks in case of error had
no good way to return a meaningful error (or, for example, atomically handle
block deallocation).

Cc: Christoph Hellwig 
Acked-by: Jan Kara 
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro