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<title>Merge branch 'proc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/adobriyan/proc</title>
<updated>2008-10-23T19:04:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2008-10-23T19:04:37+00:00</published>
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* 'proc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/adobriyan/proc: (35 commits)
  proc: remove fs/proc/proc_misc.c
  proc: move /proc/vmcore creation to fs/proc/vmcore.c
  proc: move pagecount stuff to fs/proc/page.c
  proc: move all /proc/kcore stuff to fs/proc/kcore.c
  proc: move /proc/schedstat boilerplate to kernel/sched_stats.h
  proc: move /proc/modules boilerplate to kernel/module.c
  proc: move /proc/diskstats boilerplate to block/genhd.c
  proc: move /proc/zoneinfo boilerplate to mm/vmstat.c
  proc: move /proc/vmstat boilerplate to mm/vmstat.c
  proc: move /proc/pagetypeinfo boilerplate to mm/vmstat.c
  proc: move /proc/buddyinfo boilerplate to mm/vmstat.c
  proc: move /proc/vmallocinfo to mm/vmalloc.c
  proc: move /proc/slabinfo boilerplate to mm/slub.c, mm/slab.c
  proc: move /proc/slab_allocators boilerplate to mm/slab.c
  proc: move /proc/interrupts boilerplate code to fs/proc/interrupts.c
  proc: move /proc/stat to fs/proc/stat.c
  proc: move rest of /proc/partitions code to block/genhd.c
  proc: move /proc/cpuinfo code to fs/proc/cpuinfo.c
  proc: move /proc/devices code to fs/proc/devices.c
  proc: move rest of /proc/locks to fs/locks.c
  ...
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* 'proc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/adobriyan/proc: (35 commits)
  proc: remove fs/proc/proc_misc.c
  proc: move /proc/vmcore creation to fs/proc/vmcore.c
  proc: move pagecount stuff to fs/proc/page.c
  proc: move all /proc/kcore stuff to fs/proc/kcore.c
  proc: move /proc/schedstat boilerplate to kernel/sched_stats.h
  proc: move /proc/modules boilerplate to kernel/module.c
  proc: move /proc/diskstats boilerplate to block/genhd.c
  proc: move /proc/zoneinfo boilerplate to mm/vmstat.c
  proc: move /proc/vmstat boilerplate to mm/vmstat.c
  proc: move /proc/pagetypeinfo boilerplate to mm/vmstat.c
  proc: move /proc/buddyinfo boilerplate to mm/vmstat.c
  proc: move /proc/vmallocinfo to mm/vmalloc.c
  proc: move /proc/slabinfo boilerplate to mm/slub.c, mm/slab.c
  proc: move /proc/slab_allocators boilerplate to mm/slab.c
  proc: move /proc/interrupts boilerplate code to fs/proc/interrupts.c
  proc: move /proc/stat to fs/proc/stat.c
  proc: move rest of /proc/partitions code to block/genhd.c
  proc: move /proc/cpuinfo code to fs/proc/cpuinfo.c
  proc: move /proc/devices code to fs/proc/devices.c
  proc: move rest of /proc/locks to fs/locks.c
  ...
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<entry>
<title>proc: move rest of /proc/locks to fs/locks.c</title>
<updated>2008-10-23T10:37:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexey Dobriyan</name>
<email>adobriyan@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-10-04T18:34:18+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>[PATCH] introduce fmode_t, do annotations</title>
<updated>2008-10-21T11:47:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2008-09-02T19:28:45+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>SL*B: drop kmem cache argument from constructor</title>
<updated>2008-07-26T19:00:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexey Dobriyan</name>
<email>adobriyan@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-07-26T02:45:34+00:00</published>
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Kmem cache passed to constructor is only needed for constructors that are
themselves multiplexeres.  Nobody uses this "feature", nor does anybody uses
passed kmem cache in non-trivial way, so pass only pointer to object.

Non-trivial places are:
	arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c
	arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c

This is flag day, yes.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@cs.helsinki.fi&gt;
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Jon Tollefson &lt;kniht@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Nick Piggin &lt;nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au&gt;
Cc: Matt Mackall &lt;mpm@selenic.com&gt;
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix mm/slab.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix ubifs]
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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Kmem cache passed to constructor is only needed for constructors that are
themselves multiplexeres.  Nobody uses this "feature", nor does anybody uses
passed kmem cache in non-trivial way, so pass only pointer to object.

Non-trivial places are:
	arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c
	arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c

This is flag day, yes.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@cs.helsinki.fi&gt;
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Jon Tollefson &lt;kniht@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Nick Piggin &lt;nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au&gt;
Cc: Matt Mackall &lt;mpm@selenic.com&gt;
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix mm/slab.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix ubifs]
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>locks: allow -&gt;lock() to return FILE_LOCK_DEFERRED</title>
<updated>2008-07-25T17:53:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Miklos Szeredi</name>
<email>mszeredi@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2008-07-25T08:48:58+00:00</published>
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Allow filesystem's -&gt;lock() method to call posix_lock_file() instead of
posix_lock_file_wait(), and return FILE_LOCK_DEFERRED.  This makes it
possible to implement a such a -&gt;lock() function, that works with the lock
manager, which needs the call to be asynchronous.

Now the vfs_lock_file() helper can be used, so this is a cleanup as well.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" &lt;bfields@fieldses.org&gt;
Cc: Trond Myklebust &lt;trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;matthew@wil.cx&gt;
Cc: David Teigland &lt;teigland@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&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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Allow filesystem's -&gt;lock() method to call posix_lock_file() instead of
posix_lock_file_wait(), and return FILE_LOCK_DEFERRED.  This makes it
possible to implement a such a -&gt;lock() function, that works with the lock
manager, which needs the call to be asynchronous.

Now the vfs_lock_file() helper can be used, so this is a cleanup as well.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" &lt;bfields@fieldses.org&gt;
Cc: Trond Myklebust &lt;trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;matthew@wil.cx&gt;
Cc: David Teigland &lt;teigland@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&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>locks: cleanup code duplication</title>
<updated>2008-07-25T17:53:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Miklos Szeredi</name>
<email>mszeredi@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2008-07-25T08:48:57+00:00</published>
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Extract common code into a function.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" &lt;bfields@fieldses.org&gt;
Cc: Trond Myklebust &lt;trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;matthew@wil.cx&gt;
Cc: David Teigland &lt;teigland@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&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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Extract common code into a function.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" &lt;bfields@fieldses.org&gt;
Cc: Trond Myklebust &lt;trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;matthew@wil.cx&gt;
Cc: David Teigland &lt;teigland@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&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>locks: add special return value for asynchronous locks</title>
<updated>2008-07-25T17:53:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Miklos Szeredi</name>
<email>mszeredi@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2008-07-25T08:48:57+00:00</published>
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Use a special error value FILE_LOCK_DEFERRED to mean that a locking
operation returned asynchronously.  This is returned by

  posix_lock_file() for sleeping locks to mean that the lock has been
  queued on the block list, and will be woken up when it might become
  available and needs to be retried (either fl_lmops-&gt;fl_notify() is
  called or fl_wait is woken up).

  f_op-&gt;lock() to mean either the above, or that the filesystem will
  call back with fl_lmops-&gt;fl_grant() when the result of the locking
  operation is known.  The filesystem can do this for sleeping as well
  as non-sleeping locks.

This is to make sure, that return values of -EAGAIN and -EINPROGRESS by
filesystems are not mistaken to mean an asynchronous locking.

This also makes error handling in fs/locks.c and lockd/svclock.c slightly
cleaner.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Trond Myklebust &lt;trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no&gt;
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" &lt;bfields@fieldses.org&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;matthew@wil.cx&gt;
Cc: David Teigland &lt;teigland@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&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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Use a special error value FILE_LOCK_DEFERRED to mean that a locking
operation returned asynchronously.  This is returned by

  posix_lock_file() for sleeping locks to mean that the lock has been
  queued on the block list, and will be woken up when it might become
  available and needs to be retried (either fl_lmops-&gt;fl_notify() is
  called or fl_wait is woken up).

  f_op-&gt;lock() to mean either the above, or that the filesystem will
  call back with fl_lmops-&gt;fl_grant() when the result of the locking
  operation is known.  The filesystem can do this for sleeping as well
  as non-sleeping locks.

This is to make sure, that return values of -EAGAIN and -EINPROGRESS by
filesystems are not mistaken to mean an asynchronous locking.

This also makes error handling in fs/locks.c and lockd/svclock.c slightly
cleaner.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Trond Myklebust &lt;trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no&gt;
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" &lt;bfields@fieldses.org&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;matthew@wil.cx&gt;
Cc: David Teigland &lt;teigland@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&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>[patch 4/4] flock: remove unused fields from file_lock_operations</title>
<updated>2008-06-23T15:52:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Denis V. Lunev</name>
<email>den@openvz.org</email>
</author>
<published>2008-06-09T23:40:38+00:00</published>
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fl_insert and fl_remove are not used right now in the kernel. Remove them.

Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev &lt;den@openvz.org&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;matthew@wil.cx&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" &lt;bfields@fieldses.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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fl_insert and fl_remove are not used right now in the kernel. Remove them.

Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev &lt;den@openvz.org&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;matthew@wil.cx&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" &lt;bfields@fieldses.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Add new 'cond_resched_bkl()' helper function</title>
<updated>2008-05-11T23:04:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2008-05-11T23:04:48+00:00</published>
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It acts exactly like a regular 'cond_resched()', but will not get
optimized away when CONFIG_PREEMPT is set.

Normal kernel code is already preemptable in the presense of
CONFIG_PREEMPT, so cond_resched() is optimized away (see commit
02b67cc3ba36bdba351d6c3a00593f4ec550d9d3 "sched: do not do
cond_resched() when CONFIG_PREEMPT").

But when wanting to conditionally reschedule while holding a lock, you
need to use "cond_sched_lock(lock)", and the new function is the BKL
equivalent of that.

Also make fs/locks.c use it.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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It acts exactly like a regular 'cond_resched()', but will not get
optimized away when CONFIG_PREEMPT is set.

Normal kernel code is already preemptable in the presense of
CONFIG_PREEMPT, so cond_resched() is optimized away (see commit
02b67cc3ba36bdba351d6c3a00593f4ec550d9d3 "sched: do not do
cond_resched() when CONFIG_PREEMPT").

But when wanting to conditionally reschedule while holding a lock, you
need to use "cond_sched_lock(lock)", and the new function is the BKL
equivalent of that.

Also make fs/locks.c use it.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>[PATCH] fix SMP ordering hole in fcntl_setlk()</title>
<updated>2008-05-06T17:58:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2008-05-06T17:58:34+00:00</published>
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fcntl_setlk()/close() race prevention has a subtle hole - we need to
make sure that if we *do* have an fcntl/close race on SMP box, the
access to descriptor table and inode-&gt;i_flock won't get reordered.

As it is, we get STORE inode-&gt;i_flock, LOAD descriptor table entry vs.
STORE descriptor table entry, LOAD inode-&gt;i_flock with not a single
lock in common on both sides.  We do have BKL around the first STORE,
but check in locks_remove_posix() is outside of BKL and for a good
reason - we don't want BKL on common path of close(2).

Solution is to hold -&gt;file_lock around fcheck() in there; that orders
us wrt removal from descriptor table that preceded locks_remove_posix()
on close path and we either come first (in which case eviction will be
handled by the close side) or we'll see the effect of close and do
eviction ourselves.  Note that even though it's read-only access,
we do need -&gt;file_lock here - rcu_read_lock() won't be enough to
order the things.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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fcntl_setlk()/close() race prevention has a subtle hole - we need to
make sure that if we *do* have an fcntl/close race on SMP box, the
access to descriptor table and inode-&gt;i_flock won't get reordered.

As it is, we get STORE inode-&gt;i_flock, LOAD descriptor table entry vs.
STORE descriptor table entry, LOAD inode-&gt;i_flock with not a single
lock in common on both sides.  We do have BKL around the first STORE,
but check in locks_remove_posix() is outside of BKL and for a good
reason - we don't want BKL on common path of close(2).

Solution is to hold -&gt;file_lock around fcheck() in there; that orders
us wrt removal from descriptor table that preceded locks_remove_posix()
on close path and we either come first (in which case eviction will be
handled by the close side) or we'll see the effect of close and do
eviction ourselves.  Note that even though it's read-only access,
we do need -&gt;file_lock here - rcu_read_lock() won't be enough to
order the things.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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