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<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2014-04-12T21:49:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-12T21:49:50+00:00</published>
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Pull vfs updates from Al Viro:
 "The first vfs pile, with deep apologies for being very late in this
  window.

  Assorted cleanups and fixes, plus a large preparatory part of iov_iter
  work.  There's a lot more of that, but it'll probably go into the next
  merge window - it *does* shape up nicely, removes a lot of
  boilerplate, gets rid of locking inconsistencie between aio_write and
  splice_write and I hope to get Kent's direct-io rewrite merged into
  the same queue, but some of the stuff after this point is having
  (mostly trivial) conflicts with the things already merged into
  mainline and with some I want more testing.

  This one passes LTP and xfstests without regressions, in addition to
  usual beating.  BTW, readahead02 in ltp syscalls testsuite has started
  giving failures since "mm/readahead.c: fix readahead failure for
  memoryless NUMA nodes and limit readahead pages" - might be a false
  positive, might be a real regression..."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (63 commits)
  missing bits of "splice: fix racy pipe-&gt;buffers uses"
  cifs: fix the race in cifs_writev()
  ceph_sync_{,direct_}write: fix an oops on ceph_osdc_new_request() failure
  kill generic_file_buffered_write()
  ocfs2_file_aio_write(): switch to generic_perform_write()
  ceph_aio_write(): switch to generic_perform_write()
  xfs_file_buffered_aio_write(): switch to generic_perform_write()
  export generic_perform_write(), start getting rid of generic_file_buffer_write()
  generic_file_direct_write(): get rid of ppos argument
  btrfs_file_aio_write(): get rid of ppos
  kill the 5th argument of generic_file_buffered_write()
  kill the 4th argument of __generic_file_aio_write()
  lustre: don't open-code kernel_recvmsg()
  ocfs2: don't open-code kernel_recvmsg()
  drbd: don't open-code kernel_recvmsg()
  constify blk_rq_map_user_iov() and friends
  lustre: switch to kernel_sendmsg()
  ocfs2: don't open-code kernel_sendmsg()
  take iov_iter stuff to mm/iov_iter.c
  process_vm_access: tidy up a bit
  ...
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Pull vfs updates from Al Viro:
 "The first vfs pile, with deep apologies for being very late in this
  window.

  Assorted cleanups and fixes, plus a large preparatory part of iov_iter
  work.  There's a lot more of that, but it'll probably go into the next
  merge window - it *does* shape up nicely, removes a lot of
  boilerplate, gets rid of locking inconsistencie between aio_write and
  splice_write and I hope to get Kent's direct-io rewrite merged into
  the same queue, but some of the stuff after this point is having
  (mostly trivial) conflicts with the things already merged into
  mainline and with some I want more testing.

  This one passes LTP and xfstests without regressions, in addition to
  usual beating.  BTW, readahead02 in ltp syscalls testsuite has started
  giving failures since "mm/readahead.c: fix readahead failure for
  memoryless NUMA nodes and limit readahead pages" - might be a false
  positive, might be a real regression..."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (63 commits)
  missing bits of "splice: fix racy pipe-&gt;buffers uses"
  cifs: fix the race in cifs_writev()
  ceph_sync_{,direct_}write: fix an oops on ceph_osdc_new_request() failure
  kill generic_file_buffered_write()
  ocfs2_file_aio_write(): switch to generic_perform_write()
  ceph_aio_write(): switch to generic_perform_write()
  xfs_file_buffered_aio_write(): switch to generic_perform_write()
  export generic_perform_write(), start getting rid of generic_file_buffer_write()
  generic_file_direct_write(): get rid of ppos argument
  btrfs_file_aio_write(): get rid of ppos
  kill the 5th argument of generic_file_buffered_write()
  kill the 4th argument of __generic_file_aio_write()
  lustre: don't open-code kernel_recvmsg()
  ocfs2: don't open-code kernel_recvmsg()
  drbd: don't open-code kernel_recvmsg()
  constify blk_rq_map_user_iov() and friends
  lustre: switch to kernel_sendmsg()
  ocfs2: don't open-code kernel_sendmsg()
  take iov_iter stuff to mm/iov_iter.c
  process_vm_access: tidy up a bit
  ...
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<entry>
<title>ntfs: logging clean-up</title>
<updated>2014-04-07T23:35:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Fabian Frederick</name>
<email>fabf@skynet.be</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-07T22:36:53+00:00</published>
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- Convert spinlock/static array to va_format (inspired by Joe Perches
  help on previous logging patches).

- Convert printk(KERN_ERR to pr_warn in __ntfs_warning.

- Convert printk(KERN_ERR to pr_err in __ntfs_error.

- Convert printk(KERN_DEBUG to pr_debug in __ntfs_debug.  (Note that
  __ntfs_debug is still guarded by #if DEBUG)

- Improve !DEBUG to parse all arguments (Joe Perches).

- Sparse pr_foo() conversions in super.c

NTFS, NTFS-fs prefixes as well as 'warning' and 'error' were removed :
pr_foo() automatically adds module name and error level is already
specified.

Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick &lt;fabf@skynet.be&gt;
Cc: Anton Altaparmakov &lt;anton@tuxera.com&gt;
Cc: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&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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- Convert spinlock/static array to va_format (inspired by Joe Perches
  help on previous logging patches).

- Convert printk(KERN_ERR to pr_warn in __ntfs_warning.

- Convert printk(KERN_ERR to pr_err in __ntfs_error.

- Convert printk(KERN_DEBUG to pr_debug in __ntfs_debug.  (Note that
  __ntfs_debug is still guarded by #if DEBUG)

- Improve !DEBUG to parse all arguments (Joe Perches).

- Sparse pr_foo() conversions in super.c

NTFS, NTFS-fs prefixes as well as 'warning' and 'error' were removed :
pr_foo() automatically adds module name and error level is already
specified.

Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick &lt;fabf@skynet.be&gt;
Cc: Anton Altaparmakov &lt;anton@tuxera.com&gt;
Cc: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&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>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4</title>
<updated>2014-04-04T22:39:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-04T22:39:39+00:00</published>
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Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:
 "Major changes for 3.14 include support for the newly added ZERO_RANGE
  and COLLAPSE_RANGE fallocate operations, and scalability improvements
  in the jbd2 layer and in xattr handling when the extended attributes
  spill over into an external block.

  Other than that, the usual clean ups and minor bug fixes"

* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (42 commits)
  ext4: fix premature freeing of partial clusters split across leaf blocks
  ext4: remove unneeded test of ret variable
  ext4: fix comment typo
  ext4: make ext4_block_zero_page_range static
  ext4: atomically set inode-&gt;i_flags in ext4_set_inode_flags()
  ext4: optimize Hurd tests when reading/writing inodes
  ext4: kill i_version support for Hurd-castrated file systems
  ext4: each filesystem creates and uses its own mb_cache
  fs/mbcache.c: doucple the locking of local from global data
  fs/mbcache.c: change block and index hash chain to hlist_bl_node
  ext4: Introduce FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE flag for fallocate
  ext4: refactor ext4_fallocate code
  ext4: Update inode i_size after the preallocation
  ext4: fix partial cluster handling for bigalloc file systems
  ext4: delete path dealloc code in ext4_ext_handle_uninitialized_extents
  ext4: only call sync_filesystm() when remounting read-only
  fs: push sync_filesystem() down to the file system's remount_fs()
  jbd2: improve error messages for inconsistent journal heads
  jbd2: minimize region locked by j_list_lock in jbd2_journal_forget()
  jbd2: minimize region locked by j_list_lock in journal_get_create_access()
  ...
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Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:
 "Major changes for 3.14 include support for the newly added ZERO_RANGE
  and COLLAPSE_RANGE fallocate operations, and scalability improvements
  in the jbd2 layer and in xattr handling when the extended attributes
  spill over into an external block.

  Other than that, the usual clean ups and minor bug fixes"

* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (42 commits)
  ext4: fix premature freeing of partial clusters split across leaf blocks
  ext4: remove unneeded test of ret variable
  ext4: fix comment typo
  ext4: make ext4_block_zero_page_range static
  ext4: atomically set inode-&gt;i_flags in ext4_set_inode_flags()
  ext4: optimize Hurd tests when reading/writing inodes
  ext4: kill i_version support for Hurd-castrated file systems
  ext4: each filesystem creates and uses its own mb_cache
  fs/mbcache.c: doucple the locking of local from global data
  fs/mbcache.c: change block and index hash chain to hlist_bl_node
  ext4: Introduce FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE flag for fallocate
  ext4: refactor ext4_fallocate code
  ext4: Update inode i_size after the preallocation
  ext4: fix partial cluster handling for bigalloc file systems
  ext4: delete path dealloc code in ext4_ext_handle_uninitialized_extents
  ext4: only call sync_filesystm() when remounting read-only
  fs: push sync_filesystem() down to the file system's remount_fs()
  jbd2: improve error messages for inconsistent journal heads
  jbd2: minimize region locked by j_list_lock in jbd2_journal_forget()
  jbd2: minimize region locked by j_list_lock in journal_get_create_access()
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm + fs: store shadow entries in page cache</title>
<updated>2014-04-03T23:21:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Weiner</name>
<email>hannes@cmpxchg.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-03T21:47:49+00:00</published>
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Reclaim will be leaving shadow entries in the page cache radix tree upon
evicting the real page.  As those pages are found from the LRU, an
iput() can lead to the inode being freed concurrently.  At this point,
reclaim must no longer install shadow pages because the inode freeing
code needs to ensure the page tree is really empty.

Add an address_space flag, AS_EXITING, that the inode freeing code sets
under the tree lock before doing the final truncate.  Reclaim will check
for this flag before installing shadow pages.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Bob Liu &lt;bob.liu@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Dave Chinner &lt;david@fromorbit.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Thelen &lt;gthelen@google.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Luigi Semenzato &lt;semenzato@google.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Metin Doslu &lt;metin@citusdata.com&gt;
Cc: Michel Lespinasse &lt;walken@google.com&gt;
Cc: Ozgun Erdogan &lt;ozgun@citusdata.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Roman Gushchin &lt;klamm@yandex-team.ru&gt;
Cc: Ryan Mallon &lt;rmallon@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&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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Reclaim will be leaving shadow entries in the page cache radix tree upon
evicting the real page.  As those pages are found from the LRU, an
iput() can lead to the inode being freed concurrently.  At this point,
reclaim must no longer install shadow pages because the inode freeing
code needs to ensure the page tree is really empty.

Add an address_space flag, AS_EXITING, that the inode freeing code sets
under the tree lock before doing the final truncate.  Reclaim will check
for this flag before installing shadow pages.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Bob Liu &lt;bob.liu@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Dave Chinner &lt;david@fromorbit.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Thelen &lt;gthelen@google.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Luigi Semenzato &lt;semenzato@google.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Metin Doslu &lt;metin@citusdata.com&gt;
Cc: Michel Lespinasse &lt;walken@google.com&gt;
Cc: Ozgun Erdogan &lt;ozgun@citusdata.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Roman Gushchin &lt;klamm@yandex-team.ru&gt;
Cc: Ryan Mallon &lt;rmallon@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&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>
<entry>
<title>ntfs: don't put NULL into -&gt;i_op/-&gt;i_fop</title>
<updated>2014-04-02T03:19:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2014-02-01T09:41:36+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>
<entry>
<title>fs: push sync_filesystem() down to the file system's remount_fs()</title>
<updated>2014-03-13T14:14:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-13T14:14:33+00:00</published>
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Previously, the no-op "mount -o mount /dev/xxx" operation when the
file system is already mounted read-write causes an implied,
unconditional syncfs().  This seems pretty stupid, and it's certainly
documented or guaraunteed to do this, nor is it particularly useful,
except in the case where the file system was mounted rw and is getting
remounted read-only.

However, it's possible that there might be some file systems that are
actually depending on this behavior.  In most file systems, it's
probably fine to only call sync_filesystem() when transitioning from
read-write to read-only, and there are some file systems where this is
not needed at all (for example, for a pseudo-filesystem or something
like romfs).

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Artem Bityutskiy &lt;dedekind1@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Evgeniy Dushistov &lt;dushistov@mail.ru&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi &lt;hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp&gt;
Cc: Anders Larsen &lt;al@alarsen.net&gt;
Cc: Phillip Lougher &lt;phillip@squashfs.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz&gt;
Cc: Petr Vandrovec &lt;petr@vandrovec.name&gt;
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: samba-technical@lists.samba.org
Cc: codalist@coda.cs.cmu.edu
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: fuse-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: cluster-devel@redhat.com
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Cc: jfs-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-nilfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-ntfs-dev@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com
Cc: reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org
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Previously, the no-op "mount -o mount /dev/xxx" operation when the
file system is already mounted read-write causes an implied,
unconditional syncfs().  This seems pretty stupid, and it's certainly
documented or guaraunteed to do this, nor is it particularly useful,
except in the case where the file system was mounted rw and is getting
remounted read-only.

However, it's possible that there might be some file systems that are
actually depending on this behavior.  In most file systems, it's
probably fine to only call sync_filesystem() when transitioning from
read-write to read-only, and there are some file systems where this is
not needed at all (for example, for a pseudo-filesystem or something
like romfs).

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Artem Bityutskiy &lt;dedekind1@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Evgeniy Dushistov &lt;dushistov@mail.ru&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi &lt;hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp&gt;
Cc: Anders Larsen &lt;al@alarsen.net&gt;
Cc: Phillip Lougher &lt;phillip@squashfs.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz&gt;
Cc: Petr Vandrovec &lt;petr@vandrovec.name&gt;
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: samba-technical@lists.samba.org
Cc: codalist@coda.cs.cmu.edu
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: fuse-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: cluster-devel@redhat.com
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Cc: jfs-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-nilfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-ntfs-dev@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com
Cc: reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>fix O_SYNC|O_APPEND syncing the wrong range on write()</title>
<updated>2014-02-09T20:18:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2014-02-09T20:18:09+00:00</published>
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It actually goes back to 2004 ([PATCH] Concurrent O_SYNC write support)
when sync_page_range() had been introduced; generic_file_write{,v}() correctly
synced
	pos_after_write - written .. pos_after_write - 1
but generic_file_aio_write() synced
	pos_before_write .. pos_before_write + written - 1
instead.  Which is not the same thing with O_APPEND, obviously.
A couple of years later correct variant had been killed off when
everything switched to use of generic_file_aio_write().

All users of generic_file_aio_write() are affected, and the same bug
has been copied into other instances of -&gt;aio_write().

The fix is trivial; the only subtle point is that generic_write_sync()
ought to be inlined to avoid calculations useless for the majority of
calls.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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It actually goes back to 2004 ([PATCH] Concurrent O_SYNC write support)
when sync_page_range() had been introduced; generic_file_write{,v}() correctly
synced
	pos_after_write - written .. pos_after_write - 1
but generic_file_aio_write() synced
	pos_before_write .. pos_before_write + written - 1
instead.  Which is not the same thing with O_APPEND, obviously.
A couple of years later correct variant had been killed off when
everything switched to use of generic_file_aio_write().

All users of generic_file_aio_write() are affected, and the same bug
has been copied into other instances of -&gt;aio_write().

The fix is trivial; the only subtle point is that generic_write_sync()
ought to be inlined to avoid calculations useless for the majority of
calls.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>iget/iget5: don't bother with -&gt;i_lock until we find a match</title>
<updated>2013-11-09T05:16:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2013-11-06T14:54:52+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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<title>truncate: drop 'oldsize' truncate_pagecache() parameter</title>
<updated>2013-09-12T22:38:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kirill A. Shutemov</name>
<email>kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-09-12T22:13:56+00:00</published>
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truncate_pagecache() doesn't care about old size since commit
cedabed49b39 ("vfs: Fix vmtruncate() regression").  Let's drop it.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi &lt;hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp&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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truncate_pagecache() doesn't care about old size since commit
cedabed49b39 ("vfs: Fix vmtruncate() regression").  Let's drop it.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi &lt;hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp&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>Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4</title>
<updated>2013-07-02T16:39:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-02T16:39:34+00:00</published>
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Pull ext4 update from Ted Ts'o:
 "Lots of bug fixes, cleanups and optimizations.  In the bug fixes
  category, of note is a fix for on-line resizing file systems where the
  block size is smaller than the page size (i.e., file systems 1k blocks
  on x86, or more interestingly file systems with 4k blocks on Power or
  ia64 systems.)

  In the cleanup category, the ext4's punch hole implementation was
  significantly improved by Lukas Czerner, and now supports bigalloc
  file systems.  In addition, Jan Kara significantly cleaned up the
  write submission code path.  We also improved error checking and added
  a few sanity checks.

  In the optimizations category, two major optimizations deserve
  mention.  The first is that ext4_writepages() is now used for
  nodelalloc and ext3 compatibility mode.  This allows writes to be
  submitted much more efficiently as a single bio request, instead of
  being sent as individual 4k writes into the block layer (which then
  relied on the elevator code to coalesce the requests in the block
  queue).  Secondly, the extent cache shrink mechanism, which was
  introduce in 3.9, no longer has a scalability bottleneck caused by the
  i_es_lru spinlock.  Other optimizations include some changes to reduce
  CPU usage and to avoid issuing empty commits unnecessarily."

* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (86 commits)
  ext4: optimize starting extent in ext4_ext_rm_leaf()
  jbd2: invalidate handle if jbd2_journal_restart() fails
  ext4: translate flag bits to strings in tracepoints
  ext4: fix up error handling for mpage_map_and_submit_extent()
  jbd2: fix theoretical race in jbd2__journal_restart
  ext4: only zero partial blocks in ext4_zero_partial_blocks()
  ext4: check error return from ext4_write_inline_data_end()
  ext4: delete unnecessary C statements
  ext3,ext4: don't mess with dir_file-&gt;f_pos in htree_dirblock_to_tree()
  jbd2: move superblock checksum calculation to jbd2_write_superblock()
  ext4: pass inode pointer instead of file pointer to punch hole
  ext4: improve free space calculation for inline_data
  ext4: reduce object size when !CONFIG_PRINTK
  ext4: improve extent cache shrink mechanism to avoid to burn CPU time
  ext4: implement error handling of ext4_mb_new_preallocation()
  ext4: fix corruption when online resizing a fs with 1K block size
  ext4: delete unused variables
  ext4: return FIEMAP_EXTENT_UNKNOWN for delalloc extents
  jbd2: remove debug dependency on debug_fs and update Kconfig help text
  jbd2: use a single printk for jbd_debug()
  ...
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Pull ext4 update from Ted Ts'o:
 "Lots of bug fixes, cleanups and optimizations.  In the bug fixes
  category, of note is a fix for on-line resizing file systems where the
  block size is smaller than the page size (i.e., file systems 1k blocks
  on x86, or more interestingly file systems with 4k blocks on Power or
  ia64 systems.)

  In the cleanup category, the ext4's punch hole implementation was
  significantly improved by Lukas Czerner, and now supports bigalloc
  file systems.  In addition, Jan Kara significantly cleaned up the
  write submission code path.  We also improved error checking and added
  a few sanity checks.

  In the optimizations category, two major optimizations deserve
  mention.  The first is that ext4_writepages() is now used for
  nodelalloc and ext3 compatibility mode.  This allows writes to be
  submitted much more efficiently as a single bio request, instead of
  being sent as individual 4k writes into the block layer (which then
  relied on the elevator code to coalesce the requests in the block
  queue).  Secondly, the extent cache shrink mechanism, which was
  introduce in 3.9, no longer has a scalability bottleneck caused by the
  i_es_lru spinlock.  Other optimizations include some changes to reduce
  CPU usage and to avoid issuing empty commits unnecessarily."

* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (86 commits)
  ext4: optimize starting extent in ext4_ext_rm_leaf()
  jbd2: invalidate handle if jbd2_journal_restart() fails
  ext4: translate flag bits to strings in tracepoints
  ext4: fix up error handling for mpage_map_and_submit_extent()
  jbd2: fix theoretical race in jbd2__journal_restart
  ext4: only zero partial blocks in ext4_zero_partial_blocks()
  ext4: check error return from ext4_write_inline_data_end()
  ext4: delete unnecessary C statements
  ext3,ext4: don't mess with dir_file-&gt;f_pos in htree_dirblock_to_tree()
  jbd2: move superblock checksum calculation to jbd2_write_superblock()
  ext4: pass inode pointer instead of file pointer to punch hole
  ext4: improve free space calculation for inline_data
  ext4: reduce object size when !CONFIG_PRINTK
  ext4: improve extent cache shrink mechanism to avoid to burn CPU time
  ext4: implement error handling of ext4_mb_new_preallocation()
  ext4: fix corruption when online resizing a fs with 1K block size
  ext4: delete unused variables
  ext4: return FIEMAP_EXTENT_UNKNOWN for delalloc extents
  jbd2: remove debug dependency on debug_fs and update Kconfig help text
  jbd2: use a single printk for jbd_debug()
  ...
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