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<title>Merge branch 'for-2.6.39/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block</title>
<updated>2011-03-24T17:16:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2011-03-24T17:16:26+00:00</published>
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* 'for-2.6.39/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (65 commits)
  Documentation/iostats.txt: bit-size reference etc.
  cfq-iosched: removing unnecessary think time checking
  cfq-iosched: Don't clear queue stats when preempt.
  blk-throttle: Reset group slice when limits are changed
  blk-cgroup: Only give unaccounted_time under debug
  cfq-iosched: Don't set active queue in preempt
  block: fix non-atomic access to genhd inflight structures
  block: attempt to merge with existing requests on plug flush
  block: NULL dereference on error path in __blkdev_get()
  cfq-iosched: Don't update group weights when on service tree
  fs: assign sb-&gt;s_bdi to default_backing_dev_info if the bdi is going away
  block: Require subsystems to explicitly allocate bio_set integrity mempool
  jbd2: finish conversion from WRITE_SYNC_PLUG to WRITE_SYNC and explicit plugging
  jbd: finish conversion from WRITE_SYNC_PLUG to WRITE_SYNC and explicit plugging
  fs: make fsync_buffers_list() plug
  mm: make generic_writepages() use plugging
  blk-cgroup: Add unaccounted time to timeslice_used.
  block: fixup plugging stubs for !CONFIG_BLOCK
  block: remove obsolete comments for blkdev_issue_zeroout.
  blktrace: Use rq-&gt;cmd_flags directly in blk_add_trace_rq.
  ...

Fix up conflicts in fs/{aio.c,super.c}
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* 'for-2.6.39/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (65 commits)
  Documentation/iostats.txt: bit-size reference etc.
  cfq-iosched: removing unnecessary think time checking
  cfq-iosched: Don't clear queue stats when preempt.
  blk-throttle: Reset group slice when limits are changed
  blk-cgroup: Only give unaccounted_time under debug
  cfq-iosched: Don't set active queue in preempt
  block: fix non-atomic access to genhd inflight structures
  block: attempt to merge with existing requests on plug flush
  block: NULL dereference on error path in __blkdev_get()
  cfq-iosched: Don't update group weights when on service tree
  fs: assign sb-&gt;s_bdi to default_backing_dev_info if the bdi is going away
  block: Require subsystems to explicitly allocate bio_set integrity mempool
  jbd2: finish conversion from WRITE_SYNC_PLUG to WRITE_SYNC and explicit plugging
  jbd: finish conversion from WRITE_SYNC_PLUG to WRITE_SYNC and explicit plugging
  fs: make fsync_buffers_list() plug
  mm: make generic_writepages() use plugging
  blk-cgroup: Add unaccounted time to timeslice_used.
  block: fixup plugging stubs for !CONFIG_BLOCK
  block: remove obsolete comments for blkdev_issue_zeroout.
  blktrace: Use rq-&gt;cmd_flags directly in blk_add_trace_rq.
  ...

Fix up conflicts in fs/{aio.c,super.c}
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<title>block: remove per-queue plugging</title>
<updated>2011-03-10T07:52:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>jaxboe@fusionio.com</email>
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<published>2011-03-10T07:52:07+00:00</published>
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Code has been converted over to the new explicit on-stack plugging,
and delay users have been converted to use the new API for that.
So lets kill off the old plugging along with aops-&gt;sync_page().

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jaxboe@fusionio.com&gt;
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Code has been converted over to the new explicit on-stack plugging,
and delay users have been converted to use the new API for that.
So lets kill off the old plugging along with aops-&gt;sync_page().

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jaxboe@fusionio.com&gt;
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<title>sysv: i_nlink races in rename()</title>
<updated>2011-03-03T06:28:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
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<published>2011-03-02T14:38:45+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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<title>switch sysv</title>
<updated>2011-01-13T01:02:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
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<published>2010-12-18T16:16:30+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>fs: dcache reduce branches in lookup path</title>
<updated>2011-01-07T06:50:28+00:00</updated>
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<name>Nick Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@kernel.dk</email>
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<published>2011-01-07T06:49:55+00:00</published>
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Reduce some branches and memory accesses in dcache lookup by adding dentry
flags to indicate common d_ops are set, rather than having to check them.
This saves a pointer memory access (dentry-&gt;d_op) in common path lookup
situations, and saves another pointer load and branch in cases where we
have d_op but not the particular operation.

Patched with:

git grep -E '[.&gt;]([[:space:]])*d_op([[:space:]])*=' | xargs sed -e 's/\([^\t ]*\)-&gt;d_op = \(.*\);/d_set_d_op(\1, \2);/' -e 's/\([^\t ]*\)\.d_op = \(.*\);/d_set_d_op(\&amp;\1, \2);/' -i

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin &lt;npiggin@kernel.dk&gt;
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Reduce some branches and memory accesses in dcache lookup by adding dentry
flags to indicate common d_ops are set, rather than having to check them.
This saves a pointer memory access (dentry-&gt;d_op) in common path lookup
situations, and saves another pointer load and branch in cases where we
have d_op but not the particular operation.

Patched with:

git grep -E '[.&gt;]([[:space:]])*d_op([[:space:]])*=' | xargs sed -e 's/\([^\t ]*\)-&gt;d_op = \(.*\);/d_set_d_op(\1, \2);/' -e 's/\([^\t ]*\)\.d_op = \(.*\);/d_set_d_op(\&amp;\1, \2);/' -i

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin &lt;npiggin@kernel.dk&gt;
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<title>fs: icache RCU free inodes</title>
<updated>2011-01-07T06:50:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nick Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@kernel.dk</email>
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<published>2011-01-07T06:49:49+00:00</published>
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RCU free the struct inode. This will allow:

- Subsequent store-free path walking patch. The inode must be consulted for
  permissions when walking, so an RCU inode reference is a must.
- sb_inode_list_lock to be moved inside i_lock because sb list walkers who want
  to take i_lock no longer need to take sb_inode_list_lock to walk the list in
  the first place. This will simplify and optimize locking.
- Could remove some nested trylock loops in dcache code
- Could potentially simplify things a bit in VM land. Do not need to take the
  page lock to follow page-&gt;mapping.

The downsides of this is the performance cost of using RCU. In a simple
creat/unlink microbenchmark, performance drops by about 10% due to inability to
reuse cache-hot slab objects. As iterations increase and RCU freeing starts
kicking over, this increases to about 20%.

In cases where inode lifetimes are longer (ie. many inodes may be allocated
during the average life span of a single inode), a lot of this cache reuse is
not applicable, so the regression caused by this patch is smaller.

The cache-hot regression could largely be avoided by using SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU,
however this adds some complexity to list walking and store-free path walking,
so I prefer to implement this at a later date, if it is shown to be a win in
real situations. I haven't found a regression in any non-micro benchmark so I
doubt it will be a problem.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin &lt;npiggin@kernel.dk&gt;
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RCU free the struct inode. This will allow:

- Subsequent store-free path walking patch. The inode must be consulted for
  permissions when walking, so an RCU inode reference is a must.
- sb_inode_list_lock to be moved inside i_lock because sb list walkers who want
  to take i_lock no longer need to take sb_inode_list_lock to walk the list in
  the first place. This will simplify and optimize locking.
- Could remove some nested trylock loops in dcache code
- Could potentially simplify things a bit in VM land. Do not need to take the
  page lock to follow page-&gt;mapping.

The downsides of this is the performance cost of using RCU. In a simple
creat/unlink microbenchmark, performance drops by about 10% due to inability to
reuse cache-hot slab objects. As iterations increase and RCU freeing starts
kicking over, this increases to about 20%.

In cases where inode lifetimes are longer (ie. many inodes may be allocated
during the average life span of a single inode), a lot of this cache reuse is
not applicable, so the regression caused by this patch is smaller.

The cache-hot regression could largely be avoided by using SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU,
however this adds some complexity to list walking and store-free path walking,
so I prefer to implement this at a later date, if it is shown to be a win in
real situations. I haven't found a regression in any non-micro benchmark so I
doubt it will be a problem.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin &lt;npiggin@kernel.dk&gt;
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<title>fs: change d_hash for rcu-walk</title>
<updated>2011-01-07T06:50:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nick Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@kernel.dk</email>
</author>
<published>2011-01-07T06:49:28+00:00</published>
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Change d_hash so it may be called from lock-free RCU lookups. See similar
patch for d_compare for details.

For in-tree filesystems, this is just a mechanical change.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin &lt;npiggin@kernel.dk&gt;
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Change d_hash so it may be called from lock-free RCU lookups. See similar
patch for d_compare for details.

For in-tree filesystems, this is just a mechanical change.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin &lt;npiggin@kernel.dk&gt;
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<title>new helper: mount_bdev()</title>
<updated>2010-10-29T08:16:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2010-07-24T20:46:55+00:00</published>
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... and switch of the obvious get_sb_bdev() users to -&gt;mount()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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... and switch of the obvious get_sb_bdev() users to -&gt;mount()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>new helper: ihold()</title>
<updated>2010-10-26T01:26:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2010-10-23T15:11:40+00:00</published>
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Clones an existing reference to inode; caller must already hold one.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Clones an existing reference to inode; caller must already hold one.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>fs/sysv/super.c: add support for non-PDP11 v7 filesystems</title>
<updated>2010-08-11T04:24:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lubomir Rintel</name>
<email>lkundrak@v3.sk</email>
</author>
<published>2010-08-11T01:03:34+00:00</published>
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This adds byte order autodetection (of PDP-11 and LE filesystems).  No
attempt is made to detect big-endian filesystems -- were there any?
Tested with PDP-11 v7 filesystems and PC-IX maintenance floppy.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[AV: parser.h inclusion was a rudiment of discarded stuff]
Signed-off-by: Lubomir Rintel &lt;lkundrak@v3.sk&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk&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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This adds byte order autodetection (of PDP-11 and LE filesystems).  No
attempt is made to detect big-endian filesystems -- were there any?
Tested with PDP-11 v7 filesystems and PC-IX maintenance floppy.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[AV: parser.h inclusion was a rudiment of discarded stuff]
Signed-off-by: Lubomir Rintel &lt;lkundrak@v3.sk&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk&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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