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<title>kernel.git/fs/coda, branch linux-2.6.37.y</title>
<subtitle>Hosts the 0x221E linux distro kernel.
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<updated>2010-10-29T08:16:31Z</updated>
<entry>
<title>convert get_sb_nodev() users</title>
<updated>2010-10-29T08:16:31Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
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<published>2010-07-25T07:46:36Z</published>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>new helper: ihold()</title>
<updated>2010-10-26T01:26:11Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
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<published>2010-10-23T15:11:40Z</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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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Coda: replace BKL with mutex</title>
<updated>2010-10-25T15:02:40Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Yoshihisa Abe</name>
</author>
<published>2010-10-25T06:03:46Z</published>
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Replace the BKL with a mutex to protect the venus_comm structure which
binds the mountpoint with the character device and holds the upcall
queues.

Signed-off-by: Yoshihisa Abe &lt;yoshiabe@cs.cmu.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Harkes &lt;jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Coda: push BKL regions into coda_upcall()</title>
<updated>2010-10-25T15:02:40Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Yoshihisa Abe</name>
</author>
<published>2010-10-25T06:03:45Z</published>
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Now that shared inode state is locked using the cii-&gt;c_lock, the BKL is
only used to protect the upcall queues used to communicate with the
userspace cache manager. The remaining state is all local and we can
push the lock further down into coda_upcall().

Signed-off-by: Yoshihisa Abe &lt;yoshiabe@cs.cmu.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Harkes &lt;jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Coda: add spin lock to protect accesses to struct coda_inode_info.</title>
<updated>2010-10-25T15:02:40Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Yoshihisa Abe</name>
</author>
<published>2010-10-25T06:03:44Z</published>
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We mostly need it to protect cached user permissions. The c_flags field
is advisory, reading the wrong value is harmless and in the worst case
we hit a slow path where we have to make an extra upcall to the
userspace cache manager when revalidating a dentry or inode.

Signed-off-by: Yoshihisa Abe &lt;yoshiabe@cs.cmu.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Harkes &lt;jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'llseek' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/bkl</title>
<updated>2010-10-22T17:52:56Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
</author>
<published>2010-10-22T17:52:56Z</published>
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* 'llseek' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/bkl:
  vfs: make no_llseek the default
  vfs: don't use BKL in default_llseek
  llseek: automatically add .llseek fop
  libfs: use generic_file_llseek for simple_attr
  mac80211: disallow seeks in minstrel debug code
  lirc: make chardev nonseekable
  viotape: use noop_llseek
  raw: use explicit llseek file operations
  ibmasmfs: use generic_file_llseek
  spufs: use llseek in all file operations
  arm/omap: use generic_file_llseek in iommu_debug
  lkdtm: use generic_file_llseek in debugfs
  net/wireless: use generic_file_llseek in debugfs
  drm: use noop_llseek
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<entry>
<title>llseek: automatically add .llseek fop</title>
<updated>2010-10-15T13:53:27Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
</author>
<published>2010-08-15T16:52:59Z</published>
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All file_operations should get a .llseek operation so we can make
nonseekable_open the default for future file operations without a
.llseek pointer.

The three cases that we can automatically detect are no_llseek, seq_lseek
and default_llseek. For cases where we can we can automatically prove that
the file offset is always ignored, we use noop_llseek, which maintains
the current behavior of not returning an error from a seek.

New drivers should normally not use noop_llseek but instead use no_llseek
and call nonseekable_open at open time.  Existing drivers can be converted
to do the same when the maintainer knows for certain that no user code
relies on calling seek on the device file.

The generated code is often incorrectly indented and right now contains
comments that clarify for each added line why a specific variant was
chosen. In the version that gets submitted upstream, the comments will
be gone and I will manually fix the indentation, because there does not
seem to be a way to do that using coccinelle.

Some amount of new code is currently sitting in linux-next that should get
the same modifications, which I will do at the end of the merge window.

Many thanks to Julia Lawall for helping me learn to write a semantic
patch that does all this.

===== begin semantic patch =====
// This adds an llseek= method to all file operations,
// as a preparation for making no_llseek the default.
//
// The rules are
// - use no_llseek explicitly if we do nonseekable_open
// - use seq_lseek for sequential files
// - use default_llseek if we know we access f_pos
// - use noop_llseek if we know we don't access f_pos,
//   but we still want to allow users to call lseek
//
@ open1 exists @
identifier nested_open;
@@
nested_open(...)
{
&lt;+...
nonseekable_open(...)
...+&gt;
}

@ open exists@
identifier open_f;
identifier i, f;
identifier open1.nested_open;
@@
int open_f(struct inode *i, struct file *f)
{
&lt;+...
(
nonseekable_open(...)
|
nested_open(...)
)
...+&gt;
}

@ read disable optional_qualifier exists @
identifier read_f;
identifier f, p, s, off;
type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
expression E;
identifier func;
@@
ssize_t read_f(struct file *f, char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
{
&lt;+...
(
   *off = E
|
   *off += E
|
   func(..., off, ...)
|
   E = *off
)
...+&gt;
}

@ read_no_fpos disable optional_qualifier exists @
identifier read_f;
identifier f, p, s, off;
type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
@@
ssize_t read_f(struct file *f, char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
{
... when != off
}

@ write @
identifier write_f;
identifier f, p, s, off;
type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
expression E;
identifier func;
@@
ssize_t write_f(struct file *f, const char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
{
&lt;+...
(
  *off = E
|
  *off += E
|
  func(..., off, ...)
|
  E = *off
)
...+&gt;
}

@ write_no_fpos @
identifier write_f;
identifier f, p, s, off;
type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
@@
ssize_t write_f(struct file *f, const char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
{
... when != off
}

@ fops0 @
identifier fops;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
 ...
};

@ has_llseek depends on fops0 @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier llseek_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
 .llseek = llseek_f,
...
};

@ has_read depends on fops0 @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier read_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
 .read = read_f,
...
};

@ has_write depends on fops0 @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier write_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
 .write = write_f,
...
};

@ has_open depends on fops0 @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier open_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
 .open = open_f,
...
};

// use no_llseek if we call nonseekable_open
////////////////////////////////////////////
@ nonseekable1 depends on !has_llseek &amp;&amp; has_open @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier nso ~= "nonseekable_open";
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...  .open = nso, ...
+.llseek = no_llseek, /* nonseekable */
};

@ nonseekable2 depends on !has_llseek @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier open.open_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...  .open = open_f, ...
+.llseek = no_llseek, /* open uses nonseekable */
};

// use seq_lseek for sequential files
/////////////////////////////////////
@ seq depends on !has_llseek @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier sr ~= "seq_read";
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...  .read = sr, ...
+.llseek = seq_lseek, /* we have seq_read */
};

// use default_llseek if there is a readdir
///////////////////////////////////////////
@ fops1 depends on !has_llseek &amp;&amp; !nonseekable1 &amp;&amp; !nonseekable2 &amp;&amp; !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier readdir_e;
@@
// any other fop is used that changes pos
struct file_operations fops = {
... .readdir = readdir_e, ...
+.llseek = default_llseek, /* readdir is present */
};

// use default_llseek if at least one of read/write touches f_pos
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
@ fops2 depends on !fops1 &amp;&amp; !has_llseek &amp;&amp; !nonseekable1 &amp;&amp; !nonseekable2 &amp;&amp; !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier read.read_f;
@@
// read fops use offset
struct file_operations fops = {
... .read = read_f, ...
+.llseek = default_llseek, /* read accesses f_pos */
};

@ fops3 depends on !fops1 &amp;&amp; !fops2 &amp;&amp; !has_llseek &amp;&amp; !nonseekable1 &amp;&amp; !nonseekable2 &amp;&amp; !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier write.write_f;
@@
// write fops use offset
struct file_operations fops = {
... .write = write_f, ...
+	.llseek = default_llseek, /* write accesses f_pos */
};

// Use noop_llseek if neither read nor write accesses f_pos
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

@ fops4 depends on !fops1 &amp;&amp; !fops2 &amp;&amp; !fops3 &amp;&amp; !has_llseek &amp;&amp; !nonseekable1 &amp;&amp; !nonseekable2 &amp;&amp; !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier read_no_fpos.read_f;
identifier write_no_fpos.write_f;
@@
// write fops use offset
struct file_operations fops = {
...
 .write = write_f,
 .read = read_f,
...
+.llseek = noop_llseek, /* read and write both use no f_pos */
};

@ depends on has_write &amp;&amp; !has_read &amp;&amp; !fops1 &amp;&amp; !fops2 &amp;&amp; !has_llseek &amp;&amp; !nonseekable1 &amp;&amp; !nonseekable2 &amp;&amp; !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier write_no_fpos.write_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
... .write = write_f, ...
+.llseek = noop_llseek, /* write uses no f_pos */
};

@ depends on has_read &amp;&amp; !has_write &amp;&amp; !fops1 &amp;&amp; !fops2 &amp;&amp; !has_llseek &amp;&amp; !nonseekable1 &amp;&amp; !nonseekable2 &amp;&amp; !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier read_no_fpos.read_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
... .read = read_f, ...
+.llseek = noop_llseek, /* read uses no f_pos */
};

@ depends on !has_read &amp;&amp; !has_write &amp;&amp; !fops1 &amp;&amp; !fops2 &amp;&amp; !has_llseek &amp;&amp; !nonseekable1 &amp;&amp; !nonseekable2 &amp;&amp; !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
+.llseek = noop_llseek, /* no read or write fn */
};
===== End semantic patch =====

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Julia Lawall &lt;julia@diku.dk&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>BKL: Explicitly add BKL around get_sb/fill_super</title>
<updated>2010-10-04T19:10:10Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Blunck</name>
</author>
<published>2010-08-15T20:51:10Z</published>
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This patch is a preparation necessary to remove the BKL from do_new_mount().
It explicitly adds calls to lock_kernel()/unlock_kernel() around
get_sb/fill_super operations for filesystems that still uses the BKL.

I've read through all the code formerly covered by the BKL inside
do_kern_mount() and have satisfied myself that it doesn't need the BKL
any more.

do_kern_mount() is already called without the BKL when mounting the rootfs
and in nfsctl. do_kern_mount() calls vfs_kern_mount(), which is called
from various places without BKL: simple_pin_fs(), nfs_do_clone_mount()
through nfs_follow_mountpoint(), afs_mntpt_do_automount() through
afs_mntpt_follow_link(). Both later functions are actually the filesystems
follow_link inode operation. vfs_kern_mount() is calling the specified
get_sb function and lets the filesystem do its job by calling the given
fill_super function.

Therefore I think it is safe to push down the BKL from the VFS to the
low-level filesystems get_sb/fill_super operation.

[arnd: do not add the BKL to those file systems that already
       don't use it elsewhere]

Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck &lt;jblunck@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;matthew@wil.cx&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Coda: mount hangs because of missed REQ_WRITE rename</title>
<updated>2010-09-19T18:03:09Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Harkes</name>
</author>
<published>2010-09-18T03:26:01Z</published>
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Coda's REQ_* defines were renamed to avoid clashes with the block layer
(commit 4aeefdc69f7b: "coda: fixup clash with block layer REQ_*
defines").

However one was missed and response messages are no longer matched with
requests and waiting threads are no longer woken up.  This patch fixes
this.

Signed-off-by: Jan Harkes &lt;jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu&gt;
[ Also fixed up whitespace while at it  -Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-2.6.36' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block</title>
<updated>2010-08-10T22:22:42Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
</author>
<published>2010-08-10T22:22:42Z</published>
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* 'for-2.6.36' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (149 commits)
  block: make sure that REQ_* types are seen even with CONFIG_BLOCK=n
  xen-blkfront: fix missing out label
  blkdev: fix blkdev_issue_zeroout return value
  block: update request stacking methods to support discards
  block: fix missing export of blk_types.h
  writeback: fix bad _bh spinlock nesting
  drbd: revert "delay probes", feature is being re-implemented differently
  drbd: Initialize all members of sync_conf to their defaults [Bugz 315]
  drbd: Disable delay probes for the upcomming release
  writeback: cleanup bdi_register
  writeback: add new tracepoints
  writeback: remove unnecessary init_timer call
  writeback: optimize periodic bdi thread wakeups
  writeback: prevent unnecessary bdi threads wakeups
  writeback: move bdi threads exiting logic to the forker thread
  writeback: restructure bdi forker loop a little
  writeback: move last_active to bdi
  writeback: do not remove bdi from bdi_list
  writeback: simplify bdi code a little
  writeback: do not lose wake-ups in bdi threads
  ...

Fixed up pretty trivial conflicts in drivers/block/virtio_blk.c and
drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c as per Jens.
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