kernel.git/include/linux/fs.h, branch linux-2.6.21.y

[PATCH] Mark struct super_operations const

2007-02-12T17:48:47Z

This patch is inspired by Arjan's "Patch series to mark struct file_operations and struct inode_operations const". Compile tested with gcc & sparse. Signed-off-by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] mark struct inode_operations const 3

2007-02-12T17:48:46Z

Many struct inode_operations in the kernel can be "const". Marking them const moves these to the .rodata section, which avoids false sharing with potential dirty data. In addition it'll catch accidental writes at compile time to these shared resources. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] move remove_dquot_ref to dqout.c

2007-02-12T17:48:28Z

Remove_dquot_ref can move to dqout.c instead of beeing in inode.c under #ifdef CONFIG_QUOTA. Also clean the resulting code up a tiny little bit by testing sb->dq_op earlier - it's constant over a filesystems lifetime. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] remove invalidate_inode_pages()

2007-02-11T18:51:31Z

Convert all calls to invalidate_inode_pages() into open-coded calls to invalidate_mapping_pages(). Leave the invalidate_inode_pages() wrapper in place for now, marked as deprecated. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] Export invalidate_mapping_pages() to modules

2007-02-11T18:51:30Z

It makes no sense to me to export invalidate_inode_pages() and not invalidate_mapping_pages() and I actually need invalidate_mapping_pages() because of its range specification ability... akpm: also remove the export of invalidate_inode_pages() by making it an inlined wrapper. Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] avoid one conditional branch in touch_atime()

2007-02-11T18:51:25Z

I added IS_NOATIME(inode) macro definition in include/linux/fs.h, true if the inode superblock is marked readonly or noatime. This new macro is then used in touch_atime() instead of separatly testing MS_RDONLY and MS_NOATIME Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] Revert bd_mount_mutex back to a semaphore

2007-01-12T02:18:21Z

Revert bd_mount_mutex back to a semaphore so that xfs_freeze -f /mnt/newtest; xfs_freeze -u /mnt/newtest works safely and doesn't produce lockdep warnings. (XFS unlocks the semaphore from a different task, by design. The mutex code warns about this) Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner Cc: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] NFS: Fix race in nfs_release_page()

2007-01-12T02:18:21Z

NFS: Fix race in nfs_release_page() invalidate_inode_pages2() may find the dirty bit has been set on a page owing to the fact that the page may still be mapped after it was locked. Only after the call to unmap_mapping_range() are we sure that the page can no longer be dirtied. In order to fix this, NFS has hooked the releasepage() method and tries to write the page out between the call to unmap_mapping_range() and the call to remove_mapping(). This, however leads to deadlocks in the page reclaim code, where the page may be locked without holding a reference to the inode or dentry. Fix is to add a new address_space_operation, launder_page(), which will attempt to write out a dirty page without releasing the page lock. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust Also, the bare SetPageDirty() can skew all sort of accounting leading to other nasties. [akpm@osdl.org: cleanup] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Trond Myklebust Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] relative atime

2006-12-13T17:05:50Z

Add "relatime" (relative atime) support. Relative atime only updates the atime if the previous atime is older than the mtime or ctime. Like noatime, but useful for applications like mutt that need to know when a file has been read since it was last modified. A corresponding patch against mount(8) is available at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mount-relative-atime.txt Signed-off-by: Valerie Henson Cc: Mark Fasheh Cc: Al Viro Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Karel Zak Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] VFS: change struct file to use struct path

2006-12-08T16:28:41Z

This patch changes struct file to use struct path instead of having independent pointers to struct dentry and struct vfsmount, and converts all users of f_{dentry,vfsmnt} in fs/ to use f_path.{dentry,mnt}. Additionally, it adds two #define's to make the transition easier for users of the f_dentry and f_vfsmnt. Signed-off-by: Josef "Jeff" Sipek Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds