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Linus Torvalds 8e9d208972 Merge branch 'bkl-removal' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6
* 'bkl-removal' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6:
  Rationalize fasync return values
  Move FASYNC bit handling to f_op->fasync()
  Use f_lock to protect f_flags
  Rename struct file->f_ep_lock
2009-03-26 16:14:02 -07:00
Jody McIntyre 1db4b2d221 trivial: fix orphan dates in ext2 documentation
Revert the change to the orphan dates of Windows 95, DOS, compression.
Add a new orphan date for OS/2.

Signed-off-by: Jody McIntyre <scjody@sun.com>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-03-23 14:21:26 -07:00
Linus Torvalds d56ffd38a9 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (32 commits)
  ucc_geth: Fix oops when using fixed-link support
  dm9000: locking bugfix
  net: update dnet.c for bus_id removal
  dnet: DNET should depend on HAS_IOMEM
  dca: add missing copyright/license headers
  nl80211: Check that function pointer != NULL before using it
  sungem: missing net_device_ops
  be2net: fix to restore vlan ids into BE2 during a IF DOWN->UP cycle
  be2net: replenish when posting to rx-queue is starved in out of mem conditions
  bas_gigaset: correctly allocate USB interrupt transfer buffer
  smsc911x: reset last known duplex and carrier on open
  sh_eth: Fix mistake of the address of SH7763
  sh_eth: Change handling of IRQ
  netns: oops in ip[6]_frag_reasm incrementing stats
  net: kfree(napi->skb) => kfree_skb
  net: fix sctp breakage
  ipv6: fix display of local and remote sit endpoints
  net: Document /proc/sys/net/core/netdev_budget
  tulip: fix crash on iface up with shirq debug
  virtio_net: Make virtio_net support carrier detection
  ...
2009-03-23 09:25:58 -07:00
Stanislaw Gruszka e9c6a586f5 net: Document /proc/sys/net/core/netdev_budget
The NAPI poll parameter netdev_budget is not documented in
kernel-docs. Since it may have a substantial effect on at least some
network loads, it should be.

Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-18 18:51:06 -07:00
Jonathan Corbet 76398425bb Move FASYNC bit handling to f_op->fasync()
Removing the BKL from FASYNC handling ran into the challenge of keeping the
setting of the FASYNC bit in filp->f_flags atomic with regard to calls to
the underlying fasync() function.  Andi Kleen suggested moving the handling
of that bit into fasync(); this patch does exactly that.  As a result, we
have a couple of internal API changes: fasync() must now manage the FASYNC
bit, and it will be called without the BKL held.

As it happens, every fasync() implementation in the kernel with one
exception calls fasync_helper().  So, if we make fasync_helper() set the
FASYNC bit, we can avoid making any changes to the other fasync()
functions - as long as those functions, themselves, have proper locking.
Most fasync() implementations do nothing but call fasync_helper() - which
has its own lock - so they are easily verified as correct.  The BKL had
already been pushed down into the rest.

The networking code has its own version of fasync_helper(), so that code
has been augmented with explicit FASYNC bit handling.

Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2009-03-16 08:32:27 -06:00
Jody McIntyre ab03eca8d4 trivial: fix bad links in the ext2 and ext3 documentation
Trivial patch to fix bad links in the ext2 and ext3 documentation.

Signed-off-by: Jody McIntyre <scjody@sun.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-03-12 16:24:25 -07:00
Phillip Lougher edf2e2811e Squashfs: fix documentation typo, Cramfs filesystem limit is 256 MiB
Signed-off-by: Phillip Lougher <phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk>
2009-03-05 00:40:13 +00:00
Mike Murphy f8a1af6bbc PATCH [2/2] Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt: fix descriptions of device attributes
Fix descriptions of device attributes to be consistent with the actual
implementations in include/linux/device.h

Signed-off-by: Mike Murphy <mamurph[at]cs.clemson.edu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-22 09:28:15 -08:00
Timothy S. Nelson 97c44836cd PCI: return error on failure to read PCI ROMs
This patch makes the ROM reading code return an error to user space if
the size of the ROM read is equal to 0.

The patch also emits a warnings if the contents of the ROM are invalid,
and documents the effects of the "enable" file on ROM reading.

Signed-off-by: Timothy S. Nelson <wayland@wayland.id.au>
Acked-by: Alex Villacis-Lasso <a_villacis@palosanto.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
2009-02-04 16:58:41 -08:00
Linus Torvalds f96c08e8c5 Merge branch 'linux-next' of git://git.infradead.org/ubifs-2.6
* 'linux-next' of git://git.infradead.org/ubifs-2.6:
  UBIFS: remove fast unmounting
  UBIFS: return sensible error codes
  UBIFS: remount ro fixes
  UBIFS: spelling fix 'date' -> 'data'
  UBIFS: sync wbufs after syncing inodes and pages
  UBIFS: fix LPT out-of-space bug (again)
  UBIFS: fix no_chk_data_crc
  UBIFS: fix assertions
  UBIFS: ensure orphan area head is initialized
  UBIFS: always clean up GC LEB space
  UBIFS: add re-mount debugging checks
  UBIFS: fix LEB list freeing
  UBIFS: simplify locking
  UBIFS: document dark_wm and dead_wm better
  UBIFS: do not treat all data as short term
  UBIFS: constify operations
  UBIFS: do not commit twice
2009-02-03 16:52:44 -08:00
Evgeniy Polyakov 9e9e3cbc62 mm: OOM documentation update
Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-29 18:04:43 -08:00
Artem Bityutskiy 27ad279933 UBIFS: remove fast unmounting
This UBIFS feature has never worked properly, and it was a mistake
to add it because we simply have no use-cases. So, lets still accept
the fast_unmount mount option, but ignore it. This does not change
much, because UBIFS commit in sync_fs anyway, and sync_fs is called
while unmounting.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2009-01-29 16:34:30 +02:00
James Lentini 096abd7703 update port number in NFS/RDMA documentation
Update the NFS/RDMA documentation to use the new port number assigned
by IANA.

Signed-off-by: James Lentini <jlentini@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2009-01-27 17:20:14 -05:00
Peter W Morreale db0fb1848a Update of Documentation: vm.txt and proc.txt
Update Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt and Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
 More specifically, the section on /proc/sys/vm in
Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt was removed and a link to
Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt added.

Most of the verbiage from proc.txt was simply moved in vm.txt, with new
addtional text for "swappiness" and "stat_interval".

Signed-off-by: Peter W Morreale <pmorreale@novell.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-15 16:39:35 -08:00
Takashi Sato c4be0c1dc4 filesystem freeze: add error handling of write_super_lockfs/unlockfs
Currently, ext3 in mainline Linux doesn't have the freeze feature which
suspends write requests.  So, we cannot take a backup which keeps the
filesystem's consistency with the storage device's features (snapshot and
replication) while it is mounted.

In many case, a commercial filesystem (e.g.  VxFS) has the freeze feature
and it would be used to get the consistent backup.

If Linux's standard filesystem ext3 has the freeze feature, we can do it
without a commercial filesystem.

So I have implemented the ioctls of the freeze feature.
I think we can take the consistent backup with the following steps.
1. Freeze the filesystem with the freeze ioctl.
2. Separate the replication volume or create the snapshot
   with the storage device's feature.
3. Unfreeze the filesystem with the unfreeze ioctl.
4. Take the backup from the separated replication volume
   or the snapshot.

This patch:

VFS:
Changed the type of write_super_lockfs and unlockfs from "void"
to "int" so that they can return an error.
Rename write_super_lockfs and unlockfs of the super block operation
freeze_fs and unfreeze_fs to avoid a confusion.

ext3, ext4, xfs, gfs2, jfs:
Changed the type of write_super_lockfs and unlockfs from "void"
to "int" so that write_super_lockfs returns an error if needed,
and unlockfs always returns 0.

reiserfs:
Changed the type of write_super_lockfs and unlockfs from "void"
to "int" so that they always return 0 (success) to keep a current behavior.

Signed-off-by: Takashi Sato <t-sato@yk.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Masayuki Hamaguchi <m-hamaguchi@ys.jp.nec.com>
Cc: <xfs-masters@oss.sgi.com>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-09 16:54:42 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 31aeb6c815 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pkl/squashfs-linus
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pkl/squashfs-linus:
  MAINTAINERS: squashfs entry
  Squashfs: documentation
  Squashfs: initrd support
  Squashfs: Kconfig entry
  Squashfs: Makefiles
  Squashfs: header files
  Squashfs: block operations
  Squashfs: cache operations
  Squashfs: uid/gid lookup operations
  Squashfs: fragment block operations
  Squashfs: export operations
  Squashfs: super block operations
  Squashfs: symlink operations
  Squashfs: regular file operations
  Squashfs: directory readdir operations
  Squashfs: directory lookup operations
  Squashfs: inode operations
2009-01-09 15:18:49 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 73d59314e6 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-unstable
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-unstable: (864 commits)
  Btrfs: explicitly mark the tree log root for writeback
  Btrfs: Drop the hardware crc32c asm code
  Btrfs: Add Documentation/filesystem/btrfs.txt, remove old COPYING
  Btrfs: kmap_atomic(KM_USER0) is safe for btrfs_readpage_end_io_hook
  Btrfs: Don't use kmap_atomic(..., KM_IRQ0) during checksum verifies
  Btrfs: tree logging checksum fixes
  Btrfs: don't change file extent's ram_bytes in btrfs_drop_extents
  Btrfs: Use btrfs_join_transaction to avoid deadlocks during snapshot creation
  Btrfs: drop remaining LINUX_KERNEL_VERSION checks and compat code
  Btrfs: drop EXPORT symbols from extent_io.c
  Btrfs: Fix checkpatch.pl warnings
  Btrfs: Fix free block discard calls down to the block layer
  Btrfs: avoid orphan inode caused by log replay
  Btrfs: avoid potential super block corruption
  Btrfs: do not call kfree if kmalloc failed in btrfs_sysfs_add_super
  Btrfs: fix a memory leak in btrfs_get_sb
  Btrfs: Fix typo in clear_state_cb
  Btrfs: Fix memset length in btrfs_file_write
  Btrfs: update directory's size when creating subvol/snapshot
  Btrfs: add permission checks to the ioctls
  ...
2009-01-09 13:01:38 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 2150edc6c5 Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (57 commits)
  jbd2: Fix oops in jbd2_journal_init_inode() on corrupted fs
  ext4: Remove "extents" mount option
  block: Add Kconfig help which notes that ext4 needs CONFIG_LBD
  ext4: Make printk's consistently prefixed with "EXT4-fs: "
  ext4: Add sanity checks for the superblock before mounting the filesystem
  ext4: Add mount option to set kjournald's I/O priority
  jbd2: Submit writes to the journal using WRITE_SYNC
  jbd2: Add pid and journal device name to the "kjournald2 starting" message
  ext4: Add markers for better debuggability
  ext4: Remove code to create the journal inode
  ext4: provide function to release metadata pages under memory pressure
  ext3: provide function to release metadata pages under memory pressure
  add releasepage hooks to block devices which can be used by file systems
  ext4: Fix s_dirty_blocks_counter if block allocation failed with nodelalloc
  ext4: Init the complete page while building buddy cache
  ext4: Don't allow new groups to be added during block allocation
  ext4: mark the blocks/inode bitmap beyond end of group as used
  ext4: Use new buffer_head flag to check uninit group bitmaps initialization
  ext4: Fix the race between read_inode_bitmap() and ext4_new_inode()
  ext4: code cleanup
  ...
2009-01-08 17:14:59 -08:00
Linus Torvalds a0c9f240a9 Merge branch 'proc-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/adobriyan/proc
* 'proc-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/adobriyan/proc:
  proc: remove write-only variable in proc_pident_lookup()
  proc: fix sparse warning
  proc: add /proc/*/stack
  proc: remove '##' usage
  proc: remove useless WARN_ONs
  proc: stop using BKL
2009-01-07 12:01:06 -08:00
David Woodhouse 709ac06a14 Btrfs: Add Documentation/filesystem/btrfs.txt, remove old COPYING
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2009-01-07 09:54:24 -05:00
Tejun Heo 5f820f648c poll: allow f_op->poll to sleep
f_op->poll is the only vfs operation which is not allowed to sleep.  It's
because poll and select implementation used task state to synchronize
against wake ups, which doesn't have to be the case anymore as wait/wake
interface can now use custom wake up functions.  The non-sleep restriction
can be a bit tricky because ->poll is not called from an atomic context
and the result of accidentally sleeping in ->poll only shows up as
temporary busy looping when the timing is right or rather wrong.

This patch converts poll/select to use custom wake up function and use
separate triggered variable to synchronize against wake up events.  The
only added overhead is an extra function call during wake up and
negligible.

This patch removes the one non-sleep exception from vfs locking rules and
is beneficial to userland filesystem implementations like FUSE, 9p or
peculiar fs like spufs as it's very difficult for those to implement
non-sleeping poll method.

While at it, make the following cosmetic changes to make poll.h and
select.c checkpatch friendly.

* s/type * symbol/type *symbol/		   : three places in poll.h
* remove blank line before EXPORT_SYMBOL() : two places in select.c

Oleg: spotted missing barrier in poll_schedule_timeout()
Davide: spotted missing write barrier in pollwake()

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Cc: Ron Minnich <rminnich@sandia.gov>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Brad Boyer <flar@allandria.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06 15:59:12 -08:00
David Rientjes 2da02997e0 mm: add dirty_background_bytes and dirty_bytes sysctls
This change introduces two new sysctls to /proc/sys/vm:
dirty_background_bytes and dirty_bytes.

dirty_background_bytes is the counterpart to dirty_background_ratio and
dirty_bytes is the counterpart to dirty_ratio.

With growing memory capacities of individual machines, it's no longer
sufficient to specify dirty thresholds as a percentage of the amount of
dirtyable memory over the entire system.

dirty_background_bytes and dirty_bytes specify quantities of memory, in
bytes, that represent the dirty limits for the entire system.  If either
of these values is set, its value represents the amount of dirty memory
that is needed to commence either background or direct writeback.

When a `bytes' or `ratio' file is written, its counterpart becomes a
function of the written value.  For example, if dirty_bytes is written to
be 8096, 8K of memory is required to commence direct writeback.
dirty_ratio is then functionally equivalent to 8K / the amount of
dirtyable memory:

	dirtyable_memory = free pages + mapped pages + file cache

	dirty_background_bytes = dirty_background_ratio * dirtyable_memory
		-or-
	dirty_background_ratio = dirty_background_bytes / dirtyable_memory

		AND

	dirty_bytes = dirty_ratio * dirtyable_memory
		-or-
	dirty_ratio = dirty_bytes / dirtyable_memory

Only one of dirty_background_bytes and dirty_background_ratio may be
specified at a time, and only one of dirty_bytes and dirty_ratio may be
specified.  When one sysctl is written, the other appears as 0 when read.

The `bytes' files operate on a page size granularity since dirty limits
are compared with ZVC values, which are in page units.

Prior to this change, the minimum dirty_ratio was 5 as implemented by
get_dirty_limits() although /proc/sys/vm/dirty_ratio would show any user
written value between 0 and 100.  This restriction is maintained, but
dirty_bytes has a lower limit of only one page.

Also prior to this change, the dirty_background_ratio could not equal or
exceed dirty_ratio.  This restriction is maintained in addition to
restricting dirty_background_bytes.  If either background threshold equals
or exceeds that of the dirty threshold, it is implicitly set to half the
dirty threshold.

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06 15:59:03 -08:00
Theodore Ts'o 83982b6f47 ext4: Remove "extents" mount option
This mount option is largely superfluous, and in fact the way it was
implemented was buggy; if a filesystem which did not have the extents
feature flag was mounted -o extents, the filesystem would attempt to
create and use extents-based file even though the extents feature flag
was not eabled.  The simplest thing to do is to nuke the mount option
entirely.  It's not all that useful to force the non-creation of new
extent-based files if the filesystem can support it.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-01-06 14:53:16 -05:00
Theodore Ts'o b3881f74b3 ext4: Add mount option to set kjournald's I/O priority
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-01-05 22:46:26 -05:00
Tiger Yang a68979b857 ocfs2: add mount option and Kconfig option for acl
This patch adds the Kconfig option "CONFIG_OCFS2_FS_POSIX_ACL"
and mount options "acl" to enable acls in Ocfs2.

Signed-off-by: Tiger Yang <tiger.yang@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
2009-01-05 08:36:52 -08:00