user/sven/linux.git/fs/internal.h, branch v3.2.11

superblock: move pin_sb_for_writeback() to fs/super.c

2011-07-20T05:44:38Z

The per-sb shrinker has the same requirement as the writeback threads of ensuring that the superblock is usable and pinned for the time it takes to run the work. Both need to take a passive reference to the sb, take a read lock on the s_umount lock and then only continue if an unmount is not in progress. pin_sb_for_writeback() does this exactly, so move it to fs/super.c and rename it to grab_super_passive() and exporting it via fs/internal.h for all the VFS code to be able to use. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner Signed-off-by: Al Viro

Make ->d_sb assign-once and always non-NULL

2011-07-20T05:44:17Z

New helper (non-exported, fs/internal.h-only): __d_alloc(sb, name). Allocates dentry, sets its ->d_sb to given superblock and sets ->d_op accordingly. Old d_alloc(NULL, name) callers are converted to that (all of them know what superblock they want). d_alloc() itself is left only for parent != NULl case; uses __d_alloc(), inserts result into the list of parent's children. Note that now ->d_sb is assign-once and never NULL *and* ->d_parent is never NULL either. Signed-off-by: Al Viro

fs: move i_wb_list out from under inode_lock

2011-03-25T01:17:51Z

Protect the inode writeback list with a new global lock inode_wb_list_lock and use it to protect the list manipulations and traversals. This lock replaces the inode_lock as the inodes on the list can be validity checked while holding the inode->i_lock and hence the inode_lock is no longer needed to protect the list. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner Signed-off-by: Al Viro

fs: move i_sb_list out from under inode_lock

2011-03-25T01:16:32Z

Protect the per-sb inode list with a new global lock inode_sb_list_lock and use it to protect the list manipulations and traversals. This lock replaces the inode_lock as the inodes on the list can be validity checked while holding the inode->i_lock and hence the inode_lock is no longer needed to protect the list. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner Signed-off-by: Al Viro

FS: lookup_mnt() is only used in the core fs routines now

2011-03-21T16:13:10Z

lookup_mnt() is only used in the core fs routines now, so it doesn't need to be globally declared anymore. It isn't exported to modules at the moment, so nothing that can be modularised seems to be using it. Signed-off-by: David Howells Signed-off-by: Al Viro

vfs: split off vfsmount-related parts of vfs_kern_mount()

2011-03-18T02:10:41Z

new function: mount_fs(). Does all work done by vfs_kern_mount() except the allocation and filling of vfsmount; returns root dentry or ERR_PTR(). vfs_kern_mount() switched to using it and taken to fs/namespace.c, along with its wrappers. alloc_vfsmnt()/free_vfsmnt() made static. functions in namespace.c slightly reordered. Signed-off-by: Al Viro

vfs: Add open by file handle support

2011-03-15T06:21:44Z

[AV: duplicate of open() guts removed; file_open_root() used instead] Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V Signed-off-by: Al Viro

open-style analog of vfs_path_lookup()

2011-03-14T13:15:28Z

new function: file_open_root(dentry, mnt, name, flags) opens the file vfs_path_lookup would arrive to. Note that name can be empty; in that case the usual requirement that dentry should be a directory is lifted. open-coded equivalents switched to it, may_open() got down exactly one caller and became static. Signed-off-by: Al Viro

switch do_filp_open() to struct open_flags

2011-03-14T13:15:25Z

take calculation of open_flags by open(2) arguments into new helper in fs/open.c, move filp_open() over there, have it and do_sys_open() use that helper, switch exec.c callers of do_filp_open() to explicit (and constant) struct open_flags. Signed-off-by: Al Viro

Fix over-zealous flush_disk when changing device size.

2011-02-24T06:25:47Z

There are two cases when we call flush_disk. In one, the device has disappeared (check_disk_change) so any data will hold becomes irrelevant. In the oter, the device has changed size (check_disk_size_change) so data we hold may be irrelevant. In both cases it makes sense to discard any 'clean' buffers, so they will be read back from the device if needed. In the former case it makes sense to discard 'dirty' buffers as there will never be anywhere safe to write the data. In the second case it *does*not* make sense to discard dirty buffers as that will lead to file system corruption when you simply enlarge the containing devices. flush_disk calls __invalidate_devices. __invalidate_device calls both invalidate_inodes and invalidate_bdev. invalidate_inodes *does* discard I_DIRTY inodes and this does lead to fs corruption. invalidate_bev *does*not* discard dirty pages, but I don't really care about that at present. So this patch adds a flag to __invalidate_device (calling it __invalidate_device2) to indicate whether dirty buffers should be killed, and this is passed to invalidate_inodes which can choose to skip dirty inodes. flusk_disk then passes true from check_disk_change and false from check_disk_size_change. dm avoids tripping over this problem by calling i_size_write directly rathher than using check_disk_size_change. md does use check_disk_size_change and so is affected. This regression was introduced by commit 608aeef17a which causes check_disk_size_change to call flush_disk, so it is suitable for any kernel since 2.6.27. Cc: stable@kernel.org Acked-by: Jeff Moyer Cc: Andrew Patterson Cc: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: NeilBrown