user/sven/linux.git/include/linux/buffer_head.h, branch v4.4.25

vfs: remove unused wrapper block_page_mkwrite()

2015-11-11T07:19:33Z

The function currently called "__block_page_mkwrite()" used to be called "block_page_mkwrite()" until a wrapper for this function was added by: commit 24da4fab5a61 ("vfs: Create __block_page_mkwrite() helper passing error values back") This wrapper, the current "block_page_mkwrite()", is currently unused. __block_page_mkwrite() is used directly by ext4, nilfs2 and xfs. Remove the unused wrapper, rename __block_page_mkwrite() back to block_page_mkwrite() and update the comment above block_page_mkwrite(). Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Al Viro

bufferhead: Add _gfp version for sb_getblk()

2015-07-02T05:32:44Z

sb_getblk() is used during ext4 (and possibly other FSes) writeback paths. Sometimes such path require allocating memory and guaranteeing that such allocation won't block. Currently, however, there is no way to provide user flags for sb_getblk which could lead to deadlocks. This patch implements a sb_getblk_gfp with the only difference it can accept user-provided GFP flags. Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org

fs/buffer.c: support buffer cache allocations with gfp modifiers

2014-09-05T02:04:42Z

A buffer cache is allocated from movable area because it is referred for a while and released soon. But some filesystems are taking buffer cache for a long time and it can disturb page migration. New APIs are introduced to allocate buffer cache with user specific flag. *_gfp APIs are for user want to set page allocation flag for page cache allocation. And *_unmovable APIs are for the user wants to allocate page cache from non-movable area. Signed-off-by: Gioh Kim Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o Reviewed-by: Jan Kara

fs/buffer.c: remove block_write_full_page_endio()

2014-06-04T23:54:02Z

The last in-tree caller of block_write_full_page_endio() was removed in January 2013. It's time to remove the EXPORT_SYMBOL, which leaves block_write_full_page() as the only caller of block_write_full_page_endio(), so inline block_write_full_page_endio() into block_write_full_page(). Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Dave Chinner Cc: Dheeraj Reddy Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

arch: Mass conversion of smp_mb__*()

2014-04-18T12:20:48Z

Mostly scripted conversion of the smp_mb__* barriers. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-55dhyhocezdw1dg7u19hmh1u@git.kernel.org Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

switch ->is_partially_uptodate() to saner arguments

2014-04-02T03:19:19Z

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

direct-io: Implement generic deferred AIO completions

2013-09-04T13:23:46Z

Add support to the core direct-io code to defer AIO completions to user context using a workqueue. This replaces opencoded and less efficient code in XFS and ext4 (we save a memory allocation for each direct IO) and will be needed to properly support O_(D)SYNC for AIO. The communication between the filesystem and the direct I/O code requires a new buffer head flag, which is a bit ugly but not avoidable until the direct I/O code stops abusing the buffer_head structure for communicating with the filesystems. Currently this creates a per-superblock unbound workqueue for these completions, which is taken from an earlier patch by Jan Kara. I'm not really convinced about this use and would prefer a "normal" global workqueue with a high concurrency limit, but this needs further discussion. JK: Fixed ext4 part, dynamic allocation of the workqueue. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Al Viro

mm: vmscan: take page buffers dirty and locked state into account

2013-07-03T23:07:29Z

Page reclaim keeps track of dirty and under writeback pages and uses it to determine if wait_iff_congested() should stall or if kswapd should begin writing back pages. This fails to account for buffer pages that can be under writeback but not PageWriteback which is the case for filesystems like ext3 ordered mode. Furthermore, PageDirty buffer pages can have all the buffers clean and writepage does no IO so it should not be accounted as congested. This patch adds an address_space operation that filesystems may optionally use to check if a page is really dirty or really under writeback. An implementation is provided for for buffer_heads is added and used for block operations and ext3 in ordered mode. By default the page flags are obeyed. Credit goes to Jan Kara for identifying that the page flags alone are not sufficient for ext3 and sanity checking a number of ideas on how the problem could be addressed. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Cc: Jiri Slaby Cc: Valdis Kletnieks Cc: Zlatko Calusic Cc: dormando Cc: Trond Myklebust Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: change invalidatepage prototype to accept length

2013-05-22T03:17:23Z

Currently there is no way to truncate partial page where the end truncate point is not at the end of the page. This is because it was not needed and the functionality was enough for file system truncate operation to work properly. However more file systems now support punch hole feature and it can benefit from mm supporting truncating page just up to the certain point. Specifically, with this functionality truncate_inode_pages_range() can be changed so it supports truncating partial page at the end of the range (currently it will BUG_ON() if 'end' is not at the end of the page). This commit changes the invalidatepage() address space operation prototype to accept range to be invalidated and update all the instances for it. We also change the block_invalidatepage() in the same way and actually make a use of the new length argument implementing range invalidation. Actual file system implementations will follow except the file systems where the changes are really simple and should not change the behaviour in any way .Implementation for truncate_page_range() which will be able to accept page unaligned ranges will follow as well. Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Hugh Dickins

Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4

2013-05-01T15:04:12Z

Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o: "Mostly performance and bug fixes, plus some cleanups. The one new feature this merge window is a new ioctl EXT4_IOC_SWAP_BOOT which allows installation of a hidden inode designed for boot loaders." * tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (50 commits) ext4: fix type-widening bug in inode table readahead code ext4: add check for inodes_count overflow in new resize ioctl ext4: fix Kconfig documentation for CONFIG_EXT4_DEBUG ext4: fix online resizing for ext3-compat file systems jbd2: trace when lock_buffer in do_get_write_access takes a long time ext4: mark metadata blocks using bh flags buffer: add BH_Prio and BH_Meta flags ext4: mark all metadata I/O with REQ_META ext4: fix readdir error in case inline_data+^dir_index. ext4: fix readdir error in the case of inline_data+dir_index jbd2: use kmem_cache_zalloc instead of kmem_cache_alloc/memset ext4: mext_insert_extents should update extent block checksum ext4: move quota initialization out of inode allocation transaction ext4: reserve xattr index for Rich ACL support jbd2: reduce journal_head size ext4: clear buffer_uninit flag when submitting IO ext4: use io_end for multiple bios ext4: make ext4_bio_write_page() use BH_Async_Write flags ext4: Use kstrtoul() instead of parse_strtoul() ext4: defragmentation code cleanup ...