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<title>user/sven/linux.git/ipc/mqueue.c, branch v3.0.85</title>
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<updated>2011-10-03T18:40:43Z</updated>
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<title>ipc/mqueue.c: fix mq_open() return value</title>
<updated>2011-10-03T18:40:43Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Slaby</name>
<email>jslaby@suse.cz</email>
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<published>2011-07-26T23:08:47Z</published>
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commit d40dcdb0172a1ba853464983a059fb45e0aaf61a upstream.

We return ENOMEM from mqueue_get_inode even when we have enough memory.
Namely in case the system rlimit of mqueue was reached.  This error
propagates to mq_queue and user sees the error unexpectedly.  So fix
this up to properly return EMFILE as described in the manpage:

	EMFILE The process already has the maximum number of files and
	       message queues open.

instead of:

	ENOMEM Insufficient memory.

With the previous patch we just switch to ERR_PTR/PTR_ERR/IS_ERR error
handling here.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Manfred Spraul &lt;manfred@colorfullife.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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<entry>
<title>ipc/mqueue.c: refactor failure handling</title>
<updated>2011-10-03T18:40:43Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Slaby</name>
<email>jslaby@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2011-07-26T23:08:46Z</published>
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commit 04715206c0c2fd4ec5ca77fa51e3a5b41ce71492 upstream.

If new_inode fails to allocate an inode we need only to return with
NULL.  But now we test the opposite and have all the work in a nested
block.  So do the opposite to save one indentation level (and remove
unnecessary line breaks).

This is only a preparation/cleanup for the next patch where we fix up
return values from mqueue_get_inode.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Manfred Spraul &lt;manfred@colorfullife.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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<entry>
<title>fs: icache RCU free inodes</title>
<updated>2011-01-07T06:50:26Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Nick Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@kernel.dk</email>
</author>
<published>2011-01-07T06:49:49Z</published>
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RCU free the struct inode. This will allow:

- Subsequent store-free path walking patch. The inode must be consulted for
  permissions when walking, so an RCU inode reference is a must.
- sb_inode_list_lock to be moved inside i_lock because sb list walkers who want
  to take i_lock no longer need to take sb_inode_list_lock to walk the list in
  the first place. This will simplify and optimize locking.
- Could remove some nested trylock loops in dcache code
- Could potentially simplify things a bit in VM land. Do not need to take the
  page lock to follow page-&gt;mapping.

The downsides of this is the performance cost of using RCU. In a simple
creat/unlink microbenchmark, performance drops by about 10% due to inability to
reuse cache-hot slab objects. As iterations increase and RCU freeing starts
kicking over, this increases to about 20%.

In cases where inode lifetimes are longer (ie. many inodes may be allocated
during the average life span of a single inode), a lot of this cache reuse is
not applicable, so the regression caused by this patch is smaller.

The cache-hot regression could largely be avoided by using SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU,
however this adds some complexity to list walking and store-free path walking,
so I prefer to implement this at a later date, if it is shown to be a win in
real situations. I haven't found a regression in any non-micro benchmark so I
doubt it will be a problem.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin &lt;npiggin@kernel.dk&gt;
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<title>switch get_sb_ns() users</title>
<updated>2010-10-29T08:17:03Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2010-07-26T09:16:50Z</published>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>fs: do not assign default i_ino in new_inode</title>
<updated>2010-10-26T01:26:11Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2010-10-23T15:19:54Z</published>
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Instead of always assigning an increasing inode number in new_inode
move the call to assign it into those callers that actually need it.
For now callers that need it is estimated conservatively, that is
the call is added to all filesystems that do not assign an i_ino
by themselves.  For a few more filesystems we can avoid assigning
any inode number given that they aren't user visible, and for others
it could be done lazily when an inode number is actually needed,
but that's left for later patches.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner &lt;dchinner@redhat.com&gt;
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>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<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>
<title>llseek: automatically add .llseek fop</title>
<updated>2010-10-15T13:53:27Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</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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<title>switch mqueue to -&gt;evict_inode()</title>
<updated>2010-08-09T20:47:58Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2010-06-05T20:29:45Z</published>
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... and since the inodes are never hashed, we can use default -&gt;drop_inode()
just fine.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mqueue doesn't need make_bad_inode()</title>
<updated>2010-06-04T21:16:27Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2010-05-28T23:06:15Z</published>
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It never hashes them anyway and does final iput() immediately
afterwards.  With -&gt;drop_inode() being generic_delete_inode()...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>Merge branch 'timers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip</title>
<updated>2010-05-20T00:11:10Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-05-20T00:11:10Z</published>
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* 'timers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  clocksource: Add clocksource_register_hz/khz interface
  posix-cpu-timers: Optimize run_posix_cpu_timers()
  time: Remove xtime_cache
  mqueue: Convert message queue timeout to use hrtimers
  hrtimers: Provide schedule_hrtimeout for CLOCK_REALTIME
  timers: Introduce the concept of timer slack for legacy timers
  ntp: Remove tickadj
  ntp: Make time_adjust static
  time: Add xtime, wall_to_monotonic to feature-removal-schedule
  timer: Try to survive timer callback preempt_count leak
  timer: Split out timer function call
  timer: Print function name for timer callbacks modifying preemption count
  time: Clean up warp_clock()
  cpu-timers: Avoid iterating over all threads in fastpath_timer_check()
  cpu-timers: Change SIGEV_NONE timer implementation
  cpu-timers: Return correct previous timer reload value
  cpu-timers: Cleanup arm_timer()
  cpu-timers: Simplify RLIMIT_CPU handling
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