linux-stable/mm
Linus Torvalds a66d2c8f7e Merge branch 'for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull the big VFS changes from Al Viro:
 "This one is *big* and changes quite a few things around VFS.  What's in there:

   - the first of two really major architecture changes - death to open
     intents.

     The former is finally there; it was very long in making, but with
     Miklos getting through really hard and messy final push in
     fs/namei.c, we finally have it.  Unlike his variant, this one
     doesn't introduce struct opendata; what we have instead is
     ->atomic_open() taking preallocated struct file * and passing
     everything via its fields.

     Instead of returning struct file *, it returns -E...  on error, 0
     on success and 1 in "deal with it yourself" case (e.g.  symlink
     found on server, etc.).

     See comments before fs/namei.c:atomic_open().  That made a lot of
     goodies finally possible and quite a few are in that pile:
     ->lookup(), ->d_revalidate() and ->create() do not get struct
     nameidata * anymore; ->lookup() and ->d_revalidate() get lookup
     flags instead, ->create() gets "do we want it exclusive" flag.

     With the introduction of new helper (kern_path_locked()) we are rid
     of all struct nameidata instances outside of fs/namei.c; it's still
     visible in namei.h, but not for long.  Come the next cycle,
     declaration will move either to fs/internal.h or to fs/namei.c
     itself.  [me, miklos, hch]

   - The second major change: behaviour of final fput().  Now we have
     __fput() done without any locks held by caller *and* not from deep
     in call stack.

     That obviously lifts a lot of constraints on the locking in there.
     Moreover, it's legal now to call fput() from atomic contexts (which
     has immediately simplified life for aio.c).  We also don't need
     anti-recursion logics in __scm_destroy() anymore.

     There is a price, though - the damn thing has become partially
     asynchronous.  For fput() from normal process we are guaranteed
     that pending __fput() will be done before the caller returns to
     userland, exits or gets stopped for ptrace.

     For kernel threads and atomic contexts it's done via
     schedule_work(), so theoretically we might need a way to make sure
     it's finished; so far only one such place had been found, but there
     might be more.

     There's flush_delayed_fput() (do all pending __fput()) and there's
     __fput_sync() (fput() analog doing __fput() immediately).  I hope
     we won't need them often; see warnings in fs/file_table.c for
     details.  [me, based on task_work series from Oleg merged last
     cycle]

   - sync series from Jan

   - large part of "death to sync_supers()" work from Artem; the only
     bits missing here are exofs and ext4 ones.  As far as I understand,
     those are going via the exofs and ext4 trees resp.; once they are
     in, we can put ->write_super() to the rest, along with the thread
     calling it.

   - preparatory bits from unionmount series (from dhowells).

   - assorted cleanups and fixes all over the place, as usual.

  This is not the last pile for this cycle; there's at least jlayton's
  ESTALE work and fsfreeze series (the latter - in dire need of fixes,
  so I'm not sure it'll make the cut this cycle).  I'll probably throw
  symlink/hardlink restrictions stuff from Kees into the next pile, too.
  Plus there's a lot of misc patches I hadn't thrown into that one -
  it's large enough as it is..."

* 'for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (127 commits)
  ext4: switch EXT4_IOC_RESIZE_FS to mnt_want_write_file()
  btrfs: switch btrfs_ioctl_balance() to mnt_want_write_file()
  switch dentry_open() to struct path, make it grab references itself
  spufs: shift dget/mntget towards dentry_open()
  zoran: don't bother with struct file * in zoran_map
  ecryptfs: don't reinvent the wheels, please - use struct completion
  don't expose I_NEW inodes via dentry->d_inode
  tidy up namei.c a bit
  unobfuscate follow_up() a bit
  ext3: pass custom EOF to generic_file_llseek_size()
  ext4: use core vfs llseek code for dir seeks
  vfs: allow custom EOF in generic_file_llseek code
  vfs: Avoid unnecessary WB_SYNC_NONE writeback during sys_sync and reorder sync passes
  vfs: Remove unnecessary flushing of block devices
  vfs: Make sys_sync writeout also block device inodes
  vfs: Create function for iterating over block devices
  vfs: Reorder operations during sys_sync
  quota: Move quota syncing to ->sync_fs method
  quota: Split dquot_quota_sync() to writeback and cache flushing part
  vfs: Move noop_backing_dev_info check from sync into writeback
  ...
2012-07-23 12:27:27 -07:00
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backing-dev.c backing-dev: fix wakeup timer races with bdi_unregister() 2012-02-01 16:52:49 +08:00
bootmem.c bootmem: make ___alloc_bootmem_node_nopanic() really nopanic 2012-07-17 16:21:29 -07:00
bounce.c mm: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic() 2012-03-20 21:48:27 +08:00
cleancache.c ->encode_fh() API change 2012-05-29 23:28:33 -04:00
compaction.c mm, thp: abort compaction if migration page cannot be charged to memcg 2012-07-11 16:04:43 -07:00
debug-pagealloc.c mm, x86: Remove debug_pagealloc_enabled 2011-12-06 09:24:07 +01:00
dmapool.c mm: fix implicit stat.h usage in dmapool.c 2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
fadvise.c fadvise: only initiate writeback for specified range with FADV_DONTNEED 2012-01-10 16:30:43 -08:00
failslab.c switch debugfs to umode_t 2012-01-03 22:54:56 -05:00
filemap.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2012-06-01 10:34:35 -07:00
filemap_xip.c fs: introduce inode operation ->update_time 2012-06-01 12:07:25 -04:00
fremap.c mm: delete various needless include <linux/module.h> 2011-10-31 09:20:11 -04:00
frontswap.c frontswap: s/put_page/store/g s/get_page/load 2012-05-15 11:34:08 -04:00
highmem.c Merge branch 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux 2011-11-06 19:44:47 -08:00
huge_memory.c mm/memcg: apply add/del_page to lruvec 2012-05-29 16:22:28 -07:00
hugetlb.c mm: fix vma_resv_map() NULL pointer 2012-05-30 08:48:13 -07:00
hwpoison-inject.c HWPOISON: Clean up memory_failure() vs. __memory_failure() 2012-01-03 12:06:32 -08:00
init-mm.c atomic: use <linux/atomic.h> 2011-07-26 16:49:47 -07:00
internal.h Revert "mm: compaction: handle incorrect MIGRATE_UNMOVABLE type pageblocks" 2012-06-03 20:05:57 -07:00
Kconfig Frontswap provides a "transcendent memory" interface for swap pages. 2012-06-04 12:28:45 -07:00
Kconfig.debug mm: more intensive memory corruption debugging 2012-01-10 16:30:42 -08:00
kmemcheck.c
kmemleak-test.c kmemleak: remove memset by using kzalloc 2011-01-27 18:31:51 +00:00
kmemleak.c kmemleak: Disable early logging when kmemleak is off by default 2012-01-20 16:57:05 +00:00
ksm.c ksm: cleanup: introduce find_mergeable_vma() 2012-03-21 17:54:59 -07:00
maccess.c mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h 2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
madvise.c mm: Hold a file reference in madvise_remove 2012-07-06 10:34:38 -07:00
Makefile Frontswap provides a "transcendent memory" interface for swap pages. 2012-06-04 12:28:45 -07:00
memblock.c memblock: free allocated memblock_reserved_regions later 2012-07-11 16:04:50 -07:00
memcontrol.c mm: fix kernel-doc warnings 2012-06-20 14:39:36 -07:00
memory-failure.c x86/mce: Fix siginfo_t->si_addr value for non-recoverable memory faults 2012-07-11 10:20:47 -07:00
memory.c mm/memory.c: fix kernel-doc warnings 2012-06-20 14:39:36 -07:00
memory_hotplug.c mm/memory_hotplug.c: release memory resources if hotadd_new_pgdat() fails 2012-07-11 16:04:46 -07:00
mempolicy.c mm, mempolicy: fix mbind() to do synchronous migration 2012-06-20 22:10:42 -07:00
mempool.c mempool: fix first round failure behavior 2012-01-10 16:30:45 -08:00
migrate.c mm: fix warning in __set_page_dirty_nobuffers 2012-06-03 20:05:47 -07:00
mincore.c mm: thp: fix pmd_bad() triggering in code paths holding mmap_sem read mode 2012-03-21 17:54:54 -07:00
mlock.c vm: avoid using find_vma_prev() unnecessarily 2012-03-06 18:23:36 -08:00
mm_init.c mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h 2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
mmap.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2012-06-01 10:34:35 -07:00
mmu_context.c mm, counters: remove task argument to sync_mm_rss() and __sync_task_rss_stat() 2012-03-21 17:54:59 -07:00
mmu_notifier.c mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h 2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
mmzone.c mm: add link from struct lruvec to struct zone 2012-05-29 16:22:26 -07:00
mprotect.c Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch-bomb) 2012-03-22 09:04:48 -07:00
mremap.c move security_mmap_addr() to saner place 2012-06-01 10:37:16 -04:00
msync.c
nobootmem.c memblock: free allocated memblock_reserved_regions later 2012-07-11 16:04:50 -07:00
nommu.c nommu: fix compilation of nommu.c 2012-06-04 17:17:31 -04:00
oom_kill.c mm: fix kernel-doc warnings 2012-06-20 14:39:36 -07:00
page-writeback.c writeback: initialize global_dirty_limit 2012-05-06 13:41:58 +08:00
page_alloc.c mm: cma: don't replace lowmem pages with highmem 2012-07-06 11:07:04 +02:00
page_cgroup.c mm: fix kernel-doc warnings 2012-06-20 14:39:36 -07:00
page_io.c frontswap: s/put_page/store/g s/get_page/load 2012-05-15 11:34:08 -04:00
page_isolation.c mm: page_isolation: MIGRATE_CMA isolation functions added 2012-05-21 15:09:33 +02:00
pagewalk.c mm: fix kernel-doc warnings 2012-06-20 14:39:36 -07:00
percpu-km.c percpu: clear memory allocated with the km allocator 2010-10-02 10:28:42 +03:00
percpu-vm.c mm: fix kernel-doc warnings 2012-06-20 14:39:36 -07:00
percpu.c kmemleak: Fix the kmemleak tracking of the percpu areas with !SMP 2012-05-09 10:13:29 -07:00
pgtable-generic.c arch/tile: allow building Linux with transparent huge pages enabled 2012-05-25 12:48:21 -04:00
prio_tree.c sanitize <linux/prefetch.h> usage 2011-05-20 12:50:29 -07:00
process_vm_access.c aio/vfs: cleanup of rw_copy_check_uvector() and compat_rw_copy_check_uvector() 2012-05-31 17:49:32 -07:00
quicklist.c mm: delete various needless include <linux/module.h> 2011-10-31 09:20:11 -04:00
readahead.c mm: move readahead syscall to mm/readahead.c 2012-05-29 16:22:23 -07:00
rmap.c mm: remove swap token code 2012-05-29 16:22:19 -07:00
shmem.c don't pass nameidata to ->create() 2012-07-14 16:34:47 +04:00
slab.c Merge branch 'slab/for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux 2012-03-28 15:04:26 -07:00
slob.c mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h 2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
slub.c Merge branch 'slab/for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux 2012-06-01 16:50:23 -07:00
sparse-vmemmap.c mm: delete various needless include <linux/module.h> 2011-10-31 09:20:11 -04:00
sparse.c mm: sparse: fix usemap allocation above node descriptor section 2012-07-11 16:04:49 -07:00
swap.c mm/memcg: apply add/del_page to lruvec 2012-05-29 16:22:28 -07:00
swap_state.c mm: fix s390 BUG by __set_page_dirty_no_writeback on swap 2012-04-23 18:19:22 -07:00
swapfile.c swap: fix shmem swapping when more than 8 areas 2012-06-15 21:48:14 -07:00
truncate.c mm/fs: remove truncate_range 2012-05-29 16:22:23 -07:00
util.c new helper: vm_mmap_pgoff() 2012-06-01 10:37:18 -04:00
vmalloc.c mm: fix faulty initialization in vmalloc_init() 2012-05-29 16:22:24 -07:00
vmscan.c mm: fix lost kswapd wakeup in kswapd_stop() 2012-07-17 16:21:30 -07:00
vmstat.c mm/vmstat.c: remove debug fs entries on failure of file creation and made extfrag_debug_root dentry local 2012-05-29 16:22:19 -07:00