linux-stable/drivers
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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accessibility
acpi Merge branch 'pm-acpi' 2012-07-19 00:03:35 +02:00
amba
ata Viresh has moved 2012-06-20 14:39:36 -07:00
atm
auxdisplay
base Merge branch 'for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2012-07-23 12:27:27 -07:00
bcma bcma: fix null pointer in bcma_core_pci_irq_ctl 2012-06-08 13:47:07 -04:00
block Power management updates for 3.6 2012-07-22 13:36:52 -07:00
bluetooth Bluetooth: btmrvl: Do not send vendor events to bluetooth stack 2012-06-19 00:19:11 -03:00
cdrom
char PM / IPMI: Remove empty legacy PCI PM callbacks 2012-07-10 21:37:26 +02:00
clk Clk: SPEAr1340: Update sys clock parent array 2012-07-18 10:04:53 +05:30
clocksource clocksource: sh_tmu: Use clockevents_config_and_register(). 2012-06-11 17:10:16 +09:00
connector
cpufreq cpufreq: Fix sysfs deadlock with concurrent hotplug/frequency switch 2012-07-20 21:39:25 +02:00
cpuidle Merge branch 'pm-domains' 2012-07-19 00:03:17 +02:00
crypto PM / crypto / ux500: Use struct dev_pm_ops for power management 2012-07-10 21:37:33 +02:00
dca
devfreq
dio
dma Merge branch 'fixes' of git://git.infradead.org/users/vkoul/slave-dma 2012-06-20 22:12:52 -07:00
edac edac: Do alignment logic properly in edac_align_ptr() 2012-06-11 12:43:16 -03:00
eisa
extcon extcon: max8997: Add missing kfree for info->edev in max8997_muic_remove() 2012-06-18 16:30:42 -07:00
firewire
firmware
gpio gpio/gpio-tps65910: gpio_chip.of_node referenced without CONFIG_OF_GPIO defined 2012-07-10 22:53:31 +02:00
gpu gma500,cdv: Fix the brightness base 2012-07-16 09:20:33 -07:00
hid Merge branch 'upstream-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/hid 2012-07-19 08:15:55 -07:00
hsi
hv
hwmon Merge branch 'x86-mce-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2012-07-22 16:07:45 -07:00
hwspinlock hwspinlock/core: use global ID to register hwspinlocks on multiple devices 2012-07-07 22:35:30 +03:00
i2c i2c: Add generic I2C multiplexer using pinctrl API 2012-06-04 16:49:43 +02:00
ide drivers/ide/ide-cs.c: adjust suspicious bit operation 2012-06-12 15:51:41 -07:00
idle ACPI: intel_idle : break dependency between modules 2012-07-05 22:37:47 +02:00
ieee802154
iio iio: drop wrong reference from Kconfig 2012-06-14 17:28:46 -07:00
infiniband Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending 2012-07-22 13:31:57 -07:00
input Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input 2012-07-13 10:33:18 -07:00
iommu Merge branch 'x86-platform-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2012-07-22 12:19:36 -07:00
isdn drivers/isdn/mISDN/stack.c: remove invalid reference to list iterator variable 2012-07-09 15:24:33 -07:00
leds leds: heartbeat: fix bug on panic 2012-07-04 15:55:19 +08:00
lguest
macintosh
md Three fixes for device-mapper discard processing: 2012-07-20 11:51:22 -07:00
media Merge branch 'for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2012-07-23 12:27:27 -07:00
memory
memstick
message
mfd Linux 3.5-rc7 2012-07-15 21:49:21 +01:00
misc Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch-bomb) 2012-07-11 16:06:54 -07:00
mmc mmc: sdhci-dove: Prepare for common clock framework 2012-07-22 16:42:48 -04:00
mtd VFS: Pass mount flags to sget() 2012-07-14 16:38:34 +04:00
net ixgbevf: Fix panic when loading driver 2012-07-17 02:56:53 -07:00
nfc
nubus
of ARM: SoC fixes for 3.5-rc 2012-07-11 12:44:25 -07:00
oprofile oprofile, perf: Use per-cpu framework 2012-06-22 16:31:20 +02:00
parisc
parport
pci PCI: EHCI: fix crash during suspend on ASUS computers 2012-07-10 09:52:05 -07:00
pcmcia
pinctrl pinctrl: pinctrl-imx6q: add missed mux function for USBOTG_ID 2012-07-14 22:32:10 +02:00
platform Power management updates for 3.6 2012-07-22 13:36:52 -07:00
pnp
power
pps
ps3
ptp
rapidio
regulator Merge branch 'regulator-drivers' into regulator-next 2012-07-22 19:32:00 +01:00
remoteproc remoteproc: fix missing CONFIG_FW_LOADER configurations 2012-07-04 11:01:12 +03:00
rpmsg rpmsg: fix dependency on initialization order 2012-07-17 13:10:38 +03:00
rtc Merge branch 'pm-drivers' 2012-07-19 00:03:42 +02:00
s390
sbus
scsi Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending 2012-07-22 13:31:57 -07:00
sfi
sh
sn
spi SPI: fix over-eager devm_xxx() conversion 2012-06-18 11:27:04 +01:00
ssb
staging Merge branch 'v4l_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media 2012-06-25 14:53:09 -07:00
target iscsi-target: Drop bogus struct file usage for iSCSI/SCTP 2012-07-21 02:44:13 -07:00
tc
thermal
tty tty/hvc_opal: Fix debug function name 2012-07-10 19:16:25 +10:00
uio
usb Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending 2012-07-22 13:31:57 -07:00
uwb
vhost vhost: use USER_DS in vhost_worker thread 2012-06-26 21:10:56 -07:00
video fbdev fixes for 3.5 2012-07-11 16:17:14 -07:00
virt
virtio virtio-balloon: fix add/get API use 2012-07-09 09:07:22 +09:30
vlynq
vme
w1
watchdog watchdog: core: fix WDIOC_GETSTATUS return value 2012-06-28 20:40:56 +02:00
xen Five bug-fixes: 2012-06-15 17:17:15 -07:00
zorro
Kconfig
Makefile