- 25 1月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Greg Kroah-Hartman 提交于
This also renames fs_subsys to fs_kobj to catch all current users with a build error instead of a build warning which can easily be missed. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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- 22 10月, 2007 1 次提交
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由 Christoph Hellwig 提交于
Now that nfsd has stopped writing to the find_exported_dentry member we an mark the export_operations const Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com> Cc: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net> Cc: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Cc: Timothy Shimmin <tes@sgi.com> Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com> Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> Cc: "Vladimir V. Saveliev" <vs@namesys.com> Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 21 10月, 2007 1 次提交
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由 Al Viro 提交于
Get a snapshot of a subtree, creating private clones of vfsmounts for all its components and release such snapshot resp. Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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- 20 10月, 2007 3 次提交
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由 Jason Uhlenkott 提交于
Fix an argument name in do_sys_open()'s prototype. Signed-off-by: NJason Uhlenkott <juhlenko@akamai.com> Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
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由 Pavel Emelyanov 提交于
This flag tells the .get_sb callback that this is a kern_mount() call so that it can trust *data pointer to be valid in-kernel one. If this flag is passed from the user process, it is cleared since the *data pointer is not a valid kernel object. Running a few steps forward - this will be needed for proc to create the superblock and store a valid pid namespace on it during the namespace creation. The reason, why the namespace cannot live without proc mount is described in the appropriate patch. Signed-off-by: NPavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Miklos Szeredi 提交于
Declarations go into headers. Signed-off-by: NMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Cc: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 19 10月, 2007 1 次提交
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由 Miklos Szeredi 提交于
Add a new attribute flag ATTR_OPEN, with the meaning: "truncation was initiated by open() due to the O_TRUNC flag". This way filesystems wanting to implement truncation within their ->open() method can ignore such truncate requests. This is a quick & dirty hack, but it comes for free. Signed-off-by: NMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 17 10月, 2007 15 次提交
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由 Serge E. Hallyn 提交于
Implement file posix capabilities. This allows programs to be given a subset of root's powers regardless of who runs them, without having to use setuid and giving the binary all of root's powers. This version works with Kaigai Kohei's userspace tools, found at http://www.kaigai.gr.jp/index.php. For more information on how to use this patch, Chris Friedhoff has posted a nice page at http://www.friedhoff.org/fscaps.html. Changelog: Nov 27: Incorporate fixes from Andrew Morton (security-introduce-file-caps-tweaks and security-introduce-file-caps-warning-fix) Fix Kconfig dependency. Fix change signaling behavior when file caps are not compiled in. Nov 13: Integrate comments from Alexey: Remove CONFIG_ ifdef from capability.h, and use %zd for printing a size_t. Nov 13: Fix endianness warnings by sparse as suggested by Alexey Dobriyan. Nov 09: Address warnings of unused variables at cap_bprm_set_security when file capabilities are disabled, and simultaneously clean up the code a little, by pulling the new code into a helper function. Nov 08: For pointers to required userspace tools and how to use them, see http://www.friedhoff.org/fscaps.html. Nov 07: Fix the calculation of the highest bit checked in check_cap_sanity(). Nov 07: Allow file caps to be enabled without CONFIG_SECURITY, since capabilities are the default. Hook cap_task_setscheduler when !CONFIG_SECURITY. Move capable(TASK_KILL) to end of cap_task_kill to reduce audit messages. Nov 05: Add secondary calls in selinux/hooks.c to task_setioprio and task_setscheduler so that selinux and capabilities with file cap support can be stacked. Sep 05: As Seth Arnold points out, uid checks are out of place for capability code. Sep 01: Define task_setscheduler, task_setioprio, cap_task_kill, and task_setnice to make sure a user cannot affect a process in which they called a program with some fscaps. One remaining question is the note under task_setscheduler: are we ok with CAP_SYS_NICE being sufficient to confine a process to a cpuset? It is a semantic change, as without fsccaps, attach_task doesn't allow CAP_SYS_NICE to override the uid equivalence check. But since it uses security_task_setscheduler, which elsewhere is used where CAP_SYS_NICE can be used to override the uid equivalence check, fixing it might be tough. task_setscheduler note: this also controls cpuset:attach_task. Are we ok with CAP_SYS_NICE being used to confine to a cpuset? task_setioprio task_setnice sys_setpriority uses this (through set_one_prio) for another process. Need same checks as setrlimit Aug 21: Updated secureexec implementation to reflect the fact that euid and uid might be the same and nonzero, but the process might still have elevated caps. Aug 15: Handle endianness of xattrs. Enforce capability version match between kernel and disk. Enforce that no bits beyond the known max capability are set, else return -EPERM. With this extra processing, it may be worth reconsidering doing all the work at bprm_set_security rather than d_instantiate. Aug 10: Always call getxattr at bprm_set_security, rather than caching it at d_instantiate. [morgan@kernel.org: file-caps clean up for linux/capability.h] [bunk@kernel.org: unexport cap_inode_killpriv] Signed-off-by: NSerge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Cc: Andrew Morgan <morgan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morgan <morgan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Joern Engel 提交于
I_LOCK was used for several unrelated purposes, which caused deadlock situations in certain filesystems as a side effect. One of the purposes now uses the new I_SYNC bit. Also document the various bits and change their order from historical to logical. [bunk@stusta.de: make fs/inode.c:wake_up_inode() static] Signed-off-by: NJoern Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Cc: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Fengguang Wu 提交于
NTFS's if-condition on dirty inodes is not complete. Fix it with sb_has_dirty_inodes(). Cc: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net> Cc: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com> Signed-off-by: NFengguang Wu <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Ken Chen 提交于
Current -mm tree has bucketful of bug fixes in periodic writeback path. However, we still hit a glitch where dirty pages on a given inode aren't completely flushed to the disk, and system will accumulate large amount of dirty pages beyond what dirty_expire_interval is designed for. The problem is __sync_single_inode() will move an inode to sb->s_dirty list even when there are more pending dirty pages on that inode. If there is another inode with a small number of dirty pages, we hit a case where the loop iteration in wb_kupdate() terminates prematurely because wbc.nr_to_write > 0. Thus leaving the inode that has large amount of dirty pages behind and it has to wait for another dirty_writeback_interval before we flush it again. We effectively only write out MAX_WRITEBACK_PAGES every dirty_writeback_interval. If the rate of dirtying is sufficiently high, the system will start accumulate a large number of dirty pages. So fix it by having another sb->s_more_io list on which to park the inode while we iterate through sb->s_io and to allow each dirty inode which resides on that sb to have an equal chance of flushing some amount of dirty pages. Signed-off-by: NKen Chen <kenchen@google.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Mathieu Desnoyers 提交于
Fix f_version type: should be u64 instead of long There is a type inconsistency between struct inode i_version and struct file f_version. fs.h: struct inode u64 i_version; and struct file unsigned long f_version; Users do: fs/ext3/dir.c: if (filp->f_version != inode->i_version) { So why isn't f_version a u64 ? It becomes a problem if versions gets higher than 2^32 and we are on an architecture where longs are 32 bits. This patch changes the f_version type to u64, and updates the users accordingly. It applies to 2.6.23-rc2-mm2. Signed-off-by: NMathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Cc: Martin Bligh <mbligh@google.com> Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Adrian Bunk 提交于
simple_commit_write() can now become static. Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Denis Cheng 提交于
Since the mempages parameter is actually not used, they should be removed. Now there is only files_init use the mempages parameter, files_init(mempages); but I don't think the adaptation to mempages in files_init is really useful; and if files_init also changed to the prototype void (*func)(void), the wrapper vfs_caches_init would also not need the mempages parameter. Signed-off-by: NDenis Cheng <crquan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Alexey Dobriyan 提交于
Rrrr, addition of sysctl.h to fs.h was't very smart, because simple editing of the former will buy you big recompile, where it shouldn't have to. Signed-off-by: NAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Nick Piggin 提交于
prepare/commit_write no longer returns AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE since OCFS2 and GFS2 were converted to the new aops, so we can make some simplifications for that. [michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com: fix warning] Signed-off-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com> Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NMichal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Nick Piggin 提交于
Rework the generic block "cont" routines to handle the new aops. Supporting cont_prepare_write would take quite a lot of code to support, so remove it instead (and we later convert all filesystems to use it). write_begin gets passed AOP_FLAG_CONT_EXPAND when called from generic_cont_expand, so filesystems can avoid the old hacks they used. Signed-off-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Nick Piggin 提交于
These are intended to replace prepare_write and commit_write with more flexible alternatives that are also able to avoid the buffered write deadlock problems efficiently (which prepare_write is unable to do). [mark.fasheh@oracle.com: API design contributions, code review and fixes] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: various fixes] [dmonakhov@sw.ru: new aop block_write_begin fix] Signed-off-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: NMark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: NDmitriy Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Nick Piggin 提交于
Add an iterator data structure to operate over an iovec. Add usercopy operators needed by generic_file_buffered_write, and convert that function over. Signed-off-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Fengguang Wu 提交于
Combine the file_ra_state members unsigned long prev_index unsigned int prev_offset into loff_t prev_pos It is more consistent and better supports huge files. Thanks to Peter for the nice proposal! [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix shift overflow] Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: NFengguang Wu <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Fengguang Wu 提交于
Fold file_ra_state.mmap_hit into file_ra_state.mmap_miss and make it an int. Signed-off-by: NFengguang Wu <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Fengguang Wu 提交于
Use 'unsigned int' instead of 'unsigned long' for readahead sizes. This helps reduce memory consumption on 64bit CPU when a lot of files are opened. CC: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Signed-off-by: NFengguang Wu <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 14 10月, 2007 1 次提交
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由 Peter Zijlstra 提交于
On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 22:13 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > The circular lock seems to be this: > > #1: > > sys_mmap2: down_write(&mm->mmap_sem); > nfs_revalidate_mapping: mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex); > > > #0: > > vfs_readdir: mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex); > - during the readdir (filldir64), we take a user fault (missing page?) > and call do_page_fault - > do_page_fault: down_read(&mm->mmap_sem); > > > So it does indeed look like a circular locking. Now the question is, "is > this a bug?". Looking like the inode of #1 must be a file or something > else that you can mmap and the inode of #0 seems it must be a directory. > I would say "no". > > Now if you can readdir on a file or mmap a directory, then this could be > an issue. > > Otherwise, I'd love to see someone teach lockdep about this issue! ;-) Make a distinction between file and dir usage of i_mutex. The inode should be complete and unused at unlock_new_inode(), re-init i_mutex depending on its type. Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
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- 15 10月, 2007 1 次提交
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由 Peter Zijlstra 提交于
Give each filesystem its own inode lock class. The various filesystems have different locking order wrt the inode locks; esp. the pseudo filesystems differ from the rest. Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
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- 10 10月, 2007 2 次提交
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由 Pavel Emelyanov 提交于
Currently /proc/locks is shown with a proc_read function, but its behavior is rather complex as it has to manually handle current offset and buffer length. On the other hand, files that show objects from lists can be easily reimplemented using the sequential files and the seq_list_XXX() helpers. This saves (as usually) 16 lines of code and more than 200 from the .text section. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: no externs in C] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: warning fixes] Signed-off-by: NPavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Pavel Emelyanov 提交于
The combination of S_ISGID bit set and S_IXGRP bit unset is used to mark the inode as "mandatory lockable" and there's a macro for this check called MANDATORY_LOCK(inode). However, fs/locks.c and some filesystems still perform the explicit i_mode checking. Besides, Andrew pointed out, that this macro is buggy itself, as it dereferences the inode arg twice. Convert this macro into static inline function and switch its users to it, making the code shorter and more readable. The __mandatory_lock() helper is to be used in places where the IS_MANDLOCK() for superblock is already known to be true. Signed-off-by: NPavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com> Cc: Ron Minnich <rminnich@sandia.gov> Cc: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net> Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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- 12 8月, 2007 1 次提交
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由 Adrian Bunk 提交于
This patch removes the no longer used file_send_actor(). Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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- 01 8月, 2007 1 次提交
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由 Christoph Hellwig 提交于
Make it a little more clear that this is the default implementation for the setleast operation. Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Acked-by: N"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 20 7月, 2007 4 次提交
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由 Fengguang Wu 提交于
Rename some file_ra_state variables and remove some accessors. It results in much simpler code. Kudos to Rusty! Signed-off-by: NFengguang Wu <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Fengguang Wu 提交于
Remove the old readahead algorithm. Signed-off-by: NFengguang Wu <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn> Cc: Steven Pratt <slpratt@austin.ibm.com> Cc: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Fengguang Wu 提交于
Extend struct file_ra_state to support the on-demand readahead logic. Also define some helpers for it. Signed-off-by: NFengguang Wu <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn> Cc: Steven Pratt <slpratt@austin.ibm.com> Cc: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Akinobu Mita 提交于
unregister_chrdev() does not return meaningful value. This patch makes it return void like most unregister_* functions. Signed-off-by: NAkinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 19 7月, 2007 4 次提交
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由 J. Bruce Fields 提交于
Since posix_test_lock(), like fcntl() and ->lock(), indicates absence or presence of a conflict lock by setting fl_type to, respectively, F_UNLCK or something other than F_UNLCK, the return value is no longer needed. Signed-off-by: N"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
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由 J. Bruce Fields 提交于
Export setlease so it can used by filesystems to implement their lease methods. Signed-off-by: N"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
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由 J. Bruce Fields 提交于
Currently leases are only kept locally, so there's no way for a distributed filesystem to enforce them against multiple clients. We're particularly interested in the case of nfsd exporting a cluster filesystem, in which case nfsd needs cluster-coherent leases in order to implement delegations correctly. Also add some documentation. Signed-off-by: NJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
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由 J. Bruce Fields 提交于
We've been using the convention that vfs_foo is the function that calls a filesystem-specific foo method if it exists, or falls back on a generic method if it doesn't; thus vfs_foo is what is called when some other part of the kernel (normally lockd or nfsd) wants to get a lock, whereas foo is what filesystems call to use the underlying local functionality as part of their lock implementation. So rename setlease to vfs_setlease (which will call a filesystem-specific setlease after a later patch) and __setlease to setlease. Also, vfs_setlease need only be GPL-exported as long as it's only needed by lockd and nfsd. Signed-off-by: N"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
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- 18 7月, 2007 4 次提交
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由 Amit Arora 提交于
fallocate() is a new system call being proposed here which will allow applications to preallocate space to any file(s) in a file system. Each file system implementation that wants to use this feature will need to support an inode operation called ->fallocate(). Applications can use this feature to avoid fragmentation to certain level and thus get faster access speed. With preallocation, applications also get a guarantee of space for particular file(s) - even if later the the system becomes full. Currently, glibc provides an interface called posix_fallocate() which can be used for similar cause. Though this has the advantage of working on all file systems, but it is quite slow (since it writes zeroes to each block that has to be preallocated). Without a doubt, file systems can do this more efficiently within the kernel, by implementing the proposed fallocate() system call. It is expected that posix_fallocate() will be modified to call this new system call first and incase the kernel/filesystem does not implement it, it should fall back to the current implementation of writing zeroes to the new blocks. ToDos: 1. Implementation on other architectures (other than i386, x86_64, and ppc). Patches for s390(x) and ia64 are already available from previous posts, but it was decided that they should be added later once fallocate is in the mainline. Hence not including those patches in this take. 2. Changes to glibc, a) to support fallocate() system call b) to make posix_fallocate() and posix_fallocate64() call fallocate() Signed-off-by: NAmit Arora <aarora@in.ibm.com>
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由 Satyam Sharma 提交于
Introduce is_owner_or_cap() macro in fs.h, and convert over relevant users to it. This is done because we want to avoid bugs in the future where we check for only effective fsuid of the current task against a file's owning uid, without simultaneously checking for CAP_FOWNER as well, thus violating its semantics. [ XFS uses special macros and structures, and in general looked ... untouchable, so we leave it alone -- but it has been looked over. ] The (current->fsuid != inode->i_uid) check in generic_permission() and exec_permission_lite() is left alone, because those operations are covered by CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE and CAP_DAC_READ_SEARCH. Similarly operations falling under the purview of CAP_CHOWN and CAP_LEASE are also left alone. Signed-off-by: NSatyam Sharma <ssatyam@cse.iitk.ac.in> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: NSerge E. Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Christoph Hellwig 提交于
currently the export_operation structure and helpers related to it are in fs.h. fs.h is already far too large and there are very few places needing the export bits, so split them off into a separate header. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix cifs build] Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: NNeil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Steven French <sfrench@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Akinobu Mita 提交于
Put WARN_ON and fixed all callers of unregister_blkdev(). Now we can make unregister_blkdev return void. Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: NAkinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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