- 20 7月, 2011 8 次提交
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由 Al Viro 提交于
not used by the instances anymore. Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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由 Al Viro 提交于
redundant; all callers get it duplicated in mask & MAY_NOT_BLOCK and none of them removes that bit. Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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由 Al Viro 提交于
not used in the instances anymore. Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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由 Al Viro 提交于
Duplicate the flags argument into mask bitmap. Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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由 Al Viro 提交于
its value depends only on inode and does not change; we might as well store it in ->i_op->check_acl and be done with that. Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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由 Al Viro 提交于
new helpers: atomic_inc_unless_negative()/atomic_dec_unless_positive() Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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由 Al Viro 提交于
convert the last remaining caller to inode_permission() Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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由 Al Viro 提交于
Call the given function for all superblocks of given type. Function gets a superblock (with s_umount locked shared) and (void *) argument supplied by caller of iterator. Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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- 28 6月, 2011 1 次提交
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由 Jan Kara 提交于
Under heavy memory and filesystem load, users observe the assertion mapping->nrpages == 0 in end_writeback() trigger. This can be caused by page reclaim reclaiming the last page from a mapping in the following race: CPU0 CPU1 ... shrink_page_list() __remove_mapping() __delete_from_page_cache() radix_tree_delete() evict_inode() truncate_inode_pages() truncate_inode_pages_range() pagevec_lookup() - finds nothing end_writeback() mapping->nrpages != 0 -> BUG page->mapping = NULL mapping->nrpages-- Fix the problem by doing a reliable check of mapping->nrpages under mapping->tree_lock in end_writeback(). Analyzed by Jay <jinshan.xiong@whamcloud.com>, lost in LKML, and dug out by Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.de>. Cc: Jay <jinshan.xiong@whamcloud.com> Cc: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.de> Signed-off-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 21 6月, 2011 1 次提交
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由 Linus Torvalds 提交于
Commit 13e12d14 ("vfs: reorganize 'struct inode' layout a bit") moved things around a bit changed i_state to be unsigned int instead of unsigned long. That was to help structure layout for the 64-bit case, and shrink 'struct inode' a bit (admittedly that only happened when spinlock debugging was on and i_flags didn't pack with i_lock). However, Meelis Roos reports that this results in unaligned exceptions on sprc, and it turns out that the bit-locking primitives that we use for the I_NEW bit want to use the bitops. Which want 'unsigned long', not 'unsigned int'. We really should fix the bit locking code to not have that kind of requirement, but that's a much bigger change. So for now, revert that field back to 'unsigned long' (but keep the other re-ordering changes from the commit that caused this). Andi points out that we have played games with this in 'struct page', so it's solvable with other hacks too, but since right now the struct inode size advantage only happens with some rare config options, it's not worth fighting. It _would_ be worth fixing the bitlocking code, though. Especially since there is no type safety in the bitlocking code (this never caused any warnings, and worked fine on x86-64, because the bitlocks take a 'void *' and x86-64 doesn't care that deeply about alignment). So it's currently a very easy problem to trigger by mistake and never notice. Reported-by: NMeelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 09 6月, 2011 1 次提交
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由 Linus Torvalds 提交于
This tries to make the 'struct inode' accesses denser in the data cache by moving a commonly accessed field (i_security) closer to other fields that are accessed often. It also makes 'i_state' just an 'unsigned int' rather than 'unsigned long', since we only use a few bits of that field, and moves it next to the existing 'i_flags' so that we potentially get better structure layout (although depending on config options, i_flags may already have packed in the same word as i_lock, so this improves packing only for the case of spinlock debugging) Out 'struct inode' is still way too big, and we should probably move some other fields around too (the acl fields in particular) for better data cache access density. Other fields (like the inode hash) are likely to be entirely irrelevant under most loads. Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 04 6月, 2011 1 次提交
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由 Al Viro 提交于
Caching "we have already removed suid/caps" was overenthusiastic as merged. On network filesystems we might have had suid/caps set on another client, silently picked by this client on revalidate, all of that *without* clearing the S_NOSEC flag. AFAICS, the only reasonably sane way to deal with that is * new superblock flag; unless set, S_NOSEC is not going to be set. * local block filesystems set it in their ->mount() (more accurately, mount_bdev() does, so does btrfs ->mount(), users of mount_bdev() other than local block ones clear it) * if any network filesystem (or a cluster one) wants to use S_NOSEC, it'll need to set MS_NOSEC in sb->s_flags *AND* take care to clear S_NOSEC when inode attribute changes are picked from other clients. It's not an earth-shattering hole (anybody that can set suid on another client will almost certainly be able to write to the file before doing that anyway), but it's a bug that needs fixing. Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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- 29 5月, 2011 1 次提交
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由 Andi Kleen 提交于
Some recent benchmarking on btrfs showed that a major scaling bottleneck on large systems on btrfs is currently the xattr lookup on every write. Why xattr lookup on every write I hear you ask? write wants to drop suid and security related xattrs that could set o capabilities for executables. To do that it currently looks up security.capability on EVERY write (even for non executables) to decide whether to drop it or not. In btrfs this causes an additional tree walk, hitting some per file system locks and quite bad scalability. In a simple read workload on a 8S system I saw over 90% CPU time in spinlocks related to that. Chris Mason tells me this is also a problem in ext4, where it hits the global mbcache lock. This patch adds a simple per inode to avoid this problem. We only do the lookup once per file and then if there is no xattr cache the decision. All xattr changes clear the flag. I also used the same flag to avoid the suid check, although that one is pretty cheap. A file system can also set this flag when it creates the inode, if it has a cheap way to do so. This is done for some common file systems in followon patches. With this patch a major part of the lock contention disappears for btrfs. Some testing on smaller systems didn't show significant performance changes, but at least it helps the larger systems and is generally more efficient. v2: Rename is_sgid. add file system helper. Cc: chris.mason@oracle.com Cc: josef@redhat.com Cc: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk Cc: agruen@linbit.com Cc: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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- 27 5月, 2011 2 次提交
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由 Christoph Hellwig 提交于
Tell the filesystem if we just updated timestamp (I_DIRTY_SYNC) or anything else, so that the filesystem can track internally if it needs to push out a transaction for fdatasync or not. This is just the prototype change with no user for it yet. I plan to push large XFS changes for the next merge window, and getting this trivial infrastructure in this window would help a lot to avoid tree interdependencies. Also remove incorrect comments that ->dirty_inode can't block. That has been changed a long time ago, and many implementations rely on it. Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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由 Dan Magenheimer 提交于
This second patch of eight in this cleancache series adds a field to the generic superblock to squirrel away a pool identifier that is dynamically provided by cleancache-enabled filesystems at mount time to uniquely identify files and pages belonging to this mounted filesystem. Details and a FAQ can be found in Documentation/vm/cleancache.txt [v8: trivial merge conflict update] Signed-off-by: NDan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: NJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Reviewed-by: NKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Rik Van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com> Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com> Cc: Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com> Cc: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com> Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
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- 25 5月, 2011 3 次提交
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由 Tim Gardner 提交于
Apps are increasingly using more than 1024 file descriptors. See discussion in several distro bug trackers, e.g. BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/663090 https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2054 You don't want to raise the default soft limit, since that might break apps that use select(), but it's safe to raise the default hard limit; that way, apps that know they need lots of file descriptors can raise their soft limit without needing root, and without user intervention. Ubuntu is doing this with a kernel change because they have a policy of not changing kernel defaults in userland. While 4096 might not be enough for *all* apps, it seems to be plenty for the apps I've seen lately that are unhappy with 1024. Signed-off-by: NTim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com> Cc: Dan Kegel <dank@kegel.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christoph 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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由 Peter Zijlstra 提交于
Straightforward conversion of i_mmap_lock to a mutex. Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: NHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@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 Peter Zijlstra 提交于
Hugh says: "The only significant loser, I think, would be page reclaim (when concurrent with truncation): could spin for a long time waiting for the i_mmap_mutex it expects would soon be dropped? " Counter points: - cpu contention makes the spin stop (need_resched()) - zap pages should be freeing pages at a higher rate than reclaim ever can I think the simplification of the truncate code is definitely worth it. Effectively reverts: 2aa15890 ("mm: prevent concurrent unmap_mapping_range() on the same inode") and takes out the code that caused its problem. Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Reviewed-by: NKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 15 5月, 2011 1 次提交
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由 Li Zefan 提交于
FS_COW_FL and FS_NOCOW_FL were newly introduced to control per file COW in btrfs, but FS_NOCOW_FL is sufficient. The fact is we don't have corresponding BTRFS_INODE_COW flag. COW is default, and FS_NOCOW_FL can be used to switch off COW for a single file. If we mount btrfs with nodatacow, a newly created file will be set with the FS_NOCOW_FL flag. So to turn on COW for it, we can just clear the FS_NOCOW_FL flag. Signed-off-by: NLi Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: NChris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
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- 13 4月, 2011 2 次提交
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由 Linus Torvalds 提交于
Gaah. When commit be85bcca reverted the export of file system uuid via /proc/<pid>/mountinfo, it also unintentionally removed the s_uuid field in struct super_block. I didn't mean to do that, since filesystems have been taught to fill it in (and we want to keep it for future re-introduction in the mountinfo file). Stupid of me. This adds it back in. Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Linus Torvalds 提交于
This reverts commit 93f1c20b. It turns out that libmount misparses it because it adds a '-' character in the uuid string, which libmount then incorrectly confuses with the separator string (" - ") at the end of all the optional arguments. Upstream libmount (in the util-linux tree) has been fixed, but until that fix actually percolates up to users, we'd better not expose this change in the kernel. Let's revisit this later (possibly by exposing the UUID without any '-' characters in it, avoiding the user-space bug). Reported-by: NDave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com> Cc: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com> Cc: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Cc: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 06 4月, 2011 1 次提交
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由 Jens Axboe 提交于
With the ->sync_page() hook gone, we have a few users that add their own static address_space_operations without any functions defined. fs/inode.c already has an empty_aops that it uses for init purposes. Lets export that and use it in the places where an otherwise empty aops was defined. Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
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- 31 3月, 2011 1 次提交
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由 Lucas De Marchi 提交于
Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed. Signed-off-by: NLucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
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- 28 3月, 2011 1 次提交
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由 liubo 提交于
For datacow control, the corresponding inode flags are needed. This is for btrfs use. v1->v2: Change FS_COW_FL to another bit due to conflict with the upstream e2fsprogs Signed-off-by: NLiu Bo <liubo2009@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: NChris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
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- 25 3月, 2011 1 次提交
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由 Dave Chinner 提交于
Protect inode state transitions and validity checks with the inode->i_lock. This enables us to make inode state transitions independently of the inode_lock and is the first step to peeling away the inode_lock from the code. This requires that __iget() is done atomically with i_state checks during list traversals so that we don't race with another thread marking the inode I_FREEING between the state check and grabbing the reference. Also remove the unlock_new_inode() memory barrier optimisation required to avoid taking the inode_lock when clearing I_NEW. Simplify the code by simply taking the inode->i_lock around the state change and wakeup. Because the wakeup is no longer tricky, remove the wake_up_inode() function and open code the wakeup where necessary. Signed-off-by: NDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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- 24 3月, 2011 2 次提交
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由 Serge E. Hallyn 提交于
And give it a kernel-doc comment. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: btrfs changed in linux-next] Signed-off-by: NSerge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr> Acked-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Serge E. Hallyn 提交于
Cheat for now and say all files belong to init_user_ns. Next step will be to let superblocks belong to a user_ns, and derive inode_userns(inode) from inode->i_sb->s_user_ns. Finally we'll introduce more flexible arrangements. Changelog: Feb 15: make is_owner_or_cap take const struct inode Feb 23: make is_owner_or_cap bool [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: NSerge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Acked-by: N"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: NDaniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr> Acked-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 23 3月, 2011 1 次提交
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由 Richard Kennedy 提交于
Re-ordering struct block_inode to remove 8 bytes of padding on 64 bit builds, which also shrinks bdev_inode by 8 bytes (776 -> 768) allowing it to fit into one fewer cache lines. Signed-off-by: NRichard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 18 3月, 2011 1 次提交
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由 Al Viro 提交于
not needed anymore, since all users (->get_sb() instances) are gone. Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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- 17 3月, 2011 2 次提交
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由 Al Viro 提交于
This is an ex-parrot. Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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由 Al Viro 提交于
a) ->show_devname(m, mnt) - what to put into devname columns in mounts, mountinfo and mountstats b) ->show_path(m, mnt) - what to put into relative path column in mountinfo Leaving those NULL gives old behaviour. NFS switched to using those. Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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- 15 3月, 2011 3 次提交
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由 Al Viro 提交于
New flag for open(2) - O_PATH. Semantics: * pathname is resolved, but the file itself is _NOT_ opened as far as filesystem is concerned. * almost all operations on the resulting descriptors shall fail with -EBADF. Exceptions are: 1) operations on descriptors themselves (i.e. close(), dup(), dup2(), dup3(), fcntl(fd, F_DUPFD), fcntl(fd, F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC, ...), fcntl(fd, F_GETFD), fcntl(fd, F_SETFD, ...)) 2) fcntl(fd, F_GETFL), for a common non-destructive way to check if descriptor is open 3) "dfd" arguments of ...at(2) syscalls, i.e. the starting points of pathname resolution * closing such descriptor does *NOT* affect dnotify or posix locks. * permissions are checked as usual along the way to file; no permission checks are applied to the file itself. Of course, giving such thing to syscall will result in permission checks (at the moment it means checking that starting point of ....at() is a directory and caller has exec permissions on it). fget() and fget_light() return NULL on such descriptors; use of fget_raw() and fget_raw_light() is needed to get them. That protects existing code from dealing with those things. There are two things still missing (they come in the next commits): one is handling of symlinks (right now we refuse to open them that way; see the next commit for semantics related to those) and another is descriptor passing via SCM_RIGHTS datagrams. Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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由 Aneesh Kumar K.V 提交于
We add a per superblock uuid field. File systems should update the uuid in the fill_super callback Signed-off-by: NAneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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由 Aneesh Kumar K.V 提交于
The syscall also return mount id which can be used to lookup file system specific information such as uuid in /proc/<pid>/mountinfo Signed-off-by: NAneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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- 14 3月, 2011 3 次提交
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由 Al Viro 提交于
New helpers: user_statfs() and fd_statfs(), taking userland pathname and descriptor resp. and filling struct kstatfs. Syscalls of statfs family (native, compat and foreign - osf and hpux on alpha and parisc resp.) switched to those. Removes some boilerplate code, simplifies cleanup on errors... Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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由 Al Viro 提交于
new function: file_open_root(dentry, mnt, name, flags) opens the file vfs_path_lookup would arrive to. Note that name can be empty; in that case the usual requirement that dentry should be a directory is lifted. open-coded equivalents switched to it, may_open() got down exactly one caller and became static. Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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由 Al Viro 提交于
take calculation of open_flags by open(2) arguments into new helper in fs/open.c, move filp_open() over there, have it and do_sys_open() use that helper, switch exec.c callers of do_filp_open() to explicit (and constant) struct open_flags. Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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- 10 3月, 2011 2 次提交
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由 Jens Axboe 提交于
With the plugging now being explicitly controlled by the submitter, callers need not pass down unplugging hints to the block layer. If they want to unplug, it's because they manually plugged on their own - in which case, they should just unplug at will. Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
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由 Jens Axboe 提交于
Code has been converted over to the new explicit on-stack plugging, and delay users have been converted to use the new API for that. So lets kill off the old plugging along with aops->sync_page(). Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
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- 24 2月, 2011 1 次提交
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由 NeilBrown 提交于
There are two cases when we call flush_disk. In one, the device has disappeared (check_disk_change) so any data will hold becomes irrelevant. In the oter, the device has changed size (check_disk_size_change) so data we hold may be irrelevant. In both cases it makes sense to discard any 'clean' buffers, so they will be read back from the device if needed. In the former case it makes sense to discard 'dirty' buffers as there will never be anywhere safe to write the data. In the second case it *does*not* make sense to discard dirty buffers as that will lead to file system corruption when you simply enlarge the containing devices. flush_disk calls __invalidate_devices. __invalidate_device calls both invalidate_inodes and invalidate_bdev. invalidate_inodes *does* discard I_DIRTY inodes and this does lead to fs corruption. invalidate_bev *does*not* discard dirty pages, but I don't really care about that at present. So this patch adds a flag to __invalidate_device (calling it __invalidate_device2) to indicate whether dirty buffers should be killed, and this is passed to invalidate_inodes which can choose to skip dirty inodes. flusk_disk then passes true from check_disk_change and false from check_disk_size_change. dm avoids tripping over this problem by calling i_size_write directly rathher than using check_disk_size_change. md does use check_disk_size_change and so is affected. This regression was introduced by commit 608aeef1 which causes check_disk_size_change to call flush_disk, so it is suitable for any kernel since 2.6.27. Cc: stable@kernel.org Acked-by: NJeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Patterson <andrew.patterson@hp.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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