switch ->create() to umode_t

vfs_create() ignores everything outside of 16bit subset of its
mode argument; switching it to umode_t is obviously equivalent
and it's the only caller of

switch ->create() to umode_t

vfs_create() ignores everything outside of 16bit subset of its
mode argument; switching it to umode_t is obviously equivalent
and it's the only caller of the method

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

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switch vfs_mkdir() and ->mkdir() to umode_t

vfs_mkdir() gets int, but immediately drops everything that might not
fit into umode_t and that's the only caller of ->mkdir()...

Sig

switch vfs_mkdir() and ->mkdir() to umode_t

vfs_mkdir() gets int, but immediately drops everything that might not
fit into umode_t and that's the only caller of ->mkdir()...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

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fs: push i_mutex and filemap_write_and_wait down into ->fsync() handlers

Btrfs needs to be able to control how filemap_write_and_wait_range() is called
in fsync to make it less of a pain

fs: push i_mutex and filemap_write_and_wait down into ->fsync() handlers

Btrfs needs to be able to control how filemap_write_and_wait_range() is called
in fsync to make it less of a painful operation, so push down taking i_mutex and
the calling of filemap_write_and_wait() down into the ->fsync() handlers. Some
file systems can drop taking the i_mutex altogether it seems, like ext3 and
ocfs2. For correctness sake I just pushed everything down in all cases to make
sure that we keep the current behavior the same for everybody, and then each
individual fs maintainer can make up their mind about what to do from there.
Thanks,

Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

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switch affs

either d_op instance would work for root, actually...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

switch affs to ->evict_inode()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

drop unused dentry argument to ->fsync

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

pass writeback_control to ->write_inode

This gives the filesystem more information about the writeback that
is happening. Trond requested this for the NFS unstable write handling,
a

pass writeback_control to ->write_inode

This gives the filesystem more information about the writeback that
is happening. Trond requested this for the NFS unstable write handling,
and other filesystems might benefit from this too by beeing able to
distinguish between the different callers in more detail.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

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Fix remount races with symlink handling in affs

A couple of fields in affs_sb_info is used in follow_link() and
symlink() for handling AFFS "absolute" symlinks. Need locking
against

Fix remount races with symlink handling in affs

A couple of fields in affs_sb_info is used in follow_link() and
symlink() for handling AFFS "absolute" symlinks. Need locking
against affs_remount() updates.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

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sanitize ->fsync() for affs

unfortunately, for affs (especially for affs directories) we have
no real way to keep track of metadata ownership. So we have to
do more or less what fil

sanitize ->fsync() for affs

unfortunately, for affs (especially for affs directories) we have
no real way to keep track of metadata ownership. So we have to
do more or less what file_fsync() does, but we do *not* need to
call write_super() there.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

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constify dentry_operations: misc filesystems

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

affs: convert s_bmlock into a mutex

The semaphore s_bmlock is used as a mutex. Convert it to the mutex API.

Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <matthias@kaehlcke.net>
Cc: Roman Z

affs: convert s_bmlock into a mutex

The semaphore s_bmlock is used as a mutex. Convert it to the mutex API.

Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <matthias@kaehlcke.net>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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[PATCH] fix reservation discarding in affs

- remove affs_put_inode, so preallocations aren't discared unnecessarily
often.
- remove affs_drop_inode, it's called with a spinlock hel

[PATCH] fix reservation discarding in affs

- remove affs_put_inode, so preallocations aren't discared unnecessarily
often.
- remove affs_drop_inode, it's called with a spinlock held, so it can't
use a mutex.
- make i_opencnt atomic
- avoid direct b_count manipulations
- a few allocation failure fixes, so that these are more gracefully
handled now.
Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

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iget: stop AFFS from using iget() and read_inode()

Stop the AFFS filesystem from using iget() and read_inode(). Replace
affs_read_inode() with affs_iget(), and call that instead of iget

iget: stop AFFS from using iget() and read_inode()

Stop the AFFS filesystem from using iget() and read_inode(). Replace
affs_read_inode() with affs_iget(), and call that instead of iget().
affs_iget() then uses iget_locked() directly and returns a proper error code
instead of an inode in the event of an error.

affs_fill_super() returns any error incurred when getting the root inode
instead of EINVAL.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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[PATCH] affs: implement ->drop_inode

affs wants to truncate the inode when the last user goes away, currently it
does that through a potentially racy i_count check in ->put_inode. But w

[PATCH] affs: implement ->drop_inode

affs wants to truncate the inode when the last user goes away, currently it
does that through a potentially racy i_count check in ->put_inode. But we
already have a method that's called just after the we dropped the last
reference, ->drop_inode. This patch implements affs_drop_inode to take
advantage of this.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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[PATCH] mark struct inode_operations const 1

Many struct inode_operations in the kernel can be "const". Marking them const
moves these to the .rodata section, which avoids false sharing

[PATCH] mark struct inode_operations const 1

Many struct inode_operations in the kernel can be "const". Marking them const
moves these to the .rodata section, which avoids false sharing with potential
dirty data. In addition it'll catch accidental writes at compile time to
these shared resources.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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Move several *_SUPER_MAGIC symbols to include/linux/magic.h.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>

[PATCH] mark address_space_operations const

Same as with already do with the file operations: keep them in .rodata and
prevents people from doing runtime patching.

Signed-off-by

[PATCH] mark address_space_operations const

Same as with already do with the file operations: keep them in .rodata and
prevents people from doing runtime patching.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Steven French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

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[PATCH] Make most file operations structs in fs/ const

This is a conversion to make the various file_operations structs in fs/
const. Basically a regexp job, with a few manual fixups

[PATCH] Make most file operations structs in fs/ const

This is a conversion to make the various file_operations structs in fs/
const. Basically a regexp job, with a few manual fixups

The goal is both to increase correctness (harder to accidentally write to
shared datastructures) and reducing the false sharing of cachelines with
things that get dirty in .data (while .rodata is nicely read only and thus
cache clean)

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

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Linux-2.6.12-rc2

Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we

Linux-2.6.12-rc2

Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!

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