Merge tag 'for-3.8-merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs

Pull new F2FS filesystem from Jaegeuk Kim:
"Introduce a new file system, Flash-Friendly File System (F2FS), t

Merge tag 'for-3.8-merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs

Pull new F2FS filesystem from Jaegeuk Kim:
"Introduce a new file system, Flash-Friendly File System (F2FS), to
Linux 3.8.

Highlights:
- Add initial f2fs source codes
- Fix an endian conversion bug
- Fix build failures on random configs
- Fix the power-off-recovery routine
- Minor cleanup, coding style, and typos patches"

From the Kconfig help text:

F2FS is based on Log-structured File System (LFS), which supports
versatile "flash-friendly" features. The design has been focused on
addressing the fundamental issues in LFS, which are snowball effect
of wandering tree and high cleaning overhead.

Since flash-based storages show different characteristics according to
the internal geometry or flash memory management schemes aka FTL, F2FS
and tools support various parameters not only for configuring on-disk
layout, but also for selecting allocation and cleaning algorithms.

and there's an article by Neil Brown about it on lwn.net:

http://lwn.net/Articles/518988/

* tag 'for-3.8-merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs: (36 commits)
f2fs: fix tracking parent inode number
f2fs: cleanup the f2fs_bio_alloc routine
f2fs: introduce accessor to retrieve number of dentry slots
f2fs: remove redundant call to f2fs_put_page in delete entry
f2fs: make use of GFP_F2FS_ZERO for setting gfp_mask
f2fs: rewrite f2fs_bio_alloc to make it simpler
f2fs: fix a typo in f2fs documentation
f2fs: remove unused variable
f2fs: move error condition for mkdir at proper place
f2fs: remove unneeded initialization
f2fs: check read only condition before beginning write out
f2fs: remove unneeded memset from init_once
f2fs: show error in case of invalid mount arguments
f2fs: fix the compiler warning for uninitialized use of variable
f2fs: resolve build failures
f2fs: adjust kernel coding style
f2fs: fix endian conversion bugs reported by sparse
f2fs: remove unneeded version.h header file from f2fs.h
f2fs: update the f2fs document
f2fs: update Kconfig and Makefile
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f2fs: adjust kernel coding style

As pointed out by Randy Dunlap, this patch removes all usage of "/**" for comment
blocks. Instead, just use "/*".

Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.co

f2fs: adjust kernel coding style

As pointed out by Randy Dunlap, this patch removes all usage of "/**" for comment
blocks. Instead, just use "/*".

Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>

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f2fs: fix endian conversion bugs reported by sparse

This patch should resolve the bugs reported by the sparse tool.
Initial reports were written by "kbuild test robot" managed by fengguang.wu.

In m

f2fs: fix endian conversion bugs reported by sparse

This patch should resolve the bugs reported by the sparse tool.
Initial reports were written by "kbuild test robot" managed by fengguang.wu.

In my local machines, I've tested also by running:
> make C=2 CF="-D__CHECK_ENDIAN__"

Accordingly, I've found lots of warnings and bugs related to the endian
conversion. And I've fixed all at this moment.

Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>

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f2fs: add core directory operations

this adds core functions to find, add, delete, and link dentries.

Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>