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Andi Kleen d025c9db7f [PATCH] Support piping into commands in /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern
Using the infrastructure created in previous patches implement support to
pipe core dumps into programs.

This is done by overloading the existing core_pattern sysctl
with a new syntax:

|program

When the first character of the pattern is a '|' the kernel will instead
threat the rest of the pattern as a command to run.  The core dump will be
written to the standard input of that program instead of to a file.

This is useful for having automatic core dump analysis without filling up
disks.  The program can do some simple analysis and save only a summary of
the core dump.

The core dump proces will run with the privileges and in the name space of
the process that caused the core dump.

I also increased the core pattern size to 128 bytes so that longer command
lines fit.

Most of the changes comes from allowing core dumps without seeks.  They are
fairly straight forward though.

One small incompatibility is that if someone had a core pattern previously
that started with '|' they will get suddenly new behaviour.  I think that's
unlikely to be a real problem though.

Additional background:

> Very nice, do you happen to have a program that can accept this kind of
> input for crash dumps?  I'm guessing that the embedded people will
> really want this functionality.

I had a cheesy demo/prototype.  Basically it wrote the dump to a file again,
ran gdb on it to get a backtrace and wrote the summary to a shared directory.
Then there was a simple CGI script to generate a "top 10" crashes HTML
listing.

Unfortunately this still had the disadvantage to needing full disk space for a
dump except for deleting it afterwards (in fact it was worse because over the
pipe holes didn't work so if you have a holey address map it would require
more space).

Fortunately gdb seems to be happy to handle /proc/pid/fd/xxx input pipes as
cores (at least it worked with zsh's =(cat core) syntax), so it would be
likely possible to do it without temporary space with a simple wrapper that
calls it in the right way.  I ran out of time before doing that though.

The demo prototype scripts weren't very good.  If there is really interest I
can dig them out (they are currently on a laptop disk on the desk with the
laptop itself being in service), but I would recommend to rewrite them for any
serious application of this and fix the disk space problem.

Also to be really useful it should probably find a way to automatically fetch
the debuginfos (I cheated and just installed them in advance).  If nobody else
does it I can probably do the rewrite myself again at some point.

My hope at some point was that desktops would support it in their builtin
crash reporters, but at least the KDE people I talked too seemed to be happy
with their user space only solution.

Alan sayeth:

  I don't believe that piping as such as neccessarily the right model, but
  the ability to intercept and processes core dumps from user space is asked
  for by many enterprise users as well.  They want to know about, capture,
  analyse and process core dumps, often centrally and in automated form.

[akpm@osdl.org: loff_t != unsigned long]
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-01 00:39:33 -07:00
Andi Kleen d6cbd281d1 [PATCH] Some cleanup in the pipe code
Split the big and hard to read do_pipe function into smaller pieces.

This creates new create_write_pipe/free_write_pipe/create_read_pipe
functions.  These functions are made global so that they can be used by
other parts of the kernel.

The resulting code is more generic and easier to read and has cleaner error
handling and less gotos.

[akpm@osdl.org: cleanup]
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-01 00:39:33 -07:00
Dave Hansen ce71ec3684 [PATCH] r/o bind mounts: monitor zeroing of i_nlink
Some filesystems, instead of simply decrementing i_nlink, simply zero it
during an unlink operation.  We need to catch these in addition to the
decrement operations.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-01 00:39:30 -07:00
Mark Fasheh 17ff785691 [PATCH] r/o bind mounts: clean up OCFS2 nlink handling
OCFS2 does some operations on i_nlink, then reverts them if some of its
operations fail to complete.  This does not fit in well with the
drop_nlink() logic where we expect i_nlink to stay at zero once it gets
there.

So, delay all of the nlink operations until we're sure that the operations
have completed.  Also, introduce a small helper to check whether an inode
has proper "unlinkable" i_nlink counts no matter whether it is a directory
or regular inode.

This patch is broken out from the others because it does contain some
logical changes.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-01 00:39:30 -07:00
Dave Hansen d8c76e6f45 [PATCH] r/o bind mount prepwork: inc_nlink() helper
This is mostly included for parity with dec_nlink(), where we will have some
more hooks.  This one should stay pretty darn straightforward for now.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-01 00:39:30 -07:00
Dave Hansen 9a53c3a783 [PATCH] r/o bind mounts: unlink: monitor i_nlink
When a filesystem decrements i_nlink to zero, it means that a write must be
performed in order to drop the inode from the filesystem.

We're shortly going to have keep filesystems from being remounted r/o between
the time that this i_nlink decrement and that write occurs.

So, add a little helper function to do the decrements.  We'll tie into it in a
bit to note when i_nlink hits zero.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-01 00:39:30 -07:00
Dave Hansen aab520e2f6 [PATCH] r/o bind mount prepwork: move open_namei()'s vfs_create()
The code around vfs_create() in open_namei() is getting a bit too complex.
Right now, there is at least the reference count on the dentry, and the
i_mutex to worry about.  Soon, we'll also have mnt_writecount.

So, break the vfs_create() call out of open_namei(), and into a helper
function.  This duplicates the call to may_open(), but that isn't such a bad
thing since the arguments (acc_mode and flag) were being heavily massaged
anyway.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-01 00:39:30 -07:00
Dave Hansen 6902d925d5 [PATCH] r/o bind mounts: prepare for write access checks: collapse if()
We're shortly going to be adding a bunch more permission checks in these
functions.  That requires adding either a bunch of new if() conditions, or
some gotos.  This patch collapses existing if()s and uses gotos instead to
prepare for the upcoming changes.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-01 00:39:30 -07:00
Jay Lan 8f0ab51479 [PATCH] csa: convert CONFIG tag for extended accounting routines
There were a few accounting data/macros that are used in CSA but are #ifdef'ed
inside CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT.  This patch is to change those ifdef's from
CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT to CONFIG_TASK_XACCT.  A few defines are moved from
kernel/acct.c and include/linux/acct.h to kernel/tsacct.c and
include/linux/tsacct_kern.h.

Signed-off-by: Jay Lan <jlan@sgi.com>
Cc: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Cc: Chris Sturtivant <csturtiv@sgi.com>
Cc: Tony Ernst <tee@sgi.com>
Cc: Guillaume Thouvenin <guillaume.thouvenin@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-01 00:39:29 -07:00
Badari Pulavarty eed4e51fb6 [PATCH] Add vector AIO support
This work is initially done by Zach Brown to add support for vectored aio.
These are the core changes for AIO to support
IOCB_CMD_PREADV/IOCB_CMD_PWRITEV.

[akpm@osdl.org: huge build fix]
Signed-off-by: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-01 00:39:29 -07:00
Badari Pulavarty 543ade1fc9 [PATCH] Streamline generic_file_* interfaces and filemap cleanups
This patch cleans up generic_file_*_read/write() interfaces.  Christoph
Hellwig gave me the idea for this clean ups.

In a nutshell, all filesystems should set .aio_read/.aio_write methods and use
do_sync_read/ do_sync_write() as their .read/.write methods.  This allows us
to cleanup all variants of generic_file_* routines.

Final available interfaces:

generic_file_aio_read() - read handler
generic_file_aio_write() - write handler
generic_file_aio_write_nolock() - no lock write handler

__generic_file_aio_write_nolock() - internal worker routine

Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-01 00:39:28 -07:00
Badari Pulavarty ee0b3e671b [PATCH] Remove readv/writev methods and use aio_read/aio_write instead
This patch removes readv() and writev() methods and replaces them with
aio_read()/aio_write() methods.

Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-01 00:39:28 -07:00
Badari Pulavarty 027445c372 [PATCH] Vectorize aio_read/aio_write fileop methods
This patch vectorizes aio_read() and aio_write() methods to prepare for
collapsing all aio & vectored operations into one interface - which is
aio_read()/aio_write().

Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Michael Holzheu <HOLZHEU@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-01 00:39:28 -07:00
Jeff Mahoney 9ea0f9499d [PATCH] reiserfs: eliminate minimum window size for bitmap searching
When a file system becomes fragmented (using MythTV, for example), the
bigalloc window searching ends up causing huge performance problems.  In a
file system presented by a user experiencing this bug, the file system was
90% free, but no 32-block free windows existed on the entire file system.
This causes the allocator to scan the entire file system for each 128k
write before backing down to searching for individual blocks.

In the end, finding a contiguous window for all the blocks in a write is an
advantageous special case, but one that can be found naturally when such a
window exists anyway.

This patch removes the bigalloc window searching, and has been proven to
fix the test case described above.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-01 00:39:28 -07:00
Jeff Mahoney 5a2618e6a9 [PATCH] reiserfs: use generic_file_open for open() checks
The other common disk-based file systems (I checked ext[23], xfs, jfs)
check to ensure that opens of files > 2 GB fail unless O_LARGEFILE is
specified.  They check via generic_file_open or their own open routine.

ReiserFS doesn't have an f_op->open defined, and as such, it's possible to
open files > 2 GB without O_LARGEFILE.

This patch adds the f_op->open member to conform with the expected
behavior.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Cc: <reiserfs-dev@namesys.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-01 00:39:28 -07:00
Jeff Mahoney 5065227b46 [PATCH] reiserfs: on-demand bitmap loading
This is the patch the three previous ones have been leading up to.

It changes the behavior of ReiserFS from loading and caching all the bitmaps
as special, to treating the bitmaps like any other bit of metadata and just
letting the system-wide caches figure out what to hang on to.

Buffer heads are allocated on the fly, so there is no need to retain pointers
to all of them.  The caching of the metadata occurs when the data is read and
updated, and is considered invalid and uncached until then.

I needed to remove the vs-4040 check for performing a duplicate operation on a
particular bit.  The reason is that while the other sites for working with
bitmaps are allowed to schedule, is_reusable() is called from do_balance(),
which will panic if a schedule occurs in certain places.

The benefit of on-demand bitmaps clearly outweighs a sanity check that depends
on a compile-time option that is discouraged.

[akpm@osdl.org: warning fix]
Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Cc: <reiserfs-dev@namesys.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-01 00:39:28 -07:00
Jeff Mahoney 6f01046b35 [PATCH] reiserfs: reorganize bitmap loading functions
This patch moves the bitmap loading code from super.c to bitmap.c

The code is also restructured somewhat.  The only difference between new
format bitmaps and old format bitmaps is where they are.  That's a two liner
before loading the block to use the correct one.  There's no need for an
entirely separate code path.

The load path is generally the same, with the pattern being to throw out a
bunch of requests and then wait for them, then cache the metadata from the
contents.

Again, like the previous patches, the purpose is to set up for later ones.

Update: There was a bug in the previously posted version of this that resulted
in corruption.  The problem was that bitmap 0 on new format file systems must
be treated specially, and wasn't.  A stupid bug with an easy fix.

This is hopefully the last fix for the disaster that is the reiserfs bitmap
patch set.

If a bitmap block was full, first_zero_hint would end up at zero since it
would never be changed from it's zeroed out value.  This just sets it
beyond the end of the bitmap block.  If any bits are freed, it will be
reset to a valid bit.  When info->free_count = 0, then we already know it's
full.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Cc: <reiserfs-dev@namesys.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-01 00:39:27 -07:00
Jeff Mahoney 0b3dc17bc0 [PATCH] reiserfs: clean up bitmap block buffer head references
Similar to the SB_JOURNAL cleanup that was accepted a while ago, this patch
uses a temporary variable for buffer head references from the bitmap info
array.

This makes the code much more readable in some areas.

It also uses proper reference counting, doing a get_bh() after using the
pointer from the array and brelse()'ing it later.  This may seem silly, but a
later patch will replace the simple temporary variables with an actual read,
so the reference freeing will be used then.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Cc: <reiserfs-dev@namesys.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-01 00:39:27 -07:00
Jeff Mahoney e1fabd3ccf [PATCH] reiserfs: fix is_reusable bitmap check to not traverse the bitmap info array
There is a check in is_reusable to determine if a particular block is a bitmap
block.  It verifies this by going through the array of bitmap block buffer
heads and comparing the block number to each one.

Bitmap blocks are at defined locations on the disk in both old and current
formats.  Simply checking against the known good values is enough.

This is a trivial optimization for a non-production codepath, but this is the
first in a series of patches that will ultimately remove the buffer heads from
that array.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Cc: <reiserfs-dev@namesys.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-01 00:39:27 -07:00
Petr Vandrovec 54f67f631d [PATCH] Move ncpfs 32bit compat ioctl to ncpfs
The ncp specific compat ioctls are clearly local to one file system, so the
code can better live there.

This version of the patch moves everything into the generic ioctl handler
and uses it for both 32 and 64 bit calls.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Petr Vandrovec <petr@vandrovec.name>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-01 00:39:23 -07:00
Josef 'Jeff' Sipek f5579f8c7d [PATCH] VFS: Use SEEK_{SET, CUR, END} instead of hardcoded values
VFS: Use SEEK_{SET,CUR,END} instead of hardcoded values

Signed-off-by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <jeffpc@josefsipek.net>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-01 00:39:21 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan 82b0547cfa [PATCH] Create fs/utimes.c
* fs/open.c is getting bit crowdy
* preparation to lutimes(2)

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-01 00:39:19 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan 52978be636 [PATCH] kmemdup: some users
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-01 00:39:19 -07:00
Richard Knutsson 130c6b9898 [PATCH] fs/partitions: Conversion to generic boolean
Conversion of booleans to: generic-boolean.patch (2006-08-23)

Signed-off-by: Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0@student.ltu.se>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-01 00:39:19 -07:00
Richard Knutsson 4d81715fc5 [PATCH] fs/jfs: Conversion to generic boolean
Conversion of booleans to: generic-boolean.patch (2006-08-23)

Signed-off-by: Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0@student.ltu.se>
Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-01 00:39:19 -07:00
Richard Knutsson c49c311150 [PATCH] fs/ntfs: Conversion to generic boolean
Conversion of booleans to: generic-boolean.patch (2006-08-23)

Signed-off-by: Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0@student.ltu.se>
Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-01 00:39:19 -07:00
Jens Axboe 0fe2347957 [PATCH] Update axboe@suse.de email address
As people often look for the copyright in files to see who to mail,
update the link to a neutral one.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2006-09-30 20:52:34 +02:00
Milan Broz 50be345560 [PATCH] fix creating zero sized bio mempools in low memory system
In the very low memory systems is in the init_bio call
scale parameter set to zero and it leads to creating
zero sized mempool.

This patch prevents pool_entries parameter become zero,
so the created pool have at least 1 entry.

Mempool with 0 entries lead to incorrect behaviour
of mempool_free. (Alloc requests are not waken up
and system stalls in mempool_alloc->ioschedule).

Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2006-09-30 20:52:33 +02:00
Andrew Morton 5e6d12b2c8 [PATCH] CONFIG_BLOCK internal.h cleanups
- forward declare struct superblock
- use inlines, not macros

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2006-09-30 20:52:32 +02:00
David Howells 9361401eb7 [PATCH] BLOCK: Make it possible to disable the block layer [try #6]
Make it possible to disable the block layer.  Not all embedded devices require
it, some can make do with just JFFS2, NFS, ramfs, etc - none of which require
the block layer to be present.

This patch does the following:

 (*) Introduces CONFIG_BLOCK to disable the block layer, buffering and blockdev
     support.

 (*) Adds dependencies on CONFIG_BLOCK to any configuration item that controls
     an item that uses the block layer.  This includes:

     (*) Block I/O tracing.

     (*) Disk partition code.

     (*) All filesystems that are block based, eg: Ext3, ReiserFS, ISOFS.

     (*) The SCSI layer.  As far as I can tell, even SCSI chardevs use the
     	 block layer to do scheduling.  Some drivers that use SCSI facilities -
     	 such as USB storage - end up disabled indirectly from this.

     (*) Various block-based device drivers, such as IDE and the old CDROM
     	 drivers.

     (*) MTD blockdev handling and FTL.

     (*) JFFS - which uses set_bdev_super(), something it could avoid doing by
     	 taking a leaf out of JFFS2's book.

 (*) Makes most of the contents of linux/blkdev.h, linux/buffer_head.h and
     linux/elevator.h contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK being set.  sector_div() is,
     however, still used in places, and so is still available.

 (*) Also made contingent are the contents of linux/mpage.h, linux/genhd.h and
     parts of linux/fs.h.

 (*) Makes a number of files in fs/ contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK.

 (*) Makes mm/bounce.c (bounce buffering) contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK.

 (*) set_page_dirty() doesn't call __set_page_dirty_buffers() if CONFIG_BLOCK
     is not enabled.

 (*) fs/no-block.c is created to hold out-of-line stubs and things that are
     required when CONFIG_BLOCK is not set:

     (*) Default blockdev file operations (to give error ENODEV on opening).

 (*) Makes some /proc changes:

     (*) /proc/devices does not list any blockdevs.

     (*) /proc/diskstats and /proc/partitions are contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK.

 (*) Makes some compat ioctl handling contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK.

 (*) If CONFIG_BLOCK is not defined, makes sys_quotactl() return -ENODEV if
     given command other than Q_SYNC or if a special device is specified.

 (*) In init/do_mounts.c, no reference is made to the blockdev routines if
     CONFIG_BLOCK is not defined.  This does not prohibit NFS roots or JFFS2.

 (*) The bdflush, ioprio_set and ioprio_get syscalls can now be absent (return
     error ENOSYS by way of cond_syscall if so).

 (*) The seclvl_bd_claim() and seclvl_bd_release() security calls do nothing if
     CONFIG_BLOCK is not set, since they can't then happen.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2006-09-30 20:52:31 +02:00
David Howells d366e40a1c [PATCH] BLOCK: Remove no-longer necessary linux/buffer_head.h inclusions [try #6]
Remove inclusions of linux/buffer_head.h that are no longer necessary due to the
transfer of a number of things out of there.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2006-09-30 20:52:31 +02:00
David Howells 4cb50dc2ea [PATCH] BLOCK: Remove no-longer necessary linux/mpage.h inclusions [try #6]
Remove inclusions of linux/mpage.h that are no longer necessary due to the
transfer of generic_writepages().

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2006-09-30 20:52:30 +02:00
David Howells 188f83dfe0 [PATCH] BLOCK: Move the msdos device ioctl compat stuff to the msdos driver [try #6]
Move the msdos device ioctl compat stuff from fs/compat_ioctl.c to the msdos
driver so that the msdos header file doesn't need to be included.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2006-09-30 20:52:30 +02:00
David Howells 52a700c567 [PATCH] BLOCK: Move the Ext3 device ioctl compat stuff to the Ext3 driver [try #6]
Move the Ext3 device ioctl compat stuff from fs/compat_ioctl.c to the Ext3
driver so that the Ext3 header file doesn't need to be included.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2006-09-30 20:52:29 +02:00
David Howells e322ff07fb [PATCH] BLOCK: Move the Ext2 device ioctl compat stuff to the Ext2 driver [try #6]
Move the Ext2 device ioctl compat stuff from fs/compat_ioctl.c to the Ext2
driver so that the Ext2 header file doesn't need to be included.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2006-09-30 20:52:29 +02:00
David Howells 52b499c438 [PATCH] BLOCK: Move the ReiserFS device ioctl compat stuff to the ReiserFS driver [try #6]
Move the ReiserFS device ioctl compat stuff from fs/compat_ioctl.c to the
ReiserFS driver so that the ReiserFS header file doesn't need to be included.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2006-09-30 20:52:28 +02:00
David Howells 36695673b0 [PATCH] BLOCK: Move common FS-specific ioctls to linux/fs.h [try #6]
Move common FS-specific ioctls from linux/ext2_fs.h to linux/fs.h as FS_IOC_*
and FS_IOC32_* and have the users of them use those as a base.

Also move the GETFLAGS/SETFLAGS flags to linux/fs.h as FS_*_FL macros, and then
have the other users use them as a base.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2006-09-30 20:52:28 +02:00
David Howells 863d5b822c [PATCH] BLOCK: Move the loop device ioctl compat stuff to the loop driver [try #6]
Move the loop device ioctl compat stuff from fs/compat_ioctl.c to the loop
driver so that the loop header file doesn't need to be included.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2006-09-30 20:52:27 +02:00
David Howells b71e8a4ce0 [PATCH] BLOCK: Move __invalidate_device() to block_dev.c [try #6]
Move __invalidate_device() from fs/inode.c to fs/block_dev.c so that it can
more easily be disabled when the block layer is disabled.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2006-09-30 20:52:27 +02:00
David Howells 811d736f9e [PATCH] BLOCK: Dissociate generic_writepages() from mpage stuff [try #6]
Dissociate the generic_writepages() function from the mpage stuff, moving its
declaration to linux/mm.h and actually emitting a full implementation into
mm/page-writeback.c.

The implementation is a partial duplicate of mpage_writepages() with all BIO
references removed.

It is used by NFS to do writeback.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2006-09-30 20:52:26 +02:00
David Howells 7b0de42d7c [PATCH] BLOCK: Remove dependence on existence of blockdev_superblock [try #6]
Move blockdev_superblock extern declaration from fs/fs-writeback.c to a
headerfile and remove the dependence on it by wrapping it in a macro.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2006-09-30 20:52:26 +02:00
David Howells 07f3f05c1e [PATCH] BLOCK: Move extern declarations out of fs/*.c into header files [try #6]
Create a new header file, fs/internal.h, for common definitions local to the
sources in the fs/ directory.

Move extern definitions that should be in header files from fs/*.c to
fs/internal.h or other main header files where they span directories.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2006-09-30 20:52:18 +02:00
David Howells 65e6f5bc81 [PATCH] BLOCK: Don't call block_sync_page() from AFS [try #6]
The AFS filesystem no longer needs to override its sync_page() op.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2006-09-30 20:32:12 +02:00
David Howells cf9a2ae8d4 [PATCH] BLOCK: Move functions out of buffer code [try #6]
Move some functions out of the buffering code that aren't strictly buffering
specific.  This is a precursor to being able to disable the block layer.

 (*) Moved some stuff out of fs/buffer.c:

     (*) The file sync and general sync stuff moved to fs/sync.c.

     (*) The superblock sync stuff moved to fs/super.c.

     (*) do_invalidatepage() moved to mm/truncate.c.

     (*) try_to_release_page() moved to mm/filemap.c.

 (*) Moved some related declarations between header files:

     (*) declarations for do_invalidatepage() and try_to_release_page() moved
     	 to linux/mm.h.

     (*) __set_page_dirty_buffers() moved to linux/buffer_head.h.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2006-09-30 20:31:19 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov cf342e52e3 [PATCH] Don't need to disable interrupts for tasklist_lock
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2006-09-30 20:31:18 +02:00
Jens Axboe caa38fb0f4 [PATCH] ext3: make meta data reads use READ_META
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-09-30 20:29:42 +02:00
Jens Axboe fc46379daf [PATCH] cfq-iosched: kill cfq_exit_lock
cfq_exit_lock is protecting two things now:

- The per-ioc rbtree of cfq_io_contexts

- The per-cfqd linked list of cfq_io_contexts

The per-cfqd linked list can be protected by the queue lock, as it is (by
definition) per cfqd as the queue lock is.

The per-ioc rbtree is mainly used and updated by the process itself only.
The only outside use is the io priority changing. If we move the
priority changing to not browsing the rbtree, we can remove any locking
from the rbtree updates and lookup completely. Let the sys_ioprio syscall
just mark processes as having the iopriority changed and lazily update
the private cfq io contexts the next time io is queued, and we can
remove this locking as well.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-09-30 20:29:36 +02:00
Linus Torvalds c0341b0f47 Merge git://oss.sgi.com:8090/xfs/xfs-2.6
* git://oss.sgi.com:8090/xfs/xfs-2.6: (49 commits)
  [XFS] Remove v1 dir trace macro - missed in a past commit.
  [XFS] 955947: Infinite loop in xfs_bulkstat() on formatter() error
  [XFS] pv 956241, author: nathans, rv: vapo - make ino validation checks
  [XFS] pv 956240, author: nathans, rv: vapo - Minor fixes in
  [XFS] Really fix use after free in xfs_iunpin.
  [XFS] Collapse sv_init and init_sv into just the one interface.
  [XFS] standardize on one sema init macro
  [XFS] Reduce endian flipping in alloc_btree, same as was done for
  [XFS] Minor cleanup from dio locking fix, remove an extra conditional.
  [XFS] Fix kmem_zalloc_greedy warnings on 64 bit platforms.
  [XFS] pv 955157, rv bnaujok - break the loop on EFAULT formatter() error
  [XFS] pv 955157, rv bnaujok - break the loop on formatter() error
  [XFS] Fixes the leak in reservation space because we weren't ungranting
  [XFS] Add lock annotations to xfs_trans_update_ail and
  [XFS] Fix a porting botch on the realtime subvol growfs code path.
  [XFS] Minor code rearranging and cleanup to prevent some coverity false
  [XFS] Remove a no-longer-correct debug assert from dio completion
  [XFS] Add a greedy allocation interface, allocating within a min/max size
  [XFS] Improve error handling for the zero-fsblock extent detection code.
  [XFS] Be more defensive with page flags (error/private) for metadata
  ...
2006-09-29 09:36:55 -07:00
Vivek Goyal 632dd2053a [PATCH] Kcore elf note namesz field fix
o As per ELF specifications, it looks like that elf note "namesz" field
  contains the length of "name" including the size of null character.  And
  currently we are filling "namesz" without taking into the consideration
  the null character size.

o Kexec-tools performs this check deligently hence I ran into the issue
  while trying to open /proc/kcore in kexec-tools for some info.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:25 -07:00
Andrew Morton 327dcaadc0 [PATCH] expand_fdtable(): remove pointless unlock+lock
This unlock/lock on a super-unlikely path isn't worth the kernel text.

Cc: Vadim Lobanov <vlobanov@speakeasy.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:25 -07:00