linux/arch/alpha/kernel/osf_sys.c, branch v3.18

vfs: move getname() from callers to do_mount()

2014-10-09T06:39:16Z

It would make more sense to pass char __user * instead of char * in callers of do_mount() and do getname() inside do_mount(). Suggested-by: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Seunghun Lee Signed-off-by: Al Viro

[readdir] constify ->actor

2013-06-29T08:57:05Z

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

[readdir] introduce iterate_dir() and dir_context

2013-06-29T08:46:46Z

iterate_dir(): new helper, replacing vfs_readdir(). struct dir_context: contains the readdir callback (and will get more stuff in it), embedded into whatever data that callback wants to deal with; eventually, we'll be passing it to ->readdir() replacement instead of (data,filldir) pair. Signed-off-by: Al Viro

mm: use vm_unmapped_area() on alpha architecture

2013-02-22T01:22:20Z

Update the alpha arch_get_unmapped_area function to make use of vm_unmapped_area() instead of implementing a brute force search. Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse Acked-by: Rik van Riel Cc: Richard Henderson Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky Cc: Matt Turner Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

cputime: Use accessors to read task cputime stats

2013-01-27T18:23:31Z

This is in preparation for the full dynticks feature. While remotely reading the cputime of a task running in a full dynticks CPU, we'll need to do some extra-computation. This way we can account the time it spent tickless in userspace since its last cputime snapshot. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Li Zhong Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Paul Gortmaker Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Thomas Gleixner

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

2012-11-18T19:13:48Z

Pull misc VFS fixes from Al Viro: "Remove a bogus BUG_ON() that can trigger spuriously + alpha bits of do_mount() constification I'd missed during the merge window." This pull request came in a week ago, I missed it for some reason. * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: kill bogus BUG_ON() in do_close_on_exec() missing const in alpha callers of do_mount()

alpha: separate thread-synchronous flags

2012-10-24T02:16:45Z

... and fix the race in updating unaligned control ones Signed-off-by: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

missing const in alpha callers of do_mount()

2012-10-21T01:41:28Z

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

vfs: define struct filename and have getname() return it

2012-10-13T00:14:55Z

getname() is intended to copy pathname strings from userspace into a kernel buffer. The result is just a string in kernel space. It would however be quite helpful to be able to attach some ancillary info to the string. For instance, we could attach some audit-related info to reduce the amount of audit-related processing needed. When auditing is enabled, we could also call getname() on the string more than once and not need to recopy it from userspace. This patchset converts the getname()/putname() interfaces to return a struct instead of a string. For now, the struct just tracks the string in kernel space and the original userland pointer for it. Later, we'll add other information to the struct as it becomes convenient. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton Signed-off-by: Al Viro

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

2012-10-03T03:25:04Z

Pull vfs update from Al Viro: - big one - consolidation of descriptor-related logics; almost all of that is moved to fs/file.c (BTW, I'm seriously tempted to rename the result to fd.c. As it is, we have a situation when file_table.c is about handling of struct file and file.c is about handling of descriptor tables; the reasons are historical - file_table.c used to be about a static array of struct file we used to have way back). A lot of stray ends got cleaned up and converted to saner primitives, disgusting mess in android/binder.c is still disgusting, but at least doesn't poke so much in descriptor table guts anymore. A bunch of relatively minor races got fixed in process, plus an ext4 struct file leak. - related thing - fget_light() partially unuglified; see fdget() in there (and yes, it generates the code as good as we used to have). - also related - bits of Cyrill's procfs stuff that got entangled into that work; _not_ all of it, just the initial move to fs/proc/fd.c and switch of fdinfo to seq_file. - Alex's fs/coredump.c spiltoff - the same story, had been easier to take that commit than mess with conflicts. The rest is a separate pile, this was just a mechanical code movement. - a few misc patches all over the place. Not all for this cycle, there'll be more (and quite a few currently sit in akpm's tree)." Fix up trivial conflicts in the android binder driver, and some fairly simple conflicts due to two different changes to the sock_alloc_file() interface ("take descriptor handling from sock_alloc_file() to callers" vs "net: Providing protocol type via system.sockprotoname xattr of /proc/PID/fd entries" adding a dentry name to the socket) * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (72 commits) MAX_LFS_FILESIZE should be a loff_t compat: fs: Generic compat_sys_sendfile implementation fs: push rcu_barrier() from deactivate_locked_super() to filesystems btrfs: reada_extent doesn't need kref for refcount coredump: move core dump functionality into its own file coredump: prevent double-free on an error path in core dumper usb/gadget: fix misannotations fcntl: fix misannotations ceph: don't abuse d_delete() on failure exits hypfs: ->d_parent is never NULL or negative vfs: delete surplus inode NULL check switch simple cases of fget_light to fdget new helpers: fdget()/fdput() switch o2hb_region_dev_write() to fget_light() proc_map_files_readdir(): don't bother with grabbing files make get_file() return its argument vhost_set_vring(): turn pollstart/pollstop into bool switch prctl_set_mm_exe_file() to fget_light() switch xfs_find_handle() to fget_light() switch xfs_swapext() to fget_light() ...