linux/arch/alpha/kernel/osf_sys.c, branch v4.0

vfs: make first argument of dir_context.actor typed

2014-10-31T21:48:54Z

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi Signed-off-by: Al Viro

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