linux/fs/block_dev.c, branch v2.6.37

BKL: remove extraneous #include

2010-11-17T16:59:32Z

The big kernel lock has been removed from all these files at some point, leaving only the #include. Remove this too as a cleanup. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

convert get_sb_pseudo() users

2010-10-29T08:16:33Z

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

fs: inode split IO and LRU lists

2010-10-26T01:26:15Z

The use of the same inode list structure (inode->i_list) for two different list constructs with different lifecycles and purposes makes it impossible to separate the locking of the different operations. Therefore, to enable the separation of the locking of the writeback and reclaim lists, split the inode->i_list into two separate lists dedicated to their specific tracking functions. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Al Viro

fs: switch bdev inode bdi's correctly

2010-10-26T01:26:14Z

bdev inodes can remain dirty even after their last close. Hence the BDI associated with the bdev->inode gets modified duringthe last close to point to the default BDI. However, the bdev inode still needs to be moved to the dirty lists of the new BDI, otherwise it will corrupt the writeback list is was left on. Add a new function bdev_inode_switch_bdi() to move all the bdi state from the old bdi to the new one safely. This is only a temporary measure until the bdev inode<->bdi lifecycle problems are sorted out. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Al Viro

new helper: ihold()

2010-10-26T01:26:11Z

Clones an existing reference to inode; caller must already hold one. Signed-off-by: Al Viro

block: remove BLKDEV_IFL_WAIT

2010-09-16T18:52:58Z

All the blkdev_issue_* helpers can only sanely be used for synchronous caller. To issue cache flushes or barriers asynchronously the caller needs to set up a bio by itself with a completion callback to move the asynchronous state machine ahead. So drop the BLKDEV_IFL_WAIT flag that is always specified when calling blkdev_issue_* and also remove the now unused flags argument to blkdev_issue_flush and blkdev_issue_zeroout. For blkdev_issue_discard we need to keep it for the secure discard flag, which gains a more descriptive name and loses the bitops vs flag confusion. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

blkdev: cgroup whitelist permission fix

2010-08-11T15:59:18Z

The cgroup device whitelist code gets confused when trying to grant permission to a disk partition that is not currently open. Part of blkdev_open() includes __blkdev_get() on the whole disk. Basically, the only ways to reliably allow a cgroup access to a partition on a block device when using the whitelist are to 1) also give it access to the whole block device or 2) make sure the partition is already open in a different context. The patch avoids the cgroup check for the whole disk case when opening a partition. Addresses https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=589662 Signed-off-by: Chris Wright Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn Tested-by: Serge E. Hallyn Reported-by: Vivek Goyal Cc: Al Viro Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: "Daniel P. Berrange" Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'for-2.6.36' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block

2010-08-10T22:22:42Z

* 'for-2.6.36' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (149 commits) block: make sure that REQ_* types are seen even with CONFIG_BLOCK=n xen-blkfront: fix missing out label blkdev: fix blkdev_issue_zeroout return value block: update request stacking methods to support discards block: fix missing export of blk_types.h writeback: fix bad _bh spinlock nesting drbd: revert "delay probes", feature is being re-implemented differently drbd: Initialize all members of sync_conf to their defaults [Bugz 315] drbd: Disable delay probes for the upcomming release writeback: cleanup bdi_register writeback: add new tracepoints writeback: remove unnecessary init_timer call writeback: optimize periodic bdi thread wakeups writeback: prevent unnecessary bdi threads wakeups writeback: move bdi threads exiting logic to the forker thread writeback: restructure bdi forker loop a little writeback: move last_active to bdi writeback: do not remove bdi from bdi_list writeback: simplify bdi code a little writeback: do not lose wake-ups in bdi threads ... Fixed up pretty trivial conflicts in drivers/block/virtio_blk.c and drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c as per Jens.

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6

2010-08-10T18:26:52Z

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (96 commits) no need for list_for_each_entry_safe()/resetting with superblock list Fix sget() race with failing mount vfs: don't hold s_umount over close_bdev_exclusive() call sysv: do not mark superblock dirty on remount sysv: do not mark superblock dirty on mount btrfs: remove junk sb_dirt change BFS: clean up the superblock usage AFFS: wait for sb synchronization when needed AFFS: clean up dirty flag usage cifs: truncate fallout mbcache: fix shrinker function return value mbcache: Remove unused features add f_flags to struct statfs(64) pass a struct path to vfs_statfs update VFS documentation for method changes. All filesystems that need invalidate_inode_buffers() are doing that explicitly convert remaining ->clear_inode() to ->evict_inode() Make ->drop_inode() just return whether inode needs to be dropped fs/inode.c:clear_inode() is gone fs/inode.c:evict() doesn't care about delete vs. non-delete paths now ... Fix up trivial conflicts in fs/nilfs2/super.c

convert remaining ->clear_inode() to ->evict_inode()

2010-08-09T20:48:37Z

Signed-off-by: Al Viro