linux/fs/read_write.c, branch v3.12

aio: Kill aio_rw_vect_retry()

2013-07-30T15:53:12Z

This code doesn't serve any purpose anymore, since the aio retry infrastructure has been removed. This change should be safe because aio_read/write are also used for synchronous IO, and called from do_sync_read()/do_sync_write() - and there's no looping done in the sync case (the read and write syscalls). Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet Cc: Zach Brown Cc: Felipe Balbi Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Mark Fasheh Cc: Joel Becker Cc: Rusty Russell Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Asai Thambi S P Cc: Selvan Mani Cc: Sam Bradshaw Cc: Jeff Moyer Cc: Al Viro Cc: Benjamin LaHaise Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise

vfs: export lseek_execute() to modules

2013-07-03T12:23:27Z

For those file systems(btrfs/ext4/ocfs2/tmpfs) that support SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE functions, we end up handling the similar matter in lseek_execute() to update the current file offset to the desired offset if it is valid, ceph also does the simliar things at ceph_llseek(). To reduce the duplications, this patch make lseek_execute() public accessible so that we can call it directly from the underlying file systems. Thanks Dave Chinner for this suggestion. [AV: call it vfs_setpos(), don't bring the removed 'inode' argument back] v2->v1: - Add kernel-doc comments for lseek_execute() - Call lseek_execute() in ceph->llseek() Signed-off-by: Jie Liu Cc: Dave Chinner Cc: Al Viro Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Chris Mason Cc: Josef Bacik Cc: Ben Myers Cc: Ted Tso Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Mark Fasheh Cc: Joel Becker Cc: Sage Weil Signed-off-by: Al Viro

lseek_execute() doesn't need an inode passed to it

2013-06-29T08:57:53Z

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

constify rw_verify_area()

2013-06-29T08:57:34Z

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

new helper: fixed_size_llseek()

2013-06-29T08:57:26Z

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

don't call file_pos_write() if vfs_{read,write}{,v}() fails

2013-06-29T08:57:15Z

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

lift file_*_write out of do_splice_direct()

2013-06-29T08:57:08Z

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

splice: don't pass the address of ->f_pos to methods

2013-06-20T15:02:45Z

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

aio: don't include aio.h in sched.h

2013-05-08T03:16:25Z

Faster kernel compiles by way of fewer unnecessary includes. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix fallout] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build] Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet Cc: Zach Brown Cc: Felipe Balbi Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Mark Fasheh Cc: Joel Becker Cc: Rusty Russell Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Asai Thambi S P Cc: Selvan Mani Cc: Sam Bradshaw Cc: Jeff Moyer Cc: Al Viro Cc: Benjamin LaHaise Reviewed-by: "Theodore Ts'o" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

aio: remove retry-based AIO

2013-05-08T01:38:27Z

This removes the retry-based AIO infrastructure now that nothing in tree is using it. We want to remove retry-based AIO because it is fundemantally unsafe. It retries IO submission from a kernel thread that has only assumed the mm of the submitting task. All other task_struct references in the IO submission path will see the kernel thread, not the submitting task. This design flaw means that nothing of any meaningful complexity can use retry-based AIO. This removes all the code and data associated with the retry machinery. The most significant benefit of this is the removal of the locking around the unused run list in the submission path. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet Signed-off-by: Zach Brown Cc: Zach Brown Cc: Felipe Balbi Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Mark Fasheh Cc: Joel Becker Cc: Rusty Russell Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Asai Thambi S P Cc: Selvan Mani Cc: Sam Bradshaw Acked-by: Jeff Moyer Cc: Al Viro Cc: Benjamin LaHaise Reviewed-by: "Theodore Ts'o" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds