linux/kernel/relay.c, branch v4.8

relay: add global mode support for buffer-only channels

2016-08-02T23:35:41Z

Commit 20d8b67c06fa ("relay: add buffer-only channels; useful for early logging") added support to use channels with no associated files. This is useful when the exact location of relay file is not known or the the parent directory of relay file is not available, while creating the channel and the logging has to start right from the boot. But there was no provision to use global mode with buffer-only channels, which is added by this patch, without modifying the interface where initially there will be a dummy invocation of create_buf_file callback through which kernel client can convey the need of a global buffer. For the use case where drivers/kernel clients want a simple interface for the userspace, which enables them to capture data/logs from relay file inorder & without any post processing, support of Global buffer mode is warranted. Modules, like i915, using relay_open() in early init would have to later register their buffer-only relays, once debugfs is available, by calling relay_late_setup_files(). Hence relay_late_setup_files() symbol also needs to be exported. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1468404563-11653-1-git-send-email-akash.goel@intel.com Signed-off-by: Akash Goel Cc: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu Cc: Tom Zanussi Cc: Chris Wilson Cc: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kernel/relay.c: fix potential memory leak

2016-06-09T21:23:11Z

When relay_open_buf() fails in relay_open(), code will goto free_bufs, but chan is nowhere freed. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1464777927-19675-1-git-send-email-yizhouzhou@ict.ac.cn Signed-off-by: Zhouyi Zhou Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

wrappers for ->i_mutex access

2016-01-22T23:04:28Z

parallel to mutex_{lock,unlock,trylock,is_locked,lock_nested}, inode_foo(inode) being mutex_foo(&inode->i_mutex). Please, use those for access to ->i_mutex; over the coming cycle ->i_mutex will become rwsem, with ->lookup() done with it held only shared. Signed-off-by: Al Viro

kernel/relay.c: use kvfree() in relay_free_page_array()

2015-07-01T02:44:59Z

Use kvfree() instead of open-coding it. Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

VFS: kernel/: d_inode() annotations

2015-04-15T19:06:55Z

relayfs and tracefs are dealing with inodes of their own; those two act as filesystem drivers Signed-off-by: David Howells Signed-off-by: Al Viro

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

2014-04-12T21:49:50Z

Pull vfs updates from Al Viro: "The first vfs pile, with deep apologies for being very late in this window. Assorted cleanups and fixes, plus a large preparatory part of iov_iter work. There's a lot more of that, but it'll probably go into the next merge window - it *does* shape up nicely, removes a lot of boilerplate, gets rid of locking inconsistencie between aio_write and splice_write and I hope to get Kent's direct-io rewrite merged into the same queue, but some of the stuff after this point is having (mostly trivial) conflicts with the things already merged into mainline and with some I want more testing. This one passes LTP and xfstests without regressions, in addition to usual beating. BTW, readahead02 in ltp syscalls testsuite has started giving failures since "mm/readahead.c: fix readahead failure for memoryless NUMA nodes and limit readahead pages" - might be a false positive, might be a real regression..." * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (63 commits) missing bits of "splice: fix racy pipe->buffers uses" cifs: fix the race in cifs_writev() ceph_sync_{,direct_}write: fix an oops on ceph_osdc_new_request() failure kill generic_file_buffered_write() ocfs2_file_aio_write(): switch to generic_perform_write() ceph_aio_write(): switch to generic_perform_write() xfs_file_buffered_aio_write(): switch to generic_perform_write() export generic_perform_write(), start getting rid of generic_file_buffer_write() generic_file_direct_write(): get rid of ppos argument btrfs_file_aio_write(): get rid of ppos kill the 5th argument of generic_file_buffered_write() kill the 4th argument of __generic_file_aio_write() lustre: don't open-code kernel_recvmsg() ocfs2: don't open-code kernel_recvmsg() drbd: don't open-code kernel_recvmsg() constify blk_rq_map_user_iov() and friends lustre: switch to kernel_sendmsg() ocfs2: don't open-code kernel_sendmsg() take iov_iter stuff to mm/iov_iter.c process_vm_access: tidy up a bit ...

missing bits of "splice: fix racy pipe->buffers uses"

2014-04-12T11:04:19Z

that commit has fixed only the parts of that mess in fs/splice.c itself; there had been more in several other ->splice_read() instances... Signed-off-by: Al Viro

pipe: kill ->map() and ->unmap()

2014-04-02T03:19:19Z

all pipe_buffer_operations have the same instances of those... Signed-off-by: Al Viro

treewide: Fix typo in Documentation/DocBook

2014-02-19T13:58:17Z

This patch fix spelling typo in Documentation/DocBook. It is because .html and .xml files are generated by make htmldocs, I have to fix a typo within the source files. Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida Acked-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina

kernel: delete __cpuinit usage from all core kernel files

2013-07-14T23:36:59Z

The __cpuinit type of throwaway sections might have made sense some time ago when RAM was more constrained, but now the savings do not offset the cost and complications. For example, the fix in commit 5e427ec2d0 ("x86: Fix bit corruption at CPU resume time") is a good example of the nasty type of bugs that can be created with improper use of the various __init prefixes. After a discussion on LKML[1] it was decided that cpuinit should go the way of devinit and be phased out. Once all the users are gone, we can then finally remove the macros themselves from linux/init.h. This removes all the uses of the __cpuinit macros from C files in the core kernel directories (kernel, init, lib, mm, and include) that don't really have a specific maintainer. [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/20/589 Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker