1. 26 Jun, 2006 1 commit
  2. 23 Jun, 2006 2 commits
    • David Howells's avatar
      [PATCH] VFS: Permit filesystem to perform statfs with a known root dentry · 726c3342
      David Howells authored
      
      Give the statfs superblock operation a dentry pointer rather than a superblock
      pointer.
      
      This complements the get_sb() patch.  That reduced the significance of
      sb->s_root, allowing NFS to place a fake root there.  However, NFS does
      require a dentry to use as a target for the statfs operation.  This permits
      the root in the vfsmount to be used instead.
      
      linux/mount.h has been added where necessary to make allyesconfig build
      successfully.
      
      Interest has also been expressed for use with the FUSE and XFS filesystems.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      Cc: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      726c3342
    • David Howells's avatar
      [PATCH] VFS: Permit filesystem to override root dentry on mount · 454e2398
      David Howells authored
      Extend the get_sb() filesystem operation to take an extra argument that
      permits the VFS to pass in the target vfsmount that defines the mountpoint.
      
      The filesystem is then required to manually set the superblock and root dentry
      pointers.  For most filesystems, this should be done with simple_set_mnt()
      which will set the superblock pointer and then set the root dentry to the
      superblock's s_root (as per the old default behaviour).
      
      The get_sb() op now returns an integer as there's now no need to return the
      superblock pointer.
      
      This patch permits a superblock to be implicitly shared amongst several mount
      points, such as can be done with NFS to avoid potential inode aliasing.  In
      such a case, simple_set_mnt() would not be called, and instead the mnt_root
      and mnt_sb would be set directly.
      
      The patch also makes the following changes:
      
       (*) the get_sb_*() convenience functions in the core kernel now take a vfsmount
           pointer argument and return a...
      454e2398
  3. 09 Jun, 2006 1 commit
  4. 28 Mar, 2006 1 commit
  5. 23 Mar, 2006 1 commit
  6. 03 Feb, 2006 1 commit
  7. 09 Jan, 2006 2 commits
    • Jes Sorensen's avatar
      [PATCH] mutex subsystem, semaphore to mutex: VFS, ->i_sem · 1b1dcc1b
      Jes Sorensen authored
      
      This patch converts the inode semaphore to a mutex. I have tested it on
      XFS and compiled as much as one can consider on an ia64. Anyway your
      luck with it might be different.
      Modified-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      
      (finished the conversion)
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      1b1dcc1b
    • Eric Dumazet's avatar
      [PATCH] shrink dentry struct · 5160ee6f
      Eric Dumazet authored
      
      Some long time ago, dentry struct was carefully tuned so that on 32 bits
      UP, sizeof(struct dentry) was exactly 128, ie a power of 2, and a multiple
      of memory cache lines.
      
      Then RCU was added and dentry struct enlarged by two pointers, with nice
      results for SMP, but not so good on UP, because breaking the above tuning
      (128 + 8 = 136 bytes)
      
      This patch reverts this unwanted side effect, by using an union (d_u),
      where d_rcu and d_child are placed so that these two fields can share their
      memory needs.
      
      At the time d_free() is called (and d_rcu is really used), d_child is known
      to be empty and not touched by the dentry freeing.
      
      Lockless lookups only access d_name, d_parent, d_lock, d_op, d_flags (so
      the previous content of d_child is not needed if said dentry was unhashed
      but still accessed by a CPU because of RCU constraints)
      
      As dentry cache easily contains millions of entries, a size reduction is
      worth the extra complexity of the ugly C union.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
      Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
      Cc: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
      Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
      Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
      Cc: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
      Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
      Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
      Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
      Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
      Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
      Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@epoch.ncsc.mil>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      5160ee6f
  8. 25 Jun, 2005 1 commit
  9. 20 Jun, 2005 1 commit
    • Arnd Bergmann's avatar
      [PATCH] libfs: add simple attribute files · acaefc25
      Arnd Bergmann authored
      
      Based on the discussion about spufs attributes, this is my suggestion
      for a more generic attribute file support that can be used by both
      debugfs and spufs.
      
      Simple attribute files behave similarly to sequential files from
      a kernel programmers perspective in that a standard set of file
      operations is provided and only an open operation needs to
      be written that registers file specific get() and set() functions.
      
      These operations are defined as
      
      void foo_set(void *data, u64 val); and
      u64 foo_get(void *data);
      
      where data is the inode->u.generic_ip pointer of the file and the
      operations just need to make send of that pointer. The infrastructure
      makes sure this works correctly with concurrent access and partial
      read calls.
      
      A macro named DEFINE_SIMPLE_ATTRIBUTE is provided to further simplify
      using the attributes.
      
      This patch already contains the changes for debugfs to use attributes
      for its internal file operations.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
      acaefc25
  10. 16 Apr, 2005 1 commit
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Linux-2.6.12-rc2 · 1da177e4
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
      even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
      archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
      3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
      git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
      infrastructure for it.
      
      Let it rip!
      1da177e4