* Merge akpm patch series: (122 commits)
drivers/connector/cn_proc.c: remove unused local
Documentation/SubmitChecklist: add RCU debug config options
reiserfs: use hweight_long()
reiserfs: use proper little-endian bitops
pnpacpi: register disabled resources
drivers/rtc/rtc-tegra.c: properly initialize spinlock
drivers/rtc/rtc-twl.c: check return value of twl_rtc_write_u8() in twl_rtc_set_time()
drivers/rtc: add support for Qualcomm PMIC8xxx RTC
drivers/rtc/rtc-s3c.c: support clock gating
drivers/rtc/rtc-mpc5121.c: add support for RTC on MPC5200
init: skip calibration delay if previously done
misc/eeprom: add eeprom access driver for digsy_mtc board
misc/eeprom: add driver for microwire 93xx46 EEPROMs
checkpatch.pl: update $logFunctions
checkpatch: make utf-8 test --strict
checkpatch.pl: add ability to ignore various messages
checkpatch: add a "prefer __aligned" check
checkpatch: validate signature styles and To: and Cc: lines
checkpatch: add __rcu as a sparse modifier
checkpatch: suggest using min_t or max_t
...
Did this as a merge because of (trivial) conflicts in
- Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
- arch/xtensa/include/asm/uaccess.h
that were just easier to fix up in the merge than in the patch series.
Use hweight_long() to count free bits in the bitmap.
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Using __test_and_{set,clear}_bit_le() with ignoring its return value can
be replaced with __{set,clear}_bit_le().
This introduces reiserfs_{set,clear}_le_bit for __{set,clear}_bit_le and
does the above change with them.
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Copy __generic_file_splice_read() and generic_file_splice_read() from
fs/splice.c to shmem_file_splice_read() in mm/shmem.c. Make
page_cache_pipe_buf_ops and spd_release_page() accessible to it.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
/proc/pid/oom_adj is deprecated and scheduled for removal in August 2012
according to Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt.
This patch makes the warning more verbose by making it appear as a more
serious problem (the presence of a stack trace and being multiline should
attract more attention) so that applications still using the old interface
can get fixed.
Very popular users of the old interface have been converted since the oom
killer rewrite has been introduced. udevd switched to the
/proc/pid/oom_score_adj interface for v162, kde switched in 4.6.1, and
opensshd switched in 5.7p1.
At the start of 2012, this should be changed into a WARN() to emit all
such incidents and then finally remove the tunable in August 2012 as
scheduled.
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This:
vma->vm_pgoff & ~(huge_page_mask(h) >> PAGE_SHIFT)
is incorrect on 32-bit. It causes us to & the pgoff with something that
looks like this (for a 4m hugepage): 0xfff003ff. The mask should be
flipped and *then* shifted, to give you 0x0000_03fff.
Signed-off-by: Becky Bruce <beckyb@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The "fsuid is the inode owner" case is not necessarily always the likely
case, but it's the case that doesn't do anything odd and that we want in
straight-line code. Make gcc not generate random "jump around for the
fun of it" code.
This just helps me read profiles. That thing is one of the hottest
parts of the whole pathname lookup.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (43 commits)
fs: Merge split strings
treewide: fix potentially dangerous trailing ';' in #defined values/expressions
uwb: Fix misspelling of neighbourhood in comment
net, netfilter: Remove redundant goto in ebt_ulog_packet
trivial: don't touch files that are removed in the staging tree
lib/vsprintf: replace link to Draft by final RFC number
doc: Kconfig: `to be' -> `be'
doc: Kconfig: Typo: square -> squared
doc: Konfig: Documentation/power/{pm => apm-acpi}.txt
drivers/net: static should be at beginning of declaration
drivers/media: static should be at beginning of declaration
drivers/i2c: static should be at beginning of declaration
XTENSA: static should be at beginning of declaration
SH: static should be at beginning of declaration
MIPS: static should be at beginning of declaration
ARM: static should be at beginning of declaration
rcu: treewide: Do not use rcu_read_lock_held when calling rcu_dereference_check
Update my e-mail address
PCIe ASPM: forcedly -> forcibly
gma500: push through device driver tree
...
Fix up trivial conflicts:
- arch/arm/mach-ep93xx/dma-m2p.c (deleted)
- drivers/gpio/gpio-ep93xx.c (renamed and context nearby)
- drivers/net/r8169.c (just context changes)
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6:
fs: take the ACL checks to common code
bury posix_acl_..._masq() variants
kill boilerplates around posix_acl_create_masq()
generic_acl: no need to clone acl just to push it to set_cached_acl()
kill boilerplate around posix_acl_chmod_masq()
reiserfs: cache negative ACLs for v1 stat format
xfs: cache negative ACLs if there is no attribute fork
9p: do no return 0 from ->check_acl without actually checking
vfs: move ACL cache lookup into generic code
CIFS: Fix oops while mounting with prefixpath
xfs: Fix wrong return value of xfs_file_aio_write
fix devtmpfs race
caam: don't pass bogus S_IFCHR to debugfs_create_...()
get rid of create_proc_entry() abuses - proc_mkdir() is there for purpose
asus-wmi: ->is_visible() can't return negative
fix jffs2 ACLs on big-endian with 16bit mode_t
9p: close ACL leaks
ocfs2_init_acl(): fix a leak
VFS : mount lock scalability for internal mounts
Replace the ->check_acl method with a ->get_acl method that simply reads an
ACL from disk after having a cache miss. This means we can replace the ACL
checking boilerplate code with a single implementation in namei.c.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
made static; no callers left outside of posix_acl.c. posix_acl_clone() also
has lost all external callers and became static...
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
new helper: posix_acl_create(&acl, gfp, mode_p). Replaces acl with
modified clone, on failure releases acl and replaces with NULL.
Returns 0 or -ve on error. All callers of posix_acl_create_masq()
switched.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
new helper: posix_acl_chmod(&acl, gfp, mode). Replaces acl with modified
clone or with NULL if that has failed; returns 0 or -ve on error. All
callers of posix_acl_chmod_masq() switched to that - they'd been doing
exactly the same thing.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Always set up a negative ACL cache entry if the inode can't have ACLs.
That behaves much better than doing this check inside ->check_acl.
Also remove the left over MAY_NOT_BLOCK check.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Always set up a negative ACL cache entry if the inode doesn't have an
attribute fork. That behaves much better than doing this check inside
->check_acl.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
If we do not want to use ACLs we at least need to perform normal Unix
permission checks. From the comment I'm not quite sure that's what
is intended, but if 0p wants to do permission checks entirely on the
server it needs to do so in ->permission, not in ->check_acl.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
This moves logic for checking the cached ACL values from low-level
filesystems into generic code. The end result is a streamlined ACL
check that doesn't need to load the inode->i_op->check_acl pointer at
all for the common cached case.
The filesystems also don't need to check for a non-blocking RCU walk
case in their acl_check() functions, because that is all handled at a
VFS layer.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
commit fec11dd9a0 caused
a regression when we have already mounted //server/share/a
and want to mount //server/share/a/b.
The problem is that lookup_one_len calls __lookup_hash
with nd pointer as NULL. Then __lookup_hash calls
do_revalidate in the case when dentry exists and we end
up with NULL pointer deference in cifs_d_revalidate:
if (nd->flags & LOOKUP_RCU)
return -ECHILD;
Fix this by checking nd for NULL.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Shilovsky <piastryyy@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
The fsync prototype change commit 02c24a8218 accidentally overwrote
the ssize_t return value of xfs_file_aio_write with 0 for SYNC type
writes. Fix this by checking if an error occured when calling
xfs_file_fsync and only change the return value in this case.
In addition xfs_file_fsync actually returns a normal negative error, so
fix this, too.
Signed-off-by: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Tested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* 'for-3.1/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (24 commits)
block: strict rq_affinity
backing-dev: use synchronize_rcu_expedited instead of synchronize_rcu
block: fix patch import error in max_discard_sectors check
block: reorder request_queue to remove 64 bit alignment padding
CFQ: add think time check for group
CFQ: add think time check for service tree
CFQ: move think time check variables to a separate struct
fixlet: Remove fs_excl from struct task.
cfq: Remove special treatment for metadata rqs.
block: document blk_plug list access
block: avoid building too big plug list
compat_ioctl: fix make headers_check regression
block: eliminate potential for infinite loop in blkdev_issue_discard
compat_ioctl: fix warning caused by qemu
block: flush MEDIA_CHANGE from drivers on close(2)
blk-throttle: Make total_nr_queued unsigned
block: Add __attribute__((format(printf...) and fix fallout
fs/partitions/check.c: make local symbols static
block:remove some spare spaces in genhd.c
block:fix the comment error in blkdev.h
...
casting int * to mode_t * is not a good thing - on a *lot* of big-endian
architectures mode_t happens to be smaller than int and there it breaks
quite spectaculary...
Fucked-up-by: commit cfc8dc6f6f
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
For a number of file systems that don't have a mount point (e.g. sockfs
and pipefs), they are not marked as long term. Therefore in
mntput_no_expire, all locks in vfs_mount lock are taken instead of just
local cpu's lock to aggregate reference counts when we release
reference to file objects. In fact, only local lock need to have been
taken to update ref counts as these file systems are in no danger of
going away until we are ready to unregister them.
The attached patch marks file systems using kern_mount without
mount point as long term. The contentions of vfs_mount lock
is now eliminated. Before un-registering such file system,
kern_unmount should be called to remove the long term flag and
make the mount point ready to be freed.
Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
unlinkat - Remove a directory entry
size[4] Tunlinkat tag[2] dirfid[4] name[s] flag[4]
size[4] Runlinkat tag[2]
older Tremove have the below request format
size[4] Tremove tag[2] fid[4]
The remove message is used to remove a directory entry either file or directory
The remove opreation is actually a directory opertation and should ideally have
dirfid, if not we cannot represent the fid on server with anything other than
name. We will have to derive the directory name from fid in the Tremove request.
NOTE: The operation doesn't clunk the unlink fid.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
renameat - change name of file or directory
size[4] Trenameat tag[2] olddirfid[4] oldname[s] newdirfid[4] newname[s]
size[4] Rrenameat tag[2]
older Trename have the below request format
size[4] Trename tag[2] fid[4] newdirfid[4] name[s]
The rename message is used to change the name of a file, possibly moving it
to a new directory. The rename opreation is actually a directory opertation
and should ideally have olddirfid, if not we cannot represent the fid on server
with anything other than name. We will have to derive the old directory name
from fid in the Trename request.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
This make sure we don't end up reusing the unlinked inode object.
The ideal way is to use inode i_generation. But i_generation is
not available in userspace always.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Without this fix, if any invalid mount options/args are passed while mouting
the 9p fs, no error (-EINVAL) is returned and default arg value is assigned.
This fix returns -EINVAL when an invalid arguement is found while parsing
mount options.
Signed-off-by: Prem Karat <prem.karat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
This make sure we don't use wrong inode from the inode hash. The inode number
of the file deleted is reused by the next file system object created
and if we only use inode number for inode hash lookup we could end up
with wrong struct inode.
Also compare inode generation number. Not all Linux file system provide
st_gen in userspace. So it could be 0;
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Now that VFS does the right thing remove the work around.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (107 commits)
vfs: use ERR_CAST for err-ptr tossing in lookup_instantiate_filp
isofs: Remove global fs lock
jffs2: fix IN_DELETE_SELF on overwriting rename() killing a directory
fix IN_DELETE_SELF on overwriting rename() on ramfs et.al.
mm/truncate.c: fix build for CONFIG_BLOCK not enabled
fs:update the NOTE of the file_operations structure
Remove dead code in dget_parent()
AFS: Fix silly characters in a comment
switch d_add_ci() to d_splice_alias() in "found negative" case as well
simplify gfs2_lookup()
jfs_lookup(): don't bother with . or ..
get rid of useless dget_parent() in btrfs rename() and link()
get rid of useless dget_parent() in fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
fs: push i_mutex and filemap_write_and_wait down into ->fsync() handlers
drivers: fix up various ->llseek() implementations
fs: handle SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA properly in all fs's that define their own llseek
Ext4: handle SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA generically
Btrfs: implement our own ->llseek
fs: add SEEK_HOLE and SEEK_DATA flags
reiserfs: make reiserfs default to barrier=flush
...
Fix up trivial conflicts in fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_super.c due to the new
shrinker callout for the inode cache, that clashed with the xfs code to
start the periodic workers later.
sbi->s_mutex isn't needed for isofs at all so we can just remove it. Generally,
since isofs is always mounted read-only, filesystem structure cannot change
under us. So buffer_head contents stays constant after it's filled in. That
leaves us with possible changes of global data structures. Superblock changes
only during filesystem mount (even remount does not change it), inodes are only
filled in during reading from disk. So there are no changes of these structures
to bother about.
Arguments why sbi->s_mutex can be removed at each place:
isofs_readdir: Accesses sb, inode, filp, local variables => s_mutex not needed
isofs_lookup: Protected by directory's i_mutex. Accesses sb, inode, dentry,
local variables => s_mutex not needed
rock_ridge_symlink_readpage: Protected by page lock. Accesses sb, inode,
local variables => s_mutex not needed.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
We don't generate IN_DELETE_SELF on victim of overwriting rename() if
it happens to be a directory. Trivially fixed by doing to ->i_nlink
what we do ->pino_nlink a couple of lines later in jffs2_rename().
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
On ramfs and other simple_rename() users IN_DELETE_SELF is not generated
for victim of overwriting rename() if it's is a directory. Works on
most of the local filesystems and really trivial to fix...
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* 'ptrace' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/oleg/misc: (39 commits)
ptrace: do_wait(traced_leader_killed_by_mt_exec) can block forever
ptrace: fix ptrace_signal() && STOP_DEQUEUED interaction
connector: add an event for monitoring process tracers
ptrace: dont send SIGSTOP on auto-attach if PT_SEIZED
ptrace: mv send-SIGSTOP from do_fork() to ptrace_init_task()
ptrace_init_task: initialize child->jobctl explicitly
has_stopped_jobs: s/task_is_stopped/SIGNAL_STOP_STOPPED/
ptrace: make former thread ID available via PTRACE_GETEVENTMSG after PTRACE_EVENT_EXEC stop
ptrace: wait_consider_task: s/same_thread_group/ptrace_reparented/
ptrace: kill real_parent_is_ptracer() in in favor of ptrace_reparented()
ptrace: ptrace_reparented() should check same_thread_group()
redefine thread_group_leader() as exit_signal >= 0
do not change dead_task->exit_signal
kill task_detached()
reparent_leader: check EXIT_DEAD instead of task_detached()
make do_notify_parent() __must_check, update the callers
__ptrace_detach: avoid task_detached(), check do_notify_parent()
kill tracehook_notify_death()
make do_notify_parent() return bool
ptrace: s/tracehook_tracer_task()/ptrace_parent()/
...
* 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs: (49 commits)
xfs: add size update tracepoint to IO completion
xfs: convert AIL cursors to use struct list_head
xfs: remove confusing ail cursor wrapper
xfs: use a cursor for bulk AIL insertion
xfs: failure mapping nfs fh to inode should return ESTALE
xfs: Remove the second parameter to xfs_sb_count()
xfs: remove the dead XFS_DABUF_DEBUG code
xfs: remove leftovers of the old btree tracing code
xfs: remove the dead QUOTADEBUG code
xfs: remove the unused xfs_buf_delwri_sort function
xfs: remove wrappers around b_iodone
xfs: remove wrappers around b_fspriv
xfs: add a proper transaction pointer to struct xfs_buf
xfs: factor out xfs_da_grow_inode_int
xfs: factor out xfs_dir2_leaf_find_stale
xfs: cleanup struct xfs_dir2_free
xfs: reshuffle dir2 headers
xfs: start periodic workers later
Revert "xfs: fix filesystsem freeze race in xfs_trans_alloc"
xfs: remove variables that serve no purpose in xfs_alloc_ag_vextent_exact()
...
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/teigland/dlm:
dlm: don't limit active work items
dlm: use workqueue for callbacks
dlm: remove deadlock debug print
dlm: improve rsb searches
dlm: keep lkbs in idr
dlm: fix kmalloc args
dlm: don't do pointless NULL check, use kzalloc and fix order of arguments
dlm: dump address of unknown node
dlm: use vmalloc for hash tables
dlm: show addresses in configfs
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hch/hfsplus:
hfsplus: ensure bio requests are not smaller than the hardware sectors
hfsplus: Add additional range check to handle on-disk corruptions
hfsplus: Add error propagation for hfsplus_ext_write_extent_locked
hfsplus: add error checking for hfs_find_init()
hfsplus: lift the 2TB size limit
hfsplus: fix overflow in hfsplus_read_wrapper
hfsplus: fix overflow in hfsplus_get_block
hfsplus: assignments inside `if' condition clean-up
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-2.6-nmw:
GFS2: combine duplicated block freeing routines
GFS2: Add S_NOSEC support
GFS2: Automatically adjust glock min hold time
GFS2: Cache dir hash table in a contiguous buffer
* 'linux-next' of git://git.infradead.org/ubifs-2.6: (32 commits)
MAINTAINERS: change e-mail of Adrian Hunter
UBIFS: fix master node recovery
UBIFS: improve power cut emulation testing
UBIFS: rename recovery testing variables
UBIFS: remove custom list of superblocks
UBIFS: stop re-defining UBI operations
UBIFS: switch to I/O helpers
UBIFS: switch to ubifs_leb_write
UBIFS: switch to ubifs_leb_read
UBIFS: introduce more I/O helpers
UBIFS: always print stacktrace when switching to R/O mode
UBIFS: remove unused and unneeded debugging function
UBIFS: add global debugfs knobs
UBIFS: introduce debugfs helpers
UBIFS: re-arrange debugging code a bit
UBIFS: be more informative in failure mode
UBIFS: switch self-check knobs to debugfs
UBIFS: lessen amount of debugging check types
UBIFS: introduce helper functions for debugging checks and tests
UBIFS: amend debugging inode size check function prototype
...
Currently all bio requests are 512 bytes, which may fail for media
whose physical sector size is larger than this. Ensure these
requests are not smaller than the block device logical block size.
BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/734883
Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
'recoff' is read from disk and used for an argument to memcpy, so if
the value read from disk is larger than the page size, it result to
"general protection fault". This patch add additional range check for
the value, so that disk fuzz won't cause such fault.
Signed-off-by: Naohiro Aota <naota@elisp.net>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Test-case:
void *tfunc(void *arg)
{
execvp("true", NULL);
return NULL;
}
int main(void)
{
int pid;
if (fork()) {
pthread_t t;
kill(getpid(), SIGSTOP);
pthread_create(&t, NULL, tfunc, NULL);
for (;;)
pause();
}
pid = getppid();
assert(ptrace(PTRACE_ATTACH, pid, 0,0) == 0);
while (wait(NULL) > 0)
ptrace(PTRACE_CONT, pid, 0,0);
return 0;
}
It is racy, exit_notify() does __wake_up_parent() too. But in the
likely case it triggers the problem: de_thread() does release_task()
and the old leader goes away without the notification, the tracer
sleeps in do_wait() without children/tracees.
Change de_thread() to do __wake_up_parent(traced_leader->parent).
Since it is already EXIT_DEAD we can do this without ptrace_unlink(),
EXIT_DEAD threads do not exist from do_wait's pov.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
It seems to hurt performance in real life. Yes, the inode will be used
later, but the conditional doesn't seem to predict all that well
(negative dentries are not uncommon) and it looks like the cost of
prefetching is simply higher than depending on the cache doing the right
thing.
As usual.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The compiler, at least for ix86 and m68k, validly warns that the
comparison:
next <= (loff_t)-1
is always true (and it's always true also for x86-64 and probably all
other arches - as long as pgoff_t isn't wider than loff_t). The
intention appears to be to avoid wrapping of "next", so rather than
eliminating the pointless comparison, fix the loop to indeed get exited
when "next" would otherwise wrap.
On m68k the following warning is observed:
fs/fscache/page.c: In function '__fscache_uncache_all_inode_pages':
fs/fscache/page.c:979: warning: comparison is always false due to limited range of data type
Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Reported-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@suse.de>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
