linux/fs/efs, branch v3.4.37

switch open-coded instances of d_make_root() to new helper

2012-03-21T01:29:35Z

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

vfs: fix the stupidity with i_dentry in inode destructors

2012-01-04T03:52:40Z

Seeing that just about every destructor got that INIT_LIST_HEAD() copied into it, there is no point whatsoever keeping this INIT_LIST_HEAD in inode_init_once(); the cost of taking it into inode_init_always() will be negligible for pipes and sockets and negative for everything else. Not to mention the removal of boilerplate code from ->destroy_inode() instances... Signed-off-by: Al Viro

filesystems: add set_nlink()

2011-11-02T11:53:43Z

Replace remaining direct i_nlink updates with a new set_nlink() updater function. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi Tested-by: Toshiyuki Okajima Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig

make d_splice_alias(ERR_PTR(err), dentry) = ERR_PTR(err)

2011-07-20T05:44:26Z

... and simplify the living hell out of callers Signed-off-by: Al Viro

block: remove per-queue plugging

2011-03-10T07:52:07Z

Code has been converted over to the new explicit on-stack plugging, and delay users have been converted to use the new API for that. So lets kill off the old plugging along with aops->sync_page(). Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

fs: icache RCU free inodes

2011-01-07T06:50:26Z

RCU free the struct inode. This will allow: - Subsequent store-free path walking patch. The inode must be consulted for permissions when walking, so an RCU inode reference is a must. - sb_inode_list_lock to be moved inside i_lock because sb list walkers who want to take i_lock no longer need to take sb_inode_list_lock to walk the list in the first place. This will simplify and optimize locking. - Could remove some nested trylock loops in dcache code - Could potentially simplify things a bit in VM land. Do not need to take the page lock to follow page->mapping. The downsides of this is the performance cost of using RCU. In a simple creat/unlink microbenchmark, performance drops by about 10% due to inability to reuse cache-hot slab objects. As iterations increase and RCU freeing starts kicking over, this increases to about 20%. In cases where inode lifetimes are longer (ie. many inodes may be allocated during the average life span of a single inode), a lot of this cache reuse is not applicable, so the regression caused by this patch is smaller. The cache-hot regression could largely be avoided by using SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU, however this adds some complexity to list walking and store-free path walking, so I prefer to implement this at a later date, if it is shown to be a win in real situations. I haven't found a regression in any non-micro benchmark so I doubt it will be a problem. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin

new helper: mount_bdev()

2010-10-29T08:16:13Z

... and switch of the obvious get_sb_bdev() users to ->mount() Signed-off-by: Al Viro

get rid of BKL in fs/efs

2009-06-17T04:36:36Z

Only readdir() really needed it, and that's easily fixable by switch to generic_file_llseek() Signed-off-by: Al Viro

fs/efs: return f_fsid for statfs(2)

2009-04-03T02:05:09Z

Make efs return f_fsid info for statfs(2), and do a little variable renaming in efs_statfs(). Signed-off-by: Coly Li Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

fs/Kconfig: move efs out

2009-01-22T10:15:57Z

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan