linux/drivers/base
Linus Torvalds a66d2c8f7e Merge branch 'for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull the big VFS changes from Al Viro:
 "This one is *big* and changes quite a few things around VFS.  What's in there:

   - the first of two really major architecture changes - death to open
     intents.

     The former is finally there; it was very long in making, but with
     Miklos getting through really hard and messy final push in
     fs/namei.c, we finally have it.  Unlike his variant, this one
     doesn't introduce struct opendata; what we have instead is
     ->atomic_open() taking preallocated struct file * and passing
     everything via its fields.

     Instead of returning struct file *, it returns -E...  on error, 0
     on success and 1 in "deal with it yourself" case (e.g.  symlink
     found on server, etc.).

     See comments before fs/namei.c:atomic_open().  That made a lot of
     goodies finally possible and quite a few are in that pile:
     ->lookup(), ->d_revalidate() and ->create() do not get struct
     nameidata * anymore; ->lookup() and ->d_revalidate() get lookup
     flags instead, ->create() gets "do we want it exclusive" flag.

     With the introduction of new helper (kern_path_locked()) we are rid
     of all struct nameidata instances outside of fs/namei.c; it's still
     visible in namei.h, but not for long.  Come the next cycle,
     declaration will move either to fs/internal.h or to fs/namei.c
     itself.  [me, miklos, hch]

   - The second major change: behaviour of final fput().  Now we have
     __fput() done without any locks held by caller *and* not from deep
     in call stack.

     That obviously lifts a lot of constraints on the locking in there.
     Moreover, it's legal now to call fput() from atomic contexts (which
     has immediately simplified life for aio.c).  We also don't need
     anti-recursion logics in __scm_destroy() anymore.

     There is a price, though - the damn thing has become partially
     asynchronous.  For fput() from normal process we are guaranteed
     that pending __fput() will be done before the caller returns to
     userland, exits or gets stopped for ptrace.

     For kernel threads and atomic contexts it's done via
     schedule_work(), so theoretically we might need a way to make sure
     it's finished; so far only one such place had been found, but there
     might be more.

     There's flush_delayed_fput() (do all pending __fput()) and there's
     __fput_sync() (fput() analog doing __fput() immediately).  I hope
     we won't need them often; see warnings in fs/file_table.c for
     details.  [me, based on task_work series from Oleg merged last
     cycle]

   - sync series from Jan

   - large part of "death to sync_supers()" work from Artem; the only
     bits missing here are exofs and ext4 ones.  As far as I understand,
     those are going via the exofs and ext4 trees resp.; once they are
     in, we can put ->write_super() to the rest, along with the thread
     calling it.

   - preparatory bits from unionmount series (from dhowells).

   - assorted cleanups and fixes all over the place, as usual.

  This is not the last pile for this cycle; there's at least jlayton's
  ESTALE work and fsfreeze series (the latter - in dire need of fixes,
  so I'm not sure it'll make the cut this cycle).  I'll probably throw
  symlink/hardlink restrictions stuff from Kees into the next pile, too.
  Plus there's a lot of misc patches I hadn't thrown into that one -
  it's large enough as it is..."

* 'for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (127 commits)
  ext4: switch EXT4_IOC_RESIZE_FS to mnt_want_write_file()
  btrfs: switch btrfs_ioctl_balance() to mnt_want_write_file()
  switch dentry_open() to struct path, make it grab references itself
  spufs: shift dget/mntget towards dentry_open()
  zoran: don't bother with struct file * in zoran_map
  ecryptfs: don't reinvent the wheels, please - use struct completion
  don't expose I_NEW inodes via dentry->d_inode
  tidy up namei.c a bit
  unobfuscate follow_up() a bit
  ext3: pass custom EOF to generic_file_llseek_size()
  ext4: use core vfs llseek code for dir seeks
  vfs: allow custom EOF in generic_file_llseek code
  vfs: Avoid unnecessary WB_SYNC_NONE writeback during sys_sync and reorder sync passes
  vfs: Remove unnecessary flushing of block devices
  vfs: Make sys_sync writeout also block device inodes
  vfs: Create function for iterating over block devices
  vfs: Reorder operations during sys_sync
  quota: Move quota syncing to ->sync_fs method
  quota: Split dquot_quota_sync() to writeback and cache flushing part
  vfs: Move noop_backing_dev_info check from sync into writeback
  ...
2012-07-23 12:27:27 -07:00
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power Merge branch 'pm-sleep' 2012-07-19 10:39:21 +02:00
regmap Merge branches 'regmap-core', 'regmap-irq' and 'regmap-page' into regmap-next 2012-07-22 19:26:07 +01:00
attribute_container.c [SCSI] attirbute_container: Initialize sysfs attributes with sysfs_attr_init 2010-03-27 15:15:24 -04:00
base.h driver core: move the deferred probe pointer into the private area 2012-03-08 12:17:22 -08:00
bus.c Revert "driver core: check start node in klist_iter_init_node" 2012-04-19 19:17:30 -07:00
class.c Revert "driver core: check start node in klist_iter_init_node" 2012-04-19 19:17:30 -07:00
core.c driver-core: extend dev_printk() to pass structured data 2012-05-07 17:12:03 -07:00
cpu.c sched: Remove stale power aware scheduling remnants and dysfunctional knobs 2012-05-17 13:48:56 +02:00
dd.c Make wait_for_device_probe() also do scsi_complete_async_scans() 2012-07-18 18:15:46 -07:00
devres.c devres: Add devres_release() 2012-05-04 16:33:16 -07:00
devtmpfs.c get rid of kern_path_parent() 2012-07-14 16:35:02 +04:00
dma-buf.c dma-buf updates for 3.5 2012-05-25 09:37:26 -07:00
dma-coherent.c common: add dma_mmap_from_coherent() function 2012-05-21 15:06:09 +02:00
dma-contiguous.c drivers: add Contiguous Memory Allocator 2012-05-21 15:09:37 +02:00
dma-mapping.c drivers/base: Add export.h for EXPORT_SYMBOL/THIS_MODULE as required. 2011-10-31 19:31:38 -04:00
driver.c Driver Core: don't oops with unregistered driver in driver_find_device() 2012-05-14 08:46:01 -07:00
firmware_class.c firmware_class: Move request_firmware_nowait() to workqueues 2012-03-28 23:31:00 +02:00
firmware.c
hypervisor.c drivers/base: Add export.h for EXPORT_SYMBOL/THIS_MODULE as required. 2011-10-31 19:31:38 -04:00
init.c driver-core: implement 'sysdev' functionality for regular devices and buses 2011-12-14 14:29:38 -08:00
isa.c dma-mapping: replace all DMA_24BIT_MASK macro with DMA_BIT_MASK(24) 2009-04-07 08:31:12 -07:00
Kconfig drivers: add Contiguous Memory Allocator 2012-05-21 15:09:37 +02:00
Makefile drivers: add Contiguous Memory Allocator 2012-05-21 15:09:37 +02:00
map.c
memory.c Linux 3.3-rc7 2012-03-14 07:44:11 +01:00
module.c driver core: module.c: Use kasprintf 2010-05-21 09:37:29 -07:00
node.c mm: fix off-by-one bug in print_nodes_state() 2012-05-29 16:22:19 -07:00
platform.c drivercore: Output common devicetree information in uevent 2012-02-01 14:26:30 -07:00
soc.c mode_t whack-a-mole: ->is_visible() returns umode_t... 2012-05-29 23:28:42 -04:00
syscore.c PM: Reintroduce dropped call to check_wakeup_irqs 2011-07-11 10:51:49 +02:00
topology.c cpu: convert 'cpu' and 'machinecheck' sysdev_class to a regular subsystem 2011-12-21 14:29:42 -08:00
transport_class.c drivers/base: transport_class explicitly requires EXPORT_SYMBOL 2011-10-31 19:31:15 -04:00