cat < 2013-05-08T01:38:27Z aio: remove retry-based AIO 2013-05-08T01:38:27Z Zach Brown zab@redhat.com 2013-05-07T23:18:25Z urn:sha1:41003a7bcfed1255032e1e7c7b487e505b22e298 This removes the retry-based AIO infrastructure now that nothing in tree is using it. We want to remove retry-based AIO because it is fundemantally unsafe. It retries IO submission from a kernel thread that has only assumed the mm of the submitting task. All other task_struct references in the IO submission path will see the kernel thread, not the submitting task. This design flaw means that nothing of any meaningful complexity can use retry-based AIO. This removes all the code and data associated with the retry machinery. The most significant benefit of this is the removal of the locking around the unused run list in the submission path. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com> Signed-off-by: Zach Brown <zab@redhat.com> Cc: Zach Brown <zab@redhat.com> Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com> Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com> Cc: Selvan Mani <smani@micron.com> Cc: Sam Bradshaw <sbradshaw@micron.com> Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org> Reviewed-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/linux 2012-10-13T09:46:48Z David Howells dhowells@redhat.com 2012-10-13T09:46:48Z urn:sha1:607ca46e97a1b6594b29647d98a32d545c24bdff Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> vfs: retry last component if opening stale dentry 2012-06-01T16:12:01Z Miklos Szeredi mszeredi@suse.cz 2012-05-21T15:30:19Z urn:sha1:16b1c1cd71176ab0a76b26818fbf12db9183ed57 NFS optimizes away d_revalidates for last component of open. This means that open itself can find the dentry stale. This patch allows the filesystem to return EOPENSTALE and the VFS will retry the lookup on just the last component if possible. If the lookup was done using RCU mode, including the last component, then this is not possible since the parent dentry is lost. In this case fall back to non-RCU lookup. Currently this is not used since NFS will always leave RCU mode. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> drivercore: Add driver probe deferral mechanism 2012-03-08T19:53:13Z Grant Likely grant.likely@secretlab.ca 2012-03-05T15:47:41Z urn:sha1:d1c3414c2a9d10ef7f0f7665f5d2947cd088c093 Allow drivers to report at probe time that they cannot get all the resources required by the device, and should be retried at a later time. This should completely solve the problem of getting devices initialized in the right order. Right now this is mostly handled by mucking about with initcall ordering which is a complete hack, and doesn't even remotely handle the case where device drivers are in modules. This approach completely sidesteps the issues by allowing driver registration to occur in any order, and any driver can request to be retried after a few more other drivers get probed. v4: - Integrate Manjunath's addition of a separate workqueue - Change -EAGAIN to -EPROBE_DEFER for drivers to trigger deferral - Update comment blocks to reflect how the code really works v3: - Hold off workqueue scheduling until late_initcall so that the bulk of driver probes are complete before we start retrying deferred devices. - Tested with simple use cases. Still needs more testing though. Using it to get rid of the gpio early_initcall madness, or to replace the ASoC internal probe deferral code would be ideal. v2: - added locking so it should no longer be utterly broken in that regard - remove device from deferred list at device_del time. - Still completely untested with any real use case, but has been boot tested. Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Dilan Lee <dilee@nvidia.com> Cc: Manjunath GKondaiah <manjunath.gkondaiah@linaro.org> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Reviewed-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> Acked-by: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com> Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Better documentation for ERESTARTSYS 2007-06-01T15:18:29Z Satoru Takeuchi takeuchi_satoru@jp.fujitsu.com 2007-06-01T07:47:06Z urn:sha1:62e5b05db6cd5dd9cf9614cc5d2d0702c1e339bb Add comment for errnos related to restart syscall to avoid the leakage of them to user programs. Signed-off-by: Satoru Takeuchi <takeuchi_satoru@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>