It is frequently useful to sync a single file system, instead of all
mounted file systems via sync(2):
- On machines with many mounts, it is not at all uncommon for some of
them to hang (e.g. unresponsive NFS server). sync(2) will get stuck on
those and may never get to the one you do care about (e.g., /).
- Some applications write lots of data to the file system and then
want to make sure it is flushed to disk. Calling fsync(2) on each
file introduces unnecessary ordering constraints that result in a large
amount of sub-optimal writeback/flush/commit behavior by the file
system.
There are currently two ways (that I know of) to sync a single super_block:
- BLKFLSBUF ioctl on the block device: That also invalidates the bdev
mapping, which isn't usually desirable, and doesn't work for non-block
file systems.
- 'mount -o remount,rw' will call sync_filesystem as an artifact of the
current implemention. Relying on this little-known side effect for
something like data safety sounds foolish.
Both of these approaches require root privileges, which some applications
do not have (nor should they need?) given that sync(2) is an unprivileged
operation.
This patch introduces a new system call syncfs(2) that takes an fd and
syncs only the file system it references. Maybe someday we can
$ sync /some/path
and not get
sync: ignoring all arguments
The syscall is motivated by comments by Al and Christoph at the last LSF.
syncfs(2) seems like an appropriate name given statfs(2).
A similar ioctl was also proposed a while back, see
http://marc.info/?l=linux-fsdevel&m=127970513829285&w=2
Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Hi,
I was backporting the coredump over pipe feature and noticed this small typo,
I wish I would have something bigger to contribute...
>From 15d6080e0ed4267da103c706917a33b1015e8804 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Holger Hans Peter Freyther <holger@moiji-mobile.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 17:42:50 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] fs: Fix a small typo in the comment
The function is called umh_pipe_setup not uhm_pipe_setup.
Signed-off-by: Holger Hans Peter Freyther <holger@moiji-mobile.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Remove the leftover from the commit 8ff3e8e85f ("select:
switch select() and poll() over to hrtimers").
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Move declaration of 'inode' to beginning of the function. Since it
is referenced directly or indirectly (in case of FIFREEZE/FITHAW/
FS_IOC_FIEMAP) it's not harmful IMHO. And remove unnecessary casts
using 'argp' instead.
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* 'trivial' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6: (25 commits)
video: change to new flag variable
scsi: change to new flag variable
rtc: change to new flag variable
rapidio: change to new flag variable
pps: change to new flag variable
net: change to new flag variable
misc: change to new flag variable
message: change to new flag variable
memstick: change to new flag variable
isdn: change to new flag variable
ieee802154: change to new flag variable
ide: change to new flag variable
hwmon: change to new flag variable
dma: change to new flag variable
char: change to new flag variable
fs: change to new flag variable
xtensa: change to new flag variable
um: change to new flag variables
s390: change to new flag variable
mips: change to new flag variable
...
Fix up trivial conflict in drivers/hwmon/Makefile
* 'misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6:
scripts/extract-ikconfig: add xz compression support
kbuild: add GNU GLOBAL tags generation
setlocalversion: update mercurial tag parsing
* 'i2c-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jdelvare/staging:
i2c-i801: SMBus patch for Intel DH89xxCC DeviceIDs
i2c: Drop i2c_adapter.id
i2c: Deprecate i2c_driver.attach_adapter and .detach_adapter
i2c-dev: Use standard bus notification mechanism
i2c: Export i2c_for_each_dev
i2c: Get rid of <linux/i2c-id.h>
i2c: Minor fixes to upgrading-clients document
i2c: make i2c_get_adapter prototype clearer
i2c: Fix typo in instantiating-devices document
i2c-boardinfo: Fix typo in comment
commit 54405cde76 (r8169: support control of advertising.)
introduced a bug in rtl8169_init_phy()
Reported-and-tested-by: Piotr Hosowicz <piotr@hosowicz.com>
Reported-and-tested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Acked-by:: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
Cc: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
Tested-by: Anca Emanuel <anca.emanuel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
In some cases during a threaded core dump not all the threads will have
a full register set. This happens when the signal causing the core dump
races with a thread exiting. The race happens when the exiting thread
has entered the kernel for the last time before the signal arrives, but
doesn't get far enough through the exit code to avoid being included
in the core dump.
So we get a thread included in the core dump which is never going to go
out to userspace again and only has a partial register set recorded
Normally we would catch each thread as it is about to go into userspace
and capture the full register set then.
However, this exiting thread is never going to go out to userspace
again, so we have no way to capture its full register set. It doesn't
really matter, though, as this is a thread which is effectively
already dead.
So instead of hitting a BUG() in this case (a really bad choice of
action in the first place), we use a poison value for the register
values.
[BenH]: Some cosmetic/stylistic changes and fix build on ppc32
Signed-off-by: Mike Wolf <mjw@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
The following code snippet:
unsigned int cpu = 0;
if (mpic->flags & MPIC_PRIMARY)
cpu = hard_smp_processor_id();
is seen in several places in the 'mpic.c' code. This changeset factors
that pattern out into a helper function called 'mpic_processor_id'.
Signed-off-by: Meador Inge <meador_inge@mentor.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
This property, defined in the Open PIC binding, tells the kernel not to use
the reset bit in the global configuration register. Additionally, its
presence mandates that only sources which are actually used (i.e. appear in
the device tree) should have their VECPRI bits initialized.
Although, "pic-no-reset" can be used for the same use cases that
"protected-sources" is covering, the "protected-sources" implementation was
left completely intact. This is a more pragmatic approach as there are
already several existing systems which use protected sources. If
"pic-no-reset" *and* "protected-sources" are both used, however, then
"pic-no-reset" takes precedence in terms of the init behavior and the
sanity checks done by protected sources will still take place.
Signed-off-by: Meador Inge <meador_inge@mentor.com>
Cc: Hollis Blanchard <hollis_blanchard@mentor.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
This binding documents several properties that have been in use for quite
some time, and adds one new property 'pic-no-reset', which controls the
runtime initialization behavior of the PIC. More specifically, the presence
of 'pic-no-reset' mandates that the PIC shall not be reset during runtime
initialization and that any initialization related to interrupt sources
shall be limited to sources explicitly referenced in the device tree. This
functionality is useful in AMP systems where multiple OSes are sharing the
PIC and the reinitialization of the PIC can interfere with OSes that are
already up and running.
The interrupt specifier definition is based off of Stuart Yoder's FSL MPIC
binding.
Signed-off-by: Meador Inge <meador_inge@mentor.com>
Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Cc: Stuart Yoder <stuart.yoder@freescale.com>
Cc: Hollis Blanchard <hollis_blanchard@mentor.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Commit b5d937de03 has a bug which causes
basically a NULL dereference in the PCI code during boot on ppc64
machines.
fetch_dev_dn() is called when dev->dev.of_node is NULL, so using that
as the starting point for the search makes no sense. It should instead
start from the device node of the PHB.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Like the older ieee1394 core driver, firewire-core skipped scanning of
any new node whose PHY sent a self ID without "link active" bit. If a
device had this bit off mistakenly, it meant that it was inaccessible to
kernel drivers with the old IEEE 1394 driver stack but could still be
accessed by userspace drivers through the raw1394 interface.
But with firewire-core, userspace drivers don't get to see such buggy
devices anymore. This is effectively a driver regression since this
device bug is otherwise harmless.
We now attempt to scan all devices, even repeaters that don't have a
link or powered-down devices that have everything but their PHY shut
down when plugged in. This results in futile repeated scanning attempts
in case of such devices that really don't have an active link, but this
doesn't hurt since recent workqueue infrastructure lets us run more
concurrent scanning jobs than we can shake a stick at.
This should fix accessibility of Focusrite Saffire PRO 26 I/O:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=20110314215622.5c751bb0%40stein&forum_name=ffado-user
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Now that firewire-core sets the local node's SPLIT_TIMEOUT to 2 seconds
per default, commit a481e97d3c is no
longer required.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
The SPLIT_TIMEOUT mechanism is intended to detect requests that somehow
got lost. However, when the timeout value is too low, transactions that
could have been completed successfully will be cancelled. Furthermore,
there are chips whose firmwares ignore the configured split timeout and
send late split response; known examples are the DM1x00 (BeBoB), TCD22x0
(DICE), and some OXUF936QSE firmwares.
This patch changes the default timeout to two seconds, which happens to
be the default on other OSes, too.
Actual lost requests are extremely rare, so there should be no practical
downside to increasing the split timeout even on devices that work
correctly.
Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Add the SMBus Controller DeviceIDs for the Intel DH89xxCC PCH.
Signed-off-by: Seth Heasley <seth.heasley@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
The last legitimate user of i2c_driver.attach_adapter and
.detach_adapter is gone, so we can finally deprecate these callbacks.
The last few drivers which still use these will have to be updated to
make use of standard I2C device instantiation ways instead.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Use the standard driver core mechanism to keep track of i2c adapters
present on the system: i2c_for_each_dev and a notifier. This will let
us deprecate and ultimately remove the legacy attach_adapter and
detach_adapter callbacks in i2c_driver.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Introduce i2c_for_each_dev(), an i2c device iterator with proper
locking for use by i2c-dev. This is needed so that we can get rid of
the attach_adapter and detach_adapter legacy callback functions.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
The last remaining ID in <linux/i2c-id.h> is no longer used anywhere,
so we can finally get rid of it.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
* Typical legacy drivers implemented method .detach_client, not
.detach_adapter.
* Drop all references to __devexit, as i2c drivers shouldn't use it.
Cc: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Rename the parameter of i2c_get_adapter() to "nr", to make it clear we
are passing an adapter number and not an adapter ID (which have gone
away by now.)
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
The struct i2c_board_info member holding the name is "type", not
"name".
Signed-off-by: Roman Fietze <roman.fietze@telemotive.de>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input: (64 commits)
Input: tsc2005 - remove 'disable' sysfs attribute
Input: tsc2005 - add open/close
Input: tsc2005 - handle read errors from SPI layer
Input: tsc2005 - do not rearm timer in hardirq handler
Input: tsc2005 - don't use work for 'pen up' handling
Input: tsc2005 - do not use 0 in place of NULL
Input: tsc2005 - use true/false for boolean variables
Input: tsc2005 - hide selftest attribute if we can't reset
Input: tsc2005 - rework driver initialization code
Input: tsc2005 - set up bus type in input device
Input: tsc2005 - set up parent device
Input: tsc2005 - clear driver data after unbinding
Input: tsc2005 - add module description
Input: tsc2005 - remove driver banner message
Input: tsc2005 - remove incorrect module alias
Input: tsc2005 - convert to using dev_pm_ops
Input: tsc2005 - use spi_get/set_drvdata()
Input: introduce tsc2005 driver
Input: xen-kbdfront - move to drivers/input/misc
Input: xen-kbdfront - add grant reference for shared page
...
A syscall was added without being added to asm-generic, which
makes tile (and presumably score and unicore32) break.
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn>
Cc: Chen Liqin <liqin.chen@sunplusct.com>
Cc: Lennox Wu <lennox.wu@gmail.com>
Commit 8d7718aa08 changed "int"
to "u32" in the prototypes but not the definition.
I missed this when I saw the patch go by on LKML.
We cast "u32 *" to "int *" since we are tying into the underlying
atomics framework, and atomic_t uses int as its value type.
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Reviewed-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ryusuke/nilfs2:
nilfs2: move NILFS_SUPER_MAGIC to linux/magic.h
nilfs2: get rid of nilfs_sb_info structure
nilfs2: use sb instance instead of nilfs_sb_info struct
nilfs2: get rid of sc_sbi back pointer
nilfs2: move log writer onto nilfs object
nilfs2: move next generation counter into nilfs object
nilfs2: move s_inode_lock and s_dirty_files into nilfs object
nilfs2: move parameters on nilfs_sb_info into nilfs object
nilfs2: move mount options to nilfs object
nilfs2: record used amount of each checkpoint in checkpoint list
nilfs2: optimize rec_len functions
nilfs2: append blocksize info to warnings during loading super blocks
nilfs2: add compat ioctl
nilfs2: implement FS_IOC_GETFLAGS/SETFLAGS/GETVERSION
nilfs2: tighten restrictions on inode flags
nilfs2: mark S_NOATIME on inodes only if NOATIME attribute is set
nilfs2: use common file attribute macros
nilfs2: add free entries count only if clear bit operation succeeded
nilfs2: decrement inodes count only if raw inode was successfully deleted
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cjb/mmc: (53 commits)
mmc: dw_mmc: support mmc power control with regulator
mmc: dw_mmc: fix suspend/resume operation
mmc: dw_mmc: add quirks for unreliable card detect, and capabilities
mmc: tmio: fix address in kunmap_atomic() calls
mmc: core: reset card voltage after power off
mmc: core: export function mmc_do_release_host()
mmc: sdio: remember new card RCA when redetecting card
mmc: dw_mmc: Remove set-but-unused variable.
mmc: sdhci-esdhc-imx: add card detect on custom GPIO for mx25/35
mmc: sdhci-esdhc: broken card detection is not a default quirk
mmc: sdhci-esdhc-imx: add write protect on custom GPIO on mx25/35
mmc: msm_sdcc: remove needless cache flush after dma_unmap_sg()
mmc: sh_mmcif: support aggressive clock gating
mmc: check if mmc cards < 2GB do sector addressing
mmc: core: comment on why sdio_reset is done at init time
mmc: dw_mmc: support DDR mode
mmc: via-sdmmc: Remove set-but-unused variable.
mmc: cb710: Return err value in cb710_wait_while_busy()
mmc: sdhci-pci: Remove set-but-unused variable.
mmc: mxs-mmc: add mmc host driver for i.MX23/28
...
* 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-2.6-mn10300:
MN10300: Clear ASB2364 peripheral interrupt masks before enabling interrupts
MN10300: Fix the ASB2364 gdbport UART register defs
MN10300: Fix ASB2364 FPGA register defs
MN10300: Select GENERIC_HARDIRQS_NO_DEPRECATED
MN10300: Select HAVE_GENERIC_HARDIRQS rather than GENERIC_HARDIRQS
MN10300: Convert ASB2364 FPGA irq_chip to new functions
MN10300: Convert ipi irq_chip to new functions
MN10300: Convert serial irq_chip to new functions
MN10300: Convert cpu irq_chips to new functions
MN10300: Remove unused mn10300_intc_* functions
MN10300: Remove stale irq_chip.end - V2
MN10300: Use clockevents_calc_mult_shift()
MN10300: Use clocksource_register_hz()
MN10300: Remove stale code
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vapier/blackfin: (32 commits)
Blackfin: ip0x: fix unused variable warning
Blackfin: punt unused HDMA masks
Blackfin: wire up new syscalls
Blackfin/ipipe: restore pipeline bits in irqflags
Blackfin/ipipe: fix deferred pipeline sync for the root stage
Blackfin/ipipe: upgrade to I-pipe mainline
Blackfin: cpufreq: fix typos
Blackfin: enable GENERIC_HARDIRQS_NO_DEPRECATED
Blackfin: SMP: convert to irq chip functions
Blackfin: use accessor functions in show_interrupts()
Blackfin: use proper wrapper functions for modifying irq status
Blackfin: convert gpio irq_chip to new functions
Blackfin: convert mac irq_chip to new functions
Blackfin: convert error irq_chip to new functions
Blackfin: convert internal irq_chip to new functions
Blackfin: convert core irq_chip to new functions
Blackfin: use proper wrappers for irq_desc
Blackfin: optimize startup code
Blackfin: SMP: work around anomaly 05000491
Blackfin: SMP: implement cpu_freq support
...
Similarly to irq_of_parse_and_map(), find the platform_device
object and return the pre-computed resource.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
USB defines usb_device_type pointing to usb_device_pm_ops that
provides system-wide PM callbacks only and usb_bus_type pointing to
usb_bus_pm_ops that provides runtime PM callbacks only. However,
the USB runtime PM callbacks may be defined in usb_device_pm_ops
which makes it possible to drop usb_bus_pm_ops and will allow us
to consolidate the handling of subsystems by the PM core code.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6:
PCI: label: remove #include of ACPI header to avoid warnings
PCI: label: Fix compilation error when CONFIG_ACPI is unset
PCI: pre-allocate additional resources to devices only after successful allocation of essential resources.
PCI: introduce reset_resource()
PCI: data structure agnostic free list function
PCI: refactor io size calculation code
PCI: do not create quirk I/O regions below PCIBIOS_MIN_IO for ICH
PCI hotplug: acpiphp: set current_state to D0 in register_slot
PCI: Export ACPI _DSM provided firmware instance number and string name to sysfs
PCI: add more checking to ICH region quirks
PCI: aer-inject: Override PCIe AER Mask Registers
PCI: fix tlan build when CONFIG_PCI is not enabled
PCI: remove quirk for pre-production systems
PCI: Avoid potential NULL pointer dereference in pci_scan_bridge
PCI/lpc: irq and pci_ids patch for Intel DH89xxCC DeviceIDs
PCI: sysfs: Fix failure path for addition of "vpd" attribute
* 'spi/next' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6: (34 commits)
spi/dw_spi: move dw_spi.h into drivers/spi
spi/dw_spi: Fix missing header
gpio/langwell: Clear edge bit before handling
gpio/langwell: Simplify demux loop
gpio/langwell: Convert irq name space
gpio/langwell: Fix broken irq_eoi change.
gpio; Make Intel chipset gpio drivers depend on x86
gpio/cs5535-gpio: Fix section mismatch
spi/rtc-{ds1390,ds3234,m41t94}: Use spi_get_drvdata() for SPI devices
spi/davinci: Support DMA transfers larger than 65535 words
spi/davinci: Use correct length parameter to dma_map_single calls
gpio: Use __devexit at necessary places
gpio: add MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE to pch_gpio and ml_ioh_gpio
gpio/mcp23s08: support mcp23s17 variant
of_mmc_spi: add card detect irq support
spi/omap_mcspi: catch xfers of non-multiple SPI word size
spi/omap_mcspi: Off-by-one error in finding the right divisor
gpio/pca953x: Fix wrong pointer type
spi/pl022: rid dangling labels
spi: add support for SuperH SPI
...
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/teigland/dlm:
dlm: use alloc_workqueue function
dlm: increase default hash table sizes
dlm: record full callback state
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6:
fs: call security_d_instantiate in d_obtain_alias V2
lose 'mounting_here' argument in ->d_manage()
don't pass 'mounting_here' flag to follow_down()
change the locking order for namespace_sem
fix deadlock in pivot_root()
vfs: split off vfsmount-related parts of vfs_kern_mount()
Some fixes for pstore
kill simple_set_mnt()
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bcopeland/omfs:
omfs: make readdir stop when filldir says so
omfs: merge unlink() and rmdir(), close leak in rename()
omfs: stop playing silly buggers with omfs_unlink() in ->rename()
omfs: rename() needs to mark old_inode dirty after ctime update
* 'linux-next' of git://git.infradead.org/ubifs-2.6: (25 commits)
UBIFS: clean-up commentaries
UBIFS: save 128KiB or more RAM
UBIFS: allocate orphans scan buffer on demand
UBIFS: allocate lpt dump buffer on demand
UBIFS: allocate ltab checking buffer on demand
UBIFS: allocate scanning buffer on demand
UBIFS: allocate dump buffer on demand
UBIFS: do not check data crc by default
UBIFS: simplify UBIFS Kconfig menu
UBIFS: print max. index node size
UBIFS: handle allocation failures in UBIFS write path
UBIFS: use max_write_size during recovery
UBIFS: use max_write_size for write-buffers
UBIFS: introduce write-buffer size field
UBI: incorporate LEB offset information
UBIFS: incorporate maximum write size
UBI: provide LEB offset information
UBI: incorporate maximum write size
UBIFS: fix LEB number in printk
UBIFS: restrict world-writable debugfs files
...
Sage Weil