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2016-12-09	vfs: remove ".readlink = generic_readlink" assignments	Miklos Szeredi	1	-1/+0
	If .readlink == NULL implies generic_readlink(). Generated by: to_del="\.readlink.=.generic_readlink" for i in `git grep -l $to_del`; do sed -i "/$to_del"/d $i; done Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
2016-12-09	proc/self: use generic_readlink	Miklos Szeredi	1	-14/+1
	The /proc/self and /proc/self-thread symlinks have separate but identical functionality for reading and following. This cleanup utilizes generic_readlink to remove the duplication. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
2016-09-27	fs: Replace CURRENT_TIME with current_time() for inode timestamps	Deepa Dinamani	1	-1/+1
	CURRENT_TIME macro is not appropriate for filesystems as it doesn't use the right granularity for filesystem timestamps. Use current_time() instead. CURRENT_TIME is also not y2038 safe. This is also in preparation for the patch that transitions vfs timestamps to use 64 bit time and hence make them y2038 safe. As part of the effort current_time() will be extended to do range checks. Hence, it is necessary for all file system timestamps to use current_time(). Also, current_time() will be transitioned along with vfs to be y2038 safe. Note that whenever a single call to current_time() is used to change timestamps in different inodes, it is because they share the same time granularity. Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi@kernel.org> Acked-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Acked-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp> Acked-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2016-01-22	wrappers for ->i_mutex access	Al Viro	1	-2/+2
	parallel to mutex_{lock,unlock,trylock,is_locked,lock_nested}, inode_foo(inode) being mutex_foo(&inode->i_mutex). Please, use those for access to ->i_mutex; over the coming cycle ->i_mutex will become rwsem, with ->lookup() done with it held only shared. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2015-12-30	switch ->get_link() to delayed_call, kill ->put_link()	Al Viro	1	-3/+4
	Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2015-12-08	teach proc_self_get_link()/proc_thread_self_get_link() to work in RCU mode	Al Viro	1	-5/+4
	Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2015-12-08	replace ->follow_link() with new method that could stay in RCU mode	Al Viro	1	-3/+6
	new method: ->get_link(); replacement of ->follow_link(). The differences are: * inode and dentry are passed separately * might be called both in RCU and non-RCU mode; the former is indicated by passing it a NULL dentry. * when called that way it isn't allowed to block and should return ERR_PTR(-ECHILD) if it needs to be called in non-RCU mode. It's a flagday change - the old method is gone, all in-tree instances converted. Conversion isn't hard; said that, so far very few instances do not immediately bail out when called in RCU mode. That'll change in the next commits. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2015-05-10	don't pass nameidata to ->follow_link()	Al Viro	1	-1/+1
	its only use is getting passed to nd_jump_link(), which can obtain it from current->nameidata Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2015-05-10	new ->follow_link() and ->put_link() calling conventions	Al Viro	1	-12/+10
	a) instead of storing the symlink body (via nd_set_link()) and returning an opaque pointer later passed to ->put_link(), ->follow_link() _stores_ that opaque pointer (into void * passed by address by caller) and returns the symlink body. Returning ERR_PTR() on error, NULL on jump (procfs magic symlinks) and pointer to symlink body for normal symlinks. Stored pointer is ignored in all cases except the last one. Storing NULL for opaque pointer (or not storing it at all) means no call of ->put_link(). b) the body used to be passed to ->put_link() implicitly (via nameidata). Now only the opaque pointer is. In the cases when we used the symlink body to free stuff, ->follow_link() now should store it as opaque pointer in addition to returning it. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2015-04-15	VFS: normal filesystems (and lustre): d_inode() annotations	David Howells	1	-1/+1
	that's the bulk of filesystem drivers dealing with inodes of their own Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2014-08-04	proc: Implement /proc/thread-self to point at the directory of the current thread	Eric W. Biederman	1	-0/+85
	/proc/thread-self is derived from /proc/self. /proc/thread-self points to the directory in proc containing information about the current thread. This funtionality has been missing for a long time, and is tricky to implement in userspace as gettid() is not exported by glibc. More importantly this allows fixing defects in /proc/mounts and /proc/net where in a threaded application today they wind up being empty files when only the initial pthread has exited, causing problems for other threads. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>