* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
lockdep: warn about lockdep disabling after kernel taint, fix
Impact: build fix for Sparc and s390
Stephen Rothwell reported that the Sparc build broke:
In file included from kernel/panic.c:12:
include/linux/debug_locks.h: In function '__debug_locks_off':
include/linux/debug_locks.h:15: error: implicit declaration of function 'xchg'
due to:
9eeba61: lockdep: warn about lockdep disabling after kernel taint
There is some inconsistency between architectures about where exactly
xchg() is defined.
The traditional place is in system.h but the more logical point for it
is in atomic.h - where most architectures (especially new ones) have
it defined. These architecture also still offer it via system.h.
Some, such as Sparc or s390 only have it in asm/system.h and not available
via asm/atomic.h at all.
Use the widest set of headers in debug_locks.h and also include asm/system.h.
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090414144317.026498df.sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Support the Intel 854 Chipset in fbdev.
We test and use the patch on a Thomson IP1101 IPTV-Box. On the VGA-Port
we get a normal signal.
Here is the link to the Mambux-Project: http://www.mambux.de
Cc: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Cc: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@poczta.fm>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Husemann <shusemann@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Include <linux/types.h> in fiemap.h. Sam Ravnborg pointed out that this
was missing in this newly-exported header which uses the __u32 and __u64
types.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Data sheet at:
http://www.sensirion.ch/en/pdf/product_information/Datasheet-humidity-sensor-SHT1x.pdf
These sensors communicate over a 2 wire bus running a device specific
protocol. The complexity of the driver is mainly due to handling the
substantial delays between requesting a reading and the device pulling the
data line low to indicate that the data is available. This is handled by
an interrupt that is disabled under all other conditions.
I wasn't terribly clear on the best way to handle this, so comments on
that aspect would be particularly welcome!
Interpretation of the temperature depends on knowing the supply voltage.
If configured in a board config as a regulator consumer this is obtained
from the regulator subsystem. If not it should be provided in the
platform data.
I've placed this driver in the hwmon subsystem as it is definitely a
device that may be used for hardware monitoring and with it's relatively
slow response times (up to 120 millisecs to get a reading) a caching
strategy certainly seems to make sense!
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@cam.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The documentation about the meaning of the color component bitfield
lengths in pseudocolor modes is inconsistent. Fix it, so that it
indicates the correct interpretation everywhere, i.e. that 1 << length is
the number of palette entries.
Signed-off-by: Michal Januszewski <spock@gentoo.org>
Acked-by: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@poczta.fm>
Cc: <syrjala@sci.fi>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert.uytterhoeven@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
tracing/filters: return proper error code when writing filter file
tracing/filters: allow user input integer to be oct or hex
tracing/filters: fix NULL pointer dereference
tracing/filters: NIL-terminate user input filter
ftrace: Output REC->var instead of __entry->var for trace format
Make __stringify support variable argument macros too
tracing: fix document references
tracing: fix splice return too large
tracing: update file->f_pos when splice(2) it
tracing: allocate page when needed
tracing: disable seeking for trace_pipe_raw
* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
lockdep: continue lock debugging despite some taints
lockdep: warn about lockdep disabling after kernel taint
* 'i2c-for-linus' of git://jdelvare.pck.nerim.net/jdelvare-2.6:
i2c: Let new-style drivers implement attach_adapter
i2c: Fix sparse warnings for I2C_BOARD_INFO()
i2c-voodoo3: Deprecate in favor of tdfxfb
i2c-algo-pca: Fix use of uninitialized variable in debug message
When POSIX capabilities were introduced during the 2.1 Linux
cycle, the fs mask, which represents the capabilities which having
fsuid==0 is supposed to grant, did not include CAP_MKNOD and
CAP_LINUX_IMMUTABLE. However, before capabilities the privilege
to call these did in fact depend upon fsuid==0.
This patch introduces those capabilities into the fsmask,
restoring the old behavior.
See the thread starting at http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/3/11/157 for
reference.
Note that if this fix is deemed valid, then earlier kernel versions (2.4
and 2.2) ought to be fixed too.
Changelog:
[Mar 23] Actually delete old CAP_FS_SET definition...
[Mar 20] Updated against J. Bruce Fields's patch
Reported-by: Igor Zhbanov <izh1979@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Cc: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
percpu: unbreak alpha percpu
mutex: have non-spinning mutexes on s390 by default
Since the first argument to I2C_BOARD_INFO() must be a string constant,
there is no need to parenthesise it, and adding parentheses results in
an invalid initialiser for char[]. gcc obviously accepts this syntax as
an extension, but sparse complains, e.g.:
drivers/net/sfc/boards.c:173:2: warning: array initialized from parenthesized string constant
Therefore, remove the parentheses.
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Impact: provide useful missing info for developers
Kernel taint can occur in several situations such as warnings,
load of prorietary or staging modules, bad page, etc...
But when such taint happens, a developer might still be working on
the kernel, expecting that lockdep is still enabled. But a taint
disables lockdep without ever warning about it.
Such a kernel behaviour doesn't really help for kernel development.
This patch adds this missing warning.
Since the taint is done most of the time after the main message that
explain the real source issue, it seems safe to warn about it inside
add_taint() so that it appears at last, without hurting the main
information.
v2: Use a generic helper to disable lockdep instead of an
open coded xchg().
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <1239412638-6739-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
For the time being, move the generic percpu_*() accessors to
linux/percpu.h.
asm-generic/percpu.h is meant to carry generic stuff for low level
stuff - declarations, definitions and pointer offset calculation
and so on but not for generic interface.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
For example:
__stringify(__entry->irq, __entry->ret)
will now convert it to:
"REC->irq, REC->ret"
It also still supports single arguments as the old macro did.
Signed-off-by: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <49DC6751.30308@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bart/ide-2.6: (27 commits)
xsysace: Fix dereferencing of cf_id after hd_driveid removal
at91_ide: turn on PIO 6 support
at91_ide: remove unused ide_mm_{outb,inb}
ide-cd: reverse NOT_READY sense key logic
ide: refactor tf_read() method
ide: refactor tf_load() method
ide: call write_devctl() method from tf_read() method
ide: move common code out of tf_load() method
ide: simplify 'struct ide_taskfile'
ide: replace IDE_TFLAG_* flags by IDE_VALID_*
ide-cd: fix intendation in cdrom_decode_status()
ide-cd: unify handling of fs and pc requests in cdrom_decode_status()
ide-cd: convert cdrom_decode_status() to use switch statements
ide-cd: update debugging support
ide-cd: respect REQ_QUIET for fs requests in cdrom_decode_status()
ide: remove unused #include <linux/version.h>
tx4939ide: Fix tx4939ide_{in,out}put_data_swap argument
tx493[89]ide: Remove big endian version of tx493[89]ide_tf_{load,read}
ide-cd: carve out an ide_cd_breathe()-helper for fs write requests
ide-cd: move status checking into the IRQ handler
...
* 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
tracing: consolidate documents
blktrace: pass the right pointer to kfree()
tracing/syscalls: use a dedicated file header
tracing: append a comma to INIT_FTRACE_GRAPH
* 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
sched: do not count frozen tasks toward load
sched: refresh MAINTAINERS entry
sched: Print sched_group::__cpu_power in sched_domain_debug
cpuacct: add per-cgroup utime/stime statistics
posixtimers, sched: Fix posix clock monotonicity
sched_rt: don't allocate cpumask in fastpath
cpuacct: make cpuacct hierarchy walk in cpuacct_charge() safe when rcupreempt is used -v2
Since the whole point of try_then_request_module is to retry
the operation after a module has been loaded, we must wait for
the module to fully load.
Otherwise all sort of things start breaking, e.g., you won't
be able to read your encrypted disks on the first attempt.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Tested-by: Maciej Rutecki <maciej.rutecki@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Freezing tasks via the cgroup freezer causes the load average to climb
because the freezer's current implementation puts frozen tasks in
uninterruptible sleep (D state).
Some applications which perform job-scheduling functions consult the
load average when making decisions. If a cgroup is frozen, the load
average does not provide a useful measure of the system's utilization
to such applications. This is especially inconvenient if the job
scheduler employs the cgroup freezer as a mechanism for preempting low
priority jobs. Contrast this with using SIGSTOP for the same purpose:
the stopped tasks do not count toward system load.
Change task_contributes_to_load() to return false if the task is
frozen. This results in /proc/loadavg behavior that better meets
users' expectations.
Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@tuxonice.net>
Tested-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@tuxonice.net>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Cc: containers@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090408194512.47a99b95@manatee.lan>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix build warnings and possibe compat misbehavior on IA64
Building a kernel on ia64 might trigger these ugly build warnings:
CC arch/ia64/ia32/sys_ia32.o
In file included from arch/ia64/ia32/sys_ia32.c:55:
arch/ia64/ia32/ia32priv.h:290:1: warning: "elf_check_arch" redefined
In file included from include/linux/elf.h:7,
from include/linux/module.h:14,
from include/linux/ftrace.h:8,
from include/linux/syscalls.h:68,
from arch/ia64/ia32/sys_ia32.c:18:
arch/ia64/include/asm/elf.h:19:1: warning: this is the location of the previous definition
[...]
sys_ia32.c includes linux/syscalls.h which in turn includes linux/ftrace.h
to import the syscalls tracing prototypes.
But including ftrace.h can pull too much things for a low level file,
especially on ia64 where the ia32 private headers conflict with higher
level headers.
Now we isolate the syscall tracing headers in their own lightweight file.
Reported-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Tested-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com>
Cc: Michael Rubin <mrubin@google.com>
Cc: Martin Bligh <mbligh@google.com>
Cc: Michael Davidson <md@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090408184058.GB6017@nowhere>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Prepare for full barrier implementation: first remove the restricted support.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Thou shalt remember to use 'git add' or errors shall be visited on your
downloads and there shall be wrath from on list and much gnashing of teeth.
Thou shalt remember to use git status or there shall be catcalls and much
embarrasment shall come to pass.
Signed-off-by: Alan "I'm hiding" Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Simplify tf_read() method, making it deal only with 'struct ide_taskfile' and
the validity flags that the upper layer passes, and factoring out the code that
deals with the high order bytes into ide_tf_readback() to be called from the
only two functions interested, ide_complete_cmd() and ide_dump_sector().
This should stop the needless code duplication in this method and so make
it about twice smaller than it was; along with simplifying the setup for
the method call, this should save both time and space...
Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Simplify tf_load() method, making it deal only with 'struct ide_taskfile' and
the validity flags that the upper layer passes, and moving the code that deals
with the high order bytes into the only function interested, do_rw_taskfile().
This should stop the needless code duplication in this method and so make
it about twice smaller than it was; along with simplifying the setup for the
method call, this should save both time and space...
Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Make 'struct ide_taskfile' cover only 8 register values and thus put two such
fields ('tf' and 'hob') into 'struct ide_cmd', dropping unnecessary 'tf_array'
field from it.
This required changing the prototype of ide_get_lba_addr() and ide_tf_dump().
Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
[bart: fix setting of ATA_LBA bit for LBA48 commands in __ide_do_rw_disk()]
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Replace IDE_TFLAG_{IN|OUT}_* flags meaning to the taskfile register validity on
input/output by the IDE_VALID_* flags and introduce 4 symmetric 8-bit register
validity indicator subfields, 'valid.{input/output}.{tf|hob}', into the 'struct
ide_cmd' instead of using the 'tf_flags' field for that purpose (this field can
then be turned from 32-bit into 8-bit one).
Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Impact: dont break future extensions of INIT_TASK
While not a problem right now, due to lack of a comma, build fails if
elements are appended to INIT_TASK() macro in development code:
arch/x86/kernel/init_task.c:33: error: request for member `XXXXXXXXXX' in something not a structure or union
arch/x86/kernel/init_task.c:33: error: initializer element is not constant
arch/x86/kernel/init_task.c:33: error: (near initialization for `init_task.ret_stack')
make[1]: *** [arch/x86/kernel/init_task.o] Error 1
make: *** [arch/x86/kernel] Error 2
Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: srostedt@redhat.com
LKML-Reference: <200904080505.n3855hcn017109@www262.sakura.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'core/softlockup' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
softlockup: make DETECT_HUNG_TASK default depend on DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP
softlockup: move 'one' to the softlockup section in sysctl.c
softlockup: ensure the task has been switched out once
softlockup: remove timestamp checking from hung_task
softlockup: convert read_lock in hung_task to rcu_read_lock
softlockup: check all tasks in hung_task
softlockup: remove unused definition for spawn_softlockup_task
softlockup: fix potential race in hung_task when resetting timeout
softlockup: fix to allow compiling with !DETECT_HUNG_TASK
softlockup: decouple hung tasks check from softlockup detection
* 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
branch tracer, intel-iommu: fix build with CONFIG_BRANCH_TRACER=y
branch tracer: Fix for enabling branch profiling makes sparse unusable
ftrace: Correct a text align for event format output
Update /debug/tracing/README
tracing/ftrace: alloc the started cpumask for the trace file
tracing, x86: remove duplicated #include
ftrace: Add check of sched_stopped for probe_sched_wakeup
function-graph: add proper initialization for init task
tracing/ftrace: fix missing include string.h
tracing: fix incorrect return type of ns2usecs()
tracing: remove CALLER_ADDR2 from wakeup tracer
blktrace: fix pdu_len when tracing packet command requests
blktrace: small cleanup in blk_msg_write()
blktrace: NUL-terminate user space messages
tracing: move scripts/trace/power.pl to scripts/tracing/power.pl
* 'irq/threaded' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
genirq: fix devres.o build for GENERIC_HARDIRQS=n
genirq: provide old request_irq() for CONFIG_GENERIC_HARDIRQ=n
genirq: threaded irq handlers review fixups
genirq: add support for threaded interrupts to devres
genirq: add threaded interrupt handler support
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6:
PCI: pci_slot: grab refcount on slot's bus
PCI Hotplug: acpiphp: grab refcount on p2p subordinate bus
PCI: allow PCI core hotplug to remove PCI root bus
PCI: Fix oops in pci_vpd_truncate
PCI: don't corrupt enable_cnt when doing manual resource alignment
PCI: annotate pci_rescan_bus as __ref, not __devinit
PCI-IOV: fix missing kernel-doc
PCI: Setup disabled bridges even if buses are added
PCI: SR-IOV quirk for Intel 82576 NIC
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
loop: mutex already unlocked in loop_clr_fd()
cfq-iosched: don't let idling interfere with plugging
block: remove unused REQ_UNPLUG
cfq-iosched: kill two unused cfqq flags
cfq-iosched: change dispatch logic to deal with single requests at the time
mflash: initial support
cciss: change to discover first memory BAR
cciss: kernel scan thread for MSA2012
cciss: fix residual count for block pc requests
block: fix inconsistency in I/O stat accounting code
block: elevator quiescing helpers
The code that enables branch tracing for all (non-constant) branches
plays games with the preprocessor and #define's the C 'if ()' construct
to do tracing.
That's all fine, but it fails for some unusual but valid C code that is
sometimes used in macros, notably by the intel-iommu code:
if (i=drhd->iommu, drhd->ignored) ..
because now the preprocessor complains about multiple arguments to the
'if' macro.
So make the macro expansion of this particularly horrid trick use
varargs, and handle the case of comma-expressions in if-statements. Use
another macro to do it cleanly in just one place.
This replaces a patch by David (and acked by Steven) that did this all
inside that one already-too-horrid macro.
Tested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'i2c-for-2630-v2' of git://aeryn.fluff.org.uk/bjdooks/linux:
i2c: imx: Make disable_delay a per-device variable
i2c: xtensa s6000 i2c driver
powerpc/85xx: i2c-mpc: use new I2C bindings for the Socates board
i2c: i2c-mpc: make I2C bus speed configurable
i2c: i2c-mpc: use dev based printout function
i2c: i2c-mpc: various coding style fixes
i2c: imx: Add missing request_mem_region in probe()
i2c: i2c-s3c2410: Initialise Samsung I2C controller early
i2c-s3c2410: Simplify bus frequency calculation
i2c-s3c2410: sda_delay should be in ns, not clock ticks
i2c: iMX/MXC support
PCI parallel port devices can IRQ share so we should stop them hogging
the line and making a mess on modern PC systems. We know the sharing
side works as the PCMCIA driver has shared the parallel port IRQ for
some time.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
(akpm: queued pending confirmation of the new major number)
[randy.dunlap@oracle.com: select SERIAL_CORE]
Signed-off-by: Christian Pellegrin <chripell@fsfe.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
tty_driver_kref_get() should be static inline and not extern inline
(the latter even changed it's semantics in gcc >= 4.3).
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
After a review of user's feedback for finding out other compatibility
issues, I found nilfs improperly initializes timestamps in inode;
CURRENT_TIME was used there instead of CURRENT_TIME_SEC even though nilfs
didn't have nanosecond timestamps on disk. A few users gave us the report
that the tar program sometimes failed to expand symbolic links on nilfs,
and it turned out to be the cause.
Instead of applying the above displacement, I've decided to support
nanosecond timestamps on this occation. Fortunetaly, a needless 64-bit
field was in the nilfs_inode struct, and I found it's available for this
purpose without impact for the users.
So, this will do the enhancement and resolve the tar problem.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The former versions didn't have extra super blocks. This improves the
weak point by introducing another super block at unused region in tail of
the partition.
This doesn't break disk format compatibility; older versions just ingore
the secondary super block, and new versions just recover it if it doesn't
exist. The partition created by an old mkfs may not have unused region,
but in that case, the secondary super block will not be added.
This doesn't make more redundant copies of the super block; it is a future
work.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Nilfs creates checkpoints even for garbage collection or metadata updates
such as checkpoint mode change. So, user often sees checkpoints created
only by such internal operations.
This is inconvenient in some situations. For example, application that
monitors checkpoints and changes them to snapshots, will fall into an
infinite loop because it cannot distinguish internally created
checkpoints.
This patch solves this sort of problem by adding a flag to checkpoint for
identification.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The sketch file is a file to mark checkpoints with user data. It was
experimentally introduced in the original implementation, and now
obsolete. The file was handled differently with regular files; the file
size got truncated when a checkpoint was created.
This stops the special treatment and will treat it as a regular file.
Most users are not affected because mkfs.nilfs2 no longer makes this file.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
