Q&A wrt this patch:

- A really short guide to how to get up and running with this filesystem.

        Reiser4 is a file system based on dancing tree algorithms, and
        is described at http://www.namesys.com.  One should be able to get it
        up and running just like any of the other filesystems supported by
        Linux.  Configure it to be compiled either builtin or as a module. 
        Create reiser4 filesystem with mkfs.reiser4, mount and use it.  More
        detailed info can be found at
        http://thebsh.namesys.com/snapshots/LATEST/READ.ME.

- The direct URL which people use to obtain the mkfs tool for this
  filesystem.  Also fsck and anything else.

        Reiser4 userland tools can be obtained at
        ftp://ftp.namesys.com/pub/reiser4progs. 
        ftp://ftp.namesys.com/pub/reiser4progs/README contains detailed
        instructions on how to compile and install these tools.  Also all
        reiser4 progs have man pages.  

- Any known shortcomings, caveats, etc.

        Reiser4 has been tested on i386 yet only.  Quota support is
        not ready yet.  Should be ready soon.  Reiser4 was tested extensively,
        and we got to where the mailing list was not able to hit any bugs, but
        then we told people that, got an order of magnitude increase in users,
        and they are able to hit bugs that we are working on now.

        Reiser's Law of Software Engineering: Each order of magnitude
        increase in users finds more bugs, in a quantity equal to the previous
        order of magnitude increase in users.  Success for software developers
        is measured by how long the frustration lasts.

        Only the very core functionality is working.  Exotic plugins,
        an API for multiple operation transactions and accessing multiple
        small files in one syscall, compression, inheritance, all have been
        postponed until after the core functionality is shipped.  The
        compression plugin needs a code review before anyone should use it.

- A statement on compatibility with reiserfs3 filesytems.

        To upgrade from reiserfs V3 to V4, use tar, or sponsor us to
        write a convertfs.

- Bear in mind that people will immediately benchmark this filesytem, and
  first impressions count.  Now is your chance to communicate any tuning
  guidelines, mount options or whatever which you'd like people to understand
  BEFORE they start publishing benchmark info.

        Reiser4 is not tuned for fsync/sync/O_SYNC performance yet.  

        If you see results that are much different from those at
        www.namesys.com/benchmarks.html, let us know.  If you see performance
        characteristics that don't quite make sense, email
        reiserfs-list@namesys.com, such things are always of interest.

        reiser4 is not tuned for mmaping and dirtying more than
        physical ram like IOzone does.  This is quite different in its code
        path from writing and dirtying more than physical ram.  There are
        those who think that what IOZone does is rarely done by real programs,
        and therefor we should not bother to optimize what it does.  All I
        know is, this month we are not optimized for it.

        Please consider its space savings when you benchmark it also.

[michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com: kill #include "linux/config.h"]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: reiser4_drop_page: don't call remove_from_page_cache]
[bunk@stusta.de: fs/reiser4/: possible cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Saveliev <vs@namesys.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Signed-off-by: Edward Shishkin <edward@namesys.com>
DESC
reiser4: fix for drop-unused-semaphores.patch
EDESC
Wait for tail conversion completion when acquiring exclusive access by
. mmap_unix_file()
. setattr_unix_file()
. release_unix_file()
Update comments.
Signed-off-by: Edward Shishkin <edward@namesys.com>
Cc Jonathan Briggs <jbriggs@esoft.com>
DESC
reiser4-slab-allocators-remove-slab_debug_initial-flag
EDESC
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>.com>
DESC
reiser4: use simple_prepare_write to zero page data
EDESC
It's common for file systems to need to zero data on either side of a
write, if a page is not Uptodate during prepare_write.  It just so happens
that simple_prepare_write() in libfs.c does exactly that, so we can avoid
duplication and just call that function to zero page data.
Signed-off-by: Nate Diller <nate.diller@gmail.com>
Cc: Vladimir Saveliev <vs@namesys.com>
Cc: Edward Shishkin <edward@namesys.com>
DESC
reiser4-fix
EDESC

DESC
reiser4: use zero_user_page
EDESC
Use zero_user_page() instead of open-coding it.
Signed-off-by: Nate Diller <nate.diller@gmail.com>
Cc: Vladimir Saveliev <vs@namesys.com>
Cc: Edward Shishkin <edward@namesys.com>
DESC
reiser4: remove typedefs
EDESC
. Reduce number of typedefs from 289 to 248
. Remove unused file plugin/file/invert.c
. Update comments

DESC
reiser4: fix write_extent
EDESC
Prepared-by Ignatich <ignatich@gmail.com>

Fix reiser4_write_extent():
   1) handling incomplete writes missed in reiser4-temp-fix.patch
   2) bugs in the case of returned errors
Signed-off-by: Edward Shishkin <edward@namesys.com>
DESC
reiser4 make sync_inodes non-void
EDESC
Make reiser4_sync_inodes non-void
Signed-off-by: Edward Shishkin <edward@namesys.com>
DESC
Reiser4: Drop 'size' argument from bio_endio and bi_end_io
EDESC
Reiser4: Drop 'size' argument from bio_endio and bi_end_io

This patch pushes into Reiser4 the changes introduced by
commit 6712ecf8:

	As bi_end_io is only called once when the request is complete,
	the 'size' argument is now redundant.  Remove it.

	Now there is no need for bio_endio to subtract the size completed
	from bi_size.  So don't do that either.

	While we are at it, change bi_end_io to return void.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Riffard <laurent.riffard@free.fr>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Edward Shishkin <edward@namesys.com>
DESC
mm: clean up and kernelify shrinker registration
EDESC
I can never remember what the function to register to receive VM pressure
is called.  I have to trace down from __alloc_pages() to find it.

It's called "set_shrinker()", and it needs Your Help.

1) Don't hide struct shrinker.  It contains no magic.
2) Don't allocate "struct shrinker".  It's not helpful.
3) Call them "register_shrinker" and "unregister_shrinker".
4) Call the function "shrink" not "shrinker".
5) Reduce the 17 lines of waffly comments to 13, but document it properly.

The comment in reiser4 makes me a little queasy.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Vladimir Saveliev <vs@namesys.com>
Acked-by: Edward Shishkin <edward@namesys.com>
DESC
reiser4: fix NULL dereference in __mnt_is_readonly in ftruncate()
EDESC
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Edward Shishkin <edward@namesys.com>
Cc: "Vladimir V. Saveliev" <vs@namesys.com>
DESC
reiser4: fix extent2tail
EDESC
Fixed bug in extent2tail conversion.

Bug description:
when converting partially converted file
(with flag REISER4_PART_MIXED installed)
reiser4_cut_tree() starts to cut old metatada
from wrong offset. Result is data corruption.
Signed-off-by: Edward Shishkin <edward@namesys.com>
DESC
reiser4: fix read_tail
EDESC
Update hint when reading tails
Signed-off-by: Edward Shishkin <edward@namesys.com>
DESC
reiser4: fix unix-file readpages filler
EDESC
Protect page (via incrementing page count) from being reclaimed when looking
for extent pointer in unix-file specific readpages filler.
Signed-off-by: Edward Shishkin <edward@namesys.com>
DESC
reiser4: fix readpage_unix_file
EDESC
. If nominated (by VFS) page is out of file size, then fill it
  by zeros instead of returning -EINVAL (this prevents returning
  an unexpected error (-EINVAL) by some apps that don't check
  file size).

. Check if the page became uptodate while it was being unlocked.
Signed-off-by: Edward Shishkin <edward@namesys.com>
Cc: Zan Lynx <zlynx@acm.org>
Cc: "Vladimir V. Saveliev" <vs@namesys.com>
DESC
reiser4: fix for new aops patches
EDESC
Cc: Vladimir Saveliev <vs@namesys.com>
Cc: Edward Shishkin <edward@namesys.com>
DESC
reiser4: do not allocate struct file on stack
EDESC
Do not allocate struct file on stack, pass the persistent one instead.
Signed-off-by: Edward Shishkin <edward@namesys.com>
Tested-by: Zan Lynx <zlynx@acm.org>
Cc: "Vladimir V. Saveliev" <vs@namesys.com>
DESC
git-block-vs-reiser4
EDESC
Hope this is right.

Hope you know what you're doing ;)

Cc: Vladimir Saveliev <vs@namesys.com>
Cc: Edward Shishkin <edward@namesys.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
DESC
reiser4: cryptcompress misc fixups
EDESC
.  Fix a race (reproducible by fsx + sync (1)) between
  checkin_page_cluster operations: serialize them via special per-inode
  checkin_mutex (usual i_mutex is not suitable for this purpose, as
  ->writepages() also calls checkin_page_cluster();

.  Add comments for checkin/checkout technique for synchronization of
  primary and secondary caches with proof of correctness;

.  Fix missed right neighbor when updating disk clusters by
  handle_pos_on_leaf() during squalloc (should use upper levels to get
  expected non-connected neighbor);

.  Resolve a race between read and truncate (when read finds partially
  truncated and, hence, unrecoverable disk cluster) via keeping a track of
  leftmost truncated disk clusters in cryptcompress-specific part of inode;

. Introduce size translators and size modulators for
  common needs;

. Update comments;

. Rename badly sounding function names;

. Fix coding style;

. Add my part of credits.
Signed-off-by: Edward Shishkin <edward@namesys.com>
Cc: "Vladimir V. Saveliev" <vs@namesys.com>
DESC
reiser4: cryptcompress misc fixups-2
EDESC
Check a file plugin id before manipulating with plugin-specific counter.
Signed-off-by: Edward Shishkin <edward@namesys.com>
Cc: "Vladimir V. Saveliev" <vs@namesys.com>
DESC
fs/reiser4/plugin/: make 3 functions static
EDESC
This patch makes the following needlessly global functions static:
- file/cryptcompress.c: __put_page_cluster()
- file/cryptcompress.c: put_hint_cluster()
- item/ctail.c: ctail_read_disk_cluster()
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: Edward Shishkin <edward@namesys.com>
Cc: "Vladimir V. Saveliev" <vs@namesys.com>
DESC
reiser4: change error code base
EDESC
Change REISER4_ERROR_CODE_BASE to 10000 to not overlap real errnos
Signed-off-by: Edward Shishkin <edward@namesys.com>
Cc: "Vladimir V. Saveliev" <vs@namesys.com>
DESC
reiser4: use lzo library functions
EDESC
. Convert Reiser4 to use lzo implementation in lib/lzo/ instead of
  including its own copy of minilzo;
. Do not set zeros to workmem region.
Signed-off-by: Edward Shishkin <edward@namesys.com>
Cc: "Vladimir V. Saveliev" <vs@namesys.com>
DESC
fs/reiser4/plugin/file/cryptcompress.c: kmalloc + memset conversion to kzalloc
EDESC
 fs/reiser4/plugin/file/cryptcompress.c | 101386 -> 101352 (-34 bytes)
 fs/reiser4/plugin/file/cryptcompress.o | 456784 -> 456644 (-140 bytes)
Signed-off-by: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl>
Cc: Edward Shishkin <edward@namesys.com>
Cc: "Vladimir V. Saveliev" <vs@namesys.com>
DESC
reiser4: kmalloc + memset conversion to kzalloc
EDESC
Signed-off-by: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl>
Cc: Edward Shishkin <edward@namesys.com>
Cc: "Vladimir V. Saveliev" <vs@namesys.com>
DESC
fs/reiser4/init_super.c: kmalloc + memset conversion to kzalloc
EDESC
 fs/reiser4/init_super.c | 19283 -> 19246 (-37 bytes)
 fs/reiser4/init_super.o | 155348 -> 155152 (-196 bytes)
Signed-off-by: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl>
Cc: Edward Shishkin <edward@namesys.com>
Cc: "Vladimir V. Saveliev" <vs@namesys.com>
DESC
fs/reiser4/plugin/inode_ops_rename.c: kmalloc + memset conversion to kzalloc
EDESC
 fs/reiser4/plugin/inode_ops_rename.c | 28474 -> 28344 (-130 bytes)
 fs/reiser4/plugin/inode_ops_rename.o | 142600 -> 142476 (-124 bytes)
Signed-off-by: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl>
Cc: Edward Shishkin <edward@namesys.com>
Cc: "Vladimir V. Saveliev" <vs@namesys.com>
DESC
fs/reiser4/ktxnmgrd.c: kmalloc + memset conversion to kzalloc
EDESC
 fs/reiser4/ktxnmgrd.c | 5314 -> 5277 (-37 bytes)
 fs/reiser4/ktxnmgrd.o | 131624 -> 131496 (-128 bytes)
Signed-off-by: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl>
Cc: Edward Shishkin <edward@namesys.com>
Cc: "Vladimir V. Saveliev" <vs@namesys.com>
DESC
Use helpers to obtain task pid in printks
EDESC
The task_struct->pid member is going to be deprecated, so start
using the helpers (task_pid_nr/task_pid_vnr/task_pid_nr_ns) in
the kernel.

The first thing to start with is the pid, printed to dmesg - in
this case we may safely use task_pid_nr(). Besides, printks produce
more (much more) than a half of all the explicit pid usage.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
DESC
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] remove asm/bitops.h includes
EDESC
remove asm/bitops.h includes

including asm/bitops directly may cause compile errors. don't include it
and include linux/bitops instead. next patch will deny including asm header
directly.

Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>