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    • Artem Bityutskiy's avatar
      This patch adds new operation to struct super_operations - sync_inodes, · cbf5577a
      Artem Bityutskiy authored 
      generic implementaion and changes fs-writeback.c:sync_sb_inodes() to call
filesystem's sync_inodes if it is defined or generic implementaion otherwise.
This new operation allows filesystem to decide itself what to flush.

Reiser4 flushes dirty pages on basic of atoms, not of inodes.  sync_sb_inodes
used to call address space flushing method (writepages) for every dirty inode.
 For reiser4 it caused having to commit atoms unnecessarily often.  This
turned into substantial slowdown.  Having this method helped to fix that
problem.

akpm: this patch needs to be chnaged to remove the `sb' arg.
Signed-off-by: default avatarArtem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Cc: Edward Shishkin <edward.shishkin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      cbf5577a
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    • Edward Shishkin's avatar
      In accordance with reiser4 transactional model every dirty page should be · d3155d0f
      Edward Shishkin authored 
      "captured" by some atom.  However, outside reiser4 context dirty page can
not be captured in some cases, as it is accompanied with specific work
(jnode creation, etc).  Reiser4 recognizes such "anonymous" pages (i.e. 
pages that were dirtied outside of reiser4) by the tag
PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY.  Pages dirtied inside reiser4 context are not tagged
at all: we don't need this.  Indeed, once page is dirtied and captured, it
is attached to a jnode (a special header to keep a track of transactions).

reiser4_set_page_dirty_internal() was the internal reiser4 function that
set dirty bit without tagging the page.  Having such internal function led
to real problems (incorrect task io accounting, etc.  because of not
updating this internal "friend").

Solution:

The following patch adds a core library function that sets a dirty bit
without tagging the page.

Signed-off-by: Edward Shishkin<edward.shishkin@gmail.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      d3155d0f
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    • Alexey Dobriyan's avatar
      It's unused. · e1ce7efd
      Alexey Dobriyan authored 
      It isn't needed -- read or write flag is already passed and sysctl
shouldn't care about the rest.

It _was_ used in two places at arch/frv for some reason.
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      e1ce7efd
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    • Nils Carlson's avatar
      The periodic interrupt from drivers/char/hpet.c does not work correctly, · a4f612ce
      Nils Carlson authored 
      both when using the periodic capability of the hardware and while
emulating the periodic interrupt (when hardware does not support periodic
mode).

With timers capable of periodic interrupts, the comparator field is first
set with the period value followed by set of hidden accumulator, which has
the side effect of overwriting the comparator value.  This results in
wrong periodicity for the interrupts.  For, periodic interrupts to work,
following steps are necessary, in that order.

* Set config with Tn_VAL_SET_CNF bit

* Write to hidden accumulator, the value written is the time when the
  first interrupt should be generated

* Write compartor with period interval for subsequent interrupts
  (http://www.intel.com/hardwaredesign/hpetspec_1.pdf )

When emulating periodic timer with timers not capable of periodic
interrupt, driver is adding the period to counter value instead of
comparator value, which causes slow drift when using this emulation.

Also, driver seems to add hpetp->hp_delta both while setting up periodic
interrupt and while emulating periodic interrupts with timers not capable
of doing periodic interrupts.  This hp_delta will result in slower than
expected interrupt rate and should not be used while setting the interval.
Signed-off-by: default avatarVenkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarNils Carlson <nils.carlson@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      a4f612ce
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    • Renzo Davoli's avatar
      There are two useless lines in fs/char_dev.c. · 3796c12a
      Renzo Davoli authored 
      In register_chrdev there is a loop to change all '/' into '!' in the
kernel object name.
This code is useless as the same substitution is in kobject_set_name_vargs in
lib/kobject.c:
228         /* ewww... some of these buggers have '/' in the name ... */
229         while ((s = strchr(kobj->name, '/')))
230                 s[0] = '!';

kobject_set_name_vargs is called by kobject_set_name.
kobject_set_name is called just above the useless loop.
Signed-off-by: default avatarRenzo Davoli <renzo@cs.unibo.it>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      3796c12a
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