Re: [git pull] vfs.git

From: Al Viro
Date: Fri Jun 01 2012 - 13:48:28 EST


On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 10:38:53AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > There's a trivial conflict in Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt - two
> > method prototypes added, one in mainline, one here. ?With the obvious
> > conflict resolution...
>
> Actually, it's one removed in mainline, one added by your pull.
>
> What I'd *really* like to see is a kind of summary of what this pull
> does, though. Please? That way I can make the merge messages be a
> whole lot more informative.

Umm... It's a lot of misc stuff, unfortunately. The obvious groups:
* Miklos' atomic_open series; kills the damn abuse of ->d_revalidate()
by NFS, which was the major stumbling block for all work in that area.
* ripping security_file_mmap() and dealing with deadlocks in the
area; sanitizing the neighborhood of vm_mmap()/vm_munmap() in general.
* ->encode_fh() switched to saner API; insane fake dentry in
mm/cleancache.c gone.
* assorted annotations in fs (endianness, __user)
* parts of Artem's ->s_dirty work (jff2 and reiserfs parts)
* ->update_time() work from Josef.
* other bits and pieces all over the place.

Normally it would've been in two or three pull requests, but signal.git
stuff had eaten a lot of time during this cycle ;-/
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