http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/npiggin/patches/new-aops/ 2.6.21-rc7-new-aops* New aops patchset against 2.6.21-rc7. I was going to rebase against -mm and submit the patchset, but I ended up doing quite a lot of new filesystem conversions and fixes so I stay with mainline so as to not introduce so much churn. The plan is to next rebase against rc6-mm1 and submit all 47 patches to linux-fsdevel and Andrew Morton to be merged. OK? Should each fs conversion also go to the filesystem specific maintainer/list? I have done some testing, but I would like testing and revuew abd acks from filesystem maintainers. Lots of filesystems I can't or don't know how to mount and test. Well that is a copout, but it is a hassle for me to do so many when presumably maintainers will have a test setup ready to go. And I have tried to minimise the load on maintainers by doing most conversions myself. cc'ed reiserfs lists: could somebody volunteer to do the resierfs conversion? It's too complex for me to do a reasonable job, and reiserfs prepare_write also does weird things with generic_cont_expand which is hard to follow (this could be made much simpler by using the AOP_FLAG_CONT_EXPAND I added there -- can you also look at using that, or let me know why it doesn't work). Changes: - Cut perform_write batch AOP out of this series. It will be back, in a future discussion. Kept the iov_iter stuff because it's nice anyway. - Added patch to inject short or zero length pagecache writes to better exercise filesystems. Another one to poision new and !uptodate buffers. - Kept the old ocfs2 patch from Mark, so I don't have to suck up git-ocfs2.patch which keeps patch size down. I'll use Mark's new patch when rebasing to -mm. - ext4 patch from Badari. - Fixed ext3 data=journal (and the copied code in ext4). - Converted cifs + fixed information leak. - Converted udf seem to have fixed pagecache corruption(?) -- page was marked uptodate when it is not. Also, fixed the silly setup where prepare_write was doing a kmap to be used in commit_write: just do kmap_atomic in write_end. - Fixed some earlier problems with my ext2 multi-page directory handling. - Had a crack at converting all the others. reiserfs is the only one left unconverted! - Tested (under UML, loopback, PAGE_SIZE=4096) with fsx-linux the following: ext2 (bs=1024,4096) ext3 (bs=1024,4096; data=writeback,ordered,journal) minix (v2,3) xfs (bs=1024,4096) fuse (with ssh,passthough fs -- note fsx-linux fails as expected) jfs reiserfs (bs=1024,4096) (unconverted) vfat (bs=1024,4096) tmpfs rd (with ext2) hostfs (it now survives much longer than with the old code!) nfs Nick - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
