With kernel 3.1, Christoph removed i_alloc_sem and replaced it with calls (namely inode_dio_wait() and inode_dio_done()) which are EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() thus they cannot be used by non-GPL file systems and further inode_dio_wait() was pushed from notify_change() into the file system ->setattr() method but no non-GPL file system can make this call. That means non-GPL file systems cannot exist any more unless they do not use any VFS functionality related to reading/writing as far as I can tell or at least as long as they want to implement direct i/o. Both Linus and Al (and others) have said on LKML that this breakage of the VFS API should not have happened and that the change was simply missed as it was not documented in the change logs of the patches that did those changes. This patch changes the two function exports in question to be EXPORT_SYMBOL() thus restoring the VFS API as it used to be - accessible for all modules. Christoph, who introduced the two functions and exported them GPL-only is CC-ed on this patch to give him the opportunity to object to the symbols being changed in this manner if he did indeed intend them to be GPL-only and does not want them to become available to all modules. Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <anton@xxxxxxxxxx> CC: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- diff linux/fs/direct-io.c.old linux/fs/direct-io.c --- linux/fs/direct-io.c.old 2012-02-23 23:20:26.000000000 +0000 +++ linux/fs/direct-io.c 2012-02-23 23:20:46.000000000 +0000 @@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ void inode_dio_wait(struct inode *inode) if (atomic_read(&inode->i_dio_count)) __inode_dio_wait(inode); } -EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(inode_dio_wait); +EXPORT_SYMBOL(inode_dio_wait); /* * inode_dio_done - signal finish of a direct I/O requests @@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ void inode_dio_done(struct inode *inode) if (atomic_dec_and_test(&inode->i_dio_count)) wake_up_bit(&inode->i_state, __I_DIO_WAKEUP); } -EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(inode_dio_done); +EXPORT_SYMBOL(inode_dio_done); /* * How many pages are in the queue? -- 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
