fscache fixes, ESTALE patchset, vmtruncate removal series, assorted misc stuff. Please, pull from git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs for-linus Shortlog: Al Viro (1): path_init(): make -ENOTDIR failure exits consistent Alessio Igor Bogani (1): vfs: Remove useless function prototypes David Howells (23): CacheFiles: Fix the marking of cached pages CacheFiles: Downgrade the requirements passed to the allocator FS-Cache: Check that there are no read ops when cookie relinquished CacheFiles: Make some debugging statements conditional FS-Cache: Make cookie relinquishment wait for outstanding reads FS-Cache: Fix operation state management and accounting FS-Cache: Provide proper invalidation VFS: Make more complete truncate operation available to CacheFiles CacheFiles: Implement invalidation NFS: Use FS-Cache invalidation CacheFiles: Add missing retrieval completions FS-Cache: Convert the object event ID #defines into an enum FS-Cache: Initialise the object event mask with the calculated mask FS-Cache: Don't mask off the object event mask when printing it FS-Cache: Limit the number of I/O error reports for a cache FS-Cache: Exclusive op submission can BUG if there's been an I/O error NFS: nfs_migrate_page() does not wait for FS-Cache to finish with a page FS-Cache: Add transition to handle invalidate immediately after lookup NFS4: Open files for fscaching FS-Cache: Fix signal handling during waits FS-Cache: One of the write operation paths doesn't set the object state FS-Cache: Mark cancellation of in-progress operation FS-Cache: Clear remaining page count on retrieval cancellation Jan Kara (1): fs: Fix imbalance in freeze protection in mark_files_ro() Jeff Layton (30): vfs: remove unneeded permission check from path_init vfs: remove DCACHE_NEED_LOOKUP vfs: add a retry_estale helper function to handle retries on ESTALE vfs: make fstatat retry on ESTALE errors from getattr call vfs: fix readlinkat to retry on ESTALE vfs: turn is_dir argument to kern_path_create into a lookup_flags arg vfs: fix mknodat to retry on ESTALE errors vfs: fix mkdirat to retry once on an ESTALE error vfs: fix symlinkat to retry on ESTALE errors vfs: fix linkat to retry once on ESTALE errors vfs: add a flags argument to user_path_parent vfs: make do_rmdir retry once on ESTALE errors vfs: make do_unlinkat retry once on ESTALE errors vfs: fix renameat to retry on ESTALE errors vfs: have do_sys_truncate retry once on an ESTALE error vfs: have faccessat retry once on an ESTALE error vfs: have chdir retry lookup and call once on ESTALE error vfs: have chroot retry once on ESTALE error vfs: make fchmodat retry once on ESTALE errors vfs: make fchownat retry once on ESTALE errors vfs: fix user_statfs to retry once on ESTALE errors vfs: allow utimensat() calls to retry once on an ESTALE error vfs: allow setxattr to retry once on ESTALE errors vfs: allow lsetxattr() to retry once on ESTALE errors vfs: make getxattr retry once on an ESTALE error vfs: make lgetxattr retry once on ESTALE vfs: make listxattr retry once on ESTALE error vfs: make llistxattr retry once on ESTALE error vfs: make removexattr retry once on ESTALE vfs: make lremovexattr retry once on ESTALE error Marco Stornelli (21): ufs: drop vmtruncate sysv: drop vmtruncate reiserfs: drop vmtruncate procfs: drop vmtruncate omfs: drop vmtruncate ocfs2: drop vmtruncate adfs: drop vmtruncate affs: drop vmtruncate bfs: drop vmtruncate hfs: drop vmtruncate hpfs: drop vmtruncate jfs: drop vmtruncate hfsplus: drop vmtruncate logfs: drop vmtruncate minix: drop vmtruncate ncpfs: drop vmtruncate nilfs2: drop vmtruncate ntfs: drop vmtruncate vfs: drop vmtruncate mm: drop vmtruncate documentation: drop vmtruncate Miao Xie (1): vfs, freeze: use ACCESS_ONCE() to guard access to ->mnt_flags NeilBrown (1): vfs: d_obtain_alias() needs to use "/" as default name. Diffstat: Documentation/filesystems/Locking | 6 - Documentation/filesystems/caching/backend-api.txt | 38 ++++- Documentation/filesystems/caching/netfs-api.txt | 46 ++++- Documentation/filesystems/caching/object.txt | 23 ++- Documentation/filesystems/caching/operations.txt | 2 +- Documentation/filesystems/porting | 2 +- Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | 11 -- arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/syscalls.c | 2 +- drivers/base/devtmpfs.c | 2 +- fs/adfs/inode.c | 15 +- fs/affs/file.c | 18 ++- fs/affs/inode.c | 5 +- fs/bfs/file.c | 15 +- fs/btrfs/inode.c | 16 +-- fs/cachefiles/interface.c | 57 ++++++- fs/cachefiles/internal.h | 2 + fs/cachefiles/key.c | 2 +- fs/cachefiles/namei.c | 3 +- fs/cachefiles/rdwr.c | 114 +++++++----- fs/cachefiles/xattr.c | 2 +- fs/dcache.c | 35 +---- fs/file_table.c | 2 +- fs/fscache/cache.c | 8 +- fs/fscache/cookie.c | 78 ++++++++ fs/fscache/internal.h | 15 ++- fs/fscache/object-list.c | 2 +- fs/fscache/object.c | 101 ++++++++++- fs/fscache/operation.c | 140 ++++++++++++---- fs/fscache/page.c | 195 +++++++++++++++++---- fs/fscache/stats.c | 17 ++- fs/hfs/inode.c | 26 ++- fs/hfsplus/inode.c | 27 ++-- fs/hpfs/file.c | 20 ++- fs/hpfs/hpfs_fn.h | 1 + fs/hpfs/inode.c | 5 +- fs/jfs/file.c | 6 +- fs/jfs/inode.c | 20 ++- fs/libfs.c | 2 - fs/logfs/readwrite.c | 10 +- fs/minix/file.c | 6 +- fs/minix/inode.c | 17 ++- fs/namei.c | 118 +++++++++---- fs/namespace.c | 2 +- fs/ncpfs/inode.c | 4 +- fs/nfs/fscache.c | 1 + fs/nfs/fscache.h | 20 ++- fs/nfs/inode.c | 20 ++- fs/nfs/nfs4file.c | 2 + fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c | 3 +- fs/nfs/write.c | 3 +- fs/nilfs2/file.c | 1 - fs/nilfs2/inode.c | 24 ++- fs/nilfs2/nilfs.h | 1 + fs/nilfs2/recovery.c | 3 +- fs/ntfs/file.c | 16 ++- fs/ntfs/inode.c | 8 +- fs/ntfs/inode.h | 4 + fs/ocfs2/file.c | 18 -- fs/omfs/file.c | 22 ++- fs/open.c | 97 +++++++---- fs/proc/base.c | 7 - fs/proc/generic.c | 9 +- fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c | 7 - fs/reiserfs/file.c | 3 +- fs/reiserfs/inode.c | 15 ++- fs/reiserfs/reiserfs.h | 1 + fs/stat.c | 16 ++- fs/statfs.c | 9 +- fs/sysv/file.c | 5 +- fs/sysv/itree.c | 17 ++- fs/ufs/inode.c | 15 +- fs/utimes.c | 6 +- fs/xattr.c | 72 ++++++-- include/linux/dcache.h | 8 - include/linux/fs.h | 6 +- include/linux/fscache-cache.h | 71 ++++++-- include/linux/fscache.h | 50 +++++- include/linux/mm.h | 1 - include/linux/namei.h | 20 ++- mm/truncate.c | 23 --- 80 files changed, 1311 insertions(+), 531 deletions(-) -- 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