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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-11-07 14:08:13 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-11-07 14:08:13 -0800
commit661b99e95fa3652417931e28b54b64941bdd56f0 (patch)
tree175c1461ba3d8a1ce6388b91662a2a565e40adea /kernel
parent51f83ef0c94e26f85a8a985035a991fcafbcce15 (diff)
parent002758992693ae63c04122603ea9261a0a58d728 (diff)
Merge tag 'xfs-for-linus-3.18-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dgc/linux-xfs
Pull xfs fixes from Dave Chinner: "This update fixes a warning in the new pagecache_isize_extended() and updates some related comments, another fix for zero-range misbehaviour, and an unforntuately large set of fixes for regressions in the bulkstat code. The bulkstat fixes are large but necessary. I wouldn't normally push such a rework for a -rcX update, but right now xfsdump can silently create incomplete dumps on 3.17 and it's possible that even xfsrestore won't notice that the dumps were incomplete. Hence we need to get this update into 3.17-stable kernels ASAP. In more detail, the refactoring work I committed in 3.17 has exposed a major hole in our QA coverage. With both xfsdump (the major user of bulkstat) and xfsrestore silently ignoring missing files in the dump/restore process, incomplete dumps were going unnoticed if they were being triggered. Many of the dump/restore filesets were so small that they didn't evenhave a chance of triggering the loop iteration bugs we introduced in 3.17, so we didn't exercise the code sufficiently, either. We have already taken steps to improve QA coverage in xfstests to avoid this happening again, and I've done a lot of manual verification of dump/restore on very large data sets (tens of millions of inodes) of the past week to verify this patch set results in bulkstat behaving the same way as it does on 3.16. Unfortunately, the fixes are not exactly simple - in tracking down the problem historic API warts were discovered (e.g xfsdump has been working around a 20 year old bug in the bulkstat API for the past 10 years) and so that complicated the process of diagnosing and fixing the problems. i.e. we had to fix bugs in the code as well as discover and re-introduce the userspace visible API bugs that we unwittingly "fixed" in 3.17 that xfsdump relied on to work correctly. Summary: - incorrect warnings about i_mutex locking in pagecache_isize_extended() and updates comments to match expected locking - another zero-range bug fix for stray file size updates - a bunch of fixes for regression in the bulkstat code introduced in 3.17" * tag 'xfs-for-linus-3.18-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dgc/linux-xfs: xfs: track bulkstat progress by agino xfs: bulkstat error handling is broken xfs: bulkstat main loop logic is a mess xfs: bulkstat chunk-formatter has issues xfs: bulkstat chunk formatting cursor is broken xfs: bulkstat btree walk doesn't terminate mm: Fix comment before truncate_setsize() xfs: rework zero range to prevent invalid i_size updates mm: Remove false WARN_ON from pagecache_isize_extended() xfs: Check error during inode btree iteration in xfs_bulkstat() xfs: bulkstat doesn't release AGI buffer on error
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