Linus Torvalds e7d33bb5ea lockref: add ability to mark lockrefs "dead" ... The only actual current lockref user (dcache) uses zero reference counts even for perfectly live dentries, because it's a cache: there may not be any users, but that doesn't mean that we want to throw away the dentry. At the same time, the dentry cache does have a notion of a truly "dead" dentry that we must not even increment the reference count of, because we have pruned it and it is not valid. Currently that distinction is not visible in the lockref itself, and the dentry cache validation uses "lockref_get_or_lock()" to either get a new reference to a dentry that already had existing references (and thus cannot be dead), or get the dentry lock so that we can then verify the dentry and increment the reference count under the lock if that verification was successful. That's all somewhat complicated. This adds the concept of being "dead" to the lockref itself, by simply using a count that is negative. This allows a usage scenario where we can increment the refcount of a dentry without having to validate it, and pushing the special "we killed it" case into the lockref code. The dentry code itself doesn't actually use this yet, and it's probably too late in the merge window to do that code (the dentry_kill() code with its "should I decrement the count" logic really is pretty complex code), but let's introduce the concept at the lockref level now. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>		2013-09-07 15:49:18 -07:00
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fonts	lib: Move fonts from drivers/video/console/ to lib/fonts/	2013-06-28 10:28:22 +02:00
lz4	lib/lz4: correct the LZ4 license	2013-08-23 09:51:22 -07:00
lzo	lib/lzo: Update LZO compression to current upstream version	2013-02-20 19:36:01 +01:00
mpi	alpha: Modernize lib/mpi/longlong.h	2013-07-19 13:54:23 -07:00
raid6	lib/raid6: add ARM-NEON accelerated syndrome calculation	2013-07-08 22:09:18 +01:00
reed_solomon	…
xz	decompressors: fix typo "POWERPC"	2013-03-13 15:21:48 -07:00
zlib_deflate	…
zlib_inflate	…
.gitignore	X.509: Implement simple static OID registry	2012-10-08 13:50:18 +10:30
Kconfig	Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6	2013-09-07 14:31:18 -07:00
Kconfig.debug	kobject: delayed kobject release: help find buggy drivers	2013-07-25 15:39:04 -07:00
Kconfig.kgdb	treewide: Fix typo in printk	2013-06-18 13:48:45 +02:00
Kconfig.kmemcheck	…
Makefile	lockref: uninline lockref helper functions	2013-09-02 11:58:20 -07:00
argv_split.c	argv_split(): teach it to handle mutable strings	2013-04-29 18:28:19 -07:00
asn1_decoder.c	Nothing all that exciting; a new module-from-fd syscall for those who want	2012-12-19 07:55:08 -08:00
atomic64.c	lib: atomic64: Initialize locks statically to fix early users	2012-12-20 13:50:16 -08:00
atomic64_test.c	atomic64_test: simplify the #ifdef for atomic64_dec_if_positive() test	2012-07-30 17:25:16 -07:00
audit.c	…
average.c	…
bcd.c	usb/core: use bin2bcd() for bcdDevice in RH	2012-09-10 11:13:16 -07:00
bch.c	…
bitmap.c	propagate name change to comments in kernel source	2012-12-06 10:39:54 +01:00
bitrev.c	…
bsearch.c	…
btree.c	btree: catch NULL value before it does harm	2012-06-07 14:43:55 -07:00
bug.c	taint: add explicit flag to show whether lock dep is still OK.	2013-01-21 17:17:57 +10:30
build_OID_registry	X.509: do not emit any informational output	2013-06-19 17:54:06 +02:00
bust_spinlocks.c	printk: Provide a wake_up_klogd() off-case	2013-03-22 16:41:20 -07:00
check_signature.c	…
checksum.c	asm-generic headers: Allow yet more arch overrides in checksum.h	2013-02-11 20:00:33 +05:30
clz_ctz.c	lib: add weak clz/ctz functions	2013-07-09 10:33:30 -07:00
clz_tab.c	…
cmdline.c	…
cordic.c	…
cpu-notifier-error-inject.c	cpu: rewrite cpu-notifier-error-inject module	2012-07-30 17:25:22 -07:00
cpu_rmap.c	lib: cpu_rmap: avoid flushing all workqueues	2013-01-11 14:54:54 -08:00
cpumask.c	bootmem: fix wrong call parameter for free_bootmem()	2012-12-11 17:22:28 -08:00
crc-ccitt.c	…
crc-itu-t.c	…
crc-t10dif.c	Reinstate "crypto: crct10dif - Wrap crc_t10dif function all to use crypto transform framework"	2013-09-07 12:56:26 +10:00
crc7.c	…
crc8.c	…
crc16.c	…
crc32.c	sections: fix const sections for crc32 table	2012-10-06 03:04:46 +09:00
crc32defs.h	crc32: select an algorithm via Kconfig	2012-03-23 16:58:38 -07:00
ctype.c	…
debug_locks.c	mutex: Add support for wound/wait style locks	2013-06-26 12:10:56 +02:00
debugobjects.c	debugobjects: Make debug_object_activate() return status	2013-08-18 17:39:55 -07:00
dec_and_lock.c	…
decompress.c	lib: add support for LZ4-compressed kernel	2013-07-09 10:33:30 -07:00
decompress_bunzip2.c	…
decompress_inflate.c	…
decompress_unlz4.c	lib: add support for LZ4-compressed kernel	2013-07-09 10:33:30 -07:00
decompress_unlzma.c	…
decompress_unlzo.c	lib/lzo: Rename lzo1x_decompress.c to lzo1x_decompress_safe.c	2013-02-20 19:36:00 +01:00
decompress_unxz.c	…
devres.c	lib/devres.c: fix misplaced #endif	2013-02-27 19:10:09 -08:00
digsig.c	Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security	2013-02-21 08:18:12 -08:00
div64.c	Revert "math64: New div64_u64_rem helper"	2013-04-30 19:13:05 +02:00
dma-debug.c	dma-debug: update DMA debug API to better handle multiple mappings of a buffer	2013-03-22 16:41:20 -07:00
dump_stack.c	x86, asmlinkage: Make dump_stack visible	2013-08-06 14:21:01 -07:00
dynamic_debug.c	dynamic debug: line queries failing due to uninitialized local variable	2013-08-28 12:10:53 -07:00
dynamic_queue_limits.c	bql: Avoid possible inconsistent calculation.	2012-05-31 18:18:17 -04:00
earlycpio.c	earlycpio.c: Fix the confusing comment of find_cpio_data().	2013-08-14 23:24:01 +02:00
extable.c	…
fault-inject.c	debugfs: add get/set for atomic types	2013-06-03 13:55:01 -07:00
fdt.c	of/lib: Allow scripts/dtc/libfdt to be used from kernel code	2012-07-23 13:54:52 +01:00
fdt_ro.c	of/lib: Allow scripts/dtc/libfdt to be used from kernel code	2012-07-23 13:54:52 +01:00
fdt_rw.c	of/lib: Allow scripts/dtc/libfdt to be used from kernel code	2012-07-23 13:54:52 +01:00
fdt_strerror.c	of/lib: Allow scripts/dtc/libfdt to be used from kernel code	2012-07-23 13:54:52 +01:00
fdt_sw.c	of/lib: Allow scripts/dtc/libfdt to be used from kernel code	2012-07-23 13:54:52 +01:00
fdt_wip.c	of/lib: Allow scripts/dtc/libfdt to be used from kernel code	2012-07-23 13:54:52 +01:00
find_last_bit.c	…
find_next_bit.c	…
flex_array.c	…
flex_proportions.c	lib/flex_proportions.c: fix corruption of denominator in flexible proportions	2012-09-25 08:59:21 -07:00
gcd.c	lib/gcd.c: prevent possible div by 0	2012-10-06 03:04:57 +09:00
gen_crc32table.c	sections: fix const sections for crc32 table	2012-10-06 03:04:46 +09:00
genalloc.c	genalloc: add devres support, allow to find a managed pool by device	2013-04-29 18:28:13 -07:00
halfmd4.c	…
hexdump.c	dynamic_debug: dynamic hex dump	2013-01-17 12:19:09 -08:00
hweight.c	…
idr.c	idr: print a stack dump after ida_remove warning	2013-07-03 16:08:04 -07:00
inflate.c	…
int_sqrt.c	lib/int_sqrt.c: optimize square root algorithm	2013-04-29 18:28:19 -07:00
interval_tree.c	mm: interval tree updates	2012-10-09 16:22:40 +09:00
interval_tree_test_main.c	random32: rename random32 to prandom	2012-12-17 17:15:26 -08:00
iomap.c	…
iomap_copy.c	…
iommu-helper.c	The following text was taken from the original review request:	2012-03-24 10:24:31 -07:00
ioremap.c	…
iovec.c	Hoist memcpy_fromiovec/memcpy_toiovec into lib/	2013-05-20 10:24:22 +09:30
irq_regs.c	…
is_single_threaded.c	…
jedec_ddr_data.c	ddr: add LPDDR2 data from JESD209-2	2012-05-02 00:04:06 -07:00
kasprintf.c	lib/kasprintf.c: use kmalloc_track_caller() to get accurate traces for kvasprintf	2012-10-11 08:50:15 +09:00
kfifo.c	kfifo: fix kfifo_alloc() and kfifo_init()	2013-02-27 19:10:23 -08:00
klist.c	klist: del waiter from klist_remove_waiters before wakeup waitting process	2013-05-21 10:16:39 -07:00
kobject.c	Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace	2013-09-07 14:35:32 -07:00
kobject_uevent.c	netlink: hide struct module parameter in netlink_kernel_create	2012-09-08 18:46:30 -04:00
kstrtox.c	kstrto*: add documentation	2012-12-17 17:15:22 -08:00
kstrtox.h	…
lcm.c	…
libcrc32c.c	…
list_debug.c	rcu: Fix broken strings in RCU's source code.	2012-07-06 06:01:49 -07:00
list_sort.c	lib/: rename random32() to prandom_u32()	2013-04-29 18:28:42 -07:00
llist.c	llist: fix/simplify llist_add() and llist_add_batch()	2013-07-13 13:29:24 +04:00
locking-selftest-hardirq.h	…
locking-selftest-mutex.h	…
locking-selftest-rlock-hardirq.h	…
locking-selftest-rlock-softirq.h	…
locking-selftest-rlock.h	…
locking-selftest-rsem.h	…
locking-selftest-softirq.h	…
locking-selftest-spin-hardirq.h	…
locking-selftest-spin-softirq.h	…
locking-selftest-spin.h	…
locking-selftest-wlock-hardirq.h	…
locking-selftest-wlock-softirq.h	…
locking-selftest-wlock.h	…
locking-selftest-wsem.h	…
locking-selftest.c	mutex: Move ww_mutex definitions to ww_mutex.h	2013-07-12 12:07:46 +02:00
lockref.c	lockref: add ability to mark lockrefs "dead"	2013-09-07 15:49:18 -07:00
lru_cache.c	lru_cache: introduce lc_get_cumulative()	2013-03-22 22:17:36 -06:00
md5.c	…
memory-notifier-error-inject.c	memory: memory notifier error injection module	2012-07-30 17:25:22 -07:00
memweight.c	string: introduce memweight()	2012-07-30 17:25:16 -07:00
net_utils.c	net: core: move mac_pton() to lib/net_utils.c	2013-06-05 12:00:27 -07:00
nlattr.c	netlink: add minlen validation for the new signed types	2012-08-30 13:11:46 -04:00
notifier-error-inject.c	mode_t, whack-a-mole at 11...	2013-04-09 14:13:05 -04:00
notifier-error-inject.h	fault-injection: notifier error injection	2012-07-30 17:25:22 -07:00
of-reconfig-notifier-error-inject.c	powerpc+of: Rename and fix OF reconfig notifier error inject module	2012-12-14 10:32:52 +11:00
oid_registry.c	Give the OID registry file module info to avoid kernel tainting	2013-05-05 14:38:00 -07:00
parser.c	lib/parser.c: fix up comments for valid return values from match_number	2013-02-21 17:22:25 -08:00
pci_iomap.c	…
percpu-refcount.c	percpu-refcount: use RCU-sched insted of normal RCU	2013-06-16 16:12:26 -07:00
percpu-rwsem.c	percpu_rw_semaphore: add lockdep annotations	2012-12-17 17:15:18 -08:00
percpu_counter.c	kernel: delete __cpuinit usage from all core kernel files	2013-07-14 19:36:59 -04:00
plist.c	lib/plist.c: make plist test announcements KERN_DEBUG	2012-10-06 03:04:58 +09:00
pm-notifier-error-inject.c	PM: PM notifier error injection module	2012-07-30 17:25:22 -07:00
prio_heap.c	…
proportions.c	…
radix-tree.c	radix-tree: fix contiguous iterator	2012-06-05 10:46:40 -07:00
random32.c	prandom: introduce prandom_bytes() and prandom_bytes_state()	2012-12-17 17:15:26 -08:00
ratelimit.c	…
rational.c	lib: Change mail address of Oskar Schirmer	2012-05-17 15:18:37 +02:00
rbtree.c	lib/rbtree.c: avoid the use of non-static __always_inline	2013-01-11 14:54:56 -08:00
rbtree_test.c	rbtree_test: add __init/__exit annotations	2013-04-30 17:04:07 -07:00
reciprocal_div.c	…
rwsem-spinlock.c	rwsem: simplify __rwsem_do_wake	2013-05-07 07:20:16 -07:00
rwsem.c	rwsem: check counter to avoid cmpxchg calls	2013-05-07 16:11:51 -07:00
scatterlist.c	lib/scatterlist: error handling in __sg_alloc_table()	2013-07-09 10:33:31 -07:00
sha1.c	…
show_mem.c	mm, show_mem: suppress page counts in non-blockable contexts	2013-04-29 15:54:28 -07:00
smp_processor_id.c	…
sort.c	…
spinlock_debug.c	lib/spinlock_debug: avoid livelock in do_raw_spin_lock()	2012-10-06 03:04:57 +09:00
stmp_device.c	lib: add support for stmp-style devices	2012-04-20 23:27:08 +02:00
string.c	The following text was taken from the original review request:	2012-03-24 10:24:31 -07:00
string_helpers.c	lib/string_helpers: introduce generic string_unescape	2013-04-30 17:04:03 -07:00
strncpy_from_user.c	word-at-a-time: make the interfaces truly generic	2012-05-26 11:33:40 -07:00
strnlen_user.c	lib: Fix generic strnlen_user for 32-bit big-endian machines	2012-05-27 20:59:46 -07:00
swiotlb.c	swiotlb: replace dma_length with sg_dma_len() macro	2013-08-09 11:28:42 -04:00
syscall.c	…
test-kstrtox.c	lib/test-kstrtox.c: mark const init data with __initconst instead of __initdata	2012-05-29 16:22:32 -07:00
test-string_helpers.c	lib/string_helpers: introduce generic string_unescape	2013-04-30 17:04:03 -07:00
textsearch.c	…
timerqueue.c	The following text was taken from the original review request:	2012-03-24 10:24:31 -07:00
ts_bm.c	…
ts_fsm.c	…
ts_kmp.c	…
ucs2_string.c	Move utf16 functions to kernel core and rename	2013-04-15 21:23:03 +01:00
usercopy.c	Kconfig: consolidate CONFIG_DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS	2013-04-30 17:04:09 -07:00
uuid.c	uuid: use prandom_bytes()	2013-04-29 18:28:42 -07:00
vsprintf.c	add formats for dentry/file pathnames	2013-09-04 00:13:11 -04:00