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  153f0ca xfs: Ensure we force all busy extents in range to disk
  6701069 xfs: Don't flush stale inodes
  996c3bc xfs: fix timestamp handling in xfs_setattr
  f00fbad xfs: use DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS
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commit 153f0ca7b70ebf5a9726250a98d3651b6296c131
Author: Dave Chinner <david at fromorbit.com>
Date:   Sat Jan 2 02:38:56 2010 +0000

    xfs: Ensure we force all busy extents in range to disk
    
    When we search for and find a busy extent during allocation we
    force the log out to ensure the extent free transaction is on
    disk before the allocation transaction. The current implementation
    has a subtle bug in it--it does not handle multiple overlapping
    ranges.
    
    That is, if we free lots of little extents into a single
    contiguous extent, then allocate the contiguous extent, the busy
    search code stops searching at the first extent it finds that
    overlaps the allocated range. It then uses the commit LSN of the
    transaction to force the log out to.
    
    Unfortunately, the other busy ranges might have more recent
    commit LSNs than the first busy extent that is found, and this
    results in xfs_alloc_search_busy() returning before all the
    extent free transactions are on disk for the range being
    allocated. This can lead to potential metadata corruption or
    stale data exposure after a crash because log replay won't replay
    all the extent free transactions that cover the allocation range.
    
    Modified-by: Alex Elder <aelder at sgi.com>
    
    (Dropped the "found" argument from the xfs_alloc_busysearch trace
    event.)
    
    Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david at fromorbit.com>
    Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
    Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder at sgi.com>

commit 67010697af7f00dd038322bdec108e7ffd0567e8
Author: Dave Chinner <david at fromorbit.com>
Date:   Sat Jan 2 02:39:40 2010 +0000

    xfs: Don't flush stale inodes
    
    Because inodes remain in cache much longer than inode buffers do
    under memory pressure, we can get the situation where we have
    stale, dirty inodes being reclaimed but the backing storage has
    been freed.  Hence we should never, ever flush XFS_ISTALE inodes
    to disk as there is no guarantee that the backing buffer is in
    cache and still marked stale when the flush occurs.
    
    Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david at fromorbit.com>
    Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder at sgi.com>

commit 996c3bc089b09d1cbf15da156100210ca34f2eab
Author: Christoph Hellwig <hch at infradead.org>
Date:   Wed Dec 23 16:09:13 2009 +0000

    xfs: fix timestamp handling in xfs_setattr
    
    We currently have some rather odd code in xfs_setattr for
    updating the a/c/mtime timestamps:
    
     - first we do a non-transaction update if all three are updated
       together
     - second we implicitly update the ctime for various changes
       instead of relying on the ATTR_CTIME flag
     - third we set the timestamps to the current time instead of the
       arguments in the iattr structure in many cases.
    
    This patch makes sure we update it in a consistent way:
    
     - always transactional
     - ctime is only updated if ATTR_CTIME is set or we do a size
       update, which is a special case
     - always to the times passed in from the caller instead of the
       current time
    
    The only non-size caller of xfs_setattr that doesn't come from
    the VFS is updated to set ATTR_CTIME and pass in a valid ctime
    value.
    
    Reported-by: Eric Blake <ebb9 at byu.net>
    Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
    Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder at sgi.com>

commit f00fbad6d00afffef9e4e9ae78494dff70923897
Author: Christoph Hellwig <hch at infradead.org>
Date:   Mon Dec 21 14:03:03 2009 +0000

    xfs: use DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS
    
    Using DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS allows us to to use trace event code
    instead of duplicating it in the binary.  This was not available
    before 2.6.33 so it had to be done as a separate step once the
    prerequisite was merged.
    
    This only requires changes to xfs_trace.h and the results are
    rather impressive:
    
    hch at brick:~/work/linux-2.6/obj-kvm$ size fs/xfs/xfs.o*
    text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
     607732	  41884	   3616	 653232	  9f7b0	fs/xfs/xfs.o
    1026732	  41884	   3808	1072424	 105d28	fs/xfs/xfs.o.old
    
    Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
    Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder at sgi.com>

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Summary of changes:
 fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_acl.c   |    3 +-
 fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_trace.h | 1141 ++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
 fs/xfs/xfs_alloc.c           |   44 +-
 fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c           |   10 +-
 fs/xfs/xfs_vnodeops.c        |   93 ++--
 5 files changed, 666 insertions(+), 625 deletions(-)


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