linux-kernel - [GIT PULL] Fixes for FS-Cache/CacheFiles [try #2]

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Date:	Mon, 22 Sep 2014 10:51:14 +0100
From:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
cc:	dhowells@...hat.com, milosz@...in.com, neilb@...e.de,
	linux-cachefs@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [GIT PULL] Fixes for FS-Cache/CacheFiles [try #2]

Hi Linus,

Could you pull these fixes for FS-Cache and Cachefiles:

 (1) Put a timeout in releasepage() to deal with a recursive hang between the
     memory allocator, writeback, ext4 and fscache under memory pressure.

 (2) Fix a pair of refcount bugs in the fscache error handling.

 (3) Remove a couple of unused pagevecs.  This could be punted to -next if
     you'd rather.

 (4) The cachefiles requirement that the base directory support rename should
     permit rename2 as an alternative - otherwise certain filesystems cannot
     now be used as backing stores (such as ext4).

I've fixed a bug in "FS-Cache: refcount becomes corrupt under vma pressure."
whereby fscache_unuse_cookie() was being passed a cookie rather than an
object pointing to that cookie.

Thanks,
David
---
The following changes since commit 68e370289c29e3beac99d59c6d840d470af9dfcf:

  Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux (2014-08-26 13:50:23 -0700)

are available in the git repository at:


  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs.git tags/fscache-fixes-20140917

for you to fetch changes up to e2cf1f1cc7636bd860e47cd0ad6194da8975f8b5:

  CacheFiles: Handle rename2 (2014-09-17 23:29:53 +0100)

----------------------------------------------------------------
FS-Cache fixes

----------------------------------------------------------------
David Howells (1):
      CacheFiles: Handle rename2

Milosz Tanski (3):
      FS-Cache: Timeout for releasepage()
      FS-Cache: Reduce cookie ref count if submit fails.
      FS-Cache: refcount becomes corrupt under vma pressure.

NeilBrown (1):
      cachefiles: remove two unused pagevecs.

 fs/cachefiles/namei.c |  3 ++-
 fs/cachefiles/rdwr.c  |  6 ------
 fs/fscache/object.c   |  1 +
 fs/fscache/page.c     | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++----
 4 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
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