linux-kernel - [GIT PULL] writeback error handling fixes (pile #1)

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Date:   Thu, 06 Jul 2017 08:00:17 -0400
From:   Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [GIT PULL] writeback error handling fixes (pile #1)

On Thu, 2017-07-06 at 06:51 -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
> The following changes since commit c86daad2c25bfd4a33d48b7691afaa96d9c5ab46:
> 
>   Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input (2017-05-26 16:45:13 -0700)
> 
> are available in the git repository at:
> 
>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jlayton/linux.git tags/for-linus-v4.13-1
> 
> for you to fetch changes up to 0f41074a65757b46acbdd4293f0de8a70b147406:
> 
>   fs: remove call_fsync helper function (2017-07-05 18:44:23 -0400)
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> The main rationale for all of these changes is to tighten up writeback
> error reporting to userland. There are many ways now that writeback
> errors can be lost, such that fsync/fdatasync/msync return 0 when
> writeback actually failed.
> 
> This pile contains a small set of cleanups and writeback error handling
> fixes that I was able to break off from the main pile (#2).
> 
> Two of the patches in this pile are trivial. The exceptions are the
> patch to fix up error handling in write_one_page, and the patch to make
> JFS pay attention to write_one_page errors.
> 
> Side note: I'm not going to send a PR for the remaining locking
> patches. Al picked up most of the file locking / fcntl patches from my
> series in one of his PRs, so all that's left is the l_pid rework from
> Ben. I think it's reasonable to give those a full cycle to soak in -next
> as they came in rather late in this cycle anyway.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Dave Kleikamp (1):
>       JFS: do not ignore return code from write_one_page()
> 
> Jeff Layton (3):
>       mm: drop "wait" parameter from write_one_page()
>       mm: clean up error handling in write_one_page
>       fs: remove call_fsync helper function
> 
>  fs/exofs/dir.c        |  2 +-
>  fs/ext2/dir.c         |  2 +-
>  fs/jfs/jfs_metapage.c |  7 +++++--
>  fs/jfs/jfs_metapage.h |  1 +
>  fs/minix/dir.c        |  2 +-
>  fs/sync.c             |  2 +-
>  fs/sysv/dir.c         |  2 +-
>  fs/ufs/dir.c          |  2 +-
>  include/linux/fs.h    |  6 ------
>  include/linux/mm.h    |  2 +-
>  ipc/shm.c             |  2 +-
>  mm/page-writeback.c   | 19 +++++++++----------
>  12 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)


Obviously, this should have had [GIT PULL] in the subject...
-- 
Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com>