We've got eight GFS2 patches for this merge window:
1. Andy Price submitted a patch to make gfs2_write_full_page a
static function.
2. Dan Carpenter submitted a patch to fix a ERR_PTR thinko.
I've also got a few patches, three of which fix bugs related to
deleting very large files, which cause GFS2 to run out of
journal space:
3. The first one prevents GFS2 delete operation from requesting too
much journal space.
4. The second one fixes a problem whereby GFS2 can hang because it
wasn't taking journal space demand into its calculations.
5. The third one wakes up IO waiters when a flush is done to restart
processes stuck waiting for journal space to become available.
The other three patches are a performance improvement related to
spin_lock contention between multiple writers:
6. The "tr_touched" variable was switched to a flag to be more atomic
and eliminate the possibility of some races.
7. Function meta_lo_add was moved inline with its only caller to make
the code more readable and efficient.
8. Contention on the gfs2_log_lock spinlock was greatly reduced by
avoiding the lock altogether in cases where we don't really need
it: buffers that already appear in the appropriate metadata list
for the journal. Many thanks to Steve Whitehouse for the ideas and
principles behind these patches.
gfs2: Make gfs2_write_full_page static
It only gets called from aops.c and doesn't appear in any headers.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Price <anprice@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
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