It is frequently useful to sync a single file system, instead of all
mounted file systems via sync(2):

 - On machines with many mounts, it is not at all uncommon for some of
   them to hang (e.g. unresponsive NFS server).  sync(2) will get stuck on
   those and may never get to the one you do care about (e.g., /).
 - Some applications write lots of data to the file system and then
   want to make sure it is flushed to disk.  Calling fsync(2) on each
   file introduces unnecessary ordering constraints that result in a large
   amount of sub-optimal writeback/flush/commit behavior by the file
   system.

There are currently two ways (that I know of) to sync a single super_block:

 - BLKFLSBUF ioctl on the block device: That also invalidates the bdev
   mapping, which isn't usually desirable, and doesn't work for non-block
   file systems.
 - 'mount -o remount,rw' will call sync_filesystem as an artifact of the
   current implemention.  Relying on this little-known side effect for
   something like data safety sounds foolish.

Both of these approaches require root privileges, which some applications
do not have (nor should they need?) given that sync(2) is an unprivileged
operation.

This patch introduces a new system call syncfs(2) that takes an fd and
syncs only the file system it references.  Maybe someday we can

 $ sync /some/path

and not get

 sync: ignoring all arguments

The syscall is motivated by comments by Al and Christoph at the last LSF.
syncfs(2) seems like an appropriate name given statfs(2).

A similar ioctl was also proposed a while back, see
	http://marc.info/?l=linux-fsdevel&m=127970513829285&w=2Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Hi,

I was backporting the coredump over pipe feature and noticed this small typo,
I wish I would have something bigger to contribute...

>From 15d6080e0ed4267da103c706917a33b1015e8804 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Holger Hans Peter Freyther <holger@moiji-mobile.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 17:42:50 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] fs: Fix a small typo in the comment

The function is called umh_pipe_setup not uhm_pipe_setup.
Signed-off-by: Holger Hans Peter Freyther <holger@moiji-mobile.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Fixed coding style issue.
Signed-off-by: David Jenni <dave.j@gmx.ch>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Remove the leftover from the commit 8ff3e8e8 ("select:
switch select() and poll() over to hrtimers").
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Move declaration of 'inode' to beginning of the function. Since it
is referenced directly or indirectly (in case of FIFREEZE/FITHAW/
FS_IOC_FIEMAP) it's not harmful IMHO. And remove unnecessary casts
using 'argp' instead.
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

* 'trivial' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6: (25 commits)
  video: change to new flag variable
  scsi: change to new flag variable
  rtc: change to new flag variable
  rapidio: change to new flag variable
  pps: change to new flag variable
  net: change to new flag variable
  misc: change to new flag variable
  message: change to new flag variable
  memstick: change to new flag variable
  isdn: change to new flag variable
  ieee802154: change to new flag variable
  ide: change to new flag variable
  hwmon: change to new flag variable
  dma: change to new flag variable
  char: change to new flag variable
  fs: change to new flag variable
  xtensa: change to new flag variable
  um: change to new flag variables
  s390: change to new flag variable
  mips: change to new flag variable
  ...

Fix up trivial conflict in drivers/hwmon/Makefile

* 'misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6:
  scripts/extract-ikconfig: add xz compression support
  kbuild: add GNU GLOBAL tags generation
  setlocalversion: update mercurial tag parsing

* 'packaging' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6:
  kbuild: Add make tarxz-pkg build option

* 'i2c-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jdelvare/staging:
  i2c-i801: SMBus patch for Intel DH89xxCC DeviceIDs
  i2c: Drop i2c_adapter.id
  i2c: Deprecate i2c_driver.attach_adapter and .detach_adapter
  i2c-dev: Use standard bus notification mechanism
  i2c: Export i2c_for_each_dev
  i2c: Get rid of <linux/i2c-id.h>
  i2c: Minor fixes to upgrading-clients document
  i2c: make i2c_get_adapter prototype clearer
  i2c: Fix typo in instantiating-devices document
  i2c-boardinfo: Fix typo in comment

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile:
  asm-generic: support clock_adjtime() in <asm-generic/unistd.h>
  arch/tile: fix futex sanitization definition/prototype mismatch

commit 54405cde (r8169: support control of advertising.)
introduced a bug in rtl8169_init_phy()
Reported-and-tested-by: Piotr Hosowicz <piotr@hosowicz.com>
Reported-and-tested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Acked-by: : Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
Cc: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
Tested-by: Anca Emanuel <anca.emanuel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Add the SMBus Controller DeviceIDs for the Intel DH89xxCC PCH.
Signed-off-by: Seth Heasley <seth.heasley@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>

There is no user left of i2c_adapter.id, so we can get rid of it.
Finally! :)
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>

The last legitimate user of i2c_driver.attach_adapter and
.detach_adapter is gone, so we can finally deprecate these callbacks.
The last few drivers which still use these will have to be updated to
make use of standard I2C device instantiation ways instead.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>

Use the standard driver core mechanism to keep track of i2c adapters
present on the system: i2c_for_each_dev and a notifier. This will let
us deprecate and ultimately remove the legacy attach_adapter and
detach_adapter callbacks in i2c_driver.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>

Introduce i2c_for_each_dev(), an i2c device iterator with proper
locking for use by i2c-dev. This is needed so that we can get rid of
the attach_adapter and detach_adapter legacy callback functions.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>

The last remaining ID in <linux/i2c-id.h> is no longer used anywhere,
so we can finally get rid of it.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>

* Typical legacy drivers implemented method .detach_client, not
  .detach_adapter.
* Drop all references to __devexit, as i2c drivers shouldn't use it.

Cc: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>

Rename the parameter of i2c_get_adapter() to "nr", to make it clear we
are passing an adapter number and not an adapter ID (which have gone
away by now.)
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>

The struct i2c_board_info member holding the name is "type", not
"name".
Signed-off-by: Roman Fietze <roman.fietze@telemotive.de>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org

Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input: (64 commits)
  Input: tsc2005 - remove 'disable' sysfs attribute
  Input: tsc2005 - add open/close
  Input: tsc2005 - handle read errors from SPI layer
  Input: tsc2005 - do not rearm timer in hardirq handler
  Input: tsc2005 - don't use work for 'pen up' handling
  Input: tsc2005 - do not use 0 in place of NULL
  Input: tsc2005 - use true/false for boolean variables
  Input: tsc2005 - hide selftest attribute if we can't reset
  Input: tsc2005 - rework driver initialization code
  Input: tsc2005 - set up bus type in input device
  Input: tsc2005 - set up parent device
  Input: tsc2005 - clear driver data after unbinding
  Input: tsc2005 - add module description
  Input: tsc2005 - remove driver banner message
  Input: tsc2005 - remove incorrect module alias
  Input: tsc2005 - convert to using dev_pm_ops
  Input: tsc2005 - use spi_get/set_drvdata()
  Input: introduce tsc2005 driver
  Input: xen-kbdfront - move to drivers/input/misc
  Input: xen-kbdfront - add grant reference for shared page
  ...

A syscall was added without being added to asm-generic, which
makes tile (and presumably score and unicore32) break.
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn>
Cc: Chen Liqin <liqin.chen@sunplusct.com>
Cc: Lennox Wu <lennox.wu@gmail.com>

Commit 8d7718aa changed "int"
to "u32" in the prototypes but not the definition.
I missed this when I saw the patch go by on LKML.

We cast "u32 *" to "int *" since we are tying into the underlying
atomics framework, and atomic_t uses int as its value type.
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Reviewed-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ryusuke/nilfs2:
  nilfs2: move NILFS_SUPER_MAGIC to linux/magic.h
  nilfs2: get rid of nilfs_sb_info structure
  nilfs2: use sb instance instead of nilfs_sb_info struct
  nilfs2: get rid of sc_sbi back pointer
  nilfs2: move log writer onto nilfs object
  nilfs2: move next generation counter into nilfs object
  nilfs2: move s_inode_lock and s_dirty_files into nilfs object
  nilfs2: move parameters on nilfs_sb_info into nilfs object
  nilfs2: move mount options to nilfs object
  nilfs2: record used amount of each checkpoint in checkpoint list
  nilfs2: optimize rec_len functions
  nilfs2: append blocksize info to warnings during loading super blocks
  nilfs2: add compat ioctl
  nilfs2: implement FS_IOC_GETFLAGS/SETFLAGS/GETVERSION
  nilfs2: tighten restrictions on inode flags
  nilfs2: mark S_NOATIME on inodes only if NOATIME attribute is set
  nilfs2: use common file attribute macros
  nilfs2: add free entries count only if clear bit operation succeeded
  nilfs2: decrement inodes count only if raw inode was successfully deleted

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cjb/mmc: (53 commits)
  mmc: dw_mmc: support mmc power control with regulator
  mmc: dw_mmc: fix suspend/resume operation
  mmc: dw_mmc: add quirks for unreliable card detect, and capabilities
  mmc: tmio: fix address in kunmap_atomic() calls
  mmc: core: reset card voltage after power off
  mmc: core: export function mmc_do_release_host()
  mmc: sdio: remember new card RCA when redetecting card
  mmc: dw_mmc: Remove set-but-unused variable.
  mmc: sdhci-esdhc-imx: add card detect on custom GPIO for mx25/35
  mmc: sdhci-esdhc: broken card detection is not a default quirk
  mmc: sdhci-esdhc-imx: add write protect on custom GPIO on mx25/35
  mmc: msm_sdcc: remove needless cache flush after dma_unmap_sg()
  mmc: sh_mmcif: support aggressive clock gating
  mmc: check if mmc cards < 2GB do sector addressing
  mmc: core: comment on why sdio_reset is done at init time
  mmc: dw_mmc: support DDR mode
  mmc: via-sdmmc: Remove set-but-unused variable.
  mmc: cb710: Return err value in cb710_wait_while_busy()
  mmc: sdhci-pci: Remove set-but-unused variable.
  mmc: mxs-mmc: add mmc host driver for i.MX23/28
  ...

* 'pm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/suspend-2.6:
  USB: Move runtime PM callbacks to usb_device_pm_ops

* 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-2.6-mn10300:
  MN10300: Clear ASB2364 peripheral interrupt masks before enabling interrupts
  MN10300: Fix the ASB2364 gdbport UART register defs
  MN10300: Fix ASB2364 FPGA register defs
  MN10300: Select GENERIC_HARDIRQS_NO_DEPRECATED
  MN10300: Select HAVE_GENERIC_HARDIRQS rather than GENERIC_HARDIRQS
  MN10300: Convert ASB2364 FPGA irq_chip to new functions
  MN10300: Convert ipi irq_chip to new functions
  MN10300: Convert serial irq_chip to new functions
  MN10300: Convert cpu irq_chips to new functions
  MN10300: Remove unused mn10300_intc_* functions
  MN10300: Remove stale irq_chip.end - V2
  MN10300: Use clockevents_calc_mult_shift()
  MN10300: Use clocksource_register_hz()
  MN10300: Remove stale code

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vapier/blackfin: (32 commits)
  Blackfin: ip0x: fix unused variable warning
  Blackfin: punt unused HDMA masks
  Blackfin: wire up new syscalls
  Blackfin/ipipe: restore pipeline bits in irqflags
  Blackfin/ipipe: fix deferred pipeline sync for the root stage
  Blackfin/ipipe: upgrade to I-pipe mainline
  Blackfin: cpufreq: fix typos
  Blackfin: enable GENERIC_HARDIRQS_NO_DEPRECATED
  Blackfin: SMP: convert to irq chip functions
  Blackfin: use accessor functions in show_interrupts()
  Blackfin: use proper wrapper functions for modifying irq status
  Blackfin: convert gpio irq_chip to new functions
  Blackfin: convert mac irq_chip to new functions
  Blackfin: convert error irq_chip to new functions
  Blackfin: convert internal irq_chip to new functions
  Blackfin: convert core irq_chip to new functions
  Blackfin: use proper wrappers for irq_desc
  Blackfin: optimize startup code
  Blackfin: SMP: work around anomaly 05000491
  Blackfin: SMP: implement cpu_freq support
  ...

USB defines usb_device_type pointing to usb_device_pm_ops that
provides system-wide PM callbacks only and usb_bus_type pointing to
usb_bus_pm_ops that provides runtime PM callbacks only.  However,
the USB runtime PM callbacks may be defined in usb_device_pm_ops
which makes it possible to drop usb_bus_pm_ops and will allow us
to consolidate the handling of subsystems by the PM core code.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

* 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6:
  PCI: label: remove #include of ACPI header to avoid warnings
  PCI: label: Fix compilation error when CONFIG_ACPI is unset
  PCI: pre-allocate additional resources to devices only after successful allocation of essential resources.
  PCI: introduce reset_resource()
  PCI: data structure agnostic free list function
  PCI: refactor io size calculation code
  PCI: do not create quirk I/O regions below PCIBIOS_MIN_IO for ICH
  PCI hotplug: acpiphp: set current_state to D0 in register_slot
  PCI: Export ACPI _DSM provided firmware instance number and string name to sysfs
  PCI: add more checking to ICH region quirks
  PCI: aer-inject: Override PCIe AER Mask Registers
  PCI: fix tlan build when CONFIG_PCI is not enabled
  PCI: remove quirk for pre-production systems
  PCI: Avoid potential NULL pointer dereference in pci_scan_bridge
  PCI/lpc: irq and pci_ids patch for Intel DH89xxCC DeviceIDs
  PCI: sysfs: Fix failure path for addition of "vpd" attribute

* 'spi/next' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6: (34 commits)
  spi/dw_spi: move dw_spi.h into drivers/spi
  spi/dw_spi: Fix missing header
  gpio/langwell: Clear edge bit before handling
  gpio/langwell: Simplify demux loop
  gpio/langwell: Convert irq name space
  gpio/langwell: Fix broken irq_eoi change.
  gpio; Make Intel chipset gpio drivers depend on x86
  gpio/cs5535-gpio: Fix section mismatch
  spi/rtc-{ds1390,ds3234,m41t94}: Use spi_get_drvdata() for SPI devices
  spi/davinci: Support DMA transfers larger than 65535 words
  spi/davinci: Use correct length parameter to dma_map_single calls
  gpio: Use __devexit at necessary places
  gpio: add MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE to pch_gpio and ml_ioh_gpio
  gpio/mcp23s08: support mcp23s17 variant
  of_mmc_spi: add card detect irq support
  spi/omap_mcspi: catch xfers of non-multiple SPI word size
  spi/omap_mcspi: Off-by-one error in finding the right divisor
  gpio/pca953x: Fix wrong pointer type
  spi/pl022: rid dangling labels
  spi: add support for SuperH SPI
  ...

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/teigland/dlm:
  dlm: use alloc_workqueue function
  dlm: increase default hash table sizes
  dlm: record full callback state

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6:
  fs: call security_d_instantiate in d_obtain_alias V2
  lose 'mounting_here' argument in ->d_manage()
  don't pass 'mounting_here' flag to follow_down()
  change the locking order for namespace_sem
  fix deadlock in pivot_root()
  vfs: split off vfsmount-related parts of vfs_kern_mount()
  Some fixes for pstore
  kill simple_set_mnt()

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bcopeland/omfs:
  omfs: make readdir stop when filldir says so
  omfs: merge unlink() and rmdir(), close leak in rename()
  omfs: stop playing silly buggers with omfs_unlink() in ->rename()
  omfs: rename() needs to mark old_inode dirty after ctime update

* 'linux-next' of git://git.infradead.org/ubifs-2.6: (25 commits)
  UBIFS: clean-up commentaries
  UBIFS: save 128KiB or more RAM
  UBIFS: allocate orphans scan buffer on demand
  UBIFS: allocate lpt dump buffer on demand
  UBIFS: allocate ltab checking buffer on demand
  UBIFS: allocate scanning buffer on demand
  UBIFS: allocate dump buffer on demand
  UBIFS: do not check data crc by default
  UBIFS: simplify UBIFS Kconfig menu
  UBIFS: print max. index node size
  UBIFS: handle allocation failures in UBIFS write path
  UBIFS: use max_write_size during recovery
  UBIFS: use max_write_size for write-buffers
  UBIFS: introduce write-buffer size field
  UBI: incorporate LEB offset information
  UBIFS: incorporate maximum write size
  UBI: provide LEB offset information
  UBI: incorporate maximum write size
  UBIFS: fix LEB number in printk
  UBIFS: restrict world-writable debugfs files
  ...

* 'linux-next' of git://git.infradead.org/ubi-2.6:
  UBI: make tests modes dynamic
  UBI: make self-checks dynamic
  UBI: make debugging messages dynamic
  UBI: remove UBI_IO_DEBUG macro
  UBI: kill debugging buffer
  UBI: allocate erase checking buffer on demand
  UBI: allocate write checking buffer on demand
  UBI: always re-read in case of read failures
  UBI: cleanup comments about corrupted PEBs
  UBI: add slab cache for ubi_scan_leb objects
  UBI: use raw mtd read function in debugging code
  UBI: try to reveal buggy MTD drivers
  UBI: add a commentary about allocating VID header buffer on stack
  UBI: cleanup LEB start calculations
  UBI: fix NOR erase preparation quirk

Add an entry for serial maintainers.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>