Received: from oss.sgi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g7L9FKEC024533 for ; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 02:15:20 -0700 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.5/8.12.3/Submit) id g7L9FKJF024532 for linux-xfs-outgoing; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 02:15:20 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: oss.sgi.com: majordomo set sender to owner-linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com using -f Received: from verein.lst.de (verein.lst.de [212.34.181.86]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with SMTP id g7L9F6EC024503 for ; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 02:15:08 -0700 Received: (from hch@localhost) by verein.lst.de (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g7L9I6o29752; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 11:18:06 +0200 Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 11:18:06 +0200 From: Christoph Hellwig To: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Updated XFS merge status Message-ID: <20020821111806.A29739@lst.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by verein.lst.de id g7L9I6o29752 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by oss.sgi.com id g7L9F8EC024504 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests= version=2.20 X-Spam-Level: Sender: owner-linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk [this document is available online from http://verein.lst.de/~hch/xfs/status.txt] XFS Merge status as of 2002/08/21 Christoph Hellwig Covered kernels: - 2.4.20-pre4 - 2.4.20-pre2-ac5 - 2.5.31 + BK up to 2002/08/21 Required XFS bits 2.4 2.4-ac 2.5 --------------------------------------------------------------------­ buffer writeback through ->writepage - - x (1) mapping of arbitrary pages into KVA - - x kmem_cache_size() x x x ->alloc_inode/->destroy_inode methods - - x iget_locked() - - x lockless generic_file_write() - - x find_or_create_page() exported/inline - - x mark_page_accessed exported - - - PF_FTRANS flag for task_struct - - - generic_file_direct_IO fixes - - - (2) additional exports - - - (3) XFS filesystem code - - - Changes for specific XFS configurations 2.4 2.4-ac 2.5 --------------------------------------------------------------------­ -funsigned-char friendly spin_is_locked() x - (4) x New VFS quota code - x x sem_getcount() abstraction - (5) x - (5) VFS xattr code - - x VFS ACL code - - - ->mrotect method (for dmapi) - - - XFS dmapi code - (6) - (6) - (6) Other changes in the XFS tree 2.4 2.4-ac 2.5 --------------------------------------------------------------------­ KDB - (7) - (7) - (7) Disable broken XFS support in intermezzo - - - (1) Andrew Morton's buffer layer rewrite provides equivalent functionality. (2) Not needed in 2.5, we use the less picky generic O_DIRECT code. (3) Not needed/already exported in 2.5. (4) Alan backed it out. Needed for debug builds currently. (5) Needed for debug builds on parisc. Not in the XFS tree. (6) Not likely to go in ever. (technical reasons) (7) Not likely to go in ever. (political reasons)