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Merge tag 'errseq-v4.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jlayton/linux

Pull errseq infrastructure fix from Jeff Layton:
 "The PostgreSQL developers recently had a spirited discussion about the
  writeback error handling in Linux, and reached out to us about a
  behavoir change to the code that bit them when the errseq_t changes
  were merged.

  When we changed to using errseq_t for tracking writeback errors, we
  lost the ability for an application to see a writeback error that
  occurred before the open on which the fsync was issued. This was
  problematic for PostgreSQL which offloads fsync calls to a completely
  separate process from the DB writers.

  This patch restores that ability. If the errseq_t value in the inode
  does not have the SEEN flag set, then we just return 0 for the sample.
  That ensures that any recorded error is always delivered at least
  once.

  Note that we might still lose the error if the inode gets evicted from
  the cache before anything can reopen it, but that was the case before
  errseq_t was merged. At LSF/MM we had some discussion about keeping
  inodes with unreported writeback errors around in the cache for longer
  (possibly indefinitely), but that's really a separate problem"

* tag 'errseq-v4.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jlayton/linux:
  errseq: Always report a writeback error once
2018-04-30 16:53:40 -07:00
arch Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc 2018-04-30 13:27:16 -07:00
block Revert "blk-mq: remove code for dealing with remapping queue" 2018-04-25 09:49:22 -06:00
certs certs/blacklist_nohashes.c: fix const confusion in certs blacklist 2018-02-21 15:35:43 -08:00
crypto crypto: drbg - set freed buffers to NULL 2018-04-21 00:57:00 +08:00
Documentation Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-04-29 09:03:25 -07:00
drivers Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc 2018-04-30 13:27:16 -07:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs Fix misc. bugs and a regression for ext4. 2018-04-28 20:07:21 -07:00
include Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-04-29 09:03:25 -07:00
init Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-04-15 16:12:35 -07:00
ipc ipc/shm: fix use-after-free of shm file via remap_file_pages() 2018-04-13 17:10:27 -07:00
kernel Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-04-29 09:03:25 -07:00
lib errseq infrastructure fix for v4.17 2018-04-30 16:53:40 -07:00
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Makefile Linux v4.17-rc3 2018-04-29 14:17:42 -07:00
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Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.