Commit 9daa0a27 authored by Linus Torvalds's avatar Linus Torvalds
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Merge tag 'afs-next-20200604' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs

Pull AFS updates from David Howells:
 "There's some core VFS changes which affect a couple of filesystems:

   - Make the inode hash table RCU safe and providing some RCU-safe
     accessor functions. The search can then be done without taking the
     inode_hash_lock. Care must be taken because the object may be being
     deleted and no wait is made.

   - Allow iunique() to avoid taking the inode_hash_lock.

   - Allow AFS's callback processing to avoid taking the inode_hash_lock
     when using the inode table to find an inode to notify.

   - Improve Ext4's time updating. Konstantin Khlebnikov said "For now,
     I've plugged this issue with try-lock in ext4 lazy time update.
     This solution is much better."

  Then there's a set of changes to make a number of improvements to the
  AFS driver:

   - Improve callback (ie. third party change notification) processing
     by:

      (a) Relying more on th...
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