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    Merge branch 'for-linus-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs · 052b398a
    Linus Torvalds authored
    Pull vfs updates from Al Viro:
     "In this pile: pathname resolution rewrite.
    
       - recursion in link_path_walk() is gone.
    
       - nesting limits on symlinks are gone (the only limit remaining is
         that the total amount of symlinks is no more than 40, no matter how
         nested).
    
       - "fast" (inline) symlinks are handled without leaving rcuwalk mode.
    
       - stack footprint (independent of the nesting) is below kilobyte now,
         about on par with what it used to be with one level of nested
         symlinks and ~2.8 times lower than it used to be in the worst case.
    
       - struct nameidata is entirely private to fs/namei.c now (not even
         opaque pointers are being passed around).
    
       - ->follow_link() and ->put_link() calling conventions had been
         changed; all in-tree filesystems converted, out-of-tree should be
         able to follow reasonably easily.
    
         For out-of-tree conversions, see Documentation/filesystems/porting
         for details (and in-tree filesystems for examples of conversion).
    
      That has sat in -next since mid-May, seems to survive all testing
      without regressions and merges clean with v4.1"
    
    * 'for-linus-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (131 commits)
      turn user_{path_at,path,lpath,path_dir}() into static inlines
      namei: move saved_nd pointer into struct nameidata
      inline user_path_create()
      inline user_path_parent()
      namei: trim do_last() arguments
      namei: stash dfd and name into nameidata
      namei: fold path_cleanup() into terminate_walk()
      namei: saner calling conventions for filename_parentat()
      namei: saner calling conventions for filename_create()
      namei: shift nameidata down into filename_parentat()
      namei: make filename_lookup() reject ERR_PTR() passed as name
      namei: shift nameidata inside filename_lookup()
      namei: move putname() call into filename_lookup()
      namei: pass the struct path to store the result down into path_lookupat()
      namei: uninline set_root{,_rcu}()
      namei: be careful with mountpoint crossings in follow_dotdot_rcu()
      Documentation: remove outdated information from automount-support.txt
      get rid of assorted nameidata-related debris
      lustre: kill unused helper
      lustre: kill unused macro (LOOKUP_CONTINUE)
      ...
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