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    Restore direct_io / truncate locking API · 37fbf4bf
    Anton Altaparmakov authored
    
    
    With kernel 3.1, Christoph removed i_alloc_sem and replaced it with
    calls (namely inode_dio_wait() and inode_dio_done()) which are
    EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() thus they cannot be used by non-GPL file systems and
    further inode_dio_wait() was pushed from notify_change() into the file
    system ->setattr() method but no non-GPL file system can make this call.
    
    That means non-GPL file systems cannot exist any more unless they do not
    use any VFS functionality related to reading/writing as far as I can
    tell or at least as long as they want to implement direct i/o.
    
    Both Linus and Al (and others) have said on LKML that this breakage of
    the VFS API should not have happened and that the change was simply
    missed as it was not documented in the change logs of the patches that
    did those changes.
    
    This patch changes the two function exports in question to be
    EXPORT_SYMBOL() thus restoring the VFS API as it used to be - accessible
    for all modules.
    
    Christoph, who introduced the two functions and exported them GPL-only
    is CC-ed on this patch to give him the opportunity to object to the
    symbols being changed in this manner if he did indeed intend them to be
    GPL-only and does not want them to become available to all modules.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAnton Altaparmakov <anton@tuxera.com>
    CC: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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