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    Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs · 5166701b
    Linus Torvalds authored
    Pull vfs updates from Al Viro:
     "The first vfs pile, with deep apologies for being very late in this
      window.
    
      Assorted cleanups and fixes, plus a large preparatory part of iov_iter
      work.  There's a lot more of that, but it'll probably go into the next
      merge window - it *does* shape up nicely, removes a lot of
      boilerplate, gets rid of locking inconsistencie between aio_write and
      splice_write and I hope to get Kent's direct-io rewrite merged into
      the same queue, but some of the stuff after this point is having
      (mostly trivial) conflicts with the things already merged into
      mainline and with some I want more testing.
    
      This one passes LTP and xfstests without regressions, in addition to
      usual beating.  BTW, readahead02 in ltp syscalls testsuite has started
      giving failures since "mm/readahead.c: fix readahead failure for
      memoryless NUMA nodes and limit readahead pages" - might be a false
      positive, migh...
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