user/sven/linux.git/fs/sync.c, branch v5.5.8

fs/sync.c: sync_file_range(2) may use WB_SYNC_ALL writeback

2019-05-14T16:47:50Z

23d0127096cb ("fs/sync.c: make sync_file_range(2) use WB_SYNC_NONE writeback") claims that sync_file_range(2) syscall was "created for userspace to be able to issue background writeout and so waiting for in-flight IO is undesirable there" and changes the writeback (back) to WB_SYNC_NONE. This claim is only partially true. It is true for users that use the flag SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WRITE by itself, as does PostgreSQL, the user that was the reason for changing to WB_SYNC_NONE writeback. However, that claim is not true for users that use that flag combination SYNC_FILE_RANGE_{WAIT_BEFORE|WRITE|_WAIT_AFTER}. Those users explicitly requested to wait for in-flight IO as well as to writeback of dirty pages. Re-brand that flag combination as SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WRITE_AND_WAIT and use WB_SYNC_ALL writeback to perform the full range sync request. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190409114922.30095-1-amir73il@gmail.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190419072938.31320-1-amir73il@gmail.com Fixes: 23d0127096cb ("fs/sync.c: make sync_file_range(2) use WB_SYNC_NONE") Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein Acked-by: Jan Kara Cc: Dave Chinner Cc: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

fs: add sync_file_range() helper

2019-05-02T20:08:53Z

This just pulls out the ksys_sync_file_range() code to work on a struct file instead of an fd, so we can use it elsewhere. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

Merge tag 'xfs-4.17-merge-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfs-linux

2018-04-04T19:44:02Z

Pull xfs updates from Darrick Wong: "Here's the first round of fixes for XFS for 4.17. The biggest new features this time around are the addition of lazytime support, further enhancement of the on-disk inode metadata verifiers, and a patch to smooth over some of the AGFL padding problems that have intermittently plagued users since 4.5. I forsee sending a second pull request next week with further bug fixes and speedups in the online scrub code and elsewhere. This series has been run through a full xfstests run over the weekend and through a quick xfstests run against this morning's master, with no major failures reported. Summary of changes for this release: - Various cleanups and code fixes - Implement lazytime as a mount option - Convert various on-disk metadata checks from asserts to -EFSCORRUPTED - Fix accounting problems with the rmap per-ag reservations - Refactorings and cleanups for xfs_log_force - Various bugfixes for the reflink code - Work around v5 AGFL padding problems to prevent fs shutdowns - Establish inode fork verifiers to inspect on-disk metadata correctness - Various online scrub fixes - Fix v5 swapext blowing up on deleted inodes" * tag 'xfs-4.17-merge-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfs-linux: (49 commits) xfs: do not log/recover swapext extent owner changes for deleted inodes xfs: clean up xfs_mount allocation and dynamic initializers xfs: remove dead inode version setting code xfs: catch inode allocation state mismatch corruption xfs: xfs_scrub_iallocbt_xref_rmap_inodes should use xref_set_corrupt xfs: flag inode corruption if parent ptr doesn't get us a real inode xfs: don't accept inode buffers with suspicious unlinked chains xfs: move inode extent size hint validation to libxfs xfs: record inode buf errors as a xref error in inobt scrubber xfs: remove xfs_buf parameter from inode scrub methods xfs: inode scrubber shouldn't bother with raw checks xfs: bmap scrubber should do rmap xref with bmap for sparse files xfs: refactor inode buffer verifier error logging xfs: refactor inode verifier error logging xfs: refactor bmap record validation xfs: sanity-check the unused space before trying to use it xfs: detect agfl count corruption and reset agfl xfs: unwind the try_again loop in xfs_log_force xfs: refactor xfs_log_force_lsn xfs: minor cleanup for xfs_reflink_end_cow ...

fs: add ksys_sync_file_range helper(); remove in-kernel calls to syscall

2018-04-02T18:16:07Z

Using this helper allows us to avoid the in-kernel calls to the sys_sync_file_range() syscall. The ksys_ prefix denotes that this function is meant as a drop-in replacement for the syscall. In particular, it uses the same calling convention as sys_sync_file_range(). This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls. On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net Cc: Al Viro Cc: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski

fs: add ksys_sync() helper; remove in-kernel calls to sys_sync()

2018-04-02T18:16:05Z

Using this helper allows us to avoid the in-kernel calls to the sys_sync() syscall. The ksys_ prefix denotes that this function is meant as a drop-in replacement for the syscall. In particular, it uses the same calling convention as sys_sync(). This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls. On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net Cc: Alexander Viro Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski

fs: don't clear I_DIRTY_TIME before calling mark_inode_dirty_sync

2018-03-12T03:27:55Z

__mark_inode_dirty already takes care of that, and for the XFS lazytime implementation we need to know that ->dirty_inode was called because I_DIRTY_TIME was set. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong

Merge branch 'for-4.15/block' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

2017-11-14T23:32:19Z

Pull core block layer updates from Jens Axboe: "This is the main pull request for block storage for 4.15-rc1. Nothing out of the ordinary in here, and no API changes or anything like that. Just various new features for drivers, core changes, etc. In particular, this pull request contains: - A patch series from Bart, closing the whole on blk/scsi-mq queue quescing. - A series from Christoph, building towards hidden gendisks (for multipath) and ability to move bio chains around. - NVMe - Support for native multipath for NVMe (Christoph). - Userspace notifications for AENs (Keith). - Command side-effects support (Keith). - SGL support (Chaitanya Kulkarni) - FC fixes and improvements (James Smart) - Lots of fixes and tweaks (Various) - bcache - New maintainer (Michael Lyle) - Writeback control improvements (Michael) - Various fixes (Coly, Elena, Eric, Liang, et al) - lightnvm updates, mostly centered around the pblk interface (Javier, Hans, and Rakesh). - Removal of unused bio/bvec kmap atomic interfaces (me, Christoph) - Writeback series that fix the much discussed hundreds of millions of sync-all units. This goes all the way, as discussed previously (me). - Fix for missing wakeup on writeback timer adjustments (Yafang Shao). - Fix laptop mode on blk-mq (me). - {mq,name} tupple lookup for IO schedulers, allowing us to have alias names. This means you can use 'deadline' on both !mq and on mq (where it's called mq-deadline). (me). - blktrace race fix, oopsing on sg load (me). - blk-mq optimizations (me). - Obscure waitqueue race fix for kyber (Omar). - NBD fixes (Josef). - Disable writeback throttling by default on bfq, like we do on cfq (Luca Miccio). - Series from Ming that enable us to treat flush requests on blk-mq like any other request. This is a really nice cleanup. - Series from Ming that improves merging on blk-mq with schedulers, getting us closer to flipping the switch on scsi-mq again. - BFQ updates (Paolo). - blk-mq atomic flags memory ordering fixes (Peter Z). - Loop cgroup support (Shaohua). - Lots of minor fixes from lots of different folks, both for core and driver code" * 'for-4.15/block' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (294 commits) nvme: fix visibility of "uuid" ns attribute blk-mq: fixup some comment typos and lengths ide: ide-atapi: fix compile error with defining macro DEBUG blk-mq: improve tag waiting setup for non-shared tags brd: remove unused brd_mutex blk-mq: only run the hardware queue if IO is pending block: avoid null pointer dereference on null disk fs: guard_bio_eod() needs to consider partitions xtensa/simdisk: fix compile error nvme: expose subsys attribute to sysfs nvme: create 'slaves' and 'holders' entries for hidden controllers block: create 'slaves' and 'holders' entries for hidden gendisks nvme: also expose the namespace identification sysfs files for mpath nodes nvme: implement multipath access to nvme subsystems nvme: track shared namespaces nvme: introduce a nvme_ns_ids structure nvme: track subsystems block, nvme: Introduce blk_mq_req_flags_t block, scsi: Make SCSI quiesce and resume work reliably block: Add the QUEUE_FLAG_PREEMPT_ONLY request queue flag ...

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

2017-11-02T10:10:55Z

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license. By default all files without license information are under the default license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2. Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0' SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text. This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and Philippe Ombredanne. How this work was done: Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of the use cases: - file had no licensing information it it. - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it, - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information, Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords. The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files. The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s) to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was: - Files considered eligible had to be source code files. - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5 lines of source - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5 lines). All documentation files were explicitly excluded. The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license identifiers to apply. - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was considered to have no license information in it, and the top level COPYING file license applied. For non */uapi/* files that summary was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 11139 and resulted in the first patch in this series. If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930 and resulted in the second patch in this series. - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in it (per prior point). Results summary: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------ GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270 GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17 LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15 GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14 ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5 LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4 LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1 and that resulted in the third patch in this series. - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became the concluded license(s). - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a license but the other didn't, or they both detected different licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred. - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics). - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier, the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later in time. In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so they are related. Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks in about 15000 files. In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the correct identifier. Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch version early this week with: - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected license ids and scores - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+ files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the different types of files to be modified. These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to generate the patches. Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

fs: kill 'nr_pages' argument from wakeup_flusher_threads()

2017-10-03T14:38:17Z

Everybody is passing in 0 now, let's get rid of the argument. Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

Merge branch 'work.mount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

2017-09-15T01:54:01Z

Pull mount flag updates from Al Viro: "Another chunk of fmount preparations from dhowells; only trivial conflicts for that part. It separates MS_... bits (very grotty mount(2) ABI) from the struct super_block ->s_flags (kernel-internal, only a small subset of MS_... stuff). This does *not* convert the filesystems to new constants; only the infrastructure is done here. The next step in that series is where the conflicts would be; that's the conversion of filesystems. It's purely mechanical and it's better done after the merge, so if you could run something like list=$(for i in MS_RDONLY MS_NOSUID MS_NODEV MS_NOEXEC MS_SYNCHRONOUS MS_MANDLOCK MS_DIRSYNC MS_NOATIME MS_NODIRATIME MS_SILENT MS_POSIXACL MS_KERNMOUNT MS_I_VERSION MS_LAZYTIME; do git grep -l $i fs drivers/staging/lustre drivers/mtd ipc mm include/linux; done|sort|uniq|grep -v '^fs/namespace.c$') sed -i -e 's/\/SB_RDONLY/g' \ -e 's/\/SB_NOSUID/g' \ -e 's/\/SB_NODEV/g' \ -e 's/\/SB_NOEXEC/g' \ -e 's/\/SB_SYNCHRONOUS/g' \ -e 's/\/SB_MANDLOCK/g' \ -e 's/\/SB_DIRSYNC/g' \ -e 's/\/SB_NOATIME/g' \ -e 's/\/SB_NODIRATIME/g' \ -e 's/\/SB_SILENT/g' \ -e 's/\/SB_POSIXACL/g' \ -e 's/\/SB_KERNMOUNT/g' \ -e 's/\/SB_I_VERSION/g' \ -e 's/\/SB_LAZYTIME/g' \ $list and commit it with something along the lines of 'convert filesystems away from use of MS_... constants' as commit message, it would save a quite a bit of headache next cycle" * 'work.mount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: VFS: Differentiate mount flags (MS_*) from internal superblock flags VFS: Convert sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY to sb_rdonly(sb) vfs: Add sb_rdonly(sb) to query the MS_RDONLY flag on s_flags