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<title>fs/block: Check for IOCB_DIRECT in generic_atomic_write_valid()</title>
<updated>2024-12-05T13:01:11Z</updated>
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[ Upstream commit c3be7ebbbce5201e151f17e28a6c807602f369c9 ]

Currently FMODE_CAN_ATOMIC_WRITE is set if the bdev can atomic write and
the file is open for direct IO. This does not work if the file is not
opened for direct IO, yet fcntl(O_DIRECT) is used on the fd later.

Change to check for direct IO on a per-IO basis in
generic_atomic_write_valid(). Since we want to report -EOPNOTSUPP for
non-direct IO for an atomic write, change to return an error code.

Relocate the block fops atomic write checks to the common write path, as to
catch non-direct IO.

Fixes: c34fc6f26ab8 ("fs: Initial atomic write support")
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: John Garry &lt;john.g.garry@oracle.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241019125113.369994-3-john.g.garry@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>block/fs: Pass an iocb to generic_atomic_write_valid()</title>
<updated>2024-12-05T13:01:11Z</updated>
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[ Upstream commit 9a8dbdadae509e5717ff6e5aa572ca0974d2101d ]

Darrick and Hannes both thought it better that generic_atomic_write_valid()
should be passed a struct iocb, and not just the member of that struct
which is referenced; see [0] and [1].

I think that makes a more generic and clean API, so make that change.

[0] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/680ce641-729b-4150-b875-531a98657682@suse.de/
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-xfs/20240620212401.GA3058325@frogsfrogsfrogs/

Fixes: c34fc6f26ab8 ("fs: Initial atomic write support")
Suggested-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Suggested-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: John Garry &lt;john.g.garry@oracle.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241019125113.369994-2-john.g.garry@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>bcachefs: do not use PF_MEMALLOC_NORECLAIM</title>
<updated>2024-10-09T19:47:18Z</updated>
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<name>Michal Hocko</name>
<email>mhocko@suse.com</email>
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<published>2024-09-26T17:11:50Z</published>
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Patch series "remove PF_MEMALLOC_NORECLAIM" v3.


This patch (of 2):

bch2_new_inode relies on PF_MEMALLOC_NORECLAIM to try to allocate a new
inode to achieve GFP_NOWAIT semantic while holding locks. If this
allocation fails it will drop locks and use GFP_NOFS allocation context.

We would like to drop PF_MEMALLOC_NORECLAIM because it is really
dangerous to use if the caller doesn't control the full call chain with
this flag set. E.g. if any of the function down the chain needed
GFP_NOFAIL request the PF_MEMALLOC_NORECLAIM would override this and
cause unexpected failure.

While this is not the case in this particular case using the scoped gfp
semantic is not really needed bacause we can easily pus the allocation
context down the chain without too much clutter.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix kerneldoc warnings]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240926172940.167084-1-mhocko@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240926172940.167084-2-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner &lt;dchinner@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt; # For vfs changes
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: James Morris &lt;jmorris@namei.org&gt;
Cc: Kent Overstreet &lt;kent.overstreet@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
Cc: Serge E. Hallyn &lt;serge@hallyn.com&gt;
Cc: Yafang Shao &lt;laoar.shao@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[tree-wide] finally take no_llseek out</title>
<updated>2024-09-27T15:18:43Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
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<published>2024-09-27T01:56:11Z</published>
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no_llseek had been defined to NULL two years ago, in commit 868941b14441
("fs: remove no_llseek")

To quote that commit,

  At -rc1 we'll need do a mechanical removal of no_llseek -

  git grep -l -w no_llseek | grep -v porting.rst | while read i; do
	sed -i '/\&lt;no_llseek\&gt;/d' $i
  done

  would do it.

Unfortunately, that hadn't been done.  Linus, could you do that now, so
that we could finally put that thing to rest? All instances are of the
form
	.llseek = no_llseek,
so it's obviously safe.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>Merge tag 'fuse-update-6.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse</title>
<updated>2024-09-24T22:29:42Z</updated>
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<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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Pull fuse updates from Miklos Szeredi:

 - Add support for idmapped fuse mounts (Alexander Mikhalitsyn)

 - Add optimization when checking for writeback (yangyun)

 - Add tracepoints (Josef Bacik)

 - Clean up writeback code (Joanne Koong)

 - Clean up request queuing (me)

 - Misc fixes

* tag 'fuse-update-6.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse: (32 commits)
  fuse: use exclusive lock when FUSE_I_CACHE_IO_MODE is set
  fuse: clear FR_PENDING if abort is detected when sending request
  fs/fuse: convert to use invalid_mnt_idmap
  fs/mnt_idmapping: introduce an invalid_mnt_idmap
  fs/fuse: introduce and use fuse_simple_idmap_request() helper
  fs/fuse: fix null-ptr-deref when checking SB_I_NOIDMAP flag
  fuse: allow O_PATH fd for FUSE_DEV_IOC_BACKING_OPEN
  virtio_fs: allow idmapped mounts
  fuse: allow idmapped mounts
  fuse: warn if fuse_access is called when idmapped mounts are allowed
  fuse: handle idmappings properly in -&gt;write_iter()
  fuse: support idmapped -&gt;rename op
  fuse: support idmapped -&gt;set_acl
  fuse: drop idmap argument from __fuse_get_acl
  fuse: support idmapped -&gt;setattr op
  fuse: support idmapped -&gt;permission inode op
  fuse: support idmapped getattr inode op
  fuse: support idmap for mkdir/mknod/symlink/create/tmpfile
  fuse: support idmapped FUSE_EXT_GROUPS
  fuse: add an idmap argument to fuse_simple_request
  ...
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<title>Merge tag 'bcachefs-2024-09-21' of git://evilpiepirate.org/bcachefs</title>
<updated>2024-09-23T17:05:41Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2024-09-23T17:05:41Z</published>
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Pull bcachefs updates from Kent Overstreet:

 - rcu_pending, btree key cache rework: this solves lock contenting in
   the key cache, eliminating the biggest source of the srcu lock hold
   time warnings, and drastically improving performance on some metadata
   heavy workloads - on multithreaded creates we're now 3-4x faster than
   xfs.

 - We're now using an rhashtable instead of the system inode hash table;
   this is another significant performance improvement on multithreaded
   metadata workloads, eliminating more lock contention.

 - for_each_btree_key_in_subvolume_upto(): new helper for iterating over
   keys within a specific subvolume, eliminating a lot of open coded
   "subvolume_get_snapshot()" and also fixing another source of srcu
   lock time warnings, by running each loop iteration in its own
   transaction (as the existing for_each_btree_key() does).

 - More work on btree_trans locking asserts; we now assert that we don't
   hold btree node locks when trans-&gt;locked is false, which is important
   because we don't use lockdep for tracking individual btree node
   locks.

 - Some cleanups and improvements in the bset.c btree node lookup code,
   from Alan.

 - Rework of btree node pinning, which we use in backpointers fsck. The
   old hacky implementation, where the shrinker just skipped over nodes
   in the pinned range, was causing OOMs; instead we now use another
   shrinker with a much higher seeks number for pinned nodes.

 - Rebalance now uses BCH_WRITE_ONLY_SPECIFIED_DEVS; this fixes an issue
   where rebalance would sometimes fall back to allocating from the full
   filesystem, which is not what we want when it's trying to move data
   to a specific target.

 - Use __GFP_ACCOUNT, GFP_RECLAIMABLE for btree node, key cache
   allocations.

 - Idmap mounts are now supported (Hongbo Li)

 - Rename whiteouts are now supported (Hongbo Li)

 - Erasure coding can now handle devices being marked as failed, or
   forcibly removed. We still need the evacuate path for erasure coding,
   but it's getting very close to ready for people to start using.

* tag 'bcachefs-2024-09-21' of git://evilpiepirate.org/bcachefs: (99 commits)
  bcachefs: return err ptr instead of null in read sb clean
  bcachefs: Remove duplicated include in backpointers.c
  bcachefs: Don't drop devices with stripe pointers
  bcachefs: bch2_ec_stripe_head_get() now checks for change in rw devices
  bcachefs: bch_fs.rw_devs_change_count
  bcachefs: bch2_dev_remove_stripes()
  bcachefs: bch2_trigger_ptr() calculates sectors even when no device
  bcachefs: improve error messages in bch2_ec_read_extent()
  bcachefs: improve error message on too few devices for ec
  bcachefs: improve bch2_new_stripe_to_text()
  bcachefs: ec_stripe_head.nr_created
  bcachefs: bch_stripe.disk_label
  bcachefs: stripe_to_mem()
  bcachefs: EIO errcode cleanup
  bcachefs: Rework btree node pinning
  bcachefs: split up btree cache counters for live, freeable
  bcachefs: btree cache counters should be size_t
  bcachefs: Don't count "skipped access bit" as touched in btree cache scan
  bcachefs: Failed devices no longer require mounting in degraded mode
  bcachefs: bch2_dev_rcu_noerror()
  ...
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<title>Merge tag 'mm-stable-2024-09-20-02-31' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2024-09-21T14:29:05Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-09-21T14:29:05Z</published>
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
 "Along with the usual shower of singleton patches, notable patch series
  in this pull request are:

   - "Align kvrealloc() with krealloc()" from Danilo Krummrich. Adds
     consistency to the APIs and behaviour of these two core allocation
     functions. This also simplifies/enables Rustification.

   - "Some cleanups for shmem" from Baolin Wang. No functional changes -
     mode code reuse, better function naming, logic simplifications.

   - "mm: some small page fault cleanups" from Josef Bacik. No
     functional changes - code cleanups only.

   - "Various memory tiering fixes" from Zi Yan. A small fix and a
     little cleanup.

   - "mm/swap: remove boilerplate" from Yu Zhao. Code cleanups and
     simplifications and .text shrinkage.

   - "Kernel stack usage histogram" from Pasha Tatashin and Shakeel
     Butt. This is a feature, it adds new feilds to /proc/vmstat such as

       $ grep kstack /proc/vmstat
       kstack_1k 3
       kstack_2k 188
       kstack_4k 11391
       kstack_8k 243
       kstack_16k 0

     which tells us that 11391 processes used 4k of stack while none at
     all used 16k. Useful for some system tuning things, but
     partivularly useful for "the dynamic kernel stack project".

   - "kmemleak: support for percpu memory leak detect" from Pavel
     Tikhomirov. Teaches kmemleak to detect leaksage of percpu memory.

   - "mm: memcg: page counters optimizations" from Roman Gushchin. "3
     independent small optimizations of page counters".

   - "mm: split PTE/PMD PT table Kconfig cleanups+clarifications" from
     David Hildenbrand. Improves PTE/PMD splitlock detection, makes
     powerpc/8xx work correctly by design rather than by accident.

   - "mm: remove arch_make_page_accessible()" from David Hildenbrand.
     Some folio conversions which make arch_make_page_accessible()
     unneeded.

   - "mm, memcg: cg2 memory{.swap,}.peak write handlers" fro David
     Finkel. Cleans up and fixes our handling of the resetting of the
     cgroup/process peak-memory-use detector.

   - "Make core VMA operations internal and testable" from Lorenzo
     Stoakes. Rationalizaion and encapsulation of the VMA manipulation
     APIs. With a view to better enable testing of the VMA functions,
     even from a userspace-only harness.

   - "mm: zswap: fixes for global shrinker" from Takero Funaki. Fix
     issues in the zswap global shrinker, resulting in improved
     performance.

   - "mm: print the promo watermark in zoneinfo" from Kaiyang Zhao. Fill
     in some missing info in /proc/zoneinfo.

   - "mm: replace follow_page() by folio_walk" from David Hildenbrand.
     Code cleanups and rationalizations (conversion to folio_walk())
     resulting in the removal of follow_page().

   - "improving dynamic zswap shrinker protection scheme" from Nhat
     Pham. Some tuning to improve zswap's dynamic shrinker. Significant
     reductions in swapin and improvements in performance are shown.

   - "mm: Fix several issues with unaccepted memory" from Kirill
     Shutemov. Improvements to the new unaccepted memory feature,

   - "mm/mprotect: Fix dax puds" from Peter Xu. Implements mprotect on
     DAX PUDs. This was missing, although nobody seems to have notied
     yet.

   - "Introduce a store type enum for the Maple tree" from Sidhartha
     Kumar. Cleanups and modest performance improvements for the maple
     tree library code.

   - "memcg: further decouple v1 code from v2" from Shakeel Butt. Move
     more cgroup v1 remnants away from the v2 memcg code.

   - "memcg: initiate deprecation of v1 features" from Shakeel Butt.
     Adds various warnings telling users that memcg v1 features are
     deprecated.

   - "mm: swap: mTHP swap allocator base on swap cluster order" from
     Chris Li. Greatly improves the success rate of the mTHP swap
     allocation.

   - "mm: introduce numa_memblks" from Mike Rapoport. Moves various
     disparate per-arch implementations of numa_memblk code into generic
     code.

   - "mm: batch free swaps for zap_pte_range()" from Barry Song. Greatly
     improves the performance of munmap() of swap-filled ptes.

   - "support large folio swap-out and swap-in for shmem" from Baolin
     Wang. With this series we no longer split shmem large folios into
     simgle-page folios when swapping out shmem.

   - "mm/hugetlb: alloc/free gigantic folios" from Yu Zhao. Nice
     performance improvements and code reductions for gigantic folios.

   - "support shmem mTHP collapse" from Baolin Wang. Adds support for
     khugepaged's collapsing of shmem mTHP folios.

   - "mm: Optimize mseal checks" from Pedro Falcato. Fixes an mprotect()
     performance regression due to the addition of mseal().

   - "Increase the number of bits available in page_type" from Matthew
     Wilcox. Increases the number of bits available in page_type!

   - "Simplify the page flags a little" from Matthew Wilcox. Many legacy
     page flags are now folio flags, so the page-based flags and their
     accessors/mutators can be removed.

   - "mm: store zero pages to be swapped out in a bitmap" from Usama
     Arif. An optimization which permits us to avoid writing/reading
     zero-filled zswap pages to backing store.

   - "Avoid MAP_FIXED gap exposure" from Liam Howlett. Fixes a race
     window which occurs when a MAP_FIXED operqtion is occurring during
     an unrelated vma tree walk.

   - "mm: remove vma_merge()" from Lorenzo Stoakes. Major rotorooting of
     the vma_merge() functionality, making ot cleaner, more testable and
     better tested.

   - "misc fixups for DAMON {self,kunit} tests" from SeongJae Park.
     Minor fixups of DAMON selftests and kunit tests.

   - "mm: memory_hotplug: improve do_migrate_range()" from Kefeng Wang.
     Code cleanups and folio conversions.

   - "Shmem mTHP controls and stats improvements" from Ryan Roberts.
     Cleanups for shmem controls and stats.

   - "mm: count the number of anonymous THPs per size" from Barry Song.
     Expose additional anon THP stats to userspace for improved tuning.

   - "mm: finish isolate/putback_lru_page()" from Kefeng Wang: more
     folio conversions and removal of now-unused page-based APIs.

   - "replace per-quota region priorities histogram buffer with
     per-context one" from SeongJae Park. DAMON histogram
     rationalization.

   - "Docs/damon: update GitHub repo URLs and maintainer-profile" from
     SeongJae Park. DAMON documentation updates.

   - "mm/vdpa: correct misuse of non-direct-reclaim __GFP_NOFAIL and
     improve related doc and warn" from Jason Wang: fixes usage of page
     allocator __GFP_NOFAIL and GFP_ATOMIC flags.

   - "mm: split underused THPs" from Yu Zhao. Improve THP=always policy.
     This was overprovisioning THPs in sparsely accessed memory areas.

   - "zram: introduce custom comp backends API" frm Sergey Senozhatsky.
     Add support for zram run-time compression algorithm tuning.

   - "mm: Care about shadow stack guard gap when getting an unmapped
     area" from Mark Brown. Fix up the various arch_get_unmapped_area()
     implementations to better respect guard areas.

   - "Improve mem_cgroup_iter()" from Kinsey Ho. Improve the reliability
     of mem_cgroup_iter() and various code cleanups.

   - "mm: Support huge pfnmaps" from Peter Xu. Extends the usage of huge
     pfnmap support.

   - "resource: Fix region_intersects() vs add_memory_driver_managed()"
     from Huang Ying. Fix a bug in region_intersects() for systems with
     CXL memory.

   - "mm: hwpoison: two more poison recovery" from Kefeng Wang. Teaches
     a couple more code paths to correctly recover from the encountering
     of poisoned memry.

   - "mm: enable large folios swap-in support" from Barry Song. Support
     the swapin of mTHP memory into appropriately-sized folios, rather
     than into single-page folios"

* tag 'mm-stable-2024-09-20-02-31' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (416 commits)
  zram: free secondary algorithms names
  uprobes: turn xol_area-&gt;pages[2] into xol_area-&gt;page
  uprobes: introduce the global struct vm_special_mapping xol_mapping
  Revert "uprobes: use vm_special_mapping close() functionality"
  mm: support large folios swap-in for sync io devices
  mm: add nr argument in mem_cgroup_swapin_uncharge_swap() helper to support large folios
  mm: fix swap_read_folio_zeromap() for large folios with partial zeromap
  mm/debug_vm_pgtable: Use pxdp_get() for accessing page table entries
  set_memory: add __must_check to generic stubs
  mm/vma: return the exact errno in vms_gather_munmap_vmas()
  memcg: cleanup with !CONFIG_MEMCG_V1
  mm/show_mem.c: report alloc tags in human readable units
  mm: support poison recovery from copy_present_page()
  mm: support poison recovery from do_cow_fault()
  resource, kunit: add test case for region_intersects()
  resource: make alloc_free_mem_region() works for iomem_resource
  mm: z3fold: deprecate CONFIG_Z3FOLD
  vfio/pci: implement huge_fault support
  mm/arm64: support large pfn mappings
  mm/x86: support large pfn mappings
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'vfs-6.12.file' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs</title>
<updated>2024-09-16T07:14:02Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-09-16T07:14:02Z</published>
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Pull vfs file updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This is the work to cleanup and shrink struct file significantly.

  Right now, (focusing on x86) struct file is 232 bytes. After this
  series struct file will be 184 bytes aka 3 cacheline and a spare 8
  bytes for future extensions at the end of the struct.

  With struct file being as ubiquitous as it is this should make a
  difference for file heavy workloads and allow further optimizations in
  the future.

   - struct fown_struct was embedded into struct file letting it take up
     32 bytes in total when really it shouldn't even be embedded in
     struct file in the first place. Instead, actual users of struct
     fown_struct now allocate the struct on demand. This frees up 24
     bytes.

   - Move struct file_ra_state into the union containg the cleanup hooks
     and move f_iocb_flags out of the union. This closes a 4 byte hole
     we created earlier and brings struct file to 192 bytes. Which means
     struct file is 3 cachelines and we managed to shrink it by 40
     bytes.

   - Reorder struct file so that nothing crosses a cacheline.

     I suspect that in the future we will end up reordering some members
     to mitigate false sharing issues or just because someone does
     actually provide really good perf data.

   - Shrinking struct file to 192 bytes is only part of the work.

     Files use a slab that is SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU and when a kmem cache
     is created with SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU the free pointer must be
     located outside of the object because the cache doesn't know what
     part of the memory can safely be overwritten as it may be needed to
     prevent object recycling.

     That has the consequence that SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU may end up
     adding a new cacheline.

     So this also contains work to add a new kmem_cache_create_rcu()
     function that allows the caller to specify an offset where the
     freelist pointer is supposed to be placed. Thus avoiding the
     implicit addition of a fourth cacheline.

   - And finally this removes the f_version member in struct file.

     The f_version member isn't particularly well-defined. It is mainly
     used as a cookie to detect concurrent seeks when iterating
     directories. But it is also abused by some subsystems for
     completely unrelated things.

     It is mostly a directory and filesystem specific thing that doesn't
     really need to live in struct file and with its wonky semantics it
     really lacks a specific function.

     For pipes, f_version is (ab)used to defer poll notifications until
     a write has happened. And struct pipe_inode_info is used by
     multiple struct files in their -&gt;private_data so there's no chance
     of pushing that down into file-&gt;private_data without introducing
     another pointer indirection.

     But pipes don't rely on f_pos_lock so this adds a union into struct
     file encompassing f_pos_lock and a pipe specific f_pipe member that
     pipes can use. This union of course can be extended to other file
     types and is similar to what we do in struct inode already"

* tag 'vfs-6.12.file' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (26 commits)
  fs: remove f_version
  pipe: use f_pipe
  fs: add f_pipe
  ubifs: store cookie in private data
  ufs: store cookie in private data
  udf: store cookie in private data
  proc: store cookie in private data
  ocfs2: store cookie in private data
  input: remove f_version abuse
  ext4: store cookie in private data
  ext2: store cookie in private data
  affs: store cookie in private data
  fs: add generic_llseek_cookie()
  fs: use must_set_pos()
  fs: add must_set_pos()
  fs: add vfs_setpos_cookie()
  s390: remove unused f_version
  ceph: remove unused f_version
  adi: remove unused f_version
  mm: Removed @freeptr_offset to prevent doc warning
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'vfs-6.12.folio' of gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs</title>
<updated>2024-09-16T06:54:30Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-09-16T06:54:30Z</published>
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Pull vfs folio updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains work to port write_begin and write_end to rely on folios
  for various filesystems.

  This converts ocfs2, vboxfs, orangefs, jffs2, hostfs, fuse, f2fs,
  ecryptfs, ntfs3, nilfs2, reiserfs, minixfs, qnx6, sysv, ufs, and
  squashfs.

  After this series lands a bunch of the filesystems in this list do not
  mention struct page anymore"

* tag 'vfs-6.12.folio' of gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (61 commits)
  Squashfs: Ensure all readahead pages have been used
  Squashfs: Rewrite and update squashfs_readahead_fragment() to not use page-&gt;index
  Squashfs: Update squashfs_readpage_block() to not use page-&gt;index
  Squashfs: Update squashfs_readahead() to not use page-&gt;index
  Squashfs: Update page_actor to not use page-&gt;index
  jffs2: Use a folio in jffs2_garbage_collect_dnode()
  jffs2: Convert jffs2_do_readpage_nolock to take a folio
  buffer: Convert __block_write_begin() to take a folio
  ocfs2: Convert ocfs2_write_zero_page to use a folio
  fs: Convert aops-&gt;write_begin to take a folio
  fs: Convert aops-&gt;write_end to take a folio
  vboxsf: Use a folio in vboxsf_write_end()
  orangefs: Convert orangefs_write_begin() to use a folio
  orangefs: Convert orangefs_write_end() to use a folio
  jffs2: Convert jffs2_write_begin() to use a folio
  jffs2: Convert jffs2_write_end() to use a folio
  hostfs: Convert hostfs_write_end() to use a folio
  fuse: Convert fuse_write_begin() to use a folio
  fuse: Convert fuse_write_end() to use a folio
  f2fs: Convert f2fs_write_begin() to use a folio
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'vfs-6.12.misc' of gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs</title>
<updated>2024-09-16T06:35:09Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-09-16T06:35:09Z</published>
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Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains the usual pile of misc updates:

  Features:

   - Add F_CREATED_QUERY fcntl() that allows userspace to query whether
     a file was actually created. Often userspace wants to know whether
     an O_CREATE request did actually create a file without using
     O_EXCL. The current logic is that to first attempts to open the
     file without O_CREAT | O_EXCL and if ENOENT is returned userspace
     tries again with both flags. If that succeeds all is well. If it
     now reports EEXIST it retries.

     That works fairly well but some corner cases make this more
     involved. If this operates on a dangling symlink the first openat()
     without O_CREAT | O_EXCL will return ENOENT but the second openat()
     with O_CREAT | O_EXCL will fail with EEXIST.

     The reason is that openat() without O_CREAT | O_EXCL follows the
     symlink while O_CREAT | O_EXCL doesn't for security reasons. So
     it's not something we can really change unless we add an explicit
     opt-in via O_FOLLOW which seems really ugly.

     All available workarounds are really nasty (fanotify, bpf lsm etc)
     so add a simple fcntl().

   - Try an opportunistic lookup for O_CREAT. Today, when opening a file
     we'll typically do a fast lookup, but if O_CREAT is set, the kernel
     always takes the exclusive inode lock. This was likely done with
     the expectation that O_CREAT means that we always expect to do the
     create, but that's often not the case. Many programs set O_CREAT
     even in scenarios where the file already exists (see related
     F_CREATED_QUERY patch motivation above).

     The series contained in the pr rearranges the pathwalk-for-open
     code to also attempt a fast_lookup in certain O_CREAT cases. If a
     positive dentry is found, the inode_lock can be avoided altogether
     and it can stay in rcuwalk mode for the last step_into.

   - Expose the 64 bit mount id via name_to_handle_at()

     Now that we provide a unique 64-bit mount ID interface in statx(2),
     we can now provide a race-free way for name_to_handle_at(2) to
     provide a file handle and corresponding mount without needing to
     worry about racing with /proc/mountinfo parsing or having to open a
     file just to do statx(2).

     While this is not necessary if you are using AT_EMPTY_PATH and
     don't care about an extra statx(2) call, users that pass full paths
     into name_to_handle_at(2) need to know which mount the file handle
     comes from (to make sure they don't try to open_by_handle_at a file
     handle from a different filesystem) and switching to AT_EMPTY_PATH
     would require allocating a file for every name_to_handle_at(2) call

   - Add a per dentry expire timeout to autofs

     There are two fairly well known automounter map formats, the autofs
     format and the amd format (more or less System V and Berkley).

     Some time ago Linux autofs added an amd map format parser that
     implemented a fair amount of the amd functionality. This was done
     within the autofs infrastructure and some functionality wasn't
     implemented because it either didn't make sense or required extra
     kernel changes. The idea was to restrict changes to be within the
     existing autofs functionality as much as possible and leave changes
     with a wider scope to be considered later.

     One of these changes is implementing the amd options:
      1) "unmount", expire this mount according to a timeout (same as
         the current autofs default).
      2) "nounmount", don't expire this mount (same as setting the
         autofs timeout to 0 except only for this specific mount) .
      3) "utimeout=&lt;seconds&gt;", expire this mount using the specified
         timeout (again same as setting the autofs timeout but only for
         this mount)

     To implement these options per-dentry expire timeouts need to be
     implemented for autofs indirect mounts. This is because all map
     keys (mounts) for autofs indirect mounts use an expire timeout
     stored in the autofs mount super block info. structure and all
     indirect mounts use the same expire timeout.

  Fixes:

   - Fix missing fput for FSCONFIG_SET_FD in autofs

   - Use param-&gt;file for FSCONFIG_SET_FD in coda

   - Delete the 'fs/netfs' proc subtreee when netfs module exits

   - Make sure that struct uid_gid_map fits into a single cacheline

   - Don't flush in-flight wb switches for superblocks without cgroup
     writeback

   - Correcting the idmapping mount example in the idmapping
     documentation

   - Fix a race between evice_inodes() and find_inode() and iput()

   - Refine the show_inode_state() macro definition in writeback code

   - Prevent dump_mapping() from accessing invalid dentry.d_name.name

   - Show actual source for debugfs in /proc/mounts

   - Annotate data-race of busy_poll_usecs in eventpoll

   - Don't WARN for racy path_noexec check in exec code

   - Handle OOM on mnt_warn_timestamp_expiry()

   - Fix some spelling in the iomap design documentation

   - Fix typo in procfs comment

   - Fix typo in fs/namespace.c comment

  Cleanups:

   - Add the VFS git tree to the MAINTAINERS file

   - Move FMODE_UNSIGNED_OFFSET to fop_flags freeing up another f_mode
     bit in struct file bringing us to 5 free f_mode bits

   - Remove the __I_DIO_WAKEUP bit from i_state flags as we can simplify
     the wait mechanism

   - Remove the unused path_put_init() helper

   - Replace a __u32 with u32 for s_fsnotify_mask as __u32 is uapi
     specific

   - Replace the unsigned long i_state member with a u32 i_state member
     in struct inode freeing up 4 bytes in struct inode. Instead of
     using the bit based wait apis we're now using the var event apis
     and using the individual bytes of the i_state member to wait on
     state changes

   - Explain how per-syscall AT_* flags should be allocated

   - Use in_group_or_capable() helper to simplify the posix acl mode
     update code

   - Switch to LIST_HEAD() in fsync_buffers_list() to simplify the code

   - Removed comment about d_rcu_to_refcount() as that function doesn't
     exist anymore

   - Add kernel documentation for lookup_fast()

   - Don't re-zero evenpoll fields

   - Remove outdated comment after close_fd()

   - Fix imprecise wording in comment about the pipe filesystem

   - Drop GFP_NOFAIL mode from alloc_page_buffers

   - Missing blank line warnings and struct declaration improved in
     file_table

   - Annotate struct poll_list with __counted_by()

   - Remove the unused read parameter in percpu-rwsem

   - Remove linux/prefetch.h include from direct-io code

   - Use kmemdup_array instead of kmemdup for multiple allocation in
     mnt_idmapping code

   - Remove unused mnt_cursor_del() declaration

  Performance tweaks:

   - Dodge smp_mb in break_lease and break_deleg in the common case

   - Only read fops once in fops_{get,put}()

   - Use RCU in ilookup()

   - Elide smp_mb in iversion handling in the common case

   - Drop one lock trip in evict()"

* tag 'vfs-6.12.misc' of gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (58 commits)
  uidgid: make sure we fit into one cacheline
  proc: Fix typo in the comment
  fs/pipe: Correct imprecise wording in comment
  fhandle: expose u64 mount id to name_to_handle_at(2)
  uapi: explain how per-syscall AT_* flags should be allocated
  fs: drop GFP_NOFAIL mode from alloc_page_buffers
  writeback: Refine the show_inode_state() macro definition
  fs/inode: Prevent dump_mapping() accessing invalid dentry.d_name.name
  mnt_idmapping: Use kmemdup_array instead of kmemdup for multiple allocation
  netfs: Delete subtree of 'fs/netfs' when netfs module exits
  fs: use LIST_HEAD() to simplify code
  inode: make i_state a u32
  inode: port __I_LRU_ISOLATING to var event
  vfs: fix race between evice_inodes() and find_inode()&amp;iput()
  inode: port __I_NEW to var event
  inode: port __I_SYNC to var event
  fs: reorder i_state bits
  fs: add i_state helpers
  MAINTAINERS: add the VFS git tree
  fs: s/__u32/u32/ for s_fsnotify_mask
  ...
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