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<title>linux-stable.git/Documentation/filesystems, branch v5.13</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>erofs: update documentation about data compression</title>
<updated>2021-05-11T08:47:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gao Xiang</name>
<email>xiang@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-05-11T08:44:14+00:00</published>
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Add more description about (NON)HEAD lclusters, and the new big
pcluster feature.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210511084414.21305-1-xiang@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu &lt;yuchao0@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang &lt;xiang@kernel.org&gt;
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Add more description about (NON)HEAD lclusters, and the new big
pcluster feature.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210511084414.21305-1-xiang@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu &lt;yuchao0@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang &lt;xiang@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>erofs: fix broken illustration in documentation</title>
<updated>2021-05-11T08:47:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gao Xiang</name>
<email>xiang@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-05-10T16:25:05+00:00</published>
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Illustration was broken after ReST conversion by accident.
(checked by 'make SPHINXDIRS="filesystems" htmldocs')

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210510162506.28637-1-xiang@kernel.org
Fixes: e66d8631ddb3 ("docs: filesystems: convert erofs.txt to ReST")
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu &lt;yuchao0@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab+huawei@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang &lt;xiang@kernel.org&gt;
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Illustration was broken after ReST conversion by accident.
(checked by 'make SPHINXDIRS="filesystems" htmldocs')

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210510162506.28637-1-xiang@kernel.org
Fixes: e66d8631ddb3 ("docs: filesystems: convert erofs.txt to ReST")
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu &lt;yuchao0@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab+huawei@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang &lt;xiang@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'f2fs-for-5.13-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs</title>
<updated>2021-05-05T01:03:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-05-05T01:03:38+00:00</published>
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Pull f2fs updates from Jaegeuk Kim:
 "In this round, we added a new mount option, "checkpoint_merge", which
  introduces a kernel thread dealing with the f2fs checkpoints. Once we
  start to manage the IO priority along with blk-cgroup, the checkpoint
  operation can be processed in a lower priority under the process
  context. Since the checkpoint holds all the filesystem operations, we
  give a higher priority to the checkpoint thread all the time.

  Enhancements:
   - introduce gc_merge mount option to introduce a checkpoint thread
   - improve to run discard thread efficiently
   - allow modular compression algorithms
   - expose # of overprivision segments to sysfs
   - expose runtime compression stat to sysfs

  Bug fixes:
   - fix OOB memory access by the node id lookup
   - avoid touching checkpointed data in the checkpoint-disabled mode
   - fix the resizing flow to avoid kernel panic and race conditions
   - fix block allocation issues on pinned files
   - address some swapfile issues
   - fix hugtask problem and kernel panic during atomic write operations
   - don't start checkpoint thread in RO

  And, we've cleaned up some kernel coding style and build warnings. In
  addition, we fixed some minor race conditions and error handling
  routines"

* tag 'f2fs-for-5.13-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs: (48 commits)
  f2fs: drop inplace IO if fs status is abnormal
  f2fs: compress: remove unneed check condition
  f2fs: clean up left deprecated IO trace codes
  f2fs: avoid using native allocate_segment_by_default()
  f2fs: remove unnecessary struct declaration
  f2fs: fix to avoid NULL pointer dereference
  f2fs: avoid duplicated codes for cleanup
  f2fs: document: add description about compressed space handling
  f2fs: clean up build warnings
  f2fs: fix the periodic wakeups of discard thread
  f2fs: fix to avoid accessing invalid fio in f2fs_allocate_data_block()
  f2fs: fix to avoid GC/mmap race with f2fs_truncate()
  f2fs: set checkpoint_merge by default
  f2fs: Fix a hungtask problem in atomic write
  f2fs: fix to restrict mount condition on readonly block device
  f2fs: introduce gc_merge mount option
  f2fs: fix to cover __allocate_new_section() with curseg_lock
  f2fs: fix wrong alloc_type in f2fs_do_replace_block
  f2fs: delete empty compress.h
  f2fs: fix a typo in inode.c
  ...
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<pre>
Pull f2fs updates from Jaegeuk Kim:
 "In this round, we added a new mount option, "checkpoint_merge", which
  introduces a kernel thread dealing with the f2fs checkpoints. Once we
  start to manage the IO priority along with blk-cgroup, the checkpoint
  operation can be processed in a lower priority under the process
  context. Since the checkpoint holds all the filesystem operations, we
  give a higher priority to the checkpoint thread all the time.

  Enhancements:
   - introduce gc_merge mount option to introduce a checkpoint thread
   - improve to run discard thread efficiently
   - allow modular compression algorithms
   - expose # of overprivision segments to sysfs
   - expose runtime compression stat to sysfs

  Bug fixes:
   - fix OOB memory access by the node id lookup
   - avoid touching checkpointed data in the checkpoint-disabled mode
   - fix the resizing flow to avoid kernel panic and race conditions
   - fix block allocation issues on pinned files
   - address some swapfile issues
   - fix hugtask problem and kernel panic during atomic write operations
   - don't start checkpoint thread in RO

  And, we've cleaned up some kernel coding style and build warnings. In
  addition, we fixed some minor race conditions and error handling
  routines"

* tag 'f2fs-for-5.13-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs: (48 commits)
  f2fs: drop inplace IO if fs status is abnormal
  f2fs: compress: remove unneed check condition
  f2fs: clean up left deprecated IO trace codes
  f2fs: avoid using native allocate_segment_by_default()
  f2fs: remove unnecessary struct declaration
  f2fs: fix to avoid NULL pointer dereference
  f2fs: avoid duplicated codes for cleanup
  f2fs: document: add description about compressed space handling
  f2fs: clean up build warnings
  f2fs: fix the periodic wakeups of discard thread
  f2fs: fix to avoid accessing invalid fio in f2fs_allocate_data_block()
  f2fs: fix to avoid GC/mmap race with f2fs_truncate()
  f2fs: set checkpoint_merge by default
  f2fs: Fix a hungtask problem in atomic write
  f2fs: fix to restrict mount condition on readonly block device
  f2fs: introduce gc_merge mount option
  f2fs: fix to cover __allocate_new_section() with curseg_lock
  f2fs: fix wrong alloc_type in f2fs_do_replace_block
  f2fs: delete empty compress.h
  f2fs: fix a typo in inode.c
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4</title>
<updated>2021-04-30T22:35:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-04-30T22:35:30+00:00</published>
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Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:
 "New features for ext4 this cycle include support for encrypted
  casefold, ensure that deleted file names are cleared in directory
  blocks by zeroing directory entries when they are unlinked or moved as
  part of a hash tree node split. We also improve the block allocator's
  performance on a freshly mounted file system by prefetching block
  bitmaps.

  There are also the usual cleanups and bug fixes, including fixing a
  page cache invalidation race when there is mixed buffered and direct
  I/O and the block size is less than page size, and allow the dax flag
  to be set and cleared on inline directories"

* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (32 commits)
  ext4: wipe ext4_dir_entry2 upon file deletion
  ext4: Fix occasional generic/418 failure
  fs: fix reporting supported extra file attributes for statx()
  ext4: allow the dax flag to be set and cleared on inline directories
  ext4: fix debug format string warning
  ext4: fix trailing whitespace
  ext4: fix various seppling typos
  ext4: fix error return code in ext4_fc_perform_commit()
  ext4: annotate data race in jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata()
  ext4: annotate data race in start_this_handle()
  ext4: fix ext4_error_err save negative errno into superblock
  ext4: fix error code in ext4_commit_super
  ext4: always panic when errors=panic is specified
  ext4: delete redundant uptodate check for buffer
  ext4: do not set SB_ACTIVE in ext4_orphan_cleanup()
  ext4: make prefetch_block_bitmaps default
  ext4: add proc files to monitor new structures
  ext4: improve cr 0 / cr 1 group scanning
  ext4: add MB_NUM_ORDERS macro
  ext4: add mballoc stats proc file
  ...
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<pre>
Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:
 "New features for ext4 this cycle include support for encrypted
  casefold, ensure that deleted file names are cleared in directory
  blocks by zeroing directory entries when they are unlinked or moved as
  part of a hash tree node split. We also improve the block allocator's
  performance on a freshly mounted file system by prefetching block
  bitmaps.

  There are also the usual cleanups and bug fixes, including fixing a
  page cache invalidation race when there is mixed buffered and direct
  I/O and the block size is less than page size, and allow the dax flag
  to be set and cleared on inline directories"

* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (32 commits)
  ext4: wipe ext4_dir_entry2 upon file deletion
  ext4: Fix occasional generic/418 failure
  fs: fix reporting supported extra file attributes for statx()
  ext4: allow the dax flag to be set and cleared on inline directories
  ext4: fix debug format string warning
  ext4: fix trailing whitespace
  ext4: fix various seppling typos
  ext4: fix error return code in ext4_fc_perform_commit()
  ext4: annotate data race in jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata()
  ext4: annotate data race in start_this_handle()
  ext4: fix ext4_error_err save negative errno into superblock
  ext4: fix error code in ext4_commit_super
  ext4: always panic when errors=panic is specified
  ext4: delete redundant uptodate check for buffer
  ext4: do not set SB_ACTIVE in ext4_orphan_cleanup()
  ext4: make prefetch_block_bitmaps default
  ext4: add proc files to monitor new structures
  ext4: improve cr 0 / cr 1 group scanning
  ext4: add MB_NUM_ORDERS macro
  ext4: add mballoc stats proc file
  ...
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'ovl-update-5.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/vfs</title>
<updated>2021-04-30T22:17:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-04-30T22:17:08+00:00</published>
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Pull overlayfs update from Miklos Szeredi:

 - Fix a regression introduced in 5.2 that resulted in valid overlayfs
   mounts being rejected with ELOOP (Too many levels of symbolic links)

 - Fix bugs found by various tools

 - Miscellaneous improvements and cleanups

* tag 'ovl-update-5.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/vfs:
  ovl: add debug print to ovl_do_getxattr()
  ovl: invalidate readdir cache on changes to dir with origin
  ovl: allow upperdir inside lowerdir
  ovl: show "userxattr" in the mount data
  ovl: trivial typo fixes in the file inode.c
  ovl: fix misspellings using codespell tool
  ovl: do not copy attr several times
  ovl: remove ovl_map_dev_ino() return value
  ovl: fix error for ovl_fill_super()
  ovl: fix missing revert_creds() on error path
  ovl: fix leaked dentry
  ovl: restrict lower null uuid for "xino=auto"
  ovl: check that upperdir path is not on a read-only mount
  ovl: plumb through flush method
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Pull overlayfs update from Miklos Szeredi:

 - Fix a regression introduced in 5.2 that resulted in valid overlayfs
   mounts being rejected with ELOOP (Too many levels of symbolic links)

 - Fix bugs found by various tools

 - Miscellaneous improvements and cleanups

* tag 'ovl-update-5.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/vfs:
  ovl: add debug print to ovl_do_getxattr()
  ovl: invalidate readdir cache on changes to dir with origin
  ovl: allow upperdir inside lowerdir
  ovl: show "userxattr" in the mount data
  ovl: trivial typo fixes in the file inode.c
  ovl: fix misspellings using codespell tool
  ovl: do not copy attr several times
  ovl: remove ovl_map_dev_ino() return value
  ovl: fix error for ovl_fill_super()
  ovl: fix missing revert_creds() on error path
  ovl: fix leaked dentry
  ovl: restrict lower null uuid for "xino=auto"
  ovl: check that upperdir path is not on a read-only mount
  ovl: plumb through flush method
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-5.13/drivers-2021-04-27' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block</title>
<updated>2021-04-28T21:39:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-04-28T21:39:37+00:00</published>
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Pull block driver updates from Jens Axboe:

 - MD changes via Song:
        - raid5 POWER fix
        - raid1 failure fix
        - UAF fix for md cluster
        - mddev_find_or_alloc() clean up
        - Fix NULL pointer deref with external bitmap
        - Performance improvement for raid10 discard requests
        - Fix missing information of /proc/mdstat

 - rsxx const qualifier removal (Arnd)

 - Expose allocated brd pages (Calvin)

 - rnbd via Gioh Kim:
        - Change maintainer
        - Change domain address of maintainers' email
        - Add polling IO mode and document update
        - Fix memory leak and some bug detected by static code analysis
          tools
        - Code refactoring

 - Series of floppy cleanups/fixes (Denis)

 - s390 dasd fixes (Julian)

 - kerneldoc fixes (Lee)

 - null_blk double free (Lv)

 - null_blk virtual boundary addition (Max)

 - Remove xsysace driver (Michal)

 - umem driver removal (Davidlohr)

 - ataflop fixes (Dan)

 - Revalidate disk removal (Christoph)

 - Bounce buffer cleanups (Christoph)

 - Mark lightnvm as deprecated (Christoph)

 - mtip32xx init cleanups (Shixin)

 - Various fixes (Tian, Gustavo, Coly, Yang, Zhang, Zhiqiang)

* tag 'for-5.13/drivers-2021-04-27' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (143 commits)
  async_xor: increase src_offs when dropping destination page
  drivers/block/null_blk/main: Fix a double free in null_init.
  md/raid1: properly indicate failure when ending a failed write request
  md-cluster: fix use-after-free issue when removing rdev
  nvme: introduce generic per-namespace chardev
  nvme: cleanup nvme_configure_apst
  nvme: do not try to reconfigure APST when the controller is not live
  nvme: add 'kato' sysfs attribute
  nvme: sanitize KATO setting
  nvmet: avoid queuing keep-alive timer if it is disabled
  brd: expose number of allocated pages in debugfs
  ataflop: fix off by one in ataflop_probe()
  ataflop: potential out of bounds in do_format()
  drbd: Fix fall-through warnings for Clang
  block/rnbd: Use strscpy instead of strlcpy
  block/rnbd-clt-sysfs: Remove copy buffer overlap in rnbd_clt_get_path_name
  block/rnbd-clt: Remove max_segment_size
  block/rnbd-clt: Generate kobject_uevent when the rnbd device state changes
  block/rnbd-srv: Remove unused arguments of rnbd_srv_rdma_ev
  Documentation/ABI/rnbd-clt: Add description for nr_poll_queues
  ...
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<pre>
Pull block driver updates from Jens Axboe:

 - MD changes via Song:
        - raid5 POWER fix
        - raid1 failure fix
        - UAF fix for md cluster
        - mddev_find_or_alloc() clean up
        - Fix NULL pointer deref with external bitmap
        - Performance improvement for raid10 discard requests
        - Fix missing information of /proc/mdstat

 - rsxx const qualifier removal (Arnd)

 - Expose allocated brd pages (Calvin)

 - rnbd via Gioh Kim:
        - Change maintainer
        - Change domain address of maintainers' email
        - Add polling IO mode and document update
        - Fix memory leak and some bug detected by static code analysis
          tools
        - Code refactoring

 - Series of floppy cleanups/fixes (Denis)

 - s390 dasd fixes (Julian)

 - kerneldoc fixes (Lee)

 - null_blk double free (Lv)

 - null_blk virtual boundary addition (Max)

 - Remove xsysace driver (Michal)

 - umem driver removal (Davidlohr)

 - ataflop fixes (Dan)

 - Revalidate disk removal (Christoph)

 - Bounce buffer cleanups (Christoph)

 - Mark lightnvm as deprecated (Christoph)

 - mtip32xx init cleanups (Shixin)

 - Various fixes (Tian, Gustavo, Coly, Yang, Zhang, Zhiqiang)

* tag 'for-5.13/drivers-2021-04-27' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (143 commits)
  async_xor: increase src_offs when dropping destination page
  drivers/block/null_blk/main: Fix a double free in null_init.
  md/raid1: properly indicate failure when ending a failed write request
  md-cluster: fix use-after-free issue when removing rdev
  nvme: introduce generic per-namespace chardev
  nvme: cleanup nvme_configure_apst
  nvme: do not try to reconfigure APST when the controller is not live
  nvme: add 'kato' sysfs attribute
  nvme: sanitize KATO setting
  nvmet: avoid queuing keep-alive timer if it is disabled
  brd: expose number of allocated pages in debugfs
  ataflop: fix off by one in ataflop_probe()
  ataflop: potential out of bounds in do_format()
  drbd: Fix fall-through warnings for Clang
  block/rnbd: Use strscpy instead of strlcpy
  block/rnbd-clt-sysfs: Remove copy buffer overlap in rnbd_clt_get_path_name
  block/rnbd-clt: Remove max_segment_size
  block/rnbd-clt: Generate kobject_uevent when the rnbd device state changes
  block/rnbd-srv: Remove unused arguments of rnbd_srv_rdma_ev
  Documentation/ABI/rnbd-clt: Add description for nr_poll_queues
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'netfs-lib-20210426' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs</title>
<updated>2021-04-27T20:08:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-04-27T20:08:12+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=820c4bae40cb56466cfed6409e00d0f5165a990c'/>
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<content type='text'>
Pull network filesystem helper library updates from David Howells:
 "Here's a set of patches for 5.13 to begin the process of overhauling
  the local caching API for network filesystems. This set consists of
  two parts:

  (1) Add a helper library to handle the new VM readahead interface.

      This is intended to be used unconditionally by the filesystem
      (whether or not caching is enabled) and provides a common
      framework for doing caching, transparent huge pages and, in the
      future, possibly fscrypt and read bandwidth maximisation. It also
      allows the netfs and the cache to align, expand and slice up a
      read request from the VM in various ways; the netfs need only
      provide a function to read a stretch of data to the pagecache and
      the helper takes care of the rest.

  (2) Add an alternative fscache/cachfiles I/O API that uses the kiocb
      facility to do async DIO to transfer data to/from the netfs's
      pages, rather than using readpage with wait queue snooping on one
      side and vfs_write() on the other. It also uses less memory, since
      it doesn't do buffered I/O on the backing file.

      Note that this uses SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA to locate the data
      available to be read from the cache. Whilst this is an improvement
      from the bmap interface, it still has a problem with regard to a
      modern extent-based filesystem inserting or removing bridging
      blocks of zeros. Fixing that requires a much greater overhaul.

  This is a step towards overhauling the fscache API. The change is
  opt-in on the part of the network filesystem. A netfs should not try
  to mix the old and the new API because of conflicting ways of handling
  pages and the PG_fscache page flag and because it would be mixing DIO
  with buffered I/O. Further, the helper library can't be used with the
  old API.

  This does not change any of the fscache cookie handling APIs or the
  way invalidation is done at this time.

  In the near term, I intend to deprecate and remove the old I/O API
  (fscache_allocate_page{,s}(), fscache_read_or_alloc_page{,s}(),
  fscache_write_page() and fscache_uncache_page()) and eventually
  replace most of fscache/cachefiles with something simpler and easier
  to follow.

  This patchset contains the following parts:

   - Some helper patches, including provision of an ITER_XARRAY iov
     iterator and a function to do readahead expansion.

   - Patches to add the netfs helper library.

   - A patch to add the fscache/cachefiles kiocb API.

   - A pair of patches to fix some review issues in the ITER_XARRAY and
     read helpers as spotted by Al and Willy.

  Jeff Layton has patches to add support in Ceph for this that he
  intends for this merge window. I have a set of patches to support AFS
  that I will post a separate pull request for.

  With this, AFS without a cache passes all expected xfstests; with a
  cache, there's an extra failure, but that's also there before these
  patches. Fixing that probably requires a greater overhaul. Ceph also
  passes the expected tests.

  I also have patches in a separate branch to tidy up the handling of
  PG_fscache/PG_private_2 and their contribution to page refcounting in
  the core kernel here, but I haven't included them in this set and will
  route them separately"

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/3779937.1619478404@warthog.procyon.org.uk/

* tag 'netfs-lib-20210426' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs:
  netfs: Miscellaneous fixes
  iov_iter: Four fixes for ITER_XARRAY
  fscache, cachefiles: Add alternate API to use kiocb for read/write to cache
  netfs: Add a tracepoint to log failures that would be otherwise unseen
  netfs: Define an interface to talk to a cache
  netfs: Add write_begin helper
  netfs: Gather stats
  netfs: Add tracepoints
  netfs: Provide readahead and readpage netfs helpers
  netfs, mm: Add set/end/wait_on_page_fscache() aliases
  netfs, mm: Move PG_fscache helper funcs to linux/netfs.h
  netfs: Documentation for helper library
  netfs: Make a netfs helper module
  mm: Implement readahead_control pageset expansion
  mm/readahead: Handle ractl nr_pages being modified
  fs: Document file_ra_state
  mm/filemap: Pass the file_ra_state in the ractl
  mm: Add set/end/wait functions for PG_private_2
  iov_iter: Add ITER_XARRAY
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Pull network filesystem helper library updates from David Howells:
 "Here's a set of patches for 5.13 to begin the process of overhauling
  the local caching API for network filesystems. This set consists of
  two parts:

  (1) Add a helper library to handle the new VM readahead interface.

      This is intended to be used unconditionally by the filesystem
      (whether or not caching is enabled) and provides a common
      framework for doing caching, transparent huge pages and, in the
      future, possibly fscrypt and read bandwidth maximisation. It also
      allows the netfs and the cache to align, expand and slice up a
      read request from the VM in various ways; the netfs need only
      provide a function to read a stretch of data to the pagecache and
      the helper takes care of the rest.

  (2) Add an alternative fscache/cachfiles I/O API that uses the kiocb
      facility to do async DIO to transfer data to/from the netfs's
      pages, rather than using readpage with wait queue snooping on one
      side and vfs_write() on the other. It also uses less memory, since
      it doesn't do buffered I/O on the backing file.

      Note that this uses SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA to locate the data
      available to be read from the cache. Whilst this is an improvement
      from the bmap interface, it still has a problem with regard to a
      modern extent-based filesystem inserting or removing bridging
      blocks of zeros. Fixing that requires a much greater overhaul.

  This is a step towards overhauling the fscache API. The change is
  opt-in on the part of the network filesystem. A netfs should not try
  to mix the old and the new API because of conflicting ways of handling
  pages and the PG_fscache page flag and because it would be mixing DIO
  with buffered I/O. Further, the helper library can't be used with the
  old API.

  This does not change any of the fscache cookie handling APIs or the
  way invalidation is done at this time.

  In the near term, I intend to deprecate and remove the old I/O API
  (fscache_allocate_page{,s}(), fscache_read_or_alloc_page{,s}(),
  fscache_write_page() and fscache_uncache_page()) and eventually
  replace most of fscache/cachefiles with something simpler and easier
  to follow.

  This patchset contains the following parts:

   - Some helper patches, including provision of an ITER_XARRAY iov
     iterator and a function to do readahead expansion.

   - Patches to add the netfs helper library.

   - A patch to add the fscache/cachefiles kiocb API.

   - A pair of patches to fix some review issues in the ITER_XARRAY and
     read helpers as spotted by Al and Willy.

  Jeff Layton has patches to add support in Ceph for this that he
  intends for this merge window. I have a set of patches to support AFS
  that I will post a separate pull request for.

  With this, AFS without a cache passes all expected xfstests; with a
  cache, there's an extra failure, but that's also there before these
  patches. Fixing that probably requires a greater overhaul. Ceph also
  passes the expected tests.

  I also have patches in a separate branch to tidy up the handling of
  PG_fscache/PG_private_2 and their contribution to page refcounting in
  the core kernel here, but I haven't included them in this set and will
  route them separately"

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/3779937.1619478404@warthog.procyon.org.uk/

* tag 'netfs-lib-20210426' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs:
  netfs: Miscellaneous fixes
  iov_iter: Four fixes for ITER_XARRAY
  fscache, cachefiles: Add alternate API to use kiocb for read/write to cache
  netfs: Add a tracepoint to log failures that would be otherwise unseen
  netfs: Define an interface to talk to a cache
  netfs: Add write_begin helper
  netfs: Gather stats
  netfs: Add tracepoints
  netfs: Provide readahead and readpage netfs helpers
  netfs, mm: Add set/end/wait_on_page_fscache() aliases
  netfs, mm: Move PG_fscache helper funcs to linux/netfs.h
  netfs: Documentation for helper library
  netfs: Make a netfs helper module
  mm: Implement readahead_control pageset expansion
  mm/readahead: Handle ractl nr_pages being modified
  fs: Document file_ra_state
  mm/filemap: Pass the file_ra_state in the ractl
  mm: Add set/end/wait functions for PG_private_2
  iov_iter: Add ITER_XARRAY
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'miklos.fileattr' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2021-04-27T18:18:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-04-27T18:18:24+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=a4f7fae10169cf626bb83e97f229ee78c71ceea8'/>
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Pull fileattr conversion updates from Miklos Szeredi via Al Viro:
 "This splits the handling of FS_IOC_[GS]ETFLAGS from -&gt;ioctl() into a
  separate method.

  The interface is reasonably uniform across the filesystems that
  support it and gives nice boilerplate removal"

* 'miklos.fileattr' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (23 commits)
  ovl: remove unneeded ioctls
  fuse: convert to fileattr
  fuse: add internal open/release helpers
  fuse: unsigned open flags
  fuse: move ioctl to separate source file
  vfs: remove unused ioctl helpers
  ubifs: convert to fileattr
  reiserfs: convert to fileattr
  ocfs2: convert to fileattr
  nilfs2: convert to fileattr
  jfs: convert to fileattr
  hfsplus: convert to fileattr
  efivars: convert to fileattr
  xfs: convert to fileattr
  orangefs: convert to fileattr
  gfs2: convert to fileattr
  f2fs: convert to fileattr
  ext4: convert to fileattr
  ext2: convert to fileattr
  btrfs: convert to fileattr
  ...
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Pull fileattr conversion updates from Miklos Szeredi via Al Viro:
 "This splits the handling of FS_IOC_[GS]ETFLAGS from -&gt;ioctl() into a
  separate method.

  The interface is reasonably uniform across the filesystems that
  support it and gives nice boilerplate removal"

* 'miklos.fileattr' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (23 commits)
  ovl: remove unneeded ioctls
  fuse: convert to fileattr
  fuse: add internal open/release helpers
  fuse: unsigned open flags
  fuse: move ioctl to separate source file
  vfs: remove unused ioctl helpers
  ubifs: convert to fileattr
  reiserfs: convert to fileattr
  ocfs2: convert to fileattr
  nilfs2: convert to fileattr
  jfs: convert to fileattr
  hfsplus: convert to fileattr
  efivars: convert to fileattr
  xfs: convert to fileattr
  orangefs: convert to fileattr
  gfs2: convert to fileattr
  f2fs: convert to fileattr
  ext4: convert to fileattr
  ext2: convert to fileattr
  btrfs: convert to fileattr
  ...
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<entry>
<title>netfs: Documentation for helper library</title>
<updated>2021-04-23T09:14:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-02-22T13:17:24+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=fb28afccdb9717173dbe3c42d9649fb7f47b6e6e'/>
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Add interface documentation for the netfs helper library.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
cc: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org
cc: ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org
cc: v9fs-developer@lists.sourceforge.net
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/161539533275.286939.6246011228676840978.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v4
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/161653791767.2770958.2012814194145060913.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v5
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/161789072591.6155.9448294406920216219.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v6
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Add interface documentation for the netfs helper library.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
cc: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org
cc: ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org
cc: v9fs-developer@lists.sourceforge.net
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/161539533275.286939.6246011228676840978.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v4
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/161653791767.2770958.2012814194145060913.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v5
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/161789072591.6155.9448294406920216219.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v6
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>f2fs: document: add description about compressed space handling</title>
<updated>2021-04-13T17:40:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chao Yu</name>
<email>yuchao0@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-04-13T09:56:53+00:00</published>
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User or developer may still be confused about why f2fs doesn't expose
compressed space to userspace, add description about compressed space
handling policy into f2fs documentation.

Signed-off-by: Chao Yu &lt;yuchao0@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim &lt;jaegeuk@kernel.org&gt;
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User or developer may still be confused about why f2fs doesn't expose
compressed space to userspace, add description about compressed space
handling policy into f2fs documentation.

Signed-off-by: Chao Yu &lt;yuchao0@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim &lt;jaegeuk@kernel.org&gt;
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