Pull block handle updates from Christian Brauner:
 "Last cycle we changed opening of block devices, and opening a block
  device would return a bdev_handle. This allowed us to implement
  support for restricting and forbidding writes to mounted block
  devices. It was accompanied by converting and adding helpers to
  operate on bdev_handles instead of plain block devices.

  That was already a good step forward but ultimately it isn't necessary
  to have special purpose helpers for opening block devices internally
  that return a bdev_handle.

  Fundamentally, opening a block device internally should just be
  equivalent to opening files. So now all internal opens of block
  devices return files just as a userspace open would. Instead of
  introducing a separate indirection into bdev_open_by_*() via struct
  bdev_handle bdev_file_open_by_*() is made to just return a struct
  file. Opening and closing a block device just becomes equivalent to
  opening and closing a file.

  This all works well because internally we already have a pseudo fs for
  block devices and so opening block devices is simple. There's a few
  places where we needed to be careful such as during boot when the
  kernel is supposed to mount the rootfs directly without init doing it.
  Here we need to take care to ensure that we flush out any asynchronous
  file close. That's what we already do for opening, unpacking, and
  closing the initramfs. So nothing new here.

  The equivalence of opening and closing block devices to regular files
  is a win in and of itself. But it also has various other advantages.
  We can remove struct bdev_handle completely. Various low-level helpers
  are now private to the block layer. Other helpers were simply
  removable completely.

  A follow-up series that is already reviewed build on this and makes it
  possible to remove bdev->bd_inode and allows various clean ups of the
  buffer head code as well. All places where we stashed a bdev_handle
  now just stash a file and use simple accessors to get to the actual
  block device which was already the case for bdev_handle"

* tag 'vfs-6.9.super' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (35 commits)
  block: remove bdev_handle completely
  block: don't rely on BLK_OPEN_RESTRICT_WRITES when yielding write access
  bdev: remove bdev pointer from struct bdev_handle
  bdev: make struct bdev_handle private to the block layer
  bdev: make bdev_{release, open_by_dev}() private to block layer
  bdev: remove bdev_open_by_path()
  reiserfs: port block device access to file
  ocfs2: port block device access to file
  nfs: port block device access to files
  jfs: port block device access to file
  f2fs: port block device access to files
  ext4: port block device access to file
  erofs: port device access to file
  btrfs: port device access to file
  bcachefs: port block device access to file
  target: port block device access to file
  s390: port block device access to file
  nvme: port block device access to file
  block2mtd: port device access to files
  bcache: port block device access to files
  ...

Pull write hint fix from Christian Brauner:

UFS devices are widely used in mobile applications, e.g. in smartphones.
UFS vendors need data lifetime information to achieve good performance.
Providing data lifetime information to UFS devices can result in up to
40% lower write amplification. Hence this patch series that restores the
bi_write_hint member in struct bio. After this patch series has been
merged, patches that implement data lifetime support in the SCSI disk
(sd) driver will be sent to the Linux kernel SCSI maintainer.

The following changes are included in this patch series:

- Improvements for the F_GET_RW_HINT and F_SET_RW_HINT fcntls.
- Move enum rw_hint into a new header file.
- Support F_SET_RW_HINT for block devices to make it easy to test data
  lifetime support.
- Restore the bio.bi_write_hint member and restore support in the VFS
  layer and also in the block layer for data lifetime information.

The shell script that has been used to test the patch series combined
with the SCSI patches is available at the end of this cover letter.

* tag 'vfs-6.9.rw_hint' of gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  block, fs: Restore the per-bio/request data lifetime fields
  fs: Propagate write hints to the struct block_device inode
  fs: Move enum rw_hint into a new header file
  fs: Split fcntl_rw_hint()
  fs: Verify write lifetime constants at compile time
  fs: Fix rw_hint validation

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>

We just need to use the holder to indicate whether a block device open
was exclusive or not. We did use to do that before but had to give that
up once we switched to struct bdev_handle. Before struct bdev_handle we
only stashed stuff in file->private_data if this was an exclusive open
but after struct bdev_handle we always set file->private_data to a
struct bdev_handle and so we had to use bdev_handle->mode or
bdev_handle->holder. Now that we don't use struct bdev_handle anymore we
can revert back to the old behavior.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240123-vfs-bdev-file-v2-32-adbd023e19cc@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>

We can always go directly via:

* I_BDEV(bdev_file->f_inode)
* I_BDEV(bdev_file->f_mapping->host)

So keeping struct bdev in struct bdev_handle is redundant.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240123-vfs-bdev-file-v2-30-adbd023e19cc@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240123-vfs-bdev-file-v2-29-adbd023e19cc@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>

Restore support for passing data lifetime information from filesystems to
block drivers. This patch reverts commit b179c98f7697 ("block: Remove
request.write_hint") and commit c75e707fe1aa ("block: remove the
per-bio/request write hint").

This patch does not modify the size of struct bio because the new
bi_write_hint member fills a hole in struct bio. pahole reports the
following for struct bio on an x86_64 system with this patch applied:

        /* size: 112, cachelines: 2, members: 20 */
        /* sum members: 110, holes: 1, sum holes: 2 */
        /* last cacheline: 48 bytes */

Reviewed-by: Kanchan Joshi <joshi.k@samsung.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240202203926.2478590-7-bvanassche@acm.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>

Let the file system know how much dirty data exists at the passed
in offset.  This allows file systems to allocate the right amount
of space that actually is written back if they can't eagerly
convert (e.g. because they don't support unwritten extents).

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231207072710.176093-15-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>

Convert the function to be compatible with writepage_t so that it can be
passed to write_cache_pages() by blkdev.  This removes a call to
compound_head().  We can also remove the function export as both callers
are built-in.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231215200245.748418-14-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

There were already assertions that we were not passing a tail page to
error_remove_page(), so make the compiler enforce that by converting
everything to pass and use a folio.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231117161447.2461643-7-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

Convert blkdev_open() to use bdev_open_by_dev(). To be able to propagate
handle from blkdev_open() to blkdev_release() we need to stop using
existence of file->private_data to determine exclusive block device
opens. Use bdev_handle->mode for this purpose since file->f_flags
isn't usable for this (O_EXCL is cleared from the flags during open).

Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230927093442.25915-2-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>