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<title>dax: fix O_DIRECT I/O to the last block of a blockdev</title>
<updated>2015-10-22T21:49:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff Moyer</name>
<email>jmoyer@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-08-14T20:15:31+00:00</published>
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commit e94f5a2285fc94202a9efb2c687481f29b64132c upstream.

commit bbab37ddc20b (block: Add support for DAX reads/writes to
block devices) caused a regression in mkfs.xfs.  That utility
sets the block size of the device to the logical block size
using the BLKBSZSET ioctl, and then issues a single sector read
from the last sector of the device.  This results in the dax_io
code trying to do a page-sized read from 512 bytes from the end
of the device.  The result is -ERANGE being returned to userspace.

The fix is to align the block to the page size before calling
get_block.

Thanks to willy for simplifying my original patch.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer &lt;jmoyer@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by:  Linda Knippers &lt;linda.knippers@hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit e94f5a2285fc94202a9efb2c687481f29b64132c upstream.

commit bbab37ddc20b (block: Add support for DAX reads/writes to
block devices) caused a regression in mkfs.xfs.  That utility
sets the block size of the device to the logical block size
using the BLKBSZSET ioctl, and then issues a single sector read
from the last sector of the device.  This results in the dax_io
code trying to do a page-sized read from 512 bytes from the end
of the device.  The result is -ERANGE being returned to userspace.

The fix is to align the block to the page size before calling
get_block.

Thanks to willy for simplifying my original patch.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer &lt;jmoyer@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by:  Linda Knippers &lt;linda.knippers@hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>xfs: call dax_fault on read page faults for DAX</title>
<updated>2015-07-29T01:48:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dave Chinner</name>
<email>dchinner@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-07-29T01:48:00+00:00</published>
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When modifying the patch series to handle the XFS MMAP_LOCK nesting
of page faults, I botched the conversion of the read page fault
path, and so it is only every calling through the page cache. Re-add
the necessary __dax_fault() call for such files.

Because the get_blocks callback on read faults may not set up the
mapping buffer correctly to allow unwritten extent completion to be
run, we need to allow callers of __dax_fault() to pass a null
complete_unwritten() callback. The DAX code always zeros the
unwritten page when it is read faulted so there are no stale data
exposure issues with not doing the conversion. The only downside
will be the potential for increased CPU overhead on repeated read
faults of the same page. If this proves to be a problem, then the
filesystem needs to fix it's get_block callback and provide a
convert_unwritten() callback to the read fault path.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner &lt;dchinner@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster &lt;bfoster@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner &lt;david@fromorbit.com&gt;

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When modifying the patch series to handle the XFS MMAP_LOCK nesting
of page faults, I botched the conversion of the read page fault
path, and so it is only every calling through the page cache. Re-add
the necessary __dax_fault() call for such files.

Because the get_blocks callback on read faults may not set up the
mapping buffer correctly to allow unwritten extent completion to be
run, we need to allow callers of __dax_fault() to pass a null
complete_unwritten() callback. The DAX code always zeros the
unwritten page when it is read faulted so there are no stale data
exposure issues with not doing the conversion. The only downside
will be the potential for increased CPU overhead on repeated read
faults of the same page. If this proves to be a problem, then the
filesystem needs to fix it's get_block callback and provide a
convert_unwritten() callback to the read fault path.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner &lt;dchinner@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster &lt;bfoster@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner &lt;david@fromorbit.com&gt;

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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2015-07-05T02:36:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-07-05T02:36:06+00:00</published>
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Pull more vfs updates from Al Viro:
 "Assorted VFS fixes and related cleanups (IMO the most interesting in
  that part are f_path-related things and Eric's descriptor-related
  stuff).  UFS regression fixes (it got broken last cycle).  9P fixes.
  fs-cache series, DAX patches, Jan's file_remove_suid() work"

[ I'd say this is much more than "fixes and related cleanups".  The
  file_table locking rule change by Eric Dumazet is a rather big and
  fundamental update even if the patch isn't huge.   - Linus ]

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (49 commits)
  9p: cope with bogus responses from server in p9_client_{read,write}
  p9_client_write(): avoid double p9_free_req()
  9p: forgetting to cancel request on interrupted zero-copy RPC
  dax: bdev_direct_access() may sleep
  block: Add support for DAX reads/writes to block devices
  dax: Use copy_from_iter_nocache
  dax: Add block size note to documentation
  fs/file.c: __fget() and dup2() atomicity rules
  fs/file.c: don't acquire files-&gt;file_lock in fd_install()
  fs:super:get_anon_bdev: fix race condition could cause dev exceed its upper limitation
  vfs: avoid creation of inode number 0 in get_next_ino
  namei: make set_root_rcu() return void
  make simple_positive() public
  ufs: use dir_pages instead of ufs_dir_pages()
  pagemap.h: move dir_pages() over there
  remove the pointless include of lglock.h
  fs: cleanup slight list_entry abuse
  xfs: Correctly lock inode when removing suid and file capabilities
  fs: Call security_ops-&gt;inode_killpriv on truncate
  fs: Provide function telling whether file_remove_privs() will do anything
  ...
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Pull more vfs updates from Al Viro:
 "Assorted VFS fixes and related cleanups (IMO the most interesting in
  that part are f_path-related things and Eric's descriptor-related
  stuff).  UFS regression fixes (it got broken last cycle).  9P fixes.
  fs-cache series, DAX patches, Jan's file_remove_suid() work"

[ I'd say this is much more than "fixes and related cleanups".  The
  file_table locking rule change by Eric Dumazet is a rather big and
  fundamental update even if the patch isn't huge.   - Linus ]

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (49 commits)
  9p: cope with bogus responses from server in p9_client_{read,write}
  p9_client_write(): avoid double p9_free_req()
  9p: forgetting to cancel request on interrupted zero-copy RPC
  dax: bdev_direct_access() may sleep
  block: Add support for DAX reads/writes to block devices
  dax: Use copy_from_iter_nocache
  dax: Add block size note to documentation
  fs/file.c: __fget() and dup2() atomicity rules
  fs/file.c: don't acquire files-&gt;file_lock in fd_install()
  fs:super:get_anon_bdev: fix race condition could cause dev exceed its upper limitation
  vfs: avoid creation of inode number 0 in get_next_ino
  namei: make set_root_rcu() return void
  make simple_positive() public
  ufs: use dir_pages instead of ufs_dir_pages()
  pagemap.h: move dir_pages() over there
  remove the pointless include of lglock.h
  fs: cleanup slight list_entry abuse
  xfs: Correctly lock inode when removing suid and file capabilities
  fs: Call security_ops-&gt;inode_killpriv on truncate
  fs: Provide function telling whether file_remove_privs() will do anything
  ...
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<entry>
<title>block: Add support for DAX reads/writes to block devices</title>
<updated>2015-07-04T19:56:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthew Wilcox</name>
<email>matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-07-03T14:40:42+00:00</published>
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If a block device supports the -&gt;direct_access methods, bypass the normal
DIO path and use DAX to go straight to memcpy() instead of allocating
a DIO and a BIO.

Includes support for the DIO_SKIP_DIO_COUNT flag in DAX, as is done in
do_blockdev_direct_IO().

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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If a block device supports the -&gt;direct_access methods, bypass the normal
DIO path and use DAX to go straight to memcpy() instead of allocating
a DIO and a BIO.

Includes support for the DIO_SKIP_DIO_COUNT flag in DAX, as is done in
do_blockdev_direct_IO().

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>dax: Use copy_from_iter_nocache</title>
<updated>2015-07-04T19:56:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthew Wilcox</name>
<email>willy@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-07-03T14:40:39+00:00</published>
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When userspace does a write, there's no need for the written data to
pollute the CPU cache.  This matches the original XIP code.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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When userspace does a write, there's no need for the written data to
pollute the CPU cache.  This matches the original XIP code.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>dax: expose __dax_fault for filesystems with locking constraints</title>
<updated>2015-06-03T23:18:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dave Chinner</name>
<email>dchinner@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-03T23:18:18+00:00</published>
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Some filesystems cannot call dax_fault() directly because they have
different locking and/or allocation constraints in the page fault IO
path. To handle this, we need to follow the same model as the
generic block_page_mkwrite code, where the internals are exposed via
__block_page_mkwrite() so that filesystems can wrap the correct
locking and operations around the outside. 

This is loosely based on a patch originally from Matthew Willcox.
Unlike the original patch, it does not change ext4 code, error
returns or unwritten extent conversion handling.  It also adds a
__dax_mkwrite() wrapper for .page_mkwrite implementations to do the
right thing, too.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner &lt;dchinner@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner &lt;david@fromorbit.com&gt;

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Some filesystems cannot call dax_fault() directly because they have
different locking and/or allocation constraints in the page fault IO
path. To handle this, we need to follow the same model as the
generic block_page_mkwrite code, where the internals are exposed via
__block_page_mkwrite() so that filesystems can wrap the correct
locking and operations around the outside. 

This is loosely based on a patch originally from Matthew Willcox.
Unlike the original patch, it does not change ext4 code, error
returns or unwritten extent conversion handling.  It also adds a
__dax_mkwrite() wrapper for .page_mkwrite implementations to do the
right thing, too.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner &lt;dchinner@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner &lt;david@fromorbit.com&gt;

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<entry>
<title>dax: don't abuse get_block mapping for endio callbacks</title>
<updated>2015-06-03T23:18:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dave Chinner</name>
<email>dchinner@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-03T23:18:18+00:00</published>
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dax_fault() currently relies on the get_block callback to attach an
io completion callback to the mapping buffer head so that it can
run unwritten extent conversion after zeroing allocated blocks.

Instead of this hack, pass the conversion callback directly into
dax_fault() similar to the get_block callback. When the filesystem
allocates unwritten extents, it will set the buffer_unwritten()
flag, and hence the dax_fault code can call the completion function
in the contexts where it is necessary without overloading the
mapping buffer head.

Note: The changes to ext4 to use this interface are suspect at best.
In fact, the way ext4 did this end_io assignment in the first place
looks suspect because it only set a completion callback when there
wasn't already some other write() call taking place on the same
inode. The ext4 end_io code looks rather intricate and fragile with
all it's reference counting and passing to different contexts for
modification via inode private pointers that aren't protected by
locks...

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner &lt;dchinner@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner &lt;david@fromorbit.com&gt;

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dax_fault() currently relies on the get_block callback to attach an
io completion callback to the mapping buffer head so that it can
run unwritten extent conversion after zeroing allocated blocks.

Instead of this hack, pass the conversion callback directly into
dax_fault() similar to the get_block callback. When the filesystem
allocates unwritten extents, it will set the buffer_unwritten()
flag, and hence the dax_fault code can call the completion function
in the contexts where it is necessary without overloading the
mapping buffer head.

Note: The changes to ext4 to use this interface are suspect at best.
In fact, the way ext4 did this end_io assignment in the first place
looks suspect because it only set a completion callback when there
wasn't already some other write() call taking place on the same
inode. The ext4 end_io code looks rather intricate and fragile with
all it's reference counting and passing to different contexts for
modification via inode private pointers that aren't protected by
locks...

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner &lt;dchinner@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner &lt;david@fromorbit.com&gt;

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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2015-04-27T00:22:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-26T22:48:49+00:00</published>
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Pull fourth vfs update from Al Viro:
 "d_inode() annotations from David Howells (sat in for-next since before
  the beginning of merge window) + four assorted fixes"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  RCU pathwalk breakage when running into a symlink overmounting something
  fix I_DIO_WAKEUP definition
  direct-io: only inc/dec inode-&gt;i_dio_count for file systems
  fs/9p: fix readdir()
  VFS: assorted d_backing_inode() annotations
  VFS: fs/inode.c helpers: d_inode() annotations
  VFS: fs/cachefiles: d_backing_inode() annotations
  VFS: fs library helpers: d_inode() annotations
  VFS: assorted weird filesystems: d_inode() annotations
  VFS: normal filesystems (and lustre): d_inode() annotations
  VFS: security/: d_inode() annotations
  VFS: security/: d_backing_inode() annotations
  VFS: net/: d_inode() annotations
  VFS: net/unix: d_backing_inode() annotations
  VFS: kernel/: d_inode() annotations
  VFS: audit: d_backing_inode() annotations
  VFS: Fix up some -&gt;d_inode accesses in the chelsio driver
  VFS: Cachefiles should perform fs modifications on the top layer only
  VFS: AF_UNIX sockets should call mknod on the top layer only
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Pull fourth vfs update from Al Viro:
 "d_inode() annotations from David Howells (sat in for-next since before
  the beginning of merge window) + four assorted fixes"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  RCU pathwalk breakage when running into a symlink overmounting something
  fix I_DIO_WAKEUP definition
  direct-io: only inc/dec inode-&gt;i_dio_count for file systems
  fs/9p: fix readdir()
  VFS: assorted d_backing_inode() annotations
  VFS: fs/inode.c helpers: d_inode() annotations
  VFS: fs/cachefiles: d_backing_inode() annotations
  VFS: fs library helpers: d_inode() annotations
  VFS: assorted weird filesystems: d_inode() annotations
  VFS: normal filesystems (and lustre): d_inode() annotations
  VFS: security/: d_inode() annotations
  VFS: security/: d_backing_inode() annotations
  VFS: net/: d_inode() annotations
  VFS: net/unix: d_backing_inode() annotations
  VFS: kernel/: d_inode() annotations
  VFS: audit: d_backing_inode() annotations
  VFS: Fix up some -&gt;d_inode accesses in the chelsio driver
  VFS: Cachefiles should perform fs modifications on the top layer only
  VFS: AF_UNIX sockets should call mknod on the top layer only
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<entry>
<title>direct-io: only inc/dec inode-&gt;i_dio_count for file systems</title>
<updated>2015-04-24T19:45:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>axboe@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-15T23:05:48+00:00</published>
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do_blockdev_direct_IO() increments and decrements the inode
-&gt;i_dio_count for each IO operation. It does this to protect against
truncate of a file. Block devices don't need this sort of protection.

For a capable multiqueue setup, this atomic int is the only shared
state between applications accessing the device for O_DIRECT, and it
presents a scaling wall for that. In my testing, as much as 30% of
system time is spent incrementing and decrementing this value. A mixed
read/write workload improved from ~2.5M IOPS to ~9.6M IOPS, with
better latencies too. Before:

clat percentiles (usec):
 |  1.00th=[   33],  5.00th=[   34], 10.00th=[   34], 20.00th=[   34],
 | 30.00th=[   34], 40.00th=[   34], 50.00th=[   35], 60.00th=[   35],
 | 70.00th=[   35], 80.00th=[   35], 90.00th=[   37], 95.00th=[   80],
 | 99.00th=[   98], 99.50th=[  151], 99.90th=[  155], 99.95th=[  155],
 | 99.99th=[  165]

After:

clat percentiles (usec):
 |  1.00th=[   95],  5.00th=[  108], 10.00th=[  129], 20.00th=[  149],
 | 30.00th=[  155], 40.00th=[  161], 50.00th=[  167], 60.00th=[  171],
 | 70.00th=[  177], 80.00th=[  185], 90.00th=[  201], 95.00th=[  270],
 | 99.00th=[  390], 99.50th=[  398], 99.90th=[  418], 99.95th=[  422],
 | 99.99th=[  438]

In other setups, Robert Elliott reported seeing good performance
improvements:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/4/3/557

The more applications accessing the device, the worse it gets.

Add a new direct-io flags, DIO_SKIP_DIO_COUNT, which tells
do_blockdev_direct_IO() that it need not worry about incrementing
or decrementing the inode i_dio_count for this caller.

Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Elliott, Robert (Server Storage) &lt;elliott@hp.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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do_blockdev_direct_IO() increments and decrements the inode
-&gt;i_dio_count for each IO operation. It does this to protect against
truncate of a file. Block devices don't need this sort of protection.

For a capable multiqueue setup, this atomic int is the only shared
state between applications accessing the device for O_DIRECT, and it
presents a scaling wall for that. In my testing, as much as 30% of
system time is spent incrementing and decrementing this value. A mixed
read/write workload improved from ~2.5M IOPS to ~9.6M IOPS, with
better latencies too. Before:

clat percentiles (usec):
 |  1.00th=[   33],  5.00th=[   34], 10.00th=[   34], 20.00th=[   34],
 | 30.00th=[   34], 40.00th=[   34], 50.00th=[   35], 60.00th=[   35],
 | 70.00th=[   35], 80.00th=[   35], 90.00th=[   37], 95.00th=[   80],
 | 99.00th=[   98], 99.50th=[  151], 99.90th=[  155], 99.95th=[  155],
 | 99.99th=[  165]

After:

clat percentiles (usec):
 |  1.00th=[   95],  5.00th=[  108], 10.00th=[  129], 20.00th=[  149],
 | 30.00th=[  155], 40.00th=[  161], 50.00th=[  167], 60.00th=[  171],
 | 70.00th=[  177], 80.00th=[  185], 90.00th=[  201], 95.00th=[  270],
 | 99.00th=[  390], 99.50th=[  398], 99.90th=[  418], 99.95th=[  422],
 | 99.99th=[  438]

In other setups, Robert Elliott reported seeing good performance
improvements:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/4/3/557

The more applications accessing the device, the worse it gets.

Add a new direct-io flags, DIO_SKIP_DIO_COUNT, which tells
do_blockdev_direct_IO() that it need not worry about incrementing
or decrementing the inode i_dio_count for this caller.

Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Elliott, Robert (Server Storage) &lt;elliott@hp.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2015-04-17T03:27:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-17T03:27:56+00:00</published>
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Pull third hunk of vfs changes from Al Viro:
 "This contains the -&gt;direct_IO() changes from Omar + saner
  generic_write_checks() + dealing with fcntl()/{read,write}() races
  (mirroring O_APPEND/O_DIRECT into iocb-&gt;ki_flags and instead of
  repeatedly looking at -&gt;f_flags, which can be changed by fcntl(2),
  check -&gt;ki_flags - which cannot) + infrastructure bits for dhowells'
  d_inode annotations + Christophs switch of /dev/loop to
  vfs_iter_write()"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (30 commits)
  block: loop: switch to VFS ITER_BVEC
  configfs: Fix inconsistent use of file_inode() vs file-&gt;f_path.dentry-&gt;d_inode
  VFS: Make pathwalk use d_is_reg() rather than S_ISREG()
  VFS: Fix up debugfs to use d_is_dir() in place of S_ISDIR()
  VFS: Combine inode checks with d_is_negative() and d_is_positive() in pathwalk
  NFS: Don't use d_inode as a variable name
  VFS: Impose ordering on accesses of d_inode and d_flags
  VFS: Add owner-filesystem positive/negative dentry checks
  nfs: generic_write_checks() shouldn't be done on swapout...
  ocfs2: use __generic_file_write_iter()
  mirror O_APPEND and O_DIRECT into iocb-&gt;ki_flags
  switch generic_write_checks() to iocb and iter
  ocfs2: move generic_write_checks() before the alignment checks
  ocfs2_file_write_iter: stop messing with ppos
  udf_file_write_iter: reorder and simplify
  fuse: -&gt;direct_IO() doesn't need generic_write_checks()
  ext4_file_write_iter: move generic_write_checks() up
  xfs_file_aio_write_checks: switch to iocb/iov_iter
  generic_write_checks(): drop isblk argument
  blkdev_write_iter: expand generic_file_checks() call in there
  ...
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Pull third hunk of vfs changes from Al Viro:
 "This contains the -&gt;direct_IO() changes from Omar + saner
  generic_write_checks() + dealing with fcntl()/{read,write}() races
  (mirroring O_APPEND/O_DIRECT into iocb-&gt;ki_flags and instead of
  repeatedly looking at -&gt;f_flags, which can be changed by fcntl(2),
  check -&gt;ki_flags - which cannot) + infrastructure bits for dhowells'
  d_inode annotations + Christophs switch of /dev/loop to
  vfs_iter_write()"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (30 commits)
  block: loop: switch to VFS ITER_BVEC
  configfs: Fix inconsistent use of file_inode() vs file-&gt;f_path.dentry-&gt;d_inode
  VFS: Make pathwalk use d_is_reg() rather than S_ISREG()
  VFS: Fix up debugfs to use d_is_dir() in place of S_ISDIR()
  VFS: Combine inode checks with d_is_negative() and d_is_positive() in pathwalk
  NFS: Don't use d_inode as a variable name
  VFS: Impose ordering on accesses of d_inode and d_flags
  VFS: Add owner-filesystem positive/negative dentry checks
  nfs: generic_write_checks() shouldn't be done on swapout...
  ocfs2: use __generic_file_write_iter()
  mirror O_APPEND and O_DIRECT into iocb-&gt;ki_flags
  switch generic_write_checks() to iocb and iter
  ocfs2: move generic_write_checks() before the alignment checks
  ocfs2_file_write_iter: stop messing with ppos
  udf_file_write_iter: reorder and simplify
  fuse: -&gt;direct_IO() doesn't need generic_write_checks()
  ext4_file_write_iter: move generic_write_checks() up
  xfs_file_aio_write_checks: switch to iocb/iov_iter
  generic_write_checks(): drop isblk argument
  blkdev_write_iter: expand generic_file_checks() call in there
  ...
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