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<entry>
<title>ext2: correct max file size computing</title>
<updated>2022-04-20T07:06:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zhang Yi</name>
<email>yi.zhang@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-02-12T05:05:32+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 50b3a818991074177a56c87124c7a7bdf5fa4f67 ]

We need to calculate the max file size accurately if the total blocks
that can address by block tree exceed the upper_limit. But this check is
not correct now, it only compute the total data blocks but missing
metadata blocks are needed. So in the case of "data blocks &lt; upper_limit
&amp;&amp; total blocks &gt; upper_limit", we will get wrong result. Fortunately,
this case could not happen in reality, but it's confused and better to
correct the computing.

  bits   data blocks   metadatablocks   upper_limit
  10        16843020            66051    2147483647
  11       134480396           263171    1073741823
  12      1074791436          1050627     536870911 (*)
  13      8594130956          4198403     268435455 (*)
  14     68736258060         16785411     134217727 (*)
  15    549822930956         67125251      67108863 (*)
  16   4398314962956        268468227      33554431 (*)

  [*] Need to calculate in depth.

Fixes: 1c2d14212b15 ("ext2: Fix underflow in ext2_max_size()")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220212050532.179055-1-yi.zhang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi &lt;yi.zhang@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 50b3a818991074177a56c87124c7a7bdf5fa4f67 ]

We need to calculate the max file size accurately if the total blocks
that can address by block tree exceed the upper_limit. But this check is
not correct now, it only compute the total data blocks but missing
metadata blocks are needed. So in the case of "data blocks &lt; upper_limit
&amp;&amp; total blocks &gt; upper_limit", we will get wrong result. Fortunately,
this case could not happen in reality, but it's confused and better to
correct the computing.

  bits   data blocks   metadatablocks   upper_limit
  10        16843020            66051    2147483647
  11       134480396           263171    1073741823
  12      1074791436          1050627     536870911 (*)
  13      8594130956          4198403     268435455 (*)
  14     68736258060         16785411     134217727 (*)
  15    549822930956         67125251      67108863 (*)
  16   4398314962956        268468227      33554431 (*)

  [*] Need to calculate in depth.

Fixes: 1c2d14212b15 ("ext2: Fix underflow in ext2_max_size()")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220212050532.179055-1-yi.zhang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi &lt;yi.zhang@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ext2: Adjust indentation in ext2_fill_super</title>
<updated>2020-02-14T21:31:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nathan Chancellor</name>
<email>natechancellor@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-12-18T03:19:31+00:00</published>
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commit d9e9866803f7b6c3fdd35d345e97fb0b2908bbbc upstream.

Clang warns:

../fs/ext2/super.c:1076:3: warning: misleading indentation; statement is
not part of the previous 'if' [-Wmisleading-indentation]
        sbi-&gt;s_groups_count = ((le32_to_cpu(es-&gt;s_blocks_count) -
        ^
../fs/ext2/super.c:1074:2: note: previous statement is here
        if (EXT2_BLOCKS_PER_GROUP(sb) == 0)
        ^
1 warning generated.

This warning occurs because there is a space before the tab on this
line. Remove it so that the indentation is consistent with the Linux
kernel coding style and clang no longer warns.

Fixes: 41f04d852e35 ("[PATCH] ext2: fix mounts at 16T")
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/827
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191218031930.31393-1-natechancellor@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit d9e9866803f7b6c3fdd35d345e97fb0b2908bbbc upstream.

Clang warns:

../fs/ext2/super.c:1076:3: warning: misleading indentation; statement is
not part of the previous 'if' [-Wmisleading-indentation]
        sbi-&gt;s_groups_count = ((le32_to_cpu(es-&gt;s_blocks_count) -
        ^
../fs/ext2/super.c:1074:2: note: previous statement is here
        if (EXT2_BLOCKS_PER_GROUP(sb) == 0)
        ^
1 warning generated.

This warning occurs because there is a space before the tab on this
line. Remove it so that the indentation is consistent with the Linux
kernel coding style and clang no longer warns.

Fixes: 41f04d852e35 ("[PATCH] ext2: fix mounts at 16T")
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/827
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191218031930.31393-1-natechancellor@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ext2: Fix underflow in ext2_max_size()</title>
<updated>2019-03-23T12:19:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2019-01-29T16:17:24+00:00</published>
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commit 1c2d14212b15a60300a2d4f6364753e87394c521 upstream.

When ext2 filesystem is created with 64k block size, ext2_max_size()
will return value less than 0. Also, we cannot write any file in this fs
since the sb-&gt;maxbytes is less than 0. The core of the problem is that
the size of block index tree for such large block size is more than
i_blocks can carry. So fix the computation to count with this
possibility.

File size limits computed with the new function for the full range of
possible block sizes look like:

bits file_size
10     17247252480
11    275415851008
12   2196873666560
13   2197948973056
14   2198486220800
15   2198754754560
16   2198888906752

CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: yangerkun &lt;yangerkun@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 1c2d14212b15a60300a2d4f6364753e87394c521 upstream.

When ext2 filesystem is created with 64k block size, ext2_max_size()
will return value less than 0. Also, we cannot write any file in this fs
since the sb-&gt;maxbytes is less than 0. The core of the problem is that
the size of block index tree for such large block size is more than
i_blocks can carry. So fix the computation to count with this
possibility.

File size limits computed with the new function for the full range of
possible block sizes look like:

bits file_size
10     17247252480
11    275415851008
12   2196873666560
13   2197948973056
14   2198486220800
15   2198754754560
16   2198888906752

CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: yangerkun &lt;yangerkun@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs: Replace CURRENT_TIME with current_time() for inode timestamps</title>
<updated>2016-09-28T01:06:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Deepa Dinamani</name>
<email>deepa.kernel@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-14T14:48:04+00:00</published>
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CURRENT_TIME macro is not appropriate for filesystems as it
doesn't use the right granularity for filesystem timestamps.
Use current_time() instead.

CURRENT_TIME is also not y2038 safe.

This is also in preparation for the patch that transitions
vfs timestamps to use 64 bit time and hence make them
y2038 safe. As part of the effort current_time() will be
extended to do range checks. Hence, it is necessary for all
file system timestamps to use current_time(). Also,
current_time() will be transitioned along with vfs to be
y2038 safe.

Note that whenever a single call to current_time() is used
to change timestamps in different inodes, it is because they
share the same time granularity.

Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani &lt;deepa.kernel@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Felipe Balbi &lt;balbi@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Steven Whitehouse &lt;swhiteho@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ryusuke Konishi &lt;konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp&gt;
Acked-by: David Sterba &lt;dsterba@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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CURRENT_TIME macro is not appropriate for filesystems as it
doesn't use the right granularity for filesystem timestamps.
Use current_time() instead.

CURRENT_TIME is also not y2038 safe.

This is also in preparation for the patch that transitions
vfs timestamps to use 64 bit time and hence make them
y2038 safe. As part of the effort current_time() will be
extended to do range checks. Hence, it is necessary for all
file system timestamps to use current_time(). Also,
current_time() will be transitioned along with vfs to be
y2038 safe.

Note that whenever a single call to current_time() is used
to change timestamps in different inodes, it is because they
share the same time granularity.

Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani &lt;deepa.kernel@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Felipe Balbi &lt;balbi@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Steven Whitehouse &lt;swhiteho@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ryusuke Konishi &lt;konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp&gt;
Acked-by: David Sterba &lt;dsterba@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ext2: Add alignment check for DAX mount</title>
<updated>2016-05-17T06:44:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Toshi Kani</name>
<email>toshi.kani@hpe.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-10T16:23:55+00:00</published>
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When a partition is not aligned by 4KB, mount -o dax succeeds,
but any read/write access to the filesystem fails, except for
metadata update.

Call bdev_dax_supported() to perform proper precondition checks
which includes this partition alignment check.

Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani &lt;toshi.kani@hpe.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Boaz Harrosh &lt;boaz@plexistor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma &lt;vishal.l.verma@intel.com&gt;
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When a partition is not aligned by 4KB, mount -o dax succeeds,
but any read/write access to the filesystem fails, except for
metadata update.

Call bdev_dax_supported() to perform proper precondition checks
which includes this partition alignment check.

Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani &lt;toshi.kani@hpe.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Boaz Harrosh &lt;boaz@plexistor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma &lt;vishal.l.verma@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ext2: convert to mbcache2</title>
<updated>2016-02-22T16:56:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2016-02-22T16:56:38+00:00</published>
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The conversion is generally straightforward. We convert filesystem from
a global cache to per-fs one. Similarly to ext4 the tricky part is that
xattr block corresponding to found mbcache entry can get freed before we
get buffer lock for that block. So we have to check whether the entry is
still valid after getting the buffer lock.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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The conversion is generally straightforward. We convert filesystem from
a global cache to per-fs one. Similarly to ext4 the tricky part is that
xattr block corresponding to found mbcache entry can get freed before we
get buffer lock for that block. So we have to check whether the entry is
still valid after getting the buffer lock.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kmemcg: account certain kmem allocations to memcg</title>
<updated>2016-01-15T00:00:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vladimir Davydov</name>
<email>vdavydov@virtuozzo.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-14T23:18:21+00:00</published>
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Mark those kmem allocations that are known to be easily triggered from
userspace as __GFP_ACCOUNT/SLAB_ACCOUNT, which makes them accounted to
memcg.  For the list, see below:

 - threadinfo
 - task_struct
 - task_delay_info
 - pid
 - cred
 - mm_struct
 - vm_area_struct and vm_region (nommu)
 - anon_vma and anon_vma_chain
 - signal_struct
 - sighand_struct
 - fs_struct
 - files_struct
 - fdtable and fdtable-&gt;full_fds_bits
 - dentry and external_name
 - inode for all filesystems. This is the most tedious part, because
   most filesystems overwrite the alloc_inode method.

The list is far from complete, so feel free to add more objects.
Nevertheless, it should be close to "account everything" approach and
keep most workloads within bounds.  Malevolent users will be able to
breach the limit, but this was possible even with the former "account
everything" approach (simply because it did not account everything in
fact).

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov &lt;vdavydov@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Greg Thelen &lt;gthelen@google.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Mark those kmem allocations that are known to be easily triggered from
userspace as __GFP_ACCOUNT/SLAB_ACCOUNT, which makes them accounted to
memcg.  For the list, see below:

 - threadinfo
 - task_struct
 - task_delay_info
 - pid
 - cred
 - mm_struct
 - vm_area_struct and vm_region (nommu)
 - anon_vma and anon_vma_chain
 - signal_struct
 - sighand_struct
 - fs_struct
 - files_struct
 - fdtable and fdtable-&gt;full_fds_bits
 - dentry and external_name
 - inode for all filesystems. This is the most tedious part, because
   most filesystems overwrite the alloc_inode method.

The list is far from complete, so feel free to add more objects.
Nevertheless, it should be close to "account everything" approach and
keep most workloads within bounds.  Malevolent users will be able to
breach the limit, but this was possible even with the former "account
everything" approach (simply because it did not account everything in
fact).

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov &lt;vdavydov@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Greg Thelen &lt;gthelen@google.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ext2, ext4: warn when mounting with dax enabled</title>
<updated>2015-11-16T17:43:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-09-29T19:48:11+00:00</published>
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Similar to XFS warn when mounting DAX while it is still considered under
development.  Also, aspects of the DAX implementation, for example
synchronization against multiple faults and faults causing block
allocation, depend on the correct implementation in the filesystem.  The
maturity of a given DAX implementation is filesystem specific.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reported-by: Dave Chinner &lt;david@fromorbit.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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Similar to XFS warn when mounting DAX while it is still considered under
development.  Also, aspects of the DAX implementation, for example
synchronization against multiple faults and faults causing block
allocation, depend on the correct implementation in the filesystem.  The
maturity of a given DAX implementation is filesystem specific.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reported-by: Dave Chinner &lt;david@fromorbit.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ext2: Add locking for DAX faults</title>
<updated>2015-10-19T12:40:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ross Zwisler</name>
<email>ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-13T22:25:37+00:00</published>
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Add locking to ensure that DAX faults are isolated from ext2 operations
that modify the data blocks allocation for an inode.  This is intended to
be analogous to the work being done in XFS by Dave Chinner:

http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-fsdevel/msg90260.html

Compared with XFS the ext2 case is greatly simplified by the fact that ext2
already allocates and zeros new blocks before they are returned as part of
ext2_get_block(), so DAX doesn't need to worry about getting unmapped or
unwritten buffer heads.

This means that the only work we need to do in ext2 is to isolate the DAX
faults from inode block allocation changes.  I believe this just means that
we need to isolate the DAX faults from truncate operations.

The newly introduced dax_sem is intended to replicate the protection
offered by i_mmaplock in XFS.  In addition to truncate the i_mmaplock also
protects XFS operations like hole punching, fallocate down, extent
manipulation IOCTLS like xfs_ioc_space() and extent swapping.  Truncate is
the only one of these operations supported by ext2.

Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.com&gt;
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Add locking to ensure that DAX faults are isolated from ext2 operations
that modify the data blocks allocation for an inode.  This is intended to
be analogous to the work being done in XFS by Dave Chinner:

http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-fsdevel/msg90260.html

Compared with XFS the ext2 case is greatly simplified by the fact that ext2
already allocates and zeros new blocks before they are returned as part of
ext2_get_block(), so DAX doesn't need to worry about getting unmapped or
unwritten buffer heads.

This means that the only work we need to do in ext2 is to isolate the DAX
faults from inode block allocation changes.  I believe this just means that
we need to isolate the DAX faults from truncate operations.

The newly introduced dax_sem is intended to replicate the protection
offered by i_mmaplock in XFS.  In addition to truncate the i_mmaplock also
protects XFS operations like hole punching, fallocate down, extent
manipulation IOCTLS like xfs_ioc_space() and extent swapping.  Truncate is
the only one of these operations supported by ext2.

Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.com&gt;
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<title>vfs, writeback: replace FS_CGROUP_WRITEBACK with SB_I_CGROUPWB</title>
<updated>2015-06-17T18:47:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
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<published>2015-06-16T22:48:31+00:00</published>
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FS_CGROUP_WRITEBACK indicates whether a file_system_type supports
cgroup writeback; however, different super_blocks of the same
file_system_type may or may not support cgroup writeback depending on
filesystem options.  This patch replaces FS_CGROUP_WRITEBACK with a
per-super_block flag.

super_block-&gt;s_flags carries some internal flags in the high bits but
it's exposd to userland through uapi header and running out of space
anyway.  This patch adds a new field super_block-&gt;s_iflags to carry
kernel-internal flags.  It is currently only used by the new
SB_I_CGROUPWB flag whose concatenated and abbreviated name is for
consistency with other super_block flags.

ext2_fill_super() is updated to set SB_I_CGROUPWB.

v2: Added super_block-&gt;s_iflags instead of stealing another high bit
    from sb-&gt;s_flags as suggested by Christoph and Jan.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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FS_CGROUP_WRITEBACK indicates whether a file_system_type supports
cgroup writeback; however, different super_blocks of the same
file_system_type may or may not support cgroup writeback depending on
filesystem options.  This patch replaces FS_CGROUP_WRITEBACK with a
per-super_block flag.

super_block-&gt;s_flags carries some internal flags in the high bits but
it's exposd to userland through uapi header and running out of space
anyway.  This patch adds a new field super_block-&gt;s_iflags to carry
kernel-internal flags.  It is currently only used by the new
SB_I_CGROUPWB flag whose concatenated and abbreviated name is for
consistency with other super_block flags.

ext2_fill_super() is updated to set SB_I_CGROUPWB.

v2: Added super_block-&gt;s_iflags instead of stealing another high bit
    from sb-&gt;s_flags as suggested by Christoph and Jan.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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