Pull inode->i_version cleanup from Jeff Layton:
 "Goffredo went ahead and sent a patch to rename this function, and
  reverse its sense, as we discussed last week.

  The patch is very straightforward and I figure it's probably best to
  go ahead and merge this to get the API as settled as possible"

* tag 'iversion-v4.16-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jlayton/linux:
  iversion: Rename make inode_cmp_iversion{+raw} to inode_eq_iversion{+raw}

Pull libnvdimm updates from Ross Zwisler:

 - Require struct page by default for filesystem DAX to remove a number
   of surprising failure cases. This includes failures with direct I/O,
   gdb and fork(2).

 - Add support for the new Platform Capabilities Structure added to the
   NFIT in ACPI 6.2a. This new table tells us whether the platform
   supports flushing of CPU and memory controller caches on unexpected
   power loss events.

 - Revamp vmem_altmap and dev_pagemap handling to clean up code and
   better support future future PCI P2P uses.

 - Deprecate the ND_IOCTL_SMART_THRESHOLD command whose payload has
   become out-of-sync with recent versions of the NVDIMM_FAMILY_INTEL
   spec, and instead rely on the generic ND_CMD_CALL approach used by
   the two other IOCTL families, NVDIMM_FAMILY_{HPE,MSFT}.

 - Enhance nfit_test so we can test some of the new things added in
   version 1.6 of the DSM specification. This includes testing firmware
   download and simulating the Last Shutdown State (LSS) status.

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (37 commits)
  libnvdimm, namespace: remove redundant initialization of 'nd_mapping'
  acpi, nfit: fix register dimm error handling
  libnvdimm, namespace: make min namespace size 4K
  tools/testing/nvdimm: force nfit_test to depend on instrumented modules
  libnvdimm/nfit_test: adding support for unit testing enable LSS status
  libnvdimm/nfit_test: add firmware download emulation
  nfit-test: Add platform cap support from ACPI 6.2a to test
  libnvdimm: expose platform persistence attribute for nd_region
  acpi: nfit: add persistent memory control flag for nd_region
  acpi: nfit: Add support for detect platform CPU cache flush on power loss
  device-dax: Fix trailing semicolon
  libnvdimm, btt: fix uninitialized err_lock
  dax: require 'struct page' by default for filesystem dax
  ext2: auto disable dax instead of failing mount
  ext4: auto disable dax instead of failing mount
  mm, dax: introduce pfn_t_special()
  mm: Fix devm_memremap_pages() collision handling
  mm: Fix memory size alignment in devm_memremap_pages_release()
  memremap: merge find_dev_pagemap into get_dev_pagemap
  memremap: change devm_memremap_pages interface to use struct dev_pagemap
  ...

Pull fscrypt updates from Ted Ts'o:
 "Refactor support for encrypted symlinks to move common code to fscrypt"

Ted also points out about the merge:
 "This makes the f2fs symlink code use the fscrypt_encrypt_symlink()
  from the fscrypt tree. This will end up dropping the kzalloc() ->
  f2fs_kzalloc() change, which means the fscrypt-specific allocation
  won't get tested by f2fs's kmalloc error injection system; which is
  fine"

* tag 'fscrypt_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/fscrypt: (26 commits)
  fscrypt: fix build with pre-4.6 gcc versions
  fscrypt: remove 'ci' parameter from fscrypt_put_encryption_info()
  fscrypt: document symlink length restriction
  fscrypt: fix up fscrypt_fname_encrypted_size() for internal use
  fscrypt: define fscrypt_fname_alloc_buffer() to be for presented names
  fscrypt: calculate NUL-padding length in one place only
  fscrypt: move fscrypt_symlink_data to fscrypt_private.h
  fscrypt: remove fscrypt_fname_usr_to_disk()
  ubifs: switch to fscrypt_get_symlink()
  ubifs: switch to fscrypt ->symlink() helper functions
  ubifs: free the encrypted symlink target
  f2fs: switch to fscrypt_get_symlink()
  f2fs: switch to fscrypt ->symlink() helper functions
  ext4: switch to fscrypt_get_symlink()
  ext4: switch to fscrypt ->symlink() helper functions
  fscrypt: new helper function - fscrypt_get_symlink()
  fscrypt: new helper functions for ->symlink()
  fscrypt: trim down fscrypt.h includes
  fscrypt: move fscrypt_is_dot_dotdot() to fs/crypto/fname.c
  fscrypt: move fscrypt_valid_enc_modes() to fscrypt_private.h
  ...

Pull hardened usercopy whitelisting from Kees Cook:
 "Currently, hardened usercopy performs dynamic bounds checking on slab
  cache objects. This is good, but still leaves a lot of kernel memory
  available to be copied to/from userspace in the face of bugs.

  To further restrict what memory is available for copying, this creates
  a way to whitelist specific areas of a given slab cache object for
  copying to/from userspace, allowing much finer granularity of access
  control.

  Slab caches that are never exposed to userspace can declare no
  whitelist for their objects, thereby keeping them unavailable to
  userspace via dynamic copy operations. (Note, an implicit form of
  whitelisting is the use of constant sizes in usercopy operations and
  get_user()/put_user(); these bypass all hardened usercopy checks since
  these sizes cannot change at runtime.)

  This new check is WARN-by-default, so any mistakes can be found over
  the next several releases without breaking anyone's system.

  The series has roughly the following sections:
   - remove %p and improve reporting with offset
   - prepare infrastructure and whitelist kmalloc
   - update VFS subsystem with whitelists
   - update SCSI subsystem with whitelists
   - update network subsystem with whitelists
   - update process memory with whitelists
   - update per-architecture thread_struct with whitelists
   - update KVM with whitelists and fix ioctl bug
   - mark all other allocations as not whitelisted
   - update lkdtm for more sensible test overage"

* tag 'usercopy-v4.16-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux: (38 commits)
  lkdtm: Update usercopy tests for whitelisting
  usercopy: Restrict non-usercopy caches to size 0
  kvm: x86: fix KVM_XEN_HVM_CONFIG ioctl
  kvm: whitelist struct kvm_vcpu_arch
  arm: Implement thread_struct whitelist for hardened usercopy
  arm64: Implement thread_struct whitelist for hardened usercopy
  x86: Implement thread_struct whitelist for hardened usercopy
  fork: Provide usercopy whitelisting for task_struct
  fork: Define usercopy region in thread_stack slab caches
  fork: Define usercopy region in mm_struct slab caches
  net: Restrict unwhitelisted proto caches to size 0
  sctp: Copy struct sctp_sock.autoclose to userspace using put_user()
  sctp: Define usercopy region in SCTP proto slab cache
  caif: Define usercopy region in caif proto slab cache
  ip: Define usercopy region in IP proto slab cache
  net: Define usercopy region in struct proto slab cache
  scsi: Define usercopy region in scsi_sense_cache slab cache
  cifs: Define usercopy region in cifs_request slab cache
  vxfs: Define usercopy region in vxfs_inode slab cache
  ufs: Define usercopy region in ufs_inode_cache slab cache
  ...

Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:
 "Only miscellaneous cleanups and bug fixes for ext4 this cycle"

* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4:
  ext4: create ext4_kset dynamically
  ext4: create ext4_feat kobject dynamically
  ext4: release kobject/kset even when init/register fail
  ext4: fix incorrect indentation of if statement
  ext4: correct documentation for grpid mount option
  ext4: use 'sbi' instead of 'EXT4_SB(sb)'
  ext4: save error to disk in __ext4_grp_locked_error()
  jbd2: fix sphinx kernel-doc build warnings
  ext4: fix a race in the ext4 shutdown path
  mbcache: make sure c_entry_count is not decremented past zero
  ext4: no need flush workqueue before destroying it
  ext4: fixed alignment and minor code cleanup in ext4.h
  ext4: fix ENOSPC handling in DAX page fault handler
  dax: pass detailed error code from dax_iomap_fault()
  mbcache: revert "fs/mbcache.c: make count_objects() more robust"
  mbcache: initialize entry->e_referenced in mb_cache_entry_create()
  ext4: fix up remaining files with SPDX cleanups

The function inode_cmp_iversion{+raw} is counter-intuitive, because it
returns true when the counters are different and false when these are equal.

Rename it to inode_eq_iversion{+raw}, which will returns true when
the counters are equal and false otherwise.

Signed-off-by: Goffredo Baroncelli <kreijack@inwind.it>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "Documentation updates for 4.16.

  New stuff includes refcount_t documentation, errseq documentation,
  kernel-doc support for nested structure definitions, the removal of
  lots of crufty kernel-doc support for unused formats, SPDX tag
  documentation, the beginnings of a manual for subsystem maintainers,
  and lots of fixes and updates.

  As usual, some of the changesets reach outside of Documentation/ to
  effect kerneldoc comment fixes. It also adds the new LICENSES
  directory, of which Thomas promises I do not need to be the
  maintainer"

* tag 'docs-4.16' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (65 commits)
  linux-next: docs-rst: Fix typos in kfigure.py
  linux-next: DOC: HWPOISON: Fix path to debugfs in hwpoison.txt
  Documentation: Fix misconversion of #if
  docs: add index entry for networking/msg_zerocopy
  Documentation: security/credentials.rst: explain need to sort group_list
  LICENSES: Add MPL-1.1 license
  LICENSES: Add the GPL 1.0 license
  LICENSES: Add Linux syscall note exception
  LICENSES: Add the MIT license
  LICENSES: Add the BSD-3-clause "Clear" license
  LICENSES: Add the BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
  LICENSES: Add the BSD 2-clause "Simplified" license
  LICENSES: Add the LGPL-2.1 license
  LICENSES: Add the LGPL 2.0 license
  LICENSES: Add the GPL 2.0 license
  Documentation: Add license-rules.rst to describe how to properly identify file licenses
  scripts: kernel_doc: better handle show warnings logic
  fs/*/Kconfig: drop links to 404-compliant http://acl.bestbits.at
  doc: md: Fix a file name to md-fault.c in fault-injection.txt
  errseq: Add to documentation tree
  ...

Pull inode->i_version rework from Jeff Layton:
 "This pile of patches is a rework of the inode->i_version field. We
  have traditionally incremented that field on every inode data or
  metadata change. Typically this increment needs to be logged on disk
  even when nothing else has changed, which is rather expensive.

  It turns out though that none of the consumers of that field actually
  require this behavior. The only real requirement for all of them is
  that it be different iff the inode has changed since the last time the
  field was checked.

  Given that, we can optimize away most of the i_version increments and
  avoid dirtying inode metadata when the only change is to the i_version
  and no one is querying it. Queries of the i_version field are rather
  rare, so we can help write performance under many common workloads.

  This patch series converts existing accesses of the i_version field to
  a new API, and then converts all of the in-kernel filesystems to use
  it. The last patch in the series then converts the backend
  implementation to a scheme that optimizes away a large portion of the
  metadata updates when no one is looking at it.

  In my own testing this series significantly helps performance with
  small I/O sizes. I also got this email for Christmas this year from
  the kernel test robot (a 244% r/w bandwidth improvement with XFS over
  DAX, with 4k writes):

    https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/12/25/8

  A few of the earlier patches in this pile are also flowing to you via
  other trees (mm, integrity, and nfsd trees in particular)".

* tag 'iversion-v4.16-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jlayton/linux: (22 commits)
  fs: handle inode->i_version more efficiently
  btrfs: only dirty the inode in btrfs_update_time if something was changed
  xfs: avoid setting XFS_ILOG_CORE if i_version doesn't need incrementing
  fs: only set S_VERSION when updating times if necessary
  IMA: switch IMA over to new i_version API
  xfs: convert to new i_version API
  ufs: use new i_version API
  ocfs2: convert to new i_version API
  nfsd: convert to new i_version API
  nfs: convert to new i_version API
  ext4: convert to new i_version API
  ext2: convert to new i_version API
  exofs: switch to new i_version API
  btrfs: convert to new i_version API
  afs: convert to new i_version API
  affs: convert to new i_version API
  fat: convert to new i_version API
  fs: don't take the i_lock in inode_inc_iversion
  fs: new API for handling inode->i_version
  ntfs: remove i_version handling
  ...

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>

Add a documentation blob that explains what the i_version field is, how
it is expected to work, and how it is currently implemented by various
filesystems.

We already have inode_inc_iversion. Add several other functions for
manipulating and accessing the i_version counter. For now, the
implementation is trivial and basically works the way that all of the
open-coded i_version accesses work today.

Future patches will convert existing users of i_version to use the new
API, and then convert the backend implementation to do things more
efficiently.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>