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<title>treewide: const qualify ctl_tables where applicable</title>
<updated>2025-01-28T12:48:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joel Granados</name>
<email>joel.granados@kernel.org</email>
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<published>2025-01-28T12:48:37+00:00</published>
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Add the const qualifier to all the ctl_tables in the tree except for
watchdog_hardlockup_sysctl, memory_allocation_profiling_sysctls,
loadpin_sysctl_table and the ones calling register_net_sysctl (./net,
drivers/inifiniband dirs). These are special cases as they use a
registration function with a non-const qualified ctl_table argument or
modify the arrays before passing them on to the registration function.

Constifying ctl_table structs will prevent the modification of
proc_handler function pointers as the arrays would reside in .rodata.
This is made possible after commit 78eb4ea25cd5 ("sysctl: treewide:
constify the ctl_table argument of proc_handlers") constified all the
proc_handlers.

Created this by running an spatch followed by a sed command:
Spatch:
    virtual patch

    @
    depends on !(file in "net")
    disable optional_qualifier
    @

    identifier table_name != {
      watchdog_hardlockup_sysctl,
      iwcm_ctl_table,
      ucma_ctl_table,
      memory_allocation_profiling_sysctls,
      loadpin_sysctl_table
    };
    @@

    + const
    struct ctl_table table_name [] = { ... };

sed:
    sed --in-place \
      -e "s/struct ctl_table .table = &amp;uts_kern/const struct ctl_table *table = \&amp;uts_kern/" \
      kernel/utsname_sysctl.c

Reviewed-by: Song Liu &lt;song@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt; # for kernel/trace/
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt; # SCSI
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt; # xfs
Acked-by: Jani Nikula &lt;jani.nikula@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Corey Minyard &lt;cminyard@mvista.com&gt;
Acked-by: Wei Liu &lt;wei.liu@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Bill O'Donnell &lt;bodonnel@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Baoquan He &lt;bhe@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ashutosh Dixit &lt;ashutosh.dixit@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Anna Schumaker &lt;anna.schumaker@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados &lt;joel.granados@kernel.org&gt;
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Add the const qualifier to all the ctl_tables in the tree except for
watchdog_hardlockup_sysctl, memory_allocation_profiling_sysctls,
loadpin_sysctl_table and the ones calling register_net_sysctl (./net,
drivers/inifiniband dirs). These are special cases as they use a
registration function with a non-const qualified ctl_table argument or
modify the arrays before passing them on to the registration function.

Constifying ctl_table structs will prevent the modification of
proc_handler function pointers as the arrays would reside in .rodata.
This is made possible after commit 78eb4ea25cd5 ("sysctl: treewide:
constify the ctl_table argument of proc_handlers") constified all the
proc_handlers.

Created this by running an spatch followed by a sed command:
Spatch:
    virtual patch

    @
    depends on !(file in "net")
    disable optional_qualifier
    @

    identifier table_name != {
      watchdog_hardlockup_sysctl,
      iwcm_ctl_table,
      ucma_ctl_table,
      memory_allocation_profiling_sysctls,
      loadpin_sysctl_table
    };
    @@

    + const
    struct ctl_table table_name [] = { ... };

sed:
    sed --in-place \
      -e "s/struct ctl_table .table = &amp;uts_kern/const struct ctl_table *table = \&amp;uts_kern/" \
      kernel/utsname_sysctl.c

Reviewed-by: Song Liu &lt;song@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt; # for kernel/trace/
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt; # SCSI
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt; # xfs
Acked-by: Jani Nikula &lt;jani.nikula@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Corey Minyard &lt;cminyard@mvista.com&gt;
Acked-by: Wei Liu &lt;wei.liu@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Bill O'Donnell &lt;bodonnel@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Baoquan He &lt;bhe@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ashutosh Dixit &lt;ashutosh.dixit@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Anna Schumaker &lt;anna.schumaker@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados &lt;joel.granados@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-stable-2024-11-18-19-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2024-11-23T17:58:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-23T17:58:07+00:00</published>
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - The series "zram: optimal post-processing target selection" from
   Sergey Senozhatsky improves zram's post-processing selection
   algorithm. This leads to improved memory savings.

 - Wei Yang has gone to town on the mapletree code, contributing several
   series which clean up the implementation:
	- "refine mas_mab_cp()"
	- "Reduce the space to be cleared for maple_big_node"
	- "maple_tree: simplify mas_push_node()"
	- "Following cleanup after introduce mas_wr_store_type()"
	- "refine storing null"

 - The series "selftests/mm: hugetlb_fault_after_madv improvements" from
   David Hildenbrand fixes this selftest for s390.

 - The series "introduce pte_offset_map_{ro|rw}_nolock()" from Qi Zheng
   implements some rationaizations and cleanups in the page mapping
   code.

 - The series "mm: optimize shadow entries removal" from Shakeel Butt
   optimizes the file truncation code by speeding up the handling of
   shadow entries.

 - The series "Remove PageKsm()" from Matthew Wilcox completes the
   migration of this flag over to being a folio-based flag.

 - The series "Unify hugetlb into arch_get_unmapped_area functions" from
   Oscar Salvador implements a bunch of consolidations and cleanups in
   the hugetlb code.

 - The series "Do not shatter hugezeropage on wp-fault" from Dev Jain
   takes away the wp-fault time practice of turning a huge zero page
   into small pages. Instead we replace the whole thing with a THP. More
   consistent cleaner and potentiall saves a large number of pagefaults.

 - The series "percpu: Add a test case and fix for clang" from Andy
   Shevchenko enhances and fixes the kernel's built in percpu test code.

 - The series "mm/mremap: Remove extra vma tree walk" from Liam Howlett
   optimizes mremap() by avoiding doing things which we didn't need to
   do.

 - The series "Improve the tmpfs large folio read performance" from
   Baolin Wang teaches tmpfs to copy data into userspace at the folio
   size rather than as individual pages. A 20% speedup was observed.

 - The series "mm/damon/vaddr: Fix issue in
   damon_va_evenly_split_region()" fro Zheng Yejian fixes DAMON
   splitting.

 - The series "memcg-v1: fully deprecate charge moving" from Shakeel
   Butt removes the long-deprecated memcgv2 charge moving feature.

 - The series "fix error handling in mmap_region() and refactor" from
   Lorenzo Stoakes cleanup up some of the mmap() error handling and
   addresses some potential performance issues.

 - The series "x86/module: use large ROX pages for text allocations"
   from Mike Rapoport teaches x86 to use large pages for
   read-only-execute module text.

 - The series "page allocation tag compression" from Suren Baghdasaryan
   is followon maintenance work for the new page allocation profiling
   feature.

 - The series "page-&gt;index removals in mm" from Matthew Wilcox remove
   most references to page-&gt;index in mm/. A slow march towards shrinking
   struct page.

 - The series "damon/{self,kunit}tests: minor fixups for DAMON debugfs
   interface tests" from Andrew Paniakin performs maintenance work for
   DAMON's self testing code.

 - The series "mm: zswap swap-out of large folios" from Kanchana Sridhar
   improves zswap's batching of compression and decompression. It is a
   step along the way towards using Intel IAA hardware acceleration for
   this zswap operation.

 - The series "kasan: migrate the last module test to kunit" from
   Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov completes the migration of the KASAN built-in
   tests over to the KUnit framework.

 - The series "implement lightweight guard pages" from Lorenzo Stoakes
   permits userapace to place fault-generating guard pages within a
   single VMA, rather than requiring that multiple VMAs be created for
   this. Improved efficiencies for userspace memory allocators are
   expected.

 - The series "memcg: tracepoint for flushing stats" from JP Kobryn uses
   tracepoints to provide increased visibility into memcg stats flushing
   activity.

 - The series "zram: IDLE flag handling fixes" from Sergey Senozhatsky
   fixes a zram buglet which potentially affected performance.

 - The series "mm: add more kernel parameters to control mTHP" from
   Maíra Canal enhances our ability to control/configuremultisize THP
   from the kernel boot command line.

 - The series "kasan: few improvements on kunit tests" from Sabyrzhan
   Tasbolatov has a couple of fixups for the KASAN KUnit tests.

 - The series "mm/list_lru: Split list_lru lock into per-cgroup scope"
   from Kairui Song optimizes list_lru memory utilization when lockdep
   is enabled.

* tag 'mm-stable-2024-11-18-19-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (215 commits)
  cma: enforce non-zero pageblock_order during cma_init_reserved_mem()
  mm/kfence: add a new kunit test test_use_after_free_read_nofault()
  zram: fix NULL pointer in comp_algorithm_show()
  memcg/hugetlb: add hugeTLB counters to memcg
  vmstat: call fold_vm_zone_numa_events() before show per zone NUMA event
  mm: mmap_lock: check trace_mmap_lock_$type_enabled() instead of regcount
  zram: ZRAM_DEF_COMP should depend on ZRAM
  MAINTAINERS/MEMORY MANAGEMENT: add document files for mm
  Docs/mm/damon: recommend academic papers to read and/or cite
  mm: define general function pXd_init()
  kmemleak: iommu/iova: fix transient kmemleak false positive
  mm/list_lru: simplify the list_lru walk callback function
  mm/list_lru: split the lock to per-cgroup scope
  mm/list_lru: simplify reparenting and initial allocation
  mm/list_lru: code clean up for reparenting
  mm/list_lru: don't export list_lru_add
  mm/list_lru: don't pass unnecessary key parameters
  kasan: add kunit tests for kmalloc_track_caller, kmalloc_node_track_caller
  kasan: change kasan_atomics kunit test as KUNIT_CASE_SLOW
  kasan: use EXPORT_SYMBOL_IF_KUNIT to export symbols
  ...
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - The series "zram: optimal post-processing target selection" from
   Sergey Senozhatsky improves zram's post-processing selection
   algorithm. This leads to improved memory savings.

 - Wei Yang has gone to town on the mapletree code, contributing several
   series which clean up the implementation:
	- "refine mas_mab_cp()"
	- "Reduce the space to be cleared for maple_big_node"
	- "maple_tree: simplify mas_push_node()"
	- "Following cleanup after introduce mas_wr_store_type()"
	- "refine storing null"

 - The series "selftests/mm: hugetlb_fault_after_madv improvements" from
   David Hildenbrand fixes this selftest for s390.

 - The series "introduce pte_offset_map_{ro|rw}_nolock()" from Qi Zheng
   implements some rationaizations and cleanups in the page mapping
   code.

 - The series "mm: optimize shadow entries removal" from Shakeel Butt
   optimizes the file truncation code by speeding up the handling of
   shadow entries.

 - The series "Remove PageKsm()" from Matthew Wilcox completes the
   migration of this flag over to being a folio-based flag.

 - The series "Unify hugetlb into arch_get_unmapped_area functions" from
   Oscar Salvador implements a bunch of consolidations and cleanups in
   the hugetlb code.

 - The series "Do not shatter hugezeropage on wp-fault" from Dev Jain
   takes away the wp-fault time practice of turning a huge zero page
   into small pages. Instead we replace the whole thing with a THP. More
   consistent cleaner and potentiall saves a large number of pagefaults.

 - The series "percpu: Add a test case and fix for clang" from Andy
   Shevchenko enhances and fixes the kernel's built in percpu test code.

 - The series "mm/mremap: Remove extra vma tree walk" from Liam Howlett
   optimizes mremap() by avoiding doing things which we didn't need to
   do.

 - The series "Improve the tmpfs large folio read performance" from
   Baolin Wang teaches tmpfs to copy data into userspace at the folio
   size rather than as individual pages. A 20% speedup was observed.

 - The series "mm/damon/vaddr: Fix issue in
   damon_va_evenly_split_region()" fro Zheng Yejian fixes DAMON
   splitting.

 - The series "memcg-v1: fully deprecate charge moving" from Shakeel
   Butt removes the long-deprecated memcgv2 charge moving feature.

 - The series "fix error handling in mmap_region() and refactor" from
   Lorenzo Stoakes cleanup up some of the mmap() error handling and
   addresses some potential performance issues.

 - The series "x86/module: use large ROX pages for text allocations"
   from Mike Rapoport teaches x86 to use large pages for
   read-only-execute module text.

 - The series "page allocation tag compression" from Suren Baghdasaryan
   is followon maintenance work for the new page allocation profiling
   feature.

 - The series "page-&gt;index removals in mm" from Matthew Wilcox remove
   most references to page-&gt;index in mm/. A slow march towards shrinking
   struct page.

 - The series "damon/{self,kunit}tests: minor fixups for DAMON debugfs
   interface tests" from Andrew Paniakin performs maintenance work for
   DAMON's self testing code.

 - The series "mm: zswap swap-out of large folios" from Kanchana Sridhar
   improves zswap's batching of compression and decompression. It is a
   step along the way towards using Intel IAA hardware acceleration for
   this zswap operation.

 - The series "kasan: migrate the last module test to kunit" from
   Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov completes the migration of the KASAN built-in
   tests over to the KUnit framework.

 - The series "implement lightweight guard pages" from Lorenzo Stoakes
   permits userapace to place fault-generating guard pages within a
   single VMA, rather than requiring that multiple VMAs be created for
   this. Improved efficiencies for userspace memory allocators are
   expected.

 - The series "memcg: tracepoint for flushing stats" from JP Kobryn uses
   tracepoints to provide increased visibility into memcg stats flushing
   activity.

 - The series "zram: IDLE flag handling fixes" from Sergey Senozhatsky
   fixes a zram buglet which potentially affected performance.

 - The series "mm: add more kernel parameters to control mTHP" from
   Maíra Canal enhances our ability to control/configuremultisize THP
   from the kernel boot command line.

 - The series "kasan: few improvements on kunit tests" from Sabyrzhan
   Tasbolatov has a couple of fixups for the KASAN KUnit tests.

 - The series "mm/list_lru: Split list_lru lock into per-cgroup scope"
   from Kairui Song optimizes list_lru memory utilization when lockdep
   is enabled.

* tag 'mm-stable-2024-11-18-19-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (215 commits)
  cma: enforce non-zero pageblock_order during cma_init_reserved_mem()
  mm/kfence: add a new kunit test test_use_after_free_read_nofault()
  zram: fix NULL pointer in comp_algorithm_show()
  memcg/hugetlb: add hugeTLB counters to memcg
  vmstat: call fold_vm_zone_numa_events() before show per zone NUMA event
  mm: mmap_lock: check trace_mmap_lock_$type_enabled() instead of regcount
  zram: ZRAM_DEF_COMP should depend on ZRAM
  MAINTAINERS/MEMORY MANAGEMENT: add document files for mm
  Docs/mm/damon: recommend academic papers to read and/or cite
  mm: define general function pXd_init()
  kmemleak: iommu/iova: fix transient kmemleak false positive
  mm/list_lru: simplify the list_lru walk callback function
  mm/list_lru: split the lock to per-cgroup scope
  mm/list_lru: simplify reparenting and initial allocation
  mm/list_lru: code clean up for reparenting
  mm/list_lru: don't export list_lru_add
  mm/list_lru: don't pass unnecessary key parameters
  kasan: add kunit tests for kmalloc_track_caller, kmalloc_node_track_caller
  kasan: change kasan_atomics kunit test as KUNIT_CASE_SLOW
  kasan: use EXPORT_SYMBOL_IF_KUNIT to export symbols
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'vfs-6.13.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs</title>
<updated>2024-11-18T17:35:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-18T17:35:30+00:00</published>
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Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner:
 "Features:

   - Fixup and improve NLM and kNFSD file lock callbacks

     Last year both GFS2 and OCFS2 had some work done to make their
     locking more robust when exported over NFS. Unfortunately, part of
     that work caused both NLM (for NFS v3 exports) and kNFSD (for
     NFSv4.1+ exports) to no longer send lock notifications to clients

     This in itself is not a huge problem because most NFS clients will
     still poll the server in order to acquire a conflicted lock

     It's important for NLM and kNFSD that they do not block their
     kernel threads inside filesystem's file_lock implementations
     because that can produce deadlocks. We used to make sure of this by
     only trusting that posix_lock_file() can correctly handle blocking
     lock calls asynchronously, so the lock managers would only setup
     their file_lock requests for async callbacks if the filesystem did
     not define its own lock() file operation

     However, when GFS2 and OCFS2 grew the capability to correctly
     handle blocking lock requests asynchronously, they started
     signalling this behavior with EXPORT_OP_ASYNC_LOCK, and the check
     for also trusting posix_lock_file() was inadvertently dropped, so
     now most filesystems no longer produce lock notifications when
     exported over NFS

     Fix this by using an fop_flag which greatly simplifies the problem
     and grooms the way for future uses by both filesystems and lock
     managers alike

   - Add a sysctl to delete the dentry when a file is removed instead of
     making it a negative dentry

     Commit 681ce8623567 ("vfs: Delete the associated dentry when
     deleting a file") introduced an unconditional deletion of the
     associated dentry when a file is removed. However, this led to
     performance regressions in specific benchmarks, such as
     ilebench.sum_operations/s, prompting a revert in commit
     4a4be1ad3a6e ("Revert "vfs: Delete the associated dentry when
     deleting a file""). This reintroduces the concept conditionally
     through a sysctl

   - Expand the statmount() system call:

       * Report the filesystem subtype in a new fs_subtype field to
         e.g., report fuse filesystem subtypes

       * Report the superblock source in a new sb_source field

       * Add a new way to return filesystem specific mount options in an
         option array that returns filesystem specific mount options
         separated by zero bytes and unescaped. This allows caller's to
         retrieve filesystem specific mount options and immediately pass
         them to e.g., fsconfig() without having to unescape or split
         them

       * Report security (LSM) specific mount options in a separate
         security option array. We don't lump them together with
         filesystem specific mount options as security mount options are
         generic and most users aren't interested in them

         The format is the same as for the filesystem specific mount
         option array

   - Support relative paths in fsconfig()'s FSCONFIG_SET_STRING command

   - Optimize acl_permission_check() to avoid costly {g,u}id ownership
     checks if possible

   - Use smp_mb__after_spinlock() to avoid full smp_mb() in evict()

   - Add synchronous wakeup support for ep_poll_callback.

     Currently, epoll only uses wake_up() to wake up task. But sometimes
     there are epoll users which want to use the synchronous wakeup flag
     to give a hint to the scheduler, e.g., the Android binder driver.
     So add a wake_up_sync() define, and use wake_up_sync() when sync is
     true in ep_poll_callback()

  Fixes:

   - Fix kernel documentation for inode_insert5() and iget5_locked()

   - Annotate racy epoll check on file-&gt;f_ep

   - Make F_DUPFD_QUERY associative

   - Avoid filename buffer overrun in initramfs

   - Don't let statmount() return empty strings

   - Add a cond_resched() to dump_user_range() to avoid hogging the CPU

   - Don't query the device logical blocksize multiple times for hfsplus

   - Make filemap_read() check that the offset is positive or zero

  Cleanups:

   - Various typo fixes

   - Cleanup wbc_attach_fdatawrite_inode()

   - Add __releases annotation to wbc_attach_and_unlock_inode()

   - Add hugetlbfs tracepoints

   - Fix various vfs kernel doc parameters

   - Remove obsolete TODO comment from io_cancel()

   - Convert wbc_account_cgroup_owner() to take a folio

   - Fix comments for BANDWITH_INTERVAL and wb_domain_writeout_add()

   - Reorder struct posix_acl to save 8 bytes

   - Annotate struct posix_acl with __counted_by()

   - Replace one-element array with flexible array member in freevxfs

   - Use idiomatic atomic64_inc_return() in alloc_mnt_ns()"

* tag 'vfs-6.13.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (35 commits)
  statmount: retrieve security mount options
  vfs: make evict() use smp_mb__after_spinlock instead of smp_mb
  statmount: add flag to retrieve unescaped options
  fs: add the ability for statmount() to report the sb_source
  writeback: wbc_attach_fdatawrite_inode out of line
  writeback: add a __releases annoation to wbc_attach_and_unlock_inode
  fs: add the ability for statmount() to report the fs_subtype
  fs: don't let statmount return empty strings
  fs:aio: Remove TODO comment suggesting hash or array usage in io_cancel()
  hfsplus: don't query the device logical block size multiple times
  freevxfs: Replace one-element array with flexible array member
  fs: optimize acl_permission_check()
  initramfs: avoid filename buffer overrun
  fs/writeback: convert wbc_account_cgroup_owner to take a folio
  acl: Annotate struct posix_acl with __counted_by()
  acl: Realign struct posix_acl to save 8 bytes
  epoll: Add synchronous wakeup support for ep_poll_callback
  coredump: add cond_resched() to dump_user_range
  mm/page-writeback.c: Fix comment of wb_domain_writeout_add()
  mm/page-writeback.c: Update comment for BANDWIDTH_INTERVAL
  ...
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Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner:
 "Features:

   - Fixup and improve NLM and kNFSD file lock callbacks

     Last year both GFS2 and OCFS2 had some work done to make their
     locking more robust when exported over NFS. Unfortunately, part of
     that work caused both NLM (for NFS v3 exports) and kNFSD (for
     NFSv4.1+ exports) to no longer send lock notifications to clients

     This in itself is not a huge problem because most NFS clients will
     still poll the server in order to acquire a conflicted lock

     It's important for NLM and kNFSD that they do not block their
     kernel threads inside filesystem's file_lock implementations
     because that can produce deadlocks. We used to make sure of this by
     only trusting that posix_lock_file() can correctly handle blocking
     lock calls asynchronously, so the lock managers would only setup
     their file_lock requests for async callbacks if the filesystem did
     not define its own lock() file operation

     However, when GFS2 and OCFS2 grew the capability to correctly
     handle blocking lock requests asynchronously, they started
     signalling this behavior with EXPORT_OP_ASYNC_LOCK, and the check
     for also trusting posix_lock_file() was inadvertently dropped, so
     now most filesystems no longer produce lock notifications when
     exported over NFS

     Fix this by using an fop_flag which greatly simplifies the problem
     and grooms the way for future uses by both filesystems and lock
     managers alike

   - Add a sysctl to delete the dentry when a file is removed instead of
     making it a negative dentry

     Commit 681ce8623567 ("vfs: Delete the associated dentry when
     deleting a file") introduced an unconditional deletion of the
     associated dentry when a file is removed. However, this led to
     performance regressions in specific benchmarks, such as
     ilebench.sum_operations/s, prompting a revert in commit
     4a4be1ad3a6e ("Revert "vfs: Delete the associated dentry when
     deleting a file""). This reintroduces the concept conditionally
     through a sysctl

   - Expand the statmount() system call:

       * Report the filesystem subtype in a new fs_subtype field to
         e.g., report fuse filesystem subtypes

       * Report the superblock source in a new sb_source field

       * Add a new way to return filesystem specific mount options in an
         option array that returns filesystem specific mount options
         separated by zero bytes and unescaped. This allows caller's to
         retrieve filesystem specific mount options and immediately pass
         them to e.g., fsconfig() without having to unescape or split
         them

       * Report security (LSM) specific mount options in a separate
         security option array. We don't lump them together with
         filesystem specific mount options as security mount options are
         generic and most users aren't interested in them

         The format is the same as for the filesystem specific mount
         option array

   - Support relative paths in fsconfig()'s FSCONFIG_SET_STRING command

   - Optimize acl_permission_check() to avoid costly {g,u}id ownership
     checks if possible

   - Use smp_mb__after_spinlock() to avoid full smp_mb() in evict()

   - Add synchronous wakeup support for ep_poll_callback.

     Currently, epoll only uses wake_up() to wake up task. But sometimes
     there are epoll users which want to use the synchronous wakeup flag
     to give a hint to the scheduler, e.g., the Android binder driver.
     So add a wake_up_sync() define, and use wake_up_sync() when sync is
     true in ep_poll_callback()

  Fixes:

   - Fix kernel documentation for inode_insert5() and iget5_locked()

   - Annotate racy epoll check on file-&gt;f_ep

   - Make F_DUPFD_QUERY associative

   - Avoid filename buffer overrun in initramfs

   - Don't let statmount() return empty strings

   - Add a cond_resched() to dump_user_range() to avoid hogging the CPU

   - Don't query the device logical blocksize multiple times for hfsplus

   - Make filemap_read() check that the offset is positive or zero

  Cleanups:

   - Various typo fixes

   - Cleanup wbc_attach_fdatawrite_inode()

   - Add __releases annotation to wbc_attach_and_unlock_inode()

   - Add hugetlbfs tracepoints

   - Fix various vfs kernel doc parameters

   - Remove obsolete TODO comment from io_cancel()

   - Convert wbc_account_cgroup_owner() to take a folio

   - Fix comments for BANDWITH_INTERVAL and wb_domain_writeout_add()

   - Reorder struct posix_acl to save 8 bytes

   - Annotate struct posix_acl with __counted_by()

   - Replace one-element array with flexible array member in freevxfs

   - Use idiomatic atomic64_inc_return() in alloc_mnt_ns()"

* tag 'vfs-6.13.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (35 commits)
  statmount: retrieve security mount options
  vfs: make evict() use smp_mb__after_spinlock instead of smp_mb
  statmount: add flag to retrieve unescaped options
  fs: add the ability for statmount() to report the sb_source
  writeback: wbc_attach_fdatawrite_inode out of line
  writeback: add a __releases annoation to wbc_attach_and_unlock_inode
  fs: add the ability for statmount() to report the fs_subtype
  fs: don't let statmount return empty strings
  fs:aio: Remove TODO comment suggesting hash or array usage in io_cancel()
  hfsplus: don't query the device logical block size multiple times
  freevxfs: Replace one-element array with flexible array member
  fs: optimize acl_permission_check()
  initramfs: avoid filename buffer overrun
  fs/writeback: convert wbc_account_cgroup_owner to take a folio
  acl: Annotate struct posix_acl with __counted_by()
  acl: Realign struct posix_acl to save 8 bytes
  epoll: Add synchronous wakeup support for ep_poll_callback
  coredump: add cond_resched() to dump_user_range
  mm/page-writeback.c: Fix comment of wb_domain_writeout_add()
  mm/page-writeback.c: Update comment for BANDWIDTH_INTERVAL
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'vfs-6.13.mgtime' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs</title>
<updated>2024-11-18T17:15:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-18T17:15:39+00:00</published>
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Pull vfs multigrain timestamps from Christian Brauner:
 "This is another try at implementing multigrain timestamps. This time
  with significant help from the timekeeping maintainers to reduce the
  performance impact.

  Thomas provided a base branch that contains the required timekeeping
  interfaces for the VFS. It serves as the base for the multi-grain
  timestamp work:

   - Multigrain timestamps allow the kernel to use fine-grained
     timestamps when an inode's attributes is being actively observed
     via -&gt;getattr(). With this support, it's possible for a file to get
     a fine-grained timestamp, and another modified after it to get a
     coarse-grained stamp that is earlier than the fine-grained time. If
     this happens then the files can appear to have been modified in
     reverse order, which breaks VFS ordering guarantees.

     To prevent this, a floor value is maintained for multigrain
     timestamps. Whenever a fine-grained timestamp is handed out, record
     it, and when later coarse-grained stamps are handed out, ensure
     they are not earlier than that value. If the coarse-grained
     timestamp is earlier than the fine-grained floor, return the floor
     value instead.

     The timekeeper changes add a static singleton atomic64_t into
     timekeeper.c that is used to keep track of the latest fine-grained
     time ever handed out. This is tracked as a monotonic ktime_t value
     to ensure that it isn't affected by clock jumps. Because it is
     updated at different times than the rest of the timekeeper object,
     the floor value is managed independently of the timekeeper via a
     cmpxchg() operation, and sits on its own cacheline.

     Two new public timekeeper interfaces are added:

      (1) ktime_get_coarse_real_ts64_mg() fills a timespec64 with the
          later of the coarse-grained clock and the floor time

      (2) ktime_get_real_ts64_mg() gets the fine-grained clock value,
          and tries to swap it into the floor. A timespec64 is filled
          with the result.

   - The VFS has always used coarse-grained timestamps when updating the
     ctime and mtime after a change. This has the benefit of allowing
     filesystems to optimize away a lot metadata updates, down to around
     1 per jiffy, even when a file is under heavy writes.

     Unfortunately, this has always been an issue when we're exporting
     via NFSv3, which relies on timestamps to validate caches. A lot of
     changes can happen in a jiffy, so timestamps aren't sufficient to
     help the client decide when to invalidate the cache. Even with
     NFSv4, a lot of exported filesystems don't properly support a
     change attribute and are subject to the same problems with
     timestamp granularity. Other applications have similar issues with
     timestamps (e.g backup applications).

     If we were to always use fine-grained timestamps, that would
     improve the situation, but that becomes rather expensive, as the
     underlying filesystem would have to log a lot more metadata
     updates.

     This adds a way to only use fine-grained timestamps when they are
     being actively queried. Use the (unused) top bit in
     inode-&gt;i_ctime_nsec as a flag that indicates whether the current
     timestamps have been queried via stat() or the like. When it's set,
     we allow the kernel to use a fine-grained timestamp iff it's
     necessary to make the ctime show a different value.

     This solves the problem of being able to distinguish the timestamp
     between updates, but introduces a new problem: it's now possible
     for a file being changed to get a fine-grained timestamp. A file
     that is altered just a bit later can then get a coarse-grained one
     that appears older than the earlier fine-grained time. This
     violates timestamp ordering guarantees.

     This is where the earlier mentioned timkeeping interfaces help. A
     global monotonic atomic64_t value is kept that acts as a timestamp
     floor. When we go to stamp a file, we first get the latter of the
     current floor value and the current coarse-grained time. If the
     inode ctime hasn't been queried then we just attempt to stamp it
     with that value.

     If it has been queried, then first see whether the current coarse
     time is later than the existing ctime. If it is, then we accept
     that value. If it isn't, then we get a fine-grained time and try to
     swap that into the global floor. Whether that succeeds or fails, we
     take the resulting floor time, convert it to realtime and try to
     swap that into the ctime.

     We take the result of the ctime swap whether it succeeds or fails,
     since either is just as valid.

     Filesystems can opt into this by setting the FS_MGTIME fstype flag.
     Others should be unaffected (other than being subject to the same
     floor value as multigrain filesystems)"

* tag 'vfs-6.13.mgtime' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  fs: reduce pointer chasing in is_mgtime() test
  tmpfs: add support for multigrain timestamps
  btrfs: convert to multigrain timestamps
  ext4: switch to multigrain timestamps
  xfs: switch to multigrain timestamps
  Documentation: add a new file documenting multigrain timestamps
  fs: add percpu counters for significant multigrain timestamp events
  fs: tracepoints around multigrain timestamp events
  fs: handle delegated timestamps in setattr_copy_mgtime
  timekeeping: Add percpu counter for tracking floor swap events
  timekeeping: Add interfaces for handling timestamps with a floor value
  fs: have setattr_copy handle multigrain timestamps appropriately
  fs: add infrastructure for multigrain timestamps
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<pre>
Pull vfs multigrain timestamps from Christian Brauner:
 "This is another try at implementing multigrain timestamps. This time
  with significant help from the timekeeping maintainers to reduce the
  performance impact.

  Thomas provided a base branch that contains the required timekeeping
  interfaces for the VFS. It serves as the base for the multi-grain
  timestamp work:

   - Multigrain timestamps allow the kernel to use fine-grained
     timestamps when an inode's attributes is being actively observed
     via -&gt;getattr(). With this support, it's possible for a file to get
     a fine-grained timestamp, and another modified after it to get a
     coarse-grained stamp that is earlier than the fine-grained time. If
     this happens then the files can appear to have been modified in
     reverse order, which breaks VFS ordering guarantees.

     To prevent this, a floor value is maintained for multigrain
     timestamps. Whenever a fine-grained timestamp is handed out, record
     it, and when later coarse-grained stamps are handed out, ensure
     they are not earlier than that value. If the coarse-grained
     timestamp is earlier than the fine-grained floor, return the floor
     value instead.

     The timekeeper changes add a static singleton atomic64_t into
     timekeeper.c that is used to keep track of the latest fine-grained
     time ever handed out. This is tracked as a monotonic ktime_t value
     to ensure that it isn't affected by clock jumps. Because it is
     updated at different times than the rest of the timekeeper object,
     the floor value is managed independently of the timekeeper via a
     cmpxchg() operation, and sits on its own cacheline.

     Two new public timekeeper interfaces are added:

      (1) ktime_get_coarse_real_ts64_mg() fills a timespec64 with the
          later of the coarse-grained clock and the floor time

      (2) ktime_get_real_ts64_mg() gets the fine-grained clock value,
          and tries to swap it into the floor. A timespec64 is filled
          with the result.

   - The VFS has always used coarse-grained timestamps when updating the
     ctime and mtime after a change. This has the benefit of allowing
     filesystems to optimize away a lot metadata updates, down to around
     1 per jiffy, even when a file is under heavy writes.

     Unfortunately, this has always been an issue when we're exporting
     via NFSv3, which relies on timestamps to validate caches. A lot of
     changes can happen in a jiffy, so timestamps aren't sufficient to
     help the client decide when to invalidate the cache. Even with
     NFSv4, a lot of exported filesystems don't properly support a
     change attribute and are subject to the same problems with
     timestamp granularity. Other applications have similar issues with
     timestamps (e.g backup applications).

     If we were to always use fine-grained timestamps, that would
     improve the situation, but that becomes rather expensive, as the
     underlying filesystem would have to log a lot more metadata
     updates.

     This adds a way to only use fine-grained timestamps when they are
     being actively queried. Use the (unused) top bit in
     inode-&gt;i_ctime_nsec as a flag that indicates whether the current
     timestamps have been queried via stat() or the like. When it's set,
     we allow the kernel to use a fine-grained timestamp iff it's
     necessary to make the ctime show a different value.

     This solves the problem of being able to distinguish the timestamp
     between updates, but introduces a new problem: it's now possible
     for a file being changed to get a fine-grained timestamp. A file
     that is altered just a bit later can then get a coarse-grained one
     that appears older than the earlier fine-grained time. This
     violates timestamp ordering guarantees.

     This is where the earlier mentioned timkeeping interfaces help. A
     global monotonic atomic64_t value is kept that acts as a timestamp
     floor. When we go to stamp a file, we first get the latter of the
     current floor value and the current coarse-grained time. If the
     inode ctime hasn't been queried then we just attempt to stamp it
     with that value.

     If it has been queried, then first see whether the current coarse
     time is later than the existing ctime. If it is, then we accept
     that value. If it isn't, then we get a fine-grained time and try to
     swap that into the global floor. Whether that succeeds or fails, we
     take the resulting floor time, convert it to realtime and try to
     swap that into the ctime.

     We take the result of the ctime swap whether it succeeds or fails,
     since either is just as valid.

     Filesystems can opt into this by setting the FS_MGTIME fstype flag.
     Others should be unaffected (other than being subject to the same
     floor value as multigrain filesystems)"

* tag 'vfs-6.13.mgtime' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  fs: reduce pointer chasing in is_mgtime() test
  tmpfs: add support for multigrain timestamps
  btrfs: convert to multigrain timestamps
  ext4: switch to multigrain timestamps
  xfs: switch to multigrain timestamps
  Documentation: add a new file documenting multigrain timestamps
  fs: add percpu counters for significant multigrain timestamp events
  fs: tracepoints around multigrain timestamp events
  fs: handle delegated timestamps in setattr_copy_mgtime
  timekeeping: Add percpu counter for tracking floor swap events
  timekeeping: Add interfaces for handling timestamps with a floor value
  fs: have setattr_copy handle multigrain timestamps appropriately
  fs: add infrastructure for multigrain timestamps
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs: reduce pointer chasing in is_mgtime() test</title>
<updated>2024-11-14T09:45:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff Layton</name>
<email>jlayton@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-13T14:17:51+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=9fed2c0f2f0771b990d068ef0a2b32e770ae6d48'/>
<id>9fed2c0f2f0771b990d068ef0a2b32e770ae6d48</id>
<content type='text'>
The is_mgtime test checks whether the FS_MGTIME flag is set in the
fstype. To get there from the inode though, we have to dereference 3
pointers.

Add a new IOP_MGTIME flag, and have inode_init_always() set that flag
when the fstype flag is set. Then, make is_mgtime test for IOP_MGTIME
instead.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241113-mgtime-v1-1-84e256980e11@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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The is_mgtime test checks whether the FS_MGTIME flag is set in the
fstype. To get there from the inode though, we have to dereference 3
pointers.

Add a new IOP_MGTIME flag, and have inode_init_always() set that flag
when the fstype flag is set. Then, make is_mgtime test for IOP_MGTIME
instead.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241113-mgtime-v1-1-84e256980e11@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>vfs: make evict() use smp_mb__after_spinlock instead of smp_mb</title>
<updated>2024-11-14T09:44:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mateusz Guzik</name>
<email>mjguzik@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-13T15:51:03+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=45c9faf50665812a14fc9b40ab9d6cb893792ffd'/>
<id>45c9faf50665812a14fc9b40ab9d6cb893792ffd</id>
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It literally directly follows a spin_lock() call.

This whacks an explicit barrier on x86-64.

Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik &lt;mjguzik@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241113155103.4194099-1-mjguzik@gmail.com
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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It literally directly follows a spin_lock() call.

This whacks an explicit barrier on x86-64.

Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik &lt;mjguzik@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241113155103.4194099-1-mjguzik@gmail.com
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/list_lru: simplify the list_lru walk callback function</title>
<updated>2024-11-12T01:22:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kairui Song</name>
<email>kasong@tencent.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-04T17:52:57+00:00</published>
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Now isolation no longer takes the list_lru global node lock, only use the
per-cgroup lock instead.  And this lock is inside the list_lru_one being
walked, no longer needed to pass the lock explicitly.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241104175257.60853-7-ryncsn@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Kairui Song &lt;kasong@tencent.com&gt;
Cc: Chengming Zhou &lt;zhouchengming@bytedance.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Muchun Song &lt;muchun.song@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Qi Zheng &lt;zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com&gt;
Cc: Roman Gushchin &lt;roman.gushchin@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Shakeel Butt &lt;shakeel.butt@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Waiman Long &lt;longman@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Now isolation no longer takes the list_lru global node lock, only use the
per-cgroup lock instead.  And this lock is inside the list_lru_one being
walked, no longer needed to pass the lock explicitly.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241104175257.60853-7-ryncsn@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Kairui Song &lt;kasong@tencent.com&gt;
Cc: Chengming Zhou &lt;zhouchengming@bytedance.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Muchun Song &lt;muchun.song@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Qi Zheng &lt;zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com&gt;
Cc: Roman Gushchin &lt;roman.gushchin@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Shakeel Butt &lt;shakeel.butt@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Waiman Long &lt;longman@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/list_lru: split the lock to per-cgroup scope</title>
<updated>2024-11-12T01:22:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kairui Song</name>
<email>kasong@tencent.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-04T17:52:56+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=fb56fdf8b9a2f7397f8a83dce50189f3f0cf71af'/>
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Currently, every list_lru has a per-node lock that protects adding,
deletion, isolation, and reparenting of all list_lru_one instances
belonging to this list_lru on this node.  This lock contention is heavy
when multiple cgroups modify the same list_lru.

This lock can be split into per-cgroup scope to reduce contention.

To achieve this, we need a stable list_lru_one for every cgroup.  This
commit adds a lock to each list_lru_one and introduced a helper function
lock_list_lru_of_memcg, making it possible to pin the list_lru of a memcg.
Then reworked the reparenting process.

Reparenting will switch the list_lru_one instances one by one.  By locking
each instance and marking it dead using the nr_items counter, reparenting
ensures that all items in the corresponding cgroup (on-list or not,
because items have a stable cgroup, see below) will see the list_lru_one
switch synchronously.

Objcg reparent is also moved after list_lru reparent so items will have a
stable mem cgroup until all list_lru_one instances are drained.

The only caller that doesn't work the *_obj interfaces are direct calls to
list_lru_{add,del}.  But it's only used by zswap and that's also based on
objcg, so it's fine.

This also changes the bahaviour of the isolation function when LRU_RETRY
or LRU_REMOVED_RETRY is returned, because now releasing the lock could
unblock reparenting and free the list_lru_one, isolation function will
have to return withoug re-lock the lru.

prepare() {
    mkdir /tmp/test-fs
    modprobe brd rd_nr=1 rd_size=33554432
    mkfs.xfs -f /dev/ram0
    mount -t xfs /dev/ram0 /tmp/test-fs
    for i in $(seq 1 512); do
        mkdir "/tmp/test-fs/$i"
        for j in $(seq 1 10240); do
            echo TEST-CONTENT &gt; "/tmp/test-fs/$i/$j"
        done &amp;
    done; wait
}

do_test() {
    read_worker() {
        sleep 1
        tar -cv "$1" &amp;&gt;/dev/null
    }
    read_in_all() {
        cd "/tmp/test-fs" &amp;&amp; ls
        for i in $(seq 1 512); do
            (exec sh -c 'echo "$PPID"') &gt; "/sys/fs/cgroup/benchmark/$i/cgroup.procs"
            read_worker "$i" &amp;
        done; wait
    }
    for i in $(seq 1 512); do
        mkdir -p "/sys/fs/cgroup/benchmark/$i"
    done
    echo +memory &gt; /sys/fs/cgroup/benchmark/cgroup.subtree_control
    echo 512M &gt; /sys/fs/cgroup/benchmark/memory.max
    echo 3 &gt; /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
    time read_in_all
}

Above script simulates compression of small files in multiple cgroups
with memory pressure. Run prepare() then do_test for 6 times:

Before:
real      0m7.762s user      0m11.340s sys       3m11.224s
real      0m8.123s user      0m11.548s sys       3m2.549s
real      0m7.736s user      0m11.515s sys       3m11.171s
real      0m8.539s user      0m11.508s sys       3m7.618s
real      0m7.928s user      0m11.349s sys       3m13.063s
real      0m8.105s user      0m11.128s sys       3m14.313s

After this commit (about ~15% faster):
real      0m6.953s user      0m11.327s sys       2m42.912s
real      0m7.453s user      0m11.343s sys       2m51.942s
real      0m6.916s user      0m11.269s sys       2m43.957s
real      0m6.894s user      0m11.528s sys       2m45.346s
real      0m6.911s user      0m11.095s sys       2m43.168s
real      0m6.773s user      0m11.518s sys       2m40.774s

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241104175257.60853-6-ryncsn@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Kairui Song &lt;kasong@tencent.com&gt;
Cc: Chengming Zhou &lt;zhouchengming@bytedance.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Muchun Song &lt;muchun.song@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Qi Zheng &lt;zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com&gt;
Cc: Roman Gushchin &lt;roman.gushchin@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Shakeel Butt &lt;shakeel.butt@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Waiman Long &lt;longman@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Currently, every list_lru has a per-node lock that protects adding,
deletion, isolation, and reparenting of all list_lru_one instances
belonging to this list_lru on this node.  This lock contention is heavy
when multiple cgroups modify the same list_lru.

This lock can be split into per-cgroup scope to reduce contention.

To achieve this, we need a stable list_lru_one for every cgroup.  This
commit adds a lock to each list_lru_one and introduced a helper function
lock_list_lru_of_memcg, making it possible to pin the list_lru of a memcg.
Then reworked the reparenting process.

Reparenting will switch the list_lru_one instances one by one.  By locking
each instance and marking it dead using the nr_items counter, reparenting
ensures that all items in the corresponding cgroup (on-list or not,
because items have a stable cgroup, see below) will see the list_lru_one
switch synchronously.

Objcg reparent is also moved after list_lru reparent so items will have a
stable mem cgroup until all list_lru_one instances are drained.

The only caller that doesn't work the *_obj interfaces are direct calls to
list_lru_{add,del}.  But it's only used by zswap and that's also based on
objcg, so it's fine.

This also changes the bahaviour of the isolation function when LRU_RETRY
or LRU_REMOVED_RETRY is returned, because now releasing the lock could
unblock reparenting and free the list_lru_one, isolation function will
have to return withoug re-lock the lru.

prepare() {
    mkdir /tmp/test-fs
    modprobe brd rd_nr=1 rd_size=33554432
    mkfs.xfs -f /dev/ram0
    mount -t xfs /dev/ram0 /tmp/test-fs
    for i in $(seq 1 512); do
        mkdir "/tmp/test-fs/$i"
        for j in $(seq 1 10240); do
            echo TEST-CONTENT &gt; "/tmp/test-fs/$i/$j"
        done &amp;
    done; wait
}

do_test() {
    read_worker() {
        sleep 1
        tar -cv "$1" &amp;&gt;/dev/null
    }
    read_in_all() {
        cd "/tmp/test-fs" &amp;&amp; ls
        for i in $(seq 1 512); do
            (exec sh -c 'echo "$PPID"') &gt; "/sys/fs/cgroup/benchmark/$i/cgroup.procs"
            read_worker "$i" &amp;
        done; wait
    }
    for i in $(seq 1 512); do
        mkdir -p "/sys/fs/cgroup/benchmark/$i"
    done
    echo +memory &gt; /sys/fs/cgroup/benchmark/cgroup.subtree_control
    echo 512M &gt; /sys/fs/cgroup/benchmark/memory.max
    echo 3 &gt; /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
    time read_in_all
}

Above script simulates compression of small files in multiple cgroups
with memory pressure. Run prepare() then do_test for 6 times:

Before:
real      0m7.762s user      0m11.340s sys       3m11.224s
real      0m8.123s user      0m11.548s sys       3m2.549s
real      0m7.736s user      0m11.515s sys       3m11.171s
real      0m8.539s user      0m11.508s sys       3m7.618s
real      0m7.928s user      0m11.349s sys       3m13.063s
real      0m8.105s user      0m11.128s sys       3m14.313s

After this commit (about ~15% faster):
real      0m6.953s user      0m11.327s sys       2m42.912s
real      0m7.453s user      0m11.343s sys       2m51.942s
real      0m6.916s user      0m11.269s sys       2m43.957s
real      0m6.894s user      0m11.528s sys       2m45.346s
real      0m6.911s user      0m11.095s sys       2m43.168s
real      0m6.773s user      0m11.518s sys       2m40.774s

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241104175257.60853-6-ryncsn@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Kairui Song &lt;kasong@tencent.com&gt;
Cc: Chengming Zhou &lt;zhouchengming@bytedance.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Muchun Song &lt;muchun.song@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Qi Zheng &lt;zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com&gt;
Cc: Roman Gushchin &lt;roman.gushchin@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Shakeel Butt &lt;shakeel.butt@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Waiman Long &lt;longman@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs/inode: Fix a typo</title>
<updated>2024-10-22T09:16:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrew Kreimer</name>
<email>algonell@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-10-08T12:16:02+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=80d3ab22277e6dea72c0715a6698d12f2682ec38'/>
<id>80d3ab22277e6dea72c0715a6698d12f2682ec38</id>
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Fix a typo in comments: wether v-&gt; whether.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Kreimer &lt;algonell@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241008121602.16778-1-algonell@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
Fix a typo in comments: wether v-&gt; whether.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Kreimer &lt;algonell@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241008121602.16778-1-algonell@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>vfs: inode insertion kdoc corrections</title>
<updated>2024-10-22T09:16:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andreas Gruenbacher</name>
<email>agruenba@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-10-04T11:51:51+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=c2986387430ae6a98e46094bbe669454656f873a'/>
<id>c2986387430ae6a98e46094bbe669454656f873a</id>
<content type='text'>
Some minor corrections to the inode_insert5 and iget5_locked kernel
documentation.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher &lt;agruenba@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241004115151.44834-1-agruenba@redhat.com
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Some minor corrections to the inode_insert5 and iget5_locked kernel
documentation.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher &lt;agruenba@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241004115151.44834-1-agruenba@redhat.com
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
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