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<title>fs/stat.c: avoid harmless garbage value problem in vfs_statx_path()</title>
<updated>2025-02-07T09:27:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Su Hui</name>
<email>suhui@nfschina.com</email>
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<published>2025-01-19T02:59:47+00:00</published>
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Clang static checker(scan-build) warning:
fs/stat.c:287:21: warning: The left expression of the compound assignment is
an uninitialized value. The computed value will also be garbage.
  287 |                 stat-&gt;result_mask |= STATX_MNT_ID_UNIQUE;
      |                 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ^
fs/stat.c:290:21: warning: The left expression of the compound assignment is
an uninitialized value. The computed value will also be garbage.
  290 |                 stat-&gt;result_mask |= STATX_MNT_ID;

When vfs_getattr() failed because of security_inode_getattr(), 'stat' is
uninitialized. In this case, there is a harmless garbage problem in
vfs_statx_path(). It's better to return error directly when
vfs_getattr() failed, avoiding garbage value and more clearly.

Signed-off-by: Su Hui &lt;suhui@nfschina.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250119025946.1168957-1-suhui@nfschina.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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Clang static checker(scan-build) warning:
fs/stat.c:287:21: warning: The left expression of the compound assignment is
an uninitialized value. The computed value will also be garbage.
  287 |                 stat-&gt;result_mask |= STATX_MNT_ID_UNIQUE;
      |                 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ^
fs/stat.c:290:21: warning: The left expression of the compound assignment is
an uninitialized value. The computed value will also be garbage.
  290 |                 stat-&gt;result_mask |= STATX_MNT_ID;

When vfs_getattr() failed because of security_inode_getattr(), 'stat' is
uninitialized. In this case, there is a harmless garbage problem in
vfs_statx_path(). It's better to return error directly when
vfs_getattr() failed, avoiding garbage value and more clearly.

Signed-off-by: Su Hui &lt;suhui@nfschina.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250119025946.1168957-1-suhui@nfschina.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>fs: add STATX_DIO_READ_ALIGN</title>
<updated>2025-01-09T15:23:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-09T08:31:02+00:00</published>
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Add a separate dio read align field, as many out of place write
file systems can easily do reads aligned to the device sector size,
but require bigger alignment for writes.

This is usually papered over by falling back to buffered I/O for smaller
writes and doing read-modify-write cycles, but performance for this
sucks, so applications benefit from knowing the actual write alignment.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250109083109.1441561-3-hch@lst.de
Reviewed-by: John Garry &lt;john.g.garry@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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Add a separate dio read align field, as many out of place write
file systems can easily do reads aligned to the device sector size,
but require bigger alignment for writes.

This is usually papered over by falling back to buffered I/O for smaller
writes and doing read-modify-write cycles, but performance for this
sucks, so applications benefit from knowing the actual write alignment.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250109083109.1441561-3-hch@lst.de
Reviewed-by: John Garry &lt;john.g.garry@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'pull-statx' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2024-11-18T22:54:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-18T22:54:10+00:00</published>
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Pull statx updates from Al Viro:
 "Sanitize struct filename and lookup flags handling in statx and
  friends"

* tag 'pull-statx' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  libfs: kill empty_dir_getattr()
  fs: Simplify getattr interface function checking AT_GETATTR_NOSEC flag
  fs/stat.c: switch to CLASS(fd_raw)
  kill getname_statx_lookup_flags()
  io_statx_prep(): use getname_uflags()
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Pull statx updates from Al Viro:
 "Sanitize struct filename and lookup flags handling in statx and
  friends"

* tag 'pull-statx' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  libfs: kill empty_dir_getattr()
  fs: Simplify getattr interface function checking AT_GETATTR_NOSEC flag
  fs/stat.c: switch to CLASS(fd_raw)
  kill getname_statx_lookup_flags()
  io_statx_prep(): use getname_uflags()
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'pull-xattr' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2024-11-18T20:44:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-18T20:44:25+00:00</published>
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Pull xattr updates from Al Viro:
 "Sanitize xattr and io_uring interactions with it, add *xattrat()
  syscalls, sanitize struct filename handling in there"

* tag 'pull-xattr' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  xattr: remove redundant check on variable err
  fs/xattr: add *at family syscalls
  new helpers: file_removexattr(), filename_removexattr()
  new helpers: file_listxattr(), filename_listxattr()
  replace do_getxattr() with saner helpers.
  replace do_setxattr() with saner helpers.
  new helper: import_xattr_name()
  fs: rename struct xattr_ctx to kernel_xattr_ctx
  xattr: switch to CLASS(fd)
  io_[gs]etxattr_prep(): just use getname()
  io_uring: IORING_OP_F[GS]ETXATTR is fine with REQ_F_FIXED_FILE
  getname_maybe_null() - the third variant of pathname copy-in
  teach filename_lookup() to treat NULL filename as ""
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Pull xattr updates from Al Viro:
 "Sanitize xattr and io_uring interactions with it, add *xattrat()
  syscalls, sanitize struct filename handling in there"

* tag 'pull-xattr' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  xattr: remove redundant check on variable err
  fs/xattr: add *at family syscalls
  new helpers: file_removexattr(), filename_removexattr()
  new helpers: file_listxattr(), filename_listxattr()
  replace do_getxattr() with saner helpers.
  replace do_setxattr() with saner helpers.
  new helper: import_xattr_name()
  fs: rename struct xattr_ctx to kernel_xattr_ctx
  xattr: switch to CLASS(fd)
  io_[gs]etxattr_prep(): just use getname()
  io_uring: IORING_OP_F[GS]ETXATTR is fine with REQ_F_FIXED_FILE
  getname_maybe_null() - the third variant of pathname copy-in
  teach filename_lookup() to treat NULL filename as ""
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<entry>
<title>fs: Simplify getattr interface function checking AT_GETATTR_NOSEC flag</title>
<updated>2024-11-13T16:46:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefan Berger</name>
<email>stefanb@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-01T19:37:03+00:00</published>
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Commit 8a924db2d7b5 ("fs: Pass AT_GETATTR_NOSEC flag to getattr interface
function")' introduced the AT_GETATTR_NOSEC flag to ensure that the
call paths only call vfs_getattr_nosec if it is set instead of vfs_getattr.
Now, simplify the getattr interface functions of filesystems where the flag
AT_GETATTR_NOSEC is checked.

There is only a single caller of inode_operations getattr function and it
is located in fs/stat.c in vfs_getattr_nosec. The caller there is the only
one from which the AT_GETATTR_NOSEC flag is passed from.

Two filesystems are checking this flag in .getattr and the flag is always
passed to them unconditionally from only vfs_getattr_nosec:

- ecryptfs:  Simplify by always calling vfs_getattr_nosec in
             ecryptfs_getattr. From there the flag is passed to no other
             function and this function is not called otherwise.

- overlayfs: Simplify by always calling vfs_getattr_nosec in
             ovl_getattr. From there the flag is passed to no other
             function and this function is not called otherwise.

The query_flags in vfs_getattr_nosec will mask-out AT_GETATTR_NOSEC from
any caller using AT_STATX_SYNC_TYPE as mask so that the flag is not
important inside this function. Also, since no filesystem is checking the
flag anymore, remove the flag entirely now, including the BUG_ON check that
never triggered.

The net change of the changes here combined with the original commit is
that ecryptfs and overlayfs do not call vfs_getattr but only
vfs_getattr_nosec.

Fixes: 8a924db2d7b5 ("fs: Pass AT_GETATTR_NOSEC flag to getattr interface function")
Reported-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20241101011724.GN1350452@ZenIV/T/#u
Cc: Tyler Hicks &lt;code@tyhicks.com&gt;
Cc: ecryptfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Miklos Szeredi &lt;miklos@szeredi.hu&gt;
Cc: Amir Goldstein &lt;amir73il@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: linux-unionfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger &lt;stefanb@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Commit 8a924db2d7b5 ("fs: Pass AT_GETATTR_NOSEC flag to getattr interface
function")' introduced the AT_GETATTR_NOSEC flag to ensure that the
call paths only call vfs_getattr_nosec if it is set instead of vfs_getattr.
Now, simplify the getattr interface functions of filesystems where the flag
AT_GETATTR_NOSEC is checked.

There is only a single caller of inode_operations getattr function and it
is located in fs/stat.c in vfs_getattr_nosec. The caller there is the only
one from which the AT_GETATTR_NOSEC flag is passed from.

Two filesystems are checking this flag in .getattr and the flag is always
passed to them unconditionally from only vfs_getattr_nosec:

- ecryptfs:  Simplify by always calling vfs_getattr_nosec in
             ecryptfs_getattr. From there the flag is passed to no other
             function and this function is not called otherwise.

- overlayfs: Simplify by always calling vfs_getattr_nosec in
             ovl_getattr. From there the flag is passed to no other
             function and this function is not called otherwise.

The query_flags in vfs_getattr_nosec will mask-out AT_GETATTR_NOSEC from
any caller using AT_STATX_SYNC_TYPE as mask so that the flag is not
important inside this function. Also, since no filesystem is checking the
flag anymore, remove the flag entirely now, including the BUG_ON check that
never triggered.

The net change of the changes here combined with the original commit is
that ecryptfs and overlayfs do not call vfs_getattr but only
vfs_getattr_nosec.

Fixes: 8a924db2d7b5 ("fs: Pass AT_GETATTR_NOSEC flag to getattr interface function")
Reported-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20241101011724.GN1350452@ZenIV/T/#u
Cc: Tyler Hicks &lt;code@tyhicks.com&gt;
Cc: ecryptfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Miklos Szeredi &lt;miklos@szeredi.hu&gt;
Cc: Amir Goldstein &lt;amir73il@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: linux-unionfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger &lt;stefanb@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>fs/stat.c: switch to CLASS(fd_raw)</title>
<updated>2024-11-13T16:46:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2024-10-20T00:48:30+00:00</published>
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... and use fd_empty() consistently

Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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... and use fd_empty() consistently

Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>kill getname_statx_lookup_flags()</title>
<updated>2024-11-13T16:45:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2024-09-20T04:38:59+00:00</published>
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LOOKUP_EMPTY is ignored by the only remaining user, and without
that 'getname_' prefix makes no sense.

Remove LOOKUP_EMPTY part, rename to statx_lookup_flags() and make
static.  It most likely is _not_ statx() specific, either, but
that's the next step.

Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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LOOKUP_EMPTY is ignored by the only remaining user, and without
that 'getname_' prefix makes no sense.

Remove LOOKUP_EMPTY part, rename to statx_lookup_flags() and make
static.  It most likely is _not_ statx() specific, either, but
that's the next step.

Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>getname_maybe_null() - the third variant of pathname copy-in</title>
<updated>2024-10-20T00:33:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2024-10-08T03:08:34+00:00</published>
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Semantics used by statx(2) (and later *xattrat(2)): without AT_EMPTY_PATH
it's standard getname() (i.e. ERR_PTR(-ENOENT) on empty string,
ERR_PTR(-EFAULT) on NULL), with AT_EMPTY_PATH both empty string and
NULL are accepted.

Calling conventions: getname_maybe_null(user_pointer, flags) returns
	* pointer to struct filename when non-empty string had been
successfully read
	* ERR_PTR(...) on error
	* NULL if an empty string or NULL pointer had been given
with AT_EMPTY_PATH in the flags argument.

It tries to avoid allocation in the last case; it's not always
able to do so, in which case the temporary struct filename instance
is freed and NULL returned anyway.

Fast path is inlined.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Semantics used by statx(2) (and later *xattrat(2)): without AT_EMPTY_PATH
it's standard getname() (i.e. ERR_PTR(-ENOENT) on empty string,
ERR_PTR(-EFAULT) on NULL), with AT_EMPTY_PATH both empty string and
NULL are accepted.

Calling conventions: getname_maybe_null(user_pointer, flags) returns
	* pointer to struct filename when non-empty string had been
successfully read
	* ERR_PTR(...) on error
	* NULL if an empty string or NULL pointer had been given
with AT_EMPTY_PATH in the flags argument.

It tries to avoid allocation in the last case; it's not always
able to do so, in which case the temporary struct filename instance
is freed and NULL returned anyway.

Fast path is inlined.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge patch series "timekeeping/fs: multigrain timestamp redux"</title>
<updated>2024-10-10T08:20:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Brauner</name>
<email>brauner@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-10-07T10:49:12+00:00</published>
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Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt; says:

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.

What we need is 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.

To remedy this, keep a global monotonic atomic64_t value 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).

* patches from https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241002-mgtime-v10-0-d1c4717f5284@kernel.org:
  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
  fs: have setattr_copy handle multigrain timestamps appropriately
  fs: add infrastructure for multigrain timestamps

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241002-mgtime-v10-0-d1c4717f5284@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt; says:

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.

What we need is 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.

To remedy this, keep a global monotonic atomic64_t value 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).

* patches from https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241002-mgtime-v10-0-d1c4717f5284@kernel.org:
  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
  fs: have setattr_copy handle multigrain timestamps appropriately
  fs: add infrastructure for multigrain timestamps

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241002-mgtime-v10-0-d1c4717f5284@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>fs: tracepoints around multigrain timestamp events</title>
<updated>2024-10-10T08:20:52+00:00</updated>
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<name>Jeff Layton</name>
<email>jlayton@kernel.org</email>
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<published>2024-10-02T21:27:21+00:00</published>
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Add some tracepoints around various multigrain timestamp events.

Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik &lt;josef@toxicpanda.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt; # documentation bits
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241002-mgtime-v10-6-d1c4717f5284@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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Add some tracepoints around various multigrain timestamp events.

Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik &lt;josef@toxicpanda.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt; # documentation bits
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241002-mgtime-v10-6-d1c4717f5284@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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