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<title>Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-5.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm</title>
<updated>2022-01-12T23:46:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-01-12T23:46:11+00:00</published>
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Pull dax and libnvdimm updates from Dan Williams:
 "The bulk of this is a rework of the dax_operations API after
  discovering the obstacles it posed to the work-in-progress DAX+reflink
  support for XFS and other copy-on-write filesystem mechanics.

  Primarily the need to plumb a block_device through the API to handle
  partition offsets was a sticking point and Christoph untangled that
  dependency in addition to other cleanups to make landing the
  DAX+reflink support easier.

  The DAX_PMEM_COMPAT option has been around for 4 years and not only
  are distributions shipping userspace that understand the current
  configuration API, but some are not even bothering to turn this option
  on anymore, so it seems a good time to remove it per the deprecation
  schedule. Recall that this was added after the device-dax subsystem
  moved from /sys/class/dax to /sys/bus/dax for its sysfs organization.
  All recent functionality depends on /sys/bus/dax.

  Some other miscellaneous cleanups and reflink prep patches are
  included as well.

  Summary:

   - Simplify the dax_operations API:

      - Eliminate bdev_dax_pgoff() in favor of the filesystem
        maintaining and applying a partition offset to all its DAX iomap
        operations.

      - Remove wrappers and device-mapper stacked callbacks for
        -&gt;copy_from_iter() and -&gt;copy_to_iter() in favor of moving
        block_device relative offset responsibility to the
        dax_direct_access() caller.

      - Remove the need for an @bdev in filesystem-DAX infrastructure

      - Remove unused uio helpers copy_from_iter_flushcache() and
        copy_mc_to_iter() as only the non-check_copy_size() versions are
        used for DAX.

   - Prepare XFS for the pending (next merge window) DAX+reflink support

   - Remove deprecated DEV_DAX_PMEM_COMPAT support

   - Cleanup a straggling misuse of the GUID api"

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-5.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (38 commits)
  iomap: Fix error handling in iomap_zero_iter()
  ACPI: NFIT: Import GUID before use
  dax: remove the copy_from_iter and copy_to_iter methods
  dax: remove the DAXDEV_F_SYNC flag
  dax: simplify dax_synchronous and set_dax_synchronous
  uio: remove copy_from_iter_flushcache() and copy_mc_to_iter()
  iomap: turn the byte variable in iomap_zero_iter into a ssize_t
  memremap: remove support for external pgmap refcounts
  fsdax: don't require CONFIG_BLOCK
  iomap: build the block based code conditionally
  dax: fix up some of the block device related ifdefs
  fsdax: shift partition offset handling into the file systems
  dax: return the partition offset from fs_dax_get_by_bdev
  iomap: add a IOMAP_DAX flag
  xfs: pass the mapping flags to xfs_bmbt_to_iomap
  xfs: use xfs_direct_write_iomap_ops for DAX zeroing
  xfs: move dax device handling into xfs_{alloc,free}_buftarg
  ext4: cleanup the dax handling in ext4_fill_super
  ext2: cleanup the dax handling in ext2_fill_super
  fsdax: decouple zeroing from the iomap buffered I/O code
  ...
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Pull dax and libnvdimm updates from Dan Williams:
 "The bulk of this is a rework of the dax_operations API after
  discovering the obstacles it posed to the work-in-progress DAX+reflink
  support for XFS and other copy-on-write filesystem mechanics.

  Primarily the need to plumb a block_device through the API to handle
  partition offsets was a sticking point and Christoph untangled that
  dependency in addition to other cleanups to make landing the
  DAX+reflink support easier.

  The DAX_PMEM_COMPAT option has been around for 4 years and not only
  are distributions shipping userspace that understand the current
  configuration API, but some are not even bothering to turn this option
  on anymore, so it seems a good time to remove it per the deprecation
  schedule. Recall that this was added after the device-dax subsystem
  moved from /sys/class/dax to /sys/bus/dax for its sysfs organization.
  All recent functionality depends on /sys/bus/dax.

  Some other miscellaneous cleanups and reflink prep patches are
  included as well.

  Summary:

   - Simplify the dax_operations API:

      - Eliminate bdev_dax_pgoff() in favor of the filesystem
        maintaining and applying a partition offset to all its DAX iomap
        operations.

      - Remove wrappers and device-mapper stacked callbacks for
        -&gt;copy_from_iter() and -&gt;copy_to_iter() in favor of moving
        block_device relative offset responsibility to the
        dax_direct_access() caller.

      - Remove the need for an @bdev in filesystem-DAX infrastructure

      - Remove unused uio helpers copy_from_iter_flushcache() and
        copy_mc_to_iter() as only the non-check_copy_size() versions are
        used for DAX.

   - Prepare XFS for the pending (next merge window) DAX+reflink support

   - Remove deprecated DEV_DAX_PMEM_COMPAT support

   - Cleanup a straggling misuse of the GUID api"

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-5.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (38 commits)
  iomap: Fix error handling in iomap_zero_iter()
  ACPI: NFIT: Import GUID before use
  dax: remove the copy_from_iter and copy_to_iter methods
  dax: remove the DAXDEV_F_SYNC flag
  dax: simplify dax_synchronous and set_dax_synchronous
  uio: remove copy_from_iter_flushcache() and copy_mc_to_iter()
  iomap: turn the byte variable in iomap_zero_iter into a ssize_t
  memremap: remove support for external pgmap refcounts
  fsdax: don't require CONFIG_BLOCK
  iomap: build the block based code conditionally
  dax: fix up some of the block device related ifdefs
  fsdax: shift partition offset handling into the file systems
  dax: return the partition offset from fs_dax_get_by_bdev
  iomap: add a IOMAP_DAX flag
  xfs: pass the mapping flags to xfs_bmbt_to_iomap
  xfs: use xfs_direct_write_iomap_ops for DAX zeroing
  xfs: move dax device handling into xfs_{alloc,free}_buftarg
  ext4: cleanup the dax handling in ext4_fill_super
  ext2: cleanup the dax handling in ext2_fill_super
  fsdax: decouple zeroing from the iomap buffered I/O code
  ...
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<title>iov_iter: Add copy_folio_to_iter()</title>
<updated>2022-01-04T18:15:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)</name>
<email>willy@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-18T14:39:06+00:00</published>
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This wrapper around copy_page_to_iter() works because copy_page_to_iter()
handles compound pages correctly.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: William Kucharski &lt;william.kucharski@oracle.com&gt;
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This wrapper around copy_page_to_iter() works because copy_page_to_iter()
handles compound pages correctly.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: William Kucharski &lt;william.kucharski@oracle.com&gt;
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<title>uio: remove copy_from_iter_flushcache() and copy_mc_to_iter()</title>
<updated>2021-12-18T16:04:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2021-12-15T08:45:05+00:00</published>
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These two wrappers are never used.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211215084508.435401-2-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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These two wrappers are never used.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211215084508.435401-2-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>iov_iter: Introduce nofault flag to disable page faults</title>
<updated>2021-10-24T13:26:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andreas Gruenbacher</name>
<email>agruenba@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-07-12T10:06:14+00:00</published>
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Introduce a new nofault flag to indicate to iov_iter_get_pages not to
fault in user pages.

This is implemented by passing the FOLL_NOFAULT flag to get_user_pages,
which causes get_user_pages to fail when it would otherwise fault in a
page. We'll use the -&gt;nofault flag to prevent iomap_dio_rw from faulting
in pages when page faults are not allowed.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher &lt;agruenba@redhat.com&gt;
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Introduce a new nofault flag to indicate to iov_iter_get_pages not to
fault in user pages.

This is implemented by passing the FOLL_NOFAULT flag to get_user_pages,
which causes get_user_pages to fail when it would otherwise fault in a
page. We'll use the -&gt;nofault flag to prevent iomap_dio_rw from faulting
in pages when page faults are not allowed.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher &lt;agruenba@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>iov_iter: Introduce fault_in_iov_iter_writeable</title>
<updated>2021-10-20T17:33:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andreas Gruenbacher</name>
<email>agruenba@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-07-05T15:26:28+00:00</published>
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Introduce a new fault_in_iov_iter_writeable helper for safely faulting
in an iterator for writing.  Uses get_user_pages() to fault in the pages
without actually writing to them, which would be destructive.

We'll use fault_in_iov_iter_writeable in gfs2 once we've determined that
the iterator passed to .read_iter isn't in memory.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher &lt;agruenba@redhat.com&gt;
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Introduce a new fault_in_iov_iter_writeable helper for safely faulting
in an iterator for writing.  Uses get_user_pages() to fault in the pages
without actually writing to them, which would be destructive.

We'll use fault_in_iov_iter_writeable in gfs2 once we've determined that
the iterator passed to .read_iter isn't in memory.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher &lt;agruenba@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>iov_iter: Turn iov_iter_fault_in_readable into fault_in_iov_iter_readable</title>
<updated>2021-10-18T14:35:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andreas Gruenbacher</name>
<email>agruenba@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-08-02T12:54:16+00:00</published>
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Turn iov_iter_fault_in_readable into a function that returns the number
of bytes not faulted in, similar to copy_to_user, instead of returning a
non-zero value when any of the requested pages couldn't be faulted in.
This supports the existing users that require all pages to be faulted in
as well as new users that are happy if any pages can be faulted in.

Rename iov_iter_fault_in_readable to fault_in_iov_iter_readable to make
sure this change doesn't silently break things.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher &lt;agruenba@redhat.com&gt;
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Turn iov_iter_fault_in_readable into a function that returns the number
of bytes not faulted in, similar to copy_to_user, instead of returning a
non-zero value when any of the requested pages couldn't be faulted in.
This supports the existing users that require all pages to be faulted in
as well as new users that are happy if any pages can be faulted in.

Rename iov_iter_fault_in_readable to fault_in_iov_iter_readable to make
sure this change doesn't silently break things.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher &lt;agruenba@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Revert "iov_iter: track truncated size"</title>
<updated>2021-09-15T15:22:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>axboe@kernel.dk</email>
</author>
<published>2021-09-10T17:19:58+00:00</published>
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This reverts commit 2112ff5ce0c1128fe7b4d19cfe7f2b8ce5b595fa.

We no longer need to track the truncation count, the one user that did
need it has been converted to using iov_iter_restore() instead.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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This reverts commit 2112ff5ce0c1128fe7b4d19cfe7f2b8ce5b595fa.

We no longer need to track the truncation count, the one user that did
need it has been converted to using iov_iter_restore() instead.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<title>iov_iter: add helper to save iov_iter state</title>
<updated>2021-09-14T14:12:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>axboe@kernel.dk</email>
</author>
<published>2021-09-10T17:18:36+00:00</published>
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In an ideal world, when someone is passed an iov_iter and returns X bytes,
then X bytes would have been consumed/advanced from the iov_iter. But we
have use cases that always consume the entire iterator, a few examples
of that are iomap and bdev O_DIRECT. This means we cannot rely on the
state of the iov_iter once we've called -&gt;read_iter() or -&gt;write_iter().

This would be easier if we didn't always have to deal with truncate of
the iov_iter, as rewinding would be trivial without that. We recently
added a commit to track the truncate state, but that grew the iov_iter
by 8 bytes and wasn't the best solution.

Implement a helper to save enough of the iov_iter state to sanely restore
it after we've called the read/write iterator helpers. This currently
only works for IOVEC/BVEC/KVEC as that's all we need, support for other
iterator types are left as an exercise for the reader.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/CAHk-=wiacKV4Gh-MYjteU0LwNBSGpWrK-Ov25HdqB1ewinrFPg@mail.gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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In an ideal world, when someone is passed an iov_iter and returns X bytes,
then X bytes would have been consumed/advanced from the iov_iter. But we
have use cases that always consume the entire iterator, a few examples
of that are iomap and bdev O_DIRECT. This means we cannot rely on the
state of the iov_iter once we've called -&gt;read_iter() or -&gt;write_iter().

This would be easier if we didn't always have to deal with truncate of
the iov_iter, as rewinding would be trivial without that. We recently
added a commit to track the truncate state, but that grew the iov_iter
by 8 bytes and wasn't the best solution.

Implement a helper to save enough of the iov_iter state to sanely restore
it after we've called the read/write iterator helpers. This currently
only works for IOVEC/BVEC/KVEC as that's all we need, support for other
iterator types are left as an exercise for the reader.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/CAHk-=wiacKV4Gh-MYjteU0LwNBSGpWrK-Ov25HdqB1ewinrFPg@mail.gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>iov_iter: track truncated size</title>
<updated>2021-09-03T23:31:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pavel Begunkov</name>
<email>asml.silence@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-08-23T10:18:44+00:00</published>
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Remember how many bytes were truncated and reverted back. Because
not reexpanded iterators don't always work well with reverting, we may
need to know that to reexpand ourselves when needed.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Begunkov &lt;asml.silence@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Remember how many bytes were truncated and reverted back. Because
not reexpanded iterators don't always work well with reverting, we may
need to know that to reexpand ourselves when needed.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Begunkov &lt;asml.silence@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>iov_iter: replace iov_iter_copy_from_user_atomic() with iterator-advancing variant</title>
<updated>2021-06-10T15:45:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2021-04-30T14:26:41+00:00</published>
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Replacement is called copy_page_from_iter_atomic(); unlike the old primitive the
callers do *not* need to do iov_iter_advance() after it.  In case when they end
up consuming less than they'd been given they need to do iov_iter_revert() on
everything they had not consumed.  That, however, needs to be done only on slow
paths.

All in-tree callers converted.  And that kills the last user of iterate_all_kinds()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Replacement is called copy_page_from_iter_atomic(); unlike the old primitive the
callers do *not* need to do iov_iter_advance() after it.  In case when they end
up consuming less than they'd been given they need to do iov_iter_revert() on
everything they had not consumed.  That, however, needs to be done only on slow
paths.

All in-tree callers converted.  And that kills the last user of iterate_all_kinds()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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