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<title>cachestat: implement cachestat syscall</title>
<updated>2023-06-09T23:25:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nhat Pham</name>
<email>nphamcs@gmail.com</email>
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<published>2023-05-03T01:36:07+00:00</published>
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There is currently no good way to query the page cache state of large file
sets and directory trees.  There is mincore(), but it scales poorly: the
kernel writes out a lot of bitmap data that userspace has to aggregate,
when the user really doesn not care about per-page information in that
case.  The user also needs to mmap and unmap each file as it goes along,
which can be quite slow as well.

Some use cases where this information could come in handy:
  * Allowing database to decide whether to perform an index scan or
    direct table queries based on the in-memory cache state of the
    index.
  * Visibility into the writeback algorithm, for performance issues
    diagnostic.
  * Workload-aware writeback pacing: estimating IO fulfilled by page
    cache (and IO to be done) within a range of a file, allowing for
    more frequent syncing when and where there is IO capacity, and
    batching when there is not.
  * Computing memory usage of large files/directory trees, analogous to
    the du tool for disk usage.

More information about these use cases could be found in the following
thread:

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230315170934.GA97793@cmpxchg.org/

This patch implements a new syscall that queries cache state of a file and
summarizes the number of cached pages, number of dirty pages, number of
pages marked for writeback, number of (recently) evicted pages, etc.  in a
given range.  Currently, the syscall is only wired in for x86
architecture.

NAME
    cachestat - query the page cache statistics of a file.

SYNOPSIS
    #include &lt;sys/mman.h&gt;

    struct cachestat_range {
        __u64 off;
        __u64 len;
    };

    struct cachestat {
        __u64 nr_cache;
        __u64 nr_dirty;
        __u64 nr_writeback;
        __u64 nr_evicted;
        __u64 nr_recently_evicted;
    };

    int cachestat(unsigned int fd, struct cachestat_range *cstat_range,
        struct cachestat *cstat, unsigned int flags);

DESCRIPTION
    cachestat() queries the number of cached pages, number of dirty
    pages, number of pages marked for writeback, number of evicted
    pages, number of recently evicted pages, in the bytes range given by
    `off` and `len`.

    An evicted page is a page that is previously in the page cache but
    has been evicted since. A page is recently evicted if its last
    eviction was recent enough that its reentry to the cache would
    indicate that it is actively being used by the system, and that
    there is memory pressure on the system.

    These values are returned in a cachestat struct, whose address is
    given by the `cstat` argument.

    The `off` and `len` arguments must be non-negative integers. If
    `len` &gt; 0, the queried range is [`off`, `off` + `len`]. If `len` ==
    0, we will query in the range from `off` to the end of the file.

    The `flags` argument is unused for now, but is included for future
    extensibility. User should pass 0 (i.e no flag specified).

    Currently, hugetlbfs is not supported.

    Because the status of a page can change after cachestat() checks it
    but before it returns to the application, the returned values may
    contain stale information.

RETURN VALUE
    On success, cachestat returns 0. On error, -1 is returned, and errno
    is set to indicate the error.

ERRORS
    EFAULT cstat or cstat_args points to an invalid address.

    EINVAL invalid flags.

    EBADF  invalid file descriptor.

    EOPNOTSUPP file descriptor is of a hugetlbfs file

[nphamcs@gmail.com: replace rounddown logic with the existing helper]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230504022044.3675469-1-nphamcs@gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230503013608.2431726-3-nphamcs@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Nhat Pham &lt;nphamcs@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Brian Foster &lt;bfoster@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Michael Kerrisk &lt;mtk.manpages@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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There is currently no good way to query the page cache state of large file
sets and directory trees.  There is mincore(), but it scales poorly: the
kernel writes out a lot of bitmap data that userspace has to aggregate,
when the user really doesn not care about per-page information in that
case.  The user also needs to mmap and unmap each file as it goes along,
which can be quite slow as well.

Some use cases where this information could come in handy:
  * Allowing database to decide whether to perform an index scan or
    direct table queries based on the in-memory cache state of the
    index.
  * Visibility into the writeback algorithm, for performance issues
    diagnostic.
  * Workload-aware writeback pacing: estimating IO fulfilled by page
    cache (and IO to be done) within a range of a file, allowing for
    more frequent syncing when and where there is IO capacity, and
    batching when there is not.
  * Computing memory usage of large files/directory trees, analogous to
    the du tool for disk usage.

More information about these use cases could be found in the following
thread:

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230315170934.GA97793@cmpxchg.org/

This patch implements a new syscall that queries cache state of a file and
summarizes the number of cached pages, number of dirty pages, number of
pages marked for writeback, number of (recently) evicted pages, etc.  in a
given range.  Currently, the syscall is only wired in for x86
architecture.

NAME
    cachestat - query the page cache statistics of a file.

SYNOPSIS
    #include &lt;sys/mman.h&gt;

    struct cachestat_range {
        __u64 off;
        __u64 len;
    };

    struct cachestat {
        __u64 nr_cache;
        __u64 nr_dirty;
        __u64 nr_writeback;
        __u64 nr_evicted;
        __u64 nr_recently_evicted;
    };

    int cachestat(unsigned int fd, struct cachestat_range *cstat_range,
        struct cachestat *cstat, unsigned int flags);

DESCRIPTION
    cachestat() queries the number of cached pages, number of dirty
    pages, number of pages marked for writeback, number of evicted
    pages, number of recently evicted pages, in the bytes range given by
    `off` and `len`.

    An evicted page is a page that is previously in the page cache but
    has been evicted since. A page is recently evicted if its last
    eviction was recent enough that its reentry to the cache would
    indicate that it is actively being used by the system, and that
    there is memory pressure on the system.

    These values are returned in a cachestat struct, whose address is
    given by the `cstat` argument.

    The `off` and `len` arguments must be non-negative integers. If
    `len` &gt; 0, the queried range is [`off`, `off` + `len`]. If `len` ==
    0, we will query in the range from `off` to the end of the file.

    The `flags` argument is unused for now, but is included for future
    extensibility. User should pass 0 (i.e no flag specified).

    Currently, hugetlbfs is not supported.

    Because the status of a page can change after cachestat() checks it
    but before it returns to the application, the returned values may
    contain stale information.

RETURN VALUE
    On success, cachestat returns 0. On error, -1 is returned, and errno
    is set to indicate the error.

ERRORS
    EFAULT cstat or cstat_args points to an invalid address.

    EINVAL invalid flags.

    EBADF  invalid file descriptor.

    EOPNOTSUPP file descriptor is of a hugetlbfs file

[nphamcs@gmail.com: replace rounddown logic with the existing helper]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230504022044.3675469-1-nphamcs@gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230503013608.2431726-3-nphamcs@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Nhat Pham &lt;nphamcs@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Brian Foster &lt;bfoster@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Michael Kerrisk &lt;mtk.manpages@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'driver-core-6.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core</title>
<updated>2023-04-27T18:53:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-27T18:53:57+00:00</published>
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Pull driver core updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the large set of driver core changes for 6.4-rc1.

  Once again, a busy development cycle, with lots of changes happening
  in the driver core in the quest to be able to move "struct bus" and
  "struct class" into read-only memory, a task now complete with these
  changes.

  This will make the future rust interactions with the driver core more
  "provably correct" as well as providing more obvious lifetime rules
  for all busses and classes in the kernel.

  The changes required for this did touch many individual classes and
  busses as many callbacks were changed to take const * parameters
  instead. All of these changes have been submitted to the various
  subsystem maintainers, giving them plenty of time to review, and most
  of them actually did so.

  Other than those changes, included in here are a small set of other
  things:

   - kobject logging improvements

   - cacheinfo improvements and updates

   - obligatory fw_devlink updates and fixes

   - documentation updates

   - device property cleanups and const * changes

   - firwmare loader dependency fixes.

  All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
  problems"

* tag 'driver-core-6.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (120 commits)
  device property: make device_property functions take const device *
  driver core: update comments in device_rename()
  driver core: Don't require dynamic_debug for initcall_debug probe timing
  firmware_loader: rework crypto dependencies
  firmware_loader: Strip off \n from customized path
  zram: fix up permission for the hot_add sysfs file
  cacheinfo: Add use_arch[|_cache]_info field/function
  arch_topology: Remove early cacheinfo error message if -ENOENT
  cacheinfo: Check cache properties are present in DT
  cacheinfo: Check sib_leaf in cache_leaves_are_shared()
  cacheinfo: Allow early level detection when DT/ACPI info is missing/broken
  cacheinfo: Add arm64 early level initializer implementation
  cacheinfo: Add arch specific early level initializer
  tty: make tty_class a static const structure
  driver core: class: remove struct class_interface * from callbacks
  driver core: class: mark the struct class in struct class_interface constant
  driver core: class: make class_register() take a const *
  driver core: class: mark class_release() as taking a const *
  driver core: remove incorrect comment for device_create*
  MIPS: vpe-cmp: remove module owner pointer from struct class usage.
  ...
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Pull driver core updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the large set of driver core changes for 6.4-rc1.

  Once again, a busy development cycle, with lots of changes happening
  in the driver core in the quest to be able to move "struct bus" and
  "struct class" into read-only memory, a task now complete with these
  changes.

  This will make the future rust interactions with the driver core more
  "provably correct" as well as providing more obvious lifetime rules
  for all busses and classes in the kernel.

  The changes required for this did touch many individual classes and
  busses as many callbacks were changed to take const * parameters
  instead. All of these changes have been submitted to the various
  subsystem maintainers, giving them plenty of time to review, and most
  of them actually did so.

  Other than those changes, included in here are a small set of other
  things:

   - kobject logging improvements

   - cacheinfo improvements and updates

   - obligatory fw_devlink updates and fixes

   - documentation updates

   - device property cleanups and const * changes

   - firwmare loader dependency fixes.

  All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
  problems"

* tag 'driver-core-6.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (120 commits)
  device property: make device_property functions take const device *
  driver core: update comments in device_rename()
  driver core: Don't require dynamic_debug for initcall_debug probe timing
  firmware_loader: rework crypto dependencies
  firmware_loader: Strip off \n from customized path
  zram: fix up permission for the hot_add sysfs file
  cacheinfo: Add use_arch[|_cache]_info field/function
  arch_topology: Remove early cacheinfo error message if -ENOENT
  cacheinfo: Check cache properties are present in DT
  cacheinfo: Check sib_leaf in cache_leaves_are_shared()
  cacheinfo: Allow early level detection when DT/ACPI info is missing/broken
  cacheinfo: Add arm64 early level initializer implementation
  cacheinfo: Add arch specific early level initializer
  tty: make tty_class a static const structure
  driver core: class: remove struct class_interface * from callbacks
  driver core: class: mark the struct class in struct class_interface constant
  driver core: class: make class_register() take a const *
  driver core: class: mark class_release() as taking a const *
  driver core: remove incorrect comment for device_create*
  MIPS: vpe-cmp: remove module owner pointer from struct class usage.
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'slab-for-6.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vbabka/slab</title>
<updated>2023-04-25T20:00:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-25T20:00:41+00:00</published>
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Pull slab updates from Vlastimil Babka:
 "The main change is naturally the SLOB removal. Since its deprecation
  in 6.2 I've seen no complaints so hopefully SLUB_(TINY) works well for
  everyone and we can proceed.

  Besides the code cleanup, the main immediate benefit will be allowing
  kfree() family of function to work on kmem_cache_alloc() objects,
  which was incompatible with SLOB. This includes kfree_rcu() which had
  no kmem_cache_free_rcu() counterpart yet and now it shouldn't be
  necessary anymore.

  Besides that, there are several small code and comment improvements
  from Thomas, Thorsten and Vernon"

* tag 'slab-for-6.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vbabka/slab:
  mm/slab: document kfree() as allowed for kmem_cache_alloc() objects
  mm/slob: remove slob.c
  mm/slab: remove CONFIG_SLOB code from slab common code
  mm, pagemap: remove SLOB and SLQB from comments and documentation
  mm, page_flags: remove PG_slob_free
  mm/slob: remove CONFIG_SLOB
  mm/slub: fix help comment of SLUB_DEBUG
  mm: slub: make kobj_type structure constant
  slab: Adjust comment after refactoring of gfp.h
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Pull slab updates from Vlastimil Babka:
 "The main change is naturally the SLOB removal. Since its deprecation
  in 6.2 I've seen no complaints so hopefully SLUB_(TINY) works well for
  everyone and we can proceed.

  Besides the code cleanup, the main immediate benefit will be allowing
  kfree() family of function to work on kmem_cache_alloc() objects,
  which was incompatible with SLOB. This includes kfree_rcu() which had
  no kmem_cache_free_rcu() counterpart yet and now it shouldn't be
  necessary anymore.

  Besides that, there are several small code and comment improvements
  from Thomas, Thorsten and Vernon"

* tag 'slab-for-6.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vbabka/slab:
  mm/slab: document kfree() as allowed for kmem_cache_alloc() objects
  mm/slob: remove slob.c
  mm/slab: remove CONFIG_SLOB code from slab common code
  mm, pagemap: remove SLOB and SLQB from comments and documentation
  mm, page_flags: remove PG_slob_free
  mm/slob: remove CONFIG_SLOB
  mm/slub: fix help comment of SLUB_DEBUG
  mm: slub: make kobj_type structure constant
  slab: Adjust comment after refactoring of gfp.h
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'printk-for-6.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/printk/linux</title>
<updated>2023-04-25T19:46:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-25T19:46:48+00:00</published>
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Pull printk updates from Petr Mladek:

 - Code cleanup and dead code removal

* tag 'printk-for-6.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/printk/linux:
  printk: Remove obsoleted check for non-existent "user" object
  lib/vsprintf: Use isodigit() for the octal number check
  Remove orphaned CONFIG_PRINTK_SAFE_LOG_BUF_SHIFT
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Pull printk updates from Petr Mladek:

 - Code cleanup and dead code removal

* tag 'printk-for-6.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/printk/linux:
  printk: Remove obsoleted check for non-existent "user" object
  lib/vsprintf: Use isodigit() for the octal number check
  Remove orphaned CONFIG_PRINTK_SAFE_LOG_BUF_SHIFT
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<entry>
<title>gcc: disable '-Warray-bounds' for gcc-13 too</title>
<updated>2023-04-23T16:56:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-23T16:56:20+00:00</published>
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We started disabling '-Warray-bounds' for gcc-12 originally on s390,
because it resulted in some warnings that weren't realistically fixable
(commit 8b202ee21839: "s390: disable -Warray-bounds").

That s390-specific issue was then found to be less common elsewhere, but
generic (see f0be87c42cbd: "gcc-12: disable '-Warray-bounds' universally
for now"), and then later expanded the version check was expanded to
gcc-11 (5a41237ad1d4: "gcc: disable -Warray-bounds for gcc-11 too").

And it turns out that I was much too optimistic in thinking that it's
all going to go away, and here we are with gcc-13 showing all the same
issues.  So instead of expanding this one version at a time, let's just
disable it for gcc-11+, and put an end limit to it only when we actually
find a solution.

Yes, I'm sure some of this is because the kernel just does odd things
(like our "container_of()" use, but also knowingly playing games with
things like linker tables and array layouts).

And yes, some of the warnings are likely signs of real bugs, but when
there are hundreds of false positives, that doesn't really help.

Oh well.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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We started disabling '-Warray-bounds' for gcc-12 originally on s390,
because it resulted in some warnings that weren't realistically fixable
(commit 8b202ee21839: "s390: disable -Warray-bounds").

That s390-specific issue was then found to be less common elsewhere, but
generic (see f0be87c42cbd: "gcc-12: disable '-Warray-bounds' universally
for now"), and then later expanded the version check was expanded to
gcc-11 (5a41237ad1d4: "gcc: disable -Warray-bounds for gcc-11 too").

And it turns out that I was much too optimistic in thinking that it's
all going to go away, and here we are with gcc-13 showing all the same
issues.  So instead of expanding this one version at a time, let's just
disable it for gcc-11+, and put an end limit to it only when we actually
find a solution.

Yes, I'm sure some of this is because the kernel just does odd things
(like our "container_of()" use, but also knowingly playing games with
things like linker tables and array layouts).

And yes, some of the warnings are likely signs of real bugs, but when
there are hundreds of false positives, that doesn't really help.

Oh well.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/slob: remove CONFIG_SLOB</title>
<updated>2023-03-29T08:31:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vlastimil Babka</name>
<email>vbabka@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2023-02-27T16:46:13+00:00</published>
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Remove SLOB from Kconfig and Makefile. Everything under #ifdef
CONFIG_SLOB, and mm/slob.c is now dead code.

Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Hyeonggon Yoo &lt;42.hyeyoo@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lstoakes@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
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Remove SLOB from Kconfig and Makefile. Everything under #ifdef
CONFIG_SLOB, and mm/slob.c is now dead code.

Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Hyeonggon Yoo &lt;42.hyeyoo@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lstoakes@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Remove orphaned CONFIG_PRINTK_SAFE_LOG_BUF_SHIFT</title>
<updated>2023-03-27T11:12:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marc Aurèle La France</name>
<email>tsi@tuyoix.net</email>
</author>
<published>2023-02-21T05:10:32+00:00</published>
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After the commit 93d102f094be9beab2 ("printk: remove safe buffers"),
CONFIG_PRINTK_SAFE_LOG_BUF_SHIFT is no longer useful.  Remove it.

Signed-off-by: Marc Aurèle La France &lt;tsi@tuyoix.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: John Ogness &lt;john.ogness@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;senozhatsky@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
[pmladek@suse.cz: Cleaned up the commit message.]
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Fixes: 93d102f094be9beab ("printk: remove safe buffers")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/5c19e248-1b6b-330c-7c4c-a824688daefe@tuyoix.net
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After the commit 93d102f094be9beab2 ("printk: remove safe buffers"),
CONFIG_PRINTK_SAFE_LOG_BUF_SHIFT is no longer useful.  Remove it.

Signed-off-by: Marc Aurèle La France &lt;tsi@tuyoix.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: John Ogness &lt;john.ogness@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;senozhatsky@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
[pmladek@suse.cz: Cleaned up the commit message.]
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Fixes: 93d102f094be9beab ("printk: remove safe buffers")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/5c19e248-1b6b-330c-7c4c-a824688daefe@tuyoix.net
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<entry>
<title>driver core: remove CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED and CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2</title>
<updated>2023-03-06T06:46:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-02-23T07:33:26+00:00</published>
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CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED was added in commit 88a22c985e35
("CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED") in 2006 to allow systems with older versions
of some tools (i.e. Fedora 3's version of udev) to boot properly.  Four
years later, in 2010, the option was attempted to be removed as most of
userspace should have been fixed up properly by then, but some kernel
developers clung to those old systems and refused to update, so we added
CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 in commit e52eec13cd6b ("SYSFS: Allow boot
time switching between deprecated and modern sysfs layout") to allow
them to continue to boot properly, and we allowed a boot time parameter
to be used to switch back to the old format if needed.

Over time, the logic that was covered under these config options was
slowly removed from individual driver subsystems successfully, removed,
and the only thing that is now left in the kernel are some changes in
the block layer's representation in sysfs where real directories are
used instead of symlinks like normal.

Because the original changes were done to userspace tools in 2006, and
all distros that use those tools are long end-of-life, and older
non-udev-based systems do not care about the block layer's sysfs
representation, it is time to finally remove this old logic and the
config entries from the kernel.

Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rafael@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230223073326.2073220-1-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED was added in commit 88a22c985e35
("CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED") in 2006 to allow systems with older versions
of some tools (i.e. Fedora 3's version of udev) to boot properly.  Four
years later, in 2010, the option was attempted to be removed as most of
userspace should have been fixed up properly by then, but some kernel
developers clung to those old systems and refused to update, so we added
CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 in commit e52eec13cd6b ("SYSFS: Allow boot
time switching between deprecated and modern sysfs layout") to allow
them to continue to boot properly, and we allowed a boot time parameter
to be used to switch back to the old format if needed.

Over time, the logic that was covered under these config options was
slowly removed from individual driver subsystems successfully, removed,
and the only thing that is now left in the kernel are some changes in
the block layer's representation in sysfs where real directories are
used instead of symlinks like normal.

Because the original changes were done to userspace tools in 2006, and
all distros that use those tools are long end-of-life, and older
non-udev-based systems do not care about the block layer's sysfs
representation, it is time to finally remove this old logic and the
config entries from the kernel.

Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rafael@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230223073326.2073220-1-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'kbuild-v6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild</title>
<updated>2023-02-26T19:53:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-02-26T19:53:25+00:00</published>
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Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - Change V=1 option to print both short log and full command log

 - Allow V=1 and V=2 to be combined as V=12

 - Make W=1 detect wrong .gitignore files

 - Tree-wide cleanups for unused command line arguments passed to Clang

 - Stop using -Qunused-arguments with Clang

 - Make scripts/setlocalversion handle only correct release tags instead
   of any arbitrary annotated tag

 - Create Debian and RPM source packages without cleaning the source
   tree

 - Various cleanups for packaging

* tag 'kbuild-v6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (74 commits)
  kbuild: rpm-pkg: remove unneeded KERNELRELEASE from modules/headers_install
  docs: kbuild: remove description of KBUILD_LDS_MODULE
  .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for *.dtso files
  kbuild: deb-pkg: improve the usability of source package
  kbuild: deb-pkg: fix binary-arch and clean in debian/rules
  kbuild: tar-pkg: use tar rules in scripts/Makefile.package
  kbuild: make perf-tar*-src-pkg work without relying on git
  kbuild: deb-pkg: switch over to source format 3.0 (quilt)
  kbuild: deb-pkg: make .orig tarball a hard link if possible
  kbuild: deb-pkg: hide KDEB_SOURCENAME from Makefile
  kbuild: srcrpm-pkg: create source package without cleaning
  kbuild: rpm-pkg: build binary packages from source rpm
  kbuild: deb-pkg: create source package without cleaning
  kbuild: add a tool to list files ignored by git
  Documentation/llvm: add Chimera Linux, Google and Meta datacenters
  setlocalversion: use only the correct release tag for git-describe
  setlocalversion: clean up the construction of version output
  .gitignore: ignore *.cover and *.mbx
  kbuild: remove --include-dir MAKEFLAG from top Makefile
  kbuild: fix trivial typo in comment
  ...
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<pre>
Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - Change V=1 option to print both short log and full command log

 - Allow V=1 and V=2 to be combined as V=12

 - Make W=1 detect wrong .gitignore files

 - Tree-wide cleanups for unused command line arguments passed to Clang

 - Stop using -Qunused-arguments with Clang

 - Make scripts/setlocalversion handle only correct release tags instead
   of any arbitrary annotated tag

 - Create Debian and RPM source packages without cleaning the source
   tree

 - Various cleanups for packaging

* tag 'kbuild-v6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (74 commits)
  kbuild: rpm-pkg: remove unneeded KERNELRELEASE from modules/headers_install
  docs: kbuild: remove description of KBUILD_LDS_MODULE
  .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for *.dtso files
  kbuild: deb-pkg: improve the usability of source package
  kbuild: deb-pkg: fix binary-arch and clean in debian/rules
  kbuild: tar-pkg: use tar rules in scripts/Makefile.package
  kbuild: make perf-tar*-src-pkg work without relying on git
  kbuild: deb-pkg: switch over to source format 3.0 (quilt)
  kbuild: deb-pkg: make .orig tarball a hard link if possible
  kbuild: deb-pkg: hide KDEB_SOURCENAME from Makefile
  kbuild: srcrpm-pkg: create source package without cleaning
  kbuild: rpm-pkg: build binary packages from source rpm
  kbuild: deb-pkg: create source package without cleaning
  kbuild: add a tool to list files ignored by git
  Documentation/llvm: add Chimera Linux, Google and Meta datacenters
  setlocalversion: use only the correct release tag for git-describe
  setlocalversion: clean up the construction of version output
  .gitignore: ignore *.cover and *.mbx
  kbuild: remove --include-dir MAKEFLAG from top Makefile
  kbuild: fix trivial typo in comment
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'bootconfig-v6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2023-02-23T22:27:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-02-23T22:27:01+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=f2b98d0af217f64b96bc549457018117ba6b7509'/>
<id>f2b98d0af217f64b96bc549457018117ba6b7509</id>
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Pull bootconfig updates from Masami Hiramatsu:

 - Fix ftrace2bconf.sh tool for checking event enable status correctly

 - Add CONFIG_BOOT_CONFIG_FORCE to apply bootconfig without 'bootconfig'
   boot parameter

 - Enable CONFIG_BOOT_CONFIG_FORCE by default if a bootconfig is
   embedded in the kernel

 - Increase max number of nodes of bootconfig to 8192

* tag 'bootconfig-v6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
  bootconfig: Increase max nodes of bootconfig from 1024 to 8192 for DCC support
  bootconfig: Default BOOT_CONFIG_FORCE to y if BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED
  Allow forcing unconditional bootconfig processing
  tools/bootconfig: fix single &amp; used for logical condition
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<pre>
Pull bootconfig updates from Masami Hiramatsu:

 - Fix ftrace2bconf.sh tool for checking event enable status correctly

 - Add CONFIG_BOOT_CONFIG_FORCE to apply bootconfig without 'bootconfig'
   boot parameter

 - Enable CONFIG_BOOT_CONFIG_FORCE by default if a bootconfig is
   embedded in the kernel

 - Increase max number of nodes of bootconfig to 8192

* tag 'bootconfig-v6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
  bootconfig: Increase max nodes of bootconfig from 1024 to 8192 for DCC support
  bootconfig: Default BOOT_CONFIG_FORCE to y if BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED
  Allow forcing unconditional bootconfig processing
  tools/bootconfig: fix single &amp; used for logical condition
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