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<title>fs: Convert aops-&gt;write_begin to take a folio</title>
<updated>2024-08-07T09:33:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)</name>
<email>willy@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-15T18:24:01+00:00</published>
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Convert all callers from working on a page to working on one page
of a folio (support for working on an entire folio can come later).
Removes a lot of folio-&gt;page-&gt;folio conversions.

Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik &lt;josef@toxicpanda.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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Convert all callers from working on a page to working on one page
of a folio (support for working on an entire folio can come later).
Removes a lot of folio-&gt;page-&gt;folio conversions.

Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik &lt;josef@toxicpanda.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs: Convert aops-&gt;write_end to take a folio</title>
<updated>2024-08-07T09:32:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)</name>
<email>willy@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-10T19:45:32+00:00</published>
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Most callers have a folio, and most implementations operate on a folio,
so remove the conversion from folio-&gt;page-&gt;folio to fit through this
interface.

Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik &lt;josef@toxicpanda.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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Most callers have a folio, and most implementations operate on a folio,
so remove the conversion from folio-&gt;page-&gt;folio to fit through this
interface.

Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik &lt;josef@toxicpanda.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs: remove the inode argument to -&gt;d_real() method</title>
<updated>2024-02-06T16:00:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Amir Goldstein</name>
<email>amir73il@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-02-02T11:01:32+00:00</published>
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The only remaining user of -&gt;d_real() method is d_real_inode(), which
passed NULL inode argument to get the real data dentry.

There are no longer any users that call -&gt;d_real() with a non-NULL
inode argument for getting a detry from a specific underlying layer.

Remove the inode argument of the method and replace it with an integer
'type' argument, to allow callers to request the real metadata dentry
instead of the real data dentry.

All the current users of d_real_inode() (e.g. uprobe) continue to get
the real data inode.  Caller that need to get the real metadata inode
(e.g. IMA/EVM) can use d_inode(d_real(dentry, D_REAL_METADATA)).

Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein &lt;amir73il@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240202110132.1584111-3-amir73il@gmail.com
Tested-by: Stefan Berger &lt;stefanb@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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The only remaining user of -&gt;d_real() method is d_real_inode(), which
passed NULL inode argument to get the real data dentry.

There are no longer any users that call -&gt;d_real() with a non-NULL
inode argument for getting a detry from a specific underlying layer.

Remove the inode argument of the method and replace it with an integer
'type' argument, to allow callers to request the real metadata dentry
instead of the real data dentry.

All the current users of d_real_inode() (e.g. uprobe) continue to get
the real data inode.  Caller that need to get the real metadata inode
(e.g. IMA/EVM) can use d_inode(d_real(dentry, D_REAL_METADATA)).

Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein &lt;amir73il@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240202110132.1584111-3-amir73il@gmail.com
Tested-by: Stefan Berger &lt;stefanb@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'pull-rename' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2024-01-12T04:00:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-12T04:00:22+00:00</published>
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Pull rename updates from Al Viro:
 "Fix directory locking scheme on rename

  This was broken in 6.5; we really can't lock two unrelated directories
  without holding -&gt;s_vfs_rename_mutex first and in case of same-parent
  rename of a subdirectory 6.5 ends up doing just that"

* tag 'pull-rename' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  rename(): avoid a deadlock in the case of parents having no common ancestor
  kill lock_two_inodes()
  rename(): fix the locking of subdirectories
  f2fs: Avoid reading renamed directory if parent does not change
  ext4: don't access the source subdirectory content on same-directory rename
  ext2: Avoid reading renamed directory if parent does not change
  udf_rename(): only access the child content on cross-directory rename
  ocfs2: Avoid touching renamed directory if parent does not change
  reiserfs: Avoid touching renamed directory if parent does not change
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Pull rename updates from Al Viro:
 "Fix directory locking scheme on rename

  This was broken in 6.5; we really can't lock two unrelated directories
  without holding -&gt;s_vfs_rename_mutex first and in case of same-parent
  rename of a subdirectory 6.5 ends up doing just that"

* tag 'pull-rename' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  rename(): avoid a deadlock in the case of parents having no common ancestor
  kill lock_two_inodes()
  rename(): fix the locking of subdirectories
  f2fs: Avoid reading renamed directory if parent does not change
  ext4: don't access the source subdirectory content on same-directory rename
  ext2: Avoid reading renamed directory if parent does not change
  udf_rename(): only access the child content on cross-directory rename
  ocfs2: Avoid touching renamed directory if parent does not change
  reiserfs: Avoid touching renamed directory if parent does not change
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs: convert error_remove_page to error_remove_folio</title>
<updated>2023-12-11T00:51:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)</name>
<email>willy@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-11-17T16:14:47+00:00</published>
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There were already assertions that we were not passing a tail page to
error_remove_page(), so make the compiler enforce that by converting
everything to pass and use a folio.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231117161447.2461643-7-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;naoya.horiguchi@nec.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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There were already assertions that we were not passing a tail page to
error_remove_page(), so make the compiler enforce that by converting
everything to pass and use a folio.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231117161447.2461643-7-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;naoya.horiguchi@nec.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>rename(): fix the locking of subdirectories</title>
<updated>2023-11-25T07:53:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2023-11-20T01:25:58+00:00</published>
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	We should never lock two subdirectories without having taken
-&gt;s_vfs_rename_mutex; inode pointer order or not, the "order" proposed
in 28eceeda130f "fs: Lock moved directories" is not transitive, with
the usual consequences.

	The rationale for locking renamed subdirectory in all cases was
the possibility of race between rename modifying .. in a subdirectory to
reflect the new parent and another thread modifying the same subdirectory.
For a lot of filesystems that's not a problem, but for some it can lead
to trouble (e.g. the case when short directory contents is kept in the
inode, but creating a file in it might push it across the size limit
and copy its contents into separate data block(s)).

	However, we need that only in case when the parent does change -
otherwise -&gt;rename() doesn't need to do anything with .. entry in the
first place.  Some instances are lazy and do a tautological update anyway,
but it's really not hard to avoid.

Amended locking rules for rename():
	find the parent(s) of source and target
	if source and target have the same parent
		lock the common parent
	else
		lock -&gt;s_vfs_rename_mutex
		lock both parents, in ancestor-first order; if neither
		is an ancestor of another, lock the parent of source
		first.
	find the source and target.
	if source and target have the same parent
		if operation is an overwriting rename of a subdirectory
			lock the target subdirectory
	else
		if source is a subdirectory
			lock the source
		if target is a subdirectory
			lock the target
	lock non-directories involved, in inode pointer order if both
	source and target are such.

That way we are guaranteed that parents are locked (for obvious reasons),
that any renamed non-directory is locked (nfsd relies upon that),
that any victim is locked (emptiness check needs that, among other things)
and subdirectory that changes parent is locked (needed to protect the update
of .. entries).  We are also guaranteed that any operation locking more
than one directory either takes -&gt;s_vfs_rename_mutex or locks a parent
followed by its child.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 28eceeda130f "fs: Lock moved directories"
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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	We should never lock two subdirectories without having taken
-&gt;s_vfs_rename_mutex; inode pointer order or not, the "order" proposed
in 28eceeda130f "fs: Lock moved directories" is not transitive, with
the usual consequences.

	The rationale for locking renamed subdirectory in all cases was
the possibility of race between rename modifying .. in a subdirectory to
reflect the new parent and another thread modifying the same subdirectory.
For a lot of filesystems that's not a problem, but for some it can lead
to trouble (e.g. the case when short directory contents is kept in the
inode, but creating a file in it might push it across the size limit
and copy its contents into separate data block(s)).

	However, we need that only in case when the parent does change -
otherwise -&gt;rename() doesn't need to do anything with .. entry in the
first place.  Some instances are lazy and do a tautological update anyway,
but it's really not hard to avoid.

Amended locking rules for rename():
	find the parent(s) of source and target
	if source and target have the same parent
		lock the common parent
	else
		lock -&gt;s_vfs_rename_mutex
		lock both parents, in ancestor-first order; if neither
		is an ancestor of another, lock the parent of source
		first.
	find the source and target.
	if source and target have the same parent
		if operation is an overwriting rename of a subdirectory
			lock the target subdirectory
	else
		if source is a subdirectory
			lock the source
		if target is a subdirectory
			lock the target
	lock non-directories involved, in inode pointer order if both
	source and target are such.

That way we are guaranteed that parents are locked (for obvious reasons),
that any renamed non-directory is locked (nfsd relies upon that),
that any victim is locked (emptiness check needs that, among other things)
and subdirectory that changes parent is locked (needed to protect the update
of .. entries).  We are also guaranteed that any operation locking more
than one directory either takes -&gt;s_vfs_rename_mutex or locks a parent
followed by its child.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 28eceeda130f "fs: Lock moved directories"
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'docs-6.6' of git://git.lwn.net/linux</title>
<updated>2023-08-31T03:05:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-31T03:05:42+00:00</published>
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Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "Documentation work keeps chugging along; this includes:

   - Work from Carlos Bilbao to integrate rustdoc output into the
     generated HTML documentation. This took some work to figure out how
     to do it without slowing the docs build and without creating people
     who don't have Rust installed, but Carlos got there

   - Move the loongarch and mips architecture documentation under
     Documentation/arch/

   - Some more maintainer documentation from Jakub

  ... plus the usual assortment of updates, translations, and fixes"

* tag 'docs-6.6' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (56 commits)
  Docu: genericirq.rst: fix irq-example
  input: docs: pxrc: remove reference to phoenix-sim
  Documentation: serial-console: Fix literal block marker
  docs/mm: remove references to hmm_mirror ops and clean typos
  docs/zh_CN: correct regi_chg(),regi_add() to region_chg(),region_add()
  Documentation: Fix typos
  Documentation/ABI: Fix typos
  scripts: kernel-doc: fix macro handling in enums
  scripts: kernel-doc: parse DEFINE_DMA_UNMAP_[ADDR|LEN]
  Documentation: riscv: Update boot image header since EFI stub is supported
  Documentation: riscv: Add early boot document
  Documentation: arm: Add bootargs to the table of added DT parameters
  docs: kernel-parameters: Refer to the correct bitmap function
  doc: update params of memhp_default_state=
  docs: Add book to process/kernel-docs.rst
  docs: sparse: fix invalid link addresses
  docs: vfs: clean up after the iterate() removal
  docs: Add a section on surveys to the researcher guidelines
  docs: move mips under arch
  docs: move loongarch under arch
  ...
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<pre>
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "Documentation work keeps chugging along; this includes:

   - Work from Carlos Bilbao to integrate rustdoc output into the
     generated HTML documentation. This took some work to figure out how
     to do it without slowing the docs build and without creating people
     who don't have Rust installed, but Carlos got there

   - Move the loongarch and mips architecture documentation under
     Documentation/arch/

   - Some more maintainer documentation from Jakub

  ... plus the usual assortment of updates, translations, and fixes"

* tag 'docs-6.6' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (56 commits)
  Docu: genericirq.rst: fix irq-example
  input: docs: pxrc: remove reference to phoenix-sim
  Documentation: serial-console: Fix literal block marker
  docs/mm: remove references to hmm_mirror ops and clean typos
  docs/zh_CN: correct regi_chg(),regi_add() to region_chg(),region_add()
  Documentation: Fix typos
  Documentation/ABI: Fix typos
  scripts: kernel-doc: fix macro handling in enums
  scripts: kernel-doc: parse DEFINE_DMA_UNMAP_[ADDR|LEN]
  Documentation: riscv: Update boot image header since EFI stub is supported
  Documentation: riscv: Add early boot document
  Documentation: arm: Add bootargs to the table of added DT parameters
  docs: kernel-parameters: Refer to the correct bitmap function
  doc: update params of memhp_default_state=
  docs: Add book to process/kernel-docs.rst
  docs: sparse: fix invalid link addresses
  docs: vfs: clean up after the iterate() removal
  docs: Add a section on surveys to the researcher guidelines
  docs: move mips under arch
  docs: move loongarch under arch
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-stable-2023-08-28-18-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2023-08-29T21:25:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-29T21:25:26+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - Some swap cleanups from Ma Wupeng ("fix WARN_ON in
   add_to_avail_list")

 - Peter Xu has a series (mm/gup: Unify hugetlb, speed up thp") which
   reduces the special-case code for handling hugetlb pages in GUP. It
   also speeds up GUP handling of transparent hugepages.

 - Peng Zhang provides some maple tree speedups ("Optimize the fast path
   of mas_store()").

 - Sergey Senozhatsky has improved te performance of zsmalloc during
   compaction (zsmalloc: small compaction improvements").

 - Domenico Cerasuolo has developed additional selftest code for zswap
   ("selftests: cgroup: add zswap test program").

 - xu xin has doe some work on KSM's handling of zero pages. These
   changes are mainly to enable the user to better understand the
   effectiveness of KSM's treatment of zero pages ("ksm: support
   tracking KSM-placed zero-pages").

 - Jeff Xu has fixes the behaviour of memfd's
   MEMFD_NOEXEC_SCOPE_NOEXEC_ENFORCED sysctl ("mm/memfd: fix sysctl
   MEMFD_NOEXEC_SCOPE_NOEXEC_ENFORCED").

 - David Howells has fixed an fscache optimization ("mm, netfs, fscache:
   Stop read optimisation when folio removed from pagecache").

 - Axel Rasmussen has given userfaultfd the ability to simulate memory
   poisoning ("add UFFDIO_POISON to simulate memory poisoning with
   UFFD").

 - Miaohe Lin has contributed some routine maintenance work on the
   memory-failure code ("mm: memory-failure: remove unneeded PageHuge()
   check").

 - Peng Zhang has contributed some maintenance work on the maple tree
   code ("Improve the validation for maple tree and some cleanup").

 - Hugh Dickins has optimized the collapsing of shmem or file pages into
   THPs ("mm: free retracted page table by RCU").

 - Jiaqi Yan has a patch series which permits us to use the healthy
   subpages within a hardware poisoned huge page for general purposes
   ("Improve hugetlbfs read on HWPOISON hugepages").

 - Kemeng Shi has done some maintenance work on the pagetable-check code
   ("Remove unused parameters in page_table_check").

 - More folioification work from Matthew Wilcox ("More filesystem folio
   conversions for 6.6"), ("Followup folio conversions for zswap"). And
   from ZhangPeng ("Convert several functions in page_io.c to use a
   folio").

 - page_ext cleanups from Kemeng Shi ("minor cleanups for page_ext").

 - Baoquan He has converted some architectures to use the
   GENERIC_IOREMAP ioremap()/iounmap() code ("mm: ioremap: Convert
   architectures to take GENERIC_IOREMAP way").

 - Anshuman Khandual has optimized arm64 tlb shootdown ("arm64: support
   batched/deferred tlb shootdown during page reclamation/migration").

 - Better maple tree lockdep checking from Liam Howlett ("More strict
   maple tree lockdep"). Liam also developed some efficiency
   improvements ("Reduce preallocations for maple tree").

 - Cleanup and optimization to the secondary IOMMU TLB invalidation,
   from Alistair Popple ("Invalidate secondary IOMMU TLB on permission
   upgrade").

 - Ryan Roberts fixes some arm64 MM selftest issues ("selftests/mm fixes
   for arm64").

 - Kemeng Shi provides some maintenance work on the compaction code
   ("Two minor cleanups for compaction").

 - Some reduction in mmap_lock pressure from Matthew Wilcox ("Handle
   most file-backed faults under the VMA lock").

 - Aneesh Kumar contributes code to use the vmemmap optimization for DAX
   on ppc64, under some circumstances ("Add support for DAX vmemmap
   optimization for ppc64").

 - page-ext cleanups from Kemeng Shi ("add page_ext_data to get client
   data in page_ext"), ("minor cleanups to page_ext header").

 - Some zswap cleanups from Johannes Weiner ("mm: zswap: three
   cleanups").

 - kmsan cleanups from ZhangPeng ("minor cleanups for kmsan").

 - VMA handling cleanups from Kefeng Wang ("mm: convert to
   vma_is_initial_heap/stack()").

 - DAMON feature work from SeongJae Park ("mm/damon/sysfs-schemes:
   implement DAMOS tried total bytes file"), ("Extend DAMOS filters for
   address ranges and DAMON monitoring targets").

 - Compaction work from Kemeng Shi ("Fixes and cleanups to compaction").

 - Liam Howlett has improved the maple tree node replacement code
   ("maple_tree: Change replacement strategy").

 - ZhangPeng has a general code cleanup - use the K() macro more widely
   ("cleanup with helper macro K()").

 - Aneesh Kumar brings memmap-on-memory to ppc64 ("Add support for
   memmap on memory feature on ppc64").

 - pagealloc cleanups from Kemeng Shi ("Two minor cleanups for pcp list
   in page_alloc"), ("Two minor cleanups for get pageblock
   migratetype").

 - Vishal Moola introduces a memory descriptor for page table tracking,
   "struct ptdesc" ("Split ptdesc from struct page").

 - memfd selftest maintenance work from Aleksa Sarai ("memfd: cleanups
   for vm.memfd_noexec").

 - MM include file rationalization from Hugh Dickins ("arch: include
   asm/cacheflush.h in asm/hugetlb.h").

 - THP debug output fixes from Hugh Dickins ("mm,thp: fix sloppy text
   output").

 - kmemleak improvements from Xiaolei Wang ("mm/kmemleak: use
   object_cache instead of kmemleak_initialized").

 - More folio-related cleanups from Matthew Wilcox ("Remove _folio_dtor
   and _folio_order").

 - A VMA locking scalability improvement from Suren Baghdasaryan
   ("Per-VMA lock support for swap and userfaults").

 - pagetable handling cleanups from Matthew Wilcox ("New page table
   range API").

 - A batch of swap/thp cleanups from David Hildenbrand ("mm/swap: stop
   using page-&gt;private on tail pages for THP_SWAP + cleanups").

 - Cleanups and speedups to the hugetlb fault handling from Matthew
   Wilcox ("Change calling convention for -&gt;huge_fault").

 - Matthew Wilcox has also done some maintenance work on the MM
   subsystem documentation ("Improve mm documentation").

* tag 'mm-stable-2023-08-28-18-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (489 commits)
  maple_tree: shrink struct maple_tree
  maple_tree: clean up mas_wr_append()
  secretmem: convert page_is_secretmem() to folio_is_secretmem()
  nios2: fix flush_dcache_page() for usage from irq context
  hugetlb: add documentation for vma_kernel_pagesize()
  mm: add orphaned kernel-doc to the rst files.
  mm: fix clean_record_shared_mapping_range kernel-doc
  mm: fix get_mctgt_type() kernel-doc
  mm: fix kernel-doc warning from tlb_flush_rmaps()
  mm: remove enum page_entry_size
  mm: allow -&gt;huge_fault() to be called without the mmap_lock held
  mm: move PMD_ORDER to pgtable.h
  mm: remove checks for pte_index
  memcg: remove duplication detection for mem_cgroup_uncharge_swap
  mm/huge_memory: work on folio-&gt;swap instead of page-&gt;private when splitting folio
  mm/swap: inline folio_set_swap_entry() and folio_swap_entry()
  mm/swap: use dedicated entry for swap in folio
  mm/swap: stop using page-&gt;private on tail pages for THP_SWAP
  selftests/mm: fix WARNING comparing pointer to 0
  selftests: cgroup: fix test_kmem_memcg_deletion kernel mem check
  ...
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - Some swap cleanups from Ma Wupeng ("fix WARN_ON in
   add_to_avail_list")

 - Peter Xu has a series (mm/gup: Unify hugetlb, speed up thp") which
   reduces the special-case code for handling hugetlb pages in GUP. It
   also speeds up GUP handling of transparent hugepages.

 - Peng Zhang provides some maple tree speedups ("Optimize the fast path
   of mas_store()").

 - Sergey Senozhatsky has improved te performance of zsmalloc during
   compaction (zsmalloc: small compaction improvements").

 - Domenico Cerasuolo has developed additional selftest code for zswap
   ("selftests: cgroup: add zswap test program").

 - xu xin has doe some work on KSM's handling of zero pages. These
   changes are mainly to enable the user to better understand the
   effectiveness of KSM's treatment of zero pages ("ksm: support
   tracking KSM-placed zero-pages").

 - Jeff Xu has fixes the behaviour of memfd's
   MEMFD_NOEXEC_SCOPE_NOEXEC_ENFORCED sysctl ("mm/memfd: fix sysctl
   MEMFD_NOEXEC_SCOPE_NOEXEC_ENFORCED").

 - David Howells has fixed an fscache optimization ("mm, netfs, fscache:
   Stop read optimisation when folio removed from pagecache").

 - Axel Rasmussen has given userfaultfd the ability to simulate memory
   poisoning ("add UFFDIO_POISON to simulate memory poisoning with
   UFFD").

 - Miaohe Lin has contributed some routine maintenance work on the
   memory-failure code ("mm: memory-failure: remove unneeded PageHuge()
   check").

 - Peng Zhang has contributed some maintenance work on the maple tree
   code ("Improve the validation for maple tree and some cleanup").

 - Hugh Dickins has optimized the collapsing of shmem or file pages into
   THPs ("mm: free retracted page table by RCU").

 - Jiaqi Yan has a patch series which permits us to use the healthy
   subpages within a hardware poisoned huge page for general purposes
   ("Improve hugetlbfs read on HWPOISON hugepages").

 - Kemeng Shi has done some maintenance work on the pagetable-check code
   ("Remove unused parameters in page_table_check").

 - More folioification work from Matthew Wilcox ("More filesystem folio
   conversions for 6.6"), ("Followup folio conversions for zswap"). And
   from ZhangPeng ("Convert several functions in page_io.c to use a
   folio").

 - page_ext cleanups from Kemeng Shi ("minor cleanups for page_ext").

 - Baoquan He has converted some architectures to use the
   GENERIC_IOREMAP ioremap()/iounmap() code ("mm: ioremap: Convert
   architectures to take GENERIC_IOREMAP way").

 - Anshuman Khandual has optimized arm64 tlb shootdown ("arm64: support
   batched/deferred tlb shootdown during page reclamation/migration").

 - Better maple tree lockdep checking from Liam Howlett ("More strict
   maple tree lockdep"). Liam also developed some efficiency
   improvements ("Reduce preallocations for maple tree").

 - Cleanup and optimization to the secondary IOMMU TLB invalidation,
   from Alistair Popple ("Invalidate secondary IOMMU TLB on permission
   upgrade").

 - Ryan Roberts fixes some arm64 MM selftest issues ("selftests/mm fixes
   for arm64").

 - Kemeng Shi provides some maintenance work on the compaction code
   ("Two minor cleanups for compaction").

 - Some reduction in mmap_lock pressure from Matthew Wilcox ("Handle
   most file-backed faults under the VMA lock").

 - Aneesh Kumar contributes code to use the vmemmap optimization for DAX
   on ppc64, under some circumstances ("Add support for DAX vmemmap
   optimization for ppc64").

 - page-ext cleanups from Kemeng Shi ("add page_ext_data to get client
   data in page_ext"), ("minor cleanups to page_ext header").

 - Some zswap cleanups from Johannes Weiner ("mm: zswap: three
   cleanups").

 - kmsan cleanups from ZhangPeng ("minor cleanups for kmsan").

 - VMA handling cleanups from Kefeng Wang ("mm: convert to
   vma_is_initial_heap/stack()").

 - DAMON feature work from SeongJae Park ("mm/damon/sysfs-schemes:
   implement DAMOS tried total bytes file"), ("Extend DAMOS filters for
   address ranges and DAMON monitoring targets").

 - Compaction work from Kemeng Shi ("Fixes and cleanups to compaction").

 - Liam Howlett has improved the maple tree node replacement code
   ("maple_tree: Change replacement strategy").

 - ZhangPeng has a general code cleanup - use the K() macro more widely
   ("cleanup with helper macro K()").

 - Aneesh Kumar brings memmap-on-memory to ppc64 ("Add support for
   memmap on memory feature on ppc64").

 - pagealloc cleanups from Kemeng Shi ("Two minor cleanups for pcp list
   in page_alloc"), ("Two minor cleanups for get pageblock
   migratetype").

 - Vishal Moola introduces a memory descriptor for page table tracking,
   "struct ptdesc" ("Split ptdesc from struct page").

 - memfd selftest maintenance work from Aleksa Sarai ("memfd: cleanups
   for vm.memfd_noexec").

 - MM include file rationalization from Hugh Dickins ("arch: include
   asm/cacheflush.h in asm/hugetlb.h").

 - THP debug output fixes from Hugh Dickins ("mm,thp: fix sloppy text
   output").

 - kmemleak improvements from Xiaolei Wang ("mm/kmemleak: use
   object_cache instead of kmemleak_initialized").

 - More folio-related cleanups from Matthew Wilcox ("Remove _folio_dtor
   and _folio_order").

 - A VMA locking scalability improvement from Suren Baghdasaryan
   ("Per-VMA lock support for swap and userfaults").

 - pagetable handling cleanups from Matthew Wilcox ("New page table
   range API").

 - A batch of swap/thp cleanups from David Hildenbrand ("mm/swap: stop
   using page-&gt;private on tail pages for THP_SWAP + cleanups").

 - Cleanups and speedups to the hugetlb fault handling from Matthew
   Wilcox ("Change calling convention for -&gt;huge_fault").

 - Matthew Wilcox has also done some maintenance work on the MM
   subsystem documentation ("Improve mm documentation").

* tag 'mm-stable-2023-08-28-18-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (489 commits)
  maple_tree: shrink struct maple_tree
  maple_tree: clean up mas_wr_append()
  secretmem: convert page_is_secretmem() to folio_is_secretmem()
  nios2: fix flush_dcache_page() for usage from irq context
  hugetlb: add documentation for vma_kernel_pagesize()
  mm: add orphaned kernel-doc to the rst files.
  mm: fix clean_record_shared_mapping_range kernel-doc
  mm: fix get_mctgt_type() kernel-doc
  mm: fix kernel-doc warning from tlb_flush_rmaps()
  mm: remove enum page_entry_size
  mm: allow -&gt;huge_fault() to be called without the mmap_lock held
  mm: move PMD_ORDER to pgtable.h
  mm: remove checks for pte_index
  memcg: remove duplication detection for mem_cgroup_uncharge_swap
  mm/huge_memory: work on folio-&gt;swap instead of page-&gt;private when splitting folio
  mm/swap: inline folio_set_swap_entry() and folio_swap_entry()
  mm/swap: use dedicated entry for swap in folio
  mm/swap: stop using page-&gt;private on tail pages for THP_SWAP
  selftests/mm: fix WARNING comparing pointer to 0
  selftests: cgroup: fix test_kmem_memcg_deletion kernel mem check
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'iomap-6.6-merge-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfs-linux</title>
<updated>2023-08-28T18:59:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-28T18:59:52+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=6016fc9162245c5b109305841f76cca59c20a273'/>
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Pull iomap updates from Darrick Wong:
 "We've got some big changes for this release -- I'm very happy to be
  landing willy's work to enable large folios for the page cache for
  general read and write IOs when the fs can make contiguous space
  allocations, and Ritesh's work to track sub-folio dirty state to
  eliminate the write amplification problems inherent in using large
  folios.

  As a bonus, io_uring can now process write completions in the caller's
  context instead of bouncing through a workqueue, which should reduce
  io latency dramatically. IOWs, XFS should see a nice performance bump
  for both IO paths.

  Summary:

   - Make large writes to the page cache fill sparse parts of the cache
     with large folios, then use large memcpy calls for the large folio.

   - Track the per-block dirty state of each large folio so that a
     buffered write to a single byte on a large folio does not result in
     a (potentially) multi-megabyte writeback IO.

   - Allow some directio completions to be performed in the initiating
     task's context instead of punting through a workqueue. This will
     reduce latency for some io_uring requests"

* tag 'iomap-6.6-merge-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfs-linux: (26 commits)
  iomap: support IOCB_DIO_CALLER_COMP
  io_uring/rw: add write support for IOCB_DIO_CALLER_COMP
  fs: add IOCB flags related to passing back dio completions
  iomap: add IOMAP_DIO_INLINE_COMP
  iomap: only set iocb-&gt;private for polled bio
  iomap: treat a write through cache the same as FUA
  iomap: use an unsigned type for IOMAP_DIO_* defines
  iomap: cleanup up iomap_dio_bio_end_io()
  iomap: Add per-block dirty state tracking to improve performance
  iomap: Allocate ifs in -&gt;write_begin() early
  iomap: Refactor iomap_write_delalloc_punch() function out
  iomap: Use iomap_punch_t typedef
  iomap: Fix possible overflow condition in iomap_write_delalloc_scan
  iomap: Add some uptodate state handling helpers for ifs state bitmap
  iomap: Drop ifs argument from iomap_set_range_uptodate()
  iomap: Rename iomap_page to iomap_folio_state and others
  iomap: Copy larger chunks from userspace
  iomap: Create large folios in the buffered write path
  filemap: Allow __filemap_get_folio to allocate large folios
  filemap: Add fgf_t typedef
  ...
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Pull iomap updates from Darrick Wong:
 "We've got some big changes for this release -- I'm very happy to be
  landing willy's work to enable large folios for the page cache for
  general read and write IOs when the fs can make contiguous space
  allocations, and Ritesh's work to track sub-folio dirty state to
  eliminate the write amplification problems inherent in using large
  folios.

  As a bonus, io_uring can now process write completions in the caller's
  context instead of bouncing through a workqueue, which should reduce
  io latency dramatically. IOWs, XFS should see a nice performance bump
  for both IO paths.

  Summary:

   - Make large writes to the page cache fill sparse parts of the cache
     with large folios, then use large memcpy calls for the large folio.

   - Track the per-block dirty state of each large folio so that a
     buffered write to a single byte on a large folio does not result in
     a (potentially) multi-megabyte writeback IO.

   - Allow some directio completions to be performed in the initiating
     task's context instead of punting through a workqueue. This will
     reduce latency for some io_uring requests"

* tag 'iomap-6.6-merge-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfs-linux: (26 commits)
  iomap: support IOCB_DIO_CALLER_COMP
  io_uring/rw: add write support for IOCB_DIO_CALLER_COMP
  fs: add IOCB flags related to passing back dio completions
  iomap: add IOMAP_DIO_INLINE_COMP
  iomap: only set iocb-&gt;private for polled bio
  iomap: treat a write through cache the same as FUA
  iomap: use an unsigned type for IOMAP_DIO_* defines
  iomap: cleanup up iomap_dio_bio_end_io()
  iomap: Add per-block dirty state tracking to improve performance
  iomap: Allocate ifs in -&gt;write_begin() early
  iomap: Refactor iomap_write_delalloc_punch() function out
  iomap: Use iomap_punch_t typedef
  iomap: Fix possible overflow condition in iomap_write_delalloc_scan
  iomap: Add some uptodate state handling helpers for ifs state bitmap
  iomap: Drop ifs argument from iomap_set_range_uptodate()
  iomap: Rename iomap_page to iomap_folio_state and others
  iomap: Copy larger chunks from userspace
  iomap: Create large folios in the buffered write path
  filemap: Allow __filemap_get_folio to allocate large folios
  filemap: Add fgf_t typedef
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'v6.6-vfs.tmpfs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs</title>
<updated>2023-08-28T16:55:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-28T16:55:25+00:00</published>
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Pull libfs and tmpfs updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This cycle saw a lot of work for tmpfs that required changes to the
  vfs layer. Andrew, Hugh, and I decided to take tmpfs through vfs this
  cycle. Things will go back to mm next cycle.

  Features
  ========

   - By far the biggest work is the quota support for tmpfs. New tmpfs
     quota infrastructure is added to support it and a new QFMT_SHMEM
     uapi option is exposed.

     This offers user and group quotas to tmpfs (project quotas will be
     added later). Similar to other filesystems tmpfs quota are not
     supported within user namespaces yet.

   - Add support for user xattrs. While tmpfs already supports security
     xattrs (security.*) and POSIX ACLs for a long time it lacked
     support for user xattrs (user.*). With this pull request tmpfs will
     be able to support a limited number of user xattrs.

     This is accompanied by a fix (see below) to limit persistent simple
     xattr allocations.

   - Add support for stable directory offsets. Currently tmpfs relies on
     the libfs provided cursor-based mechanism for readdir. This causes
     issues when a tmpfs filesystem is exported via NFS.

     NFS clients do not open directories. Instead, each server-side
     readdir operation opens the directory, reads it, and then closes
     it. Since the cursor state for that directory is associated with
     the opened file it is discarded after each readdir operation. Such
     directory offsets are not just cached by NFS clients but also
     various userspace libraries based on these clients.

     As it stands there is no way to invalidate the caches when
     directory offsets have changed and the whole application depends on
     unchanging directory offsets.

     At LSFMM we discussed how to solve this problem and decided to
     support stable directory offsets. libfs now allows filesystems like
     tmpfs to use an xarrary to map a directory offset to a dentry. This
     mechanism is currently only used by tmpfs but can be supported by
     others as well.

  Fixes
  =====

   - Change persistent simple xattrs allocations in libfs from
     GFP_KERNEL to GPF_KERNEL_ACCOUNT so they're subject to memory
     cgroup limits. Since this is a change to libfs it affects both
     tmpfs and kernfs.

   - Correctly verify {g,u}id mount options.

     A new filesystem context is created via fsopen() which records the
     namespace that becomes the owning namespace of the superblock when
     fsconfig(FSCONFIG_CMD_CREATE) is called for filesystems that are
     mountable in namespaces. However, fsconfig() calls can occur in a
     namespace different from the namespace where fsopen() has been
     called.

     Currently, when fsconfig() is called to set {g,u}id mount options
     the requested {g,u}id is mapped into a k{g,u}id according to the
     namespace where fsconfig() was called from. The resulting k{g,u}id
     is not guaranteed to be resolvable in the namespace of the
     filesystem (the one that fsopen() was called in).

     This means it's possible for an unprivileged user to create files
     owned by any group in a tmpfs mount since it's possible to set the
     setid bits on the tmpfs directory.

     The contract for {g,u}id mount options and {g,u}id values in
     general set from userspace has always been that they are translated
     according to the caller's idmapping. In so far, tmpfs has been
     doing the correct thing. But since tmpfs is mountable in
     unprivileged contexts it is also necessary to verify that the
     resulting {k,g}uid is representable in the namespace of the
     superblock to avoid such bugs.

     The new mount api's cross-namespace delegation abilities are
     already widely used. Having talked to a bunch of userspace this is
     the most faithful solution with minimal regression risks"

* tag 'v6.6-vfs.tmpfs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  tmpfs,xattr: GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT for simple xattrs
  mm: invalidation check mapping before folio_contains
  tmpfs: trivial support for direct IO
  tmpfs,xattr: enable limited user extended attributes
  tmpfs: track free_ispace instead of free_inodes
  xattr: simple_xattr_set() return old_xattr to be freed
  tmpfs: verify {g,u}id mount options correctly
  shmem: move spinlock into shmem_recalc_inode() to fix quota support
  libfs: Remove parent dentry locking in offset_iterate_dir()
  libfs: Add a lock class for the offset map's xa_lock
  shmem: stable directory offsets
  shmem: Refactor shmem_symlink()
  libfs: Add directory operations for stable offsets
  shmem: fix quota lock nesting in huge hole handling
  shmem: Add default quota limit mount options
  shmem: quota support
  shmem: prepare shmem quota infrastructure
  quota: Check presence of quota operation structures instead of -&gt;quota_read and -&gt;quota_write callbacks
  shmem: make shmem_get_inode() return ERR_PTR instead of NULL
  shmem: make shmem_inode_acct_block() return error
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<pre>
Pull libfs and tmpfs updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This cycle saw a lot of work for tmpfs that required changes to the
  vfs layer. Andrew, Hugh, and I decided to take tmpfs through vfs this
  cycle. Things will go back to mm next cycle.

  Features
  ========

   - By far the biggest work is the quota support for tmpfs. New tmpfs
     quota infrastructure is added to support it and a new QFMT_SHMEM
     uapi option is exposed.

     This offers user and group quotas to tmpfs (project quotas will be
     added later). Similar to other filesystems tmpfs quota are not
     supported within user namespaces yet.

   - Add support for user xattrs. While tmpfs already supports security
     xattrs (security.*) and POSIX ACLs for a long time it lacked
     support for user xattrs (user.*). With this pull request tmpfs will
     be able to support a limited number of user xattrs.

     This is accompanied by a fix (see below) to limit persistent simple
     xattr allocations.

   - Add support for stable directory offsets. Currently tmpfs relies on
     the libfs provided cursor-based mechanism for readdir. This causes
     issues when a tmpfs filesystem is exported via NFS.

     NFS clients do not open directories. Instead, each server-side
     readdir operation opens the directory, reads it, and then closes
     it. Since the cursor state for that directory is associated with
     the opened file it is discarded after each readdir operation. Such
     directory offsets are not just cached by NFS clients but also
     various userspace libraries based on these clients.

     As it stands there is no way to invalidate the caches when
     directory offsets have changed and the whole application depends on
     unchanging directory offsets.

     At LSFMM we discussed how to solve this problem and decided to
     support stable directory offsets. libfs now allows filesystems like
     tmpfs to use an xarrary to map a directory offset to a dentry. This
     mechanism is currently only used by tmpfs but can be supported by
     others as well.

  Fixes
  =====

   - Change persistent simple xattrs allocations in libfs from
     GFP_KERNEL to GPF_KERNEL_ACCOUNT so they're subject to memory
     cgroup limits. Since this is a change to libfs it affects both
     tmpfs and kernfs.

   - Correctly verify {g,u}id mount options.

     A new filesystem context is created via fsopen() which records the
     namespace that becomes the owning namespace of the superblock when
     fsconfig(FSCONFIG_CMD_CREATE) is called for filesystems that are
     mountable in namespaces. However, fsconfig() calls can occur in a
     namespace different from the namespace where fsopen() has been
     called.

     Currently, when fsconfig() is called to set {g,u}id mount options
     the requested {g,u}id is mapped into a k{g,u}id according to the
     namespace where fsconfig() was called from. The resulting k{g,u}id
     is not guaranteed to be resolvable in the namespace of the
     filesystem (the one that fsopen() was called in).

     This means it's possible for an unprivileged user to create files
     owned by any group in a tmpfs mount since it's possible to set the
     setid bits on the tmpfs directory.

     The contract for {g,u}id mount options and {g,u}id values in
     general set from userspace has always been that they are translated
     according to the caller's idmapping. In so far, tmpfs has been
     doing the correct thing. But since tmpfs is mountable in
     unprivileged contexts it is also necessary to verify that the
     resulting {k,g}uid is representable in the namespace of the
     superblock to avoid such bugs.

     The new mount api's cross-namespace delegation abilities are
     already widely used. Having talked to a bunch of userspace this is
     the most faithful solution with minimal regression risks"

* tag 'v6.6-vfs.tmpfs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  tmpfs,xattr: GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT for simple xattrs
  mm: invalidation check mapping before folio_contains
  tmpfs: trivial support for direct IO
  tmpfs,xattr: enable limited user extended attributes
  tmpfs: track free_ispace instead of free_inodes
  xattr: simple_xattr_set() return old_xattr to be freed
  tmpfs: verify {g,u}id mount options correctly
  shmem: move spinlock into shmem_recalc_inode() to fix quota support
  libfs: Remove parent dentry locking in offset_iterate_dir()
  libfs: Add a lock class for the offset map's xa_lock
  shmem: stable directory offsets
  shmem: Refactor shmem_symlink()
  libfs: Add directory operations for stable offsets
  shmem: fix quota lock nesting in huge hole handling
  shmem: Add default quota limit mount options
  shmem: quota support
  shmem: prepare shmem quota infrastructure
  quota: Check presence of quota operation structures instead of -&gt;quota_read and -&gt;quota_write callbacks
  shmem: make shmem_get_inode() return ERR_PTR instead of NULL
  shmem: make shmem_inode_acct_block() return error
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