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<title>linux.git/Documentation/filesystems, branch v4.19</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<title>vfs: add the fadvise() file operation</title>
<updated>2018-08-30T15:08:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Amir Goldstein</name>
<email>amir73il@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-27T12:56:02+00:00</published>
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This is going to be used by overlayfs and possibly useful
for other filesystems.

Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein &lt;amir73il@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
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This is going to be used by overlayfs and possibly useful
for other filesystems.

Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein &lt;amir73il@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Documentation/filesystems: update documentation of file_operations</title>
<updated>2018-08-30T15:08:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Amir Goldstein</name>
<email>amir73il@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-27T12:56:01+00:00</published>
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...to kernel 4.18.

Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein &lt;amir73il@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
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...to kernel 4.18.

Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein &lt;amir73il@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'kbuild-v4.19-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild</title>
<updated>2018-08-25T20:40:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-25T20:40:38+00:00</published>
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Pull more Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - add build_{menu,n,g,x}config targets for compile-testing Kconfig

 - fix and improve recursive dependency detection in Kconfig

 - fix parallel building of menuconfig/nconfig

 - fix syntax error in clang-version.sh

 - suppress distracting log from syncconfig

 - remove obsolete "rpm" target

 - remove VMLINUX_SYMBOL(_STR) macro entirely

 - fix microblaze build with CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE

 - move compiler test for dead code/data elimination to Kconfig

 - rename well-known LDFLAGS variable to KBUILD_LDFLAGS

 - misc fixes and cleanups

* tag 'kbuild-v4.19-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild:
  kbuild: rename LDFLAGS to KBUILD_LDFLAGS
  kbuild: pass LDFLAGS to recordmcount.pl
  kbuild: test dead code/data elimination support in Kconfig
  initramfs: move gen_initramfs_list.sh from scripts/ to usr/
  vmlinux.lds.h: remove stale &lt;linux/export.h&gt; include
  export.h: remove VMLINUX_SYMBOL() and VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR()
  Coccinelle: remove pci_alloc_consistent semantic to detect in zalloc-simple.cocci
  kbuild: make sorting initramfs contents independent of locale
  kbuild: remove "rpm" target, which is alias of "rpm-pkg"
  kbuild: Fix LOADLIBES rename in Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
  kconfig: suppress "configuration written to .config" for syncconfig
  kconfig: fix "Can't open ..." in parallel build
  kbuild: Add a space after `!` to prevent parsing as file pattern
  scripts: modpost: check memory allocation results
  kconfig: improve the recursive dependency report
  kconfig: report recursive dependency involving 'imply'
  kconfig: error out when seeing recursive dependency
  kconfig: add build-only configurator targets
  scripts/dtc: consolidate include path options in Makefile
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Pull more Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - add build_{menu,n,g,x}config targets for compile-testing Kconfig

 - fix and improve recursive dependency detection in Kconfig

 - fix parallel building of menuconfig/nconfig

 - fix syntax error in clang-version.sh

 - suppress distracting log from syncconfig

 - remove obsolete "rpm" target

 - remove VMLINUX_SYMBOL(_STR) macro entirely

 - fix microblaze build with CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE

 - move compiler test for dead code/data elimination to Kconfig

 - rename well-known LDFLAGS variable to KBUILD_LDFLAGS

 - misc fixes and cleanups

* tag 'kbuild-v4.19-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild:
  kbuild: rename LDFLAGS to KBUILD_LDFLAGS
  kbuild: pass LDFLAGS to recordmcount.pl
  kbuild: test dead code/data elimination support in Kconfig
  initramfs: move gen_initramfs_list.sh from scripts/ to usr/
  vmlinux.lds.h: remove stale &lt;linux/export.h&gt; include
  export.h: remove VMLINUX_SYMBOL() and VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR()
  Coccinelle: remove pci_alloc_consistent semantic to detect in zalloc-simple.cocci
  kbuild: make sorting initramfs contents independent of locale
  kbuild: remove "rpm" target, which is alias of "rpm-pkg"
  kbuild: Fix LOADLIBES rename in Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
  kconfig: suppress "configuration written to .config" for syncconfig
  kconfig: fix "Can't open ..." in parallel build
  kbuild: Add a space after `!` to prevent parsing as file pattern
  scripts: modpost: check memory allocation results
  kconfig: improve the recursive dependency report
  kconfig: report recursive dependency involving 'imply'
  kconfig: error out when seeing recursive dependency
  kconfig: add build-only configurator targets
  scripts/dtc: consolidate include path options in Makefile
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'f2fs-for-4.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs</title>
<updated>2018-08-22T20:29:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-22T20:29:39+00:00</published>
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Pull f2fs updates from Jaegeuk Kim:
 "In this round, we've tuned f2fs to improve general performance by
  serializing block allocation and enhancing discard flows like fstrim
  which avoids user IO contention. And we've added fsync_mode=nobarrier
  which gives an option to user where it skips issuing cache_flush
  commands to underlying flash storage. And there are many bug fixes
  related to fuzzed images, revoked atomic writes, quota ops, and minor
  direct IO.

  Enhancements:
   - add fsync_mode=nobarrier which bypasses cache_flush command
   - enhance the discarding flow which avoids user IOs and issues in
     LBA order
   - readahead some encrypted blocks during GC
   - enable in-memory inode checksum to verify the blocks if
     F2FS_CHECK_FS is set
   - enhance nat_bits behavior
   - set -o discard by default
   - set REQ_RAHEAD to bio in -&gt;readpages

  Bug fixes:
   - fix a corner case to corrupt atomic_writes revoking flow
   - revisit i_gc_rwsem to fix race conditions
   - fix some dio behaviors captured by xfstests
   - correct handling errors given by quota-related failures
   - add many sanity check flows to avoid fuzz test failures
   - add more error number propagation to their callers
   - fix several corner cases to continue fault injection w/ shutdown
     loop"

* tag 'f2fs-for-4.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs: (89 commits)
  f2fs: readahead encrypted block during GC
  f2fs: avoid fi-&gt;i_gc_rwsem[WRITE] lock in f2fs_gc
  f2fs: fix performance issue observed with multi-thread sequential read
  f2fs: fix to skip verifying block address for non-regular inode
  f2fs: rework fault injection handling to avoid a warning
  f2fs: support fault_type mount option
  f2fs: fix to return success when trimming meta area
  f2fs: fix use-after-free of dicard command entry
  f2fs: support discard submission error injection
  f2fs: split discard command in prior to block layer
  f2fs: wake up gc thread immediately when gc_urgent is set
  f2fs: fix incorrect range-&gt;len in f2fs_trim_fs()
  f2fs: refresh recent accessed nat entry in lru list
  f2fs: fix avoid race between truncate and background GC
  f2fs: avoid race between zero_range and background GC
  f2fs: fix to do sanity check with block address in main area v2
  f2fs: fix to do sanity check with inline flags
  f2fs: fix to reset i_gc_failures correctly
  f2fs: fix invalid memory access
  f2fs: fix to avoid broken of dnode block list
  ...
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<pre>
Pull f2fs updates from Jaegeuk Kim:
 "In this round, we've tuned f2fs to improve general performance by
  serializing block allocation and enhancing discard flows like fstrim
  which avoids user IO contention. And we've added fsync_mode=nobarrier
  which gives an option to user where it skips issuing cache_flush
  commands to underlying flash storage. And there are many bug fixes
  related to fuzzed images, revoked atomic writes, quota ops, and minor
  direct IO.

  Enhancements:
   - add fsync_mode=nobarrier which bypasses cache_flush command
   - enhance the discarding flow which avoids user IOs and issues in
     LBA order
   - readahead some encrypted blocks during GC
   - enable in-memory inode checksum to verify the blocks if
     F2FS_CHECK_FS is set
   - enhance nat_bits behavior
   - set -o discard by default
   - set REQ_RAHEAD to bio in -&gt;readpages

  Bug fixes:
   - fix a corner case to corrupt atomic_writes revoking flow
   - revisit i_gc_rwsem to fix race conditions
   - fix some dio behaviors captured by xfstests
   - correct handling errors given by quota-related failures
   - add many sanity check flows to avoid fuzz test failures
   - add more error number propagation to their callers
   - fix several corner cases to continue fault injection w/ shutdown
     loop"

* tag 'f2fs-for-4.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs: (89 commits)
  f2fs: readahead encrypted block during GC
  f2fs: avoid fi-&gt;i_gc_rwsem[WRITE] lock in f2fs_gc
  f2fs: fix performance issue observed with multi-thread sequential read
  f2fs: fix to skip verifying block address for non-regular inode
  f2fs: rework fault injection handling to avoid a warning
  f2fs: support fault_type mount option
  f2fs: fix to return success when trimming meta area
  f2fs: fix use-after-free of dicard command entry
  f2fs: support discard submission error injection
  f2fs: split discard command in prior to block layer
  f2fs: wake up gc thread immediately when gc_urgent is set
  f2fs: fix incorrect range-&gt;len in f2fs_trim_fs()
  f2fs: refresh recent accessed nat entry in lru list
  f2fs: fix avoid race between truncate and background GC
  f2fs: avoid race between zero_range and background GC
  f2fs: fix to do sanity check with block address in main area v2
  f2fs: fix to do sanity check with inline flags
  f2fs: fix to reset i_gc_failures correctly
  f2fs: fix invalid memory access
  f2fs: fix to avoid broken of dnode block list
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)</title>
<updated>2018-08-22T19:34:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-22T19:34:08+00:00</published>
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Merge more updates from Andrew Morton:

 - the rest of MM

 - procfs updates

 - various misc things

 - more y2038 fixes

 - get_maintainer updates

 - lib/ updates

 - checkpatch updates

 - various epoll updates

 - autofs updates

 - hfsplus

 - some reiserfs work

 - fatfs updates

 - signal.c cleanups

 - ipc/ updates

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (166 commits)
  ipc/util.c: update return value of ipc_getref from int to bool
  ipc/util.c: further variable name cleanups
  ipc: simplify ipc initialization
  ipc: get rid of ids-&gt;tables_initialized hack
  lib/rhashtable: guarantee initial hashtable allocation
  lib/rhashtable: simplify bucket_table_alloc()
  ipc: drop ipc_lock()
  ipc/util.c: correct comment in ipc_obtain_object_check
  ipc: rename ipcctl_pre_down_nolock()
  ipc/util.c: use ipc_rcu_putref() for failues in ipc_addid()
  ipc: reorganize initialization of kern_ipc_perm.seq
  ipc: compute kern_ipc_perm.id under the ipc lock
  init/Kconfig: remove EXPERT from CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
  fs/sysv/inode.c: use ktime_get_real_seconds() for superblock stamp
  adfs: use timespec64 for time conversion
  kernel/sysctl.c: fix typos in comments
  drivers/rapidio/devices/rio_mport_cdev.c: remove redundant pointer md
  fork: don't copy inconsistent signal handler state to child
  signal: make get_signal() return bool
  signal: make sigkill_pending() return bool
  ...
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Merge more updates from Andrew Morton:

 - the rest of MM

 - procfs updates

 - various misc things

 - more y2038 fixes

 - get_maintainer updates

 - lib/ updates

 - checkpatch updates

 - various epoll updates

 - autofs updates

 - hfsplus

 - some reiserfs work

 - fatfs updates

 - signal.c cleanups

 - ipc/ updates

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (166 commits)
  ipc/util.c: update return value of ipc_getref from int to bool
  ipc/util.c: further variable name cleanups
  ipc: simplify ipc initialization
  ipc: get rid of ids-&gt;tables_initialized hack
  lib/rhashtable: guarantee initial hashtable allocation
  lib/rhashtable: simplify bucket_table_alloc()
  ipc: drop ipc_lock()
  ipc/util.c: correct comment in ipc_obtain_object_check
  ipc: rename ipcctl_pre_down_nolock()
  ipc/util.c: use ipc_rcu_putref() for failues in ipc_addid()
  ipc: reorganize initialization of kern_ipc_perm.seq
  ipc: compute kern_ipc_perm.id under the ipc lock
  init/Kconfig: remove EXPERT from CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
  fs/sysv/inode.c: use ktime_get_real_seconds() for superblock stamp
  adfs: use timespec64 for time conversion
  kernel/sysctl.c: fix typos in comments
  drivers/rapidio/devices/rio_mport_cdev.c: remove redundant pointer md
  fork: don't copy inconsistent signal handler state to child
  signal: make get_signal() return bool
  signal: make sigkill_pending() return bool
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>/proc/meminfo: add percpu populated pages count</title>
<updated>2018-08-22T17:52:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dennis Zhou (Facebook)</name>
<email>dennisszhou@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-22T04:53:58+00:00</published>
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Currently, percpu memory only exposes allocation and utilization
information via debugfs.  This more or less is only really useful for
understanding the fragmentation and allocation information at a per-chunk
level with a few global counters.  This is also gated behind a config.
BPF and cgroup, for example, have seen an increase in use causing
increased use of percpu memory.  Let's make it easier for someone to
identify how much memory is being used.

This patch adds the "Percpu" stat to meminfo to more easily look up how
much percpu memory is in use.  This number includes the cost for all
allocated backing pages and not just insight at the per a unit, per chunk
level.  Metadata is excluded.  I think excluding metadata is fair because
the backing memory scales with the numbere of cpus and can quickly
outweigh the metadata.  It also makes this calculation light.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180807184723.74919-1-dennisszhou@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou &lt;dennisszhou@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Roman Gushchin &lt;guro@fb.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Acked-by: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Currently, percpu memory only exposes allocation and utilization
information via debugfs.  This more or less is only really useful for
understanding the fragmentation and allocation information at a per-chunk
level with a few global counters.  This is also gated behind a config.
BPF and cgroup, for example, have seen an increase in use causing
increased use of percpu memory.  Let's make it easier for someone to
identify how much memory is being used.

This patch adds the "Percpu" stat to meminfo to more easily look up how
much percpu memory is in use.  This number includes the cost for all
allocated backing pages and not just insight at the per a unit, per chunk
level.  Metadata is excluded.  I think excluding metadata is fair because
the backing memory scales with the numbere of cpus and can quickly
outweigh the metadata.  It also makes this calculation light.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180807184723.74919-1-dennisszhou@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou &lt;dennisszhou@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Roman Gushchin &lt;guro@fb.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Acked-by: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>initramfs: move gen_initramfs_list.sh from scripts/ to usr/</title>
<updated>2018-08-22T14:21:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>yamada.masahiro@socionext.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-20T15:29:51+00:00</published>
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scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh is only invoked from usr/Makefile.
Move it so that all tools to create initramfs are self-contained
in the usr/ directory.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
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scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh is only invoked from usr/Makefile.
Move it so that all tools to create initramfs are self-contained
in the usr/ directory.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'ovl-update-4.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/vfs</title>
<updated>2018-08-22T01:19:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-22T01:19:09+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=d9a185f8b49678775ef56ecbdbc7b76970302897'/>
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<content type='text'>
Pull overlayfs updates from Miklos Szeredi:
 "This contains two new features:

   - Stack file operations: this allows removal of several hacks from
     the VFS, proper interaction of read-only open files with copy-up,
     possibility to implement fs modifying ioctls properly, and others.

   - Metadata only copy-up: when file is on lower layer and only
     metadata is modified (except size) then only copy up the metadata
     and continue to use the data from the lower file"

* tag 'ovl-update-4.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/vfs: (66 commits)
  ovl: Enable metadata only feature
  ovl: Do not do metacopy only for ioctl modifying file attr
  ovl: Do not do metadata only copy-up for truncate operation
  ovl: add helper to force data copy-up
  ovl: Check redirect on index as well
  ovl: Set redirect on upper inode when it is linked
  ovl: Set redirect on metacopy files upon rename
  ovl: Do not set dentry type ORIGIN for broken hardlinks
  ovl: Add an inode flag OVL_CONST_INO
  ovl: Treat metacopy dentries as type OVL_PATH_MERGE
  ovl: Check redirects for metacopy files
  ovl: Move some dir related ovl_lookup_single() code in else block
  ovl: Do not expose metacopy only dentry from d_real()
  ovl: Open file with data except for the case of fsync
  ovl: Add helper ovl_inode_realdata()
  ovl: Store lower data inode in ovl_inode
  ovl: Fix ovl_getattr() to get number of blocks from lower
  ovl: Add helper ovl_dentry_lowerdata() to get lower data dentry
  ovl: Copy up meta inode data from lowest data inode
  ovl: Modify ovl_lookup() and friends to lookup metacopy dentry
  ...
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull overlayfs updates from Miklos Szeredi:
 "This contains two new features:

   - Stack file operations: this allows removal of several hacks from
     the VFS, proper interaction of read-only open files with copy-up,
     possibility to implement fs modifying ioctls properly, and others.

   - Metadata only copy-up: when file is on lower layer and only
     metadata is modified (except size) then only copy up the metadata
     and continue to use the data from the lower file"

* tag 'ovl-update-4.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/vfs: (66 commits)
  ovl: Enable metadata only feature
  ovl: Do not do metacopy only for ioctl modifying file attr
  ovl: Do not do metadata only copy-up for truncate operation
  ovl: add helper to force data copy-up
  ovl: Check redirect on index as well
  ovl: Set redirect on upper inode when it is linked
  ovl: Set redirect on metacopy files upon rename
  ovl: Do not set dentry type ORIGIN for broken hardlinks
  ovl: Add an inode flag OVL_CONST_INO
  ovl: Treat metacopy dentries as type OVL_PATH_MERGE
  ovl: Check redirects for metacopy files
  ovl: Move some dir related ovl_lookup_single() code in else block
  ovl: Do not expose metacopy only dentry from d_real()
  ovl: Open file with data except for the case of fsync
  ovl: Add helper ovl_inode_realdata()
  ovl: Store lower data inode in ovl_inode
  ovl: Fix ovl_getattr() to get number of blocks from lower
  ovl: Add helper ovl_dentry_lowerdata() to get lower data dentry
  ovl: Copy up meta inode data from lowest data inode
  ovl: Modify ovl_lookup() and friends to lookup metacopy dentry
  ...
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<entry>
<title>fs/seq_file.c: simplify seq_file iteration code and interface</title>
<updated>2018-08-17T23:20:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>NeilBrown</name>
<email>neilb@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-17T22:44:41+00:00</published>
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The documentation for seq_file suggests that it is necessary to be able
to move the iterator to a given offset, however that is not the case.
If the iterator is stored in the private data and is stable from one
read() syscall to the next, it is only necessary to support first/next
interactions.  Implementing this in a client is a little clumsy.

 - if -&gt;start() is given a pos of zero, it should go to start of
   sequence.

 - if -&gt;start() is given the name pos that was given to the most recent
   next() or start(), it should restore the iterator to state just
   before that last call

 - if -&gt;start is given another number, it should set the iterator one
   beyond the start just before the last -&gt;start or -&gt;next call.

Also, the documentation says that the implementation can interpret the
pos however it likes (other than zero meaning start), but seq_file
increments the pos sometimes which does impose on the implementation.

This patch simplifies the interface for first/next iteration and
simplifies the code, while maintaining complete backward compatability.
Now:

 - if -&gt;start() is given a pos of zero, it should return an iterator
   placed at the start of the sequence

 - if -&gt;start() is given a non-zero pos, it should return the iterator
   in the same state it was after the last -&gt;start or -&gt;next.

This is particularly useful for interators which walk the multiple
chains in a hash table, e.g.  using rhashtable_walk*.  See
fs/gfs2/glock.c and drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/vvp_dev.c

A large part of achieving this is to *always* call -&gt;next after -&gt;show
has successfully stored all of an entry in the buffer.  Never just
increment the index instead.  Also:

 - always pass &amp;m-&gt;index to -&gt;start() and -&gt;next(), never a temp
   variable

 - don't clear -&gt;from when -&gt;count is zero, as -&gt;from is dead when
   -&gt;count is zero.

Some -&gt;next functions do not increment *pos when they return NULL.  To
maintain compatability with this, we still need to increment m-&gt;index in
one place, if -&gt;next didn't increment it.  Note that such -&gt;next
functions are buggy and should be fixed.  A simple demonstration is

   dd if=/proc/swaps bs=1000 skip=1

Choose any block size larger than the size of /proc/swaps.  This will
always show the whole last line of /proc/swaps.

This patch doesn't work around buggy next() functions for this case.

[neilb@suse.com: ensure -&gt;from is valid]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/87601ryb8a.fsf@notabene.neil.brown.name
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;	[docs]
Tested-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
The documentation for seq_file suggests that it is necessary to be able
to move the iterator to a given offset, however that is not the case.
If the iterator is stored in the private data and is stable from one
read() syscall to the next, it is only necessary to support first/next
interactions.  Implementing this in a client is a little clumsy.

 - if -&gt;start() is given a pos of zero, it should go to start of
   sequence.

 - if -&gt;start() is given the name pos that was given to the most recent
   next() or start(), it should restore the iterator to state just
   before that last call

 - if -&gt;start is given another number, it should set the iterator one
   beyond the start just before the last -&gt;start or -&gt;next call.

Also, the documentation says that the implementation can interpret the
pos however it likes (other than zero meaning start), but seq_file
increments the pos sometimes which does impose on the implementation.

This patch simplifies the interface for first/next iteration and
simplifies the code, while maintaining complete backward compatability.
Now:

 - if -&gt;start() is given a pos of zero, it should return an iterator
   placed at the start of the sequence

 - if -&gt;start() is given a non-zero pos, it should return the iterator
   in the same state it was after the last -&gt;start or -&gt;next.

This is particularly useful for interators which walk the multiple
chains in a hash table, e.g.  using rhashtable_walk*.  See
fs/gfs2/glock.c and drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/vvp_dev.c

A large part of achieving this is to *always* call -&gt;next after -&gt;show
has successfully stored all of an entry in the buffer.  Never just
increment the index instead.  Also:

 - always pass &amp;m-&gt;index to -&gt;start() and -&gt;next(), never a temp
   variable

 - don't clear -&gt;from when -&gt;count is zero, as -&gt;from is dead when
   -&gt;count is zero.

Some -&gt;next functions do not increment *pos when they return NULL.  To
maintain compatability with this, we still need to increment m-&gt;index in
one place, if -&gt;next didn't increment it.  Note that such -&gt;next
functions are buggy and should be fixed.  A simple demonstration is

   dd if=/proc/swaps bs=1000 skip=1

Choose any block size larger than the size of /proc/swaps.  This will
always show the whole last line of /proc/swaps.

This patch doesn't work around buggy next() functions for this case.

[neilb@suse.com: ensure -&gt;from is valid]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/87601ryb8a.fsf@notabene.neil.brown.name
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;	[docs]
Tested-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'docs-4.19' of git://git.lwn.net/linux</title>
<updated>2018-08-14T21:29:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-14T21:29:31+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=e6ecec342fefc2df01438cb0b8bacdd8641a6418'/>
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<content type='text'>
Pull documentation update from Jonathan Corbet:
 "This was a moderately busy cycle for docs, with the usual collection
  of small fixes and updates.

  We also have new ktime_get_*() docs from Arnd, some kernel-doc fixes,
  a new set of Italian translations (non so se vale la pena, ma non fa
  male - speriamo bene), and some extensive early memory-management
  documentation improvements from Mike Rapoport"

* tag 'docs-4.19' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (52 commits)
  Documentation: corrections to console/console.txt
  Documentation: add ioctl number entry for v4l2-subdev.h
  Remove gendered language from management style documentation
  scripts/kernel-doc: Escape all literal braces in regexes
  docs/mm: add description of boot time memory management
  docs/mm: memblock: add overview documentation
  docs/mm: memblock: add kernel-doc description for memblock types
  docs/mm: memblock: add kernel-doc comments for memblock_add[_node]
  docs/mm: memblock: update kernel-doc comments
  mm/memblock: add a name for memblock flags enumeration
  docs/mm: bootmem: add overview documentation
  docs/mm: bootmem: add kernel-doc description of 'struct bootmem_data'
  docs/mm: bootmem: fix kernel-doc warnings
  docs/mm: nobootmem: fixup kernel-doc comments
  mm/bootmem: drop duplicated kernel-doc comments
  Documentation: vm.txt: Adding 'nr_hugepages_mempolicy' parameter description.
  doc:it_IT: translation for kernel-hacking
  docs: Fix the reference labels in Locking.rst
  doc: tracing: Fix a typo of trace_stat
  mm: Introduce new type vm_fault_t
  ...
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<pre>
Pull documentation update from Jonathan Corbet:
 "This was a moderately busy cycle for docs, with the usual collection
  of small fixes and updates.

  We also have new ktime_get_*() docs from Arnd, some kernel-doc fixes,
  a new set of Italian translations (non so se vale la pena, ma non fa
  male - speriamo bene), and some extensive early memory-management
  documentation improvements from Mike Rapoport"

* tag 'docs-4.19' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (52 commits)
  Documentation: corrections to console/console.txt
  Documentation: add ioctl number entry for v4l2-subdev.h
  Remove gendered language from management style documentation
  scripts/kernel-doc: Escape all literal braces in regexes
  docs/mm: add description of boot time memory management
  docs/mm: memblock: add overview documentation
  docs/mm: memblock: add kernel-doc description for memblock types
  docs/mm: memblock: add kernel-doc comments for memblock_add[_node]
  docs/mm: memblock: update kernel-doc comments
  mm/memblock: add a name for memblock flags enumeration
  docs/mm: bootmem: add overview documentation
  docs/mm: bootmem: add kernel-doc description of 'struct bootmem_data'
  docs/mm: bootmem: fix kernel-doc warnings
  docs/mm: nobootmem: fixup kernel-doc comments
  mm/bootmem: drop duplicated kernel-doc comments
  Documentation: vm.txt: Adding 'nr_hugepages_mempolicy' parameter description.
  doc:it_IT: translation for kernel-hacking
  docs: Fix the reference labels in Locking.rst
  doc: tracing: Fix a typo of trace_stat
  mm: Introduce new type vm_fault_t
  ...
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