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<title>netfs, cachefiles: Add a method to query presence of data in the cache</title>
<updated>2022-02-01T16:29:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-01-27T16:02:50+00:00</published>
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Add a netfs_cache_ops method by which a network filesystem can ask the
cache about what data it has available and where so that it can make a
multipage read more efficient.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com
Acked-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rohith Surabattula &lt;rohiths@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steve French &lt;stfrench@microsoft.com&gt;
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Add a netfs_cache_ops method by which a network filesystem can ask the
cache about what data it has available and where so that it can make a
multipage read more efficient.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com
Acked-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rohith Surabattula &lt;rohiths@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steve French &lt;stfrench@microsoft.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'ceph-for-5.17-rc1' of git://github.com/ceph/ceph-client</title>
<updated>2022-01-20T11:46:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-01-20T11:46:20+00:00</published>
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Pull ceph updates from Ilya Dryomov:
 "The highlight is the new mount "device" string syntax implemented by
  Venky Shankar. It solves some long-standing issues with using
  different auth entities and/or mounting different CephFS filesystems
  from the same cluster, remounting and also misleading /proc/mounts
  contents. The existing syntax of course remains to be maintained.

  On top of that, there is a couple of fixes for edge cases in quota and
  a new mount option for turning on unbuffered I/O mode globally instead
  of on a per-file basis with ioctl(CEPH_IOC_SYNCIO)"

* tag 'ceph-for-5.17-rc1' of git://github.com/ceph/ceph-client:
  ceph: move CEPH_SUPER_MAGIC definition to magic.h
  ceph: remove redundant Lsx caps check
  ceph: add new "nopagecache" option
  ceph: don't check for quotas on MDS stray dirs
  ceph: drop send metrics debug message
  rbd: make const pointer spaces a static const array
  ceph: Fix incorrect statfs report for small quota
  ceph: mount syntax module parameter
  doc: document new CephFS mount device syntax
  ceph: record updated mon_addr on remount
  ceph: new device mount syntax
  libceph: rename parse_fsid() to ceph_parse_fsid() and export
  libceph: generalize addr/ip parsing based on delimiter
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<pre>
Pull ceph updates from Ilya Dryomov:
 "The highlight is the new mount "device" string syntax implemented by
  Venky Shankar. It solves some long-standing issues with using
  different auth entities and/or mounting different CephFS filesystems
  from the same cluster, remounting and also misleading /proc/mounts
  contents. The existing syntax of course remains to be maintained.

  On top of that, there is a couple of fixes for edge cases in quota and
  a new mount option for turning on unbuffered I/O mode globally instead
  of on a per-file basis with ioctl(CEPH_IOC_SYNCIO)"

* tag 'ceph-for-5.17-rc1' of git://github.com/ceph/ceph-client:
  ceph: move CEPH_SUPER_MAGIC definition to magic.h
  ceph: remove redundant Lsx caps check
  ceph: add new "nopagecache" option
  ceph: don't check for quotas on MDS stray dirs
  ceph: drop send metrics debug message
  rbd: make const pointer spaces a static const array
  ceph: Fix incorrect statfs report for small quota
  ceph: mount syntax module parameter
  doc: document new CephFS mount device syntax
  ceph: record updated mon_addr on remount
  ceph: new device mount syntax
  libceph: rename parse_fsid() to ceph_parse_fsid() and export
  libceph: generalize addr/ip parsing based on delimiter
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'f2fs-for-5.17-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs</title>
<updated>2022-01-19T09:50:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-01-19T09:50:20+00:00</published>
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Pull f2fs updates from Jaegeuk Kim:
 "In this round, we've tried to address some performance issues in
  f2fs_checkpoint and direct IO flows. Also, there was a work to enhance
  the page cache management used for compression. Other than them, we've
  done typical work including sysfs, code clean-ups, tracepoint, sanity
  check, in addition to bug fixes on corner cases.

  Enhancements:
   - use iomap for direct IO
   - try to avoid lock contention to improve f2fs_ckpt speed
   - avoid unnecessary memory allocation in compression flow
   - POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED drops the page cache containing compression
     pages
   - add some sysfs entries (gc_urgent_high_remaining, pending_discard)

  Bug fixes:
   - try not to expose unwritten blocks to user by DIO (this was added
     to avoid merge conflict; another patch is coming to address other
     missing case)
   - relax minor error condition for file pinning feature used in
     Android OTA
   - fix potential deadlock case in compression flow
   - should not truncate any block on pinned file

  In addition, we've done some code clean-ups and tracepoint/sanity
  check improvement"

* tag 'f2fs-for-5.17-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs: (29 commits)
  f2fs: do not allow partial truncation on pinned file
  f2fs: remove redunant invalidate compress pages
  f2fs: Simplify bool conversion
  f2fs: don't drop compressed page cache in .{invalidate,release}page
  f2fs: fix to reserve space for IO align feature
  f2fs: fix to check available space of CP area correctly in update_ckpt_flags()
  f2fs: support fault injection to f2fs_trylock_op()
  f2fs: clean up __find_inline_xattr() with __find_xattr()
  f2fs: fix to do sanity check on last xattr entry in __f2fs_setxattr()
  f2fs: do not bother checkpoint by f2fs_get_node_info
  f2fs: avoid down_write on nat_tree_lock during checkpoint
  f2fs: compress: fix potential deadlock of compress file
  f2fs: avoid EINVAL by SBI_NEED_FSCK when pinning a file
  f2fs: add gc_urgent_high_remaining sysfs node
  f2fs: fix to do sanity check in is_alive()
  f2fs: fix to avoid panic in is_alive() if metadata is inconsistent
  f2fs: fix to do sanity check on inode type during garbage collection
  f2fs: avoid duplicate call of mark_inode_dirty
  f2fs: show number of pending discard commands
  f2fs: support POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED drop compressed page cache
  ...
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<pre>
Pull f2fs updates from Jaegeuk Kim:
 "In this round, we've tried to address some performance issues in
  f2fs_checkpoint and direct IO flows. Also, there was a work to enhance
  the page cache management used for compression. Other than them, we've
  done typical work including sysfs, code clean-ups, tracepoint, sanity
  check, in addition to bug fixes on corner cases.

  Enhancements:
   - use iomap for direct IO
   - try to avoid lock contention to improve f2fs_ckpt speed
   - avoid unnecessary memory allocation in compression flow
   - POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED drops the page cache containing compression
     pages
   - add some sysfs entries (gc_urgent_high_remaining, pending_discard)

  Bug fixes:
   - try not to expose unwritten blocks to user by DIO (this was added
     to avoid merge conflict; another patch is coming to address other
     missing case)
   - relax minor error condition for file pinning feature used in
     Android OTA
   - fix potential deadlock case in compression flow
   - should not truncate any block on pinned file

  In addition, we've done some code clean-ups and tracepoint/sanity
  check improvement"

* tag 'f2fs-for-5.17-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs: (29 commits)
  f2fs: do not allow partial truncation on pinned file
  f2fs: remove redunant invalidate compress pages
  f2fs: Simplify bool conversion
  f2fs: don't drop compressed page cache in .{invalidate,release}page
  f2fs: fix to reserve space for IO align feature
  f2fs: fix to check available space of CP area correctly in update_ckpt_flags()
  f2fs: support fault injection to f2fs_trylock_op()
  f2fs: clean up __find_inline_xattr() with __find_xattr()
  f2fs: fix to do sanity check on last xattr entry in __f2fs_setxattr()
  f2fs: do not bother checkpoint by f2fs_get_node_info
  f2fs: avoid down_write on nat_tree_lock during checkpoint
  f2fs: compress: fix potential deadlock of compress file
  f2fs: avoid EINVAL by SBI_NEED_FSCK when pinning a file
  f2fs: add gc_urgent_high_remaining sysfs node
  f2fs: fix to do sanity check in is_alive()
  f2fs: fix to avoid panic in is_alive() if metadata is inconsistent
  f2fs: fix to do sanity check on inode type during garbage collection
  f2fs: avoid duplicate call of mark_inode_dirty
  f2fs: show number of pending discard commands
  f2fs: support POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED drop compressed page cache
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)</title>
<updated>2022-01-15T18:37:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-01-15T18:37:06+00:00</published>
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Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton:
 "146 patches.

  Subsystems affected by this patch series: kthread, ia64, scripts,
  ntfs, squashfs, ocfs2, vfs, and mm (slab-generic, slab, kmemleak,
  dax, kasan, debug, pagecache, gup, shmem, frontswap, memremap,
  memcg, selftests, pagemap, dma, vmalloc, memory-failure, hugetlb,
  userfaultfd, vmscan, mempolicy, oom-kill, hugetlbfs, migration, thp,
  ksm, page-poison, percpu, rmap, zswap, zram, cleanups, hmm, and
  damon)"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (146 commits)
  mm/damon: hide kernel pointer from tracepoint event
  mm/damon/vaddr: hide kernel pointer from damon_va_three_regions() failure log
  mm/damon/vaddr: use pr_debug() for damon_va_three_regions() failure logging
  mm/damon/dbgfs: remove an unnecessary variable
  mm/damon: move the implementation of damon_insert_region to damon.h
  mm/damon: add access checking for hugetlb pages
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: update for schemes statistics
  mm/damon/dbgfs: support all DAMOS stats
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/reclaim: document statistics parameters
  mm/damon/reclaim: provide reclamation statistics
  mm/damon/schemes: account how many times quota limit has exceeded
  mm/damon/schemes: account scheme actions that successfully applied
  mm/damon: remove a mistakenly added comment for a future feature
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: update for kdamond_pid and (mk|rm)_contexts
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: mention tracepoint at the beginning
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: remove redundant information
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: update for scheme quotas and watermarks
  mm/damon: convert macro functions to static inline functions
  mm/damon: modify damon_rand() macro to static inline function
  mm/damon: move damon_rand() definition into damon.h
  ...
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Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton:
 "146 patches.

  Subsystems affected by this patch series: kthread, ia64, scripts,
  ntfs, squashfs, ocfs2, vfs, and mm (slab-generic, slab, kmemleak,
  dax, kasan, debug, pagecache, gup, shmem, frontswap, memremap,
  memcg, selftests, pagemap, dma, vmalloc, memory-failure, hugetlb,
  userfaultfd, vmscan, mempolicy, oom-kill, hugetlbfs, migration, thp,
  ksm, page-poison, percpu, rmap, zswap, zram, cleanups, hmm, and
  damon)"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (146 commits)
  mm/damon: hide kernel pointer from tracepoint event
  mm/damon/vaddr: hide kernel pointer from damon_va_three_regions() failure log
  mm/damon/vaddr: use pr_debug() for damon_va_three_regions() failure logging
  mm/damon/dbgfs: remove an unnecessary variable
  mm/damon: move the implementation of damon_insert_region to damon.h
  mm/damon: add access checking for hugetlb pages
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: update for schemes statistics
  mm/damon/dbgfs: support all DAMOS stats
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/reclaim: document statistics parameters
  mm/damon/reclaim: provide reclamation statistics
  mm/damon/schemes: account how many times quota limit has exceeded
  mm/damon/schemes: account scheme actions that successfully applied
  mm/damon: remove a mistakenly added comment for a future feature
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: update for kdamond_pid and (mk|rm)_contexts
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: mention tracepoint at the beginning
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: remove redundant information
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: update for scheme quotas and watermarks
  mm/damon: convert macro functions to static inline functions
  mm/damon: modify damon_rand() macro to static inline function
  mm/damon: move damon_rand() definition into damon.h
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: add a field to store names for private anonymous memory</title>
<updated>2022-01-15T14:30:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Colin Cross</name>
<email>ccross@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-01-14T22:05:59+00:00</published>
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In many userspace applications, and especially in VM based applications
like Android uses heavily, there are multiple different allocators in
use.  At a minimum there is libc malloc and the stack, and in many cases
there are libc malloc, the stack, direct syscalls to mmap anonymous
memory, and multiple VM heaps (one for small objects, one for big
objects, etc.).  Each of these layers usually has its own tools to
inspect its usage; malloc by compiling a debug version, the VM through
heap inspection tools, and for direct syscalls there is usually no way
to track them.

On Android we heavily use a set of tools that use an extended version of
the logic covered in Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt to walk all pages
mapped in userspace and slice their usage by process, shared (COW) vs.
unique mappings, backing, etc.  This can account for real physical
memory usage even in cases like fork without exec (which Android uses
heavily to share as many private COW pages as possible between
processes), Kernel SamePage Merging, and clean zero pages.  It produces
a measurement of the pages that only exist in that process (USS, for
unique), and a measurement of the physical memory usage of that process
with the cost of shared pages being evenly split between processes that
share them (PSS).

If all anonymous memory is indistinguishable then figuring out the real
physical memory usage (PSS) of each heap requires either a pagemap
walking tool that can understand the heap debugging of every layer, or
for every layer's heap debugging tools to implement the pagemap walking
logic, in which case it is hard to get a consistent view of memory
across the whole system.

Tracking the information in userspace leads to all sorts of problems.
It either needs to be stored inside the process, which means every
process has to have an API to export its current heap information upon
request, or it has to be stored externally in a filesystem that somebody
needs to clean up on crashes.  It needs to be readable while the process
is still running, so it has to have some sort of synchronization with
every layer of userspace.  Efficiently tracking the ranges requires
reimplementing something like the kernel vma trees, and linking to it
from every layer of userspace.  It requires more memory, more syscalls,
more runtime cost, and more complexity to separately track regions that
the kernel is already tracking.

This patch adds a field to /proc/pid/maps and /proc/pid/smaps to show a
userspace-provided name for anonymous vmas.  The names of named
anonymous vmas are shown in /proc/pid/maps and /proc/pid/smaps as
[anon:&lt;name&gt;].

Userspace can set the name for a region of memory by calling

   prctl(PR_SET_VMA, PR_SET_VMA_ANON_NAME, start, len, (unsigned long)name)

Setting the name to NULL clears it.  The name length limit is 80 bytes
including NUL-terminator and is checked to contain only printable ascii
characters (including space), except '[',']','\','$' and '`'.

Ascii strings are being used to have a descriptive identifiers for vmas,
which can be understood by the users reading /proc/pid/maps or
/proc/pid/smaps.  Names can be standardized for a given system and they
can include some variable parts such as the name of the allocator or a
library, tid of the thread using it, etc.

The name is stored in a pointer in the shared union in vm_area_struct
that points to a null terminated string.  Anonymous vmas with the same
name (equivalent strings) and are otherwise mergeable will be merged.
The name pointers are not shared between vmas even if they contain the
same name.  The name pointer is stored in a union with fields that are
only used on file-backed mappings, so it does not increase memory usage.

CONFIG_ANON_VMA_NAME kernel configuration is introduced to enable this
feature.  It keeps the feature disabled by default to prevent any
additional memory overhead and to avoid confusing procfs parsers on
systems which are not ready to support named anonymous vmas.

The patch is based on the original patch developed by Colin Cross, more
specifically on its latest version [1] posted upstream by Sumit Semwal.
It used a userspace pointer to store vma names.  In that design, name
pointers could be shared between vmas.  However during the last
upstreaming attempt, Kees Cook raised concerns [2] about this approach
and suggested to copy the name into kernel memory space, perform
validity checks [3] and store as a string referenced from
vm_area_struct.

One big concern is about fork() performance which would need to strdup
anonymous vma names.  Dave Hansen suggested experimenting with
worst-case scenario of forking a process with 64k vmas having longest
possible names [4].  I ran this experiment on an ARM64 Android device
and recorded a worst-case regression of almost 40% when forking such a
process.

This regression is addressed in the followup patch which replaces the
pointer to a name with a refcounted structure that allows sharing the
name pointer between vmas of the same name.  Instead of duplicating the
string during fork() or when splitting a vma it increments the refcount.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20200901161459.11772-4-sumit.semwal@linaro.org/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/202009031031.D32EF57ED@keescook/
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/202009031022.3834F692@keescook/
[4] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/5d0358ab-8c47-2f5f-8e43-23b89d6a8e95@intel.com/

Changes for prctl(2) manual page (in the options section):

PR_SET_VMA
	Sets an attribute specified in arg2 for virtual memory areas
	starting from the address specified in arg3 and spanning the
	size specified	in arg4. arg5 specifies the value of the attribute
	to be set. Note that assigning an attribute to a virtual memory
	area might prevent it from being merged with adjacent virtual
	memory areas due to the difference in that attribute's value.

	Currently, arg2 must be one of:

	PR_SET_VMA_ANON_NAME
		Set a name for anonymous virtual memory areas. arg5 should
		be a pointer to a null-terminated string containing the
		name. The name length including null byte cannot exceed
		80 bytes. If arg5 is NULL, the name of the appropriate
		anonymous virtual memory areas will be reset. The name
		can contain only printable ascii characters (including
                space), except '[',']','\','$' and '`'.

                This feature is available only if the kernel is built with
                the CONFIG_ANON_VMA_NAME option enabled.

[surenb@google.com: docs: proc.rst: /proc/PID/maps: fix malformed table]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211123185928.2513763-1-surenb@google.com
[surenb: rebased over v5.15-rc6, replaced userpointer with a kernel copy,
 added input sanitization and CONFIG_ANON_VMA_NAME config. The bulk of the
 work here was done by Colin Cross, therefore, with his permission, keeping
 him as the author]

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211019215511.3771969-2-surenb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Colin Cross &lt;ccross@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov &lt;gorcunov@openvz.org&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jan Glauber &lt;jan.glauber@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Rob Landley &lt;rob@landley.net&gt;
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" &lt;serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com&gt;
Cc: Shaohua Li &lt;shli@fusionio.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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<pre>
In many userspace applications, and especially in VM based applications
like Android uses heavily, there are multiple different allocators in
use.  At a minimum there is libc malloc and the stack, and in many cases
there are libc malloc, the stack, direct syscalls to mmap anonymous
memory, and multiple VM heaps (one for small objects, one for big
objects, etc.).  Each of these layers usually has its own tools to
inspect its usage; malloc by compiling a debug version, the VM through
heap inspection tools, and for direct syscalls there is usually no way
to track them.

On Android we heavily use a set of tools that use an extended version of
the logic covered in Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt to walk all pages
mapped in userspace and slice their usage by process, shared (COW) vs.
unique mappings, backing, etc.  This can account for real physical
memory usage even in cases like fork without exec (which Android uses
heavily to share as many private COW pages as possible between
processes), Kernel SamePage Merging, and clean zero pages.  It produces
a measurement of the pages that only exist in that process (USS, for
unique), and a measurement of the physical memory usage of that process
with the cost of shared pages being evenly split between processes that
share them (PSS).

If all anonymous memory is indistinguishable then figuring out the real
physical memory usage (PSS) of each heap requires either a pagemap
walking tool that can understand the heap debugging of every layer, or
for every layer's heap debugging tools to implement the pagemap walking
logic, in which case it is hard to get a consistent view of memory
across the whole system.

Tracking the information in userspace leads to all sorts of problems.
It either needs to be stored inside the process, which means every
process has to have an API to export its current heap information upon
request, or it has to be stored externally in a filesystem that somebody
needs to clean up on crashes.  It needs to be readable while the process
is still running, so it has to have some sort of synchronization with
every layer of userspace.  Efficiently tracking the ranges requires
reimplementing something like the kernel vma trees, and linking to it
from every layer of userspace.  It requires more memory, more syscalls,
more runtime cost, and more complexity to separately track regions that
the kernel is already tracking.

This patch adds a field to /proc/pid/maps and /proc/pid/smaps to show a
userspace-provided name for anonymous vmas.  The names of named
anonymous vmas are shown in /proc/pid/maps and /proc/pid/smaps as
[anon:&lt;name&gt;].

Userspace can set the name for a region of memory by calling

   prctl(PR_SET_VMA, PR_SET_VMA_ANON_NAME, start, len, (unsigned long)name)

Setting the name to NULL clears it.  The name length limit is 80 bytes
including NUL-terminator and is checked to contain only printable ascii
characters (including space), except '[',']','\','$' and '`'.

Ascii strings are being used to have a descriptive identifiers for vmas,
which can be understood by the users reading /proc/pid/maps or
/proc/pid/smaps.  Names can be standardized for a given system and they
can include some variable parts such as the name of the allocator or a
library, tid of the thread using it, etc.

The name is stored in a pointer in the shared union in vm_area_struct
that points to a null terminated string.  Anonymous vmas with the same
name (equivalent strings) and are otherwise mergeable will be merged.
The name pointers are not shared between vmas even if they contain the
same name.  The name pointer is stored in a union with fields that are
only used on file-backed mappings, so it does not increase memory usage.

CONFIG_ANON_VMA_NAME kernel configuration is introduced to enable this
feature.  It keeps the feature disabled by default to prevent any
additional memory overhead and to avoid confusing procfs parsers on
systems which are not ready to support named anonymous vmas.

The patch is based on the original patch developed by Colin Cross, more
specifically on its latest version [1] posted upstream by Sumit Semwal.
It used a userspace pointer to store vma names.  In that design, name
pointers could be shared between vmas.  However during the last
upstreaming attempt, Kees Cook raised concerns [2] about this approach
and suggested to copy the name into kernel memory space, perform
validity checks [3] and store as a string referenced from
vm_area_struct.

One big concern is about fork() performance which would need to strdup
anonymous vma names.  Dave Hansen suggested experimenting with
worst-case scenario of forking a process with 64k vmas having longest
possible names [4].  I ran this experiment on an ARM64 Android device
and recorded a worst-case regression of almost 40% when forking such a
process.

This regression is addressed in the followup patch which replaces the
pointer to a name with a refcounted structure that allows sharing the
name pointer between vmas of the same name.  Instead of duplicating the
string during fork() or when splitting a vma it increments the refcount.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20200901161459.11772-4-sumit.semwal@linaro.org/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/202009031031.D32EF57ED@keescook/
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/202009031022.3834F692@keescook/
[4] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/5d0358ab-8c47-2f5f-8e43-23b89d6a8e95@intel.com/

Changes for prctl(2) manual page (in the options section):

PR_SET_VMA
	Sets an attribute specified in arg2 for virtual memory areas
	starting from the address specified in arg3 and spanning the
	size specified	in arg4. arg5 specifies the value of the attribute
	to be set. Note that assigning an attribute to a virtual memory
	area might prevent it from being merged with adjacent virtual
	memory areas due to the difference in that attribute's value.

	Currently, arg2 must be one of:

	PR_SET_VMA_ANON_NAME
		Set a name for anonymous virtual memory areas. arg5 should
		be a pointer to a null-terminated string containing the
		name. The name length including null byte cannot exceed
		80 bytes. If arg5 is NULL, the name of the appropriate
		anonymous virtual memory areas will be reset. The name
		can contain only printable ascii characters (including
                space), except '[',']','\','$' and '`'.

                This feature is available only if the kernel is built with
                the CONFIG_ANON_VMA_NAME option enabled.

[surenb@google.com: docs: proc.rst: /proc/PID/maps: fix malformed table]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211123185928.2513763-1-surenb@google.com
[surenb: rebased over v5.15-rc6, replaced userpointer with a kernel copy,
 added input sanitization and CONFIG_ANON_VMA_NAME config. The bulk of the
 work here was done by Colin Cross, therefore, with his permission, keeping
 him as the author]

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211019215511.3771969-2-surenb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Colin Cross &lt;ccross@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov &lt;gorcunov@openvz.org&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jan Glauber &lt;jan.glauber@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Rob Landley &lt;rob@landley.net&gt;
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" &lt;serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com&gt;
Cc: Shaohua Li &lt;shli@fusionio.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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<title>doc: document new CephFS mount device syntax</title>
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<name>Venky Shankar</name>
<email>vshankar@redhat.com</email>
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<title>Merge tag 'fscache-rewrite-20220111' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs</title>
<updated>2022-01-12T21:45:12+00:00</updated>
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Pull fscache rewrite from David Howells:
 "This is a set of patches that rewrites the fscache driver and the
  cachefiles driver, significantly simplifying the code compared to
  what's upstream, removing the complex operation scheduling and object
  state machine in favour of something much smaller and simpler.

  The series is structured such that the first few patches disable
  fscache use by the network filesystems using it, remove the cachefiles
  driver entirely and as much of the fscache driver as can be got away
  with without causing build failures in the network filesystems.

  The patches after that recreate fscache and then cachefiles,
  attempting to add the pieces in a logical order. Finally, the
  filesystems are reenabled and then the very last patch changes the
  documentation.

  [!] Note: I have dropped the cifs patch for the moment, leaving local
      caching in cifs disabled. I've been having trouble getting that
      working. I think I have it done, but it needs more testing (there
      seem to be some test failures occurring with v5.16 also from
      xfstests), so I propose deferring that patch to the end of the
      merge window.

  WHY REWRITE?
  ============

  Fscache's operation scheduling API was intended to handle sequencing
  of cache operations, which were all required (where possible) to run
  asynchronously in parallel with the operations being done by the
  network filesystem, whilst allowing the cache to be brought online and
  offline and to interrupt service for invalidation.

  With the advent of the tmpfile capacity in the VFS, however, an
  opportunity arises to do invalidation much more simply, without having
  to wait for I/O that's actually in progress: Cachefiles can simply
  create a tmpfile, cut over the file pointer for the backing object
  attached to a cookie and abandon the in-progress I/O, dismissing it
  upon completion.

  Future work here would involve using Omar Sandoval's vfs_link() with
  AT_LINK_REPLACE[1] to allow an extant file to be displaced by a new
  hard link from a tmpfile as currently I have to unlink the old file
  first.

  These patches can also simplify the object state handling as I/O
  operations to the cache don't all have to be brought to a stop in
  order to invalidate a file. To that end, and with an eye on to writing
  a new backing cache model in the future, I've taken the opportunity to
  simplify the indexing structure.

  I've separated the index cookie concept from the file cookie concept
  by C type now. The former is now called a "volume cookie" (struct
  fscache_volume) and there is a container of file cookies. There are
  then just the two levels. All the index cookie levels are collapsed
  into a single volume cookie, and this has a single printable string as
  a key. For instance, an AFS volume would have a key of something like
  "afs,example.com,1000555", combining the filesystem name, cell name
  and volume ID. This is freeform, but must not have '/' chars in it.

  I've also eliminated all pointers back from fscache into the network
  filesystem. This required the duplication of a little bit of data in
  the cookie (cookie key, coherency data and file size), but it's not
  actually that much. This gets rid of problems with making sure we keep
  netfs data structures around so that the cache can access them.

  These patches mean that most of the code that was in the drivers
  before is simply gone and those drivers are now almost entirely new
  code. That being the case, there doesn't seem any particular reason to
  try and maintain bisectability across it. Further, there has to be a
  point in the middle where things are cut over as there's a single
  point everything has to go through (ie. /dev/cachefiles) and it can't
  be in use by two drivers at once.

  ISSUES YET OUTSTANDING
  ======================

  There are some issues still outstanding, unaddressed by this patchset,
  that will need fixing in future patchsets, but that don't stop this
  series from being usable:

  (1) The cachefiles driver needs to stop using the backing filesystem's
      metadata to store information about what parts of the cache are
      populated. This is not reliable with modern extent-based
      filesystems.

      Fixing this is deferred to a separate patchset as it involves
      negotiation with the network filesystem and the VM as to how much
      data to download to fulfil a read - which brings me on to (2)...

  (2) NFS (and CIFS with the dropped patch) do not take account of how
      the cache would like I/O to be structured to meet its granularity
      requirements. Previously, the cache used page granularity, which
      was fine as the network filesystems also dealt in page
      granularity, and the backing filesystem (ext4, xfs or whatever)
      did whatever it did out of sight. However, we now have folios to
      deal with and the cache will now have to store its own metadata to
      track its contents.

      The change I'm looking at making for cachefiles is to store
      content bitmaps in one or more xattrs and making a bit in the map
      correspond to something like a 256KiB block. However, the size of
      an xattr and the fact that they have to be read/updated in one go
      means that I'm looking at covering 1GiB of data per 512-byte map
      and storing each map in an xattr. Cachefiles has the potential to
      grow into a fully fledged filesystem of its very own if I'm not
      careful.

      However, I'm also looking at changing things even more radically
      and going to a different model of how the cache is arranged and
      managed - one that's more akin to the way, say, openafs does
      things - which brings me on to (3)...

  (3) The way cachefilesd does culling is very inefficient for large
      caches and it would be better to move it into the kernel if I can
      as cachefilesd has to keep asking the kernel if it can cull a
      file. Changing the way the backend works would allow this to be
      addressed.

  BITS THAT MAY BE CONTROVERSIAL
  ==============================

  There are some bits I've added that may be controversial:

  (1) I've provided a flag, S_KERNEL_FILE, that cachefiles uses to check
      if a files is already being used by some other kernel service
      (e.g. a duplicate cachefiles cache in the same directory) and
      reject it if it is. This isn't entirely necessary, but it helps
      prevent accidental data corruption.

      I don't want to use S_SWAPFILE as that has other effects, but
      quite possibly swapon() should set S_KERNEL_FILE too.

      Note that it doesn't prevent userspace from interfering, though
      perhaps it should. (I have made it prevent a marked directory from
      being rmdir-able).

  (2) Cachefiles wants to keep the backing file for a cookie open whilst
      we might need to write to it from network filesystem writeback.
      The problem is that the network filesystem unuses its cookie when
      its file is closed, and so we have nothing pinning the cachefiles
      file open and it will get closed automatically after a short time
      to avoid EMFILE/ENFILE problems.

      Reopening the cache file, however, is a problem if this is being
      done due to writeback triggered by exit(). Some filesystems will
      oops if we try to open a file in that context because they want to
      access current-&gt;fs or suchlike.

      To get around this, I added the following:

      (A) An inode flag, I_PINNING_FSCACHE_WB, to be set on a network
          filesystem inode to indicate that we have a usage count on the
          cookie caching that inode.

      (B) A flag in struct writeback_control, unpinned_fscache_wb, that
          is set when __writeback_single_inode() clears the last dirty
          page from i_pages - at which point it clears
          I_PINNING_FSCACHE_WB and sets this flag.

          This has to be done here so that clearing I_PINNING_FSCACHE_WB
          can be done atomically with the check of PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY
          that clears I_DIRTY_PAGES.

      (C) A function, fscache_set_page_dirty(), which if it is not set,
          sets I_PINNING_FSCACHE_WB and calls fscache_use_cookie() to
          pin the cache resources.

      (D) A function, fscache_unpin_writeback(), to be called by
          -&gt;write_inode() to unuse the cookie.

      (E) A function, fscache_clear_inode_writeback(), to be called when
          the inode is evicted, before clear_inode() is called. This
          cleans up any lingering I_PINNING_FSCACHE_WB.

      The network filesystem can then use these tools to make sure that
      fscache_write_to_cache() can write locally modified data to the
      cache as well as to the server.

      For the future, I'm working on write helpers for netfs lib that
      should allow this facility to be removed by keeping track of the
      dirty regions separately - but that's incomplete at the moment and
      is also going to be affected by folios, one way or another, since
      it deals with pages"

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/510611.1641942444@warthog.procyon.org.uk/
Tested-by: Dominique Martinet &lt;asmadeus@codewreck.org&gt; # 9p
Tested-by: kafs-testing@auristor.com # afs
Tested-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt; # ceph
Tested-by: Dave Wysochanski &lt;dwysocha@redhat.com&gt; # nfs
Tested-by: Daire Byrne &lt;daire@dneg.com&gt; # nfs

* tag 'fscache-rewrite-20220111' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs: (67 commits)
  9p, afs, ceph, nfs: Use current_is_kswapd() rather than gfpflags_allow_blocking()
  fscache: Add a tracepoint for cookie use/unuse
  fscache: Rewrite documentation
  ceph: add fscache writeback support
  ceph: conversion to new fscache API
  nfs: Implement cache I/O by accessing the cache directly
  nfs: Convert to new fscache volume/cookie API
  9p: Copy local writes to the cache when writing to the server
  9p: Use fscache indexing rewrite and reenable caching
  afs: Skip truncation on the server of data we haven't written yet
  afs: Copy local writes to the cache when writing to the server
  afs: Convert afs to use the new fscache API
  fscache, cachefiles: Display stat of culling events
  fscache, cachefiles: Display stats of no-space events
  cachefiles: Allow cachefiles to actually function
  fscache, cachefiles: Store the volume coherency data
  cachefiles: Implement the I/O routines
  cachefiles: Implement cookie resize for truncate
  cachefiles: Implement begin and end I/O operation
  cachefiles: Implement backing file wrangling
  ...
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<pre>
Pull fscache rewrite from David Howells:
 "This is a set of patches that rewrites the fscache driver and the
  cachefiles driver, significantly simplifying the code compared to
  what's upstream, removing the complex operation scheduling and object
  state machine in favour of something much smaller and simpler.

  The series is structured such that the first few patches disable
  fscache use by the network filesystems using it, remove the cachefiles
  driver entirely and as much of the fscache driver as can be got away
  with without causing build failures in the network filesystems.

  The patches after that recreate fscache and then cachefiles,
  attempting to add the pieces in a logical order. Finally, the
  filesystems are reenabled and then the very last patch changes the
  documentation.

  [!] Note: I have dropped the cifs patch for the moment, leaving local
      caching in cifs disabled. I've been having trouble getting that
      working. I think I have it done, but it needs more testing (there
      seem to be some test failures occurring with v5.16 also from
      xfstests), so I propose deferring that patch to the end of the
      merge window.

  WHY REWRITE?
  ============

  Fscache's operation scheduling API was intended to handle sequencing
  of cache operations, which were all required (where possible) to run
  asynchronously in parallel with the operations being done by the
  network filesystem, whilst allowing the cache to be brought online and
  offline and to interrupt service for invalidation.

  With the advent of the tmpfile capacity in the VFS, however, an
  opportunity arises to do invalidation much more simply, without having
  to wait for I/O that's actually in progress: Cachefiles can simply
  create a tmpfile, cut over the file pointer for the backing object
  attached to a cookie and abandon the in-progress I/O, dismissing it
  upon completion.

  Future work here would involve using Omar Sandoval's vfs_link() with
  AT_LINK_REPLACE[1] to allow an extant file to be displaced by a new
  hard link from a tmpfile as currently I have to unlink the old file
  first.

  These patches can also simplify the object state handling as I/O
  operations to the cache don't all have to be brought to a stop in
  order to invalidate a file. To that end, and with an eye on to writing
  a new backing cache model in the future, I've taken the opportunity to
  simplify the indexing structure.

  I've separated the index cookie concept from the file cookie concept
  by C type now. The former is now called a "volume cookie" (struct
  fscache_volume) and there is a container of file cookies. There are
  then just the two levels. All the index cookie levels are collapsed
  into a single volume cookie, and this has a single printable string as
  a key. For instance, an AFS volume would have a key of something like
  "afs,example.com,1000555", combining the filesystem name, cell name
  and volume ID. This is freeform, but must not have '/' chars in it.

  I've also eliminated all pointers back from fscache into the network
  filesystem. This required the duplication of a little bit of data in
  the cookie (cookie key, coherency data and file size), but it's not
  actually that much. This gets rid of problems with making sure we keep
  netfs data structures around so that the cache can access them.

  These patches mean that most of the code that was in the drivers
  before is simply gone and those drivers are now almost entirely new
  code. That being the case, there doesn't seem any particular reason to
  try and maintain bisectability across it. Further, there has to be a
  point in the middle where things are cut over as there's a single
  point everything has to go through (ie. /dev/cachefiles) and it can't
  be in use by two drivers at once.

  ISSUES YET OUTSTANDING
  ======================

  There are some issues still outstanding, unaddressed by this patchset,
  that will need fixing in future patchsets, but that don't stop this
  series from being usable:

  (1) The cachefiles driver needs to stop using the backing filesystem's
      metadata to store information about what parts of the cache are
      populated. This is not reliable with modern extent-based
      filesystems.

      Fixing this is deferred to a separate patchset as it involves
      negotiation with the network filesystem and the VM as to how much
      data to download to fulfil a read - which brings me on to (2)...

  (2) NFS (and CIFS with the dropped patch) do not take account of how
      the cache would like I/O to be structured to meet its granularity
      requirements. Previously, the cache used page granularity, which
      was fine as the network filesystems also dealt in page
      granularity, and the backing filesystem (ext4, xfs or whatever)
      did whatever it did out of sight. However, we now have folios to
      deal with and the cache will now have to store its own metadata to
      track its contents.

      The change I'm looking at making for cachefiles is to store
      content bitmaps in one or more xattrs and making a bit in the map
      correspond to something like a 256KiB block. However, the size of
      an xattr and the fact that they have to be read/updated in one go
      means that I'm looking at covering 1GiB of data per 512-byte map
      and storing each map in an xattr. Cachefiles has the potential to
      grow into a fully fledged filesystem of its very own if I'm not
      careful.

      However, I'm also looking at changing things even more radically
      and going to a different model of how the cache is arranged and
      managed - one that's more akin to the way, say, openafs does
      things - which brings me on to (3)...

  (3) The way cachefilesd does culling is very inefficient for large
      caches and it would be better to move it into the kernel if I can
      as cachefilesd has to keep asking the kernel if it can cull a
      file. Changing the way the backend works would allow this to be
      addressed.

  BITS THAT MAY BE CONTROVERSIAL
  ==============================

  There are some bits I've added that may be controversial:

  (1) I've provided a flag, S_KERNEL_FILE, that cachefiles uses to check
      if a files is already being used by some other kernel service
      (e.g. a duplicate cachefiles cache in the same directory) and
      reject it if it is. This isn't entirely necessary, but it helps
      prevent accidental data corruption.

      I don't want to use S_SWAPFILE as that has other effects, but
      quite possibly swapon() should set S_KERNEL_FILE too.

      Note that it doesn't prevent userspace from interfering, though
      perhaps it should. (I have made it prevent a marked directory from
      being rmdir-able).

  (2) Cachefiles wants to keep the backing file for a cookie open whilst
      we might need to write to it from network filesystem writeback.
      The problem is that the network filesystem unuses its cookie when
      its file is closed, and so we have nothing pinning the cachefiles
      file open and it will get closed automatically after a short time
      to avoid EMFILE/ENFILE problems.

      Reopening the cache file, however, is a problem if this is being
      done due to writeback triggered by exit(). Some filesystems will
      oops if we try to open a file in that context because they want to
      access current-&gt;fs or suchlike.

      To get around this, I added the following:

      (A) An inode flag, I_PINNING_FSCACHE_WB, to be set on a network
          filesystem inode to indicate that we have a usage count on the
          cookie caching that inode.

      (B) A flag in struct writeback_control, unpinned_fscache_wb, that
          is set when __writeback_single_inode() clears the last dirty
          page from i_pages - at which point it clears
          I_PINNING_FSCACHE_WB and sets this flag.

          This has to be done here so that clearing I_PINNING_FSCACHE_WB
          can be done atomically with the check of PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY
          that clears I_DIRTY_PAGES.

      (C) A function, fscache_set_page_dirty(), which if it is not set,
          sets I_PINNING_FSCACHE_WB and calls fscache_use_cookie() to
          pin the cache resources.

      (D) A function, fscache_unpin_writeback(), to be called by
          -&gt;write_inode() to unuse the cookie.

      (E) A function, fscache_clear_inode_writeback(), to be called when
          the inode is evicted, before clear_inode() is called. This
          cleans up any lingering I_PINNING_FSCACHE_WB.

      The network filesystem can then use these tools to make sure that
      fscache_write_to_cache() can write locally modified data to the
      cache as well as to the server.

      For the future, I'm working on write helpers for netfs lib that
      should allow this facility to be removed by keeping track of the
      dirty regions separately - but that's incomplete at the moment and
      is also going to be affected by folios, one way or another, since
      it deals with pages"

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/510611.1641942444@warthog.procyon.org.uk/
Tested-by: Dominique Martinet &lt;asmadeus@codewreck.org&gt; # 9p
Tested-by: kafs-testing@auristor.com # afs
Tested-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt; # ceph
Tested-by: Dave Wysochanski &lt;dwysocha@redhat.com&gt; # nfs
Tested-by: Daire Byrne &lt;daire@dneg.com&gt; # nfs

* tag 'fscache-rewrite-20220111' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs: (67 commits)
  9p, afs, ceph, nfs: Use current_is_kswapd() rather than gfpflags_allow_blocking()
  fscache: Add a tracepoint for cookie use/unuse
  fscache: Rewrite documentation
  ceph: add fscache writeback support
  ceph: conversion to new fscache API
  nfs: Implement cache I/O by accessing the cache directly
  nfs: Convert to new fscache volume/cookie API
  9p: Copy local writes to the cache when writing to the server
  9p: Use fscache indexing rewrite and reenable caching
  afs: Skip truncation on the server of data we haven't written yet
  afs: Copy local writes to the cache when writing to the server
  afs: Convert afs to use the new fscache API
  fscache, cachefiles: Display stat of culling events
  fscache, cachefiles: Display stats of no-space events
  cachefiles: Allow cachefiles to actually function
  fscache, cachefiles: Store the volume coherency data
  cachefiles: Implement the I/O routines
  cachefiles: Implement cookie resize for truncate
  cachefiles: Implement begin and end I/O operation
  cachefiles: Implement backing file wrangling
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'fuse-update-5.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse</title>
<updated>2022-01-12T21:30:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-01-12T21:30:58+00:00</published>
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Pull fuse updates from Miklos Szeredi:

 - Fix a regression introduced in 5.15

 - Extend the size of the FUSE_INIT request to accommodate for more
   flags. There's a slight possibility of a regression for obscure fuse
   servers; if this happens, then more complexity will need to be added
   to the protocol

 - Allow the DAX property to be controlled by the server on a per-inode
   basis in virtiofs

 - Allow sending security context to the server when creating a file or
   directory

* tag 'fuse-update-5.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse:
  Documentation/filesystem/dax: DAX on virtiofs
  fuse: mark inode DONT_CACHE when per inode DAX hint changes
  fuse: negotiate per inode DAX in FUSE_INIT
  fuse: enable per inode DAX
  fuse: support per inode DAX in fuse protocol
  fuse: make DAX mount option a tri-state
  fuse: add fuse_should_enable_dax() helper
  fuse: Pass correct lend value to filemap_write_and_wait_range()
  fuse: send security context of inode on file
  fuse: extend init flags
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Pull fuse updates from Miklos Szeredi:

 - Fix a regression introduced in 5.15

 - Extend the size of the FUSE_INIT request to accommodate for more
   flags. There's a slight possibility of a regression for obscure fuse
   servers; if this happens, then more complexity will need to be added
   to the protocol

 - Allow the DAX property to be controlled by the server on a per-inode
   basis in virtiofs

 - Allow sending security context to the server when creating a file or
   directory

* tag 'fuse-update-5.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse:
  Documentation/filesystem/dax: DAX on virtiofs
  fuse: mark inode DONT_CACHE when per inode DAX hint changes
  fuse: negotiate per inode DAX in FUSE_INIT
  fuse: enable per inode DAX
  fuse: support per inode DAX in fuse protocol
  fuse: make DAX mount option a tri-state
  fuse: add fuse_should_enable_dax() helper
  fuse: Pass correct lend value to filemap_write_and_wait_range()
  fuse: send security context of inode on file
  fuse: extend init flags
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'erofs-for-5.17-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xiang/erofs</title>
<updated>2022-01-11T22:51:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-01-11T22:51:10+00:00</published>
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Pull erofs updates from Gao Xiang:
 "In this cycle, tail-packing data inline for compressed files is now
  supported so that tail pcluster can be stored and read together with
  inode metadata in order to save data I/O and storage space.

  In addition to that, to prepare for the upcoming subpage, folio and
  fscache features, we also introduce meta buffers to get rid of
  erofs_get_meta_page() since it was too close to the page itself.

  In addition, in order to show supported kernel features and control
  sync decompression strategy, new sysfs nodes are introduced in this
  cycle as well.

  Summary:

   - add sysfs interface and a sysfs node to control sync decompression

   - add tail-packing inline support for compressed files

   - get rid of erofs_get_meta_page()"

* tag 'erofs-for-5.17-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xiang/erofs:
  erofs: use meta buffers for zmap operations
  erofs: use meta buffers for xattr operations
  erofs: use meta buffers for super operations
  erofs: use meta buffers for inode operations
  erofs: introduce meta buffer operations
  erofs: add on-disk compressed tail-packing inline support
  erofs: support inline data decompression
  erofs: support unaligned data decompression
  erofs: introduce z_erofs_fixup_insize
  erofs: tidy up z_erofs_lz4_decompress
  erofs: clean up erofs_map_blocks tracepoints
  erofs: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
  erofs: add sysfs node to control sync decompression strategy
  erofs: add sysfs interface
  erofs: rename lz4_0pading to zero_padding
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Pull erofs updates from Gao Xiang:
 "In this cycle, tail-packing data inline for compressed files is now
  supported so that tail pcluster can be stored and read together with
  inode metadata in order to save data I/O and storage space.

  In addition to that, to prepare for the upcoming subpage, folio and
  fscache features, we also introduce meta buffers to get rid of
  erofs_get_meta_page() since it was too close to the page itself.

  In addition, in order to show supported kernel features and control
  sync decompression strategy, new sysfs nodes are introduced in this
  cycle as well.

  Summary:

   - add sysfs interface and a sysfs node to control sync decompression

   - add tail-packing inline support for compressed files

   - get rid of erofs_get_meta_page()"

* tag 'erofs-for-5.17-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xiang/erofs:
  erofs: use meta buffers for zmap operations
  erofs: use meta buffers for xattr operations
  erofs: use meta buffers for super operations
  erofs: use meta buffers for inode operations
  erofs: introduce meta buffer operations
  erofs: add on-disk compressed tail-packing inline support
  erofs: support inline data decompression
  erofs: support unaligned data decompression
  erofs: introduce z_erofs_fixup_insize
  erofs: tidy up z_erofs_lz4_decompress
  erofs: clean up erofs_map_blocks tracepoints
  erofs: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
  erofs: add sysfs node to control sync decompression strategy
  erofs: add sysfs interface
  erofs: rename lz4_0pading to zero_padding
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'fs.idmapped.v5.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux</title>
<updated>2022-01-11T22:26:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-01-11T22:26:55+00:00</published>
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Pull fs idmapping updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains the work to enable the idmapping infrastructure to
  support idmapped mounts of filesystems mounted with an idmapping.

  In addition this contains various cleanups that avoid repeated
  open-coding of the same functionality and simplify the code in quite a
  few places.

  We also finish the renaming of the mapping helpers we started a few
  kernel releases back and move them to a dedicated header to not
  continue polluting the fs header needlessly with low-level idmapping
  helpers. With this series the fs header only contains idmapping
  helpers that interact with fs objects.

  Currently we only support idmapped mounts for filesystems mounted
  without an idmapping themselves. This was a conscious decision
  mentioned in multiple places (cf. [1]).

  As explained at length in [3] it is perfectly fine to extend support
  for idmapped mounts to filesystem's mounted with an idmapping should
  the need arise. The need has been there for some time now (cf. [2]).

  Before we can port any filesystem that is mountable with an idmapping
  to support idmapped mounts in the coming cycles, we need to first
  extend the mapping helpers to account for the filesystem's idmapping.
  This again, is explained at length in our documentation at [3] and
  also in the individual commit messages so here's an overview.

  Currently, the low-level mapping helpers implement the remapping
  algorithms described in [3] in a simplified manner as we could rely on
  the fact that all filesystems supporting idmapped mounts are mounted
  without an idmapping.

  In contrast, filesystems mounted with an idmapping are very likely to
  not use an identity mapping and will instead use a non-identity
  mapping. So the translation step from or into the filesystem's
  idmapping in the remapping algorithm cannot be skipped for such
  filesystems.

  Non-idmapped filesystems and filesystems not supporting idmapped
  mounts are unaffected by this change as the remapping algorithms can
  take the same shortcut as before. If the low-level helpers detect that
  they are dealing with an idmapped mount but the underlying filesystem
  is mounted without an idmapping we can rely on the previous shortcut
  and can continue to skip the translation step from or into the
  filesystem's idmapping. And of course, if the low-level helpers detect
  that they are not dealing with an idmapped mount they can simply
  return the relevant id unchanged; no remapping needs to be performed
  at all.

  These checks guarantee that only the minimal amount of work is
  performed. As before, if idmapped mounts aren't used the low-level
  helpers are idempotent and no work is performed at all"

Link: 2ca4dcc4909d ("fs/mount_setattr: tighten permission checks") [1]
Link: https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/10374 [2]
Link: Documentations/filesystems/idmappings.rst [3]
Link: a65e58e791a1 ("fs: document and rename fsid helpers") [4]

* tag 'fs.idmapped.v5.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux:
  fs: support mapped mounts of mapped filesystems
  fs: add i_user_ns() helper
  fs: port higher-level mapping helpers
  fs: remove unused low-level mapping helpers
  fs: use low-level mapping helpers
  docs: update mapping documentation
  fs: account for filesystem mappings
  fs: tweak fsuidgid_has_mapping()
  fs: move mapping helpers
  fs: add is_idmapped_mnt() helper
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Pull fs idmapping updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains the work to enable the idmapping infrastructure to
  support idmapped mounts of filesystems mounted with an idmapping.

  In addition this contains various cleanups that avoid repeated
  open-coding of the same functionality and simplify the code in quite a
  few places.

  We also finish the renaming of the mapping helpers we started a few
  kernel releases back and move them to a dedicated header to not
  continue polluting the fs header needlessly with low-level idmapping
  helpers. With this series the fs header only contains idmapping
  helpers that interact with fs objects.

  Currently we only support idmapped mounts for filesystems mounted
  without an idmapping themselves. This was a conscious decision
  mentioned in multiple places (cf. [1]).

  As explained at length in [3] it is perfectly fine to extend support
  for idmapped mounts to filesystem's mounted with an idmapping should
  the need arise. The need has been there for some time now (cf. [2]).

  Before we can port any filesystem that is mountable with an idmapping
  to support idmapped mounts in the coming cycles, we need to first
  extend the mapping helpers to account for the filesystem's idmapping.
  This again, is explained at length in our documentation at [3] and
  also in the individual commit messages so here's an overview.

  Currently, the low-level mapping helpers implement the remapping
  algorithms described in [3] in a simplified manner as we could rely on
  the fact that all filesystems supporting idmapped mounts are mounted
  without an idmapping.

  In contrast, filesystems mounted with an idmapping are very likely to
  not use an identity mapping and will instead use a non-identity
  mapping. So the translation step from or into the filesystem's
  idmapping in the remapping algorithm cannot be skipped for such
  filesystems.

  Non-idmapped filesystems and filesystems not supporting idmapped
  mounts are unaffected by this change as the remapping algorithms can
  take the same shortcut as before. If the low-level helpers detect that
  they are dealing with an idmapped mount but the underlying filesystem
  is mounted without an idmapping we can rely on the previous shortcut
  and can continue to skip the translation step from or into the
  filesystem's idmapping. And of course, if the low-level helpers detect
  that they are not dealing with an idmapped mount they can simply
  return the relevant id unchanged; no remapping needs to be performed
  at all.

  These checks guarantee that only the minimal amount of work is
  performed. As before, if idmapped mounts aren't used the low-level
  helpers are idempotent and no work is performed at all"

Link: 2ca4dcc4909d ("fs/mount_setattr: tighten permission checks") [1]
Link: https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/10374 [2]
Link: Documentations/filesystems/idmappings.rst [3]
Link: a65e58e791a1 ("fs: document and rename fsid helpers") [4]

* tag 'fs.idmapped.v5.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux:
  fs: support mapped mounts of mapped filesystems
  fs: add i_user_ns() helper
  fs: port higher-level mapping helpers
  fs: remove unused low-level mapping helpers
  fs: use low-level mapping helpers
  docs: update mapping documentation
  fs: account for filesystem mappings
  fs: tweak fsuidgid_has_mapping()
  fs: move mapping helpers
  fs: add is_idmapped_mnt() helper
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