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<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sage/ceph-client</title>
<updated>2016-01-24T20:34:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-24T20:34:13+00:00</published>
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Pull Ceph updates from Sage Weil:
 "The two main changes are aio support in CephFS, and a series that
  fixes several issues in the authentication key timeout/renewal code.

  On top of that are a variety of cleanups and minor bug fixes"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sage/ceph-client:
  libceph: remove outdated comment
  libceph: kill off ceph_x_ticket_handler::validity
  libceph: invalidate AUTH in addition to a service ticket
  libceph: fix authorizer invalidation, take 2
  libceph: clear messenger auth_retry flag if we fault
  libceph: fix ceph_msg_revoke()
  libceph: use list_for_each_entry_safe
  ceph: use i_size_{read,write} to get/set i_size
  ceph: re-send AIO write request when getting -EOLDSNAP error
  ceph: Asynchronous IO support
  ceph: Avoid to propagate the invalid page point
  ceph: fix double page_unlock() in page_mkwrite()
  rbd: delete an unnecessary check before rbd_dev_destroy()
  libceph: use list_next_entry instead of list_entry_next
  ceph: ceph_frag_contains_value can be boolean
  ceph: remove unused functions in ceph_frag.h
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Pull Ceph updates from Sage Weil:
 "The two main changes are aio support in CephFS, and a series that
  fixes several issues in the authentication key timeout/renewal code.

  On top of that are a variety of cleanups and minor bug fixes"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sage/ceph-client:
  libceph: remove outdated comment
  libceph: kill off ceph_x_ticket_handler::validity
  libceph: invalidate AUTH in addition to a service ticket
  libceph: fix authorizer invalidation, take 2
  libceph: clear messenger auth_retry flag if we fault
  libceph: fix ceph_msg_revoke()
  libceph: use list_for_each_entry_safe
  ceph: use i_size_{read,write} to get/set i_size
  ceph: re-send AIO write request when getting -EOLDSNAP error
  ceph: Asynchronous IO support
  ceph: Avoid to propagate the invalid page point
  ceph: fix double page_unlock() in page_mkwrite()
  rbd: delete an unnecessary check before rbd_dev_destroy()
  libceph: use list_next_entry instead of list_entry_next
  ceph: ceph_frag_contains_value can be boolean
  ceph: remove unused functions in ceph_frag.h
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2016-01-23T20:24:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-23T20:24:56+00:00</published>
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Pull final vfs updates from Al Viro:

 - The -&gt;i_mutex wrappers (with small prereq in lustre)

 - a fix for too early freeing of symlink bodies on shmem (they need to
   be RCU-delayed) (-stable fodder)

 - followup to dedupe stuff merged this cycle

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  vfs: abort dedupe loop if fatal signals are pending
  make sure that freeing shmem fast symlinks is RCU-delayed
  wrappers for -&gt;i_mutex access
  lustre: remove unused declaration
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Pull final vfs updates from Al Viro:

 - The -&gt;i_mutex wrappers (with small prereq in lustre)

 - a fix for too early freeing of symlink bodies on shmem (they need to
   be RCU-delayed) (-stable fodder)

 - followup to dedupe stuff merged this cycle

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  vfs: abort dedupe loop if fatal signals are pending
  make sure that freeing shmem fast symlinks is RCU-delayed
  wrappers for -&gt;i_mutex access
  lustre: remove unused declaration
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tree wide: use kvfree() than conditional kfree()/vfree()</title>
<updated>2016-01-23T01:02:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tetsuo Handa</name>
<email>penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-22T23:11:02+00:00</published>
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There are many locations that do

  if (memory_was_allocated_by_vmalloc)
    vfree(ptr);
  else
    kfree(ptr);

but kvfree() can handle both kmalloc()ed memory and vmalloc()ed memory
using is_vmalloc_addr().  Unless callers have special reasons, we can
replace this branch with kvfree().  Please check and reply if you found
problems.

Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa &lt;penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger &lt;andreas.dilger@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rjw@rjwysocki.net&gt;
Acked-by: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: "Luck, Tony" &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Drokin &lt;oleg.drokin@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Boris Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&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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There are many locations that do

  if (memory_was_allocated_by_vmalloc)
    vfree(ptr);
  else
    kfree(ptr);

but kvfree() can handle both kmalloc()ed memory and vmalloc()ed memory
using is_vmalloc_addr().  Unless callers have special reasons, we can
replace this branch with kvfree().  Please check and reply if you found
problems.

Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa &lt;penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger &lt;andreas.dilger@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rjw@rjwysocki.net&gt;
Acked-by: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: "Luck, Tony" &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Drokin &lt;oleg.drokin@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Boris Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&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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</entry>
<entry>
<title>wrappers for -&gt;i_mutex access</title>
<updated>2016-01-22T23:04:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-22T20:40:57+00:00</published>
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parallel to mutex_{lock,unlock,trylock,is_locked,lock_nested},
inode_foo(inode) being mutex_foo(&amp;inode-&gt;i_mutex).

Please, use those for access to -&gt;i_mutex; over the coming cycle
-&gt;i_mutex will become rwsem, with -&gt;lookup() done with it held
only shared.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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parallel to mutex_{lock,unlock,trylock,is_locked,lock_nested},
inode_foo(inode) being mutex_foo(&amp;inode-&gt;i_mutex).

Please, use those for access to -&gt;i_mutex; over the coming cycle
-&gt;i_mutex will become rwsem, with -&gt;lookup() done with it held
only shared.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-4.5/lightnvm' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block</title>
<updated>2016-01-22T03:01:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-22T03:01:55+00:00</published>
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Pull lightnvm fixes and updates from Jens Axboe:
 "This should have been part of the drivers branch, but it arrived a bit
  late and wasn't based on the official core block driver branch.  So
  they got a small scolding, but got a pass since it's still new.  Hence
  it's in a separate branch.

  This is mostly pure fixes, contained to lightnvm/, and minor feature
  additions"

* 'for-4.5/lightnvm' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (26 commits)
  lightnvm: ensure that nvm_dev_ops can be used without CONFIG_NVM
  lightnvm: introduce factory reset
  lightnvm: use system block for mm initialization
  lightnvm: introduce ioctl to initialize device
  lightnvm: core on-disk initialization
  lightnvm: introduce mlc lower page table mappings
  lightnvm: add mccap support
  lightnvm: manage open and closed blocks separately
  lightnvm: fix missing grown bad block type
  lightnvm: reference rrpc lun in rrpc block
  lightnvm: introduce nvm_submit_ppa
  lightnvm: move rq-&gt;error to nvm_rq-&gt;error
  lightnvm: support multiple ppas in nvm_erase_ppa
  lightnvm: move the pages per block check out of the loop
  lightnvm: sectors first in ppa list
  lightnvm: fix locking and mempool in rrpc_lun_gc
  lightnvm: put block back to gc list on its reclaim fail
  lightnvm: check bi_error in gc
  lightnvm: return the get_bb_tbl return value
  lightnvm: refactor end_io functions for sync
  ...
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<pre>
Pull lightnvm fixes and updates from Jens Axboe:
 "This should have been part of the drivers branch, but it arrived a bit
  late and wasn't based on the official core block driver branch.  So
  they got a small scolding, but got a pass since it's still new.  Hence
  it's in a separate branch.

  This is mostly pure fixes, contained to lightnvm/, and minor feature
  additions"

* 'for-4.5/lightnvm' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (26 commits)
  lightnvm: ensure that nvm_dev_ops can be used without CONFIG_NVM
  lightnvm: introduce factory reset
  lightnvm: use system block for mm initialization
  lightnvm: introduce ioctl to initialize device
  lightnvm: core on-disk initialization
  lightnvm: introduce mlc lower page table mappings
  lightnvm: add mccap support
  lightnvm: manage open and closed blocks separately
  lightnvm: fix missing grown bad block type
  lightnvm: reference rrpc lun in rrpc block
  lightnvm: introduce nvm_submit_ppa
  lightnvm: move rq-&gt;error to nvm_rq-&gt;error
  lightnvm: support multiple ppas in nvm_erase_ppa
  lightnvm: move the pages per block check out of the loop
  lightnvm: sectors first in ppa list
  lightnvm: fix locking and mempool in rrpc_lun_gc
  lightnvm: put block back to gc list on its reclaim fail
  lightnvm: check bi_error in gc
  lightnvm: return the get_bb_tbl return value
  lightnvm: refactor end_io functions for sync
  ...
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-4.5/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block</title>
<updated>2016-01-22T02:19:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-22T02:19:38+00:00</published>
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Pull block driver updates from Jens Axboe:
 "This is the block driver pull request for 4.5, with the exception of
  NVMe, which is in a separate branch and will be posted after this one.

  This pull request contains:

   - A set of bcache stability fixes, which have been acked by Kent.
     These have been used and tested for more than a year by the
     community, so it's about time that they got in.

   - A set of drbd updates from the drbd team (Andreas, Lars, Philipp)
     and Markus Elfring, Oleg Drokin.

   - A set of fixes for xen blkback/front from the usual suspects, (Bob,
     Konrad) as well as community based fixes from Kiri, Julien, and
     Peng.

   - A 2038 time fix for sx8 from Shraddha, with a fix from me.

   - A small mtip32xx cleanup from Zhu Yanjun.

   - A null_blk division fix from Arnd"

* 'for-4.5/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (71 commits)
  null_blk: use sector_div instead of do_div
  mtip32xx: restrict variables visible in current code module
  xen/blkfront: Fix crash if backend doesn't follow the right states.
  xen/blkback: Fix two memory leaks.
  xen/blkback: make st_ statistics per ring
  xen/blkfront: Handle non-indirect grant with 64KB pages
  xen-blkfront: Introduce blkif_ring_get_request
  xen-blkback: clear PF_NOFREEZE for xen_blkif_schedule()
  xen/blkback: Free resources if connect_ring failed.
  xen/blocks: Return -EXX instead of -1
  xen/blkback: make pool of persistent grants and free pages per-queue
  xen/blkback: get the number of hardware queues/rings from blkfront
  xen/blkback: pseudo support for multi hardware queues/rings
  xen/blkback: separate ring information out of struct xen_blkif
  xen/blkfront: correct setting for xen_blkif_max_ring_order
  xen/blkfront: make persistent grants pool per-queue
  xen/blkfront: Remove duplicate setting of -&gt;xbdev.
  xen/blkfront: Cleanup of comments, fix unaligned variables, and syntax errors.
  xen/blkfront: negotiate number of queues/rings to be used with backend
  xen/blkfront: split per device io_lock
  ...
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Pull block driver updates from Jens Axboe:
 "This is the block driver pull request for 4.5, with the exception of
  NVMe, which is in a separate branch and will be posted after this one.

  This pull request contains:

   - A set of bcache stability fixes, which have been acked by Kent.
     These have been used and tested for more than a year by the
     community, so it's about time that they got in.

   - A set of drbd updates from the drbd team (Andreas, Lars, Philipp)
     and Markus Elfring, Oleg Drokin.

   - A set of fixes for xen blkback/front from the usual suspects, (Bob,
     Konrad) as well as community based fixes from Kiri, Julien, and
     Peng.

   - A 2038 time fix for sx8 from Shraddha, with a fix from me.

   - A small mtip32xx cleanup from Zhu Yanjun.

   - A null_blk division fix from Arnd"

* 'for-4.5/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (71 commits)
  null_blk: use sector_div instead of do_div
  mtip32xx: restrict variables visible in current code module
  xen/blkfront: Fix crash if backend doesn't follow the right states.
  xen/blkback: Fix two memory leaks.
  xen/blkback: make st_ statistics per ring
  xen/blkfront: Handle non-indirect grant with 64KB pages
  xen-blkfront: Introduce blkif_ring_get_request
  xen-blkback: clear PF_NOFREEZE for xen_blkif_schedule()
  xen/blkback: Free resources if connect_ring failed.
  xen/blocks: Return -EXX instead of -1
  xen/blkback: make pool of persistent grants and free pages per-queue
  xen/blkback: get the number of hardware queues/rings from blkfront
  xen/blkback: pseudo support for multi hardware queues/rings
  xen/blkback: separate ring information out of struct xen_blkif
  xen/blkfront: correct setting for xen_blkif_max_ring_order
  xen/blkfront: make persistent grants pool per-queue
  xen/blkfront: Remove duplicate setting of -&gt;xbdev.
  xen/blkfront: Cleanup of comments, fix unaligned variables, and syntax errors.
  xen/blkfront: negotiate number of queues/rings to be used with backend
  xen/blkfront: split per device io_lock
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>rbd: delete an unnecessary check before rbd_dev_destroy()</title>
<updated>2016-01-21T18:36:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Markus Elfring</name>
<email>elfring@users.sourceforge.net</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-23T19:16:45+00:00</published>
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The rbd_dev_destroy() function tests whether its argument is NULL
and then returns immediately. Thus the test around the call is not needed.

This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.

Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring &lt;elfring@users.sourceforge.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov &lt;idryomov@gmail.com&gt;
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The rbd_dev_destroy() function tests whether its argument is NULL
and then returns immediately. Thus the test around the call is not needed.

This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.

Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring &lt;elfring@users.sourceforge.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov &lt;idryomov@gmail.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-4.5/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block</title>
<updated>2016-01-19T23:03:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-19T23:03:34+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=7c24d9f3b27b198c3c4dfc8327a25fb077a96219'/>
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Pull core block updates from Jens Axboe:
 "We don't have a lot of core changes this time around, it's mostly in
  drivers, which will come in a subsequent pull.

  The cores changes include:

   - blk-mq
        - Prep patch from Christoph, changing blk_mq_alloc_request() to
          take flags instead of just using gfp_t for sleep/nosleep.
        - Doc patch from me, clarifying the difference between legacy
          and blk-mq for timer usage.
        - Fixes from Raghavendra for memory-less numa nodes, and a reuse
          of CPU masks.

   - Cleanup from Geliang Tang, using offset_in_page() instead of open
     coding it.

   - From Ilya, rename request_queue slab to it reflects what it holds,
     and a fix for proper use of bdgrab/put.

   - A real fix for the split across stripe boundaries from Keith.  We
     yanked a broken version of this from 4.4-rc final, this one works.

   - From Mike Krinkin, emit a trace message when we split.

   - From Wei Tang, two small cleanups, not explicitly clearing memory
     that is already cleared"

* 'for-4.5/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
  block: use bd{grab,put}() instead of open-coding
  block: split bios to max possible length
  block: add call to split trace point
  blk-mq: Avoid memoryless numa node encoded in hctx numa_node
  blk-mq: Reuse hardware context cpumask for tags
  blk-mq: add a flags parameter to blk_mq_alloc_request
  Revert "blk-flush: Queue through IO scheduler when flush not required"
  block: clarify blk_add_timer() use case for blk-mq
  bio: use offset_in_page macro
  block: do not initialise statics to 0 or NULL
  block: do not initialise globals to 0 or NULL
  block: rename request_queue slab cache
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<pre>
Pull core block updates from Jens Axboe:
 "We don't have a lot of core changes this time around, it's mostly in
  drivers, which will come in a subsequent pull.

  The cores changes include:

   - blk-mq
        - Prep patch from Christoph, changing blk_mq_alloc_request() to
          take flags instead of just using gfp_t for sleep/nosleep.
        - Doc patch from me, clarifying the difference between legacy
          and blk-mq for timer usage.
        - Fixes from Raghavendra for memory-less numa nodes, and a reuse
          of CPU masks.

   - Cleanup from Geliang Tang, using offset_in_page() instead of open
     coding it.

   - From Ilya, rename request_queue slab to it reflects what it holds,
     and a fix for proper use of bdgrab/put.

   - A real fix for the split across stripe boundaries from Keith.  We
     yanked a broken version of this from 4.4-rc final, this one works.

   - From Mike Krinkin, emit a trace message when we split.

   - From Wei Tang, two small cleanups, not explicitly clearing memory
     that is already cleared"

* 'for-4.5/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
  block: use bd{grab,put}() instead of open-coding
  block: split bios to max possible length
  block: add call to split trace point
  blk-mq: Avoid memoryless numa node encoded in hctx numa_node
  blk-mq: Reuse hardware context cpumask for tags
  blk-mq: add a flags parameter to blk_mq_alloc_request
  Revert "blk-flush: Queue through IO scheduler when flush not required"
  block: clarify blk_add_timer() use case for blk-mq
  bio: use offset_in_page macro
  block: do not initialise statics to 0 or NULL
  block: do not initialise globals to 0 or NULL
  block: rename request_queue slab cache
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm, dax, pmem: introduce pfn_t</title>
<updated>2016-01-16T01:56:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-16T00:56:14+00:00</published>
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For the purpose of communicating the optional presence of a 'struct
page' for the pfn returned from -&gt;direct_access(), introduce a type that
encapsulates a page-frame-number plus flags.  These flags contain the
historical "page_link" encoding for a scatterlist entry, but can also
denote "device memory".  Where "device memory" is a set of pfns that are
not part of the kernel's linear mapping by default, but are accessed via
the same memory controller as ram.

The motivation for this new type is large capacity persistent memory
that needs struct page entries in the 'memmap' to support 3rd party DMA
(i.e.  O_DIRECT I/O with a persistent memory source/target).  However,
we also need it in support of maintaining a list of mapped inodes which
need to be unmapped at driver teardown or freeze_bdev() time.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave@sr71.net&gt;
Cc: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.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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For the purpose of communicating the optional presence of a 'struct
page' for the pfn returned from -&gt;direct_access(), introduce a type that
encapsulates a page-frame-number plus flags.  These flags contain the
historical "page_link" encoding for a scatterlist entry, but can also
denote "device memory".  Where "device memory" is a set of pfns that are
not part of the kernel's linear mapping by default, but are accessed via
the same memory controller as ram.

The motivation for this new type is large capacity persistent memory
that needs struct page entries in the 'memmap' to support 3rd party DMA
(i.e.  O_DIRECT I/O with a persistent memory source/target).  However,
we also need it in support of maintaining a list of mapped inodes which
need to be unmapped at driver teardown or freeze_bdev() time.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave@sr71.net&gt;
Cc: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.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>zram: don't call idr_remove() from zram_remove()</title>
<updated>2016-01-16T01:56:32+00:00</updated>
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<name>Jerome Marchand</name>
<email>jmarchan@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2016-01-16T00:54:48+00:00</published>
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The use of idr_remove() is forbidden in the callback functions of
idr_for_each().  It is therefore unsafe to call idr_remove in
zram_remove().

This patch moves the call to idr_remove() from zram_remove() to
hot_remove_store().  In the detroy_devices() path, idrs are removed by
idr_destroy().  This solves an use-after-free detected by KASan.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix coding stype, per Sergey]
Signed-off-by: Jerome Marchand &lt;jmarchan@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;	[4.2+]
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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The use of idr_remove() is forbidden in the callback functions of
idr_for_each().  It is therefore unsafe to call idr_remove in
zram_remove().

This patch moves the call to idr_remove() from zram_remove() to
hot_remove_store().  In the detroy_devices() path, idrs are removed by
idr_destroy().  This solves an use-after-free detected by KASan.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix coding stype, per Sergey]
Signed-off-by: Jerome Marchand &lt;jmarchan@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;	[4.2+]
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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