linux.git/fs/Kconfig, branch v4.17

Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm

2018-02-06T18:41:33+00:00

Pull libnvdimm updates from Ross Zwisler:

 - Require struct page by default for filesystem DAX to remove a number
   of surprising failure cases. This includes failures with direct I/O,
   gdb and fork(2).

 - Add support for the new Platform Capabilities Structure added to the
   NFIT in ACPI 6.2a. This new table tells us whether the platform
   supports flushing of CPU and memory controller caches on unexpected
   power loss events.

 - Revamp vmem_altmap and dev_pagemap handling to clean up code and
   better support future future PCI P2P uses.

 - Deprecate the ND_IOCTL_SMART_THRESHOLD command whose payload has
   become out-of-sync with recent versions of the NVDIMM_FAMILY_INTEL
   spec, and instead rely on the generic ND_CMD_CALL approach used by
   the two other IOCTL families, NVDIMM_FAMILY_{HPE,MSFT}.

 - Enhance nfit_test so we can test some of the new things added in
   version 1.6 of the DSM specification. This includes testing firmware
   download and simulating the Last Shutdown State (LSS) status.

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (37 commits)
  libnvdimm, namespace: remove redundant initialization of 'nd_mapping'
  acpi, nfit: fix register dimm error handling
  libnvdimm, namespace: make min namespace size 4K
  tools/testing/nvdimm: force nfit_test to depend on instrumented modules
  libnvdimm/nfit_test: adding support for unit testing enable LSS status
  libnvdimm/nfit_test: add firmware download emulation
  nfit-test: Add platform cap support from ACPI 6.2a to test
  libnvdimm: expose platform persistence attribute for nd_region
  acpi: nfit: add persistent memory control flag for nd_region
  acpi: nfit: Add support for detect platform CPU cache flush on power loss
  device-dax: Fix trailing semicolon
  libnvdimm, btt: fix uninitialized err_lock
  dax: require 'struct page' by default for filesystem dax
  ext2: auto disable dax instead of failing mount
  ext4: auto disable dax instead of failing mount
  mm, dax: introduce pfn_t_special()
  mm: Fix devm_memremap_pages() collision handling
  mm: Fix memory size alignment in devm_memremap_pages_release()
  memremap: merge find_dev_pagemap into get_dev_pagemap
  memremap: change devm_memremap_pages interface to use struct dev_pagemap
  ...

Merge tag 'staging-4.16-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging

2018-02-01T17:51:57+00:00

Pull staging/IIO updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the big Staging and IIO driver patches for 4.16-rc1.

  There is the normal amount of new IIO drivers added, like all
  releases.

  The networking IPX and the ncpfs filesystem are moved into the staging
  tree, as they are on their way out of the kernel due to lack of use
  anymore.

  The visorbus subsystem finall has started moving out of the staging
  tree to the "real" part of the kernel, and the most and fsl-mc
  codebases are almost ready to move out, that will probably happen for
  4.17-rc1 if all goes well.

  Other than that, there is a bunch of license header cleanups in the
  tree, along with the normal amount of coding style churn that we all
  know and love for this codebase. I also got frustrated at the
  Meltdown/Spectre mess and took it out on the dgnc tty driver, deleting
  huge chunks of it that were never even being used.

  Full details of everything is in the shortlog.

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

* tag 'staging-4.16-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging: (627 commits)
  staging: rtlwifi: remove redundant initialization of 'cfg_cmd'
  staging: rtl8723bs: remove a couple of redundant initializations
  staging: comedi: reformat lines to 80 chars or less
  staging: lustre: separate a connection destroy from free struct kib_conn
  Staging: rtl8723bs: Use !x instead of NULL comparison
  Staging: rtl8723bs: Remove dead code
  Staging: rtl8723bs: Change names to conform to the kernel code
  staging: ccree: Fix missing blank line after declaration
  staging: rtl8188eu: remove redundant initialization of 'pwrcfgcmd'
  staging: rtlwifi: remove unused RTLHALMAC_ST and RTLPHYDM_ST
  staging: fbtft: remove unused FB_TFT_SSD1325 kconfig
  staging: comedi: dt2811: remove redundant initialization of 'ns'
  staging: wilc1000: fix alignments to match open parenthesis
  staging: wilc1000: removed unnecessary defined enums typedef
  staging: wilc1000: remove unnecessary use of parentheses
  staging: rtl8192u: remove redundant initialization of 'timeout'
  staging: sm750fb: fix CamelCase for dispSet var
  staging: lustre: lnet/selftest: fix compile error on UP build
  staging: rtl8723bs: hal_com_phycfg: Remove unneeded semicolons
  staging: rts5208: Fix "seg_no" calculation in reset_ms_card()
  ...

dax: require 'struct page' by default for filesystem dax

2018-01-20T00:50:53+00:00

If a dax buffer from a device that does not map pages is passed to
read(2) or write(2) as a target for direct-I/O it triggers SIGBUS. If
gdb attempts to examine the contents of a dax buffer from a device that
does not map pages it triggers SIGBUS. If fork(2) is called on a process
with a dax mapping from a device that does not map pages it triggers
SIGBUS. 'struct page' is required otherwise several kernel code paths
break in surprising ways. Disable filesystem-dax on devices that do not
map pages.

In addition to needing pfn_to_page() to be valid we also require devmap
pages.  We need this to detect dax pages in the get_user_pages_fast()
path and so that we can stop managing the VM_MIXEDMAP flag. For DAX
drivers that have not supported get_user_pages() to date we allow them
to opt-in to supporting DAX with the CONFIG_FS_DAX_LIMITED configuration
option which requires ->direct_access() to return pfn_t_special() pfns.
This leaves DAX support in brd disabled and scheduled for removal.

Note that when the initial dax support was being merged a few years back
there was concern that struct page was unsuitable for use with next
generation persistent memory devices. The theoretical concern was that
struct page access, being such a hotly used data structure in the
kernel, would lead to media wear out. While that was a reasonable
conservative starting position it has not held true in practice. We have
long since committed to using devm_memremap_pages() to support higher
order kernel functionality that needs get_user_pages() and
pfn_to_page().


Cc: Jeff Moyer 
Cc: Ross Zwisler 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara 
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Reviewed-by: Gerald Schaefer 
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams

fs/*/Kconfig: drop links to 404-compliant http://acl.bestbits.at

2018-01-01T19:45:37+00:00

This link is replicated in most filesystems' config stanzas.  Referring
to an archived version of that site is pointless as it mostly deals with
patches; user documentation is available elsewhere.

Signed-off-by: Adam Borowski 
CC: Alexander Viro 
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong 
Acked-by: Jan Kara 
Acked-by: Dave Kleikamp 
Acked-by: David Sterba 
Acked-by: "Yan, Zheng" 
Acked-by: Chao Yu 
Acked-by: Jaegeuk Kim 
Acked-by: Steve French 
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

ncpfs: move net/ncpfs to drivers/staging/ncpfs

2017-11-28T12:55:01+00:00

The Netware Core Protocol is a file system that talks to
Netware clients over IPX. Since IPX has been dead for many years
move the file system into staging for eventual interment.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger 
Acked-by: David S. Miller 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

fs/Kconfig: kill CONFIG_PERCPU_RWSEM some more

2017-07-12T23:26:00+00:00

As of commit bf3eac84c42d ("percpu-rwsem: kill CONFIG_PERCPU_RWSEM") we
unconditionally build pcpu-rwsems.  Remove a leftover in for
FILE_LOCKING.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170518180115.2794-1-dave@stgolabs.net
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

block, dax: move "select DAX" from BLOCK to FS_DAX

2017-05-08T17:55:27+00:00

For configurations that do not enable DAX filesystems or drivers, do not
require the DAX core to be built.

Given that the 'direct_access' method has been removed from
'block_device_operations', we can also go ahead and remove the
block-related dax helper functions from fs/block_dev.c to
drivers/dax/super.c. This keeps dax details out of the block layer and
lets the DAX core be built as a module in the FS_DAX=n case.

Filesystems need to include dax.h to call bdev_dax_supported().

Cc: linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" 
Cc: Matthew Wilcox 
Cc: Alexander Viro 
Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" 
Cc: Ross Zwisler 
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara 
Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams

dax: fix build warnings with FS_DAX and !FS_IOMAP

2017-01-25T00:26:14+00:00

As reported by Arnd:

  https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/1/10/756

Compiling with the following configuration:

  # CONFIG_EXT2_FS is not set
  # CONFIG_EXT4_FS is not set
  # CONFIG_XFS_FS is not set
  # CONFIG_FS_IOMAP depends on the above filesystems, as is not set
  CONFIG_FS_DAX=y

generates build warnings about unused functions in fs/dax.c:

  fs/dax.c:878:12: warning: `dax_insert_mapping' defined but not used [-Wunused-function]
   static int dax_insert_mapping(struct address_space *mapping,
              ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  fs/dax.c:572:12: warning: `copy_user_dax' defined but not used [-Wunused-function]
   static int copy_user_dax(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t sector, size_t size,
              ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
  fs/dax.c:542:12: warning: `dax_load_hole' defined but not used [-Wunused-function]
   static int dax_load_hole(struct address_space *mapping, void **entry,
              ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
  fs/dax.c:312:14: warning: `grab_mapping_entry' defined but not used [-Wunused-function]
   static void *grab_mapping_entry(struct address_space *mapping, pgoff_t index,
                ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Now that the struct buffer_head based DAX fault paths and I/O path have
been removed we really depend on iomap support being present for DAX.
Make this explicit by selecting FS_IOMAP if we compile in DAX support.

This allows us to remove conditional selections of FS_IOMAP when FS_DAX
was present for ext2 and ext4, and to remove an #ifdef in fs/dax.c.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1484087383-29478-1-git-send-email-ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler 
Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann 
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

2016-12-16T18:24:44+00:00

Pull vfs updates from Al Viro:

 - more ->d_init() stuff (work.dcache)

 - pathname resolution cleanups (work.namei)

 - a few missing iov_iter primitives - copy_from_iter_full() and
   friends. Either copy the full requested amount, advance the iterator
   and return true, or fail, return false and do _not_ advance the
   iterator. Quite a few open-coded callers converted (and became more
   readable and harder to fuck up that way) (work.iov_iter)

 - several assorted patches, the big one being logfs removal

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  logfs: remove from tree
  vfs: fix put_compat_statfs64() does not handle errors
  namei: fold should_follow_link() with the step into not-followed link
  namei: pass both WALK_GET and WALK_MORE to should_follow_link()
  namei: invert WALK_PUT logics
  namei: shift interpretation of LOOKUP_FOLLOW inside should_follow_link()
  namei: saner calling conventions for mountpoint_last()
  namei.c: get rid of user_path_parent()
  switch getfrag callbacks to ..._full() primitives
  make skb_add_data,{_nocache}() and skb_copy_to_page_nocache() advance only on success
  [iov_iter] new primitives - copy_from_iter_full() and friends
  don't open-code file_inode()
  ceph: switch to use of ->d_init()
  ceph: unify dentry_operations instances
  lustre: switch to use of ->d_init()

logfs: remove from tree

2016-12-15T04:48:11+00:00

Logfs was introduced to the kernel in 2009, and hasn't seen any non
drive-by changes since 2012, while having lots of unsolved issues
including the complete lack of error handling, with more and more
issues popping up without any fixes.

The logfs.org domain has been bouncing from a mail, and the maintainer
on the non-logfs.org domain hasn't repsonded to past queries either.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro