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<title>ext4: fix quota charging for shared xattr blocks</title>
<updated>2017-05-24T22:24:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tahsin Erdogan</name>
<email>tahsin@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-24T22:24:07+00:00</published>
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ext4_xattr_block_set() calls dquot_alloc_block() to charge for an xattr
block when new references are made. However if dquot_initialize() hasn't
been called on an inode, request for charging is effectively ignored
because ext4_inode_info-&gt;i_dquot is not initialized yet.

Add dquot_initialize() to call paths that lead to ext4_xattr_block_set().

Signed-off-by: Tahsin Erdogan &lt;tahsin@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
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ext4_xattr_block_set() calls dquot_alloc_block() to charge for an xattr
block when new references are made. However if dquot_initialize() hasn't
been called on an inode, request for charging is effectively ignored
because ext4_inode_info-&gt;i_dquot is not initialized yet.

Add dquot_initialize() to call paths that lead to ext4_xattr_block_set().

Signed-off-by: Tahsin Erdogan &lt;tahsin@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ext4: clear lockdep subtype for quota files on quota off</title>
<updated>2017-05-22T02:31:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-22T02:31:23+00:00</published>
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Quota files have special ranking of i_data_sem lock. We inform lockdep
about it when turning on quotas however when turning quotas off, we
don't clear the lockdep subclass from i_data_sem lock and thus when the
inode gets later reused for a normal file or directory, lockdep gets
confused and complains about possible deadlocks. Fix the problem by
resetting lockdep subclass of i_data_sem on quota off.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: daf647d2dd58cec59570d7698a45b98e580f2076
Reported-and-tested-by: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger &lt;adilger@dilger.ca&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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Quota files have special ranking of i_data_sem lock. We inform lockdep
about it when turning on quotas however when turning quotas off, we
don't clear the lockdep subclass from i_data_sem lock and thus when the
inode gets later reused for a normal file or directory, lockdep gets
confused and complains about possible deadlocks. Fix the problem by
resetting lockdep subclass of i_data_sem on quota off.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: daf647d2dd58cec59570d7698a45b98e580f2076
Reported-and-tested-by: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger &lt;adilger@dilger.ca&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'libnvdimm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm</title>
<updated>2017-05-12T22:43:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-12T22:43:10+00:00</published>
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Pull libnvdimm fixes from Dan Williams:
 "Incremental fixes and a small feature addition on top of the main
  libnvdimm 4.12 pull request:

   - Geert noticed that tinyconfig was bloated by BLOCK selecting DAX.
     The size regression is fixed by moving all dax helpers into the
     dax-core and only specifying "select DAX" for FS_DAX and
     dax-capable drivers. He also asked for clarification of the
     NR_DEV_DAX config option which, on closer look, does not need to be
     a config option at all. Mike also throws in a DEV_DAX_PMEM fixup
     for good measure.

   - Ben's attention to detail on -stable patch submissions caught a
     case where the recent fixes to arch_copy_from_iter_pmem() missed a
     condition where we strand dirty data in the cache. This is tagged
     for -stable and will also be included in the rework of the pmem api
     to a proposed {memcpy,copy_user}_flushcache() interface for 4.13.

   - Vishal adds a feature that missed the initial pull due to pending
     review feedback. It allows the kernel to clear media errors when
     initializing a BTT (atomic sector update driver) instance on a pmem
     namespace.

   - Ross noticed that the dax_device + dax_operations conversion broke
     __dax_zero_page_range(). The nvdimm unit tests fail to check this
     path, but xfstests immediately trips over it. No excuse for missing
     this before submitting the 4.12 pull request.

  These all pass the nvdimm unit tests and an xfstests spot check. The
  set has received a build success notification from the kbuild robot"

* 'libnvdimm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm:
  filesystem-dax: fix broken __dax_zero_page_range() conversion
  libnvdimm, btt: ensure that initializing metadata clears poison
  libnvdimm: add an atomic vs process context flag to rw_bytes
  x86, pmem: Fix cache flushing for iovec write &lt; 8 bytes
  device-dax: kill NR_DEV_DAX
  block, dax: move "select DAX" from BLOCK to FS_DAX
  device-dax: Tell kbuild DEV_DAX_PMEM depends on DEV_DAX
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Pull libnvdimm fixes from Dan Williams:
 "Incremental fixes and a small feature addition on top of the main
  libnvdimm 4.12 pull request:

   - Geert noticed that tinyconfig was bloated by BLOCK selecting DAX.
     The size regression is fixed by moving all dax helpers into the
     dax-core and only specifying "select DAX" for FS_DAX and
     dax-capable drivers. He also asked for clarification of the
     NR_DEV_DAX config option which, on closer look, does not need to be
     a config option at all. Mike also throws in a DEV_DAX_PMEM fixup
     for good measure.

   - Ben's attention to detail on -stable patch submissions caught a
     case where the recent fixes to arch_copy_from_iter_pmem() missed a
     condition where we strand dirty data in the cache. This is tagged
     for -stable and will also be included in the rework of the pmem api
     to a proposed {memcpy,copy_user}_flushcache() interface for 4.13.

   - Vishal adds a feature that missed the initial pull due to pending
     review feedback. It allows the kernel to clear media errors when
     initializing a BTT (atomic sector update driver) instance on a pmem
     namespace.

   - Ross noticed that the dax_device + dax_operations conversion broke
     __dax_zero_page_range(). The nvdimm unit tests fail to check this
     path, but xfstests immediately trips over it. No excuse for missing
     this before submitting the 4.12 pull request.

  These all pass the nvdimm unit tests and an xfstests spot check. The
  set has received a build success notification from the kbuild robot"

* 'libnvdimm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm:
  filesystem-dax: fix broken __dax_zero_page_range() conversion
  libnvdimm, btt: ensure that initializing metadata clears poison
  libnvdimm: add an atomic vs process context flag to rw_bytes
  x86, pmem: Fix cache flushing for iovec write &lt; 8 bytes
  device-dax: kill NR_DEV_DAX
  block, dax: move "select DAX" from BLOCK to FS_DAX
  device-dax: Tell kbuild DEV_DAX_PMEM depends on DEV_DAX
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)</title>
<updated>2017-05-09T01:17:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-09T01:17:56+00:00</published>
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Merge more updates from Andrew Morton:

 - the rest of MM

 - various misc things

 - procfs updates

 - lib/ updates

 - checkpatch updates

 - kdump/kexec updates

 - add kvmalloc helpers, use them

 - time helper updates for Y2038 issues. We're almost ready to remove
   current_fs_time() but that awaits a btrfs merge.

 - add tracepoints to DAX

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (114 commits)
  drivers/staging/ccree/ssi_hash.c: fix build with gcc-4.4.4
  selftests/vm: add a test for virtual address range mapping
  dax: add tracepoint to dax_insert_mapping()
  dax: add tracepoint to dax_writeback_one()
  dax: add tracepoints to dax_writeback_mapping_range()
  dax: add tracepoints to dax_load_hole()
  dax: add tracepoints to dax_pfn_mkwrite()
  dax: add tracepoints to dax_iomap_pte_fault()
  mtd: nand: nandsim: convert to memalloc_noreclaim_*()
  treewide: convert PF_MEMALLOC manipulations to new helpers
  mm: introduce memalloc_noreclaim_{save,restore}
  mm: prevent potential recursive reclaim due to clearing PF_MEMALLOC
  mm/huge_memory.c: deposit a pgtable for DAX PMD faults when required
  mm/huge_memory.c: use zap_deposited_table() more
  time: delete CURRENT_TIME_SEC and CURRENT_TIME
  gfs2: replace CURRENT_TIME with current_time
  apparmorfs: replace CURRENT_TIME with current_time()
  lustre: replace CURRENT_TIME macro
  fs: ubifs: replace CURRENT_TIME_SEC with current_time
  fs: ufs: use ktime_get_real_ts64() for birthtime
  ...
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Merge more updates from Andrew Morton:

 - the rest of MM

 - various misc things

 - procfs updates

 - lib/ updates

 - checkpatch updates

 - kdump/kexec updates

 - add kvmalloc helpers, use them

 - time helper updates for Y2038 issues. We're almost ready to remove
   current_fs_time() but that awaits a btrfs merge.

 - add tracepoints to DAX

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (114 commits)
  drivers/staging/ccree/ssi_hash.c: fix build with gcc-4.4.4
  selftests/vm: add a test for virtual address range mapping
  dax: add tracepoint to dax_insert_mapping()
  dax: add tracepoint to dax_writeback_one()
  dax: add tracepoints to dax_writeback_mapping_range()
  dax: add tracepoints to dax_load_hole()
  dax: add tracepoints to dax_pfn_mkwrite()
  dax: add tracepoints to dax_iomap_pte_fault()
  mtd: nand: nandsim: convert to memalloc_noreclaim_*()
  treewide: convert PF_MEMALLOC manipulations to new helpers
  mm: introduce memalloc_noreclaim_{save,restore}
  mm: prevent potential recursive reclaim due to clearing PF_MEMALLOC
  mm/huge_memory.c: deposit a pgtable for DAX PMD faults when required
  mm/huge_memory.c: use zap_deposited_table() more
  time: delete CURRENT_TIME_SEC and CURRENT_TIME
  gfs2: replace CURRENT_TIME with current_time
  apparmorfs: replace CURRENT_TIME with current_time()
  lustre: replace CURRENT_TIME macro
  fs: ubifs: replace CURRENT_TIME_SEC with current_time
  fs: ufs: use ktime_get_real_ts64() for birthtime
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: introduce kv[mz]alloc helpers</title>
<updated>2017-05-09T00:15:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michal Hocko</name>
<email>mhocko@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-08T22:57:09+00:00</published>
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Patch series "kvmalloc", v5.

There are many open coded kmalloc with vmalloc fallback instances in the
tree.  Most of them are not careful enough or simply do not care about
the underlying semantic of the kmalloc/page allocator which means that
a) some vmalloc fallbacks are basically unreachable because the kmalloc
part will keep retrying until it succeeds b) the page allocator can
invoke a really disruptive steps like the OOM killer to move forward
which doesn't sound appropriate when we consider that the vmalloc
fallback is available.

As it can be seen implementing kvmalloc requires quite an intimate
knowledge if the page allocator and the memory reclaim internals which
strongly suggests that a helper should be implemented in the memory
subsystem proper.

Most callers, I could find, have been converted to use the helper
instead.  This is patch 6.  There are some more relying on __GFP_REPEAT
in the networking stack which I have converted as well and Eric Dumazet
was not opposed [2] to convert them as well.

[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170130094940.13546-1-mhocko@kernel.org
[2] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1485273626.16328.301.camel@edumazet-glaptop3.roam.corp.google.com

This patch (of 9):

Using kmalloc with the vmalloc fallback for larger allocations is a
common pattern in the kernel code.  Yet we do not have any common helper
for that and so users have invented their own helpers.  Some of them are
really creative when doing so.  Let's just add kv[mz]alloc and make sure
it is implemented properly.  This implementation makes sure to not make
a large memory pressure for &gt; PAGE_SZE requests (__GFP_NORETRY) and also
to not warn about allocation failures.  This also rules out the OOM
killer as the vmalloc is a more approapriate fallback than a disruptive
user visible action.

This patch also changes some existing users and removes helpers which
are specific for them.  In some cases this is not possible (e.g.
ext4_kvmalloc, libcfs_kvzalloc) because those seems to be broken and
require GFP_NO{FS,IO} context which is not vmalloc compatible in general
(note that the page table allocation is GFP_KERNEL).  Those need to be
fixed separately.

While we are at it, document that __vmalloc{_node} about unsupported gfp
mask because there seems to be a lot of confusion out there.
kvmalloc_node will warn about GFP_KERNEL incompatible (which are not
superset) flags to catch new abusers.  Existing ones would have to die
slowly.

[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: f2fs fixup]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170320163735.332e64b7@canb.auug.org.au
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170306103032.2540-2-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger &lt;adilger@dilger.ca&gt;	[ext4 part]
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: John Hubbard &lt;jhubbard@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&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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Patch series "kvmalloc", v5.

There are many open coded kmalloc with vmalloc fallback instances in the
tree.  Most of them are not careful enough or simply do not care about
the underlying semantic of the kmalloc/page allocator which means that
a) some vmalloc fallbacks are basically unreachable because the kmalloc
part will keep retrying until it succeeds b) the page allocator can
invoke a really disruptive steps like the OOM killer to move forward
which doesn't sound appropriate when we consider that the vmalloc
fallback is available.

As it can be seen implementing kvmalloc requires quite an intimate
knowledge if the page allocator and the memory reclaim internals which
strongly suggests that a helper should be implemented in the memory
subsystem proper.

Most callers, I could find, have been converted to use the helper
instead.  This is patch 6.  There are some more relying on __GFP_REPEAT
in the networking stack which I have converted as well and Eric Dumazet
was not opposed [2] to convert them as well.

[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170130094940.13546-1-mhocko@kernel.org
[2] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1485273626.16328.301.camel@edumazet-glaptop3.roam.corp.google.com

This patch (of 9):

Using kmalloc with the vmalloc fallback for larger allocations is a
common pattern in the kernel code.  Yet we do not have any common helper
for that and so users have invented their own helpers.  Some of them are
really creative when doing so.  Let's just add kv[mz]alloc and make sure
it is implemented properly.  This implementation makes sure to not make
a large memory pressure for &gt; PAGE_SZE requests (__GFP_NORETRY) and also
to not warn about allocation failures.  This also rules out the OOM
killer as the vmalloc is a more approapriate fallback than a disruptive
user visible action.

This patch also changes some existing users and removes helpers which
are specific for them.  In some cases this is not possible (e.g.
ext4_kvmalloc, libcfs_kvzalloc) because those seems to be broken and
require GFP_NO{FS,IO} context which is not vmalloc compatible in general
(note that the page table allocation is GFP_KERNEL).  Those need to be
fixed separately.

While we are at it, document that __vmalloc{_node} about unsupported gfp
mask because there seems to be a lot of confusion out there.
kvmalloc_node will warn about GFP_KERNEL incompatible (which are not
superset) flags to catch new abusers.  Existing ones would have to die
slowly.

[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: f2fs fixup]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170320163735.332e64b7@canb.auug.org.au
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170306103032.2540-2-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger &lt;adilger@dilger.ca&gt;	[ext4 part]
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: John Hubbard &lt;jhubbard@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&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>
<title>Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4</title>
<updated>2017-05-08T18:30:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-08T18:30:05+00:00</published>
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Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:

 - add GETFSMAP support

 - some performance improvements for very large file systems and for
   random write workloads into a preallocated file

 - bug fixes and cleanups.

* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4:
  jbd2: cleanup write flags handling from jbd2_write_superblock()
  ext4: mark superblock writes synchronous for nobarrier mounts
  ext4: inherit encryption xattr before other xattrs
  ext4: replace BUG_ON with WARN_ONCE in ext4_end_bio()
  ext4: avoid unnecessary transaction stalls during writeback
  ext4: preload block group descriptors
  ext4: make ext4_shutdown() static
  ext4: support GETFSMAP ioctls
  vfs: add common GETFSMAP ioctl definitions
  ext4: evict inline data when writing to memory map
  ext4: remove ext4_xattr_check_entry()
  ext4: rename ext4_xattr_check_names() to ext4_xattr_check_entries()
  ext4: merge ext4_xattr_list() into ext4_listxattr()
  ext4: constify static data that is never modified
  ext4: trim return value and 'dir' argument from ext4_insert_dentry()
  jbd2: fix dbench4 performance regression for 'nobarrier' mounts
  jbd2: Fix lockdep splat with generic/270 test
  mm: retry writepages() on ENOMEM when doing an data integrity writeback
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Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:

 - add GETFSMAP support

 - some performance improvements for very large file systems and for
   random write workloads into a preallocated file

 - bug fixes and cleanups.

* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4:
  jbd2: cleanup write flags handling from jbd2_write_superblock()
  ext4: mark superblock writes synchronous for nobarrier mounts
  ext4: inherit encryption xattr before other xattrs
  ext4: replace BUG_ON with WARN_ONCE in ext4_end_bio()
  ext4: avoid unnecessary transaction stalls during writeback
  ext4: preload block group descriptors
  ext4: make ext4_shutdown() static
  ext4: support GETFSMAP ioctls
  vfs: add common GETFSMAP ioctl definitions
  ext4: evict inline data when writing to memory map
  ext4: remove ext4_xattr_check_entry()
  ext4: rename ext4_xattr_check_names() to ext4_xattr_check_entries()
  ext4: merge ext4_xattr_list() into ext4_listxattr()
  ext4: constify static data that is never modified
  ext4: trim return value and 'dir' argument from ext4_insert_dentry()
  jbd2: fix dbench4 performance regression for 'nobarrier' mounts
  jbd2: Fix lockdep splat with generic/270 test
  mm: retry writepages() on ENOMEM when doing an data integrity writeback
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>block, dax: move "select DAX" from BLOCK to FS_DAX</title>
<updated>2017-05-08T17:55:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-08T17:55:27+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=ef51042472f55b325fd7f2b26a2e29fd89757234'/>
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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 &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;mawilcox@microsoft.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" &lt;darrick.wong@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.com&gt;
Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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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 &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;mawilcox@microsoft.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" &lt;darrick.wong@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.com&gt;
Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ext4: mark superblock writes synchronous for nobarrier mounts</title>
<updated>2017-05-04T14:58:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-04T14:58:03+00:00</published>
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Commit b685d3d65ac7 "block: treat REQ_FUA and REQ_PREFLUSH as
synchronous" removed REQ_SYNC flag from WRITE_FUA implementation.
generic_make_request_checks() however strips REQ_FUA flag from a bio
when the storage doesn't report volatile write cache and thus write
effectively becomes asynchronous which can lead to performance
regressions. This affects superblock writes for ext4. Fix the problem
by marking superblock writes always as synchronous.

Fixes: b685d3d65ac791406e0dfd8779cc9b3707fea5a3
CC: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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Commit b685d3d65ac7 "block: treat REQ_FUA and REQ_PREFLUSH as
synchronous" removed REQ_SYNC flag from WRITE_FUA implementation.
generic_make_request_checks() however strips REQ_FUA flag from a bio
when the storage doesn't report volatile write cache and thus write
effectively becomes asynchronous which can lead to performance
regressions. This affects superblock writes for ext4. Fix the problem
by marking superblock writes always as synchronous.

Fixes: b685d3d65ac791406e0dfd8779cc9b3707fea5a3
CC: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'generic' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs</title>
<updated>2017-05-03T18:35:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-03T18:35:47+00:00</published>
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Pull quota, reiserfs, udf and ext2 updates from Jan Kara:
 "The branch contains changes to quota code so that it does not modify
  persistent flags in inode-&gt;i_flags (it was the only place in kernel
  doing that) and handle it inside filesystem's quotaon/off handlers
  instead.

  The branch also contains two UDF cleanups, a couple of reiserfs fixes
  and one fix for ext2 quota locking"

* 'generic' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs:
  ext4: Improve comments in ext4_quota_{on|off}()
  udf: use kmap_atomic for memcpy copying
  udf: use octal for permissions
  quota: Remove dquot_quotactl_ops
  reiserfs: Remove i_attrs_to_sd_attrs()
  reiserfs: Remove useless setting of i_flags
  jfs: Remove jfs_get_inode_flags()
  ext2: Remove ext2_get_inode_flags()
  ext4: Remove ext4_get_inode_flags()
  quota: Stop setting IMMUTABLE and NOATIME flags on quota files
  jfs: Set flags on quota files directly
  ext2: Set flags on quota files directly
  reiserfs: Set flags on quota files directly
  ext4: Set flags on quota files directly
  reiserfs: Protect dquot_writeback_dquots() by s_umount semaphore
  reiserfs: Make cancel_old_flush() reliable
  ext2: Call dquot_writeback_dquots() with s_umount held
  reiserfs: avoid a -Wmaybe-uninitialized warning
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Pull quota, reiserfs, udf and ext2 updates from Jan Kara:
 "The branch contains changes to quota code so that it does not modify
  persistent flags in inode-&gt;i_flags (it was the only place in kernel
  doing that) and handle it inside filesystem's quotaon/off handlers
  instead.

  The branch also contains two UDF cleanups, a couple of reiserfs fixes
  and one fix for ext2 quota locking"

* 'generic' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs:
  ext4: Improve comments in ext4_quota_{on|off}()
  udf: use kmap_atomic for memcpy copying
  udf: use octal for permissions
  quota: Remove dquot_quotactl_ops
  reiserfs: Remove i_attrs_to_sd_attrs()
  reiserfs: Remove useless setting of i_flags
  jfs: Remove jfs_get_inode_flags()
  ext2: Remove ext2_get_inode_flags()
  ext4: Remove ext4_get_inode_flags()
  quota: Stop setting IMMUTABLE and NOATIME flags on quota files
  jfs: Set flags on quota files directly
  ext2: Set flags on quota files directly
  reiserfs: Set flags on quota files directly
  ext4: Set flags on quota files directly
  reiserfs: Protect dquot_writeback_dquots() by s_umount semaphore
  reiserfs: Make cancel_old_flush() reliable
  ext2: Call dquot_writeback_dquots() with s_umount held
  reiserfs: avoid a -Wmaybe-uninitialized warning
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ext4: preload block group descriptors</title>
<updated>2017-04-30T04:46:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrew Perepechko</name>
<email>andrew.perepechko@seagate.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-30T04:46:35+00:00</published>
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With enabled meta_bg option block group descriptors
reading IO is not sequential and requires optimization.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Perepechko &lt;andrew.perepechko@seagate.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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With enabled meta_bg option block group descriptors
reading IO is not sequential and requires optimization.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Perepechko &lt;andrew.perepechko@seagate.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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