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<title>linux.git/fs/inode.c, branch v4.13</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2017-07-08T17:50:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-08T17:50:54+00:00</published>
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Pull misc filesystem updates from Al Viro:
 "Assorted normal VFS / filesystems stuff..."

* 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  dentry name snapshots
  Make statfs properly return read-only state after emergency remount
  fs/dcache: init in_lookup_hashtable
  minix: Deinline get_block, save 2691 bytes
  fs: Reorder inode_owner_or_capable() to avoid needless
  fs: warn in case userspace lied about modprobe return
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Pull misc filesystem updates from Al Viro:
 "Assorted normal VFS / filesystems stuff..."

* 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  dentry name snapshots
  Make statfs properly return read-only state after emergency remount
  fs/dcache: init in_lookup_hashtable
  minix: Deinline get_block, save 2691 bytes
  fs: Reorder inode_owner_or_capable() to avoid needless
  fs: warn in case userspace lied about modprobe return
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: update callers to use HASH_ZERO flag</title>
<updated>2017-07-06T23:24:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pavel Tatashin</name>
<email>pasha.tatashin@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-06T22:39:11+00:00</published>
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Update dcache, inode, pid, mountpoint, and mount hash tables to use
HASH_ZERO, and remove initialization after allocations.  In case of
places where HASH_EARLY was used such as in __pv_init_lock_hash the
zeroed hash table was already assumed, because memblock zeroes the
memory.

CPU: SPARC M6, Memory: 7T
Before fix:
  Dentry cache hash table entries: 1073741824
  Inode-cache hash table entries: 536870912
  Mount-cache hash table entries: 16777216
  Mountpoint-cache hash table entries: 16777216
  ftrace: allocating 20414 entries in 40 pages
  Total time: 11.798s

After fix:
  Dentry cache hash table entries: 1073741824
  Inode-cache hash table entries: 536870912
  Mount-cache hash table entries: 16777216
  Mountpoint-cache hash table entries: 16777216
  ftrace: allocating 20414 entries in 40 pages
  Total time: 3.198s

CPU: Intel Xeon E5-2630, Memory: 2.2T:
Before fix:
  Dentry cache hash table entries: 536870912
  Inode-cache hash table entries: 268435456
  Mount-cache hash table entries: 8388608
  Mountpoint-cache hash table entries: 8388608
  CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
  Total time: 3.245s

After fix:
  Dentry cache hash table entries: 536870912
  Inode-cache hash table entries: 268435456
  Mount-cache hash table entries: 8388608
  Mountpoint-cache hash table entries: 8388608
  CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
  Total time: 3.244s

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1488432825-92126-4-git-send-email-pasha.tatashin@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin &lt;pasha.tatashin@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Babu Moger &lt;babu.moger@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&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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Update dcache, inode, pid, mountpoint, and mount hash tables to use
HASH_ZERO, and remove initialization after allocations.  In case of
places where HASH_EARLY was used such as in __pv_init_lock_hash the
zeroed hash table was already assumed, because memblock zeroes the
memory.

CPU: SPARC M6, Memory: 7T
Before fix:
  Dentry cache hash table entries: 1073741824
  Inode-cache hash table entries: 536870912
  Mount-cache hash table entries: 16777216
  Mountpoint-cache hash table entries: 16777216
  ftrace: allocating 20414 entries in 40 pages
  Total time: 11.798s

After fix:
  Dentry cache hash table entries: 1073741824
  Inode-cache hash table entries: 536870912
  Mount-cache hash table entries: 16777216
  Mountpoint-cache hash table entries: 16777216
  ftrace: allocating 20414 entries in 40 pages
  Total time: 3.198s

CPU: Intel Xeon E5-2630, Memory: 2.2T:
Before fix:
  Dentry cache hash table entries: 536870912
  Inode-cache hash table entries: 268435456
  Mount-cache hash table entries: 8388608
  Mountpoint-cache hash table entries: 8388608
  CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
  Total time: 3.245s

After fix:
  Dentry cache hash table entries: 536870912
  Inode-cache hash table entries: 268435456
  Mount-cache hash table entries: 8388608
  Mountpoint-cache hash table entries: 8388608
  CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
  Total time: 3.244s

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1488432825-92126-4-git-send-email-pasha.tatashin@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin &lt;pasha.tatashin@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Babu Moger &lt;babu.moger@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&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>Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2017-07-03T20:08:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-03T20:08:04+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=9bd42183b951051f73de121f7ee17091e7d26fbb'/>
<id>9bd42183b951051f73de121f7ee17091e7d26fbb</id>
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Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle were:

   - Add the SYSTEM_SCHEDULING bootup state to move various scheduler
     debug checks earlier into the bootup. This turns silent and
     sporadically deadly bugs into nice, deterministic splats. Fix some
     of the splats that triggered. (Thomas Gleixner)

   - A round of restructuring and refactoring of the load-balancing and
     topology code (Peter Zijlstra)

   - Another round of consolidating ~20 of incremental scheduler code
     history: this time in terms of wait-queue nomenclature. (I didn't
     get much feedback on these renaming patches, and we can still
     easily change any names I might have misplaced, so if anyone hates
     a new name, please holler and I'll fix it.) (Ingo Molnar)

   - sched/numa improvements, fixes and updates (Rik van Riel)

   - Another round of x86/tsc scheduler clock code improvements, in hope
     of making it more robust (Peter Zijlstra)

   - Improve NOHZ behavior (Frederic Weisbecker)

   - Deadline scheduler improvements and fixes (Luca Abeni, Daniel
     Bristot de Oliveira)

   - Simplify and optimize the topology setup code (Lauro Ramos
     Venancio)

   - Debloat and decouple scheduler code some more (Nicolas Pitre)

   - Simplify code by making better use of llist primitives (Byungchul
     Park)

   - ... plus other fixes and improvements"

* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (103 commits)
  sched/cputime: Refactor the cputime_adjust() code
  sched/debug: Expose the number of RT/DL tasks that can migrate
  sched/numa: Hide numa_wake_affine() from UP build
  sched/fair: Remove effective_load()
  sched/numa: Implement NUMA node level wake_affine()
  sched/fair: Simplify wake_affine() for the single socket case
  sched/numa: Override part of migrate_degrades_locality() when idle balancing
  sched/rt: Move RT related code from sched/core.c to sched/rt.c
  sched/deadline: Move DL related code from sched/core.c to sched/deadline.c
  sched/cpuset: Only offer CONFIG_CPUSETS if SMP is enabled
  sched/fair: Spare idle load balancing on nohz_full CPUs
  nohz: Move idle balancer registration to the idle path
  sched/loadavg: Generalize "_idle" naming to "_nohz"
  sched/core: Drop the unused try_get_task_struct() helper function
  sched/fair: WARN() and refuse to set buddy when !se-&gt;on_rq
  sched/debug: Fix SCHED_WARN_ON() to return a value on !CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG as well
  sched/wait: Disambiguate wq_entry-&gt;task_list and wq_head-&gt;task_list naming
  sched/wait: Move bit_wait_table[] and related functionality from sched/core.c to sched/wait_bit.c
  sched/wait: Split out the wait_bit*() APIs from &lt;linux/wait.h&gt; into &lt;linux/wait_bit.h&gt;
  sched/wait: Re-adjust macro line continuation backslashes in &lt;linux/wait.h&gt;
  ...
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<pre>
Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle were:

   - Add the SYSTEM_SCHEDULING bootup state to move various scheduler
     debug checks earlier into the bootup. This turns silent and
     sporadically deadly bugs into nice, deterministic splats. Fix some
     of the splats that triggered. (Thomas Gleixner)

   - A round of restructuring and refactoring of the load-balancing and
     topology code (Peter Zijlstra)

   - Another round of consolidating ~20 of incremental scheduler code
     history: this time in terms of wait-queue nomenclature. (I didn't
     get much feedback on these renaming patches, and we can still
     easily change any names I might have misplaced, so if anyone hates
     a new name, please holler and I'll fix it.) (Ingo Molnar)

   - sched/numa improvements, fixes and updates (Rik van Riel)

   - Another round of x86/tsc scheduler clock code improvements, in hope
     of making it more robust (Peter Zijlstra)

   - Improve NOHZ behavior (Frederic Weisbecker)

   - Deadline scheduler improvements and fixes (Luca Abeni, Daniel
     Bristot de Oliveira)

   - Simplify and optimize the topology setup code (Lauro Ramos
     Venancio)

   - Debloat and decouple scheduler code some more (Nicolas Pitre)

   - Simplify code by making better use of llist primitives (Byungchul
     Park)

   - ... plus other fixes and improvements"

* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (103 commits)
  sched/cputime: Refactor the cputime_adjust() code
  sched/debug: Expose the number of RT/DL tasks that can migrate
  sched/numa: Hide numa_wake_affine() from UP build
  sched/fair: Remove effective_load()
  sched/numa: Implement NUMA node level wake_affine()
  sched/fair: Simplify wake_affine() for the single socket case
  sched/numa: Override part of migrate_degrades_locality() when idle balancing
  sched/rt: Move RT related code from sched/core.c to sched/rt.c
  sched/deadline: Move DL related code from sched/core.c to sched/deadline.c
  sched/cpuset: Only offer CONFIG_CPUSETS if SMP is enabled
  sched/fair: Spare idle load balancing on nohz_full CPUs
  nohz: Move idle balancer registration to the idle path
  sched/loadavg: Generalize "_idle" naming to "_nohz"
  sched/core: Drop the unused try_get_task_struct() helper function
  sched/fair: WARN() and refuse to set buddy when !se-&gt;on_rq
  sched/debug: Fix SCHED_WARN_ON() to return a value on !CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG as well
  sched/wait: Disambiguate wq_entry-&gt;task_list and wq_head-&gt;task_list naming
  sched/wait: Move bit_wait_table[] and related functionality from sched/core.c to sched/wait_bit.c
  sched/wait: Split out the wait_bit*() APIs from &lt;linux/wait.h&gt; into &lt;linux/wait_bit.h&gt;
  sched/wait: Re-adjust macro line continuation backslashes in &lt;linux/wait.h&gt;
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs: Reorder inode_owner_or_capable() to avoid needless</title>
<updated>2017-06-30T00:08:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>keescook@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-21T16:53:06+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=cc658db47d6897a8571fb6227f59d1d18151b0b2'/>
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<content type='text'>
Checking for capabilities should be the last operation when performing
access control tests so that PF_SUPERPRIV is set only when it was required
for success (implying that the capability was needed for the operation).

Reported-by: Solar Designer &lt;solar@openwall.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn &lt;serge@hallyn.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Checking for capabilities should be the last operation when performing
access control tests so that PF_SUPERPRIV is set only when it was required
for success (implying that the capability was needed for the operation).

Reported-by: Solar Designer &lt;solar@openwall.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn &lt;serge@hallyn.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs: add fcntl() interface for setting/getting write life time hints</title>
<updated>2017-06-27T18:05:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>axboe@kernel.dk</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-27T17:47:04+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=c75b1d9421f80f4143e389d2d50ddfc8a28c8c35'/>
<id>c75b1d9421f80f4143e389d2d50ddfc8a28c8c35</id>
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Define a set of write life time hints:

RWH_WRITE_LIFE_NOT_SET	No hint information set
RWH_WRITE_LIFE_NONE	No hints about write life time
RWH_WRITE_LIFE_SHORT	Data written has a short life time
RWH_WRITE_LIFE_MEDIUM	Data written has a medium life time
RWH_WRITE_LIFE_LONG	Data written has a long life time
RWH_WRITE_LIFE_EXTREME	Data written has an extremely long life time

The intent is for these values to be relative to each other, no
absolute meaning should be attached to these flag names.

Add an fcntl interface for querying these flags, and also for
setting them as well:

F_GET_RW_HINT		Returns the read/write hint set on the
			underlying inode.

F_SET_RW_HINT		Set one of the above write hints on the
			underlying inode.

F_GET_FILE_RW_HINT	Returns the read/write hint set on the
			file descriptor.

F_SET_FILE_RW_HINT	Set one of the above write hints on the
			file descriptor.

The user passes in a 64-bit pointer to get/set these values, and
the interface returns 0/-1 on success/error.

Sample program testing/implementing basic setting/getting of write
hints is below.

Add support for storing the write life time hint in the inode flags
and in struct file as well, and pass them to the kiocb flags. If
both a file and its corresponding inode has a write hint, then we
use the one in the file, if available. The file hint can be used
for sync/direct IO, for buffered writeback only the inode hint
is available.

This is in preparation for utilizing these hints in the block layer,
to guide on-media data placement.

/*
 * writehint.c: get or set an inode write hint
 */
 #include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
 #include &lt;fcntl.h&gt;
 #include &lt;stdlib.h&gt;
 #include &lt;unistd.h&gt;
 #include &lt;stdbool.h&gt;
 #include &lt;inttypes.h&gt;

 #ifndef F_GET_RW_HINT
 #define F_LINUX_SPECIFIC_BASE	1024
 #define F_GET_RW_HINT		(F_LINUX_SPECIFIC_BASE + 11)
 #define F_SET_RW_HINT		(F_LINUX_SPECIFIC_BASE + 12)
 #endif

static char *str[] = { "RWF_WRITE_LIFE_NOT_SET", "RWH_WRITE_LIFE_NONE",
			"RWH_WRITE_LIFE_SHORT", "RWH_WRITE_LIFE_MEDIUM",
			"RWH_WRITE_LIFE_LONG", "RWH_WRITE_LIFE_EXTREME" };

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
	uint64_t hint;
	int fd, ret;

	if (argc &lt; 2) {
		fprintf(stderr, "%s: file &lt;hint&gt;\n", argv[0]);
		return 1;
	}

	fd = open(argv[1], O_RDONLY);
	if (fd &lt; 0) {
		perror("open");
		return 2;
	}

	if (argc &gt; 2) {
		hint = atoi(argv[2]);
		ret = fcntl(fd, F_SET_RW_HINT, &amp;hint);
		if (ret &lt; 0) {
			perror("fcntl: F_SET_RW_HINT");
			return 4;
		}
	}

	ret = fcntl(fd, F_GET_RW_HINT, &amp;hint);
	if (ret &lt; 0) {
		perror("fcntl: F_GET_RW_HINT");
		return 3;
	}

	printf("%s: hint %s\n", argv[1], str[hint]);
	close(fd);
	return 0;
}

Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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Define a set of write life time hints:

RWH_WRITE_LIFE_NOT_SET	No hint information set
RWH_WRITE_LIFE_NONE	No hints about write life time
RWH_WRITE_LIFE_SHORT	Data written has a short life time
RWH_WRITE_LIFE_MEDIUM	Data written has a medium life time
RWH_WRITE_LIFE_LONG	Data written has a long life time
RWH_WRITE_LIFE_EXTREME	Data written has an extremely long life time

The intent is for these values to be relative to each other, no
absolute meaning should be attached to these flag names.

Add an fcntl interface for querying these flags, and also for
setting them as well:

F_GET_RW_HINT		Returns the read/write hint set on the
			underlying inode.

F_SET_RW_HINT		Set one of the above write hints on the
			underlying inode.

F_GET_FILE_RW_HINT	Returns the read/write hint set on the
			file descriptor.

F_SET_FILE_RW_HINT	Set one of the above write hints on the
			file descriptor.

The user passes in a 64-bit pointer to get/set these values, and
the interface returns 0/-1 on success/error.

Sample program testing/implementing basic setting/getting of write
hints is below.

Add support for storing the write life time hint in the inode flags
and in struct file as well, and pass them to the kiocb flags. If
both a file and its corresponding inode has a write hint, then we
use the one in the file, if available. The file hint can be used
for sync/direct IO, for buffered writeback only the inode hint
is available.

This is in preparation for utilizing these hints in the block layer,
to guide on-media data placement.

/*
 * writehint.c: get or set an inode write hint
 */
 #include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
 #include &lt;fcntl.h&gt;
 #include &lt;stdlib.h&gt;
 #include &lt;unistd.h&gt;
 #include &lt;stdbool.h&gt;
 #include &lt;inttypes.h&gt;

 #ifndef F_GET_RW_HINT
 #define F_LINUX_SPECIFIC_BASE	1024
 #define F_GET_RW_HINT		(F_LINUX_SPECIFIC_BASE + 11)
 #define F_SET_RW_HINT		(F_LINUX_SPECIFIC_BASE + 12)
 #endif

static char *str[] = { "RWF_WRITE_LIFE_NOT_SET", "RWH_WRITE_LIFE_NONE",
			"RWH_WRITE_LIFE_SHORT", "RWH_WRITE_LIFE_MEDIUM",
			"RWH_WRITE_LIFE_LONG", "RWH_WRITE_LIFE_EXTREME" };

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
	uint64_t hint;
	int fd, ret;

	if (argc &lt; 2) {
		fprintf(stderr, "%s: file &lt;hint&gt;\n", argv[0]);
		return 1;
	}

	fd = open(argv[1], O_RDONLY);
	if (fd &lt; 0) {
		perror("open");
		return 2;
	}

	if (argc &gt; 2) {
		hint = atoi(argv[2]);
		ret = fcntl(fd, F_SET_RW_HINT, &amp;hint);
		if (ret &lt; 0) {
			perror("fcntl: F_SET_RW_HINT");
			return 4;
		}
	}

	ret = fcntl(fd, F_GET_RW_HINT, &amp;hint);
	if (ret &lt; 0) {
		perror("fcntl: F_GET_RW_HINT");
		return 3;
	}

	printf("%s: hint %s\n", argv[1], str[hint]);
	close(fd);
	return 0;
}

Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched/wait: Standardize 'struct wait_bit_queue' wait-queue entry field name</title>
<updated>2017-06-20T10:18:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-03-05T10:25:39+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=2141713616c652aeabf2dd5c1e89bc601c4fed6a'/>
<id>2141713616c652aeabf2dd5c1e89bc601c4fed6a</id>
<content type='text'>
Rename 'struct wait_bit_queue::wait' to ::wq_entry, to more clearly
name it as a wait-queue entry.

Propagate it to a couple of usage sites where the wait-bit-queue internals
are exposed.

Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
Rename 'struct wait_bit_queue::wait' to ::wq_entry, to more clearly
name it as a wait-queue entry.

Propagate it to a couple of usage sites where the wait-bit-queue internals
are exposed.

Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2017-05-09T16:12:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-09T16:12:53+00:00</published>
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Pull misc vfs updates from Al Viro:
 "Assorted bits and pieces from various people. No common topic in this
  pile, sorry"

* 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  fs/affs: add rename exchange
  fs/affs: add rename2 to prepare multiple methods
  Make stat/lstat/fstatat pass AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT to vfs_statx()
  fs: don't set *REFERENCED on single use objects
  fs: compat: Remove warning from COMPATIBLE_IOCTL
  remove pointless extern of atime_need_update_rcu()
  fs: completely ignore unknown open flags
  fs: add a VALID_OPEN_FLAGS
  fs: remove _submit_bh()
  fs: constify tree_descr arrays passed to simple_fill_super()
  fs: drop duplicate header percpu-rwsem.h
  fs/affs: bugfix: Write files greater than page size on OFS
  fs/affs: bugfix: enable writes on OFS disks
  fs/affs: remove node generation check
  fs/affs: import amigaffs.h
  fs/affs: bugfix: make symbolic links work again
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Pull misc vfs updates from Al Viro:
 "Assorted bits and pieces from various people. No common topic in this
  pile, sorry"

* 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  fs/affs: add rename exchange
  fs/affs: add rename2 to prepare multiple methods
  Make stat/lstat/fstatat pass AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT to vfs_statx()
  fs: don't set *REFERENCED on single use objects
  fs: compat: Remove warning from COMPATIBLE_IOCTL
  remove pointless extern of atime_need_update_rcu()
  fs: completely ignore unknown open flags
  fs: add a VALID_OPEN_FLAGS
  fs: remove _submit_bh()
  fs: constify tree_descr arrays passed to simple_fill_super()
  fs: drop duplicate header percpu-rwsem.h
  fs/affs: bugfix: Write files greater than page size on OFS
  fs/affs: bugfix: enable writes on OFS disks
  fs/affs: remove node generation check
  fs/affs: import amigaffs.h
  fs/affs: bugfix: make symbolic links work again
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<title>scripts/spelling.txt: add "intialise(d)" pattern and fix typo instances</title>
<updated>2017-05-09T00:15:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>yamada.masahiro@socionext.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-08T22:57:53+00:00</published>
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Fix typos and add the following to the scripts/spelling.txt:

  intialisation||initialisation
  intialised||initialised
  intialise||initialise

This commit does not intend to change the British spelling itself.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1481573103-11329-18-git-send-email-yamada.masahiro@socionext.com
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.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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Fix typos and add the following to the scripts/spelling.txt:

  intialisation||initialisation
  intialised||initialised
  intialise||initialise

This commit does not intend to change the British spelling itself.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1481573103-11329-18-git-send-email-yamada.masahiro@socionext.com
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.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>fs: don't set *REFERENCED on single use objects</title>
<updated>2017-05-03T15:47:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Josef Bacik</name>
<email>josef@toxicpanda.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-18T20:04:17+00:00</published>
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By default we set DCACHE_REFERENCED and I_REFERENCED on any dentry or
inode we create.  This is problematic as this means that it takes two
trips through the LRU for any of these objects to be reclaimed,
regardless of their actual lifetime.  With enough pressure from these
caches we can easily evict our working set from page cache with single
use objects.  So instead only set *REFERENCED if we've already been
added to the LRU list.  This means that we've been touched since the
first time we were accessed, and so more likely to need to hang out in
cache.

To illustrate this issue I wrote the following scripts

https://github.com/josefbacik/debug-scripts/tree/master/cache-pressure

on my test box.  It is a single socket 4 core CPU with 16gib of RAM and
I tested on an Intel 2tib NVME drive.  The cache-pressure.sh script
creates a new file system and creates 2 6.5gib files in order to take up
13gib of the 16gib of ram with pagecache.  Then it runs a test program
that reads these 2 files in a loop, and keeps track of how often it has
to read bytes for each loop.  On an ideal system with no pressure we
should have to read 0 bytes indefinitely.  The second thing this script
does is start a fs_mark job that creates a ton of 0 length files,
putting pressure on the system with slab only allocations.  On exit the
script prints out how many bytes were read by the read-file program.
The results are as follows

Without patch:
/mnt/btrfs-test/reads/file1: total read during loops 27262988288
/mnt/btrfs-test/reads/file2: total read during loops 27262976000

With patch:
/mnt/btrfs-test/reads/file2: total read during loops 18640457728
/mnt/btrfs-test/reads/file1: total read during loops 9565376512

This patch results in a 50% reduction of the amount of pages evicted
from our working set.

Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik &lt;jbacik@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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By default we set DCACHE_REFERENCED and I_REFERENCED on any dentry or
inode we create.  This is problematic as this means that it takes two
trips through the LRU for any of these objects to be reclaimed,
regardless of their actual lifetime.  With enough pressure from these
caches we can easily evict our working set from page cache with single
use objects.  So instead only set *REFERENCED if we've already been
added to the LRU list.  This means that we've been touched since the
first time we were accessed, and so more likely to need to hang out in
cache.

To illustrate this issue I wrote the following scripts

https://github.com/josefbacik/debug-scripts/tree/master/cache-pressure

on my test box.  It is a single socket 4 core CPU with 16gib of RAM and
I tested on an Intel 2tib NVME drive.  The cache-pressure.sh script
creates a new file system and creates 2 6.5gib files in order to take up
13gib of the 16gib of ram with pagecache.  Then it runs a test program
that reads these 2 files in a loop, and keeps track of how often it has
to read bytes for each loop.  On an ideal system with no pressure we
should have to read 0 bytes indefinitely.  The second thing this script
does is start a fs_mark job that creates a ton of 0 length files,
putting pressure on the system with slab only allocations.  On exit the
script prints out how many bytes were read by the read-file program.
The results are as follows

Without patch:
/mnt/btrfs-test/reads/file1: total read during loops 27262988288
/mnt/btrfs-test/reads/file2: total read during loops 27262976000

With patch:
/mnt/btrfs-test/reads/file2: total read during loops 18640457728
/mnt/btrfs-test/reads/file1: total read during loops 9565376512

This patch results in a 50% reduction of the amount of pages evicted
from our working set.

Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik &lt;jbacik@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>fsnotify: Free fsnotify_mark_connector when there is no mark attached</title>
<updated>2017-04-10T15:37:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-01T08:21:58+00:00</published>
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Currently we free fsnotify_mark_connector structure only when inode /
vfsmount is getting freed. This can however impose noticeable memory
overhead when marks get attached to inodes only temporarily. So free the
connector structure once the last mark is detached from the object.
Since notification infrastructure can be working with the connector
under the protection of fsnotify_mark_srcu, we have to be careful and
free the fsnotify_mark_connector only after SRCU period passes.

Reviewed-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein &lt;amir73il@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
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Currently we free fsnotify_mark_connector structure only when inode /
vfsmount is getting freed. This can however impose noticeable memory
overhead when marks get attached to inodes only temporarily. So free the
connector structure once the last mark is detached from the object.
Since notification infrastructure can be working with the connector
under the protection of fsnotify_mark_srcu, we have to be careful and
free the fsnotify_mark_connector only after SRCU period passes.

Reviewed-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein &lt;amir73il@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
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