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<title>locking: remove spin_lock_prefetch</title>
<updated>2023-08-12T16:18:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mateusz Guzik</name>
<email>mjguzik@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-12T16:15:54+00:00</published>
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The only remaining consumer is new_inode, where it showed up in 2001 as
commit c37fa164f793 ("v2.4.9.9 -&gt; v2.4.9.10") in a historical repo [1]
with a changelog which does not mention it.

Since then the line got only touched up to keep compiling.

While it may have been of benefit back in the day, it is guaranteed to
at best not get in the way in the multicore setting -- as the code
performs *a lot* of work between the prefetch and actual lock acquire,
any contention means the cacheline is already invalid by the time the
routine calls spin_lock().  It adds spurious traffic, for short.

On top of it prefetch is notoriously tricky to use for single-threaded
purposes, making it questionable from the get go.

As such, remove it.

I admit upfront I did not see value in benchmarking this change, but I
can do it if that is deemed appropriate.

Removal from new_inode and of the entire thing are in the same patch as
requested by Linus, so whatever weird looks can be directed at that guy.

Link: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git/commit/fs/inode.c?id=c37fa164f793735b32aa3f53154ff1a7659e6442 [1]
Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik &lt;mjguzik@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The only remaining consumer is new_inode, where it showed up in 2001 as
commit c37fa164f793 ("v2.4.9.9 -&gt; v2.4.9.10") in a historical repo [1]
with a changelog which does not mention it.

Since then the line got only touched up to keep compiling.

While it may have been of benefit back in the day, it is guaranteed to
at best not get in the way in the multicore setting -- as the code
performs *a lot* of work between the prefetch and actual lock acquire,
any contention means the cacheline is already invalid by the time the
routine calls spin_lock().  It adds spurious traffic, for short.

On top of it prefetch is notoriously tricky to use for single-threaded
purposes, making it questionable from the get go.

As such, remove it.

I admit upfront I did not see value in benchmarking this change, but I
can do it if that is deemed appropriate.

Removal from new_inode and of the entire thing are in the same patch as
requested by Linus, so whatever weird looks can be directed at that guy.

Link: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git/commit/fs/inode.c?id=c37fa164f793735b32aa3f53154ff1a7659e6442 [1]
Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik &lt;mjguzik@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>fs: don't assume arguments are non-NULL</title>
<updated>2023-07-04T08:21:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Brauner</name>
<email>brauner@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-07-03T14:49:12+00:00</published>
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The helper is explicitly documented as locking zero, one, or two
arguments. While all current callers do pass non-NULL arguments there's
no need or requirement for them to do so according to the code and the
unlock_two_nondirectories() helper is pretty clear about it as well. So
only call WARN_ON_ONCE() if the checked inode is valid.

Fixes: 2454ad83b90a ("fs: Restrict lock_two_nondirectories() to non-directory inodes")
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;20230703-vfs-rename-source-v1-2-37eebb29b65b@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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The helper is explicitly documented as locking zero, one, or two
arguments. While all current callers do pass non-NULL arguments there's
no need or requirement for them to do so according to the code and the
unlock_two_nondirectories() helper is pretty clear about it as well. So
only call WARN_ON_ONCE() if the checked inode is valid.

Fixes: 2454ad83b90a ("fs: Restrict lock_two_nondirectories() to non-directory inodes")
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;20230703-vfs-rename-source-v1-2-37eebb29b65b@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-6.5/block-2023-06-23' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux</title>
<updated>2023-06-26T19:47:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-26T19:47:20+00:00</published>
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Pull block updates from Jens Axboe:

 - NVMe pull request via Keith:
      - Various cleanups all around (Irvin, Chaitanya, Christophe)
      - Better struct packing (Christophe JAILLET)
      - Reduce controller error logs for optional commands (Keith)
      - Support for &gt;=64KiB block sizes (Daniel Gomez)
      - Fabrics fixes and code organization (Max, Chaitanya, Daniel
        Wagner)

 - bcache updates via Coly:
      - Fix a race at init time (Mingzhe Zou)
      - Misc fixes and cleanups (Andrea, Thomas, Zheng, Ye)

 - use page pinning in the block layer for dio (David)

 - convert old block dio code to page pinning (David, Christoph)

 - cleanups for pktcdvd (Andy)

 - cleanups for rnbd (Guoqing)

 - use the unchecked __bio_add_page() for the initial single page
   additions (Johannes)

 - fix overflows in the Amiga partition handling code (Michael)

 - improve mq-deadline zoned device support (Bart)

 - keep passthrough requests out of the IO schedulers (Christoph, Ming)

 - improve support for flush requests, making them less special to deal
   with (Christoph)

 - add bdev holder ops and shutdown methods (Christoph)

 - fix the name_to_dev_t() situation and use cases (Christoph)

 - decouple the block open flags from fmode_t (Christoph)

 - ublk updates and cleanups, including adding user copy support (Ming)

 - BFQ sanity checking (Bart)

 - convert brd from radix to xarray (Pankaj)

 - constify various structures (Thomas, Ivan)

 - more fine grained persistent reservation ioctl capability checks
   (Jingbo)

 - misc fixes and cleanups (Arnd, Azeem, Demi, Ed, Hengqi, Hou, Jan,
   Jordy, Li, Min, Yu, Zhong, Waiman)

* tag 'for-6.5/block-2023-06-23' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux: (266 commits)
  scsi/sg: don't grab scsi host module reference
  ext4: Fix warning in blkdev_put()
  block: don't return -EINVAL for not found names in devt_from_devname
  cdrom: Fix spectre-v1 gadget
  block: Improve kernel-doc headers
  blk-mq: don't insert passthrough request into sw queue
  bsg: make bsg_class a static const structure
  ublk: make ublk_chr_class a static const structure
  aoe: make aoe_class a static const structure
  block/rnbd: make all 'class' structures const
  block: fix the exclusive open mask in disk_scan_partitions
  block: add overflow checks for Amiga partition support
  block: change all __u32 annotations to __be32 in affs_hardblocks.h
  block: fix signed int overflow in Amiga partition support
  block: add capacity validation in bdev_add_partition()
  block: fine-granular CAP_SYS_ADMIN for Persistent Reservation
  block: disallow Persistent Reservation on partitions
  reiserfs: fix blkdev_put() warning from release_journal_dev()
  block: fix wrong mode for blkdev_get_by_dev() from disk_scan_partitions()
  block: document the holder argument to blkdev_get_by_path
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Pull block updates from Jens Axboe:

 - NVMe pull request via Keith:
      - Various cleanups all around (Irvin, Chaitanya, Christophe)
      - Better struct packing (Christophe JAILLET)
      - Reduce controller error logs for optional commands (Keith)
      - Support for &gt;=64KiB block sizes (Daniel Gomez)
      - Fabrics fixes and code organization (Max, Chaitanya, Daniel
        Wagner)

 - bcache updates via Coly:
      - Fix a race at init time (Mingzhe Zou)
      - Misc fixes and cleanups (Andrea, Thomas, Zheng, Ye)

 - use page pinning in the block layer for dio (David)

 - convert old block dio code to page pinning (David, Christoph)

 - cleanups for pktcdvd (Andy)

 - cleanups for rnbd (Guoqing)

 - use the unchecked __bio_add_page() for the initial single page
   additions (Johannes)

 - fix overflows in the Amiga partition handling code (Michael)

 - improve mq-deadline zoned device support (Bart)

 - keep passthrough requests out of the IO schedulers (Christoph, Ming)

 - improve support for flush requests, making them less special to deal
   with (Christoph)

 - add bdev holder ops and shutdown methods (Christoph)

 - fix the name_to_dev_t() situation and use cases (Christoph)

 - decouple the block open flags from fmode_t (Christoph)

 - ublk updates and cleanups, including adding user copy support (Ming)

 - BFQ sanity checking (Bart)

 - convert brd from radix to xarray (Pankaj)

 - constify various structures (Thomas, Ivan)

 - more fine grained persistent reservation ioctl capability checks
   (Jingbo)

 - misc fixes and cleanups (Arnd, Azeem, Demi, Ed, Hengqi, Hou, Jan,
   Jordy, Li, Min, Yu, Zhong, Waiman)

* tag 'for-6.5/block-2023-06-23' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux: (266 commits)
  scsi/sg: don't grab scsi host module reference
  ext4: Fix warning in blkdev_put()
  block: don't return -EINVAL for not found names in devt_from_devname
  cdrom: Fix spectre-v1 gadget
  block: Improve kernel-doc headers
  blk-mq: don't insert passthrough request into sw queue
  bsg: make bsg_class a static const structure
  ublk: make ublk_chr_class a static const structure
  aoe: make aoe_class a static const structure
  block/rnbd: make all 'class' structures const
  block: fix the exclusive open mask in disk_scan_partitions
  block: add overflow checks for Amiga partition support
  block: change all __u32 annotations to __be32 in affs_hardblocks.h
  block: fix signed int overflow in Amiga partition support
  block: add capacity validation in bdev_add_partition()
  block: fine-granular CAP_SYS_ADMIN for Persistent Reservation
  block: disallow Persistent Reservation on partitions
  reiserfs: fix blkdev_put() warning from release_journal_dev()
  block: fix wrong mode for blkdev_get_by_dev() from disk_scan_partitions()
  block: document the holder argument to blkdev_get_by_path
  ...
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<entry>
<title>fs: Restrict lock_two_nondirectories() to non-directory inodes</title>
<updated>2023-06-07T07:15:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-01T10:58:26+00:00</published>
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Currently lock_two_nondirectories() is skipping any passed directories.
After vfs_rename() uses lock_two_inodes(), all the remaining four users
of this function pass only regular files to it. So drop the somewhat
unusual "skip directory" logic and instead warn if anybody passes
directory to it. This also allows us to use lock_two_inodes() in
lock_two_nondirectories() to concentrate the lock ordering logic in less
places.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;20230601105830.13168-6-jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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Currently lock_two_nondirectories() is skipping any passed directories.
After vfs_rename() uses lock_two_inodes(), all the remaining four users
of this function pass only regular files to it. So drop the somewhat
unusual "skip directory" logic and instead warn if anybody passes
directory to it. This also allows us to use lock_two_inodes() in
lock_two_nondirectories() to concentrate the lock ordering logic in less
places.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;20230601105830.13168-6-jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>fs: Establish locking order for unrelated directories</title>
<updated>2023-06-02T13:00:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-01T10:58:24+00:00</published>
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Currently the locking order of inode locks for directories that are not
in ancestor relationship is not defined because all operations that
needed to lock two directories like this were serialized by
sb-&gt;s_vfs_rename_mutex. However some filesystems need to lock two
subdirectories for RENAME_EXCHANGE operations and for this we need the
locking order established even for two tree-unrelated directories.
Provide a helper function lock_two_inodes() that establishes lock
ordering for any two inodes and use it in lock_two_directories().

CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;20230601105830.13168-4-jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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Currently the locking order of inode locks for directories that are not
in ancestor relationship is not defined because all operations that
needed to lock two directories like this were serialized by
sb-&gt;s_vfs_rename_mutex. However some filesystems need to lock two
subdirectories for RENAME_EXCHANGE operations and for this we need the
locking order established even for two tree-unrelated directories.
Provide a helper function lock_two_inodes() that establishes lock
ordering for any two inodes and use it in lock_two_directories().

CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;20230601105830.13168-4-jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>fs: remove the special !CONFIG_BLOCK def_blk_fops</title>
<updated>2023-05-20T01:48:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2023-05-08T14:44:05+00:00</published>
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def_blk_fops always returns -ENODEV, which dosn't match the return value
of a non-existing block device with CONFIG_BLOCK, which is -ENXIO.
Just remove the extra implementation and fall back to the default
no_open_fops that always returns -ENXIO.

Fixes: 9361401eb761 ("[PATCH] BLOCK: Make it possible to disable the block layer [try #6]")
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230508144405.41792-1-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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def_blk_fops always returns -ENODEV, which dosn't match the return value
of a non-existing block device with CONFIG_BLOCK, which is -ENXIO.
Just remove the extra implementation and fall back to the default
no_open_fops that always returns -ENXIO.

Fixes: 9361401eb761 ("[PATCH] BLOCK: Make it possible to disable the block layer [try #6]")
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230508144405.41792-1-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-stable-2023-04-27-15-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2023-04-28T02:42:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-28T02:42:02+00:00</published>
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - Nick Piggin's "shoot lazy tlbs" series, to improve the peformance of
   switching from a user process to a kernel thread.

 - More folio conversions from Kefeng Wang, Zhang Peng and Pankaj
   Raghav.

 - zsmalloc performance improvements from Sergey Senozhatsky.

 - Yue Zhao has found and fixed some data race issues around the
   alteration of memcg userspace tunables.

 - VFS rationalizations from Christoph Hellwig:
     - removal of most of the callers of write_one_page()
     - make __filemap_get_folio()'s return value more useful

 - Luis Chamberlain has changed tmpfs so it no longer requires swap
   backing. Use `mount -o noswap'.

 - Qi Zheng has made the slab shrinkers operate locklessly, providing
   some scalability benefits.

 - Keith Busch has improved dmapool's performance, making part of its
   operations O(1) rather than O(n).

 - Peter Xu adds the UFFD_FEATURE_WP_UNPOPULATED feature to userfaultd,
   permitting userspace to wr-protect anon memory unpopulated ptes.

 - Kirill Shutemov has changed MAX_ORDER's meaning to be inclusive
   rather than exclusive, and has fixed a bunch of errors which were
   caused by its unintuitive meaning.

 - Axel Rasmussen give userfaultfd the UFFDIO_CONTINUE_MODE_WP feature,
   which causes minor faults to install a write-protected pte.

 - Vlastimil Babka has done some maintenance work on vma_merge():
   cleanups to the kernel code and improvements to our userspace test
   harness.

 - Cleanups to do_fault_around() by Lorenzo Stoakes.

 - Mike Rapoport has moved a lot of initialization code out of various
   mm/ files and into mm/mm_init.c.

 - Lorenzo Stoakes removd vmf_insert_mixed_prot(), which was added for
   DRM, but DRM doesn't use it any more.

 - Lorenzo has also coverted read_kcore() and vread() to use iterators
   and has thereby removed the use of bounce buffers in some cases.

 - Lorenzo has also contributed further cleanups of vma_merge().

 - Chaitanya Prakash provides some fixes to the mmap selftesting code.

 - Matthew Wilcox changes xfs and afs so they no longer take sleeping
   locks in -&gt;map_page(), a step towards RCUification of pagefaults.

 - Suren Baghdasaryan has improved mmap_lock scalability by switching to
   per-VMA locking.

 - Frederic Weisbecker has reworked the percpu cache draining so that it
   no longer causes latency glitches on cpu isolated workloads.

 - Mike Rapoport cleans up and corrects the ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER Kconfig
   logic.

 - Liu Shixin has changed zswap's initialization so we no longer waste a
   chunk of memory if zswap is not being used.

 - Yosry Ahmed has improved the performance of memcg statistics
   flushing.

 - David Stevens has fixed several issues involving khugepaged,
   userfaultfd and shmem.

 - Christoph Hellwig has provided some cleanup work to zram's IO-related
   code paths.

 - David Hildenbrand has fixed up some issues in the selftest code's
   testing of our pte state changing.

 - Pankaj Raghav has made page_endio() unneeded and has removed it.

 - Peter Xu contributed some rationalizations of the userfaultfd
   selftests.

 - Yosry Ahmed has fixed an issue around memcg's page recalim
   accounting.

 - Chaitanya Prakash has fixed some arm-related issues in the
   selftests/mm code.

 - Longlong Xia has improved the way in which KSM handles hwpoisoned
   pages.

 - Peter Xu fixes a few issues with uffd-wp at fork() time.

 - Stefan Roesch has changed KSM so that it may now be used on a
   per-process and per-cgroup basis.

* tag 'mm-stable-2023-04-27-15-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (369 commits)
  mm,unmap: avoid flushing TLB in batch if PTE is inaccessible
  shmem: restrict noswap option to initial user namespace
  mm/khugepaged: fix conflicting mods to collapse_file()
  sparse: remove unnecessary 0 values from rc
  mm: move 'mmap_min_addr' logic from callers into vm_unmapped_area()
  hugetlb: pte_alloc_huge() to replace huge pte_alloc_map()
  maple_tree: fix allocation in mas_sparse_area()
  mm: do not increment pgfault stats when page fault handler retries
  zsmalloc: allow only one active pool compaction context
  selftests/mm: add new selftests for KSM
  mm: add new KSM process and sysfs knobs
  mm: add new api to enable ksm per process
  mm: shrinkers: fix debugfs file permissions
  mm: don't check VMA write permissions if the PTE/PMD indicates write permissions
  migrate_pages_batch: fix statistics for longterm pin retry
  userfaultfd: use helper function range_in_vma()
  lib/show_mem.c: use for_each_populated_zone() simplify code
  mm: correct arg in reclaim_pages()/reclaim_clean_pages_from_list()
  fs/buffer: convert create_page_buffers to folio_create_buffers
  fs/buffer: add folio_create_empty_buffers helper
  ...
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - Nick Piggin's "shoot lazy tlbs" series, to improve the peformance of
   switching from a user process to a kernel thread.

 - More folio conversions from Kefeng Wang, Zhang Peng and Pankaj
   Raghav.

 - zsmalloc performance improvements from Sergey Senozhatsky.

 - Yue Zhao has found and fixed some data race issues around the
   alteration of memcg userspace tunables.

 - VFS rationalizations from Christoph Hellwig:
     - removal of most of the callers of write_one_page()
     - make __filemap_get_folio()'s return value more useful

 - Luis Chamberlain has changed tmpfs so it no longer requires swap
   backing. Use `mount -o noswap'.

 - Qi Zheng has made the slab shrinkers operate locklessly, providing
   some scalability benefits.

 - Keith Busch has improved dmapool's performance, making part of its
   operations O(1) rather than O(n).

 - Peter Xu adds the UFFD_FEATURE_WP_UNPOPULATED feature to userfaultd,
   permitting userspace to wr-protect anon memory unpopulated ptes.

 - Kirill Shutemov has changed MAX_ORDER's meaning to be inclusive
   rather than exclusive, and has fixed a bunch of errors which were
   caused by its unintuitive meaning.

 - Axel Rasmussen give userfaultfd the UFFDIO_CONTINUE_MODE_WP feature,
   which causes minor faults to install a write-protected pte.

 - Vlastimil Babka has done some maintenance work on vma_merge():
   cleanups to the kernel code and improvements to our userspace test
   harness.

 - Cleanups to do_fault_around() by Lorenzo Stoakes.

 - Mike Rapoport has moved a lot of initialization code out of various
   mm/ files and into mm/mm_init.c.

 - Lorenzo Stoakes removd vmf_insert_mixed_prot(), which was added for
   DRM, but DRM doesn't use it any more.

 - Lorenzo has also coverted read_kcore() and vread() to use iterators
   and has thereby removed the use of bounce buffers in some cases.

 - Lorenzo has also contributed further cleanups of vma_merge().

 - Chaitanya Prakash provides some fixes to the mmap selftesting code.

 - Matthew Wilcox changes xfs and afs so they no longer take sleeping
   locks in -&gt;map_page(), a step towards RCUification of pagefaults.

 - Suren Baghdasaryan has improved mmap_lock scalability by switching to
   per-VMA locking.

 - Frederic Weisbecker has reworked the percpu cache draining so that it
   no longer causes latency glitches on cpu isolated workloads.

 - Mike Rapoport cleans up and corrects the ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER Kconfig
   logic.

 - Liu Shixin has changed zswap's initialization so we no longer waste a
   chunk of memory if zswap is not being used.

 - Yosry Ahmed has improved the performance of memcg statistics
   flushing.

 - David Stevens has fixed several issues involving khugepaged,
   userfaultfd and shmem.

 - Christoph Hellwig has provided some cleanup work to zram's IO-related
   code paths.

 - David Hildenbrand has fixed up some issues in the selftest code's
   testing of our pte state changing.

 - Pankaj Raghav has made page_endio() unneeded and has removed it.

 - Peter Xu contributed some rationalizations of the userfaultfd
   selftests.

 - Yosry Ahmed has fixed an issue around memcg's page recalim
   accounting.

 - Chaitanya Prakash has fixed some arm-related issues in the
   selftests/mm code.

 - Longlong Xia has improved the way in which KSM handles hwpoisoned
   pages.

 - Peter Xu fixes a few issues with uffd-wp at fork() time.

 - Stefan Roesch has changed KSM so that it may now be used on a
   per-process and per-cgroup basis.

* tag 'mm-stable-2023-04-27-15-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (369 commits)
  mm,unmap: avoid flushing TLB in batch if PTE is inaccessible
  shmem: restrict noswap option to initial user namespace
  mm/khugepaged: fix conflicting mods to collapse_file()
  sparse: remove unnecessary 0 values from rc
  mm: move 'mmap_min_addr' logic from callers into vm_unmapped_area()
  hugetlb: pte_alloc_huge() to replace huge pte_alloc_map()
  maple_tree: fix allocation in mas_sparse_area()
  mm: do not increment pgfault stats when page fault handler retries
  zsmalloc: allow only one active pool compaction context
  selftests/mm: add new selftests for KSM
  mm: add new KSM process and sysfs knobs
  mm: add new api to enable ksm per process
  mm: shrinkers: fix debugfs file permissions
  mm: don't check VMA write permissions if the PTE/PMD indicates write permissions
  migrate_pages_batch: fix statistics for longterm pin retry
  userfaultfd: use helper function range_in_vma()
  lib/show_mem.c: use for_each_populated_zone() simplify code
  mm: correct arg in reclaim_pages()/reclaim_clean_pages_from_list()
  fs/buffer: convert create_page_buffers to folio_create_buffers
  fs/buffer: add folio_create_empty_buffers helper
  ...
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<entry>
<title>mm: vmscan: refactor updating current-&gt;reclaim_state</title>
<updated>2023-04-18T23:30:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yosry Ahmed</name>
<email>yosryahmed@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-13T10:40:34+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=c7b23b68e2aa93f86a206222d23ccd9a21f5982a'/>
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During reclaim, we keep track of pages reclaimed from other means than
LRU-based reclaim through scan_control-&gt;reclaim_state-&gt;reclaimed_slab,
which we stash a pointer to in current task_struct.

However, we keep track of more than just reclaimed slab pages through
this.  We also use it for clean file pages dropped through pruned inodes,
and xfs buffer pages freed.  Rename reclaimed_slab to reclaimed, and add a
helper function that wraps updating it through current, so that future
changes to this logic are contained within include/linux/swap.h.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230413104034.1086717-4-yosryahmed@google.com
Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed &lt;yosryahmed@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Dave Chinner &lt;david@fromorbit.com&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Hyeonggon Yoo &lt;42.hyeyoo@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Miaohe Lin &lt;linmiaohe@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Roman Gushchin &lt;roman.gushchin@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Shakeel Butt &lt;shakeelb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Tim Chen &lt;tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Yu Zhao &lt;yuzhao@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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During reclaim, we keep track of pages reclaimed from other means than
LRU-based reclaim through scan_control-&gt;reclaim_state-&gt;reclaimed_slab,
which we stash a pointer to in current task_struct.

However, we keep track of more than just reclaimed slab pages through
this.  We also use it for clean file pages dropped through pruned inodes,
and xfs buffer pages freed.  Rename reclaimed_slab to reclaimed, and add a
helper function that wraps updating it through current, so that future
changes to this logic are contained within include/linux/swap.h.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230413104034.1086717-4-yosryahmed@google.com
Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed &lt;yosryahmed@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Dave Chinner &lt;david@fromorbit.com&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Hyeonggon Yoo &lt;42.hyeyoo@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Miaohe Lin &lt;linmiaohe@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Roman Gushchin &lt;roman.gushchin@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Shakeel Butt &lt;shakeelb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Tim Chen &lt;tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Yu Zhao &lt;yuzhao@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Update relatime comments to include equality</title>
<updated>2023-03-27T11:51:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephen Kitt</name>
<email>steve@sk2.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-03-25T08:22:32+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=d98ffa1aca264ce547b9135135f83d81cfe4345f'/>
<id>d98ffa1aca264ce547b9135135f83d81cfe4345f</id>
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relatime also updates atime if the previous atime is equal to one or
both of the ctime and mtime; a non-strict interpretation of "earlier
than" and "younger than" in the comments allows this, but for clarity,
this makes it explicit.

Pointed out by "epiii2" and "ctrl-alt-delor" in
https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/740862/86440.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Kitt &lt;steve@sk2.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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relatime also updates atime if the previous atime is equal to one or
both of the ctime and mtime; a non-strict interpretation of "earlier
than" and "younger than" in the comments allows this, but for clarity,
this makes it explicit.

Pointed out by "epiii2" and "ctrl-alt-delor" in
https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/740862/86440.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Kitt &lt;steve@sk2.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'fs.idmapped.v6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/idmapping</title>
<updated>2023-02-20T19:53:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-02-20T19:53:11+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=05e6295f7b5e05f09e369a3eb2882ec5b40fff20'/>
<id>05e6295f7b5e05f09e369a3eb2882ec5b40fff20</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull vfs idmapping updates from Christian Brauner:

 - Last cycle we introduced the dedicated struct mnt_idmap type for
   mount idmapping and the required infrastucture in 256c8aed2b42 ("fs:
   introduce dedicated idmap type for mounts"). As promised in last
   cycle's pull request message this converts everything to rely on
   struct mnt_idmap.

   Currently we still pass around the plain namespace that was attached
   to a mount. This is in general pretty convenient but it makes it easy
   to conflate namespaces that are relevant on the filesystem with
   namespaces that are relevant on the mount level. Especially for
   non-vfs developers without detailed knowledge in this area this was a
   potential source for bugs.

   This finishes the conversion. Instead of passing the plain namespace
   around this updates all places that currently take a pointer to a
   mnt_userns with a pointer to struct mnt_idmap.

   Now that the conversion is done all helpers down to the really
   low-level helpers only accept a struct mnt_idmap argument instead of
   two namespace arguments.

   Conflating mount and other idmappings will now cause the compiler to
   complain loudly thus eliminating the possibility of any bugs. This
   makes it impossible for filesystem developers to mix up mount and
   filesystem idmappings as they are two distinct types and require
   distinct helpers that cannot be used interchangeably.

   Everything associated with struct mnt_idmap is moved into a single
   separate file. With that change no code can poke around in struct
   mnt_idmap. It can only be interacted with through dedicated helpers.
   That means all filesystems are and all of the vfs is completely
   oblivious to the actual implementation of idmappings.

   We are now also able to extend struct mnt_idmap as we see fit. For
   example, we can decouple it completely from namespaces for users that
   don't require or don't want to use them at all. We can also extend
   the concept of idmappings so we can cover filesystem specific
   requirements.

   In combination with the vfs{g,u}id_t work we finished in v6.2 this
   makes this feature substantially more robust and thus difficult to
   implement wrong by a given filesystem and also protects the vfs.

 - Enable idmapped mounts for tmpfs and fulfill a longstanding request.

   A long-standing request from users had been to make it possible to
   create idmapped mounts for tmpfs. For example, to share the host's
   tmpfs mount between multiple sandboxes. This is a prerequisite for
   some advanced Kubernetes cases. Systemd also has a range of use-cases
   to increase service isolation. And there are more users of this.

   However, with all of the other work going on this was way down on the
   priority list but luckily someone other than ourselves picked this
   up.

   As usual the patch is tiny as all the infrastructure work had been
   done multiple kernel releases ago. In addition to all the tests that
   we already have I requested that Rodrigo add a dedicated tmpfs
   testsuite for idmapped mounts to xfstests. It is to be included into
   xfstests during the v6.3 development cycle. This should add a slew of
   additional tests.

* tag 'fs.idmapped.v6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/idmapping: (26 commits)
  shmem: support idmapped mounts for tmpfs
  fs: move mnt_idmap
  fs: port vfs{g,u}id helpers to mnt_idmap
  fs: port fs{g,u}id helpers to mnt_idmap
  fs: port i_{g,u}id_into_vfs{g,u}id() to mnt_idmap
  fs: port i_{g,u}id_{needs_}update() to mnt_idmap
  quota: port to mnt_idmap
  fs: port privilege checking helpers to mnt_idmap
  fs: port inode_owner_or_capable() to mnt_idmap
  fs: port inode_init_owner() to mnt_idmap
  fs: port acl to mnt_idmap
  fs: port xattr to mnt_idmap
  fs: port -&gt;permission() to pass mnt_idmap
  fs: port -&gt;fileattr_set() to pass mnt_idmap
  fs: port -&gt;set_acl() to pass mnt_idmap
  fs: port -&gt;get_acl() to pass mnt_idmap
  fs: port -&gt;tmpfile() to pass mnt_idmap
  fs: port -&gt;rename() to pass mnt_idmap
  fs: port -&gt;mknod() to pass mnt_idmap
  fs: port -&gt;mkdir() to pass mnt_idmap
  ...
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Pull vfs idmapping updates from Christian Brauner:

 - Last cycle we introduced the dedicated struct mnt_idmap type for
   mount idmapping and the required infrastucture in 256c8aed2b42 ("fs:
   introduce dedicated idmap type for mounts"). As promised in last
   cycle's pull request message this converts everything to rely on
   struct mnt_idmap.

   Currently we still pass around the plain namespace that was attached
   to a mount. This is in general pretty convenient but it makes it easy
   to conflate namespaces that are relevant on the filesystem with
   namespaces that are relevant on the mount level. Especially for
   non-vfs developers without detailed knowledge in this area this was a
   potential source for bugs.

   This finishes the conversion. Instead of passing the plain namespace
   around this updates all places that currently take a pointer to a
   mnt_userns with a pointer to struct mnt_idmap.

   Now that the conversion is done all helpers down to the really
   low-level helpers only accept a struct mnt_idmap argument instead of
   two namespace arguments.

   Conflating mount and other idmappings will now cause the compiler to
   complain loudly thus eliminating the possibility of any bugs. This
   makes it impossible for filesystem developers to mix up mount and
   filesystem idmappings as they are two distinct types and require
   distinct helpers that cannot be used interchangeably.

   Everything associated with struct mnt_idmap is moved into a single
   separate file. With that change no code can poke around in struct
   mnt_idmap. It can only be interacted with through dedicated helpers.
   That means all filesystems are and all of the vfs is completely
   oblivious to the actual implementation of idmappings.

   We are now also able to extend struct mnt_idmap as we see fit. For
   example, we can decouple it completely from namespaces for users that
   don't require or don't want to use them at all. We can also extend
   the concept of idmappings so we can cover filesystem specific
   requirements.

   In combination with the vfs{g,u}id_t work we finished in v6.2 this
   makes this feature substantially more robust and thus difficult to
   implement wrong by a given filesystem and also protects the vfs.

 - Enable idmapped mounts for tmpfs and fulfill a longstanding request.

   A long-standing request from users had been to make it possible to
   create idmapped mounts for tmpfs. For example, to share the host's
   tmpfs mount between multiple sandboxes. This is a prerequisite for
   some advanced Kubernetes cases. Systemd also has a range of use-cases
   to increase service isolation. And there are more users of this.

   However, with all of the other work going on this was way down on the
   priority list but luckily someone other than ourselves picked this
   up.

   As usual the patch is tiny as all the infrastructure work had been
   done multiple kernel releases ago. In addition to all the tests that
   we already have I requested that Rodrigo add a dedicated tmpfs
   testsuite for idmapped mounts to xfstests. It is to be included into
   xfstests during the v6.3 development cycle. This should add a slew of
   additional tests.

* tag 'fs.idmapped.v6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/idmapping: (26 commits)
  shmem: support idmapped mounts for tmpfs
  fs: move mnt_idmap
  fs: port vfs{g,u}id helpers to mnt_idmap
  fs: port fs{g,u}id helpers to mnt_idmap
  fs: port i_{g,u}id_into_vfs{g,u}id() to mnt_idmap
  fs: port i_{g,u}id_{needs_}update() to mnt_idmap
  quota: port to mnt_idmap
  fs: port privilege checking helpers to mnt_idmap
  fs: port inode_owner_or_capable() to mnt_idmap
  fs: port inode_init_owner() to mnt_idmap
  fs: port acl to mnt_idmap
  fs: port xattr to mnt_idmap
  fs: port -&gt;permission() to pass mnt_idmap
  fs: port -&gt;fileattr_set() to pass mnt_idmap
  fs: port -&gt;set_acl() to pass mnt_idmap
  fs: port -&gt;get_acl() to pass mnt_idmap
  fs: port -&gt;tmpfile() to pass mnt_idmap
  fs: port -&gt;rename() to pass mnt_idmap
  fs: port -&gt;mknod() to pass mnt_idmap
  fs: port -&gt;mkdir() to pass mnt_idmap
  ...
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