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<title>Merge branch 'work.mount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2017-09-15T01:54:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-15T01:54:01+00:00</published>
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Pull mount flag updates from Al Viro:
 "Another chunk of fmount preparations from dhowells; only trivial
  conflicts for that part. It separates MS_... bits (very grotty
  mount(2) ABI) from the struct super_block -&gt;s_flags (kernel-internal,
  only a small subset of MS_... stuff).

  This does *not* convert the filesystems to new constants; only the
  infrastructure is done here. The next step in that series is where the
  conflicts would be; that's the conversion of filesystems. It's purely
  mechanical and it's better done after the merge, so if you could run
  something like

	list=$(for i in MS_RDONLY MS_NOSUID MS_NODEV MS_NOEXEC MS_SYNCHRONOUS MS_MANDLOCK MS_DIRSYNC MS_NOATIME MS_NODIRATIME MS_SILENT MS_POSIXACL MS_KERNMOUNT MS_I_VERSION MS_LAZYTIME; do git grep -l $i fs drivers/staging/lustre drivers/mtd ipc mm include/linux; done|sort|uniq|grep -v '^fs/namespace.c$')

	sed -i -e 's/\&lt;MS_RDONLY\&gt;/SB_RDONLY/g' \
	        -e 's/\&lt;MS_NOSUID\&gt;/SB_NOSUID/g' \
	        -e 's/\&lt;MS_NODEV\&gt;/SB_NODEV/g' \
	        -e 's/\&lt;MS_NOEXEC\&gt;/SB_NOEXEC/g' \
	        -e 's/\&lt;MS_SYNCHRONOUS\&gt;/SB_SYNCHRONOUS/g' \
	        -e 's/\&lt;MS_MANDLOCK\&gt;/SB_MANDLOCK/g' \
	        -e 's/\&lt;MS_DIRSYNC\&gt;/SB_DIRSYNC/g' \
	        -e 's/\&lt;MS_NOATIME\&gt;/SB_NOATIME/g' \
	        -e 's/\&lt;MS_NODIRATIME\&gt;/SB_NODIRATIME/g' \
	        -e 's/\&lt;MS_SILENT\&gt;/SB_SILENT/g' \
	        -e 's/\&lt;MS_POSIXACL\&gt;/SB_POSIXACL/g' \
	        -e 's/\&lt;MS_KERNMOUNT\&gt;/SB_KERNMOUNT/g' \
	        -e 's/\&lt;MS_I_VERSION\&gt;/SB_I_VERSION/g' \
	        -e 's/\&lt;MS_LAZYTIME\&gt;/SB_LAZYTIME/g' \
	        $list

  and commit it with something along the lines of 'convert filesystems
  away from use of MS_... constants' as commit message, it would save a
  quite a bit of headache next cycle"

* 'work.mount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  VFS: Differentiate mount flags (MS_*) from internal superblock flags
  VFS: Convert sb-&gt;s_flags &amp; MS_RDONLY to sb_rdonly(sb)
  vfs: Add sb_rdonly(sb) to query the MS_RDONLY flag on s_flags
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Pull mount flag updates from Al Viro:
 "Another chunk of fmount preparations from dhowells; only trivial
  conflicts for that part. It separates MS_... bits (very grotty
  mount(2) ABI) from the struct super_block -&gt;s_flags (kernel-internal,
  only a small subset of MS_... stuff).

  This does *not* convert the filesystems to new constants; only the
  infrastructure is done here. The next step in that series is where the
  conflicts would be; that's the conversion of filesystems. It's purely
  mechanical and it's better done after the merge, so if you could run
  something like

	list=$(for i in MS_RDONLY MS_NOSUID MS_NODEV MS_NOEXEC MS_SYNCHRONOUS MS_MANDLOCK MS_DIRSYNC MS_NOATIME MS_NODIRATIME MS_SILENT MS_POSIXACL MS_KERNMOUNT MS_I_VERSION MS_LAZYTIME; do git grep -l $i fs drivers/staging/lustre drivers/mtd ipc mm include/linux; done|sort|uniq|grep -v '^fs/namespace.c$')

	sed -i -e 's/\&lt;MS_RDONLY\&gt;/SB_RDONLY/g' \
	        -e 's/\&lt;MS_NOSUID\&gt;/SB_NOSUID/g' \
	        -e 's/\&lt;MS_NODEV\&gt;/SB_NODEV/g' \
	        -e 's/\&lt;MS_NOEXEC\&gt;/SB_NOEXEC/g' \
	        -e 's/\&lt;MS_SYNCHRONOUS\&gt;/SB_SYNCHRONOUS/g' \
	        -e 's/\&lt;MS_MANDLOCK\&gt;/SB_MANDLOCK/g' \
	        -e 's/\&lt;MS_DIRSYNC\&gt;/SB_DIRSYNC/g' \
	        -e 's/\&lt;MS_NOATIME\&gt;/SB_NOATIME/g' \
	        -e 's/\&lt;MS_NODIRATIME\&gt;/SB_NODIRATIME/g' \
	        -e 's/\&lt;MS_SILENT\&gt;/SB_SILENT/g' \
	        -e 's/\&lt;MS_POSIXACL\&gt;/SB_POSIXACL/g' \
	        -e 's/\&lt;MS_KERNMOUNT\&gt;/SB_KERNMOUNT/g' \
	        -e 's/\&lt;MS_I_VERSION\&gt;/SB_I_VERSION/g' \
	        -e 's/\&lt;MS_LAZYTIME\&gt;/SB_LAZYTIME/g' \
	        $list

  and commit it with something along the lines of 'convert filesystems
  away from use of MS_... constants' as commit message, it would save a
  quite a bit of headache next cycle"

* 'work.mount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  VFS: Differentiate mount flags (MS_*) from internal superblock flags
  VFS: Convert sb-&gt;s_flags &amp; MS_RDONLY to sb_rdonly(sb)
  vfs: Add sb_rdonly(sb) to query the MS_RDONLY flag on s_flags
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)</title>
<updated>2017-09-07T03:49:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-07T03:49:49+00:00</published>
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Merge updates from Andrew Morton:

 - various misc bits

 - DAX updates

 - OCFS2

 - most of MM

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (119 commits)
  mm,fork: introduce MADV_WIPEONFORK
  x86,mpx: make mpx depend on x86-64 to free up VMA flag
  mm: add /proc/pid/smaps_rollup
  mm: hugetlb: clear target sub-page last when clearing huge page
  mm: oom: let oom_reap_task and exit_mmap run concurrently
  swap: choose swap device according to numa node
  mm: replace TIF_MEMDIE checks by tsk_is_oom_victim
  mm, oom: do not rely on TIF_MEMDIE for memory reserves access
  z3fold: use per-cpu unbuddied lists
  mm, swap: don't use VMA based swap readahead if HDD is used as swap
  mm, swap: add sysfs interface for VMA based swap readahead
  mm, swap: VMA based swap readahead
  mm, swap: fix swap readahead marking
  mm, swap: add swap readahead hit statistics
  mm/vmalloc.c: don't reinvent the wheel but use existing llist API
  mm/vmstat.c: fix wrong comment
  selftests/memfd: add memfd_create hugetlbfs selftest
  mm/shmem: add hugetlbfs support to memfd_create()
  mm, devm_memremap_pages: use multi-order radix for ZONE_DEVICE lookups
  mm/vmalloc.c: halve the number of comparisons performed in pcpu_get_vm_areas()
  ...
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Merge updates from Andrew Morton:

 - various misc bits

 - DAX updates

 - OCFS2

 - most of MM

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (119 commits)
  mm,fork: introduce MADV_WIPEONFORK
  x86,mpx: make mpx depend on x86-64 to free up VMA flag
  mm: add /proc/pid/smaps_rollup
  mm: hugetlb: clear target sub-page last when clearing huge page
  mm: oom: let oom_reap_task and exit_mmap run concurrently
  swap: choose swap device according to numa node
  mm: replace TIF_MEMDIE checks by tsk_is_oom_victim
  mm, oom: do not rely on TIF_MEMDIE for memory reserves access
  z3fold: use per-cpu unbuddied lists
  mm, swap: don't use VMA based swap readahead if HDD is used as swap
  mm, swap: add sysfs interface for VMA based swap readahead
  mm, swap: VMA based swap readahead
  mm, swap: fix swap readahead marking
  mm, swap: add swap readahead hit statistics
  mm/vmalloc.c: don't reinvent the wheel but use existing llist API
  mm/vmstat.c: fix wrong comment
  selftests/memfd: add memfd_create hugetlbfs selftest
  mm/shmem: add hugetlbfs support to memfd_create()
  mm, devm_memremap_pages: use multi-order radix for ZONE_DEVICE lookups
  mm/vmalloc.c: halve the number of comparisons performed in pcpu_get_vm_areas()
  ...
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<entry>
<title>fs/sync.c: remove unnecessary NULL f_mapping check in sync_file_range</title>
<updated>2017-09-07T00:27:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff Layton</name>
<email>jlayton@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-06T23:23:19+00:00</published>
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fsync codepath assumes that f_mapping can never be NULL, but
sync_file_range has a check for that.

Remove the one from sync_file_range as I don't see how you'd ever get a
NULL pointer in here.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170525110509.9434-1-jlayton@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander 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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fsync codepath assumes that f_mapping can never be NULL, but
sync_file_range has a check for that.

Remove the one from sync_file_range as I don't see how you'd ever get a
NULL pointer in here.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170525110509.9434-1-jlayton@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander 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>
<title>fs: convert sync_file_range to use errseq_t based error-tracking</title>
<updated>2017-08-01T12:39:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff Layton</name>
<email>jlayton@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-24T10:22:14+00:00</published>
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sync_file_range doesn't call down into the filesystem directly at all.
It only kicks off writeback of pagecache pages and optionally waits
on the result.

Convert sync_file_range to use errseq_t based error tracking, under the
assumption that most users will prefer this behavior when errors occur.

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@redhat.com&gt;
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sync_file_range doesn't call down into the filesystem directly at all.
It only kicks off writeback of pagecache pages and optionally waits
on the result.

Convert sync_file_range to use errseq_t based error tracking, under the
assumption that most users will prefer this behavior when errors occur.

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>VFS: Convert sb-&gt;s_flags &amp; MS_RDONLY to sb_rdonly(sb)</title>
<updated>2017-07-17T07:45:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-17T07:45:34+00:00</published>
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Firstly by applying the following with coccinelle's spatch:

	@@ expression SB; @@
	-SB-&gt;s_flags &amp; MS_RDONLY
	+sb_rdonly(SB)

to effect the conversion to sb_rdonly(sb), then by applying:

	@@ expression A, SB; @@
	(
	-(!sb_rdonly(SB)) &amp;&amp; A
	+!sb_rdonly(SB) &amp;&amp; A
	|
	-A != (sb_rdonly(SB))
	+A != sb_rdonly(SB)
	|
	-A == (sb_rdonly(SB))
	+A == sb_rdonly(SB)
	|
	-!(sb_rdonly(SB))
	+!sb_rdonly(SB)
	|
	-A &amp;&amp; (sb_rdonly(SB))
	+A &amp;&amp; sb_rdonly(SB)
	|
	-A || (sb_rdonly(SB))
	+A || sb_rdonly(SB)
	|
	-(sb_rdonly(SB)) != A
	+sb_rdonly(SB) != A
	|
	-(sb_rdonly(SB)) == A
	+sb_rdonly(SB) == A
	|
	-(sb_rdonly(SB)) &amp;&amp; A
	+sb_rdonly(SB) &amp;&amp; A
	|
	-(sb_rdonly(SB)) || A
	+sb_rdonly(SB) || A
	)

	@@ expression A, B, SB; @@
	(
	-(sb_rdonly(SB)) ? 1 : 0
	+sb_rdonly(SB)
	|
	-(sb_rdonly(SB)) ? A : B
	+sb_rdonly(SB) ? A : B
	)

to remove left over excess bracketage and finally by applying:

	@@ expression A, SB; @@
	(
	-(A &amp; MS_RDONLY) != sb_rdonly(SB)
	+(bool)(A &amp; MS_RDONLY) != sb_rdonly(SB)
	|
	-(A &amp; MS_RDONLY) == sb_rdonly(SB)
	+(bool)(A &amp; MS_RDONLY) == sb_rdonly(SB)
	)

to make comparisons against the result of sb_rdonly() (which is a bool)
work correctly.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
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Firstly by applying the following with coccinelle's spatch:

	@@ expression SB; @@
	-SB-&gt;s_flags &amp; MS_RDONLY
	+sb_rdonly(SB)

to effect the conversion to sb_rdonly(sb), then by applying:

	@@ expression A, SB; @@
	(
	-(!sb_rdonly(SB)) &amp;&amp; A
	+!sb_rdonly(SB) &amp;&amp; A
	|
	-A != (sb_rdonly(SB))
	+A != sb_rdonly(SB)
	|
	-A == (sb_rdonly(SB))
	+A == sb_rdonly(SB)
	|
	-!(sb_rdonly(SB))
	+!sb_rdonly(SB)
	|
	-A &amp;&amp; (sb_rdonly(SB))
	+A &amp;&amp; sb_rdonly(SB)
	|
	-A || (sb_rdonly(SB))
	+A || sb_rdonly(SB)
	|
	-(sb_rdonly(SB)) != A
	+sb_rdonly(SB) != A
	|
	-(sb_rdonly(SB)) == A
	+sb_rdonly(SB) == A
	|
	-(sb_rdonly(SB)) &amp;&amp; A
	+sb_rdonly(SB) &amp;&amp; A
	|
	-(sb_rdonly(SB)) || A
	+sb_rdonly(SB) || A
	)

	@@ expression A, B, SB; @@
	(
	-(sb_rdonly(SB)) ? 1 : 0
	+sb_rdonly(SB)
	|
	-(sb_rdonly(SB)) ? A : B
	+sb_rdonly(SB) ? A : B
	)

to remove left over excess bracketage and finally by applying:

	@@ expression A, SB; @@
	(
	-(A &amp; MS_RDONLY) != sb_rdonly(SB)
	+(bool)(A &amp; MS_RDONLY) != sb_rdonly(SB)
	|
	-(A &amp; MS_RDONLY) == sb_rdonly(SB)
	+(bool)(A &amp; MS_RDONLY) == sb_rdonly(SB)
	)

to make comparisons against the result of sb_rdonly() (which is a bool)
work correctly.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>fs: remove call_fsync helper function</title>
<updated>2017-07-05T22:44:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff Layton</name>
<email>jlayton@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-05T19:26:50+00:00</published>
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Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: Carlos Maiolino &lt;cmaiolino@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@redhat.com&gt;
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Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: Carlos Maiolino &lt;cmaiolino@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>vfs: use helper for calling f_op-&gt;fsync()</title>
<updated>2017-02-20T15:51:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Miklos Szeredi</name>
<email>mszeredi@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-20T15:51:23+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm, fs: get rid of PAGE_CACHE_* and page_cache_{get,release} macros</title>
<updated>2016-04-04T17:41:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kirill A. Shutemov</name>
<email>kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-04-01T12:29:47+00:00</published>
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PAGE_CACHE_{SIZE,SHIFT,MASK,ALIGN} macros were introduced *long* time
ago with promise that one day it will be possible to implement page
cache with bigger chunks than PAGE_SIZE.

This promise never materialized.  And unlikely will.

We have many places where PAGE_CACHE_SIZE assumed to be equal to
PAGE_SIZE.  And it's constant source of confusion on whether
PAGE_CACHE_* or PAGE_* constant should be used in a particular case,
especially on the border between fs and mm.

Global switching to PAGE_CACHE_SIZE != PAGE_SIZE would cause to much
breakage to be doable.

Let's stop pretending that pages in page cache are special.  They are
not.

The changes are pretty straight-forward:

 - &lt;foo&gt; &lt;&lt; (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT) -&gt; &lt;foo&gt;;

 - &lt;foo&gt; &gt;&gt; (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT) -&gt; &lt;foo&gt;;

 - PAGE_CACHE_{SIZE,SHIFT,MASK,ALIGN} -&gt; PAGE_{SIZE,SHIFT,MASK,ALIGN};

 - page_cache_get() -&gt; get_page();

 - page_cache_release() -&gt; put_page();

This patch contains automated changes generated with coccinelle using
script below.  For some reason, coccinelle doesn't patch header files.
I've called spatch for them manually.

The only adjustment after coccinelle is revert of changes to
PAGE_CAHCE_ALIGN definition: we are going to drop it later.

There are few places in the code where coccinelle didn't reach.  I'll
fix them manually in a separate patch.  Comments and documentation also
will be addressed with the separate patch.

virtual patch

@@
expression E;
@@
- E &lt;&lt; (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT)
+ E

@@
expression E;
@@
- E &gt;&gt; (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT)
+ E

@@
@@
- PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT
+ PAGE_SHIFT

@@
@@
- PAGE_CACHE_SIZE
+ PAGE_SIZE

@@
@@
- PAGE_CACHE_MASK
+ PAGE_MASK

@@
expression E;
@@
- PAGE_CACHE_ALIGN(E)
+ PAGE_ALIGN(E)

@@
expression E;
@@
- page_cache_get(E)
+ get_page(E)

@@
expression E;
@@
- page_cache_release(E)
+ put_page(E)

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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PAGE_CACHE_{SIZE,SHIFT,MASK,ALIGN} macros were introduced *long* time
ago with promise that one day it will be possible to implement page
cache with bigger chunks than PAGE_SIZE.

This promise never materialized.  And unlikely will.

We have many places where PAGE_CACHE_SIZE assumed to be equal to
PAGE_SIZE.  And it's constant source of confusion on whether
PAGE_CACHE_* or PAGE_* constant should be used in a particular case,
especially on the border between fs and mm.

Global switching to PAGE_CACHE_SIZE != PAGE_SIZE would cause to much
breakage to be doable.

Let's stop pretending that pages in page cache are special.  They are
not.

The changes are pretty straight-forward:

 - &lt;foo&gt; &lt;&lt; (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT) -&gt; &lt;foo&gt;;

 - &lt;foo&gt; &gt;&gt; (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT) -&gt; &lt;foo&gt;;

 - PAGE_CACHE_{SIZE,SHIFT,MASK,ALIGN} -&gt; PAGE_{SIZE,SHIFT,MASK,ALIGN};

 - page_cache_get() -&gt; get_page();

 - page_cache_release() -&gt; put_page();

This patch contains automated changes generated with coccinelle using
script below.  For some reason, coccinelle doesn't patch header files.
I've called spatch for them manually.

The only adjustment after coccinelle is revert of changes to
PAGE_CAHCE_ALIGN definition: we are going to drop it later.

There are few places in the code where coccinelle didn't reach.  I'll
fix them manually in a separate patch.  Comments and documentation also
will be addressed with the separate patch.

virtual patch

@@
expression E;
@@
- E &lt;&lt; (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT)
+ E

@@
expression E;
@@
- E &gt;&gt; (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT)
+ E

@@
@@
- PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT
+ PAGE_SHIFT

@@
@@
- PAGE_CACHE_SIZE
+ PAGE_SIZE

@@
@@
- PAGE_CACHE_MASK
+ PAGE_MASK

@@
expression E;
@@
- PAGE_CACHE_ALIGN(E)
+ PAGE_ALIGN(E)

@@
expression E;
@@
- page_cache_get(E)
+ get_page(E)

@@
expression E;
@@
- page_cache_release(E)
+ put_page(E)

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs/sync.c: make sync_file_range(2) use WB_SYNC_NONE writeback</title>
<updated>2015-11-07T01:50:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-07T00:28:55+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=23d0127096cb91cb6d354bdc71bd88a7bae3a1d5'/>
<id>23d0127096cb91cb6d354bdc71bd88a7bae3a1d5</id>
<content type='text'>
sync_file_range(2) is documented to issue writeback only for pages that
are not currently being written.  After all the system call has been
created for userspace to be able to issue background writeout and so
waiting for in-flight IO is undesirable there.  However commit
ee53a891f474 ("mm: do_sync_mapping_range integrity fix") switched
do_sync_mapping_range() and thus sync_file_range() to issue writeback in
WB_SYNC_ALL mode since do_sync_mapping_range() was used by other code
relying on WB_SYNC_ALL semantics.

These days do_sync_mapping_range() went away and we can switch
sync_file_range(2) back to issuing WB_SYNC_NONE writeback.  That should
help PostgreSQL avoid large latency spikes when flushing data in the
background.

Andres measured a 20% increase in transactions per second on an SSD disk.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.com&gt;
Reported-by: Andres Freund &lt;andres@anarazel.de&gt;
Tested-By: Andres Freund &lt;andres@anarazel.de&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;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
sync_file_range(2) is documented to issue writeback only for pages that
are not currently being written.  After all the system call has been
created for userspace to be able to issue background writeout and so
waiting for in-flight IO is undesirable there.  However commit
ee53a891f474 ("mm: do_sync_mapping_range integrity fix") switched
do_sync_mapping_range() and thus sync_file_range() to issue writeback in
WB_SYNC_ALL mode since do_sync_mapping_range() was used by other code
relying on WB_SYNC_ALL semantics.

These days do_sync_mapping_range() went away and we can switch
sync_file_range(2) back to issuing WB_SYNC_NONE writeback.  That should
help PostgreSQL avoid large latency spikes when flushing data in the
background.

Andres measured a 20% increase in transactions per second on an SSD disk.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.com&gt;
Reported-by: Andres Freund &lt;andres@anarazel.de&gt;
Tested-By: Andres Freund &lt;andres@anarazel.de&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;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/filemap.c: make global sync not clear error status of individual inodes</title>
<updated>2015-11-06T03:34:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Junichi Nomura</name>
<email>j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-06T02:47:23+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=aa750fd71c242dba02ee2034e15fbd7d0cdb2461'/>
<id>aa750fd71c242dba02ee2034e15fbd7d0cdb2461</id>
<content type='text'>
filemap_fdatawait() is a function to wait for on-going writeback to
complete but also consume and clear error status of the mapping set during
writeback.

The latter functionality is critical for applications to detect writeback
error with system calls like fsync(2)/fdatasync(2).

However filemap_fdatawait() is also used by sync(2) or FIFREEZE ioctl,
which don't check error status of individual mappings.

As a result, fsync() may not be able to detect writeback error if events
happen in the following order:

   Application                    System admin
   ----------------------------------------------------------
   write data on page cache
                                  Run sync command
                                  writeback completes with error
                                  filemap_fdatawait() clears error
   fsync returns success
   (but the data is not on disk)

This patch adds filemap_fdatawait_keep_errors() for call sites where
writeback error is not handled so that they don't clear error status.

Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura &lt;j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com&gt;
Acked-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Fengguang Wu &lt;fengguang.wu@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Chinner &lt;david@fromorbit.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
filemap_fdatawait() is a function to wait for on-going writeback to
complete but also consume and clear error status of the mapping set during
writeback.

The latter functionality is critical for applications to detect writeback
error with system calls like fsync(2)/fdatasync(2).

However filemap_fdatawait() is also used by sync(2) or FIFREEZE ioctl,
which don't check error status of individual mappings.

As a result, fsync() may not be able to detect writeback error if events
happen in the following order:

   Application                    System admin
   ----------------------------------------------------------
   write data on page cache
                                  Run sync command
                                  writeback completes with error
                                  filemap_fdatawait() clears error
   fsync returns success
   (but the data is not on disk)

This patch adds filemap_fdatawait_keep_errors() for call sites where
writeback error is not handled so that they don't clear error status.

Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura &lt;j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com&gt;
Acked-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Fengguang Wu &lt;fengguang.wu@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Chinner &lt;david@fromorbit.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
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