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<title>fs: Initial atomic write support</title>
<updated>2024-06-20T21:19:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Prasad Singamsetty</name>
<email>prasad.singamsetty@oracle.com</email>
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<published>2024-06-20T12:53:52+00:00</published>
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An atomic write is a write issued with torn-write protection, meaning
that for a power failure or any other hardware failure, all or none of the
data from the write will be stored, but never a mix of old and new data.

Userspace may add flag RWF_ATOMIC to pwritev2() to indicate that the
write is to be issued with torn-write prevention, according to special
alignment and length rules.

For any syscall interface utilizing struct iocb, add IOCB_ATOMIC for
iocb-&gt;ki_flags field to indicate the same.

A call to statx will give the relevant atomic write info for a file:
- atomic_write_unit_min
- atomic_write_unit_max
- atomic_write_segments_max

Both min and max values must be a power-of-2.

Applications can avail of atomic write feature by ensuring that the total
length of a write is a power-of-2 in size and also sized between
atomic_write_unit_min and atomic_write_unit_max, inclusive. Applications
must ensure that the write is at a naturally-aligned offset in the file
wrt the total write length. The value in atomic_write_segments_max
indicates the upper limit for IOV_ITER iovcnt.

Add file mode flag FMODE_CAN_ATOMIC_WRITE, so files which do not have the
flag set will have RWF_ATOMIC rejected and not just ignored.

Add a type argument to kiocb_set_rw_flags() to allows reads which have
RWF_ATOMIC set to be rejected.

Helper function generic_atomic_write_valid() can be used by FSes to verify
compliant writes. There we check for iov_iter type is for ubuf, which
implies iovcnt==1 for pwritev2(), which is an initial restriction for
atomic_write_segments_max. Initially the only user will be bdev file
operations write handler. We will rely on the block BIO submission path to
ensure write sizes are compliant for the bdev, so we don't need to check
atomic writes sizes yet.

Signed-off-by: Prasad Singamsetty &lt;prasad.singamsetty@oracle.com&gt;
jpg: merge into single patch and much rewrite
Acked-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John Garry &lt;john.g.garry@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240620125359.2684798-4-john.g.garry@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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An atomic write is a write issued with torn-write protection, meaning
that for a power failure or any other hardware failure, all or none of the
data from the write will be stored, but never a mix of old and new data.

Userspace may add flag RWF_ATOMIC to pwritev2() to indicate that the
write is to be issued with torn-write prevention, according to special
alignment and length rules.

For any syscall interface utilizing struct iocb, add IOCB_ATOMIC for
iocb-&gt;ki_flags field to indicate the same.

A call to statx will give the relevant atomic write info for a file:
- atomic_write_unit_min
- atomic_write_unit_max
- atomic_write_segments_max

Both min and max values must be a power-of-2.

Applications can avail of atomic write feature by ensuring that the total
length of a write is a power-of-2 in size and also sized between
atomic_write_unit_min and atomic_write_unit_max, inclusive. Applications
must ensure that the write is at a naturally-aligned offset in the file
wrt the total write length. The value in atomic_write_segments_max
indicates the upper limit for IOV_ITER iovcnt.

Add file mode flag FMODE_CAN_ATOMIC_WRITE, so files which do not have the
flag set will have RWF_ATOMIC rejected and not just ignored.

Add a type argument to kiocb_set_rw_flags() to allows reads which have
RWF_ATOMIC set to be rejected.

Helper function generic_atomic_write_valid() can be used by FSes to verify
compliant writes. There we check for iov_iter type is for ubuf, which
implies iovcnt==1 for pwritev2(), which is an initial restriction for
atomic_write_segments_max. Initially the only user will be bdev file
operations write handler. We will rely on the block BIO submission path to
ensure write sizes are compliant for the bdev, so we don't need to check
atomic writes sizes yet.

Signed-off-by: Prasad Singamsetty &lt;prasad.singamsetty@oracle.com&gt;
jpg: merge into single patch and much rewrite
Acked-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John Garry &lt;john.g.garry@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240620125359.2684798-4-john.g.garry@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'pull-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2024-05-21T20:11:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-21T20:11:44+00:00</published>
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Pull misc vfs updates from Al Viro:
 "Assorted commits that had missed the last merge window..."

* tag 'pull-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  remove call_{read,write}_iter() functions
  do_dentry_open(): kill inode argument
  kernel_file_open(): get rid of inode argument
  get_file_rcu(): no need to check for NULL separately
  fd_is_open(): move to fs/file.c
  close_on_exec(): pass files_struct instead of fdtable
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Pull misc vfs updates from Al Viro:
 "Assorted commits that had missed the last merge window..."

* tag 'pull-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  remove call_{read,write}_iter() functions
  do_dentry_open(): kill inode argument
  kernel_file_open(): get rid of inode argument
  get_file_rcu(): no need to check for NULL separately
  fd_is_open(): move to fs/file.c
  close_on_exec(): pass files_struct instead of fdtable
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-6.10/io_uring-20240511' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux</title>
<updated>2024-05-13T19:48:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-13T19:48:06+00:00</published>
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Pull io_uring updates from Jens Axboe:

 - Greatly improve send zerocopy performance, by enabling coalescing of
   sent buffers.

   MSG_ZEROCOPY already does this with send(2) and sendmsg(2), but the
   io_uring side did not. In local testing, the crossover point for send
   zerocopy being faster is now around 3000 byte packets, and it
   performs better than the sync syscall variants as well.

   This feature relies on a shared branch with net-next, which was
   pulled into both branches.

 - Unification of how async preparation is done across opcodes.

   Previously, opcodes that required extra memory for async retry would
   allocate that as needed, using on-stack state until that was the
   case. If async retry was needed, the on-stack state was adjusted
   appropriately for a retry and then copied to the allocated memory.

   This led to some fragile and ugly code, particularly for read/write
   handling, and made storage retries more difficult than they needed to
   be. Allocate the memory upfront, as it's cheap from our pools, and
   use that state consistently both initially and also from the retry
   side.

 - Move away from using remap_pfn_range() for mapping the rings.

   This is really not the right interface to use and can cause lifetime
   issues or leaks. Additionally, it means the ring sq/cq arrays need to
   be physically contigious, which can cause problems in production with
   larger rings when services are restarted, as memory can be very
   fragmented at that point.

   Move to using vm_insert_page(s) for the ring sq/cq arrays, and apply
   the same treatment to mapped ring provided buffers. This also helps
   unify the code we have dealing with allocating and mapping memory.

   Hard to see in the diffstat as we're adding a few features as well,
   but this kills about ~400 lines of code from the codebase as well.

 - Add support for bundles for send/recv.

   When used with provided buffers, bundles support sending or receiving
   more than one buffer at the time, improving the efficiency by only
   needing to call into the networking stack once for multiple sends or
   receives.

 - Tweaks for our accept operations, supporting both a DONTWAIT flag for
   skipping poll arm and retry if we can, and a POLLFIRST flag that the
   application can use to skip the initial accept attempt and rely
   purely on poll for triggering the operation. Both of these have
   identical flags on the receive side already.

 - Make the task_work ctx locking unconditional.

   We had various code paths here that would do a mix of lock/trylock
   and set the task_work state to whether or not it was locked. All of
   that goes away, we lock it unconditionally and get rid of the state
   flag indicating whether it's locked or not.

   The state struct still exists as an empty type, can go away in the
   future.

 - Add support for specifying NOP completion values, allowing it to be
   used for error handling testing.

 - Use set/test bit for io-wq worker flags. Not strictly needed, but
   also doesn't hurt and helps silence a KCSAN warning.

 - Cleanups for io-wq locking and work assignments, closing a tiny race
   where cancelations would not be able to find the work item reliably.

 - Misc fixes, cleanups, and improvements

* tag 'for-6.10/io_uring-20240511' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux: (97 commits)
  io_uring: support to inject result for NOP
  io_uring: fail NOP if non-zero op flags is passed in
  io_uring/net: add IORING_ACCEPT_POLL_FIRST flag
  io_uring/net: add IORING_ACCEPT_DONTWAIT flag
  io_uring/filetable: don't unnecessarily clear/reset bitmap
  io_uring/io-wq: Use set_bit() and test_bit() at worker-&gt;flags
  io_uring/msg_ring: cleanup posting to IOPOLL vs !IOPOLL ring
  io_uring: Require zeroed sqe-&gt;len on provided-buffers send
  io_uring/notif: disable LAZY_WAKE for linked notifs
  io_uring/net: fix sendzc lazy wake polling
  io_uring/msg_ring: reuse ctx-&gt;submitter_task read using READ_ONCE instead of re-reading it
  io_uring/rw: reinstate thread check for retries
  io_uring/notif: implement notification stacking
  io_uring/notif: simplify io_notif_flush()
  net: add callback for setting a ubuf_info to skb
  net: extend ubuf_info callback to ops structure
  io_uring/net: support bundles for recv
  io_uring/net: support bundles for send
  io_uring/kbuf: add helpers for getting/peeking multiple buffers
  io_uring/net: add provided buffer support for IORING_OP_SEND
  ...
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Pull io_uring updates from Jens Axboe:

 - Greatly improve send zerocopy performance, by enabling coalescing of
   sent buffers.

   MSG_ZEROCOPY already does this with send(2) and sendmsg(2), but the
   io_uring side did not. In local testing, the crossover point for send
   zerocopy being faster is now around 3000 byte packets, and it
   performs better than the sync syscall variants as well.

   This feature relies on a shared branch with net-next, which was
   pulled into both branches.

 - Unification of how async preparation is done across opcodes.

   Previously, opcodes that required extra memory for async retry would
   allocate that as needed, using on-stack state until that was the
   case. If async retry was needed, the on-stack state was adjusted
   appropriately for a retry and then copied to the allocated memory.

   This led to some fragile and ugly code, particularly for read/write
   handling, and made storage retries more difficult than they needed to
   be. Allocate the memory upfront, as it's cheap from our pools, and
   use that state consistently both initially and also from the retry
   side.

 - Move away from using remap_pfn_range() for mapping the rings.

   This is really not the right interface to use and can cause lifetime
   issues or leaks. Additionally, it means the ring sq/cq arrays need to
   be physically contigious, which can cause problems in production with
   larger rings when services are restarted, as memory can be very
   fragmented at that point.

   Move to using vm_insert_page(s) for the ring sq/cq arrays, and apply
   the same treatment to mapped ring provided buffers. This also helps
   unify the code we have dealing with allocating and mapping memory.

   Hard to see in the diffstat as we're adding a few features as well,
   but this kills about ~400 lines of code from the codebase as well.

 - Add support for bundles for send/recv.

   When used with provided buffers, bundles support sending or receiving
   more than one buffer at the time, improving the efficiency by only
   needing to call into the networking stack once for multiple sends or
   receives.

 - Tweaks for our accept operations, supporting both a DONTWAIT flag for
   skipping poll arm and retry if we can, and a POLLFIRST flag that the
   application can use to skip the initial accept attempt and rely
   purely on poll for triggering the operation. Both of these have
   identical flags on the receive side already.

 - Make the task_work ctx locking unconditional.

   We had various code paths here that would do a mix of lock/trylock
   and set the task_work state to whether or not it was locked. All of
   that goes away, we lock it unconditionally and get rid of the state
   flag indicating whether it's locked or not.

   The state struct still exists as an empty type, can go away in the
   future.

 - Add support for specifying NOP completion values, allowing it to be
   used for error handling testing.

 - Use set/test bit for io-wq worker flags. Not strictly needed, but
   also doesn't hurt and helps silence a KCSAN warning.

 - Cleanups for io-wq locking and work assignments, closing a tiny race
   where cancelations would not be able to find the work item reliably.

 - Misc fixes, cleanups, and improvements

* tag 'for-6.10/io_uring-20240511' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux: (97 commits)
  io_uring: support to inject result for NOP
  io_uring: fail NOP if non-zero op flags is passed in
  io_uring/net: add IORING_ACCEPT_POLL_FIRST flag
  io_uring/net: add IORING_ACCEPT_DONTWAIT flag
  io_uring/filetable: don't unnecessarily clear/reset bitmap
  io_uring/io-wq: Use set_bit() and test_bit() at worker-&gt;flags
  io_uring/msg_ring: cleanup posting to IOPOLL vs !IOPOLL ring
  io_uring: Require zeroed sqe-&gt;len on provided-buffers send
  io_uring/notif: disable LAZY_WAKE for linked notifs
  io_uring/net: fix sendzc lazy wake polling
  io_uring/msg_ring: reuse ctx-&gt;submitter_task read using READ_ONCE instead of re-reading it
  io_uring/rw: reinstate thread check for retries
  io_uring/notif: implement notification stacking
  io_uring/notif: simplify io_notif_flush()
  net: add callback for setting a ubuf_info to skb
  net: extend ubuf_info callback to ops structure
  io_uring/net: support bundles for recv
  io_uring/net: support bundles for send
  io_uring/kbuf: add helpers for getting/peeking multiple buffers
  io_uring/net: add provided buffer support for IORING_OP_SEND
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'vfs-6.10.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs</title>
<updated>2024-05-13T18:40:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-13T18:40:06+00:00</published>
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Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains the usual miscellaneous features, cleanups, and fixes
  for vfs and individual fses.

  Features:

   - Free up FMODE_* bits. I've freed up bits 6, 7, 8, and 24. That
     means we now have six free FMODE_* bits in total (but bit #6
     already got used for FMODE_WRITE_RESTRICTED)

   - Add FOP_HUGE_PAGES flag (follow-up to FMODE_* cleanup)

   - Add fd_raw cleanup class so we can make use of automatic cleanup
     provided by CLASS(fd_raw, f)(fd) for O_PATH fds as well

   - Optimize seq_puts()

   - Simplify __seq_puts()

   - Add new anon_inode_getfile_fmode() api to allow specifying f_mode
     instead of open-coding it in multiple places

   - Annotate struct file_handle with __counted_by() and use
     struct_size()

   - Warn in get_file() whether f_count resurrection from zero is
     attempted (epoll/drm discussion)

   - Folio-sophize aio

   - Export the subvolume id in statx() for both btrfs and bcachefs

   - Relax linkat(AT_EMPTY_PATH) requirements

   - Add F_DUPFD_QUERY fcntl() allowing to compare two file descriptors
     for dup*() equality replacing kcmp()

  Cleanups:

   - Compile out swapfile inode checks when swap isn't enabled

   - Use (1 &lt;&lt; n) notation for FMODE_* bitshifts for clarity

   - Remove redundant variable assignment in fs/direct-io

   - Cleanup uses of strncpy in orangefs

   - Speed up and cleanup writeback

   - Move fsparam_string_empty() helper into header since it's currently
     open-coded in multiple places

   - Add kernel-doc comments to proc_create_net_data_write()

   - Don't needlessly read dentry-&gt;d_flags twice

  Fixes:

   - Fix out-of-range warning in nilfs2

   - Fix ecryptfs overflow due to wrong encryption packet size
     calculation

   - Fix overly long line in xfs file_operations (follow-up to FMODE_*
     cleanup)

   - Don't raise FOP_BUFFER_{R,W}ASYNC for directories in xfs (follow-up
     to FMODE_* cleanup)

   - Don't call xfs_file_open from xfs_dir_open (follow-up to FMODE_*
     cleanup)

   - Fix stable offset api to prevent endless loops

   - Fix afs file server rotations

   - Prevent xattr node from overflowing the eraseblock in jffs2

   - Move fdinfo PTRACE_MODE_READ procfs check into the .permission()
     operation instead of .open() operation since this caused userspace
     regressions"

* tag 'vfs-6.10.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (39 commits)
  afs: Fix fileserver rotation getting stuck
  selftests: add F_DUPDFD_QUERY selftests
  fcntl: add F_DUPFD_QUERY fcntl()
  file: add fd_raw cleanup class
  fs: WARN when f_count resurrection is attempted
  seq_file: Simplify __seq_puts()
  seq_file: Optimize seq_puts()
  proc: Move fdinfo PTRACE_MODE_READ check into the inode .permission operation
  fs: Create anon_inode_getfile_fmode()
  xfs: don't call xfs_file_open from xfs_dir_open
  xfs: drop fop_flags for directories
  xfs: fix overly long line in the file_operations
  shmem: Fix shmem_rename2()
  libfs: Add simple_offset_rename() API
  libfs: Fix simple_offset_rename_exchange()
  jffs2: prevent xattr node from overflowing the eraseblock
  vfs, swap: compile out IS_SWAPFILE() on swapless configs
  vfs: relax linkat() AT_EMPTY_PATH - aka flink() - requirements
  fs/direct-io: remove redundant assignment to variable retval
  fs/dcache: Re-use value stored to dentry-&gt;d_flags instead of re-reading
  ...
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Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains the usual miscellaneous features, cleanups, and fixes
  for vfs and individual fses.

  Features:

   - Free up FMODE_* bits. I've freed up bits 6, 7, 8, and 24. That
     means we now have six free FMODE_* bits in total (but bit #6
     already got used for FMODE_WRITE_RESTRICTED)

   - Add FOP_HUGE_PAGES flag (follow-up to FMODE_* cleanup)

   - Add fd_raw cleanup class so we can make use of automatic cleanup
     provided by CLASS(fd_raw, f)(fd) for O_PATH fds as well

   - Optimize seq_puts()

   - Simplify __seq_puts()

   - Add new anon_inode_getfile_fmode() api to allow specifying f_mode
     instead of open-coding it in multiple places

   - Annotate struct file_handle with __counted_by() and use
     struct_size()

   - Warn in get_file() whether f_count resurrection from zero is
     attempted (epoll/drm discussion)

   - Folio-sophize aio

   - Export the subvolume id in statx() for both btrfs and bcachefs

   - Relax linkat(AT_EMPTY_PATH) requirements

   - Add F_DUPFD_QUERY fcntl() allowing to compare two file descriptors
     for dup*() equality replacing kcmp()

  Cleanups:

   - Compile out swapfile inode checks when swap isn't enabled

   - Use (1 &lt;&lt; n) notation for FMODE_* bitshifts for clarity

   - Remove redundant variable assignment in fs/direct-io

   - Cleanup uses of strncpy in orangefs

   - Speed up and cleanup writeback

   - Move fsparam_string_empty() helper into header since it's currently
     open-coded in multiple places

   - Add kernel-doc comments to proc_create_net_data_write()

   - Don't needlessly read dentry-&gt;d_flags twice

  Fixes:

   - Fix out-of-range warning in nilfs2

   - Fix ecryptfs overflow due to wrong encryption packet size
     calculation

   - Fix overly long line in xfs file_operations (follow-up to FMODE_*
     cleanup)

   - Don't raise FOP_BUFFER_{R,W}ASYNC for directories in xfs (follow-up
     to FMODE_* cleanup)

   - Don't call xfs_file_open from xfs_dir_open (follow-up to FMODE_*
     cleanup)

   - Fix stable offset api to prevent endless loops

   - Fix afs file server rotations

   - Prevent xattr node from overflowing the eraseblock in jffs2

   - Move fdinfo PTRACE_MODE_READ procfs check into the .permission()
     operation instead of .open() operation since this caused userspace
     regressions"

* tag 'vfs-6.10.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (39 commits)
  afs: Fix fileserver rotation getting stuck
  selftests: add F_DUPDFD_QUERY selftests
  fcntl: add F_DUPFD_QUERY fcntl()
  file: add fd_raw cleanup class
  fs: WARN when f_count resurrection is attempted
  seq_file: Simplify __seq_puts()
  seq_file: Optimize seq_puts()
  proc: Move fdinfo PTRACE_MODE_READ check into the inode .permission operation
  fs: Create anon_inode_getfile_fmode()
  xfs: don't call xfs_file_open from xfs_dir_open
  xfs: drop fop_flags for directories
  xfs: fix overly long line in the file_operations
  shmem: Fix shmem_rename2()
  libfs: Add simple_offset_rename() API
  libfs: Fix simple_offset_rename_exchange()
  jffs2: prevent xattr node from overflowing the eraseblock
  vfs, swap: compile out IS_SWAPFILE() on swapless configs
  vfs: relax linkat() AT_EMPTY_PATH - aka flink() - requirements
  fs/direct-io: remove redundant assignment to variable retval
  fs/dcache: Re-use value stored to dentry-&gt;d_flags instead of re-reading
  ...
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<entry>
<title>io_uring/rw: reinstate thread check for retries</title>
<updated>2024-04-25T15:04:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>axboe@kernel.dk</email>
</author>
<published>2024-04-25T15:04:32+00:00</published>
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Allowing retries for everything is arguably the right thing to do, now
that every command type is async read from the start. But it's exposed a
few issues around missing check for a retry (which cca6571381a0 exposed),
and the fixup commit for that isn't necessarily 100% sound in terms of
iov_iter state.

For now, just revert these two commits. This unfortunately then re-opens
the fact that -EAGAIN can get bubbled to userspace for some cases where
the kernel very well could just sanely retry them. But until we have all
the conditions covered around that, we cannot safely enable that.

This reverts commit df604d2ad480fcf7b39767280c9093e13b1de952.
This reverts commit cca6571381a0bdc88021a1f7a4c2349df21279f7.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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Allowing retries for everything is arguably the right thing to do, now
that every command type is async read from the start. But it's exposed a
few issues around missing check for a retry (which cca6571381a0 exposed),
and the fixup commit for that isn't necessarily 100% sound in terms of
iov_iter state.

For now, just revert these two commits. This unfortunately then re-opens
the fact that -EAGAIN can get bubbled to userspace for some cases where
the kernel very well could just sanely retry them. But until we have all
the conditions covered around that, we cannot safely enable that.

This reverts commit df604d2ad480fcf7b39767280c9093e13b1de952.
This reverts commit cca6571381a0bdc88021a1f7a4c2349df21279f7.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<title>io_uring/rw: ensure retry condition isn't lost</title>
<updated>2024-04-17T15:23:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>axboe@kernel.dk</email>
</author>
<published>2024-04-17T15:23:55+00:00</published>
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A previous commit removed the checking on whether or not it was possible
to retry a request, since it's now possible to retry any of them. This
would previously have caused the request to have been ended with an error,
but now the retry condition can simply get lost instead.

Cleanup the retry handling and always just punt it to task_work, which
will queue it with io-wq appropriately.

Reported-by: Changhui Zhong &lt;czhong@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@redhat.com&gt;
Fixes: cca6571381a0 ("io_uring/rw: cleanup retry path")
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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A previous commit removed the checking on whether or not it was possible
to retry a request, since it's now possible to retry any of them. This
would previously have caused the request to have been ended with an error,
but now the retry condition can simply get lost instead.

Cleanup the retry handling and always just punt it to task_work, which
will queue it with io-wq appropriately.

Reported-by: Changhui Zhong &lt;czhong@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@redhat.com&gt;
Fixes: cca6571381a0 ("io_uring/rw: cleanup retry path")
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<title>remove call_{read,write}_iter() functions</title>
<updated>2024-04-15T20:03:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Miklos Szeredi</name>
<email>mszeredi@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-28T15:13:18+00:00</published>
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These have no clear purpose.  This is effectively a revert of commit
bb7462b6fd64 ("vfs: use helpers for calling f_op-&gt;{read,write}_iter()").

The patch was created with the help of a coccinelle script.

Fixes: bb7462b6fd64 ("vfs: use helpers for calling f_op-&gt;{read,write}_iter()")
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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These have no clear purpose.  This is effectively a revert of commit
bb7462b6fd64 ("vfs: use helpers for calling f_op-&gt;{read,write}_iter()").

The patch was created with the help of a coccinelle script.

Fixes: bb7462b6fd64 ("vfs: use helpers for calling f_op-&gt;{read,write}_iter()")
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>io_uring/alloc_cache: switch to array based caching</title>
<updated>2024-04-15T14:10:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>axboe@kernel.dk</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-20T21:19:44+00:00</published>
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Currently lists are being used to manage this, but best practice is
usually to have these in an array instead as that it cheaper to manage.

Outside of that detail, games are also played with KASAN as the list
is inside the cached entry itself.

Finally, all users of this need a struct io_cache_entry embedded in
their struct, which is union'ized with something else in there that
isn't used across the free -&gt; realloc cycle.

Get rid of all of that, and simply have it be an array. This will not
change the memory used, as we're just trading an 8-byte member entry
for the per-elem array size.

This reduces the overhead of the recycled allocations, and it reduces
the amount of code code needed to support recycling to about half of
what it currently is.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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Currently lists are being used to manage this, but best practice is
usually to have these in an array instead as that it cheaper to manage.

Outside of that detail, games are also played with KASAN as the list
is inside the cached entry itself.

Finally, all users of this need a struct io_cache_entry embedded in
their struct, which is union'ized with something else in there that
isn't used across the free -&gt; realloc cycle.

Get rid of all of that, and simply have it be an array. This will not
change the memory used, as we're just trading an 8-byte member entry
for the per-elem array size.

This reduces the overhead of the recycled allocations, and it reduces
the amount of code code needed to support recycling to about half of
what it currently is.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>io_uring/rw: add iovec recycling</title>
<updated>2024-04-15T14:10:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>axboe@kernel.dk</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-18T22:31:44+00:00</published>
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Let the io_async_rw hold on to the iovec and reuse it, rather than always
allocate and free them.

Also enables KASAN for the iovec entries, so that reuse can be detected
even while they are in the cache.

While doing so, shrink io_async_rw by getting rid of the bigger embedded
fast iovec. Since iovecs are being recycled now, shrink it from 8 to 1.
This reduces the io_async_rw size from 264 to 160 bytes, a 40% reduction.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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Let the io_async_rw hold on to the iovec and reuse it, rather than always
allocate and free them.

Also enables KASAN for the iovec entries, so that reuse can be detected
even while they are in the cache.

While doing so, shrink io_async_rw by getting rid of the bigger embedded
fast iovec. Since iovecs are being recycled now, shrink it from 8 to 1.
This reduces the io_async_rw size from 264 to 160 bytes, a 40% reduction.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>io_uring/rw: cleanup retry path</title>
<updated>2024-04-15T14:10:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>axboe@kernel.dk</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-23T02:41:18+00:00</published>
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We no longer need to gate a potential retry on whether or not the
context matches our original task, as all read/write operations have
been fully prepared upfront. This means there's never any re-import
needed, and hence we can always retry requests.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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We no longer need to gate a potential retry on whether or not the
context matches our original task, as all read/write operations have
been fully prepared upfront. This means there's never any re-import
needed, and hence we can always retry requests.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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