linux.git/mm/filemap_xip.c, branch master

vfs: remove get_xip_mem

2015-02-17T01:56:03+00:00

All callers of get_xip_mem() are now gone.  Remove checks for it,
initialisers of it, documentation of it and the only implementation of it.
 Also remove mm/filemap_xip.c as it is now empty.  Also remove
documentation of the long-gone get_xip_page().

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox 
Cc: Andreas Dilger 
Cc: Boaz Harrosh 
Cc: Christoph Hellwig 
Cc: Dave Chinner 
Cc: Jan Kara 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers 
Cc: Randy Dunlap 
Cc: Ross Zwisler 
Cc: Theodore Ts'o 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

dax,ext2: replace xip_truncate_page with dax_truncate_page

2015-02-17T01:56:03+00:00

It takes a get_block parameter just like nobh_truncate_page() and
block_truncate_page()

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox 
Reviewed-by: Mathieu Desnoyers 
Cc: Andreas Dilger 
Cc: Boaz Harrosh 
Cc: Christoph Hellwig 
Cc: Dave Chinner 
Cc: Jan Kara 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Cc: Randy Dunlap 
Cc: Ross Zwisler 
Cc: Theodore Ts'o 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

dax,ext2: replace the XIP page fault handler with the DAX page fault handler

2015-02-17T01:56:03+00:00

Instead of calling aops->get_xip_mem from the fault handler, the
filesystem passes a get_block_t that is used to find the appropriate
blocks.

This requires that all architectures implement copy_user_page().  At the
time of writing, mips and arm do not.  Patches exist and are in progress.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remap_file_pages went away]
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox 
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara 
Cc: Andreas Dilger 
Cc: Boaz Harrosh 
Cc: Christoph Hellwig 
Cc: Dave Chinner 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers 
Cc: Randy Dunlap 
Cc: Ross Zwisler 
Cc: Theodore Ts'o 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Ralf Baechle 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

dax,ext2: replace XIP read and write with DAX I/O

2015-02-17T01:56:03+00:00

Use the generic AIO infrastructure instead of custom read and write
methods.  In addition to giving us support for AIO, this adds the missing
locking between read() and truncate().

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox 
Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler 
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara 
Cc: Andreas Dilger 
Cc: Boaz Harrosh 
Cc: Christoph Hellwig 
Cc: Dave Chinner 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers 
Cc: Randy Dunlap 
Cc: Theodore Ts'o 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: fix XIP fault vs truncate race

2015-02-17T01:56:02+00:00

DAX is a replacement for the variation of XIP currently supported by the
ext2 filesystem.  We have three different things in the tree called 'XIP',
and the new focus is on access to data rather than executables, so a name
change was in order.  DAX stands for Direct Access.  The X is for
eXciting.

The new focus on data access has resulted in more careful attention to
races that exist in the current XIP code, but are not hit by the use-case
that it was designed for.  XIP's architecture worked fine for ext2, but
DAX is architected to work with modern filsystems such as ext4 and XFS.
DAX is not intended for use with btrfs; the value that btrfs adds relies
on manipulating data and writing data to different locations, while DAX's
value is for write-in-place and keeping the kernel from touching the data.

DAX was developed in order to support NV-DIMMs, but it's become clear that
its usefuless extends beyond NV-DIMMs and there are several potential
customers including the tracing machinery.  Other people want to place the
kernel log in an area of memory, as long as they have a BIOS that does not
clear DRAM on reboot.

Patch 1 is a bug fix, probably worth including in 3.18.

Patches 2 & 3 are infrastructure for DAX.

Patches 4-8 replace the XIP code with its DAX equivalents, transforming
ext2 to use the DAX code as we go.  Note that patch 10 is the
Documentation patch.

Patches 9-15 clean up after the XIP code, removing the infrastructure
that is no longer needed and renaming various XIP things to DAX.
Most of these patches were added after Jan found things he didn't
like in an earlier version of the ext4 patch ... that had been copied
from ext2.  So ext2 i being transformed to do things the same way that
ext4 will later.  The ability to mount ext2 filesystems with the 'xip'
option is retained, although the 'dax' option is now preferred.

Patch 16 adds some DAX infrastructure to support ext4.

Patch 17 adds DAX support to ext4.  It is broadly similar to ext2's DAX
support, but it is more efficient than ext4's due to its support for
unwritten extents.

Patch 18 is another cleanup patch renaming XIP to DAX.

My thanks to Mathieu Desnoyers for his reviews of the v11 patchset.  Most
of the changes below were based on his feedback.

This patch (of 18):

Pagecache faults recheck i_size after taking the page lock to ensure that
the fault didn't race against a truncate.  We don't have a page to lock in
the XIP case, so use i_mmap_lock_read() instead.  It is locked in the
truncate path in unmap_mapping_range() after updating i_size.  So while we
hold it in the fault path, we are guaranteed that either i_size has
already been updated in the truncate path, or that the truncate will
subsequently call zap_page_range_single() and so remove the mapping we
have just inserted.

There is a window of time in which i_size has been reduced and the thread
has a mapping to a page which will be removed from the file, but this is
harmless as the page will not be allocated to a different purpose before
the thread's access to it is revoked.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: switch to i_mmap_lock_read(), add comment in unmap_single_vma()]
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox 
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara 
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Reviewed-by: Mathieu Desnoyers 
Cc: Andreas Dilger 
Cc: Boaz Harrosh 
Cc: Christoph Hellwig 
Cc: Dave Chinner 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Randy Dunlap 
Cc: Ross Zwisler 
Cc: Theodore Ts'o 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'for-3.20/bdi' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

2015-02-12T21:50:21+00:00

Pull backing device changes from Jens Axboe:
 "This contains a cleanup of how the backing device is handled, in
  preparation for a rework of the life time rules.  In this part, the
  most important change is to split the unrelated nommu mmap flags from
  it, but also removing a backing_dev_info pointer from the
  address_space (and inode), and a cleanup of other various minor bits.

  Christoph did all the work here, I just fixed an oops with pages that
  have a swap backing.  Arnd fixed a missing export, and Oleg killed the
  lustre backing_dev_info from staging.  Last patch was from Al,
  unexporting parts that are now no longer needed outside"

* 'for-3.20/bdi' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
  Make super_blocks and sb_lock static
  mtd: export new mtd_mmap_capabilities
  fs: make inode_to_bdi() handle NULL inode
  staging/lustre/llite: get rid of backing_dev_info
  fs: remove default_backing_dev_info
  fs: don't reassign dirty inodes to default_backing_dev_info
  nfs: don't call bdi_unregister
  ceph: remove call to bdi_unregister
  fs: remove mapping->backing_dev_info
  fs: export inode_to_bdi and use it in favor of mapping->backing_dev_info
  nilfs2: set up s_bdi like the generic mount_bdev code
  block_dev: get bdev inode bdi directly from the block device
  block_dev: only write bdev inode on close
  fs: introduce f_op->mmap_capabilities for nommu mmap support
  fs: kill BDI_CAP_SWAP_BACKED
  fs: deduplicate noop_backing_dev_info

mm: drop vm_ops->remap_pages and generic_file_remap_pages() stub

2015-02-10T22:30:30+00:00

Nobody uses it anymore.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix filemap_xip.c]
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Cc: Wu Fengguang 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

fs: export inode_to_bdi and use it in favor of mapping->backing_dev_info

2015-01-20T21:03:04+00:00

Now that we got rid of the bdi abuse on character devices we can always use
sb->s_bdi to get at the backing_dev_info for a file, except for the block
device special case.  Export inode_to_bdi and replace uses of
mapping->backing_dev_info with it to prepare for the removal of
mapping->backing_dev_info.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo 
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

mm/xip: share the i_mmap_rwsem

2014-12-13T20:42:45+00:00

__xip_unmap() will remove the xip sparse page from the cache and take down
pte mapping, without altering the interval tree, thus share the
i_mmap_rwsem when searching for the ptes to unmap.

Additionally, tidy up the function a bit and make variables only local to
the interval tree walk loop.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso 
Acked-by: "Kirill A. Shutemov" 
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju 
Acked-by: Mel Gorman 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: use new helper functions around the i_mmap_mutex

2014-12-13T20:42:45+00:00

Convert all open coded mutex_lock/unlock calls to the
i_mmap_[lock/unlock]_write() helpers.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso 
Acked-by: Rik van Riel 
Acked-by: "Kirill A. Shutemov" 
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju 
Acked-by: Mel Gorman 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds