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<title>fs: add S_ANON_INODE</title>
<updated>2025-04-21T11:20:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Brauner</name>
<email>brauner@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-21T08:27:40+00:00</published>
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This makes it easy to detect proper anonymous inodes and to ensure that
we can detect them in codepaths such as readahead().

Readahead on anonymous inodes didn't work because they didn't have a
proper mode. Now that they have we need to retain EINVAL being returned
otherwise LTP will fail.

We also need to ensure that ioctls aren't simply fired like they are for
regular files so things like inotify inodes continue to correctly call
their own ioctl handlers as in [1].

Reported-by: Xilin Wu &lt;sophon@radxa.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/3A9139D5CD543962+89831381-31b9-4392-87ec-a84a5b3507d8@radxa.com [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/7a1a7076-ff6b-4cb0-94e7-7218a0a44028@sirena.org.uk
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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This makes it easy to detect proper anonymous inodes and to ensure that
we can detect them in codepaths such as readahead().

Readahead on anonymous inodes didn't work because they didn't have a
proper mode. Now that they have we need to retain EINVAL being returned
otherwise LTP will fail.

We also need to ensure that ioctls aren't simply fired like they are for
regular files so things like inotify inodes continue to correctly call
their own ioctl handlers as in [1].

Reported-by: Xilin Wu &lt;sophon@radxa.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/3A9139D5CD543962+89831381-31b9-4392-87ec-a84a5b3507d8@radxa.com [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/7a1a7076-ff6b-4cb0-94e7-7218a0a44028@sirena.org.uk
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Revert "fanotify: disable readahead if we have pre-content watches"</title>
<updated>2025-03-13T15:31:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Amir Goldstein</name>
<email>amir73il@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-12T07:38:52+00:00</published>
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This reverts commit fac84846a28c0950d4433118b3dffd44306df62d.

Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein &lt;amir73il@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250312073852.2123409-7-amir73il@gmail.com
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This reverts commit fac84846a28c0950d4433118b3dffd44306df62d.

Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein &lt;amir73il@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250312073852.2123409-7-amir73il@gmail.com
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-01-26-14-59' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2025-01-27T02:36:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-27T02:36:23+00:00</published>
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
 "The various patchsets are summarized below. Plus of course many
  indivudual patches which are described in their changelogs.

   - "Allocate and free frozen pages" from Matthew Wilcox reorganizes
     the page allocator so we end up with the ability to allocate and
     free zero-refcount pages. So that callers (ie, slab) can avoid a
     refcount inc &amp; dec

   - "Support large folios for tmpfs" from Baolin Wang teaches tmpfs to
     use large folios other than PMD-sized ones

   - "Fix mm/rodata_test" from Petr Tesarik performs some maintenance
     and fixes for this small built-in kernel selftest

   - "mas_anode_descend() related cleanup" from Wei Yang tidies up part
     of the mapletree code

   - "mm: fix format issues and param types" from Keren Sun implements a
     few minor code cleanups

   - "simplify split calculation" from Wei Yang provides a few fixes and
     a test for the mapletree code

   - "mm/vma: make more mmap logic userland testable" from Lorenzo
     Stoakes continues the work of moving vma-related code into the
     (relatively) new mm/vma.c

   - "mm/page_alloc: gfp flags cleanups for alloc_contig_*()" from David
     Hildenbrand cleans up and rationalizes handling of gfp flags in the
     page allocator

   - "readahead: Reintroduce fix for improper RA window sizing" from Jan
     Kara is a second attempt at fixing a readahead window sizing issue.
     It should reduce the amount of unnecessary reading

   - "synchronously scan and reclaim empty user PTE pages" from Qi Zheng
     addresses an issue where "huge" amounts of pte pagetables are
     accumulated:

       https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/cover.1718267194.git.zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com/

     Qi's series addresses this windup by synchronously freeing PTE
     memory within the context of madvise(MADV_DONTNEED)

   - "selftest/mm: Remove warnings found by adding compiler flags" from
     Muhammad Usama Anjum fixes some build warnings in the selftests
     code when optional compiler warnings are enabled

   - "mm: don't use __GFP_HARDWALL when migrating remote pages" from
     David Hildenbrand tightens the allocator's observance of
     __GFP_HARDWALL

   - "pkeys kselftests improvements" from Kevin Brodsky implements
     various fixes and cleanups in the MM selftests code, mainly
     pertaining to the pkeys tests

   - "mm/damon: add sample modules" from SeongJae Park enhances DAMON to
     estimate application working set size

   - "memcg/hugetlb: Rework memcg hugetlb charging" from Joshua Hahn
     provides some cleanups to memcg's hugetlb charging logic

   - "mm/swap_cgroup: remove global swap cgroup lock" from Kairui Song
     removes the global swap cgroup lock. A speedup of 10% for a
     tmpfs-based kernel build was demonstrated

   - "zram: split page type read/write handling" from Sergey Senozhatsky
     has several fixes and cleaups for zram in the area of
     zram_write_page(). A watchdog softlockup warning was eliminated

   - "move pagetable_*_dtor() to __tlb_remove_table()" from Kevin
     Brodsky cleans up the pagetable destructor implementations. A rare
     use-after-free race is fixed

   - "mm/debug: introduce and use VM_WARN_ON_VMG()" from Lorenzo Stoakes
     simplifies and cleans up the debugging code in the VMA merging
     logic

   - "Account page tables at all levels" from Kevin Brodsky cleans up
     and regularizes the pagetable ctor/dtor handling. This results in
     improvements in accounting accuracy

   - "mm/damon: replace most damon_callback usages in sysfs with new
     core functions" from SeongJae Park cleans up and generalizes
     DAMON's sysfs file interface logic

   - "mm/damon: enable page level properties based monitoring" from
     SeongJae Park increases the amount of information which is
     presented in response to DAMOS actions

   - "mm/damon: remove DAMON debugfs interface" from SeongJae Park
     removes DAMON's long-deprecated debugfs interfaces. Thus the
     migration to sysfs is completed

   - "mm/hugetlb: Refactor hugetlb allocation resv accounting" from
     Peter Xu cleans up and generalizes the hugetlb reservation
     accounting

   - "mm: alloc_pages_bulk: small API refactor" from Luiz Capitulino
     removes a never-used feature of the alloc_pages_bulk() interface

   - "mm/damon: extend DAMOS filters for inclusion" from SeongJae Park
     extends DAMOS filters to support not only exclusion (rejecting),
     but also inclusion (allowing) behavior

   - "Add zpdesc memory descriptor for zswap.zpool" from Alex Shi
     introduces a new memory descriptor for zswap.zpool that currently
     overlaps with struct page for now. This is part of the effort to
     reduce the size of struct page and to enable dynamic allocation of
     memory descriptors

   - "mm, swap: rework of swap allocator locks" from Kairui Song redoes
     and simplifies the swap allocator locking. A speedup of 400% was
     demonstrated for one workload. As was a 35% reduction for kernel
     build time with swap-on-zram

   - "mm: update mips to use do_mmap(), make mmap_region() internal"
     from Lorenzo Stoakes reworks MIPS's use of mmap_region() so that
     mmap_region() can be made MM-internal

   - "mm/mglru: performance optimizations" from Yu Zhao fixes a few
     MGLRU regressions and otherwise improves MGLRU performance

   - "Docs/mm/damon: add tuning guide and misc updates" from SeongJae
     Park updates DAMON documentation

   - "Cleanup for memfd_create()" from Isaac Manjarres does that thing

   - "mm: hugetlb+THP folio and migration cleanups" from David
     Hildenbrand provides various cleanups in the areas of hugetlb
     folios, THP folios and migration

   - "Uncached buffered IO" from Jens Axboe implements the new
     RWF_DONTCACHE flag which provides synchronous dropbehind for
     pagecache reading and writing. To permite userspace to address
     issues with massive buildup of useless pagecache when
     reading/writing fast devices

   - "selftests/mm: virtual_address_range: Reduce memory" from Thomas
     Weißschuh fixes and optimizes some of the MM selftests"

* tag 'mm-stable-2025-01-26-14-59' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (321 commits)
  mm/compaction: fix UBSAN shift-out-of-bounds warning
  s390/mm: add missing ctor/dtor on page table upgrade
  kasan: sw_tags: use str_on_off() helper in kasan_init_sw_tags()
  tools: add VM_WARN_ON_VMG definition
  mm/damon/core: use str_high_low() helper in damos_wmark_wait_us()
  seqlock: add missing parameter documentation for raw_seqcount_try_begin()
  mm/page-writeback: consolidate wb_thresh bumping logic into __wb_calc_thresh
  mm/page_alloc: remove the incorrect and misleading comment
  zram: remove zcomp_stream_put() from write_incompressible_page()
  mm: separate move/undo parts from migrate_pages_batch()
  mm/kfence: use str_write_read() helper in get_access_type()
  selftests/mm/mkdirty: fix memory leak in test_uffdio_copy()
  kasan: hw_tags: Use str_on_off() helper in kasan_init_hw_tags()
  selftests/mm: virtual_address_range: avoid reading from VM_IO mappings
  selftests/mm: vm_util: split up /proc/self/smaps parsing
  selftests/mm: virtual_address_range: unmap chunks after validation
  selftests/mm: virtual_address_range: mmap() without PROT_WRITE
  selftests/memfd/memfd_test: fix possible NULL pointer dereference
  mm: add FGP_DONTCACHE folio creation flag
  mm: call filemap_fdatawrite_range_kick() after IOCB_DONTCACHE issue
  ...
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
 "The various patchsets are summarized below. Plus of course many
  indivudual patches which are described in their changelogs.

   - "Allocate and free frozen pages" from Matthew Wilcox reorganizes
     the page allocator so we end up with the ability to allocate and
     free zero-refcount pages. So that callers (ie, slab) can avoid a
     refcount inc &amp; dec

   - "Support large folios for tmpfs" from Baolin Wang teaches tmpfs to
     use large folios other than PMD-sized ones

   - "Fix mm/rodata_test" from Petr Tesarik performs some maintenance
     and fixes for this small built-in kernel selftest

   - "mas_anode_descend() related cleanup" from Wei Yang tidies up part
     of the mapletree code

   - "mm: fix format issues and param types" from Keren Sun implements a
     few minor code cleanups

   - "simplify split calculation" from Wei Yang provides a few fixes and
     a test for the mapletree code

   - "mm/vma: make more mmap logic userland testable" from Lorenzo
     Stoakes continues the work of moving vma-related code into the
     (relatively) new mm/vma.c

   - "mm/page_alloc: gfp flags cleanups for alloc_contig_*()" from David
     Hildenbrand cleans up and rationalizes handling of gfp flags in the
     page allocator

   - "readahead: Reintroduce fix for improper RA window sizing" from Jan
     Kara is a second attempt at fixing a readahead window sizing issue.
     It should reduce the amount of unnecessary reading

   - "synchronously scan and reclaim empty user PTE pages" from Qi Zheng
     addresses an issue where "huge" amounts of pte pagetables are
     accumulated:

       https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/cover.1718267194.git.zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com/

     Qi's series addresses this windup by synchronously freeing PTE
     memory within the context of madvise(MADV_DONTNEED)

   - "selftest/mm: Remove warnings found by adding compiler flags" from
     Muhammad Usama Anjum fixes some build warnings in the selftests
     code when optional compiler warnings are enabled

   - "mm: don't use __GFP_HARDWALL when migrating remote pages" from
     David Hildenbrand tightens the allocator's observance of
     __GFP_HARDWALL

   - "pkeys kselftests improvements" from Kevin Brodsky implements
     various fixes and cleanups in the MM selftests code, mainly
     pertaining to the pkeys tests

   - "mm/damon: add sample modules" from SeongJae Park enhances DAMON to
     estimate application working set size

   - "memcg/hugetlb: Rework memcg hugetlb charging" from Joshua Hahn
     provides some cleanups to memcg's hugetlb charging logic

   - "mm/swap_cgroup: remove global swap cgroup lock" from Kairui Song
     removes the global swap cgroup lock. A speedup of 10% for a
     tmpfs-based kernel build was demonstrated

   - "zram: split page type read/write handling" from Sergey Senozhatsky
     has several fixes and cleaups for zram in the area of
     zram_write_page(). A watchdog softlockup warning was eliminated

   - "move pagetable_*_dtor() to __tlb_remove_table()" from Kevin
     Brodsky cleans up the pagetable destructor implementations. A rare
     use-after-free race is fixed

   - "mm/debug: introduce and use VM_WARN_ON_VMG()" from Lorenzo Stoakes
     simplifies and cleans up the debugging code in the VMA merging
     logic

   - "Account page tables at all levels" from Kevin Brodsky cleans up
     and regularizes the pagetable ctor/dtor handling. This results in
     improvements in accounting accuracy

   - "mm/damon: replace most damon_callback usages in sysfs with new
     core functions" from SeongJae Park cleans up and generalizes
     DAMON's sysfs file interface logic

   - "mm/damon: enable page level properties based monitoring" from
     SeongJae Park increases the amount of information which is
     presented in response to DAMOS actions

   - "mm/damon: remove DAMON debugfs interface" from SeongJae Park
     removes DAMON's long-deprecated debugfs interfaces. Thus the
     migration to sysfs is completed

   - "mm/hugetlb: Refactor hugetlb allocation resv accounting" from
     Peter Xu cleans up and generalizes the hugetlb reservation
     accounting

   - "mm: alloc_pages_bulk: small API refactor" from Luiz Capitulino
     removes a never-used feature of the alloc_pages_bulk() interface

   - "mm/damon: extend DAMOS filters for inclusion" from SeongJae Park
     extends DAMOS filters to support not only exclusion (rejecting),
     but also inclusion (allowing) behavior

   - "Add zpdesc memory descriptor for zswap.zpool" from Alex Shi
     introduces a new memory descriptor for zswap.zpool that currently
     overlaps with struct page for now. This is part of the effort to
     reduce the size of struct page and to enable dynamic allocation of
     memory descriptors

   - "mm, swap: rework of swap allocator locks" from Kairui Song redoes
     and simplifies the swap allocator locking. A speedup of 400% was
     demonstrated for one workload. As was a 35% reduction for kernel
     build time with swap-on-zram

   - "mm: update mips to use do_mmap(), make mmap_region() internal"
     from Lorenzo Stoakes reworks MIPS's use of mmap_region() so that
     mmap_region() can be made MM-internal

   - "mm/mglru: performance optimizations" from Yu Zhao fixes a few
     MGLRU regressions and otherwise improves MGLRU performance

   - "Docs/mm/damon: add tuning guide and misc updates" from SeongJae
     Park updates DAMON documentation

   - "Cleanup for memfd_create()" from Isaac Manjarres does that thing

   - "mm: hugetlb+THP folio and migration cleanups" from David
     Hildenbrand provides various cleanups in the areas of hugetlb
     folios, THP folios and migration

   - "Uncached buffered IO" from Jens Axboe implements the new
     RWF_DONTCACHE flag which provides synchronous dropbehind for
     pagecache reading and writing. To permite userspace to address
     issues with massive buildup of useless pagecache when
     reading/writing fast devices

   - "selftests/mm: virtual_address_range: Reduce memory" from Thomas
     Weißschuh fixes and optimizes some of the MM selftests"

* tag 'mm-stable-2025-01-26-14-59' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (321 commits)
  mm/compaction: fix UBSAN shift-out-of-bounds warning
  s390/mm: add missing ctor/dtor on page table upgrade
  kasan: sw_tags: use str_on_off() helper in kasan_init_sw_tags()
  tools: add VM_WARN_ON_VMG definition
  mm/damon/core: use str_high_low() helper in damos_wmark_wait_us()
  seqlock: add missing parameter documentation for raw_seqcount_try_begin()
  mm/page-writeback: consolidate wb_thresh bumping logic into __wb_calc_thresh
  mm/page_alloc: remove the incorrect and misleading comment
  zram: remove zcomp_stream_put() from write_incompressible_page()
  mm: separate move/undo parts from migrate_pages_batch()
  mm/kfence: use str_write_read() helper in get_access_type()
  selftests/mm/mkdirty: fix memory leak in test_uffdio_copy()
  kasan: hw_tags: Use str_on_off() helper in kasan_init_hw_tags()
  selftests/mm: virtual_address_range: avoid reading from VM_IO mappings
  selftests/mm: vm_util: split up /proc/self/smaps parsing
  selftests/mm: virtual_address_range: unmap chunks after validation
  selftests/mm: virtual_address_range: mmap() without PROT_WRITE
  selftests/memfd/memfd_test: fix possible NULL pointer dereference
  mm: add FGP_DONTCACHE folio creation flag
  mm: call filemap_fdatawrite_range_kick() after IOCB_DONTCACHE issue
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/readahead: add readahead_control-&gt;dropbehind member</title>
<updated>2025-01-26T04:22:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>axboe@kernel.dk</email>
</author>
<published>2024-12-20T15:47:43+00:00</published>
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If ractl-&gt;dropbehind is set to true, then folios created are marked as
dropbehind as well.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241220154831.1086649-6-axboe@kernel.dk
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Brian Foster &lt;bfoster@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Mason &lt;clm@meta.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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If ractl-&gt;dropbehind is set to true, then folios created are marked as
dropbehind as well.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241220154831.1086649-6-axboe@kernel.dk
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Brian Foster &lt;bfoster@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Mason &lt;clm@meta.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/readahead: add folio allocation helper</title>
<updated>2025-01-26T04:22:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>axboe@kernel.dk</email>
</author>
<published>2024-12-20T15:47:41+00:00</published>
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Just a wrapper around filemap_alloc_folio() for now, but add it in
preparation for modifying the folio based on the 'ractl' being passed in.

No functional changes in this patch.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241220154831.1086649-4-axboe@kernel.dk
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Brian Foster &lt;bfoster@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Mason &lt;clm@meta.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
Just a wrapper around filemap_alloc_folio() for now, but add it in
preparation for modifying the folio based on the 'ractl' being passed in.

No functional changes in this patch.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241220154831.1086649-4-axboe@kernel.dk
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Brian Foster &lt;bfoster@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Mason &lt;clm@meta.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'fsnotify_hsm_for_v6.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs</title>
<updated>2025-01-23T21:36:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-23T21:36:06+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=8883957b3c9de2087fb6cf9691c1188cccf1ac9c'/>
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<content type='text'>
Pull fsnotify pre-content notification support from Jan Kara:
 "This introduces a new fsnotify event (FS_PRE_ACCESS) that gets
  generated before a file contents is accessed.

  The event is synchronous so if there is listener for this event, the
  kernel waits for reply. On success the execution continues as usual,
  on failure we propagate the error to userspace. This allows userspace
  to fill in file content on demand from slow storage. The context in
  which the events are generated has been picked so that we don't hold
  any locks and thus there's no risk of a deadlock for the userspace
  handler.

  The new pre-content event is available only for users with global
  CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability (similarly to other parts of fanotify
  functionality) and it is an administrator responsibility to make sure
  the userspace event handler doesn't do stupid stuff that can DoS the
  system.

  Based on your feedback from the last submission, fsnotify code has
  been improved and now file-&gt;f_mode encodes whether pre-content event
  needs to be generated for the file so the fast path when nobody wants
  pre-content event for the file just grows the additional file-&gt;f_mode
  check. As a bonus this also removes the checks whether the old
  FS_ACCESS event needs to be generated from the fast path. Also the
  place where the event is generated during page fault has been moved so
  now filemap_fault() generates the event if and only if there is no
  uptodate folio in the page cache.

  Also we have dropped FS_PRE_MODIFY event as current real-world users
  of the pre-content functionality don't really use it so let's start
  with the minimal useful feature set"

* tag 'fsnotify_hsm_for_v6.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs: (21 commits)
  fanotify: Fix crash in fanotify_init(2)
  fs: don't block write during exec on pre-content watched files
  fs: enable pre-content events on supported file systems
  ext4: add pre-content fsnotify hook for DAX faults
  btrfs: disable defrag on pre-content watched files
  xfs: add pre-content fsnotify hook for DAX faults
  fsnotify: generate pre-content permission event on page fault
  mm: don't allow huge faults for files with pre content watches
  fanotify: disable readahead if we have pre-content watches
  fanotify: allow to set errno in FAN_DENY permission response
  fanotify: report file range info with pre-content events
  fanotify: introduce FAN_PRE_ACCESS permission event
  fsnotify: generate pre-content permission event on truncate
  fsnotify: pass optional file access range in pre-content event
  fsnotify: introduce pre-content permission events
  fanotify: reserve event bit of deprecated FAN_DIR_MODIFY
  fanotify: rename a misnamed constant
  fanotify: don't skip extra event info if no info_mode is set
  fsnotify: check if file is actually being watched for pre-content events on open
  fsnotify: opt-in for permission events at file open time
  ...
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Pull fsnotify pre-content notification support from Jan Kara:
 "This introduces a new fsnotify event (FS_PRE_ACCESS) that gets
  generated before a file contents is accessed.

  The event is synchronous so if there is listener for this event, the
  kernel waits for reply. On success the execution continues as usual,
  on failure we propagate the error to userspace. This allows userspace
  to fill in file content on demand from slow storage. The context in
  which the events are generated has been picked so that we don't hold
  any locks and thus there's no risk of a deadlock for the userspace
  handler.

  The new pre-content event is available only for users with global
  CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability (similarly to other parts of fanotify
  functionality) and it is an administrator responsibility to make sure
  the userspace event handler doesn't do stupid stuff that can DoS the
  system.

  Based on your feedback from the last submission, fsnotify code has
  been improved and now file-&gt;f_mode encodes whether pre-content event
  needs to be generated for the file so the fast path when nobody wants
  pre-content event for the file just grows the additional file-&gt;f_mode
  check. As a bonus this also removes the checks whether the old
  FS_ACCESS event needs to be generated from the fast path. Also the
  place where the event is generated during page fault has been moved so
  now filemap_fault() generates the event if and only if there is no
  uptodate folio in the page cache.

  Also we have dropped FS_PRE_MODIFY event as current real-world users
  of the pre-content functionality don't really use it so let's start
  with the minimal useful feature set"

* tag 'fsnotify_hsm_for_v6.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs: (21 commits)
  fanotify: Fix crash in fanotify_init(2)
  fs: don't block write during exec on pre-content watched files
  fs: enable pre-content events on supported file systems
  ext4: add pre-content fsnotify hook for DAX faults
  btrfs: disable defrag on pre-content watched files
  xfs: add pre-content fsnotify hook for DAX faults
  fsnotify: generate pre-content permission event on page fault
  mm: don't allow huge faults for files with pre content watches
  fanotify: disable readahead if we have pre-content watches
  fanotify: allow to set errno in FAN_DENY permission response
  fanotify: report file range info with pre-content events
  fanotify: introduce FAN_PRE_ACCESS permission event
  fsnotify: generate pre-content permission event on truncate
  fsnotify: pass optional file access range in pre-content event
  fsnotify: introduce pre-content permission events
  fanotify: reserve event bit of deprecated FAN_DIR_MODIFY
  fanotify: rename a misnamed constant
  fanotify: don't skip extra event info if no info_mode is set
  fsnotify: check if file is actually being watched for pre-content events on open
  fsnotify: opt-in for permission events at file open time
  ...
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<entry>
<title>readahead: properly shorten readahead when falling back to do_page_cache_ra()</title>
<updated>2025-01-14T06:40:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2024-12-04T18:10:16+00:00</published>
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When we succeed in creating some folios in page_cache_ra_order() but then
need to fallback to single page folios, we don't shorten the amount to
read passed to do_page_cache_ra() by the amount we've already read.  This
then results in reading more and also in placing another readahead mark in
the middle of the readahead window which confuses readahead code.  Fix the
problem by properly reducing number of pages to read.  Unlike previous
attempt at this fix (commit 7c877586da31) which had to be reverted, we are
now careful to check there is indeed something to read so that we don't
submit negative-sized readahead.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241204181016.15273-3-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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When we succeed in creating some folios in page_cache_ra_order() but then
need to fallback to single page folios, we don't shorten the amount to
read passed to do_page_cache_ra() by the amount we've already read.  This
then results in reading more and also in placing another readahead mark in
the middle of the readahead window which confuses readahead code.  Fix the
problem by properly reducing number of pages to read.  Unlike previous
attempt at this fix (commit 7c877586da31) which had to be reverted, we are
now careful to check there is indeed something to read so that we don't
submit negative-sized readahead.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241204181016.15273-3-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>readahead: don't shorten readahead window in read_pages()</title>
<updated>2025-01-14T06:40:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2024-12-04T18:10:15+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=7a1eb89f79188ec32599064eca7c14d42260760a'/>
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Patch series "readahead: Reintroduce fix for improper RA window sizing".

This small patch series reintroduces a fix of readahead window confusion
(and thus read throughput reduction) when page_cache_ra_order() ends up
failing due to folios already present in the page cache.  After thinking
about this for a while I have ended up with a dumb fix that just rechecks
if we have something to read before calling do_page_cache_ra().  This
fixes the problem reported in [1].  I still think it doesn't make much
sense to update readahead window size in read_pages() so patch 1 removes
that but the real fix in patch 2 does not depend on it.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/49648605-d800-4859-be49-624bbe60519d@gmail.com
								

This patch (of 2):

When -&gt;readahead callback doesn't read all requested pages, read_pages()
shortens the readahead window (ra-&gt;size).  However we don't know why pages
were not read and what appropriate window size is.  So don't try to
secondguess the filesystem.  If it needs different readahead window, it
should set it manually similarly as during expansion the filesystem can
use readahead_expand().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241204181016.15273-1-jack@suse.cz
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241204181016.15273-2-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Patch series "readahead: Reintroduce fix for improper RA window sizing".

This small patch series reintroduces a fix of readahead window confusion
(and thus read throughput reduction) when page_cache_ra_order() ends up
failing due to folios already present in the page cache.  After thinking
about this for a while I have ended up with a dumb fix that just rechecks
if we have something to read before calling do_page_cache_ra().  This
fixes the problem reported in [1].  I still think it doesn't make much
sense to update readahead window size in read_pages() so patch 1 removes
that but the real fix in patch 2 does not depend on it.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/49648605-d800-4859-be49-624bbe60519d@gmail.com
								

This patch (of 2):

When -&gt;readahead callback doesn't read all requested pages, read_pages()
shortens the readahead window (ra-&gt;size).  However we don't know why pages
were not read and what appropriate window size is.  So don't try to
secondguess the filesystem.  If it needs different readahead window, it
should set it manually similarly as during expansion the filesystem can
use readahead_expand().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241204181016.15273-1-jack@suse.cz
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241204181016.15273-2-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/readahead: fix large folio support in async readahead</title>
<updated>2024-12-31T01:59:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yafang Shao</name>
<email>laoar.shao@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-12-06T08:30:25+00:00</published>
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When testing large folio support with XFS on our servers, we observed that
only a few large folios are mapped when reading large files via mmap. 
After a thorough analysis, I identified it was caused by the
`/sys/block/*/queue/read_ahead_kb` setting.  On our test servers, this
parameter is set to 128KB.  After I tune it to 2MB, the large folio can
work as expected.  However, I believe the large folio behavior should not
be dependent on the value of read_ahead_kb.  It would be more robust if
the kernel can automatically adopt to it.

With /sys/block/*/queue/read_ahead_kb set to 128KB and performing a
sequential read on a 1GB file using MADV_HUGEPAGE, the differences in
/proc/meminfo are as follows:

- before this patch
  FileHugePages:     18432 kB
  FilePmdMapped:      4096 kB

- after this patch
  FileHugePages:   1067008 kB
  FilePmdMapped:   1048576 kB

This shows that after applying the patch, the entire 1GB file is mapped to
huge pages.  The stable list is CCed, as without this patch, large folios
don't function optimally in the readahead path.

It's worth noting that if read_ahead_kb is set to a larger value that
isn't aligned with huge page sizes (e.g., 4MB + 128KB), it may still fail
to map to hugepages.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241108141710.9721-1-laoar.shao@gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241206083025.3478-1-laoar.shao@gmail.com
Fixes: 4687fdbb805a ("mm/filemap: Support VM_HUGEPAGE for file mappings")
Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao &lt;laoar.shao@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: kernel test robot &lt;oliver.sang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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When testing large folio support with XFS on our servers, we observed that
only a few large folios are mapped when reading large files via mmap. 
After a thorough analysis, I identified it was caused by the
`/sys/block/*/queue/read_ahead_kb` setting.  On our test servers, this
parameter is set to 128KB.  After I tune it to 2MB, the large folio can
work as expected.  However, I believe the large folio behavior should not
be dependent on the value of read_ahead_kb.  It would be more robust if
the kernel can automatically adopt to it.

With /sys/block/*/queue/read_ahead_kb set to 128KB and performing a
sequential read on a 1GB file using MADV_HUGEPAGE, the differences in
/proc/meminfo are as follows:

- before this patch
  FileHugePages:     18432 kB
  FilePmdMapped:      4096 kB

- after this patch
  FileHugePages:   1067008 kB
  FilePmdMapped:   1048576 kB

This shows that after applying the patch, the entire 1GB file is mapped to
huge pages.  The stable list is CCed, as without this patch, large folios
don't function optimally in the readahead path.

It's worth noting that if read_ahead_kb is set to a larger value that
isn't aligned with huge page sizes (e.g., 4MB + 128KB), it may still fail
to map to hugepages.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241108141710.9721-1-laoar.shao@gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241206083025.3478-1-laoar.shao@gmail.com
Fixes: 4687fdbb805a ("mm/filemap: Support VM_HUGEPAGE for file mappings")
Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao &lt;laoar.shao@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: kernel test robot &lt;oliver.sang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fanotify: disable readahead if we have pre-content watches</title>
<updated>2024-12-10T11:03:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Josef Bacik</name>
<email>josef@toxicpanda.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-15T15:30:27+00:00</published>
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With page faults we can trigger readahead on the file, and then
subsequent faults can find these pages and insert them into the file
without emitting an fanotify event.  To avoid this case, disable
readahead if we have pre-content watches on the file.  This way we are
guaranteed to get an event for every range we attempt to access on a
pre-content watched file.

Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik &lt;josef@toxicpanda.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/70a54e859f555e54bc7a47b32fe5aca92b085615.1731684329.git.josef@toxicpanda.com
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With page faults we can trigger readahead on the file, and then
subsequent faults can find these pages and insert them into the file
without emitting an fanotify event.  To avoid this case, disable
readahead if we have pre-content watches on the file.  This way we are
guaranteed to get an event for every range we attempt to access on a
pre-content watched file.

Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik &lt;josef@toxicpanda.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/70a54e859f555e54bc7a47b32fe5aca92b085615.1731684329.git.josef@toxicpanda.com
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