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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>block: clean up the check in blkdev_iomap_begin()</title>
<updated>2024-06-27T11:56:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Li Nan</name>
<email>linan122@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-06-25T11:55:17+00:00</published>
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It is odd to check the offset amidst a series of assignments. Moving this
check to the beginning of the function makes the code look better.

Signed-off-by: Li Nan &lt;linan122@huawei.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni &lt;kch@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240625115517.1472120-1-linan666@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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It is odd to check the offset amidst a series of assignments. Moving this
check to the beginning of the function makes the code look better.

Signed-off-by: Li Nan &lt;linan122@huawei.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni &lt;kch@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240625115517.1472120-1-linan666@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>block: Add fops atomic write support</title>
<updated>2024-06-20T21:19:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John Garry</name>
<email>john.g.garry@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-06-20T12:53:56+00:00</published>
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Support atomic writes by submitting a single BIO with the REQ_ATOMIC set.

It must be ensured that the atomic write adheres to its rules, like
naturally aligned offset, so call blkdev_dio_invalid() -&gt;
blkdev_atomic_write_valid() [with renaming blkdev_dio_unaligned() to
blkdev_dio_invalid()] for this purpose. The BIO submission path currently
checks for atomic writes which are too large, so no need to check here.

In blkdev_direct_IO(), if the nr_pages exceeds BIO_MAX_VECS, then we cannot
produce a single BIO, so error in this case.

Finally set FMODE_CAN_ATOMIC_WRITE when the bdev can support atomic writes
and the associated file flag is for O_DIRECT.

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: Keith Busch &lt;kbusch@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240620125359.2684798-8-john.g.garry@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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Support atomic writes by submitting a single BIO with the REQ_ATOMIC set.

It must be ensured that the atomic write adheres to its rules, like
naturally aligned offset, so call blkdev_dio_invalid() -&gt;
blkdev_atomic_write_valid() [with renaming blkdev_dio_unaligned() to
blkdev_dio_invalid()] for this purpose. The BIO submission path currently
checks for atomic writes which are too large, so no need to check here.

In blkdev_direct_IO(), if the nr_pages exceeds BIO_MAX_VECS, then we cannot
produce a single BIO, so error in this case.

Finally set FMODE_CAN_ATOMIC_WRITE when the bdev can support atomic writes
and the associated file flag is for O_DIRECT.

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: Keith Busch &lt;kbusch@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240620125359.2684798-8-john.g.garry@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'pull-bd_inode-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2024-05-21T16:51:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-21T16:51:42+00:00</published>
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Pull bdev bd_inode updates from Al Viro:
 "Replacement of bdev-&gt;bd_inode with sane(r) set of primitives by me and
  Yu Kuai"

* tag 'pull-bd_inode-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  RIP -&gt;bd_inode
  dasd_format(): killing the last remaining user of -&gt;bd_inode
  nilfs_attach_log_writer(): use -&gt;bd_mapping-&gt;host instead of -&gt;bd_inode
  block/bdev.c: use the knowledge of inode/bdev coallocation
  gfs2: more obvious initializations of mapping-&gt;host
  fs/buffer.c: massage the remaining users of -&gt;bd_inode to -&gt;bd_mapping
  blk_ioctl_{discard,zeroout}(): we only want -&gt;bd_inode-&gt;i_mapping here...
  grow_dev_folio(): we only want -&gt;bd_inode-&gt;i_mapping there
  use -&gt;bd_mapping instead of -&gt;bd_inode-&gt;i_mapping
  block_device: add a pointer to struct address_space (page cache of bdev)
  missing helpers: bdev_unhash(), bdev_drop()
  block: move two helpers into bdev.c
  block2mtd: prevent direct access of bd_inode
  dm-vdo: use bdev_nr_bytes(bdev) instead of i_size_read(bdev-&gt;bd_inode)
  blkdev_write_iter(): saner way to get inode and bdev
  bcachefs: remove dead function bdev_sectors()
  ext4: remove block_device_ejected()
  erofs_buf: store address_space instead of inode
  erofs: switch erofs_bread() to passing offset instead of block number
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Pull bdev bd_inode updates from Al Viro:
 "Replacement of bdev-&gt;bd_inode with sane(r) set of primitives by me and
  Yu Kuai"

* tag 'pull-bd_inode-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  RIP -&gt;bd_inode
  dasd_format(): killing the last remaining user of -&gt;bd_inode
  nilfs_attach_log_writer(): use -&gt;bd_mapping-&gt;host instead of -&gt;bd_inode
  block/bdev.c: use the knowledge of inode/bdev coallocation
  gfs2: more obvious initializations of mapping-&gt;host
  fs/buffer.c: massage the remaining users of -&gt;bd_inode to -&gt;bd_mapping
  blk_ioctl_{discard,zeroout}(): we only want -&gt;bd_inode-&gt;i_mapping here...
  grow_dev_folio(): we only want -&gt;bd_inode-&gt;i_mapping there
  use -&gt;bd_mapping instead of -&gt;bd_inode-&gt;i_mapping
  block_device: add a pointer to struct address_space (page cache of bdev)
  missing helpers: bdev_unhash(), bdev_drop()
  block: move two helpers into bdev.c
  block2mtd: prevent direct access of bd_inode
  dm-vdo: use bdev_nr_bytes(bdev) instead of i_size_read(bdev-&gt;bd_inode)
  blkdev_write_iter(): saner way to get inode and bdev
  bcachefs: remove dead function bdev_sectors()
  ext4: remove block_device_ejected()
  erofs_buf: store address_space instead of inode
  erofs: switch erofs_bread() to passing offset instead of block number
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-6.10/block-20240511' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux</title>
<updated>2024-05-13T20:03:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-13T20:03:54+00:00</published>
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Pull block updates from Jens Axboe:

 - Add a partscan attribute in sysfs, fixing an issue with systemd
   relying on an internal interface that went away.

 - Attempt #2 at making long running discards interruptible. The
   previous attempt went into 6.9, but we ended up mostly reverting it
   as it had issues.

 - Remove old ida_simple API in bcache

 - Support for zoned write plugging, greatly improving the performance
   on zoned devices.

 - Remove the old throttle low interface, which has been experimental
   since 2017 and never made it beyond that and isn't being used.

 - Remove page-&gt;index debugging checks in brd, as it hasn't caught
   anything and prepares us for removing in struct page.

 - MD pull request from Song

 - Don't schedule block workers on isolated CPUs

* tag 'for-6.10/block-20240511' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux: (84 commits)
  blk-throttle: delay initialization until configuration
  blk-throttle: remove CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING_LOW
  block: fix that util can be greater than 100%
  block: support to account io_ticks precisely
  block: add plug while submitting IO
  bcache: fix variable length array abuse in btree_iter
  bcache: Remove usage of the deprecated ida_simple_xx() API
  md: Revert "md: Fix overflow in is_mddev_idle"
  blk-lib: check for kill signal in ioctl BLKDISCARD
  block: add a bio_await_chain helper
  block: add a blk_alloc_discard_bio helper
  block: add a bio_chain_and_submit helper
  block: move discard checks into the ioctl handler
  block: remove the discard_granularity check in __blkdev_issue_discard
  block/ioctl: prefer different overflow check
  null_blk: Fix the WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION()
  block: fix and simplify blkdevparts= cmdline parsing
  block: refine the EOF check in blkdev_iomap_begin
  block: add a partscan sysfs attribute for disks
  block: add a disk_has_partscan helper
  ...
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Pull block updates from Jens Axboe:

 - Add a partscan attribute in sysfs, fixing an issue with systemd
   relying on an internal interface that went away.

 - Attempt #2 at making long running discards interruptible. The
   previous attempt went into 6.9, but we ended up mostly reverting it
   as it had issues.

 - Remove old ida_simple API in bcache

 - Support for zoned write plugging, greatly improving the performance
   on zoned devices.

 - Remove the old throttle low interface, which has been experimental
   since 2017 and never made it beyond that and isn't being used.

 - Remove page-&gt;index debugging checks in brd, as it hasn't caught
   anything and prepares us for removing in struct page.

 - MD pull request from Song

 - Don't schedule block workers on isolated CPUs

* tag 'for-6.10/block-20240511' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux: (84 commits)
  blk-throttle: delay initialization until configuration
  blk-throttle: remove CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING_LOW
  block: fix that util can be greater than 100%
  block: support to account io_ticks precisely
  block: add plug while submitting IO
  bcache: fix variable length array abuse in btree_iter
  bcache: Remove usage of the deprecated ida_simple_xx() API
  md: Revert "md: Fix overflow in is_mddev_idle"
  blk-lib: check for kill signal in ioctl BLKDISCARD
  block: add a bio_await_chain helper
  block: add a blk_alloc_discard_bio helper
  block: add a bio_chain_and_submit helper
  block: move discard checks into the ioctl handler
  block: remove the discard_granularity check in __blkdev_issue_discard
  block/ioctl: prefer different overflow check
  null_blk: Fix the WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION()
  block: fix and simplify blkdevparts= cmdline parsing
  block: refine the EOF check in blkdev_iomap_begin
  block: add a partscan sysfs attribute for disks
  block: add a disk_has_partscan helper
  ...
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<entry>
<title>block: refine the EOF check in blkdev_iomap_begin</title>
<updated>2024-05-03T15:05:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-03T08:10:42+00:00</published>
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blkdev_iomap_begin rounds down the offset to the logical block size
before stashing it in iomap-&gt;offset and checking that it still is
inside the inode size.

Check the i_size check to the raw pos value so that we don't try a
zero size write if iter-&gt;pos is unaligned.

Fixes: 487c607df790 ("block: use iomap for writes to block devices")
Reported-by: syzbot+0a3683a0a6fecf909244@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Tested-by: syzbot+0a3683a0a6fecf909244@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240503081042.2078062-1-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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blkdev_iomap_begin rounds down the offset to the logical block size
before stashing it in iomap-&gt;offset and checking that it still is
inside the inode size.

Check the i_size check to the raw pos value so that we don't try a
zero size write if iter-&gt;pos is unaligned.

Fixes: 487c607df790 ("block: use iomap for writes to block devices")
Reported-by: syzbot+0a3683a0a6fecf909244@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Tested-by: syzbot+0a3683a0a6fecf909244@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240503081042.2078062-1-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>blkdev_write_iter(): saner way to get inode and bdev</title>
<updated>2024-05-03T06:35:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2024-04-11T14:53:40+00:00</published>
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... same as in other methods - bdev_file_inode() and I_BDEV() of that.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240411145346.2516848-5-viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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... same as in other methods - bdev_file_inode() and I_BDEV() of that.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240411145346.2516848-5-viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: Call blkdev_dio_unaligned() from blkdev_direct_IO()</title>
<updated>2024-04-15T14:12:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John Garry</name>
<email>john.g.garry@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-04-15T12:20:20+00:00</published>
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blkdev_dio_unaligned() is called from __blkdev_direct_IO(),
__blkdev_direct_IO_simple(), and __blkdev_direct_IO_async(), and all these
are only called from blkdev_direct_IO().

Move the blkdev_dio_unaligned() call to the common callsite,
blkdev_direct_IO().

Pass those functions the bdev pointer from blkdev_direct_IO(), as it is
non-trivial to look up.

Reviewed-by: Keith Busch &lt;kbusch@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: John Garry &lt;john.g.garry@oracle.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240415122020.1541594-1-john.g.garry@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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blkdev_dio_unaligned() is called from __blkdev_direct_IO(),
__blkdev_direct_IO_simple(), and __blkdev_direct_IO_async(), and all these
are only called from blkdev_direct_IO().

Move the blkdev_dio_unaligned() call to the common callsite,
blkdev_direct_IO().

Pass those functions the bdev pointer from blkdev_direct_IO(), as it is
non-trivial to look up.

Reviewed-by: Keith Busch &lt;kbusch@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: John Garry &lt;john.g.garry@oracle.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240415122020.1541594-1-john.g.garry@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs: claw back a few FMODE_* bits</title>
<updated>2024-04-07T11:49:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Brauner</name>
<email>brauner@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-28T12:27:24+00:00</published>
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There's a bunch of flags that are purely based on what the file
operations support while also never being conditionally set or unset.
IOW, they're not subject to change for individual files. Imho, such
flags don't need to live in f_mode they might as well live in the fops
structs itself. And the fops struct already has that lonely
mmap_supported_flags member. We might as well turn that into a generic
fop_flags member and move a few flags from FMODE_* space into FOP_*
space. That gets us four FMODE_* bits back and the ability for new
static flags that are about file ops to not have to live in FMODE_*
space but in their own FOP_* space. It's not the most beautiful thing
ever but it gets the job done. Yes, there'll be an additional pointer
chase but hopefully that won't matter for these flags.

I suspect there's a few more we can move into there and that we can also
redirect a bunch of new flag suggestions that follow this pattern into
the fop_flags field instead of f_mode.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240328-gewendet-spargel-aa60a030ef74@brauner
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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There's a bunch of flags that are purely based on what the file
operations support while also never being conditionally set or unset.
IOW, they're not subject to change for individual files. Imho, such
flags don't need to live in f_mode they might as well live in the fops
structs itself. And the fops struct already has that lonely
mmap_supported_flags member. We might as well turn that into a generic
fop_flags member and move a few flags from FMODE_* space into FOP_*
space. That gets us four FMODE_* bits back and the ability for new
static flags that are about file ops to not have to live in FMODE_*
space but in their own FOP_* space. It's not the most beautiful thing
ever but it gets the job done. Yes, there'll be an additional pointer
chase but hopefully that won't matter for these flags.

I suspect there's a few more we can move into there and that we can also
redirect a bunch of new flag suggestions that follow this pattern into
the fop_flags field instead of f_mode.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240328-gewendet-spargel-aa60a030ef74@brauner
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'vfs-6.9.super' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs</title>
<updated>2024-03-11T17:52:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-11T17:52:34+00:00</published>
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Pull block handle updates from Christian Brauner:
 "Last cycle we changed opening of block devices, and opening a block
  device would return a bdev_handle. This allowed us to implement
  support for restricting and forbidding writes to mounted block
  devices. It was accompanied by converting and adding helpers to
  operate on bdev_handles instead of plain block devices.

  That was already a good step forward but ultimately it isn't necessary
  to have special purpose helpers for opening block devices internally
  that return a bdev_handle.

  Fundamentally, opening a block device internally should just be
  equivalent to opening files. So now all internal opens of block
  devices return files just as a userspace open would. Instead of
  introducing a separate indirection into bdev_open_by_*() via struct
  bdev_handle bdev_file_open_by_*() is made to just return a struct
  file. Opening and closing a block device just becomes equivalent to
  opening and closing a file.

  This all works well because internally we already have a pseudo fs for
  block devices and so opening block devices is simple. There's a few
  places where we needed to be careful such as during boot when the
  kernel is supposed to mount the rootfs directly without init doing it.
  Here we need to take care to ensure that we flush out any asynchronous
  file close. That's what we already do for opening, unpacking, and
  closing the initramfs. So nothing new here.

  The equivalence of opening and closing block devices to regular files
  is a win in and of itself. But it also has various other advantages.
  We can remove struct bdev_handle completely. Various low-level helpers
  are now private to the block layer. Other helpers were simply
  removable completely.

  A follow-up series that is already reviewed build on this and makes it
  possible to remove bdev-&gt;bd_inode and allows various clean ups of the
  buffer head code as well. All places where we stashed a bdev_handle
  now just stash a file and use simple accessors to get to the actual
  block device which was already the case for bdev_handle"

* tag 'vfs-6.9.super' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (35 commits)
  block: remove bdev_handle completely
  block: don't rely on BLK_OPEN_RESTRICT_WRITES when yielding write access
  bdev: remove bdev pointer from struct bdev_handle
  bdev: make struct bdev_handle private to the block layer
  bdev: make bdev_{release, open_by_dev}() private to block layer
  bdev: remove bdev_open_by_path()
  reiserfs: port block device access to file
  ocfs2: port block device access to file
  nfs: port block device access to files
  jfs: port block device access to file
  f2fs: port block device access to files
  ext4: port block device access to file
  erofs: port device access to file
  btrfs: port device access to file
  bcachefs: port block device access to file
  target: port block device access to file
  s390: port block device access to file
  nvme: port block device access to file
  block2mtd: port device access to files
  bcache: port block device access to files
  ...
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Pull block handle updates from Christian Brauner:
 "Last cycle we changed opening of block devices, and opening a block
  device would return a bdev_handle. This allowed us to implement
  support for restricting and forbidding writes to mounted block
  devices. It was accompanied by converting and adding helpers to
  operate on bdev_handles instead of plain block devices.

  That was already a good step forward but ultimately it isn't necessary
  to have special purpose helpers for opening block devices internally
  that return a bdev_handle.

  Fundamentally, opening a block device internally should just be
  equivalent to opening files. So now all internal opens of block
  devices return files just as a userspace open would. Instead of
  introducing a separate indirection into bdev_open_by_*() via struct
  bdev_handle bdev_file_open_by_*() is made to just return a struct
  file. Opening and closing a block device just becomes equivalent to
  opening and closing a file.

  This all works well because internally we already have a pseudo fs for
  block devices and so opening block devices is simple. There's a few
  places where we needed to be careful such as during boot when the
  kernel is supposed to mount the rootfs directly without init doing it.
  Here we need to take care to ensure that we flush out any asynchronous
  file close. That's what we already do for opening, unpacking, and
  closing the initramfs. So nothing new here.

  The equivalence of opening and closing block devices to regular files
  is a win in and of itself. But it also has various other advantages.
  We can remove struct bdev_handle completely. Various low-level helpers
  are now private to the block layer. Other helpers were simply
  removable completely.

  A follow-up series that is already reviewed build on this and makes it
  possible to remove bdev-&gt;bd_inode and allows various clean ups of the
  buffer head code as well. All places where we stashed a bdev_handle
  now just stash a file and use simple accessors to get to the actual
  block device which was already the case for bdev_handle"

* tag 'vfs-6.9.super' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (35 commits)
  block: remove bdev_handle completely
  block: don't rely on BLK_OPEN_RESTRICT_WRITES when yielding write access
  bdev: remove bdev pointer from struct bdev_handle
  bdev: make struct bdev_handle private to the block layer
  bdev: make bdev_{release, open_by_dev}() private to block layer
  bdev: remove bdev_open_by_path()
  reiserfs: port block device access to file
  ocfs2: port block device access to file
  nfs: port block device access to files
  jfs: port block device access to file
  f2fs: port block device access to files
  ext4: port block device access to file
  erofs: port device access to file
  btrfs: port device access to file
  bcachefs: port block device access to file
  target: port block device access to file
  s390: port block device access to file
  nvme: port block device access to file
  block2mtd: port device access to files
  bcache: port block device access to files
  ...
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<title>Merge tag 'vfs-6.9.rw_hint' of gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs</title>
<updated>2024-03-04T17:35:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Brauner</name>
<email>brauner@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-04T17:35:21+00:00</published>
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Pull write hint fix from Christian Brauner:

UFS devices are widely used in mobile applications, e.g. in smartphones.
UFS vendors need data lifetime information to achieve good performance.
Providing data lifetime information to UFS devices can result in up to
40% lower write amplification. Hence this patch series that restores the
bi_write_hint member in struct bio. After this patch series has been
merged, patches that implement data lifetime support in the SCSI disk
(sd) driver will be sent to the Linux kernel SCSI maintainer.

The following changes are included in this patch series:

- Improvements for the F_GET_RW_HINT and F_SET_RW_HINT fcntls.
- Move enum rw_hint into a new header file.
- Support F_SET_RW_HINT for block devices to make it easy to test data
  lifetime support.
- Restore the bio.bi_write_hint member and restore support in the VFS
  layer and also in the block layer for data lifetime information.

The shell script that has been used to test the patch series combined
with the SCSI patches is available at the end of this cover letter.

* tag 'vfs-6.9.rw_hint' of gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  block, fs: Restore the per-bio/request data lifetime fields
  fs: Propagate write hints to the struct block_device inode
  fs: Move enum rw_hint into a new header file
  fs: Split fcntl_rw_hint()
  fs: Verify write lifetime constants at compile time
  fs: Fix rw_hint validation

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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Pull write hint fix from Christian Brauner:

UFS devices are widely used in mobile applications, e.g. in smartphones.
UFS vendors need data lifetime information to achieve good performance.
Providing data lifetime information to UFS devices can result in up to
40% lower write amplification. Hence this patch series that restores the
bi_write_hint member in struct bio. After this patch series has been
merged, patches that implement data lifetime support in the SCSI disk
(sd) driver will be sent to the Linux kernel SCSI maintainer.

The following changes are included in this patch series:

- Improvements for the F_GET_RW_HINT and F_SET_RW_HINT fcntls.
- Move enum rw_hint into a new header file.
- Support F_SET_RW_HINT for block devices to make it easy to test data
  lifetime support.
- Restore the bio.bi_write_hint member and restore support in the VFS
  layer and also in the block layer for data lifetime information.

The shell script that has been used to test the patch series combined
with the SCSI patches is available at the end of this cover letter.

* tag 'vfs-6.9.rw_hint' of gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  block, fs: Restore the per-bio/request data lifetime fields
  fs: Propagate write hints to the struct block_device inode
  fs: Move enum rw_hint into a new header file
  fs: Split fcntl_rw_hint()
  fs: Verify write lifetime constants at compile time
  fs: Fix rw_hint validation

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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