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<title>linux-toradex.git/fs/configfs, branch v6.17</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>configfs: use DCACHE_DONTCACHE</title>
<updated>2025-06-11T17:41:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-24T03:21:55+00:00</published>
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Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>new helper: set_default_d_op()</title>
<updated>2025-06-11T02:21:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-24T00:39:47+00:00</published>
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... to be used instead of manually assigning to -&gt;s_d_op.
All in-tree filesystem converted (and field itself is renamed,
so any out-of-tree ones in need of conversion will be caught
by compiler).

Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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... to be used instead of manually assigning to -&gt;s_d_op.
All in-tree filesystem converted (and field itself is renamed,
so any out-of-tree ones in need of conversion will be caught
by compiler).

Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-05-31-15-28' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2025-06-01T02:12:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-06-01T02:12:53+00:00</published>
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Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "hung_task: extend blocking task stacktrace dump to semaphore" from
   Lance Yang enhances the hung task detector.

   The detector presently dumps the blocking tasks's stack when it is
   blocked on a mutex. Lance's series extends this to semaphores

 - "nilfs2: improve sanity checks in dirty state propagation" from
   Wentao Liang addresses a couple of minor flaws in nilfs2

 - "scripts/gdb: Fixes related to lx_per_cpu()" from Illia Ostapyshyn
   fixes a couple of issues in the gdb scripts

 - "Support kdump with LUKS encryption by reusing LUKS volume keys" from
   Coiby Xu addresses a usability problem with kdump.

   When the dump device is LUKS-encrypted, the kdump kernel may not have
   the keys to the encrypted filesystem. A full writeup of this is in
   the series [0/N] cover letter

 - "sysfs: add counters for lockups and stalls" from Max Kellermann adds
   /sys/kernel/hardlockup_count and /sys/kernel/hardlockup_count and
   /sys/kernel/rcu_stall_count

 - "fork: Page operation cleanups in the fork code" from Pasha Tatashin
   implements a number of code cleanups in fork.c

 - "scripts/gdb/symbols: determine KASLR offset on s390 during early
   boot" from Ilya Leoshkevich fixes some s390 issues in the gdb
   scripts

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-05-31-15-28' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (67 commits)
  llist: make llist_add_batch() a static inline
  delayacct: remove redundant code and adjust indentation
  squashfs: add optional full compressed block caching
  crash_dump, nvme: select CONFIGFS_FS as built-in
  scripts/gdb/symbols: determine KASLR offset on s390 during early boot
  scripts/gdb/symbols: factor out pagination_off()
  scripts/gdb/symbols: factor out get_vmlinux()
  kernel/panic.c: format kernel-doc comments
  mailmap: update and consolidate Casey Connolly's name and email
  nilfs2: remove wbc-&gt;for_reclaim handling
  fork: define a local GFP_VMAP_STACK
  fork: check charging success before zeroing stack
  fork: clean-up naming of vm_stack/vm_struct variables in vmap stacks code
  fork: clean-up ifdef logic around stack allocation
  kernel/rcu/tree_stall: add /sys/kernel/rcu_stall_count
  kernel/watchdog: add /sys/kernel/{hard,soft}lockup_count
  x86/crash: make the page that stores the dm crypt keys inaccessible
  x86/crash: pass dm crypt keys to kdump kernel
  Revert "x86/mm: Remove unused __set_memory_prot()"
  crash_dump: retrieve dm crypt keys in kdump kernel
  ...
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<pre>
Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "hung_task: extend blocking task stacktrace dump to semaphore" from
   Lance Yang enhances the hung task detector.

   The detector presently dumps the blocking tasks's stack when it is
   blocked on a mutex. Lance's series extends this to semaphores

 - "nilfs2: improve sanity checks in dirty state propagation" from
   Wentao Liang addresses a couple of minor flaws in nilfs2

 - "scripts/gdb: Fixes related to lx_per_cpu()" from Illia Ostapyshyn
   fixes a couple of issues in the gdb scripts

 - "Support kdump with LUKS encryption by reusing LUKS volume keys" from
   Coiby Xu addresses a usability problem with kdump.

   When the dump device is LUKS-encrypted, the kdump kernel may not have
   the keys to the encrypted filesystem. A full writeup of this is in
   the series [0/N] cover letter

 - "sysfs: add counters for lockups and stalls" from Max Kellermann adds
   /sys/kernel/hardlockup_count and /sys/kernel/hardlockup_count and
   /sys/kernel/rcu_stall_count

 - "fork: Page operation cleanups in the fork code" from Pasha Tatashin
   implements a number of code cleanups in fork.c

 - "scripts/gdb/symbols: determine KASLR offset on s390 during early
   boot" from Ilya Leoshkevich fixes some s390 issues in the gdb
   scripts

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-05-31-15-28' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (67 commits)
  llist: make llist_add_batch() a static inline
  delayacct: remove redundant code and adjust indentation
  squashfs: add optional full compressed block caching
  crash_dump, nvme: select CONFIGFS_FS as built-in
  scripts/gdb/symbols: determine KASLR offset on s390 during early boot
  scripts/gdb/symbols: factor out pagination_off()
  scripts/gdb/symbols: factor out get_vmlinux()
  kernel/panic.c: format kernel-doc comments
  mailmap: update and consolidate Casey Connolly's name and email
  nilfs2: remove wbc-&gt;for_reclaim handling
  fork: define a local GFP_VMAP_STACK
  fork: check charging success before zeroing stack
  fork: clean-up naming of vm_stack/vm_struct variables in vmap stacks code
  fork: clean-up ifdef logic around stack allocation
  kernel/rcu/tree_stall: add /sys/kernel/rcu_stall_count
  kernel/watchdog: add /sys/kernel/{hard,soft}lockup_count
  x86/crash: make the page that stores the dm crypt keys inaccessible
  x86/crash: pass dm crypt keys to kdump kernel
  Revert "x86/mm: Remove unused __set_memory_prot()"
  crash_dump: retrieve dm crypt keys in kdump kernel
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>crash_dump, nvme: select CONFIGFS_FS as built-in</title>
<updated>2025-05-28T02:40:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-21T16:03:19+00:00</published>
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Configfs can be configured as a loadable module, which causes a link-time
failure for dm-crypt crash dump support:

crash_dump_dm_crypt.c:(.text+0x3a4): undefined reference to `config_item_init_type_name'
aarch64-linux-ld: kernel/crash_dump_dm_crypt.o: in function `configfs_dmcrypt_keys_init':
crash_dump_dm_crypt.c:(.init.text+0x90): undefined reference to `config_group_init'
aarch64-linux-ld: crash_dump_dm_crypt.c:(.init.text+0xb4): undefined reference to `configfs_register_subsystem'
aarch64-linux-ld: crash_dump_dm_crypt.c:(.init.text+0xd8): undefined reference to `configfs_unregister_subsystem'

This could be avoided with a dependency on CONFIGFS_FS=y, but the
dependency has an additional problem of causing Kconfig dependency loops
since most other uses select the symbol.

Using a simple 'select CONFIGFS_FS' here in turn fails with
CONFIG_DM_CRYPT=m, because that still only causes configfs to be a
loadable module.

The only version I found that fixes this reliably uses an additional
Kconfig symbol to ensure the 'select' actually turns on configfs as
builtin, with two additional changes to avoid dependency loops with nvme
and sysfs.

There is no compile-time dependency between configfs and sysfs, so
selecting configfs from a driver with sysfs disabled does not cause link
failures, only the default /sys/kernel/config mount point will not be
created.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250521160359.2132363-1-arnd@kernel.org
Fixes: 6b23858fd63b ("crash_dump: make dm crypt keys persist for the kdump kernel")
Fixes: 1fb470408497 ("nvme-loop: add configfs dependency")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Andreas Hindborg &lt;a.hindborg@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Breno Leitao &lt;leitao@debian.org&gt;
Cc: Chaitanya Kulkarni &lt;kch@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Coiby Xu &lt;coxu@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Sagi Grimberg &lt;sagi@grimberg.me&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Configfs can be configured as a loadable module, which causes a link-time
failure for dm-crypt crash dump support:

crash_dump_dm_crypt.c:(.text+0x3a4): undefined reference to `config_item_init_type_name'
aarch64-linux-ld: kernel/crash_dump_dm_crypt.o: in function `configfs_dmcrypt_keys_init':
crash_dump_dm_crypt.c:(.init.text+0x90): undefined reference to `config_group_init'
aarch64-linux-ld: crash_dump_dm_crypt.c:(.init.text+0xb4): undefined reference to `configfs_register_subsystem'
aarch64-linux-ld: crash_dump_dm_crypt.c:(.init.text+0xd8): undefined reference to `configfs_unregister_subsystem'

This could be avoided with a dependency on CONFIGFS_FS=y, but the
dependency has an additional problem of causing Kconfig dependency loops
since most other uses select the symbol.

Using a simple 'select CONFIGFS_FS' here in turn fails with
CONFIG_DM_CRYPT=m, because that still only causes configfs to be a
loadable module.

The only version I found that fixes this reliably uses an additional
Kconfig symbol to ensure the 'select' actually turns on configfs as
builtin, with two additional changes to avoid dependency loops with nvme
and sysfs.

There is no compile-time dependency between configfs and sysfs, so
selecting configfs from a driver with sysfs disabled does not cause link
failures, only the default /sys/kernel/config mount point will not be
created.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250521160359.2132363-1-arnd@kernel.org
Fixes: 6b23858fd63b ("crash_dump: make dm crypt keys persist for the kdump kernel")
Fixes: 1fb470408497 ("nvme-loop: add configfs dependency")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Andreas Hindborg &lt;a.hindborg@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Breno Leitao &lt;leitao@debian.org&gt;
Cc: Chaitanya Kulkarni &lt;kch@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Coiby Xu &lt;coxu@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Sagi Grimberg &lt;sagi@grimberg.me&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>configfs: Correct error value returned by API config_item_set_name()</title>
<updated>2025-05-09T08:11:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zijun Hu</name>
<email>quic_zijuhu@quicinc.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-07T11:50:27+00:00</published>
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kvasprintf() failure is often caused by memory allocation which has error
code -ENOMEM, but config_item_set_name() returns -EFAULT for the failure.

Fix by returning -ENOMEM instead of -EFAULT for the failure.

Reviewed-by: Joel Becker &lt;jlbec@evilplan.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Breno Leitao &lt;leitao@debian.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Zijun Hu &lt;quic_zijuhu@quicinc.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250507-fix_configfs-v3-3-fe2d96de8dc4@quicinc.com
Signed-off-by: Andreas Hindborg &lt;a.hindborg@kernel.org&gt;
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kvasprintf() failure is often caused by memory allocation which has error
code -ENOMEM, but config_item_set_name() returns -EFAULT for the failure.

Fix by returning -ENOMEM instead of -EFAULT for the failure.

Reviewed-by: Joel Becker &lt;jlbec@evilplan.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Breno Leitao &lt;leitao@debian.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Zijun Hu &lt;quic_zijuhu@quicinc.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250507-fix_configfs-v3-3-fe2d96de8dc4@quicinc.com
Signed-off-by: Andreas Hindborg &lt;a.hindborg@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>configfs: Do not override creating attribute file failure in populate_attrs()</title>
<updated>2025-05-09T08:11:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zijun Hu</name>
<email>quic_zijuhu@quicinc.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-07T11:50:26+00:00</published>
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populate_attrs() may override failure for creating attribute files
by success for creating subsequent bin attribute files, and have
wrong return value.

Fix by creating bin attribute files under successfully creating
attribute files.

Fixes: 03607ace807b ("configfs: implement binary attributes")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Joel Becker &lt;jlbec@evilplan.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Breno Leitao &lt;leitao@debian.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Zijun Hu &lt;quic_zijuhu@quicinc.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250507-fix_configfs-v3-2-fe2d96de8dc4@quicinc.com
Signed-off-by: Andreas Hindborg &lt;a.hindborg@kernel.org&gt;
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populate_attrs() may override failure for creating attribute files
by success for creating subsequent bin attribute files, and have
wrong return value.

Fix by creating bin attribute files under successfully creating
attribute files.

Fixes: 03607ace807b ("configfs: implement binary attributes")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Joel Becker &lt;jlbec@evilplan.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Breno Leitao &lt;leitao@debian.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Zijun Hu &lt;quic_zijuhu@quicinc.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250507-fix_configfs-v3-2-fe2d96de8dc4@quicinc.com
Signed-off-by: Andreas Hindborg &lt;a.hindborg@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>configfs: Delete semicolon from macro type_print() definition</title>
<updated>2025-05-09T08:11:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zijun Hu</name>
<email>quic_zijuhu@quicinc.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-07T11:50:25+00:00</published>
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Macro type_print() definition ends with semicolon, so will cause
the subsequent macro invocations end with two semicolons.

Fix by deleting the semicolon from the macro definition.

Reviewed-by: Joel Becker &lt;jlbec@evilplan.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Zijun Hu &lt;quic_zijuhu@quicinc.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250507-fix_configfs-v3-1-fe2d96de8dc4@quicinc.com
Signed-off-by: Andreas Hindborg &lt;a.hindborg@kernel.org&gt;
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Macro type_print() definition ends with semicolon, so will cause
the subsequent macro invocations end with two semicolons.

Fix by deleting the semicolon from the macro definition.

Reviewed-by: Joel Becker &lt;jlbec@evilplan.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Zijun Hu &lt;quic_zijuhu@quicinc.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250507-fix_configfs-v3-1-fe2d96de8dc4@quicinc.com
Signed-off-by: Andreas Hindborg &lt;a.hindborg@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Change inode_operations.mkdir to return struct dentry *</title>
<updated>2025-02-27T19:00:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>NeilBrown</name>
<email>neilb@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-27T01:32:53+00:00</published>
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Some filesystems, such as NFS, cifs, ceph, and fuse, do not have
complete control of sequencing on the actual filesystem (e.g.  on a
different server) and may find that the inode created for a mkdir
request already exists in the icache and dcache by the time the mkdir
request returns.  For example, if the filesystem is mounted twice the
directory could be visible on the other mount before it is on the
original mount, and a pair of name_to_handle_at(), open_by_handle_at()
calls could instantiate the directory inode with an IS_ROOT() dentry
before the first mkdir returns.

This means that the dentry passed to -&gt;mkdir() may not be the one that
is associated with the inode after the -&gt;mkdir() completes.  Some
callers need to interact with the inode after the -&gt;mkdir completes and
they currently need to perform a lookup in the (rare) case that the
dentry is no longer hashed.

This lookup-after-mkdir requires that the directory remains locked to
avoid races.  Planned future patches to lock the dentry rather than the
directory will mean that this lookup cannot be performed atomically with
the mkdir.

To remove this barrier, this patch changes -&gt;mkdir to return the
resulting dentry if it is different from the one passed in.
Possible returns are:
  NULL - the directory was created and no other dentry was used
  ERR_PTR() - an error occurred
  non-NULL - this other dentry was spliced in

This patch only changes file-systems to return "ERR_PTR(err)" instead of
"err" or equivalent transformations.  Subsequent patches will make
further changes to some file-systems to return a correct dentry.

Not all filesystems reliably result in a positive hashed dentry:

- NFS, cifs, hostfs will sometimes need to perform a lookup of
  the name to get inode information.  Races could result in this
  returning something different. Note that this lookup is
  non-atomic which is what we are trying to avoid.  Placing the
  lookup in filesystem code means it only happens when the filesystem
  has no other option.
- kernfs and tracefs leave the dentry negative and the -&gt;revalidate
  operation ensures that lookup will be called to correctly populate
  the dentry.  This could be fixed but I don't think it is important
  to any of the users of vfs_mkdir() which look at the dentry.

The recommendation to use
    d_drop();d_splice_alias()
is ugly but fits with current practice.  A planned future patch will
change this.

Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250227013949.536172-2-neilb@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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Some filesystems, such as NFS, cifs, ceph, and fuse, do not have
complete control of sequencing on the actual filesystem (e.g.  on a
different server) and may find that the inode created for a mkdir
request already exists in the icache and dcache by the time the mkdir
request returns.  For example, if the filesystem is mounted twice the
directory could be visible on the other mount before it is on the
original mount, and a pair of name_to_handle_at(), open_by_handle_at()
calls could instantiate the directory inode with an IS_ROOT() dentry
before the first mkdir returns.

This means that the dentry passed to -&gt;mkdir() may not be the one that
is associated with the inode after the -&gt;mkdir() completes.  Some
callers need to interact with the inode after the -&gt;mkdir completes and
they currently need to perform a lookup in the (rare) case that the
dentry is no longer hashed.

This lookup-after-mkdir requires that the directory remains locked to
avoid races.  Planned future patches to lock the dentry rather than the
directory will mean that this lookup cannot be performed atomically with
the mkdir.

To remove this barrier, this patch changes -&gt;mkdir to return the
resulting dentry if it is different from the one passed in.
Possible returns are:
  NULL - the directory was created and no other dentry was used
  ERR_PTR() - an error occurred
  non-NULL - this other dentry was spliced in

This patch only changes file-systems to return "ERR_PTR(err)" instead of
"err" or equivalent transformations.  Subsequent patches will make
further changes to some file-systems to return a correct dentry.

Not all filesystems reliably result in a positive hashed dentry:

- NFS, cifs, hostfs will sometimes need to perform a lookup of
  the name to get inode information.  Races could result in this
  returning something different. Note that this lookup is
  non-atomic which is what we are trying to avoid.  Placing the
  lookup in filesystem code means it only happens when the filesystem
  has no other option.
- kernfs and tracefs leave the dentry negative and the -&gt;revalidate
  operation ensures that lookup will be called to correctly populate
  the dentry.  This could be fixed but I don't think it is important
  to any of the users of vfs_mkdir() which look at the dentry.

The recommendation to use
    d_drop();d_splice_alias()
is ugly but fits with current practice.  A planned future patch will
change this.

Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250227013949.536172-2-neilb@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>configfs: improve item creation performance</title>
<updated>2024-11-14T06:45:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Seamus Connor</name>
<email>sconnor@purestorage.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-14T05:29:22+00:00</published>
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As the size of a directory increases item creation slows down.
Optimizing access to s_children removes this bottleneck.

dirents are already pinned into the cache, there is no need to scan the
s_children list looking for duplicate Items. The configfs_dirent_exists
check is moved to a location where it is called only during subsystem
initialization.

d_lookup will only need to call configfs_lookup in the case where the
item in question is not pinned to dcache. The only items not pinned to
dcache are attributes. These are placed at the front of the s_children
list, whilst pinned items are inserted at the back. configfs_lookup
stops scanning when it encounters the first pinned entry in s_children.

The assumption of the above optimizations is that there will be few
attributes, but potentially many Items in a given directory.

Signed-off-by: Seamus Connor &lt;sconnor@purestorage.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Joel Becker &lt;jlbec@evilplan.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
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As the size of a directory increases item creation slows down.
Optimizing access to s_children removes this bottleneck.

dirents are already pinned into the cache, there is no need to scan the
s_children list looking for duplicate Items. The configfs_dirent_exists
check is moved to a location where it is called only during subsystem
initialization.

d_lookup will only need to call configfs_lookup in the case where the
item in question is not pinned to dcache. The only items not pinned to
dcache are attributes. These are placed at the front of the s_children
list, whilst pinned items are inserted at the back. configfs_lookup
stops scanning when it encounters the first pinned entry in s_children.

The assumption of the above optimizations is that there will be few
attributes, but potentially many Items in a given directory.

Signed-off-by: Seamus Connor &lt;sconnor@purestorage.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Joel Becker &lt;jlbec@evilplan.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>configfs: remove unused configfs_hash_and_remove</title>
<updated>2024-11-14T06:45:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dr. David Alan Gilbert</name>
<email>linux@treblig.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-10-10T20:56:55+00:00</published>
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configfs_hash_and_remove() has been unused since it was added in 2005
by commit
7063fbf22611 ("[PATCH] configfs: User-driven configuration filesystem")

Remove it.

Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert &lt;linux@treblig.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
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configfs_hash_and_remove() has been unused since it was added in 2005
by commit
7063fbf22611 ("[PATCH] configfs: User-driven configuration filesystem")

Remove it.

Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert &lt;linux@treblig.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
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