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<title>linux-toradex.git/fs/dlm, branch v6.18</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>Merge tag 'dlm-6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/teigland/linux-dlm</title>
<updated>2025-09-29T22:24:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2025-09-29T22:24:58+00:00</published>
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Pull dlm updates from David Teigland:
 "This adds a dlm_release_lockspace() flag to request that node-failure
  recovery be performed for the node leaving the lockspace.

  The implementation of this flag requires coordination with userland
  clustering components. It's been requested for use by GFS2"

* tag 'dlm-6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/teigland/linux-dlm:
  dlm: check for undefined release_option values
  dlm: handle release_option as unsigned
  dlm: move to rinfo for all middle conversion cases
  dlm: handle invalid lockspace member remove
  dlm: add new flag DLM_RELEASE_RECOVER for dlm_lockspace_release
  dlm: add new configfs entry release_recover for lockspace members
  dlm: add new RELEASE_RECOVER uevent attribute for release_lockspace
  dlm: use defines for force values in dlm_release_lockspace
  dlm: check for defined force value in dlm_lockspace_release
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Pull dlm updates from David Teigland:
 "This adds a dlm_release_lockspace() flag to request that node-failure
  recovery be performed for the node leaving the lockspace.

  The implementation of this flag requires coordination with userland
  clustering components. It's been requested for use by GFS2"

* tag 'dlm-6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/teigland/linux-dlm:
  dlm: check for undefined release_option values
  dlm: handle release_option as unsigned
  dlm: move to rinfo for all middle conversion cases
  dlm: handle invalid lockspace member remove
  dlm: add new flag DLM_RELEASE_RECOVER for dlm_lockspace_release
  dlm: add new configfs entry release_recover for lockspace members
  dlm: add new RELEASE_RECOVER uevent attribute for release_lockspace
  dlm: use defines for force values in dlm_release_lockspace
  dlm: check for defined force value in dlm_lockspace_release
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<title>fs: WQ_PERCPU added to alloc_workqueue users</title>
<updated>2025-09-19T14:15:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marco Crivellari</name>
<email>marco.crivellari@suse.com</email>
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<published>2025-09-16T08:29:06+00:00</published>
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Currently if a user enqueue a work item using schedule_delayed_work() the
used wq is "system_wq" (per-cpu wq) while queue_delayed_work() use
WORK_CPU_UNBOUND (used when a cpu is not specified). The same applies to
schedule_work() that is using system_wq and queue_work(), that makes use
again of WORK_CPU_UNBOUND.
This lack of consistentcy cannot be addressed without refactoring the API.

alloc_workqueue() treats all queues as per-CPU by default, while unbound
workqueues must opt-in via WQ_UNBOUND.

This default is suboptimal: most workloads benefit from unbound queues,
allowing the scheduler to place worker threads where they’re needed and
reducing noise when CPUs are isolated.

This patch adds a new WQ_PERCPU flag to all the fs subsystem users to
explicitly request the use of the per-CPU behavior. Both flags coexist
for one release cycle to allow callers to transition their calls.

Once migration is complete, WQ_UNBOUND can be removed and unbound will
become the implicit default.

With the introduction of the WQ_PERCPU flag (equivalent to !WQ_UNBOUND),
any alloc_workqueue() caller that doesn’t explicitly specify WQ_UNBOUND
must now use WQ_PERCPU.

All existing users have been updated accordingly.

Suggested-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marco Crivellari &lt;marco.crivellari@suse.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250916082906.77439-4-marco.crivellari@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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Currently if a user enqueue a work item using schedule_delayed_work() the
used wq is "system_wq" (per-cpu wq) while queue_delayed_work() use
WORK_CPU_UNBOUND (used when a cpu is not specified). The same applies to
schedule_work() that is using system_wq and queue_work(), that makes use
again of WORK_CPU_UNBOUND.
This lack of consistentcy cannot be addressed without refactoring the API.

alloc_workqueue() treats all queues as per-CPU by default, while unbound
workqueues must opt-in via WQ_UNBOUND.

This default is suboptimal: most workloads benefit from unbound queues,
allowing the scheduler to place worker threads where they’re needed and
reducing noise when CPUs are isolated.

This patch adds a new WQ_PERCPU flag to all the fs subsystem users to
explicitly request the use of the per-CPU behavior. Both flags coexist
for one release cycle to allow callers to transition their calls.

Once migration is complete, WQ_UNBOUND can be removed and unbound will
become the implicit default.

With the introduction of the WQ_PERCPU flag (equivalent to !WQ_UNBOUND),
any alloc_workqueue() caller that doesn’t explicitly specify WQ_UNBOUND
must now use WQ_PERCPU.

All existing users have been updated accordingly.

Suggested-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marco Crivellari &lt;marco.crivellari@suse.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250916082906.77439-4-marco.crivellari@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>dlm: check for undefined release_option values</title>
<updated>2025-08-14T20:16:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Aring</name>
<email>aahringo@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2025-08-14T15:22:14+00:00</published>
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Checking on all undefined release_option values to return -EINVAL in
case a user is providing them to dlm_release_lockspace().

Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring &lt;aahringo@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Teigland &lt;teigland@redhat.com&gt;
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Checking on all undefined release_option values to return -EINVAL in
case a user is providing them to dlm_release_lockspace().

Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring &lt;aahringo@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Teigland &lt;teigland@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>dlm: handle release_option as unsigned</title>
<updated>2025-08-14T20:16:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Aring</name>
<email>aahringo@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2025-08-14T15:22:13+00:00</published>
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Future patches will introduce a invalid argument check for undefined
values. All values for release_option are positive integer values to not
check on negative values as well we just change the parameter to
unsigned int.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring &lt;aahringo@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Teigland &lt;teigland@redhat.com&gt;
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Future patches will introduce a invalid argument check for undefined
values. All values for release_option are positive integer values to not
check on negative values as well we just change the parameter to
unsigned int.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring &lt;aahringo@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Teigland &lt;teigland@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>dlm: move to rinfo for all middle conversion cases</title>
<updated>2025-08-14T20:16:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Aring</name>
<email>aahringo@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-08-14T15:22:12+00:00</published>
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Since commit f74dacb4c8116 ("dlm: fix recovery of middle conversions")
we introduced additional debugging information if we hit the middle
conversion by using log_limit(). The DLM log_limit() functionality
requires a DLM debug option being enabled. As this case is so rarely and
excempt any potential introduced new issue with recovery we switching it
to log_rinfo() ad this is ratelimited under normal DLM loglevel.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring &lt;aahringo@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Teigland &lt;teigland@redhat.com&gt;
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Since commit f74dacb4c8116 ("dlm: fix recovery of middle conversions")
we introduced additional debugging information if we hit the middle
conversion by using log_limit(). The DLM log_limit() functionality
requires a DLM debug option being enabled. As this case is so rarely and
excempt any potential introduced new issue with recovery we switching it
to log_rinfo() ad this is ratelimited under normal DLM loglevel.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring &lt;aahringo@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Teigland &lt;teigland@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>dlm: handle invalid lockspace member remove</title>
<updated>2025-08-14T20:16:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Aring</name>
<email>aahringo@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-08-14T15:22:11+00:00</published>
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Since commit de7b4869b4ecf ("dlm: add new configfs entry release_recover
for lockspace members") we are moving lockspace members into a gone list
before removing them to get additional removing attributes from
configfs. There is still a very unlikely possibility when
find_config_node() returns NULL, then for some reason the node wasn't
marked as gone but it was removed. We will just handle this case and drop
an error to observe if this case can ever happen.

Reported-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@linaro.org&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/gfs2/aJ2Ssuh8xlsTutrA@stanley.mountain/T/#u
Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring &lt;aahringo@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Teigland &lt;teigland@redhat.com&gt;
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Since commit de7b4869b4ecf ("dlm: add new configfs entry release_recover
for lockspace members") we are moving lockspace members into a gone list
before removing them to get additional removing attributes from
configfs. There is still a very unlikely possibility when
find_config_node() returns NULL, then for some reason the node wasn't
marked as gone but it was removed. We will just handle this case and drop
an error to observe if this case can ever happen.

Reported-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@linaro.org&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/gfs2/aJ2Ssuh8xlsTutrA@stanley.mountain/T/#u
Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring &lt;aahringo@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Teigland &lt;teigland@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>dlm: add new flag DLM_RELEASE_RECOVER for dlm_lockspace_release</title>
<updated>2025-08-12T16:37:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Aring</name>
<email>aahringo@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-23T15:21:56+00:00</published>
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When dlm_lockspace_release() is passed DLM_RELEASE_RECOVER, it
tells the dlm to handle the release/leave as if the node had failed,
i.e. perform recovery steps for a failed node, like recover_slot().

When DLM_RELEASE_RECOVER is set:
- dlm_release_lockspace() includes RELEASE_RECOVER=1 in the OFFLINE
  uevent sent to userspace.
- userspace/dlm_controld sends a message to all lockspace members
  indicating that the subsequent node removal should be handled as
  if the node had failed.
- when dlm_controld on all nodes receives the new message, it sets
  the release_recover configfs entry to 1 for the node.
- when the dlm/kernel next performs recovery and removes the node,
  it will see that release_recover has been set, and will perform
  recovery steps for the node as if it had failed, e.g. the
  recover_slot() callback is called to notify the fs.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring &lt;aahringo@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Teigland &lt;teigland@redhat.com&gt;
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When dlm_lockspace_release() is passed DLM_RELEASE_RECOVER, it
tells the dlm to handle the release/leave as if the node had failed,
i.e. perform recovery steps for a failed node, like recover_slot().

When DLM_RELEASE_RECOVER is set:
- dlm_release_lockspace() includes RELEASE_RECOVER=1 in the OFFLINE
  uevent sent to userspace.
- userspace/dlm_controld sends a message to all lockspace members
  indicating that the subsequent node removal should be handled as
  if the node had failed.
- when dlm_controld on all nodes receives the new message, it sets
  the release_recover configfs entry to 1 for the node.
- when the dlm/kernel next performs recovery and removes the node,
  it will see that release_recover has been set, and will perform
  recovery steps for the node as if it had failed, e.g. the
  recover_slot() callback is called to notify the fs.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring &lt;aahringo@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Teigland &lt;teigland@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>dlm: add new configfs entry release_recover for lockspace members</title>
<updated>2025-08-12T16:32:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Aring</name>
<email>aahringo@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2025-07-23T15:21:55+00:00</published>
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A new configfs entry is added for a lockspace member:
  /config/dlm/&lt;cluster&gt;/spaces/&lt;space&gt;/nodes/&lt;node&gt;/release_recover

release_recover can be set to 1 by userspace (dlm_controld process)
prior to removing the lockspace member (rmdir of the &lt;node&gt;).
This tells the kernel to handle the removed member as if it had failed,
i.e. recovery steps for a failed node should be perfomed, as opposed
to the recovery steps for a node doing a controlled leave.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring &lt;aahringo@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Teigland &lt;teigland@redhat.com&gt;
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A new configfs entry is added for a lockspace member:
  /config/dlm/&lt;cluster&gt;/spaces/&lt;space&gt;/nodes/&lt;node&gt;/release_recover

release_recover can be set to 1 by userspace (dlm_controld process)
prior to removing the lockspace member (rmdir of the &lt;node&gt;).
This tells the kernel to handle the removed member as if it had failed,
i.e. recovery steps for a failed node should be perfomed, as opposed
to the recovery steps for a node doing a controlled leave.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring &lt;aahringo@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Teigland &lt;teigland@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>dlm: add new RELEASE_RECOVER uevent attribute for release_lockspace</title>
<updated>2025-08-12T16:26:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Aring</name>
<email>aahringo@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-23T15:21:54+00:00</published>
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RELEASE_RECOVER=0|1 is passed to user space as part of the OFFLINE
uevent for leaving a lockspace, and used by subsequent patches.
RELEASE_RECOVER=1 tells user space that the release_lockspace/leave
should be handled by the remaining lockspace members as if the
leaving node had failed.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring &lt;aahringo@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Teigland &lt;teigland@redhat.com&gt;
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RELEASE_RECOVER=0|1 is passed to user space as part of the OFFLINE
uevent for leaving a lockspace, and used by subsequent patches.
RELEASE_RECOVER=1 tells user space that the release_lockspace/leave
should be handled by the remaining lockspace members as if the
leaving node had failed.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring &lt;aahringo@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Teigland &lt;teigland@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>dlm: use defines for force values in dlm_release_lockspace</title>
<updated>2025-08-12T16:22:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Aring</name>
<email>aahringo@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-23T15:21:53+00:00</published>
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Clarify the use of the force parameter by renaming it to
"release_option" and adding defines (with descriptions) for
each of the accepted values.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring &lt;aahringo@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Teigland &lt;teigland@redhat.com&gt;
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Clarify the use of the force parameter by renaming it to
"release_option" and adding defines (with descriptions) for
each of the accepted values.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring &lt;aahringo@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Teigland &lt;teigland@redhat.com&gt;
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