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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>dax: fix vma_is_fsdax() helper</title>
<updated>2018-02-26T20:32:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-22T01:08:01+00:00</published>
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Gerd reports that -&gt;i_mode may contain other bits besides S_IFCHR. Use
S_ISCHR() instead. Otherwise, get_user_pages_longterm() may fail on
device-dax instances when those are meant to be explicitly allowed.

Fixes: 2bb6d2837083 ("mm: introduce get_user_pages_longterm")
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: Gerd Rausch &lt;gerd.rausch@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jane Chu &lt;jane.chu@oracle.com&gt;
Reported-by: Haozhong Zhang &lt;haozhong.zhang@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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Gerd reports that -&gt;i_mode may contain other bits besides S_IFCHR. Use
S_ISCHR() instead. Otherwise, get_user_pages_longterm() may fail on
device-dax instances when those are meant to be explicitly allowed.

Fixes: 2bb6d2837083 ("mm: introduce get_user_pages_longterm")
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: Gerd Rausch &lt;gerd.rausch@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jane Chu &lt;jane.chu@oracle.com&gt;
Reported-by: Haozhong Zhang &lt;haozhong.zhang@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'xfs-4.16-merge-4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfs-linux</title>
<updated>2018-01-31T18:18:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-31T18:18:00+00:00</published>
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Pull xfs updates from Darrick Wong:
 "This merge cycle, we're again some substantive changes to XFS.

  Metadata verifiers have been restructured to provide more detail about
  which part of a metadata structure failed checks, and we've enhanced
  the new online fsck feature to cross-reference extent allocation
  information with the other metadata structures. With this pull, the
  metadata verification part of online fsck is more or less finished,
  though the feature is still experimental and still disabled by
  default.

  We're also preparing to remove the EXPERIMENTAL tag from a couple of
  features this cycle. This week we're committing a bunch of space
  accounting fixes for reflink and removing the EXPERIMENTAL tag from
  reflink; I anticipate that we'll be ready to do the same for the
  reverse mapping feature next week. (I don't have any pending fixes for
  rmap; however I wish to remove the tags one at a time.)

  This giant pile of patches has been run through a full xfstests run
  over the weekend and through a quick xfstests run against this
  morning's master, with no major failures reported. Let me know if
  there's any merge problems -- git merge reported that one of our
  patches touched the same function as the i_version series, but it
  resolved things cleanly.

  Summary:

   - Log faulting code locations when verifiers fail, for improved
     diagnosis of corrupt filesystems.

   - Implement metadata verifiers for local format inode fork data.

   - Online scrub now cross-references metadata records with other
     metadata.

   - Refactor the fs geometry ioctl generation functions.

   - Harden various metadata verifiers.

   - Fix various accounting problems.

   - Fix uncancelled transactions leaking when xattr functions fail.

   - Prevent the copy-on-write speculative preallocation garbage
     collector from racing with writeback.

   - Emit log reservation type information as trace data so that we can
     compare against xfsprogs.

   - Fix some erroneous asserts in the online scrub code.

   - Clean up the transaction reservation calculations.

   - Fix various minor bugs in online scrub.

   - Log complaints about mixed dio/buffered writes once per day and
     less noisily than before.

   - Refactor buffer log item lists to use list_head.

   - Break PNFS leases before reflinking blocks.

   - Reduce lock contention on reflink source files.

   - Fix some quota accounting problems with reflink.

   - Fix a serious corruption problem in the direct cow write code where
     we fed bad iomaps to the vfs iomap consumers.

   - Various other refactorings.

   - Remove EXPERIMENTAL tag from reflink!"

* tag 'xfs-4.16-merge-4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfs-linux: (94 commits)
  xfs: remove experimental tag for reflinks
  xfs: don't screw up direct writes when freesp is fragmented
  xfs: check reflink allocation mappings
  iomap: warn on zero-length mappings
  xfs: treat CoW fork operations as delalloc for quota accounting
  xfs: only grab shared inode locks for source file during reflink
  xfs: allow xfs_lock_two_inodes to take different EXCL/SHARED modes
  xfs: reflink should break pnfs leases before sharing blocks
  xfs: don't clobber inobt/finobt cursors when xref with rmap
  xfs: skip CoW writes past EOF when writeback races with truncate
  xfs: preserve i_rdev when recycling a reclaimable inode
  xfs: refactor accounting updates out of xfs_bmap_btalloc
  xfs: refactor inode verifier corruption error printing
  xfs: make tracepoint inode number format consistent
  xfs: always zero di_flags2 when we free the inode
  xfs: call xfs_qm_dqattach before performing reflink operations
  xfs: bmap code cleanup
  Use list_head infra-structure for buffer's log items list
  Split buffer's b_fspriv field
  Get rid of xfs_buf_log_item_t typedef
  ...
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Pull xfs updates from Darrick Wong:
 "This merge cycle, we're again some substantive changes to XFS.

  Metadata verifiers have been restructured to provide more detail about
  which part of a metadata structure failed checks, and we've enhanced
  the new online fsck feature to cross-reference extent allocation
  information with the other metadata structures. With this pull, the
  metadata verification part of online fsck is more or less finished,
  though the feature is still experimental and still disabled by
  default.

  We're also preparing to remove the EXPERIMENTAL tag from a couple of
  features this cycle. This week we're committing a bunch of space
  accounting fixes for reflink and removing the EXPERIMENTAL tag from
  reflink; I anticipate that we'll be ready to do the same for the
  reverse mapping feature next week. (I don't have any pending fixes for
  rmap; however I wish to remove the tags one at a time.)

  This giant pile of patches has been run through a full xfstests run
  over the weekend and through a quick xfstests run against this
  morning's master, with no major failures reported. Let me know if
  there's any merge problems -- git merge reported that one of our
  patches touched the same function as the i_version series, but it
  resolved things cleanly.

  Summary:

   - Log faulting code locations when verifiers fail, for improved
     diagnosis of corrupt filesystems.

   - Implement metadata verifiers for local format inode fork data.

   - Online scrub now cross-references metadata records with other
     metadata.

   - Refactor the fs geometry ioctl generation functions.

   - Harden various metadata verifiers.

   - Fix various accounting problems.

   - Fix uncancelled transactions leaking when xattr functions fail.

   - Prevent the copy-on-write speculative preallocation garbage
     collector from racing with writeback.

   - Emit log reservation type information as trace data so that we can
     compare against xfsprogs.

   - Fix some erroneous asserts in the online scrub code.

   - Clean up the transaction reservation calculations.

   - Fix various minor bugs in online scrub.

   - Log complaints about mixed dio/buffered writes once per day and
     less noisily than before.

   - Refactor buffer log item lists to use list_head.

   - Break PNFS leases before reflinking blocks.

   - Reduce lock contention on reflink source files.

   - Fix some quota accounting problems with reflink.

   - Fix a serious corruption problem in the direct cow write code where
     we fed bad iomaps to the vfs iomap consumers.

   - Various other refactorings.

   - Remove EXPERIMENTAL tag from reflink!"

* tag 'xfs-4.16-merge-4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfs-linux: (94 commits)
  xfs: remove experimental tag for reflinks
  xfs: don't screw up direct writes when freesp is fragmented
  xfs: check reflink allocation mappings
  iomap: warn on zero-length mappings
  xfs: treat CoW fork operations as delalloc for quota accounting
  xfs: only grab shared inode locks for source file during reflink
  xfs: allow xfs_lock_two_inodes to take different EXCL/SHARED modes
  xfs: reflink should break pnfs leases before sharing blocks
  xfs: don't clobber inobt/finobt cursors when xref with rmap
  xfs: skip CoW writes past EOF when writeback races with truncate
  xfs: preserve i_rdev when recycling a reclaimable inode
  xfs: refactor accounting updates out of xfs_bmap_btalloc
  xfs: refactor inode verifier corruption error printing
  xfs: make tracepoint inode number format consistent
  xfs: always zero di_flags2 when we free the inode
  xfs: call xfs_qm_dqattach before performing reflink operations
  xfs: bmap code cleanup
  Use list_head infra-structure for buffer's log items list
  Split buffer's b_fspriv field
  Get rid of xfs_buf_log_item_t typedef
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2018-01-31T17:25:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-31T17:25:20+00:00</published>
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Pull misc vfs updates from Al Viro:
 "All kinds of misc stuff, without any unifying topic, from various
  people.

  Neil's d_anon patch, several bugfixes, introduction of kvmalloc
  analogue of kmemdup_user(), extending bitfield.h to deal with
  fixed-endians, assorted cleanups all over the place..."

* 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (28 commits)
  alpha: osf_sys.c: use timespec64 where appropriate
  alpha: osf_sys.c: fix put_tv32 regression
  jffs2: Fix use-after-free bug in jffs2_iget()'s error handling path
  dcache: delete unused d_hash_mask
  dcache: subtract d_hash_shift from 32 in advance
  fs/buffer.c: fold init_buffer() into init_page_buffers()
  fs: fold __inode_permission() into inode_permission()
  fs: add RWF_APPEND
  sctp: use vmemdup_user() rather than badly open-coding memdup_user()
  snd_ctl_elem_init_enum_names(): switch to vmemdup_user()
  replace_user_tlv(): switch to vmemdup_user()
  new primitive: vmemdup_user()
  memdup_user(): switch to GFP_USER
  eventfd: fold eventfd_ctx_get() into eventfd_ctx_fileget()
  eventfd: fold eventfd_ctx_read() into eventfd_read()
  eventfd: convert to use anon_inode_getfd()
  nfs4file: get rid of pointless include of btrfs.h
  uvc_v4l2: clean copyin/copyout up
  vme_user: don't use __copy_..._user()
  usx2y: don't bother with memdup_user() for 16-byte structure
  ...
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Pull misc vfs updates from Al Viro:
 "All kinds of misc stuff, without any unifying topic, from various
  people.

  Neil's d_anon patch, several bugfixes, introduction of kvmalloc
  analogue of kmemdup_user(), extending bitfield.h to deal with
  fixed-endians, assorted cleanups all over the place..."

* 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (28 commits)
  alpha: osf_sys.c: use timespec64 where appropriate
  alpha: osf_sys.c: fix put_tv32 regression
  jffs2: Fix use-after-free bug in jffs2_iget()'s error handling path
  dcache: delete unused d_hash_mask
  dcache: subtract d_hash_shift from 32 in advance
  fs/buffer.c: fold init_buffer() into init_page_buffers()
  fs: fold __inode_permission() into inode_permission()
  fs: add RWF_APPEND
  sctp: use vmemdup_user() rather than badly open-coding memdup_user()
  snd_ctl_elem_init_enum_names(): switch to vmemdup_user()
  replace_user_tlv(): switch to vmemdup_user()
  new primitive: vmemdup_user()
  memdup_user(): switch to GFP_USER
  eventfd: fold eventfd_ctx_get() into eventfd_ctx_fileget()
  eventfd: fold eventfd_ctx_read() into eventfd_read()
  eventfd: convert to use anon_inode_getfd()
  nfs4file: get rid of pointless include of btrfs.h
  uvc_v4l2: clean copyin/copyout up
  vme_user: don't use __copy_..._user()
  usx2y: don't bother with memdup_user() for 16-byte structure
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'work.mqueue' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2018-01-31T02:32:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-31T02:32:21+00:00</published>
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Pull mqueue/bpf vfs cleanups from Al Viro:
 "mqueue and bpf go through rather painful and similar contortions to
  create objects in their dentry trees. Provide a primitive for doing
  that without abusing -&gt;mknod(), switch bpf and mqueue to it.

  Another mqueue-related thing that has ended up in that branch is
  on-demand creation of internal mount (based upon the work of Giuseppe
  Scrivano)"

* 'work.mqueue' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  mqueue: switch to on-demand creation of internal mount
  tidy do_mq_open() up a bit
  mqueue: clean prepare_open() up
  do_mq_open(): move all work prior to dentry_open() into a helper
  mqueue: fold mq_attr_ok() into mqueue_get_inode()
  move dentry_open() calls up into do_mq_open()
  mqueue: switch to vfs_mkobj(), quit abusing -&gt;d_fsdata
  bpf_obj_do_pin(): switch to vfs_mkobj(), quit abusing -&gt;mknod()
  new primitive: vfs_mkobj()
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Pull mqueue/bpf vfs cleanups from Al Viro:
 "mqueue and bpf go through rather painful and similar contortions to
  create objects in their dentry trees. Provide a primitive for doing
  that without abusing -&gt;mknod(), switch bpf and mqueue to it.

  Another mqueue-related thing that has ended up in that branch is
  on-demand creation of internal mount (based upon the work of Giuseppe
  Scrivano)"

* 'work.mqueue' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  mqueue: switch to on-demand creation of internal mount
  tidy do_mq_open() up a bit
  mqueue: clean prepare_open() up
  do_mq_open(): move all work prior to dentry_open() into a helper
  mqueue: fold mq_attr_ok() into mqueue_get_inode()
  move dentry_open() calls up into do_mq_open()
  mqueue: switch to vfs_mkobj(), quit abusing -&gt;d_fsdata
  bpf_obj_do_pin(): switch to vfs_mkobj(), quit abusing -&gt;mknod()
  new primitive: vfs_mkobj()
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'misc.poll' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2018-01-31T01:58:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-31T01:58:07+00:00</published>
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Pull poll annotations from Al Viro:
 "This introduces a __bitwise type for POLL### bitmap, and propagates
  the annotations through the tree. Most of that stuff is as simple as
  'make -&gt;poll() instances return __poll_t and do the same to local
  variables used to hold the future return value'.

  Some of the obvious brainos found in process are fixed (e.g. POLLIN
  misspelled as POLL_IN). At that point the amount of sparse warnings is
  low and most of them are for genuine bugs - e.g. -&gt;poll() instance
  deciding to return -EINVAL instead of a bitmap. I hadn't touched those
  in this series - it's large enough as it is.

  Another problem it has caught was eventpoll() ABI mess; select.c and
  eventpoll.c assumed that corresponding POLL### and EPOLL### were
  equal. That's true for some, but not all of them - EPOLL### are
  arch-independent, but POLL### are not.

  The last commit in this series separates userland POLL### values from
  the (now arch-independent) kernel-side ones, converting between them
  in the few places where they are copied to/from userland. AFAICS, this
  is the least disruptive fix preserving poll(2) ABI and making epoll()
  work on all architectures.

  As it is, it's simply broken on sparc - try to give it EPOLLWRNORM and
  it will trigger only on what would've triggered EPOLLWRBAND on other
  architectures. EPOLLWRBAND and EPOLLRDHUP, OTOH, are never triggered
  at all on sparc. With this patch they should work consistently on all
  architectures"

* 'misc.poll' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (37 commits)
  make kernel-side POLL... arch-independent
  eventpoll: no need to mask the result of epi_item_poll() again
  eventpoll: constify struct epoll_event pointers
  debugging printk in sg_poll() uses %x to print POLL... bitmap
  annotate poll(2) guts
  9p: untangle -&gt;poll() mess
  -&gt;si_band gets POLL... bitmap stored into a user-visible long field
  ring_buffer_poll_wait() return value used as return value of -&gt;poll()
  the rest of drivers/*: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  media: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  fs: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  ipc, kernel, mm: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  net: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  apparmor: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  tomoyo: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  sound: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  acpi: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  crypto: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  block: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  x86: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  ...
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Pull poll annotations from Al Viro:
 "This introduces a __bitwise type for POLL### bitmap, and propagates
  the annotations through the tree. Most of that stuff is as simple as
  'make -&gt;poll() instances return __poll_t and do the same to local
  variables used to hold the future return value'.

  Some of the obvious brainos found in process are fixed (e.g. POLLIN
  misspelled as POLL_IN). At that point the amount of sparse warnings is
  low and most of them are for genuine bugs - e.g. -&gt;poll() instance
  deciding to return -EINVAL instead of a bitmap. I hadn't touched those
  in this series - it's large enough as it is.

  Another problem it has caught was eventpoll() ABI mess; select.c and
  eventpoll.c assumed that corresponding POLL### and EPOLL### were
  equal. That's true for some, but not all of them - EPOLL### are
  arch-independent, but POLL### are not.

  The last commit in this series separates userland POLL### values from
  the (now arch-independent) kernel-side ones, converting between them
  in the few places where they are copied to/from userland. AFAICS, this
  is the least disruptive fix preserving poll(2) ABI and making epoll()
  work on all architectures.

  As it is, it's simply broken on sparc - try to give it EPOLLWRNORM and
  it will trigger only on what would've triggered EPOLLWRBAND on other
  architectures. EPOLLWRBAND and EPOLLRDHUP, OTOH, are never triggered
  at all on sparc. With this patch they should work consistently on all
  architectures"

* 'misc.poll' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (37 commits)
  make kernel-side POLL... arch-independent
  eventpoll: no need to mask the result of epi_item_poll() again
  eventpoll: constify struct epoll_event pointers
  debugging printk in sg_poll() uses %x to print POLL... bitmap
  annotate poll(2) guts
  9p: untangle -&gt;poll() mess
  -&gt;si_band gets POLL... bitmap stored into a user-visible long field
  ring_buffer_poll_wait() return value used as return value of -&gt;poll()
  the rest of drivers/*: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  media: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  fs: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  ipc, kernel, mm: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  net: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  apparmor: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  tomoyo: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  sound: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  acpi: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  crypto: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  block: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  x86: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  ...
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>xfs: only grab shared inode locks for source file during reflink</title>
<updated>2018-01-29T15:27:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Darrick J. Wong</name>
<email>darrick.wong@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-18T22:07:53+00:00</published>
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Reflink and dedupe operations remap blocks from a source file into a
destination file.  The destination file needs exclusive locks on all
levels because we're updating its block map, but the source file isn't
undergoing any block map changes so we can use a shared lock.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;darrick.wong@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
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Reflink and dedupe operations remap blocks from a source file into a
destination file.  The destination file needs exclusive locks on all
levels because we're updating its block map, but the source file isn't
undergoing any block map changes so we can use a shared lock.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;darrick.wong@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs: handle inode-&gt;i_version more efficiently</title>
<updated>2018-01-29T11:42:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff Layton</name>
<email>jlayton@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-12-21T12:45:44+00:00</published>
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Since i_version is mostly treated as an opaque value, we can exploit that
fact to avoid incrementing it when no one is watching. With that change,
we can avoid incrementing the counter on writes, unless someone has
queried for it since it was last incremented. If the a/c/mtime don't
change, and the i_version hasn't changed, then there's no need to dirty
the inode metadata on a write.

Convert the i_version counter to an atomic64_t, and use the lowest order
bit to hold a flag that will tell whether anyone has queried the value
since it was last incremented.

When we go to maybe increment it, we fetch the value and check the flag
bit.  If it's clear then we don't need to do anything if the update
isn't being forced.

If we do need to update, then we increment the counter by 2, and clear
the flag bit, and then use a CAS op to swap it into place. If that
works, we return true. If it doesn't then do it again with the value
that we fetch from the CAS operation.

On the query side, if the flag is already set, then we just shift the
value down by 1 bit and return it. Otherwise, we set the flag in our
on-stack value and again use cmpxchg to swap it into place if it hasn't
changed. If it has, then we use the value from the cmpxchg as the new
"old" value and try again.

This method allows us to avoid incrementing the counter on writes (and
dirtying the metadata) under typical workloads. We only need to increment
if it has been queried since it was last changed.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Dave Chinner &lt;dchinner@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski &lt;krzk@kernel.org&gt;
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Since i_version is mostly treated as an opaque value, we can exploit that
fact to avoid incrementing it when no one is watching. With that change,
we can avoid incrementing the counter on writes, unless someone has
queried for it since it was last incremented. If the a/c/mtime don't
change, and the i_version hasn't changed, then there's no need to dirty
the inode metadata on a write.

Convert the i_version counter to an atomic64_t, and use the lowest order
bit to hold a flag that will tell whether anyone has queried the value
since it was last incremented.

When we go to maybe increment it, we fetch the value and check the flag
bit.  If it's clear then we don't need to do anything if the update
isn't being forced.

If we do need to update, then we increment the counter by 2, and clear
the flag bit, and then use a CAS op to swap it into place. If that
works, we return true. If it doesn't then do it again with the value
that we fetch from the CAS operation.

On the query side, if the flag is already set, then we just shift the
value down by 1 bit and return it. Otherwise, we set the flag in our
on-stack value and again use cmpxchg to swap it into place if it hasn't
changed. If it has, then we use the value from the cmpxchg as the new
"old" value and try again.

This method allows us to avoid incrementing the counter on writes (and
dirtying the metadata) under typical workloads. We only need to increment
if it has been queried since it was last changed.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Dave Chinner &lt;dchinner@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski &lt;krzk@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>fs: new API for handling inode-&gt;i_version</title>
<updated>2018-01-29T11:41:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff Layton</name>
<email>jlayton@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2018-01-29T11:41:30+00:00</published>
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Add a documentation blob that explains what the i_version field is, how
it is expected to work, and how it is currently implemented by various
filesystems.

We already have inode_inc_iversion. Add several other functions for
manipulating and accessing the i_version counter. For now, the
implementation is trivial and basically works the way that all of the
open-coded i_version accesses work today.

Future patches will convert existing users of i_version to use the new
API, and then convert the backend implementation to do things more
efficiently.

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Add a documentation blob that explains what the i_version field is, how
it is expected to work, and how it is currently implemented by various
filesystems.

We already have inode_inc_iversion. Add several other functions for
manipulating and accessing the i_version counter. For now, the
implementation is trivial and basically works the way that all of the
open-coded i_version accesses work today.

Future patches will convert existing users of i_version to use the new
API, and then convert the backend implementation to do things more
efficiently.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;</pre>
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<title>fs: fold __inode_permission() into inode_permission()</title>
<updated>2018-01-26T00:34:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-17T05:44:24+00:00</published>
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Since commit 9c630ebefeee ("ovl: simplify permission checking"),
overlayfs doesn't call __inode_permission() anymore, which leaves no
users other than inode_permission().  So just fold it back into
inode_permission().

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Since commit 9c630ebefeee ("ovl: simplify permission checking"),
overlayfs doesn't call __inode_permission() anymore, which leaves no
users other than inode_permission().  So just fold it back into
inode_permission().

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>fs: add RWF_APPEND</title>
<updated>2018-01-26T00:32:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jürg Billeter</name>
<email>j@bitron.ch</email>
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<published>2017-09-29T12:07:17+00:00</published>
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This is the per-I/O equivalent of O_APPEND to support atomic append
operations on any open file.

If a file is opened with O_APPEND, pwrite() ignores the offset and
always appends data to the end of the file. RWF_APPEND enables atomic
append and pwrite() with offset on a single file descriptor.

Signed-off-by: Jürg Billeter &lt;j@bitron.ch&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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This is the per-I/O equivalent of O_APPEND to support atomic append
operations on any open file.

If a file is opened with O_APPEND, pwrite() ignores the offset and
always appends data to the end of the file. RWF_APPEND enables atomic
append and pwrite() with offset on a single file descriptor.

Signed-off-by: Jürg Billeter &lt;j@bitron.ch&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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