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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>/dev/mem: Revoke mappings when a driver claims the region</title>
<updated>2020-05-27T09:10:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-05-21T21:06:17+00:00</published>
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Close the hole of holding a mapping over kernel driver takeover event of
a given address range.

Commit 90a545e98126 ("restrict /dev/mem to idle io memory ranges")
introduced CONFIG_IO_STRICT_DEVMEM with the goal of protecting the
kernel against scenarios where a /dev/mem user tramples memory that a
kernel driver owns. However, this protection only prevents *new* read(),
write() and mmap() requests. Established mappings prior to the driver
calling request_mem_region() are left alone.

Especially with persistent memory, and the core kernel metadata that is
stored there, there are plentiful scenarios for a /dev/mem user to
violate the expectations of the driver and cause amplified damage.

Teach request_mem_region() to find and shoot down active /dev/mem
mappings that it believes it has successfully claimed for the exclusive
use of the driver. Effectively a driver call to request_mem_region()
becomes a hole-punch on the /dev/mem device.

The typical usage of unmap_mapping_range() is part of
truncate_pagecache() to punch a hole in a file, but in this case the
implementation is only doing the "first half" of a hole punch. Namely it
is just evacuating current established mappings of the "hole", and it
relies on the fact that /dev/mem establishes mappings in terms of
absolute physical address offsets. Once existing mmap users are
invalidated they can attempt to re-establish the mapping, or attempt to
continue issuing read(2) / write(2) to the invalidated extent, but they
will then be subject to the CONFIG_IO_STRICT_DEVMEM checking that can
block those subsequent accesses.

Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Fixes: 90a545e98126 ("restrict /dev/mem to idle io memory ranges")
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/159009507306.847224.8502634072429766747.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Close the hole of holding a mapping over kernel driver takeover event of
a given address range.

Commit 90a545e98126 ("restrict /dev/mem to idle io memory ranges")
introduced CONFIG_IO_STRICT_DEVMEM with the goal of protecting the
kernel against scenarios where a /dev/mem user tramples memory that a
kernel driver owns. However, this protection only prevents *new* read(),
write() and mmap() requests. Established mappings prior to the driver
calling request_mem_region() are left alone.

Especially with persistent memory, and the core kernel metadata that is
stored there, there are plentiful scenarios for a /dev/mem user to
violate the expectations of the driver and cause amplified damage.

Teach request_mem_region() to find and shoot down active /dev/mem
mappings that it believes it has successfully claimed for the exclusive
use of the driver. Effectively a driver call to request_mem_region()
becomes a hole-punch on the /dev/mem device.

The typical usage of unmap_mapping_range() is part of
truncate_pagecache() to punch a hole in a file, but in this case the
implementation is only doing the "first half" of a hole punch. Namely it
is just evacuating current established mappings of the "hole", and it
relies on the fact that /dev/mem establishes mappings in terms of
absolute physical address offsets. Once existing mmap users are
invalidated they can attempt to re-establish the mapping, or attempt to
continue issuing read(2) / write(2) to the invalidated extent, but they
will then be subject to the CONFIG_IO_STRICT_DEVMEM checking that can
block those subsequent accesses.

Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Fixes: 90a545e98126 ("restrict /dev/mem to idle io memory ranges")
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/159009507306.847224.8502634072429766747.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs: New zonefs file system</title>
<updated>2020-02-07T05:39:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Damien Le Moal</name>
<email>damien.lemoal@wdc.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-12-25T07:07:44+00:00</published>
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zonefs is a very simple file system exposing each zone of a zoned block
device as a file. Unlike a regular file system with zoned block device
support (e.g. f2fs), zonefs does not hide the sequential write
constraint of zoned block devices to the user. Files representing
sequential write zones of the device must be written sequentially
starting from the end of the file (append only writes).

As such, zonefs is in essence closer to a raw block device access
interface than to a full featured POSIX file system. The goal of zonefs
is to simplify the implementation of zoned block device support in
applications by replacing raw block device file accesses with a richer
file API, avoiding relying on direct block device file ioctls which may
be more obscure to developers. One example of this approach is the
implementation of LSM (log-structured merge) tree structures (such as
used in RocksDB and LevelDB) on zoned block devices by allowing SSTables
to be stored in a zone file similarly to a regular file system rather
than as a range of sectors of a zoned device. The introduction of the
higher level construct "one file is one zone" can help reducing the
amount of changes needed in the application as well as introducing
support for different application programming languages.

Zonefs on-disk metadata is reduced to an immutable super block to
persistently store a magic number and optional feature flags and
values. On mount, zonefs uses blkdev_report_zones() to obtain the device
zone configuration and populates the mount point with a static file tree
solely based on this information. E.g. file sizes come from the device
zone type and write pointer offset managed by the device itself.

The zone files created on mount have the following characteristics.
1) Files representing zones of the same type are grouped together
   under a common sub-directory:
     * For conventional zones, the sub-directory "cnv" is used.
     * For sequential write zones, the sub-directory "seq" is used.
  These two directories are the only directories that exist in zonefs.
  Users cannot create other directories and cannot rename nor delete
  the "cnv" and "seq" sub-directories.
2) The name of zone files is the number of the file within the zone
   type sub-directory, in order of increasing zone start sector.
3) The size of conventional zone files is fixed to the device zone size.
   Conventional zone files cannot be truncated.
4) The size of sequential zone files represent the file's zone write
   pointer position relative to the zone start sector. Truncating these
   files is allowed only down to 0, in which case, the zone is reset to
   rewind the zone write pointer position to the start of the zone, or
   up to the zone size, in which case the file's zone is transitioned
   to the FULL state (finish zone operation).
5) All read and write operations to files are not allowed beyond the
   file zone size. Any access exceeding the zone size is failed with
   the -EFBIG error.
6) Creating, deleting, renaming or modifying any attribute of files and
   sub-directories is not allowed.
7) There are no restrictions on the type of read and write operations
   that can be issued to conventional zone files. Buffered, direct and
   mmap read &amp; write operations are accepted. For sequential zone files,
   there are no restrictions on read operations, but all write
   operations must be direct IO append writes. mmap write of sequential
   files is not allowed.

Several optional features of zonefs can be enabled at format time.
* Conventional zone aggregation: ranges of contiguous conventional
  zones can be aggregated into a single larger file instead of the
  default one file per zone.
* File ownership: The owner UID and GID of zone files is by default 0
  (root) but can be changed to any valid UID/GID.
* File access permissions: the default 640 access permissions can be
  changed.

The mkzonefs tool is used to format zoned block devices for use with
zonefs. This tool is available on Github at:

git@github.com:damien-lemoal/zonefs-tools.git.

zonefs-tools also includes a test suite which can be run against any
zoned block device, including null_blk block device created with zoned
mode.

Example: the following formats a 15TB host-managed SMR HDD with 256 MB
zones with the conventional zones aggregation feature enabled.

$ sudo mkzonefs -o aggr_cnv /dev/sdX
$ sudo mount -t zonefs /dev/sdX /mnt
$ ls -l /mnt/
total 0
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root     1 Nov 25 13:23 cnv
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 55356 Nov 25 13:23 seq

The size of the zone files sub-directories indicate the number of files
existing for each type of zones. In this example, there is only one
conventional zone file (all conventional zones are aggregated under a
single file).

$ ls -l /mnt/cnv
total 137101312
-rw-r----- 1 root root 140391743488 Nov 25 13:23 0

This aggregated conventional zone file can be used as a regular file.

$ sudo mkfs.ext4 /mnt/cnv/0
$ sudo mount -o loop /mnt/cnv/0 /data

The "seq" sub-directory grouping files for sequential write zones has
in this example 55356 zones.

$ ls -lv /mnt/seq
total 14511243264
-rw-r----- 1 root root 0 Nov 25 13:23 0
-rw-r----- 1 root root 0 Nov 25 13:23 1
-rw-r----- 1 root root 0 Nov 25 13:23 2
...
-rw-r----- 1 root root 0 Nov 25 13:23 55354
-rw-r----- 1 root root 0 Nov 25 13:23 55355

For sequential write zone files, the file size changes as data is
appended at the end of the file, similarly to any regular file system.

$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/seq/0 bs=4K count=1 conv=notrunc oflag=direct
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
4096 bytes (4.1 kB, 4.0 KiB) copied, 0.000452219 s, 9.1 MB/s

$ ls -l /mnt/seq/0
-rw-r----- 1 root root 4096 Nov 25 13:23 /mnt/seq/0

The written file can be truncated to the zone size, preventing any
further write operation.

$ truncate -s 268435456 /mnt/seq/0
$ ls -l /mnt/seq/0
-rw-r----- 1 root root 268435456 Nov 25 13:49 /mnt/seq/0

Truncation to 0 size allows freeing the file zone storage space and
restart append-writes to the file.

$ truncate -s 0 /mnt/seq/0
$ ls -l /mnt/seq/0
-rw-r----- 1 root root 0 Nov 25 13:49 /mnt/seq/0

Since files are statically mapped to zones on the disk, the number of
blocks of a file as reported by stat() and fstat() indicates the size
of the file zone.

$ stat /mnt/seq/0
  File: /mnt/seq/0
  Size: 0       Blocks: 524288     IO Block: 4096   regular empty file
Device: 870h/2160d      Inode: 50431       Links: 1
Access: (0640/-rw-r-----)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    0/  root)
Access: 2019-11-25 13:23:57.048971997 +0900
Modify: 2019-11-25 13:52:25.553805765 +0900
Change: 2019-11-25 13:52:25.553805765 +0900
 Birth: -

The number of blocks of the file ("Blocks") in units of 512B blocks
gives the maximum file size of 524288 * 512 B = 256 MB, corresponding
to the device zone size in this example. Of note is that the "IO block"
field always indicates the minimum IO size for writes and corresponds
to the device physical sector size.

This code contains contributions from:
* Johannes Thumshirn &lt;jthumshirn@suse.de&gt;,
* Darrick J. Wong &lt;darrick.wong@oracle.com&gt;,
* Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;,
* Chaitanya Kulkarni &lt;chaitanya.kulkarni@wdc.com&gt; and
* Ting Yao &lt;tingyao@hust.edu.cn&gt;.

Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal &lt;damien.lemoal@wdc.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner &lt;dchinner@redhat.com&gt;
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zonefs is a very simple file system exposing each zone of a zoned block
device as a file. Unlike a regular file system with zoned block device
support (e.g. f2fs), zonefs does not hide the sequential write
constraint of zoned block devices to the user. Files representing
sequential write zones of the device must be written sequentially
starting from the end of the file (append only writes).

As such, zonefs is in essence closer to a raw block device access
interface than to a full featured POSIX file system. The goal of zonefs
is to simplify the implementation of zoned block device support in
applications by replacing raw block device file accesses with a richer
file API, avoiding relying on direct block device file ioctls which may
be more obscure to developers. One example of this approach is the
implementation of LSM (log-structured merge) tree structures (such as
used in RocksDB and LevelDB) on zoned block devices by allowing SSTables
to be stored in a zone file similarly to a regular file system rather
than as a range of sectors of a zoned device. The introduction of the
higher level construct "one file is one zone" can help reducing the
amount of changes needed in the application as well as introducing
support for different application programming languages.

Zonefs on-disk metadata is reduced to an immutable super block to
persistently store a magic number and optional feature flags and
values. On mount, zonefs uses blkdev_report_zones() to obtain the device
zone configuration and populates the mount point with a static file tree
solely based on this information. E.g. file sizes come from the device
zone type and write pointer offset managed by the device itself.

The zone files created on mount have the following characteristics.
1) Files representing zones of the same type are grouped together
   under a common sub-directory:
     * For conventional zones, the sub-directory "cnv" is used.
     * For sequential write zones, the sub-directory "seq" is used.
  These two directories are the only directories that exist in zonefs.
  Users cannot create other directories and cannot rename nor delete
  the "cnv" and "seq" sub-directories.
2) The name of zone files is the number of the file within the zone
   type sub-directory, in order of increasing zone start sector.
3) The size of conventional zone files is fixed to the device zone size.
   Conventional zone files cannot be truncated.
4) The size of sequential zone files represent the file's zone write
   pointer position relative to the zone start sector. Truncating these
   files is allowed only down to 0, in which case, the zone is reset to
   rewind the zone write pointer position to the start of the zone, or
   up to the zone size, in which case the file's zone is transitioned
   to the FULL state (finish zone operation).
5) All read and write operations to files are not allowed beyond the
   file zone size. Any access exceeding the zone size is failed with
   the -EFBIG error.
6) Creating, deleting, renaming or modifying any attribute of files and
   sub-directories is not allowed.
7) There are no restrictions on the type of read and write operations
   that can be issued to conventional zone files. Buffered, direct and
   mmap read &amp; write operations are accepted. For sequential zone files,
   there are no restrictions on read operations, but all write
   operations must be direct IO append writes. mmap write of sequential
   files is not allowed.

Several optional features of zonefs can be enabled at format time.
* Conventional zone aggregation: ranges of contiguous conventional
  zones can be aggregated into a single larger file instead of the
  default one file per zone.
* File ownership: The owner UID and GID of zone files is by default 0
  (root) but can be changed to any valid UID/GID.
* File access permissions: the default 640 access permissions can be
  changed.

The mkzonefs tool is used to format zoned block devices for use with
zonefs. This tool is available on Github at:

git@github.com:damien-lemoal/zonefs-tools.git.

zonefs-tools also includes a test suite which can be run against any
zoned block device, including null_blk block device created with zoned
mode.

Example: the following formats a 15TB host-managed SMR HDD with 256 MB
zones with the conventional zones aggregation feature enabled.

$ sudo mkzonefs -o aggr_cnv /dev/sdX
$ sudo mount -t zonefs /dev/sdX /mnt
$ ls -l /mnt/
total 0
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root     1 Nov 25 13:23 cnv
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 55356 Nov 25 13:23 seq

The size of the zone files sub-directories indicate the number of files
existing for each type of zones. In this example, there is only one
conventional zone file (all conventional zones are aggregated under a
single file).

$ ls -l /mnt/cnv
total 137101312
-rw-r----- 1 root root 140391743488 Nov 25 13:23 0

This aggregated conventional zone file can be used as a regular file.

$ sudo mkfs.ext4 /mnt/cnv/0
$ sudo mount -o loop /mnt/cnv/0 /data

The "seq" sub-directory grouping files for sequential write zones has
in this example 55356 zones.

$ ls -lv /mnt/seq
total 14511243264
-rw-r----- 1 root root 0 Nov 25 13:23 0
-rw-r----- 1 root root 0 Nov 25 13:23 1
-rw-r----- 1 root root 0 Nov 25 13:23 2
...
-rw-r----- 1 root root 0 Nov 25 13:23 55354
-rw-r----- 1 root root 0 Nov 25 13:23 55355

For sequential write zone files, the file size changes as data is
appended at the end of the file, similarly to any regular file system.

$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/seq/0 bs=4K count=1 conv=notrunc oflag=direct
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
4096 bytes (4.1 kB, 4.0 KiB) copied, 0.000452219 s, 9.1 MB/s

$ ls -l /mnt/seq/0
-rw-r----- 1 root root 4096 Nov 25 13:23 /mnt/seq/0

The written file can be truncated to the zone size, preventing any
further write operation.

$ truncate -s 268435456 /mnt/seq/0
$ ls -l /mnt/seq/0
-rw-r----- 1 root root 268435456 Nov 25 13:49 /mnt/seq/0

Truncation to 0 size allows freeing the file zone storage space and
restart append-writes to the file.

$ truncate -s 0 /mnt/seq/0
$ ls -l /mnt/seq/0
-rw-r----- 1 root root 0 Nov 25 13:49 /mnt/seq/0

Since files are statically mapped to zones on the disk, the number of
blocks of a file as reported by stat() and fstat() indicates the size
of the file zone.

$ stat /mnt/seq/0
  File: /mnt/seq/0
  Size: 0       Blocks: 524288     IO Block: 4096   regular empty file
Device: 870h/2160d      Inode: 50431       Links: 1
Access: (0640/-rw-r-----)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    0/  root)
Access: 2019-11-25 13:23:57.048971997 +0900
Modify: 2019-11-25 13:52:25.553805765 +0900
Change: 2019-11-25 13:52:25.553805765 +0900
 Birth: -

The number of blocks of the file ("Blocks") in units of 512B blocks
gives the maximum file size of 524288 * 512 B = 256 MB, corresponding
to the device zone size in this example. Of note is that the "IO block"
field always indicates the minimum IO size for writes and corresponds
to the device physical sector size.

This code contains contributions from:
* Johannes Thumshirn &lt;jthumshirn@suse.de&gt;,
* Darrick J. Wong &lt;darrick.wong@oracle.com&gt;,
* Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;,
* Chaitanya Kulkarni &lt;chaitanya.kulkarni@wdc.com&gt; and
* Ting Yao &lt;tingyao@hust.edu.cn&gt;.

Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal &lt;damien.lemoal@wdc.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner &lt;dchinner@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/pseries/cmm: Implement balloon compaction</title>
<updated>2019-11-13T05:58:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Hildenbrand</name>
<email>david@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-10-31T14:29:29+00:00</published>
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We can now get rid of the cmm_lock and completely rely on the balloon
compaction internals, which now also manage the page list and the
lock.

Inflated/"loaned" pages are now movable. Memory blocks that contain
such pages can get offlined. Also, all such pages will be marked
PageOffline() and can therefore be excluded in memory dumps using
recent versions of makedumpfile.

Don't switch to balloon_page_alloc() yet (due to the GFP_NOIO). Will
do that separately to discuss this change in detail.

Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
[mpe: Add isolated_pages-- in cmm_migratepage() as suggested by David]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191031142933.10779-9-david@redhat.com
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We can now get rid of the cmm_lock and completely rely on the balloon
compaction internals, which now also manage the page list and the
lock.

Inflated/"loaned" pages are now movable. Memory blocks that contain
such pages can get offlined. Also, all such pages will be marked
PageOffline() and can therefore be excluded in memory dumps using
recent versions of makedumpfile.

Don't switch to balloon_page_alloc() yet (due to the GFP_NOIO). Will
do that separately to discuss this change in detail.

Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
[mpe: Add isolated_pages-- in cmm_migratepage() as suggested by David]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191031142933.10779-9-david@redhat.com
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>erofs: move erofs out of staging</title>
<updated>2019-08-24T12:20:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gao Xiang</name>
<email>hsiangkao@aol.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-08-22T21:36:59+00:00</published>
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EROFS filesystem has been merged into linux-staging for a year.

EROFS is designed to be a better solution of saving extra storage
space with guaranteed end-to-end performance for read-only files
with the help of reduced metadata, fixed-sized output compression
and decompression inplace technologies.

In the past year, EROFS was greatly improved by many people as
a staging driver, self-tested, betaed by a large number of our
internal users, successfully applied to almost all in-service
HUAWEI smartphones as the part of EMUI 9.1 and proven to be stable
enough to be moved out of staging.

EROFS is a self-contained filesystem driver. Although there are
still some TODOs to be more generic, we have a dedicated team
actively keeping on working on EROFS in order to make it better
with the evolution of Linux kernel as the other in-kernel filesystems.

As Pavel suggested, it's better to do as one commit since git
can do moves and all histories will be saved in this way.

Let's promote it from staging and enhance it more actively as
a "real" part of kernel for more wider scenarios!

Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Cc: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Pavel Machek &lt;pavel@denx.de&gt;
Cc: David Sterba &lt;dsterba@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Amir Goldstein &lt;amir73il@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Darrick J . Wong &lt;darrick.wong@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Chinner &lt;david@fromorbit.com&gt;
Cc: Jaegeuk Kim &lt;jaegeuk@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Chao Yu &lt;yuchao0@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Miao Xie &lt;miaoxie@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Li Guifu &lt;bluce.liguifu@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Fang Wei &lt;fangwei1@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang &lt;gaoxiang25@huawei.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190822213659.5501-1-hsiangkao@aol.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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EROFS filesystem has been merged into linux-staging for a year.

EROFS is designed to be a better solution of saving extra storage
space with guaranteed end-to-end performance for read-only files
with the help of reduced metadata, fixed-sized output compression
and decompression inplace technologies.

In the past year, EROFS was greatly improved by many people as
a staging driver, self-tested, betaed by a large number of our
internal users, successfully applied to almost all in-service
HUAWEI smartphones as the part of EMUI 9.1 and proven to be stable
enough to be moved out of staging.

EROFS is a self-contained filesystem driver. Although there are
still some TODOs to be more generic, we have a dedicated team
actively keeping on working on EROFS in order to make it better
with the evolution of Linux kernel as the other in-kernel filesystems.

As Pavel suggested, it's better to do as one commit since git
can do moves and all histories will be saved in this way.

Let's promote it from staging and enhance it more actively as
a "real" part of kernel for more wider scenarios!

Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Cc: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Pavel Machek &lt;pavel@denx.de&gt;
Cc: David Sterba &lt;dsterba@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Amir Goldstein &lt;amir73il@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Darrick J . Wong &lt;darrick.wong@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Chinner &lt;david@fromorbit.com&gt;
Cc: Jaegeuk Kim &lt;jaegeuk@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Chao Yu &lt;yuchao0@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Miao Xie &lt;miaoxie@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Li Guifu &lt;bluce.liguifu@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Fang Wei &lt;fangwei1@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang &lt;gaoxiang25@huawei.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190822213659.5501-1-hsiangkao@aol.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'work.mount0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2019-07-19T17:42:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-19T17:42:02+00:00</published>
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Pull vfs mount updates from Al Viro:
 "The first part of mount updates.

  Convert filesystems to use the new mount API"

* 'work.mount0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (63 commits)
  mnt_init(): call shmem_init() unconditionally
  constify ksys_mount() string arguments
  don't bother with registering rootfs
  init_rootfs(): don't bother with init_ramfs_fs()
  vfs: Convert smackfs to use the new mount API
  vfs: Convert selinuxfs to use the new mount API
  vfs: Convert securityfs to use the new mount API
  vfs: Convert apparmorfs to use the new mount API
  vfs: Convert openpromfs to use the new mount API
  vfs: Convert xenfs to use the new mount API
  vfs: Convert gadgetfs to use the new mount API
  vfs: Convert oprofilefs to use the new mount API
  vfs: Convert ibmasmfs to use the new mount API
  vfs: Convert qib_fs/ipathfs to use the new mount API
  vfs: Convert efivarfs to use the new mount API
  vfs: Convert configfs to use the new mount API
  vfs: Convert binfmt_misc to use the new mount API
  convenience helper: get_tree_single()
  convenience helper get_tree_nodev()
  vfs: Kill sget_userns()
  ...
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<pre>
Pull vfs mount updates from Al Viro:
 "The first part of mount updates.

  Convert filesystems to use the new mount API"

* 'work.mount0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (63 commits)
  mnt_init(): call shmem_init() unconditionally
  constify ksys_mount() string arguments
  don't bother with registering rootfs
  init_rootfs(): don't bother with init_ramfs_fs()
  vfs: Convert smackfs to use the new mount API
  vfs: Convert selinuxfs to use the new mount API
  vfs: Convert securityfs to use the new mount API
  vfs: Convert apparmorfs to use the new mount API
  vfs: Convert openpromfs to use the new mount API
  vfs: Convert xenfs to use the new mount API
  vfs: Convert gadgetfs to use the new mount API
  vfs: Convert oprofilefs to use the new mount API
  vfs: Convert ibmasmfs to use the new mount API
  vfs: Convert qib_fs/ipathfs to use the new mount API
  vfs: Convert efivarfs to use the new mount API
  vfs: Convert configfs to use the new mount API
  vfs: Convert binfmt_misc to use the new mount API
  convenience helper: get_tree_single()
  convenience helper get_tree_nodev()
  vfs: Kill sget_userns()
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>dma-buf: give each buffer a full-fledged inode</title>
<updated>2019-06-14T09:30:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Hackmann</name>
<email>ghackmann@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-06-13T22:34:06+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=ed63bb1d1f8469586006a9ca63c42344401aa2ab'/>
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By traversing /proc/*/fd and /proc/*/map_files, processes with CAP_ADMIN
can get a lot of fine-grained data about how shmem buffers are shared
among processes.  stat(2) on each entry gives the caller a unique
ID (st_ino), the buffer's size (st_size), and even the number of pages
currently charged to the buffer (st_blocks / 512).

In contrast, all dma-bufs share the same anonymous inode.  So while we
can count how many dma-buf fds or mappings a process has, we can't get
the size of the backing buffers or tell if two entries point to the same
dma-buf.  On systems with debugfs, we can get a per-buffer breakdown of
size and reference count, but can't tell which processes are actually
holding the references to each buffer.

Replace the singleton inode with full-fledged inodes allocated by
alloc_anon_inode().  This involves creating and mounting a
mini-pseudo-filesystem for dma-buf, following the example in fs/aio.c.

Signed-off-by: Greg Hackmann &lt;ghackmann@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chenbo Feng &lt;fengc@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sumit Semwal &lt;sumit.semwal@linaro.org&gt;
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20190613223408.139221-2-fengc@google.com
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<pre>
By traversing /proc/*/fd and /proc/*/map_files, processes with CAP_ADMIN
can get a lot of fine-grained data about how shmem buffers are shared
among processes.  stat(2) on each entry gives the caller a unique
ID (st_ino), the buffer's size (st_size), and even the number of pages
currently charged to the buffer (st_blocks / 512).

In contrast, all dma-bufs share the same anonymous inode.  So while we
can count how many dma-buf fds or mappings a process has, we can't get
the size of the backing buffers or tell if two entries point to the same
dma-buf.  On systems with debugfs, we can get a per-buffer breakdown of
size and reference count, but can't tell which processes are actually
holding the references to each buffer.

Replace the singleton inode with full-fledged inodes allocated by
alloc_anon_inode().  This involves creating and mounting a
mini-pseudo-filesystem for dma-buf, following the example in fs/aio.c.

Signed-off-by: Greg Hackmann &lt;ghackmann@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chenbo Feng &lt;fengc@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sumit Semwal &lt;sumit.semwal@linaro.org&gt;
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20190613223408.139221-2-fengc@google.com
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>zsfold: Convert zsfold to use the new mount API</title>
<updated>2019-05-25T22:06:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-21T06:55:45+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=ea8157ab2ae5e914dd427e5cfab533b6da3819cd'/>
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<content type='text'>
Convert the zsfold filesystem to the new internal mount API as the old one
will be obsoleted and removed.  This allows greater flexibility in
communication of mount parameters between userspace, the VFS and the
filesystem.

See Documentation/filesystems/mount_api.txt for more information.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
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<pre>
Convert the zsfold filesystem to the new internal mount API as the old one
will be obsoleted and removed.  This allows greater flexibility in
communication of mount parameters between userspace, the VFS and the
filesystem.

See Documentation/filesystems/mount_api.txt for more information.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>binder: implement binderfs</title>
<updated>2018-12-19T08:40:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Brauner</name>
<email>christian@brauner.io</email>
</author>
<published>2018-12-14T12:11:14+00:00</published>
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As discussed at Linux Plumbers Conference 2018 in Vancouver [1] this is the
implementation of binderfs.

/* Abstract */
binderfs is a backwards-compatible filesystem for Android's binder ipc
mechanism. Each ipc namespace will mount a new binderfs instance. Mounting
binderfs multiple times at different locations in the same ipc namespace
will not cause a new super block to be allocated and hence it will be the
same filesystem instance.
Each new binderfs mount will have its own set of binder devices only
visible in the ipc namespace it has been mounted in. All devices in a new
binderfs mount will follow the scheme binder%d and numbering will always
start at 0.

/* Backwards compatibility */
Devices requested in the Kconfig via CONFIG_ANDROID_BINDER_DEVICES for the
initial ipc namespace will work as before. They will be registered via
misc_register() and appear in the devtmpfs mount. Specifically, the
standard devices binder, hwbinder, and vndbinder will all appear in their
standard locations in /dev. Mounting or unmounting the binderfs mount in
the initial ipc namespace will have no effect on these devices, i.e. they
will neither show up in the binderfs mount nor will they disappear when the
binderfs mount is gone.

/* binder-control */
Each new binderfs instance comes with a binder-control device. No other
devices will be present at first. The binder-control device can be used to
dynamically allocate binder devices. All requests operate on the binderfs
mount the binder-control device resides in.
Assuming a new instance of binderfs has been mounted at /dev/binderfs
via mount -t binderfs binderfs /dev/binderfs. Then a request to create a
new binder device can be made as illustrated in [2].
Binderfs devices can simply be removed via unlink().

/* Implementation details */
- dynamic major number allocation:
  When binderfs is registered as a new filesystem it will dynamically
  allocate a new major number. The allocated major number will be returned
  in struct binderfs_device when a new binder device is allocated.
- global minor number tracking:
  Minor are tracked in a global idr struct that is capped at
  BINDERFS_MAX_MINOR. The minor number tracker is protected by a global
  mutex. This is the only point of contention between binderfs mounts.
- struct binderfs_info:
  Each binderfs super block has its own struct binderfs_info that tracks
  specific details about a binderfs instance:
  - ipc namespace
  - dentry of the binder-control device
  - root uid and root gid of the user namespace the binderfs instance
    was mounted in
- mountable by user namespace root:
  binderfs can be mounted by user namespace root in a non-initial user
  namespace. The devices will be owned by user namespace root.
- binderfs binder devices without misc infrastructure:
  New binder devices associated with a binderfs mount do not use the
  full misc_register() infrastructure.
  The misc_register() infrastructure can only create new devices in the
  host's devtmpfs mount. binderfs does however only make devices appear
  under its own mountpoint and thus allocates new character device nodes
  from the inode of the root dentry of the super block. This will have
  the side-effect that binderfs specific device nodes do not appear in
  sysfs. This behavior is similar to devpts allocated pts devices and
  has no effect on the functionality of the ipc mechanism itself.

[1]: https://goo.gl/JL2tfX
[2]: program to allocate a new binderfs binder device:

     #define _GNU_SOURCE
     #include &lt;errno.h&gt;
     #include &lt;fcntl.h&gt;
     #include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
     #include &lt;stdlib.h&gt;
     #include &lt;string.h&gt;
     #include &lt;sys/ioctl.h&gt;
     #include &lt;sys/stat.h&gt;
     #include &lt;sys/types.h&gt;
     #include &lt;unistd.h&gt;
     #include &lt;linux/android/binder_ctl.h&gt;

     int main(int argc, char *argv[])
     {
             int fd, ret, saved_errno;
             size_t len;
             struct binderfs_device device = { 0 };

             if (argc &lt; 2)
                     exit(EXIT_FAILURE);

             len = strlen(argv[1]);
             if (len &gt; BINDERFS_MAX_NAME)
                     exit(EXIT_FAILURE);

             memcpy(device.name, argv[1], len);

             fd = open("/dev/binderfs/binder-control", O_RDONLY | O_CLOEXEC);
             if (fd &lt; 0) {
                     printf("%s - Failed to open binder-control device\n",
                            strerror(errno));
                     exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
             }

             ret = ioctl(fd, BINDER_CTL_ADD, &amp;device);
             saved_errno = errno;
             close(fd);
             errno = saved_errno;
             if (ret &lt; 0) {
                     printf("%s - Failed to allocate new binder device\n",
                            strerror(errno));
                     exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
             }

             printf("Allocated new binder device with major %d, minor %d, and "
                    "name %s\n", device.major, device.minor,
                    device.name);

             exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
     }

Cc: Martijn Coenen &lt;maco@android.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;christian.brauner@ubuntu.com&gt;
Acked-by: Todd Kjos &lt;tkjos@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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As discussed at Linux Plumbers Conference 2018 in Vancouver [1] this is the
implementation of binderfs.

/* Abstract */
binderfs is a backwards-compatible filesystem for Android's binder ipc
mechanism. Each ipc namespace will mount a new binderfs instance. Mounting
binderfs multiple times at different locations in the same ipc namespace
will not cause a new super block to be allocated and hence it will be the
same filesystem instance.
Each new binderfs mount will have its own set of binder devices only
visible in the ipc namespace it has been mounted in. All devices in a new
binderfs mount will follow the scheme binder%d and numbering will always
start at 0.

/* Backwards compatibility */
Devices requested in the Kconfig via CONFIG_ANDROID_BINDER_DEVICES for the
initial ipc namespace will work as before. They will be registered via
misc_register() and appear in the devtmpfs mount. Specifically, the
standard devices binder, hwbinder, and vndbinder will all appear in their
standard locations in /dev. Mounting or unmounting the binderfs mount in
the initial ipc namespace will have no effect on these devices, i.e. they
will neither show up in the binderfs mount nor will they disappear when the
binderfs mount is gone.

/* binder-control */
Each new binderfs instance comes with a binder-control device. No other
devices will be present at first. The binder-control device can be used to
dynamically allocate binder devices. All requests operate on the binderfs
mount the binder-control device resides in.
Assuming a new instance of binderfs has been mounted at /dev/binderfs
via mount -t binderfs binderfs /dev/binderfs. Then a request to create a
new binder device can be made as illustrated in [2].
Binderfs devices can simply be removed via unlink().

/* Implementation details */
- dynamic major number allocation:
  When binderfs is registered as a new filesystem it will dynamically
  allocate a new major number. The allocated major number will be returned
  in struct binderfs_device when a new binder device is allocated.
- global minor number tracking:
  Minor are tracked in a global idr struct that is capped at
  BINDERFS_MAX_MINOR. The minor number tracker is protected by a global
  mutex. This is the only point of contention between binderfs mounts.
- struct binderfs_info:
  Each binderfs super block has its own struct binderfs_info that tracks
  specific details about a binderfs instance:
  - ipc namespace
  - dentry of the binder-control device
  - root uid and root gid of the user namespace the binderfs instance
    was mounted in
- mountable by user namespace root:
  binderfs can be mounted by user namespace root in a non-initial user
  namespace. The devices will be owned by user namespace root.
- binderfs binder devices without misc infrastructure:
  New binder devices associated with a binderfs mount do not use the
  full misc_register() infrastructure.
  The misc_register() infrastructure can only create new devices in the
  host's devtmpfs mount. binderfs does however only make devices appear
  under its own mountpoint and thus allocates new character device nodes
  from the inode of the root dentry of the super block. This will have
  the side-effect that binderfs specific device nodes do not appear in
  sysfs. This behavior is similar to devpts allocated pts devices and
  has no effect on the functionality of the ipc mechanism itself.

[1]: https://goo.gl/JL2tfX
[2]: program to allocate a new binderfs binder device:

     #define _GNU_SOURCE
     #include &lt;errno.h&gt;
     #include &lt;fcntl.h&gt;
     #include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
     #include &lt;stdlib.h&gt;
     #include &lt;string.h&gt;
     #include &lt;sys/ioctl.h&gt;
     #include &lt;sys/stat.h&gt;
     #include &lt;sys/types.h&gt;
     #include &lt;unistd.h&gt;
     #include &lt;linux/android/binder_ctl.h&gt;

     int main(int argc, char *argv[])
     {
             int fd, ret, saved_errno;
             size_t len;
             struct binderfs_device device = { 0 };

             if (argc &lt; 2)
                     exit(EXIT_FAILURE);

             len = strlen(argv[1]);
             if (len &gt; BINDERFS_MAX_NAME)
                     exit(EXIT_FAILURE);

             memcpy(device.name, argv[1], len);

             fd = open("/dev/binderfs/binder-control", O_RDONLY | O_CLOEXEC);
             if (fd &lt; 0) {
                     printf("%s - Failed to open binder-control device\n",
                            strerror(errno));
                     exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
             }

             ret = ioctl(fd, BINDER_CTL_ADD, &amp;device);
             saved_errno = errno;
             close(fd);
             errno = saved_errno;
             if (ret &lt; 0) {
                     printf("%s - Failed to allocate new binder device\n",
                            strerror(errno));
                     exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
             }

             printf("Allocated new binder device with major %d, minor %d, and "
                    "name %s\n", device.major, device.minor,
                    device.name);

             exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
     }

Cc: Martijn Coenen &lt;maco@android.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;christian.brauner@ubuntu.com&gt;
Acked-by: Todd Kjos &lt;tkjos@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>xfs: add a define for statfs magic to uapi</title>
<updated>2018-10-18T06:20:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Adam Borowski</name>
<email>kilobyte@angband.pl</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-18T06:20:19+00:00</published>
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Needed by userspace programs that call fstatfs().

It'd be natural to publish XFS_SB_MAGIC in uapi, but while these two
have identical values, they have different semantic meaning: one is
an enum cookie meant for statfs, the other a signature of the
on-disk format.

Signed-off-by: Adam Borowski &lt;kilobyte@angband.pl&gt;
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;darrick.wong@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner &lt;david@fromorbit.com&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
Needed by userspace programs that call fstatfs().

It'd be natural to publish XFS_SB_MAGIC in uapi, but while these two
have identical values, they have different semantic meaning: one is
an enum cookie meant for statfs, the other a signature of the
on-disk format.

Signed-off-by: Adam Borowski &lt;kilobyte@angband.pl&gt;
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;darrick.wong@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner &lt;david@fromorbit.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>afs: Lay the groundwork for supporting network namespaces</title>
<updated>2017-11-13T15:38:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-02T15:27:45+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=f044c8847bb61eff5e1e95b6f6bb950e7f4a73a4'/>
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<content type='text'>
Lay the groundwork for supporting network namespaces (netns) to the AFS
filesystem by moving various global features to a network-namespace struct
(afs_net) and providing an instance of this as a temporary global variable
that everything uses via accessor functions for the moment.

The following changes have been made:

 (1) Store the netns in the superblock info.  This will be obtained from
     the mounter's nsproxy on a manual mount and inherited from the parent
     superblock on an automount.

 (2) The cell list is made per-netns.  It can be viewed through
     /proc/net/afs/cells and also be modified by writing commands to that
     file.

 (3) The local workstation cell is set per-ns in /proc/net/afs/rootcell.
     This is unset by default.

 (4) The 'rootcell' module parameter, which sets a cell and VL server list
     modifies the init net namespace, thereby allowing an AFS root fs to be
     theoretically used.

 (5) The volume location lists and the file lock manager are made
     per-netns.

 (6) The AF_RXRPC socket and associated I/O bits are made per-ns.

The various workqueues remain global for the moment.

Changes still to be made:

 (1) /proc/fs/afs/ should be moved to /proc/net/afs/ and a symlink emplaced
     from the old name.

 (2) A per-netns subsys needs to be registered for AFS into which it can
     store its per-netns data.

 (3) Rather than the AF_RXRPC socket being opened on module init, it needs
     to be opened on the creation of a superblock in that netns.

 (4) The socket needs to be closed when the last superblock using it is
     destroyed and all outstanding client calls on it have been completed.
     This prevents a reference loop on the namespace.

 (5) It is possible that several namespaces will want to use AFS, in which
     case each one will need its own UDP port.  These can either be set
     through /proc/net/afs/cm_port or the kernel can pick one at random.
     The init_ns gets 7001 by default.

Other issues that need resolving:

 (1) The DNS keyring needs net-namespacing.

 (2) Where do upcalls go (eg. DNS request-key upcall)?

 (3) Need something like open_socket_in_file_ns() syscall so that AFS
     command line tools attempting to operate on an AFS file/volume have
     their RPC calls go to the right place.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
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Lay the groundwork for supporting network namespaces (netns) to the AFS
filesystem by moving various global features to a network-namespace struct
(afs_net) and providing an instance of this as a temporary global variable
that everything uses via accessor functions for the moment.

The following changes have been made:

 (1) Store the netns in the superblock info.  This will be obtained from
     the mounter's nsproxy on a manual mount and inherited from the parent
     superblock on an automount.

 (2) The cell list is made per-netns.  It can be viewed through
     /proc/net/afs/cells and also be modified by writing commands to that
     file.

 (3) The local workstation cell is set per-ns in /proc/net/afs/rootcell.
     This is unset by default.

 (4) The 'rootcell' module parameter, which sets a cell and VL server list
     modifies the init net namespace, thereby allowing an AFS root fs to be
     theoretically used.

 (5) The volume location lists and the file lock manager are made
     per-netns.

 (6) The AF_RXRPC socket and associated I/O bits are made per-ns.

The various workqueues remain global for the moment.

Changes still to be made:

 (1) /proc/fs/afs/ should be moved to /proc/net/afs/ and a symlink emplaced
     from the old name.

 (2) A per-netns subsys needs to be registered for AFS into which it can
     store its per-netns data.

 (3) Rather than the AF_RXRPC socket being opened on module init, it needs
     to be opened on the creation of a superblock in that netns.

 (4) The socket needs to be closed when the last superblock using it is
     destroyed and all outstanding client calls on it have been completed.
     This prevents a reference loop on the namespace.

 (5) It is possible that several namespaces will want to use AFS, in which
     case each one will need its own UDP port.  These can either be set
     through /proc/net/afs/cm_port or the kernel can pick one at random.
     The init_ns gets 7001 by default.

Other issues that need resolving:

 (1) The DNS keyring needs net-namespacing.

 (2) Where do upcalls go (eg. DNS request-key upcall)?

 (3) Need something like open_socket_in_file_ns() syscall so that AFS
     command line tools attempting to operate on an AFS file/volume have
     their RPC calls go to the right place.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
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