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<title>constify path argument of vfs_statx_path()</title>
<updated>2025-09-16T01:17:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
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<published>2025-07-06T20:56:47+00:00</published>
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Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'xfs-merge-6.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfs-linux</title>
<updated>2025-05-26T19:56:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-26T19:56:01+00:00</published>
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Pull xfs updates from Carlos Maiolino:

 - Atomic writes for XFS

 - Remove experimental warnings for pNFS, scrub and parent pointers

* tag 'xfs-merge-6.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfs-linux: (26 commits)
  xfs: add inode to zone caching for data placement
  xfs: free the item in xfs_mru_cache_insert on failure
  xfs: remove the EXPERIMENTAL warning for pNFS
  xfs: remove some EXPERIMENTAL warnings
  xfs: Remove deprecated xfs_bufd sysctl parameters
  xfs: stop using set_blocksize
  xfs: allow sysadmins to specify a maximum atomic write limit at mount time
  xfs: update atomic write limits
  xfs: add xfs_calc_atomic_write_unit_max()
  xfs: add xfs_file_dio_write_atomic()
  xfs: commit CoW-based atomic writes atomically
  xfs: add large atomic writes checks in xfs_direct_write_iomap_begin()
  xfs: add xfs_atomic_write_cow_iomap_begin()
  xfs: refine atomic write size check in xfs_file_write_iter()
  xfs: refactor xfs_reflink_end_cow_extent()
  xfs: allow block allocator to take an alignment hint
  xfs: ignore HW which cannot atomic write a single block
  xfs: add helpers to compute transaction reservation for finishing intent items
  xfs: add helpers to compute log item overhead
  xfs: separate out setting buftarg atomic writes limits
  ...
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Pull xfs updates from Carlos Maiolino:

 - Atomic writes for XFS

 - Remove experimental warnings for pNFS, scrub and parent pointers

* tag 'xfs-merge-6.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfs-linux: (26 commits)
  xfs: add inode to zone caching for data placement
  xfs: free the item in xfs_mru_cache_insert on failure
  xfs: remove the EXPERIMENTAL warning for pNFS
  xfs: remove some EXPERIMENTAL warnings
  xfs: Remove deprecated xfs_bufd sysctl parameters
  xfs: stop using set_blocksize
  xfs: allow sysadmins to specify a maximum atomic write limit at mount time
  xfs: update atomic write limits
  xfs: add xfs_calc_atomic_write_unit_max()
  xfs: add xfs_file_dio_write_atomic()
  xfs: commit CoW-based atomic writes atomically
  xfs: add large atomic writes checks in xfs_direct_write_iomap_begin()
  xfs: add xfs_atomic_write_cow_iomap_begin()
  xfs: refine atomic write size check in xfs_file_write_iter()
  xfs: refactor xfs_reflink_end_cow_extent()
  xfs: allow block allocator to take an alignment hint
  xfs: ignore HW which cannot atomic write a single block
  xfs: add helpers to compute transaction reservation for finishing intent items
  xfs: add helpers to compute log item overhead
  xfs: separate out setting buftarg atomic writes limits
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'vfs-6.16-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs</title>
<updated>2025-05-26T16:02:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-26T16:02:39+00:00</published>
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Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains the usual selections of misc updates for this cycle.

  Features:

   - Use folios for symlinks in the page cache

     FUSE already uses folios for its symlinks. Mirror that conversion
     in the generic code and the NFS code. That lets us get rid of a few
     folio-&gt;page-&gt;folio conversions in this path, and some of the few
     remaining users of read_cache_page() / read_mapping_page()

   - Try and make a few filesystem operations killable on the VFS
     inode-&gt;i_mutex level

   - Add sysctl vfs_cache_pressure_denom for bulk file operations

     Some workloads need to preserve more dentries than we currently
     allow through out sysctl interface

     A HDFS servers with 12 HDDs per server, on a HDFS datanode startup
     involves scanning all files and caching their metadata (including
     dentries and inodes) in memory. Each HDD contains approximately 2
     million files, resulting in a total of ~20 million cached dentries
     after initialization

     To minimize dentry reclamation, they set vfs_cache_pressure to 1.
     Despite this configuration, memory pressure conditions can still
     trigger reclamation of up to 50% of cached dentries, reducing the
     cache from 20 million to approximately 10 million entries. During
     the subsequent cache rebuild period, any HDFS datanode restart
     operation incurs substantial latency penalties until full cache
     recovery completes

     To maintain service stability, more dentries need to be preserved
     during memory reclamation. The current minimum reclaim ratio (1/100
     of total dentries) remains too aggressive for such workload. This
     patch introduces vfs_cache_pressure_denom for more granular cache
     pressure control

     The configuration [vfs_cache_pressure=1,
     vfs_cache_pressure_denom=10000] effectively maintains the full 20
     million dentry cache under memory pressure, preventing datanode
     restart performance degradation

   - Avoid some jumps in inode_permission() using likely()/unlikely()

   - Avid a memory access which is most likely a cache miss when
     descending into devcgroup_inode_permission()

   - Add fastpath predicts for stat() and fdput()

   - Anonymous inodes currently don't come with a proper mode causing
     issues in the kernel when we want to add useful VFS debug assert.
     Fix that by giving them a proper mode and masking it off when we
     report it to userspace which relies on them not having any mode

   - Anonymous inodes currently allow to change inode attributes because
     the VFS falls back to simple_setattr() if i_op-&gt;setattr isn't
     implemented. This means the ownership and mode for every single
     user of anon_inode_inode can be changed. Block that as it's either
     useless or actively harmful. If specific ownership is needed the
     respective subsystem should allocate anonymous inodes from their
     own private superblock

   - Raise SB_I_NODEV and SB_I_NOEXEC on the anonymous inode superblock

   - Add proper tests for anonymous inode behavior

   - Make it easy to detect proper anonymous inodes and to ensure that
     we can detect them in codepaths such as readahead()

  Cleanups:

   - Port pidfs to the new anon_inode_{g,s}etattr() helpers

   - Try to remove the uselib() system call

   - Add unlikely branch hint return path for poll

   - Add unlikely branch hint on return path for core_sys_select

   - Don't allow signals to interrupt getdents copying for fuse

   - Provide a size hint to dir_context for during readdir()

   - Use writeback_iter directly in mpage_writepages

   - Update compression and mtime descriptions in initramfs
     documentation

   - Update main netfs API document

   - Remove useless plus one in super_cache_scan()

   - Remove unnecessary NULL-check guards during setns()

   - Add separate separate {get,put}_cgroup_ns no-op cases

  Fixes:

   - Fix typo in root= kernel parameter description

   - Use KERN_INFO for infof()|info_plog()|infofc()

   - Correct comments of fs_validate_description()

   - Mark an unlikely if condition with unlikely() in
     vfs_parse_monolithic_sep()

   - Delete macro fsparam_u32hex()

   - Remove unused and problematic validate_constant_table()

   - Fix potential unsigned integer underflow in fs_name()

   - Make file-nr output the total allocated file handles"

* tag 'vfs-6.16-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (43 commits)
  fs: Pass a folio to page_put_link()
  nfs: Use a folio in nfs_get_link()
  fs: Convert __page_get_link() to use a folio
  fs/read_write: make default_llseek() killable
  fs/open: make do_truncate() killable
  fs/open: make chmod_common() and chown_common() killable
  include/linux/fs.h: add inode_lock_killable()
  readdir: supply dir_context.count as readdir buffer size hint
  vfs: Add sysctl vfs_cache_pressure_denom for bulk file operations
  fuse: don't allow signals to interrupt getdents copying
  Documentation: fix typo in root= kernel parameter description
  include/cgroup: separate {get,put}_cgroup_ns no-op case
  kernel/nsproxy: remove unnecessary guards
  fs: use writeback_iter directly in mpage_writepages
  fs: remove useless plus one in super_cache_scan()
  fs: add S_ANON_INODE
  fs: remove uselib() system call
  device_cgroup: avoid access to -&gt;i_rdev in the common case in devcgroup_inode_permission()
  fs/fs_parse: Remove unused and problematic validate_constant_table()
  fs: touch up predicts in inode_permission()
  ...
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Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains the usual selections of misc updates for this cycle.

  Features:

   - Use folios for symlinks in the page cache

     FUSE already uses folios for its symlinks. Mirror that conversion
     in the generic code and the NFS code. That lets us get rid of a few
     folio-&gt;page-&gt;folio conversions in this path, and some of the few
     remaining users of read_cache_page() / read_mapping_page()

   - Try and make a few filesystem operations killable on the VFS
     inode-&gt;i_mutex level

   - Add sysctl vfs_cache_pressure_denom for bulk file operations

     Some workloads need to preserve more dentries than we currently
     allow through out sysctl interface

     A HDFS servers with 12 HDDs per server, on a HDFS datanode startup
     involves scanning all files and caching their metadata (including
     dentries and inodes) in memory. Each HDD contains approximately 2
     million files, resulting in a total of ~20 million cached dentries
     after initialization

     To minimize dentry reclamation, they set vfs_cache_pressure to 1.
     Despite this configuration, memory pressure conditions can still
     trigger reclamation of up to 50% of cached dentries, reducing the
     cache from 20 million to approximately 10 million entries. During
     the subsequent cache rebuild period, any HDFS datanode restart
     operation incurs substantial latency penalties until full cache
     recovery completes

     To maintain service stability, more dentries need to be preserved
     during memory reclamation. The current minimum reclaim ratio (1/100
     of total dentries) remains too aggressive for such workload. This
     patch introduces vfs_cache_pressure_denom for more granular cache
     pressure control

     The configuration [vfs_cache_pressure=1,
     vfs_cache_pressure_denom=10000] effectively maintains the full 20
     million dentry cache under memory pressure, preventing datanode
     restart performance degradation

   - Avoid some jumps in inode_permission() using likely()/unlikely()

   - Avid a memory access which is most likely a cache miss when
     descending into devcgroup_inode_permission()

   - Add fastpath predicts for stat() and fdput()

   - Anonymous inodes currently don't come with a proper mode causing
     issues in the kernel when we want to add useful VFS debug assert.
     Fix that by giving them a proper mode and masking it off when we
     report it to userspace which relies on them not having any mode

   - Anonymous inodes currently allow to change inode attributes because
     the VFS falls back to simple_setattr() if i_op-&gt;setattr isn't
     implemented. This means the ownership and mode for every single
     user of anon_inode_inode can be changed. Block that as it's either
     useless or actively harmful. If specific ownership is needed the
     respective subsystem should allocate anonymous inodes from their
     own private superblock

   - Raise SB_I_NODEV and SB_I_NOEXEC on the anonymous inode superblock

   - Add proper tests for anonymous inode behavior

   - Make it easy to detect proper anonymous inodes and to ensure that
     we can detect them in codepaths such as readahead()

  Cleanups:

   - Port pidfs to the new anon_inode_{g,s}etattr() helpers

   - Try to remove the uselib() system call

   - Add unlikely branch hint return path for poll

   - Add unlikely branch hint on return path for core_sys_select

   - Don't allow signals to interrupt getdents copying for fuse

   - Provide a size hint to dir_context for during readdir()

   - Use writeback_iter directly in mpage_writepages

   - Update compression and mtime descriptions in initramfs
     documentation

   - Update main netfs API document

   - Remove useless plus one in super_cache_scan()

   - Remove unnecessary NULL-check guards during setns()

   - Add separate separate {get,put}_cgroup_ns no-op cases

  Fixes:

   - Fix typo in root= kernel parameter description

   - Use KERN_INFO for infof()|info_plog()|infofc()

   - Correct comments of fs_validate_description()

   - Mark an unlikely if condition with unlikely() in
     vfs_parse_monolithic_sep()

   - Delete macro fsparam_u32hex()

   - Remove unused and problematic validate_constant_table()

   - Fix potential unsigned integer underflow in fs_name()

   - Make file-nr output the total allocated file handles"

* tag 'vfs-6.16-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (43 commits)
  fs: Pass a folio to page_put_link()
  nfs: Use a folio in nfs_get_link()
  fs: Convert __page_get_link() to use a folio
  fs/read_write: make default_llseek() killable
  fs/open: make do_truncate() killable
  fs/open: make chmod_common() and chown_common() killable
  include/linux/fs.h: add inode_lock_killable()
  readdir: supply dir_context.count as readdir buffer size hint
  vfs: Add sysctl vfs_cache_pressure_denom for bulk file operations
  fuse: don't allow signals to interrupt getdents copying
  Documentation: fix typo in root= kernel parameter description
  include/cgroup: separate {get,put}_cgroup_ns no-op case
  kernel/nsproxy: remove unnecessary guards
  fs: use writeback_iter directly in mpage_writepages
  fs: remove useless plus one in super_cache_scan()
  fs: add S_ANON_INODE
  fs: remove uselib() system call
  device_cgroup: avoid access to -&gt;i_rdev in the common case in devcgroup_inode_permission()
  fs/fs_parse: Remove unused and problematic validate_constant_table()
  fs: touch up predicts in inode_permission()
  ...
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<entry>
<title>fs: add atomic write unit max opt to statx</title>
<updated>2025-05-07T21:25:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John Garry</name>
<email>john.g.garry@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-07T21:18:21+00:00</published>
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XFS will be able to support large atomic writes (atomic write &gt; 1x block)
in future. This will be achieved by using different operating methods,
depending on the size of the write.

Specifically a new method of operation based in FS atomic extent remapping
will be supported in addition to the current HW offload-based method.

The FS method will generally be appreciably slower performing than the
HW-offload method. However the FS method will be typically able to
contribute to achieving a larger atomic write unit max limit.

XFS will support a hybrid mode, where HW offload method will be used when
possible, i.e. HW offload is used when the length of the write is
supported, and for other times FS-based atomic writes will be used.

As such, there is an atomic write length at which the user may experience
appreciably slower performance.

Advertise this limit in a new statx field, stx_atomic_write_unit_max_opt.

When zero, it means that there is no such performance boundary.

Masks STATX{_ATTR}_WRITE_ATOMIC can be used to get this new field. This is
ok for older kernels which don't support this new field, as they would
report 0 in this field (from zeroing in cp_statx()) already. Furthermore
those older kernels don't support large atomic writes - apart from block
fops, but there would be consistent performance there for atomic writes
in range [unit min, unit max].

Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: John Garry &lt;john.g.garry@oracle.com&gt;
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XFS will be able to support large atomic writes (atomic write &gt; 1x block)
in future. This will be achieved by using different operating methods,
depending on the size of the write.

Specifically a new method of operation based in FS atomic extent remapping
will be supported in addition to the current HW offload-based method.

The FS method will generally be appreciably slower performing than the
HW-offload method. However the FS method will be typically able to
contribute to achieving a larger atomic write unit max limit.

XFS will support a hybrid mode, where HW offload method will be used when
possible, i.e. HW offload is used when the length of the write is
supported, and for other times FS-based atomic writes will be used.

As such, there is an atomic write length at which the user may experience
appreciably slower performance.

Advertise this limit in a new statx field, stx_atomic_write_unit_max_opt.

When zero, it means that there is no such performance boundary.

Masks STATX{_ATTR}_WRITE_ATOMIC can be used to get this new field. This is
ok for older kernels which don't support this new field, as they would
report 0 in this field (from zeroing in cp_statx()) already. Furthermore
those older kernels don't support large atomic writes - apart from block
fops, but there would be consistent performance there for atomic writes
in range [unit min, unit max].

Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: John Garry &lt;john.g.garry@oracle.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>fs: move the bdex_statx call to vfs_getattr_nosec</title>
<updated>2025-04-17T08:14:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-17T06:40:42+00:00</published>
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Currently bdex_statx is only called from the very high-level
vfs_statx_path function, and thus bypassing it for in-kernel calls
to vfs_getattr or vfs_getattr_nosec.

This breaks querying the block ѕize of the underlying device in the
loop driver and also is a pitfall for any other new kernel caller.

Move the call into the lowest level helper to ensure all callers get
the right results.

Fixes: 2d985f8c6b91 ("vfs: support STATX_DIOALIGN on block devices")
Fixes: f4774e92aab8 ("loop: take the file system minimum dio alignment into account")
Reported-by: "Darrick J. Wong" &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250417064042.712140-1-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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Currently bdex_statx is only called from the very high-level
vfs_statx_path function, and thus bypassing it for in-kernel calls
to vfs_getattr or vfs_getattr_nosec.

This breaks querying the block ѕize of the underlying device in the
loop driver and also is a pitfall for any other new kernel caller.

Move the call into the lowest level helper to ensure all callers get
the right results.

Fixes: 2d985f8c6b91 ("vfs: support STATX_DIOALIGN on block devices")
Fixes: f4774e92aab8 ("loop: take the file system minimum dio alignment into account")
Reported-by: "Darrick J. Wong" &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250417064042.712140-1-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs: sort out cosmetic differences between stat funcs and add predicts</title>
<updated>2025-04-08T08:28:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mateusz Guzik</name>
<email>mjguzik@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-06T23:58:04+00:00</published>
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This is a nop, but I did verify asm improves.

Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik &lt;mjguzik@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250406235806.1637000-1-mjguzik@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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This is a nop, but I did verify asm improves.

Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik &lt;mjguzik@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250406235806.1637000-1-mjguzik@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs/stat.c: avoid harmless garbage value problem in vfs_statx_path()</title>
<updated>2025-02-07T09:27:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Su Hui</name>
<email>suhui@nfschina.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-19T02:59:47+00:00</published>
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Clang static checker(scan-build) warning:
fs/stat.c:287:21: warning: The left expression of the compound assignment is
an uninitialized value. The computed value will also be garbage.
  287 |                 stat-&gt;result_mask |= STATX_MNT_ID_UNIQUE;
      |                 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ^
fs/stat.c:290:21: warning: The left expression of the compound assignment is
an uninitialized value. The computed value will also be garbage.
  290 |                 stat-&gt;result_mask |= STATX_MNT_ID;

When vfs_getattr() failed because of security_inode_getattr(), 'stat' is
uninitialized. In this case, there is a harmless garbage problem in
vfs_statx_path(). It's better to return error directly when
vfs_getattr() failed, avoiding garbage value and more clearly.

Signed-off-by: Su Hui &lt;suhui@nfschina.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250119025946.1168957-1-suhui@nfschina.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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Clang static checker(scan-build) warning:
fs/stat.c:287:21: warning: The left expression of the compound assignment is
an uninitialized value. The computed value will also be garbage.
  287 |                 stat-&gt;result_mask |= STATX_MNT_ID_UNIQUE;
      |                 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ^
fs/stat.c:290:21: warning: The left expression of the compound assignment is
an uninitialized value. The computed value will also be garbage.
  290 |                 stat-&gt;result_mask |= STATX_MNT_ID;

When vfs_getattr() failed because of security_inode_getattr(), 'stat' is
uninitialized. In this case, there is a harmless garbage problem in
vfs_statx_path(). It's better to return error directly when
vfs_getattr() failed, avoiding garbage value and more clearly.

Signed-off-by: Su Hui &lt;suhui@nfschina.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250119025946.1168957-1-suhui@nfschina.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>fs: add STATX_DIO_READ_ALIGN</title>
<updated>2025-01-09T15:23:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-09T08:31:02+00:00</published>
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Add a separate dio read align field, as many out of place write
file systems can easily do reads aligned to the device sector size,
but require bigger alignment for writes.

This is usually papered over by falling back to buffered I/O for smaller
writes and doing read-modify-write cycles, but performance for this
sucks, so applications benefit from knowing the actual write alignment.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250109083109.1441561-3-hch@lst.de
Reviewed-by: John Garry &lt;john.g.garry@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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Add a separate dio read align field, as many out of place write
file systems can easily do reads aligned to the device sector size,
but require bigger alignment for writes.

This is usually papered over by falling back to buffered I/O for smaller
writes and doing read-modify-write cycles, but performance for this
sucks, so applications benefit from knowing the actual write alignment.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250109083109.1441561-3-hch@lst.de
Reviewed-by: John Garry &lt;john.g.garry@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>Merge tag 'pull-statx' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2024-11-18T22:54:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-18T22:54:10+00:00</published>
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Pull statx updates from Al Viro:
 "Sanitize struct filename and lookup flags handling in statx and
  friends"

* tag 'pull-statx' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  libfs: kill empty_dir_getattr()
  fs: Simplify getattr interface function checking AT_GETATTR_NOSEC flag
  fs/stat.c: switch to CLASS(fd_raw)
  kill getname_statx_lookup_flags()
  io_statx_prep(): use getname_uflags()
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Pull statx updates from Al Viro:
 "Sanitize struct filename and lookup flags handling in statx and
  friends"

* tag 'pull-statx' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  libfs: kill empty_dir_getattr()
  fs: Simplify getattr interface function checking AT_GETATTR_NOSEC flag
  fs/stat.c: switch to CLASS(fd_raw)
  kill getname_statx_lookup_flags()
  io_statx_prep(): use getname_uflags()
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<title>Merge tag 'pull-xattr' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2024-11-18T20:44:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-18T20:44:25+00:00</published>
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Pull xattr updates from Al Viro:
 "Sanitize xattr and io_uring interactions with it, add *xattrat()
  syscalls, sanitize struct filename handling in there"

* tag 'pull-xattr' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  xattr: remove redundant check on variable err
  fs/xattr: add *at family syscalls
  new helpers: file_removexattr(), filename_removexattr()
  new helpers: file_listxattr(), filename_listxattr()
  replace do_getxattr() with saner helpers.
  replace do_setxattr() with saner helpers.
  new helper: import_xattr_name()
  fs: rename struct xattr_ctx to kernel_xattr_ctx
  xattr: switch to CLASS(fd)
  io_[gs]etxattr_prep(): just use getname()
  io_uring: IORING_OP_F[GS]ETXATTR is fine with REQ_F_FIXED_FILE
  getname_maybe_null() - the third variant of pathname copy-in
  teach filename_lookup() to treat NULL filename as ""
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Pull xattr updates from Al Viro:
 "Sanitize xattr and io_uring interactions with it, add *xattrat()
  syscalls, sanitize struct filename handling in there"

* tag 'pull-xattr' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  xattr: remove redundant check on variable err
  fs/xattr: add *at family syscalls
  new helpers: file_removexattr(), filename_removexattr()
  new helpers: file_listxattr(), filename_listxattr()
  replace do_getxattr() with saner helpers.
  replace do_setxattr() with saner helpers.
  new helper: import_xattr_name()
  fs: rename struct xattr_ctx to kernel_xattr_ctx
  xattr: switch to CLASS(fd)
  io_[gs]etxattr_prep(): just use getname()
  io_uring: IORING_OP_F[GS]ETXATTR is fine with REQ_F_FIXED_FILE
  getname_maybe_null() - the third variant of pathname copy-in
  teach filename_lookup() to treat NULL filename as ""
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