Pull erofs fixes from Gao Xiang:
- Properly handle errors when file-backed I/O fails
- Fix compilation issues on ARM platform (arm-linux-gnueabi)
- Fix parsing of encoded extents
- Minor cleanup
* tag 'erofs-for-6.15-rc2-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xiang/erofs:
erofs: remove duplicate code
erofs: fix encoded extents handling
erofs: add __packed annotation to union(__le16..)
erofs: set error to bio if file-backed IO fails
We're almost there. It's straight-forward to adapt the current
decompression subsystem to support unaligned encoded (compressed) data.
Note that unaligned data is not encouraged because of worse I/O and
caching efficiency unless the corresponding compressor doesn't support
fixed-sized output compression natively like Zstd.
Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com>
Acked-by: Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250310095459.2620647-10-hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com
Implement the extent metadata parsing described in the previous commit.
For 16-byte and 32-byte extent records, currently it is just a trivial
binary search without considering the last access footprint, but it can
be optimized for better sequential performance later.
Tail fragments are supported, but ztailpacking feature is not
for simplicity.
Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com>
Acked-by: Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250310095459.2620647-9-hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com
Previously, EROFS provided both (non-)compact compressed indexes to
keep necessary hints for each logical block, enabling O(1) random
indexing. This approach was originally designed for small compression
units (e.g., 4KiB), where compressed data is strictly block-aligned via
fixed-sized output compression.
However, EROFS now supports big pclusters up to 1MiB and many users use
large configurations to minimize image sizes. For such configurations,
the total number of extents decreases significantly (e.g., only 1,024
extents for a 1GiB file using 1MiB pclusters), then runtime metadata
overhead becomes negligible compared to data I/O and decoding costs.
Additionally, some popular compression algorithm (mainly Zstd) still
lacks native fixed-sized output compression support (although it's
planned by their authors). Instead of just waiting for compressor
improvements, let's adopt byte-oriented extents, allowing these
compressors to retain their current methods.
For example, it speeds up Zstd compression a lot:
Processor: Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8163 CPU @ 2.50GHz * 96
Dataset: enwik9
Build time Size Type Command Line
3m52.339s 266653696 FO -C524288 -zzstd,22
3m48.549s 266174464 FO -E48bit -C524288 -zzstd,22
0m12.821s 272134144 FI -E48bit -C1048576 --max-extent-bytes=1048576 -zzstd,22
0m14.528s 248987648 FO -C1048576 -zlzma,9
0m14.605s 248504320 FO -E48bit -C1048576 -zlzma,9
Encoded extents are structured as an array of `struct z_erofs_extent`,
sorted by logical address in ascending order:
__le32 plen // encoded length, algorithm id and flags
__le32 pstart_lo // physical offset LSB
__le32 pstart_hi // physical offset MSB
__le32 lstart_lo // logical offset
__le32 lstart_hi // logical offset MSB
..
Note that prefixed reduced records can be used to minimize metadata for
specific cases (e.g. lstart less than 32 bits, then 32 to 16 bytes).
If the logical lengths of all encoded extents are the same, 4-byte
(plen) and 8-byte (plen, pstart_lo) records can be used. Or, 16-byte
(plen .. lstart_lo) and 32-byte full records have to be used instead.
If 16-byte and 32-byte records are used, the total number of extents
is kept in `struct z_erofs_map_header`, and binary search can be
applied on them. Note that `eytzinger order` is not considerd because
data sequential access is important.
If 4-byte records are used, 8-byte start physical offset is between
`struct z_erofs_map_header` and the `plen` array.
In addition, 64-bit physical offsets can be applied with new encoded
extent format to match full 48-bit block addressing.
Remove redundant comments around `struct z_erofs_lcluster_index` too.
Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com>
Acked-by: Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250310095459.2620647-8-hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com
There's no need to record "." dirents in the directory data (while
they could be used for sanity checks, they aren't very useful.)
Omitting "." dirents also improves directory data deduplication.
Use a per-inode (instead of per-sb) flag to indicate if the "." dirent
is omitted or not, ensuring compatibility with incremental builds. It
also reuses EROFS_I_NLINK_1_BIT, as it has very limited use cases for
directories with `nlink = 1`.
Emit the "." entry as the last virtual dirent in the directory because
it is _much_ less frequently used than the ".." dirent. It also keeps
`f_pos` meaningful, as it strictly follows the directory data when it's
less than i_size.
Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com>
Acked-by: Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250310095459.2620647-6-hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com
The current 32-bit block addressing limits EROFS to a 16TiB maximum
volume size with 4KiB blocks. However, several new use cases now
require larger capacity support:
- Massive datasets for model training in order to boost random
sampling performance for each epoch;
- Object storage clients using EROFS direct passthrough.
This extends core on-disk structures to support 48-bit block addressing,
such as inodes, device slots, and inode chunks.
Additionally:
- Expand superblock root NID to 8-byte `rootnid_8b` to enable full
out-of-place update incremental builds;
- Introduce `epoch` field in the superblock as well as add `mtime`
field to 32-byte compact inodes for basic timestamp support.
Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com>
Acked-by: Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250310095459.2620647-4-hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com
Pull misc vfs cleanups from Al Viro:
"Two unrelated patches - one is a removal of long-obsolete include in
overlayfs (it used to need fs/internal.h, but the extern it wanted has
been moved back to include/linux/namei.h) and another introduces
convenience helper constructing struct qstr by a NUL-terminated
string"
* tag 'pull-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
add a string-to-qstr constructor
fs/overlayfs/namei.c: get rid of include ../internal.h
Quite a few places want to build a struct qstr by given string;
it would be convenient to have a primitive doing that, rather
than open-coding it via QSTR_INIT().
The closest approximation was in bcachefs, but that expands to
initializer list - {.len = strlen(string), .name = string}.
It would be more useful to have it as compound literal -
(struct qstr){.len = strlen(string), .name = string}.
Unlike initializer list it's a valid expression. What's more,
it's a valid lvalue - it's an equivalent of anonymous local
variable with such initializer, so the things like
path->dentry = d_alloc_pseudo(mnt->mnt_sb, &QSTR(name));
are valid. It can also be used as initializer, with identical
effect -
struct qstr x = (struct qstr){.name = s, .len = strlen(s)};
is equivalent to
struct qstr anon_variable = {.name = s, .len = strlen(s)};
struct qstr x = anon_variable;
// anon_variable is never used after that point
and any even remotely sane compiler will manage to collapse that
into
struct qstr x = {.name = s, .len = strlen(s)};
What compound literals can't be used for is initialization of
global variables, but those are covered by QSTR_INIT().
This commit lifts definition(s) of QSTR() into linux/dcache.h,
converts it to compound literal (all bcachefs users are fine
with that) and converts assorted open-coded instances to using
that.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
"The various patchsets are summarized below. Plus of course many
indivudual patches which are described in their changelogs.
- "Allocate and free frozen pages" from Matthew Wilcox reorganizes
the page allocator so we end up with the ability to allocate and
free zero-refcount pages. So that callers (ie, slab) can avoid a
refcount inc & dec
- "Support large folios for tmpfs" from Baolin Wang teaches tmpfs to
use large folios other than PMD-sized ones
- "Fix mm/rodata_test" from Petr Tesarik performs some maintenance
and fixes for this small built-in kernel selftest
- "mas_anode_descend() related cleanup" from Wei Yang tidies up part
of the mapletree code
- "mm: fix format issues and param types" from Keren Sun implements a
few minor code cleanups
- "simplify split calculation" from Wei Yang provides a few fixes and
a test for the mapletree code
- "mm/vma: make more mmap logic userland testable" from Lorenzo
Stoakes continues the work of moving vma-related code into the
(relatively) new mm/vma.c
- "mm/page_alloc: gfp flags cleanups for alloc_contig_*()" from David
Hildenbrand cleans up and rationalizes handling of gfp flags in the
page allocator
- "readahead: Reintroduce fix for improper RA window sizing" from Jan
Kara is a second attempt at fixing a readahead window sizing issue.
It should reduce the amount of unnecessary reading
- "synchronously scan and reclaim empty user PTE pages" from Qi Zheng
addresses an issue where "huge" amounts of pte pagetables are
accumulated:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/cover.1718267194.git.zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com/
Qi's series addresses this windup by synchronously freeing PTE
memory within the context of madvise(MADV_DONTNEED)
- "selftest/mm: Remove warnings found by adding compiler flags" from
Muhammad Usama Anjum fixes some build warnings in the selftests
code when optional compiler warnings are enabled
- "mm: don't use __GFP_HARDWALL when migrating remote pages" from
David Hildenbrand tightens the allocator's observance of
__GFP_HARDWALL
- "pkeys kselftests improvements" from Kevin Brodsky implements
various fixes and cleanups in the MM selftests code, mainly
pertaining to the pkeys tests
- "mm/damon: add sample modules" from SeongJae Park enhances DAMON to
estimate application working set size
- "memcg/hugetlb: Rework memcg hugetlb charging" from Joshua Hahn
provides some cleanups to memcg's hugetlb charging logic
- "mm/swap_cgroup: remove global swap cgroup lock" from Kairui Song
removes the global swap cgroup lock. A speedup of 10% for a
tmpfs-based kernel build was demonstrated
- "zram: split page type read/write handling" from Sergey Senozhatsky
has several fixes and cleaups for zram in the area of
zram_write_page(). A watchdog softlockup warning was eliminated
- "move pagetable_*_dtor() to __tlb_remove_table()" from Kevin
Brodsky cleans up the pagetable destructor implementations. A rare
use-after-free race is fixed
- "mm/debug: introduce and use VM_WARN_ON_VMG()" from Lorenzo Stoakes
simplifies and cleans up the debugging code in the VMA merging
logic
- "Account page tables at all levels" from Kevin Brodsky cleans up
and regularizes the pagetable ctor/dtor handling. This results in
improvements in accounting accuracy
- "mm/damon: replace most damon_callback usages in sysfs with new
core functions" from SeongJae Park cleans up and generalizes
DAMON's sysfs file interface logic
- "mm/damon: enable page level properties based monitoring" from
SeongJae Park increases the amount of information which is
presented in response to DAMOS actions
- "mm/damon: remove DAMON debugfs interface" from SeongJae Park
removes DAMON's long-deprecated debugfs interfaces. Thus the
migration to sysfs is completed
- "mm/hugetlb: Refactor hugetlb allocation resv accounting" from
Peter Xu cleans up and generalizes the hugetlb reservation
accounting
- "mm: alloc_pages_bulk: small API refactor" from Luiz Capitulino
removes a never-used feature of the alloc_pages_bulk() interface
- "mm/damon: extend DAMOS filters for inclusion" from SeongJae Park
extends DAMOS filters to support not only exclusion (rejecting),
but also inclusion (allowing) behavior
- "Add zpdesc memory descriptor for zswap.zpool" from Alex Shi
introduces a new memory descriptor for zswap.zpool that currently
overlaps with struct page for now. This is part of the effort to
reduce the size of struct page and to enable dynamic allocation of
memory descriptors
- "mm, swap: rework of swap allocator locks" from Kairui Song redoes
and simplifies the swap allocator locking. A speedup of 400% was
demonstrated for one workload. As was a 35% reduction for kernel
build time with swap-on-zram
- "mm: update mips to use do_mmap(), make mmap_region() internal"
from Lorenzo Stoakes reworks MIPS's use of mmap_region() so that
mmap_region() can be made MM-internal
- "mm/mglru: performance optimizations" from Yu Zhao fixes a few
MGLRU regressions and otherwise improves MGLRU performance
- "Docs/mm/damon: add tuning guide and misc updates" from SeongJae
Park updates DAMON documentation
- "Cleanup for memfd_create()" from Isaac Manjarres does that thing
- "mm: hugetlb+THP folio and migration cleanups" from David
Hildenbrand provides various cleanups in the areas of hugetlb
folios, THP folios and migration
- "Uncached buffered IO" from Jens Axboe implements the new
RWF_DONTCACHE flag which provides synchronous dropbehind for
pagecache reading and writing. To permite userspace to address
issues with massive buildup of useless pagecache when
reading/writing fast devices
- "selftests/mm: virtual_address_range: Reduce memory" from Thomas
Weißschuh fixes and optimizes some of the MM selftests"
* tag 'mm-stable-2025-01-26-14-59' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (321 commits)
mm/compaction: fix UBSAN shift-out-of-bounds warning
s390/mm: add missing ctor/dtor on page table upgrade
kasan: sw_tags: use str_on_off() helper in kasan_init_sw_tags()
tools: add VM_WARN_ON_VMG definition
mm/damon/core: use str_high_low() helper in damos_wmark_wait_us()
seqlock: add missing parameter documentation for raw_seqcount_try_begin()
mm/page-writeback: consolidate wb_thresh bumping logic into __wb_calc_thresh
mm/page_alloc: remove the incorrect and misleading comment
zram: remove zcomp_stream_put() from write_incompressible_page()
mm: separate move/undo parts from migrate_pages_batch()
mm/kfence: use str_write_read() helper in get_access_type()
selftests/mm/mkdirty: fix memory leak in test_uffdio_copy()
kasan: hw_tags: Use str_on_off() helper in kasan_init_hw_tags()
selftests/mm: virtual_address_range: avoid reading from VM_IO mappings
selftests/mm: vm_util: split up /proc/self/smaps parsing
selftests/mm: virtual_address_range: unmap chunks after validation
selftests/mm: virtual_address_range: mmap() without PROT_WRITE
selftests/memfd/memfd_test: fix possible NULL pointer dereference
mm: add FGP_DONTCACHE folio creation flag
mm: call filemap_fdatawrite_range_kick() after IOCB_DONTCACHE issue
...
Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:
"Mainly individually changelogged singleton patches. The patch series
in this pull are:
- "lib min_heap: Improve min_heap safety, testing, and documentation"
from Kuan-Wei Chiu provides various tightenings to the min_heap
library code
- "xarray: extract __xa_cmpxchg_raw" from Tamir Duberstein preforms
some cleanup and Rust preparation in the xarray library code
- "Update reference to include/asm-<arch>" from Geert Uytterhoeven
fixes pathnames in some code comments
- "Converge on using secs_to_jiffies()" from Easwar Hariharan uses
the new secs_to_jiffies() in various places where that is
appropriate
- "ocfs2, dlmfs: convert to the new mount API" from Eric Sandeen
switches two filesystems to the new mount API
- "Convert ocfs2 to use folios" from Matthew Wilcox does that
- "Remove get_task_comm() and print task comm directly" from Yafang
Shao removes now-unneeded calls to get_task_comm() in various
places
- "squashfs: reduce memory usage and update docs" from Phillip
Lougher implements some memory savings in squashfs and performs
some maintainability work
- "lib: clarify comparison function requirements" from Kuan-Wei Chiu
tightens the sort code's behaviour and adds some maintenance work
- "nilfs2: protect busy buffer heads from being force-cleared" from
Ryusuke Konishi fixes an issues in nlifs when the fs is presented
with a corrupted image
- "nilfs2: fix kernel-doc comments for function return values" from
Ryusuke Konishi fixes some nilfs kerneldoc
- "nilfs2: fix issues with rename operations" from Ryusuke Konishi
addresses some nilfs BUG_ONs which syzbot was able to trigger
- "minmax.h: Cleanups and minor optimisations" from David Laight does
some maintenance work on the min/max library code
- "Fixes and cleanups to xarray" from Kemeng Shi does maintenance
work on the xarray library code"
* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-01-24-23-16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (131 commits)
ocfs2: use str_yes_no() and str_no_yes() helper functions
include/linux/lz4.h: add some missing macros
Xarray: use xa_mark_t in xas_squash_marks() to keep code consistent
Xarray: remove repeat check in xas_squash_marks()
Xarray: distinguish large entries correctly in xas_split_alloc()
Xarray: move forward index correctly in xas_pause()
Xarray: do not return sibling entries from xas_find_marked()
ipc/util.c: complete the kernel-doc function descriptions
gcov: clang: use correct function param names
latencytop: use correct kernel-doc format for func params
minmax.h: remove some #defines that are only expanded once
minmax.h: simplify the variants of clamp()
minmax.h: move all the clamp() definitions after the min/max() ones
minmax.h: use BUILD_BUG_ON_MSG() for the lo < hi test in clamp()
minmax.h: reduce the #define expansion of min(), max() and clamp()
minmax.h: update some comments
minmax.h: add whitespace around operators and after commas
nilfs2: do not update mtime of renamed directory that is not moved
nilfs2: handle errors that nilfs_prepare_chunk() may return
CREDITS: fix spelling mistake
...
Pull erofs updates from Gao Xiang:
"Still no new features for this cycle, as some ongoing improvements
remain premature for now.
This includes a micro-optimization for the superblock checksum, along
with minor bugfixes and code cleanups, as usual:
- Micro-optimize superblock checksum
- Avoid overly large bvecs[] for file-backed mounts
- Some leftover folio conversion in z_erofs_bind_cache()
- Minor bugfixes and cleanups"
* tag 'erofs-for-6.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xiang/erofs:
erofs: refine z_erofs_get_extent_compressedlen()
erofs: remove dead code in erofs_fc_parse_param
erofs: return SHRINK_EMPTY if no objects to free
erofs: convert z_erofs_bind_cache() to folios
erofs: tidy up zdata.c
erofs: get rid of `z_erofs_next_pcluster_t`
erofs: simplify z_erofs_load_compact_lcluster()
erofs: fix potential return value overflow of z_erofs_shrink_scan()
erofs: shorten bvecs[] for file-backed mounts
erofs: micro-optimize superblock checksum
fs: erofs: xattr.c change kzalloc to kcalloc
- Set `compressedblks = 1` directly for non-bigpcluster cases. This
simplifies the logic a bit since lcluster sizes larger than one block
are unsupported and the details remain unclear.
- For Z_EROFS_LCLUSTER_TYPE_PLAIN pclusters, avoid assuming
`compressedblks = 1` by default. Instead, check if
Z_EROFS_ADVISE_BIG_PCLUSTER_2 is set.
It basically has no impact to existing valid images, but it's useful to
find the gap to prepare for large PLAIN pclusters.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250123090109.973463-1-hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com>
Pull kthread updates from Frederic Weisbecker:
"Kthreads affinity follow either of 4 existing different patterns:
1) Per-CPU kthreads must stay affine to a single CPU and never
execute relevant code on any other CPU. This is currently handled
by smpboot code which takes care of CPU-hotplug operations.
Affinity here is a correctness constraint.
2) Some kthreads _have_ to be affine to a specific set of CPUs and
can't run anywhere else. The affinity is set through
kthread_bind_mask() and the subsystem takes care by itself to
handle CPU-hotplug operations. Affinity here is assumed to be a
correctness constraint.
3) Per-node kthreads _prefer_ to be affine to a specific NUMA node.
This is not a correctness constraint but merely a preference in
terms of memory locality. kswapd and kcompactd both fall into this
category. The affinity is set manually like for any other task and
CPU-hotplug is supposed to be handled by the relevant subsystem so
that the task is properly reaffined whenever a given CPU from the
node comes up. Also care should be taken so that the node affinity
doesn't cross isolated (nohz_full) cpumask boundaries.
4) Similar to the previous point except kthreads have a _preferred_
affinity different than a node. Both RCU boost kthreads and RCU
exp kworkers fall into this category as they refer to "RCU nodes"
from a distinctly distributed tree.
Currently the preferred affinity patterns (3 and 4) have at least 4
identified users, with more or less success when it comes to handle
CPU-hotplug operations and CPU isolation. Each of which do it in its
own ad-hoc way.
This is an infrastructure proposal to handle this with the following
API changes:
- kthread_create_on_node() automatically affines the created kthread
to its target node unless it has been set as per-cpu or bound with
kthread_bind[_mask]() before the first wake-up.
- kthread_affine_preferred() is a new function that can be called
right after kthread_create_on_node() to specify a preferred
affinity different than the specified node.
When the preferred affinity can't be applied because the possible
targets are offline or isolated (nohz_full), the kthread is affine to
the housekeeping CPUs (which means to all online CPUs most of the time
or only the non-nohz_full CPUs when nohz_full= is set).
kswapd, kcompactd, RCU boost kthreads and RCU exp kworkers have been
converted, along with a few old drivers.
Summary of the changes:
- Consolidate a bunch of ad-hoc implementations of
kthread_run_on_cpu()
- Introduce task_cpu_fallback_mask() that defines the default last
resort affinity of a task to become nohz_full aware
- Add some correctness check to ensure kthread_bind() is always
called before the first kthread wake up.
- Default affine kthread to its preferred node.
- Convert kswapd / kcompactd and remove their halfway working ad-hoc
affinity implementation
- Implement kthreads preferred affinity
- Unify kthread worker and kthread API's style
- Convert RCU kthreads to the new API and remove the ad-hoc affinity
implementation"
* tag 'kthread-for-6.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/linux-dynticks:
kthread: modify kernel-doc function name to match code
rcu: Use kthread preferred affinity for RCU exp kworkers
treewide: Introduce kthread_run_worker[_on_cpu]()
kthread: Unify kthread_create_on_cpu() and kthread_create_worker_on_cpu() automatic format
rcu: Use kthread preferred affinity for RCU boost
kthread: Implement preferred affinity
mm: Create/affine kswapd to its preferred node
mm: Create/affine kcompactd to its preferred node
kthread: Default affine kthread to its preferred NUMA node
kthread: Make sure kthread hasn't started while binding it
sched,arm64: Handle CPU isolation on last resort fallback rq selection
arm64: Exclude nohz_full CPUs from 32bits el0 support
lib: test_objpool: Use kthread_run_on_cpu()
kallsyms: Use kthread_run_on_cpu()
soc/qman: test: Use kthread_run_on_cpu()
arm/bL_switcher: Use kthread_run_on_cpu()
Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner:
"Features:
- Support caching symlink lengths in inodes
The size is stored in a new union utilizing the same space as
i_devices, thus avoiding growing the struct or taking up any more
space
When utilized it dodges strlen() in vfs_readlink(), giving about
1.5% speed up when issuing readlink on /initrd.img on ext4
- Add RWF_DONTCACHE iocb and FOP_DONTCACHE file_operations flag
If a file system supports uncached buffered IO, it may set
FOP_DONTCACHE and enable support for RWF_DONTCACHE.
If RWF_DONTCACHE is attempted without the file system supporting
it, it'll get errored with -EOPNOTSUPP
- Enable VBOXGUEST and VBOXSF_FS on ARM64
Now that VirtualBox is able to run as a host on arm64 (e.g. the
Apple M3 processors) we can enable VBOXSF_FS (and in turn
VBOXGUEST) for this architecture.
Tested with various runs of bonnie++ and dbench on an Apple MacBook
Pro with the latest Virtualbox 7.1.4 r165100 installed
Cleanups:
- Delay sysctl_nr_open check in expand_files()
- Use kernel-doc includes in fiemap docbook
- Use page->private instead of page->index in watch_queue
- Use a consume fence in mnt_idmap() as it's heavily used in
link_path_walk()
- Replace magic number 7 with ARRAY_SIZE() in fc_log
- Sort out a stale comment about races between fd alloc and dup2()
- Fix return type of do_mount() from long to int
- Various cosmetic cleanups for the lockref code
Fixes:
- Annotate spinning as unlikely() in __read_seqcount_begin
The annotation already used to be there, but got lost in commit
52ac39e5db ("seqlock: seqcount_t: Implement all read APIs as
statement expressions")
- Fix proc_handler for sysctl_nr_open
- Flush delayed work in delayed fput()
- Fix grammar and spelling in propagate_umount()
- Fix ESP not readable during coredump
In /proc/PID/stat, there is the kstkesp field which is the stack
pointer of a thread. While the thread is active, this field reads
zero. But during a coredump, it should have a valid value
However, at the moment, kstkesp is zero even during coredump
- Don't wake up the writer if the pipe is still full
- Fix unbalanced user_access_end() in select code"
* tag 'vfs-6.14-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (28 commits)
gfs2: use lockref_init for qd_lockref
erofs: use lockref_init for pcl->lockref
dcache: use lockref_init for d_lockref
lockref: add a lockref_init helper
lockref: drop superfluous externs
lockref: use bool for false/true returns
lockref: improve the lockref_get_not_zero description
lockref: remove lockref_put_not_zero
fs: Fix return type of do_mount() from long to int
select: Fix unbalanced user_access_end()
vbox: Enable VBOXGUEST and VBOXSF_FS on ARM64
pipe_read: don't wake up the writer if the pipe is still full
selftests: coredump: Add stackdump test
fs/proc: do_task_stat: Fix ESP not readable during coredump
fs: add RWF_DONTCACHE iocb and FOP_DONTCACHE file_operations flag
fs: sort out a stale comment about races between fd alloc and dup2
fs: Fix grammar and spelling in propagate_umount()
fs: fc_log replace magic number 7 with ARRAY_SIZE()
fs: use a consume fence in mnt_idmap()
file: flush delayed work in delayed fput()
...
Comments in file include/linux/shrinker.h says that
`count_objects` of `struct shrinker` should return SHRINK_EMPTY
when there are no objects to free.
> If there are no objects to free, it should return SHRINK_EMPTY,
> while 0 is returned in cases of the number of freeable items cannot
> be determined or shrinker should skip this cache for this time
> (e.g., their number is below shrinkable limit).
Signed-off-by: Chen Linxuan <chenlinxuan@uniontech.com>
Reviewed-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/149E6E64B5B6B5E8+20250116083303.199817-1-chenlinxuan@uniontech.com
[ Gao Xiang: should have no impact since it's not memcg-aware. ]
Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com>
kthread_create() creates a kthread without running it yet. kthread_run()
creates a kthread and runs it.
On the other hand, kthread_create_worker() creates a kthread worker and
runs it.
This difference in behaviours is confusing. Also there is no way to
create a kthread worker and affine it using kthread_bind_mask() or
kthread_affine_preferred() before starting it.
Consolidate the behaviours and introduce kthread_run_worker[_on_cpu]()
that behaves just like kthread_run(). kthread_create_worker[_on_cpu]()
will now only create a kthread worker without starting it.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
kthread_create_on_cpu() uses the CPU argument as an implicit and unique
printf argument to add to the format whereas
kthread_create_worker_on_cpu() still relies on explicitly passing the
printf arguments. This difference in behaviour is error prone and
doesn't help standardizing per-CPU kthread names.
Unify the behaviours and convert kthread_create_worker_on_cpu() to
use the printf behaviour of kthread_create_on_cpu().
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
For many use cases (e.g. container images are just fetched from remote),
performance will be impacted if underlay page cache is up-to-date but
direct i/o flushes dirty pages first.
Instead, let's use buffered I/O by default to keep in sync with loop
devices and add a (re)mount option to explicitly give a try to use
direct I/O if supported by the underlying files.
The container startup time is improved as below:
[workload] docker.io/library/workpress:latest
unpack 1st run non-1st runs
EROFS snapshotter buffered I/O file 4.586404265s 0.308s 0.198s
EROFS snapshotter direct I/O file 4.581742849s 2.238s 0.222s
EROFS snapshotter loop 4.596023152s 0.346s 0.201s
Overlayfs snapshotter 5.382851037s 0.206s 0.214s
Fixes: fb17675026 ("erofs: add file-backed mount support")
Cc: Derek McGowan <derek@mcg.dev>
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241212134336.2059899-1-hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com
