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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()
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