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<updated>2025-10-07T14:05:44+00:00</updated>
<entry>
<title>block: move bio_iov_iter_get_bdev_pages to block/fops.c</title>
<updated>2025-10-07T14:05:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-07T09:06:28+00:00</published>
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Keep bio_iov_iter_get_bdev_pages local with the callers, as blindly
looking at the bdev logical block size is often not the best idea
unless on a block device.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn &lt;johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Keith Busch &lt;kbusch@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Qu Wenruo &lt;wqu@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-6.18/block-20250929' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux</title>
<updated>2025-10-02T17:16:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-02T17:16:56+00:00</published>
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Pull block updates from Jens Axboe:

 - NVMe pull request via Keith:
     - FC target fixes (Daniel)
     - Authentication fixes and updates (Martin, Chris)
     - Admin controller handling (Kamaljit)
     - Target lockdep assertions (Max)
     - Keep-alive updates for discovery (Alastair)
     - Suspend quirk (Georg)

 - MD pull request via Yu:
     - Add support for a lockless bitmap.

       A key feature for the new bitmap are that the IO fastpath is
       lockless. If a user issues lots of write IO to the same bitmap
       bit in a short time, only the first write has additional overhead
       to update bitmap bit, no additional overhead for the following
       writes.

       By supporting only resync or recover written data, means in the
       case creating new array or replacing with a new disk, there is no
       need to do a full disk resync/recovery.

 - Switch -&gt;getgeo() and -&gt;bios_param() to using struct gendisk rather
   than struct block_device.

 - Rust block changes via Andreas. This series adds configuration via
   configfs and remote completion to the rnull driver. The series also
   includes a set of changes to the rust block device driver API: a few
   cleanup patches, and a few features supporting the rnull changes.

   The series removes the raw buffer formatting logic from
   `kernel::block` and improves the logic available in `kernel::string`
   to support the same use as the removed logic.

 - floppy arch cleanups

 - Reduce the number of dereferencing needed for ublk commands

 - Restrict supported sockets for nbd. Mostly done to eliminate a class
   of issues perpetually reported by syzbot, by using nonsensical socket
   setups.

 - A few s390 dasd block fixes

 - Fix a few issues around atomic writes

 - Improve DMA interation for integrity requests

 - Improve how iovecs are treated with regards to O_DIRECT aligment
   constraints.

   We used to require each segment to adhere to the constraints, now
   only the request as a whole needs to.

 - Clean up and improve p2p support, enabling use of p2p for metadata
   payloads

 - Improve locking of request lookup, using SRCU where appropriate

 - Use page references properly for brd, avoiding very long RCU sections

 - Fix ordering of recursively submitted IOs

 - Clean up and improve updating nr_requests for a live device

 - Various fixes and cleanups

* tag 'for-6.18/block-20250929' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux: (164 commits)
  s390/dasd: enforce dma_alignment to ensure proper buffer validation
  s390/dasd: Return BLK_STS_INVAL for EINVAL from do_dasd_request
  ublk: remove redundant zone op check in ublk_setup_iod()
  nvme: Use non zero KATO for persistent discovery connections
  nvmet: add safety check for subsys lock
  nvme-core: use nvme_is_io_ctrl() for I/O controller check
  nvme-core: do ioccsz/iorcsz validation only for I/O controllers
  nvme-core: add method to check for an I/O controller
  blk-cgroup: fix possible deadlock while configuring policy
  blk-mq: fix null-ptr-deref in blk_mq_free_tags() from error path
  blk-mq: Fix more tag iteration function documentation
  selftests: ublk: fix behavior when fio is not installed
  ublk: don't access ublk_queue in ublk_unmap_io()
  ublk: pass ublk_io to __ublk_complete_rq()
  ublk: don't access ublk_queue in ublk_need_complete_req()
  ublk: don't access ublk_queue in ublk_check_commit_and_fetch()
  ublk: don't pass ublk_queue to ublk_fetch()
  ublk: don't access ublk_queue in ublk_config_io_buf()
  ublk: don't access ublk_queue in ublk_check_fetch_buf()
  ublk: pass q_id and tag to __ublk_check_and_get_req()
  ...
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<entry>
<title>block: simplify direct io validity check</title>
<updated>2025-09-09T16:27:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Keith Busch</name>
<email>kbusch@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-08-27T14:12:54+00:00</published>
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The block layer checks all the segments for validity later, so no need
for an early check. Just reduce it to a simple position and total length
check, and defer the more invasive segment checks to the block layer.

Signed-off-by: Keith Busch &lt;kbusch@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: add size alignment to bio_iov_iter_get_pages</title>
<updated>2025-09-09T16:27:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Keith Busch</name>
<email>kbusch@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-08-27T14:12:52+00:00</published>
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The block layer tries to align bio vectors to the block device's logical
block size. Some cases don't have a block device, or we may need to
align to something larger, which we can't derive it from the queue
limits. Have the caller specify what they want, or allow any length
alignment if nothing was specified. Since the most common use case
relies on the block device's limits, a helper function is provided.

Signed-off-by: Keith Busch &lt;kbusch@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: don't silently ignore metadata for sync read/write</title>
<updated>2025-08-20T09:13:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2025-08-19T08:25:01+00:00</published>
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The block fops don't try to handle metadata for synchronous requests,
probably because the completion handler looks at dio-&gt;iocb which is not
valid for synchronous requests.

But silently ignoring metadata (or warning in case of
__blkdev_direct_IO_simple) is a really bad idea as that can cause
silent data corruption if a user ever shows up.

Instead simply handle metadata for synchronous requests as the completion
handler can simply check for bio_integrity() as the block layer default
integrity will already be freed at this point, and thus bio_integrity()
will only return true for user mapped integrity.

Fixes: 3d8b5a22d404 ("block: add support to pass user meta buffer")
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250819082517.2038819-3-hch@lst.de
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs: add a FMODE_ flag to indicate IOCB_HAS_METADATA availability</title>
<updated>2025-08-20T09:12:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2025-08-19T08:25:00+00:00</published>
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Currently the kernel will happily route io_uring requests with metadata
to file operations that don't support it.  Add a FMODE_ flag to guard
that.

Fixes: 4de2ce04c862 ("fs: introduce IOCB_HAS_METADATA for metadata")
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250819082517.2038819-2-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'vfs-6.17-rc1.iomap' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs</title>
<updated>2025-07-28T23:09:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-28T23:09:03+00:00</published>
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Pull vfs iomap updates from Christian Brauner:

 - Refactor the iomap writeback code and split the generic and ioend/bio
   based writeback code.

   There are two methods that define the split between the generic
   writeback code, and the implemementation of it, and all knowledge of
   ioends and bios now sits below that layer.

 - Add fuse iomap support for buffered writes and dirty folio writeback.

   This is needed so that granular uptodate and dirty tracking can be
   used in fuse when large folios are enabled. This has two big
   advantages. For writes, instead of the entire folio needing to be
   read into the page cache, only the relevant portions need to be. For
   writeback, only the dirty portions need to be written back instead of
   the entire folio.

* tag 'vfs-6.17-rc1.iomap' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  fuse: refactor writeback to use iomap_writepage_ctx inode
  fuse: hook into iomap for invalidating and checking partial uptodateness
  fuse: use iomap for folio laundering
  fuse: use iomap for writeback
  fuse: use iomap for buffered writes
  iomap: build the writeback code without CONFIG_BLOCK
  iomap: add read_folio_range() handler for buffered writes
  iomap: improve argument passing to iomap_read_folio_sync
  iomap: replace iomap_folio_ops with iomap_write_ops
  iomap: export iomap_writeback_folio
  iomap: move folio_unlock out of iomap_writeback_folio
  iomap: rename iomap_writepage_map to iomap_writeback_folio
  iomap: move all ioend handling to ioend.c
  iomap: add public helpers for uptodate state manipulation
  iomap: hide ioends from the generic writeback code
  iomap: refactor the writeback interface
  iomap: cleanup the pending writeback tracking in iomap_writepage_map_blocks
  iomap: pass more arguments using the iomap writeback context
  iomap: header diet
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'vfs-6.17-rc1.mmap_prepare' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs</title>
<updated>2025-07-28T20:43:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-28T20:43:25+00:00</published>
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Pull mmap_prepare updates from Christian Brauner:
 "Last cycle we introduce f_op-&gt;mmap_prepare() in c84bf6dd2b83 ("mm:
  introduce new .mmap_prepare() file callback").

  This is preferred to the existing f_op-&gt;mmap() hook as it does require
  a VMA to be established yet, thus allowing the mmap logic to invoke
  this hook far, far earlier, prior to inserting a VMA into the virtual
  address space, or performing any other heavy handed operations.

  This allows for much simpler unwinding on error, and for there to be a
  single attempt at merging a VMA rather than having to possibly
  reattempt a merge based on potentially altered VMA state.

  Far more importantly, it prevents inappropriate manipulation of
  incompletely initialised VMA state, which is something that has been
  the cause of bugs and complexity in the past.

  The intent is to gradually deprecate f_op-&gt;mmap, and in that vein this
  series coverts the majority of file systems to using f_op-&gt;mmap_prepare.

  Prerequisite steps are taken - firstly ensuring all checks for mmap
  capabilities use the file_has_valid_mmap_hooks() helper rather than
  directly checking for f_op-&gt;mmap (which is now not a valid check) and
  secondly updating daxdev_mapping_supported() to not require a VMA
  parameter to allow ext4 and xfs to be converted.

  Commit bb666b7c2707 ("mm: add mmap_prepare() compatibility layer for
  nested file systems") handles the nasty edge-case of nested file
  systems like overlayfs, which introduces a compatibility shim to allow
  f_op-&gt;mmap_prepare() to be invoked from an f_op-&gt;mmap() callback.

  This allows for nested filesystems to continue to function correctly
  with all file systems regardless of which callback is used. Once we
  finally convert all file systems, this shim can be removed.

  As a result, ecryptfs, fuse, and overlayfs remain unaltered so they
  can nest all other file systems.

  We additionally do not update resctl - as this requires an update to
  remap_pfn_range() (or an alternative to it) which we defer to a later
  series, equally we do not update cramfs which needs a mixed mapping
  insertion with the same issue, nor do we update procfs, hugetlbfs,
  syfs or kernfs all of which require VMAs for internal state and hooks.
  We shall return to all of these later"

* tag 'vfs-6.17-rc1.mmap_prepare' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  doc: update porting, vfs documentation to describe mmap_prepare()
  fs: replace mmap hook with .mmap_prepare for simple mappings
  fs: convert most other generic_file_*mmap() users to .mmap_prepare()
  fs: convert simple use of generic_file_*_mmap() to .mmap_prepare()
  mm/filemap: introduce generic_file_*_mmap_prepare() helpers
  fs/xfs: transition from deprecated .mmap hook to .mmap_prepare
  fs/ext4: transition from deprecated .mmap hook to .mmap_prepare
  fs/dax: make it possible to check dev dax support without a VMA
  fs: consistently use can_mmap_file() helper
  mm/nommu: use file_has_valid_mmap_hooks() helper
  mm: rename call_mmap/mmap_prepare to vfs_mmap/mmap_prepare
</content>
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'vfs-6.17-rc1.fallocate' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs</title>
<updated>2025-07-28T20:36:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-28T20:36:49+00:00</published>
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Pull fallocate updates from Christian Brauner:
 "fallocate() currently supports creating preallocated files
  efficiently. However, on most filesystems fallocate() will preallocate
  blocks in an unwriten state even if FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE is specified.

  The extent state must later be converted to a written state when the
  user writes data into this range, which can trigger numerous metadata
  changes and journal I/O. This may leads to significant write
  amplification and performance degradation in synchronous write mode.

  At the moment, the only method to avoid this is to create an empty
  file and write zero data into it (for example, using 'dd' with a large
  block size). However, this method is slow and consumes a considerable
  amount of disk bandwidth.

  Now that more and more flash-based storage devices are available it is
  possible to efficiently write zeros to SSDs using the unmap write
  zeroes command if the devices do not write physical zeroes to the
  media.

  For example, if SCSI SSDs support the UMMAP bit or NVMe SSDs support
  the DEAC bit[1], the write zeroes command does not write actual data
  to the device, instead, NVMe converts the zeroed range to a
  deallocated state, which works fast and consumes almost no disk write
  bandwidth.

  This series implements the BLK_FEAT_WRITE_ZEROES_UNMAP feature and
  BLK_FLAG_WRITE_ZEROES_UNMAP_DISABLED flag for SCSI, NVMe and
  device-mapper drivers, and add the FALLOC_FL_WRITE_ZEROES and
  STATX_ATTR_WRITE_ZEROES_UNMAP support for ext4 and raw bdev devices.

  fallocate() is subsequently extended with the FALLOC_FL_WRITE_ZEROES
  flag. FALLOC_FL_WRITE_ZEROES zeroes a specified file range in such a
  way that subsequent writes to that range do not require further
  changes to the file mapping metadata. This flag is beneficial for
  subsequent pure overwriting within this range, as it can save on block
  allocation and, consequently, significant metadata changes"

* tag 'vfs-6.17-rc1.fallocate' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  ext4: add FALLOC_FL_WRITE_ZEROES support
  block: add FALLOC_FL_WRITE_ZEROES support
  block: factor out common part in blkdev_fallocate()
  fs: introduce FALLOC_FL_WRITE_ZEROES to fallocate
  dm: clear unmap write zeroes limits when disabling write zeroes
  scsi: sd: set max_hw_wzeroes_unmap_sectors if device supports SD_ZERO_*_UNMAP
  nvmet: set WZDS and DRB if device enables unmap write zeroes operation
  nvme: set max_hw_wzeroes_unmap_sectors if device supports DEAC bit
  block: introduce max_{hw|user}_wzeroes_unmap_sectors to queue limits
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs: change write_begin/write_end interface to take struct kiocb *</title>
<updated>2025-07-16T12:48:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Taotao Chen</name>
<email>chentaotao@didiglobal.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-16T09:36:06+00:00</published>
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Change the address_space_operations callbacks write_begin() and
write_end() to take struct kiocb * as the first argument instead of
struct file *.

Update all affected function prototypes, implementations, call sites,
and related documentation across VFS, filesystems, and block layer.

Part of a series refactoring address_space_operations write_begin and
write_end callbacks to use struct kiocb for passing write context and
flags.

Signed-off-by: Taotao Chen &lt;chentaotao@didiglobal.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250716093559.217344-4-chentaotao@didiglobal.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
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