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<title>kernel/linux.git/drivers/md/dm-linear.c, branch v6.18.22</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree (mirror)</subtitle>
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<updated>2025-07-10T05:42:19+00:00</updated>
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<title>mm: remove callers of pfn_t functionality</title>
<updated>2025-07-10T05:42:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alistair Popple</name>
<email>apopple@nvidia.com</email>
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<published>2025-06-19T08:58:05+00:00</published>
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All PFN_* pfn_t flags have been removed.  Therefore there is no longer a
need for the pfn_t type and all uses can be replaced with normal pfns.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/bbedfa576c9822f8032494efbe43544628698b1f.1750323463.git-series.apopple@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Alistair Popple &lt;apopple@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@nvidia.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Balbir Singh &lt;balbirs@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Björn Töpel &lt;bjorn@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Björn Töpel &lt;bjorn@rivosinc.com&gt;
Cc: Chunyan Zhang &lt;zhang.lyra@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Deepak Gupta &lt;debug@rivosinc.com&gt;
Cc: Gerald Schaefer &lt;gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Inki Dae &lt;m.szyprowski@samsung.com&gt;
Cc: John Groves &lt;john@groves.net&gt;
Cc: John Hubbard &lt;jhubbard@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>dm: Allow .prepare_ioctl to handle ioctls directly</title>
<updated>2025-05-04T09:35:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kevin Wolf</name>
<email>kwolf@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-29T16:50:17+00:00</published>
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This adds a 'bool *forward' parameter to .prepare_ioctl, which allows
device mapper targets to accept ioctls to themselves instead of the
underlying device. If the target already fully handled the ioctl, it
sets *forward to false and device mapper won't forward it to the
underlying device any more.

In order for targets to actually know what the ioctl is about and how to
handle it, pass also cmd and arg.

As long as targets restrict themselves to interpreting ioctls of type
DM_IOCTL, this is a backwards compatible change because previously, any
such ioctl would have been passed down through all device mapper layers
until it reached a device that can't understand the ioctl and would
return an error.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf &lt;kwolf@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Benjamin Marzinski &lt;bmarzins@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>dm-linear: Enable atomic writes</title>
<updated>2025-01-17T21:24:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John Garry</name>
<email>john.g.garry@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-16T17:02:58+00:00</published>
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Set feature flag DM_TARGET_ATOMIC_WRITES.

Signed-off-by: John Garry &lt;john.g.garry@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>dm: optimize flushes</title>
<updated>2024-06-26T15:32:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mikulas Patocka</name>
<email>mpatocka@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-28T11:32:34+00:00</published>
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Device mapper sends flush bios to all the targets and the targets send it
to the underlying device. That may be inefficient, for example if a table
contains 10 linear targets pointing to the same physical device, then
device mapper would send 10 flush bios to that device - despite the fact
that only one bio would be sufficient.

This commit optimizes the flush behavior. It introduces a per-target
variable flush_bypasses_map - it is set when the target supports flush
optimization - currently, the dm-linear and dm-stripe targets support it.
When all the targets in a table have flush_bypasses_map,
flush_bypasses_map on the table is set. __send_empty_flush tests if the
table has flush_bypasses_map - and if it has, no flush bios are sent to
the targets via the "map" method and the list dm_table-&gt;devices is
iterated and the flush bios are sent to each member of the list.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@kernel.org&gt;
Suggested-by: Yang Yang &lt;yang.yang@vivo.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>dm: shortcut the calls to linear_map and stripe_map</title>
<updated>2023-10-06T23:09:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mikulas Patocka</name>
<email>mpatocka@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-09-18T15:33:29+00:00</published>
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Shortcut the calls to linear_map and stripe_map, so that they don't suffer
the overhead of retpolines used for indirect calls.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>dm: remove unnecessary (void*) conversions</title>
<updated>2023-04-11T16:01:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yu Zhe</name>
<email>yuzhe@nfschina.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-03-17T01:35:54+00:00</published>
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Pointer variables of void * type do not require type cast.

Signed-off-by: Yu Zhe &lt;yuzhe@nfschina.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>dm: don't indent labels</title>
<updated>2023-02-14T19:23:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Heinz Mauelshagen</name>
<email>heinzm@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-02-07T20:02:51+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Heinz Mauelshagen &lt;heinzm@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>dm: change "unsigned" to "unsigned int"</title>
<updated>2023-02-14T19:23:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Heinz Mauelshagen</name>
<email>heinzm@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-01-25T20:14:58+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Heinz Mauelshagen &lt;heinzm@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>dm: add missing SPDX-License-Indentifiers</title>
<updated>2023-02-14T19:23:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Heinz Mauelshagen</name>
<email>heinzm@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-01-25T20:00:44+00:00</published>
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'GPL-2.0-only' is used instead of 'GPL-2.0' because SPDX has
deprecated its use.

Suggested-by: John Wiele &lt;jwiele@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Heinz Mauelshagen &lt;heinzm@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-5.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm</title>
<updated>2022-05-27T22:49:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-05-27T22:49:30+00:00</published>
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Pull libnvdimm and DAX updates from Dan Williams:
 "New support for clearing memory errors when a file is in DAX mode,
  alongside with some other fixes and cleanups.

  Previously it was only possible to clear these errors using a truncate
  or hole-punch operation to trigger the filesystem to reallocate the
  block, now, any page aligned write can opportunistically clear errors
  as well.

  This change spans x86/mm, nvdimm, and fs/dax, and has received the
  appropriate sign-offs. Thanks to Jane for her work on this.

  Summary:

   - Add support for clearing memory error via pwrite(2) on DAX

   - Fix 'security overwrite' support in the presence of media errors

   - Miscellaneous cleanups and fixes for nfit_test (nvdimm unit tests)"

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-5.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm:
  pmem: implement pmem_recovery_write()
  pmem: refactor pmem_clear_poison()
  dax: add .recovery_write dax_operation
  dax: introduce DAX_RECOVERY_WRITE dax access mode
  mce: fix set_mce_nospec to always unmap the whole page
  x86/mce: relocate set{clear}_mce_nospec() functions
  acpi/nfit: rely on mce-&gt;misc to determine poison granularity
  testing: nvdimm: asm/mce.h is not needed in nfit.c
  testing: nvdimm: iomap: make __nfit_test_ioremap a macro
  nvdimm: Allow overwrite in the presence of disabled dimms
  tools/testing/nvdimm: remove unneeded flush_workqueue
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