kernel/linux.git/drivers/md/dm-linear.c, branch v7.1-rc5

Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument

2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00

This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using git grep -l '\

treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types

2026-02-21T09:02:28+00:00

This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union object instances: Single allocations: kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...) Array allocations: kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...) Flex array allocations: kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...) (where TYPE may also be *VAR) The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning "TYPE *". Signed-off-by: Kees Cook

mm: remove callers of pfn_t functionality

2025-07-10T05:42:19+00:00

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 Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe Acked-by: David Hildenbrand Cc: Balbir Singh Cc: Björn Töpel Cc: Björn Töpel Cc: Chunyan Zhang Cc: Dan Williams Cc: Deepak Gupta Cc: Gerald Schaefer Cc: Inki Dae Cc: John Groves Cc: John Hubbard Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Cc: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

dm: Allow .prepare_ioctl to handle ioctls directly

2025-05-04T09:35:05+00:00

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 Reviewed-by: Benjamin Marzinski Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka

dm-linear: Enable atomic writes

2025-01-17T21:24:04+00:00

Set feature flag DM_TARGET_ATOMIC_WRITES. Signed-off-by: John Garry Reviewed-by: Mike Snitzer Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka

dm: optimize flushes

2024-06-26T15:32:39+00:00

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->devices is iterated and the flush bios are sent to each member of the list. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka Reviewed-by: Mike Snitzer Suggested-by: Yang Yang

dm: shortcut the calls to linear_map and stripe_map

2023-10-06T23:09:25+00:00

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 Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer

dm: remove unnecessary (void*) conversions

2023-04-11T16:01:01+00:00

Pointer variables of void * type do not require type cast. Signed-off-by: Yu Zhe Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer

dm: don't indent labels

2023-02-14T19:23:07+00:00

Signed-off-by: Heinz Mauelshagen Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer

dm: change "unsigned" to "unsigned int"

2023-02-14T19:23:06+00:00

Signed-off-by: Heinz Mauelshagen Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer