kernel/linux.git/fs/dax.c, branch v7.1

Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm

2026-04-21T21:12:01+00:00

Pull dax updates from Ira Weiny: "The series adds DAX support required for the upcoming fuse/famfs file system.[1] The support here is required because famfs is backed by devdax rather than pmem. This all lays the groundwork for using shared memory as a file system" Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/0100019d43e5f632-f5862a3e-361c-4b54-a9a6-96c242a8f17a-000000@email.amazonses.com/ [1] * tag 'libnvdimm-for-7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: dax/fsdev: fix uninitialized kaddr in fsdev_dax_zero_page_range() dax: export dax_dev_get() dax: Add fs_dax_get() func to prepare dax for fs-dax usage dax: Add dax_set_ops() for setting dax_operations at bind time dax: Add dax_operations for use by fs-dax on fsdev dax dax: Save the kva from memremap dax: add fsdev.c driver for fs-dax on character dax dax: Factor out dax_folio_reset_order() helper dax: move dax_pgoff_to_phys from [drivers/dax/] device.c to bus.c

fs: remove unncessary pagevec.h includes

2026-04-05T20:53:06+00:00

Remove unused pagevec.h includes from .c files. These were found with the following command: grep -rl '#include.*pagevec\.h' --include='*.c' | while read f; do grep -qE 'PAGEVEC_SIZE|folio_batch' "$f" || echo "$f" done There are probably more removal candidates in .h files, but those are more complex to analyze. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260225-pagevec_cleanup-v2-2-716868cc2d11@columbia.edu Signed-off-by: Tal Zussman Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Acked-by: Zi Yan Acked-by: Chris Li Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) Cc: Christian Brauner Cc: David Hildenbrand (Arm) Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: rename my_zero_pfn() to zero_pfn()

2026-04-05T20:53:01+00:00

my_zero_pfn() is a silly name. Rename zero_pfn variable to zero_page_pfn and my_zero_pfn() function to zero_pfn(). While on it, move extern declarations of zero_page_pfn outside the functions that use it and add a comment about what ZERO_PAGE is. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260211103141.3215197-3-rppt@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett Cc: Andreas Larsson Cc: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP) Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: David S. Miller Cc: Dinh Nguyen Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Guo Ren Cc: Helge Deller Cc: Huacai Chen Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Johannes Berg Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan Cc: Magnus Lindholm Cc: Matt Turner Cc: Max Filippov Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Michal Simek Cc: Palmer Dabbelt Cc: Richard Weinberger Cc: Russell King Cc: Stafford Horne Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Vineet Gupta Cc: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

dax: add fsdev.c driver for fs-dax on character dax

2026-03-30T13:20:47+00:00

The new fsdev driver provides pages/folios initialized compatibly with fsdax - normal rather than devdax-style refcounting, and starting out with order-0 folios. When fsdev binds to a daxdev, it is usually (always?) switching from the devdax mode (device.c), which pre-initializes compound folios according to its alignment. Fsdev uses fsdev_clear_folio_state() to switch the folios into a fsdax-compatible state. A side effect of this is that raw mmap doesn't (can't?) work on an fsdev dax instance. Accordingly, The fsdev driver does not provide raw mmap - devices must be put in 'devdax' mode (drivers/dax/device.c) to get raw mmap capability. In this commit is just the framework, which remaps pages/folios compatibly with fsdax. Enabling dax changes: - bus.h: add DAXDRV_FSDEV_TYPE driver type - bus.c: allow DAXDRV_FSDEV_TYPE drivers to bind to daxdevs - dax.h: prototype inode_dax(), which fsdev needs Suggested-by: Dan Williams Suggested-by: Gregory Price Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron Signed-off-by: John Groves Link: https://patch.msgid.link/0100019d311cf904-419e9526-bdaf-4daa-97f1-5060b31a5c9f-000000@email.amazonses.com Signed-off-by: Ira Weiny

dax: Factor out dax_folio_reset_order() helper

2026-03-30T13:20:47+00:00

Both fs/dax.c:dax_folio_put() and drivers/dax/fsdev.c: fsdev_clear_folio_state() (the latter coming in the next commit after this one) contain nearly identical code to reset a compound DAX folio back to order-0 pages. Factor this out into a shared helper function. The new dax_folio_reset_order() function: - Clears the folio's mapping and share count - Resets compound folio state via folio_reset_order() - Clears PageHead and compound_head for each sub-page - Restores the pgmap pointer for each resulting order-0 folio - Returns the original folio order (for callers that need to advance by that many pages) Two intentional differences from the original dax_folio_put() logic: 1. folio->share is cleared unconditionally. This is correct because the DAX subsystem maintains the invariant that share != 0 only when mapping == NULL (enforced by dax_folio_make_shared()). dax_folio_put() ensures share has reached zero before calling this helper, so the unconditional clear is safe. 2. folio->pgmap is now explicitly restored for order-0 folios. For the dax_folio_put() caller this is a no-op (reads and writes back the same field). It is intentional for the upcoming fsdev_clear_folio_state() caller, which converts previously-compound folios and needs pgmap re-established for all pages regardless of order. This simplifies fsdev_clear_folio_state() from ~50 lines to ~15 lines. Suggested-by: Jonathan Cameron Reviewed-by: Ira Weiny Reviewed-by: Dave Jiang Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron Signed-off-by: John Groves Link: https://patch.msgid.link/0100019d311cc6b9-5be7428a-7f16-4774-8f90-a44b88ac5660-000000@email.amazonses.com Signed-off-by: Ira Weiny

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-12-03-21-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2025-12-05T21:52:43+00:00

Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: "__vmalloc()/kvmalloc() and no-block support" (Uladzislau Rezki) Rework the vmalloc() code to support non-blocking allocations (GFP_ATOIC, GFP_NOWAIT) "ksm: fix exec/fork inheritance" (xu xin) Fix a rare case where the KSM MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY prctl state is not inherited across fork/exec "mm/zswap: misc cleanup of code and documentations" (SeongJae Park) Some light maintenance work on the zswap code "mm/page_owner: add debugfs files 'show_handles' and 'show_stacks_handles'" (Mauricio Faria de Oliveira) Enhance the /sys/kernel/debug/page_owner debug feature by adding unique identifiers to differentiate the various stack traces so that userspace monitoring tools can better match stack traces over time "mm/page_alloc: pcp->batch cleanups" (Joshua Hahn) Minor alterations to the page allocator's per-cpu-pages feature "Improve UFFDIO_MOVE scalability by removing anon_vma lock" (Lokesh Gidra) Address a scalability issue in userfaultfd's UFFDIO_MOVE operation "kasan: cleanups for kasan_enabled() checks" (Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov) "drivers/base/node: fold node register and unregister functions" (Donet Tom) Clean up the NUMA node handling code a little "mm: some optimizations for prot numa" (Kefeng Wang) Cleanups and small optimizations to the NUMA allocation hinting code "mm/page_alloc: Batch callers of free_pcppages_bulk" (Joshua Hahn) Address long lock hold times at boot on large machines. These were causing (harmless) softlockup warnings "optimize the logic for handling dirty file folios during reclaim" (Baolin Wang) Remove some now-unnecessary work from page reclaim "mm/damon: allow DAMOS auto-tuned for per-memcg per-node memory usage" (SeongJae Park) Enhance the DAMOS auto-tuning feature "mm/damon: fixes for address alignment issues in DAMON_LRU_SORT and DAMON_RECLAIM" (Quanmin Yan) Fix DAMON_LRU_SORT and DAMON_RECLAIM with certain userspace configuration "expand mmap_prepare functionality, port more users" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Enhance the new(ish) file_operations.mmap_prepare() method and port additional callsites from the old ->mmap() over to ->mmap_prepare() "Fix stale IOTLB entries for kernel address space" (Lu Baolu) Fix a bug (and possible security issue on non-x86) in the IOMMU code. In some situations the IOMMU could be left hanging onto a stale kernel pagetable entry "mm/huge_memory: cleanup __split_unmapped_folio()" (Wei Yang) Clean up and optimize the folio splitting code "mm, swap: misc cleanup and bugfix" (Kairui Song) Some cleanups and a minor fix in the swap discard code "mm/damon: misc documentation fixups" (SeongJae Park) "mm/damon: support pin-point targets removal" (SeongJae Park) Permit userspace to remove a specific monitoring target in the middle of the current targets list "mm: MISC follow-up patches for linux/pgalloc.h" (Harry Yoo) A couple of cleanups related to mm header file inclusion "mm/swapfile.c: select swap devices of default priority round robin" (Baoquan He) improve the selection of swap devices for NUMA machines "mm: Convert memory block states (MEM_*) macros to enums" (Israel Batista) Change the memory block labels from macros to enums so they will appear in kernel debug info "ksm: perform a range-walk to jump over holes in break_ksm" (Pedro Demarchi Gomes) Address an inefficiency when KSM unmerges an address range "mm/damon/tests: fix memory bugs in kunit tests" (SeongJae Park) Fix leaks and unhandled malloc() failures in DAMON userspace unit tests "some cleanups for pageout()" (Baolin Wang) Clean up a couple of minor things in the page scanner's writeback-for-eviction code "mm/hugetlb: refactor sysfs/sysctl interfaces" (Hui Zhu) Move hugetlb's sysfs/sysctl handling code into a new file "introduce VM_MAYBE_GUARD and make it sticky" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Make the VMA guard regions available in /proc/pid/smaps and improves the mergeability of guarded VMAs "mm: perform guard region install/remove under VMA lock" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Reduce mmap lock contention for callers performing VMA guard region operations "vma_start_write_killable" (Matthew Wilcox) Start work on permitting applications to be killed when they are waiting on a read_lock on the VMA lock "mm/damon/tests: add more tests for online parameters commit" (SeongJae Park) Add additional userspace testing of DAMON's "commit" feature "mm/damon: misc cleanups" (SeongJae Park) "make VM_SOFTDIRTY a sticky VMA flag" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Address the possible loss of a VMA's VM_SOFTDIRTY flag when that VMA is merged with another "mm: support device-private THP" (Balbir Singh) Introduce support for Transparent Huge Page (THP) migration in zone device-private memory "Optimize folio split in memory failure" (Zi Yan) "mm/huge_memory: Define split_type and consolidate split support checks" (Wei Yang) Some more cleanups in the folio splitting code "mm: remove is_swap_[pte, pmd]() + non-swap entries, introduce leaf entries" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Clean up our handling of pagetable leaf entries by introducing the concept of 'software leaf entries', of type softleaf_t "reparent the THP split queue" (Muchun Song) Reparent the THP split queue to its parent memcg. This is in preparation for addressing the long-standing "dying memcg" problem, wherein dead memcg's linger for too long, consuming memory resources "unify PMD scan results and remove redundant cleanup" (Wei Yang) A little cleanup in the hugepage collapse code "zram: introduce writeback bio batching" (Sergey Senozhatsky) Improve zram writeback efficiency by introducing batched bio writeback support "memcg: cleanup the memcg stats interfaces" (Shakeel Butt) Clean up our handling of the interrupt safety of some memcg stats "make vmalloc gfp flags usage more apparent" (Vishal Moola) Clean up vmalloc's handling of incoming GFP flags "mm: Add soft-dirty and uffd-wp support for RISC-V" (Chunyan Zhang) Teach soft dirty and userfaultfd write protect tracking to use RISC-V's Svrsw60t59b extension "mm: swap: small fixes and comment cleanups" (Youngjun Park) Fix a small bug and clean up some of the swap code "initial work on making VMA flags a bitmap" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Start work on converting the vma struct's flags to a bitmap, so we stop running out of them, especially on 32-bit "mm/swapfile: fix and cleanup swap list iterations" (Youngjun Park) Address a possible bug in the swap discard code and clean things up a little [ This merge also reverts commit ebb9aeb980e5 ("vfio/nvgrace-gpu: register device memory for poison handling") because it looks broken to me, I've asked for clarification - Linus ] * tag 'mm-stable-2025-12-03-21-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (321 commits) mm: fix vma_start_write_killable() signal handling mm/swapfile: use plist_for_each_entry in __folio_throttle_swaprate mm/swapfile: fix list iteration when next node is removed during discard fs/proc/task_mmu.c: fix make_uffd_wp_huge_pte() huge pte handling mm/kfence: add reboot notifier to disable KFENCE on shutdown memcg: remove inc/dec_lruvec_kmem_state helpers selftests/mm/uffd: initialize char variable to Null mm: fix DEBUG_RODATA_TEST indentation in Kconfig mm: introduce VMA flags bitmap type tools/testing/vma: eliminate dependency on vma->__vm_flags mm: simplify and rename mm flags function for clarity mm: declare VMA flags by bit zram: fix a spelling mistake mm/page_alloc: optimize lowmem_reserve max lookup using its semantic monotonicity mm/vmscan: skip increasing kswapd_failures when reclaim was boosted pagemap: update BUDDY flag documentation mm: swap: remove scan_swap_map_slots() references from comments mm: swap: change swap_alloc_slow() to void mm, swap: remove redundant comment for read_swap_cache_async mm, swap: use SWP_SOLIDSTATE to determine if swap is rotational ...

Merge tag 'vfs-6.19-rc1.iomap' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs

2025-12-01T16:14:00+00:00

Pull iomap updates from Christian Brauner: "FUSE iomap Support for Buffered Reads: This adds iomap support for FUSE buffered reads and readahead. This enables granular uptodate tracking with large folios so only non-uptodate portions need to be read. Also fixes a race condition with large folios + writeback cache that could cause data corruption on partial writes followed by reads. - Refactored iomap read/readahead bio logic into helpers - Added caller-provided callbacks for read operations - Moved buffered IO bio logic into new file - FUSE now uses iomap for read_folio and readahead Zero Range Folio Batch Support: Add folio batch support for iomap_zero_range() to handle dirty folios over unwritten mappings. Fix raciness issues where dirty data could be lost during zero range operations. - filemap_get_folios_tag_range() helper for dirty folio lookup - Optional zero range dirty folio processing - XFS fills dirty folios on zero range of unwritten mappings - Removed old partial EOF zeroing optimization DIO Write Completions from Interrupt Context: Restore pre-iomap behavior where pure overwrite completions run inline rather than being deferred to workqueue. Reduces context switches for high-performance workloads like ScyllaDB. - Removed unused IOCB_DIO_CALLER_COMP code - Error completions always run in user context (fixes zonefs) - Reworked REQ_FUA selection logic - Inverted IOMAP_DIO_INLINE_COMP to IOMAP_DIO_OFFLOAD_COMP Buffered IO Cleanups: Some performance and code clarity improvements: - Replace manual bitmap scanning with find_next_bit() - Simplify read skip logic for writes - Optimize pending async writeback accounting - Better variable naming - Documentation for iomap_finish_folio_write() requirements Misaligned Vectors for Zoned XFS: Enables sub-block aligned vectors in XFS always-COW mode for zoned devices via new IOMAP_DIO_FSBLOCK_ALIGNED flag. Bug Fixes: - Allocate s_dio_done_wq for async reads (fixes syzbot report after error completion changes) - Fix iomap_read_end() for already uptodate folios (regression fix)" * tag 'vfs-6.19-rc1.iomap' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (40 commits) iomap: allocate s_dio_done_wq for async reads as well iomap: fix iomap_read_end() for already uptodate folios iomap: invert the polarity of IOMAP_DIO_INLINE_COMP iomap: support write completions from interrupt context iomap: rework REQ_FUA selection iomap: always run error completions in user context fs, iomap: remove IOCB_DIO_CALLER_COMP iomap: use find_next_bit() for uptodate bitmap scanning iomap: use find_next_bit() for dirty bitmap scanning iomap: simplify when reads can be skipped for writes iomap: simplify ->read_folio_range() error handling for reads iomap: optimize pending async writeback accounting docs: document iomap writeback's iomap_finish_folio_write() requirement iomap: account for unaligned end offsets when truncating read range iomap: rename bytes_pending/bytes_accounted to bytes_submitted/bytes_not_submitted xfs: support sub-block aligned vectors in always COW mode iomap: add IOMAP_DIO_FSBLOCK_ALIGNED flag xfs: error tag to force zeroing on debug kernels iomap: remove old partial eof zeroing optimization xfs: fill dirty folios on zero range of unwritten mappings ...

treewide: include linux/pgalloc.h instead of asm/pgalloc.h

2025-11-17T01:28:25+00:00

For now, including instead of is technically fine unless the .c file calls p*d_populate_kernel() helper functions. But it is a better practice to always include . Include instead of outside arch/. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251024113047.119058-3-harry.yoo@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Harry Yoo Acked-by: David Hildenbrand Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) Cc: Liam Howlett Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: SeongJae Park Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

iomap: simplify iomap_iter_advance()

2025-10-20T18:21:25+00:00

Most callers of iomap_iter_advance() do not need the remaining length returned. Get rid of the extra iomap_length() call that iomap_iter_advance() does. Signed-off-by: Joanne Koong Reviewed-by: Brian Foster Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

dax: skip read lock assertion for read-only filesystems

2025-10-07T10:48:33+00:00

The commit 168316db3583("dax: assert that i_rwsem is held exclusive for writes") added lock assertions to ensure proper locking in DAX operations. However, these assertions trigger false-positive lockdep warnings since read lock is unnecessary on read-only filesystems(e.g., erofs). This patch skips the read lock assertion for read-only filesystems, eliminating the spurious warnings while maintaining the integrity checks for writable filesystems. Fixes: 168316db3583 ("dax: assert that i_rwsem is held exclusive for writes") Signed-off-by: Yuezhang Mo Reviewed-by: Friendy Su Reviewed-by: Daniel Palmer Reviewed-by: Gao Xiang Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner