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<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>
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<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
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<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>
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<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;
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<title>fs: convert simple use of generic_file_*_mmap() to .mmap_prepare()</title>
<updated>2025-06-17T11:47:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lorenzo Stoakes</name>
<email>lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-06-16T19:33:27+00:00</published>
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Since commit c84bf6dd2b83 ("mm: introduce new .mmap_prepare() file
callback"), the f_op-&gt;mmap() hook has been deprecated in favour of
f_op-&gt;mmap_prepare().

We have provided generic .mmap_prepare() equivalents, so update all file
systems that specify these directly in their file_operations structures.

This updates 9p, adfs, affs, bfs, fat, hfs, hfsplus, hostfs, hpfs, jffs2,
jfs, minix, omfs, ramfs and ufs file systems directly.

It updates generic_ro_fops which impacts qnx4, cramfs, befs, squashfs,
frebxfs, qnx6, efs, romfs, erofs and isofs file systems.

There are remaining file systems which use generic hooks in a less direct
way which we address in a subsequent commit.

Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/c7dc90e44a9e75e750939ea369290d6e441a18e6.1750099179.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: Viacheslav Dubeyko &lt;Slava.Dubeyko@ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>omfs: convert to new mount API</title>
<updated>2025-04-28T08:54:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pavel Reichl</name>
<email>preichl@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-23T22:00:01+00:00</published>
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Convert the OMFS filesystem to the new mount API.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Reichl &lt;preichl@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250423220001.1535071-1-preichl@redhat.com
Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen &lt;sandeen@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>Change inode_operations.mkdir to return struct dentry *</title>
<updated>2025-02-27T19:00:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>NeilBrown</name>
<email>neilb@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-27T01:32:53+00:00</published>
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Some filesystems, such as NFS, cifs, ceph, and fuse, do not have
complete control of sequencing on the actual filesystem (e.g.  on a
different server) and may find that the inode created for a mkdir
request already exists in the icache and dcache by the time the mkdir
request returns.  For example, if the filesystem is mounted twice the
directory could be visible on the other mount before it is on the
original mount, and a pair of name_to_handle_at(), open_by_handle_at()
calls could instantiate the directory inode with an IS_ROOT() dentry
before the first mkdir returns.

This means that the dentry passed to -&gt;mkdir() may not be the one that
is associated with the inode after the -&gt;mkdir() completes.  Some
callers need to interact with the inode after the -&gt;mkdir completes and
they currently need to perform a lookup in the (rare) case that the
dentry is no longer hashed.

This lookup-after-mkdir requires that the directory remains locked to
avoid races.  Planned future patches to lock the dentry rather than the
directory will mean that this lookup cannot be performed atomically with
the mkdir.

To remove this barrier, this patch changes -&gt;mkdir to return the
resulting dentry if it is different from the one passed in.
Possible returns are:
  NULL - the directory was created and no other dentry was used
  ERR_PTR() - an error occurred
  non-NULL - this other dentry was spliced in

This patch only changes file-systems to return "ERR_PTR(err)" instead of
"err" or equivalent transformations.  Subsequent patches will make
further changes to some file-systems to return a correct dentry.

Not all filesystems reliably result in a positive hashed dentry:

- NFS, cifs, hostfs will sometimes need to perform a lookup of
  the name to get inode information.  Races could result in this
  returning something different. Note that this lookup is
  non-atomic which is what we are trying to avoid.  Placing the
  lookup in filesystem code means it only happens when the filesystem
  has no other option.
- kernfs and tracefs leave the dentry negative and the -&gt;revalidate
  operation ensures that lookup will be called to correctly populate
  the dentry.  This could be fixed but I don't think it is important
  to any of the users of vfs_mkdir() which look at the dentry.

The recommendation to use
    d_drop();d_splice_alias()
is ugly but fits with current practice.  A planned future patch will
change this.

Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250227013949.536172-2-neilb@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>fs: Convert aops-&gt;write_begin to take a folio</title>
<updated>2024-08-07T09:33:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)</name>
<email>willy@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-15T18:24:01+00:00</published>
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Convert all callers from working on a page to working on one page
of a folio (support for working on an entire folio can come later).
Removes a lot of folio-&gt;page-&gt;folio conversions.

Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik &lt;josef@toxicpanda.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>omfs: convert to new timestamp accessors</title>
<updated>2023-10-18T12:08:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff Layton</name>
<email>jlayton@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-10-04T18:52:42+00:00</published>
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Convert to using the new inode timestamp accessor functions.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231004185347.80880-55-jlayton@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-6.6/block-2023-08-28' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux</title>
<updated>2023-08-30T03:21:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-30T03:21:42+00:00</published>
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Pull block updates from Jens Axboe:
 "Pretty quiet round for this release. This contains:

   - Add support for zoned storage to ublk (Andreas, Ming)

   - Series improving performance for drivers that mark themselves as
     needing a blocking context for issue (Bart)

   - Cleanup the flush logic (Chengming)

   - sed opal keyring support (Greg)

   - Fixes and improvements to the integrity support (Jinyoung)

   - Add some exports for bcachefs that we can hopefully delete again in
     the future (Kent)

   - deadline throttling fix (Zhiguo)

   - Series allowing building the kernel without buffer_head support
     (Christoph)

   - Sanitize the bio page adding flow (Christoph)

   - Write back cache fixes (Christoph)

   - MD updates via Song:
      - Fix perf regression for raid0 large sequential writes (Jan)
      - Fix split bio iostat for raid0 (David)
      - Various raid1 fixes (Heinz, Xueshi)
      - raid6test build fixes (WANG)
      - Deprecate bitmap file support (Christoph)
      - Fix deadlock with md sync thread (Yu)
      - Refactor md io accounting (Yu)
      - Various non-urgent fixes (Li, Yu, Jack)

   - Various fixes and cleanups (Arnd, Azeem, Chengming, Damien, Li,
     Ming, Nitesh, Ruan, Tejun, Thomas, Xu)"

* tag 'for-6.6/block-2023-08-28' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux: (113 commits)
  block: use strscpy() to instead of strncpy()
  block: sed-opal: keyring support for SED keys
  block: sed-opal: Implement IOC_OPAL_REVERT_LSP
  block: sed-opal: Implement IOC_OPAL_DISCOVERY
  blk-mq: prealloc tags when increase tagset nr_hw_queues
  blk-mq: delete redundant tagset map update when fallback
  blk-mq: fix tags leak when shrink nr_hw_queues
  ublk: zoned: support REQ_OP_ZONE_RESET_ALL
  md: raid0: account for split bio in iostat accounting
  md/raid0: Fix performance regression for large sequential writes
  md/raid0: Factor out helper for mapping and submitting a bio
  md raid1: allow writebehind to work on any leg device set WriteMostly
  md/raid1: hold the barrier until handle_read_error() finishes
  md/raid1: free the r1bio before waiting for blocked rdev
  md/raid1: call free_r1bio() before allow_barrier() in raid_end_bio_io()
  blk-cgroup: Fix NULL deref caused by blkg_policy_data being installed before init
  drivers/rnbd: restore sysfs interface to rnbd-client
  md/raid5-cache: fix null-ptr-deref for r5l_flush_stripe_to_raid()
  raid6: test: only check for Altivec if building on powerpc hosts
  raid6: test: make sure all intermediate and artifact files are .gitignored
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'flex-array-transformations-6.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gustavoars/linux</title>
<updated>2023-08-29T19:48:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-29T19:48:12+00:00</published>
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Pull flexible-array updates from Gustavo A. R. Silva.

* tag 'flex-array-transformations-6.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gustavoars/linux:
  fs: omfs: Use flexible-array member in struct omfs_extent
  sparc: openpromio: Address -Warray-bounds warning
  reiserfs: Replace one-element array with flexible-array member
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<entry>
<title>fs: add CONFIG_BUFFER_HEAD</title>
<updated>2023-08-02T15:13:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-01T17:22:01+00:00</published>
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Add a new config option that controls building the buffer_head code, and
select it from all file systems and stacking drivers that need it.

For the block device nodes and alternative iomap based buffered I/O path
is provided when buffer_head support is not enabled, and iomap needs a
a small tweak to define the IOMAP_F_BUFFER_HEAD flag to 0 to not call
into the buffer_head code when it doesn't exist.

Otherwise this is just Kconfig and ifdef changes.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn &lt;johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230801172201.1923299-7-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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