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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2024-03-13 13:52:24 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2024-03-13 13:52:24 -0700
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Merge tag 'xfs-6.9-merge-8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfs-linux
Pull xfs updates from Chandan Babu: - Online repair updates: - More ondisk structures being repaired: - Inode's mode field by trying to obtain file type value from the a directory entry - Quota counters - Link counts of inodes - FS summary counters - Support for in-memory btrees has been added to support repair of rmap btrees - Misc changes: - Report corruption of metadata to the health tracking subsystem - Enable indirect health reporting when resources are scarce - Reduce memory usage while repairing refcount btree - Extend "Bmap update" intent item to support atomic extent swapping on the realtime device - Extend "Bmap update" intent item to support extended attribute fork and unwritten extents - Code cleanups: - Bmap log intent - Btree block pointer checking - Btree readahead - Buffer target - Symbolic link code - Remove mrlock wrapper around the rwsem - Convert all the GFP_NOFS flag usages to use the scoped memalloc_nofs_save() API instead of direct calls with the GFP_NOFS - Refactor and simplify xfile abstraction. Lower level APIs in shmem.c are required to be exported in order to achieve this - Skip checking alignment constraints for inode chunk allocations when block size is larger than inode chunk size - Do not submit delwri buffers collected during log recovery when an error has been encountered - Fix SEEK_HOLE/DATA for file regions which have active COW extents - Fix lock order inversion when executing error handling path during shrinking a filesystem - Remove duplicate ifdefs * tag 'xfs-6.9-merge-8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfs-linux: (183 commits) xfs: shrink failure needs to hold AGI buffer mm/shmem.c: Use new form of *@param in kernel-doc kernel-doc: Add unary operator * to $type_param_ref xfs: use kvfree() in xlog_cil_free_logvec() xfs: xfs_btree_bload_prep_block() should use __GFP_NOFAIL xfs: fix scrub stats file permissions xfs: fix log recovery erroring out on refcount recovery failure xfs: move symlink target write function to libxfs xfs: move remote symlink target read function to libxfs xfs: move xfs_symlink_remote.c declarations to xfs_symlink_remote.h xfs: xfs_bmap_finish_one should map unwritten extents properly xfs: support deferred bmap updates on the attr fork xfs: support recovering bmap intent items targetting realtime extents xfs: add a realtime flag to the bmap update log redo items xfs: add a xattr_entry helper xfs: fix xfs_bunmapi to allow unmapping of partial rt extents xfs: move xfs_bmap_defer_add to xfs_bmap_item.c xfs: reuse xfs_bmap_update_cancel_item xfs: add a bi_entry helper xfs: remove xfs_trans_set_bmap_flags ...
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/xfs/xfs-online-fsck-design.rst30
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/xfs/xfs-online-fsck-design.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/xfs/xfs-online-fsck-design.rst
index 352516feef6ffe..6333697ba3e821 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/xfs/xfs-online-fsck-design.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/xfs/xfs-online-fsck-design.rst
@@ -1915,19 +1915,13 @@ four of those five higher level data structures.
The fifth use case is discussed in the :ref:`realtime summary <rtsummary>` case
study.
-The most general storage interface supported by the xfile enables the reading
-and writing of arbitrary quantities of data at arbitrary offsets in the xfile.
-This capability is provided by ``xfile_pread`` and ``xfile_pwrite`` functions,
-which behave similarly to their userspace counterparts.
XFS is very record-based, which suggests that the ability to load and store
complete records is important.
-To support these cases, a pair of ``xfile_obj_load`` and ``xfile_obj_store``
-functions are provided to read and persist objects into an xfile.
-They are internally the same as pread and pwrite, except that they treat any
-error as an out of memory error.
-For online repair, squashing error conditions in this manner is an acceptable
-behavior because the only reaction is to abort the operation back to userspace.
-All five xfile usecases can be serviced by these four functions.
+To support these cases, a pair of ``xfile_load`` and ``xfile_store``
+functions are provided to read and persist objects into an xfile that treat any
+error as an out of memory error. For online repair, squashing error conditions
+in this manner is an acceptable behavior because the only reaction is to abort
+the operation back to userspace.
However, no discussion of file access idioms is complete without answering the
question, "But what about mmap?"
@@ -1939,15 +1933,14 @@ tmpfs can only push a pagecache folio to the swap cache if the folio is neither
pinned nor locked, which means the xfile must not pin too many folios.
Short term direct access to xfile contents is done by locking the pagecache
-folio and mapping it into kernel address space.
-Programmatic access (e.g. pread and pwrite) uses this mechanism.
-Folio locks are not supposed to be held for long periods of time, so long
-term direct access to xfile contents is done by bumping the folio refcount,
+folio and mapping it into kernel address space. Object load and store uses this
+mechanism. Folio locks are not supposed to be held for long periods of time, so
+long term direct access to xfile contents is done by bumping the folio refcount,
mapping it into kernel address space, and dropping the folio lock.
These long term users *must* be responsive to memory reclaim by hooking into
the shrinker infrastructure to know when to release folios.
-The ``xfile_get_page`` and ``xfile_put_page`` functions are provided to
+The ``xfile_get_folio`` and ``xfile_put_folio`` functions are provided to
retrieve the (locked) folio that backs part of an xfile and to release it.
The only code to use these folio lease functions are the xfarray
:ref:`sorting<xfarray_sort>` algorithms and the :ref:`in-memory
@@ -2277,13 +2270,12 @@ follows:
pointing to the xfile.
3. Pass the buffer cache target, buffer ops, and other information to
- ``xfbtree_create`` to write an initial tree header and root block to the
- xfile.
+ ``xfbtree_init`` to initialize the passed in ``struct xfbtree`` and write an
+ initial root block to the xfile.
Each btree type should define a wrapper that passes necessary arguments to
the creation function.
For example, rmap btrees define ``xfs_rmapbt_mem_create`` to take care of
all the necessary details for callers.
- A ``struct xfbtree`` object will be returned.
4. Pass the xfbtree object to the btree cursor creation function for the
btree type.