Hey Linus,
The vfs.super tree originally contained a good chunk of the btrfs tree
as a merge - as mentioned elsewhere - since we had intended to depend on
work that Christoph did a few months ago. We had allowed btrfs to carry
the patches themselves.
But it since became clear that btrfs/for-next likely does not contain
any of the patches there's zero reason for the original merge. So the
merge is dropped. It's not great because it's a late change but it's
better than bringing in a completely pointless merge.
I have zero appetite for repeating that unreliable experience again next
cycle and plan to just carry such conversion changes completely in
vfs.git going forward.
/* Summary */
This contains the work to make block device opening functions return a
struct bdev_handle instead of just a struct block_device. The same
struct bdev_handle is then also passed to block device closing
functions.
This allows us to propagate context from opening to closing a block
device without having to modify all users everytime.
Sidenote, in the future we might even want to try and have block device
opening functions return a struct file directly but that's a series on
top of this.
These are further preparatory changes to be able to count writable opens
and blocking writes to mounted block devices. That's a separate piece of
work for next cycle and for that we absolutely need the changes to btrfs
that have been quietly dropped somehow.
Originally the series contained a patch that removed the old blkdev_*()
helpers. But since this would've caused needles churn in -next for
bcachefs we ended up delaying it.
The second piece of work addresses one of the major annoyances about the
work last cycle, namely that we required dropping s_umount whenever we
used the superblock and fs_holder_ops for a block device.
The reason for that requirement had been that in some codepaths s_umount
could've been taken under disk->open_mutex (that's always been the case,
at least theoretically). For example, on surprise block device removal
or media change. And opening and closing block devices required grabbing
disk->open_mutex as well.
So we did the work and went through the block layer and fixed all those
places so that s_umount is never taken under disk->open_mutex. This
means no more brittle games where we yield and reacquire s_umount during
block device opening and closing and no more requirements where block
devices need to be closed. Filesystems don't need to care about this.
There's a bunch of other follow-up work such as moving block device
freezing and thawing to holder operations which makes it work for all
block devices and not just the main block device just as we did for
surprise removal. But that is for next cycle.
Tested with fstests for all major fses, blktests, LTP.
/* Testing */
clang: Debian clang version 16.0.6 (16)
gcc: gcc (Debian 13.2.0-5) 13.2.0
All patches are based on v6.6-rc7 and have been sitting in linux-next.
No build failures or warnings were observed.
/* Conflicts */
## Merge Conflicts with other trees
The following trees will have a merge conflict with this tree:
[1] linux-next: manual merge of the vfs-brauner tree with the mm tree
https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
[2] There used to be a merge conflicts with vfs-6.7.ctime tree. But that
merge conflict only happened because of the btrfs merge we carried.
So vfs-6.7.ctime now has a merge conflict with btrfs, not with
vfs-6.7.super.
The following changes since commit 05d3ef8bba77c1b5f98d941d8b2d4aeab8118ef1:
Linux 6.6-rc7 (2023-10-22 12:11:21 -1000)
are available in the Git repository at:
[email protected]:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs tags/vfs-6.7.super
for you to fetch changes up to 5aa9130acb98bacacc8bd9f1489a9269430d0eb8:
porting: update locking requirements (2023-10-28 13:29:23 +0200)
Please consider pulling these changes from the signed vfs-6.7.super tag.
Thanks!
Christian
----------------------------------------------------------------
vfs-6.7.super
----------------------------------------------------------------
Christian Brauner (5):
block: simplify bdev_del_partition()
block: WARN_ON_ONCE() when we remove active partitions
block: assert that we're not holding open_mutex over blk_report_disk_dead
fs: assert that open_mutex isn't held over holder ops
porting: update locking requirements
Christoph Hellwig (1):
block: move bdev_mark_dead out of disk_check_media_change
Jan Kara (30):
block: Provide bdev_open_* functions
block: Use bdev_open_by_dev() in blkdev_open()
block: Use bdev_open_by_dev() in disk_scan_partitions() and blkdev_bszset()
drdb: Convert to use bdev_open_by_path()
pktcdvd: Convert to bdev_open_by_dev()
rnbd-srv: Convert to use bdev_open_by_path()
xen/blkback: Convert to bdev_open_by_dev()
zram: Convert to use bdev_open_by_dev()
bcache: Convert to bdev_open_by_path()
dm: Convert to bdev_open_by_dev()
md: Convert to bdev_open_by_dev()
mtd: block2mtd: Convert to bdev_open_by_dev/path()
nvmet: Convert to bdev_open_by_path()
s390/dasd: Convert to bdev_open_by_path()
scsi: target: Convert to bdev_open_by_path()
PM: hibernate: Convert to bdev_open_by_dev()
PM: hibernate: Drop unused snapshot_test argument
mm/swap: Convert to use bdev_open_by_dev()
fs: Convert to bdev_open_by_dev()
btrfs: Convert to bdev_open_by_path()
erofs: Convert to use bdev_open_by_path()
ext4: Convert to bdev_open_by_dev()
f2fs: Convert to bdev_open_by_dev/path()
jfs: Convert to bdev_open_by_dev()
nfs/blocklayout: Convert to use bdev_open_by_dev/path()
ocfs2: Convert to use bdev_open_by_dev()
reiserfs: Convert to bdev_open_by_dev/path()
xfs: Convert to bdev_open_by_path()
bcache: Fixup error handling in register_cache()
fs: Avoid grabbing sb->s_umount under bdev->bd_holder_lock
Lizhi Xu (1):
jfs: fix log->bdev_handle null ptr deref in lbmStartIO
Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst | 7 +++
block/bdev.c | 65 ++++++++++++++++++---
block/disk-events.c | 18 +++---
block/fops.c | 44 +++++++++-----
block/genhd.c | 19 ++++--
block/ioctl.c | 11 ++--
block/partitions/core.c | 43 +++++++++-----
drivers/block/ataflop.c | 4 +-
drivers/block/drbd/drbd_int.h | 2 +
drivers/block/drbd/drbd_nl.c | 65 ++++++++++-----------
drivers/block/floppy.c | 4 +-
drivers/block/pktcdvd.c | 76 +++++++++++++-----------
drivers/block/rnbd/rnbd-srv.c | 27 ++++-----
drivers/block/rnbd/rnbd-srv.h | 2 +-
drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c | 4 +-
drivers/block/xen-blkback/common.h | 4 +-
drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c | 40 +++++++------
drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c | 31 +++++-----
drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.h | 2 +-
drivers/md/bcache/bcache.h | 2 +
drivers/md/bcache/super.c | 95 +++++++++++++++---------------
drivers/md/dm.c | 20 ++++---
drivers/md/md.c | 23 +++-----
drivers/md/md.h | 4 +-
drivers/mtd/devices/block2mtd.c | 51 +++++++++-------
drivers/nvme/target/io-cmd-bdev.c | 20 ++++---
drivers/nvme/target/nvmet.h | 1 +
drivers/s390/block/dasd.c | 12 ++--
drivers/s390/block/dasd_genhd.c | 45 +++++++-------
drivers/s390/block/dasd_int.h | 2 +-
drivers/s390/block/dasd_ioctl.c | 2 +-
drivers/target/target_core_iblock.c | 19 +++---
drivers/target/target_core_iblock.h | 1 +
drivers/target/target_core_pscsi.c | 26 ++++-----
drivers/target/target_core_pscsi.h | 2 +-
fs/btrfs/dev-replace.c | 14 +++--
fs/btrfs/ioctl.c | 18 +++---
fs/btrfs/volumes.c | 107 +++++++++++++++++-----------------
fs/btrfs/volumes.h | 6 +-
fs/cramfs/inode.c | 2 +-
fs/erofs/data.c | 4 +-
fs/erofs/internal.h | 2 +-
fs/erofs/super.c | 20 +++----
fs/ext4/ext4.h | 2 +-
fs/ext4/fsmap.c | 9 +--
fs/ext4/super.c | 52 +++++++++--------
fs/f2fs/f2fs.h | 1 +
fs/f2fs/super.c | 13 +++--
fs/jfs/jfs_logmgr.c | 33 ++++++-----
fs/jfs/jfs_logmgr.h | 2 +-
fs/jfs/jfs_mount.c | 3 +-
fs/nfs/blocklayout/blocklayout.h | 2 +-
fs/nfs/blocklayout/dev.c | 76 ++++++++++++------------
fs/ocfs2/cluster/heartbeat.c | 81 +++++++++++++------------
fs/reiserfs/journal.c | 56 ++++++++----------
fs/reiserfs/procfs.c | 2 +-
fs/reiserfs/reiserfs.h | 11 ++--
fs/romfs/super.c | 2 +-
fs/super.c | 66 +++++++++++++--------
fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c | 22 ++++---
fs/xfs/xfs_buf.h | 3 +-
fs/xfs/xfs_super.c | 42 +++++++------
include/linux/blkdev.h | 11 ++++
include/linux/device-mapper.h | 1 +
include/linux/fs.h | 1 +
include/linux/pktcdvd.h | 4 +-
include/linux/swap.h | 1 +
kernel/power/hibernate.c | 14 ++---
kernel/power/power.h | 2 +-
kernel/power/swap.c | 37 ++++++------
mm/swapfile.c | 23 ++++----
71 files changed, 854 insertions(+), 684 deletions(-)
Hi Christian,
On Sat, 28 Oct 2023 16:02:33 +0200 Christian Brauner <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> The vfs.super tree originally contained a good chunk of the btrfs tree
> as a merge - as mentioned elsewhere - since we had intended to depend on
> work that Christoph did a few months ago. We had allowed btrfs to carry
> the patches themselves.
>
> But it since became clear that btrfs/for-next likely does not contain
> any of the patches there's zero reason for the original merge. So the
> merge is dropped. It's not great because it's a late change but it's
> better than bringing in a completely pointless merge.
Can you please update what you are including in linux-next to match
what you are asking Linus to merge.
--
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell
On Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 09:20:09AM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Christian,
>
> On Sat, 28 Oct 2023 16:02:33 +0200 Christian Brauner <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > The vfs.super tree originally contained a good chunk of the btrfs tree
> > as a merge - as mentioned elsewhere - since we had intended to depend on
> > work that Christoph did a few months ago. We had allowed btrfs to carry
> > the patches themselves.
> >
> > But it since became clear that btrfs/for-next likely does not contain
> > any of the patches there's zero reason for the original merge. So the
> > merge is dropped. It's not great because it's a late change but it's
> > better than bringing in a completely pointless merge.
>
> Can you please update what you are including in linux-next to match
> what you are asking Linus to merge.
I pushed it out right when I got up. Sorry for the slight delay. I hope
the reason for this late change are not unreasonable. Let me know in
case there's a better solution I didn't think of for such a change.
The pull request you sent on Sat, 28 Oct 2023 16:02:33 +0200:
> [email protected]:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs tags/vfs-6.7.super
has been merged into torvalds/linux.git:
https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/d4e175f2c460fd54011117d835aa017d2d4a8c08
Thank you!
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