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# 86b12b6c 22-Jan-2022 Xiaoming Ni <[email protected]>

aio: move aio sysctl to aio.c

The kernel/sysctl.c is a kitchen sink where everyone leaves their dirty
dishes, this makes it very difficult to maintain.

To help with this maintenance let's start by

aio: move aio sysctl to aio.c

The kernel/sysctl.c is a kitchen sink where everyone leaves their dirty
dishes, this makes it very difficult to maintain.

To help with this maintenance let's start by moving sysctls to places
where they actually belong. The proc sysctl maintainers do not want to
know what sysctl knobs you wish to add for your own piece of code, we
just care about the core logic.

Move aio sysctl to aio.c and use the new register_sysctl_init() to
register the sysctl interface for aio.

[[email protected]: adjust commit log to justify the move]

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Xiaoming Ni <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <[email protected]>
Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Cc: Amir Goldstein <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <[email protected]>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <[email protected]>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Cc: Iurii Zaikin <[email protected]>
Cc: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Turner <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Petr Mladek <[email protected]>
Cc: Qing Wang <[email protected]>
Cc: Sebastian Reichel <[email protected]>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephen Kitt <[email protected]>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <[email protected]>
Cc: Antti Palosaari <[email protected]>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email protected]>
Cc: Clemens Ladisch <[email protected]>
Cc: David Airlie <[email protected]>
Cc: Jani Nikula <[email protected]>
Cc: Joel Becker <[email protected]>
Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <[email protected]>
Cc: Joseph Qi <[email protected]>
Cc: Julia Lawall <[email protected]>
Cc: Lukas Middendorf <[email protected]>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <[email protected]>
Cc: Phillip Potter <[email protected]>
Cc: Rodrigo Vivi <[email protected]>
Cc: Douglas Gilbert <[email protected]>
Cc: James E.J. Bottomley <[email protected]>
Cc: Jani Nikula <[email protected]>
Cc: John Ogness <[email protected]>
Cc: Martin K. Petersen <[email protected]>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <[email protected]>
Cc: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <[email protected]>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <[email protected]>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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Revision tags: v5.16, v5.16-rc8, v5.16-rc7, v5.16-rc6, v5.16-rc5, v5.16-rc4, v5.16-rc3, v5.16-rc2, v5.16-rc1, v5.15, v5.15-rc7, v5.15-rc6, v5.15-rc5, v5.15-rc4, v5.15-rc3, v5.15-rc2, v5.15-rc1, v5.14, v5.14-rc7, v5.14-rc6, v5.14-rc5, v5.14-rc4, v5.14-rc3, v5.14-rc2, v5.14-rc1, v5.13, v5.13-rc7, v5.13-rc6, v5.13-rc5, v5.13-rc4, v5.13-rc3, v5.13-rc2, v5.13-rc1, v5.12, v5.12-rc8, v5.12-rc7, v5.12-rc6, v5.12-rc5, v5.12-rc4, v5.12-rc3, v5.12-rc2, v5.12-rc1, v5.12-rc1-dontuse, v5.11, v5.11-rc7, v5.11-rc6, v5.11-rc5, v5.11-rc4, v5.11-rc3, v5.11-rc2, v5.11-rc1, v5.10, v5.10-rc7, v5.10-rc6, v5.10-rc5, v5.10-rc4, v5.10-rc3, v5.10-rc2, v5.10-rc1, v5.9, v5.9-rc8, v5.9-rc7, v5.9-rc6, v5.9-rc5, v5.9-rc4, v5.9-rc3, v5.9-rc2, v5.9-rc1, v5.8, v5.8-rc7, v5.8-rc6, v5.8-rc5, v5.8-rc4, v5.8-rc3, v5.8-rc2, v5.8-rc1, v5.7, v5.7-rc7, v5.7-rc6, v5.7-rc5, v5.7-rc4, v5.7-rc3, v5.7-rc2, v5.7-rc1, v5.6, v5.6-rc7, v5.6-rc6, v5.6-rc5, v5.6-rc4, v5.6-rc3, v5.6-rc2, v5.6-rc1, v5.5, v5.5-rc7, v5.5-rc6, v5.5-rc5, v5.5-rc4, v5.5-rc3, v5.5-rc2, v5.5-rc1, v5.4, v5.4-rc8, v5.4-rc7, v5.4-rc6, v5.4-rc5, v5.4-rc4, v5.4-rc3, v5.4-rc2, v5.4-rc1, v5.3, v5.3-rc8, v5.3-rc7, v5.3-rc6, v5.3-rc5, v5.3-rc4, v5.3-rc3, v5.3-rc2, v5.3-rc1, v5.2, v5.2-rc7, v5.2-rc6, v5.2-rc5, v5.2-rc4, v5.2-rc3, v5.2-rc2, v5.2-rc1, v5.1, v5.1-rc7, v5.1-rc6, v5.1-rc5, v5.1-rc4, v5.1-rc3, v5.1-rc2, v5.1-rc1, v5.0, v5.0-rc8, v5.0-rc7, v5.0-rc6, v5.0-rc5, v5.0-rc4, v5.0-rc3, v5.0-rc2, v5.0-rc1, v4.20, v4.20-rc7, v4.20-rc6, v4.20-rc5, v4.20-rc4, v4.20-rc3, v4.20-rc2, v4.20-rc1, v4.19, v4.19-rc8, v4.19-rc7, v4.19-rc6, v4.19-rc5, v4.19-rc4, v4.19-rc3, v4.19-rc2, v4.19-rc1, v4.18, v4.18-rc8, v4.18-rc7, v4.18-rc6, v4.18-rc5, v4.18-rc4, v4.18-rc3, v4.18-rc2, v4.18-rc1, v4.17, v4.17-rc7, v4.17-rc6, v4.17-rc5, v4.17-rc4, v4.17-rc3, v4.17-rc2, v4.17-rc1, v4.16
# f3a2752a 30-Mar-2018 Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>

aio: simplify KIOCB_KEY handling

No need to pass the key field to lookup_iocb to compare it with KIOCB_KEY,
as we can do that right after retrieving it from userspace. Also move the
KIOCB_KEY defin

aio: simplify KIOCB_KEY handling

No need to pass the key field to lookup_iocb to compare it with KIOCB_KEY,
as we can do that right after retrieving it from userspace. Also move the
KIOCB_KEY definition to aio.c as it is an internal value not used by any
other place in the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>

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Revision tags: v4.16-rc7, v4.16-rc6, v4.16-rc5, v4.16-rc4, v4.16-rc3, v4.16-rc2, v4.16-rc1, v4.15, v4.15-rc9, v4.15-rc8, v4.15-rc7, v4.15-rc6, v4.15-rc5, v4.15-rc4, v4.15-rc3, v4.15-rc2, v4.15-rc1, v4.14, v4.14-rc8
# b2441318 01-Nov-2017 Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
- file had no licensing information it it.
- file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
- file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
- Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
- Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
lines of source
- File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5
lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

- when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
COPYING file license applied.

For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 11139

and resulted in the first patch in this series.

If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930

and resulted in the second patch in this series.

- if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
it (per prior point). Results summary:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270
GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17
LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15
GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14
((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5
LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4
LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1

and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

- when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
the concluded license(s).

- when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

- In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

- When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

- If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
- a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
license ids and scores
- reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
- reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

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Revision tags: v4.14-rc7, v4.14-rc6, v4.14-rc5, v4.14-rc4, v4.14-rc3, v4.14-rc2, v4.14-rc1, v4.13, v4.13-rc7, v4.13-rc6, v4.13-rc5, v4.13-rc4, v4.13-rc3, v4.13-rc2, v4.13-rc1, v4.12, v4.12-rc7, v4.12-rc6, v4.12-rc5, v4.12-rc4, v4.12-rc3, v4.12-rc2, v4.12-rc1, v4.11, v4.11-rc8, v4.11-rc7, v4.11-rc6, v4.11-rc5, v4.11-rc4, v4.11-rc3, v4.11-rc2, v4.11-rc1, v4.10, v4.10-rc8, v4.10-rc7, v4.10-rc6, v4.10-rc5, v4.10-rc4, v4.10-rc3, v4.10-rc2, v4.10-rc1
# c00d2c7e 20-Dec-2016 Al Viro <[email protected]>

move aio compat to fs/aio.c

... and fix the minor buglet in compat io_submit() - native one
kills ioctx as cleanup when put_user() fails. Get rid of
bogus compat_... in !CONFIG_AIO case, while we a

move aio compat to fs/aio.c

... and fix the minor buglet in compat io_submit() - native one
kills ioctx as cleanup when put_user() fails. Get rid of
bogus compat_... in !CONFIG_AIO case, while we are at it - they
should simply fail with ENOSYS, same as for native counterparts.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <[email protected]>

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Revision tags: v4.9, v4.9-rc8, v4.9-rc7, v4.9-rc6, v4.9-rc5, v4.9-rc4, v4.9-rc3, v4.9-rc2, v4.9-rc1, v4.8, v4.8-rc8, v4.8-rc7, v4.8-rc6, v4.8-rc5, v4.8-rc4, v4.8-rc3, v4.8-rc2, v4.8-rc1, v4.7, v4.7-rc7, v4.7-rc6, v4.7-rc5, v4.7-rc4, v4.7-rc3, v4.7-rc2, v4.7-rc1, v4.6, v4.6-rc7, v4.6-rc6, v4.6-rc5, v4.6-rc4, v4.6-rc3, v4.6-rc2, v4.6-rc1, v4.5, v4.5-rc7, v4.5-rc6, v4.5-rc5, v4.5-rc4, v4.5-rc3, v4.5-rc2, v4.5-rc1, v4.4, v4.4-rc8, v4.4-rc7, v4.4-rc6, v4.4-rc5, v4.4-rc4, v4.4-rc3, v4.4-rc2, v4.4-rc1, v4.3, v4.3-rc7, v4.3-rc6, v4.3-rc5, v4.3-rc4, v4.3-rc3, v4.3-rc2, v4.3-rc1, v4.2, v4.2-rc8, v4.2-rc7, v4.2-rc6, v4.2-rc5, v4.2-rc4, v4.2-rc3, v4.2-rc2, v4.2-rc1, v4.1, v4.1-rc8, v4.1-rc7, v4.1-rc6, v4.1-rc5, v4.1-rc4, v4.1-rc3, v4.1-rc2, v4.1-rc1, v4.0, v4.0-rc7, v4.0-rc6, v4.0-rc5, v4.0-rc4, v4.0-rc3, v4.0-rc2, v4.0-rc1
# e2e40f2c 22-Feb-2015 Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>

fs: move struct kiocb to fs.h

struct kiocb now is a generic I/O container, so move it to fs.h.
Also do a #include diet for aio.h while we're at it.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Sig

fs: move struct kiocb to fs.h

struct kiocb now is a generic I/O container, so move it to fs.h.
Also do a #include diet for aio.h while we're at it.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <[email protected]>

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Revision tags: v3.19
# 04b2fa9f 02-Feb-2015 Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>

fs: split generic and aio kiocb

Most callers in the kernel want to perform synchronous file I/O, but
still have to bloat the stack with a full struct kiocb. Split out
the parts needed in filesystem

fs: split generic and aio kiocb

Most callers in the kernel want to perform synchronous file I/O, but
still have to bloat the stack with a full struct kiocb. Split out
the parts needed in filesystem code from those in the aio code, and
only allocate those needed to pass down argument on the stack. The
aio code embedds the generic iocb in the one it allocates and can
easily get back to it by using container_of.

Also add a ->ki_complete method to struct kiocb, this is used to call
into the aio code and thus removes the dependency on aio for filesystems
impementing asynchronous operations. It will also allow other callers
to substitute their own completion callback.

We also add a new ->ki_flags field to work around the nasty layering
violation recently introduced in commit 5e33f6 ("usb: gadget: ffs: add
eventfd notification about ffs events").

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <[email protected]>

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# 599bd19b 11-Feb-2015 Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>

fs: don't allow to complete sync iocbs through aio_complete

The AIO interface is fairly complex because it tries to allow
filesystems to always work async and then wakeup a synchronous
caller throug

fs: don't allow to complete sync iocbs through aio_complete

The AIO interface is fairly complex because it tries to allow
filesystems to always work async and then wakeup a synchronous
caller through aio_complete. It turns out that basically no one
was doing this to avoid the complexity and context switches,
and we've already fixed up the remaining users and can now
get rid of this case.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <[email protected]>

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# 66ee59af 11-Feb-2015 Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>

fs: remove ki_nbytes

There is no need to pass the total request length in the kiocb, as
we already get passed in through the iov_iter argument.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Signed-

fs: remove ki_nbytes

There is no need to pass the total request length in the kiocb, as
we already get passed in through the iov_iter argument.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <[email protected]>

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Revision tags: v3.19-rc7, v3.19-rc6, v3.19-rc5, v3.19-rc4, v3.19-rc3, v3.19-rc2, v3.19-rc1, v3.18, v3.18-rc7, v3.18-rc6, v3.18-rc5, v3.18-rc4, v3.18-rc3, v3.18-rc2, v3.18-rc1, v3.17, v3.17-rc7, v3.17-rc6, v3.17-rc5, v3.17-rc4, v3.17-rc3, v3.17-rc2, v3.17-rc1, v3.16, v3.16-rc7, v3.16-rc6, v3.16-rc5, v3.16-rc4, v3.16-rc3, v3.16-rc2, v3.16-rc1, v3.15, v3.15-rc8, v3.15-rc7, v3.15-rc6, v3.15-rc5, v3.15-rc4, v3.15-rc3, v3.15-rc2, v3.15-rc1, v3.14, v3.14-rc8, v3.14-rc7, v3.14-rc6, v3.14-rc5, v3.14-rc4, v3.14-rc3, v3.14-rc2, v3.14-rc1, v3.13, v3.13-rc8, v3.13-rc7, v3.13-rc6, v3.13-rc5, v3.13-rc4, v3.13-rc3, v3.13-rc2, v3.13-rc1, v3.12, v3.12-rc7, v3.12-rc6, v3.12-rc5, v3.12-rc4, v3.12-rc3, v3.12-rc2, v3.12-rc1, v3.11, v3.11-rc7, v3.11-rc6, v3.11-rc5, v3.11-rc4, v3.11-rc3, v3.11-rc2, v3.11-rc1, v3.10, v3.10-rc7, v3.10-rc6, v3.10-rc5, v3.10-rc4, v3.10-rc3, v3.10-rc2, v3.10-rc1, v3.9, v3.9-rc8, v3.9-rc7, v3.9-rc6, v3.9-rc5, v3.9-rc4
# d29c445b 18-Mar-2013 Kent Overstreet <[email protected]>

aio: Kill ki_dtor

sock_aio_dtor() is dead code - and stuff that does need to do cleanup
can simply do it before calling aio_complete().

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <[email protected]>
Cc: Z

aio: Kill ki_dtor

sock_aio_dtor() is dead code - and stuff that does need to do cleanup
can simply do it before calling aio_complete().

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <[email protected]>
Cc: Zach Brown <[email protected]>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <[email protected]>
Cc: Joel Becker <[email protected]>
Cc: Rusty Russell <[email protected]>
Cc: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
Cc: Asai Thambi S P <[email protected]>
Cc: Selvan Mani <[email protected]>
Cc: Sam Bradshaw <[email protected]>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <[email protected]>
Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <[email protected]>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise <[email protected]>

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# 57282d8f 13-May-2013 Kent Overstreet <[email protected]>

aio: Kill ki_users

The kiocb refcount is only needed for cancellation - to ensure a kiocb
isn't freed while a ki_cancel callback is running. But if we restrict
ki_cancel callbacks to not block (whic

aio: Kill ki_users

The kiocb refcount is only needed for cancellation - to ensure a kiocb
isn't freed while a ki_cancel callback is running. But if we restrict
ki_cancel callbacks to not block (which they currently don't), we can
simply drop the refcount.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <[email protected]>
Cc: Zach Brown <[email protected]>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <[email protected]>
Cc: Joel Becker <[email protected]>
Cc: Rusty Russell <[email protected]>
Cc: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
Cc: Asai Thambi S P <[email protected]>
Cc: Selvan Mani <[email protected]>
Cc: Sam Bradshaw <[email protected]>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <[email protected]>
Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <[email protected]>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise <[email protected]>

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Revision tags: v3.9-rc3, v3.9-rc2, v3.9-rc1
# 8bc92afc 26-Feb-2013 Kent Overstreet <[email protected]>

aio: Kill unneeded kiocb members

The old aio retry infrastucture needed to save the various arguments to
to aio operations. But with the retry infrastructure gone, we can trim
struct kiocb quite a b

aio: Kill unneeded kiocb members

The old aio retry infrastucture needed to save the various arguments to
to aio operations. But with the retry infrastructure gone, we can trim
struct kiocb quite a bit.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <[email protected]>
Cc: Zach Brown <[email protected]>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <[email protected]>
Cc: Joel Becker <[email protected]>
Cc: Rusty Russell <[email protected]>
Cc: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
Cc: Asai Thambi S P <[email protected]>
Cc: Selvan Mani <[email protected]>
Cc: Sam Bradshaw <[email protected]>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <[email protected]>
Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <[email protected]>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise <[email protected]>

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# 73a7075e 09-May-2013 Kent Overstreet <[email protected]>

aio: Kill aio_rw_vect_retry()

This code doesn't serve any purpose anymore, since the aio retry
infrastructure has been removed.

This change should be safe because aio_read/write are also used for
s

aio: Kill aio_rw_vect_retry()

This code doesn't serve any purpose anymore, since the aio retry
infrastructure has been removed.

This change should be safe because aio_read/write are also used for
synchronous IO, and called from do_sync_read()/do_sync_write() - and
there's no looping done in the sync case (the read and write syscalls).

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <[email protected]>
Cc: Zach Brown <[email protected]>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <[email protected]>
Cc: Joel Becker <[email protected]>
Cc: Rusty Russell <[email protected]>
Cc: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
Cc: Asai Thambi S P <[email protected]>
Cc: Selvan Mani <[email protected]>
Cc: Sam Bradshaw <[email protected]>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <[email protected]>
Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise <[email protected]>

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# bec68faa 13-May-2013 Kent Overstreet <[email protected]>

aio: io_cancel() no longer returns the io_event

Originally, io_event() was documented to return the io_event if
cancellation succeeded - the io_event wouldn't be delivered via the ring
buffer like i

aio: io_cancel() no longer returns the io_event

Originally, io_event() was documented to return the io_event if
cancellation succeeded - the io_event wouldn't be delivered via the ring
buffer like it normally would.

But this isn't what the implementation was actually doing; the only
driver implementing cancellation, the usb gadget code, never returned an
io_event in its cancel function. And aio_complete() was recently changed
to no longer suppress event delivery if the kiocb had been cancelled.

This gets rid of the unused io_event argument to kiocb_cancel() and
kiocb->ki_cancel(), and changes io_cancel() to return -EINPROGRESS if
kiocb->ki_cancel() returned success.

Also tweak the refcounting in kiocb_cancel() to make more sense.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <[email protected]>
Cc: Zach Brown <[email protected]>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <[email protected]>
Cc: Joel Becker <[email protected]>
Cc: Rusty Russell <[email protected]>
Cc: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
Cc: Asai Thambi S P <[email protected]>
Cc: Selvan Mani <[email protected]>
Cc: Sam Bradshaw <[email protected]>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <[email protected]>
Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise <[email protected]>

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# 41ef4eb8 07-May-2013 Kent Overstreet <[email protected]>

aio: kill ki_retry

Thanks to Zach Brown's work to rip out the retry infrastructure, we don't
need this anymore - ki_retry was only called right after the kiocb was
initialized.

This also refactors

aio: kill ki_retry

Thanks to Zach Brown's work to rip out the retry infrastructure, we don't
need this anymore - ki_retry was only called right after the kiocb was
initialized.

This also refactors and trims some duplicated code, as well as cleaning up
the refcounting/error handling a bit.

[[email protected]: use fmode_t in aio_run_iocb()]
[[email protected]: fix file_start_write/file_end_write tests]
[[email protected]: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <[email protected]>
Cc: Zach Brown <[email protected]>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <[email protected]>
Cc: Joel Becker <[email protected]>
Cc: Rusty Russell <[email protected]>
Cc: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
Cc: Asai Thambi S P <[email protected]>
Cc: Selvan Mani <[email protected]>
Cc: Sam Bradshaw <[email protected]>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <[email protected]>
Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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# 8a660890 07-May-2013 Kent Overstreet <[email protected]>

aio: kill ki_key

ki_key wasn't actually used for anything previously - it was always 0.
Drop it to trim struct kiocb a bit.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <[email protected]>
Cc: Zach Brown <z

aio: kill ki_key

ki_key wasn't actually used for anything previously - it was always 0.
Drop it to trim struct kiocb a bit.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <[email protected]>
Cc: Zach Brown <[email protected]>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <[email protected]>
Cc: Joel Becker <[email protected]>
Cc: Rusty Russell <[email protected]>
Cc: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
Cc: Asai Thambi S P <[email protected]>
Cc: Selvan Mani <[email protected]>
Cc: Sam Bradshaw <[email protected]>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <[email protected]>
Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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# a1c8eae7 07-May-2013 Kent Overstreet <[email protected]>

aio: kill batch allocation

Previously, allocating a kiocb required touching quite a few global
(well, per kioctx) cachelines... so batching up allocation to amortize
those was worthwhile. But we'v

aio: kill batch allocation

Previously, allocating a kiocb required touching quite a few global
(well, per kioctx) cachelines... so batching up allocation to amortize
those was worthwhile. But we've gotten rid of some of those, and in
another couple of patches kiocb allocation won't require writing to any
shared cachelines, so that means we can just rip this code out.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <[email protected]>
Cc: Zach Brown <[email protected]>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <[email protected]>
Cc: Joel Becker <[email protected]>
Cc: Rusty Russell <[email protected]>
Cc: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
Cc: Asai Thambi S P <[email protected]>
Cc: Selvan Mani <[email protected]>
Cc: Sam Bradshaw <[email protected]>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <[email protected]>
Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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# 0460fef2 07-May-2013 Kent Overstreet <[email protected]>

aio: use cancellation list lazily

Cancelling kiocbs requires adding them to a per kioctx linked list,
which is one of the few things we need to take the kioctx lock for in
the fast path. But most k

aio: use cancellation list lazily

Cancelling kiocbs requires adding them to a per kioctx linked list,
which is one of the few things we need to take the kioctx lock for in
the fast path. But most kiocbs can't be cancelled - so if we just do
this lazily, we can avoid quite a bit of locking overhead.

While we're at it, instead of using a flag bit switch to using ki_cancel
itself to indicate that a kiocb has been cancelled/completed. This lets
us get rid of ki_flags entirely.

[[email protected]: remove buggy BUG()]
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <[email protected]>
Cc: Zach Brown <[email protected]>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <[email protected]>
Cc: Joel Becker <[email protected]>
Cc: Rusty Russell <[email protected]>
Cc: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
Cc: Asai Thambi S P <[email protected]>
Cc: Selvan Mani <[email protected]>
Cc: Sam Bradshaw <[email protected]>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <[email protected]>
Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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# 11599eba 07-May-2013 Kent Overstreet <[email protected]>

aio: make aio_put_req() lockless

Freeing a kiocb needed to touch the kioctx for three things:

* Pull it off the reqs_active list
* Decrementing reqs_active
* Issuing a wakeup, if the kioctx was

aio: make aio_put_req() lockless

Freeing a kiocb needed to touch the kioctx for three things:

* Pull it off the reqs_active list
* Decrementing reqs_active
* Issuing a wakeup, if the kioctx was in the process of being freed.

This patch moves these to aio_complete(), for a couple reasons:

* aio_complete() already has to issue the wakeup, so if we drop the
kioctx refcount before aio_complete does its wakeup we don't have to
do it twice.
* aio_complete currently has to take the kioctx lock, so it makes sense
for it to pull the kiocb off the reqs_active list too.
* A later patch is going to change reqs_active to include unreaped
completions - this will mean allocating a kiocb doesn't have to look
at the ringbuffer. So taking the decrement of reqs_active out of
kiocb_free() is useful prep work for that patch.

This doesn't really affect cancellation, since existing (usb) code that
implements a cancel function still calls aio_complete() - we just have
to make sure that aio_complete does the necessary teardown for cancelled
kiocbs.

It does affect code paths where we free kiocbs that were never
submitted; they need to decrement reqs_active and pull the kiocb off the
reqs_active list. This occurs in two places: kiocb_batch_free(), which
is going away in a later patch, and the error path in io_submit_one.

[[email protected]: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <[email protected]>
Cc: Zach Brown <[email protected]>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <[email protected]>
Cc: Joel Becker <[email protected]>
Cc: Rusty Russell <[email protected]>
Cc: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
Cc: Asai Thambi S P <[email protected]>
Cc: Selvan Mani <[email protected]>
Cc: Sam Bradshaw <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <[email protected]>
Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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# 4e179bca 07-May-2013 Kent Overstreet <[email protected]>

aio: move private stuff out of aio.h

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <[email protected]>
Cc: Zach Brown <[email protected]>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfound

aio: move private stuff out of aio.h

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <[email protected]>
Cc: Zach Brown <[email protected]>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <[email protected]>
Cc: Joel Becker <[email protected]>
Cc: Rusty Russell <[email protected]>
Cc: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
Cc: Asai Thambi S P <[email protected]>
Cc: Selvan Mani <[email protected]>
Cc: Sam Bradshaw <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <[email protected]>
Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <[email protected]>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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# 2d68449e 07-May-2013 Kent Overstreet <[email protected]>

aio: kill return value of aio_complete()

Nothing used the return value, and it probably wasn't possible to use it
safely for the locked versions (aio_complete(), aio_put_req()). Just
kill it.

Sign

aio: kill return value of aio_complete()

Nothing used the return value, and it probably wasn't possible to use it
safely for the locked versions (aio_complete(), aio_put_req()). Just
kill it.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Zach Brown <[email protected]>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <[email protected]>
Cc: Joel Becker <[email protected]>
Cc: Rusty Russell <[email protected]>
Cc: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
Cc: Asai Thambi S P <[email protected]>
Cc: Selvan Mani <[email protected]>
Cc: Sam Bradshaw <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <[email protected]>
Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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# 41003a7b 07-May-2013 Zach Brown <[email protected]>

aio: remove retry-based AIO

This removes the retry-based AIO infrastructure now that nothing in tree
is using it.

We want to remove retry-based AIO because it is fundemantally unsafe.
It retries IO

aio: remove retry-based AIO

This removes the retry-based AIO infrastructure now that nothing in tree
is using it.

We want to remove retry-based AIO because it is fundemantally unsafe.
It retries IO submission from a kernel thread that has only assumed the
mm of the submitting task. All other task_struct references in the IO
submission path will see the kernel thread, not the submitting task.
This design flaw means that nothing of any meaningful complexity can use
retry-based AIO.

This removes all the code and data associated with the retry machinery.
The most significant benefit of this is the removal of the locking
around the unused run list in the submission path.

[[email protected]: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Zach Brown <[email protected]>
Cc: Zach Brown <[email protected]>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <[email protected]>
Cc: Joel Becker <[email protected]>
Cc: Rusty Russell <[email protected]>
Cc: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
Cc: Asai Thambi S P <[email protected]>
Cc: Selvan Mani <[email protected]>
Cc: Sam Bradshaw <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <[email protected]>
Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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# 4b49bb8a 07-May-2013 Zach Brown <[email protected]>

aio: remove dead code from aio.h

Signed-off-by: Zach Brown <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <[email protected]>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@lin

aio: remove dead code from aio.h

Signed-off-by: Zach Brown <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <[email protected]>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <[email protected]>
Cc: Joel Becker <[email protected]>
Cc: Rusty Russell <[email protected]>
Cc: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
Cc: Asai Thambi S P <[email protected]>
Cc: Selvan Mani <[email protected]>
Cc: Sam Bradshaw <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <[email protected]>
Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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Revision tags: v3.8, v3.8-rc7, v3.8-rc6, v3.8-rc5, v3.8-rc4, v3.8-rc3, v3.8-rc2, v3.8-rc1, v3.7, v3.7-rc8, v3.7-rc7, v3.7-rc6, v3.7-rc5, v3.7-rc4, v3.7-rc3, v3.7-rc2, v3.7-rc1, v3.6, v3.6-rc7, v3.6-rc6, v3.6-rc5, v3.6-rc4, v3.6-rc3, v3.6-rc2, v3.6-rc1
# f7e1becb 30-Jul-2012 Andrew Morton <[email protected]>

include/linux/aio.h: cpp->C conversions

Convert init_sync_kiocb() from a nasty macro into a nice C function. The
struct assignment trick takes care of zeroing all unmentioned fields.
Shrinks fs/rea

include/linux/aio.h: cpp->C conversions

Convert init_sync_kiocb() from a nasty macro into a nice C function. The
struct assignment trick takes care of zeroing all unmentioned fields.
Shrinks fs/read_write.o's .text from 9857 bytes to 9714.

Also demacroize is_sync_kiocb() and aio_ring_avail(). The latter fixes an
arg-referenced-multiple-times hand grenade.

Cc: Junxiao Bi <[email protected]>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <[email protected]>
Cc: Joel Becker <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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Revision tags: v3.5, v3.5-rc7, v3.5-rc6, v3.5-rc5
# 2dfd0603 27-Jun-2012 Junxiao Bi <[email protected]>

aio: make kiocb->private NUll in init_sync_kiocb()

Ocfs2 uses kiocb.*private as a flag of unsigned long size. In
commit a11f7e6 ocfs2: serialize unaligned aio, the unaligned
io flag is involved in i

aio: make kiocb->private NUll in init_sync_kiocb()

Ocfs2 uses kiocb.*private as a flag of unsigned long size. In
commit a11f7e6 ocfs2: serialize unaligned aio, the unaligned
io flag is involved in it to serialize the unaligned aio. As
*private is not initialized in init_sync_kiocb() of do_sync_write(),
this unaligned io flag may be unexpectly set in an aligned dio.
And this will cause OCFS2_I(inode)->ip_unaligned_aio decreased
to -1 in ocfs2_dio_end_io(), thus the following unaligned dio
will hang forever at ocfs2_aiodio_wait() in ocfs2_file_aio_write().

Signed-off-by: Junxiao Bi <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <[email protected]>

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# 080d676d 02-Nov-2011 Jeff Moyer <[email protected]>

aio: allocate kiocbs in batches

In testing aio on a fast storage device, I found that the context lock
takes up a fair amount of cpu time in the I/O submission path. The reason
is that we take it f

aio: allocate kiocbs in batches

In testing aio on a fast storage device, I found that the context lock
takes up a fair amount of cpu time in the I/O submission path. The reason
is that we take it for every I/O submitted (see __aio_get_req). Since we
know how many I/Os are passed to io_submit, we can preallocate the kiocbs
in batches, reducing the number of times we take and release the lock.

In my testing, I was able to reduce the amount of time spent in
_raw_spin_lock_irq by .56% (average of 3 runs). The command I used to
test this was:

aio-stress -O -o 2 -o 3 -r 8 -d 128 -b 32 -i 32 -s 16384 <dev>

I also tested the patch with various numbers of events passed to
io_submit, and I ran the xfstests aio group of tests to ensure I didn't
break anything.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <[email protected]>
Cc: Daniel Ehrenberg <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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