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# 2982c8c1 26-Jul-2024 David Howells <[email protected]>

cifs: Use iterate_and_advance*() routines directly for hashing

Replace the bespoke cifs iterators of ITER_BVEC and ITER_KVEC to do hashing
with iterate_and_advance_kernel() - a variant on iterate_an

cifs: Use iterate_and_advance*() routines directly for hashing

Replace the bespoke cifs iterators of ITER_BVEC and ITER_KVEC to do hashing
with iterate_and_advance_kernel() - a variant on iterate_and_advance() that
only supports kernel-internal ITER_* types and not UBUF/IOVEC types.

The bespoke ITER_XARRAY is left because we don't really want to be calling
crypto_shash_update() under the RCU read lock for large amounts of data;
besides, ITER_XARRAY is going to be phased out.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <[email protected]>
cc: Steve French <[email protected]>
cc: Paulo Alcantara <[email protected]>
cc: Tom Talpey <[email protected]>
cc: Enzo Matsumiya <[email protected]>
cc: [email protected]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]/ # v2
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <[email protected]>

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Revision tags: v6.10, v6.10-rc7, v6.10-rc6, v6.10-rc5
# db0aa2e9 18-Jun-2024 David Howells <[email protected]>

mm: Define struct folio_queue and ITER_FOLIOQ to handle a sequence of folios

Define a data structure, struct folio_queue, to represent a sequence of
folios and a kernel-internal I/O iterator type, I

mm: Define struct folio_queue and ITER_FOLIOQ to handle a sequence of folios

Define a data structure, struct folio_queue, to represent a sequence of
folios and a kernel-internal I/O iterator type, ITER_FOLIOQ, to allow a
list of folio_queue structures to be used to provide a buffer to
iov_iter-taking functions, such as sendmsg and recvmsg.

The folio_queue structure looks like:

struct folio_queue {
struct folio_batch vec;
u8 orders[PAGEVEC_SIZE];
struct folio_queue *next;
struct folio_queue *prev;
unsigned long marks;
unsigned long marks2;
};

It does not use a list_head so that next and/or prev can be set to NULL at
the ends of the list, allowing iov_iter-handling routines to determine that
they *are* the ends without needing to store a head pointer in the iov_iter
struct.

A folio_batch struct is used to hold the folio pointers which allows the
batch to be passed to batch handling functions. Two mark bits are
available per slot. The intention is to use at least one of them to mark
folios that need putting, but that might not be ultimately necessary.
Accessor functions are used to access the slots to do the masking and an
additional accessor function is used to indicate the size of the array.

The order of each folio is also stored in the structure to avoid the need
for iov_iter_advance() and iov_iter_revert() to have to query each folio to
find its size.

With careful barriering, this can be used as an extending buffer with new
folios inserted and new folio_queue structs added without the need for a
lock. Further, provided we always keep at least one struct in the buffer,
we can also remove consumed folios and consumed structs from the head end
as we without the need for locks.

[Questions/thoughts]

(1) To manage this, I need a head pointer, a tail pointer, a tail slot
number (assuming insertion happens at the tail end and the next
pointers point from head to tail). Should I put these into a struct
of their own, say "folio_queue_head" or "rolling_buffer"?

I will end up with two of these in netfs_io_request eventually, one
keeping track of the pagecache I'm dealing with for buffered I/O and
the other to hold a bounce buffer when we need one.

(2) Should I make the slots {folio,off,len} or bio_vec?

(3) This is intended to replace ITER_XARRAY eventually. Using an xarray
in I/O iteration requires the taking of the RCU read lock, doing
copying under the RCU read lock, walking the xarray (which may change
under us), handling retries and dealing with special values.

The advantage of ITER_XARRAY is that when we're dealing with the
pagecache directly, we don't need any allocation - but if we're doing
encrypted comms, there's a good chance we'd be using a bounce buffer
anyway.

This will require afs, erofs, cifs, orangefs and fscache to be
converted to not use this. afs still uses it for dirs and symlinks;
some of erofs usages should be easy to change, but there's one which
won't be so easy; ceph's use via fscache can be fixed by porting ceph
to netfslib; cifs is using xarray as a bounce buffer - that can be
moved to use sheaves instead; and orangefs has a similar problem to
erofs - maybe orangefs could use netfslib?

Signed-off-by: David Howells <[email protected]>
cc: Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]>
cc: Jeff Layton <[email protected]>
cc: Steve French <[email protected]>
cc: Ilya Dryomov <[email protected]>
cc: Gao Xiang <[email protected]>
cc: Mike Marshall <[email protected]>
cc: [email protected]
cc: [email protected]
cc: [email protected]
cc: [email protected]
cc: [email protected]
cc: [email protected]
cc: [email protected]
cc: [email protected]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]/ # v2
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <[email protected]>

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# f1982740 25-Sep-2023 David Howells <[email protected]>

iov_iter: Convert iterate*() to inline funcs

Convert the iov_iter iteration macros to inline functions to make the code
easier to follow.

The functions are marked __always_inline as we don't want t

iov_iter: Convert iterate*() to inline funcs

Convert the iov_iter iteration macros to inline functions to make the code
easier to follow.

The functions are marked __always_inline as we don't want to end up with
indirect calls in the code. This, however, leaves dealing with ->copy_mc
in an awkard situation since the step function (memcpy_from_iter_mc())
needs to test the flag in the iterator, but isn't passed the iterator.
This will be dealt with in a follow-up patch.

The variable names in the per-type iterator functions have been harmonised
as much as possible and made clearer as to the variable purpose.

The iterator functions are also moved to a header file so that other
operations that need to scan over an iterator can be added. For instance,
the rbd driver could use this to scan a buffer to see if it is all zeros
and libceph could use this to generate a crc.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]/ # v1
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]/ # v2
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]/ # v3
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
cc: Alexander Viro <[email protected]>
cc: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
cc: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
cc: Christian Brauner <[email protected]>
cc: Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]>
cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
cc: David Laight <[email protected]>
cc: [email protected]
cc: [email protected]
cc: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <[email protected]>

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