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Merge tag 'vfs-6.12.blocksize' of gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs

Pull vfs blocksize updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains the vfs infrastructure as well as the xfs bits to enable
  support for block sizes (bs) larger than page sizes (ps) plus a few
  fixes to related infrastructure.

  There has been efforts over the last 16 years to enable enable Large
  Block Sizes (LBS), that is block sizes in filesystems where bs > page
  size. Through these efforts we have learned that one of the main
  blockers to supporting bs > ps in filesystems has been a way to
  allocate pages that are at least the filesystem block size on the page
  cache where bs > ps.

  Thanks to various previous efforts it is possible to support bs > ps
  in XFS with only a few changes in XFS itself. Most changes are to the
  page cache to support minimum order folio support for the target block
  size on the filesystem.

  A motivation for Large Block Sizes today is to support high-capacity
  (large amount of Terabytes) QLC SSDs where the internal Indirection
  Unit (IU) are typically greater than 4k to help reduce DRAM and so in
  turn cost and space. In practice this then allows different
  architectures to use a base page size of 4k while still enabling
  support for block sizes aligned to the larger IUs by relying on high
  order folios on the page cache when needed.

  It also allows to take advantage of the drive's support for atomics
  larger than 4k with buffered IO support in Linux. As described this
  year at LSFMM, supporting large atomics greater than 4k enables
  databases to remove the need to rely on their own journaling, so they
  can disable double buffered writes, which is a feature different cloud
  providers are already enabling through custom storage solutions"

* tag 'vfs-6.12.blocksize' of gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (22 commits)
  Documentation: iomap: fix a typo
  iomap: remove the iomap_file_buffered_write_punch_delalloc return value
  iomap: pass the iomap to the punch callback
  iomap: pass flags to iomap_file_buffered_write_punch_delalloc
  iomap: improve shared block detection in iomap_unshare_iter
  iomap: handle a post-direct I/O invalidate race in iomap_write_delalloc_release
  docs:filesystems: fix spelling and grammar mistakes in iomap design page
  filemap: fix htmldoc warning for mapping_align_index()
  iomap: make zero range flush conditional on unwritten mappings
  iomap: fix handling of dirty folios over unwritten extents
  iomap: add a private argument for iomap_file_buffered_write
  iomap: remove set_memor_ro() on zero page
  xfs: enable block size larger than page size support
  xfs: make the calculation generic in xfs_sb_validate_fsb_count()
  xfs: expose block size in stat
  xfs: use kvmalloc for xattr buffers
  iomap: fix iomap_dio_zero() for fs bs > system page size
  filemap: cap PTE range to be created to allowed zero fill in folio_map_range()
  mm: split a folio in minimum folio order chunks
  readahead: allocate folios with mapping_min_order in readahead
  ...
2024-09-20 17:53:17 -07:00
arch Enable PREEMPT_RT on supported architectures: 2024-09-20 06:04:27 +02:00
block vfs-6.12.blocksize 2024-09-20 17:53:17 -07:00
certs kbuild: use $(src) instead of $(srctree)/$(src) for source directory 2024-05-10 04:34:52 +09:00
crypto crypto: aegis128 - Fix indentation issue in crypto_aegis128_process_crypt() 2024-09-13 18:26:52 +08:00
Documentation vfs-6.12.blocksize 2024-09-20 17:53:17 -07:00
drivers In the v6.12 scheduler development cycle we had 63 commits from 18 contributors: 2024-09-19 15:55:58 +02:00
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include vfs-6.12.blocksize 2024-09-20 17:53:17 -07:00
init cgroup: Changes for v6.12 2024-09-18 06:39:03 +02:00
io_uring slab updates for 6.12 2024-09-18 08:53:53 +02:00
ipc sysctl: treewide: constify the ctl_table argument of proc_handlers 2024-07-24 20:59:29 +02:00
kernel In the v6.12 scheduler development cycle we had 63 commits from 18 contributors: 2024-09-19 15:55:58 +02:00
lib Random number generator updates for Linux 6.12-rc1. 2024-09-18 15:26:31 +02:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add the copyleft-next-0.3.1 license 2022-11-08 15:44:01 +01:00
mm vfs-6.12.blocksize 2024-09-20 17:53:17 -07:00
net slab updates for 6.12 2024-09-18 08:53:53 +02:00
rust Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2024-09-05 20:37:20 -07:00
samples treewide: remove unnecessary <linux/version.h> inclusion 2024-08-12 18:36:44 +09:00
scripts Devicetree updates for v6.12: 2024-09-19 08:38:51 +02:00
security Smack changes for v6.12 2024-09-19 13:09:19 +02:00
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usr initramfs: shorten cmd_initfs in usr/Makefile 2024-07-16 01:07:52 +09:00
virt KVM: x86: Disallow read-only memslots for SEV-ES and SEV-SNP (and TDX) 2024-08-14 12:28:24 -04:00
.clang-format Docs: Move clang-format from process/ to dev-tools/ 2024-06-26 16:36:00 -06:00
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.get_maintainer.ignore Add Jeff Kirsher to .get_maintainer.ignore 2024-03-08 11:36:54 +00:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore .gitignore: add .gcda files 2024-08-09 13:18:46 +01:00
.mailmap drm next for 6.12-rc1 2024-09-19 10:18:15 +02:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Mark powerpc spufs as orphaned 2024-08-19 21:27:56 +10:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS dma-mapping updates for linux 6.12 2024-09-19 11:12:49 +02:00
Makefile Linux 6.11 2024-09-15 16:57:56 +02:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -06:00

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