linux/fs/reiserfs
Linus Torvalds ecae0bd517 Many singleton patches against the MM code. The patch series which are
included in this merge do the following:
 
 - Kemeng Shi has contributed some compation maintenance work in the
   series "Fixes and cleanups to compaction".
 
 - Joel Fernandes has a patchset ("Optimize mremap during mutual
   alignment within PMD") which fixes an obscure issue with mremap()'s
   pagetable handling during a subsequent exec(), based upon an
   implementation which Linus suggested.
 
 - More DAMON/DAMOS maintenance and feature work from SeongJae Park i the
   following patch series:
 
 	mm/damon: misc fixups for documents, comments and its tracepoint
 	mm/damon: add a tracepoint for damos apply target regions
 	mm/damon: provide pseudo-moving sum based access rate
 	mm/damon: implement DAMOS apply intervals
 	mm/damon/core-test: Fix memory leaks in core-test
 	mm/damon/sysfs-schemes: Do DAMOS tried regions update for only one apply interval
 
 - In the series "Do not try to access unaccepted memory" Adrian Hunter
   provides some fixups for the recently-added "unaccepted memory' feature.
   To increase the feature's checking coverage.  "Plug a few gaps where
   RAM is exposed without checking if it is unaccepted memory".
 
 - In the series "cleanups for lockless slab shrink" Qi Zheng has done
   some maintenance work which is preparation for the lockless slab
   shrinking code.
 
 - Qi Zheng has redone the earlier (and reverted) attempt to make slab
   shrinking lockless in the series "use refcount+RCU method to implement
   lockless slab shrink".
 
 - David Hildenbrand contributes some maintenance work for the rmap code
   in the series "Anon rmap cleanups".
 
 - Kefeng Wang does more folio conversions and some maintenance work in
   the migration code.  Series "mm: migrate: more folio conversion and
   unification".
 
 - Matthew Wilcox has fixed an issue in the buffer_head code which was
   causing long stalls under some heavy memory/IO loads.  Some cleanups
   were added on the way.  Series "Add and use bdev_getblk()".
 
 - In the series "Use nth_page() in place of direct struct page
   manipulation" Zi Yan has fixed a potential issue with the direct
   manipulation of hugetlb page frames.
 
 - In the series "mm: hugetlb: Skip initialization of gigantic tail
   struct pages if freed by HVO" has improved our handling of gigantic
   pages in the hugetlb vmmemmep optimizaton code.  This provides
   significant boot time improvements when significant amounts of gigantic
   pages are in use.
 
 - Matthew Wilcox has sent the series "Small hugetlb cleanups" - code
   rationalization and folio conversions in the hugetlb code.
 
 - Yin Fengwei has improved mlock()'s handling of large folios in the
   series "support large folio for mlock"
 
 - In the series "Expose swapcache stat for memcg v1" Liu Shixin has
   added statistics for memcg v1 users which are available (and useful)
   under memcg v2.
 
 - Florent Revest has enhanced the MDWE (Memory-Deny-Write-Executable)
   prctl so that userspace may direct the kernel to not automatically
   propagate the denial to child processes.  The series is named "MDWE
   without inheritance".
 
 - Kefeng Wang has provided the series "mm: convert numa balancing
   functions to use a folio" which does what it says.
 
 - In the series "mm/ksm: add fork-exec support for prctl" Stefan Roesch
   makes is possible for a process to propagate KSM treatment across
   exec().
 
 - Huang Ying has enhanced memory tiering's calculation of memory
   distances.  This is used to permit the dax/kmem driver to use "high
   bandwidth memory" in addition to Optane Data Center Persistent Memory
   Modules (DCPMM).  The series is named "memory tiering: calculate
   abstract distance based on ACPI HMAT"
 
 - In the series "Smart scanning mode for KSM" Stefan Roesch has
   optimized KSM by teaching it to retain and use some historical
   information from previous scans.
 
 - Yosry Ahmed has fixed some inconsistencies in memcg statistics in the
   series "mm: memcg: fix tracking of pending stats updates values".
 
 - In the series "Implement IOCTL to get and optionally clear info about
   PTEs" Peter Xu has added an ioctl to /proc/<pid>/pagemap which permits
   us to atomically read-then-clear page softdirty state.  This is mainly
   used by CRIU.
 
 - Hugh Dickins contributed the series "shmem,tmpfs: general maintenance"
   - a bunch of relatively minor maintenance tweaks to this code.
 
 - Matthew Wilcox has increased the use of the VMA lock over file-backed
   page faults in the series "Handle more faults under the VMA lock".  Some
   rationalizations of the fault path became possible as a result.
 
 - In the series "mm/rmap: convert page_move_anon_rmap() to
   folio_move_anon_rmap()" David Hildenbrand has implemented some cleanups
   and folio conversions.
 
 - In the series "various improvements to the GUP interface" Lorenzo
   Stoakes has simplified and improved the GUP interface with an eye to
   providing groundwork for future improvements.
 
 - Andrey Konovalov has sent along the series "kasan: assorted fixes and
   improvements" which does those things.
 
 - Some page allocator maintenance work from Kemeng Shi in the series
   "Two minor cleanups to break_down_buddy_pages".
 
 - In thes series "New selftest for mm" Breno Leitao has developed
   another MM self test which tickles a race we had between madvise() and
   page faults.
 
 - In the series "Add folio_end_read" Matthew Wilcox provides cleanups
   and an optimization to the core pagecache code.
 
 - Nhat Pham has added memcg accounting for hugetlb memory in the series
   "hugetlb memcg accounting".
 
 - Cleanups and rationalizations to the pagemap code from Lorenzo
   Stoakes, in the series "Abstract vma_merge() and split_vma()".
 
 - Audra Mitchell has fixed issues in the procfs page_owner code's new
   timestamping feature which was causing some misbehaviours.  In the
   series "Fix page_owner's use of free timestamps".
 
 - Lorenzo Stoakes has fixed the handling of new mappings of sealed files
   in the series "permit write-sealed memfd read-only shared mappings".
 
 - Mike Kravetz has optimized the hugetlb vmemmap optimization in the
   series "Batch hugetlb vmemmap modification operations".
 
 - Some buffer_head folio conversions and cleanups from Matthew Wilcox in
   the series "Finish the create_empty_buffers() transition".
 
 - As a page allocator performance optimization Huang Ying has added
   automatic tuning to the allocator's per-cpu-pages feature, in the series
   "mm: PCP high auto-tuning".
 
 - Roman Gushchin has contributed the patchset "mm: improve performance
   of accounted kernel memory allocations" which improves their performance
   by ~30% as measured by a micro-benchmark.
 
 - folio conversions from Kefeng Wang in the series "mm: convert page
   cpupid functions to folios".
 
 - Some kmemleak fixups in Liu Shixin's series "Some bugfix about
   kmemleak".
 
 - Qi Zheng has improved our handling of memoryless nodes by keeping them
   off the allocation fallback list.  This is done in the series "handle
   memoryless nodes more appropriately".
 
 - khugepaged conversions from Vishal Moola in the series "Some
   khugepaged folio conversions".
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Merge tag 'mm-stable-2023-11-01-14-33' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
 "Many singleton patches against the MM code. The patch series which are
  included in this merge do the following:

   - Kemeng Shi has contributed some compation maintenance work in the
     series 'Fixes and cleanups to compaction'

   - Joel Fernandes has a patchset ('Optimize mremap during mutual
     alignment within PMD') which fixes an obscure issue with mremap()'s
     pagetable handling during a subsequent exec(), based upon an
     implementation which Linus suggested

   - More DAMON/DAMOS maintenance and feature work from SeongJae Park i
     the following patch series:

	mm/damon: misc fixups for documents, comments and its tracepoint
	mm/damon: add a tracepoint for damos apply target regions
	mm/damon: provide pseudo-moving sum based access rate
	mm/damon: implement DAMOS apply intervals
	mm/damon/core-test: Fix memory leaks in core-test
	mm/damon/sysfs-schemes: Do DAMOS tried regions update for only one apply interval

   - In the series 'Do not try to access unaccepted memory' Adrian
     Hunter provides some fixups for the recently-added 'unaccepted
     memory' feature. To increase the feature's checking coverage. 'Plug
     a few gaps where RAM is exposed without checking if it is
     unaccepted memory'

   - In the series 'cleanups for lockless slab shrink' Qi Zheng has done
     some maintenance work which is preparation for the lockless slab
     shrinking code

   - Qi Zheng has redone the earlier (and reverted) attempt to make slab
     shrinking lockless in the series 'use refcount+RCU method to
     implement lockless slab shrink'

   - David Hildenbrand contributes some maintenance work for the rmap
     code in the series 'Anon rmap cleanups'

   - Kefeng Wang does more folio conversions and some maintenance work
     in the migration code. Series 'mm: migrate: more folio conversion
     and unification'

   - Matthew Wilcox has fixed an issue in the buffer_head code which was
     causing long stalls under some heavy memory/IO loads. Some cleanups
     were added on the way. Series 'Add and use bdev_getblk()'

   - In the series 'Use nth_page() in place of direct struct page
     manipulation' Zi Yan has fixed a potential issue with the direct
     manipulation of hugetlb page frames

   - In the series 'mm: hugetlb: Skip initialization of gigantic tail
     struct pages if freed by HVO' has improved our handling of gigantic
     pages in the hugetlb vmmemmep optimizaton code. This provides
     significant boot time improvements when significant amounts of
     gigantic pages are in use

   - Matthew Wilcox has sent the series 'Small hugetlb cleanups' - code
     rationalization and folio conversions in the hugetlb code

   - Yin Fengwei has improved mlock()'s handling of large folios in the
     series 'support large folio for mlock'

   - In the series 'Expose swapcache stat for memcg v1' Liu Shixin has
     added statistics for memcg v1 users which are available (and
     useful) under memcg v2

   - Florent Revest has enhanced the MDWE (Memory-Deny-Write-Executable)
     prctl so that userspace may direct the kernel to not automatically
     propagate the denial to child processes. The series is named 'MDWE
     without inheritance'

   - Kefeng Wang has provided the series 'mm: convert numa balancing
     functions to use a folio' which does what it says

   - In the series 'mm/ksm: add fork-exec support for prctl' Stefan
     Roesch makes is possible for a process to propagate KSM treatment
     across exec()

   - Huang Ying has enhanced memory tiering's calculation of memory
     distances. This is used to permit the dax/kmem driver to use 'high
     bandwidth memory' in addition to Optane Data Center Persistent
     Memory Modules (DCPMM). The series is named 'memory tiering:
     calculate abstract distance based on ACPI HMAT'

   - In the series 'Smart scanning mode for KSM' Stefan Roesch has
     optimized KSM by teaching it to retain and use some historical
     information from previous scans

   - Yosry Ahmed has fixed some inconsistencies in memcg statistics in
     the series 'mm: memcg: fix tracking of pending stats updates
     values'

   - In the series 'Implement IOCTL to get and optionally clear info
     about PTEs' Peter Xu has added an ioctl to /proc/<pid>/pagemap
     which permits us to atomically read-then-clear page softdirty
     state. This is mainly used by CRIU

   - Hugh Dickins contributed the series 'shmem,tmpfs: general
     maintenance', a bunch of relatively minor maintenance tweaks to
     this code

   - Matthew Wilcox has increased the use of the VMA lock over
     file-backed page faults in the series 'Handle more faults under the
     VMA lock'. Some rationalizations of the fault path became possible
     as a result

   - In the series 'mm/rmap: convert page_move_anon_rmap() to
     folio_move_anon_rmap()' David Hildenbrand has implemented some
     cleanups and folio conversions

   - In the series 'various improvements to the GUP interface' Lorenzo
     Stoakes has simplified and improved the GUP interface with an eye
     to providing groundwork for future improvements

   - Andrey Konovalov has sent along the series 'kasan: assorted fixes
     and improvements' which does those things

   - Some page allocator maintenance work from Kemeng Shi in the series
     'Two minor cleanups to break_down_buddy_pages'

   - In thes series 'New selftest for mm' Breno Leitao has developed
     another MM self test which tickles a race we had between madvise()
     and page faults

   - In the series 'Add folio_end_read' Matthew Wilcox provides cleanups
     and an optimization to the core pagecache code

   - Nhat Pham has added memcg accounting for hugetlb memory in the
     series 'hugetlb memcg accounting'

   - Cleanups and rationalizations to the pagemap code from Lorenzo
     Stoakes, in the series 'Abstract vma_merge() and split_vma()'

   - Audra Mitchell has fixed issues in the procfs page_owner code's new
     timestamping feature which was causing some misbehaviours. In the
     series 'Fix page_owner's use of free timestamps'

   - Lorenzo Stoakes has fixed the handling of new mappings of sealed
     files in the series 'permit write-sealed memfd read-only shared
     mappings'

   - Mike Kravetz has optimized the hugetlb vmemmap optimization in the
     series 'Batch hugetlb vmemmap modification operations'

   - Some buffer_head folio conversions and cleanups from Matthew Wilcox
     in the series 'Finish the create_empty_buffers() transition'

   - As a page allocator performance optimization Huang Ying has added
     automatic tuning to the allocator's per-cpu-pages feature, in the
     series 'mm: PCP high auto-tuning'

   - Roman Gushchin has contributed the patchset 'mm: improve
     performance of accounted kernel memory allocations' which improves
     their performance by ~30% as measured by a micro-benchmark

   - folio conversions from Kefeng Wang in the series 'mm: convert page
     cpupid functions to folios'

   - Some kmemleak fixups in Liu Shixin's series 'Some bugfix about
     kmemleak'

   - Qi Zheng has improved our handling of memoryless nodes by keeping
     them off the allocation fallback list. This is done in the series
     'handle memoryless nodes more appropriately'

   - khugepaged conversions from Vishal Moola in the series 'Some
     khugepaged folio conversions'"

[ bcachefs conflicts with the dynamically allocated shrinkers have been
  resolved as per Stephen Rothwell in

     https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230913093553.4290421e@canb.auug.org.au/

  with help from Qi Zheng.

  The clone3 test filtering conflict was half-arsed by yours truly ]

* tag 'mm-stable-2023-11-01-14-33' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (406 commits)
  mm/damon/sysfs: update monitoring target regions for online input commit
  mm/damon/sysfs: remove requested targets when online-commit inputs
  selftests: add a sanity check for zswap
  Documentation: maple_tree: fix word spelling error
  mm/vmalloc: fix the unchecked dereference warning in vread_iter()
  zswap: export compression failure stats
  Documentation: ubsan: drop "the" from article title
  mempolicy: migration attempt to match interleave nodes
  mempolicy: mmap_lock is not needed while migrating folios
  mempolicy: alloc_pages_mpol() for NUMA policy without vma
  mm: add page_rmappable_folio() wrapper
  mempolicy: remove confusing MPOL_MF_LAZY dead code
  mempolicy: mpol_shared_policy_init() without pseudo-vma
  mempolicy trivia: use pgoff_t in shared mempolicy tree
  mempolicy trivia: slightly more consistent naming
  mempolicy trivia: delete those ancient pr_debug()s
  mempolicy: fix migrate_pages(2) syscall return nr_failed
  kernfs: drop shared NUMA mempolicy hooks
  hugetlbfs: drop shared NUMA mempolicy pretence
  mm/damon/sysfs-test: add a unit test for damon_sysfs_set_targets()
  ...
2023-11-02 19:38:47 -10:00
..
acl.h fs: port ->set_acl() to pass mnt_idmap 2023-01-19 09:24:27 +01:00
bitmap.c treewide: Use array_size() in vmalloc() 2018-06-12 16:19:22 -07:00
dir.c reiserfs: delete duplicated words 2020-08-05 10:29:57 +02:00
do_balan.c reiserfs: clean up several indentation issues 2020-04-07 10:43:44 -07:00
file.c splice: Use filemap_splice_read() instead of generic_file_splice_read() 2023-05-24 08:42:17 -06:00
fix_node.c reiserfs: Replace one-element array with flexible-array member 2023-07-12 13:09:46 -06:00
hashes.c
ibalance.c reiserfs: fix "new_insert_key may be used uninitialized ..." 2016-08-02 19:35:22 -04:00
inode.c Many singleton patches against the MM code. The patch series which are 2023-11-02 19:38:47 -10:00
ioctl.c reiserfs: convert to ctime accessor functions 2023-07-24 10:30:04 +02:00
item_ops.c reiserfs: remove obsolete print_time function 2018-08-22 10:52:50 -07:00
journal.c reiserfs: Convert to bdev_open_by_dev/path() 2023-10-28 13:29:21 +02:00
Kconfig fs: add CONFIG_BUFFER_HEAD 2023-08-02 09:13:09 -06:00
lbalance.c fs/reiserfs/lbalance.c: remove set but not used variables 2019-09-25 17:51:40 -07:00
lock.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
Makefile reiserfs: remove workaround code for GCC 3.x 2018-10-31 08:54:14 -07:00
namei.c reiserfs: convert to new timestamp accessors 2023-10-18 14:08:27 +02:00
objectid.c fs/reiserfs/objectid.c: remove set but not used variables 2019-09-25 17:51:40 -07:00
prints.c fs/reiserfs: replace ternary operator with min() and min_t() 2022-08-19 11:06:08 +02:00
procfs.c reiserfs: Convert to bdev_open_by_dev/path() 2023-10-28 13:29:21 +02:00
README
reiserfs.h vfs-6.7.xattr 2023-10-30 09:29:44 -10:00
resize.c fs/reiserfs: replace ternary operator with min() and min_t() 2022-08-19 11:06:08 +02:00
stree.c reiserfs: convert to new timestamp accessors 2023-10-18 14:08:27 +02:00
super.c reiserfs: convert to new timestamp accessors 2023-10-18 14:08:27 +02:00
tail_conversion.c reiserfs: replace obvious uses of b_page with b_folio 2023-01-18 17:12:41 -08:00
xattr_acl.c reiserfs: convert to ctime accessor functions 2023-07-24 10:30:04 +02:00
xattr_security.c reiserfs: Initialize sec->length in reiserfs_security_init(). 2023-05-25 17:44:44 -04:00
xattr_trusted.c fs: port xattr to mnt_idmap 2023-01-19 09:24:28 +01:00
xattr_user.c fs: port xattr to mnt_idmap 2023-01-19 09:24:28 +01:00
xattr.c reiserfs: move reiserfs_xattr_handlers to .rodata 2023-10-10 13:49:19 +02:00
xattr.h fs: port ->permission() to pass mnt_idmap 2023-01-19 09:24:28 +01:00

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to license code labeled as owned by you on your behalf other than
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though he feels motivated to motivate contributors, and you can surely
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[END LICENSING]

Reiserfs is a file system based on balanced tree algorithms, which is
described at https://reiser4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page 

Stop reading here.  Go there, then return.

Send bug reports to yura@namesys.botik.ru.

mkreiserfs and other utilities are in reiserfs/utils, or wherever your
Linux provider put them.  There is some disagreement about how useful
it is for users to get their fsck and mkreiserfs out of sync with the
version of reiserfs that is in their kernel, with many important
distributors wanting them out of sync.:-) Please try to remember to
recompile and reinstall fsck and mkreiserfs with every update of
reiserfs, this is a common source of confusion.  Note that some of the
utilities cannot be compiled without accessing the balancing code
which is in the kernel code, and relocating the utilities may require
you to specify where that code can be found.

Yes, if you update your reiserfs kernel module you do have to
recompile your kernel, most of the time.  The errors you get will be
quite cryptic if your forget to do so.

Real users, as opposed to folks who want to hack and then understand
what went wrong, will want REISERFS_CHECK off.

Hideous Commercial Pitch: Spread your development costs across other OS
vendors.  Select from the best in the world, not the best in your
building, by buying from third party OS component suppliers.  Leverage
the software component development power of the internet.  Be the most
aggressive in taking advantage of the commercial possibilities of
decentralized internet development, and add value through your branded
integration that you sell as an operating system.  Let your competitors
be the ones to compete against the entire internet by themselves.  Be
hip, get with the new economic trend, before your competitors do.  Send
email to hans@reiser.to.

To understand the code, after reading the website, start reading the
code by reading reiserfs_fs.h first.

Hans Reiser was the project initiator, primary architect, source of all
funding for the first 5.5 years, and one of the programmers.  He owns
the copyright.

Vladimir Saveljev was one of the programmers, and he worked long hours
writing the cleanest code.  He always made the effort to be the best he
could be, and to make his code the best that it could be.  What resulted
was quite remarkable. I don't think that money can ever motivate someone
to work the way he did, he is one of the most selfless men I know.

Yura helps with benchmarking, coding hashes, and block pre-allocation
code.

Anatoly Pinchuk is a former member of our team who worked closely with
Vladimir throughout the project's development.  He wrote a quite
substantial portion of the total code.  He realized that there was a
space problem with packing tails of files for files larger than a node
that start on a node aligned boundary (there are reasons to want to node
align files), and he invented and implemented indirect items and
unformatted nodes as the solution.

Konstantin Shvachko, with the help of the Russian version of a VC,
tried to put me in a position where I was forced into giving control
of the project to him.  (Fortunately, as the person paying the money
for all salaries from my dayjob I owned all copyrights, and you can't
really force takeovers of sole proprietorships.)  This was something
curious, because he never really understood the value of our project,
why we should do what we do, or why innovation was possible in
general, but he was sure that he ought to be controlling it.  Every
innovation had to be forced past him while he was with us.  He added
two years to the time required to complete reiserfs, and was a net
loss for me.  Mikhail Gilula was a brilliant innovator who also left
in a destructive way that erased the value of his contributions, and
that he was shown much generosity just makes it more painful.

Grigory Zaigralin was an extremely effective system administrator for
our group.

Igor Krasheninnikov was wonderful at hardware procurement, repair, and
network installation.

Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote the teahash.c code, and he gives credit to a
textbook he got the algorithm from in the code.  Note that his analysis
of how we could use the hashing code in making 32 bit NFS cookies work
was probably more important than the actual algorithm.  Colin Plumb also
contributed to it.

Chris Mason dived right into our code, and in just a few months produced
the journaling code that dramatically increased the value of ReiserFS.
He is just an amazing programmer.

Igor Zagorovsky is writing much of the new item handler and extent code
for our next major release.

Alexander Zarochentcev (sometimes known as zam, or sasha), wrote the
resizer, and is hard at work on implementing allocate on flush.  SGI
implemented allocate on flush before us for XFS, and generously took
the time to convince me we should do it also.  They are great people,
and a great company.

Yuri Shevchuk and Nikita Danilov are doing squid cache optimization.

Vitaly Fertman is doing fsck.

Jeff Mahoney, of SuSE, contributed a few cleanup fixes, most notably
the endian safe patches which allow ReiserFS to run on any platform
supported by the Linux kernel.

SuSE, IntegratedLinux.com, Ecila, MP3.com, bigstorage.com, and the
Alpha PC Company made it possible for me to not have a day job
anymore, and to dramatically increase our staffing.  Ecila funded
hypertext feature development, MP3.com funded journaling, SuSE funded
core development, IntegratedLinux.com funded squid web cache
appliances, bigstorage.com funded HSM, and the alpha PC company funded
the alpha port.  Many of these tasks were helped by sponsors other
than the ones just named.  SuSE has helped in much more than just
funding....