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Merge tag 'vfs-6.8.netfs' of gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs
Pull netfs updates from Christian Brauner:
"This extends the netfs helper library that network filesystems can use
to replace their own implementations. Both afs and 9p are ported. cifs
is ready as well but the patches are way bigger and will be routed
separately once this is merged. That will remove lots of code as well.
The overal goal is to get high-level I/O and knowledge of the page
cache and ouf of the filesystem drivers. This includes knowledge about
the existence of pages and folios
The pull request converts afs and 9p. This removes about 800 lines of
code from afs and 300 from 9p. For 9p it is now possible to do writes
in larger than a page chunks. Additionally, multipage folio support
can be turned on for 9p. Separate patches exist for cifs removing
another 2000+ lines. I've included detailed information in the
individual pulls I took.
Summary:
- Add NFS-style (and Ceph-style) locking around DIO vs buffered I/O
calls to prevent these from happening at the same time.
- Support for direct and unbuffered I/O.
- Support for write-through caching in the page cache.
- O_*SYNC and RWF_*SYNC writes use write-through rather than writing
to the page cache and then flushing afterwards.
- Support for write-streaming.
- Support for write grouping.
- Skip reads for which the server could only return zeros or EOF.
- The fscache module is now part of the netfs library and the
corresponding maintainer entry is updated.
- Some helpers from the fscache subsystem are renamed to mark them as
belonging to the netfs library.
- Follow-up fixes for the netfs library.
- Follow-up fixes for the 9p conversion"
* tag 'vfs-6.8.netfs' of gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (50 commits)
netfs: Fix wrong #ifdef hiding wait
cachefiles: Fix signed/unsigned mixup
netfs: Fix the loop that unmarks folios after writing to the cache
netfs: Fix interaction between write-streaming and cachefiles culling
netfs: Count DIO writes
netfs: Mark netfs_unbuffered_write_iter_locked() static
netfs: Fix proc/fs/fscache symlink to point to "netfs" not "../netfs"
netfs: Rearrange netfs_io_subrequest to put request pointer first
9p: Use length of data written to the server in preference to error
9p: Do a couple of cleanups
9p: Fix initialisation of netfs_inode for 9p
cachefiles: Fix __cachefiles_prepare_write()
9p: Use netfslib read/write_iter
afs: Use the netfs write helpers
netfs: Export the netfs_sreq tracepoint
netfs: Optimise away reads above the point at which there can be no data
netfs: Implement a write-through caching option
netfs: Provide a launder_folio implementation
netfs: Provide a writepages implementation
netfs, cachefiles: Pass upper bound length to allow expansion
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