Merge branch 'next' into for-linus

Prepare input updates for 6.14 merge window.

Merge tag 'v6.13-rc3' into next

Sync up with the mainline.

Merge tag 'vfs-6.14-rc1.netfs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs

Pull vfs netfs updates from Christian Brauner:
"This contains read performance improvements and support for m

Merge tag 'vfs-6.14-rc1.netfs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs

Pull vfs netfs updates from Christian Brauner:
"This contains read performance improvements and support for monolithic
single-blob objects that have to be read/written as such (e.g. AFS
directory contents). The implementation of the two parts is interwoven
as each makes the other possible.

- Read performance improvements

The read performance improvements are intended to speed up some
loss of performance detected in cifs and to a lesser extend in afs.

The problem is that we queue too many work items during the
collection of read results: each individual subrequest is collected
by its own work item, and then they have to interact with each
other when a series of subrequests don't exactly align with the
pattern of folios that are being read by the overall request.

Whilst the processing of the pages covered by individual
subrequests as they complete potentially allows folios to be woken
in parallel and with minimum delay, it can shuffle wakeups for
sequential reads out of order - and that is the most common I/O
pattern.

The final assessment and cleanup of an operation is then held up
until the last I/O completes - and for a synchronous sequential
operation, this means the bouncing around of work items just adds
latency.

Two changes have been made to make this work:

(1) All collection is now done in a single "work item" that works
progressively through the subrequests as they complete (and
also dispatches retries as necessary).

(2) For readahead and AIO, this work item be done on a workqueue
and can run in parallel with the ultimate consumer of the data;
for synchronous direct or unbuffered reads, the collection is
run in the application thread and not offloaded.

Functions such as smb2_readv_callback() then just tell netfslib
that the subrequest has terminated; netfslib does a minimal bit of
processing on the spot - stat counting and tracing mostly - and
then queues/wakes up the worker. This simplifies the logic as the
collector just walks sequentially through the subrequests as they
complete and walks through the folios, if buffered, unlocking them
as it goes. It also keeps to a minimum the amount of latency
injected into the filesystem's low-level I/O handling

The way netfs supports filesystems using the deprecated
PG_private_2 flag is changed: folios are flagged and added to a
write request as they complete and that takes care of scheduling
the writes to the cache. The originating read request can then just
unlock the pages whatever happens.

- Single-blob object support

Single-blob objects are files for which the content of the file
must be read from or written to the server in a single operation
because reading them in parts may yield inconsistent results. AFS
directories are an example of this as there exists the possibility
that the contents are generated on the fly and would differ between
reads or might change due to third party interference.

Such objects will be written to and retrieved from the cache if one
is present, though we allow/may need to propose multiple
subrequests to do so. The important part is that read from/write to
the *server* is monolithic.

Single blob reading is, for the moment, fully synchronous and does
result collection in the application thread and, also for the
moment, the API is supplied the buffer in the form of a folio_queue
chain rather than using the pagecache.

- Related afs changes

This series makes a number of changes to the kafs filesystem,
primarily in the area of directory handling:

- AFS's FetchData RPC reply processing is made partially
asynchronous which allows the netfs_io_request's outstanding
operation counter to be removed as part of reducing the
collection to a single work item.

- Directory and symlink reading are plumbed through netfslib using
the single-blob object API and are now cacheable with fscache.
This also allows the afs_read struct to be eliminated and
netfs_io_subrequest to be used directly instead.

- Directory and symlink content are now stored in a folio_queue
buffer rather than in the pagecache. This means we don't require
the RCU read lock and xarray iteration to access it, and folios
won't randomly disappear under us because the VM wants them
back.

- The vnode operation lock is changed from a mutex struct to a
private lock implementation. The problem is that the lock now
needs to be dropped in a separate thread and mutexes don't
permit that.

- When a new directory or symlink is created, we now initialise it
locally and mark it valid rather than downloading it (we know
what it's likely to look like).

- We now use the in-directory hashtable to reduce the number of
entries we need to scan when doing a lookup. The edit routines
have to maintain the hash chains.

- Cancellation (e.g. by signal) of an async call after the
rxrpc_call has been set up is now offloaded to the worker thread
as there will be a notification from rxrpc upon completion. This
avoids a double cleanup.

- A "rolling buffer" implementation is created to abstract out the
two separate folio_queue chaining implementations I had (one for
read and one for write).

- Functions are provided to create/extend a buffer in a folio_queue
chain and tear it down again.

This is used to handle AFS directories, but could also be used to
create bounce buffers for content crypto and transport crypto.

- The was_async argument is dropped from netfs_read_subreq_terminated()

Instead we wake the read collection work item by either queuing it
or waking up the app thread.

- We don't need to use BH-excluding locks when communicating between
the issuing thread and the collection thread as neither of them now
run in BH context.

- Also included are a number of new tracepoints; a split of the
netfslib write collection code to put retrying into its own file
(it gets more complicated with content encryption).

- There are also some minor fixes AFS included, including fixing the
AFS directory format struct layout, reducing some directory
over-invalidation and making afs_mkdir() translate EEXIST to
ENOTEMPY (which is not available on all systems the servers
support).

- Finally, there's a patch to try and detect entry into the folio
unlock function with no folio_queue structs in the buffer (which
isn't allowed in the cases that can get there).

This is a debugging patch, but should be minimal overhead"

* tag 'vfs-6.14-rc1.netfs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (31 commits)
netfs: Report on NULL folioq in netfs_writeback_unlock_folios()
afs: Add a tracepoint for afs_read_receive()
afs: Locally initialise the contents of a new symlink on creation
afs: Use the contained hashtable to search a directory
afs: Make afs_mkdir() locally initialise a new directory's content
netfs: Change the read result collector to only use one work item
afs: Make {Y,}FS.FetchData an asynchronous operation
afs: Fix cleanup of immediately failed async calls
afs: Eliminate afs_read
afs: Use netfslib for symlinks, allowing them to be cached
afs: Use netfslib for directories
afs: Make afs_init_request() get a key if not given a file
netfs: Add support for caching single monolithic objects such as AFS dirs
netfs: Add functions to build/clean a buffer in a folio_queue
afs: Add more tracepoints to do with tracking validity
cachefiles: Add auxiliary data trace
cachefiles: Add some subrequest tracepoints
netfs: Remove some extraneous directory invalidations
afs: Fix directory format encoding struct
afs: Fix EEXIST error returned from afs_rmdir() to be ENOTEMPTY
...

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Merge patch series "netfs: Read performance improvements and "single-blob" support"

David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> says:

This set of patches is primarily about two things: improving read
perfo

Merge patch series "netfs: Read performance improvements and "single-blob" support"

David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> says:

This set of patches is primarily about two things: improving read
performance and supporting monolithic single-blob objects that have to be
read/written as such (e.g. AFS directory contents). The implementation of
the two parts is interwoven as each makes the other possible.

READ PERFORMANCE
================

The read performance improvements are intended to speed up some loss of
performance detected in cifs and to a lesser extend in afs. The problem is
that we queue too many work items during the collection of read results:
each individual subrequest is collected by its own work item, and then they
have to interact with each other when a series of subrequests don't exactly
align with the pattern of folios that are being read by the overall
request.

Whilst the processing of the pages covered by individual subrequests as
they complete potentially allows folios to be woken in parallel and with
minimum delay, it can shuffle wakeups for sequential reads out of order -
and that is the most common I/O pattern.

The final assessment and cleanup of an operation is then held up until the
last I/O completes - and for a synchronous sequential operation, this means
the bouncing around of work items just adds latency.

Two changes have been made to make this work:

(1) All collection is now done in a single "work item" that works
progressively through the subrequests as they complete (and also
dispatches retries as necessary).

(2) For readahead and AIO, this work item be done on a workqueue and can
run in parallel with the ultimate consumer of the data; for
synchronous direct or unbuffered reads, the collection is run in the
application thread and not offloaded.

Functions such as smb2_readv_callback() then just tell netfslib that the
subrequest has terminated; netfslib does a minimal bit of processing on the
spot - stat counting and tracing mostly - and then queues/wakes up the
worker. This simplifies the logic as the collector just walks sequentially
through the subrequests as they complete and walks through the folios, if
buffered, unlocking them as it goes. It also keeps to a minimum the amount
of latency injected into the filesystem's low-level I/O handling

The way netfs supports filesystems using the deprecated PG_private_2 flag
is changed: folios are flagged and added to a write request as they
complete and that takes care of scheduling the writes to the cache. The
originating read request can then just unlock the pages whatever happens.

SINGLE-BLOB OBJECT SUPPORT
==========================

Single-blob objects are files for which the content of the file must be
read from or written to the server in a single operation because reading
them in parts may yield inconsistent results. AFS directories are an
example of this as there exists the possibility that the contents are
generated on the fly and would differ between reads or might change due to
third party interference.

Such objects will be written to and retrieved from the cache if one is
present, though we allow/may need to propose multiple subrequests to do so.
The important part is that read from/write to the *server* is monolithic.

Single blob reading is, for the moment, fully synchronous and does result
collection in the application thread and, also for the moment, the API is
supplied the buffer in the form of a folio_queue chain rather than using
the pagecache.

AFS CHANGES
===========

This series makes a number of changes to the kafs filesystem, primarily in
the area of directory handling:

(1) AFS's FetchData RPC reply processing is made partially asynchronous
which allows the netfs_io_request's outstanding operation counter to
be removed as part of reducing the collection to a single work item.

(2) Directory and symlink reading are plumbed through netfslib using the
single-blob object API and are now cacheable with fscache. This also
allows the afs_read struct to be eliminated and netfs_io_subrequest to
be used directly instead.

(3) Directory and symlink content are now stored in a folio_queue buffer
rather than in the pagecache. This means we don't require the RCU
read lock and xarray iteration to access it, and folios won't randomly
disappear under us because the VM wants them back.

There are some downsides to this, though: the storage folios are no
longer known to the VM, drop_caches can't flush them, the folios are
not migrateable. The inode must also be marked dirty manually to get
the data written to the cache in the background.

(4) The vnode operation lock is changed from a mutex struct to a private
lock implementation. The problem is that the lock now needs to be
dropped in a separate thread and mutexes don't permit that.

(5) When a new directory or symlink is created, we now initialise it
locally and mark it valid rather than downloading it (we know what
it's likely to look like).

(6) We now use the in-directory hashtable to reduce the number of entries
we need to scan when doing a lookup. The edit routines have to
maintain the hash chains.

(7) Cancellation (e.g. by signal) of an async call after the rxrpc_call
has been set up is now offloaded to the worker thread as there will be
a notification from rxrpc upon completion. This avoids a double
cleanup.

SUPPORTING CHANGES
==================

To support the above some other changes are also made:

(1) A "rolling buffer" implementation is created to abstract out the two
separate folio_queue chaining implementations I had (one for read and
one for write).

(2) Functions are provided to create/extend a buffer in a folio_queue
chain and tear it down again. This is used to handle AFS directories,
but could also be used to create bounce buffers for content crypto and
transport crypto.

(3) The was_async argument is dropped from netfs_read_subreq_terminated().
Instead we wake the read collection work item by either queuing it or
waking up the app thread.

(4) We don't need to use BH-excluding locks when communicating between the
issuing thread and the collection thread as neither of them now run in
BH context.

MISCELLANY
==========

Also included are a number of new tracepoints; a split of the netfslib
write collection code to put retrying into its own file (it gets more
complicated with content encryption).

There are also some minor fixes AFS included, including fixing the AFS
directory format struct layout, reducing some directory over-invalidation
and making afs_mkdir() translate EEXIST to ENOTEMPY (which is not available
on all systems the servers support).

Finally, there's a patch to try and detect entry into the folio unlock
function with no folio_queue structs in the buffer (which isn't allowed in
the cases that can get there). This is a debugging patch, but should be
minimal overhead.

* patches from https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241216204124.3752367-1-dhowells@redhat.com: (31 commits)
netfs: Report on NULL folioq in netfs_writeback_unlock_folios()
afs: Add a tracepoint for afs_read_receive()
afs: Locally initialise the contents of a new symlink on creation
afs: Use the contained hashtable to search a directory
afs: Make afs_mkdir() locally initialise a new directory's content
netfs: Change the read result collector to only use one work item
afs: Make {Y,}FS.FetchData an asynchronous operation
afs: Fix cleanup of immediately failed async calls
afs: Eliminate afs_read
afs: Use netfslib for symlinks, allowing them to be cached
afs: Use netfslib for directories
afs: Make afs_init_request() get a key if not given a file
netfs: Add support for caching single monolithic objects such as AFS dirs
netfs: Add functions to build/clean a buffer in a folio_queue
afs: Add more tracepoints to do with tracking validity
cachefiles: Add auxiliary data trace
cachefiles: Add some subrequest tracepoints
netfs: Remove some extraneous directory invalidations
afs: Fix directory format encoding struct
afs: Fix EEXIST error returned from afs_rmdir() to be ENOTEMPTY
...

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241216204124.3752367-1-dhowells@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>

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netfs: Add support for caching single monolithic objects such as AFS dirs

Add support for caching the content of a file that contains a single
monolithic object that must be read/written with a sing

netfs: Add support for caching single monolithic objects such as AFS dirs

Add support for caching the content of a file that contains a single
monolithic object that must be read/written with a single I/O operation,
such as an AFS directory.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241216204124.3752367-20-dhowells@redhat.com
cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>

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netfs: Split retry code out of fs/netfs/write_collect.c

Split write-retry code out of fs/netfs/write_collect.c as it will become
more elaborate when content crypto is introduced.

Signed-off-by: Dav

netfs: Split retry code out of fs/netfs/write_collect.c

Split write-retry code out of fs/netfs/write_collect.c as it will become
more elaborate when content crypto is introduced.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241216204124.3752367-8-dhowells@redhat.com
cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>

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netfs: Abstract out a rolling folio buffer implementation

A rolling buffer is a series of folios held in a list of folio_queues. New
folios and folio_queue structs may be inserted at the head simul

netfs: Abstract out a rolling folio buffer implementation

A rolling buffer is a series of folios held in a list of folio_queues. New
folios and folio_queue structs may be inserted at the head simultaneously
with spent ones being removed from the tail without the need for locking.

The rolling buffer includes an iov_iter and it has to be careful managing
this as the list of folio_queues is extended such that an oops doesn't
incurred because the iterator was pointing to the end of a folio_queue
segment that got appended to and then removed.

We need to use the mechanism twice, once for read and once for write, and,
in future patches, we will use a second rolling buffer to handle bounce
buffering for content encryption.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241216204124.3752367-6-dhowells@redhat.com
cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>

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Merge tag 'v6.12-rc3' into perf-tools-next

To get the fixes in the current perf-tools tree.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>

Merge tag 'v6.12-rc1' into clk-meson-next

Linux 6.12-rc1

Merge net-next/main to resolve conflicts

The wireless-next tree was based on something older, and there
are now conflicts between -rc2 and work here. Merge net-next,
which has enough of -rc2 for the

Merge net-next/main to resolve conflicts

The wireless-next tree was based on something older, and there
are now conflicts between -rc2 and work here. Merge net-next,
which has enough of -rc2 for the conflicts to happen, resolving
them in the process.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

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Merge drm/drm-next into drm-xe-next

Backmerging to resolve a conflict with core locally.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com>

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-misc-next

Get drm-misc-next to up v6.12-rc1.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-next

Sync to v6.12-rc1.

Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>

Merge tag 'kvmarm-fixes-6.12-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvmarm/kvmarm into HEAD

KVM/arm64 fixes for 6.12, take #1

- Fix pKVM error path on init, making sure we do not chang

Merge tag 'kvmarm-fixes-6.12-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvmarm/kvmarm into HEAD

KVM/arm64 fixes for 6.12, take #1

- Fix pKVM error path on init, making sure we do not change critical
system registers as we're about to fail

- Make sure that the host's vector length is at capped by a value
common to all CPUs

- Fix kvm_has_feat*() handling of "negative" features, as the current
code is pretty broken

- Promote Joey to the status of official reviewer, while James steps
down -- hopefully only temporarly

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Merge tag 'asoc-fix-v6.12-rc1' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/sound into for-linus

ASoC: Fixes for v6.12

A bunch of fixes here that came in during the merge window and t

Merge tag 'asoc-fix-v6.12-rc1' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/sound into for-linus

ASoC: Fixes for v6.12

A bunch of fixes here that came in during the merge window and the first
week of release, plus some new quirks and device IDs. There's nothing
major here, it's a bit bigger than it might've been due to there being
no fixes sent during the merge window due to your vacation.

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Merge remote-tracking branch 'drm/drm-fixes' into drm-misc-fixes

Required for a panthor fix that broke when
FOP_UNSIGNED_OFFSET was added in place of FMODE_UNSIGNED_OFFSET.

Signed-off-by: Maarten L

Merge remote-tracking branch 'drm/drm-fixes' into drm-misc-fixes

Required for a panthor fix that broke when
FOP_UNSIGNED_OFFSET was added in place of FMODE_UNSIGNED_OFFSET.

Signed-off-by: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>

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Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net

Cross-merge networking fixes after downstream PR.

No conflicts and no adjacent changes.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>

Merge branch 'next' into for-linus

Prepare input updates for 6.12 merge window.

Merge tag 'v6.10' into next

Sync up with mainline to bring in device_for_each_child_node_scoped()
and other newer APIs.

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

Pull netfs updates from Christian Brauner:
"This contains the work to improve read/write performance for the new

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

Pull netfs updates from Christian Brauner:
"This contains the work to improve read/write performance for the new
netfs library.

The main performance enhancing changes are:

- Define a structure, struct folio_queue, and a new iterator type,
ITER_FOLIOQ, to hold a buffer as a replacement for ITER_XARRAY. See
that patch for questions about naming and form.

ITER_FOLIOQ is provided as a replacement for ITER_XARRAY. The
problem with an xarray is that accessing it requires the use of a
lock (typically the RCU read lock) - and this means that we can't
supply iterate_and_advance() with a step function that might sleep
(crypto for example) without having to drop the lock between pages.
ITER_FOLIOQ is the iterator for a chain of folio_queue structs,
where each folio_queue holds a small list of folios. A folio_queue
struct is a simpler structure than xarray and is not subject to
concurrent manipulation by the VM. folio_queue is used rather than
a bvec[] as it can form lists of indefinite size, adding to one end
and removing from the other on the fly.

- Provide a copy_folio_from_iter() wrapper.

- Make cifs RDMA support ITER_FOLIOQ.

- Use folio queues in the write-side helpers instead of xarrays.

- Add a function to reset the iterator in a subrequest.

- Simplify the write-side helpers to use sheaves to skip gaps rather
than trying to work out where gaps are.

- In afs, make the read subrequests asynchronous, putting them into
work items to allow the next patch to do progressive
unlocking/reading.

- Overhaul the read-side helpers to improve performance.

- Fix the caching of a partial block at the end of a file.

- Allow a store to be cancelled.

Then some changes for cifs to make it use folio queues instead of
xarrays for crypto bufferage:

- Use raw iteration functions rather than manually coding iteration
when hashing data.

- Switch to using folio_queue for crypto buffers.

- Remove the xarray bits.

Make some adjustments to the /proc/fs/netfs/stats file such that:

- All the netfs stats lines begin 'Netfs:' but change this to
something a bit more useful.

- Add a couple of stats counters to track the numbers of skips and
waits on the per-inode writeback serialisation lock to make it
easier to check for this as a source of performance loss.

Miscellaneous work:

- Ensure that the sb_writers lock is taken around
vfs_{set,remove}xattr() in the cachefiles code.

- Reduce the number of conditional branches in netfs_perform_write().

- Move the CIFS_INO_MODIFIED_ATTR flag to the netfs_inode struct and
remove cifs_post_modify().

- Move the max_len/max_nr_segs members from netfs_io_subrequest to
netfs_io_request as they're only needed for one subreq at a time.

- Add an 'unknown' source value for tracing purposes.

- Remove NETFS_COPY_TO_CACHE as it's no longer used.

- Set the request work function up front at allocation time.

- Use bh-disabling spinlocks for rreq->lock as cachefiles completion
may be run from block-filesystem DIO completion in softirq context.

- Remove fs/netfs/io.c"

* tag 'vfs-6.12.netfs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (25 commits)
docs: filesystems: corrected grammar of netfs page
cifs: Don't support ITER_XARRAY
cifs: Switch crypto buffer to use a folio_queue rather than an xarray
cifs: Use iterate_and_advance*() routines directly for hashing
netfs: Cancel dirty folios that have no storage destination
cachefiles, netfs: Fix write to partial block at EOF
netfs: Remove fs/netfs/io.c
netfs: Speed up buffered reading
afs: Make read subreqs async
netfs: Simplify the writeback code
netfs: Provide an iterator-reset function
netfs: Use new folio_queue data type and iterator instead of xarray iter
cifs: Provide the capability to extract from ITER_FOLIOQ to RDMA SGEs
iov_iter: Provide copy_folio_from_iter()
mm: Define struct folio_queue and ITER_FOLIOQ to handle a sequence of folios
netfs: Use bh-disabling spinlocks for rreq->lock
netfs: Set the request work function upon allocation
netfs: Remove NETFS_COPY_TO_CACHE
netfs: Reserve netfs_sreq_source 0 as unset/unknown
netfs: Move max_len/max_nr_segs from netfs_io_subrequest to netfs_io_stream
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Merge branch 'netfs-writeback' of ssh://gitolite.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs into vfs.netfs

Merge patch series "netfs: Read/write improvements" from David Howells
<dhowells

Merge branch 'netfs-writeback' of ssh://gitolite.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs into vfs.netfs

Merge patch series "netfs: Read/write improvements" from David Howells
<dhowells@redhat.com>.

* 'netfs-writeback' of ssh://gitolite.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs: (25 commits)
cifs: Don't support ITER_XARRAY
cifs: Switch crypto buffer to use a folio_queue rather than an xarray
cifs: Use iterate_and_advance*() routines directly for hashing
netfs: Cancel dirty folios that have no storage destination
cachefiles, netfs: Fix write to partial block at EOF
netfs: Remove fs/netfs/io.c
netfs: Speed up buffered reading
afs: Make read subreqs async
netfs: Simplify the writeback code
netfs: Provide an iterator-reset function
netfs: Use new folio_queue data type and iterator instead of xarray iter
cifs: Provide the capability to extract from ITER_FOLIOQ to RDMA SGEs
iov_iter: Provide copy_folio_from_iter()
mm: Define struct folio_queue and ITER_FOLIOQ to handle a sequence of folios
netfs: Use bh-disabling spinlocks for rreq->lock
netfs: Set the request work function upon allocation
netfs: Remove NETFS_COPY_TO_CACHE
netfs: Reserve netfs_sreq_source 0 as unset/unknown
netfs: Move max_len/max_nr_segs from netfs_io_subrequest to netfs_io_stream
netfs, cifs: Move CIFS_INO_MODIFIED_ATTR to netfs_inode
...

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>

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netfs: Speed up buffered reading

Improve the efficiency of buffered reads in a number of ways:

(1) Overhaul the algorithm in general so that it's a lot more compact and
split the read submiss

netfs: Speed up buffered reading

Improve the efficiency of buffered reads in a number of ways:

(1) Overhaul the algorithm in general so that it's a lot more compact and
split the read submission code between buffered and unbuffered
versions. The unbuffered version can be vastly simplified.

(2) Read-result collection is handed off to a work queue rather than being
done in the I/O thread. Multiple subrequests can be processes
simultaneously.

(3) When a subrequest is collected, any folios it fully spans are
collected and "spare" data on either side is donated to either the
previous or the next subrequest in the sequence.

Notes:

(*) Readahead expansion is massively slows down fio, presumably because it
causes a load of extra allocations, both folio and xarray, up front
before RPC requests can be transmitted.

(*) RDMA with cifs does appear to work, both with SIW and RXE.

(*) PG_private_2-based reading and copy-to-cache is split out into its own
file and altered to use folio_queue. Note that the copy to the cache
now creates a new write transaction against the cache and adds the
folios to be copied into it. This allows it to use part of the
writeback I/O code.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240814203850.2240469-20-dhowells@redhat.com/ # v2
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>

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Merge branch 'next' into for-linus

Prepare input updates for 6.11 merge window.

Merge tag 'v6.9' into next

Sync up with the mainline to bring in the new cleanup API.

Merge drm-misc-next-2024-07-04 into drm-misc-next-fixes

Let's start the drm-misc-next-fixes cycle.

Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>