Merge branch 'next' into for-linus

Prepare input updates for 6.17 merge window.

Merge tag 'ib-mfd-gpio-input-pwm-v6.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lee/mfd into next

Merge an immutable branch between MFD, GPIO, Input and PWM to resolve
conflicts for the mer

Merge tag 'ib-mfd-gpio-input-pwm-v6.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lee/mfd into next

Merge an immutable branch between MFD, GPIO, Input and PWM to resolve
conflicts for the merge window pull request.

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Merge remote-tracking branch 'drm/drm-next' into msm-next

Back-merge drm-next to (indirectly) get arm-smmu updates for making
stall-on-fault more reliable.

Signed-off-by: Rob Clark <robin.clark@oss

Merge remote-tracking branch 'drm/drm-next' into msm-next

Back-merge drm-next to (indirectly) get arm-smmu updates for making
stall-on-fault more reliable.

Signed-off-by: Rob Clark <robin.clark@oss.qualcomm.com>

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

Backmerging to forward to v6.16-rc1

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

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

Backmerging to bring in 6.16

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

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

Sync to v6.16-rc1, among other things to get the fixed size GENMASK_U*()
and BIT_U*() macros.

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

Merge tag 'vfs-6.16-rc1.netfs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs

Pull netfs updates from Christian Brauner:

- The main API document has been extensively updated/rewritten

Merge tag 'vfs-6.16-rc1.netfs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs

Pull netfs updates from Christian Brauner:

- The main API document has been extensively updated/rewritten

- Fix an oops in write-retry due to mis-resetting the I/O iterator

- Fix the recording of transferred bytes for short DIO reads

- Fix a request's work item to not require a reference, thereby
avoiding the need to get rid of it in BH/IRQ context

- Fix waiting and waking to be consistent about the waitqueue used

- Remove NETFS_SREQ_SEEK_DATA_READ, NETFS_INVALID_WRITE,
NETFS_ICTX_WRITETHROUGH, NETFS_READ_HOLE_CLEAR,
NETFS_RREQ_DONT_UNLOCK_FOLIOS, and NETFS_RREQ_BLOCKED

- Reorder structs to eliminate holes

- Remove netfs_io_request::ractl

- Only provide proc_link field if CONFIG_PROC_FS=y

- Remove folio_queue::marks3

- Fix undifferentiation of DIO reads from unbuffered reads

* tag 'vfs-6.16-rc1.netfs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
netfs: Fix undifferentiation of DIO reads from unbuffered reads
netfs: Fix wait/wake to be consistent about the waitqueue used
netfs: Fix the request's work item to not require a ref
netfs: Fix setting of transferred bytes with short DIO reads
netfs: Fix oops in write-retry from mis-resetting the subreq iterator
fs/netfs: remove unused flag NETFS_RREQ_BLOCKED
fs/netfs: remove unused flag NETFS_RREQ_DONT_UNLOCK_FOLIOS
folio_queue: remove unused field `marks3`
fs/netfs: declare field `proc_link` only if CONFIG_PROC_FS=y
fs/netfs: remove `netfs_io_request.ractl`
fs/netfs: reorder struct fields to eliminate holes
fs/netfs: remove unused enum choice NETFS_READ_HOLE_CLEAR
fs/netfs: remove unused flag NETFS_ICTX_WRITETHROUGH
fs/netfs: remove unused source NETFS_INVALID_WRITE
fs/netfs: remove unused flag NETFS_SREQ_SEEK_DATA_READ

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netfs: Fix undifferentiation of DIO reads from unbuffered reads

On cifs, "DIO reads" (specified by O_DIRECT) need to be differentiated from
"unbuffered reads" (specified by cache=none in the mount p

netfs: Fix undifferentiation of DIO reads from unbuffered reads

On cifs, "DIO reads" (specified by O_DIRECT) need to be differentiated from
"unbuffered reads" (specified by cache=none in the mount parameters). The
difference is flagged in the protocol and the server may behave
differently: Windows Server will, for example, mandate that DIO reads are
block aligned.

Fix this by adding a NETFS_UNBUFFERED_READ to differentiate this from
NETFS_DIO_READ, parallelling the write differentiation that already exists.
cifs will then do the right thing.

Fixes: 016dc8516aec ("netfs: Implement unbuffered/DIO read support")
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/3444961.1747987072@warthog.procyon.org.uk
Reviewed-by: "Paulo Alcantara (Red Hat)" <pc@manguebit.com>
Reviewed-by: Viacheslav Dubeyko <Slava.Dubeyko@ibm.com>
cc: Steve French <sfrench@samba.org>
cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev
cc: v9fs@lists.linux.dev
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
cc: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org
cc: ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org
cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>

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Merge patch series "netfs: Miscellaneous fixes"

David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> says:

Here are some miscellaneous fixes and changes for netfslib, if you could
pull them:

(1) Fix an oops in wr

Merge patch series "netfs: Miscellaneous fixes"

David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> says:

Here are some miscellaneous fixes and changes for netfslib, if you could
pull them:

(1) Fix an oops in write-retry due to mis-resetting the I/O iterator.

(2) Fix the recording of transferred bytes for short DIO reads.

(3) Fix a request's work item to not require a reference, thereby avoiding
the need to get rid of it in BH/IRQ context.

(4) Fix waiting and waking to be consistent about the waitqueue used.

* patches from https://lore.kernel.org/20250519090707.2848510-1-dhowells@redhat.com:
netfs: Fix wait/wake to be consistent about the waitqueue used
netfs: Fix the request's work item to not require a ref
netfs: Fix setting of transferred bytes with short DIO reads
netfs: Fix oops in write-retry from mis-resetting the subreq iterator

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250519090707.2848510-1-dhowells@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>

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netfs: Fix the request's work item to not require a ref

When the netfs_io_request struct's work item is queued, it must be supplied
with a ref to the work item struct to prevent it being deallocated

netfs: Fix the request's work item to not require a ref

When the netfs_io_request struct's work item is queued, it must be supplied
with a ref to the work item struct to prevent it being deallocated whilst
on the queue or whilst it is being processed. This is tricky to manage as
we have to get a ref before we try and queue it and then we may find it's
already queued and is thus already holding a ref - in which case we have to
try and get rid of the ref again.

The problem comes if we're in BH or IRQ context and need to drop the ref:
if netfs_put_request() reduces the count to 0, we have to do the cleanup -
but the cleanup may need to wait.

Fix this by adding a new work item to the request, ->cleanup_work, and
dispatching that when the refcount hits zero. That can then synchronously
cancel any outstanding work on the main work item before doing the cleanup.

Adding a new work item also deals with another problem upstream where it's
sometimes changing the work func in the put function and requeuing it -
which has occasionally in the past caused the cleanup to happen
incorrectly.

As a bonus, this allows us to get rid of the 'was_async' parameter from a
bunch of functions. This indicated whether the put function might not be
permitted to sleep.

Fixes: 3d3c95046742 ("netfs: Provide readahead and readpage netfs helpers")
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250519090707.2848510-4-dhowells@redhat.com
cc: Paulo Alcantara <pc@manguebit.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>
cc: linux-cifs@vger.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 patch series "netfs: Miscellaneous cleanups"

David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> says:

Here are some miscellaneous very minor cleanups for netfslib for the next
merge window, primarily from M

Merge patch series "netfs: Miscellaneous cleanups"

David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> says:

Here are some miscellaneous very minor cleanups for netfslib for the next
merge window, primarily from Max Kellermann, if you could pull them.

(1) Remove NETFS_SREQ_SEEK_DATA_READ.

(2) Remove NETFS_INVALID_WRITE.

(3) Remove NETFS_ICTX_WRITETHROUGH.

(4) Remove NETFS_READ_HOLE_CLEAR.

(5) Reorder structs to eliminate holes.

(6) Remove netfs_io_request::ractl.

(7) Only provide proc_link field if CONFIG_PROC_FS=y.

(8) Remove folio_queue::marks3.

(9) Remove NETFS_RREQ_DONT_UNLOCK_FOLIOS.

(10) Remove NETFS_RREQ_BLOCKED.

* patches from https://lore.kernel.org/20250519134813.2975312-1-dhowells@redhat.com:
fs/netfs: remove unused flag NETFS_RREQ_BLOCKED
fs/netfs: remove unused flag NETFS_RREQ_DONT_UNLOCK_FOLIOS
folio_queue: remove unused field `marks3`
fs/netfs: declare field `proc_link` only if CONFIG_PROC_FS=y
fs/netfs: remove `netfs_io_request.ractl`
fs/netfs: reorder struct fields to eliminate holes
fs/netfs: remove unused enum choice NETFS_READ_HOLE_CLEAR
fs/netfs: remove unused flag NETFS_ICTX_WRITETHROUGH
fs/netfs: remove unused source NETFS_INVALID_WRITE
fs/netfs: remove unused flag NETFS_SREQ_SEEK_DATA_READ

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250519134813.2975312-1-dhowells@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>

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fs/netfs: remove unused flag NETFS_RREQ_BLOCKED

NETFS_RREQ_BLOCKED was added by commit 016dc8516aec ("netfs: Implement
unbuffered/DIO read support") but has never been used either. Without
NETFS_RR

fs/netfs: remove unused flag NETFS_RREQ_BLOCKED

NETFS_RREQ_BLOCKED was added by commit 016dc8516aec ("netfs: Implement
unbuffered/DIO read support") but has never been used either. Without
NETFS_RREQ_BLOCKED, NETFS_RREQ_NONBLOCK makes no sense, and thus can
be removed as well.

Signed-off-by: Max Kellermann <max.kellermann@ionos.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250519134813.2975312-12-dhowells@redhat.com
cc: Paulo Alcantara <pc@manguebit.com>
cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>

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Merge drm/drm-fixes into drm-misc-fixes

Backmerging to get updates from v6.15-rc1.

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

Merge branch 'next' into for-linus

Prepare input updates for 6.15 merge window.

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

Sync to fix conlicts between drm-xe-next and drm-intel-next.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@intel.com>

Merge tag 'v6.14-rc4' into next

Sync up with the mainline.

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

Bring rc1 to start the new release dev.

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

Merge tag 'v6.14-rc1' into perf-tools-next

To get the various fixes in the current master.

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

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

Sync with v6.14-rc1.

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

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

We need
4ba4f1afb6a9 ("perf: Generic hotplug support for a PMU with a scope")
in order to land a i915 PMU simplification and a fix. That landed in 6.12
and

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

We need
4ba4f1afb6a9 ("perf: Generic hotplug support for a PMU with a scope")
in order to land a i915 PMU simplification and a fix. That landed in 6.12
and we are stuck at 6.9 so lets bump things forward.

Signed-off-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tursulin@ursulin.net>

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Merge branch 'next' into for-linus

Prepare input updates for 6.14 merge window.

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
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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: Change the read result collector to only use one work item

Change the way netfslib collects read results to do all the collection for
a particular read request using a single work item that w

netfs: Change the read result collector to only use one work item

Change the way netfslib collects read results to do all the collection for
a particular read request using a single work item that walks along the
subrequest queue as subrequests make progress or complete, unlocking folios
progressively rather than doing the unlock in parallel as parallel requests
come in.

The code is remodelled to be more like the write-side code, though only
using a single stream. This makes it more directly comparable and thus
easier to duplicate fixes between the two sides.

This has a number of advantages:

(1) It's simpler. There doesn't need to be a complex donation mechanism
to handle mismatches between the size and alignment of subrequests and
folios. The collector unlocks folios as the subrequests covering each
complete.

(2) It should cause less scheduler overhead as there's a single work item
in play unlocking pages in parallel when a read gets split up into a
lot of subrequests instead of one per subrequest.

Whilst the parallellism is nice in theory, in practice, the vast
majority of loads are sequential reads of the whole file, so
committing a bunch of threads to unlocking folios out of order doesn't
help in those cases.

(3) It should make it easier to implement content decryption. A folio
cannot be decrypted until all the requests that contribute to it have
completed - and, again, most loads are sequential and so, most of the
time, we want to begin decryption sequentially (though it's great if
the decryption can happen in parallel).

There is a disadvantage in that we're losing the ability to decrypt and
unlock things on an as-things-arrive basis which may affect some
applications.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241216204124.3752367-28-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: 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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