[PATCH v2 0/41] fs: Move metadata bh tracking from address_space
Jan Kara <[email protected]> Fri, 20 Mar 2026 14:40:55 +0100
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.kernel.aio.general,gmane.linux.file-systems,gmane.linux.block,gmane.comp.file-systems.ext4,gmane.linux.kernel.mm |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Hello, here is a next revision of the patchset cleaning up buffer head metadata tracking and use of address_space's private_list and private_lock. The patches have survived some testing with fstests and ltp however I didn't test AFFS and KVM guest_memfd changes so a help with testing those would be very welcome. Thanks. Changes since v1: * Fixed hugetlbfs handling of root directory * Reworked mapping_metadata_bhs handling functions to get the tracking structure as an argument so we now don't need iops method to fetch the struct from the inode * Reordered patches into more sensible order * Added patch to merge two mostly duplicate generic fsync implementations * Added Reviewed-by tags * Couple more minor changes that were requested during review Original cover letter: this patch series cleans up the mess that has accumulated over the years in metadata buffer_head tracking for inodes, moves the tracking into dedicated structure in filesystem-private part of the inode (so that we don't use private_list, private_data, and private_lock in struct address_space), and also moves couple other users of private_data and private_list so these are removed from struct address_space saving 3 longs in struct inode for 99% of inodes. I would like to get rid of private_lock in struct address_space as well however the locking changes for buffer_heads are non-trivial there and the patch series is long enough as is. So let's leave that for another time. block/bdev.c | 1 fs/affs/affs.h | 2 fs/affs/dir.c | 1 fs/affs/file.c | 1 fs/affs/inode.c | 2 fs/affs/super.c | 6 fs/affs/symlink.c | 1 fs/aio.c | 78 +++++++- fs/bfs/bfs.h | 2 fs/bfs/dir.c | 1 fs/bfs/file.c | 4 fs/bfs/inode.c | 9 + fs/buffer.c | 387 +++++++++++++++++--------------------------- fs/ext2/ext2.h | 2 fs/ext2/file.c | 1 fs/ext2/inode.c | 3 fs/ext2/namei.c | 2 fs/ext2/super.c | 6 fs/ext2/symlink.c | 2 fs/ext4/ext4.h | 4 fs/ext4/file.c | 1 fs/ext4/inode.c | 9 - fs/ext4/namei.c | 2 fs/ext4/super.c | 9 - fs/ext4/symlink.c | 3 fs/fat/fat.h | 2 fs/fat/file.c | 1 fs/fat/inode.c | 16 + fs/fat/namei_msdos.c | 1 fs/fat/namei_vfat.c | 1 fs/gfs2/glock.c | 1 fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c | 10 - fs/inode.c | 24 +- fs/minix/file.c | 1 fs/minix/inode.c | 10 + fs/minix/minix.h | 2 fs/minix/namei.c | 1 fs/ntfs3/file.c | 3 fs/ocfs2/dlmglue.c | 1 fs/ocfs2/namei.c | 3 fs/udf/file.c | 1 fs/udf/inode.c | 2 fs/udf/namei.c | 1 fs/udf/super.c | 6 fs/udf/symlink.c | 1 fs/udf/udf_i.h | 1 fs/udf/udfdecl.h | 1 include/linux/buffer_head.h | 6 include/linux/fs.h | 11 - include/linux/hugetlb.h | 1 mm/hugetlb.c | 10 - virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c | 12 - 52 files changed, 360 insertions(+), 309 deletions(-) Honza Previous versions: Link: http://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected] # v1 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-aio' in the body to [email protected]. For more info on Linux AIO, see: http://www.kvack.org/aio/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"[email protected]">[email protected]</a>