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Christoph Hellwig 3222d8c2a7 block: remove ->rw_page
The ->rw_page method is a special purpose bypass of the usual bio handling
path that is limited to single-page reads and writes and synchronous which
causes a lot of extra code in the drivers, callers and the block layer.

The only remaining user is the MM swap code.  Switch that swap code to
simply submit a single-vec on-stack bio an synchronously wait on it based
on a newly added QUEUE_FLAG_SYNCHRONOUS flag set by the drivers that
currently implement ->rw_page instead.  While this touches one extra cache
line and executes extra code, it simplifies the block layer and drivers
and ensures that all feastures are properly supported by all drivers, e.g.
right now ->rw_page bypassed cgroup writeback entirely.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment typo, per Dan]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230125133436.447864-8-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Cc: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-02-02 22:33:34 -08:00
arch mm: add vma_alloc_zeroed_movable_folio() 2023-02-02 22:33:18 -08:00
block block: remove ->rw_page 2023-02-02 22:33:34 -08:00
certs certs: make system keyring depend on built-in x509 parser 2022-09-24 04:31:18 +09:00
crypto This update includes the following changes: 2022-12-14 12:31:09 -08:00
Documentation mm: memory-failure: document memory failure stats 2023-02-02 22:33:28 -08:00
drivers block: remove ->rw_page 2023-02-02 22:33:34 -08:00
fs mpage: stop using bdev_{read,write}_page 2023-02-02 22:33:32 -08:00
include block: remove ->rw_page 2023-02-02 22:33:34 -08:00
init mm/page_ext: init page_ext early if there are no deferred struct pages 2023-02-02 22:33:22 -08:00
io_uring mm/nommu: factor out check for NOMMU shared mappings into is_nommu_shared_mapping() 2023-01-18 17:12:56 -08:00
ipc Non-MM patches for 6.2-rc1. 2022-12-12 17:28:58 -08:00
kernel mm: implement memory-deny-write-execute as a prctl 2023-02-02 22:33:24 -08:00
lib mm: move KMEMLEAK's Kconfig items from lib to mm 2023-02-02 22:33:26 -08:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add the copyleft-next-0.3.1 license 2022-11-08 15:44:01 +01:00
mm block: remove ->rw_page 2023-02-02 22:33:34 -08:00
net mm: remove zap_page_range and create zap_vma_pages 2023-01-18 17:12:55 -08:00
rust rust: types: add Opaque type 2022-12-04 01:59:16 +01:00
samples Char/Misc driver changes for 6.2-rc1 2022-12-16 03:49:24 -08:00
scripts kernel hardening fixes for v6.2-rc4 2023-01-14 10:04:00 -06:00
security mm: new primitive kvmemdup() 2023-01-18 17:12:47 -08:00
sound sound fixes for 6.2-rc4 2023-01-13 08:20:29 -06:00
tools kselftest: vm: add tests for memory-deny-write-execute 2023-02-02 22:33:25 -08:00
usr usr/gen_init_cpio.c: remove unnecessary -1 values from int file 2022-10-03 14:21:44 -07:00
virt KVM: Ensure lockdep knows about kvm->lock vs. vcpu->mutex ordering rule 2023-01-11 13:32:21 -05:00
.clang-format iommufd for 6.2 2022-12-14 09:15:43 -08:00
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.gitignore .gitignore: ignore *.rpm 2022-12-30 17:22:14 +09:00
.mailmap .mailmap: update e-mail address for Eugen Hristev 2023-01-31 16:44:08 -08:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: zram: zsmalloc: Add an additional co-maintainer 2022-12-15 16:37:49 -08:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS/DAMON: link maintainer profile, git trees, and website 2023-02-02 22:32:52 -08:00
Makefile Linux 6.2-rc4 2023-01-15 09:22:43 -06:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.