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Convert the 9p filesystem to use the netfs helper lib to handle readpage, readahead and write_begin, converting those into a common issue_op for the filesystem itself to handle. The netfs helper lib also handles reading from fscache if a cache is available, and interleaving reads from both sources. This change also switches from the old fscache I/O API to the new one, meaning that fscache no longer keeps track of netfs pages and instead does async DIO between the backing files and the 9p file pagecache. As a part of this change, the handling of PG_fscache changes. It now just means that the cache has a write I/O operation in progress on a page (PG_locked is used for a read I/O op). Note that this is a cut-down version of the fscache rewrite and does not change any of the cookie and cache coherency handling. Changes ======= ver #4: - Rebase on top of folios. - Don't use wait_on_page_bit_killable(). ver #3: - v9fs_req_issue_op() needs to terminate the subrequest. - v9fs_write_end() needs to call SetPageUptodate() a bit more often. - It's not CONFIG_{AFS,V9FS}_FSCACHE[1] - v9fs_init_rreq() should take a ref on the p9_fid and the cleanup should drop it [from Dominique Martinet]. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Reviewed-and-tested-by: Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@codewreck.org> cc: v9fs-developer@lists.sourceforge.net cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/YUm+xucHxED+1MJp@codewreck.org/ [1] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163162772646.438332.16323773205855053535.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # rfc Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163189109885.2509237.7153668924503399173.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # rfc v2 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163363943896.1980952.1226527304649419689.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v3 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163551662876.1877519.14706391695553204156.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v4 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163584179557.4023316.11089762304657644342.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk # rebase on folio Signed-off-by: Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@codewreck.org>
Linux kernel
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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.