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Carlos Maiolino 482c57805c xfs: improve online repair reap calculations [6.18 v2 1/2]
A few months ago, the multi-fsblock untorn writes patchset added a bunch
 of log intent item helper functions to estimate the number of intent
 items that could be added to a particular transaction.  Those helpers
 enabled us to compute a safe upper bound on the number of blocks that
 could be written in an untorn fashion with filesystem-provided out of
 place writes.
 
 Currently, the online fsck code employs static limits on the number of
 intent items that it's willing to accrue to a single transaction when
 it's trying to reap what it thinks are the old blocks from a corrupt
 structure.  There have been no problems reported with this approach
 after years of testing, but static limits are scary and gross because
 overestimating the intent item limit could result in transaction
 overflows and dead filesystems; and underestimating causes unnecessary
 overhead.
 
 This series uses the new log intent item size helpers to estimate the
 limits dynamically based on worst-case per-block repair work vs. the
 size of the scrub transaction.  After several months of testing this,
 there don't seem to be any problems here either.
 
 v2: rearrange patches, add review tags
 
 This has been running on the djcloud for months with no problems.  Enjoy!
 
 Signed-off-by: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
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Merge tag 'fix-scrub-reap-calculations_2025-09-05' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djwong/xfs-linux into xfs-6.18-merge

xfs: improve online repair reap calculations [6.18 v2 1/2]

A few months ago, the multi-fsblock untorn writes patchset added a bunch
of log intent item helper functions to estimate the number of intent
items that could be added to a particular transaction.  Those helpers
enabled us to compute a safe upper bound on the number of blocks that
could be written in an untorn fashion with filesystem-provided out of
place writes.

Currently, the online fsck code employs static limits on the number of
intent items that it's willing to accrue to a single transaction when
it's trying to reap what it thinks are the old blocks from a corrupt
structure.  There have been no problems reported with this approach
after years of testing, but static limits are scary and gross because
overestimating the intent item limit could result in transaction
overflows and dead filesystems; and underestimating causes unnecessary
overhead.

This series uses the new log intent item size helpers to estimate the
limits dynamically based on worst-case per-block repair work vs. the
size of the scrub transaction.  After several months of testing this,
there don't seem to be any problems here either.

v2: rearrange patches, add review tags

This has been running on the djcloud for months with no problems.  Enjoy!

Signed-off-by: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Carlos Maiolino <cem@kernel.org>
2025-09-05 20:26:42 +02:00
arch - Convert the SSB mitigation to the attack vector controls which got forgotten 2025-08-31 09:20:17 -07:00
block block: validate QoS before calling __rq_qos_done_bio() 2025-08-26 10:34:08 -06:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
crypto Significant patch series in this pull request: 2025-08-03 16:23:09 -07:00
Documentation - Convert the SSB mitigation to the attack vector controls which got forgotten 2025-08-31 09:20:17 -07:00
drivers - Remove unnecessary and noisy WARN_ONs in gic-v5's init path 2025-08-31 09:07:37 -07:00
fs xfs: improve online repair reap calculations [6.18 v2 1/2] 2025-09-05 20:26:42 +02:00
include drm fixes for 6.16-rc4 2025-08-28 19:56:32 -07:00
init hardening: Require clang 20.1.0 for __counted_by 2025-08-29 12:04:53 -07:00
io_uring io_uring/kbuf: always use READ_ONCE() to read ring provided buffer lengths 2025-08-28 05:48:34 -06:00
ipc vfs-6.17-rc1.mmap_prepare 2025-07-28 13:43:25 -07:00
kernel - Fix a stall on the CPU offline path due to mis-counting a deadline server 2025-08-31 09:13:00 -07:00
lib hardening fixes for v6.17-rc4 2025-08-31 08:56:45 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Replace the obsolete address of the FSF in the GFDL-1.2 2025-07-24 11:15:39 +02:00
mm memblock fixes for v6.17-rc4 2025-08-28 15:46:06 -07:00
net net: ipv4: fix regression in local-broadcast routes 2025-08-28 10:52:30 +02:00
rust Driver core fixes for 6.16-rc3 2025-08-23 09:04:32 -04:00
samples Significant patch series in this pull request: 2025-08-03 16:23:09 -07:00
scripts Kbuild updates for v6.17 2025-08-06 07:32:52 +03:00
security + Features 2025-08-04 08:17:28 -07:00
sound ALSA: usb-audio: Use correct sub-type for UAC3 feature unit validation 2025-08-21 17:10:14 +02:00
tools Two arm64 fixes: 2025-08-30 10:43:53 -07:00
usr usr/include: openrisc: don't HDRTEST bpf_perf_event.h 2025-05-12 15:03:17 +09:00
virt Merge tag 'kvm-x86-no_assignment-6.17' of https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux into HEAD 2025-07-29 08:36:42 -04:00
.clang-format Linux 6.15-rc5 2025-05-06 16:39:25 +10:00
.clippy.toml rust: clean Rust 1.88.0's warning about clippy::disallowed_macros configuration 2025-05-07 00:11:47 +02:00
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.editorconfig .editorconfig: remove trim_trailing_whitespace option 2024-06-13 16:47:52 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore MAINTAINERS: Retire Ralf Baechle 2024-11-12 15:48:59 +01:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore gitignore: allow .pylintrc to be tracked 2025-07-02 17:10:04 -06:00
.mailmap .mailmap: add entry for Easwar Hariharan 2025-08-19 16:35:55 -07:00
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.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: retire Boris from TLS maintainers 2025-08-26 17:36:01 -07:00
Kbuild drm: ensure drm headers are self-contained and pass kernel-doc 2025-02-12 10:44:43 +02:00
Kconfig io_uring: Rename KConfig to Kconfig 2025-02-19 14:53:27 -07:00
MAINTAINERS gpio fixes for v6.17-rc4 2025-08-31 08:49:55 -07:00
Makefile Linux 6.17-rc4 2025-08-31 15:33:07 -07:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -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 reStructuredText 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.