Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> says:
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.
* patches from https://patch.msgid.link/
20260326082428.31660-1-jack@suse.cz: (42 commits)
fs: Drop i_private_list from address_space
fs: Drop mapping_metadata_bhs from address space
ext4: Track metadata bhs in fs-private inode part
minix: Track metadata bhs in fs-private inode part
udf: Track metadata bhs in fs-private inode part
fat: Track metadata bhs in fs-private inode part
bfs: Track metadata bhs in fs-private inode part
affs: Track metadata bhs in fs-private inode part
ext2: Track metadata bhs in fs-private inode part
fs: Provide functions for handling mapping_metadata_bhs directly
fs: Switch inode_has_buffers() to take mapping_metadata_bhs
fs: Make bhs point to mapping_metadata_bhs
fs: Move metadata bhs tracking to a separate struct
fs: Fold fsync_buffers_list() into sync_mapping_buffers()
fs: Drop osync_buffers_list()
kvm: Use private inode list instead of i_private_list
fs: Remove i_private_data
aio: Stop using i_private_data and i_private_lock
hugetlbfs: Stop using i_private_data
fs: Stop using i_private_data for metadata bh tracking
...
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260326082428.31660-1-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>