Merge tag 'erofs-for-5.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xiang/erofs

Pull erofs (and fscache) updates from Gao Xiang:
 "After working on it on the mailing list for more than half a year, we
  finally form 'erofs over fscache' feature into shape. Hopefully it
  could bring more possibility to the communities.

  The story mainly started from a new project what we called "RAFS v6" [1]
  for Nydus image service almost a year ago, which enhances EROFS to be
  a new form of one bootstrap (which includes metadata representing the
  whole fs tree) + several data-deduplicated content addressable blobs
  (actually treated as multiple devices). Each blob can represent one
  container image layer but not quite exactly since all new data can be
  fully existed in the previous blobs so no need to introduce another
  new blob.

  It is actually not a new idea (at least on my side it's much like a
  simpilied casync [2] for now) and has many benefits over per-file
  blobs or some other exist ways since typically each RAFS v6 image only
  has dozens of device blobs instead of thousands of per-file blobs.
  It's easy to be signed with user keys as a golden image, transfered
  untouchedly with minimal overhead over the network, kept in some type
  of storage conveniently, and run with (optional) runtime verification
  but without involving too many irrelevant features crossing the system
  beyond EROFS itself. At least it's our final goal and we're keeping
  working on it. There was also a good summary of this approach from the
  casync author [3].

  Regardless further optimizations, this work is almost done in the
  previous Linux release cycles. In this round, we'd like to introduce
  on-demand load for EROFS with the fscache/cachefiles infrastructure,
  considering the following advantages:

   - Introduce new file-based backend to EROFS. Although each image only
     contains dozens of blobs but in densely-deployed runC host for
     example, there could still be massive blobs on a machine, which is
     messy if each blob is treated as a device. In contrast, fscache and
     cachefiles are really great interfaces for us to make them work.

   - Introduce on-demand load to fscache and EROFS. Previously, fscache
     is mainly used to caching network-likewise filesystems, now it can
     support on-demand downloading for local fses too with the exact
     localfs on-disk format. It has many advantages which we're been
     described in the latest patchset cover letter [4]. In addition to
     that, most importantly, the cached data is still stored in the
     original local fs on-disk format so that it's still the one signed
     with private keys but only could be partially available. Users can
     fully trust it during running. Later, users can also back up
     cachefiles easily to another machine.

   - More reliable on-demand approach in principle. After data is all
     available locally, user daemon can be no longer online in some use
     cases, which helps daemon crash recovery (filesystems can still in
     service) and hot-upgrade (user daemon can be upgraded more
     frequently due to new features or protocols introduced.)

   - Other format can also be converted to EROFS filesystem format over
     the internet on the fly with the new on-demand load feature and
     mounted. That is entirely possible with on-demand load feature as
     long as such archive format metadata can be fetched in advance like
     stargz.

  In addition, although currently our target user is Nydus image service [5],
  but laterly, it can be used for other use cases like on-demand system
  booting, etc. As for the fscache on-demand load feature itself,
  strictly it can be used for other local fses too. Laterly we could
  promote most code to the iomap infrastructure and also enhance it in
  the read-write way if other local fses are interested.

  Thanks David Howells for taking so much time and patience on this
  these months, many thanks with great respect here again! Thanks Jeffle
  for working on this feature and Xin Yin from Bytedance for
  asynchronous I/O implementation as well as Zichen Tian, Jia Zhu, and
  Yan Song for testing, much appeciated. We're also exploring more
  possibly over fscache cache management over FSDAX for secure
  containers and working on more improvements and useful features for
  fscache, cachefiles, and on-demand load.

  In addition to "erofs over fscache", NFS export and idmapped mount are
  also completed in this cycle for container use cases as well.

  Summary:

   - Add erofs on-demand load support over fscache

   - Support NFS export for erofs

   - Support idmapped mounts for erofs

   - Don't prompt for risk any more when using big pcluster

   - Fix buffer copy overflow of ztailpacking feature

   - Several minor cleanups"

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210730194625.93856-1-hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com
[2] https://github.com/systemd/casync
[3] http://0pointer.net/blog/casync-a-tool-for-distributing-file-system-images.html
[4] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220509074028.74954-1-jefflexu@linux.alibaba.com
[5] https://github.com/dragonflyoss/image-service

* tag 'erofs-for-5.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xiang/erofs: (29 commits)
  erofs: scan devices from device table
  erofs: change to use asynchronous io for fscache readpage/readahead
  erofs: add 'fsid' mount option
  erofs: implement fscache-based data readahead
  erofs: implement fscache-based data read for inline layout
  erofs: implement fscache-based data read for non-inline layout
  erofs: implement fscache-based metadata read
  erofs: register fscache context for extra data blobs
  erofs: register fscache context for primary data blob
  erofs: add erofs_fscache_read_folios() helper
  erofs: add anonymous inode caching metadata for data blobs
  erofs: add fscache context helper functions
  erofs: register fscache volume
  erofs: add fscache mode check helper
  erofs: make erofs_map_blocks() generally available
  cachefiles: document on-demand read mode
  cachefiles: add tracepoints for on-demand read mode
  cachefiles: enable on-demand read mode
  cachefiles: implement on-demand read
  cachefiles: notify the user daemon when withdrawing cookie
  ...

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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/caching/cachefiles.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/caching/cachefiles.rst
index 8bf396b76359..fc7abf712315 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/caching/cachefiles.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/caching/cachefiles.rst
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ Cache on Already Mounted Filesystem
 
  (*) Debugging.
 
+ (*) On-demand Read.
 
 
 Overview
@@ -482,3 +483,180 @@ the control file.  For example::
 	echo $((1|4|8)) >/sys/module/cachefiles/parameters/debug
 
 will turn on all function entry debugging.
+
+
+On-demand Read
+==============
+
+When working in its original mode, CacheFiles serves as a local cache for a
+remote networking fs - while in on-demand read mode, CacheFiles can boost the
+scenario where on-demand read semantics are needed, e.g. container image
+distribution.
+
+The essential difference between these two modes is seen when a cache miss
+occurs: In the original mode, the netfs will fetch the data from the remote
+server and then write it to the cache file; in on-demand read mode, fetching
+the data and writing it into the cache is delegated to a user daemon.
+
+``CONFIG_CACHEFILES_ONDEMAND`` should be enabled to support on-demand read mode.
+
+
+Protocol Communication
+----------------------
+
+The on-demand read mode uses a simple protocol for communication between kernel
+and user daemon. The protocol can be modeled as::
+
+	kernel --[request]--> user daemon --[reply]--> kernel
+
+CacheFiles will send requests to the user daemon when needed.  The user daemon
+should poll the devnode ('/dev/cachefiles') to check if there's a pending
+request to be processed.  A POLLIN event will be returned when there's a pending
+request.
+
+The user daemon then reads the devnode to fetch a request to process.  It should
+be noted that each read only gets one request. When it has finished processing
+the request, the user daemon should write the reply to the devnode.
+
+Each request starts with a message header of the form::
+
+	struct cachefiles_msg {
+		__u32 msg_id;
+		__u32 opcode;
+		__u32 len;
+		__u32 object_id;
+		__u8  data[];
+	};
+
+where:
+
+	* ``msg_id`` is a unique ID identifying this request among all pending
+	  requests.
+
+	* ``opcode`` indicates the type of this request.
+
+	* ``object_id`` is a unique ID identifying the cache file operated on.
+
+	* ``data`` indicates the payload of this request.
+
+	* ``len`` indicates the whole length of this request, including the
+	  header and following type-specific payload.
+
+
+Turning on On-demand Mode
+-------------------------
+
+An optional parameter becomes available to the "bind" command::
+
+	bind [ondemand]
+
+When the "bind" command is given no argument, it defaults to the original mode.
+When it is given the "ondemand" argument, i.e. "bind ondemand", on-demand read
+mode will be enabled.
+
+
+The OPEN Request
+----------------
+
+When the netfs opens a cache file for the first time, a request with the
+CACHEFILES_OP_OPEN opcode, a.k.a an OPEN request will be sent to the user
+daemon.  The payload format is of the form::
+
+	struct cachefiles_open {
+		__u32 volume_key_size;
+		__u32 cookie_key_size;
+		__u32 fd;
+		__u32 flags;
+		__u8  data[];
+	};
+
+where:
+
+	* ``data`` contains the volume_key followed directly by the cookie_key.
+	  The volume key is a NUL-terminated string; the cookie key is binary
+	  data.
+
+	* ``volume_key_size`` indicates the size of the volume key in bytes.
+
+	* ``cookie_key_size`` indicates the size of the cookie key in bytes.
+
+	* ``fd`` indicates an anonymous fd referring to the cache file, through
+	  which the user daemon can perform write/llseek file operations on the
+	  cache file.
+
+
+The user daemon can use the given (volume_key, cookie_key) pair to distinguish
+the requested cache file.  With the given anonymous fd, the user daemon can
+fetch the data and write it to the cache file in the background, even when
+kernel has not triggered a cache miss yet.
+
+Be noted that each cache file has a unique object_id, while it may have multiple
+anonymous fds.  The user daemon may duplicate anonymous fds from the initial
+anonymous fd indicated by the @fd field through dup().  Thus each object_id can
+be mapped to multiple anonymous fds, while the usr daemon itself needs to
+maintain the mapping.
+
+When implementing a user daemon, please be careful of RLIMIT_NOFILE,
+``/proc/sys/fs/nr_open`` and ``/proc/sys/fs/file-max``.  Typically these needn't
+be huge since they're related to the number of open device blobs rather than
+open files of each individual filesystem.
+
+The user daemon should reply the OPEN request by issuing a "copen" (complete
+open) command on the devnode::
+
+	copen <msg_id>,<cache_size>
+
+where:
+
+	* ``msg_id`` must match the msg_id field of the OPEN request.
+
+	* When >= 0, ``cache_size`` indicates the size of the cache file;
+	  when < 0, ``cache_size`` indicates any error code encountered by the
+	  user daemon.
+
+
+The CLOSE Request
+-----------------
+
+When a cookie withdrawn, a CLOSE request (opcode CACHEFILES_OP_CLOSE) will be
+sent to the user daemon.  This tells the user daemon to close all anonymous fds
+associated with the given object_id.  The CLOSE request has no extra payload,
+and shouldn't be replied.
+
+
+The READ Request
+----------------
+
+When a cache miss is encountered in on-demand read mode, CacheFiles will send a
+READ request (opcode CACHEFILES_OP_READ) to the user daemon. This tells the user
+daemon to fetch the contents of the requested file range.  The payload is of the
+form::
+
+	struct cachefiles_read {
+		__u64 off;
+		__u64 len;
+	};
+
+where:
+
+	* ``off`` indicates the starting offset of the requested file range.
+
+	* ``len`` indicates the length of the requested file range.
+
+
+When it receives a READ request, the user daemon should fetch the requested data
+and write it to the cache file identified by object_id.
+
+When it has finished processing the READ request, the user daemon should reply
+by using the CACHEFILES_IOC_READ_COMPLETE ioctl on one of the anonymous fds
+associated with the object_id given in the READ request.  The ioctl is of the
+form::
+
+	ioctl(fd, CACHEFILES_IOC_READ_COMPLETE, msg_id);
+
+where:
+
+	* ``fd`` is one of the anonymous fds associated with the object_id
+	  given.
+
+	* ``msg_id`` must match the msg_id field of the READ request.