[LU-9679] Prepare lustre for adoption into the linux kernel

• Type: Improvement
• Resolution: Fixed
• Priority: Major
• Fix Version/s: Upstream
• Assignee: James A Simmons
• Reporter: James A Simmons

Description

This is for book keeping all the work that is being done to bring the Intel branch during the lustre 2.11.0 cycle into syncing with what is upstream in the linux kernel. Also at the same ensure important changes upstream get merged back into the Intel branch.

Issue Links

• is related to: LU-9179 Upstream ko2iblnd has poor performance
• is related to: LU-9180 Upstream ko2iblnd does not work with map_on_demand <256
• is related to: LU-10926 ll_set_acl can panic the node.
• is related to: LU-14424 write performance regression in Lustre-2.14.0-RC1
• is related to: LU-9863 Potential one off bug in lmv_fid2path
• is related to: LU-9886 Crash in upstream kiblnd_handle_early_rxs()
• is related to: LU-10086 LNET_MINOR conflicts with USERIO_MINOR
• is related to: LU-7746 skip test of new functionality on upstream client
• is related to: LU-9869 fix incorrect arguments order calling lstcon_session_new
• is related to: LU-10541 parallel-scale-nfsv3 test racer_on_nfs hangs with BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference
• is related to: LU-10785 ll_acl_{access,default}_xattr_handler confuse name and prefix
• is related to: LU-10787 setxattr(..., XATTR_REPLACE) removes rather than replaces the attribute
• is related to: LU-10788 __vfs_setxattr() should pass flags through
• is related to: LU-10792 remove unused parameters from md_{get,set}xattr()
• is related to: LU-10257 vvp_lock, lov_page, and lovsub_{lock,page} are (more or less) unused
• is related to: LU-8980 Add tracepoint support to Lustre
• is related to: LU-6245 Untangle userland and kernel space support for libcfs
• is related to: LU-11089 Performance improvements for lu_object locking
• is related to: LU-6401 Untangle lustre userland and kernel headers
• is related to: LU-10942 Support for Lustre Servers (ldiskfs backend) on kernel 4.12.8
• is related to: LU-9500 MOFED 4/mlx5: Aligning non-aligned page addresses trigger dump_cqe
• is related to: LU-12511 Prepare lustre for adoption into the linux kernel
• is related to: LU-9558 Support linux kernel version 4.12
• is related to: LU-11838 Support linux kernel version 4.18