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<title>kernel.git/block/blk-stat.c, branch linux-4.18.y</title>
<subtitle>Hosts the 0x221E linux distro kernel.
</subtitle>
<id>https://git.0xinfinity.dev/distro/kernel.git/atom?h=linux-4.18.y</id>
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<updated>2018-05-09T14:33:09Z</updated>
<entry>
<title>block: consolidate struct request timestamp fields</title>
<updated>2018-05-09T14:33:09Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Omar Sandoval</name>
</author>
<published>2018-05-09T09:08:53Z</published>
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<content type='text'>
Currently, struct request has four timestamp fields:

- A start time, set at get_request time, in jiffies, used for iostats
- An I/O start time, set at start_request time, in ktime nanoseconds,
  used for blk-stats (i.e., wbt, kyber, hybrid polling)
- Another start time and another I/O start time, used for cfq and bfq

These can all be consolidated into one start time and one I/O start
time, both in ktime nanoseconds, shaving off up to 16 bytes from struct
request depending on the kernel config.

Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval &lt;osandov@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: get rid of struct blk_issue_stat</title>
<updated>2018-05-09T14:33:05Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Omar Sandoval</name>
</author>
<published>2018-05-09T09:08:50Z</published>
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<content type='text'>
struct blk_issue_stat squashes three things into one u64:

- The time the driver started working on a request
- The original size of the request (for the io.low controller)
- Flags for writeback throttling

It turns out that on x86_64, we have a 4 byte hole in struct request
which we can fill with the non-timestamp fields from blk_issue_stat,
simplifying things quite a bit.

Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval &lt;osandov@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: Protect queue flag changes with the queue lock</title>
<updated>2018-03-08T21:13:48Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Bart Van Assche</name>
</author>
<published>2018-03-08T01:10:05Z</published>
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<content type='text'>
Since the queue flags may be changed concurrently from multiple
contexts after a queue becomes visible in sysfs, make these changes
safe by protecting these with the queue lock.

Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn &lt;jthumshirn@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bart.vanassche@wdc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: Use the queue_flag_*() functions instead of open-coding these</title>
<updated>2018-03-08T21:13:48Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Bart Van Assche</name>
</author>
<published>2018-03-08T01:10:03Z</published>
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<content type='text'>
Except for changing the atomic queue flag manipulations that are
protected by the queue lock into non-atomic manipulations, this
patch does not change any functionality.

Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn &lt;jthumshirn@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bart.vanassche@wdc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: setup_timer() -&gt; timer_setup()</title>
<updated>2017-11-21T23:57:07Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
</author>
<published>2017-10-16T21:43:17Z</published>
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<content type='text'>
This converts all remaining cases of the old setup_timer() API into using
timer_setup(), where the callback argument is the structure already
holding the struct timer_list. These should have no behavioral changes,
since they just change which pointer is passed into the callback with
the same available pointers after conversion. It handles the following
examples, in addition to some other variations.

Casting from unsigned long:

    void my_callback(unsigned long data)
    {
        struct something *ptr = (struct something *)data;
    ...
    }
    ...
    setup_timer(&amp;ptr-&gt;my_timer, my_callback, ptr);

and forced object casts:

    void my_callback(struct something *ptr)
    {
    ...
    }
    ...
    setup_timer(&amp;ptr-&gt;my_timer, my_callback, (unsigned long)ptr);

become:

    void my_callback(struct timer_list *t)
    {
        struct something *ptr = from_timer(ptr, t, my_timer);
    ...
    }
    ...
    timer_setup(&amp;ptr-&gt;my_timer, my_callback, 0);

Direct function assignments:

    void my_callback(unsigned long data)
    {
        struct something *ptr = (struct something *)data;
    ...
    }
    ...
    ptr-&gt;my_timer.function = my_callback;

have a temporary cast added, along with converting the args:

    void my_callback(struct timer_list *t)
    {
        struct something *ptr = from_timer(ptr, t, my_timer);
    ...
    }
    ...
    ptr-&gt;my_timer.function = (TIMER_FUNC_TYPE)my_callback;

And finally, callbacks without a data assignment:

    void my_callback(unsigned long data)
    {
    ...
    }
    ...
    setup_timer(&amp;ptr-&gt;my_timer, my_callback, 0);

have their argument renamed to verify they're unused during conversion:

    void my_callback(struct timer_list *unused)
    {
    ...
    }
    ...
    timer_setup(&amp;ptr-&gt;my_timer, my_callback, 0);

The conversion is done with the following Coccinelle script:

spatch --very-quiet --all-includes --include-headers \
	-I ./arch/x86/include -I ./arch/x86/include/generated \
	-I ./include -I ./arch/x86/include/uapi \
	-I ./arch/x86/include/generated/uapi -I ./include/uapi \
	-I ./include/generated/uapi --include ./include/linux/kconfig.h \
	--dir . \
	--cocci-file ~/src/data/timer_setup.cocci

@fix_address_of@
expression e;
@@

 setup_timer(
-&amp;(e)
+&amp;e
 , ...)

// Update any raw setup_timer() usages that have a NULL callback, but
// would otherwise match change_timer_function_usage, since the latter
// will update all function assignments done in the face of a NULL
// function initialization in setup_timer().
@change_timer_function_usage_NULL@
expression _E;
identifier _timer;
type _cast_data;
@@

(
-setup_timer(&amp;_E-&gt;_timer, NULL, _E);
+timer_setup(&amp;_E-&gt;_timer, NULL, 0);
|
-setup_timer(&amp;_E-&gt;_timer, NULL, (_cast_data)_E);
+timer_setup(&amp;_E-&gt;_timer, NULL, 0);
|
-setup_timer(&amp;_E._timer, NULL, &amp;_E);
+timer_setup(&amp;_E._timer, NULL, 0);
|
-setup_timer(&amp;_E._timer, NULL, (_cast_data)&amp;_E);
+timer_setup(&amp;_E._timer, NULL, 0);
)

@change_timer_function_usage@
expression _E;
identifier _timer;
struct timer_list _stl;
identifier _callback;
type _cast_func, _cast_data;
@@

(
-setup_timer(&amp;_E-&gt;_timer, _callback, _E);
+timer_setup(&amp;_E-&gt;_timer, _callback, 0);
|
-setup_timer(&amp;_E-&gt;_timer, &amp;_callback, _E);
+timer_setup(&amp;_E-&gt;_timer, _callback, 0);
|
-setup_timer(&amp;_E-&gt;_timer, _callback, (_cast_data)_E);
+timer_setup(&amp;_E-&gt;_timer, _callback, 0);
|
-setup_timer(&amp;_E-&gt;_timer, &amp;_callback, (_cast_data)_E);
+timer_setup(&amp;_E-&gt;_timer, _callback, 0);
|
-setup_timer(&amp;_E-&gt;_timer, (_cast_func)_callback, _E);
+timer_setup(&amp;_E-&gt;_timer, _callback, 0);
|
-setup_timer(&amp;_E-&gt;_timer, (_cast_func)&amp;_callback, _E);
+timer_setup(&amp;_E-&gt;_timer, _callback, 0);
|
-setup_timer(&amp;_E-&gt;_timer, (_cast_func)_callback, (_cast_data)_E);
+timer_setup(&amp;_E-&gt;_timer, _callback, 0);
|
-setup_timer(&amp;_E-&gt;_timer, (_cast_func)&amp;_callback, (_cast_data)_E);
+timer_setup(&amp;_E-&gt;_timer, _callback, 0);
|
-setup_timer(&amp;_E._timer, _callback, (_cast_data)_E);
+timer_setup(&amp;_E._timer, _callback, 0);
|
-setup_timer(&amp;_E._timer, _callback, (_cast_data)&amp;_E);
+timer_setup(&amp;_E._timer, _callback, 0);
|
-setup_timer(&amp;_E._timer, &amp;_callback, (_cast_data)_E);
+timer_setup(&amp;_E._timer, _callback, 0);
|
-setup_timer(&amp;_E._timer, &amp;_callback, (_cast_data)&amp;_E);
+timer_setup(&amp;_E._timer, _callback, 0);
|
-setup_timer(&amp;_E._timer, (_cast_func)_callback, (_cast_data)_E);
+timer_setup(&amp;_E._timer, _callback, 0);
|
-setup_timer(&amp;_E._timer, (_cast_func)_callback, (_cast_data)&amp;_E);
+timer_setup(&amp;_E._timer, _callback, 0);
|
-setup_timer(&amp;_E._timer, (_cast_func)&amp;_callback, (_cast_data)_E);
+timer_setup(&amp;_E._timer, _callback, 0);
|
-setup_timer(&amp;_E._timer, (_cast_func)&amp;_callback, (_cast_data)&amp;_E);
+timer_setup(&amp;_E._timer, _callback, 0);
|
 _E-&gt;_timer@_stl.function = _callback;
|
 _E-&gt;_timer@_stl.function = &amp;_callback;
|
 _E-&gt;_timer@_stl.function = (_cast_func)_callback;
|
 _E-&gt;_timer@_stl.function = (_cast_func)&amp;_callback;
|
 _E._timer@_stl.function = _callback;
|
 _E._timer@_stl.function = &amp;_callback;
|
 _E._timer@_stl.function = (_cast_func)_callback;
|
 _E._timer@_stl.function = (_cast_func)&amp;_callback;
)

// callback(unsigned long arg)
@change_callback_handle_cast
 depends on change_timer_function_usage@
identifier change_timer_function_usage._callback;
identifier change_timer_function_usage._timer;
type _origtype;
identifier _origarg;
type _handletype;
identifier _handle;
@@

 void _callback(
-_origtype _origarg
+struct timer_list *t
 )
 {
(
	... when != _origarg
	_handletype *_handle =
-(_handletype *)_origarg;
+from_timer(_handle, t, _timer);
	... when != _origarg
|
	... when != _origarg
	_handletype *_handle =
-(void *)_origarg;
+from_timer(_handle, t, _timer);
	... when != _origarg
|
	... when != _origarg
	_handletype *_handle;
	... when != _handle
	_handle =
-(_handletype *)_origarg;
+from_timer(_handle, t, _timer);
	... when != _origarg
|
	... when != _origarg
	_handletype *_handle;
	... when != _handle
	_handle =
-(void *)_origarg;
+from_timer(_handle, t, _timer);
	... when != _origarg
)
 }

// callback(unsigned long arg) without existing variable
@change_callback_handle_cast_no_arg
 depends on change_timer_function_usage &amp;&amp;
                     !change_callback_handle_cast@
identifier change_timer_function_usage._callback;
identifier change_timer_function_usage._timer;
type _origtype;
identifier _origarg;
type _handletype;
@@

 void _callback(
-_origtype _origarg
+struct timer_list *t
 )
 {
+	_handletype *_origarg = from_timer(_origarg, t, _timer);
+
	... when != _origarg
-	(_handletype *)_origarg
+	_origarg
	... when != _origarg
 }

// Avoid already converted callbacks.
@match_callback_converted
 depends on change_timer_function_usage &amp;&amp;
            !change_callback_handle_cast &amp;&amp;
	    !change_callback_handle_cast_no_arg@
identifier change_timer_function_usage._callback;
identifier t;
@@

 void _callback(struct timer_list *t)
 { ... }

// callback(struct something *handle)
@change_callback_handle_arg
 depends on change_timer_function_usage &amp;&amp;
	    !match_callback_converted &amp;&amp;
            !change_callback_handle_cast &amp;&amp;
            !change_callback_handle_cast_no_arg@
identifier change_timer_function_usage._callback;
identifier change_timer_function_usage._timer;
type _handletype;
identifier _handle;
@@

 void _callback(
-_handletype *_handle
+struct timer_list *t
 )
 {
+	_handletype *_handle = from_timer(_handle, t, _timer);
	...
 }

// If change_callback_handle_arg ran on an empty function, remove
// the added handler.
@unchange_callback_handle_arg
 depends on change_timer_function_usage &amp;&amp;
	    change_callback_handle_arg@
identifier change_timer_function_usage._callback;
identifier change_timer_function_usage._timer;
type _handletype;
identifier _handle;
identifier t;
@@

 void _callback(struct timer_list *t)
 {
-	_handletype *_handle = from_timer(_handle, t, _timer);
 }

// We only want to refactor the setup_timer() data argument if we've found
// the matching callback. This undoes changes in change_timer_function_usage.
@unchange_timer_function_usage
 depends on change_timer_function_usage &amp;&amp;
            !change_callback_handle_cast &amp;&amp;
            !change_callback_handle_cast_no_arg &amp;&amp;
	    !change_callback_handle_arg@
expression change_timer_function_usage._E;
identifier change_timer_function_usage._timer;
identifier change_timer_function_usage._callback;
type change_timer_function_usage._cast_data;
@@

(
-timer_setup(&amp;_E-&gt;_timer, _callback, 0);
+setup_timer(&amp;_E-&gt;_timer, _callback, (_cast_data)_E);
|
-timer_setup(&amp;_E._timer, _callback, 0);
+setup_timer(&amp;_E._timer, _callback, (_cast_data)&amp;_E);
)

// If we fixed a callback from a .function assignment, fix the
// assignment cast now.
@change_timer_function_assignment
 depends on change_timer_function_usage &amp;&amp;
            (change_callback_handle_cast ||
             change_callback_handle_cast_no_arg ||
             change_callback_handle_arg)@
expression change_timer_function_usage._E;
identifier change_timer_function_usage._timer;
identifier change_timer_function_usage._callback;
type _cast_func;
typedef TIMER_FUNC_TYPE;
@@

(
 _E-&gt;_timer.function =
-_callback
+(TIMER_FUNC_TYPE)_callback
 ;
|
 _E-&gt;_timer.function =
-&amp;_callback
+(TIMER_FUNC_TYPE)_callback
 ;
|
 _E-&gt;_timer.function =
-(_cast_func)_callback;
+(TIMER_FUNC_TYPE)_callback
 ;
|
 _E-&gt;_timer.function =
-(_cast_func)&amp;_callback
+(TIMER_FUNC_TYPE)_callback
 ;
|
 _E._timer.function =
-_callback
+(TIMER_FUNC_TYPE)_callback
 ;
|
 _E._timer.function =
-&amp;_callback;
+(TIMER_FUNC_TYPE)_callback
 ;
|
 _E._timer.function =
-(_cast_func)_callback
+(TIMER_FUNC_TYPE)_callback
 ;
|
 _E._timer.function =
-(_cast_func)&amp;_callback
+(TIMER_FUNC_TYPE)_callback
 ;
)

// Sometimes timer functions are called directly. Replace matched args.
@change_timer_function_calls
 depends on change_timer_function_usage &amp;&amp;
            (change_callback_handle_cast ||
             change_callback_handle_cast_no_arg ||
             change_callback_handle_arg)@
expression _E;
identifier change_timer_function_usage._timer;
identifier change_timer_function_usage._callback;
type _cast_data;
@@

 _callback(
(
-(_cast_data)_E
+&amp;_E-&gt;_timer
|
-(_cast_data)&amp;_E
+&amp;_E._timer
|
-_E
+&amp;_E-&gt;_timer
)
 )

// If a timer has been configured without a data argument, it can be
// converted without regard to the callback argument, since it is unused.
@match_timer_function_unused_data@
expression _E;
identifier _timer;
identifier _callback;
@@

(
-setup_timer(&amp;_E-&gt;_timer, _callback, 0);
+timer_setup(&amp;_E-&gt;_timer, _callback, 0);
|
-setup_timer(&amp;_E-&gt;_timer, _callback, 0L);
+timer_setup(&amp;_E-&gt;_timer, _callback, 0);
|
-setup_timer(&amp;_E-&gt;_timer, _callback, 0UL);
+timer_setup(&amp;_E-&gt;_timer, _callback, 0);
|
-setup_timer(&amp;_E._timer, _callback, 0);
+timer_setup(&amp;_E._timer, _callback, 0);
|
-setup_timer(&amp;_E._timer, _callback, 0L);
+timer_setup(&amp;_E._timer, _callback, 0);
|
-setup_timer(&amp;_E._timer, _callback, 0UL);
+timer_setup(&amp;_E._timer, _callback, 0);
|
-setup_timer(&amp;_timer, _callback, 0);
+timer_setup(&amp;_timer, _callback, 0);
|
-setup_timer(&amp;_timer, _callback, 0L);
+timer_setup(&amp;_timer, _callback, 0);
|
-setup_timer(&amp;_timer, _callback, 0UL);
+timer_setup(&amp;_timer, _callback, 0);
|
-setup_timer(_timer, _callback, 0);
+timer_setup(_timer, _callback, 0);
|
-setup_timer(_timer, _callback, 0L);
+timer_setup(_timer, _callback, 0);
|
-setup_timer(_timer, _callback, 0UL);
+timer_setup(_timer, _callback, 0);
)

@change_callback_unused_data
 depends on match_timer_function_unused_data@
identifier match_timer_function_unused_data._callback;
type _origtype;
identifier _origarg;
@@

 void _callback(
-_origtype _origarg
+struct timer_list *unused
 )
 {
	... when != _origarg
 }

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>blk-stat: delete useless code</title>
<updated>2017-10-10T19:48:14Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Shaohua Li</name>
</author>
<published>2017-10-07T00:55:59Z</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.0xinfinity.dev/distro/kernel.git/commit/?id=eca8b53a6769e60d6d8240d71202d73b0af81901'/>
<id>urn:sha1:eca8b53a6769e60d6d8240d71202d73b0af81901</id>
<content type='text'>
Fix two issues:
- the per-cpu stat flush is unnecessary, nobody uses per-cpu stat except
  sum it to global stat. We can do the calculation there. The flush just
  wastes cpu time.
- some fields are signed int/s64. I don't see the point.

Reviewed-by: Omar Sandoval &lt;osandov@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li &lt;shli@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>blk-stat: don't use this_cpu_ptr() in a preemptable section</title>
<updated>2017-05-10T13:40:18Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
</author>
<published>2017-05-09T17:39:56Z</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.0xinfinity.dev/distro/kernel.git/commit/?id=d3738123986954ba3abbd96b595f5176b50c3f5d'/>
<id>urn:sha1:d3738123986954ba3abbd96b595f5176b50c3f5d</id>
<content type='text'>
If PREEMPT_RCU is enabled, rcu_read_lock() isn't strong enough
for us to use this_cpu_ptr() in that section. Use the safer
get/put_cpu_ptr() variants instead.

Reported-by: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Fixes: 34dbad5d26e2 ("blk-stat: convert to callback-based statistics reporting")
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>blk-stat: kill blk_stat_rq_ddir()</title>
<updated>2017-04-21T13:56:23Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
</author>
<published>2017-04-21T13:55:42Z</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.0xinfinity.dev/distro/kernel.git/commit/?id=99c749a4c4f4ea2c9eee01f81f79bdbf26c3914e'/>
<id>urn:sha1:99c749a4c4f4ea2c9eee01f81f79bdbf26c3914e</id>
<content type='text'>
No point in providing and exporting this helper. There's just
one (real) user of it, just use rq_data_dir().

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>blk-stat: convert blk-stat bucket callback to signed</title>
<updated>2017-04-20T21:29:16Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephen Bates</name>
</author>
<published>2017-04-20T21:29:16Z</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.0xinfinity.dev/distro/kernel.git/commit/?id=a37244e4cc5766af68004ad6249fcd0e4694b441'/>
<id>urn:sha1:a37244e4cc5766af68004ad6249fcd0e4694b441</id>
<content type='text'>
In order to allow for filtering of IO based on some other properties
of the request than direction we allow the bucket function to return
an int.

If the bucket callback returns a negative do no count it in the stats
accumulation.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Bates &lt;sbates@raithlin.com&gt;

Fixed up Kyber scheduler stat callback.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>blk-throttle: add a mechanism to estimate IO latency</title>
<updated>2017-03-28T14:02:20Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Shaohua Li</name>
</author>
<published>2017-03-27T22:19:42Z</published>
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User configures latency target, but the latency threshold for each
request size isn't fixed. For a SSD, the IO latency highly depends on
request size. To calculate latency threshold, we sample some data, eg,
average latency for request size 4k, 8k, 16k, 32k .. 1M. The latency
threshold of each request size will be the sample latency (I'll call it
base latency) plus latency target. For example, the base latency for
request size 4k is 80us and user configures latency target 60us. The 4k
latency threshold will be 80 + 60 = 140us.

To sample data, we calculate the order base 2 of rounded up IO sectors.
If the IO size is bigger than 1M, it will be accounted as 1M. Since the
calculation does round up, the base latency will be slightly smaller
than actual value. Also if there isn't any IO dispatched for a specific
IO size, we will use the base latency of smaller IO size for this IO
size.

But we shouldn't sample data at any time. The base latency is supposed
to be latency where disk isn't congested, because we use latency
threshold to schedule IOs between cgroups. If disk is congested, the
latency is higher, using it for scheduling is meaningless. Hence we only
do the sampling when block throttling is in the LOW limit, with
assumption disk isn't congested in such state. If the assumption isn't
true, eg, low limit is too high, calculated latency threshold will be
higher.

Hard disk is completely different. Latency depends on spindle seek
instead of request size. Currently this feature is SSD only, we probably
can use a fixed threshold like 4ms for hard disk though.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li &lt;shli@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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