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Diego Calleja
22359f5745 ext4: Update Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt
Since Ext4 is supposed to be stable in 2.6.28-rc, ext4's documentation
file should be updated.

[ More updates also added by Theodore Ts'o. ]

Signed-off-by: Diego Calleja <diegocg@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-10-17 09:15:14 -04:00
Ian Kent
4b22ff1341 autofs4: device node ioctl documentation
Add documentation for the miscellaneous device module of autofs4.

Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16 11:21:39 -07:00
Bernhard Walle
22b8ab66de Document panic_on_unrecovered_nmi sysctl
This adds "panic_on_unrecovered_nmi" sysctl to
Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt. The text is mainly taken from
http://readlist.com/lists/vger.kernel.org/linux-kernel/43/217998.html.

Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16 11:21:32 -07:00
FD Cami
2223c65103 Remove Andrew Morton's http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/
Remove Andrew Morton's http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/ urls, update to new
ones when necessary, delete references otherwise.

There are still instances of that living in:
Documentation/zh_CN/HOWTO
Documentation/zh_CN/SubmittingPatches
Documentation/ko_KR/HOWTO
Documentation/ja_JP/SubmittingPatches

Signed-off-by: Francois Cami <francois.cami@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16 11:21:32 -07:00
Shane McDonald
1c828320d2 doc: typo in Documentation/filesystems/nfsroot.txt
Add a missing word to the explanation of the purpose of the zdisk and
bzdisk make targets.

Signed-off-by: Shane McDonald <mcdonald.shane@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16 11:21:31 -07:00
frans
dd1c53a64a Fix Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt
First a file hello.c is created, then the file hello2.c is compiled.
Change this to hello.c

Signed-off-by: Frans Meulenbroeks <fransmeulenbroeks@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16 11:21:30 -07:00
Mark Fasheh
696b55d768 ocfs2: Documentation update for user_xattr / nouser_xattr mount options
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
2008-10-13 17:02:44 -07:00
Joel Becker
12462f1d9f ocfs2: Add the 'inode64' mount option.
Now that ocfs2 limits inode numbers to 32bits, add a mount option to
disable the limit.  This parallels XFS.  64bit systems can handle the
larger inode numbers.

[ Added description of inode64 mount option in ocfs2.txt. --Mark ]

Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
2008-10-13 16:57:08 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
20272c8994 Merge branch 'proc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/adobriyan/proc
* 'proc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/adobriyan/proc:
  proc: remove kernel.maps_protect
  proc: remove now unneeded ADDBUF macro
  [PATCH] proc: show personality via /proc/pid/personality
  [PATCH] signal, procfs: some lock_task_sighand() users do not need rcu_read_lock()
  proc: move PROC_PAGE_MONITOR to fs/proc/Kconfig
  proc: make grab_header() static
  proc: remove unused get_dma_list()
  proc: remove dummy vmcore_open()
  proc: proc_sys_root tweak
  proc: fix return value of proc_reg_open() in "too late" case

Fixed up trivial conflict in removed file arch/sparc/include/asm/dma_32.h
2008-10-13 10:04:04 -07:00
Hidehiro Kawai
5bf5683a33 ext4: add an option to control error handling on file data
If the journal doesn't abort when it gets an IO error in file data
blocks, the file data corruption will spread silently.  Because
most of applications and commands do buffered writes without fsync(),
they don't notice the IO error.  It's scary for mission critical
systems.  On the other hand, if the journal aborts whenever it gets
an IO error in file data blocks, the system will easily become
inoperable.  So this patch introduces a filesystem option to
determine whether it aborts the journal or just call printk() when
it gets an IO error in file data.

If you mount an ext4 fs with data_err=abort option, it aborts on file
data write error.  If you mount it with data_err=ignore, it doesn't
abort, just call printk().  data_err=ignore is the default.

Here is the corresponding patch of the ext3 version:
http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kernel/2008/9/9/3239374

Signed-off-by: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-10-10 22:12:43 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
03010a3350 ext4: Rename ext4dev to ext4
The ext4 filesystem is getting stable enough that it's time to drop
the "dev" prefix.  Also remove the requirement for the TEST_FILESYS
flag.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-10-10 20:02:48 -04:00
Alexey Dobriyan
3bbfe05967 proc: remove kernel.maps_protect
After commit 831830b5a2 aka
"restrict reading from /proc/<pid>/maps to those who share ->mm or can ptrace"
sysctl stopped being relevant because commit moved security checks from ->show
time to ->start time (mm_for_maps()).

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
2008-10-10 04:24:51 +04:00
Mark Fasheh
c4b929b85b vfs: vfs-level fiemap interface
Basic vfs-level fiemap infrastructure, which sets up a new ->fiemap
inode operation.

Userspace can get extent information on a file via fiemap ioctl. As input,
the fiemap ioctl takes a struct fiemap which includes an array of struct
fiemap_extent (fm_extents). Size of the extent array is passed as
fm_extent_count and number of extents returned will be written into
fm_mapped_extents. Offset and length fields on the fiemap structure
(fm_start, fm_length) describe a logical range which will be searched for
extents. All extents returned will at least partially contain this range.
The actual extent offsets and ranges returned will be unmodified from their
offset and range on-disk.

The fiemap ioctl returns '0' on success. On error, -1 is returned and errno
is set. If errno is equal to EBADR, then fm_flags will contain those flags
which were passed in which the kernel did not understand. On all other
errors, the contents of fm_extents is undefined.

As fiemap evolved, there have been many authors of the vfs patch. As far as
I can tell, the list includes:
Kalpak Shah <kalpak.shah@sun.com>
Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>
Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>

Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com>
Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
2008-10-08 19:44:18 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
240799cdf2 ext4: Use readahead when reading an inode from the inode table
With modern hard drives, reading 64k takes roughly the same time as
reading a 4k block.  So request readahead for adjacent inode table
blocks to reduce the time it takes when iterating over directories
(especially when doing this in htree sort order) in a cold cache case.
With this patch, the time it takes to run "git status" on a kernel
tree after flushing the caches via "echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches"
is reduced by 21%.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-10-09 23:53:47 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
37515facd0 ext4: Improve the documentation for ext4's /proc tunables
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Alex Tomas <bzzz@sun.com>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>
2008-10-09 23:21:54 -04:00
Adrian Hunter
2953e73f1c UBIFS: add no_chk_data_crc mount option
UBIFS read performance can be improved by skipping the CRC
check when data nodes are read.  This option can be used if
the underlying media is considered to be highly reliable.
Note that CRCs are always checked for metadata.

Read speed on Arm platform with OneNAND goes from 19 MiB/s
to 27 MiB/s with data CRC checking disabled.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <ext-adrian.hunter@nokia.com>
2008-09-30 11:12:56 +03:00
Adrian Hunter
4793e7c5e1 UBIFS: add bulk-read facility
Some flash media are capable of reading sequentially at faster rates.
UBIFS bulk-read facility is designed to take advantage of that, by
reading in one go consecutive data nodes that are also located
consecutively in the same LEB.

Read speed on Arm platform with OneNAND goes from 17 MiB/s to
19 MiB/s.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <ext-adrian.hunter@nokia.com>
2008-09-30 11:12:56 +03:00
Hidehiro Kawai
b261dfea48 coredump_filter: add description of bit 4
There is no description of bit 4 of coredump_filter in the
documentation.  This patch adds it.

Signed-off-by: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-13 14:41:51 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
adaae7215e update Documentation/filesystems/Locking for 2.6.27 changes
In the 2.6.27 circle ->fasync lost the BKL, and the last remaining
->open variant that takes the BKL is also gone.  ->get_sb and ->kill_sb
didn't have BKL forever, so updated the entries while we're at that.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-09 11:51:15 -07:00
Nadia Derbey
61e55d0576 ipc: document the new auto_msgmni proc file
Update Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt: it describes the file
auto_msgmni intoduced to enable/disable msgmni automatic recomputing upon
memory add/remove (see thread http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/4/27).  Also
added a description for msgmni (this filex is only listed in
Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt).

Signed-off-by: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-02 19:21:39 -07:00
Adrian Bunk
169ccbd44e NTFS: update homepage
Update the location of the NTFS homepage in several files.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-02 19:21:37 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
ee26562772 Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4:
  ext4: Update documentation to remind users to update mke2fs.conf
  ext4: Fix small file fragmentation
  ext4: Initialize writeback_index to 0 when allocating a new inode
  ext4: make sure ext4_has_free_blocks returns 0 for ENOSPC
  ext4: journal credit fix for the delayed allocation's writepages() function
  ext4: Rework the ext4_da_writepages() function
  ext4: journal credits reservation fixes for DIO, fallocate
  ext4: journal credits reservation fixes for extent file writepage
  ext4: journal credits calulation cleanup and fix for non-extent writepage
  ext4: Fix bug where we return ENOSPC even though we have plenty of inodes
  ext4: don't try to resize if there are no reserved gdt blocks left
  ext4: Use ext4_discard_reservations instead of mballoc-specific call
  ext4: Fix ext4_dx_readdir hash collision handling
  ext4: Fix delalloc release block reservation for truncate
  ext4: Fix potential truncate BUG due to i_prealloc_list being non-empty
  ext4: Handle unwritten extent properly with delayed allocation
2008-08-22 08:37:07 -07:00
Sebastian Siewior
2e244d0836 Documentation: fix typo in ubifs.txt
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2008-08-13 11:14:54 +03:00
Randy Dunlap
3794f3e812 docsrc: build Documentation/ sources
Currently source files in the Documentation/ sub-dir can easily bit-rot
since they are not generally buildable, either because they are hidden in
text files or because there are no Makefile rules for them.  This needs to
be fixed so that the source files remain usable and good examples of code
instead of bad examples.

Add the ability to build source files that are in the Documentation/ dir.
Add to Kconfig as "BUILD_DOCSRC" config symbol.

Use "CONFIG_BUILD_DOCSRC=1 make ..." to build objects from the
Documentation/ sources.  Or enable BUILD_DOCSRC in the *config system.
However, this symbol depends on HEADERS_CHECK since the header files need
to be installed (for userspace builds).

Built (using cross-tools) for x86-64, i386, alpha, ia64, sparc32,
sparc64, powerpc, sh, m68k, & mips.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-08-12 16:07:30 -07:00
Jan Kara
866c36637f quota: documentation for sending "below quota" messages via netlink and tiny doc update
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-08-12 16:07:27 -07:00
Joel Becker
ecb3d28c7e [PATCH] configfs: Convenience macros for attribute definition.
Sysfs has the _ATTR() and _ATTR_RO() macros to make defining extended
form attributes easier.  configfs should have something similiar.

- _CONFIGFS_ATTR() and _CONFIGFS_ATTR_RO() are the counterparts to the
  sysfs macros.
- CONFIGFS_ATTR_STRUCT() creates the extended form attribute structure.
- CONFIGFS_ATTR_OPS() defines the show_attribute()/store_attribute()
  operations that call the show()/store() operations of the extended
  form configfs_attributes.

Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
2008-07-31 16:21:13 -07:00
Theodore Ts'o
4537398d91 ext4: Update documentation to remind users to update mke2fs.conf
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-07-27 19:59:21 -04:00
Matt LaPlante
d91958815d Documentation cleanup: trivial misspelling, punctuation, and grammar corrections.
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-26 12:00:06 -07:00
Bob Copeland
a14e4b572b omfs: add filesystem documentation
These patches add the Optimized MPEG Filesystem, a proprietary filesystem used
by the embedded devices Rio Karma and ReplayTV, which are no longer
manufactured.  This filesystem module enables people to access files on these
devices.

This patch:

OMFS is a proprietary filesystem created for the ReplayTV and also used by the
Rio Karma.  It uses hash tables with unordered, unbounded lists in each bucket
for directories, extents for data blocks, 64-bit addressing for blocks, with
up to 8K blocks (only 2K of a given block is ever used for metadata, so the FS
still works with 4K pages).

Document the filesystem usage and structures.

Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-26 12:00:05 -07:00
Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
20d8b67c06 relay: add buffer-only channels; useful for early logging
Allows one to create and use a channel with no associated files.  Files
can be initialized later.  This is useful in scenarios such as logging in
early code, before VFS is up.  Therefore, such channels can be created and
used as soon as kmem_cache_init() completed.

This is needed by kmemtrace to do tracing in early kernel code.

[kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-26 12:00:04 -07:00
Joe Peterson
41003cde95 UTC timestamp option for FAT filesystems fix
Signed-off-by: Joe Peterson <joe@skyrush.com>
Acked-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:34 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
a47a126ad5 vmallocinfo: add NUMA information
Christoph recently added /proc/vmallocinfo file to get information about
vmalloc allocations.

This patch adds NUMA specific information, giving number of pages
allocated on each memory node.

This should help to check that vmalloc() is able to respect NUMA policies.

Example of output on a four nodes machine (one cpu per node)

1) network hash tables are evenly spreaded on four nodes (OK) (Same
   point for inodes and dentries hash tables)

2) iptables tables (x_tables) are correctly allocated on each cpu node
   (OK).

3) sys_swapon() allocates its memory from one node only.

4) each loaded module is using memory on one node.

Sysadmins could tune their setup to change points 3) and 4) if necessary.

grep "pages="  /proc/vmallocinfo
0xffffc20000000000-0xffffc20000201000 2101248 alloc_large_system_hash+0x204/0x2c0 pages=512 vmalloc N0=128 N1=128 N2=128 N3=128
0xffffc20000201000-0xffffc20000302000 1052672 alloc_large_system_hash+0x204/0x2c0 pages=256 vmalloc N0=64 N1=64 N2=64 N3=64
0xffffc2000031a000-0xffffc2000031d000   12288 alloc_large_system_hash+0x204/0x2c0 pages=2 vmalloc N1=1 N2=1
0xffffc2000031f000-0xffffc2000032b000   49152 cramfs_uncompress_init+0x2e/0x80 pages=11 vmalloc N0=3 N1=3 N2=2 N3=3
0xffffc2000033e000-0xffffc20000341000   12288 sys_swapon+0x640/0xac0 pages=2 vmalloc N0=2
0xffffc20000341000-0xffffc20000344000   12288 xt_alloc_table_info+0xfe/0x130 [x_tables] pages=2 vmalloc N0=2
0xffffc20000344000-0xffffc20000347000   12288 xt_alloc_table_info+0xfe/0x130 [x_tables] pages=2 vmalloc N1=2
0xffffc20000347000-0xffffc2000034a000   12288 xt_alloc_table_info+0xfe/0x130 [x_tables] pages=2 vmalloc N2=2
0xffffc2000034a000-0xffffc2000034d000   12288 xt_alloc_table_info+0xfe/0x130 [x_tables] pages=2 vmalloc N3=2
0xffffc20004381000-0xffffc20004402000  528384 alloc_large_system_hash+0x204/0x2c0 pages=128 vmalloc N0=32 N1=32 N2=32 N3=32
0xffffc20004402000-0xffffc20004803000 4198400 alloc_large_system_hash+0x204/0x2c0 pages=1024 vmalloc vpages N0=256 N1=256 N2=256 N3=256
0xffffc20004803000-0xffffc20004904000 1052672 alloc_large_system_hash+0x204/0x2c0 pages=256 vmalloc N0=64 N1=64 N2=64 N3=64
0xffffc20004904000-0xffffc20004bec000 3047424 sys_swapon+0x640/0xac0 pages=743 vmalloc vpages N0=743
0xffffffffa0000000-0xffffffffa000f000   61440 sys_init_module+0xc27/0x1d00 pages=14 vmalloc N1=14
0xffffffffa000f000-0xffffffffa0014000   20480 sys_init_module+0xc27/0x1d00 pages=4 vmalloc N0=4
0xffffffffa0014000-0xffffffffa0017000   12288 sys_init_module+0xc27/0x1d00 pages=2 vmalloc N0=2
0xffffffffa0017000-0xffffffffa0022000   45056 sys_init_module+0xc27/0x1d00 pages=10 vmalloc N1=10
0xffffffffa0022000-0xffffffffa0028000   24576 sys_init_module+0xc27/0x1d00 pages=5 vmalloc N3=5
0xffffffffa0028000-0xffffffffa0050000  163840 sys_init_module+0xc27/0x1d00 pages=39 vmalloc N1=39
0xffffffffa0050000-0xffffffffa0052000    8192 sys_init_module+0xc27/0x1d00 pages=1 vmalloc N1=1
0xffffffffa0052000-0xffffffffa0056000   16384 sys_init_module+0xc27/0x1d00 pages=3 vmalloc N1=3
0xffffffffa0056000-0xffffffffa0081000  176128 sys_init_module+0xc27/0x1d00 pages=42 vmalloc N3=42
0xffffffffa0081000-0xffffffffa00ae000  184320 sys_init_module+0xc27/0x1d00 pages=44 vmalloc N3=44
0xffffffffa00ae000-0xffffffffa00b1000   12288 sys_init_module+0xc27/0x1d00 pages=2 vmalloc N3=2
0xffffffffa00b1000-0xffffffffa00b9000   32768 sys_init_module+0xc27/0x1d00 pages=7 vmalloc N0=7
0xffffffffa00b9000-0xffffffffa00c4000   45056 sys_init_module+0xc27/0x1d00 pages=10 vmalloc N3=10
0xffffffffa00c6000-0xffffffffa00e0000  106496 sys_init_module+0xc27/0x1d00 pages=25 vmalloc N2=25
0xffffffffa00e0000-0xffffffffa00f1000   69632 sys_init_module+0xc27/0x1d00 pages=16 vmalloc N2=16
0xffffffffa00f1000-0xffffffffa00f4000   12288 sys_init_module+0xc27/0x1d00 pages=2 vmalloc N3=2
0xffffffffa00f4000-0xffffffffa00f7000   12288 sys_init_module+0xc27/0x1d00 pages=2 vmalloc N3=2

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment]
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-24 10:47:17 -07:00
Rik van Riel
28b2ee20c7 access_process_vm device memory infrastructure
In order to be able to debug things like the X server and programs using
the PPC Cell SPUs, the debugger needs to be able to access device memory
through ptrace and /proc/pid/mem.

This patch:

Add the generic_access_phys access function and put the hooks in place
to allow access_process_vm to access device or PPC Cell SPU memory.

[riel@redhat.com: Add documentation for the vm_ops->access function]
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrensmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-24 10:47:15 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
6eaaaac974 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus:
  remove CONFIG_KMOD from core kernel code
  remove CONFIG_KMOD from lib
  remove CONFIG_KMOD from sparc64
  rework try_then_request_module to do less in non-modular kernels
  remove mention of CONFIG_KMOD from documentation
  make CONFIG_KMOD invisible
  modules: Take a shortcut for checking if an address is in a module
  module: turn longs into ints for module sizes
  Shrink struct module: CONFIG_UNUSED_SYMBOLS ifdefs
  module: reorder struct module to save space on 64 bit builds
  module: generic each_symbol iterator function
  module: don't use stop_machine for waiting rmmod
2008-07-22 13:17:15 -07:00
Johannes Berg
a81792f668 remove mention of CONFIG_KMOD from documentation
Also includes a few Kconfig files (xtensa, blackfin)

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
2008-07-22 19:24:29 +10:00
Dan Williams
e105b8bfc7 sysfs: add /sys/dev/{char,block} to lookup sysfs path by major:minor
Why?:
There are occasions where userspace would like to access sysfs
attributes for a device but it may not know how sysfs has named the
device or the path.  For example what is the sysfs path for
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3160827AS_5MT004CK?  With this change a call to
stat(2) returns the major:minor then userspace can see that
/sys/dev/block/8:32 links to /sys/block/sdc.

What are the alternatives?:
1/ Add an ioctl to return the path: Doable, but sysfs is meant to reduce
   the need to proliferate ioctl interfaces into the kernel, so this
   seems counter productive.

2/ Use udev to create these symlinks: Also doable, but it adds a
   udev dependency to utilities that might be running in a limited
   environment like an initramfs.

3/ Do a full-tree search of sysfs.

[kay.sievers@vrfy.org: fix duplicate registrations]
[kay.sievers@vrfy.org: cleanup suggestions]

Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Reviewed-by: SL Baur <steve@xemacs.org>
Acked-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Acked-by: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-07-21 21:54:40 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
14b395e35d Merge branch 'for-2.6.27' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux
* 'for-2.6.27' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux: (51 commits)
  nfsd: nfs4xdr.c do-while is not a compound statement
  nfsd: Use C99 initializers in fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c
  lockd: Pass "struct sockaddr *" to new failover-by-IP function
  lockd: get host reference in nlmsvc_create_block() instead of callers
  lockd: minor svclock.c style fixes
  lockd: eliminate duplicate nlmsvc_lookup_host call from nlmsvc_lock
  lockd: eliminate duplicate nlmsvc_lookup_host call from nlmsvc_testlock
  lockd: nlm_release_host() checks for NULL, caller needn't
  file lock: reorder struct file_lock to save space on 64 bit builds
  nfsd: take file and mnt write in nfs4_upgrade_open
  nfsd: document open share bit tracking
  nfsd: tabulate nfs4 xdr encoding functions
  nfsd: dprint operation names
  svcrdma: Change WR context get/put to use the kmem cache
  svcrdma: Create a kmem cache for the WR contexts
  svcrdma: Add flush_scheduled_work to module exit function
  svcrdma: Limit ORD based on client's advertised IRD
  svcrdma: Remove unused wait q from svcrdma_xprt structure
  svcrdma: Remove unneeded spin locks from __svc_rdma_free
  svcrdma: Add dma map count and WARN_ON
  ...
2008-07-20 21:21:46 -07:00
Joel Becker
a6795e9ebb configfs: Allow ->make_item() and ->make_group() to return detailed errors.
The configfs operations ->make_item() and ->make_group() currently
return a new item/group.  A return of NULL signifies an error.  Because
of this, -ENOMEM is the only return code bubbled up the stack.

Multiple folks have requested the ability to return specific error codes
when these operations fail.  This patch adds that ability by changing the
->make_item/group() ops to return ERR_PTR() values.  These errors are
bubbled up appropriately.  NULL returns are changed to -ENOMEM for
compatibility.

Also updated are the in-kernel users of configfs.

This is a rework of reverted commit 11c3b79218.

Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
2008-07-17 15:21:29 -07:00
Joel Becker
f89ab8619e Revert "configfs: Allow ->make_item() and ->make_group() to return detailed errors."
This reverts commit 11c3b79218.  The code
will move to PTR_ERR().

Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
2008-07-17 14:53:48 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
5b664cb235 Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mfasheh/ocfs2
* 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mfasheh/ocfs2:
  [PATCH] ocfs2: fix oops in mmap_truncate testing
  configfs: call drop_link() to cleanup after create_link() failure
  configfs: Allow ->make_item() and ->make_group() to return detailed errors.
  configfs: Fix failing mkdir() making racing rmdir() fail
  configfs: Fix deadlock with racing rmdir() and rename()
  configfs: Make configfs_new_dirent() return error code instead of NULL
  configfs: Protect configfs_dirent s_links list mutations
  configfs: Introduce configfs_dirent_lock
  ocfs2: Don't snprintf() without a format.
  ocfs2: Fix CONFIG_OCFS2_DEBUG_FS #ifdefs
  ocfs2/net: Silence build warnings on sparc64
  ocfs2: Handle error during journal load
  ocfs2: Silence an error message in ocfs2_file_aio_read()
  ocfs2: use simple_read_from_buffer()
  ocfs2: fix printk format warnings with OCFS2_FS_STATS=n
  [PATCH 2/2] ocfs2: Instrument fs cluster locks
  [PATCH 1/2] ocfs2: Add CONFIG_OCFS2_FS_STATS config option
2008-07-17 10:55:51 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
9c1be0c471 Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.infradead.org/~dedekind/ubifs-2.6
* 'for_linus' of git://git.infradead.org/~dedekind/ubifs-2.6:
  UBIFS: include to compilation
  UBIFS: add new flash file system
  UBIFS: add brief documentation
  MAINTAINERS: add UBIFS section
  do_mounts: allow UBI root device name
  VFS: export sync_sb_inodes
  VFS: move inode_lock into sync_sb_inodes
2008-07-16 15:02:57 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
61d97f4fcf Merge branch 'genirq' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'genirq' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  genirq: remove extraneous checks in manage.c
  genirq: Expose default irq affinity mask (take 3)
2008-07-15 10:39:22 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
38c46578ff Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-2.6-nmw
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-2.6-nmw:
  [GFS2] Fix GFS2's use of do_div() in its quota calculations
  [GFS2] Remove unused declaration
  [GFS2] Remove support for unused and pointless flag
  [GFS2] Replace rgrp "recent list" with mru list
  [GFS2] Allow local DF locks when holding a cached EX glock
  [GFS2] Fix delayed demote race
  [GFS2] don't call permission()
  [GFS2] Fix module building
  [GFS2] Glock documentation
  [GFS2] Remove all_list from lock_dlm
  [GFS2] Remove obsolete conversion deadlock avoidance code
  [GFS2] Remove remote lock dropping code
  [GFS2] kernel panic mounting volume
  [GFS2] Revise readpage locking
  [GFS2] Fix ordering of args for list_add
  [GFS2] trivial sparse lock annotations
  [GFS2] No lock_nolock
  [GFS2] Fix ordering bug in lock_dlm
  [GFS2] Clean up the glock core
2008-07-15 10:38:46 -07:00
Artem Bityutskiy
e56a99d5a4 UBIFS: add brief documentation
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <ext-adrian.hunter@nokia.com>
2008-07-15 09:22:12 +03:00
Joel Becker
11c3b79218 configfs: Allow ->make_item() and ->make_group() to return detailed errors.
The configfs operations ->make_item() and ->make_group() currently
return a new item/group.  A return of NULL signifies an error.  Because
of this, -ENOMEM is the only return code bubbled up the stack.

Multiple folks have requested the ability to return specific error codes
when these operations fail.  This patch adds that ability by changing the
->make_item/group() ops to return an int.

Also updated are the in-kernel users of configfs.

Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
2008-07-14 13:57:16 -07:00
Mingming Cao
49f1487b2e ext4: Documention update for new ordered mode and delayed allocation
Adding some documentations for delayed allocation and new ordered mode.

Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-07-11 19:27:31 -04:00
Jose R. Santos
93e3270c87 ext4: Documentation updates.
Some of the information in Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt is out
of date and in need of an update.

Signed-off-by: Jose R. Santos <jrs@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-07-11 19:27:31 -04:00
J. Bruce Fields
e86322f611 Merge branch 'for-bfields' of git://linux-nfs.org/~tomtucker/xprt-switch-2.6 into for-2.6.27 2008-07-03 16:24:06 -04:00
J. Bruce Fields
3cd2cfeae1 nfs: rewrap NFS/RDMA documentation to 80 lines
Wrap long lines.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2008-06-30 15:24:43 -04:00
James Lentini
007de8b4fd update NFS/RDMA documentation
Update the NFS/RDMA documentation to clarify how to run mount.nfs.

Signed-off-by: James Lentini <jlentini@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2008-06-30 15:24:43 -04:00
Steven Whitehouse
9f1585cb03 [GFS2] Glock documentation
This patch adds a file describing the internals of GFS2's glock
abstraction.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2008-06-27 09:39:53 +01:00
Jesse Barnes
883eed1b3e Merge branch 'pci-for-jesse' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-tip into for-linus 2008-06-12 13:51:05 -07:00
venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com
45aec1ae72 x86: PAT export resource_wc in pci sysfs
For the ranges with IORESOURCE_PREFETCH, export a new resource_wc interface in
pci /sysfs along with resource (which is uncached).

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-06-12 10:12:42 +02:00
Max Krasnyansky
1840475676 genirq: Expose default irq affinity mask (take 3)
Current IRQ affinity interface does not provide a way to set affinity
for the IRQs that will be allocated/activated in the future.
This patch creates /proc/irq/default_smp_affinity that lets users set
default affinity mask for the newly allocated IRQs. Changing the default
does not affect affinity masks for the currently active IRQs, they
have to be changed explicitly.

Updated based on Paul J's comments and added some more documentation.

Signed-off-by: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Cc: pj@sgi.com
Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de
Cc: rdunlap@xenotime.net
Cc: mingo@elte.hu
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-06-05 15:18:30 +02:00
Eric Sandeen
571640cad3 ext4: enable barriers by default
I can't think of any valid reason for ext4 to not use barriers when
they are available;  I believe this is necessary for filesystem
integrity in the face of a volatile write cache on storage.

An administrator who trusts that the cache is sufficiently battery-
backed (and power supplies are sufficiently redundant, etc...)
can always turn it back off again.

SuSE has carried such a patch for ext3 for quite some time now.

Also document the mount option while we're at it.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-05-26 12:29:46 -04:00
Christoph Hellwig
33dcdac2df [PATCH] kill ->put_inode
And with that last patch to affs killing the last put_inode instance we
can finally, after many years of transition kill this racy and awkward
interface.

(It's kinda funny that even the description in
Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt was entirely wrong..)

Also remove a very misleading comment above the defintion of
struct super_operations.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-05-06 13:45:34 -04:00
Miklos Szeredi
b88473f73e mm: document missing fields for /proc/meminfo
A few fields in /proc/meminfo were not documented.  Fix.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-30 08:29:50 -07:00
OGAWA Hirofumi
1ae43f826b fat: Add allow_utime option
Normally utime(2) checks current process is owner of the file, or it
has CAP_FOWNER capability.  But FAT filesystem doesn't have uid/gid as
on disk info, so normal check is too unflexible.

With this option you can relax it.

Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-28 08:58:47 -07:00
David Rientjes
65d66fc02e mempolicy: update NUMA memory policy documentation
Updates Documentation/vm/numa_memory_policy.txt and
Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt to describe optional mempolicy mode flags.

Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-28 08:58:19 -07:00
Nick Piggin
3c18ddd160 mm: remove nopage
Nothing in the tree uses nopage any more.  Remove support for it in the
core mm code and documentation (and a few stray references to it in
comments).

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-28 08:58:18 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
cf2ec150fc Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux
* 'for-linus' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux:
  nfsd: don't allow setting ctime over v4
  Update to NFS/RDMA documentation
  locks: don't call ->copy_lock methods on return of conflicting locks
  lockd: unlock lockd locks held for a certain filesystem
  lockd: unlock lockd locks associated with a given server ip
  leases: remove unneeded variable from fcntl_setlease().
  leases: move lock allocation earlier in generic_setlease()
  leases: when unlocking, skip locking-related steps
  leases: fix a return-value mixup
2008-04-25 11:45:40 -07:00
Jonathan Corbet
9f4def9ae4 Document seq_path_root()
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2008-04-25 11:56:37 -06:00
James Lentini
c272cca625 Update to NFS/RDMA documentation
Update to the NFS/RDMA documentation to clarify how to configure the
exports file.

Signed-off-by: James Lentini <jlentini@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2008-04-25 13:00:11 -04:00
Jonathan Corbet
22c36d18c6 Document SEQ_SKIP
2.6.26 adds a SEQ_SKIP return value for the seq_file show() function;
update the documentation to match.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2008-04-24 15:57:32 -06:00
James Lentini
a3fa73bd0e Documentation: NFS/RDMA instructions for 2.6.25-rc1
Add some instructions for using the new NFS/RDMA features.

Signed-off-by: James Lentini <jlentini@netapp.com>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2008-04-23 16:13:40 -04:00
Miklos Szeredi
97e7e0f71d [patch 7/7] vfs: mountinfo: show dominating group id
Show peer group ID of nearest dominating group that has intersection
with the mount's namespace.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-04-23 00:05:09 -04:00
Ram Pai
2d4d4864ac [patch 6/7] vfs: mountinfo: add /proc/<pid>/mountinfo
[mszeredi@suse.cz] rewrite and split big patch into managable chunks

/proc/mounts in its current form lacks important information:

 - propagation state
 - root of mount for bind mounts
 - the st_dev value used within the filesystem
 - identifier for each mount and it's parent

It also suffers from the following problems:

 - not easily extendable
 - ambiguity of mountpoints within a chrooted environment
 - doesn't distinguish between filesystem dependent and independent options
 - doesn't distinguish between per mount and per super block options

This patch introduces /proc/<pid>/mountinfo which attempts to address
all these deficiencies.

Code shared between /proc/<pid>/mounts and /proc/<pid>/mountinfo is
extracted into separate functions.

Thanks to Al Viro for the help in getting the design right.

Signed-off-by: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-04-23 00:05:03 -04:00
Dan Williams
2424b5dd06 sysfs: refill attribute buffer when reading from offset 0
Requiring userspace to close and re-open sysfs attributes has been the
policy since before 2.6.12.  It allows userspace to get a consistent
snapshot of kernel state and consume it with incremental reads and seeks.

Now, if the file position is zero the kernel assumes userspace wants to see
the new value.  The application for this change is to allow a userspace
RAID metadata handler to check the state of an array without causing any
memory allocations.  Thus not causing writeback to a raid array that might
be blocked waiting for userspace to take action.

Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-04-19 19:10:29 -07:00
Josef Sipek
f6e9f28865 [XFS] Update XFS documentation for noikeep/ikeep.
Mention how DMAPI affects default for noikeep.
Slightly modified since Josef's patch was based on
an old xfs.txt prior to Dave's (dgc) checkin which
missed going to oss.

Signed-off-by: Josef Sipek <jeffpc@josefsipek.net>
Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
2008-04-18 12:18:42 +10:00
David Chinner
033bfb1a65 [XFS] Update XFS Documentation for ikeep and ihashsize
Update xfs docs for:
* In memory inode hashes has been removed.
* noikeep is now the default.

SGI-PV: 969561
SGI-Modid: 2.6.x-xfs-melb:linux:29481b

Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
2008-04-18 12:18:25 +10:00
Dmitri Vorobiev
b82d4043b3 Fix typos in Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.txt
A couple of typos crept into the newly added document about the seq_file
interface.  This patch corrects those typos and simultaneously deletes
unnecessary trailing spaces.

Signed-off-by: Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-15 19:35:40 -07:00
J. Bruce Fields
8bcd1cc293 Documentation: move rpc-cache.txt to filesystems/
This file is nfs-related.  (Maybe Documentation/filesystems/ would
benefit from a separate nfs/ directory at some point.)

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2008-04-11 13:20:52 -06:00
J. Bruce Fields
6ded55da6b Documentation: move nfsroot.txt to filesystems/
Documentation/ is a little large, and filesystems/ seems an obvious
place for this file.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2008-04-11 13:18:01 -06:00
Jan Engelhardt
f3271f6564 Fixes to the seq_file document
On Friday 2008-03-28 19:20, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
>commit 9756ccfda31b4c4544aa010aacf71b6672d668e8
>Date:   Fri Mar 28 11:19:56 2008 -0600
>
>    Add the seq_file documentation

patch on top:

  - add const qualifiers
  - remove void* casts
  - use proper specifier (%Ld is not valid)

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
2008-03-30 11:05:04 -06:00
Jonathan Corbet
ded4926aa2 Add the seq_file documentation
This is an updated version of the document describing the seq_file
interface.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2008-03-30 11:05:04 -06:00
Randy Dunlap
a09a20b526 laptops: move laptop-mode.txt to Documentation/laptops/
Move laptop-mode.txt into the laptops/ sub-directory to consolidate
laptop doc files there.

Update references to the file's location.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-03-12 02:37:21 -04:00
Miklos Szeredi
f84e3f521e mount options: add documentation
This series addresses the problem of showing mount options in
/proc/mounts.

Several filesystems which use mount options, have not implemented a
.show_options superblock operation.  Several others have implemented
this callback, but have not kept it fully up to date with the parsed
options.

Q: Why do we need correct option showing in /proc/mounts?
A: We want /proc/mounts to fully replace /etc/mtab.  The reasons for
   this are:
    - unprivileged mounters won't be able to update /etc/mtab
    - /etc/mtab doesn't work with private mount namespaces
    - /etc/mtab can become out-of-sync with reality

Q: Can't this be done, so that filesystems need not bother with
   implementing a .show_mounts callback, and keeping it up to date?
A: Only in some cases.  Certain filesystems allow modification of a
   subset of options in their remount_fs method.  It is not possible
   to take this into account without knowing exactly how the
   filesystem handles options.

For the simple case (no remount or remount resets all options) the
patchset introduces two helpers:

  generic_show_options()
  save_mount_options()

These can also be used to emulate the old /etc/mtab behavior, until
proper support is added.  Even if this is not 100% correct, it's still
better than showing no options at all.

The following patches fix up most in-tree filesystems, some have been
compile tested only, some have been reviewed and acked by the
maintainer.

Table displaying status of all in-kernel filesystems:
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
legend:

  none - fs has options, but doesn't define ->show_options()
  some - fs defines ->show_options(), but some only options are shown
  good - fs shows all options
  noopt - fs does not have options
  patch - a patch will be posted
  merged - a patch has been merged by subsystem maintainer

9p          good
adfs        patch
affs        patch
afs         patch
autofs      patch
autofs4     patch
befs        patch
bfs         noopt
cifs        some
coda        noopt
configfs    noopt
cramfs      noopt
debugfs     noopt
devpts      patch
ecryptfs    good
efs         noopt
ext2        patch
ext3        good
ext4        merged
fat         patch
freevxfs    noopt
fuse        patch
fusectl	    noopt
gfs2        good
gfs2meta    noopt
hfs         good
hfsplus     good
hostfs      patch
hpfs        patch
hppfs       noopt
hugetlbfs   patch
isofs       patch
jffs2       noopt
jfs         merged
minix       noopt
msdos       ->fat
ncpfs       patch
nfs         some
nfsd        noopt
ntfs        good
ocfs2       good
ocfs2/dlmfs noopt
openpromfs  noopt
proc        noopt
qnx4        noopt
ramfs       noopt
reiserfs    patch
romfs       noopt
smbfs       good
sysfs       noopt
sysv        noopt
udf         patch
ufs         good
vfat        ->fat
xfs         good

mm/shmem.c                                    patch
drivers/oprofile/oprofilefs.c                 noopt
drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/ipath_fs.c        noopt
drivers/misc/ibmasm/ibmasmfs.c                noopt
drivers/usb/core (usbfs)                      merged
drivers/usb/gadget (gadgetfs)                 noopt
drivers/isdn/capi/capifs.c                    patch
kernel/cpuset.c                               noopt
fs/binfmt_misc.c                              noopt
net/sunrpc/rpc_pipe.c                         noopt
arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs             patch
arch/s390/hypfs                               good
ipc/mqueue.c                                  noopt
security (securityfs)                         noopt
security/selinux/selinuxfs.c                  noopt
kernel/cgroup.c                               good
security/smack/smackfs.c                      noopt

in -mm:

reiser4     some
unionfs     good
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

This patch:

Document the rules for handling mount options in the .show_options
super operation.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-08 09:22:39 -08:00
Jan Kara
9b7880e7bb isofs: implement dmode option
Implement dmode option for iso9660 filesystem to allow setting of access
rights for directories on the filesystem.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: "Ilya N. Golubev" <gin@mo.msk.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-08 09:22:38 -08:00
David Howells
12debc4248 iget: remove iget() and the read_inode() super op as being obsolete
Remove the old iget() call and the read_inode() superblock operation it uses
as these are really obsolete, and the use of read_inode() does not produce
proper error handling (no distinction between ENOMEM and EIO when marking an
inode bad).

Furthermore, this removes the temptation to use iget() to find an inode by
number in a filesystem from code outside that filesystem.

iget_locked() should be used instead.  A new function is added in an earlier
patch (iget_failed) that is to be called to mark an inode as bad, unlock it
and release it should the get routine fail.  Mark iget() and read_inode() as
being obsolete and remove references to them from the documentation.

Typically a filesystem will be modified such that the read_inode function
becomes an internal iget function, for example the following:

	void thingyfs_read_inode(struct inode *inode)
	{
		...
	}

would be changed into something like:

	struct inode *thingyfs_iget(struct super_block *sp, unsigned long ino)
	{
		struct inode *inode;
		int ret;

		inode = iget_locked(sb, ino);
		if (!inode)
			return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
		if (!(inode->i_state & I_NEW))
			return inode;

		...
		unlock_new_inode(inode);
		return inode;
	error:
		iget_failed(inode);
		return ERR_PTR(ret);
	}

and then thingyfs_iget() would be called rather than iget(), for example:

	ret = -EINVAL;
	inode = iget(sb, ino);
	if (!inode || is_bad_inode(inode))
		goto error;

becomes:

	inode = thingyfs_iget(sb, ino);
	if (IS_ERR(inode)) {
		ret = PTR_ERR(inode);
		goto error;
	}

Note that is_bad_inode() does not need to be called.  The error returned by
thingyfs_iget() should render it unnecessary.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-07 08:42:29 -08:00
David Howells
b46980feed iget: introduce a function to register iget failure
Introduce a function to register failure in an inode construction path.  This
includes marking the inode under construction as bad, unlocking it and
releasing it.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-07 08:42:26 -08:00
J. Bruce Fields
d3cf91d0e2 Documentation: move sharedsubtrees.txt to filesystems/
This documentation is also vfs-related.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-07 08:42:17 -08:00
J. Bruce Fields
e9b1a4d160 Documentation: move dnotify.txt to filesystems/
I'm inclined to think dnotify belongs in filesystems/.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-07 08:42:17 -08:00
Eric Dumazet
9cfe015aa4 get rid of NR_OPEN and introduce a sysctl_nr_open
NR_OPEN (historically set to 1024*1024) actually forbids processes to open
more than 1024*1024 handles.

Unfortunatly some production servers hit the not so 'ridiculously high
value' of 1024*1024 file descriptors per process.

Changing NR_OPEN is not considered safe because of vmalloc space potential
exhaust.

This patch introduces a new sysctl (/proc/sys/fs/nr_open) wich defaults to
1024*1024, so that admins can decide to change this limit if their workload
needs it.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: export it for sparc64]
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06 10:41:06 -08:00
Yasunori Goto
7786fa9ac5 Document lowmem_reserve_ratio
Though the lower_zone_protection was changed to lowmem_reserve_ratio, the
document has been not changed.  The lowmem_reserve_ratio seems quite hard
to estimate, but there is no guidance.  This patch is to change document
for it.

Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@cpushare.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-05 09:44:19 -08:00
Bron Gondwana
195cf453d2 mm/page-writeback: highmem_is_dirtyable option
Add vm.highmem_is_dirtyable toggle

A 32 bit machine with HIGHMEM64 enabled running DCC has an MMAPed file of
approximately 2Gb size which contains a hash format that is written
randomly by the dbclean process.  On 2.6.16 this process took a few
minutes.  With lowmem only accounting of dirty ratios, this takes about 12
hours of 100% disk IO, all random writes.

Include a toggle in /proc/sys/vm/highmem_is_dirtyable which can be set to 1 to
add the highmem back to the total available memory count.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: Fix the CONFIG_DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP=y build]
Signed-off-by: Bron Gondwana <brong@fastmail.fm>
Cc: Ethan Solomita <solo@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: WU Fengguang <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-05 09:44:18 -08:00
Oliver Pinter
3eb43f689c Documentation/filesystems/porting fixes
typo fix and whitespace cleanup

Signed-off-by: Oliver Pinter <oliver.pntr@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2008-02-03 17:59:17 +02:00
Randy Dunlap
254012fd51 doc: use correct debugfs mountpoint
Use the normal, expected mountpoint in the relay(fs) example
for debugfs.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2008-02-03 16:30:51 +02:00
Leonardo Chiquitto
2e01e00e76 Documentation: missing proc/$PID/stat field
There's a missing field in the /proc/$PID/stat output documented in
Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2008-02-03 16:17:16 +02:00
Masatake YAMATO
48cc7ec93f correct missing a double quote in configfs.txt
Signed-off-by: Masatake YAMATO <jet@gyve.org>
Acked-by: Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2008-02-03 16:10:08 +02:00
Denis Cheng
33b1302545 Documentation: fix type error
Signed-off-by: Denis Cheng <crquan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2008-02-03 14:50:11 +02:00
Eric Paris
de6bbd1d30 [AUDIT] break large execve argument logging into smaller messages
execve arguments can be quite large.  There is no limit on the number of
arguments and a 4G limit on the size of an argument.

this patch prints those aruguments in bite sized pieces.  a userspace size
limitation of 8k was discovered so this keeps messages around 7.5k

single arguments larger than 7.5k in length are split into multiple records
and can be identified as aX[Y]=

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2008-02-01 14:23:55 -05:00
Eric Dumazet
29e75252da [IPV4] route cache: Introduce rt_genid for smooth cache invalidation
Current ip route cache implementation is not suited to large caches.

We can consume a lot of CPU when cache must be invalidated, since we
currently need to evict all cache entries, and this eviction is
sometimes asynchronous. min_delay & max_delay can somewhat control this
asynchronism behavior, but whole thing is a kludge, regularly triggering
infamous soft lockup messages. When entries are still in use, this also
consumes a lot of ram, filling dst_garbage.list.

A better scheme is to use a generation identifier on each entry,
so that cache invalidation can be performed by changing the table
identifier, without having to scan all entries.
No more delayed flushing, no more stalling when secret_interval expires.

Invalidated entries will then be freed at GC time (controled by
ip_rt_gc_timeout or stress), or when an invalidated entry is found
in a chain when an insert is done.
Thus we keep a normal equilibrium.

This patch :
- renames rt_hash_rnd to rt_genid (and makes it an atomic_t)
- Adds a new rt_genid field to 'struct rtable' (filling a hole on 64bit)
- Checks entry->rt_genid at appropriate places :
2008-01-31 19:28:27 -08:00
Alex Tomas
c9de560ded ext4: Add multi block allocator for ext4
Signed-off-by: Alex Tomas <alex@clusterfs.com>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-01-29 00:19:52 -05:00
Girish Shilamkar
818d276ceb ext4: Add the journal checksum feature
The journal checksum feature adds two new flags i.e
JBD2_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_ASYNC_COMMIT and JBD2_FEATURE_COMPAT_CHECKSUM.

JBD2_FEATURE_CHECKSUM flag indicates that the commit block contains the
checksum for the blocks described by the descriptor blocks.
Due to checksums, writing of the commit record no longer needs to be
synchronous. Now commit record can be sent to disk without waiting for
descriptor blocks to be written to disk. This behavior is controlled
using JBD2_FEATURE_ASYNC_COMMIT flag. Older kernels/e2fsck should not be
able to recover the journal with _ASYNC_COMMIT hence it is made
incompat.
The commit header has been extended to hold the checksum along with the
type of the checksum.

For recovery in pass scan checksums are verified to ensure the sanity
and completeness(in case of _ASYNC_COMMIT) of every transaction.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
Signed-off-by: Girish Shilamkar <girish@clusterfs.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
2008-01-28 23:58:27 -05:00
Mark Fasheh
53fc622b9e [PATCH 2/2] ocfs2: cluster aware flock()
Hook up ocfs2_flock(), using the new flock lock type in dlmglue.c. A new
mount option, "localflocks" is added so that users can revert to old
functionality as need be.

Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2008-01-25 15:05:43 -08:00
Sunil Mushran
2fbe8d1ebe ocfs2: Local alloc window size changeable via mount option
Local alloc is a performance optimization in ocfs2 in which a node
takes a window of bits from the global bitmap and then uses that for
all small local allocations. This window size is fixed to 8MB currently.
This patch allows users to specify the window size in MB including
disabling it by passing in 0. If the number specified is too large,
the fs will use the default value of 8MB.

mount -o localalloc=X /dev/sdX /mntpoint

Signed-off-by: Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2008-01-25 15:05:43 -08:00
Mark Fasheh
d147b3d630 ocfs2: Support commit= mount option
Mostly taken from ext3. This allows the user to set the jbd commit interval,
in seconds. The default of 5 seconds stays the same, but now users can
easily increase the commit interval. Typically, this would be increased in
order to benefit performance at the expense of data-safety.

Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2008-01-25 15:05:42 -08:00
Mark Fasheh
1252c434e3 ocfs2: Documentation update
Remove 'readpages' from the list in ocfs2.txt. Instead of having two
identical lists, I just removed the list in the OCFS2 section of fs/Kconfig
and added a pointer to Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2.txt.

Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2008-01-25 14:48:42 -08:00
Eric Van Hensbergen
b530cc7940 9p: add virtio transport
This adds a transport to 9p for communicating between guests and a host
using a virtio based transport.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2007-10-23 13:47:31 -05:00
Christoph Hellwig
e38f981758 exportfs: update documentation
Update documentation to the current state of affairs.  Remove duplicated
method descruptions in exportfs.h and point to Documentation/filesystems/
Exporting instead.  Add a little file header comment in expfs.c describing
what's going on and mentioning Neils and my copyright [1].

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
Cc: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Cc: Timothy Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Cc: "Vladimir V. Saveliev" <vs@namesys.com>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-22 08:13:21 -07:00