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-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/.gitignore1
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/Locking11
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/Makefile3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.txt13
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt7
5 files changed, 22 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/.gitignore b/Documentation/filesystems/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..31d6e426b6d4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+dnotify_test
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
index f1997e9da61f..94d93b1f8b53 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
@@ -464,15 +464,12 @@ prototypes:
size_t, unsigned int);
ssize_t (*splice_read)(struct file *, loff_t *, struct pipe_inode_info *,
size_t, unsigned int);
- int (*setlease)(struct file *, long, struct file_lock **);
+ int (*setlease)(struct file *, long, struct file_lock **, void **);
long (*fallocate)(struct file *, int, loff_t, loff_t);
};
locking rules:
- All may block except for ->setlease.
- No VFS locks held on entry except for ->setlease.
-
-->setlease has the file_list_lock held and must not sleep.
+ All may block.
->llseek() locking has moved from llseek to the individual llseek
implementations. If your fs is not using generic_file_llseek, you
@@ -496,6 +493,10 @@ components. And there are other reasons why the current interface is a mess...
->read on directories probably must go away - we should just enforce -EISDIR
in sys_read() and friends.
+->setlease operations should call generic_setlease() before or after setting
+the lease within the individual filesystem to record the result of the
+operation
+
--------------------------- dquot_operations -------------------------------
prototypes:
int (*write_dquot) (struct dquot *);
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Makefile b/Documentation/filesystems/Makefile
index a5dd114da14f..13483d192ebb 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/Makefile
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Makefile
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
-# kbuild trick to avoid linker error. Can be omitted if a module is built.
-obj- := dummy.o
+subdir-y := configfs
# List of programs to build
hostprogs-y := dnotify_test
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.txt
index a2046a7d0a9d..2cca5a25ef89 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.txt
@@ -192,15 +192,22 @@ Files in /sys/fs/f2fs/<devname>
ipu_policy This parameter controls the policy of in-place
updates in f2fs. There are five policies:
- 0: F2FS_IPU_FORCE, 1: F2FS_IPU_SSR,
- 2: F2FS_IPU_UTIL, 3: F2FS_IPU_SSR_UTIL,
- 4: F2FS_IPU_DISABLE.
+ 0x01: F2FS_IPU_FORCE, 0x02: F2FS_IPU_SSR,
+ 0x04: F2FS_IPU_UTIL, 0x08: F2FS_IPU_SSR_UTIL,
+ 0x10: F2FS_IPU_FSYNC.
min_ipu_util This parameter controls the threshold to trigger
in-place-updates. The number indicates percentage
of the filesystem utilization, and used by
F2FS_IPU_UTIL and F2FS_IPU_SSR_UTIL policies.
+ min_fsync_blocks This parameter controls the threshold to trigger
+ in-place-updates when F2FS_IPU_FSYNC mode is set.
+ The number indicates the number of dirty pages
+ when fsync needs to flush on its call path. If
+ the number is less than this value, it triggers
+ in-place-updates.
+
max_victim_search This parameter controls the number of trials to
find a victim segment when conducting SSR and
cleaning operations. The default value is 4096
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
index 02a766ca2f69..fceff7c00a3c 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
@@ -826,7 +826,7 @@ struct file_operations {
int (*flock) (struct file *, int, struct file_lock *);
ssize_t (*splice_write)(struct pipe_inode_info *, struct file *, size_t, unsigned int);
ssize_t (*splice_read)(struct file *, struct pipe_inode_info *, size_t, unsigned int);
- int (*setlease)(struct file *, long arg, struct file_lock **);
+ int (*setlease)(struct file *, long arg, struct file_lock **, void **);
long (*fallocate)(struct file *, int mode, loff_t offset, loff_t len);
int (*show_fdinfo)(struct seq_file *m, struct file *f);
};
@@ -895,8 +895,9 @@ otherwise noted.
splice_read: called by the VFS to splice data from file to a pipe. This
method is used by the splice(2) system call
- setlease: called by the VFS to set or release a file lock lease.
- setlease has the file_lock_lock held and must not sleep.
+ setlease: called by the VFS to set or release a file lock lease. setlease
+ implementations should call generic_setlease to record or remove
+ the lease in the inode after setting it.
fallocate: called by the VFS to preallocate blocks or punch a hole.