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-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/00-INDEX58
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt17
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/Locking2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.txt24
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfs41-server.txt42
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/nilfs2.txt56
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt15
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt12
9 files changed, 163 insertions, 69 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/00-INDEX b/Documentation/filesystems/00-INDEX
index 8042050eb265..632211cbdd56 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/00-INDEX
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/00-INDEX
@@ -10,24 +10,32 @@ afs.txt
- info and examples for the distributed AFS (Andrew File System) fs.
affs.txt
- info and mount options for the Amiga Fast File System.
+autofs4-mount-control.txt
+ - info on device control operations for autofs4 module.
automount-support.txt
- information about filesystem automount support.
befs.txt
- information about the BeOS filesystem for Linux.
bfs.txt
- info for the SCO UnixWare Boot Filesystem (BFS).
+btrfs.txt
+ - info for the BTRFS filesystem.
+caching/
+ - directory containing filesystem cache documentation.
ceph.txt
- - info for the Ceph Distributed File System
-cifs.txt
- - description of the CIFS filesystem.
+ - info for the Ceph Distributed File System.
+cifs/
+ - directory containing CIFS filesystem documentation and example code.
coda.txt
- description of the CODA filesystem.
configfs/
- directory containing configfs documentation and example code.
cramfs.txt
- info on the cram filesystem for small storage (ROMs etc).
-dentry-locking.txt
- - info on the RCU-based dcache locking model.
+debugfs.txt
+ - info on the debugfs filesystem.
+devpts.txt
+ - info on the devpts filesystem.
directory-locking
- info about the locking scheme used for directory operations.
dlmfs.txt
@@ -35,7 +43,7 @@ dlmfs.txt
dnotify.txt
- info about directory notification in Linux.
dnotify_test.c
- - example program for dnotify
+ - example program for dnotify.
ecryptfs.txt
- docs on eCryptfs: stacked cryptographic filesystem for Linux.
efivarfs.txt
@@ -48,12 +56,18 @@ ext3.txt
- info, mount options and specifications for the Ext3 filesystem.
ext4.txt
- info, mount options and specifications for the Ext4 filesystem.
-files.txt
- - info on file management in the Linux kernel.
f2fs.txt
- info and mount options for the F2FS filesystem.
+fiemap.txt
+ - info on fiemap ioctl.
+files.txt
+ - info on file management in the Linux kernel.
fuse.txt
- info on the Filesystem in User SpacE including mount options.
+gfs2-glocks.txt
+ - info on the Global File System 2 - Glock internal locking rules.
+gfs2-uevents.txt
+ - info on the Global File System 2 - uevents.
gfs2.txt
- info on the Global File System 2.
hfs.txt
@@ -84,40 +98,58 @@ ntfs.txt
- info and mount options for the NTFS filesystem (Windows NT).
ocfs2.txt
- info and mount options for the OCFS2 clustered filesystem.
+omfs.txt
+ - info on the Optimized MPEG FileSystem.
+path-lookup.txt
+ - info on path walking and name lookup locking.
+pohmelfs/
+ - directory containing pohmelfs filesystem documentation.
porting
- various information on filesystem porting.
proc.txt
- info on Linux's /proc filesystem.
+qnx6.txt
+ - info on the QNX6 filesystem.
+quota.txt
+ - info on Quota subsystem.
ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt
- info on the 'in memory' filesystems ramfs, rootfs and initramfs.
-reiser4.txt
- - info on the Reiser4 filesystem based on dancing tree algorithms.
relay.txt
- info on relay, for efficient streaming from kernel to user space.
romfs.txt
- description of the ROMFS filesystem.
seq_file.txt
- - how to use the seq_file API
+ - how to use the seq_file API.
sharedsubtree.txt
- a description of shared subtrees for namespaces.
spufs.txt
- info and mount options for the SPU filesystem used on Cell.
+squashfs.txt
+ - info on the squashfs filesystem.
sysfs-pci.txt
- info on accessing PCI device resources through sysfs.
+sysfs-tagging.txt
+ - info on sysfs tagging to avoid duplicates.
sysfs.txt
- info on sysfs, a ram-based filesystem for exporting kernel objects.
sysv-fs.txt
- info on the SystemV/V7/Xenix/Coherent filesystem.
tmpfs.txt
- info on tmpfs, a filesystem that holds all files in virtual memory.
+ubifs.txt
+ - info on the Unsorted Block Images FileSystem.
udf.txt
- info and mount options for the UDF filesystem.
ufs.txt
- info on the ufs filesystem.
vfat.txt
- - info on using the VFAT filesystem used in Windows NT and Windows 95
+ - info on using the VFAT filesystem used in Windows NT and Windows 95.
vfs.txt
- - overview of the Virtual File System
+ - overview of the Virtual File System.
+xfs-delayed-logging-design.txt
+ - info on the XFS Delayed Logging Design.
+xfs-self-describing-metadata.txt
+ - info on XFS Self Describing Metadata.
xfs.txt
- info and mount options for the XFS filesystem.
xip.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt
index 2c0321442845..fec7144e817c 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt
@@ -69,10 +69,14 @@ OPTIONS
offering several exported file systems.
cache=mode specifies a caching policy. By default, no caches are used.
+ none = default no cache policy, metadata and data
+ alike are synchronous.
loose = no attempts are made at consistency,
intended for exclusive, read-only mounts
- fscache = use FS-Cache for a persistent, read-only
+ fscache = use FS-Cache for a persistent, read-only
cache backend.
+ mmap = minimal cache that is only used for read-write
+ mmap. Northing else is cached, like cache=none
debug=n specifies debug level. The debug level is a bitmask.
0x01 = display verbose error messages
@@ -147,8 +151,7 @@ on sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/v9fs).
News and other information is maintained on a Wiki.
(http://sf.net/apps/mediawiki/v9fs/index.php).
-Bug reports may be issued through the kernel.org bugzilla
-(http://bugzilla.kernel.org)
+Bug reports are best issued via the mailing list.
For more information on the Plan 9 Operating System check out
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9
@@ -156,11 +159,3 @@ http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9
For information on Plan 9 from User Space (Plan 9 applications and libraries
ported to Linux/BSD/OSX/etc) check out http://swtch.com/plan9
-
-STATUS
-======
-
-The 2.6 kernel support is working on PPC and x86.
-
-PLEASE USE THE KERNEL BUGZILLA TO REPORT PROBLEMS. (http://bugzilla.kernel.org)
-
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
index fe7afe225381..5b0c083d7c0e 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
@@ -544,7 +544,7 @@ like the ->fault() handler, but simply return with VM_FAULT_NOPAGE, which
will cause the VM to retry the fault.
->access() is called when get_user_pages() fails in
-acces_process_vm(), typically used to debug a process through
+access_process_vm(), typically used to debug a process through
/proc/pid/mem or ptrace. This function is needed only for
VM_IO | VM_PFNMAP VMAs.
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.txt
index a3fe811bbdbc..b8d284975f0f 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.txt
@@ -120,6 +120,8 @@ active_logs=%u Support configuring the number of active logs. In the
disable_ext_identify Disable the extension list configured by mkfs, so f2fs
does not aware of cold files such as media files.
inline_xattr Enable the inline xattrs feature.
+inline_data Enable the inline data feature: New created small(<~3.4k)
+ files can be written into inode block.
================================================================================
DEBUGFS ENTRIES
@@ -171,6 +173,28 @@ Files in /sys/fs/f2fs/<devname>
conduct checkpoint to reclaim the prefree segments
to free segments. By default, 100 segments, 200MB.
+ max_small_discards This parameter controls the number of discard
+ commands that consist small blocks less than 2MB.
+ The candidates to be discarded are cached until
+ checkpoint is triggered, and issued during the
+ checkpoint. By default, it is disabled with 0.
+
+ 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.
+
+ 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.
+
+ 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
+ which covers 8GB block address range.
+
================================================================================
USAGE
================================================================================
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfs41-server.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfs41-server.txt
index 01c2db769791..b930ad087780 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfs41-server.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfs41-server.txt
@@ -5,11 +5,11 @@ Server support for minorversion 1 can be controlled using the
by reading this file will contain either "+4.1" or "-4.1"
correspondingly.
-Currently, server support for minorversion 1 is disabled by default.
-It can be enabled at run time by writing the string "+4.1" to
+Currently, server support for minorversion 1 is enabled by default.
+It can be disabled at run time by writing the string "-4.1" to
the /proc/fs/nfsd/versions control file. Note that to write this
-control file, the nfsd service must be taken down. Use your user-mode
-nfs-utils to set this up; see rpc.nfsd(8)
+control file, the nfsd service must be taken down. You can use rpc.nfsd
+for this; see rpc.nfsd(8).
(Warning: older servers will interpret "+4.1" and "-4.1" as "+4" and
"-4", respectively. Therefore, code meant to work on both new and old
@@ -29,29 +29,6 @@ are still under development out of tree.
See http://wiki.linux-nfs.org/wiki/index.php/PNFS_prototype_design
for more information.
-The current implementation is intended for developers only: while it
-does support ordinary file operations on clients we have tested against
-(including the linux client), it is incomplete in ways which may limit
-features unexpectedly, cause known bugs in rare cases, or cause
-interoperability problems with future clients. Known issues:
-
- - gss support is questionable: currently mounts with kerberos
- from a linux client are possible, but we aren't really
- conformant with the spec (for example, we don't use kerberos
- on the backchannel correctly).
- - We do not support SSV, which provides security for shared
- client-server state (thus preventing unauthorized tampering
- with locks and opens, for example). It is mandatory for
- servers to support this, though no clients use it yet.
-
-In addition, some limitations are inherited from the current NFSv4
-implementation:
-
- - Incomplete delegation enforcement: if a file is renamed or
- unlinked by a local process, a client holding a delegation may
- continue to indefinitely allow opens of the file under the old
- name.
-
The table below, taken from the NFSv4.1 document, lists
the operations that are mandatory to implement (REQ), optional
(OPT), and NFSv4.0 operations that are required not to implement (MNI)
@@ -169,6 +146,16 @@ NS*| CB_WANTS_CANCELLED | OPT | FDELG, | Section 20.10 |
Implementation notes:
+SSV:
+* The spec claims this is mandatory, but we don't actually know of any
+ implementations, so we're ignoring it for now. The server returns
+ NFS4ERR_ENCR_ALG_UNSUPP on EXCHANGE_ID, which should be future-proof.
+
+GSS on the backchannel:
+* Again, theoretically required but not widely implemented (in
+ particular, the current Linux client doesn't request it). We return
+ NFS4ERR_ENCR_ALG_UNSUPP on CREATE_SESSION.
+
DELEGPURGE:
* mandatory only for servers that support CLAIM_DELEGATE_PREV and/or
CLAIM_DELEG_PREV_FH (which allows clients to keep delegations that
@@ -176,7 +163,6 @@ DELEGPURGE:
now.
EXCHANGE_ID:
-* only SP4_NONE state protection supported
* implementation ids are ignored
CREATE_SESSION:
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nilfs2.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/nilfs2.txt
index 873a2ab2e9f8..06887d46ccf2 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/nilfs2.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/nilfs2.txt
@@ -81,6 +81,62 @@ nodiscard(*) The discard/TRIM commands are sent to the underlying
block device when blocks are freed. This is useful
for SSD devices and sparse/thinly-provisioned LUNs.
+Ioctls
+======
+
+There is some NILFS2 specific functionality which can be accessed by applications
+through the system call interfaces. The list of all NILFS2 specific ioctls are
+shown in the table below.
+
+Table of NILFS2 specific ioctls
+..............................................................................
+ Ioctl Description
+ NILFS_IOCTL_CHANGE_CPMODE Change mode of given checkpoint between
+ checkpoint and snapshot state. This ioctl is
+ used in chcp and mkcp utilities.
+
+ NILFS_IOCTL_DELETE_CHECKPOINT Remove checkpoint from NILFS2 file system.
+ This ioctl is used in rmcp utility.
+
+ NILFS_IOCTL_GET_CPINFO Return info about requested checkpoints. This
+ ioctl is used in lscp utility and by
+ nilfs_cleanerd daemon.
+
+ NILFS_IOCTL_GET_CPSTAT Return checkpoints statistics. This ioctl is
+ used by lscp, rmcp utilities and by
+ nilfs_cleanerd daemon.
+
+ NILFS_IOCTL_GET_SUINFO Return segment usage info about requested
+ segments. This ioctl is used in lssu,
+ nilfs_resize utilities and by nilfs_cleanerd
+ daemon.
+
+ NILFS_IOCTL_GET_SUSTAT Return segment usage statistics. This ioctl
+ is used in lssu, nilfs_resize utilities and
+ by nilfs_cleanerd daemon.
+
+ NILFS_IOCTL_GET_VINFO Return information on virtual block addresses.
+ This ioctl is used by nilfs_cleanerd daemon.
+
+ NILFS_IOCTL_GET_BDESCS Return information about descriptors of disk
+ block numbers. This ioctl is used by
+ nilfs_cleanerd daemon.
+
+ NILFS_IOCTL_CLEAN_SEGMENTS Do garbage collection operation in the
+ environment of requested parameters from
+ userspace. This ioctl is used by
+ nilfs_cleanerd daemon.
+
+ NILFS_IOCTL_SYNC Make a checkpoint. This ioctl is used in
+ mkcp utility.
+
+ NILFS_IOCTL_RESIZE Resize NILFS2 volume. This ioctl is used
+ by nilfs_resize utility.
+
+ NILFS_IOCTL_SET_ALLOC_RANGE Define lower limit of segments in bytes and
+ upper limit of segments in bytes. This ioctl
+ is used by nilfs_resize utility.
+
NILFS2 usage
============
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
index 22d89aa37218..f00bee144add 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
@@ -547,7 +547,7 @@ Table 1-5: Kernel info in /proc
sys See chapter 2
sysvipc Info of SysVIPC Resources (msg, sem, shm) (2.4)
tty Info of tty drivers
- uptime System uptime
+ uptime Wall clock since boot, combined idle time of all cpus
version Kernel version
video bttv info of video resources (2.4)
vmallocinfo Show vmalloced areas
@@ -767,6 +767,7 @@ The "Locked" indicates whether the mapping is locked in memory or not.
MemTotal: 16344972 kB
MemFree: 13634064 kB
+MemAvailable: 14836172 kB
Buffers: 3656 kB
Cached: 1195708 kB
SwapCached: 0 kB
@@ -799,6 +800,14 @@ AnonHugePages: 49152 kB
MemTotal: Total usable ram (i.e. physical ram minus a few reserved
bits and the kernel binary code)
MemFree: The sum of LowFree+HighFree
+MemAvailable: An estimate of how much memory is available for starting new
+ applications, without swapping. Calculated from MemFree,
+ SReclaimable, the size of the file LRU lists, and the low
+ watermarks in each zone.
+ The estimate takes into account that the system needs some
+ page cache to function well, and that not all reclaimable
+ slab will be reclaimable, due to items being in use. The
+ impact of those factors will vary from system to system.
Buffers: Relatively temporary storage for raw disk blocks
shouldn't get tremendously large (20MB or so)
Cached: in-memory cache for files read from the disk (the
@@ -1377,8 +1386,8 @@ may allocate from based on an estimation of its current memory and swap use.
For example, if a task is using all allowed memory, its badness score will be
1000. If it is using half of its allowed memory, its score will be 500.
-There is an additional factor included in the badness score: root
-processes are given 3% extra memory over other tasks.
+There is an additional factor included in the badness score: the current memory
+and swap usage is discounted by 3% for root processes.
The amount of "allowed" memory depends on the context in which the oom killer
was called. If it is due to the memory assigned to the allocating task's cpuset
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt
index a6619b7064b9..b35a64b82f9e 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt
@@ -108,12 +108,12 @@ static DEVICE_ATTR(foo, S_IWUSR | S_IRUGO, show_foo, store_foo);
is equivalent to doing:
static struct device_attribute dev_attr_foo = {
- .attr = {
+ .attr = {
.name = "foo",
.mode = S_IWUSR | S_IRUGO,
- .show = show_foo,
- .store = store_foo,
},
+ .show = show_foo,
+ .store = store_foo,
};
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
index deb48b5fd883..c53784c119c8 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
@@ -782,7 +782,7 @@ struct file_operations
----------------------
This describes how the VFS can manipulate an open file. As of kernel
-3.5, the following members are defined:
+3.12, the following members are defined:
struct file_operations {
struct module *owner;
@@ -803,9 +803,6 @@ struct file_operations {
int (*aio_fsync) (struct kiocb *, int datasync);
int (*fasync) (int, struct file *, int);
int (*lock) (struct file *, int, struct file_lock *);
- ssize_t (*readv) (struct file *, const struct iovec *, unsigned long, loff_t *);
- ssize_t (*writev) (struct file *, const struct iovec *, unsigned long, loff_t *);
- ssize_t (*sendfile) (struct file *, loff_t *, size_t, read_actor_t, void *);
ssize_t (*sendpage) (struct file *, struct page *, int, size_t, loff_t *, int);
unsigned long (*get_unmapped_area)(struct file *, unsigned long, unsigned long, unsigned long, unsigned long);
int (*check_flags)(int);
@@ -814,6 +811,7 @@ struct file_operations {
ssize_t (*splice_read)(struct file *, struct pipe_inode_info *, size_t, unsigned int);
int (*setlease)(struct file *, long arg, struct file_lock **);
long (*fallocate)(struct file *, int mode, loff_t offset, loff_t len);
+ int (*show_fdinfo)(struct seq_file *m, struct file *f);
};
Again, all methods are called without any locks being held, unless
@@ -864,12 +862,6 @@ otherwise noted.
lock: called by the fcntl(2) system call for F_GETLK, F_SETLK, and F_SETLKW
commands
- readv: called by the readv(2) system call
-
- writev: called by the writev(2) system call
-
- sendfile: called by the sendfile(2) system call
-
get_unmapped_area: called by the mmap(2) system call
check_flags: called by the fcntl(2) system call for F_SETFL command