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Matt LaPlante 3f6dee9b2a Fix some typos in Documentation/: 'A'
This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts.
This patch addresses some words starting with the letter 'A'.

Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-10-03 22:45:33 +02:00
Adrian Bunk bf6ee0ae49 remove mentionings of devfs in documentation
Now that devfs is removed, there's no longer any need to document how to
do this or that with devfs.

This patch includes some improvements by Joe Perches.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-10-03 22:17:48 +02:00
Badari Pulavarty 027445c372 [PATCH] Vectorize aio_read/aio_write fileop methods
This patch vectorizes aio_read() and aio_write() methods to prepare for
collapsing all aio & vectored operations into one interface - which is
aio_read()/aio_write().

Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Michael Holzheu <HOLZHEU@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-01 00:39:28 -07:00
Jan-Frode Myklebust d7ff0dbf45 [PATCH] oom_adj/oom_score documentation
I was looking for the a way around an OOM-problem, and found a couple of
undocumented new features for tuning the OOM-score of individual processes.
 Here's a small documentation patch for /proc/<pid>/oom_adj and
/proc/<pid>/oom_score.

Signed-off-by: Jan-Frode Myklebust <mykleb@no.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:10 -07:00
Don Zickus e33e89ab1a [PATCH] x86: Add abilty to enable/disable nmi watchdog from procfs (update)
Adds a new /proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog call that will enable/disable the
nmi watchdog.

By entering a non-zero value here, a user can enable the nmi watchdog to
monitor the online cpus in the system.  By entering a zero value here, a
user can disable the nmi watchdog and free up a performance counter which
could then be utilized by the oprofile subsystem, otherwise oprofile may be
short a counter when in use.

Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 10:52:27 +02:00
Tom Zanussi e88d78f6ba [PATCH] Documentation update for relay interface
Here's updated documentation for the relay interface, rewritten to match
the relayfs->relay changes.  It also moves relayfs.txt to relay.txt in the
process.

It includes the changes to relayfs.txt previously posted by Randy Dunlap,
thanks for those.

The relay-apps examples have also been updated to match, and can be found
on the sourceforge relayfs website.

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-08-27 11:01:31 -07:00
Jonathan Corbet 5d8b2ebfa2 [PATCH] VFS documentation tweak
As I was looking over the get_sb() changes, I stumbled across a little
mistake in the documentation updates.  Unless we're getting into an
interesting new object-oriented realm, I doubt that get_sb() should really
return "struct int"...

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-10 13:24:15 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 501b7c77de 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:
  ocfs2: remove redundant NULL checks in ocfs2_direct_IO_get_blocks()
  ocfs2: clean up some osb fields
  ocfs2: fix init of uuid_net_key
  ocfs2: silence a debug print
  ocfs2: silence ENOENT during lookup of broken links
  ocfs2: Cleanup message prints
  ocfs2: silence -EEXIST from ocfs2_extent_map_insert/lookup
  [PATCH] fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmrecovery.c: make dlm_lockres_master_requery() static
  ocfs2: warn the user on a dead timeout mismatch
  ocfs2: OCFS2_FS must depend on SYSFS
  ocfs2: Compile-time disabling of ocfs2 debugging output.
  configfs: Clear up a few extra spaces where there should be TABs.
  configfs: Release memory in configfs_example.
2006-06-29 17:44:21 -07:00
Joel Becker 22dd0e88b7 configfs: Release memory in configfs_example.
The configfs_example module was missing a ->release().

Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2006-06-29 14:38:53 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman 5c3927dc34 [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs documentation from the kernel tree
Removes the Documentaiton/filesystems/devfs/ directory

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-06-26 12:25:05 -07:00
Badari Pulavarty ade1a29e16 [PATCH] ext3: Add "-o bh" option
This patch adds "-o bh" option to force use of buffer_heads.  This option
is needed when we make "nobh" as default - and if we run into problems.

Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26 09:58:20 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 1d77062b14 Merge git://git.linux-nfs.org/pub/linux/nfs-2.6
* git://git.linux-nfs.org/pub/linux/nfs-2.6: (51 commits)
  nfs: remove nfs_put_link()
  nfs-build-fix-99
  git-nfs-build-fixes
  Merge branch 'odirect'
  NFS: alloc nfs_read/write_data as direct I/O is scheduled
  NFS: Eliminate nfs_get_user_pages()
  NFS: refactor nfs_direct_free_user_pages
  NFS: remove user_addr, user_count, and pos from nfs_direct_req
  NFS: "open code" the NFS direct write rescheduler
  NFS: Separate functions for counting outstanding NFS direct I/Os
  NLM: Fix reclaim races
  NLM: sem to mutex conversion
  locks.c: add the fl_owner to nlm_compare_locks
  NFS: Display the chosen RPCSEC_GSS security flavour in /proc/mounts
  NFS: Split fs/nfs/inode.c
  NFS: Fix typo in nfs_do_clone_mount()
  NFS: Fix compile errors introduced by referrals patches
  NFSv4: Ensure that referral mounts bind to a reserved port
  NFSv4: A root pathname is sent as a zero component4
  NFSv4: Follow a referral
  ...
2006-06-25 10:54:14 -07:00
Rob Landley e7b6905582 [PATCH] Initramfs docs update
New section on creating an external initramfs image using cpio (with
script), a warning about bad advice in the cpio man page, a bit of
debugging advice (hello world and rdinit=/bin/sh), and a few minor tweaks
to other parts of it.

Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:21 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi a4d27e75ff [PATCH] fuse: add request interruption
Add synchronous request interruption.  This is needed for file locking
operations which have to be interruptible.  However filesystem may implement
interruptibility of other operations (e.g.  like NFS 'intr' mount option).

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:19 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi bafa96541b [PATCH] fuse: add control filesystem
Add a control filesystem to fuse, replacing the attributes currently exported
through sysfs.  An empty directory '/sys/fs/fuse/connections' is still created
in sysfs, and mounting the control filesystem here provides backward
compatibility.

Advantages of the control filesystem over the previous solution:

  - allows the object directory and the attributes to be owned by the
    filesystem owner, hence letting unpriviled users abort the
    filesystem connection

  - does not suffer from module unload race

[akpm@osdl.org: fix this fs for recent dhowells depredations]
[akpm@osdl.org: fix 64-bit printk warnings]
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:19 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi 51eb01e735 [PATCH] fuse: no backgrounding on interrupt
Don't put requests into the background when a fatal interrupt occurs while the
request is in userspace.  This removes a major wart from the implementation.

Backgrounding of requests was introduced to allow breaking of deadlocks.
However now the same can be achieved by aborting the filesystem through the
'abort' sysfs attribute.

This is a change in the interface, but should not cause problems, since these
kinds of deadlocks never happen during normal operation.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:19 -07:00
Trond Myklebust 816724e65c Merge branch 'master' of /home/trondmy/kernel/linux-2.6/
Conflicts:

	fs/nfs/inode.c
	fs/super.c

Fix conflicts between patch 'NFS: Split fs/nfs/inode.c' and patch
'VFS: Permit filesystem to override root dentry on mount'
2006-06-24 13:07:53 -04:00
David Howells 726c334223 [PATCH] VFS: Permit filesystem to perform statfs with a known root dentry
Give the statfs superblock operation a dentry pointer rather than a superblock
pointer.

This complements the get_sb() patch.  That reduced the significance of
sb->s_root, allowing NFS to place a fake root there.  However, NFS does
require a dentry to use as a target for the statfs operation.  This permits
the root in the vfsmount to be used instead.

linux/mount.h has been added where necessary to make allyesconfig build
successfully.

Interest has also been expressed for use with the FUSE and XFS filesystems.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23 07:42:45 -07:00
David Howells 454e2398be [PATCH] VFS: Permit filesystem to override root dentry on mount
Extend the get_sb() filesystem operation to take an extra argument that
permits the VFS to pass in the target vfsmount that defines the mountpoint.

The filesystem is then required to manually set the superblock and root dentry
pointers.  For most filesystems, this should be done with simple_set_mnt()
which will set the superblock pointer and then set the root dentry to the
superblock's s_root (as per the old default behaviour).

The get_sb() op now returns an integer as there's now no need to return the
superblock pointer.

This patch permits a superblock to be implicitly shared amongst several mount
points, such as can be done with NFS to avoid potential inode aliasing.  In
such a case, simple_set_mnt() would not be called, and instead the mnt_root
and mnt_sb would be set directly.

The patch also makes the following changes:

 (*) the get_sb_*() convenience functions in the core kernel now take a vfsmount
     pointer argument and return an integer, so most filesystems have to change
     very little.

 (*) If one of the convenience function is not used, then get_sb() should
     normally call simple_set_mnt() to instantiate the vfsmount. This will
     always return 0, and so can be tail-called from get_sb().

 (*) generic_shutdown_super() now calls shrink_dcache_sb() to clean up the
     dcache upon superblock destruction rather than shrink_dcache_anon().

     This is required because the superblock may now have multiple trees that
     aren't actually bound to s_root, but that still need to be cleaned up. The
     currently called functions assume that the whole tree is rooted at s_root,
     and that anonymous dentries are not the roots of trees which results in
     dentries being left unculled.

     However, with the way NFS superblock sharing are currently set to be
     implemented, these assumptions are violated: the root of the filesystem is
     simply a dummy dentry and inode (the real inode for '/' may well be
     inaccessible), and all the vfsmounts are rooted on anonymous[*] dentries
     with child trees.

     [*] Anonymous until discovered from another tree.

 (*) The documentation has been adjusted, including the additional bit of
     changing ext2_* into foo_* in the documentation.

[akpm@osdl.org: convert ipath_fs, do other stuff]
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23 07:42:45 -07:00
Trond Myklebust 70ac4385a1 Merge branch 'master' of /home/trondmy/kernel/linux-2.6/
Conflicts:

	include/linux/nfs_fs.h

Fixed up conflict with kernel header updates.
2006-06-20 20:46:21 -04:00
Amy Griffis 0edce197db [PATCH] inotify (5/5): update kernel documentation
Update kernel documentation to include a description of the inotify
kernel API.

Signed-off-by: Amy Griffis <amy.griffis@hp.com>
Acked-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
Acked-by: John McCutchan <john@johnmccutchan.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2006-06-20 05:25:19 -04:00
Trond Myklebust 1f5ce9e93a VFS: Unexport do_kern_mount() and clean up simple_pin_fs()
Replace all module uses with the new vfs_kern_mount() interface, and fix up
simple_pin_fs().

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-06-09 09:34:16 -04:00
Miklos Szeredi c86d90df26 [doc] add paragraph about 'fs' subsystem to sysfs.txt
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
2006-04-26 10:49:26 +02:00
Pekka J Enberg d1195c516a [PATCH] vfs: add splice_write and splice_read to documentation
This patch adds the new splice_write and splice_read file operations to
Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-04-11 14:21:59 +02:00
Jesper Juhl 50fc9999ec [PATCH] Docs update: missing files and descriptions for filesystems/00-INDEX
Add missing files and descriptions to
 Documentation/filesystems/00-INDEX

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-28 09:16:06 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 1e8c573933 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial: (21 commits)
  BUG_ON() Conversion in drivers/video/
  BUG_ON() Conversion in drivers/parisc/
  BUG_ON() Conversion in drivers/block/
  BUG_ON() Conversion in sound/sparc/cs4231.c
  BUG_ON() Conversion in drivers/s390/block/dasd.c
  BUG_ON() Conversion in lib/swiotlb.c
  BUG_ON() Conversion in kernel/cpu.c
  BUG_ON() Conversion in ipc/msg.c
  BUG_ON() Conversion in block/elevator.c
  BUG_ON() Conversion in fs/coda/
  BUG_ON() Conversion in fs/binfmt_elf_fdpic.c
  BUG_ON() Conversion in input/serio/hil_mlc.c
  BUG_ON() Conversion in md/dm-hw-handler.c
  BUG_ON() Conversion in md/bitmap.c
  The comment describing how MS_ASYNC works in msync.c is confusing
  rcu: undeclared variable used in documentation
  fix typos "wich" -> "which"
  typo patch for fs/ufs/super.c
  Fix simple typos
  tabify drivers/char/Makefile
  ...
2006-03-25 08:41:09 -08:00
NeilBrown a9e102b60c [PATCH] More corrections to vfs.txt update
Thanks "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>

Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 08:23:02 -08:00
Phillip Susi 0e6b3e5e97 [PATCH] udf: fix uid/gid options and add uid/gid=ignore and forget options
As Pekka Enberg pointed out, with the if still following the else, you can
still get a null uid written to the disk if you specify a default uid= without
uid=forget.  In other words, if the desktop user is uid=1000 and the mount
option uid=1000 is given ( which is done on ubuntu automatically and probably
other distributions that use hal ), then if any other user besides uid 1000
owns a file then a 0 will be written to the media as the owning uid instead.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 08:23:00 -08:00
NeilBrown 341546f5ad [PATCH] Update some VFS documentation
Flesh out the description of the address_space operations.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Avishay Traeger <atraeger@cs.sunysb.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 08:22:57 -08:00
Eric Van Hensbergen ed1f559b9b [PATCH] 9p: update documentation
Fix documentation to match current implementation.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 08:22:54 -08:00
Eric Van Hensbergen 67543e508d [PATCH] 9p: fix name consistency problems
There were a number of conflicting naming schemes used in the v9fs project.
The directory was fs/9p, but MAINTAINERS and Documentation referred to
v9fs.  The module name itself was 9p2000, and the file system type was 9P.
This patch attempts to clean that up, changing all references to 9p in
order to match the directory name.  We'll also start using 9p instead of
v9fs as our patch prefix.

There is also a minor consistency cleanup in the options changing the name
option to uname in order to more closely match the Plan 9 options.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergevan <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 08:22:54 -08:00
Uwe Zeisberger c30fe7f731 fix typos "wich" -> "which"
Signed-off-by: Uwe Zeisberger <zeisberg@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-03-24 18:23:14 +01:00
Anton Altaparmakov e750d1c7cc NTFS: 2.1.27 - Various bug fixes and cleanups.
Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
2006-03-23 17:04:12 +00:00
Alexey Dobriyan 4de151d8cd It's UTF-8
Fix some comments to "UTF-8".

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-03-22 00:13:35 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 2cb5b6beef Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aia21/ntfs-2.6 2006-02-24 14:36:42 -08:00
Hugh Dickins ad329b1519 [PATCH] tmpfs: recommend remount for mpol
akpm points out that switching to a non-NUMA kernel could be irritating
if mounting tmpfs fails on an mpol option: tmpfs.txt recommend remount.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-24 14:31:39 -08:00
Anton Altaparmakov 1cf3109ffb NTFS: Do more detailed reporting of why we cannot mount read-write by
special casing the VOLUME_MODIFIED_BY_CHKDSK flag.

Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
2006-02-24 10:48:14 +00:00
Hugh Dickins b00dc3ad74 [PATCH] tmpfs: fix mount mpol nodelist parsing
I've been dissatisfied with the mpol_nodelist mount option which was
added to tmpfs earlier in -rc.  Replace it by mpol=policy:nodelist.

And it was broken: a nodelist is a comma-separated list of numbers and
ranges; the mount options are a comma-separated list of token=values.
Whoops, blindly strsep'ing on commas doesn't work so well: since we've
no numeric tokens, and unlikely to add them, use that to distinguish.

Move the mpol= parsing to shmem_parse_mpol under CONFIG_NUMA, reject
all its options as invalid if not NUMA.  /proc shows MPOL_PREFERRED
as "prefer", so use that name for the policy instead of "preferred".

Enforce that mpol=default has no nodelist; that mpol=prefer has one
node only; that mpol=bind has a nodelist; but let mpol=interleave use
node_online_map if no nodelist given.  Describe this in tmpfs.txt.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Acked-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-21 17:10:15 -08:00
Eric Van Hensbergen e1c9211755 [PATCH] v9fs: update documentation and fix debug flag
Minor updates to the documentation to bring them into sync with current
websites and available features.  The debug flag was switched back to hex
to match the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-20 20:00:11 -08:00
Joel Becker 3d0f89bb16 configfs: Add permission and ownership to configfs objects.
configfs always made item and attribute ownership root.root and
permissions based on a umask of 022.  Add ->setattr() to allow
chown(2)/chmod(2), and persist the changes for the lifetime of the
items and attributes.

Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2006-02-03 14:01:05 -08:00
J. Bruce Fields 0d419a6a95 [OCFS2] Documentation Fix
Update ocfs2.txt to add "cluster aware lockf" under missing features.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2006-02-03 13:47:19 -08:00
Miklos Szeredi bacac382fb [PATCH] fuse: update documentation for sysfs
Add documentation for new attributes in sysfs.  Also describe the filesystem.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-16 23:15:31 -08:00
Robin Holt 7339ff8302 [PATCH] Add tmpfs options for memory placement policies
Anything that writes into a tmpfs filesystem is liable to disproportionately
decrease the available memory on a particular node.  Since there's no telling
what sort of application (e.g.  dd/cp/cat) might be dropping large files
there, this lets the admin choose the appropriate default behavior for their
site's situation.

Introduce a tmpfs mount option which allows specifying a memory policy and
a second option to specify the nodelist for that policy.  With the default
policy, tmpfs will behave as it does today.  This patch adds support for
preferred, bind, and interleave policies.

The default policy will cause pages to be added to tmpfs files on the node
which is doing the writing.  Some jobs expect a single process to create
and manage the tmpfs files.  This results in a node which has a
significantly reduced number of free pages.

With this patch, the administrator can specify the policy and nodes for
that policy where they would prefer allocations.

This patch was originally written by Brent Casavant and Hugh Dickins.  I
added support for the bind and preferred policies and the mpol_nodelist
mount option.

Signed-off-by: Brent Casavant <bcasavan@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-14 18:27:07 -08:00
Tore Anderson e56d5ae305 [PATCH] ext3: fix documentation of online resizing
Undocument the non-working resize= mount option in ext3, and add some
references to the ext2resize package instead, which appears to be the only
proper way of doing online resizing of ext3 filesystems.

Signed-off-by: Tore Anderson <tore@fud.no>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 18:42:10 -08:00
Jesper Juhl c63ca3c8b0 [PATCH] Docs update: small spelling, formating etc fixes for filesystems/ext3.txt
Spelling fixes, formating changes and corrections for
 Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:54 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 977127174a Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pci-2.6 2006-01-09 18:41:42 -08:00
Adrian Bunk e82443c092 Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt: indentation fix
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-01-10 00:20:30 +01:00
Jesse Barnes 5d135dff53 [PATCH] PCI: document sysfs rom file interface
idr gently pointed out today that not only is the sysfs rom file
interface somewhat unintuitive (despite my efforts and initial
implementation), but it's also undocumented!  This patch to
Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt corrects the latter problem; the
former is a userland ABI now though, so we're stuck with it for awhile
at least.

Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-09 12:13:19 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 6150c32589 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc-merge 2006-01-09 10:03:44 -08:00
Rob Landley 99aef427e2 [PATCH] update to the initramfs docs
Based on questions people have asked me.  Repeatedly.

Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:14:00 -08:00