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Linus Torvalds e213e26ab3 Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs-2.6
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs-2.6: (33 commits)
  quota: stop using QUOTA_OK / NO_QUOTA
  dquot: cleanup dquot initialize routine
  dquot: move dquot initialization responsibility into the filesystem
  dquot: cleanup dquot drop routine
  dquot: move dquot drop responsibility into the filesystem
  dquot: cleanup dquot transfer routine
  dquot: move dquot transfer responsibility into the filesystem
  dquot: cleanup inode allocation / freeing routines
  dquot: cleanup space allocation / freeing routines
  ext3: add writepage sanity checks
  ext3: Truncate allocated blocks if direct IO write fails to update i_size
  quota: Properly invalidate caches even for filesystems with blocksize < pagesize
  quota: generalize quota transfer interface
  quota: sb_quota state flags cleanup
  jbd: Delay discarding buffers in journal_unmap_buffer
  ext3: quota_write cross block boundary behaviour
  quota: drop permission checks from xfs_fs_set_xstate/xfs_fs_set_xquota
  quota: split out compat_sys_quotactl support from quota.c
  quota: split out netlink notification support from quota.c
  quota: remove invalid optimization from quota_sync_all
  ...

Fixed trivial conflicts in fs/namei.c and fs/ufs/inode.c
2010-03-05 13:20:53 -08:00
Christoph Hellwig 871a293155 dquot: cleanup dquot initialize routine
Get rid of the initialize dquot operation - it is now always called from
the filesystem and if a filesystem really needs it's own (which none
currently does) it can just call into it's own routine directly.

Rename the now static low-level dquot_initialize helper to __dquot_initialize
and vfs_dq_init to dquot_initialize to have a consistent namespace.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2010-03-05 00:20:30 +01:00
Christoph Hellwig 9f75475802 dquot: cleanup dquot drop routine
Get rid of the drop dquot operation - it is now always called from
the filesystem and if a filesystem really needs it's own (which none
currently does) it can just call into it's own routine directly.

Rename the now static low-level dquot_drop helper to __dquot_drop
and vfs_dq_drop to dquot_drop to have a consistent namespace.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2010-03-05 00:20:30 +01:00
Christoph Hellwig b43fa8284d dquot: cleanup dquot transfer routine
Get rid of the transfer dquot operation - it is now always called from
the filesystem and if a filesystem really needs it's own (which none
currently does) it can just call into it's own routine directly.

Rename the now static low-level dquot_transfer helper to __dquot_transfer
and vfs_dq_transfer to dquot_transfer to have a consistent namespace,
and make the new dquot_transfer return a normal negative errno value
which all callers expect.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2010-03-05 00:20:29 +01:00
Christoph Hellwig 63936ddaa1 dquot: cleanup inode allocation / freeing routines
Get rid of the alloc_inode and free_inode dquot operations - they are
always called from the filesystem and if a filesystem really needs
their own (which none currently does) it can just call into it's
own routine directly.

Also get rid of the vfs_dq_alloc/vfs_dq_free wrappers and always
call the lowlevel dquot_alloc_inode / dqout_free_inode routines
directly, which now lose the number argument which is always 1.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2010-03-05 00:20:28 +01:00
Christoph Hellwig 5dd4056db8 dquot: cleanup space allocation / freeing routines
Get rid of the alloc_space, free_space, reserve_space, claim_space and
release_rsv dquot operations - they are always called from the filesystem
and if a filesystem really needs their own (which none currently does)
it can just call into it's own routine directly.

Move shared logic into the common __dquot_alloc_space,
dquot_claim_space_nodirty and __dquot_free_space low-level methods,
and rationalize the wrappers around it to move as much as possible
code into the common block for CONFIG_QUOTA vs not.  Also rename
all these helpers to be named dquot_* instead of vfs_dq_*.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2010-03-05 00:20:28 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 0f2cc4ecd8 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (52 commits)
  init: Open /dev/console from rootfs
  mqueue: fix typo "failues" -> "failures"
  mqueue: only set error codes if they are really necessary
  mqueue: simplify do_open() error handling
  mqueue: apply mathematics distributivity on mq_bytes calculation
  mqueue: remove unneeded info->messages initialization
  mqueue: fix mq_open() file descriptor leak on user-space processes
  fix race in d_splice_alias()
  set S_DEAD on unlink() and non-directory rename() victims
  vfs: add NOFOLLOW flag to umount(2)
  get rid of ->mnt_parent in tomoyo/realpath
  hppfs can use existing proc_mnt, no need for do_kern_mount() in there
  Mirror MS_KERNMOUNT in ->mnt_flags
  get rid of useless vfsmount_lock use in put_mnt_ns()
  Take vfsmount_lock to fs/internal.h
  get rid of insanity with namespace roots in tomoyo
  take check for new events in namespace (guts of mounts_poll()) to namespace.c
  Don't mess with generic_permission() under ->d_lock in hpfs
  sanitize const/signedness for udf
  nilfs: sanitize const/signedness in dealing with ->d_name.name
  ...

Fix up fairly trivial (famous last words...) conflicts in
drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_main.c and security/tomoyo/realpath.c
2010-03-04 08:15:33 -08:00
Al Viro 2f99cc6e46 add several pieces to shared subtree documentation
* document locking
* add the missing part of data structure invariants (relationship
between mnt_share and mnt_slave lists in case of a peer group
among slaves).

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-03-03 13:00:23 -05:00
Linus Torvalds feaf77d51a Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ryusuke/nilfs2
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ryusuke/nilfs2:
  nilfs2: add reader's lock for cno in nilfs_ioctl_sync
  nilfs2: delete unnecessary condition in load_segment_summary
  nilfs2: move iterator to write log into segment buffer
  nilfs2: get rid of s_dirt flag use
  nilfs2: get rid of nilfs_segctor_req struct
  nilfs2: delete unnecessary condition in nilfs_dat_translate
  nilfs2: fix potential hang in nilfs_error on errors=remount-ro
  nilfs2: use mnt_want_write in ioctls where write access is needed
  nilfs2: issue discard request after cleaning segments
2010-03-03 08:53:49 -08:00
Mulyadi Santosa cb2992a60b doc: typo - Table 1-2 should refer to "status", not "statm"
Fixes a typo in proc.txt documentation. Table 1-2 should refer to
"status", not "statm"

Signed-off-by: Mulyadi Santosa <mulyadi.santosa@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-02-18 00:43:50 +01:00
Jiro SEKIBA e902ec9906 nilfs2: issue discard request after cleaning segments
This adds a function to send discard requests for given array of
segment numbers, and calls the function when garbage collection
succeeded.

Signed-off-by: Jiro SEKIBA <jir@unicus.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
2010-02-13 12:26:02 +09:00
J. Bruce Fields 73834d6f90 nfsd: 4.1 has an rfc number
No need to refer to an internet draft; there's an RFC now.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2010-01-20 17:17:04 -05:00
Paul E. McKenney 4c54005ca4 rcu: 1Q2010 update for RCU documentation
Add expedited functions.  Review documentation and update
obsolete verbiage.  Also fix the advice for the RCU CPU-stall
kernel configuration parameter, and document RCU CPU-stall
warnings.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
LKML-Reference: <12635142581866-git-send-email->
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-01-16 10:25:22 +01:00
KOSAKI Motohiro 1306d603fc proc: partially revert "procfs: provide stack information for threads"
Commit d899bf7b (procfs: provide stack information for threads) introduced
to show stack information in /proc/{pid}/status.  But it cause large
performance regression.  Unfortunately /proc/{pid}/status is used ps
command too and ps is one of most important component.  Because both to
take mmap_sem and page table walk are heavily operation.

If many process run, the ps performance is,

[before d899bf7b]

% perf stat ps >/dev/null

 Performance counter stats for 'ps':

     4090.435806  task-clock-msecs         #      0.032 CPUs
             229  context-switches         #      0.000 M/sec
               0  CPU-migrations           #      0.000 M/sec
             234  page-faults              #      0.000 M/sec
      8587565207  cycles                   #   2099.425 M/sec
      9866662403  instructions             #      1.149 IPC
      3789415411  cache-references         #    926.409 M/sec
        30419509  cache-misses             #      7.437 M/sec

   128.859521955  seconds time elapsed

[after d899bf7b]

% perf stat  ps  > /dev/null

 Performance counter stats for 'ps':

     4305.081146  task-clock-msecs         #      0.028 CPUs
             480  context-switches         #      0.000 M/sec
               2  CPU-migrations           #      0.000 M/sec
             237  page-faults              #      0.000 M/sec
      9021211334  cycles                   #   2095.480 M/sec
     10605887536  instructions             #      1.176 IPC
      3612650999  cache-references         #    839.160 M/sec
        23917502  cache-misses             #      5.556 M/sec

   152.277819582  seconds time elapsed

Thus, this patch revert it. Fortunately /proc/{pid}/task/{tid}/smaps
provide almost same information. we can use it.

Commit d899bf7b introduced two features:

 1) Add the annotattion of [thread stack: xxxx] mark to
    /proc/{pid}/task/{tid}/maps.
 2) Add StackUsage field to /proc/{pid}/status.

I only revert (2), because I haven't seen (1) cause regression.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-01-11 09:34:06 -08:00
Linus Torvalds a87da40875 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ryusuke/nilfs2
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ryusuke/nilfs2:
  nilfs2: update mailing list address
  nilfs2: Storage class should be before const qualifier
  nilfs2: trivial coding style fix
2010-01-04 12:28:26 -08:00
Ryusuke Konishi 6aff43f817 nilfs2: update mailing list address
This replaces the list address for nilfs discussion to linux-nilfs at
vger.kernel.org from users at nilfs.org.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
2010-01-02 21:47:04 +09:00
Fang Wenqi 6d3b82f2d3 ext4: Update documentation to correct the inode_readahead_blks option name
Per commit 240799cd, the option name for readahead should be
inode_readahead_blks, not inode_readahead.

Signed-off-by: Fang Wenqi <antonf@turbolinux.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-12-24 17:51:42 -05:00
Phil Carmody 099c2f21d8 Driver core: driver_attribute parameters can often be const*
Many struct driver_attribute descriptors are purely read-only
structures, and there's no need to change them. Therefore make
the promise not to, which will let those descriptors be put in
a ro section.

Signed-off-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-12-23 11:23:43 -08:00
Phil Carmody 26579ab70a Driver core: device_attribute parameters can often be const*
Most device_attributes are const, and are begging to be
put in a ro section. However, the create and remove
file interfaces were failing to propagate the const promise
which the only functions they call offer.

Signed-off-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-12-23 11:23:43 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 37c24b37fb Merge branch 'for-2.6.33' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux
* 'for-2.6.33' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux: (42 commits)
  nfsd: remove pointless paths in file headers
  nfsd: move most of nfsfh.h to fs/nfsd
  nfsd: remove unused field rq_reffh
  nfsd: enable V4ROOT exports
  nfsd: make V4ROOT exports read-only
  nfsd: restrict filehandles accepted in V4ROOT case
  nfsd: allow exports of symlinks
  nfsd: filter readdir results in V4ROOT case
  nfsd: filter lookup results in V4ROOT case
  nfsd4: don't continue "under" mounts in V4ROOT case
  nfsd: introduce export flag for v4 pseudoroot
  nfsd: let "insecure" flag vary by pseudoflavor
  nfsd: new interface to advertise export features
  nfsd: Move private headers to source directory
  vfs: nfsctl.c un-used nfsd #includes
  lockd: Remove un-used nfsd headers #includes
  s390: remove un-used nfsd #includes
  sparc: remove un-used nfsd #includes
  parsic: remove un-used nfsd #includes
  compat.c: Remove dependence on nfsd private headers
  ...
2009-12-16 10:43:34 -08:00
Alexey Dobriyan 6be4b78993 seq_file: use proc_create() in documentation
Using create_proc_entry() + ->proc_fops assignment is racy because
->proc_fops will be NULL for some time, use proc_create() to avoid race.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-16 07:20:07 -08:00
john stultz 4614a696bd procfs: allow threads to rename siblings via /proc/pid/tasks/tid/comm
Setting a thread's comm to be something unique is a very useful ability
and is helpful for debugging complicated threaded applications.  However
currently the only way to set a thread name is for the thread to name
itself via the PR_SET_NAME prctl.

However, there may be situations where it would be advantageous for a
thread dispatcher to be naming the threads its managing, rather then
having the threads self-describe themselves.  This sort of behavior is
available on other systems via the pthread_setname_np() interface.

This patch exports a task's comm via proc/pid/comm and
proc/pid/task/tid/comm interfaces, and allows thread siblings to write to
these values.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Fulton <fultonm@ca.ibm.com>
Cc: Sean Foley <Sean_Foley@ca.ibm.com>
Cc: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: 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>
2009-12-15 08:53:24 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 3126c136bc Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs-2.6
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs-2.6: (21 commits)
  ext3: PTR_ERR return of wrong pointer in setup_new_group_blocks()
  ext3: Fix data / filesystem corruption when write fails to copy data
  ext4: Support for 64-bit quota format
  ext3: Support for vfsv1 quota format
  quota: Implement quota format with 64-bit space and inode limits
  quota: Move definition of QFMT_OCFS2 to linux/quota.h
  ext2: fix comment in ext2_find_entry about return values
  ext3: Unify log messages in ext3
  ext2: clear uptodate flag on super block I/O error
  ext2: Unify log messages in ext2
  ext3: make "norecovery" an alias for "noload"
  ext3: Don't update the superblock in ext3_statfs()
  ext3: journal all modifications in ext3_xattr_set_handle
  ext2: Explicitly assign values to on-disk enum of filetypes
  quota: Fix WARN_ON in lookup_one_len
  const: struct quota_format_ops
  ubifs: remove manual O_SYNC handling
  afs: remove manual O_SYNC handling
  kill wait_on_page_writeback_range
  vfs: Implement proper O_SYNC semantics
  ...
2009-12-11 15:31:13 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 4e2ccdb040 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ryusuke/nilfs2
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ryusuke/nilfs2: (49 commits)
  nilfs2: separate wait function from nilfs_segctor_write
  nilfs2: add iterator for segment buffers
  nilfs2: hide nilfs_write_info struct in segment buffer code
  nilfs2: relocate io status variables to segment buffer
  nilfs2: do not return io error for bio allocation failure
  nilfs2: use list_splice_tail or list_splice_tail_init
  nilfs2: replace mark_inode_dirty as nilfs_mark_inode_dirty
  nilfs2: delete mark_inode_dirty in nilfs_delete_entry
  nilfs2: delete mark_inode_dirty in nilfs_commit_chunk
  nilfs2: change return type of nilfs_commit_chunk
  nilfs2: split nilfs_unlink as nilfs_do_unlink and nilfs_unlink
  nilfs2: delete redundant mark_inode_dirty
  nilfs2: expand inode_inc_link_count and inode_dec_link_count
  nilfs2: delete mark_inode_dirty from nilfs_set_link
  nilfs2: delete mark_inode_dirty in nilfs_new_inode
  nilfs2: add norecovery mount option
  nilfs2: add helper to get if volume is in a valid state
  nilfs2: move recovery completion into load_nilfs function
  nilfs2: apply readahead for recovery on mount
  nilfs2: clean up get/put function of a segment usage
  ...
2009-12-11 11:49:18 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 4515c3069d 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: (47 commits)
  ext4: Fix potential fiemap deadlock (mmap_sem vs. i_data_sem)
  ext4: Do not override ext2 or ext3 if built they are built as modules
  jbd2: Export jbd2_log_start_commit to fix ext4 build
  ext4: Fix insufficient checks in EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT
  ext4: Wait for proper transaction commit on fsync
  ext4: fix incorrect block reservation on quota transfer.
  ext4: quota macros cleanup
  ext4: ext4_get_reserved_space() must return bytes instead of blocks
  ext4: remove blocks from inode prealloc list on failure
  ext4: wait for log to commit when umounting
  ext4: Avoid data / filesystem corruption when write fails to copy data
  ext4: Use ext4 file system driver for ext2/ext3 file system mounts
  ext4: Return the PTR_ERR of the correct pointer in setup_new_group_blocks()
  jbd2: Add ENOMEM checking in and for jbd2_journal_write_metadata_buffer()
  ext4: remove unused parameter wbc from __ext4_journalled_writepage()
  ext4: remove encountered_congestion trace
  ext4: move_extent_per_page() cleanup
  ext4: initialize moved_len before calling ext4_move_extents()
  ext4: Fix double-free of blocks with EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT
  ext4: use ext4_data_block_valid() in ext4_free_blocks()
  ...
2009-12-10 09:33:29 -08:00
Eric Sandeen dee1d3b627 ext3: make "norecovery" an alias for "noload"
Users on the list recently complained about differences across
filesystems w.r.t. how to mount without a journal replay.

In the discussion it was noted that xfs's "norecovery" option is
perhaps more descriptively accurate than "noload," so let's make
that an alias for ext3.

Also show this status in /proc/mounts

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2009-12-10 15:02:52 +01:00
Christoph Hellwig 94004ed726 kill wait_on_page_writeback_range
All callers really want the more logical filemap_fdatawait_range interface,
so convert them to use it and merge wait_on_page_writeback_range into
filemap_fdatawait_range.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2009-12-10 15:02:50 +01:00
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo 9f249162fb trivial: some small fixes in exofs documentation
Add exofs.txt to filesystems Documentation index and fix some typos,
identation and grammar.

Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@holoscopio.com>
Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
2009-12-10 09:59:16 +02:00
Luis Garces-Erice e3cc2226e9 Doc: better explanation of procs_running
the description in Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt of the
procs_running entry in /proc/stat is confusing (according to that
description, it looks as if procs_running could only be a number
between 0 and the number of CPUs).

Changed it to a more accurate description in the patch attached.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-09 18:59:52 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 897e81bea1 Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (35 commits)
  sched, cputime: Introduce thread_group_times()
  sched, cputime: Cleanups related to task_times()
  Revert "sched, x86: Optimize branch hint in __switch_to()"
  sched: Fix isolcpus boot option
  sched: Revert 498657a478
  sched, time: Define nsecs_to_jiffies()
  sched: Remove task_{u,s,g}time()
  sched: Introduce task_times() to replace task_{u,s}time() pair
  sched: Limit the number of scheduler debug messages
  sched.c: Call debug_show_all_locks() when dumping all tasks
  sched, x86: Optimize branch hint in __switch_to()
  sched: Optimize branch hint in context_switch()
  sched: Optimize branch hint in pick_next_task_fair()
  sched_feat_write(): Update ppos instead of file->f_pos
  sched: Sched_rt_periodic_timer vs cpu hotplug
  sched, kvm: Fix race condition involving sched_in_preempt_notifers
  sched: More generic WAKE_AFFINE vs select_idle_sibling()
  sched: Cleanup select_task_rq_fair()
  sched: Fix granularity of task_u/stime()
  sched: Fix/add missing update_rq_clock() calls
  ...
2009-12-05 15:30:49 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 6e80133f7f Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-2.6-fscache
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-2.6-fscache: (31 commits)
  FS-Cache: Provide nop fscache_stat_d() if CONFIG_FSCACHE_STATS=n
  SLOW_WORK: Fix GFS2 to #include <linux/module.h> before using THIS_MODULE
  SLOW_WORK: Fix CIFS to pass THIS_MODULE to slow_work_register_user()
  CacheFiles: Don't log lookup/create failing with ENOBUFS
  CacheFiles: Catch an overly long wait for an old active object
  CacheFiles: Better showing of debugging information in active object problems
  CacheFiles: Mark parent directory locks as I_MUTEX_PARENT to keep lockdep happy
  CacheFiles: Handle truncate unlocking the page we're reading
  CacheFiles: Don't write a full page if there's only a partial page to cache
  FS-Cache: Actually requeue an object when requested
  FS-Cache: Start processing an object's operations on that object's death
  FS-Cache: Make sure FSCACHE_COOKIE_LOOKING_UP cleared on lookup failure
  FS-Cache: Add a retirement stat counter
  FS-Cache: Handle pages pending storage that get evicted under OOM conditions
  FS-Cache: Handle read request vs lookup, creation or other cache failure
  FS-Cache: Don't delete pending pages from the page-store tracking tree
  FS-Cache: Fix lock misorder in fscache_write_op()
  FS-Cache: The object-available state can't rely on the cookie to be available
  FS-Cache: Permit cache retrieval ops to be interrupted in the initial wait phase
  FS-Cache: Use radix tree preload correctly in tracking of pages to be stored
  ...
2009-11-30 13:33:48 -08:00
Ingo Molnar 16bc67edeb Merge branch 'sched/urgent' into sched/core
Merge reason: Pick up fixes that did not make it into .32.0

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-26 10:50:42 +01:00
J. Bruce Fields 9b8b317d58 Merge commit 'v2.6.32-rc8' into HEAD 2009-11-23 12:34:58 -05:00
Joern Engel 5db53f3e80 [LogFS] add new flash file system
This is a new flash file system. See
Documentation/filesystems/logfs.txt

Signed-off-by: Joern Engel <joern@logfs.org>
2009-11-20 20:13:39 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 931ed94430 Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jlbec/ocfs2
* 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jlbec/ocfs2:
  ocfs2: Trivial cleanup of jbd compatibility layer removal
  ocfs2: Refresh documentation
  ocfs2: return f_fsid info in ocfs2_statfs()
  ocfs2: duplicate inline data properly during reflink.
  ocfs2: Move ocfs2_complete_reflink to the right place.
  ocfs2: Return -EINVAL when a device is not ocfs2.
2009-11-19 20:29:05 -08:00
Ryusuke Konishi 0234576d04 nilfs2: add norecovery mount option
This adds "norecovery" mount option which disables temporal write
access to read-only mounts or snapshots during mount/recovery.
Without this option, write access will be even performed for those
types of mounts; the temporal write access is needed to mount root
file system read-only after an unclean shutdown.

This option will be helpful when user wants to prevent any write
access to the device.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
2009-11-20 10:05:52 +09:00
Jiro SEKIBA 91f1953bf3 nilfs2: Using nobarrier option instead of barrier=off
Since most of fs using nofoobar style option,
modified barrier=off option as nobarrier.

Signed-off-by: Jiro SEKIBA <jir@unicus.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
2009-11-20 10:05:47 +09:00
Eric Sandeen e3bb52ae2b ext4: make "norecovery" an alias for "noload"
Users on the linux-ext4 list recently complained about differences
across filesystems w.r.t. how to mount without a journal replay.

In the discussion it was noted that xfs's "norecovery" option is
perhaps more descriptively accurate than "noload," so let's make
that an alias for ext4.

Also show this status in /proc/mounts

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-11-19 14:28:50 -05:00
Eric Sandeen 5328e63531 ext4: make trim/discard optional (and off by default)
It is anticipated that when sb_issue_discard starts doing
real work on trim-capable devices, we may see issues.  Make
this mount-time optional, and default it to off until we know
that things are working out OK.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-11-19 14:25:42 -05:00
David Howells fee096deb4 CacheFiles: Catch an overly long wait for an old active object
Catch an overly long wait for an old, dying active object when we want to
replace it with a new one.  The probability is that all the slow-work threads
are hogged, and the delete can't get a look in.

What we do instead is:

 (1) if there's nothing in the slow work queue, we sleep until either the dying
     object has finished dying or there is something in the slow work queue
     behind which we can queue our object.

 (2) if there is something in the slow work queue, we return ETIMEDOUT to
     fscache_lookup_object(), which then puts us back on the slow work queue,
     presumably behind the deletion that we're blocked by.  We are then
     deferred for a while until we work our way back through the queue -
     without blocking a slow-work thread unnecessarily.

A backtrace similar to the following may appear in the log without this patch:

	INFO: task kslowd004:5711 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
	"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
	kslowd004     D 0000000000000000     0  5711      2 0x00000080
	 ffff88000340bb80 0000000000000046 ffff88002550d000 0000000000000000
	 ffff88002550d000 0000000000000007 ffff88000340bfd8 ffff88002550d2a8
	 000000000000ddf0 00000000000118c0 00000000000118c0 ffff88002550d2a8
	Call Trace:
	 [<ffffffff81058e21>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0xf
	 [<ffffffffa011c4d8>] ? cachefiles_wait_bit+0x0/0xd [cachefiles]
	 [<ffffffffa011c4e1>] cachefiles_wait_bit+0x9/0xd [cachefiles]
	 [<ffffffff81353153>] __wait_on_bit+0x43/0x76
	 [<ffffffff8111ae39>] ? ext3_xattr_get+0x1ec/0x270
	 [<ffffffff813531ef>] out_of_line_wait_on_bit+0x69/0x74
	 [<ffffffffa011c4d8>] ? cachefiles_wait_bit+0x0/0xd [cachefiles]
	 [<ffffffff8104c125>] ? wake_bit_function+0x0/0x2e
	 [<ffffffffa011bc79>] cachefiles_mark_object_active+0x203/0x23b [cachefiles]
	 [<ffffffffa011c209>] cachefiles_walk_to_object+0x558/0x827 [cachefiles]
	 [<ffffffffa011a429>] cachefiles_lookup_object+0xac/0x12a [cachefiles]
	 [<ffffffffa00aa1e9>] fscache_lookup_object+0x1c7/0x214 [fscache]
	 [<ffffffffa00aafc5>] fscache_object_state_machine+0xa5/0x52d [fscache]
	 [<ffffffffa00ab4ac>] fscache_object_slow_work_execute+0x5f/0xa0 [fscache]
	 [<ffffffff81082093>] slow_work_execute+0x18f/0x2d1
	 [<ffffffff8108239a>] slow_work_thread+0x1c5/0x308
	 [<ffffffff8104c0f1>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x34
	 [<ffffffff810821d5>] ? slow_work_thread+0x0/0x308
	 [<ffffffff8104be91>] kthread+0x7a/0x82
	 [<ffffffff8100beda>] child_rip+0xa/0x20
	 [<ffffffff8100b87c>] ? restore_args+0x0/0x30
	 [<ffffffff8104be17>] ? kthread+0x0/0x82
	 [<ffffffff8100bed0>] ? child_rip+0x0/0x20
	1 lock held by kslowd004/5711:
	 #0:  (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#7/1){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffffa011be64>] cachefiles_walk_to_object+0x1b3/0x827 [cachefiles]

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2009-11-19 18:12:05 +00:00
David Howells 60d543ca72 FS-Cache: Start processing an object's operations on that object's death
Start processing an object's operations when that object moves into the DYING
state as the object cannot be destroyed until all its outstanding operations
have completed.

Furthermore, make sure that read and allocation operations handle being woken
up on a dead object.  Such events are recorded in the Allocs.abt and
Retrvls.abt statistics as viewable through /proc/fs/fscache/stats.

The code for waiting for object activation for the read and allocation
operations is also extracted into its own function as it is much the same in
all cases, differing only in the stats incremented.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2009-11-19 18:11:45 +00:00
David Howells 201a15428b FS-Cache: Handle pages pending storage that get evicted under OOM conditions
Handle netfs pages that the vmscan algorithm wants to evict from the pagecache
under OOM conditions, but that are waiting for write to the cache.  Under these
conditions, vmscan calls the releasepage() function of the netfs, asking if a
page can be discarded.

The problem is typified by the following trace of a stuck process:

	kslowd005     D 0000000000000000     0  4253      2 0x00000080
	 ffff88001b14f370 0000000000000046 ffff880020d0d000 0000000000000007
	 0000000000000006 0000000000000001 ffff88001b14ffd8 ffff880020d0d2a8
	 000000000000ddf0 00000000000118c0 00000000000118c0 ffff880020d0d2a8
	Call Trace:
	 [<ffffffffa00782d8>] __fscache_wait_on_page_write+0x8b/0xa7 [fscache]
	 [<ffffffff8104c0f1>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x34
	 [<ffffffffa0078240>] ? __fscache_check_page_write+0x63/0x70 [fscache]
	 [<ffffffffa00b671d>] nfs_fscache_release_page+0x4e/0xc4 [nfs]
	 [<ffffffffa00927f0>] nfs_release_page+0x3c/0x41 [nfs]
	 [<ffffffff810885d3>] try_to_release_page+0x32/0x3b
	 [<ffffffff81093203>] shrink_page_list+0x316/0x4ac
	 [<ffffffff8109372b>] shrink_inactive_list+0x392/0x67c
	 [<ffffffff813532fa>] ? __mutex_unlock_slowpath+0x100/0x10b
	 [<ffffffff81058df0>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x10c/0x130
	 [<ffffffff8135330e>] ? mutex_unlock+0x9/0xb
	 [<ffffffff81093aa2>] shrink_list+0x8d/0x8f
	 [<ffffffff81093d1c>] shrink_zone+0x278/0x33c
	 [<ffffffff81052d6c>] ? ktime_get_ts+0xad/0xba
	 [<ffffffff81094b13>] try_to_free_pages+0x22e/0x392
	 [<ffffffff81091e24>] ? isolate_pages_global+0x0/0x212
	 [<ffffffff8108e743>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x3dc/0x5cf
	 [<ffffffff81089529>] grab_cache_page_write_begin+0x65/0xaa
	 [<ffffffff8110f8c0>] ext3_write_begin+0x78/0x1eb
	 [<ffffffff81089ec5>] generic_file_buffered_write+0x109/0x28c
	 [<ffffffff8103cb69>] ? current_fs_time+0x22/0x29
	 [<ffffffff8108a509>] __generic_file_aio_write+0x350/0x385
	 [<ffffffff8108a588>] ? generic_file_aio_write+0x4a/0xae
	 [<ffffffff8108a59e>] generic_file_aio_write+0x60/0xae
	 [<ffffffff810b2e82>] do_sync_write+0xe3/0x120
	 [<ffffffff8104c0f1>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x34
	 [<ffffffff810b18e1>] ? __dentry_open+0x1a5/0x2b8
	 [<ffffffff810b1a76>] ? dentry_open+0x82/0x89
	 [<ffffffffa00e693c>] cachefiles_write_page+0x298/0x335 [cachefiles]
	 [<ffffffffa0077147>] fscache_write_op+0x178/0x2c2 [fscache]
	 [<ffffffffa0075656>] fscache_op_execute+0x7a/0xd1 [fscache]
	 [<ffffffff81082093>] slow_work_execute+0x18f/0x2d1
	 [<ffffffff8108239a>] slow_work_thread+0x1c5/0x308
	 [<ffffffff8104c0f1>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x34
	 [<ffffffff810821d5>] ? slow_work_thread+0x0/0x308
	 [<ffffffff8104be91>] kthread+0x7a/0x82
	 [<ffffffff8100beda>] child_rip+0xa/0x20
	 [<ffffffff8100b87c>] ? restore_args+0x0/0x30
	 [<ffffffff8102ef83>] ? tg_shares_up+0x171/0x227
	 [<ffffffff8104be17>] ? kthread+0x0/0x82
	 [<ffffffff8100bed0>] ? child_rip+0x0/0x20

In the above backtrace, the following is happening:

 (1) A page storage operation is being executed by a slow-work thread
     (fscache_write_op()).

 (2) FS-Cache farms the operation out to the cache to perform
     (cachefiles_write_page()).

 (3) CacheFiles is then calling Ext3 to perform the actual write, using Ext3's
     standard write (do_sync_write()) under KERNEL_DS directly from the netfs
     page.

 (4) However, for Ext3 to perform the write, it must allocate some memory, in
     particular, it must allocate at least one page cache page into which it
     can copy the data from the netfs page.

 (5) Under OOM conditions, the memory allocator can't immediately come up with
     a page, so it uses vmscan to find something to discard
     (try_to_free_pages()).

 (6) vmscan finds a clean netfs page it might be able to discard (possibly the
     one it's trying to write out).

 (7) The netfs is called to throw the page away (nfs_release_page()) - but it's
     called with __GFP_WAIT, so the netfs decides to wait for the store to
     complete (__fscache_wait_on_page_write()).

 (8) This blocks a slow-work processing thread - possibly against itself.

The system ends up stuck because it can't write out any netfs pages to the
cache without allocating more memory.

To avoid this, we make FS-Cache cancel some writes that aren't in the middle of
actually being performed.  This means that some data won't make it into the
cache this time.  To support this, a new FS-Cache function is added
fscache_maybe_release_page() that replaces what the netfs releasepage()
functions used to do with respect to the cache.

The decisions fscache_maybe_release_page() makes are counted and displayed
through /proc/fs/fscache/stats on a line labelled "VmScan".  There are four
counters provided: "nos=N" - pages that weren't pending storage; "gon=N" -
pages that were pending storage when we first looked, but weren't by the time
we got the object lock; "bsy=N" - pages that we ignored as they were actively
being written when we looked; and "can=N" - pages that we cancelled the storage
of.

What I'd really like to do is alter the behaviour of the cancellation
heuristics, depending on how necessary it is to expel pages.  If there are
plenty of other pages that aren't waiting to be written to the cache that
could be ejected first, then it would be nice to hold up on immediate
cancellation of cache writes - but I don't see a way of doing that.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2009-11-19 18:11:35 +00:00
David Howells e3d4d28b1c FS-Cache: Handle read request vs lookup, creation or other cache failure
FS-Cache doesn't correctly handle the netfs requesting a read from the cache
on an object that failed or was withdrawn by the cache.  A trace similar to
the following might be seen:

	CacheFiles: Lookup failed error -105
	[exe   ] unexpected submission OP165afe [OBJ6cac OBJECT_LC_DYING]
	[exe   ] objstate=OBJECT_LC_DYING [OBJECT_LC_DYING]
	[exe   ] objflags=0
	[exe   ] objevent=9 [fffffffffffffffb]
	[exe   ] ops=0 inp=0 exc=0
	Pid: 6970, comm: exe Not tainted 2.6.32-rc6-cachefs #50
	Call Trace:
	 [<ffffffffa0076477>] fscache_submit_op+0x3ff/0x45a [fscache]
	 [<ffffffffa0077997>] __fscache_read_or_alloc_pages+0x187/0x3c4 [fscache]
	 [<ffffffffa00b6480>] ? nfs_readpage_from_fscache_complete+0x0/0x66 [nfs]
	 [<ffffffffa00b6388>] __nfs_readpages_from_fscache+0x7e/0x176 [nfs]
	 [<ffffffff8108e483>] ? __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x11c/0x5cf
	 [<ffffffffa009d796>] nfs_readpages+0x114/0x1d7 [nfs]
	 [<ffffffff81090314>] __do_page_cache_readahead+0x15f/0x1ec
	 [<ffffffff81090228>] ? __do_page_cache_readahead+0x73/0x1ec
	 [<ffffffff810903bd>] ra_submit+0x1c/0x20
	 [<ffffffff810906bb>] ondemand_readahead+0x227/0x23a
	 [<ffffffff81090762>] page_cache_sync_readahead+0x17/0x19
	 [<ffffffff8108a99e>] generic_file_aio_read+0x236/0x5a0
	 [<ffffffffa00937bd>] nfs_file_read+0xe4/0xf3 [nfs]
	 [<ffffffff810b2fa2>] do_sync_read+0xe3/0x120
	 [<ffffffff81354cc3>] ? _spin_unlock_irq+0x2b/0x31
	 [<ffffffff8104c0f1>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x34
	 [<ffffffff811848e5>] ? selinux_file_permission+0x5d/0x10f
	 [<ffffffff81352bdb>] ? thread_return+0x3e/0x101
	 [<ffffffff8117d7b0>] ? security_file_permission+0x11/0x13
	 [<ffffffff810b3b06>] vfs_read+0xaa/0x16f
	 [<ffffffff81058df0>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x10c/0x130
	 [<ffffffff810b3c84>] sys_read+0x45/0x6c
	 [<ffffffff8100ae2b>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

The object state might also be OBJECT_DYING or OBJECT_WITHDRAWING.

This should be handled by simply rejecting the new operation with ENOBUFS.
There's no need to log an error for it.  Events of this type now appear in the
stats file under Ops:rej.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2009-11-19 18:11:32 +00:00
David Howells 1bccf513ac FS-Cache: Fix lock misorder in fscache_write_op()
FS-Cache has two structs internally for keeping track of the internal state of
a cached file: the fscache_cookie struct, which represents the netfs's state,
and fscache_object struct, which represents the cache's state.  Each has a
pointer that points to the other (when both are in existence), and each has a
spinlock for pointer maintenance.

Since netfs operations approach these structures from the cookie side, they get
the cookie lock first, then the object lock.  Cache operations, on the other
hand, approach from the object side, and get the object lock first.  It is not
then permitted for a cache operation to get the cookie lock whilst it is
holding the object lock lest deadlock occur; instead, it must do one of two
things:

 (1) increment the cookie usage counter, drop the object lock and then get both
     locks in order, or

 (2) simply hold the object lock as certain parts of the cookie may not be
     altered whilst the object lock is held.

It is also not permitted to follow either pointer without holding the lock at
the end you start with.  To break the pointers between the cookie and the
object, both locks must be held.

fscache_write_op(), however, violates the locking rules: It attempts to get the
cookie lock without (a) checking that the cookie pointer is a valid pointer,
and (b) holding the object lock to protect the cookie pointer whilst it follows
it.  This is so that it can access the pending page store tree without
interference from __fscache_write_page().

This is fixed by splitting the cookie lock, such that the page store tracking
tree is protected by its own lock, and checking that the cookie pointer is
non-NULL before we attempt to follow it whilst holding the object lock.

The new lock is subordinate to both the cookie lock and the object lock, and so
should be taken after those.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2009-11-19 18:11:25 +00:00
David Howells 5753c44188 FS-Cache: Permit cache retrieval ops to be interrupted in the initial wait phase
Permit the operations to retrieve data from the cache or to allocate space in
the cache for future writes to be interrupted whilst they're waiting for
permission for the operation to proceed.  Typically this wait occurs whilst the
cache object is being looked up on disk in the background.

If an interruption occurs, and the operation has not yet been given the
go-ahead to run, the operation is dequeued and cancelled, and control returns
to the read operation of the netfs routine with none of the requested pages
having been read or in any way marked as known by the cache.

This means that the initial wait is done interruptibly rather than
uninterruptibly.

In addition, extra stats values are made available to show the number of ops
cancelled and the number of cache space allocations interrupted.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2009-11-19 18:11:19 +00:00
David Howells 52bd75fdb1 FS-Cache: Add counters for entry/exit to/from cache operation functions
Count entries to and exits from cache operation table functions.  Maintain
these as a single counter that's added to or removed from as appropriate.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2009-11-19 18:11:08 +00:00
David Howells 4fbf4291aa FS-Cache: Allow the current state of all objects to be dumped
Allow the current state of all fscache objects to be dumped by doing:

	cat /proc/fs/fscache/objects

By default, all objects and all fields will be shown.  This can be restricted
by adding a suitable key to one of the caller's keyrings (such as the session
keyring):

	keyctl add user fscache:objlist "<restrictions>" @s

The <restrictions> are:

	K	Show hexdump of object key (don't show if not given)
	A	Show hexdump of object aux data (don't show if not given)

And paired restrictions:

	C	Show objects that have a cookie
	c	Show objects that don't have a cookie
	B	Show objects that are busy
	b	Show objects that aren't busy
	W	Show objects that have pending writes
	w	Show objects that don't have pending writes
	R	Show objects that have outstanding reads
	r	Show objects that don't have outstanding reads
	S	Show objects that have slow work queued
	s	Show objects that don't have slow work queued

If neither side of a restriction pair is given, then both are implied.  For
example:

	keyctl add user fscache:objlist KB @s

shows objects that are busy, and lists their object keys, but does not dump
their auxiliary data.  It also implies "CcWwRrSs", but as 'B' is given, 'b' is
not implied.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2009-11-19 18:11:04 +00:00
Sunil Mushran 7ab8f5244d ocfs2: Refresh documentation
Signed-off-by: Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
2009-11-13 15:45:01 -08:00
J. Bruce Fields ea4878a24d nfs: move more to Documentation/filesystems/nfs
Oops: I missed two files in the first commit that created this
directory.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2009-11-06 14:01:02 -05:00
Linus Torvalds d4da6c9ccf Revert "ext4: Remove journal_checksum mount option and enable it by default"
This reverts commit d0646f7b63, as
requested by Eric Sandeen.

It can basically cause an ext4 filesystem to miss recovery (and thus get
mounted with errors) if the journal checksum does not match.

Quoth Eric:

   "My hand-wavy hunch about what is happening is that we're finding a
    bad checksum on the last partially-written transaction, which is
    not surprising, but if we have a wrapped log and we're doing the
    initial scan for head/tail, and we abort scanning on that bad
    checksum, then we are essentially running an unrecovered filesystem.

    But that's hand-wavy and I need to go look at the code.

    We lived without journal checksums on by default until now, and at
    this point they're doing more harm than good, so we should revert
    the default-changing commit until we can fix it and do some good
    power-fail testing with the fixes in place."

See

	http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14354

for all the gory details.

Requested-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Alexey Fisher <bug-track@fisher-privat.net>
Cc: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mathias Burén <mathias.buren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-11-02 10:15:27 -08:00
J. Bruce Fields dc7a08166f nfs: new subdir Documentation/filesystems/nfs
We're adding enough nfs documentation that it may as well have its own
subdirectory.

Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2009-10-27 19:34:04 -04:00
J. Bruce Fields e343eb0d60 Merge commit 'v2.6.32-rc5' into for-2.6.33 2009-10-27 18:45:17 -04:00
Ryota Ozaki ce0e7b28fb sched, cpuacct: Fix niced guest time accounting
CPU time of a guest is always accounted in 'user' time
without concern for the nice value of its counterpart
process although the guest is scheduled under the nice
value.

This patch fixes the defect and accounts cpu time of
a niced guest in 'nice' time as same as a niced process.

And also the patch adds 'guest_nice' to cpuacct. The
value provides niced guest cpu time which is like 'nice'
to 'user'.

The original discussions can be found here:

  http://www.mail-archive.com/kvm@vger.kernel.org/msg23982.html
  http://www.mail-archive.com/kvm@vger.kernel.org/msg23860.html

Signed-off-by: Ryota Ozaki <ozaki.ryota@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1256314810-7897-1-git-send-email-ozaki.ryota@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-25 17:31:30 +01:00
Jan Kara 6dbce52182 ext3: Update documentation about ext3 quota mount options
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2009-10-13 00:06:43 +02:00
Sage Weil 7ad920b504 ceph: documentation
Mount options, syntax.

Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
2009-10-06 11:31:05 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 9f44fdc518 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: Fix time encoding with extra epoch bits
  ext4: Add a stub for mpage_da_data in the trace header
  jbd2: Use tracepoints for history file
  ext4: Use tracepoints for mb_history trace file
  ext4, jbd2: Drop unneeded printks at mount and unmount time
  ext4: Handle nested ext4_journal_start/stop calls without a journal
  ext4: Make sure ext4_dirty_inode() updates the inode in no journal mode
  ext4: Avoid updating the inode table bh twice in no journal mode
  ext4: EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT: Check for different original and donor inodes first
  ext4: async direct IO for holes and fallocate support
  ext4: Use end_io callback to avoid direct I/O fallback to buffered I/O
  ext4: Split uninitialized extents for direct I/O
  ext4: release reserved quota when block reservation for delalloc retry
  ext4: Adjust ext4_da_writepages() to write out larger contiguous chunks
  ext4: Fix hueristic which avoids group preallocation for closed files
  ext4: Use ext4_msg() for ext4_da_writepage() errors
  ext4: Update documentation about quota mount options
2009-09-30 09:32:30 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 4c8f1cb266 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hirofumi/fatfs-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hirofumi/fatfs-2.6:
  fat: Check s_dirt in fat_sync_fs()
  vfat: change the default from shortname=lower to shortname=mixed
  fat/nls: Fix handling of utf8 invalid char
2009-09-30 09:31:14 -07:00
Theodore Ts'o 296c355cd6 ext4: Use tracepoints for mb_history trace file
The /proc/fs/ext4/<dev>/mb_history was maintained manually, and had a
number of problems: it required a largish amount of memory to be
allocated for each ext4 filesystem, and the s_mb_history_lock
introduced a CPU contention problem.  

By ripping out the mb_history code and replacing it with ftrace
tracepoints, and we get more functionality: timestamps, event
filtering, the ability to correlate mballoc history with other ext4
tracepoints, etc.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-09-30 00:32:42 -04:00
Andy Adamson ddc04fd4d5 nfsd41: use sv_max_mesg for forechannel max sizes
ca_maxresponsesize and ca_maxrequest size include the RPC header.

sv_max_mesg is sv_max_payolad plus a page for overhead and is used in
svc_init_buffer to allocate server buffer space for both the request and reply.
Note that this means we can service an RPC compound that requires
ca_maxrequestsize (MAXWRITE) or ca_max_responsesize (MAXREAD) but that we do
not support an RPC compound that requires both ca_maxrequestsize and
ca_maxresponsesize.

Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
[bfields@citi.umich.edu: more documentation updates]
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2009-09-28 12:40:15 -04:00
J. Bruce Fields 03d6a74b5f nfsd: fix Documentation typo
Caught by Benny, thanks!

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2009-09-28 12:07:52 -04:00
Jan Kara 8365388827 ext4: Update documentation about quota mount options
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-09-29 15:59:34 -04:00
Linus Torvalds db16826367 Merge branch 'hwpoison' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6
* 'hwpoison' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6: (21 commits)
  HWPOISON: Enable error_remove_page on btrfs
  HWPOISON: Add simple debugfs interface to inject hwpoison on arbitary PFNs
  HWPOISON: Add madvise() based injector for hardware poisoned pages v4
  HWPOISON: Enable error_remove_page for NFS
  HWPOISON: Enable .remove_error_page for migration aware file systems
  HWPOISON: The high level memory error handler in the VM v7
  HWPOISON: Add PR_MCE_KILL prctl to control early kill behaviour per process
  HWPOISON: shmem: call set_page_dirty() with locked page
  HWPOISON: Define a new error_remove_page address space op for async truncation
  HWPOISON: Add invalidate_inode_page
  HWPOISON: Refactor truncate to allow direct truncating of page v2
  HWPOISON: check and isolate corrupted free pages v2
  HWPOISON: Handle hardware poisoned pages in try_to_unmap
  HWPOISON: Use bitmask/action code for try_to_unmap behaviour
  HWPOISON: x86: Add VM_FAULT_HWPOISON handling to x86 page fault handler v2
  HWPOISON: Add poison check to page fault handling
  HWPOISON: Add basic support for poisoned pages in fault handler v3
  HWPOISON: Add new SIGBUS error codes for hardware poison signals
  HWPOISON: Add support for poison swap entries v2
  HWPOISON: Export some rmap vma locking to outside world
  ...
2009-09-24 07:53:22 -07:00
Peng Tao 16c01b20ae doc/filesystems: more mount cleanups
Documentation/filesystems/sharedsubtree.txt needs updating because the
mount command in util-linux package is well aware of shared subtree
features now.  The patch also fixes two typos in sharedsubtree.txt.

Signed-off-by: Peng Tao <bergwolf@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24 07:20:57 -07:00
Randy Dunlap 0288b95b43 doc/filesystems: remove smount program
mount(8) handles shared subtrees just fine, so remove the smount program
from Documentation/filesystems/sharedsubtree.txt.

Fix annoying "Lets" -> "Let's".
Insert space between '#' prompt and "mount" command.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24 07:20:57 -07:00
Abhishek Kulkarni f4edeeb393 9p: Update documentation to add fscache related bits
Update the documentation to describe FS-Cache related
caching parameters. This patch also updates the pointers
to 9p-related papers and adds pointer to the Wiki.

Signed-off-by: Abhishek Kulkarni <adkulkar@umail.iu.edu>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2009-09-23 13:03:46 -05:00
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz 1b83df308f ncpfs: remove dead URL from documentation
Noticed-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Petr Vandrovec <vandrove@vc.cvut.cz>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-23 07:39:42 -07:00
Stefani Seibold d899bf7b55 procfs: provide stack information for threads
A patch to give a better overview of the userland application stack usage,
especially for embedded linux.

Currently you are only able to dump the main process/thread stack usage
which is showed in /proc/pid/status by the "VmStk" Value.  But you get no
information about the consumed stack memory of the the threads.

There is an enhancement in the /proc/<pid>/{task/*,}/*maps and which marks
the vm mapping where the thread stack pointer reside with "[thread stack
xxxxxxxx]".  xxxxxxxx is the maximum size of stack.  This is a value
information, because libpthread doesn't set the start of the stack to the
top of the mapped area, depending of the pthread usage.

A sample output of /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/maps looks like:

08048000-08049000 r-xp 00000000 03:00 8312       /opt/z
08049000-0804a000 rw-p 00001000 03:00 8312       /opt/z
0804a000-0806b000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0          [heap]
a7d12000-a7d13000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0
a7d13000-a7f13000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0          [thread stack: 001ff4b4]
a7f13000-a7f14000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0
a7f14000-a7f36000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
a7f36000-a8069000 r-xp 00000000 03:00 4222       /lib/libc.so.6
a8069000-a806b000 r--p 00133000 03:00 4222       /lib/libc.so.6
a806b000-a806c000 rw-p 00135000 03:00 4222       /lib/libc.so.6
a806c000-a806f000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
a806f000-a8083000 r-xp 00000000 03:00 14462      /lib/libpthread.so.0
a8083000-a8084000 r--p 00013000 03:00 14462      /lib/libpthread.so.0
a8084000-a8085000 rw-p 00014000 03:00 14462      /lib/libpthread.so.0
a8085000-a8088000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
a8088000-a80a4000 r-xp 00000000 03:00 8317       /lib/ld-linux.so.2
a80a4000-a80a5000 r--p 0001b000 03:00 8317       /lib/ld-linux.so.2
a80a5000-a80a6000 rw-p 0001c000 03:00 8317       /lib/ld-linux.so.2
afaf5000-afb0a000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0          [stack]
ffffe000-fffff000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0          [vdso]

Also there is a new entry "stack usage" in /proc/<pid>/{task/*,}/status
which will you give the current stack usage in kb.

A sample output of /proc/self/status looks like:

Name:	cat
State:	R (running)
Tgid:	507
Pid:	507
.
.
.
CapBnd:	fffffffffffffeff
voluntary_ctxt_switches:	0
nonvoluntary_ctxt_switches:	0
Stack usage:	12 kB

I also fixed stack base address in /proc/<pid>/{task/*,}/stat to the base
address of the associated thread stack and not the one of the main
process.  This makes more sense.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fs/proc/array.c now needs walk_page_range()]
Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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>
2009-09-23 07:39:41 -07:00
Linus Torvalds a87e84b5cd Merge branch 'for-2.6.32' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux
* 'for-2.6.32' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux: (68 commits)
  nfsd4: nfsv4 clients should cross mountpoints
  nfsd: revise 4.1 status documentation
  sunrpc/cache: avoid variable over-loading in cache_defer_req
  sunrpc/cache: use list_del_init for the list_head entries in cache_deferred_req
  nfsd: return success for non-NFS4 nfs4_state_start
  nfsd41: Refactor create_client()
  nfsd41: modify nfsd4.1 backchannel to use new xprt class
  nfsd41: Backchannel: Implement cb_recall over NFSv4.1
  nfsd41: Backchannel: cb_sequence callback
  nfsd41: Backchannel: Setup sequence information
  nfsd41: Backchannel: Server backchannel RPC wait queue
  nfsd41: Backchannel: Add sequence arguments to callback RPC arguments
  nfsd41: Backchannel: callback infrastructure
  nfsd4: use common rpc_cred for all callbacks
  nfsd4: allow nfs4 state startup to fail
  SUNRPC: Defer the auth_gss upcall when the RPC call is asynchronous
  nfsd4: fix null dereference creating nfsv4 callback client
  nfsd4: fix whitespace in NFSPROC4_CLNT_CB_NULL definition
  nfsd41: sunrpc: add new xprt class for nfsv4.1 backchannel
  sunrpc/cache: simplify cache_fresh_locked and cache_fresh_unlocked.
  ...
2009-09-22 07:54:33 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 342ff1a1b5 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (34 commits)
  trivial: fix typo in aic7xxx comment
  trivial: fix comment typo in drivers/ata/pata_hpt37x.c
  trivial: typo in kernel-parameters.txt
  trivial: fix typo in tracing documentation
  trivial: add __init/__exit macros in drivers/gpio/bt8xxgpio.c
  trivial: add __init macro/ fix of __exit macro location in ipmi_poweroff.c
  trivial: remove unnecessary semicolons
  trivial: Fix duplicated word "options" in comment
  trivial: kbuild: remove extraneous blank line after declaration of usage()
  trivial: improve help text for mm debug config options
  trivial: doc: hpfall: accept disk device to unload as argument
  trivial: doc: hpfall: reduce risk that hpfall can do harm
  trivial: SubmittingPatches: Fix reference to renumbered step
  trivial: fix typos "man[ae]g?ment" -> "management"
  trivial: media/video/cx88: add __init/__exit macros to cx88 drivers
  trivial: fix typo in CONFIG_DEBUG_FS in gcov doc
  trivial: fix missing printk space in amd_k7_smp_check
  trivial: fix typo s/ketymap/keymap/ in comment
  trivial: fix typo "to to" in multiple files
  trivial: fix typos in comments s/DGBU/DBGU/
  ...
2009-09-22 07:51:45 -07:00
KOSAKI Motohiro 495789a51a oom: make oom_score to per-process value
oom-killer kills a process, not task.  Then oom_score should be calculated
as per-process too.  it makes consistency more and makes speed up
select_bad_process().

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:39 -07:00
Moussa A. Ba 398499d5f3 pagemap clear_refs: modify to specify anon or mapped vma clearing
The patch makes the clear_refs more versatile in adding the option to
select anonymous pages or file backed pages for clearing.  This addition
has a measurable impact on user space application performance as it
decreases the number of pagewalks in scenarios where one is only
interested in a specific type of page (anonymous or file mapped).

The patch adds anonymous and file backed filters to the clear_refs interface.

echo 1 > /proc/PID/clear_refs resets the bits on all pages
echo 2 > /proc/PID/clear_refs resets the bits on anonymous pages only
echo 3 > /proc/PID/clear_refs resets the bits on file backed pages only

Any other value is ignored

Signed-off-by: Moussa A. Ba <moussa.a.ba@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jared E. Hulbert <jaredeh@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:33 -07:00
Eric Dumazet c574358e8b proc: document `guest' column in /proc/stat
We added a new column in cpuX lines of /proc/stat, to show the amount of
time spent by a cpu servicing a guest, without updating
Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:24 -07:00
J. Bruce Fields 285a0f00c2 nfsd: revise 4.1 status documentation
Some small updates, a caveat about the minorversion control interface,
and an attempt to put missing features in context.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2009-09-21 11:13:45 -04:00
Anand Gadiyar 411c940385 trivial: fix typo "for for" in multiple files
trivial: fix typo "for for" in multiple files

Signed-off-by: Anand Gadiyar <gadiyar@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-09-21 15:14:54 +02:00
Jan Kara 1358870dea ext4: Update documentation about quota mount options
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-09-18 12:22:29 -04:00
Andi Kleen 2571873621 HWPOISON: Define a new error_remove_page address space op for async truncation
Truncating metadata pages is not safe right now before
we haven't audited all file systems.

To enable truncation only for data address space define
a new address_space callback error_remove_page.

This is used for memory_failure.c memory error handling.

This can be then set to truncate_inode_page()

This patch just defines the new operation and adds documentation.

Callers and users come in followon patches.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
2009-09-16 11:50:13 +02:00
Linus Torvalds a9bbd210a4 Merge branch 'docs-next' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6
* 'docs-next' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6:
  Document the flex_array library.
  Doc: seq_file.txt fix wrong dd command example.
2009-09-14 17:52:32 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 33f1de6931 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-2.6-nmw
* 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-2.6-nmw:
  GFS2: Whitespace fixes
  GFS2: Remove unused sysfs file
  GFS2: Be extra careful about deallocating inodes
  GFS2: Remove no_formal_ino generating code
  GFS2: Rename eattr.[ch] as xattr.[ch]
  GFS2: Clean up of extended attribute support
  GFS2: Add explanation of extended attr on-disk format
  GFS2: Add "-o errors=panic|withdraw" mount options
  GFS2: jumping to wrong label?
  GFS2: free disk inode which is deleted by remote node -V2
  GFS2: Add a document explaining GFS2's uevents
  GFS2: Add sysfs link to device
  GFS2: Replace assertion with proper error handling
  GFS2: Improve error handling in inode allocation
  GFS2: Add some more info to uevents
  GFS2: Add online uevent to GFS2
2009-09-14 14:35:56 -07:00
Trond Myklebust ab3bbaa8b2 Merge branch 'nfs-for-2.6.32' 2009-09-11 14:59:37 -04:00
Jesper Dangaard Brouer e8188807b7 Doc: seq_file.txt fix wrong dd command example.
Small error in the "dd" command example, "out=" should be "of=".

Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@comx.dk>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2009-09-10 14:33:35 -06:00
Theodore Ts'o d0646f7b63 ext4: Remove journal_checksum mount option and enable it by default
There's no real cost for the journal checksum feature, and we should
make sure it is enabled all the time.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-09-05 12:50:43 -04:00
Linus Torvalds cf481442f2 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ericvh/v9fs
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ericvh/v9fs:
  9p: update documentation pointers
  9p: remove unnecessary v9fses->options which duplicates the mount string
  net/9p: insulate the client against an invalid error code sent by a 9p server
  9p: Add missing cast for the error return value in v9fs_get_inode
  9p: Remove redundant inode uid/gid assignment
  9p: Fix possible regressions when ->get_sb fails.
  9p: Fix v9fs show_options
  9p: Fix possible memleak in v9fs_inode_from fid.
  9p: minor comment fixes
  9p: Fix possible inode leak in v9fs_get_inode.
  9p: Check for error in return value of v9fs_fid_add
2009-08-27 12:24:08 -07:00
Trond Myklebust e571cbf1a4 NFS: Add a dns resolver for use with NFSv4 referrals and migration
The NFSv4 and NFSv4.1 protocols both allow for the redirection of a client
from one server to another in order to support filesystem migration and
replication. For full protocol support, we need to add the ability to
convert a DNS host name into an IP address that we can feed to the RPC
client.

We'll reuse the sunrpc cache, now that it has been converted to work with
rpc_pipefs.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-08-19 18:22:15 -04:00
Anton Blanchard 0dc9aa845c AFS: Documentation updates
Fix some issues with the AFS documentation, found when testing AFS on ppc64:

- Update AFS features: reading/writing, local caching
- Typo in kafs sysfs debug file
- Use modprobe instead of insmod in example
- Update IPs for grand.central.org

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-08-19 10:40:13 -07:00
KOSAKI Motohiro 0753ba01e1 mm: revert "oom: move oom_adj value"
The commit 2ff05b2b (oom: move oom_adj value) moveed the oom_adj value to
the mm_struct.  It was a very good first step for sanitize OOM.

However Paul Menage reported the commit makes regression to his job
scheduler.  Current OOM logic can kill OOM_DISABLED process.

Why? His program has the code of similar to the following.

	...
	set_oom_adj(OOM_DISABLE); /* The job scheduler never killed by oom */
	...
	if (vfork() == 0) {
		set_oom_adj(0); /* Invoked child can be killed */
		execve("foo-bar-cmd");
	}
	....

vfork() parent and child are shared the same mm_struct.  then above
set_oom_adj(0) doesn't only change oom_adj for vfork() child, it's also
change oom_adj for vfork() parent.  Then, vfork() parent (job scheduler)
lost OOM immune and it was killed.

Actually, fork-setting-exec idiom is very frequently used in userland program.
We must not break this assumption.

Then, this patch revert commit 2ff05b2b and related commit.

Reverted commit list
---------------------
- commit 2ff05b2b4e (oom: move oom_adj value from task_struct to mm_struct)
- commit 4d8b9135c3 (oom: avoid unnecessary mm locking and scanning for OOM_DISABLE)
- commit 8123681022 (oom: only oom kill exiting tasks with attached memory)
- commit 933b787b57 (mm: copy over oom_adj value at fork time)

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-08-18 16:31:13 -07:00
Eric Van Hensbergen 7815f4be40 9p: update documentation pointers
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2009-08-17 16:49:44 -05:00
Steven Whitehouse 0aa8744584 GFS2: Add a document explaining GFS2's uevents
This will be essential reading for anybody who wants to
understand how GFS2 interacts with the userland gfs_controld,
and the details of recovery.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
2009-08-17 11:11:41 +01:00
Paul Wise 955234755c vfat: change the default from shortname=lower to shortname=mixed
Because, with "shortname=lower", copying one FAT filesystem tree to
another FAT filesystem tree using Linux results in semantically
different filesystems. (E.g.: Filenames which were once "all
uppercase" are now "all lowercase").

So, this changes the default of "shortname=lower" to "shortname=mixed".

Signed-off-by: Paul Wise <pabs3@bonedaddy.net>
[change fat_show_options()]
Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
2009-08-01 21:35:25 +09:00
Lucian Adrian Grijincu a39ea210ec driver core: documentation: make it clear that sysfs is optional
The original text suggested that sysfs is mandatory and always
compiled in the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Lucian Adrian Grijincu <lgrijincu@ixiacom.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-07-28 13:45:23 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig 7e325d3a6b update Documentation/filesystems/Locking
The rules for locking in many superblock operations has changed
significantly, so update the documentation for it.  Also correct some
older updates and ommissions.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-06-24 08:15:25 -04:00
Linus Torvalds 7e0338c0de Merge branch 'for-2.6.31' of git://fieldses.org/git/linux-nfsd
* 'for-2.6.31' of git://fieldses.org/git/linux-nfsd: (60 commits)
  SUNRPC: Fix the TCP server's send buffer accounting
  nfsd41: Backchannel: minorversion support for the back channel
  nfsd41: Backchannel: cleanup nfs4.0 callback encode routines
  nfsd41: Remove ip address collision detection case
  nfsd: optimise the starting of zero threads when none are running.
  nfsd: don't take nfsd_mutex twice when setting number of threads.
  nfsd41: sanity check client drc maxreqs
  nfsd41: move channel attributes from nfsd4_session to a nfsd4_channel_attr struct
  NFS: kill off complicated macro 'PROC'
  sunrpc: potential memory leak in function rdma_read_xdr
  nfsd: minor nfsd_vfs_write cleanup
  nfsd: Pull write-gathering code out of nfsd_vfs_write
  nfsd: track last inode only in use_wgather case
  sunrpc: align cache_clean work's timer
  nfsd: Use write gathering only with NFSv2
  NFSv4: kill off complicated macro 'PROC'
  NFSv4: do exact check about attribute specified
  knfsd: remove unreported filehandle stats counters
  knfsd: fix reply cache memory corruption
  knfsd: reply cache cleanups
  ...
2009-06-22 12:55:50 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 0732f87761 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:
  jbd2: clean up jbd2_journal_try_to_free_buffers()
  ext4: Don't update ctime for non-extent-mapped inodes
  ext4: Fix up whitespace issues in fs/ext4/inode.c
  ext4: Fix 64-bit block type problem on 32-bit platforms
  ext4: teach the inode allocator to use a goal inode number
  ext4: Use a hash of the topdir directory name for the Orlov parent group
  ext4: document the "abort" mount option
  ext4: move the abort flag from s_mount_opts to s_mount_flags
  ext4: update the s_last_mounted field in the superblock
  ext4: change s_mount_opt to be an unsigned int
  ext4: online defrag -- Add EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT ioctl
  ext4: avoid unnecessary spinlock in critical POSIX ACL path
  ext3: avoid unnecessary spinlock in critical POSIX ACL path
  ext4: convert instrumentation from markers to tracepoints
  jbd2: convert instrumentation from markers to tracepoints
2009-06-18 14:07:46 -07:00
Jan Kara 52b680c812 isofs: let mode and dmode mount options override rock ridge mode setting
So far, permissions set via 'mode' and/or 'dmode' mount options were
effective only if the medium had no rock ridge extensions (or was mounted
without them).  Add 'overriderockmode' mount option to indicate that these
options should override permissions set in rock ridge extensions.  Maybe
this should be default but the current behavior is there since mount
options were created so I think we should not change how they behave.

Cc: <Hans-Joachim.Baader@cjt.de>
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>
2009-06-18 13:03:45 -07:00
Michael Shields ce05b2a9db Doc fix: ext2 can only have 32,000 subdirs, not 32,768
ext2.txt says that dirs can have 32,768 subdirs, but the actual value of
EXT2_LINK_MAX is 32000.

ext3 is the same, but the doc does not mention it.  One of ext4's features
is to "fix 32000 subdirectory limit".

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-18 13:03:44 -07:00
Stefani Seibold 349888ee7b proc.txt: update kernel filesystem/proc.txt documentation
An update for the "Process-Specific Subdirectories" section to reflect the
changes till kernel 2.6.30.

Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
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>
2009-06-18 13:03:41 -07:00
Keika Kobayashi d3d64df21d proc: export statistics for softirq to /proc
Export statistics for softirq in /proc/softirqs and /proc/stat.

1. /proc/softirqs
Implement /proc/softirqs which shows the number of softirq
for each CPU like /proc/interrupts.

2. /proc/stat
Add the "softirq" line to /proc/stat.
This line shows the number of softirq for all cpu.
The first column is the total of all softirqs and
each subsequent column is the total for particular softirq.

[kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: remove redundant for_each_possible_cpu() loop]
Signed-off-by: Keika Kobayashi <kobayashi.kk@ncos.nec.co.jp>
Reviewed-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@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>
2009-06-18 13:03:41 -07:00
Linus Torvalds feb72ce827 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6:
  get rid of BKL in fs/sysv
  get rid of BKL in fs/minix
  get rid of BKL in fs/efs
  befs ->pust_super() doesn't need BKL
  Cleanup of adfs headers
  9P doesn't need BKL in ->umount_begin()
  fuse doesn't need BKL in ->umount_begin()
  No instance of ->bmap() needs BKL
  remove unlock_kernel() left accidentally
  ext4: avoid unnecessary spinlock in critical POSIX ACL path
  ext3: avoid unnecessary spinlock in critical POSIX ACL path
2009-06-17 08:46:57 -07:00
Al Viro fe36adf47e No instance of ->bmap() needs BKL
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-06-17 00:36:35 -04:00
Linus Torvalds 517d08699b Merge branch 'akpm'
* akpm: (182 commits)
  fbdev: bf54x-lq043fb: use kzalloc over kmalloc/memset
  fbdev: *bfin*: fix __dev{init,exit} markings
  fbdev: *bfin*: drop unnecessary calls to memset
  fbdev: bfin-t350mcqb-fb: drop unused local variables
  fbdev: blackfin has __raw I/O accessors, so use them in fb.h
  fbdev: s1d13xxxfb: add accelerated bitblt functions
  tcx: use standard fields for framebuffer physical address and length
  fbdev: add support for handoff from firmware to hw framebuffers
  intelfb: fix a bug when changing video timing
  fbdev: use framebuffer_release() for freeing fb_info structures
  radeon: P2G2CLK_ALWAYS_ONb tested twice, should 2nd be P2G2CLK_DAC_ALWAYS_ONb?
  s3c-fb: CPUFREQ frequency scaling support
  s3c-fb: fix resource releasing on error during probing
  carminefb: fix possible access beyond end of carmine_modedb[]
  acornfb: remove fb_mmap function
  mb862xxfb: use CONFIG_OF instead of CONFIG_PPC_OF
  mb862xxfb: restrict compliation of platform driver to PPC
  Samsung SoC Framebuffer driver: add Alpha Channel support
  atmel-lcdc: fix pixclock upper bound detection
  offb: use framebuffer_alloc() to allocate fb_info struct
  ...

Manually fix up conflicts due to kmemcheck in mm/slab.c
2009-06-16 19:50:13 -07:00
David Rientjes 2ff05b2b4e oom: move oom_adj value from task_struct to mm_struct
The per-task oom_adj value is a characteristic of its mm more than the
task itself since it's not possible to oom kill any thread that shares the
mm.  If a task were to be killed while attached to an mm that could not be
freed because another thread were set to OOM_DISABLE, it would have
needlessly been terminated since there is no potential for future memory
freeing.

This patch moves oomkilladj (now more appropriately named oom_adj) from
struct task_struct to struct mm_struct.  This requires task_lock() on a
task to check its oom_adj value to protect against exec, but it's already
necessary to take the lock when dereferencing the mm to find the total VM
size for the badness heuristic.

This fixes a livelock if the oom killer chooses a task and another thread
sharing the same memory has an oom_adj value of OOM_DISABLE.  This occurs
because oom_kill_task() repeatedly returns 1 and refuses to kill the
chosen task while select_bad_process() will repeatedly choose the same
task during the next retry.

Taking task_lock() in select_bad_process() to check for OOM_DISABLE and in
oom_kill_task() to check for threads sharing the same memory will be
removed in the next patch in this series where it will no longer be
necessary.

Writing to /proc/pid/oom_adj for a kthread will now return -EINVAL since
these threads are immune from oom killing already.  They simply report an
oom_adj value of OOM_DISABLE.

Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-16 19:47:43 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 23059a0df5 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hirofumi/fatfs-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hirofumi/fatfs-2.6:
  fat: split fat_generic_ioctl
  FAT: add 'errors' mount option
2009-06-16 11:29:44 -07:00
J. Bruce Fields 7eef4091a6 Merge commit 'v2.6.30' into for-2.6.31 2009-06-15 18:08:07 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 9c7cb99a82 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ryusuke/nilfs2
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ryusuke/nilfs2: (22 commits)
  nilfs2: support contiguous lookup of blocks
  nilfs2: add sync_page method to page caches of meta data
  nilfs2: use device's backing_dev_info for btree node caches
  nilfs2: return EBUSY against delete request on snapshot
  nilfs2: modify list of unsupported features in caveats
  nilfs2: enable sync_page method
  nilfs2: set bio unplug flag for the last bio in segment
  nilfs2: allow future expansion of metadata read out via get info ioctl
  NILFS2: Pagecache usage optimization on NILFS2
  nilfs2: remove nilfs_btree_operations from btree mapping
  nilfs2: remove nilfs_direct_operations from direct mapping
  nilfs2: remove bmap pointer operations
  nilfs2: remove useless b_low and b_high fields from nilfs_bmap struct
  nilfs2: remove pointless NULL check of bpop_commit_alloc_ptr function
  nilfs2: move get block functions in bmap.c into btree codes
  nilfs2: remove nilfs_bmap_delete_block
  nilfs2: remove nilfs_bmap_put_block
  nilfs2: remove header file for segment list operations
  nilfs2: eliminate removal list of segments
  nilfs2: add sufile function that can modify multiple segment usages
  ...
2009-06-15 09:13:49 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 489f7ab6c1 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (31 commits)
  trivial: remove the trivial patch monkey's name from SubmittingPatches
  trivial: Fix a typo in comment of addrconf_dad_start()
  trivial: usb: fix missing space typo in doc
  trivial: pci hotplug: adding __init/__exit macros to sgi_hotplug
  trivial: Remove the hyphen from git commands
  trivial: fix ETIMEOUT -> ETIMEDOUT typos
  trivial: Kconfig: .ko is normally not included in module names
  trivial: SubmittingPatches: fix typo
  trivial: Documentation/dell_rbu.txt: fix typos
  trivial: Fix Pavel's address in MAINTAINERS
  trivial: ftrace:fix description of trace directory
  trivial: unnecessary (void*) cast removal in sound/oss/msnd.c
  trivial: input/misc: Fix typo in Kconfig
  trivial: fix grammo in bus_for_each_dev() kerneldoc
  trivial: rbtree.txt: fix rb_entry() parameters in sample code
  trivial: spelling fix in ppc code comments
  trivial: fix typo in bio_alloc kernel doc
  trivial: Documentation/rbtree.txt: cleanup kerneldoc of rbtree.txt
  trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixes
  trivial: fix typo milisecond/millisecond for documentation and source comments.
  ...
2009-06-14 13:46:25 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 1904187a69 Merge branch 'docs-next' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6
* 'docs-next' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6:
  Document the debugfs API
  Documentation: Add "how to write a good patch summary" to SubmittingPatches
  SubmittingPatches: fix typo
  docs: Encourage better changelogs in the development process document
  Document Reported-by in SubmittingPatches
2009-06-13 13:08:34 -07:00
Theodore Ts'o 8a8a2050c8 ext4: document the "abort" mount option
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-06-13 10:08:59 -04:00
Matt LaPlante 19f5946001 trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixes
Fix various typos in documentation txts.

Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-06-12 18:01:47 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 0a33f80a83 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: (25 commits)
  GFS2: Merge gfs2_get_sb into gfs2_get_sb_meta
  GFS2: Fix cache coherency between truncate and O_DIRECT read
  GFS2: Fix locking issue mounting gfs2meta fs
  GFS2: Remove unused variable
  GFS2: smbd proccess hangs with flock() call.
  GFS2: Remove args subdir from gfs2 sysfs files
  GFS2: Remove lockstruct subdir from gfs2 sysfs files
  GFS2: Move gfs2_unlink_ok into ops_inode.c
  GFS2: Move gfs2_readlinki into ops_inode.c
  GFS2: Move gfs2_rmdiri into ops_inode.c
  GFS2: Merge mount.c and ops_super.c into super.c
  GFS2: Clean up some file names
  GFS2: Be more aggressive in reclaiming unlinked inodes
  GFS2: Add a rgrp bitmap full flag
  GFS2: Improve resource group error handling
  GFS2: Don't warn when delete inode fails on ro filesystem
  GFS2: Update docs
  GFS2: Umount recovery race fix
  GFS2: Remove a couple of unused sysfs entries
  GFS2: Add commit= mount option
  ...
2009-06-11 10:36:12 -07:00
Ryusuke Konishi fb6e7113ae nilfs2: modify list of unsupported features in caveats
This clarifies missing features of nilfs as a regular filesystem.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
2009-06-10 23:41:11 +09:00
Jonathan Corbet f89d7eaf6c Document the debugfs API
This is an updated document covering the internal API for the debugfs
filesystem.  Thanks to Shen Feng for suggesting that I put this text here
and noting that the old LWN version was rather out of date.

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Reported-by: Shen Feng <shen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2009-06-06 10:28:14 -06:00
Denis Karpov 85c7859190 FAT: add 'errors' mount option
On severe errors FAT remounts itself in read-only mode. Allow to
specify FAT fs desired behavior through 'errors' mount option:
panic, continue or remount read-only.

`mount -t [fat|vfat] -o errors=[panic,remount-ro,continue] \
	<bdev> <mount point>`

This is analog to ext2 fs 'errors' mount option.

Signed-off-by: Denis Karpov <ext-denis.2.karpov@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
2009-06-04 02:34:51 +09:00
Hugh Dickins 98f32602d4 hugh: update email address
My old address will shut down in a few days time: remove it from the tree,
and add a tmpfs (shmem filesystem) maintainer entry with the new address.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-05-21 13:14:32 -07:00
Steven Whitehouse e9ccb73ab5 GFS2: Update docs
Update a few things which were out of date, and fix a typo.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2009-05-19 10:23:23 +01:00
Nick Piggin b827e496c8 mm: close page_mkwrite races
Change page_mkwrite to allow implementations to return with the page
locked, and also change it's callers (in page fault paths) to hold the
lock until the page is marked dirty.  This allows the filesystem to have
full control of page dirtying events coming from the VM.

Rather than simply hold the page locked over the page_mkwrite call, we
call page_mkwrite with the page unlocked and allow callers to return with
it locked, so filesystems can avoid LOR conditions with page lock.

The problem with the current scheme is this: a filesystem that wants to
associate some metadata with a page as long as the page is dirty, will
perform this manipulation in its ->page_mkwrite.  It currently then must
return with the page unlocked and may not hold any other locks (according
to existing page_mkwrite convention).

In this window, the VM could write out the page, clearing page-dirty.  The
filesystem has no good way to detect that a dirty pte is about to be
attached, so it will happily write out the page, at which point, the
filesystem may manipulate the metadata to reflect that the page is no
longer dirty.

It is not always possible to perform the required metadata manipulation in
->set_page_dirty, because that function cannot block or fail.  The
filesystem may need to allocate some data structure, for example.

And the VM cannot mark the pte dirty before page_mkwrite, because
page_mkwrite is allowed to fail, so we must not allow any window where the
page could be written to if page_mkwrite does fail.

This solution of holding the page locked over the 3 critical operations
(page_mkwrite, setting the pte dirty, and finally setting the page dirty)
closes out races nicely, preventing page cleaning for writeout being
initiated in that window.  This provides the filesystem with a strong
synchronisation against the VM here.

- Sage needs this race closed for ceph filesystem.
- Trond for NFS (http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12913).
- I need it for fsblock.
- I suspect other filesystems may need it too (eg. btrfs).
- I have converted buffer.c to the new locking. Even simple block allocation
  under dirty pages might be susceptible to i_size changing under partial page
  at the end of file (we also have a buffer.c-side problem here, but it cannot
  be fixed properly without this patch).
- Other filesystems (eg. NFS, maybe btrfs) will need to change their
  page_mkwrite functions themselves.

[ This also moves page_mkwrite another step closer to fault, which should
  eventually allow page_mkwrite to be moved into ->fault, and thus avoiding a
  filesystem calldown and page lock/unlock cycle in __do_fault. ]

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix derefs of NULL ->mapping]
Cc: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-05-02 15:36:09 -07:00
Benny Halevy 4ba170c2bb update Documentation/filesystems/00-INDEX with new nfsd related docs.
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Cc: James Lentini <jlentini@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2009-04-28 12:54:45 -04:00
Marc Dionne 91ac033d83 CacheFiles: Fix the documentation to use the correct credential pointer names
Adjust the CacheFiles documentation to use the correct names of the credential
pointers in task_struct.

The documentation was using names from the old versions of the credentials
patches.

Signed-off-by: Marc Dionne <marc.c.dionne@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-24 13:28:30 -07:00
Adrian McMenamin 66672fefaa Documentation/filesystems: remove out of date reference to BKL being held
Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt incorrectly states that the kernel is
locked during the call to statfs (Documentation/filesystems/Locking
correctly says it is not). This patch removes the offending sentence.

remove reference to BKL being held in statfs

Signed-off-by: Adrian McMenamin <adrian@mcmen.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-04-20 23:01:16 -04:00
Evgeniy Polyakov e0ca873916 Staging: Pohmelfs: Added IO permissions and priorities.
Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-04-17 11:06:30 -07:00
Ryusuke Konishi 458c5b0822 nilfs2: clean up sketch file
The sketch file is a file to mark checkpoints with user data.  It was
experimentally introduced in the original implementation, and now
obsolete.  The file was handled differently with regular files; the file
size got truncated when a checkpoint was created.

This stops the special treatment and will treat it as a regular file.
Most users are not affected because mkfs.nilfs2 no longer makes this file.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-07 08:31:19 -07:00
Ryusuke Konishi 962281a7ab nilfs2: add document
This adds a document describing the features, mount options, userland
tools, usage, disk format, and related URLs for the nilfs2 file system.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-07 08:31:12 -07:00
Linus Torvalds a63856252d Merge branch 'for-2.6.30' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux
* 'for-2.6.30' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux: (81 commits)
  nfsd41: define nfsd4_set_statp as noop for !CONFIG_NFSD_V4
  nfsd41: define NFSD_DRC_SIZE_SHIFT in set_max_drc
  nfsd41: Documentation/filesystems/nfs41-server.txt
  nfsd41: CREATE_EXCLUSIVE4_1
  nfsd41: SUPPATTR_EXCLCREAT attribute
  nfsd41: support for 3-word long attribute bitmask
  nfsd: dynamically skip encoded fattr bitmap in _nfsd4_verify
  nfsd41: pass writable attrs mask to nfsd4_decode_fattr
  nfsd41: provide support for minor version 1 at rpc level
  nfsd41: control nfsv4.1 svc via /proc/fs/nfsd/versions
  nfsd41: add OPEN4_SHARE_ACCESS_WANT nfs4_stateid bmap
  nfsd41: access_valid
  nfsd41: clientid handling
  nfsd41: check encode size for sessions maxresponse cached
  nfsd41: stateid handling
  nfsd: pass nfsd4_compound_state* to nfs4_preprocess_{state,seq}id_op
  nfsd41: destroy_session operation
  nfsd41: non-page DRC for solo sequence responses
  nfsd41: Add a create session replay cache
  nfsd41: create_session operation
  ...
2009-04-06 13:25:56 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 3516c6a8dc Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging-2.6: (714 commits)
  Staging: sxg: slicoss: Specify the license for Sahara SXG and Slicoss drivers
  Staging: serqt_usb: fix build due to proc tty changes
  Staging: serqt_usb: fix checkpatch errors
  Staging: serqt_usb: add TODO file
  Staging: serqt_usb: Lindent the code
  Staging: add USB serial Quatech driver
  staging: document that the wifi staging drivers a bit better
  Staging: echo cleanup
  Staging: BUG to BUG_ON changes
  Staging: remove some pointless conditionals before kfree_skb()
  Staging: line6: fix build error, select SND_RAWMIDI
  Staging: line6: fix checkpatch errors in variax.c
  Staging: line6: fix checkpatch errors in toneport.c
  Staging: line6: fix checkpatch errors in pcm.c
  Staging: line6: fix checkpatch errors in midibuf.c
  Staging: line6: fix checkpatch errors in midi.c
  Staging: line6: fix checkpatch errors in dumprequest.c
  Staging: line6: fix checkpatch errors in driver.c
  Staging: line6: fix checkpatch errors in audio.c
  Staging: line6: fix checkpatch errors in pod.c
  ...
2009-04-05 11:06:45 -07:00
Benny Halevy 3ef1728898 nfsd41: Documentation/filesystems/nfs41-server.txt
Initial nfs41 server write up describing the status of the linux
server implementation.

[nfsd41: document unenforced nfs41 compound ordering rules.]
[get rid of CONFIG_NFSD_V4_1]
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2009-04-03 17:41:24 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 811158b147 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (28 commits)
  trivial: Update my email address
  trivial: NULL noise: drivers/mtd/tests/mtd_*test.c
  trivial: NULL noise: drivers/media/dvb/frontends/drx397xD_fw.h
  trivial: Fix misspelling of "Celsius".
  trivial: remove unused variable 'path' in alloc_file()
  trivial: fix a pdlfush -> pdflush typo in comment
  trivial: jbd header comment typo fix for JBD_PARANOID_IOFAIL
  trivial: wusb: Storage class should be before const qualifier
  trivial: drivers/char/bsr.c: Storage class should be before const qualifier
  trivial: h8300: Storage class should be before const qualifier
  trivial: fix where cgroup documentation is not correctly referred to
  trivial: Give the right path in Documentation example
  trivial: MTD: remove EOL from MODULE_DESCRIPTION
  trivial: Fix typo in bio_split()'s documentation
  trivial: PWM: fix of #endif comment
  trivial: fix typos/grammar errors in Kconfig texts
  trivial: Fix misspelling of firmware
  trivial: cgroups: documentation typo and spelling corrections
  trivial: Update contact info for Jochen Hein
  trivial: fix typo "resgister" -> "register"
  ...
2009-04-03 15:24:35 -07:00
Evgeniy Polyakov b8523c40d5 Staging: pohmelfs: documentation.
This patch includes POHMELFS design and implementation description.
Separate file includes mount options, default parameters and usage examples.

Signed-off-by: Eveniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-04-03 14:53:33 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 3cc50ac0db Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-2.6-fscache
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-2.6-fscache: (41 commits)
  NFS: Add mount options to enable local caching on NFS
  NFS: Display local caching state
  NFS: Store pages from an NFS inode into a local cache
  NFS: Read pages from FS-Cache into an NFS inode
  NFS: nfs_readpage_async() needs to be accessible as a fallback for local caching
  NFS: Add read context retention for FS-Cache to call back with
  NFS: FS-Cache page management
  NFS: Add some new I/O counters for FS-Cache doing things for NFS
  NFS: Invalidate FsCache page flags when cache removed
  NFS: Use local disk inode cache
  NFS: Define and create inode-level cache objects
  NFS: Define and create superblock-level objects
  NFS: Define and create server-level objects
  NFS: Register NFS for caching and retrieve the top-level index
  NFS: Permit local filesystem caching to be enabled for NFS
  NFS: Add FS-Cache option bit and debug bit
  NFS: Add comment banners to some NFS functions
  FS-Cache: Make kAFS use FS-Cache
  CacheFiles: A cache that backs onto a mounted filesystem
  CacheFiles: Export things for CacheFiles
  ...
2009-04-03 10:07:43 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 9b59f0316b Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.open-osd.org/linux-open-osd
* 'for-linus' of git://git.open-osd.org/linux-open-osd:
  fs: Add exofs to Kernel build
  exofs: Documentation
  exofs: export_operations
  exofs: super_operations and file_system_type
  exofs: dir_inode and directory operations
  exofs: address_space_operations
  exofs: symlink_inode and fast_symlink_inode operations
  exofs: file and file_inode operations
  exofs: Kbuild, Headers and osd utils
2009-04-03 09:53:22 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 03c3fa0a3b Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-udf-2.6
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-udf-2.6:
  udf: Don't write integrity descriptor too often
  udf: Try anchor in block 256 first
  udf: Some type fixes and cleanups
  udf: use hardware sector size
  udf: fix novrs mount option
  udf: Fix oops when invalid character in filename occurs
  udf: return f_fsid for statfs(2)
  udf: Add checks to not underflow sector_t
  udf: fix default mode and dmode options handling
  udf: fix sparse warnings:
  udf: unsigned last[i] cannot be less than 0
  udf: implement mode and dmode mounting options
  udf: reduce stack usage of udf_get_filename
  udf: reduce stack usage of udf_load_pvoldesc
  Fix the udf code not to pass structs on stack where possible.
  Remove struct typedefs from fs/udf/ecma_167.h et al.
2009-04-03 09:50:39 -07:00
David Howells 9ae326a690 CacheFiles: A cache that backs onto a mounted filesystem
Add an FS-Cache cache-backend that permits a mounted filesystem to be used as a
backing store for the cache.

CacheFiles uses a userspace daemon to do some of the cache management - such as
reaping stale nodes and culling.  This is called cachefilesd and lives in
/sbin.  The source for the daemon can be downloaded from:

	http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/cachefs/cachefilesd.c

And an example configuration from:

	http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/cachefs/cachefilesd.conf

The filesystem and data integrity of the cache are only as good as those of the
filesystem providing the backing services.  Note that CacheFiles does not
attempt to journal anything since the journalling interfaces of the various
filesystems are very specific in nature.

CacheFiles creates a misc character device - "/dev/cachefiles" - that is used
to communication with the daemon.  Only one thing may have this open at once,
and whilst it is open, a cache is at least partially in existence.  The daemon
opens this and sends commands down it to control the cache.

CacheFiles is currently limited to a single cache.

CacheFiles attempts to maintain at least a certain percentage of free space on
the filesystem, shrinking the cache by culling the objects it contains to make
space if necessary - see the "Cache Culling" section.  This means it can be
placed on the same medium as a live set of data, and will expand to make use of
spare space and automatically contract when the set of data requires more
space.

============
REQUIREMENTS
============

The use of CacheFiles and its daemon requires the following features to be
available in the system and in the cache filesystem:

	- dnotify.

	- extended attributes (xattrs).

	- openat() and friends.

	- bmap() support on files in the filesystem (FIBMAP ioctl).

	- The use of bmap() to detect a partial page at the end of the file.

It is strongly recommended that the "dir_index" option is enabled on Ext3
filesystems being used as a cache.

=============
CONFIGURATION
=============

The cache is configured by a script in /etc/cachefilesd.conf.  These commands
set up cache ready for use.  The following script commands are available:

 (*) brun <N>%
 (*) bcull <N>%
 (*) bstop <N>%
 (*) frun <N>%
 (*) fcull <N>%
 (*) fstop <N>%

	Configure the culling limits.  Optional.  See the section on culling
	The defaults are 7% (run), 5% (cull) and 1% (stop) respectively.

	The commands beginning with a 'b' are file space (block) limits, those
	beginning with an 'f' are file count limits.

 (*) dir <path>

	Specify the directory containing the root of the cache.  Mandatory.

 (*) tag <name>

	Specify a tag to FS-Cache to use in distinguishing multiple caches.
	Optional.  The default is "CacheFiles".

 (*) debug <mask>

	Specify a numeric bitmask to control debugging in the kernel module.
	Optional.  The default is zero (all off).  The following values can be
	OR'd into the mask to collect various information:

		1	Turn on trace of function entry (_enter() macros)
		2	Turn on trace of function exit (_leave() macros)
		4	Turn on trace of internal debug points (_debug())

	This mask can also be set through sysfs, eg:

		echo 5 >/sys/modules/cachefiles/parameters/debug

==================
STARTING THE CACHE
==================

The cache is started by running the daemon.  The daemon opens the cache device,
configures the cache and tells it to begin caching.  At that point the cache
binds to fscache and the cache becomes live.

The daemon is run as follows:

	/sbin/cachefilesd [-d]* [-s] [-n] [-f <configfile>]

The flags are:

 (*) -d

	Increase the debugging level.  This can be specified multiple times and
	is cumulative with itself.

 (*) -s

	Send messages to stderr instead of syslog.

 (*) -n

	Don't daemonise and go into background.

 (*) -f <configfile>

	Use an alternative configuration file rather than the default one.

===============
THINGS TO AVOID
===============

Do not mount other things within the cache as this will cause problems.  The
kernel module contains its own very cut-down path walking facility that ignores
mountpoints, but the daemon can't avoid them.

Do not create, rename or unlink files and directories in the cache whilst the
cache is active, as this may cause the state to become uncertain.

Renaming files in the cache might make objects appear to be other objects (the
filename is part of the lookup key).

Do not change or remove the extended attributes attached to cache files by the
cache as this will cause the cache state management to get confused.

Do not create files or directories in the cache, lest the cache get confused or
serve incorrect data.

Do not chmod files in the cache.  The module creates things with minimal
permissions to prevent random users being able to access them directly.

=============
CACHE CULLING
=============

The cache may need culling occasionally to make space.  This involves
discarding objects from the cache that have been used less recently than
anything else.  Culling is based on the access time of data objects.  Empty
directories are culled if not in use.

Cache culling is done on the basis of the percentage of blocks and the
percentage of files available in the underlying filesystem.  There are six
"limits":

 (*) brun
 (*) frun

     If the amount of free space and the number of available files in the cache
     rises above both these limits, then culling is turned off.

 (*) bcull
 (*) fcull

     If the amount of available space or the number of available files in the
     cache falls below either of these limits, then culling is started.

 (*) bstop
 (*) fstop

     If the amount of available space or the number of available files in the
     cache falls below either of these limits, then no further allocation of
     disk space or files is permitted until culling has raised things above
     these limits again.

These must be configured thusly:

	0 <= bstop < bcull < brun < 100
	0 <= fstop < fcull < frun < 100

Note that these are percentages of available space and available files, and do
_not_ appear as 100 minus the percentage displayed by the "df" program.

The userspace daemon scans the cache to build up a table of cullable objects.
These are then culled in least recently used order.  A new scan of the cache is
started as soon as space is made in the table.  Objects will be skipped if
their atimes have changed or if the kernel module says it is still using them.

===============
CACHE STRUCTURE
===============

The CacheFiles module will create two directories in the directory it was
given:

 (*) cache/

 (*) graveyard/

The active cache objects all reside in the first directory.  The CacheFiles
kernel module moves any retired or culled objects that it can't simply unlink
to the graveyard from which the daemon will actually delete them.

The daemon uses dnotify to monitor the graveyard directory, and will delete
anything that appears therein.

The module represents index objects as directories with the filename "I..." or
"J...".  Note that the "cache/" directory is itself a special index.

Data objects are represented as files if they have no children, or directories
if they do.  Their filenames all begin "D..." or "E...".  If represented as a
directory, data objects will have a file in the directory called "data" that
actually holds the data.

Special objects are similar to data objects, except their filenames begin
"S..." or "T...".

If an object has children, then it will be represented as a directory.
Immediately in the representative directory are a collection of directories
named for hash values of the child object keys with an '@' prepended.  Into
this directory, if possible, will be placed the representations of the child
objects:

	INDEX     INDEX      INDEX                             DATA FILES
	========= ========== ================================= ================
	cache/@4a/I03nfs/@30/Ji000000000000000--fHg8hi8400
	cache/@4a/I03nfs/@30/Ji000000000000000--fHg8hi8400/@75/Es0g000w...DB1ry
	cache/@4a/I03nfs/@30/Ji000000000000000--fHg8hi8400/@75/Es0g000w...N22ry
	cache/@4a/I03nfs/@30/Ji000000000000000--fHg8hi8400/@75/Es0g000w...FP1ry

If the key is so long that it exceeds NAME_MAX with the decorations added on to
it, then it will be cut into pieces, the first few of which will be used to
make a nest of directories, and the last one of which will be the objects
inside the last directory.  The names of the intermediate directories will have
'+' prepended:

	J1223/@23/+xy...z/+kl...m/Epqr

Note that keys are raw data, and not only may they exceed NAME_MAX in size,
they may also contain things like '/' and NUL characters, and so they may not
be suitable for turning directly into a filename.

To handle this, CacheFiles will use a suitably printable filename directly and
"base-64" encode ones that aren't directly suitable.  The two versions of
object filenames indicate the encoding:

	OBJECT TYPE	PRINTABLE	ENCODED
	===============	===============	===============
	Index		"I..."		"J..."
	Data		"D..."		"E..."
	Special		"S..."		"T..."

Intermediate directories are always "@" or "+" as appropriate.

Each object in the cache has an extended attribute label that holds the object
type ID (required to distinguish special objects) and the auxiliary data from
the netfs.  The latter is used to detect stale objects in the cache and update
or retire them.

Note that CacheFiles will erase from the cache any file it doesn't recognise or
any file of an incorrect type (such as a FIFO file or a device file).

==========================
SECURITY MODEL AND SELINUX
==========================

CacheFiles is implemented to deal properly with the LSM security features of
the Linux kernel and the SELinux facility.

One of the problems that CacheFiles faces is that it is generally acting on
behalf of a process, and running in that process's context, and that includes a
security context that is not appropriate for accessing the cache - either
because the files in the cache are inaccessible to that process, or because if
the process creates a file in the cache, that file may be inaccessible to other
processes.

The way CacheFiles works is to temporarily change the security context (fsuid,
fsgid and actor security label) that the process acts as - without changing the
security context of the process when it the target of an operation performed by
some other process (so signalling and suchlike still work correctly).

When the CacheFiles module is asked to bind to its cache, it:

 (1) Finds the security label attached to the root cache directory and uses
     that as the security label with which it will create files.  By default,
     this is:

	cachefiles_var_t

 (2) Finds the security label of the process which issued the bind request
     (presumed to be the cachefilesd daemon), which by default will be:

	cachefilesd_t

     and asks LSM to supply a security ID as which it should act given the
     daemon's label.  By default, this will be:

	cachefiles_kernel_t

     SELinux transitions the daemon's security ID to the module's security ID
     based on a rule of this form in the policy.

	type_transition <daemon's-ID> kernel_t : process <module's-ID>;

     For instance:

	type_transition cachefilesd_t kernel_t : process cachefiles_kernel_t;

The module's security ID gives it permission to create, move and remove files
and directories in the cache, to find and access directories and files in the
cache, to set and access extended attributes on cache objects, and to read and
write files in the cache.

The daemon's security ID gives it only a very restricted set of permissions: it
may scan directories, stat files and erase files and directories.  It may
not read or write files in the cache, and so it is precluded from accessing the
data cached therein; nor is it permitted to create new files in the cache.

There are policy source files available in:

	http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/fscache/cachefilesd-0.8.tar.bz2

and later versions.  In that tarball, see the files:

	cachefilesd.te
	cachefilesd.fc
	cachefilesd.if

They are built and installed directly by the RPM.

If a non-RPM based system is being used, then copy the above files to their own
directory and run:

	make -f /usr/share/selinux/devel/Makefile
	semodule -i cachefilesd.pp

You will need checkpolicy and selinux-policy-devel installed prior to the
build.

By default, the cache is located in /var/fscache, but if it is desirable that
it should be elsewhere, than either the above policy files must be altered, or
an auxiliary policy must be installed to label the alternate location of the
cache.

For instructions on how to add an auxiliary policy to enable the cache to be
located elsewhere when SELinux is in enforcing mode, please see:

	/usr/share/doc/cachefilesd-*/move-cache.txt

When the cachefilesd rpm is installed; alternatively, the document can be found
in the sources.

==================
A NOTE ON SECURITY
==================

CacheFiles makes use of the split security in the task_struct.  It allocates
its own task_security structure, and redirects current->act_as to point to it
when it acts on behalf of another process, in that process's context.

The reason it does this is that it calls vfs_mkdir() and suchlike rather than
bypassing security and calling inode ops directly.  Therefore the VFS and LSM
may deny the CacheFiles access to the cache data because under some
circumstances the caching code is running in the security context of whatever
process issued the original syscall on the netfs.

Furthermore, should CacheFiles create a file or directory, the security
parameters with that object is created (UID, GID, security label) would be
derived from that process that issued the system call, thus potentially
preventing other processes from accessing the cache - including CacheFiles's
cache management daemon (cachefilesd).

What is required is to temporarily override the security of the process that
issued the system call.  We can't, however, just do an in-place change of the
security data as that affects the process as an object, not just as a subject.
This means it may lose signals or ptrace events for example, and affects what
the process looks like in /proc.

So CacheFiles makes use of a logical split in the security between the
objective security (task->sec) and the subjective security (task->act_as).  The
objective security holds the intrinsic security properties of a process and is
never overridden.  This is what appears in /proc, and is what is used when a
process is the target of an operation by some other process (SIGKILL for
example).

The subjective security holds the active security properties of a process, and
may be overridden.  This is not seen externally, and is used whan a process
acts upon another object, for example SIGKILLing another process or opening a
file.

LSM hooks exist that allow SELinux (or Smack or whatever) to reject a request
for CacheFiles to run in a context of a specific security label, or to create
files and directories with another security label.

This documentation is added by the patch to:

	Documentation/filesystems/caching/cachefiles.txt

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
2009-04-03 16:42:41 +01:00
David Howells 952efe7b78 FS-Cache: Add and document asynchronous operation handling
Add and document asynchronous operation handling for use by FS-Cache's data
storage and retrieval routines.

The following documentation is added to:

	Documentation/filesystems/caching/operations.txt

		       ================================
		       ASYNCHRONOUS OPERATIONS HANDLING
		       ================================

========
OVERVIEW
========

FS-Cache has an asynchronous operations handling facility that it uses for its
data storage and retrieval routines.  Its operations are represented by
fscache_operation structs, though these are usually embedded into some other
structure.

This facility is available to and expected to be be used by the cache backends,
and FS-Cache will create operations and pass them off to the appropriate cache
backend for completion.

To make use of this facility, <linux/fscache-cache.h> should be #included.

===============================
OPERATION RECORD INITIALISATION
===============================

An operation is recorded in an fscache_operation struct:

	struct fscache_operation {
		union {
			struct work_struct fast_work;
			struct slow_work slow_work;
		};
		unsigned long		flags;
		fscache_operation_processor_t processor;
		...
	};

Someone wanting to issue an operation should allocate something with this
struct embedded in it.  They should initialise it by calling:

	void fscache_operation_init(struct fscache_operation *op,
				    fscache_operation_release_t release);

with the operation to be initialised and the release function to use.

The op->flags parameter should be set to indicate the CPU time provision and
the exclusivity (see the Parameters section).

The op->fast_work, op->slow_work and op->processor flags should be set as
appropriate for the CPU time provision (see the Parameters section).

FSCACHE_OP_WAITING may be set in op->flags prior to each submission of the
operation and waited for afterwards.

==========
PARAMETERS
==========

There are a number of parameters that can be set in the operation record's flag
parameter.  There are three options for the provision of CPU time in these
operations:

 (1) The operation may be done synchronously (FSCACHE_OP_MYTHREAD).  A thread
     may decide it wants to handle an operation itself without deferring it to
     another thread.

     This is, for example, used in read operations for calling readpages() on
     the backing filesystem in CacheFiles.  Although readpages() does an
     asynchronous data fetch, the determination of whether pages exist is done
     synchronously - and the netfs does not proceed until this has been
     determined.

     If this option is to be used, FSCACHE_OP_WAITING must be set in op->flags
     before submitting the operation, and the operating thread must wait for it
     to be cleared before proceeding:

		wait_on_bit(&op->flags, FSCACHE_OP_WAITING,
			    fscache_wait_bit, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);

 (2) The operation may be fast asynchronous (FSCACHE_OP_FAST), in which case it
     will be given to keventd to process.  Such an operation is not permitted
     to sleep on I/O.

     This is, for example, used by CacheFiles to copy data from a backing fs
     page to a netfs page after the backing fs has read the page in.

     If this option is used, op->fast_work and op->processor must be
     initialised before submitting the operation:

		INIT_WORK(&op->fast_work, do_some_work);

 (3) The operation may be slow asynchronous (FSCACHE_OP_SLOW), in which case it
     will be given to the slow work facility to process.  Such an operation is
     permitted to sleep on I/O.

     This is, for example, used by FS-Cache to handle background writes of
     pages that have just been fetched from a remote server.

     If this option is used, op->slow_work and op->processor must be
     initialised before submitting the operation:

		fscache_operation_init_slow(op, processor)

Furthermore, operations may be one of two types:

 (1) Exclusive (FSCACHE_OP_EXCLUSIVE).  Operations of this type may not run in
     conjunction with any other operation on the object being operated upon.

     An example of this is the attribute change operation, in which the file
     being written to may need truncation.

 (2) Shareable.  Operations of this type may be running simultaneously.  It's
     up to the operation implementation to prevent interference between other
     operations running at the same time.

=========
PROCEDURE
=========

Operations are used through the following procedure:

 (1) The submitting thread must allocate the operation and initialise it
     itself.  Normally this would be part of a more specific structure with the
     generic op embedded within.

 (2) The submitting thread must then submit the operation for processing using
     one of the following two functions:

	int fscache_submit_op(struct fscache_object *object,
			      struct fscache_operation *op);

	int fscache_submit_exclusive_op(struct fscache_object *object,
					struct fscache_operation *op);

     The first function should be used to submit non-exclusive ops and the
     second to submit exclusive ones.  The caller must still set the
     FSCACHE_OP_EXCLUSIVE flag.

     If successful, both functions will assign the operation to the specified
     object and return 0.  -ENOBUFS will be returned if the object specified is
     permanently unavailable.

     The operation manager will defer operations on an object that is still
     undergoing lookup or creation.  The operation will also be deferred if an
     operation of conflicting exclusivity is in progress on the object.

     If the operation is asynchronous, the manager will retain a reference to
     it, so the caller should put their reference to it by passing it to:

	void fscache_put_operation(struct fscache_operation *op);

 (3) If the submitting thread wants to do the work itself, and has marked the
     operation with FSCACHE_OP_MYTHREAD, then it should monitor
     FSCACHE_OP_WAITING as described above and check the state of the object if
     necessary (the object might have died whilst the thread was waiting).

     When it has finished doing its processing, it should call
     fscache_put_operation() on it.

 (4) The operation holds an effective lock upon the object, preventing other
     exclusive ops conflicting until it is released.  The operation can be
     enqueued for further immediate asynchronous processing by adjusting the
     CPU time provisioning option if necessary, eg:

	op->flags &= ~FSCACHE_OP_TYPE;
	op->flags |= ~FSCACHE_OP_FAST;

     and calling:

	void fscache_enqueue_operation(struct fscache_operation *op)

     This can be used to allow other things to have use of the worker thread
     pools.

=====================
ASYNCHRONOUS CALLBACK
=====================

When used in asynchronous mode, the worker thread pool will invoke the
processor method with a pointer to the operation.  This should then get at the
container struct by using container_of():

	static void fscache_write_op(struct fscache_operation *_op)
	{
		struct fscache_storage *op =
			container_of(_op, struct fscache_storage, op);
	...
	}

The caller holds a reference on the operation, and will invoke
fscache_put_operation() when the processor function returns.  The processor
function is at liberty to call fscache_enqueue_operation() or to take extra
references.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
2009-04-03 16:42:39 +01:00
David Howells 36c9559022 FS-Cache: Object management state machine
Implement the cache object management state machine.

The following documentation is added to illuminate the working of this state
machine.  It will also be added as:

	Documentation/filesystems/caching/object.txt

	     ====================================================
	     IN-KERNEL CACHE OBJECT REPRESENTATION AND MANAGEMENT
	     ====================================================

==============
REPRESENTATION
==============

FS-Cache maintains an in-kernel representation of each object that a netfs is
currently interested in.  Such objects are represented by the fscache_cookie
struct and are referred to as cookies.

FS-Cache also maintains a separate in-kernel representation of the objects that
a cache backend is currently actively caching.  Such objects are represented by
the fscache_object struct.  The cache backends allocate these upon request, and
are expected to embed them in their own representations.  These are referred to
as objects.

There is a 1:N relationship between cookies and objects.  A cookie may be
represented by multiple objects - an index may exist in more than one cache -
or even by no objects (it may not be cached).

Furthermore, both cookies and objects are hierarchical.  The two hierarchies
correspond, but the cookies tree is a superset of the union of the object trees
of multiple caches:

	    NETFS INDEX TREE               :      CACHE 1     :      CACHE 2
	                                   :                  :
	                                   :   +-----------+  :
	                          +----------->|  IObject  |  :
	      +-----------+       |        :   +-----------+  :
	      |  ICookie  |-------+        :         |        :
	      +-----------+       |        :         |        :   +-----------+
	            |             +------------------------------>|  IObject  |
	            |                      :         |        :   +-----------+
	            |                      :         V        :         |
	            |                      :   +-----------+  :         |
	            V             +----------->|  IObject  |  :         |
	      +-----------+       |        :   +-----------+  :         |
	      |  ICookie  |-------+        :         |        :         V
	      +-----------+       |        :         |        :   +-----------+
	            |             +------------------------------>|  IObject  |
	      +-----+-----+                :         |        :   +-----------+
	      |           |                :         |        :         |
	      V           |                :         V        :         |
	+-----------+     |                :   +-----------+  :         |
	|  ICookie  |------------------------->|  IObject  |  :         |
	+-----------+     |                :   +-----------+  :         |
	      |           V                :         |        :         V
	      |     +-----------+          :         |        :   +-----------+
	      |     |  ICookie  |-------------------------------->|  IObject  |
	      |     +-----------+          :         |        :   +-----------+
	      V           |                :         V        :         |
	+-----------+     |                :   +-----------+  :         |
	|  DCookie  |------------------------->|  DObject  |  :         |
	+-----------+     |                :   +-----------+  :         |
	                  |                :                  :         |
	          +-------+-------+        :                  :         |
	          |               |        :                  :         |
	          V               V        :                  :         V
	    +-----------+   +-----------+  :                  :   +-----------+
	    |  DCookie  |   |  DCookie  |------------------------>|  DObject  |
	    +-----------+   +-----------+  :                  :   +-----------+
	                                   :                  :

In the above illustration, ICookie and IObject represent indices and DCookie
and DObject represent data storage objects.  Indices may have representation in
multiple caches, but currently, non-index objects may not.  Objects of any type
may also be entirely unrepresented.

As far as the netfs API goes, the netfs is only actually permitted to see
pointers to the cookies.  The cookies themselves and any objects attached to
those cookies are hidden from it.

===============================
OBJECT MANAGEMENT STATE MACHINE
===============================

Within FS-Cache, each active object is managed by its own individual state
machine.  The state for an object is kept in the fscache_object struct, in
object->state.  A cookie may point to a set of objects that are in different
states.

Each state has an action associated with it that is invoked when the machine
wakes up in that state.  There are four logical sets of states:

 (1) Preparation: states that wait for the parent objects to become ready.  The
     representations are hierarchical, and it is expected that an object must
     be created or accessed with respect to its parent object.

 (2) Initialisation: states that perform lookups in the cache and validate
     what's found and that create on disk any missing metadata.

 (3) Normal running: states that allow netfs operations on objects to proceed
     and that update the state of objects.

 (4) Termination: states that detach objects from their netfs cookies, that
     delete objects from disk, that handle disk and system errors and that free
     up in-memory resources.

In most cases, transitioning between states is in response to signalled events.
When a state has finished processing, it will usually set the mask of events in
which it is interested (object->event_mask) and relinquish the worker thread.
Then when an event is raised (by calling fscache_raise_event()), if the event
is not masked, the object will be queued for processing (by calling
fscache_enqueue_object()).

PROVISION OF CPU TIME
---------------------

The work to be done by the various states is given CPU time by the threads of
the slow work facility (see Documentation/slow-work.txt).  This is used in
preference to the workqueue facility because:

 (1) Threads may be completely occupied for very long periods of time by a
     particular work item.  These state actions may be doing sequences of
     synchronous, journalled disk accesses (lookup, mkdir, create, setxattr,
     getxattr, truncate, unlink, rmdir, rename).

 (2) Threads may do little actual work, but may rather spend a lot of time
     sleeping on I/O.  This means that single-threaded and 1-per-CPU-threaded
     workqueues don't necessarily have the right numbers of threads.

LOCKING SIMPLIFICATION
----------------------

Because only one worker thread may be operating on any particular object's
state machine at once, this simplifies the locking, particularly with respect
to disconnecting the netfs's representation of a cache object (fscache_cookie)
from the cache backend's representation (fscache_object) - which may be
requested from either end.

=================
THE SET OF STATES
=================

The object state machine has a set of states that it can be in.  There are
preparation states in which the object sets itself up and waits for its parent
object to transit to a state that allows access to its children:

 (1) State FSCACHE_OBJECT_INIT.

     Initialise the object and wait for the parent object to become active.  In
     the cache, it is expected that it will not be possible to look an object
     up from the parent object, until that parent object itself has been looked
     up.

There are initialisation states in which the object sets itself up and accesses
disk for the object metadata:

 (2) State FSCACHE_OBJECT_LOOKING_UP.

     Look up the object on disk, using the parent as a starting point.
     FS-Cache expects the cache backend to probe the cache to see whether this
     object is represented there, and if it is, to see if it's valid (coherency
     management).

     The cache should call fscache_object_lookup_negative() to indicate lookup
     failure for whatever reason, and should call fscache_obtained_object() to
     indicate success.

     At the completion of lookup, FS-Cache will let the netfs go ahead with
     read operations, no matter whether the file is yet cached.  If not yet
     cached, read operations will be immediately rejected with ENODATA until
     the first known page is uncached - as to that point there can be no data
     to be read out of the cache for that file that isn't currently also held
     in the pagecache.

 (3) State FSCACHE_OBJECT_CREATING.

     Create an object on disk, using the parent as a starting point.  This
     happens if the lookup failed to find the object, or if the object's
     coherency data indicated what's on disk is out of date.  In this state,
     FS-Cache expects the cache to create

     The cache should call fscache_obtained_object() if creation completes
     successfully, fscache_object_lookup_negative() otherwise.

     At the completion of creation, FS-Cache will start processing write
     operations the netfs has queued for an object.  If creation failed, the
     write ops will be transparently discarded, and nothing recorded in the
     cache.

There are some normal running states in which the object spends its time
servicing netfs requests:

 (4) State FSCACHE_OBJECT_AVAILABLE.

     A transient state in which pending operations are started, child objects
     are permitted to advance from FSCACHE_OBJECT_INIT state, and temporary
     lookup data is freed.

 (5) State FSCACHE_OBJECT_ACTIVE.

     The normal running state.  In this state, requests the netfs makes will be
     passed on to the cache.

 (6) State FSCACHE_OBJECT_UPDATING.

     The state machine comes here to update the object in the cache from the
     netfs's records.  This involves updating the auxiliary data that is used
     to maintain coherency.

And there are terminal states in which an object cleans itself up, deallocates
memory and potentially deletes stuff from disk:

 (7) State FSCACHE_OBJECT_LC_DYING.

     The object comes here if it is dying because of a lookup or creation
     error.  This would be due to a disk error or system error of some sort.
     Temporary data is cleaned up, and the parent is released.

 (8) State FSCACHE_OBJECT_DYING.

     The object comes here if it is dying due to an error, because its parent
     cookie has been relinquished by the netfs or because the cache is being
     withdrawn.

     Any child objects waiting on this one are given CPU time so that they too
     can destroy themselves.  This object waits for all its children to go away
     before advancing to the next state.

 (9) State FSCACHE_OBJECT_ABORT_INIT.

     The object comes to this state if it was waiting on its parent in
     FSCACHE_OBJECT_INIT, but its parent died.  The object will destroy itself
     so that the parent may proceed from the FSCACHE_OBJECT_DYING state.

(10) State FSCACHE_OBJECT_RELEASING.
(11) State FSCACHE_OBJECT_RECYCLING.

     The object comes to one of these two states when dying once it is rid of
     all its children, if it is dying because the netfs relinquished its
     cookie.  In the first state, the cached data is expected to persist, and
     in the second it will be deleted.

(12) State FSCACHE_OBJECT_WITHDRAWING.

     The object transits to this state if the cache decides it wants to
     withdraw the object from service, perhaps to make space, but also due to
     error or just because the whole cache is being withdrawn.

(13) State FSCACHE_OBJECT_DEAD.

     The object transits to this state when the in-memory object record is
     ready to be deleted.  The object processor shouldn't ever see an object in
     this state.

THE SET OF EVENTS
-----------------

There are a number of events that can be raised to an object state machine:

 (*) FSCACHE_OBJECT_EV_UPDATE

     The netfs requested that an object be updated.  The state machine will ask
     the cache backend to update the object, and the cache backend will ask the
     netfs for details of the change through its cookie definition ops.

 (*) FSCACHE_OBJECT_EV_CLEARED

     This is signalled in two circumstances:

     (a) when an object's last child object is dropped and

     (b) when the last operation outstanding on an object is completed.

     This is used to proceed from the dying state.

 (*) FSCACHE_OBJECT_EV_ERROR

     This is signalled when an I/O error occurs during the processing of some
     object.

 (*) FSCACHE_OBJECT_EV_RELEASE
 (*) FSCACHE_OBJECT_EV_RETIRE

     These are signalled when the netfs relinquishes a cookie it was using.
     The event selected depends on whether the netfs asks for the backing
     object to be retired (deleted) or retained.

 (*) FSCACHE_OBJECT_EV_WITHDRAW

     This is signalled when the cache backend wants to withdraw an object.
     This means that the object will have to be detached from the netfs's
     cookie.

Because the withdrawing releasing/retiring events are all handled by the object
state machine, it doesn't matter if there's a collision with both ends trying
to sever the connection at the same time.  The state machine can just pick
which one it wants to honour, and that effects the other.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
2009-04-03 16:42:38 +01:00
David Howells 7394daa8c6 FS-Cache: Add use of /proc and presentation of statistics
Make FS-Cache create its /proc interface and present various statistical
information through it.  Also provide the functions for updating this
information.

These features are enabled by:

	CONFIG_FSCACHE_PROC
	CONFIG_FSCACHE_STATS
	CONFIG_FSCACHE_HISTOGRAM

The /proc directory for FS-Cache is also exported so that caching modules can
add their own statistics there too.

The FS-Cache module is loadable at this point, and the statistics files can be
examined by userspace:

	cat /proc/fs/fscache/stats
	cat /proc/fs/fscache/histogram

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
2009-04-03 16:42:37 +01:00
David Howells 0dfc41d1ef FS-Cache: Add the FS-Cache cache backend API and documentation
Add the API for a generic facility (FS-Cache) by which caches may declare them
selves open for business, and may obtain work to be done from network
filesystems.  The header file is included by:

	#include <linux/fscache-cache.h>

Documentation for the API is also added to:

	Documentation/filesystems/caching/backend-api.txt

This API is not usable without the implementation of the utility functions
which will be added in further patches.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
2009-04-03 16:42:36 +01:00
David Howells 2d6fff6370 FS-Cache: Add the FS-Cache netfs API and documentation
Add the API for a generic facility (FS-Cache) by which filesystems (such as AFS
or NFS) may call on local caching capabilities without having to know anything
about how the cache works, or even if there is a cache:

	+---------+
	|         |                        +--------------+
	|   NFS   |--+                     |              |
	|         |  |                 +-->|   CacheFS    |
	+---------+  |   +----------+  |   |  /dev/hda5   |
	             |   |          |  |   +--------------+
	+---------+  +-->|          |  |
	|         |      |          |--+
	|   AFS   |----->| FS-Cache |
	|         |      |          |--+
	+---------+  +-->|          |  |
	             |   |          |  |   +--------------+
	+---------+  |   +----------+  |   |              |
	|         |  |                 +-->|  CacheFiles  |
	|  ISOFS  |--+                     |  /var/cache  |
	|         |                        +--------------+
	+---------+

General documentation and documentation of the netfs specific API are provided
in addition to the header files.

As this patch stands, it is possible to build a filesystem against the facility
and attempt to use it.  All that will happen is that all requests will be
immediately denied as if no cache is present.

Further patches will implement the core of the facility.  The facility will
transfer requests from networking filesystems to appropriate caches if
possible, or else gracefully deny them.

If this facility is disabled in the kernel configuration, then all its
operations will trivially reduce to nothing during compilation.

WHY NOT I_MAPPING?
==================

I have added my own API to implement caching rather than using i_mapping to do
this for a number of reasons.  These have been discussed a lot on the LKML and
CacheFS mailing lists, but to summarise the basics:

 (1) Most filesystems don't do hole reportage.  Holes in files are treated as
     blocks of zeros and can't be distinguished otherwise, making it difficult
     to distinguish blocks that have been read from the network and cached from
     those that haven't.

 (2) The backing inode must be fully populated before being exposed to
     userspace through the main inode because the VM/VFS goes directly to the
     backing inode and does not interrogate the front inode's VM ops.

     Therefore:

     (a) The backing inode must fit entirely within the cache.

     (b) All backed files currently open must fit entirely within the cache at
     	 the same time.

     (c) A working set of files in total larger than the cache may not be
     	 cached.

     (d) A file may not grow larger than the available space in the cache.

     (e) A file that's open and cached, and remotely grows larger than the
     	 cache is potentially stuffed.

 (3) Writes go to the backing filesystem, and can only be transferred to the
     network when the file is closed.

 (4) There's no record of what changes have been made, so the whole file must
     be written back.

 (5) The pages belong to the backing filesystem, and all metadata associated
     with that page are relevant only to the backing filesystem, and not
     anything stacked atop it.

OVERVIEW
========

FS-Cache provides (or will provide) the following facilities:

 (1) Caches can be added / removed at any time, even whilst in use.

 (2) Adds a facility by which tags can be used to refer to caches, even if
     they're not available yet.

 (3) More than one cache can be used at once.  Caches can be selected
     explicitly by use of tags.

 (4) The netfs is provided with an interface that allows either party to
     withdraw caching facilities from a file (required for (1)).

 (5) A netfs may annotate cache objects that belongs to it.  This permits the
     storage of coherency maintenance data.

 (6) Cache objects will be pinnable and space reservations will be possible.

 (7) The interface to the netfs returns as few errors as possible, preferring
     rather to let the netfs remain oblivious.

 (8) Cookies are used to represent indices, files and other objects to the
     netfs.  The simplest cookie is just a NULL pointer - indicating nothing
     cached there.

 (9) The netfs is allowed to propose - dynamically - any index hierarchy it
     desires, though it must be aware that the index search function is
     recursive, stack space is limited, and indices can only be children of
     indices.

(10) Indices can be used to group files together to reduce key size and to make
     group invalidation easier.  The use of indices may make lookup quicker,
     but that's cache dependent.

(11) Data I/O is effectively done directly to and from the netfs's pages.  The
     netfs indicates that page A is at index B of the data-file represented by
     cookie C, and that it should be read or written.  The cache backend may or
     may not start I/O on that page, but if it does, a netfs callback will be
     invoked to indicate completion.  The I/O may be either synchronous or
     asynchronous.

(12) Cookies can be "retired" upon release.  At this point FS-Cache will mark
     them as obsolete and the index hierarchy rooted at that point will get
     recycled.

(13) The netfs provides a "match" function for index searches.  In addition to
     saying whether a match was made or not, this can also specify that an
     entry should be updated or deleted.

FS-Cache maintains a virtual index tree in which all indices, files, objects
and pages are kept.  Bits of this tree may actually reside in one or more
caches.

                                           FSDEF
                                             |
                        +------------------------------------+
                        |                                    |
                       NFS                                  AFS
                        |                                    |
           +--------------------------+                +-----------+
           |                          |                |           |
        homedir                     mirror          afs.org   redhat.com
           |                          |                            |
     +------------+           +---------------+              +----------+
     |            |           |               |              |          |
   00001        00002       00007           00125        vol00001   vol00002
     |            |           |               |                         |
 +---+---+     +-----+      +---+      +------+------+            +-----+----+
 |   |   |     |     |      |   |      |      |      |            |     |    |
PG0 PG1 PG2   PG0  XATTR   PG0 PG1   DIRENT DIRENT DIRENT        R/W   R/O  Bak
                     |                                            |
                    PG0                                       +-------+
                                                              |       |
                                                            00001   00003
                                                              |
                                                          +---+---+
                                                          |   |   |
                                                         PG0 PG1 PG2

In the example above, two netfs's can be seen to be backed: NFS and AFS.  These
have different index hierarchies:

 (*) The NFS primary index will probably contain per-server indices.  Each
     server index is indexed by NFS file handles to get data file objects.
     Each data file objects can have an array of pages, but may also have
     further child objects, such as extended attributes and directory entries.
     Extended attribute objects themselves have page-array contents.

 (*) The AFS primary index contains per-cell indices.  Each cell index contains
     per-logical-volume indices.  Each of volume index contains up to three
     indices for the read-write, read-only and backup mirrors of those volumes.
     Each of these contains vnode data file objects, each of which contains an
     array of pages.

The very top index is the FS-Cache master index in which individual netfs's
have entries.

Any index object may reside in more than one cache, provided it only has index
children.  Any index with non-index object children will be assumed to only
reside in one cache.

The FS-Cache overview can be found in:

	Documentation/filesystems/caching/fscache.txt

The netfs API to FS-Cache can be found in:

	Documentation/filesystems/caching/netfs-api.txt

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
2009-04-03 16:42:36 +01:00
Shen Feng 760df93ecd documentation: update Documentation/filesystem/proc.txt and Documentation/sysctls
Now /proc/sys is described in many places and much information is
redundant.  This patch updates the proc.txt and move the /proc/sys
desciption out to the files in Documentation/sysctls.

Details are:

merge
-  2.1  /proc/sys/fs - File system data
-  2.11 /proc/sys/fs/mqueue - POSIX message queues filesystem
-  2.17 /proc/sys/fs/epoll - Configuration options for the epoll interface
with Documentation/sysctls/fs.txt.

remove
-  2.2  /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc - Miscellaneous binary formats
since it's not better then the Documentation/binfmt_misc.txt.

merge
-  2.3  /proc/sys/kernel - general kernel parameters
with Documentation/sysctls/kernel.txt

remove
-  2.5  /proc/sys/dev - Device specific parameters
since it's obsolete the sysfs is used now.

remove
-  2.6  /proc/sys/sunrpc - Remote procedure calls
since it's not better then the Documentation/sysctls/sunrpc.txt

move
-  2.7  /proc/sys/net - Networking stuff
-  2.9  Appletalk
-  2.10 IPX
to newly created Documentation/sysctls/net.txt.

remove
-  2.8  /proc/sys/net/ipv4 - IPV4 settings
since it's not better then the Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt.

add
- Chapter 3 Per-Process Parameters
to descibe /proc/<pid>/xxx parameters.

Signed-off-by: Shen Feng <shen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-02 19:04:53 -07:00
Marcin Slusarz 7ac9bcd5da udf: implement mode and dmode mounting options
"dmode" allows overriding permissions of directories and
"mode" allows overriding permissions of files.

Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2009-04-02 12:29:50 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 395d73413c 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: (33 commits)
  ext4: Regularize mount options
  ext4: fix locking typo in mballoc which could cause soft lockup hangs
  ext4: fix typo which causes a memory leak on error path
  jbd2: Update locking coments
  ext4: Rename pa_linear to pa_type
  ext4: add checks of block references for non-extent inodes
  ext4: Check for an valid i_mode when reading the inode from disk
  ext4: Use WRITE_SYNC for commits which are caused by fsync()
  ext4: Add auto_da_alloc mount option
  ext4: Use struct flex_groups to calculate get_orlov_stats()
  ext4: Use atomic_t's in struct flex_groups
  ext4: remove /proc tuning knobs
  ext4: Add sysfs support
  ext4: Track lifetime disk writes
  ext4: Fix discard of inode prealloc space with delayed allocation.
  ext4: Automatically allocate delay allocated blocks on rename
  ext4: Automatically allocate delay allocated blocks on close
  ext4: add EXT4_IOC_ALLOC_DA_BLKS ioctl
  ext4: Simplify delalloc code by removing mpage_da_writepages()
  ext4: Save stack space by removing fake buffer heads
  ...
2009-04-01 10:57:49 -07:00
Linus Torvalds e76e5b2c66 Merge branch 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6
* 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6: (88 commits)
  PCI: fix HT MSI mapping fix
  PCI: don't enable too much HT MSI mapping
  x86/PCI: make pci=lastbus=255 work when acpi is on
  PCI: save and restore PCIe 2.0 registers
  PCI: update fakephp for bus_id removal
  PCI: fix kernel oops on bridge removal
  PCI: fix conflict between SR-IOV and config space sizing
  powerpc/PCI: include pci.h in powerpc MSI implementation
  PCI Hotplug: schedule fakephp for feature removal
  PCI Hotplug: rename legacy_fakephp to fakephp
  PCI Hotplug: restore fakephp interface with complete reimplementation
  PCI: Introduce /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../rescan
  PCI: Introduce /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../remove
  PCI: Introduce /sys/bus/pci/rescan
  PCI: Introduce pci_rescan_bus()
  PCI: do not enable bridges more than once
  PCI: do not initialize bridges more than once
  PCI: always scan child buses
  PCI: pci_scan_slot() returns newly found devices
  PCI: don't scan existing devices
  ...

Fix trivial append-only conflict in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
2009-04-01 09:47:12 -07:00
Nick Piggin c2ec175c39 mm: page_mkwrite change prototype to match fault
Change the page_mkwrite prototype to take a struct vm_fault, and return
VM_FAULT_xxx flags.  There should be no functional change.

This makes it possible to return much more detailed error information to
the VM (and also can provide more information eg.  virtual_address to the
driver, which might be important in some special cases).

This is required for a subsequent fix.  And will also make it easier to
merge page_mkwrite() with fault() in future.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org>
Cc: Felix Blyakher <felixb@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-01 08:59:14 -07:00
Boaz Harrosh 214c8adb87 exofs: Documentation
Added some documentation in exofs.txt, as well as a BUGS file.

For further reading, operation instructions, example scripts
and up to date infomation and code please see:
http://open-osd.org

Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
2009-03-31 19:44:38 +03:00
Pavel Machek e3375ac767 trivial: document ext3 semantics of 'ro' option a bit better
ext3 has quite unexpected semantics or "ro" and defaults are
not what they are documented to be, due to mkfs override.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-03-30 15:21:56 +02:00
Theodore Ts'o 06705bff91 ext4: Regularize mount options
Add support for using the mount options "barrier" and "nobarrier", and
"auto_da_alloc" and "noauto_da_alloc", which is more consistent than
"barrier=<0|1>" or "auto_da_alloc=<0|1>".  Most other ext3/ext4 mount
options use the foo/nofoo naming convention.  We allow the old forms
of these mount options for backwards compatibility.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-03-28 10:59:57 -04:00
Greg Banks b5cbc369db Document /proc/fs/nfsd/pool_stats
Document the format and semantics of the /proc/fs/nfsd/pool_stats file.

Signed-off-by: Greg Banks <gnb@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2009-03-27 19:24:27 -04:00
Linus Torvalds 8e9d208972 Merge branch 'bkl-removal' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6
* 'bkl-removal' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6:
  Rationalize fasync return values
  Move FASYNC bit handling to f_op->fasync()
  Use f_lock to protect f_flags
  Rename struct file->f_ep_lock
2009-03-26 16:14:02 -07:00
Jody McIntyre 1db4b2d221 trivial: fix orphan dates in ext2 documentation
Revert the change to the orphan dates of Windows 95, DOS, compression.
Add a new orphan date for OS/2.

Signed-off-by: Jody McIntyre <scjody@sun.com>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-03-23 14:21:26 -07:00
Linus Torvalds d56ffd38a9 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (32 commits)
  ucc_geth: Fix oops when using fixed-link support
  dm9000: locking bugfix
  net: update dnet.c for bus_id removal
  dnet: DNET should depend on HAS_IOMEM
  dca: add missing copyright/license headers
  nl80211: Check that function pointer != NULL before using it
  sungem: missing net_device_ops
  be2net: fix to restore vlan ids into BE2 during a IF DOWN->UP cycle
  be2net: replenish when posting to rx-queue is starved in out of mem conditions
  bas_gigaset: correctly allocate USB interrupt transfer buffer
  smsc911x: reset last known duplex and carrier on open
  sh_eth: Fix mistake of the address of SH7763
  sh_eth: Change handling of IRQ
  netns: oops in ip[6]_frag_reasm incrementing stats
  net: kfree(napi->skb) => kfree_skb
  net: fix sctp breakage
  ipv6: fix display of local and remote sit endpoints
  net: Document /proc/sys/net/core/netdev_budget
  tulip: fix crash on iface up with shirq debug
  virtio_net: Make virtio_net support carrier detection
  ...
2009-03-23 09:25:58 -07:00
Alex Chiang 77c27c7b49 PCI: Introduce /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../remove
This patch adds an attribute named "remove" to a PCI device's sysfs
directory.  Writing a non-zero value to this attribute will remove the PCI
device and any children of it.

Trent Piepho wrote the original implementation and documentation.

Thanks to Vegard Nossum for testing under kmemcheck and finding locking
issues with the sysfs interface.

Cc: Trent Piepho <xyzzy@speakeasy.org>
Tested-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
2009-03-20 14:58:48 -07:00
Stanislaw Gruszka e9c6a586f5 net: Document /proc/sys/net/core/netdev_budget
The NAPI poll parameter netdev_budget is not documented in
kernel-docs. Since it may have a substantial effect on at least some
network loads, it should be.

Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-18 18:51:06 -07:00
Jonathan Corbet 76398425bb Move FASYNC bit handling to f_op->fasync()
Removing the BKL from FASYNC handling ran into the challenge of keeping the
setting of the FASYNC bit in filp->f_flags atomic with regard to calls to
the underlying fasync() function.  Andi Kleen suggested moving the handling
of that bit into fasync(); this patch does exactly that.  As a result, we
have a couple of internal API changes: fasync() must now manage the FASYNC
bit, and it will be called without the BKL held.

As it happens, every fasync() implementation in the kernel with one
exception calls fasync_helper().  So, if we make fasync_helper() set the
FASYNC bit, we can avoid making any changes to the other fasync()
functions - as long as those functions, themselves, have proper locking.
Most fasync() implementations do nothing but call fasync_helper() - which
has its own lock - so they are easily verified as correct.  The BKL had
already been pushed down into the rest.

The networking code has its own version of fasync_helper(), so that code
has been augmented with explicit FASYNC bit handling.

Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2009-03-16 08:32:27 -06:00
Jody McIntyre ab03eca8d4 trivial: fix bad links in the ext2 and ext3 documentation
Trivial patch to fix bad links in the ext2 and ext3 documentation.

Signed-off-by: Jody McIntyre <scjody@sun.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-03-12 16:24:25 -07:00
Phillip Lougher edf2e2811e Squashfs: fix documentation typo, Cramfs filesystem limit is 256 MiB
Signed-off-by: Phillip Lougher <phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk>
2009-03-05 00:40:13 +00:00
Theodore Ts'o b713a5ec55 ext4: remove /proc tuning knobs
Remove tuning knobs in /proc/fs/ext4/<dev/* since they have been
replaced by knobs in sysfs at /sys/fs/ext4/<dev>/*.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-03-31 09:11:14 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o 722bde6875 ext4: Add fine print for the 32000 subdirectory limit
Some poeple are reading the ext4 feature list too literally and create
dubious test cases involving very long filenames and 1k blocksize and
then complain when they run into an htree-imposed limit.  So add fine
print to the "fix 32000 subdirectory limit" ext4 feature.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-02-23 00:51:57 -05:00
Mike Murphy f8a1af6bbc PATCH [2/2] Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt: fix descriptions of device attributes
Fix descriptions of device attributes to be consistent with the actual
implementations in include/linux/device.h

Signed-off-by: Mike Murphy <mamurph[at]cs.clemson.edu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-22 09:28:15 -08:00
Timothy S. Nelson 97c44836cd PCI: return error on failure to read PCI ROMs
This patch makes the ROM reading code return an error to user space if
the size of the ROM read is equal to 0.

The patch also emits a warnings if the contents of the ROM are invalid,
and documents the effects of the "enable" file on ROM reading.

Signed-off-by: Timothy S. Nelson <wayland@wayland.id.au>
Acked-by: Alex Villacis-Lasso <a_villacis@palosanto.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
2009-02-04 16:58:41 -08:00
Linus Torvalds f96c08e8c5 Merge branch 'linux-next' of git://git.infradead.org/ubifs-2.6
* 'linux-next' of git://git.infradead.org/ubifs-2.6:
  UBIFS: remove fast unmounting
  UBIFS: return sensible error codes
  UBIFS: remount ro fixes
  UBIFS: spelling fix 'date' -> 'data'
  UBIFS: sync wbufs after syncing inodes and pages
  UBIFS: fix LPT out-of-space bug (again)
  UBIFS: fix no_chk_data_crc
  UBIFS: fix assertions
  UBIFS: ensure orphan area head is initialized
  UBIFS: always clean up GC LEB space
  UBIFS: add re-mount debugging checks
  UBIFS: fix LEB list freeing
  UBIFS: simplify locking
  UBIFS: document dark_wm and dead_wm better
  UBIFS: do not treat all data as short term
  UBIFS: constify operations
  UBIFS: do not commit twice
2009-02-03 16:52:44 -08:00
Evgeniy Polyakov 9e9e3cbc62 mm: OOM documentation update
Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
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>
2009-01-29 18:04:43 -08:00
Artem Bityutskiy 27ad279933 UBIFS: remove fast unmounting
This UBIFS feature has never worked properly, and it was a mistake
to add it because we simply have no use-cases. So, lets still accept
the fast_unmount mount option, but ignore it. This does not change
much, because UBIFS commit in sync_fs anyway, and sync_fs is called
while unmounting.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2009-01-29 16:34:30 +02:00
James Lentini 096abd7703 update port number in NFS/RDMA documentation
Update the NFS/RDMA documentation to use the new port number assigned
by IANA.

Signed-off-by: James Lentini <jlentini@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2009-01-27 17:20:14 -05:00
Peter W Morreale db0fb1848a Update of Documentation: vm.txt and proc.txt
Update Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt and Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
 More specifically, the section on /proc/sys/vm in
Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt was removed and a link to
Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt added.

Most of the verbiage from proc.txt was simply moved in vm.txt, with new
addtional text for "swappiness" and "stat_interval".

Signed-off-by: Peter W Morreale <pmorreale@novell.com>
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>
2009-01-15 16:39:35 -08:00
Takashi Sato c4be0c1dc4 filesystem freeze: add error handling of write_super_lockfs/unlockfs
Currently, ext3 in mainline Linux doesn't have the freeze feature which
suspends write requests.  So, we cannot take a backup which keeps the
filesystem's consistency with the storage device's features (snapshot and
replication) while it is mounted.

In many case, a commercial filesystem (e.g.  VxFS) has the freeze feature
and it would be used to get the consistent backup.

If Linux's standard filesystem ext3 has the freeze feature, we can do it
without a commercial filesystem.

So I have implemented the ioctls of the freeze feature.
I think we can take the consistent backup with the following steps.
1. Freeze the filesystem with the freeze ioctl.
2. Separate the replication volume or create the snapshot
   with the storage device's feature.
3. Unfreeze the filesystem with the unfreeze ioctl.
4. Take the backup from the separated replication volume
   or the snapshot.

This patch:

VFS:
Changed the type of write_super_lockfs and unlockfs from "void"
to "int" so that they can return an error.
Rename write_super_lockfs and unlockfs of the super block operation
freeze_fs and unfreeze_fs to avoid a confusion.

ext3, ext4, xfs, gfs2, jfs:
Changed the type of write_super_lockfs and unlockfs from "void"
to "int" so that write_super_lockfs returns an error if needed,
and unlockfs always returns 0.

reiserfs:
Changed the type of write_super_lockfs and unlockfs from "void"
to "int" so that they always return 0 (success) to keep a current behavior.

Signed-off-by: Takashi Sato <t-sato@yk.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Masayuki Hamaguchi <m-hamaguchi@ys.jp.nec.com>
Cc: <xfs-masters@oss.sgi.com>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-09 16:54:42 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 31aeb6c815 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pkl/squashfs-linus
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pkl/squashfs-linus:
  MAINTAINERS: squashfs entry
  Squashfs: documentation
  Squashfs: initrd support
  Squashfs: Kconfig entry
  Squashfs: Makefiles
  Squashfs: header files
  Squashfs: block operations
  Squashfs: cache operations
  Squashfs: uid/gid lookup operations
  Squashfs: fragment block operations
  Squashfs: export operations
  Squashfs: super block operations
  Squashfs: symlink operations
  Squashfs: regular file operations
  Squashfs: directory readdir operations
  Squashfs: directory lookup operations
  Squashfs: inode operations
2009-01-09 15:18:49 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 73d59314e6 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-unstable
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-unstable: (864 commits)
  Btrfs: explicitly mark the tree log root for writeback
  Btrfs: Drop the hardware crc32c asm code
  Btrfs: Add Documentation/filesystem/btrfs.txt, remove old COPYING
  Btrfs: kmap_atomic(KM_USER0) is safe for btrfs_readpage_end_io_hook
  Btrfs: Don't use kmap_atomic(..., KM_IRQ0) during checksum verifies
  Btrfs: tree logging checksum fixes
  Btrfs: don't change file extent's ram_bytes in btrfs_drop_extents
  Btrfs: Use btrfs_join_transaction to avoid deadlocks during snapshot creation
  Btrfs: drop remaining LINUX_KERNEL_VERSION checks and compat code
  Btrfs: drop EXPORT symbols from extent_io.c
  Btrfs: Fix checkpatch.pl warnings
  Btrfs: Fix free block discard calls down to the block layer
  Btrfs: avoid orphan inode caused by log replay
  Btrfs: avoid potential super block corruption
  Btrfs: do not call kfree if kmalloc failed in btrfs_sysfs_add_super
  Btrfs: fix a memory leak in btrfs_get_sb
  Btrfs: Fix typo in clear_state_cb
  Btrfs: Fix memset length in btrfs_file_write
  Btrfs: update directory's size when creating subvol/snapshot
  Btrfs: add permission checks to the ioctls
  ...
2009-01-09 13:01:38 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 2150edc6c5 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: (57 commits)
  jbd2: Fix oops in jbd2_journal_init_inode() on corrupted fs
  ext4: Remove "extents" mount option
  block: Add Kconfig help which notes that ext4 needs CONFIG_LBD
  ext4: Make printk's consistently prefixed with "EXT4-fs: "
  ext4: Add sanity checks for the superblock before mounting the filesystem
  ext4: Add mount option to set kjournald's I/O priority
  jbd2: Submit writes to the journal using WRITE_SYNC
  jbd2: Add pid and journal device name to the "kjournald2 starting" message
  ext4: Add markers for better debuggability
  ext4: Remove code to create the journal inode
  ext4: provide function to release metadata pages under memory pressure
  ext3: provide function to release metadata pages under memory pressure
  add releasepage hooks to block devices which can be used by file systems
  ext4: Fix s_dirty_blocks_counter if block allocation failed with nodelalloc
  ext4: Init the complete page while building buddy cache
  ext4: Don't allow new groups to be added during block allocation
  ext4: mark the blocks/inode bitmap beyond end of group as used
  ext4: Use new buffer_head flag to check uninit group bitmaps initialization
  ext4: Fix the race between read_inode_bitmap() and ext4_new_inode()
  ext4: code cleanup
  ...
2009-01-08 17:14:59 -08:00
Linus Torvalds a0c9f240a9 Merge branch 'proc-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/adobriyan/proc
* 'proc-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/adobriyan/proc:
  proc: remove write-only variable in proc_pident_lookup()
  proc: fix sparse warning
  proc: add /proc/*/stack
  proc: remove '##' usage
  proc: remove useless WARN_ONs
  proc: stop using BKL
2009-01-07 12:01:06 -08:00
David Woodhouse 709ac06a14 Btrfs: Add Documentation/filesystem/btrfs.txt, remove old COPYING
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2009-01-07 09:54:24 -05:00
Tejun Heo 5f820f648c poll: allow f_op->poll to sleep
f_op->poll is the only vfs operation which is not allowed to sleep.  It's
because poll and select implementation used task state to synchronize
against wake ups, which doesn't have to be the case anymore as wait/wake
interface can now use custom wake up functions.  The non-sleep restriction
can be a bit tricky because ->poll is not called from an atomic context
and the result of accidentally sleeping in ->poll only shows up as
temporary busy looping when the timing is right or rather wrong.

This patch converts poll/select to use custom wake up function and use
separate triggered variable to synchronize against wake up events.  The
only added overhead is an extra function call during wake up and
negligible.

This patch removes the one non-sleep exception from vfs locking rules and
is beneficial to userland filesystem implementations like FUSE, 9p or
peculiar fs like spufs as it's very difficult for those to implement
non-sleeping poll method.

While at it, make the following cosmetic changes to make poll.h and
select.c checkpatch friendly.

* s/type * symbol/type *symbol/		   : three places in poll.h
* remove blank line before EXPORT_SYMBOL() : two places in select.c

Oleg: spotted missing barrier in poll_schedule_timeout()
Davide: spotted missing write barrier in pollwake()

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Cc: Ron Minnich <rminnich@sandia.gov>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Brad Boyer <flar@allandria.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06 15:59:12 -08:00
David Rientjes 2da02997e0 mm: add dirty_background_bytes and dirty_bytes sysctls
This change introduces two new sysctls to /proc/sys/vm:
dirty_background_bytes and dirty_bytes.

dirty_background_bytes is the counterpart to dirty_background_ratio and
dirty_bytes is the counterpart to dirty_ratio.

With growing memory capacities of individual machines, it's no longer
sufficient to specify dirty thresholds as a percentage of the amount of
dirtyable memory over the entire system.

dirty_background_bytes and dirty_bytes specify quantities of memory, in
bytes, that represent the dirty limits for the entire system.  If either
of these values is set, its value represents the amount of dirty memory
that is needed to commence either background or direct writeback.

When a `bytes' or `ratio' file is written, its counterpart becomes a
function of the written value.  For example, if dirty_bytes is written to
be 8096, 8K of memory is required to commence direct writeback.
dirty_ratio is then functionally equivalent to 8K / the amount of
dirtyable memory:

	dirtyable_memory = free pages + mapped pages + file cache

	dirty_background_bytes = dirty_background_ratio * dirtyable_memory
		-or-
	dirty_background_ratio = dirty_background_bytes / dirtyable_memory

		AND

	dirty_bytes = dirty_ratio * dirtyable_memory
		-or-
	dirty_ratio = dirty_bytes / dirtyable_memory

Only one of dirty_background_bytes and dirty_background_ratio may be
specified at a time, and only one of dirty_bytes and dirty_ratio may be
specified.  When one sysctl is written, the other appears as 0 when read.

The `bytes' files operate on a page size granularity since dirty limits
are compared with ZVC values, which are in page units.

Prior to this change, the minimum dirty_ratio was 5 as implemented by
get_dirty_limits() although /proc/sys/vm/dirty_ratio would show any user
written value between 0 and 100.  This restriction is maintained, but
dirty_bytes has a lower limit of only one page.

Also prior to this change, the dirty_background_ratio could not equal or
exceed dirty_ratio.  This restriction is maintained in addition to
restricting dirty_background_bytes.  If either background threshold equals
or exceeds that of the dirty threshold, it is implicitly set to half the
dirty threshold.

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06 15:59:03 -08:00
Theodore Ts'o 83982b6f47 ext4: Remove "extents" mount option
This mount option is largely superfluous, and in fact the way it was
implemented was buggy; if a filesystem which did not have the extents
feature flag was mounted -o extents, the filesystem would attempt to
create and use extents-based file even though the extents feature flag
was not eabled.  The simplest thing to do is to nuke the mount option
entirely.  It's not all that useful to force the non-creation of new
extent-based files if the filesystem can support it.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-01-06 14:53:16 -05:00
Theodore Ts'o b3881f74b3 ext4: Add mount option to set kjournald's I/O priority
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-01-05 22:46:26 -05:00
Tiger Yang a68979b857 ocfs2: add mount option and Kconfig option for acl
This patch adds the Kconfig option "CONFIG_OCFS2_FS_POSIX_ACL"
and mount options "acl" to enable acls in Ocfs2.

Signed-off-by: Tiger Yang <tiger.yang@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
2009-01-05 08:36:52 -08:00
Ken Chen 2ec220e27f proc: add /proc/*/stack
/proc/*/stack adds the ability to query a task's stack trace. It is more
useful than /proc/*/wchan as it provides full stack trace instead of single
depth. Example output:

	$ cat /proc/self/stack
	[<c010a271>] save_stack_trace_tsk+0x17/0x35
	[<c01827b4>] proc_pid_stack+0x4a/0x76
	[<c018312d>] proc_single_show+0x4a/0x5e
	[<c016bdec>] seq_read+0xf3/0x29f
	[<c015a004>] vfs_read+0x6d/0x91
	[<c015a0c1>] sys_read+0x3b/0x60
	[<c0102eda>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
	[<ffffffff>] 0xffffffff

[add save_stack_trace_tsk() on mips, ACK Ralf --adobriyan]
Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
2009-01-05 12:27:44 +03:00
Phillip Lougher 9eb425c046 Squashfs: documentation
Signed-off-by: Phillip Lougher <phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk>
2009-01-05 08:46:29 +00:00
Theodore Ts'o c319106723 ext4: Remove code to create the journal inode
This code has been obsolete in quite some time, since the supported
method for adding a journal inode is to use tune2fs (or to creating
new filesystem with a journal via mke2fs or mkfs.ext4).

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-01-06 11:14:25 -05:00
Linus Torvalds 8e3bda0863 Merge branch 'linux-next' of git://git.infradead.org/ubifs-2.6
* 'linux-next' of git://git.infradead.org/ubifs-2.6: (33 commits)
  UBIFS: add more useful debugging prints
  UBIFS: print debugging messages properly
  UBIFS: fix numerous spelling mistakes
  UBIFS: allow mounting when short of space
  UBIFS: fix writing uncompressed files
  UBIFS: fix checkpatch.pl warnings
  UBIFS: fix sparse warnings
  UBIFS: simplify make_free_space
  UBIFS: do not lie about used blocks
  UBIFS: restore budg_uncommitted_idx
  UBIFS: always commit on unmount
  UBIFS: use ubi_sync
  UBIFS: always commit in sync_fs
  UBIFS: fix file-system synchronization
  UBIFS: fix constants initialization
  UBIFS: avoid unnecessary calculations
  UBIFS: re-calculate min_idx_size after the commit
  UBIFS: use nicer 64-bit math
  UBIFS: fix available blocks count
  UBIFS: various comment improvements and fixes
  ...
2009-01-02 15:57:47 -08:00
Sukadev Bhattiprolu 784c4d8b1b Document usage of multiple-instances of devpts
Changelog [v2]:
	- Add note indicating strict isolation is not possible unless all
	  mounts of devpts use the 'newinstance' mount option.

Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-02 10:19:36 -08:00
Al Viro 6badd79bd0 kill ->dir_notify()
Remove the hopelessly misguided ->dir_notify().  The only instance (cifs)
has been broken by design from the very beginning; the objects it creates
are never destroyed, keep references to struct file they can outlive, nothing
that could possibly evict them exists on close(2) path *and* no locking
whatsoever is done to prevent races with close(), should the previous, er,
deficiencies someday be dealt with.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-12-31 18:07:43 -05:00
Eric Dumazet fd659fd627 fix f_count description in Documentation/filesystems/files.txt
Documentation/filesystems/files.txt was not updated when
f_count became an atomic_long_t.
atomic_long_inc_not_zero() is now used instead of atomic_inc_not_zero()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-12-31 18:07:42 -05:00
Zhaolei be42c4c433 correct wrong function name of d_put in kernel document and source comment
no function named d_put(), it should be dput().

Impact: fix document and comment, no functionality changed

Signed-off-by: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fuijtsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-12-31 18:07:40 -05:00
Artem Bityutskiy 80736d41f8 UBIFS: fix numerous spelling mistakes
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2008-12-31 14:13:25 +02:00
Lachlan McIlroy 0a8c5395f9 [XFS] Fix merge failures
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6

Conflicts:

	fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_cred.h
	fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_globals.h
	fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_ioctl.c
	fs/xfs/xfs_vnodeops.h

Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-12-29 16:47:18 +11:00
Ingo Molnar fa623d1b02 Merge branches 'x86/apic', 'x86/cleanups', 'x86/cpufeature', 'x86/crashdump', 'x86/debug', 'x86/defconfig', 'x86/detect-hyper', 'x86/doc', 'x86/dumpstack', 'x86/early-printk', 'x86/fpu', 'x86/idle', 'x86/io', 'x86/memory-corruption-check', 'x86/microcode', 'x86/mm', 'x86/mtrr', 'x86/nmi-watchdog', 'x86/pat2', 'x86/pci-ioapic-boot-irq-quirks', 'x86/ptrace', 'x86/quirks', 'x86/reboot', 'x86/setup-memory', 'x86/signal', 'x86/sparse-fixes', 'x86/time', 'x86/uv' and 'x86/xen' into x86/core 2008-12-23 16:27:23 +01:00
Lachlan McIlroy 14d676f56f Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 2008-12-05 15:27:43 +11:00
Artem Bityutskiy 553dea4dd5 UBIFS: introduce compression mount options
It is very handy to be able to change default UBIFS compressor
via mount options. Introduce -o compr=<name> mount option support.
Currently only "none", "lzo" and "zlib" compressors are supported.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2008-12-03 13:14:05 +02:00
Davide Libenzi 7ef9964e6d epoll: introduce resource usage limits
It has been thought that the per-user file descriptors limit would also
limit the resources that a normal user can request via the epoll
interface.  Vegard Nossum reported a very simple program (a modified
version attached) that can make a normal user to request a pretty large
amount of kernel memory, well within the its maximum number of fds.  To
solve such problem, default limits are now imposed, and /proc based
configuration has been introduced.  A new directory has been created,
named /proc/sys/fs/epoll/ and inside there, there are two configuration
points:

  max_user_instances = Maximum number of devices - per user

  max_user_watches   = Maximum number of "watched" fds - per user

The current default for "max_user_watches" limits the memory used by epoll
to store "watches", to 1/32 of the amount of the low RAM.  As example, a
256MB 32bit machine, will have "max_user_watches" set to roughly 90000.
That should be enough to not break existing heavy epoll users.  The
default value for "max_user_instances" is set to 128, that should be
enough too.

This also changes the userspace, because a new error code can now come out
from EPOLL_CTL_ADD (-ENOSPC).  The EMFILE from epoll_create() was already
listed, so that should be ok.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use get_current_user()]
Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Vegard Nossum <vegardno@ifi.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-12-01 19:55:24 -08:00
Mark Fasheh a2eee69b81 ocfs2: Small documentation update
Remove some features from the "not-supported" list that are actually
supported now.

Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
2008-12-01 14:46:49 -08:00
frans 1838e39214 Trivial Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt fix
A very minor patch on ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt: update the location
where CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE lives in menuconfig

Signed-off-by: Frans Meulenbroeks <fransmeulenbroeks@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-30 11:40:56 -08:00
Lachlan McIlroy b5a20aa265 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 2008-11-28 15:23:52 +11:00
Marco Stornelli 084c304980 DOC: update xip method info
xip documentation updated:
- change "get_xip_page" to "get_xip_mem";
- explain changed function parameters

Signed-off-by: Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-12 17:17:17 -08:00
Niv Sardi dcd7b4e5c0 Merge branch 'master' of git://oss.sgi.com:8090/xfs/linux-2.6 2008-11-07 15:07:12 +11:00
OGAWA Hirofumi dfc209c006 fat: Fix ATTR_RO for directory
FAT has the ATTR_RO (read-only) attribute. But on Windows, the ATTR_RO
of the directory will be just ignored actually, and is used by only
applications as flag. E.g. it's setted for the customized folder by
Explorer.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa969337.aspx

This adds "rodir" option. If user specified it, ATTR_RO is used as
read-only flag even if it's the directory. Otherwise, inode->i_mode
is not used to hold ATTR_RO (i.e. fat_mode_can_save_ro() returns 0).

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>
2008-11-06 15:41:21 -08:00
Bart Trojanowski 8986ab5963 fat: document additional vfat mount options
While debugging a sync mount regression on vfat I noticed that there were
mount options parsed by the driver that were not documented.

[hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp: fix some parts]
Signed-off-by: Bart Trojanowski <bart@jukie.net>
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>
2008-11-06 15:41:20 -08:00
Theodore Ts'o 30773840c1 ext4: add fsync batch tuning knobs
Add new mount options, min_batch_time and max_batch_time, which
controls how long the jbd2 layer should wait for additional filesystem
operations to get batched with a synchronous write transaction.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-01-03 20:27:38 -05:00
Theodore Ts'o 8e1a4857cd Update Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt
Fix paragraph with recommendations on how to tune ext4 for benchmarks.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-01-06 14:53:06 -05:00
Nick Piggin 4e02ed4b4a fs: remove prepare_write/commit_write
Nothing uses prepare_write or commit_write. Remove them from the tree
completely.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: schedule simple_prepare_write() for unexporting]
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-30 11:38:45 -07:00
Aristeu Rozanski 8a1c8eb75b x86, nmi-watchdog: update procfs nmi_watchdog file documentation v2
Impact: improve documentation

This patch updates the /proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog documentation.
Updated: included Randy Dunlap's corrections.

Signed-off-by: Aristeu Rozanski <aris@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-30 19:07:04 +01:00
Tim Shimmin f3f0d7b026 [XFS] remove restricted chown parameter from xfs linux
On Linux all filesystems are supposed to be operating under Posix'
restricted chown. Restricted chown means it restricts chown to the owner
unless you have CAP_FOWNER.

NOTE: that 2 files outside of fs/xfs have been modified too for this
change.

Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>

SGI-PV: 988919

SGI-Modid: 2.6.x-xfs-melb:linux:32413b

Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-10-30 18:30:09 +11:00
Linus Torvalds 396b122f6a Merge branch 'linux-next' of git://git.infradead.org/ubifs-2.6
* 'linux-next' of git://git.infradead.org/ubifs-2.6: (25 commits)
  UBIFS: fix ubifs_compress commentary
  UBIFS: amend printk
  UBIFS: do not read unnecessary bytes when unpacking bits
  UBIFS: check buffer length when scanning for LPT nodes
  UBIFS: correct condition to eliminate unecessary assignment
  UBIFS: add more debugging messages for LPT
  UBIFS: fix bulk-read handling uptodate pages
  UBIFS: improve garbage collection
  UBIFS: allow for sync_fs when read-only
  UBIFS: commit on sync_fs
  UBIFS: correct comment for commit_on_unmount
  UBIFS: update dbg_dump_inode
  UBIFS: fix commentary
  UBIFS: fix races in bit-fields
  UBIFS: ensure data read beyond i_size is zeroed out correctly
  UBIFS: correct key comparison
  UBIFS: use bit-fields when possible
  UBIFS: check data CRC when in error state
  UBIFS: improve znode splitting rules
  UBIFS: add no_chk_data_crc mount option
  ...
2008-10-20 09:19:03 -07:00
Hidehiro Kawai 0e4fb5e283 ext3: 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 a ext3 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.

Signed-off-by: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-20 08:52:37 -07:00
Andrea Righi 7a6560e025 documentation: clarify dirty_ratio and dirty_background_ratio description
The current documentation of dirty_ratio and dirty_background_ratio is a
bit misleading.

In the documentation we say that they are "a percentage of total system
memory", but the current page writeback policy, intead, is to apply the
percentages to the dirtyable memory, that means free pages + reclaimable
pages.

Better to be more explicit to clarify this concept.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: 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>
2008-10-20 08:52:32 -07:00
KOSAKI Motohiro e575f111dc coredump_filter: add hugepage dumping
Presently hugepage's vma has a VM_RESERVED flag in order not to be
swapped.  But a VM_RESERVED vma isn't core dumped because this flag is
often used for some kernel vmas (e.g.  vmalloc, sound related).

Thus hugepages are never dumped and it can't be debugged easily.  Many
developers want hugepages to be included into core-dump.

However, We can't read generic VM_RESERVED area because this area is often
IO mapping area.  then these area reading may change device state.  it is
definitly undesiable side-effect.

So adding a hugepage specific bit to the coredump filter is better.  It
will be able to hugepage core dumping and doesn't cause any side-effect to
any i/o devices.

In additional, libhugetlb use hugetlb private mapping pages as anonymous
page.  Then, hugepage private mapping pages should be core dumped by
default.

Then, /proc/[pid]/core_dump_filter has two new bits.

 - bit 5 mean hugetlb private mapping pages are dumped or not. (default: yes)
 - bit 6 mean hugetlb shared mapping pages are dumped or not.  (default: no)

I tested by following method.

% ulimit -c unlimited
% ./crash_hugepage  50
% ./crash_hugepage  50  -p
% ls -lh
% gdb ./crash_hugepage core
%
% echo 0x43 > /proc/self/coredump_filter
% ./crash_hugepage  50
% ./crash_hugepage  50  -p
% ls -lh
% gdb ./crash_hugepage core

#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/mman.h>
#include <string.h>

#include "hugetlbfs.h"

int main(int argc, char** argv){
	char* p;
	int ch;
	int mmap_flags = MAP_SHARED;
	int fd;
	int nr_pages;

	while((ch = getopt(argc, argv, "p")) != -1) {
		switch (ch) {
		case 'p':
			mmap_flags &= ~MAP_SHARED;
			mmap_flags |= MAP_PRIVATE;
			break;
		default:
			/* nothing*/
			break;
		}
	}
	argc -= optind;
	argv += optind;

	if (argc == 0){
		printf("need # of pages\n");
		exit(1);
	}

	nr_pages = atoi(argv[0]);
	if (nr_pages < 2) {
		printf("nr_pages must >2\n");
		exit(1);
	}

	fd = hugetlbfs_unlinked_fd();
	p = mmap(NULL, nr_pages * gethugepagesize(),
		 PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, mmap_flags, fd, 0);

	sleep(2);

	*(p + gethugepagesize()) = 1; /* COW */
	sleep(2);

	/* crash! */
	*(int*)0 = 1;

	return 0;
}

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Kawai Hidehiro <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: William Irwin <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-20 08:52:32 -07:00
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