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-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/affs.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/befs.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/caching/fscache.txt10
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/isofs.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt7
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt46
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/xfs.txt11
11 files changed, 47 insertions, 46 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt
index c0236e753bc..f9765e8cf08 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ OPTIONS
RESOURCES
=========
-Our current recommendation is to use Inferno (http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno)
+Our current recommendation is to use Inferno (http://www.vitanuova.com/nferno/index.html)
as the 9p server. You can start a 9p server under Inferno by issuing the
following command:
; styxlisten -A tcp!*!564 export '#U*'
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/affs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/affs.txt
index 2d1524469c2..81ac488e375 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/affs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/affs.txt
@@ -216,4 +216,4 @@ due to an incompatibility with the Amiga floppy controller.
If you are interested in an Amiga Emulator for Linux, look at
-http://www.freiburg.linux.de/~uae/
+http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.freiburg.linux.de/~uae/
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/befs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/befs.txt
index 67391a15949..6e49c363938 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/befs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/befs.txt
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ Current maintainer: Sergey S. Kostyliov <rathamahata@php4.ru>
WHAT IS THIS DRIVER?
==================
-This module implements the native filesystem of BeOS <http://www.be.com/>
+This module implements the native filesystem of BeOS http://www.beincorporated.com/
for the linux 2.4.1 and later kernels. Currently it is a read-only
implementation.
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ step 2. Configuration & make kernel
The linux kernel has many compile-time options. Most of them are beyond the
scope of this document. I suggest the Kernel-HOWTO document as a good general
-reference on this topic. <http://www.linux.com/howto/Kernel-HOWTO.html>
+reference on this topic. http://www.linuxdocs.org/HOWTOs/Kernel-HOWTO-4.html
However, to use the BeFS module, you must enable it at configure time.
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/caching/fscache.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/caching/fscache.txt
index a91e2e2095b..770267af5b3 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/caching/fscache.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/caching/fscache.txt
@@ -343,8 +343,8 @@ This will look something like:
[root@andromeda ~]# head /proc/fs/fscache/objects
OBJECT PARENT STAT CHLDN OPS OOP IPR EX READS EM EV F S | NETFS_COOKIE_DEF TY FL NETFS_DATA OBJECT_KEY, AUX_DATA
======== ======== ==== ===== === === === == ===== == == = = | ================ == == ================ ================
- 17e4b 2 ACTV 0 0 0 0 0 0 7b 4 0 8 | NFS.fh DT 0 ffff88001dd82820 010006017edcf8bbc93b43298fdfbe71e50b57b13a172c0117f38472, e567634700000000000000000000000063f2404a000000000000000000000000c9030000000000000000000063f2404a
- 1693a 2 ACTV 0 0 0 0 0 0 7b 4 0 8 | NFS.fh DT 0 ffff88002db23380 010006017edcf8bbc93b43298fdfbe71e50b57b1e0162c01a2df0ea6, 420ebc4a000000000000000000000000420ebc4a0000000000000000000000000e1801000000000000000000420ebc4a
+ 17e4b 2 ACTV 0 0 0 0 0 0 7b 4 0 0 | NFS.fh DT 0 ffff88001dd82820 010006017edcf8bbc93b43298fdfbe71e50b57b13a172c0117f38472, e567634700000000000000000000000063f2404a000000000000000000000000c9030000000000000000000063f2404a
+ 1693a 2 ACTV 0 0 0 0 0 0 7b 4 0 0 | NFS.fh DT 0 ffff88002db23380 010006017edcf8bbc93b43298fdfbe71e50b57b1e0162c01a2df0ea6, 420ebc4a000000000000000000000000420ebc4a0000000000000000000000000e1801000000000000000000420ebc4a
where the first set of columns before the '|' describe the object:
@@ -362,7 +362,7 @@ where the first set of columns before the '|' describe the object:
EM Object's event mask
EV Events raised on this object
F Object flags
- S Object slow-work work item flags
+ S Object work item busy state mask (1:pending 2:running)
and the second set of columns describe the object's cookie, if present:
@@ -395,8 +395,8 @@ and the following paired letters:
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
+ S Show objects that have work queued
+ s Show objects that don't have work queued
If neither side of a letter pair is given, then both are implied. For example:
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/isofs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/isofs.txt
index 3c367c3b360..ba0a93384de 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/isofs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/isofs.txt
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ Mount options unique to the isofs filesystem.
sbsector=xxx Session begins from sector xxx
Recommended documents about ISO 9660 standard are located at:
-http://www.y-adagio.com/public/standards/iso_cdromr/tocont.htm
+http://www.y-adagio.com/
ftp://ftp.ecma.ch/ecma-st/Ecma-119.pdf
Quoting from the PDF "This 2nd Edition of Standard ECMA-119 is technically
identical with ISO 9660.", so it is a valid and gratis substitute of the
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt
index 3ba0b945aaf..f2430a7974e 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt
@@ -124,6 +124,8 @@ ip=<client-ip>:<server-ip>:<gw-ip>:<netmask>:<hostname>:<device>:<autoconf>
<hostname> Name of the client. May be supplied by autoconfiguration,
but its absence will not trigger autoconfiguration.
+ If specified and DHCP is used, the user provided hostname will
+ be carried in the DHCP request to hopefully update DNS record.
Default: Client IP address is used in ASCII notation.
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
index 9fb6cbe70bd..8fe8895894d 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
@@ -73,9 +73,9 @@ contact Bodo Bauer at bb@ricochet.net. We'll be happy to add them to this
document.
The latest version of this document is available online at
-http://skaro.nightcrawler.com/~bb/Docs/Proc as HTML version.
+http://tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy/html/proc.html
-If the above direction does not works for you, ypu could try the kernel
+If the above direction does not works for you, you could try the kernel
mailing list at linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org and/or try to reach me at
comandante@zaralinux.com.
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt
index 85354b32d73..74eaac26f8b 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ files, each with their own function.
local_cpus nearby CPU mask (cpumask, ro)
remove remove device from kernel's list (ascii, wo)
resource PCI resource host addresses (ascii, ro)
- resource0..N PCI resource N, if present (binary, mmap)
+ resource0..N PCI resource N, if present (binary, mmap, rw[1])
resource0_wc..N_wc PCI WC map resource N, if prefetchable (binary, mmap)
rom PCI ROM resource, if present (binary, ro)
subsystem_device PCI subsystem device (ascii, ro)
@@ -54,13 +54,16 @@ files, each with their own function.
binary - file contains binary data
cpumask - file contains a cpumask type
+[1] rw for RESOURCE_IO (I/O port) regions only
+
The read only files are informational, writes to them will be ignored, with
the exception of the 'rom' file. Writable files can be used to perform
actions on the device (e.g. changing config space, detaching a device).
mmapable files are available via an mmap of the file at offset 0 and can be
used to do actual device programming from userspace. Note that some platforms
don't support mmapping of certain resources, so be sure to check the return
-value from any attempted mmap.
+value from any attempted mmap. The most notable of these are I/O port
+resources, which also provide read/write access.
The 'enable' file provides a counter that indicates how many times the device
has been enabled. If the 'enable' file currently returns '4', and a '1' is
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt
index 931c806642c..5d1335faec2 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ sysfs - _The_ filesystem for exporting kernel objects.
Patrick Mochel <mochel@osdl.org>
Mike Murphy <mamurph@cs.clemson.edu>
-Revised: 22 February 2009
+Revised: 15 July 2010
Original: 10 January 2003
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ show and store methods of the attribute owners.
struct sysfs_ops {
ssize_t (*show)(struct kobject *, struct attribute *, char *);
- ssize_t (*store)(struct kobject *, struct attribute *, const char *);
+ ssize_t (*store)(struct kobject *, struct attribute *, const char *, size_t);
};
[ Subsystems should have already defined a struct kobj_type as a
@@ -139,18 +139,22 @@ calls the associated methods.
To illustrate:
+#define to_dev(obj) container_of(obj, struct device, kobj)
#define to_dev_attr(_attr) container_of(_attr, struct device_attribute, attr)
-#define to_dev(d) container_of(d, struct device, kobj)
-static ssize_t
-dev_attr_show(struct kobject * kobj, struct attribute * attr, char * buf)
+static ssize_t dev_attr_show(struct kobject *kobj, struct attribute *attr,
+ char *buf)
{
- struct device_attribute * dev_attr = to_dev_attr(attr);
- struct device * dev = to_dev(kobj);
- ssize_t ret = 0;
+ struct device_attribute *dev_attr = to_dev_attr(attr);
+ struct device *dev = to_dev(kobj);
+ ssize_t ret = -EIO;
if (dev_attr->show)
- ret = dev_attr->show(dev, buf);
+ ret = dev_attr->show(dev, dev_attr, buf);
+ if (ret >= (ssize_t)PAGE_SIZE) {
+ print_symbol("dev_attr_show: %s returned bad count\n",
+ (unsigned long)dev_attr->show);
+ }
return ret;
}
@@ -163,10 +167,9 @@ To read or write attributes, show() or store() methods must be
specified when declaring the attribute. The method types should be as
simple as those defined for device attributes:
-ssize_t (*show)(struct device * dev, struct device_attribute * attr,
- char * buf);
-ssize_t (*store)(struct device * dev, struct device_attribute * attr,
- const char * buf);
+ssize_t (*show)(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf);
+ssize_t (*store)(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
+ const char *buf, size_t count);
IOW, they should take only an object, an attribute, and a buffer as parameters.
@@ -209,8 +212,8 @@ Other notes:
- show() should always use snprintf().
-- store() should return the number of bytes used from the buffer. This
- can be done using strlen().
+- store() should return the number of bytes used from the buffer. If the
+ entire buffer has been used, just return the count argument.
- show() or store() can always return errors. If a bad value comes
through, be sure to return an error.
@@ -223,15 +226,18 @@ Other notes:
A very simple (and naive) implementation of a device attribute is:
-static ssize_t show_name(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
+static ssize_t show_name(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
+ char *buf)
{
return snprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "%s\n", dev->name);
}
-static ssize_t store_name(struct device * dev, const char * buf)
+static ssize_t store_name(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
+ const char *buf, size_t count)
{
- sscanf(buf, "%20s", dev->name);
- return strnlen(buf, PAGE_SIZE);
+ snprintf(dev->name, sizeof(dev->name), "%.*s",
+ (int)min(count, sizeof(dev->name) - 1), buf);
+ return count;
}
static DEVICE_ATTR(name, S_IRUGO, show_name, store_name);
@@ -327,7 +333,7 @@ Structure:
struct bus_attribute {
struct attribute attr;
ssize_t (*show)(struct bus_type *, char * buf);
- ssize_t (*store)(struct bus_type *, const char * buf);
+ ssize_t (*store)(struct bus_type *, const char * buf, size_t count);
};
Declaring:
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt
index eed520fd0c8..ead764b2728 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt
@@ -165,7 +165,8 @@ TEST SUITE
If you plan to make any modifications to the vfat filesystem, please
get the test suite that comes with the vfat distribution at
- http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/people/chaffee/vfat.html
+ http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/
+ people/chaffee/vfat.html
This tests quite a few parts of the vfat filesystem and additional
tests for new features or untested features would be appreciated.
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/xfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/xfs.txt
index 9878f50d6ed..7bff3e4f35d 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/xfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/xfs.txt
@@ -131,17 +131,6 @@ When mounting an XFS filesystem, the following options are accepted.
Don't check for double mounted file systems using the file system uuid.
This is useful to mount LVM snapshot volumes.
- osyncisosync
- Make O_SYNC writes implement true O_SYNC. WITHOUT this option,
- Linux XFS behaves as if an "osyncisdsync" option is used,
- which will make writes to files opened with the O_SYNC flag set
- behave as if the O_DSYNC flag had been used instead.
- This can result in better performance without compromising
- data safety.
- However if this option is not in effect, timestamp updates from
- O_SYNC writes can be lost if the system crashes.
- If timestamp updates are critical, use the osyncisosync option.
-
uquota/usrquota/uqnoenforce/quota
User disk quota accounting enabled, and limits (optionally)
enforced. Refer to xfs_quota(8) for further details.
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