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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/00-INDEX | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt | 24 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/Locking | 13 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/configfs/configfs_example.c | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/hfsplus.txt | 59 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2.txt | 13 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 45 |
8 files changed, 151 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/00-INDEX b/Documentation/filesystems/00-INDEX index 571785887a4..59db1bca702 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/00-INDEX +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/00-INDEX @@ -32,6 +32,8 @@ directory-locking - info about the locking scheme used for directory operations. dlmfs.txt - info on the userspace interface to the OCFS2 DLM. +ecryptfs.txt + - docs on eCryptfs: stacked cryptographic filesystem for Linux. ext2.txt - info, mount options and specifications for the Ext2 filesystem. ext3.txt diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt index bbd8b28c13d..cda6905cbe4 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt @@ -6,12 +6,26 @@ ABOUT v9fs is a Unix implementation of the Plan 9 9p remote filesystem protocol. -This software was originally developed by Ron Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov> -and Maya Gokhale <maya@lanl.gov>. Additional development by Greg Watson +This software was originally developed by Ron Minnich <rminnich@sandia.gov> +and Maya Gokhale. Additional development by Greg Watson <gwatson@lanl.gov> and most recently Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>, Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net> and Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>. +The best detailed explanation of the Linux implementation and applications of +the 9p client is available in the form of a USENIX paper: + http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix05/tech/freenix/hensbergen.html + +Other applications are described in the following papers: + * XCPU & Clustering + http://www.xcpu.org/xcpu-talk.pdf + * KVMFS: control file system for KVM + http://www.xcpu.org/kvmfs.pdf + * CellFS: A New ProgrammingModel for the Cell BE + http://www.xcpu.org/cellfs-talk.pdf + * PROSE I/O: Using 9p to enable Application Partitions + http://plan9.escet.urjc.es/iwp9/cready/PROSE_iwp9_2006.pdf + USAGE ===== @@ -90,9 +104,9 @@ subset of the namespace by extending the path: '#U*'/tmp would just export and export. A Linux version of the 9p server is now maintained under the npfs project -on sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/npfs). There is also a -more stable single-threaded version of the server (named spfs) available from -the same CVS repository. +on sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/npfs). The currently +maintained version is the single-threaded version of the server (named spfs) +available from the same CVS repository. There are user and developer mailing lists available through the v9fs project on sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/v9fs). diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking index d866551be03..f0f825808ca 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking @@ -510,13 +510,24 @@ More details about quota locking can be found in fs/dquot.c. prototypes: void (*open)(struct vm_area_struct*); void (*close)(struct vm_area_struct*); + int (*fault)(struct vm_area_struct*, struct vm_fault *); struct page *(*nopage)(struct vm_area_struct*, unsigned long, int *); + int (*page_mkwrite)(struct vm_area_struct *, struct page *); locking rules: - BKL mmap_sem + BKL mmap_sem PageLocked(page) open: no yes close: no yes +fault: no yes nopage: no yes +page_mkwrite: no yes no + + ->page_mkwrite() is called when a previously read-only page is +about to become writeable. The file system is responsible for +protecting against truncate races. Once appropriate action has been +taking to lock out truncate, the page range should be verified to be +within i_size. The page mapping should also be checked that it is not +NULL. ================================================================================ Dubious stuff diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/configfs/configfs_example.c b/Documentation/filesystems/configfs/configfs_example.c index e56d49264b3..25151fd5c2c 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/configfs/configfs_example.c +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/configfs/configfs_example.c @@ -277,11 +277,10 @@ static struct config_item *simple_children_make_item(struct config_group *group, { struct simple_child *simple_child; - simple_child = kmalloc(sizeof(struct simple_child), GFP_KERNEL); + simple_child = kzalloc(sizeof(struct simple_child), GFP_KERNEL); if (!simple_child) return NULL; - memset(simple_child, 0, sizeof(struct simple_child)); config_item_init_type_name(&simple_child->item, name, &simple_child_type); @@ -364,12 +363,11 @@ static struct config_group *group_children_make_group(struct config_group *group { struct simple_children *simple_children; - simple_children = kmalloc(sizeof(struct simple_children), + simple_children = kzalloc(sizeof(struct simple_children), GFP_KERNEL); if (!simple_children) return NULL; - memset(simple_children, 0, sizeof(struct simple_children)); config_group_init_type_name(&simple_children->group, name, &simple_children_type); diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/hfsplus.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/hfsplus.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..af1628a1061 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/hfsplus.txt @@ -0,0 +1,59 @@ + +Macintosh HFSPlus Filesystem for Linux +====================================== + +HFSPlus is a filesystem first introduced in MacOS 8.1. +HFSPlus has several extensions to HFS, including 32-bit allocation +blocks, 255-character unicode filenames, and file sizes of 2^63 bytes. + + +Mount options +============= + +When mounting an HFSPlus filesystem, the following options are accepted: + + creator=cccc, type=cccc + Specifies the creator/type values as shown by the MacOS finder + used for creating new files. Default values: '????'. + + uid=n, gid=n + Specifies the user/group that owns all files on the filesystem + that have uninitialized permissions structures. + Default: user/group id of the mounting process. + + umask=n + Specifies the umask (in octal) used for files and directories + that have uninitialized permissions structures. + Default: umask of the mounting process. + + session=n + Select the CDROM session to mount as HFSPlus filesystem. Defaults to + leaving that decision to the CDROM driver. This option will fail + with anything but a CDROM as underlying devices. + + part=n + Select partition number n from the devices. This option only makes + sense for CDROMs because they can't be partitioned under Linux. + For disk devices the generic partition parsing code does this + for us. Defaults to not parsing the partition table at all. + + decompose + Decompose file name characters. + + nodecompose + Do not decompose file name characters. + + force + Used to force write access to volumes that are marked as journalled + or locked. Use at your own risk. + + nls=cccc + Encoding to use when presenting file names. + + +References +========== + +kernel source: <file:fs/hfsplus> + +Apple Technote 1150 http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn1150.html diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt index 8ee10ec8829..e79ee2db183 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt @@ -407,7 +407,7 @@ raiddev /dev/md0 device /dev/hda5 raid-disk 0 device /dev/hdb1 - raid-disl 1 + raid-disk 1 For linear raid, just change the raid-level above to "raid-level linear", for mirrors, change it to "raid-level 1", and for stripe sets with parity, change @@ -457,6 +457,8 @@ ChangeLog Note, a technical ChangeLog aimed at kernel hackers is in fs/ntfs/ChangeLog. +2.1.29: + - Fix a deadlock when mounting read-write. 2.1.28: - Fix a deadlock. 2.1.27: diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2.txt index 8ccf0c1b58e..ed55238023a 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2.txt @@ -28,11 +28,7 @@ Manish Singh <manish.singh@oracle.com> Caveats ======= Features which OCFS2 does not support yet: - - sparse files - extended attributes - - shared writable mmap - - loopback is supported, but data written will not - be cluster coherent. - quotas - cluster aware flock - cluster aware lockf @@ -57,3 +53,12 @@ nointr Do not allow signals to interrupt cluster atime_quantum=60(*) OCFS2 will not update atime unless this number of seconds has passed since the last update. Set to zero to always update atime. +data=ordered (*) All data are forced directly out to the main file + system prior to its metadata being committed to the + journal. +data=writeback Data ordering is not preserved, data may be written + into the main file system after its metadata has been + committed to the journal. +preferred_slot=0(*) During mount, try to use this filesystem slot first. If + it is in use by another node, the first empty one found + will be chosen. Invalid values will be ignored. diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index ebffdffb3d9..4a37e25e694 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ Table of Contents 2.12 /proc/<pid>/oom_adj - Adjust the oom-killer score 2.13 /proc/<pid>/oom_score - Display current oom-killer score 2.14 /proc/<pid>/io - Display the IO accounting fields + 2.15 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter - Core dump filtering settings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Preface @@ -1065,6 +1066,13 @@ check the amount of free space (value is in seconds). Default settings are: 4, resume it if we have a value of 3 or more percent; consider information about the amount of free space valid for 30 seconds +audit_argv_kb +------------- + +The file contains a single value denoting the limit on the argv array size +for execve (in KiB). This limit is only applied when system call auditing for +execve is enabled, otherwise the value is ignored. + ctrl-alt-del ------------ @@ -2177,4 +2185,41 @@ those 64-bit counters, process A could see an intermediate result. More information about this can be found within the taskstats documentation in Documentation/accounting. +2.15 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter - Core dump filtering settings +--------------------------------------------------------------- +When a process is dumped, all anonymous memory is written to a core file as +long as the size of the core file isn't limited. But sometimes we don't want +to dump some memory segments, for example, huge shared memory. Conversely, +sometimes we want to save file-backed memory segments into a core file, not +only the individual files. + +/proc/<pid>/coredump_filter allows you to customize which memory segments +will be dumped when the <pid> process is dumped. coredump_filter is a bitmask +of memory types. If a bit of the bitmask is set, memory segments of the +corresponding memory type are dumped, otherwise they are not dumped. + +The following 4 memory types are supported: + - (bit 0) anonymous private memory + - (bit 1) anonymous shared memory + - (bit 2) file-backed private memory + - (bit 3) file-backed shared memory + + Note that MMIO pages such as frame buffer are never dumped and vDSO pages + are always dumped regardless of the bitmask status. + +Default value of coredump_filter is 0x3; this means all anonymous memory +segments are dumped. + +If you don't want to dump all shared memory segments attached to pid 1234, +write 1 to the process's proc file. + + $ echo 0x1 > /proc/1234/coredump_filter + +When a new process is created, the process inherits the bitmask status from its +parent. It is useful to set up coredump_filter before the program runs. +For example: + + $ echo 0x7 > /proc/self/coredump_filter + $ ./some_program + ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |