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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/Locking | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/porting | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | 47 |
5 files changed, 63 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking index 977d8919cc6..4471a416c27 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking @@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ prototypes: void (*d_release)(struct dentry *); void (*d_iput)(struct dentry *, struct inode *); char *(*d_dname)((struct dentry *dentry, char *buffer, int buflen); + struct vfsmount *(*d_automount)(struct path *path); + int (*d_manage)(struct dentry *, bool); locking rules: rename_lock ->d_lock may block rcu-walk @@ -29,6 +31,8 @@ d_delete: no yes no no d_release: no no yes no d_iput: no no yes no d_dname: no no no no +d_automount: no no yes no +d_manage: no no yes (ref-walk) maybe --------------------------- inode_operations --------------------------- prototypes: @@ -56,7 +60,6 @@ ata *); ssize_t (*listxattr) (struct dentry *, char *, size_t); int (*removexattr) (struct dentry *, const char *); void (*truncate_range)(struct inode *, loff_t, loff_t); - long (*fallocate)(struct inode *inode, int mode, loff_t offset, loff_t len); int (*fiemap)(struct inode *, struct fiemap_extent_info *, u64 start, u64 len); locking rules: @@ -84,7 +87,6 @@ getxattr: no listxattr: no removexattr: yes truncate_range: yes -fallocate: no fiemap: no Additionally, ->rmdir(), ->unlink() and ->rename() have ->i_mutex on victim. @@ -343,7 +345,6 @@ prototypes: int (*fl_grant)(struct file_lock *, struct file_lock *, int); void (*fl_release_private)(struct file_lock *); void (*fl_break)(struct file_lock *); /* break_lease callback */ - int (*fl_mylease)(struct file_lock *, struct file_lock *); int (*fl_change)(struct file_lock **, int); locking rules: @@ -353,7 +354,6 @@ fl_notify: yes no fl_grant: no no fl_release_private: maybe no fl_break: yes no -fl_mylease: yes no fl_change yes no --------------------------- buffer_head ----------------------------------- @@ -435,6 +435,7 @@ prototypes: ssize_t (*splice_read)(struct file *, loff_t *, struct pipe_inode_info *, size_t, unsigned int); int (*setlease)(struct file *, long, struct file_lock **); + long (*fallocate)(struct file *, int, loff_t, loff_t); }; locking rules: diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt index 6ef8cf3bc9a..933bc66ccff 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt @@ -460,6 +460,8 @@ Note, a technical ChangeLog aimed at kernel hackers is in fs/ntfs/ChangeLog. 2.1.30: - Fix writev() (it kept writing the first segment over and over again instead of moving onto subsequent segments). + - Fix crash in ntfs_mft_record_alloc() when mapping the new extent mft + record failed. 2.1.29: - Fix a deadlock when mounting read-write. 2.1.28: diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting index 266d2059b9b..dfbcd1b00b0 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting @@ -365,8 +365,8 @@ must be done in the RCU callback. [recommended] vfs now tries to do path walking in "rcu-walk mode", which avoids atomic operations and scalability hazards on dentries and inodes (see -Documentation/filesystems/path-walk.txt). d_hash and d_compare changes (above) -are examples of the changes required to support this. For more complex +Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.txt). d_hash and d_compare changes +(above) are examples of the changes required to support this. For more complex filesystem callbacks, the vfs drops out of rcu-walk mode before the fs call, so no changes are required to the filesystem. However, this is costly and loses the benefits of rcu-walk mode. We will begin to add filesystem callbacks that @@ -383,8 +383,8 @@ Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt for more details. permission and check_acl are inode permission checks that are called on many or all directory inodes on the way down a path walk (to check for -exec permission). These must now be rcu-walk aware (flags & IPERM_RCU). See -Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt for more details. +exec permission). These must now be rcu-walk aware (flags & IPERM_FLAG_RCU). +See Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt for more details. -- [mandatory] diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index 9471225212c..23cae6548d3 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -375,6 +375,7 @@ Anonymous: 0 kB Swap: 0 kB KernelPageSize: 4 kB MMUPageSize: 4 kB +Locked: 374 kB The first of these lines shows the same information as is displayed for the mapping in /proc/PID/maps. The remaining lines show the size of the mapping @@ -670,6 +671,8 @@ varies by architecture and compile options. The following is from a > cat /proc/meminfo +The "Locked" indicates whether the mapping is locked in memory or not. + MemTotal: 16344972 kB MemFree: 13634064 kB @@ -1320,6 +1323,10 @@ scaled linearly with /proc/<pid>/oom_score_adj. Writing to /proc/<pid>/oom_score_adj or /proc/<pid>/oom_adj will change the other with its scaled value. +The value of /proc/<pid>/oom_score_adj may be reduced no lower than the last +value set by a CAP_SYS_RESOURCE process. To reduce the value any lower +requires CAP_SYS_RESOURCE. + NOTICE: /proc/<pid>/oom_adj is deprecated and will be removed, please see Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt. diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt index fbb324e2bd4..94cf97b901d 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt @@ -415,8 +415,8 @@ otherwise noted. permission: called by the VFS to check for access rights on a POSIX-like filesystem. - May be called in rcu-walk mode (flags & IPERM_RCU). If in rcu-walk - mode, the filesystem must check the permission without blocking or + May be called in rcu-walk mode (flags & IPERM_FLAG_RCU). If in rcu-walk + mode, the filesystem must check the permission without blocking or storing to the inode. If a situation is encountered that rcu-walk cannot handle, return @@ -864,6 +864,8 @@ struct dentry_operations { void (*d_release)(struct dentry *); void (*d_iput)(struct dentry *, struct inode *); char *(*d_dname)(struct dentry *, char *, int); + struct vfsmount *(*d_automount)(struct path *); + int (*d_manage)(struct dentry *, bool, bool); }; d_revalidate: called when the VFS needs to revalidate a dentry. This @@ -930,6 +932,47 @@ struct dentry_operations { at the end of the buffer, and returns a pointer to the first char. dynamic_dname() helper function is provided to take care of this. + d_automount: called when an automount dentry is to be traversed (optional). + This should create a new VFS mount record and return the record to the + caller. The caller is supplied with a path parameter giving the + automount directory to describe the automount target and the parent + VFS mount record to provide inheritable mount parameters. NULL should + be returned if someone else managed to make the automount first. If + the vfsmount creation failed, then an error code should be returned. + If -EISDIR is returned, then the directory will be treated as an + ordinary directory and returned to pathwalk to continue walking. + + If a vfsmount is returned, the caller will attempt to mount it on the + mountpoint and will remove the vfsmount from its expiration list in + the case of failure. The vfsmount should be returned with 2 refs on + it to prevent automatic expiration - the caller will clean up the + additional ref. + + This function is only used if DCACHE_NEED_AUTOMOUNT is set on the + dentry. This is set by __d_instantiate() if S_AUTOMOUNT is set on the + inode being added. + + d_manage: called to allow the filesystem to manage the transition from a + dentry (optional). This allows autofs, for example, to hold up clients + waiting to explore behind a 'mountpoint' whilst letting the daemon go + past and construct the subtree there. 0 should be returned to let the + calling process continue. -EISDIR can be returned to tell pathwalk to + use this directory as an ordinary directory and to ignore anything + mounted on it and not to check the automount flag. Any other error + code will abort pathwalk completely. + + If the 'mounting_here' parameter is true, then namespace_sem is being + held by the caller and the function should not initiate any mounts or + unmounts that it will then wait for. + + If the 'rcu_walk' parameter is true, then the caller is doing a + pathwalk in RCU-walk mode. Sleeping is not permitted in this mode, + and the caller can be asked to leave it and call again by returing + -ECHILD. + + This function is only used if DCACHE_MANAGE_TRANSIT is set on the + dentry being transited from. + Example : static char *pipefs_dname(struct dentry *dent, char *buffer, int buflen) |