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-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/fiemap.txt3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt197
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfs41-server.txt23
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/nfs/pnfs-block-server.txt37
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/nfs/pnfs.txt13
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt25
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.txt12
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/xfs.txt22
9 files changed, 101 insertions, 235 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/fiemap.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/fiemap.txt
index 1b805a0efbb0..f6d9c99103a4 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/fiemap.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/fiemap.txt
@@ -196,7 +196,8 @@ struct fiemap_extent_info {
};
It is intended that the file system should not need to access any of this
-structure directly.
+structure directly. Filesystem handlers should be tolerant to signals and return
+EINTR once fatal signal received.
Flag checking should be done at the beginning of the ->fiemap callback via the
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt
index cfd02712b83e..51f61db787fb 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt
@@ -4,201 +4,10 @@
Document started 15 Mar 2005 by Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
+Document updated 4 Jan 2015 by Zhang Zhen <zhenzhang.zhang@huawei.com>
+ --Deleted obsoleted interface, just refer to manpages for user interface.
-
-(i) User Interface
-
-Inotify is controlled by a set of three system calls and normal file I/O on a
-returned file descriptor.
-
-First step in using inotify is to initialise an inotify instance:
-
- int fd = inotify_init ();
-
-Each instance is associated with a unique, ordered queue.
-
-Change events are managed by "watches". A watch is an (object,mask) pair where
-the object is a file or directory and the mask is a bit mask of one or more
-inotify events that the application wishes to receive. See <linux/inotify.h>
-for valid events. A watch is referenced by a watch descriptor, or wd.
-
-Watches are added via a path to the file.
-
-Watches on a directory will return events on any files inside of the directory.
-
-Adding a watch is simple:
-
- int wd = inotify_add_watch (fd, path, mask);
-
-Where "fd" is the return value from inotify_init(), path is the path to the
-object to watch, and mask is the watch mask (see <linux/inotify.h>).
-
-You can update an existing watch in the same manner, by passing in a new mask.
-
-An existing watch is removed via
-
- int ret = inotify_rm_watch (fd, wd);
-
-Events are provided in the form of an inotify_event structure that is read(2)
-from a given inotify instance. The filename is of dynamic length and follows
-the struct. It is of size len. The filename is padded with null bytes to
-ensure proper alignment. This padding is reflected in len.
-
-You can slurp multiple events by passing a large buffer, for example
-
- size_t len = read (fd, buf, BUF_LEN);
-
-Where "buf" is a pointer to an array of "inotify_event" structures at least
-BUF_LEN bytes in size. The above example will return as many events as are
-available and fit in BUF_LEN.
-
-Each inotify instance fd is also select()- and poll()-able.
-
-You can find the size of the current event queue via the standard FIONREAD
-ioctl on the fd returned by inotify_init().
-
-All watches are destroyed and cleaned up on close.
-
-
-(ii)
-
-Prototypes:
-
- int inotify_init (void);
- int inotify_add_watch (int fd, const char *path, __u32 mask);
- int inotify_rm_watch (int fd, __u32 mask);
-
-
-(iii) Kernel Interface
-
-Inotify's kernel API consists a set of functions for managing watches and an
-event callback.
-
-To use the kernel API, you must first initialize an inotify instance with a set
-of inotify_operations. You are given an opaque inotify_handle, which you use
-for any further calls to inotify.
-
- struct inotify_handle *ih = inotify_init(my_event_handler);
-
-You must provide a function for processing events and a function for destroying
-the inotify watch.
-
- void handle_event(struct inotify_watch *watch, u32 wd, u32 mask,
- u32 cookie, const char *name, struct inode *inode)
-
- watch - the pointer to the inotify_watch that triggered this call
- wd - the watch descriptor
- mask - describes the event that occurred
- cookie - an identifier for synchronizing events
- name - the dentry name for affected files in a directory-based event
- inode - the affected inode in a directory-based event
-
- void destroy_watch(struct inotify_watch *watch)
-
-You may add watches by providing a pre-allocated and initialized inotify_watch
-structure and specifying the inode to watch along with an inotify event mask.
-You must pin the inode during the call. You will likely wish to embed the
-inotify_watch structure in a structure of your own which contains other
-information about the watch. Once you add an inotify watch, it is immediately
-subject to removal depending on filesystem events. You must grab a reference if
-you depend on the watch hanging around after the call.
-
- inotify_init_watch(&my_watch->iwatch);
- inotify_get_watch(&my_watch->iwatch); // optional
- s32 wd = inotify_add_watch(ih, &my_watch->iwatch, inode, mask);
- inotify_put_watch(&my_watch->iwatch); // optional
-
-You may use the watch descriptor (wd) or the address of the inotify_watch for
-other inotify operations. You must not directly read or manipulate data in the
-inotify_watch. Additionally, you must not call inotify_add_watch() more than
-once for a given inotify_watch structure, unless you have first called either
-inotify_rm_watch() or inotify_rm_wd().
-
-To determine if you have already registered a watch for a given inode, you may
-call inotify_find_watch(), which gives you both the wd and the watch pointer for
-the inotify_watch, or an error if the watch does not exist.
-
- wd = inotify_find_watch(ih, inode, &watchp);
-
-You may use container_of() on the watch pointer to access your own data
-associated with a given watch. When an existing watch is found,
-inotify_find_watch() bumps the refcount before releasing its locks. You must
-put that reference with:
-
- put_inotify_watch(watchp);
-
-Call inotify_find_update_watch() to update the event mask for an existing watch.
-inotify_find_update_watch() returns the wd of the updated watch, or an error if
-the watch does not exist.
-
- wd = inotify_find_update_watch(ih, inode, mask);
-
-An existing watch may be removed by calling either inotify_rm_watch() or
-inotify_rm_wd().
-
- int ret = inotify_rm_watch(ih, &my_watch->iwatch);
- int ret = inotify_rm_wd(ih, wd);
-
-A watch may be removed while executing your event handler with the following:
-
- inotify_remove_watch_locked(ih, iwatch);
-
-Call inotify_destroy() to remove all watches from your inotify instance and
-release it. If there are no outstanding references, inotify_destroy() will call
-your destroy_watch op for each watch.
-
- inotify_destroy(ih);
-
-When inotify removes a watch, it sends an IN_IGNORED event to your callback.
-You may use this event as an indication to free the watch memory. Note that
-inotify may remove a watch due to filesystem events, as well as by your request.
-If you use IN_ONESHOT, inotify will remove the watch after the first event, at
-which point you may call the final inotify_put_watch.
-
-(iv) Kernel Interface Prototypes
-
- struct inotify_handle *inotify_init(struct inotify_operations *ops);
-
- inotify_init_watch(struct inotify_watch *watch);
-
- s32 inotify_add_watch(struct inotify_handle *ih,
- struct inotify_watch *watch,
- struct inode *inode, u32 mask);
-
- s32 inotify_find_watch(struct inotify_handle *ih, struct inode *inode,
- struct inotify_watch **watchp);
-
- s32 inotify_find_update_watch(struct inotify_handle *ih,
- struct inode *inode, u32 mask);
-
- int inotify_rm_wd(struct inotify_handle *ih, u32 wd);
-
- int inotify_rm_watch(struct inotify_handle *ih,
- struct inotify_watch *watch);
-
- void inotify_remove_watch_locked(struct inotify_handle *ih,
- struct inotify_watch *watch);
-
- void inotify_destroy(struct inotify_handle *ih);
-
- void get_inotify_watch(struct inotify_watch *watch);
- void put_inotify_watch(struct inotify_watch *watch);
-
-
-(v) Internal Kernel Implementation
-
-Each inotify instance is represented by an inotify_handle structure.
-Inotify's userspace consumers also have an inotify_device which is
-associated with the inotify_handle, and on which events are queued.
-
-Each watch is associated with an inotify_watch structure. Watches are chained
-off of each associated inotify_handle and each associated inode.
-
-See fs/notify/inotify/inotify_fsnotify.c and fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c
-for the locking and lifetime rules.
-
-
-(vi) Rationale
+(i) Rationale
Q: What is the design decision behind not tying the watch to the open fd of
the watched object?
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfs41-server.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfs41-server.txt
index c49cd7e796e7..682a59fabe3f 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfs41-server.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfs41-server.txt
@@ -24,11 +24,6 @@ focuses on the mandatory-to-implement NFSv4.1 Sessions, providing
"exactly once" semantics and better control and throttling of the
resources allocated for each client.
-Other NFSv4.1 features, Parallel NFS operations in particular,
-are still under development out of tree.
-See http://wiki.linux-nfs.org/wiki/index.php/PNFS_prototype_design
-for more information.
-
The table below, taken from the NFSv4.1 document, lists
the operations that are mandatory to implement (REQ), optional
(OPT), and NFSv4.0 operations that are required not to implement (MNI)
@@ -43,9 +38,7 @@ The OPTIONAL features identified and their abbreviations are as follows:
The following abbreviations indicate the linux server implementation status.
I Implemented NFSv4.1 operations.
NS Not Supported.
- NS* unimplemented optional feature.
- P pNFS features implemented out of tree.
- PNS pNFS features that are not supported yet (out of tree).
+ NS* Unimplemented optional feature.
Operations
@@ -70,13 +63,13 @@ I | DESTROY_SESSION | REQ | | Section 18.37 |
I | EXCHANGE_ID | REQ | | Section 18.35 |
I | FREE_STATEID | REQ | | Section 18.38 |
| GETATTR | REQ | | Section 18.7 |
-P | GETDEVICEINFO | OPT | pNFS (REQ) | Section 18.40 |
-P | GETDEVICELIST | OPT | pNFS (OPT) | Section 18.41 |
+I | GETDEVICEINFO | OPT | pNFS (REQ) | Section 18.40 |
+NS*| GETDEVICELIST | OPT | pNFS (OPT) | Section 18.41 |
| GETFH | REQ | | Section 18.8 |
NS*| GET_DIR_DELEGATION | OPT | DDELG (REQ) | Section 18.39 |
-P | LAYOUTCOMMIT | OPT | pNFS (REQ) | Section 18.42 |
-P | LAYOUTGET | OPT | pNFS (REQ) | Section 18.43 |
-P | LAYOUTRETURN | OPT | pNFS (REQ) | Section 18.44 |
+I | LAYOUTCOMMIT | OPT | pNFS (REQ) | Section 18.42 |
+I | LAYOUTGET | OPT | pNFS (REQ) | Section 18.43 |
+I | LAYOUTRETURN | OPT | pNFS (REQ) | Section 18.44 |
| LINK | OPT | | Section 18.9 |
| LOCK | REQ | | Section 18.10 |
| LOCKT | REQ | | Section 18.11 |
@@ -122,9 +115,9 @@ Callback Operations
| | MNI | or OPT) | |
+-------------------------+-----------+-------------+---------------+
| CB_GETATTR | OPT | FDELG (REQ) | Section 20.1 |
-P | CB_LAYOUTRECALL | OPT | pNFS (REQ) | Section 20.3 |
+I | CB_LAYOUTRECALL | OPT | pNFS (REQ) | Section 20.3 |
NS*| CB_NOTIFY | OPT | DDELG (REQ) | Section 20.4 |
-P | CB_NOTIFY_DEVICEID | OPT | pNFS (OPT) | Section 20.12 |
+NS*| CB_NOTIFY_DEVICEID | OPT | pNFS (OPT) | Section 20.12 |
NS*| CB_NOTIFY_LOCK | OPT | | Section 20.11 |
NS*| CB_PUSH_DELEG | OPT | FDELG (OPT) | Section 20.5 |
| CB_RECALL | OPT | FDELG, | Section 20.2 |
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/pnfs-block-server.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/pnfs-block-server.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..2143673cf154
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/pnfs-block-server.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+pNFS block layout server user guide
+
+The Linux NFS server now supports the pNFS block layout extension. In this
+case the NFS server acts as Metadata Server (MDS) for pNFS, which in addition
+to handling all the metadata access to the NFS export also hands out layouts
+to the clients to directly access the underlying block devices that are
+shared with the client.
+
+To use pNFS block layouts with with the Linux NFS server the exported file
+system needs to support the pNFS block layouts (currently just XFS), and the
+file system must sit on shared storage (typically iSCSI) that is accessible
+to the clients in addition to the MDS. As of now the file system needs to
+sit directly on the exported volume, striping or concatenation of
+volumes on the MDS and clients is not supported yet.
+
+On the server, pNFS block volume support is automatically if the file system
+support it. On the client make sure the kernel has the CONFIG_PNFS_BLOCK
+option enabled, the blkmapd daemon from nfs-utils is running, and the
+file system is mounted using the NFSv4.1 protocol version (mount -o vers=4.1).
+
+If the nfsd server needs to fence a non-responding client it calls
+/sbin/nfsd-recall-failed with the first argument set to the IP address of
+the client, and the second argument set to the device node without the /dev
+prefix for the file system to be fenced. Below is an example file that shows
+how to translate the device into a serial number from SCSI EVPD 0x80:
+
+cat > /sbin/nfsd-recall-failed << EOF
+#!/bin/sh
+
+CLIENT="$1"
+DEV="/dev/$2"
+EVPD=`sg_inq --page=0x80 ${DEV} | \
+ grep "Unit serial number:" | \
+ awk -F ': ' '{print $2}'`
+
+echo "fencing client ${CLIENT} serial ${EVPD}" >> /var/log/pnfsd-fence.log
+EOF
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/pnfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/pnfs.txt
index adc81a35fe2d..44a9f2493a88 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/pnfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/pnfs.txt
@@ -57,15 +57,16 @@ bit is set, preventing any new lsegs from being added.
layout drivers
--------------
-PNFS utilizes what is called layout drivers. The STD defines 3 basic
-layout types: "files" "objects" and "blocks". For each of these types
-there is a layout-driver with a common function-vectors table which
-are called by the nfs-client pnfs-core to implement the different layout
-types.
+PNFS utilizes what is called layout drivers. The STD defines 4 basic
+layout types: "files", "objects", "blocks", and "flexfiles". For each
+of these types there is a layout-driver with a common function-vectors
+table which are called by the nfs-client pnfs-core to implement the
+different layout types.
-Files-layout-driver code is in: fs/nfs/nfs4filelayout.c && nfs4filelayoutdev.c
+Files-layout-driver code is in: fs/nfs/filelayout/.. directory
Objects-layout-deriver code is in: fs/nfs/objlayout/.. directory
Blocks-layout-deriver code is in: fs/nfs/blocklayout/.. directory
+Flexfiles-layout-driver code is in: fs/nfs/flexfilelayout/.. directory
objects-layout setup
--------------------
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2.txt
index 7618a287aa41..28f8c08201e2 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2.txt
@@ -100,3 +100,7 @@ coherency=full (*) Disallow concurrent O_DIRECT writes, cluster inode
coherency=buffered Allow concurrent O_DIRECT writes without EX lock among
nodes, which gains high performance at risk of getting
stale data on other nodes.
+journal_async_commit Commit block can be written to disk without waiting
+ for descriptor blocks. If enabled older kernels cannot
+ mount the device. This will enable 'journal_checksum'
+ internally.
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
index aae9dd13c91f..cf8fc2f0b34b 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ Table of Contents
1.6 Parallel port info in /proc/parport
1.7 TTY info in /proc/tty
1.8 Miscellaneous kernel statistics in /proc/stat
- 1.9 Ext4 file system parameters
+ 1.9 Ext4 file system parameters
2 Modifying System Parameters
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ Table of Contents
3.6 /proc/<pid>/comm & /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/comm
3.7 /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/children - Information about task children
3.8 /proc/<pid>/fdinfo/<fd> - Information about opened file
+ 3.9 /proc/<pid>/map_files - Information about memory mapped files
4 Configuring procfs
4.1 Mount options
@@ -1763,6 +1764,28 @@ pair provide additional information particular to the objects they represent.
with TIMER_ABSTIME option which will be shown in 'settime flags', but 'it_value'
still exhibits timer's remaining time.
+3.9 /proc/<pid>/map_files - Information about memory mapped files
+---------------------------------------------------------------------
+This directory contains symbolic links which represent memory mapped files
+the process is maintaining. Example output:
+
+ | lr-------- 1 root root 64 Jan 27 11:24 333c600000-333c620000 -> /usr/lib64/ld-2.18.so
+ | lr-------- 1 root root 64 Jan 27 11:24 333c81f000-333c820000 -> /usr/lib64/ld-2.18.so
+ | lr-------- 1 root root 64 Jan 27 11:24 333c820000-333c821000 -> /usr/lib64/ld-2.18.so
+ | ...
+ | lr-------- 1 root root 64 Jan 27 11:24 35d0421000-35d0422000 -> /usr/lib64/libselinux.so.1
+ | lr-------- 1 root root 64 Jan 27 11:24 400000-41a000 -> /usr/bin/ls
+
+The name of a link represents the virtual memory bounds of a mapping, i.e.
+vm_area_struct::vm_start-vm_area_struct::vm_end.
+
+The main purpose of the map_files is to retrieve a set of memory mapped
+files in a fast way instead of parsing /proc/<pid>/maps or
+/proc/<pid>/smaps, both of which contain many more records. At the same
+time one can open(2) mappings from the listings of two processes and
+comparing their inode numbers to figure out which anonymous memory areas
+are actually shared.
+
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Configuring procfs
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.txt
index b797ed38de46..9de4303201e1 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.txt
@@ -194,16 +194,16 @@ which is in the string esc will be represented in octal form in the output.
There are also a pair of functions for printing filenames:
- int seq_path(struct seq_file *m, struct path *path, char *esc);
- int seq_path_root(struct seq_file *m, struct path *path,
- struct path *root, char *esc)
+ int seq_path(struct seq_file *m, const struct path *path,
+ const char *esc);
+ int seq_path_root(struct seq_file *m, const struct path *path,
+ const struct path *root, const char *esc)
Here, path indicates the file of interest, and esc is a set of characters
which should be escaped in the output. A call to seq_path() will output
the path relative to the current process's filesystem root. If a different
-root is desired, it can be used with seq_path_root(). Note that, if it
-turns out that path cannot be reached from root, the value of root will be
-changed in seq_file_root() to a root which *does* work.
+root is desired, it can be used with seq_path_root(). If it turns out that
+path cannot be reached from root, seq_path_root() returns SEQ_SKIP.
A function producing complicated output may want to check
bool seq_has_overflowed(struct seq_file *m);
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/xfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/xfs.txt
index 5be51fd888bd..0bfafe108357 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/xfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/xfs.txt
@@ -287,9 +287,9 @@ The following sysctls are available for the XFS filesystem:
XFS_ERRLEVEL_LOW: 1
XFS_ERRLEVEL_HIGH: 5
- fs.xfs.panic_mask (Min: 0 Default: 0 Max: 127)
+ fs.xfs.panic_mask (Min: 0 Default: 0 Max: 255)
Causes certain error conditions to call BUG(). Value is a bitmask;
- AND together the tags which represent errors which should cause panics:
+ OR together the tags which represent errors which should cause panics:
XFS_NO_PTAG 0
XFS_PTAG_IFLUSH 0x00000001
@@ -299,6 +299,7 @@ The following sysctls are available for the XFS filesystem:
XFS_PTAG_SHUTDOWN_CORRUPT 0x00000010
XFS_PTAG_SHUTDOWN_IOERROR 0x00000020
XFS_PTAG_SHUTDOWN_LOGERROR 0x00000040
+ XFS_PTAG_FSBLOCK_ZERO 0x00000080
This option is intended for debugging only.
@@ -348,16 +349,13 @@ The following sysctls are available for the XFS filesystem:
Deprecated Sysctls
==================
- fs.xfs.xfsbufd_centisecs (Min: 50 Default: 100 Max: 3000)
- Dirty metadata is now tracked by the log subsystem and
- flushing is driven by log space and idling demands. The
- xfsbufd no longer exists, so this syctl does nothing.
+None at present.
- Due for removal in 3.14.
- fs.xfs.age_buffer_centisecs (Min: 100 Default: 1500 Max: 720000)
- Dirty metadata is now tracked by the log subsystem and
- flushing is driven by log space and idling demands. The
- xfsbufd no longer exists, so this syctl does nothing.
+Removed Sysctls
+===============
- Due for removal in 3.14.
+ Name Removed
+ ---- -------
+ fs.xfs.xfsbufd_centisec v3.20
+ fs.xfs.age_buffer_centisecs v3.20