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2014-02-10Documentation/: update 00-INDEX filesHenrik Austad2-1/+5
Some of the 00-INDEX files are somewhat outdated and some folders does not contain 00-INDEX at all. Only outdated (with the notably exception of spi) indexes are touched here, the 169 folders without 00-INDEX has not been touched. New 00-INDEX - spi/* was added in a series of commits dating back to 2006 Added files (missing in (*/)00-INDEX) - dmatest.txt was added by commit 851b7e16a07d ("dmatest: run test via debugfs") - this_cpu_ops.txt was added by commit a1b2a555d637 ("percpu: add documentation on this_cpu operations") - ww-mutex-design.txt was added by commit 040a0a371005 ("mutex: Add support for wound/wait style locks") - bcache.txt was added by commit cafe56359144 ("bcache: A block layer cache") - kernel-per-CPU-kthreads.txt was added by commit 49717cb40410 ("kthread: Document ways of reducing OS jitter due to per-CPU kthreads") - phy.txt was added by commit ff764963479a ("drivers: phy: add generic PHY framework") - block/null_blk was added by commit 12f8f4fc0314 ("null_blk: documentation") - module-signing.txt was added by commit 3cafea307642 ("Add Documentation/module-signing.txt file") - assoc_array.txt was added by commit 3cb989501c26 ("Add a generic associative array implementation.") - arm/IXP4xx was part of the initial repo - arm/cluster-pm-race-avoidance.txt was added by commit 7fe31d28e839 ("ARM: mcpm: introduce helpers for platform coherency exit/setup") - arm/firmware.txt was added by commit 7366b92a77fc ("ARM: Add interface for registering and calling firmware-specific operations") - arm/kernel_mode_neon.txt was added by commit 2afd0a05241d ("ARM: 7825/1: document the use of NEON in kernel mode") - arm/tcm.txt was added by commit bc581770cfdd ("ARM: 5580/2: ARM TCM (Tightly-Coupled Memory) support v3") - arm/vlocks.txt was added by commit 9762f12d3e05 ("ARM: mcpm: Add baremetal voting mutexes") - blackfin/gptimers-example.c, Makefile was added by commit 4b60779d5ea7 ("Blackfin: add an example showing how to use the gptimers API") - devicetree/usage-model.txt was added by commit 31134efc681a ("dt: Linux DT usage model documentation") - fb/api.txt was added by commit fb21c2f42879 ("fbdev: Add FOURCC-based format configuration API") - fb/sm501.txt was added by commit e6a049807105 ("video, sm501: add edid and commandline support") - fb/udlfb.txt was added by commit 96f8d864afd6 ("fbdev: move udlfb out of staging.") - filesystems/Makefile was added by commit 1e0051ae48a2 ("Documentation/fs/: split txt and source files") - filesystems/nfs/nfsd-admin-interfaces.txt was added by commit 8a4c6e19cfed ("nfsd: document kernel interfaces for nfsd configuration") - ide/warm-plug-howto.txt was added by commit f74c91413ec6 ("ide: add warm-plug support for IDE devices (take 2)") - laptops/Makefile was added by commit d49129accc21 ("Documentation/laptop/: split txt and source files") - leds/leds-blinkm.txt was added by commit b54cf35a7f65 ("LEDS: add BlinkM RGB LED driver, documentation and update MAINTAINERS") - leds/ledtrig-oneshot.txt was added by commit 5e417281cde2 ("leds: add oneshot trigger") - leds/ledtrig-transient.txt was added by commit 44e1e9f8e705 ("leds: add new transient trigger for one shot timer activation") - m68k/README.buddha was part of the initial repo - networking/LICENSE.(qla3xxx|qlcnic|qlge) was added by commits 40839129f779, c4e84bde1d59, 5a4faa873782 - networking/Makefile was added by commit 3794f3e812ef ("docsrc: build Documentation/ sources") - networking/i40evf.txt was added by commit 105bf2fe6b32 ("i40evf: add driver to kernel build system") - networking/ipsec.txt was added by commit b3c6efbc36e2 ("xfrm: Add file to document IPsec corner case") - networking/mac80211-auth-assoc-deauth.txt was added by commit 3cd7920a2be8 ("mac80211: add auth/assoc/deauth flow diagram") - networking/netlink_mmap.txt was added by commit 5683264c3981 ("netlink: add documentation for memory mapped I/O") - networking/nf_conntrack-sysctl.txt was added by commit c9f9e0e1597f ("netfilter: doc: add nf_conntrack sysctl api documentation") lan) - networking/team.txt was added by commit 3d249d4ca7d0 ("net: introduce ethernet teaming device") - networking/vxlan.txt was added by commit d342894c5d2f ("vxlan: virtual extensible lan") - power/runtime_pm.txt was added by commit 5e928f77a09a ("PM: Introduce core framework for run-time PM of I/O devices (rev. 17)") - power/charger-manager.txt was added by commit 3bb3dbbd56ea ("power_supply: Add initial Charger-Manager driver") - RCU/lockdep-splat.txt was added by commit d7bd2d68aa2e ("rcu: Document interpretation of RCU-lockdep splats") - s390/kvm.txt was added by 5ecee4b (KVM: s390: API documentation) - s390/qeth.txt was added by commit b4d72c08b358 ("qeth: bridgeport support - basic control") - scheduler/sched-bwc.txt was added by commit 88ebc08ea9f7 ("sched: Add documentation for bandwidth control") - scsi/advansys.txt was added by commit 4bd6d7f35661 ("[SCSI] advansys: Move documentation to Documentation/scsi") - scsi/bfa.txt was added by commit 1ec90174bdb4 ("[SCSI] bfa: add readme file") - scsi/bnx2fc.txt was added by commit 12b8fc10eaf4 ("[SCSI] bnx2fc: Add driver documentation") - scsi/cxgb3i.txt was added by commit c3673464ebc0 ("[SCSI] cxgb3i: Add cxgb3i iSCSI driver.") - scsi/hpsa.txt was added by commit 992ebcf14f3c ("[SCSI] hpsa: Add hpsa.txt to Documentation/scsi") - scsi/link_power_management_policy.txt was added by commit ca77329fb713 ("[libata] Link power management infrastructure") - scsi/osd.txt was added by commit 78e0c621deca ("[SCSI] osd: Documentation for OSD library") - scsi/scsi-parameter.txt was created/moved by commit 163475fb111c ("Documentation: move SCSI parameters to their own text file") - serial/driver was part of the initial repo - serial/n_gsm.txt was added by commit 323e84122ec6 ("n_gsm: add a documentation") - timers/Makefile was added by commit 3794f3e812ef ("docsrc: build Documentation/ sources") - virt/kvm/s390.txt was added by commit d9101fca3d57 ("KVM: s390: diagnose call documentation") - vm/split_page_table_lock was added by commit 49076ec2ccaf ("mm: dynamically allocate page->ptl if it cannot be embedded to struct page") - w1/slaves/w1_ds28e04 was added by commit fbf7f7b4e2ae ("w1: Add 1-wire slave device driver for DS28E04-100") - w1/masters/omap-hdq was added by commit e0a29382c6f5 ("hdq: documentation for OMAP HDQ") - x86/early-microcode.txt was added by commit 0d91ea86a895 ("x86, doc: Documentation for early microcode loading") - x86/earlyprintk.txt was added by commit a1aade478862 ("x86/doc: mini-howto for using earlyprintk=dbgp") - x86/entry_64.txt was added by commit 8b4777a4b50c ("x86-64: Document some of entry_64.S") - x86/pat.txt was added by commit d27554d874c7 ("x86: PAT documentation") Moved files - arm/kernel_user_helpers.txt was moved out of arch/arm/kernel by commit 37b8304642c7 ("ARM: kuser: move interface documentation out of the source code") - efi-stub.txt was moved out of x86/ and down into Documentation/ in commit 4172fe2f8a47 ("EFI stub documentation updates") - laptops/hpfall.c was moved out of hwmon/ and into laptops/ in commit efcfed9bad88 ("Move hp_accel to drivers/platform/x86") - commit 5616c23ad9cd ("x86: doc: move x86-generic documentation from Doc/x86/i386"): * x86/usb-legacy-support.txt * x86/boot.txt * x86/zero_page.txt - power/video_extension.txt was moved to acpi in commit 70e66e4df191 ("ACPI / video: move video_extension.txt to Documentation/acpi") Removed files (left in 00-INDEX) - memory.txt was removed by commit 00ea8990aadf ("memory.txt: remove stray information") - gpio.txt was moved to gpio/ in commit fd8e198cfcaa ("Documentation: gpiolib: document new interface") - networking/DLINK.txt was removed by commit 168e06ae26dd ("drivers/net: delete old parallel port de600/de620 drivers") - serial/hayes-esp.txt was removed by commit f53a2ade0bb9 ("tty: esp: remove broken driver") - s390/TAPE was removed by commit 9e280f669308 ("[S390] remove tape block docu") - vm/locking was removed by commit 57ea8171d2bc ("mm: documentation: remove hopelessly out-of-date locking doc") - laptops/acer-wmi.txt was remvoed by commit 020036678e81 ("acer-wmi: Delete out-of-date documentation") Typos/misc issues - rpc-server-gss.txt was added as knfsd-rpcgss.txt in commit 030d794bf498 ("SUNRPC: Use gssproxy upcall for server RPCGSS authentication.") - commit b88cf73d9278 ("net: add missing entries to Documentation/networking/00-INDEX") * generic-hdlc.txt was added as generic_hdlc.txt * spider_net.txt was added as spider-net.txt - w1/master/mxc-w1 was added as mxc_w1 by commit a5fd9139f74c ("w1: add 1-wire master driver for i.MX27 / i.MX31") - s390/zfcpdump.txt was added as zfcpdump by commit 6920c12a407e ("[S390] Add Documentation/s390/00-INDEX.") Signed-off-by: Henrik Austad <henrik@austad.us> Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [rcu bits] Acked-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Cc: James Bottomley <JBottomley@parallels.com> Cc: Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-01-30Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/linux-btrfsLinus Torvalds1-17/+30
Pull btrfs updates from Chris Mason: "This is a pretty big pull, and most of these changes have been floating in btrfs-next for a long time. Filipe's properties work is a cool building block for inheriting attributes like compression down on a per inode basis. Jeff Mahoney kicked in code to export filesystem info into sysfs. Otherwise, lots of performance improvements, cleanups and bug fixes. Looks like there are still a few other small pending incrementals, but I wanted to get the bulk of this in first" * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/linux-btrfs: (149 commits) Btrfs: fix spin_unlock in check_ref_cleanup Btrfs: setup inode location during btrfs_init_inode_locked Btrfs: don't use ram_bytes for uncompressed inline items Btrfs: fix btrfs_search_slot_for_read backwards iteration Btrfs: do not export ulist functions Btrfs: rework ulist with list+rb_tree Btrfs: fix memory leaks on walking backrefs failure Btrfs: fix send file hole detection leading to data corruption Btrfs: add a reschedule point in btrfs_find_all_roots() Btrfs: make send's file extent item search more efficient Btrfs: fix to catch all errors when resolving indirect ref Btrfs: fix protection between walking backrefs and root deletion btrfs: fix warning while merging two adjacent extents Btrfs: fix infinite path build loops in incremental send btrfs: undo sysfs when open_ctree() fails Btrfs: fix snprintf usage by send's gen_unique_name btrfs: fix defrag 32-bit integer overflow btrfs: sysfs: list the NO_HOLES feature btrfs: sysfs: don't show reserved incompat feature btrfs: call permission checks earlier in ioctls and return EPERM ...
2014-01-30Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt: update file_operations documentationRichard Yao1-10/+2
->readv, ->writev and ->sendfile have been removed while ->show_fdinfo has been added. The documentation should reflect this. Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-01-30mm, oom: base root bonus on current usageDavid Rientjes1-2/+2
A 3% of system memory bonus is sometimes too excessive in comparison to other processes. With commit a63d83f427fb ("oom: badness heuristic rewrite"), the OOM killer tries to avoid killing privileged tasks by subtracting 3% of overall memory (system or cgroup) from their per-task consumption. But as a result, all root tasks that consume less than 3% of overall memory are considered equal, and so it only takes 33+ privileged tasks pushing the system out of memory for the OOM killer to do something stupid and kill dhclient or other root-owned processes. For example, on a 32G machine it can't tell the difference between the 1M agetty and the 10G fork bomb member. The changelog describes this 3% boost as the equivalent to the global overcommit limit being 3% higher for privileged tasks, but this is not the same as discounting 3% of overall memory from _every privileged task individually_ during OOM selection. Replace the 3% of system memory bonus with a 3% of current memory usage bonus. By giving root tasks a bonus that is proportional to their actual size, they remain comparable even when relatively small. In the example above, the OOM killer will discount the 1M agetty's 256 badness points down to 179, and the 10G fork bomb's 262144 points down to 183500 points and make the right choice, instead of discounting both to 0 and killing agetty because it's first in the task list. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Reported-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-01-30Merge branch 'for-3.14' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linuxLinus Torvalds1-28/+14
Pull nfsd updates from Bruce Fields: - Handle some loose ends from the vfs read delegation support. (For example nfsd can stop breaking leases on its own in a fewer places where it can now depend on the vfs to.) - Make life a little easier for NFSv4-only configurations (thanks to Kinglong Mee). - Fix some gss-proxy problems (thanks Jeff Layton). - miscellaneous bug fixes and cleanup * 'for-3.14' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux: (38 commits) nfsd: consider CLAIM_FH when handing out delegation nfsd4: fix delegation-unlink/rename race nfsd4: delay setting current_fh in open nfsd4: minor nfs4_setlease cleanup gss_krb5: use lcm from kernel lib nfsd4: decrease nfsd4_encode_fattr stack usage nfsd: fix encode_entryplus_baggage stack usage nfsd4: simplify xdr encoding of nfsv4 names nfsd4: encode_rdattr_error cleanup nfsd4: nfsd4_encode_fattr cleanup minor svcauth_gss.c cleanup nfsd4: better VERIFY comment nfsd4: break only delegations when appropriate NFSD: Fix a memory leak in nfsd4_create_session sunrpc: get rid of use_gssp_lock sunrpc: fix potential race between setting use_gss_proxy and the upcall rpc_clnt sunrpc: don't wait for write before allowing reads from use-gss-proxy file nfsd: get rid of unused function definition Define op_iattr for nfsd4_open instead using macro NFSD: fix compile warning without CONFIG_NFSD_V3 ...
2014-01-28btrfs: Add treelog mount option.Qu Wenruo1-1/+2
Add treelog mount option to enable tree log with remount option. Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo <quwenruo@cn.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
2014-01-28btrfs: Add datasum mount option.Qu Wenruo1-1/+3
Add datasum mount option to enable checksum with remount option. Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo <quwenruo@cn.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
2014-01-28btrfs: Add datacow mount option.Qu Wenruo1-2/+3
Add datacow mount option to enable copy-on-write with remount option. Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo <quwenruo@cn.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
2014-01-28btrfs: Add acl mount option.Qu Wenruo1-1/+2
Add acl mount option to enable acl with remount option. Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo <quwenruo@cn.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
2014-01-28btrfs: Add noflushoncommit mount option.Qu Wenruo1-0/+1
Add noflushoncommit mount option to disable flush on commit with remount option. Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo <quwenruo@cn.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
2014-01-28btrfs: Add noenospc_debug mount option.Qu Wenruo1-1/+2
Add noenospc_debug mount option to disable ENOSPC debug with remount option. Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo <quwenruo@cn.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
2014-01-28btrfs: Add nodiscard mount option.Qu Wenruo1-2/+5
Add nodiscard mount option to disable discard with remount option. Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo <quwenruo@cn.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
2014-01-28btrfs: Add noautodefrag mount option.Qu Wenruo1-3/+5
Btrfs has autodefrag mount option but no pairing noautodefrag option, which makes it impossible to disable autodefrag without umount. Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo <quwenruo@cn.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
2014-01-28btrfs: Add "barrier" option to support "-o remount,barrier"Qu Wenruo1-6/+7
Btrfs can be remounted without barrier, but there is no "barrier" option so nobody can remount btrfs back with barrier on. Only umount and mount again can re-enable barrier.(Quite awkward) Also the mount options in the document is also changed slightly for the further pairing options changes. Reported-by: Daniel Blueman <daniel@quora.org> Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo <quwenruo@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Fleetwood <mike.fleetwood@googlemail.com> Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
2014-01-26Merge tag 'for-3.14-merge-window' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ericvh/v9fsLinus Torvalds1-11/+6
Pull 9p changes from Eric Van Hensbergen: "Included are a new cache model for support of mmap, and several cleanups across the filesystem and networking portions of the code" * tag 'for-3.14-merge-window' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ericvh/v9fs: 9p: update documentation 9P: introduction of a new cache=mmap model. net/9p: remove virtio default hack and set appropriate bits instead 9p: remove useless 'name' variable and assignment 9p: fix return value in case in v9fs_fid_xattr_set() 9p: remove useless variable and assignment 9p: remove useless assignment 9p: remove unused 'super_block' struct pointer 9p: remove never used return variable 9p: remove unused 'p9_fid' struct pointer 9p: remove unused 'p9_client' struct pointer
2014-01-249p: update documentationEric Van Hensbergen1-11/+6
quick pass to update the documentation to include instructions for the new cache=mmap mode as well as clean up some out-of-date bits. Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2014-01-23Documentation/filesystems/00-INDEX: updatesFabian Frederick1-13/+45
Add the following documentation-files with description : -autofs4-mount-control.txt -btrfs.txt -debugfs.txt -devpts.txt -fiemap.txt -gfs2-glocks.txt -gfs2-uevents.txt -omfs.txt -path-lookup.txt -qnx6.txt -quota.txt -squashfs.txt -sysfs-tagging.txt -ubifs.txt -xfs-delayed-logging-design.txt -xfs-self-describing-metadata.txt Add the following documentation directories with description : -caching -cifs (replacing cifs.txt) -pohmelfs Remove the following documentation-files reference: -dentry-locking.txt -reiser4.txt Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-01-23Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt: fix device_attribute declarationAndre Richter1-3/+3
Fix a wrong device_attribute declaration example. Signed-off-by: Andre Richter <andre.o.richter@gmail.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-01-23nilfs2: add comments for ioctlsVyacheslav Dubeyko1-0/+56
Add comments for ioctls in fs/nilfs2/ioctl.c file and describe NILFS2 specific ioctls in Documentation/filesystems/nilfs2.txt. Signed-off-by: Vyacheslav Dubeyko <slava@dubeyko.com> Reviewed-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp> Cc: Wenliang Fan <fanwlexca@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-01-23Merge tag 'for-f2fs-3.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fsLinus Torvalds1-0/+24
Pull f2fs updates from Jaegeuk Kim: "In this round, a couple of sysfs entries were introduced to tune the f2fs at runtime. In addition, f2fs starts to support inline_data and improves the read/write performance in some workloads by refactoring bio-related flows. This patch-set includes the following major enhancement patches. - support inline_data - refactor bio operations such as merge operations and rw type assignment - enhance the direct IO path - enhance bio operations - truncate a node page when it becomes obsolete - add sysfs entries: small_discards, max_victim_search, and in-place-update - add a sysfs entry to control max_victim_search The other bug fixes are as follows. - fix a bug in truncate_partial_nodes - avoid warnings during sparse and build process - fix error handling flows - fix potential bit overflows And, there are a bunch of cleanups" * tag 'for-f2fs-3.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs: (95 commits) f2fs: drop obsolete node page when it is truncated f2fs: introduce NODE_MAPPING for code consistency f2fs: remove the orphan block page array f2fs: add help function META_MAPPING f2fs: move a branch for code redability f2fs: call mark_inode_dirty to flush dirty pages f2fs: clean checkpatch warnings f2fs: missing REQ_META and REQ_PRIO when sync_meta_pages(META_FLUSH) f2fs: avoid f2fs_balance_fs call during pageout f2fs: add delimiter to seperate name and value in debug phrase f2fs: use spinlock rather than mutex for better speed f2fs: move alloc new orphan node out of lock protection region f2fs: move grabing orphan pages out of protection region f2fs: remove the needless parameter of f2fs_wait_on_page_writeback f2fs: update documents and a MAINTAINERS entry f2fs: add a sysfs entry to control max_victim_search f2fs: improve write performance under frequent fsync calls f2fs: avoid to read inline data except first page f2fs: avoid to left uninitialized data in page when read inline data f2fs: fix truncate_partial_nodes bug ...
2014-01-22Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivialLinus Torvalds2-2/+2
Pull trivial tree updates from Jiri Kosina: "Usual rocket science stuff from trivial.git" * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (39 commits) neighbour.h: fix comment sched: Fix warning on make htmldocs caused by wait.h slab: struct kmem_cache is protected by slab_mutex doc: Fix typo in USB Gadget Documentation of/Kconfig: Spelling s/one/once/ mkregtable: Fix sscanf handling lp5523, lp8501: comment improvements thermal: rcar: comment spelling treewide: fix comments and printk msgs IXP4xx: remove '1 &&' from a condition check in ixp4xx_restart() Documentation: update /proc/uptime field description Documentation: Fix size parameter for snprintf arm: fix comment header and macro name asm-generic: uaccess: Spelling s/a ny/any/ mtd: onenand: fix comment header doc: driver-model/platform.txt: fix a typo drivers: fix typo in DEVTMPFS_MOUNT Kconfig help text doc: Fix typo (acces_process_vm -> access_process_vm) treewide: Fix typos in printk drivers/gpu/drm/qxl/Kconfig: reformat the help text ...
2014-01-21/proc/meminfo: provide estimated available memoryRik van Riel1-0/+9
Many load balancing and workload placing programs check /proc/meminfo to estimate how much free memory is available. They generally do this by adding up "free" and "cached", which was fine ten years ago, but is pretty much guaranteed to be wrong today. It is wrong because Cached includes memory that is not freeable as page cache, for example shared memory segments, tmpfs, and ramfs, and it does not include reclaimable slab memory, which can take up a large fraction of system memory on mostly idle systems with lots of files. Currently, the amount of memory that is available for a new workload, without pushing the system into swap, can be estimated from MemFree, Active(file), Inactive(file), and SReclaimable, as well as the "low" watermarks from /proc/zoneinfo. However, this may change in the future, and user space really should not be expected to know kernel internals to come up with an estimate for the amount of free memory. It is more convenient to provide such an estimate in /proc/meminfo. If things change in the future, we only have to change it in one place. Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Reported-by: Erik Mouw <erik.mouw_2@nxp.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-01-09f2fs: update documents and a MAINTAINERS entryJaegeuk Kim1-0/+5
This patch adds missing some description of sysfs entries in - Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-f2fs - Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.txt. And it adds a maintained document entry of F2FS in MAINTAINERS. Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
2014-01-02Documentation: update /proc/uptime field descriptionRob Landley1-1/+1
/proc/uptime has two fields, update description to describe both ala http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1312.3/01454.html Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2013-12-26f2fs: update f2fs DocumentationHuajun Li1-0/+2
This patch describes the inline_data support in f2fs document. Signed-off-by: Huajun Li <huajun.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
2013-12-23f2fs: add description about small_discards in documentJaegeuk Kim1-0/+6
This patch adds a description about small_disacrds in the f2fs document. Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
2013-12-23f2fs: introduce sysfs entry to control in-place-update policyJaegeuk Kim1-0/+11
This patch introduces new sysfs entries for users to control the policy of in-place-updates, namely IPU, in f2fs. Sometimes f2fs suffers from performance degradation due to its out-of-place update policy that produces many additional node block writes. If the storage performance is very dependant on the amount of data writes instead of IO patterns, we'd better drop this out-of-place update policy. This patch suggests 5 polcies and their triggering conditions as follows. [sysfs entry name = ipu_policy] 0: F2FS_IPU_FORCE all the time, 1: F2FS_IPU_SSR if SSR mode is activated, 2: F2FS_IPU_UTIL if FS utilization is over threashold, 3: F2FS_IPU_SSR_UTIL if SSR mode is activated and FS utilization is over threashold, 4: F2FS_IPU_DISABLE disable IPU. (=default option) [sysfs entry name = min_ipu_util] This parameter controls the threshold to trigger in-place-updates. The number indicates percentage of the filesystem utilization, and used by F2FS_IPU_UTIL and F2FS_IPU_SSR_UTIL policies. For more details, see need_inplace_update() in segment.h. Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
2013-12-19doc: Fix typo (acces_process_vm -> access_process_vm)Stefan Weil1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2013-12-10nfsd4: update 4.1 nfsd status documentationJ. Bruce Fields1-28/+14
This has gone a little stale. Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
2013-11-22Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/linux-btrfsLinus Torvalds1-17/+17
Pull btrfs fixes from Chris Mason: "Almost all of these are bug fixes. Dave Sterba's documentation update is the big exception because he removed our promises to set any machine running Btrfs on fire" * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/linux-btrfs: Documentation: filesystems: update btrfs tools section Documentation: filesystems: add new btrfs mount options btrfs: update kconfig help text btrfs: fix bio_size_ok() for max_sectors > 0xffff btrfs: Use trace condition for get_extent tracepoint btrfs: fix typo in the log message Btrfs: fix list delete warning when removing ordered root from the list Btrfs: print bytenr instead of page pointer in check-int Btrfs: remove dead codes from ctree.h Btrfs: don't wait for ordered data outside desired range Btrfs: fix lockdep error in async commit Btrfs: avoid heavy operations in btrfs_commit_super Btrfs: fix __btrfs_start_workers retval Btrfs: disable online raid-repair on ro mounts Btrfs: do not inc uncorrectable_errors counter on ro scrubs Btrfs: only drop modified extents if we logged the whole inode Btrfs: make sure to copy everything if we rename Btrfs: don't BUG_ON() if we get an error walking backrefs
2013-11-21Documentation: filesystems: update btrfs tools sectionDavid Sterba1-16/+6
The tools mentioned have been obsoleted long ago, replace with the current ones. CC: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@fusionio.com>
2013-11-21Documentation: filesystems: add new btrfs mount optionsDavid Sterba1-1/+11
Two new options were added in 3.12: commit and rescan_uuid_tree CC: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@fusionio.com>
2013-11-13Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew Morton)Linus Torvalds2-1/+2
Merge first patch-bomb from Andrew Morton: "Quite a lot of other stuff is banked up awaiting further next->mainline merging, but this batch contains: - Lots of random misc patches - OCFS2 - Most of MM - backlight updates - lib/ updates - printk updates - checkpatch updates - epoll tweaking - rtc updates - hfs - hfsplus - documentation - procfs - update gcov to gcc-4.7 format - IPC" * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (269 commits) ipc, msg: fix message length check for negative values ipc/util.c: remove unnecessary work pending test devpts: plug the memory leak in kill_sb ./Makefile: export initial ramdisk compression config option init/Kconfig: add option to disable kernel compression drivers: w1: make w1_slave::flags long to avoid memory corruption drivers/w1/masters/ds1wm.cuse dev_get_platdata() drivers/memstick/core/ms_block.c: fix unreachable state in h_msb_read_page() drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c: fix attributes array allocation drivers/pps/clients/pps-gpio.c: remove redundant of_match_ptr kernel/panic.c: reduce 1 byte usage for print tainted buffer gcov: reuse kbasename helper kernel/gcov/fs.c: use pr_warn() kernel/module.c: use pr_foo() gcov: compile specific gcov implementation based on gcc version gcov: add support for gcc 4.7 gcov format gcov: move gcov structs definitions to a gcc version specific file kernel/taskstats.c: return -ENOMEM when alloc memory fails in add_del_listener() kernel/taskstats.c: add nla_nest_cancel() for failure processing between nla_nest_start() and nla_nest_end() kernel/sysctl_binary.c: use scnprintf() instead of snprintf() ...
2013-11-13Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfsLinus Torvalds2-9/+30
Pull vfs updates from Al Viro: "All kinds of stuff this time around; some more notable parts: - RCU'd vfsmounts handling - new primitives for coredump handling - files_lock is gone - Bruce's delegations handling series - exportfs fixes plus misc stuff all over the place" * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (101 commits) ecryptfs: ->f_op is never NULL locks: break delegations on any attribute modification locks: break delegations on link locks: break delegations on rename locks: helper functions for delegation breaking locks: break delegations on unlink namei: minor vfs_unlink cleanup locks: implement delegations locks: introduce new FL_DELEG lock flag vfs: take i_mutex on renamed file vfs: rename I_MUTEX_QUOTA now that it's not used for quotas vfs: don't use PARENT/CHILD lock classes for non-directories vfs: pull ext4's double-i_mutex-locking into common code exportfs: fix quadratic behavior in filehandle lookup exportfs: better variable name exportfs: move most of reconnect_path to helper function exportfs: eliminate unused "noprogress" counter exportfs: stop retrying once we race with rename/remove exportfs: clear DISCONNECTED on all parents sooner exportfs: more detailed comment for path_reconnect ...
2013-11-13Merge tag 'for-f2fs-3.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fsLinus Torvalds1-0/+7
Pull f2fs updates from Jaegeuk Kim: "This patch-set includes the following major enhancement patches. - add a sysfs to control reclaiming free segments - enhance the f2fs global lock procedures - enhance the victim selection flow - wait for selected node blocks during fsync - add some tracepoints - add a config to remove abundant BUG_ONs The other bug fixes are as follows. - fix deadlock on acl operations - fix some bugs with respect to orphan inodes And, there are a bunch of cleanups" * tag 'for-f2fs-3.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs: (42 commits) f2fs: issue more large discard command f2fs: fix memory leak after kobject init failed in fill_super f2fs: cleanup waiting routine for writeback pages in cp f2fs: avoid to use a NULL point in destroy_segment_manager f2fs: remove unnecessary TestClearPageError when wait pages writeback f2fs: update f2fs document f2fs: avoid to wait all the node blocks during fsync f2fs: check all ones or zeros bitmap with bitops for better mount performance f2fs: change the method of calculating the number summary blocks f2fs: fix calculating incorrect free size when update xattr in __f2fs_setxattr f2fs: add an option to avoid unnecessary BUG_ONs f2fs: introduce CONFIG_F2FS_CHECK_FS for BUG_ON control f2fs: fix a deadlock during init_acl procedure f2fs: clean up acl flow for better readability f2fs: remove unnecessary segment bitmap updates f2fs: add tracepoint for vm_page_mkwrite f2fs: add tracepoint for set_page_dirty f2fs: remove redundant set_page_dirty from write_compacted_summaries f2fs: add reclaiming control by sysfs f2fs: introduce f2fs_balance_fs_bg for some background jobs ...
2013-11-13Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt: fix directory entry exampleLuis Ortega Perez de Villar1-1/+1
Slots can store up to 13 characters for the file name but one of the examples has one character too many. Signed-off-by: Luis Ortega Perez de Villar <luiorpe1@upv.es> 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>
2013-11-13/proc/pid/smaps: show VM_SOFTDIRTY flag in VmFlags lineNaoya Horiguchi1-0/+1
This flag shows that the VMA is "newly created" and thus represents "dirty" in the task's VM. You can clear it by "echo 4 > /proc/pid/clear_refs." Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> Acked-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-11-09vfs: take i_mutex on renamed fileJ. Bruce Fields1-9/+22
A read delegation is used by NFSv4 as a guarantee that a client can perform local read opens without informing the server. The open operation takes the last component of the pathname as an argument, thus is also a lookup operation, and giving the client the above guarantee means informing the client before we allow anything that would change the set of names pointing to the inode. Therefore, we need to break delegations on rename, link, and unlink. We also need to prevent new delegations from being acquired while one of these operations is in progress. We could add some completely new locking for that purpose, but it's simpler to use the i_mutex, since that's already taken by all the operations we care about. The single exception is rename. So, modify rename to take the i_mutex on the file that is being renamed. Also fix up lockdep and Documentation/filesystems/directory-locking to reflect the change. Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-11-09iget/iget5: don't bother with ->i_lock until we find a matchAl Viro1-0/+8
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-11-01f2fs: update f2fs documentJaegeuk Kim1-0/+1
This patch describes the inline_xattr support in f2fs document. Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
2013-10-25f2fs: add reclaiming control by sysfsJaegeuk Kim1-0/+6
This patch adds a control method in sysfs to reclaim prefree segments. Signed-off-by: Changman Lee <cm224.lee@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
2013-09-27FS-Cache: Provide the ability to enable/disable cookiesDavid Howells1-13/+60
Provide the ability to enable and disable fscache cookies. A disabled cookie will reject or ignore further requests to: Acquire a child cookie Invalidate and update backing objects Check the consistency of a backing object Allocate storage for backing page Read backing pages Write to backing pages but still allows: Checks/waits on the completion of already in-progress objects Uncaching of pages Relinquishment of cookies Two new operations are provided: (1) Disable a cookie: void fscache_disable_cookie(struct fscache_cookie *cookie, bool invalidate); If the cookie is not already disabled, this locks the cookie against other dis/enablement ops, marks the cookie as being disabled, discards or invalidates any backing objects and waits for cessation of activity on any associated object. This is a wrapper around a chunk split out of fscache_relinquish_cookie(), but it reinitialises the cookie such that it can be reenabled. All possible failures are handled internally. The caller should consider calling fscache_uncache_all_inode_pages() afterwards to make sure all page markings are cleared up. (2) Enable a cookie: void fscache_enable_cookie(struct fscache_cookie *cookie, bool (*can_enable)(void *data), void *data) If the cookie is not already enabled, this locks the cookie against other dis/enablement ops, invokes can_enable() and, if the cookie is not an index cookie, will begin the procedure of acquiring backing objects. The optional can_enable() function is passed the data argument and returns a ruling as to whether or not enablement should actually be permitted to begin. All possible failures are handled internally. The cookie will only be marked as enabled if provisional backing objects are allocated. A later patch will introduce these to NFS. Cookie enablement during nfs_open() is then contingent on i_writecount <= 0. can_enable() checks for a race between open(O_RDONLY) and open(O_WRONLY/O_RDWR). This simplifies NFS's cookie handling and allows us to get rid of open(O_RDONLY) accidentally introducing caching to an inode that's open for writing already. One operation has its API modified: (3) Acquire a cookie. struct fscache_cookie *fscache_acquire_cookie( struct fscache_cookie *parent, const struct fscache_cookie_def *def, void *netfs_data, bool enable); This now has an additional argument that indicates whether the requested cookie should be enabled by default. It doesn't need the can_enable() function because the caller must prevent multiple calls for the same netfs object and it doesn't need to take the enablement lock because no one else can get at the cookie before this returns. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com
2013-09-18Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfsLinus Torvalds1-7/+7
Pull vfs fixes from Al Viro: "atomic_open-related fixes (Miklos' series, with EEXIST-related parts replaced with fix in fs/namei.c:atomic_open() instead of messing with the instances) + race fix in autofs + leak on failure exit in 9p" * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: 9p: don't forget to destroy inode cache if fscache registration fails atomic_open: take care of EEXIST in no-open case with O_CREAT|O_EXCL in fs/namei.c vfs: don't set FILE_CREATED before calling ->atomic_open() nfs: set FILE_CREATED gfs2: set FILE_CREATED cifs: fix filp leak in cifs_atomic_open() vfs: improve i_op->atomic_open() documentation autofs4: close the races around autofs4_notify_daemon()
2013-09-16vfs: improve i_op->atomic_open() documentationMiklos Szeredi1-7/+7
Fix documentation of ->atomic_open() and related functions: finish_open() and finish_no_open(). Also add details that seem to be unclear and a source of bugs (some of which are fixed in the following series). Cc-ing maintainers of all filesystems implementing ->atomic_open(). Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com> Cc: Sage Weil <sage@inktank.com> Cc: Steve French <sfrench@samba.org> Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-09-13cifs: update cifs.txt and remove some outdated infosBjörn Jacke1-31/+11
Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Björn JACKE <bj@sernet.de> Signed-off-by: Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com>
2013-09-12Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfsLinus Torvalds1-0/+4
Pull vfs pile 4 from Al Viro: "list_lru pile, mostly" This came out of Andrew's pile, Al ended up doing the merge work so that Andrew didn't have to. Additionally, a few fixes. * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (42 commits) super: fix for destroy lrus list_lru: dynamically adjust node arrays shrinker: Kill old ->shrink API. shrinker: convert remaining shrinkers to count/scan API staging/lustre/libcfs: cleanup linux-mem.h staging/lustre/ptlrpc: convert to new shrinker API staging/lustre/obdclass: convert lu_object shrinker to count/scan API staging/lustre/ldlm: convert to shrinkers to count/scan API hugepage: convert huge zero page shrinker to new shrinker API i915: bail out earlier when shrinker cannot acquire mutex drivers: convert shrinkers to new count/scan API fs: convert fs shrinkers to new scan/count API xfs: fix dquot isolation hang xfs-convert-dquot-cache-lru-to-list_lru-fix xfs: convert dquot cache lru to list_lru xfs: rework buffer dispose list tracking xfs-convert-buftarg-lru-to-generic-code-fix xfs: convert buftarg LRU to generic code fs: convert inode and dentry shrinking to be node aware vmscan: per-node deferred work ...
2013-09-12Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.samba.org/sfrench/cifs-2.6Linus Torvalds6-0/+2065
Pull CIFS fixes from Steve French: "CIFS update including case insensitive file name matching improvements for UTF-8 to Unicode, various small cifs fixes, SMB2/SMB3 leasing improvements, support for following SMB2 symlinks, SMB3 packet signing improvements" * 'for-next' of git://git.samba.org/sfrench/cifs-2.6: (25 commits) CIFS: Respect epoch value from create lease context v2 CIFS: Add create lease v2 context for SMB3 CIFS: Move parsing lease buffer to ops struct CIFS: Move creating lease buffer to ops struct CIFS: Store lease state itself rather than a mapped oplock value CIFS: Replace clientCanCache* bools with an integer [CIFS] quiet sparse compile warning cifs: Start using per session key for smb2/3 for signature generation cifs: Add a variable specific to NTLMSSP for key exchange. cifs: Process post session setup code in respective dialect functions. CIFS: convert to use le32_add_cpu() CIFS: Fix missing lease break CIFS: Fix a memory leak when a lease break comes cifs: add winucase_convert.pl to Documentation/ directory cifs: convert case-insensitive dentry ops to use new case conversion routines cifs: add new case-insensitive conversion routines that are based on wchar_t's [CIFS] Add Scott to list of cifs contributors cifs: Move and expand MAX_SERVER_SIZE definition cifs: Expand max share name length to 256 cifs: Move string length definitions to uapi ...
2013-09-11initmpfs: use initramfs if rootfstype= or root= specifiedRob Landley1-0/+4
Command line option rootfstype=ramfs to obtain old initramfs behavior, and use ramfs instead of tmpfs for stub when root= defined (for cosmetic reasons). [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-09-11Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt: fix mistake in the description of Committed_ASMinto Joseph1-10/+9
Fix mistake in the description of Committed_AS in kernel documentation. Signed-off-by: Minto Joseph <mvaliyav@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-09-10fs: remove vfs_follow_linkChristoph Hellwig1-0/+4
For a long time no filesystem has been using vfs_follow_link, and as seen by recent filesystem submissions any new use is accidental as well. Remove vfs_follow_link, document the replacement in Documentation/filesystems/porting and also rename __vfs_follow_link to match its only caller better. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>