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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/fuse-io.rst | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst | 12 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/squashfs.rst | 60 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst | 6 |
6 files changed, 82 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/fuse-io.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/fuse-io.rst index 255a368fe534..6464de4266ad 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/fuse-io.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/fuse-io.rst @@ -15,7 +15,8 @@ The direct-io mode can be selected with the FOPEN_DIRECT_IO flag in the FUSE_OPEN reply. In direct-io mode the page cache is completely bypassed for reads and writes. -No read-ahead takes place. Shared mmap is disabled. +No read-ahead takes place. Shared mmap is disabled by default. To allow shared +mmap, the FUSE_DIRECT_IO_ALLOW_MMAP flag may be enabled in the FUSE_INIT reply. In cached mode reads may be satisfied from the page cache, and data may be read-ahead by the kernel to fill the cache. The cache is always kept consistent diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst index 7be2900806c8..421daf837940 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst @@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ prototypes:: struct folio *src, enum migrate_mode); int (*launder_folio)(struct folio *); bool (*is_partially_uptodate)(struct folio *, size_t from, size_t count); - int (*error_remove_page)(struct address_space *, struct page *); + int (*error_remove_folio)(struct address_space *, struct folio *); int (*swap_activate)(struct swap_info_struct *sis, struct file *f, sector_t *span) int (*swap_deactivate)(struct file *); int (*swap_rw)(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter); @@ -287,7 +287,7 @@ direct_IO: migrate_folio: yes (both) launder_folio: yes is_partially_uptodate: yes -error_remove_page: yes +error_remove_folio: yes swap_activate: no swap_deactivate: no swap_rw: yes, unlocks diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst index 878e72b2f8b7..ced3a6761329 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst @@ -1061,3 +1061,15 @@ export_operations ->encode_fh() no longer has a default implementation to encode FILEID_INO32_GEN* file handles. Filesystems that used the default implementation may use the generic helper generic_encode_ino32_fh() explicitly. + +--- + +**recommended** + +Block device freezing and thawing have been moved to holder operations. + +Before this change, get_active_super() would only be able to find the +superblock of the main block device, i.e., the one stored in sb->s_bdev. Block +device freezing now works for any block device owned by a given superblock, not +just the main block device. The get_active_super() helper and bd_fsfreeze_sb +pointer are gone. diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst index 49ef12df631b..104c6d047d9b 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst @@ -528,9 +528,9 @@ replaced by copy-on-write) part of the underlying shmem object out on swap. does not take into account swapped out page of underlying shmem objects. "Locked" indicates whether the mapping is locked in memory or not. -"THPeligible" indicates whether the mapping is eligible for allocating THP -pages as well as the THP is PMD mappable or not - 1 if true, 0 otherwise. -It just shows the current status. +"THPeligible" indicates whether the mapping is eligible for allocating +naturally aligned THP pages of any currently enabled size. 1 if true, 0 +otherwise. "VmFlags" field deserves a separate description. This member represents the kernel flags associated with the particular virtual memory area in two letter diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/squashfs.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/squashfs.rst index df42106bae71..4af8d6207509 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/squashfs.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/squashfs.rst @@ -64,6 +64,66 @@ obtained from this site also. The squashfs-tools development tree is now located on kernel.org git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/squashfs/squashfs-tools.git +2.1 Mount options +----------------- +=================== ========================================================= +errors=%s Specify whether squashfs errors trigger a kernel panic + or not + + ========== ============================================= + continue errors don't trigger a panic (default) + panic trigger a panic when errors are encountered, + similar to several other filesystems (e.g. + btrfs, ext4, f2fs, GFS2, jfs, ntfs, ubifs) + + This allows a kernel dump to be saved, + useful for analyzing and debugging the + corruption. + ========== ============================================= +threads=%s Select the decompression mode or the number of threads + + If SQUASHFS_CHOICE_DECOMP_BY_MOUNT is set: + + ========== ============================================= + single use single-threaded decompression (default) + + Only one block (data or metadata) can be + decompressed at any one time. This limits + CPU and memory usage to a minimum, but it + also gives poor performance on parallel I/O + workloads when using multiple CPU machines + due to waiting on decompressor availability. + multi use up to two parallel decompressors per core + + If you have a parallel I/O workload and your + system has enough memory, using this option + may improve overall I/O performance. It + dynamically allocates decompressors on a + demand basis. + percpu use a maximum of one decompressor per core + + It uses percpu variables to ensure + decompression is load-balanced across the + cores. + 1|2|3|... configure the number of threads used for + decompression + + The upper limit is num_online_cpus() * 2. + ========== ============================================= + + If SQUASHFS_CHOICE_DECOMP_BY_MOUNT is **not** set and + SQUASHFS_DECOMP_MULTI, SQUASHFS_MOUNT_DECOMP_THREADS are + both set: + + ========== ============================================= + 2|3|... configure the number of threads used for + decompression + + The upper limit is num_online_cpus() * 2. + ========== ============================================= + +=================== ========================================================= + 3. Squashfs Filesystem Design ----------------------------- diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst index 99acc2e98673..dd99ce5912d8 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst @@ -823,7 +823,7 @@ cache in your filesystem. The following members are defined: bool (*is_partially_uptodate) (struct folio *, size_t from, size_t count); void (*is_dirty_writeback)(struct folio *, bool *, bool *); - int (*error_remove_page) (struct mapping *mapping, struct page *page); + int (*error_remove_folio)(struct mapping *mapping, struct folio *); int (*swap_activate)(struct swap_info_struct *sis, struct file *f, sector_t *span) int (*swap_deactivate)(struct file *); int (*swap_rw)(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter); @@ -1034,8 +1034,8 @@ cache in your filesystem. The following members are defined: VM if a folio should be treated as dirty or writeback for the purposes of stalling. -``error_remove_page`` - normally set to generic_error_remove_page if truncation is ok +``error_remove_folio`` + normally set to generic_error_remove_folio if truncation is ok for this address space. Used for memory failure handling. Setting this implies you deal with pages going away under you, unless you have them locked or reference counts increased. |