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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-01-22 11:23:35 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-01-22 11:23:35 -0800
commit391f2a16b74b95da2f05a607f53213fc8ed24b8e (patch)
tree93bfd1906778d7ff24f6ce7c03f2e7c0f91caef5 /include/uapi/linux/fs.h
parentd5ffdf8b4ac6e6db5702ba31870c476d5fa30660 (diff)
parent68ce7bfcd995a8a393b1b14fa67dbc16fa3dc784 (diff)
Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4
Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o: "Some locking and page fault bug fixes from Jan Kara, some ext4 encryption fixes from me, and Li Xi's Project Quota commits" * tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: fs: clean up the flags definition in uapi/linux/fs.h ext4: add FS_IOC_FSSETXATTR/FS_IOC_FSGETXATTR interface support ext4: add project quota support ext4: adds project ID support ext4 crypto: simplify interfaces to directory entry insert functions ext4 crypto: add missing locking for keyring_key access ext4: use pre-zeroed blocks for DAX page faults ext4: implement allocation of pre-zeroed blocks ext4: provide ext4_issue_zeroout() ext4: get rid of EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_NO_LOCK flag ext4: document lock ordering ext4: fix races of writeback with punch hole and zero range ext4: fix races between buffered IO and collapse / insert range ext4: move unlocked dio protection from ext4_alloc_file_blocks() ext4: fix races between page faults and hole punching
Diffstat (limited to 'include/uapi/linux/fs.h')
-rw-r--r--include/uapi/linux/fs.h31
1 files changed, 27 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/fs.h b/include/uapi/linux/fs.h
index 8c8451f76633..41e0433b4a83 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/fs.h
@@ -2,8 +2,11 @@
#define _UAPI_LINUX_FS_H
/*
- * This file has definitions for some important file table
- * structures etc.
+ * This file has definitions for some important file table structures
+ * and constants and structures used by various generic file system
+ * ioctl's. Please do not make any changes in this file before
+ * sending patches for review to linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org and
+ * linux-api@vger.kernel.org.
*/
#include <linux/limits.h>
@@ -246,6 +249,23 @@ struct fsxattr {
/*
* Inode flags (FS_IOC_GETFLAGS / FS_IOC_SETFLAGS)
+ *
+ * Note: for historical reasons, these flags were originally used and
+ * defined for use by ext2/ext3, and then other file systems started
+ * using these flags so they wouldn't need to write their own version
+ * of chattr/lsattr (which was shipped as part of e2fsprogs). You
+ * should think twice before trying to use these flags in new
+ * contexts, or trying to assign these flags, since they are used both
+ * as the UAPI and the on-disk encoding for ext2/3/4. Also, we are
+ * almost out of 32-bit flags. :-)
+ *
+ * We have recently hoisted FS_IOC_FSGETXATTR / FS_IOC_FSSETXATTR from
+ * XFS to the generic FS level interface. This uses a structure that
+ * has padding and hence has more room to grow, so it may be more
+ * appropriate for many new use cases.
+ *
+ * Please do not change these flags or interfaces before checking with
+ * linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org and linux-api@vger.kernel.org.
*/
#define FS_SECRM_FL 0x00000001 /* Secure deletion */
#define FS_UNRM_FL 0x00000002 /* Undelete */
@@ -259,8 +279,8 @@ struct fsxattr {
#define FS_DIRTY_FL 0x00000100
#define FS_COMPRBLK_FL 0x00000200 /* One or more compressed clusters */
#define FS_NOCOMP_FL 0x00000400 /* Don't compress */
-#define FS_ECOMPR_FL 0x00000800 /* Compression error */
/* End compression flags --- maybe not all used */
+#define FS_ENCRYPT_FL 0x00000800 /* Encrypted file */
#define FS_BTREE_FL 0x00001000 /* btree format dir */
#define FS_INDEX_FL 0x00001000 /* hash-indexed directory */
#define FS_IMAGIC_FL 0x00002000 /* AFS directory */
@@ -268,9 +288,12 @@ struct fsxattr {
#define FS_NOTAIL_FL 0x00008000 /* file tail should not be merged */
#define FS_DIRSYNC_FL 0x00010000 /* dirsync behaviour (directories only) */
#define FS_TOPDIR_FL 0x00020000 /* Top of directory hierarchies*/
+#define FS_HUGE_FILE_FL 0x00040000 /* Reserved for ext4 */
#define FS_EXTENT_FL 0x00080000 /* Extents */
-#define FS_DIRECTIO_FL 0x00100000 /* Use direct i/o */
+#define FS_EA_INODE_FL 0x00200000 /* Inode used for large EA */
+#define FS_EOFBLOCKS_FL 0x00400000 /* Reserved for ext4 */
#define FS_NOCOW_FL 0x00800000 /* Do not cow file */
+#define FS_INLINE_DATA_FL 0x10000000 /* Reserved for ext4 */
#define FS_PROJINHERIT_FL 0x20000000 /* Create with parents projid */
#define FS_RESERVED_FL 0x80000000 /* reserved for ext2 lib */