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-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/Locking24
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt13
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt23
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfs41-server.txt33
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/squashfs.txt4
6 files changed, 36 insertions, 65 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
index 7e4699146fe..653380793a6 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
@@ -338,21 +338,21 @@ fl_release_private: maybe no
----------------------- lock_manager_operations ---------------------------
prototypes:
- int (*fl_compare_owner)(struct file_lock *, struct file_lock *);
- void (*fl_notify)(struct file_lock *); /* unblock callback */
- 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_change)(struct file_lock **, int);
+ int (*lm_compare_owner)(struct file_lock *, struct file_lock *);
+ void (*lm_notify)(struct file_lock *); /* unblock callback */
+ int (*lm_grant)(struct file_lock *, struct file_lock *, int);
+ void (*lm_release_private)(struct file_lock *);
+ void (*lm_break)(struct file_lock *); /* break_lease callback */
+ int (*lm_change)(struct file_lock **, int);
locking rules:
file_lock_lock may block
-fl_compare_owner: yes no
-fl_notify: yes no
-fl_grant: no no
-fl_release_private: maybe no
-fl_break: yes no
-fl_change yes no
+lm_compare_owner: yes no
+lm_notify: yes no
+lm_grant: no no
+lm_release_private: maybe no
+lm_break: yes no
+lm_change yes no
--------------------------- buffer_head -----------------------------------
prototypes:
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt
index ed52af60c2d..742cc06e138 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt
@@ -73,8 +73,8 @@ the following functions can be used instead:
struct dentry *parent, u16 *value);
struct dentry *debugfs_create_x32(const char *name, mode_t mode,
struct dentry *parent, u32 *value);
-
-Note that there is no debugfs_create_x64().
+ struct dentry *debugfs_create_x64(const char *name, mode_t mode,
+ struct dentry *parent, u64 *value);
These functions are useful as long as the developer knows the size of the
value to be exported. Some types can have different widths on different
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt
index 272f80d5f96..22f3a0eda1d 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt
@@ -147,15 +147,6 @@ grpjquota=<file> during journal replay. They replace the above
package for more details
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxquota).
-bh (*) ext3 associates buffer heads to data pages to
-nobh (a) cache disk block mapping information
- (b) link pages into transaction to provide
- ordering guarantees.
- "bh" option forces use of buffer heads.
- "nobh" option tries to avoid associating buffer
- heads (supported only for "writeback" mode).
-
-
Specification
=============
Ext3 shares all disk implementation with the ext2 filesystem, and adds
@@ -227,5 +218,5 @@ kernel source: <file:fs/ext3/>
programs: http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/
http://ext2resize.sourceforge.net
-useful links: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-fs7.html
- http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-fs8.html
+useful links: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-fs7/index.html
+ http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-fs8/index.html
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt
index 3ae9bc94352..232a575a0c4 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt
@@ -68,12 +68,12 @@ Note: More extensive information for getting started with ext4 can be
'-o barriers=[0|1]' mount option for both ext3 and ext4 filesystems
for a fair comparison. When tuning ext3 for best benchmark numbers,
it is often worthwhile to try changing the data journaling mode; '-o
- data=writeback,nobh' can be faster for some workloads. (Note
- however that running mounted with data=writeback can potentially
- leave stale data exposed in recently written files in case of an
- unclean shutdown, which could be a security exposure in some
- situations.) Configuring the filesystem with a large journal can
- also be helpful for metadata-intensive workloads.
+ data=writeback' can be faster for some workloads. (Note however that
+ running mounted with data=writeback can potentially leave stale data
+ exposed in recently written files in case of an unclean shutdown,
+ which could be a security exposure in some situations.) Configuring
+ the filesystem with a large journal can also be helpful for
+ metadata-intensive workloads.
2. Features
===========
@@ -272,14 +272,6 @@ grpjquota=<file> during journal replay. They replace the above
package for more details
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxquota).
-bh (*) ext4 associates buffer heads to data pages to
-nobh (a) cache disk block mapping information
- (b) link pages into transaction to provide
- ordering guarantees.
- "bh" option forces use of buffer heads.
- "nobh" option tries to avoid associating buffer
- heads (supported only for "writeback" mode).
-
stripe=n Number of filesystem blocks that mballoc will try
to use for allocation size and alignment. For RAID5/6
systems this should be the number of data
@@ -393,8 +385,7 @@ dioread_nolock locking. If the dioread_nolock option is specified
write and convert the extent to initialized after IO
completes. This approach allows ext4 code to avoid
using inode mutex, which improves scalability on high
- speed storages. However this does not work with nobh
- option and the mount will fail. Nor does it work with
+ speed storages. However this does not work with
data journaling and dioread_nolock option will be
ignored with kernel warning. Note that dioread_nolock
code path is only used for extent-based files.
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfs41-server.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfs41-server.txt
index 04884914a1c..092fad92a3f 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfs41-server.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfs41-server.txt
@@ -39,27 +39,17 @@ interoperability problems with future clients. Known issues:
from a linux client are possible, but we aren't really
conformant with the spec (for example, we don't use kerberos
on the backchannel correctly).
- - no trunking support: no clients currently take advantage of
- trunking, but this is a mandatory feature, and its use is
- recommended to clients in a number of places. (E.g. to ensure
- timely renewal in case an existing connection's retry timeouts
- have gotten too long; see section 8.3 of the RFC.)
- Therefore, lack of this feature may cause future clients to
- fail.
- Incomplete backchannel support: incomplete backchannel gss
support and no support for BACKCHANNEL_CTL mean that
callbacks (hence delegations and layouts) may not be
available and clients confused by the incomplete
implementation may fail.
- - Server reboot recovery is unsupported; if the server reboots,
- clients may fail.
- We do not support SSV, which provides security for shared
client-server state (thus preventing unauthorized tampering
with locks and opens, for example). It is mandatory for
servers to support this, though no clients use it yet.
- Mandatory operations which we do not support, such as
- DESTROY_CLIENTID, FREE_STATEID, SECINFO_NO_NAME, and
- TEST_STATEID, are not currently used by clients, but will be
+ DESTROY_CLIENTID, are not currently used by clients, but will be
(and the spec recommends their uses in common cases), and
clients should not be expected to know how to recover from the
case where they are not supported. This will eventually cause
@@ -69,8 +59,9 @@ In addition, some limitations are inherited from the current NFSv4
implementation:
- Incomplete delegation enforcement: if a file is renamed or
- unlinked, a client holding a delegation may continue to
- indefinitely allow opens of the file under the old name.
+ unlinked by a local process, a client holding a delegation may
+ continue to indefinitely allow opens of the file under the old
+ name.
The table below, taken from the NFSv4.1 document, lists
the operations that are mandatory to implement (REQ), optional
@@ -99,7 +90,7 @@ Operations
+----------------------+------------+--------------+----------------+
| ACCESS | REQ | | Section 18.1 |
NS | BACKCHANNEL_CTL | REQ | | Section 18.33 |
-NS | BIND_CONN_TO_SESSION | REQ | | Section 18.34 |
+I | BIND_CONN_TO_SESSION | REQ | | Section 18.34 |
| CLOSE | REQ | | Section 18.2 |
| COMMIT | REQ | | Section 18.3 |
| CREATE | REQ | | Section 18.4 |
@@ -111,7 +102,7 @@ NS*| DELEGPURGE | OPT | FDELG (REQ) | Section 18.5 |
NS | DESTROY_CLIENTID | REQ | | Section 18.50 |
I | DESTROY_SESSION | REQ | | Section 18.37 |
I | EXCHANGE_ID | REQ | | Section 18.35 |
-NS | FREE_STATEID | REQ | | Section 18.38 |
+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 |
@@ -145,14 +136,14 @@ NS*| OPENATTR | OPT | | Section 18.17 |
| RESTOREFH | REQ | | Section 18.27 |
| SAVEFH | REQ | | Section 18.28 |
| SECINFO | REQ | | Section 18.29 |
-NS | SECINFO_NO_NAME | REC | pNFS files | Section 18.45, |
+I | SECINFO_NO_NAME | REC | pNFS files | Section 18.45, |
| | | layout (REQ) | Section 13.12 |
I | SEQUENCE | REQ | | Section 18.46 |
| SETATTR | REQ | | Section 18.30 |
| SETCLIENTID | MNI | | N/A |
| SETCLIENTID_CONFIRM | MNI | | N/A |
NS | SET_SSV | REQ | | Section 18.47 |
-NS | TEST_STATEID | REQ | | Section 18.48 |
+I | TEST_STATEID | REQ | | Section 18.48 |
| VERIFY | REQ | | Section 18.31 |
NS*| WANT_DELEGATION | OPT | FDELG (OPT) | Section 18.49 |
| WRITE | REQ | | Section 18.32 |
@@ -206,12 +197,6 @@ CREATE_SESSION:
SEQUENCE:
* no support for dynamic slot table renegotiation (optional)
-nfsv4.1 COMPOUND rules:
-The following cases aren't supported yet:
-* Enforcing of NFS4ERR_NOT_ONLY_OP for: BIND_CONN_TO_SESSION, CREATE_SESSION,
- DESTROY_CLIENTID, DESTROY_SESSION, EXCHANGE_ID.
-* DESTROY_SESSION MUST be the final operation in the COMPOUND request.
-
Nonstandard compound limitations:
* No support for a sessions fore channel RPC compound that requires both a
ca_maxrequestsize request and a ca_maxresponsesize reply, so we may
@@ -219,3 +204,5 @@ Nonstandard compound limitations:
negotiation.
* No more than one IO operation (read, write, readdir) allowed per
compound.
+
+See also http://wiki.linux-nfs.org/wiki/index.php/Server_4.0_and_4.1_issues.
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/squashfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/squashfs.txt
index d4d41465a0b..7db3ebda5a4 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/squashfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/squashfs.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SQUASHFS 4.0 FILESYSTEM
=======================
Squashfs is a compressed read-only filesystem for Linux.
-It uses zlib/lzo compression to compress files, inodes and directories.
+It uses zlib/lzo/xz compression to compress files, inodes and directories.
Inodes in the system are very small and all blocks are packed to minimise
data overhead. Block sizes greater than 4K are supported up to a maximum
of 1Mbytes (default block size 128K).
@@ -55,6 +55,8 @@ create populated squashfs filesystems. This and other squashfs utilities
can be obtained from http://www.squashfs.org. Usage instructions can be
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
3. SQUASHFS FILESYSTEM DESIGN
-----------------------------