linux-toradex.git/Documentation/filesystems, branch v2.6.34-rc1

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joern/logfs

2010-03-06T21:18:03+00:00

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joern/logfs:
  [LogFS] Change magic number
  [LogFS] Remove h_version field
  [LogFS] Check feature flags
  [LogFS] Only write journal if dirty
  [LogFS] Fix bdev erases
  [LogFS] Silence gcc
  [LogFS] Prevent 64bit divisions in hash_index
  [LogFS] Plug memory leak on error paths
  [LogFS] Add MAINTAINERS entry
  [LogFS] add new flash file system

Fixed up trivial conflict in lib/Kconfig, and a semantic conflict in
fs/logfs/inode.c introduced by write_inode() being changed to use
writeback_control' by commit a9185b41a4f84971b930c519f0c63bd450c4810d
("pass writeback_control to ->write_inode")

Merge branch 'for-2.6.34' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux

2010-03-06T19:31:38+00:00

* 'for-2.6.34' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux: (22 commits)
  nfsd4: fix minor memory leak
  svcrpc: treat uid's as unsigned
  nfsd: ensure sockets are closed on error
  Revert "sunrpc: move the close processing after do recvfrom method"
  Revert "sunrpc: fix peername failed on closed listener"
  sunrpc: remove unnecessary svc_xprt_put
  NFSD: NFSv4 callback client should use RPC_TASK_SOFTCONN
  xfs_export_operations.commit_metadata
  commit_metadata export operation replacing nfsd_sync_dir
  lockd: don't clear sm_monitored on nsm_reboot_lookup
  lockd: release reference to nsm_handle in nlm_host_rebooted
  nfsd: Use vfs_fsync_range() in nfsd_commit
  NFSD: Create PF_INET6 listener in write_ports
  SUNRPC: NFS kernel APIs shouldn't return ENOENT for "transport not found"
  SUNRPC: Bury "#ifdef IPV6" in svc_create_xprt()
  NFSD: Support AF_INET6 in svc_addsock() function
  SUNRPC: Use rpc_pton() in ip_map_parse()
  nfsd: 4.1 has an rfc number
  nfsd41: Create the recovery entry for the NFSv4.1 client
  nfsd: use vfs_fsync for non-directories
  ...

mm: document /proc/pagetypeinfo

2010-03-06T19:26:26+00:00

Add documentation for /proc/pagetypeinfo.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman 
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter 
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: count swap usage

2010-03-06T19:26:24+00:00

A frequent questions from users about memory management is what numbers of
swap ents are user for processes.  And this information will give some
hints to oom-killer.

Besides we can count the number of swapents per a process by scanning
/proc//smaps, this is very slow and not good for usual process
information handler which works like 'ps' or 'top'.  (ps or top is now
enough slow..)

This patch adds a counter of swapents to mm_counter and update is at each
swap events.  Information is exported via /proc//status file as

[kamezawa@bluextal memory]$ cat /proc/self/status
Name:   cat
State:  R (running)
Tgid:   2910
Pid:    2910
PPid:   2823
TracerPid:      0
Uid:    500     500     500     500
Gid:    500     500     500     500
FDSize: 256
Groups: 500
VmPeak:    82696 kB
VmSize:    82696 kB
VmLck:         0 kB
VmHWM:       432 kB
VmRSS:       432 kB
VmData:      172 kB
VmStk:        84 kB
VmExe:        48 kB
VmLib:      1568 kB
VmPTE:        40 kB
VmSwap:        0 kB <=============== this.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim 
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: avoid false sharing of mm_counter

2010-03-06T19:26:24+00:00

Considering the nature of per mm stats, it's the shared object among
threads and can be a cache-miss point in the page fault path.

This patch adds per-thread cache for mm_counter.  RSS value will be
counted into a struct in task_struct and synchronized with mm's one at
events.

Now, in this patch, the event is the number of calls to handle_mm_fault.
Per-thread value is added to mm at each 64 calls.

 rough estimation with small benchmark on parallel thread (2threads) shows
 [before]
     4.5 cache-miss/faults
 [after]
     4.0 cache-miss/faults
 Anyway, the most contended object is mmap_sem if the number of threads grows.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 
Cc: Minchan Kim 
Cc: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs-2.6

2010-03-05T21:20:53+00:00

* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs-2.6: (33 commits)
  quota: stop using QUOTA_OK / NO_QUOTA
  dquot: cleanup dquot initialize routine
  dquot: move dquot initialization responsibility into the filesystem
  dquot: cleanup dquot drop routine
  dquot: move dquot drop responsibility into the filesystem
  dquot: cleanup dquot transfer routine
  dquot: move dquot transfer responsibility into the filesystem
  dquot: cleanup inode allocation / freeing routines
  dquot: cleanup space allocation / freeing routines
  ext3: add writepage sanity checks
  ext3: Truncate allocated blocks if direct IO write fails to update i_size
  quota: Properly invalidate caches even for filesystems with blocksize < pagesize
  quota: generalize quota transfer interface
  quota: sb_quota state flags cleanup
  jbd: Delay discarding buffers in journal_unmap_buffer
  ext3: quota_write cross block boundary behaviour
  quota: drop permission checks from xfs_fs_set_xstate/xfs_fs_set_xquota
  quota: split out compat_sys_quotactl support from quota.c
  quota: split out netlink notification support from quota.c
  quota: remove invalid optimization from quota_sync_all
  ...

Fixed trivial conflicts in fs/namei.c and fs/ufs/inode.c

dquot: cleanup dquot initialize routine

2010-03-04T23:20:30+00:00

Get rid of the initialize dquot operation - it is now always called from
the filesystem and if a filesystem really needs it's own (which none
currently does) it can just call into it's own routine directly.

Rename the now static low-level dquot_initialize helper to __dquot_initialize
and vfs_dq_init to dquot_initialize to have a consistent namespace.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara

dquot: cleanup dquot drop routine

2010-03-04T23:20:30+00:00

Get rid of the drop dquot operation - it is now always called from
the filesystem and if a filesystem really needs it's own (which none
currently does) it can just call into it's own routine directly.

Rename the now static low-level dquot_drop helper to __dquot_drop
and vfs_dq_drop to dquot_drop to have a consistent namespace.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara

dquot: cleanup dquot transfer routine

2010-03-04T23:20:29+00:00

Get rid of the transfer dquot operation - it is now always called from
the filesystem and if a filesystem really needs it's own (which none
currently does) it can just call into it's own routine directly.

Rename the now static low-level dquot_transfer helper to __dquot_transfer
and vfs_dq_transfer to dquot_transfer to have a consistent namespace,
and make the new dquot_transfer return a normal negative errno value
which all callers expect.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara

dquot: cleanup inode allocation / freeing routines

2010-03-04T23:20:28+00:00

Get rid of the alloc_inode and free_inode dquot operations - they are
always called from the filesystem and if a filesystem really needs
their own (which none currently does) it can just call into it's
own routine directly.

Also get rid of the vfs_dq_alloc/vfs_dq_free wrappers and always
call the lowlevel dquot_alloc_inode / dqout_free_inode routines
directly, which now lose the number argument which is always 1.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara