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authorRussell King <rmk@dyn-67.arm.linux.org.uk>2009-04-02 23:22:11 +0100
committerRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>2009-04-02 23:22:11 +0100
commitcd02938a828f4b2098a074afb7454f106f2e8df5 (patch)
tree7b543fd6aa82a62dc3a9614c26f89daca83e77d5 /Documentation/filesystems
parent9d681f3a1b27fdfc17ea251cf8d5f627dab34670 (diff)
parent172ef275444efa12d834fb9d1b1acdac92db47f7 (diff)
Merge branch 'smsc911x-armplatforms' of git://github.com/steveglen/linux-2.6
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/Locking2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt30
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt21
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt10
4 files changed, 38 insertions, 25 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
index 4e78ce677843..76efe5b71d7d 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
@@ -505,7 +505,7 @@ prototypes:
void (*open)(struct vm_area_struct*);
void (*close)(struct vm_area_struct*);
int (*fault)(struct vm_area_struct*, struct vm_fault *);
- int (*page_mkwrite)(struct vm_area_struct *, struct page *);
+ int (*page_mkwrite)(struct vm_area_struct *, struct vm_fault *);
int (*access)(struct vm_area_struct *, unsigned long, void*, int, int);
locking rules:
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt
index cec829bc7291..97882df04865 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ Note: More extensive information for getting started with ext4 can be
* extent format more robust in face of on-disk corruption due to magics,
* internal redundancy in tree
* improved file allocation (multi-block alloc)
-* fix 32000 subdirectory limit
+* lift 32000 subdirectory limit imposed by i_links_count[1]
* nsec timestamps for mtime, atime, ctime, create time
* inode version field on disk (NFSv4, Lustre)
* reduced e2fsck time via uninit_bg feature
@@ -100,6 +100,9 @@ Note: More extensive information for getting started with ext4 can be
* efficent new ordered mode in JBD2 and ext4(avoid using buffer head to force
the ordering)
+[1] Filesystems with a block size of 1k may see a limit imposed by the
+directory hash tree having a maximum depth of two.
+
2.2 Candidate features for future inclusion
* Online defrag (patches available but not well tested)
@@ -180,8 +183,8 @@ commit=nrsec (*) Ext4 can be told to sync all its data and metadata
performance.
barrier=<0|1(*)> This enables/disables the use of write barriers in
- the jbd code. barrier=0 disables, barrier=1 enables.
- This also requires an IO stack which can support
+barrier(*) the jbd code. barrier=0 disables, barrier=1 enables.
+nobarrier This also requires an IO stack which can support
barriers, and if jbd gets an error on a barrier
write, it will disable again with a warning.
Write barriers enforce proper on-disk ordering
@@ -189,6 +192,9 @@ barrier=<0|1(*)> This enables/disables the use of write barriers in
safe to use, at some performance penalty. If
your disks are battery-backed in one way or another,
disabling barriers may safely improve performance.
+ The mount options "barrier" and "nobarrier" can
+ also be used to enable or disable barriers, for
+ consistency with other ext4 mount options.
inode_readahead=n This tuning parameter controls the maximum
number of inode table blocks that ext4's inode
@@ -310,6 +316,24 @@ journal_ioprio=prio The I/O priority (from 0 to 7, where 0 is the
a slightly higher priority than the default I/O
priority.
+auto_da_alloc(*) Many broken applications don't use fsync() when
+noauto_da_alloc replacing existing files via patterns such as
+ fd = open("foo.new")/write(fd,..)/close(fd)/
+ rename("foo.new", "foo"), or worse yet,
+ fd = open("foo", O_TRUNC)/write(fd,..)/close(fd).
+ If auto_da_alloc is enabled, ext4 will detect
+ the replace-via-rename and replace-via-truncate
+ patterns and force that any delayed allocation
+ blocks are allocated such that at the next
+ journal commit, in the default data=ordered
+ mode, the data blocks of the new file are forced
+ to disk before the rename() operation is
+ commited. This provides roughly the same level
+ of guarantees as ext3, and avoids the
+ "zero-length" problem that can happen when a
+ system crashes before the delayed allocation
+ blocks are forced to disk.
+
Data Mode
=========
There are 3 different data modes:
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
index 830bad7cce0f..efc4fd9f40ce 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
@@ -940,27 +940,6 @@ Table 1-10: Files in /proc/fs/ext4/<devname>
File Content
mb_groups details of multiblock allocator buddy cache of free blocks
mb_history multiblock allocation history
- stats controls whether the multiblock allocator should start
- collecting statistics, which are shown during the unmount
- group_prealloc the multiblock allocator will round up allocation
- requests to a multiple of this tuning parameter if the
- stripe size is not set in the ext4 superblock
- max_to_scan The maximum number of extents the multiblock allocator
- will search to find the best extent
- min_to_scan The minimum number of extents the multiblock allocator
- will search to find the best extent
- order2_req Tuning parameter which controls the minimum size for
- requests (as a power of 2) where the buddy cache is
- used
- stream_req Files which have fewer blocks than this tunable
- parameter will have their blocks allocated out of a
- block group specific preallocation pool, so that small
- files are packed closely together. Each large file
- will have its blocks allocated out of its own unique
- preallocation pool.
-inode_readahead Tuning parameter which controls the maximum number of
- inode table blocks that ext4's inode table readahead
- algorithm will pre-read into the buffer cache
..............................................................................
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt
index 9f8740ca3f3b..26e4b8bc53ee 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ that support it. For example, a given bus might look like this:
| |-- enable
| |-- irq
| |-- local_cpus
+ | |-- remove
| |-- resource
| |-- resource0
| |-- resource1
@@ -36,6 +37,7 @@ files, each with their own function.
enable Whether the device is enabled (ascii, rw)
irq IRQ number (ascii, ro)
local_cpus nearby CPU mask (cpumask, ro)
+ remove remove device from kernel's list (ascii, wo)
resource PCI resource host addresses (ascii, ro)
resource0..N PCI resource N, if present (binary, mmap)
resource0_wc..N_wc PCI WC map resource N, if prefetchable (binary, mmap)
@@ -46,6 +48,7 @@ files, each with their own function.
ro - read only file
rw - file is readable and writable
+ wo - write only file
mmap - file is mmapable
ascii - file contains ascii text
binary - file contains binary data
@@ -73,6 +76,13 @@ that the device must be enabled for a rom read to return data succesfully.
In the event a driver is not bound to the device, it can be enabled using the
'enable' file, documented above.
+The 'remove' file is used to remove the PCI device, by writing a non-zero
+integer to the file. This does not involve any kind of hot-plug functionality,
+e.g. powering off the device. The device is removed from the kernel's list of
+PCI devices, the sysfs directory for it is removed, and the device will be
+removed from any drivers attached to it. Removal of PCI root buses is
+disallowed.
+
Accessing legacy resources through sysfs
----------------------------------------