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-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/Locking10
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/affs.txt9
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.txt29
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt17
4 files changed, 52 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
index f424e0e5b46b..efca5c1bbb10 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
@@ -529,6 +529,7 @@ locking rules:
open: yes
close: yes
fault: yes can return with page locked
+map_pages: yes
page_mkwrite: yes can return with page locked
access: yes
@@ -540,6 +541,15 @@ the page, then ensure it is not already truncated (the page lock will block
subsequent truncate), and then return with VM_FAULT_LOCKED, and the page
locked. The VM will unlock the page.
+ ->map_pages() is called when VM asks to map easy accessible pages.
+Filesystem should find and map pages associated with offsets from "pgoff"
+till "max_pgoff". ->map_pages() is called with page table locked and must
+not block. If it's not possible to reach a page without blocking,
+filesystem should skip it. Filesystem should use do_set_pte() to setup
+page table entry. Pointer to entry associated with offset "pgoff" is
+passed in "pte" field in vm_fault structure. Pointers to entries for other
+offsets should be calculated relative to "pte".
+
->page_mkwrite() is called when a previously read-only pte is
about to become writeable. The filesystem again must ensure that there are
no truncate/invalidate races, and then return with the page locked. If
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/affs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/affs.txt
index 81ac488e3758..71b63c2b9841 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/affs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/affs.txt
@@ -49,6 +49,10 @@ mode=mode Sets the mode flags to the given (octal) value, regardless
This is useful since most of the plain AmigaOS files
will map to 600.
+nofilenametruncate
+ The file system will return an error when filename exceeds
+ standard maximum filename length (30 characters).
+
reserved=num Sets the number of reserved blocks at the start of the
partition to num. You should never need this option.
Default is 2.
@@ -181,9 +185,8 @@ tested, though several hundred MB have been read and written using
this fs. For a most up-to-date list of bugs please consult
fs/affs/Changes.
-Filenames are truncated to 30 characters without warning (this
-can be changed by setting the compile-time option AFFS_NO_TRUNCATE
-in include/linux/amigaffs.h).
+By default, filenames are truncated to 30 characters without warning.
+'nofilenametruncate' mount option can change that behavior.
Case is ignored by the affs in filename matching, but Linux shells
do care about the case. Example (with /wb being an affs mounted fs):
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.txt
index b8d284975f0f..25311e113e75 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.txt
@@ -122,6 +122,10 @@ disable_ext_identify Disable the extension list configured by mkfs, so f2fs
inline_xattr Enable the inline xattrs feature.
inline_data Enable the inline data feature: New created small(<~3.4k)
files can be written into inode block.
+flush_merge Merge concurrent cache_flush commands as much as possible
+ to eliminate redundant command issues. If the underlying
+ device handles the cache_flush command relatively slowly,
+ recommend to enable this option.
================================================================================
DEBUGFS ENTRIES
@@ -169,9 +173,11 @@ Files in /sys/fs/f2fs/<devname>
reclaim_segments This parameter controls the number of prefree
segments to be reclaimed. If the number of prefree
- segments is larger than this number, f2fs tries to
- conduct checkpoint to reclaim the prefree segments
- to free segments. By default, 100 segments, 200MB.
+ segments is larger than the number of segments
+ in the proportion to the percentage over total
+ volume size, f2fs tries to conduct checkpoint to
+ reclaim the prefree segments to free segments.
+ By default, 5% over total # of segments.
max_small_discards This parameter controls the number of discard
commands that consist small blocks less than 2MB.
@@ -195,6 +201,17 @@ Files in /sys/fs/f2fs/<devname>
cleaning operations. The default value is 4096
which covers 8GB block address range.
+ dir_level This parameter controls the directory level to
+ support large directory. If a directory has a
+ number of files, it can reduce the file lookup
+ latency by increasing this dir_level value.
+ Otherwise, it needs to decrease this value to
+ reduce the space overhead. The default value is 0.
+
+ ram_thresh This parameter controls the memory footprint used
+ by free nids and cached nat entries. By default,
+ 10 is set, which indicates 10 MB / 1 GB RAM.
+
================================================================================
USAGE
================================================================================
@@ -444,9 +461,11 @@ The number of blocks and buckets are determined by,
# of blocks in level #n = |
`- 4, Otherwise
- ,- 2^n, if n < MAX_DIR_HASH_DEPTH / 2,
+ ,- 2^ (n + dir_level),
+ | if n < MAX_DIR_HASH_DEPTH / 2,
# of buckets in level #n = |
- `- 2^((MAX_DIR_HASH_DEPTH / 2) - 1), Otherwise
+ `- 2^((MAX_DIR_HASH_DEPTH / 2 + dir_level) - 1),
+ Otherwise
When F2FS finds a file name in a directory, at first a hash value of the file
name is calculated. Then, F2FS scans the hash table in level #0 to find the
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
index f00bee144add..8b9cd8eb3f91 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
@@ -1648,18 +1648,21 @@ pids, so one need to either stop or freeze processes being inspected
if precise results are needed.
-3.7 /proc/<pid>/fdinfo/<fd> - Information about opened file
+3.8 /proc/<pid>/fdinfo/<fd> - Information about opened file
---------------------------------------------------------------
This file provides information associated with an opened file. The regular
-files have at least two fields -- 'pos' and 'flags'. The 'pos' represents
-the current offset of the opened file in decimal form [see lseek(2) for
-details] and 'flags' denotes the octal O_xxx mask the file has been
-created with [see open(2) for details].
+files have at least three fields -- 'pos', 'flags' and mnt_id. The 'pos'
+represents the current offset of the opened file in decimal form [see lseek(2)
+for details], 'flags' denotes the octal O_xxx mask the file has been
+created with [see open(2) for details] and 'mnt_id' represents mount ID of
+the file system containing the opened file [see 3.5 /proc/<pid>/mountinfo
+for details].
A typical output is
pos: 0
flags: 0100002
+ mnt_id: 19
The files such as eventfd, fsnotify, signalfd, epoll among the regular pos/flags
pair provide additional information particular to the objects they represent.
@@ -1668,6 +1671,7 @@ pair provide additional information particular to the objects they represent.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
pos: 0
flags: 04002
+ mnt_id: 9
eventfd-count: 5a
where 'eventfd-count' is hex value of a counter.
@@ -1676,6 +1680,7 @@ pair provide additional information particular to the objects they represent.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
pos: 0
flags: 04002
+ mnt_id: 9
sigmask: 0000000000000200
where 'sigmask' is hex value of the signal mask associated
@@ -1685,6 +1690,7 @@ pair provide additional information particular to the objects they represent.
~~~~~~~~~~~
pos: 0
flags: 02
+ mnt_id: 9
tfd: 5 events: 1d data: ffffffffffffffff
where 'tfd' is a target file descriptor number in decimal form,
@@ -1718,6 +1724,7 @@ pair provide additional information particular to the objects they represent.
pos: 0
flags: 02
+ mnt_id: 9
fanotify flags:10 event-flags:0
fanotify mnt_id:12 mflags:40 mask:38 ignored_mask:40000003
fanotify ino:4f969 sdev:800013 mflags:0 mask:3b ignored_mask:40000000 fhandle-bytes:8 fhandle-type:1 f_handle:69f90400c275b5b4