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-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/Locking34
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/dax.txt38
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/devpts.txt145
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/directory-locking32
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.txt7
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2-online-filecheck.txt10
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt9
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/porting7
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt11
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt62
10 files changed, 159 insertions, 196 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
index 75eea7ce3d7c..1b3c39a7de62 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
@@ -15,11 +15,14 @@ prototypes:
int (*d_compare)(const struct dentry *, const struct dentry *,
unsigned int, const char *, const struct qstr *);
int (*d_delete)(struct dentry *);
+ int (*d_init)(struct dentry *);
void (*d_release)(struct dentry *);
void (*d_iput)(struct dentry *, struct inode *);
char *(*d_dname)((struct dentry *dentry, char *buffer, int buflen);
struct vfsmount *(*d_automount)(struct path *path);
int (*d_manage)(struct dentry *, bool);
+ struct dentry *(*d_real)(struct dentry *, const struct inode *,
+ unsigned int);
locking rules:
rename_lock ->d_lock may block rcu-walk
@@ -28,12 +31,14 @@ d_weak_revalidate:no no yes no
d_hash no no no maybe
d_compare: yes no no maybe
d_delete: no yes no no
+d_init: no no yes no
d_release: no no yes no
d_prune: no yes no no
d_iput: no no yes no
d_dname: no no no no
d_automount: no no yes no
d_manage: no no yes (ref-walk) maybe
+d_real no no yes no
--------------------------- inode_operations ---------------------------
prototypes:
@@ -66,7 +71,6 @@ prototypes:
struct file *, unsigned open_flag,
umode_t create_mode, int *opened);
int (*tmpfile) (struct inode *, struct dentry *, umode_t);
- int (*dentry_open)(struct dentry *, struct file *, const struct cred *);
locking rules:
all may block
@@ -95,7 +99,6 @@ fiemap: no
update_time: no
atomic_open: yes
tmpfile: no
-dentry_open: no
Additionally, ->rmdir(), ->unlink() and ->rename() have ->i_mutex on
victim.
@@ -179,7 +182,6 @@ unlocks and drops the reference.
prototypes:
int (*writepage)(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *wbc);
int (*readpage)(struct file *, struct page *);
- int (*sync_page)(struct page *);
int (*writepages)(struct address_space *, struct writeback_control *);
int (*set_page_dirty)(struct page *page);
int (*readpages)(struct file *filp, struct address_space *mapping,
@@ -195,7 +197,9 @@ prototypes:
int (*releasepage) (struct page *, int);
void (*freepage)(struct page *);
int (*direct_IO)(struct kiocb *, struct iov_iter *iter);
+ bool (*isolate_page) (struct page *, isolate_mode_t);
int (*migratepage)(struct address_space *, struct page *, struct page *);
+ void (*putback_page) (struct page *);
int (*launder_page)(struct page *);
int (*is_partially_uptodate)(struct page *, unsigned long, unsigned long);
int (*error_remove_page)(struct address_space *, struct page *);
@@ -208,7 +212,6 @@ locking rules:
PageLocked(page) i_mutex
writepage: yes, unlocks (see below)
readpage: yes, unlocks
-sync_page: maybe
writepages:
set_page_dirty no
readpages:
@@ -219,15 +222,17 @@ invalidatepage: yes
releasepage: yes
freepage: yes
direct_IO:
+isolate_page: yes
migratepage: yes (both)
+putback_page: yes
launder_page: yes
is_partially_uptodate: yes
error_remove_page: yes
swap_activate: no
swap_deactivate: no
- ->write_begin(), ->write_end(), ->sync_page() and ->readpage()
-may be called from the request handler (/dev/loop).
+ ->write_begin(), ->write_end() and ->readpage() may be called from
+the request handler (/dev/loop).
->readpage() unlocks the page, either synchronously or via I/O
completion.
@@ -283,11 +288,6 @@ will leave the page itself marked clean but it will be tagged as dirty in the
radix tree. This incoherency can lead to all sorts of hard-to-debug problems
in the filesystem like having dirty inodes at umount and losing written data.
- ->sync_page() locking rules are not well-defined - usually it is called
-with lock on page, but that is not guaranteed. Considering the currently
-existing instances of this method ->sync_page() itself doesn't look
-well-defined...
-
->writepages() is used for periodic writeback and for syscall-initiated
sync operations. The address_space should start I/O against at least
*nr_to_write pages. *nr_to_write must be decremented for each page which is
@@ -395,7 +395,7 @@ prototypes:
int (*release) (struct gendisk *, fmode_t);
int (*ioctl) (struct block_device *, fmode_t, unsigned, unsigned long);
int (*compat_ioctl) (struct block_device *, fmode_t, unsigned, unsigned long);
- int (*direct_access) (struct block_device *, sector_t, void __pmem **,
+ int (*direct_access) (struct block_device *, sector_t, void **,
unsigned long *);
int (*media_changed) (struct gendisk *);
void (*unlock_native_capacity) (struct gendisk *);
@@ -544,13 +544,13 @@ 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
+Filesystem should find and map pages associated with offsets from "start_pgoff"
+till "end_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 table entry. Pointer to entry associated with the page is passed in
+"pte" field in fault_env 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
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/dax.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/dax.txt
index 7bde64014a89..0c16a22521a8 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/dax.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/dax.txt
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ These block devices may be used for inspiration:
- axonram: Axon DDR2 device driver
- brd: RAM backed block device driver
- dcssblk: s390 dcss block device driver
+- pmem: NVDIMM persistent memory driver
Implementation Tips for Filesystem Writers
@@ -75,8 +76,41 @@ calls to get_block() (for example by a page-fault racing with a read()
or a write()) work correctly.
These filesystems may be used for inspiration:
-- ext2: the second extended filesystem, see Documentation/filesystems/ext2.txt
-- ext4: the fourth extended filesystem, see Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt
+- ext2: see Documentation/filesystems/ext2.txt
+- ext4: see Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt
+- xfs: see Documentation/filesystems/xfs.txt
+
+
+Handling Media Errors
+---------------------
+
+The libnvdimm subsystem stores a record of known media error locations for
+each pmem block device (in gendisk->badblocks). If we fault at such location,
+or one with a latent error not yet discovered, the application can expect
+to receive a SIGBUS. Libnvdimm also allows clearing of these errors by simply
+writing the affected sectors (through the pmem driver, and if the underlying
+NVDIMM supports the clear_poison DSM defined by ACPI).
+
+Since DAX IO normally doesn't go through the driver/bio path, applications or
+sysadmins have an option to restore the lost data from a prior backup/inbuilt
+redundancy in the following ways:
+
+1. Delete the affected file, and restore from a backup (sysadmin route):
+ This will free the file system blocks that were being used by the file,
+ and the next time they're allocated, they will be zeroed first, which
+ happens through the driver, and will clear bad sectors.
+
+2. Truncate or hole-punch the part of the file that has a bad-block (at least
+ an entire aligned sector has to be hole-punched, but not necessarily an
+ entire filesystem block).
+
+These are the two basic paths that allow DAX filesystems to continue operating
+in the presence of media errors. More robust error recovery mechanisms can be
+built on top of this in the future, for example, involving redundancy/mirroring
+provided at the block layer through DM, or additionally, at the filesystem
+level. These would have to rely on the above two tenets, that error clearing
+can happen either by sending an IO through the driver, or zeroing (also through
+the driver).
Shortcomings
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/devpts.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/devpts.txt
index 30d2fcb32f72..9f94fe276dea 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/devpts.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/devpts.txt
@@ -1,141 +1,26 @@
+Each mount of the devpts filesystem is now distinct such that ptys
+and their indicies allocated in one mount are independent from ptys
+and their indicies in all other mounts.
-To support containers, we now allow multiple instances of devpts filesystem,
-such that indices of ptys allocated in one instance are independent of indices
-allocated in other instances of devpts.
+All mounts of the devpts filesystem now create a /dev/pts/ptmx node
+with permissions 0000.
-To preserve backward compatibility, this support for multiple instances is
-enabled only if:
+To retain backwards compatibility the a ptmx device node (aka any node
+created with "mknod name c 5 2") when opened will look for an instance
+of devpts under the name "pts" in the same directory as the ptmx device
+node.
- - CONFIG_DEVPTS_MULTIPLE_INSTANCES=y, and
- - '-o newinstance' mount option is specified while mounting devpts
-
-IOW, devpts now supports both single-instance and multi-instance semantics.
-
-If CONFIG_DEVPTS_MULTIPLE_INSTANCES=n, there is no change in behavior and
-this referred to as the "legacy" mode. In this mode, the new mount options
-(-o newinstance and -o ptmxmode) will be ignored with a 'bogus option' message
-on console.
-
-If CONFIG_DEVPTS_MULTIPLE_INSTANCES=y and devpts is mounted without the
-'newinstance' option (as in current start-up scripts) the new mount binds
-to the initial kernel mount of devpts. This mode is referred to as the
-'single-instance' mode and the current, single-instance semantics are
-preserved, i.e PTYs are common across the system.
-
-The only difference between this single-instance mode and the legacy mode
-is the presence of new, '/dev/pts/ptmx' node with permissions 0000, which
-can safely be ignored.
-
-If CONFIG_DEVPTS_MULTIPLE_INSTANCES=y and 'newinstance' option is specified,
-the mount is considered to be in the multi-instance mode and a new instance
-of the devpts fs is created. Any ptys created in this instance are independent
-of ptys in other instances of devpts. Like in the single-instance mode, the
-/dev/pts/ptmx node is present. To effectively use the multi-instance mode,
-open of /dev/ptmx must be a redirected to '/dev/pts/ptmx' using a symlink or
-bind-mount.
-
-Eg: A container startup script could do the following:
-
- $ chmod 0666 /dev/pts/ptmx
- $ rm /dev/ptmx
- $ ln -s pts/ptmx /dev/ptmx
- $ ns_exec -cm /bin/bash
-
- # We are now in new container
-
- $ umount /dev/pts
- $ mount -t devpts -o newinstance lxcpts /dev/pts
- $ sshd -p 1234
-
-where 'ns_exec -cm /bin/bash' calls clone() with CLONE_NEWNS flag and execs
-/bin/bash in the child process. A pty created by the sshd is not visible in
-the original mount of /dev/pts.
+As an option instead of placing a /dev/ptmx device node at /dev/ptmx
+it is possible to place a symlink to /dev/pts/ptmx at /dev/ptmx or
+to bind mount /dev/ptx/ptmx to /dev/ptmx. If you opt for using
+the devpts filesystem in this manner devpts should be mounted with
+the ptmxmode=0666, or chmod 0666 /dev/pts/ptmx should be called.
Total count of pty pairs in all instances is limited by sysctls:
kernel.pty.max = 4096 - global limit
-kernel.pty.reserve = 1024 - reserve for initial instance
+kernel.pty.reserve = 1024 - reserved for filesystems mounted from the initial mount namespace
kernel.pty.nr - current count of ptys
Per-instance limit could be set by adding mount option "max=<count>".
This feature was added in kernel 3.4 together with sysctl kernel.pty.reserve.
In kernels older than 3.4 sysctl kernel.pty.max works as per-instance limit.
-
-User-space changes
-------------------
-
-In multi-instance mode (i.e '-o newinstance' mount option is specified at least
-once), following user-space issues should be noted.
-
-1. If -o newinstance mount option is never used, /dev/pts/ptmx can be ignored
- and no change is needed to system-startup scripts.
-
-2. To effectively use multi-instance mode (i.e -o newinstance is specified)
- administrators or startup scripts should "redirect" open of /dev/ptmx to
- /dev/pts/ptmx using either a bind mount or symlink.
-
- $ mount -t devpts -o newinstance devpts /dev/pts
-
- followed by either
-
- $ rm /dev/ptmx
- $ ln -s pts/ptmx /dev/ptmx
- $ chmod 666 /dev/pts/ptmx
- or
- $ mount -o bind /dev/pts/ptmx /dev/ptmx
-
-3. The '/dev/ptmx -> pts/ptmx' symlink is the preferred method since it
- enables better error-reporting and treats both single-instance and
- multi-instance mounts similarly.
-
- But this method requires that system-startup scripts set the mode of
- /dev/pts/ptmx correctly (default mode is 0000). The scripts can set the
- mode by, either
-
- - adding ptmxmode mount option to devpts entry in /etc/fstab, or
- - using 'chmod 0666 /dev/pts/ptmx'
-
-4. If multi-instance mode mount is needed for containers, but the system
- startup scripts have not yet been updated, container-startup scripts
- should bind mount /dev/ptmx to /dev/pts/ptmx to avoid breaking single-
- instance mounts.
-
- Or, in general, container-startup scripts should use:
-
- mount -t devpts -o newinstance -o ptmxmode=0666 devpts /dev/pts
- if [ ! -L /dev/ptmx ]; then
- mount -o bind /dev/pts/ptmx /dev/ptmx
- fi
-
- When all devpts mounts are multi-instance, /dev/ptmx can permanently be
- a symlink to pts/ptmx and the bind mount can be ignored.
-
-5. A multi-instance mount that is not accompanied by the /dev/ptmx to
- /dev/pts/ptmx redirection would result in an unusable/unreachable pty.
-
- mount -t devpts -o newinstance lxcpts /dev/pts
-
- immediately followed by:
-
- open("/dev/ptmx")
-
- would create a pty, say /dev/pts/7, in the initial kernel mount.
- But /dev/pts/7 would be invisible in the new mount.
-
-6. The permissions for /dev/pts/ptmx node should be specified when mounting
- /dev/pts, using the '-o ptmxmode=%o' mount option (default is 0000).
-
- mount -t devpts -o newinstance -o ptmxmode=0644 devpts /dev/pts
-
- The permissions can be later be changed as usual with 'chmod'.
-
- chmod 666 /dev/pts/ptmx
-
-7. A mount of devpts without the 'newinstance' option results in binding to
- initial kernel mount. This behavior while preserving legacy semantics,
- does not provide strict isolation in a container environment. i.e by
- mounting devpts without the 'newinstance' option, a container could
- get visibility into the 'host' or root container's devpts.
-
- To workaround this and have strict isolation, all mounts of devpts,
- including the mount in the root container, should use the newinstance
- option.
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/directory-locking b/Documentation/filesystems/directory-locking
index 09bbf9a54f80..c314badbcfc6 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/directory-locking
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/directory-locking
@@ -1,30 +1,37 @@
Locking scheme used for directory operations is based on two
-kinds of locks - per-inode (->i_mutex) and per-filesystem
+kinds of locks - per-inode (->i_rwsem) and per-filesystem
(->s_vfs_rename_mutex).
- When taking the i_mutex on multiple non-directory objects, we
+ When taking the i_rwsem on multiple non-directory objects, we
always acquire the locks in order by increasing address. We'll call
that "inode pointer" order in the following.
For our purposes all operations fall in 5 classes:
1) read access. Locking rules: caller locks directory we are accessing.
+The lock is taken shared.
-2) object creation. Locking rules: same as above.
+2) object creation. Locking rules: same as above, but the lock is taken
+exclusive.
3) object removal. Locking rules: caller locks parent, finds victim,
-locks victim and calls the method.
+locks victim and calls the method. Locks are exclusive.
4) rename() that is _not_ cross-directory. Locking rules: caller locks
-the parent and finds source and target. If target already exists, lock
-it. If source is a non-directory, lock it. If that means we need to
-lock both, lock them in inode pointer order.
+the parent and finds source and target. In case of exchange (with
+RENAME_EXCHANGE in rename2() flags argument) lock both. In any case,
+if the target already exists, lock it. If the source is a non-directory,
+lock it. If we need to lock both, lock them in inode pointer order.
+Then call the method. All locks are exclusive.
+NB: we might get away with locking the the source (and target in exchange
+case) shared.
5) link creation. Locking rules:
* lock parent
* check that source is not a directory
* lock source
* call the method.
+All locks are exclusive.
6) cross-directory rename. The trickiest in the whole bunch. Locking
rules:
@@ -35,11 +42,12 @@ rules:
fail with -ENOTEMPTY
* if new parent is equal to or is a descendent of source
fail with -ELOOP
- * If target exists, lock it. If source is a non-directory, lock
- it. In case that means we need to lock both source and target,
- do so in inode pointer order.
+ * If it's an exchange, lock both the source and the target.
+ * If the target exists, lock it. If the source is a non-directory,
+ lock it. If we need to lock both, do so in inode pointer order.
* call the method.
-
+All ->i_rwsem are taken exclusive. Again, we might get away with locking
+the the source (and target in exchange case) shared.
The rules above obviously guarantee that all directories that are going to be
read, modified or removed by method will be locked by caller.
@@ -73,7 +81,7 @@ objects - A < B iff A is an ancestor of B.
attempt to acquire some lock and already holds at least one lock. Let's
consider the set of contended locks. First of all, filesystem lock is
not contended, since any process blocked on it is not holding any locks.
-Thus all processes are blocked on ->i_mutex.
+Thus all processes are blocked on ->i_rwsem.
By (3), any process holding a non-directory lock can only be
waiting on another non-directory lock with a larger address. Therefore
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.txt
index e1c9f0849da6..ecd808088362 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.txt
@@ -109,7 +109,9 @@ background_gc=%s Turn on/off cleaning operations, namely garbage
disable_roll_forward Disable the roll-forward recovery routine
norecovery Disable the roll-forward recovery routine, mounted read-
only (i.e., -o ro,disable_roll_forward)
-discard Issue discard/TRIM commands when a segment is cleaned.
+discard/nodiscard Enable/disable real-time discard in f2fs, if discard is
+ enabled, f2fs will issue discard/TRIM commands when a
+ segment is cleaned.
no_heap Disable heap-style segment allocation which finds free
segments for data from the beginning of main area, while
for node from the end of main area.
@@ -151,6 +153,9 @@ noinline_data Disable the inline data feature, inline data feature is
enabled by default.
data_flush Enable data flushing before checkpoint in order to
persist data of regular and symlink.
+mode=%s Control block allocation mode which supports "adaptive"
+ and "lfs". In "lfs" mode, there should be no random
+ writes towards main area.
================================================================================
DEBUGFS ENTRIES
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2-online-filecheck.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2-online-filecheck.txt
index 1ab07860430d..139fab175c8a 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2-online-filecheck.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2-online-filecheck.txt
@@ -5,12 +5,12 @@ This document will describe OCFS2 online file check feature.
Introduction
============
-OCFS2 is often used in high-availaibility systems. However, OCFS2 usually
+OCFS2 is often used in high-availability systems. However, OCFS2 usually
converts the filesystem to read-only when encounters an error. This may not be
necessary, since turning the filesystem read-only would affect other running
processes as well, decreasing availability.
Then, a mount option (errors=continue) is introduced, which would return the
--EIO errno to the calling process and terminate furhter processing so that the
+-EIO errno to the calling process and terminate further processing so that the
filesystem is not corrupted further. The filesystem is not converted to
read-only, and the problematic file's inode number is reported in the kernel
log. The user can try to check/fix this file via online filecheck feature.
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ There is a sysfs directory for each OCFS2 file system mounting:
/sys/fs/ocfs2/<devname>/filecheck
-Here, <devname> indicates the name of OCFS2 volumn device which has been already
+Here, <devname> indicates the name of OCFS2 volume device which has been already
mounted. The file above would accept inode numbers. This could be used to
communicate with kernel space, tell which file(inode number) will be checked or
fixed. Currently, three operations are supported, which includes checking
@@ -76,14 +76,14 @@ The output is like this:
This time, the <ERROR> column indicates whether this fix is successful or not.
3. The record cache is used to store the history of check/fix results. It's
-defalut size is 10, and can be adjust between the range of 10 ~ 100. You can
+default size is 10, and can be adjust between the range of 10 ~ 100. You can
adjust the size like this:
# echo "<size>" > /sys/fs/ocfs2/<devname>/filecheck/set
Fixing stuff
============
-On receivng the inode, the filesystem would read the inode and the
+On receiving the inode, the filesystem would read the inode and the
file metadata. In case of errors, the filesystem would fix the errors
and report the problems it fixed in the kernel log. As a precautionary measure,
the inode must first be checked for errors before performing a final fix.
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt
index 28091457b71a..d6259c786316 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt
@@ -194,15 +194,6 @@ If a file with multiple hard links is copied up, then this will
"break" the link. Changes will not be propagated to other names
referring to the same inode.
-Symlinks in /proc/PID/ and /proc/PID/fd which point to a non-directory
-object in overlayfs will not contain valid absolute paths, only
-relative paths leading up to the filesystem's root. This will be
-fixed in the future.
-
-Some operations are not atomic, for example a crash during copy_up or
-rename will leave the filesystem in an inconsistent state. This will
-be addressed in the future.
-
Changes to underlying filesystems
---------------------------------
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting
index 46f3bb7a02f5..a5fb89cac615 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting
@@ -578,3 +578,10 @@ in your dentry operations instead.
--
[mandatory]
->atomic_open() calls without O_CREAT may happen in parallel.
+--
+[mandatory]
+ ->setxattr() and xattr_handler.set() get dentry and inode passed separately.
+ dentry might be yet to be attached to inode, so do _not_ use its ->d_inode
+ in the instances. Rationale: !@#!@# security_d_instantiate() needs to be
+ called before we attach dentry to inode and !@#!@##!@$!$#!@#$!@$!@$ smack
+ ->d_instantiate() uses not just ->getxattr() but ->setxattr() as well.
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
index e8d00759bfa5..68080ad6a75e 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
@@ -436,6 +436,7 @@ Private_Dirty: 0 kB
Referenced: 892 kB
Anonymous: 0 kB
AnonHugePages: 0 kB
+ShmemPmdMapped: 0 kB
Shared_Hugetlb: 0 kB
Private_Hugetlb: 0 kB
Swap: 0 kB
@@ -464,6 +465,8 @@ accessed.
a mapping associated with a file may contain anonymous pages: when MAP_PRIVATE
and a page is modified, the file page is replaced by a private anonymous copy.
"AnonHugePages" shows the ammount of memory backed by transparent hugepage.
+"ShmemPmdMapped" shows the ammount of shared (shmem/tmpfs) memory backed by
+huge pages.
"Shared_Hugetlb" and "Private_Hugetlb" show the ammounts of memory backed by
hugetlbfs page which is *not* counted in "RSS" or "PSS" field for historical
reasons. And these are not included in {Shared,Private}_{Clean,Dirty} field.
@@ -725,7 +728,7 @@ IRQ, you can set it by doing:
> echo 1 > /proc/irq/10/smp_affinity
This means that only the first CPU will handle the IRQ, but you can also echo
-5 which means that only the first and fourth CPU can handle the IRQ.
+5 which means that only the first and third CPU can handle the IRQ.
The contents of each smp_affinity file is the same by default:
@@ -868,6 +871,9 @@ VmallocTotal: 112216 kB
VmallocUsed: 428 kB
VmallocChunk: 111088 kB
AnonHugePages: 49152 kB
+ShmemHugePages: 0 kB
+ShmemPmdMapped: 0 kB
+
MemTotal: Total usable ram (i.e. physical ram minus a few reserved
bits and the kernel binary code)
@@ -912,6 +918,9 @@ MemAvailable: An estimate of how much memory is available for starting new
AnonHugePages: Non-file backed huge pages mapped into userspace page tables
Mapped: files which have been mmaped, such as libraries
Shmem: Total memory used by shared memory (shmem) and tmpfs
+ShmemHugePages: Memory used by shared memory (shmem) and tmpfs allocated
+ with huge pages
+ShmemPmdMapped: Shared memory mapped into userspace with huge pages
Slab: in-kernel data structures cache
SReclaimable: Part of Slab, that might be reclaimed, such as caches
SUnreclaim: Part of Slab, that cannot be reclaimed on memory pressure
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
index c61a223ef3ff..8a196851f01d 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
@@ -364,7 +364,6 @@ struct inode_operations {
int (*atomic_open)(struct inode *, struct dentry *, struct file *,
unsigned open_flag, umode_t create_mode, int *opened);
int (*tmpfile) (struct inode *, struct dentry *, umode_t);
- int (*dentry_open)(struct dentry *, struct file *, const struct cred *);
};
Again, all methods are called without any locks being held, unless
@@ -534,9 +533,7 @@ __sync_single_inode) to check if ->writepages has been successful in
writing out the whole address_space.
The Writeback tag is used by filemap*wait* and sync_page* functions,
-via filemap_fdatawait_range, to wait for all writeback to
-complete. While waiting ->sync_page (if defined) will be called on
-each page that is found to require writeback.
+via filemap_fdatawait_range, to wait for all writeback to complete.
An address_space handler may attach extra information to a page,
typically using the 'private' field in the 'struct page'. If such
@@ -554,8 +551,8 @@ address_space has finer control of write sizes.
The read process essentially only requires 'readpage'. The write
process is more complicated and uses write_begin/write_end or
-set_page_dirty to write data into the address_space, and writepage,
-sync_page, and writepages to writeback data to storage.
+set_page_dirty to write data into the address_space, and writepage
+and writepages to writeback data to storage.
Adding and removing pages to/from an address_space is protected by the
inode's i_mutex.
@@ -592,9 +589,14 @@ struct address_space_operations {
int (*releasepage) (struct page *, int);
void (*freepage)(struct page *);
ssize_t (*direct_IO)(struct kiocb *, struct iov_iter *iter);
+ /* isolate a page for migration */
+ bool (*isolate_page) (struct page *, isolate_mode_t);
/* migrate the contents of a page to the specified target */
int (*migratepage) (struct page *, struct page *);
+ /* put migration-failed page back to right list */
+ void (*putback_page) (struct page *);
int (*launder_page) (struct page *);
+
int (*is_partially_uptodate) (struct page *, unsigned long,
unsigned long);
void (*is_dirty_writeback) (struct page *, bool *, bool *);
@@ -696,13 +698,6 @@ struct address_space_operations {
but instead uses bmap to find out where the blocks in the file
are and uses those addresses directly.
- dentry_open: *WARNING: probably going away soon, do not use!* This is an
- alternative to f_op->open(), the difference is that this method may open
- a file not necessarily originating from the same filesystem as the one
- i_op->open() was called on. It may be useful for stacking filesystems
- which want to allow native I/O directly on underlying files.
-
-
invalidatepage: If a page has PagePrivate set, then invalidatepage
will be called when part or all of the page is to be removed
from the address space. This generally corresponds to either a
@@ -747,6 +742,10 @@ struct address_space_operations {
and transfer data directly between the storage and the
application's address space.
+ isolate_page: Called by the VM when isolating a movable non-lru page.
+ If page is successfully isolated, VM marks the page as PG_isolated
+ via __SetPageIsolated.
+
migrate_page: This is used to compact the physical memory usage.
If the VM wants to relocate a page (maybe off a memory card
that is signalling imminent failure) it will pass a new page
@@ -754,6 +753,8 @@ struct address_space_operations {
transfer any private data across and update any references
that it has to the page.
+ putback_page: Called by the VM when isolated page's migration fails.
+
launder_page: Called before freeing a page - it writes back the dirty page. To
prevent redirtying the page, it is kept locked during the whole
operation.
@@ -933,11 +934,14 @@ struct dentry_operations {
int (*d_compare)(const struct dentry *, const struct dentry *,
unsigned int, const char *, const struct qstr *);
int (*d_delete)(const struct dentry *);
+ int (*d_init)(struct dentry *);
void (*d_release)(struct dentry *);
void (*d_iput)(struct dentry *, struct inode *);
char *(*d_dname)(struct dentry *, char *, int);
struct vfsmount *(*d_automount)(struct path *);
int (*d_manage)(struct dentry *, bool);
+ struct dentry *(*d_real)(struct dentry *, const struct inode *,
+ unsigned int);
};
d_revalidate: called when the VFS needs to revalidate a dentry. This
@@ -1003,6 +1007,8 @@ struct dentry_operations {
always cache a reachable dentry. d_delete must be constant and
idempotent.
+ d_init: called when a dentry is allocated
+
d_release: called when a dentry is really deallocated
d_iput: called when a dentry loses its inode (just prior to its
@@ -1022,6 +1028,14 @@ struct dentry_operations {
at the end of the buffer, and returns a pointer to the first char.
dynamic_dname() helper function is provided to take care of this.
+ Example :
+
+ static char *pipefs_dname(struct dentry *dent, char *buffer, int buflen)
+ {
+ return dynamic_dname(dentry, buffer, buflen, "pipe:[%lu]",
+ dentry->d_inode->i_ino);
+ }
+
d_automount: called when an automount dentry is to be traversed (optional).
This should create a new VFS mount record and return the record to the
caller. The caller is supplied with a path parameter giving the
@@ -1060,13 +1074,23 @@ struct dentry_operations {
This function is only used if DCACHE_MANAGE_TRANSIT is set on the
dentry being transited from.
-Example :
+ d_real: overlay/union type filesystems implement this method to return one of
+ the underlying dentries hidden by the overlay. It is used in three
+ different modes:
-static char *pipefs_dname(struct dentry *dent, char *buffer, int buflen)
-{
- return dynamic_dname(dentry, buffer, buflen, "pipe:[%lu]",
- dentry->d_inode->i_ino);
-}
+ Called from open it may need to copy-up the file depending on the
+ supplied open flags. This mode is selected with a non-zero flags
+ argument. In this mode the d_real method can return an error.
+
+ Called from file_dentry() it returns the real dentry matching the inode
+ argument. The real dentry may be from a lower layer already copied up,
+ but still referenced from the file. This mode is selected with a
+ non-NULL inode argument. This will always succeed.
+
+ With NULL inode and zero flags the topmost real underlying dentry is
+ returned. This will always succeed.
+
+ This method is never called with both non-NULL inode and non-zero flags.
Each dentry has a pointer to its parent dentry, as well as a hash list
of child dentries. Child dentries are basically like files in a