linux.git/Documentation/filesystems, branch v4.6

mm, fs: remove remaining PAGE_CACHE_* and page_cache_{get,release} usage

2016-04-04T17:41:08+00:00

Mostly direct substitution with occasional adjustment or removing
outdated comments.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'ofs-pull-tag-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hubcap/linux

2016-03-26T19:59:04+00:00

Pull orangefs filesystem from Mike Marshall.

This finally merges the long-pending orangefs filesystem, which has been
much cleaned up with input from Al Viro over the last six months.  From
the documentation file:

 "OrangeFS is an LGPL userspace scale-out parallel storage system.  It
  is ideal for large storage problems faced by HPC, BigData, Streaming
  Video, Genomics, Bioinformatics.

  Orangefs, originally called PVFS, was first developed in 1993 by Walt
  Ligon and Eric Blumer as a parallel file system for Parallel Virtual
  Machine (PVM) as part of a NASA grant to study the I/O patterns of
  parallel programs.

  Orangefs features include:

    - Distributes file data among multiple file servers
    - Supports simultaneous access by multiple clients
    - Stores file data and metadata on servers using local file system
      and access methods
    - Userspace implementation is easy to install and maintain
    - Direct MPI support
    - Stateless"

see Documentation/filesystems/orangefs.txt for more in-depth details.

* tag 'ofs-pull-tag-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hubcap/linux: (174 commits)
  orangefs: fix orangefs_superblock locking
  orangefs: fix do_readv_writev() handling of error halfway through
  orangefs: have ->kill_sb() evict the VFS side of things first
  orangefs: sanitize ->llseek()
  orangefs-bufmap.h: trim unused junk
  orangefs: saner calling conventions for getting a slot
  orangefs_copy_{to,from}_bufmap(): don't pass bufmap pointer
  orangefs: get rid of readdir_handle_s
  ornagefs: ensure that truncate has an up to date inode size
  orangefs: move code which sets i_link to orangefs_inode_getattr
  orangefs: remove needless wrapper around GFP_KERNEL
  orangefs: remove wrapper around mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex)
  orangefs: refactor inode type or link_target change detection
  orangefs: use new getattr for revalidate and remove old getattr
  orangefs: use new getattr in inode getattr and permission
  orangefs: use new orangefs_inode_getattr to get size in write and llseek
  orangefs: use new orangefs_inode_getattr to create new inodes
  orangefs: rename orangefs_inode_getattr to orangefs_inode_old_getattr
  orangefs: remove inode->i_lock wrapper
  orangefs: put register_chrdev immediately before register_filesystem
  ...

Merge tag 'nfsd-4.6-1' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux

2016-03-25T02:50:32+00:00

Pull more nfsd updates from Bruce Fields:
 "Apologies for the previous request, which omitted the top 8 commits
  from my for-next branch (including the SCSI layout commits).  Thanks
  to Trond for spotting my error!"

This actually includes the new layout types, so here's that part of
the pull message repeated:

 "Support for a new pnfs layout type from Christoph Hellwig.  The new
  layout type is a variant of the block layout which uses SCSI features
  to offer improved fencing and device identification.

  Note this pull request also includes the client side of SCSI layout,
  with Trond's permission"

* tag 'nfsd-4.6-1' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux:
  nfsd: use short read as well as i_size to set eof
  nfsd: better layoutupdate bounds-checking
  nfsd: block and scsi layout drivers need to depend on CONFIG_BLOCK
  nfsd: add SCSI layout support
  nfsd: move some blocklayout code
  nfsd: add a new config option for the block layout driver
  nfs/blocklayout: add SCSI layout support
  nfs4.h: add SCSI layout definitions

fat: add config option to set UTF-8 mount option by default

2016-03-22T22:36:02+00:00

FAT has long supported its own default file name encoding config
setting, separate from CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT.

However, if UTF-8 encoded file names are desired FAT character set
should not be set to utf8 since this would make file names case
sensitive even if case insensitive matching is requested.  Instead,
"utf8" mount options should be provided to enable UTF-8 file names in
FAT file system.

Unfortunately, there was no possibility to set the default value of this
option so on UTF-8 system "utf8" mount option had to be added manually
to most FAT mounts.

This patch adds config option to set such default value.

Signed-off-by: Maciej S. Szmigiero 
Acked-by: OGAWA Hirofumi 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ocfs2: add feature document for online file check

2016-03-22T22:36:02+00:00

This document will describe OCFS2 online file check feature.  OCFS2 is
often used in high-availaibility 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 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.

Signed-off-by: Gang He 
Cc: Mark Fasheh 
Cc: Joel Becker 
Cc: Junxiao Bi 
Cc: Joseph Qi 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'for-linus-4.6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/linux-btrfs

2016-03-22T01:12:42+00:00

Pull btrfs updates from Chris Mason:
 "We have a good sized cleanup of our internal read ahead code, and the
  first series of commits from Chandan to enable PAGE_SIZE > sectorsize

  Otherwise, it's a normal series of cleanups and fixes, with many
  thanks to Dave Sterba for doing most of the patch wrangling this time"

* 'for-linus-4.6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/linux-btrfs: (82 commits)
  btrfs: make sure we stay inside the bvec during __btrfs_lookup_bio_sums
  btrfs: Fix misspellings in comments.
  btrfs: Print Warning only if ENOSPC_DEBUG is enabled
  btrfs: scrub: silence an uninitialized variable warning
  btrfs: move btrfs_compression_type to compression.h
  btrfs: rename btrfs_print_info to btrfs_print_mod_info
  Btrfs: Show a warning message if one of objectid reaches its highest value
  Documentation: btrfs: remove usage specific information
  btrfs: use kbasename in btrfsic_mount
  Btrfs: do not collect ordered extents when logging that inode exists
  Btrfs: fix race when checking if we can skip fsync'ing an inode
  Btrfs: fix listxattrs not listing all xattrs packed in the same item
  Btrfs: fix deadlock between direct IO reads and buffered writes
  Btrfs: fix extent_same allowing destination offset beyond i_size
  Btrfs: fix file loss on log replay after renaming a file and fsync
  Btrfs: fix unreplayable log after snapshot delete + parent dir fsync
  Btrfs: fix lockdep deadlock warning due to dev_replace
  btrfs: drop unused argument in btrfs_ioctl_get_supported_features
  btrfs: add GET_SUPPORTED_FEATURES to the control device ioctls
  btrfs: change max_inline default to 2048
  ...

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

2016-03-19T02:26:54+00:00

Merge second patch-bomb from Andrew Morton:

 - a couple of hotfixes

 - the rest of MM

 - a new timer slack control in procfs

 - a couple of procfs fixes

 - a few misc things

 - some printk tweaks

 - lib/ updates, notably to radix-tree.

 - add my and Nick Piggin's old userspace radix-tree test harness to
   tools/testing/radix-tree/.  Matthew said it was a godsend during the
   radix-tree work he did.

 - a few code-size improvements, switching to __always_inline where gcc
   screwed up.

 - partially implement character sets in sscanf

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (118 commits)
  sscanf: implement basic character sets
  lib/bug.c: use common WARN helper
  param: convert some "on"/"off" users to strtobool
  lib: add "on"/"off" support to kstrtobool
  lib: update single-char callers of strtobool()
  lib: move strtobool() to kstrtobool()
  include/linux/unaligned: force inlining of byteswap operations
  include/uapi/linux/byteorder, swab: force inlining of some byteswap operations
  include/asm-generic/atomic-long.h: force inlining of some atomic_long operations
  usb: common: convert to use match_string() helper
  ide: hpt366: convert to use match_string() helper
  ata: hpt366: convert to use match_string() helper
  power: ab8500: convert to use match_string() helper
  power: charger_manager: convert to use match_string() helper
  drm/edid: convert to use match_string() helper
  pinctrl: convert to use match_string() helper
  device property: convert to use match_string() helper
  lib/string: introduce match_string() helper
  radix-tree tests: add test for radix_tree_iter_next
  radix-tree tests: add regression3 test
  ...

nfsd: add SCSI layout support

2016-03-18T15:42:53+00:00

This is a simple extension to the block layout driver to use SCSI
persistent reservations for access control and fencing, as well as
SCSI VPD pages for device identification.

For this we need to pass the nfs4_client to the proc_getdeviceinfo method
to generate the reservation key, and add a new fence_client method
to allow for fence actions in the layout driver.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields

Merge tag 'configfs-for-linus' of git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/configfs

2016-03-17T23:25:46+00:00

Pull configfs updates from Christoph Hellwig:

 - A large patch from me to simplify setting up the list of default
   groups by actually implementing it as a list instead of an array.

 - a small Y2083 prep patch from Deepa Dinamani.  Probably doesn't
   matter on it's own, but it seems like he is trying to get rid of all
   CURRENT_TIME uses in file systems, which is a worthwhile goal.

* tag 'configfs-for-linus' of git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/configfs:
  configfs: switch ->default groups to a linked list
  configfs: Replace CURRENT_TIME by current_fs_time()

proc: add /proc//timerslack_ns interface

2016-03-17T22:09:34+00:00

This patch provides a proc/PID/timerslack_ns interface which exposes a
task's timerslack value in nanoseconds and allows it to be changed.

This allows power/performance management software to set timer slack for
other threads according to its policy for the thread (such as when the
thread is designated foreground vs.  background activity)

If the value written is non-zero, slack is set to that value.  Otherwise
sets it to the default for the thread.

This interface checks that the calling task has permissions to to use
PTRACE_MODE_ATTACH_FSCREDS on the target task, so that we can ensure
arbitrary apps do not change the timer slack for other apps.

Signed-off-by: John Stultz 
Acked-by: Kees Cook 
Cc: Arjan van de Ven 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Oren Laadan 
Cc: Ruchi Kandoi 
Cc: Rom Lemarchand 
Cc: Android Kernel Team 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds