linux.git/fs/Kconfig, branch v2.6.24

Fix file references in documentation and Kconfig

2008-01-22T18:43:36+00:00

Fix typo in arch/powerpc/boot/flatdevtree_env.h.
There is no Documentation/networking/ixgbe.txt.

README.cycladesZ is now in Documentation/.
wavelan.p.h is now in drivers/net/wireless/.
HFS.txt is now Documentation/filesystems/hfs.txt.
OSS-files are now in sound/oss/.

Signed-off-by: Johann Felix Soden 
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

fs/Kconfig: grammar fix

2007-12-18T03:28:16+00:00

This was introduced in 4af8e944c22d8af92a7548354a9567250cc1a782

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König 
Cc: David Woodhouse 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] ocfs2: Remove expensive bitmap scanning

2007-11-28T00:47:02+00:00

Enable expensive bitmap scanning only if DEBUG option is enabled.
The bitmap scanning quite loads the CPU and on my machine the write
throughput of dd if=/dev/zero of=/ocfs2/file bs=1M count=500 conv=sync
improves from 37 MB/s to 45.4 MB/s in local mode...

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara 
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6

2007-11-12T19:11:39+00:00

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6: (21 commits)
  [CIFS] fix oops on second mount to same server when null auth is used
  [CIFS] Fix stale mode after readdir when cifsacl specified
  [CIFS] add mode to acl conversion helper function
  [CIFS] Fix incorrect mode when ACL had deny access control entries
  [CIFS] Add uid to key description so krb can handle user mounts
  [CIFS] Fix walking out end of cifs dacl
  [CIFS] Add upcall files for cifs to use spnego/kerberos
  [CIFS] add OIDs for KRB5 and MSKRB5 to ASN1 parsing routines
  [CIFS] Register and unregister cifs_spnego_key_type on module init/exit
  [CIFS] implement upcalls for SPNEGO blob via keyctl API
  [CIFS] allow cifs_calc_signature2 to deal with a zero length iovec
  [CIFS] If no Access Control Entries, set mode perm bits to zero
  [CIFS] when mount helper missing fix slash wrong direction in share
  [CIFS] Don't request too much permission when reading an ACL
  [CIFS] enable get mode from ACL when cifsacl mount option specified
  [CIFS] ACL support part 8
  [CIFS] acl support part 7
  [CIFS] acl support part 6
  [CIFS] acl support part 6
  [CIFS] remove unused funtion compile warning when experimental off
  ...

[CIFS] implement upcalls for SPNEGO blob via keyctl API

2007-11-03T04:48:29+00:00

Add routines to handle upcalls to userspace via keyctl for the purpose
of getting a SPNEGO blob for a particular uid and server combination.

Clean up the Makefile a bit and set it up to only compile cifs_spnego
if CONFIG_CIFS_UPCALL is set. Also change CONFIG_CIFS_UPCALL to depend
on CONFIG_KEYS rather than CONFIG_CONNECTOR.

cifs_spnego.h defines the communications between kernel and userspace
and is intended to be shared with userspace programs.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton 
Signed-off-by: Steve French

Kbuild/doc: fix links to Documentation files

2007-10-30T21:26:30+00:00

Fix links to files in Documentation/* in various Kconfig files

Signed-off-by: Dirk Hohndel 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

jbd: config_jbd_debug cannot create /proc entry

2007-10-19T18:53:35+00:00

The jbd-debug file used to be located in /proc/sys/fs/jbd-debug, but
create_proc_entry() does not do lookups on file names that are more that
one directory deep.  This causes the entry creation to fail and hence, no
proc file is created.

Instead of fixing this on procfs might as well move the jbd2-debug file to
debugfs which would be the preferred location for this kind of tunable.
The new location is now /sys/kernel/debug/jbd/jbd-debug.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: zillions of cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Jose R. Santos 
Acked-by: Jan Kara 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Ext4: Uninitialized Block Groups

2007-10-17T22:50:00+00:00

In pass1 of e2fsck, every inode table in the fileystem is scanned and checked,
regardless of whether it is in use.  This is this the most time consuming part
of the filesystem check.  The unintialized block group feature can greatly
reduce e2fsck time by eliminating checking of uninitialized inodes.

With this feature, there is a a high water mark of used inodes for each block
group.  Block and inode bitmaps can be uninitialized on disk via a flag in the
group descriptor to avoid reading or scanning them at e2fsck time.  A checksum
of each group descriptor is used to ensure that corruption in the group
descriptor's bit flags does not cause incorrect operation.

The feature is enabled through a mkfs option

	mke2fs /dev/ -O uninit_groups

A patch adding support for uninitialized block groups to e2fsprogs tools has
been posted to the linux-ext4 mailing list.

The patches have been stress tested with fsstress and fsx.  In performance
tests testing e2fsck time, we have seen that e2fsck time on ext3 grows
linearly with the total number of inodes in the filesytem.  In ext4 with the
uninitialized block groups feature, the e2fsck time is constant, based
solely on the number of used inodes rather than the total inode count.
Since typical ext4 filesystems only use 1-10% of their inodes, this feature can
greatly reduce e2fsck time for users.  With performance improvement of 2-20
times, depending on how full the filesystem is.

The attached graph shows the major improvements in e2fsck times in filesystems
with a large total inode count, but few inodes in use.

In each group descriptor if we have

EXT4_BG_INODE_UNINIT set in bg_flags:
        Inode table is not initialized/used in this group. So we can skip
        the consistency check during fsck.
EXT4_BG_BLOCK_UNINIT set in bg_flags:
        No block in the group is used. So we can skip the block bitmap
        verification for this group.

We also add two new fields to group descriptor as a part of
uninitialized group patch.

        __le16  bg_itable_unused;       /* Unused inodes count */
        __le16  bg_checksum;            /* crc16(sb_uuid+group+desc) */

bg_itable_unused:

If we have EXT4_BG_INODE_UNINIT not set in bg_flags
then bg_itable_unused will give the offset within
the inode table till the inodes are used. This can be
used by fsck to skip list of inodes that are marked unused.

bg_checksum:
Now that we depend on bg_flags and bg_itable_unused to determine
the block and inode usage, we need to make sure group descriptor
is not corrupt. We add checksum to group descriptor to
detect corruption. If the descriptor is found to be corrupt, we
mark all the blocks and inodes in the group used.

Signed-off-by: Avantika Mathur 
Signed-off-by: Andreas Dilger 
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao 
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V

menuconfig: transform Network Filesystems menu

2007-10-17T15:43:00+00:00

Turn Network File Systems into a menuconfig so that it can be disabled at
once.

(Note: I added a "default y". If you do not like that, speak up.)

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt 
Cc: Trond Myklebust 
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" 
Cc: Steven French 
Cc: David Howells 
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen 
Cc: Neil Brown 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

quota: send messages via netlink

2007-10-17T15:42:56+00:00

Implement sending of quota messages via netlink interface.  The advantage
is that in userspace we can better decide what to do with the message - for
example display a dialogue in your X session or just write the message to
the console.  As a bonus, we can get rid of problems with console locking
deep inside filesystem code once we remove the old printing mechanism.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara 
Cc: Randy Dunlap 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds