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2008-07-15Merge branch 'genirq' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'genirq' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: genirq: remove extraneous checks in manage.c genirq: Expose default irq affinity mask (take 3)
2008-07-15Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-2.6-nmwLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-2.6-nmw: [GFS2] Fix GFS2's use of do_div() in its quota calculations [GFS2] Remove unused declaration [GFS2] Remove support for unused and pointless flag [GFS2] Replace rgrp "recent list" with mru list [GFS2] Allow local DF locks when holding a cached EX glock [GFS2] Fix delayed demote race [GFS2] don't call permission() [GFS2] Fix module building [GFS2] Glock documentation [GFS2] Remove all_list from lock_dlm [GFS2] Remove obsolete conversion deadlock avoidance code [GFS2] Remove remote lock dropping code [GFS2] kernel panic mounting volume [GFS2] Revise readpage locking [GFS2] Fix ordering of args for list_add [GFS2] trivial sparse lock annotations [GFS2] No lock_nolock [GFS2] Fix ordering bug in lock_dlm [GFS2] Clean up the glock core
2008-07-11ext4: Documention update for new ordered mode and delayed allocationMingming Cao
Adding some documentations for delayed allocation and new ordered mode. Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-07-11ext4: Documentation updates.Jose R. Santos
Some of the information in Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt is out of date and in need of an update. Signed-off-by: Jose R. Santos <jrs@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-06-27[GFS2] Glock documentationSteven Whitehouse
This patch adds a file describing the internals of GFS2's glock abstraction. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2008-06-12Merge branch 'pci-for-jesse' of ↵Jesse Barnes
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-tip into for-linus
2008-06-12x86: PAT export resource_wc in pci sysfsvenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com
For the ranges with IORESOURCE_PREFETCH, export a new resource_wc interface in pci /sysfs along with resource (which is uncached). Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Acked-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-06-05genirq: Expose default irq affinity mask (take 3)Max Krasnyansky
Current IRQ affinity interface does not provide a way to set affinity for the IRQs that will be allocated/activated in the future. This patch creates /proc/irq/default_smp_affinity that lets users set default affinity mask for the newly allocated IRQs. Changing the default does not affect affinity masks for the currently active IRQs, they have to be changed explicitly. Updated based on Paul J's comments and added some more documentation. Signed-off-by: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com> Cc: pj@sgi.com Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl Cc: tglx@linutronix.de Cc: rdunlap@xenotime.net Cc: mingo@elte.hu Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-26ext4: enable barriers by defaultEric Sandeen
I can't think of any valid reason for ext4 to not use barriers when they are available; I believe this is necessary for filesystem integrity in the face of a volatile write cache on storage. An administrator who trusts that the cache is sufficiently battery- backed (and power supplies are sufficiently redundant, etc...) can always turn it back off again. SuSE has carried such a patch for ext3 for quite some time now. Also document the mount option while we're at it. Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-05-06[PATCH] kill ->put_inodeChristoph Hellwig
And with that last patch to affs killing the last put_inode instance we can finally, after many years of transition kill this racy and awkward interface. (It's kinda funny that even the description in Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt was entirely wrong..) Also remove a very misleading comment above the defintion of struct super_operations. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-04-30mm: document missing fields for /proc/meminfoMiklos Szeredi
A few fields in /proc/meminfo were not documented. Fix. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-28fat: Add allow_utime optionOGAWA Hirofumi
Normally utime(2) checks current process is owner of the file, or it has CAP_FOWNER capability. But FAT filesystem doesn't have uid/gid as on disk info, so normal check is too unflexible. With this option you can relax it. Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-28mempolicy: update NUMA memory policy documentationDavid Rientjes
Updates Documentation/vm/numa_memory_policy.txt and Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt to describe optional mempolicy mode flags. Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-28mm: remove nopageNick Piggin
Nothing in the tree uses nopage any more. Remove support for it in the core mm code and documentation (and a few stray references to it in comments). Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-25Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linuxLinus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux: nfsd: don't allow setting ctime over v4 Update to NFS/RDMA documentation locks: don't call ->copy_lock methods on return of conflicting locks lockd: unlock lockd locks held for a certain filesystem lockd: unlock lockd locks associated with a given server ip leases: remove unneeded variable from fcntl_setlease(). leases: move lock allocation earlier in generic_setlease() leases: when unlocking, skip locking-related steps leases: fix a return-value mixup
2008-04-25Document seq_path_root()Jonathan Corbet
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2008-04-25Update to NFS/RDMA documentationJames Lentini
Update to the NFS/RDMA documentation to clarify how to configure the exports file. Signed-off-by: James Lentini <jlentini@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2008-04-24Document SEQ_SKIPJonathan Corbet
2.6.26 adds a SEQ_SKIP return value for the seq_file show() function; update the documentation to match. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2008-04-23Documentation: NFS/RDMA instructions for 2.6.25-rc1James Lentini
Add some instructions for using the new NFS/RDMA features. Signed-off-by: James Lentini <jlentini@netapp.com> Cc: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com> Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2008-04-23[patch 7/7] vfs: mountinfo: show dominating group idMiklos Szeredi
Show peer group ID of nearest dominating group that has intersection with the mount's namespace. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-04-23[patch 6/7] vfs: mountinfo: add /proc/<pid>/mountinfoRam Pai
[mszeredi@suse.cz] rewrite and split big patch into managable chunks /proc/mounts in its current form lacks important information: - propagation state - root of mount for bind mounts - the st_dev value used within the filesystem - identifier for each mount and it's parent It also suffers from the following problems: - not easily extendable - ambiguity of mountpoints within a chrooted environment - doesn't distinguish between filesystem dependent and independent options - doesn't distinguish between per mount and per super block options This patch introduces /proc/<pid>/mountinfo which attempts to address all these deficiencies. Code shared between /proc/<pid>/mounts and /proc/<pid>/mountinfo is extracted into separate functions. Thanks to Al Viro for the help in getting the design right. Signed-off-by: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-04-19sysfs: refill attribute buffer when reading from offset 0Dan Williams
Requiring userspace to close and re-open sysfs attributes has been the policy since before 2.6.12. It allows userspace to get a consistent snapshot of kernel state and consume it with incremental reads and seeks. Now, if the file position is zero the kernel assumes userspace wants to see the new value. The application for this change is to allow a userspace RAID metadata handler to check the state of an array without causing any memory allocations. Thus not causing writeback to a raid array that might be blocked waiting for userspace to take action. Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-04-18[XFS] Update XFS documentation for noikeep/ikeep.Josef Sipek
Mention how DMAPI affects default for noikeep. Slightly modified since Josef's patch was based on an old xfs.txt prior to Dave's (dgc) checkin which missed going to oss. Signed-off-by: Josef Sipek <jeffpc@josefsipek.net> Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
2008-04-18[XFS] Update XFS Documentation for ikeep and ihashsizeDavid Chinner
Update xfs docs for: * In memory inode hashes has been removed. * noikeep is now the default. SGI-PV: 969561 SGI-Modid: 2.6.x-xfs-melb:linux:29481b Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
2008-04-15Fix typos in Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.txtDmitri Vorobiev
A couple of typos crept into the newly added document about the seq_file interface. This patch corrects those typos and simultaneously deletes unnecessary trailing spaces. Signed-off-by: Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-11Documentation: move rpc-cache.txt to filesystems/J. Bruce Fields
This file is nfs-related. (Maybe Documentation/filesystems/ would benefit from a separate nfs/ directory at some point.) Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2008-04-11Documentation: move nfsroot.txt to filesystems/J. Bruce Fields
Documentation/ is a little large, and filesystems/ seems an obvious place for this file. Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2008-03-30Fixes to the seq_file documentJan Engelhardt
On Friday 2008-03-28 19:20, Jonathan Corbet wrote: >commit 9756ccfda31b4c4544aa010aacf71b6672d668e8 >Date: Fri Mar 28 11:19:56 2008 -0600 > > Add the seq_file documentation patch on top: - add const qualifiers - remove void* casts - use proper specifier (%Ld is not valid) Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
2008-03-30Add the seq_file documentationJonathan Corbet
This is an updated version of the document describing the seq_file interface. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2008-03-12laptops: move laptop-mode.txt to Documentation/laptops/Randy Dunlap
Move laptop-mode.txt into the laptops/ sub-directory to consolidate laptop doc files there. Update references to the file's location. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-02-08mount options: add documentationMiklos Szeredi
This series addresses the problem of showing mount options in /proc/mounts. Several filesystems which use mount options, have not implemented a .show_options superblock operation. Several others have implemented this callback, but have not kept it fully up to date with the parsed options. Q: Why do we need correct option showing in /proc/mounts? A: We want /proc/mounts to fully replace /etc/mtab. The reasons for this are: - unprivileged mounters won't be able to update /etc/mtab - /etc/mtab doesn't work with private mount namespaces - /etc/mtab can become out-of-sync with reality Q: Can't this be done, so that filesystems need not bother with implementing a .show_mounts callback, and keeping it up to date? A: Only in some cases. Certain filesystems allow modification of a subset of options in their remount_fs method. It is not possible to take this into account without knowing exactly how the filesystem handles options. For the simple case (no remount or remount resets all options) the patchset introduces two helpers: generic_show_options() save_mount_options() These can also be used to emulate the old /etc/mtab behavior, until proper support is added. Even if this is not 100% correct, it's still better than showing no options at all. The following patches fix up most in-tree filesystems, some have been compile tested only, some have been reviewed and acked by the maintainer. Table displaying status of all in-kernel filesystems: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - legend: none - fs has options, but doesn't define ->show_options() some - fs defines ->show_options(), but some only options are shown good - fs shows all options noopt - fs does not have options patch - a patch will be posted merged - a patch has been merged by subsystem maintainer 9p good adfs patch affs patch afs patch autofs patch autofs4 patch befs patch bfs noopt cifs some coda noopt configfs noopt cramfs noopt debugfs noopt devpts patch ecryptfs good efs noopt ext2 patch ext3 good ext4 merged fat patch freevxfs noopt fuse patch fusectl noopt gfs2 good gfs2meta noopt hfs good hfsplus good hostfs patch hpfs patch hppfs noopt hugetlbfs patch isofs patch jffs2 noopt jfs merged minix noopt msdos ->fat ncpfs patch nfs some nfsd noopt ntfs good ocfs2 good ocfs2/dlmfs noopt openpromfs noopt proc noopt qnx4 noopt ramfs noopt reiserfs patch romfs noopt smbfs good sysfs noopt sysv noopt udf patch ufs good vfat ->fat xfs good mm/shmem.c patch drivers/oprofile/oprofilefs.c noopt drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/ipath_fs.c noopt drivers/misc/ibmasm/ibmasmfs.c noopt drivers/usb/core (usbfs) merged drivers/usb/gadget (gadgetfs) noopt drivers/isdn/capi/capifs.c patch kernel/cpuset.c noopt fs/binfmt_misc.c noopt net/sunrpc/rpc_pipe.c noopt arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs patch arch/s390/hypfs good ipc/mqueue.c noopt security (securityfs) noopt security/selinux/selinuxfs.c noopt kernel/cgroup.c good security/smack/smackfs.c noopt in -mm: reiser4 some unionfs good - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - This patch: Document the rules for handling mount options in the .show_options super operation. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-08isofs: implement dmode optionJan Kara
Implement dmode option for iso9660 filesystem to allow setting of access rights for directories on the filesystem. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: "Ilya N. Golubev" <gin@mo.msk.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-07iget: remove iget() and the read_inode() super op as being obsoleteDavid Howells
Remove the old iget() call and the read_inode() superblock operation it uses as these are really obsolete, and the use of read_inode() does not produce proper error handling (no distinction between ENOMEM and EIO when marking an inode bad). Furthermore, this removes the temptation to use iget() to find an inode by number in a filesystem from code outside that filesystem. iget_locked() should be used instead. A new function is added in an earlier patch (iget_failed) that is to be called to mark an inode as bad, unlock it and release it should the get routine fail. Mark iget() and read_inode() as being obsolete and remove references to them from the documentation. Typically a filesystem will be modified such that the read_inode function becomes an internal iget function, for example the following: void thingyfs_read_inode(struct inode *inode) { ... } would be changed into something like: struct inode *thingyfs_iget(struct super_block *sp, unsigned long ino) { struct inode *inode; int ret; inode = iget_locked(sb, ino); if (!inode) return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); if (!(inode->i_state & I_NEW)) return inode; ... unlock_new_inode(inode); return inode; error: iget_failed(inode); return ERR_PTR(ret); } and then thingyfs_iget() would be called rather than iget(), for example: ret = -EINVAL; inode = iget(sb, ino); if (!inode || is_bad_inode(inode)) goto error; becomes: inode = thingyfs_iget(sb, ino); if (IS_ERR(inode)) { ret = PTR_ERR(inode); goto error; } Note that is_bad_inode() does not need to be called. The error returned by thingyfs_iget() should render it unnecessary. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-07iget: introduce a function to register iget failureDavid Howells
Introduce a function to register failure in an inode construction path. This includes marking the inode under construction as bad, unlocking it and releasing it. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-07Documentation: move sharedsubtrees.txt to filesystems/J. Bruce Fields
This documentation is also vfs-related. Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-07Documentation: move dnotify.txt to filesystems/J. Bruce Fields
I'm inclined to think dnotify belongs in filesystems/. Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06get rid of NR_OPEN and introduce a sysctl_nr_openEric Dumazet
NR_OPEN (historically set to 1024*1024) actually forbids processes to open more than 1024*1024 handles. Unfortunatly some production servers hit the not so 'ridiculously high value' of 1024*1024 file descriptors per process. Changing NR_OPEN is not considered safe because of vmalloc space potential exhaust. This patch introduces a new sysctl (/proc/sys/fs/nr_open) wich defaults to 1024*1024, so that admins can decide to change this limit if their workload needs it. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: export it for sparc64] Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-05Document lowmem_reserve_ratioYasunori Goto
Though the lower_zone_protection was changed to lowmem_reserve_ratio, the document has been not changed. The lowmem_reserve_ratio seems quite hard to estimate, but there is no guidance. This patch is to change document for it. Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@cpushare.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-05mm/page-writeback: highmem_is_dirtyable optionBron Gondwana
Add vm.highmem_is_dirtyable toggle A 32 bit machine with HIGHMEM64 enabled running DCC has an MMAPed file of approximately 2Gb size which contains a hash format that is written randomly by the dbclean process. On 2.6.16 this process took a few minutes. With lowmem only accounting of dirty ratios, this takes about 12 hours of 100% disk IO, all random writes. Include a toggle in /proc/sys/vm/highmem_is_dirtyable which can be set to 1 to add the highmem back to the total available memory count. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: Fix the CONFIG_DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP=y build] Signed-off-by: Bron Gondwana <brong@fastmail.fm> Cc: Ethan Solomita <solo@google.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: WU Fengguang <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-03Documentation/filesystems/porting fixesOliver Pinter
typo fix and whitespace cleanup Signed-off-by: Oliver Pinter <oliver.pntr@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2008-02-03doc: use correct debugfs mountpointRandy Dunlap
Use the normal, expected mountpoint in the relay(fs) example for debugfs. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2008-02-03Documentation: missing proc/$PID/stat fieldLeonardo Chiquitto
There's a missing field in the /proc/$PID/stat output documented in Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2008-02-03correct missing a double quote in configfs.txtMasatake YAMATO
Signed-off-by: Masatake YAMATO <jet@gyve.org> Acked-by: Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2008-02-03Documentation: fix type errorDenis Cheng
Signed-off-by: Denis Cheng <crquan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2008-02-01[AUDIT] break large execve argument logging into smaller messagesEric Paris
execve arguments can be quite large. There is no limit on the number of arguments and a 4G limit on the size of an argument. this patch prints those aruguments in bite sized pieces. a userspace size limitation of 8k was discovered so this keeps messages around 7.5k single arguments larger than 7.5k in length are split into multiple records and can be identified as aX[Y]= Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2008-01-31[IPV4] route cache: Introduce rt_genid for smooth cache invalidationEric Dumazet
Current ip route cache implementation is not suited to large caches. We can consume a lot of CPU when cache must be invalidated, since we currently need to evict all cache entries, and this eviction is sometimes asynchronous. min_delay & max_delay can somewhat control this asynchronism behavior, but whole thing is a kludge, regularly triggering infamous soft lockup messages. When entries are still in use, this also consumes a lot of ram, filling dst_garbage.list. A better scheme is to use a generation identifier on each entry, so that cache invalidation can be performed by changing the table identifier, without having to scan all entries. No more delayed flushing, no more stalling when secret_interval expires. Invalidated entries will then be freed at GC time (controled by ip_rt_gc_timeout or stress), or when an invalidated entry is found in a chain when an insert is done. Thus we keep a normal equilibrium. This patch : - renames rt_hash_rnd to rt_genid (and makes it an atomic_t) - Adds a new rt_genid field to 'struct rtable' (filling a hole on 64bit) - Checks entry->rt_genid at appropriate places :
2008-01-29ext4: Add multi block allocator for ext4Alex Tomas
Signed-off-by: Alex Tomas <alex@clusterfs.com> Signed-off-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-01-28ext4: Add the journal checksum featureGirish Shilamkar
The journal checksum feature adds two new flags i.e JBD2_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_ASYNC_COMMIT and JBD2_FEATURE_COMPAT_CHECKSUM. JBD2_FEATURE_CHECKSUM flag indicates that the commit block contains the checksum for the blocks described by the descriptor blocks. Due to checksums, writing of the commit record no longer needs to be synchronous. Now commit record can be sent to disk without waiting for descriptor blocks to be written to disk. This behavior is controlled using JBD2_FEATURE_ASYNC_COMMIT flag. Older kernels/e2fsck should not be able to recover the journal with _ASYNC_COMMIT hence it is made incompat. The commit header has been extended to hold the checksum along with the type of the checksum. For recovery in pass scan checksums are verified to ensure the sanity and completeness(in case of _ASYNC_COMMIT) of every transaction. Signed-off-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com> Signed-off-by: Girish Shilamkar <girish@clusterfs.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
2008-01-25[PATCH 2/2] ocfs2: cluster aware flock()Mark Fasheh
Hook up ocfs2_flock(), using the new flock lock type in dlmglue.c. A new mount option, "localflocks" is added so that users can revert to old functionality as need be. Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2008-01-25ocfs2: Local alloc window size changeable via mount optionSunil Mushran
Local alloc is a performance optimization in ocfs2 in which a node takes a window of bits from the global bitmap and then uses that for all small local allocations. This window size is fixed to 8MB currently. This patch allows users to specify the window size in MB including disabling it by passing in 0. If the number specified is too large, the fs will use the default value of 8MB. mount -o localalloc=X /dev/sdX /mntpoint Signed-off-by: Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
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