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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2020-08-07 21:39:33 +0300 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2020-08-07 21:39:33 +0300 |
commit | 81e11336d97e7a4c25a65c302ef2bf9cd9808ed4 (patch) | |
tree | 44e069e0bb26068137a1bda7ca5125c5b068b4ab /Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.rst | |
parent | 5631c5e0eb9035d92ceb20fcd9cdb7779a3f5cc7 (diff) | |
parent | 912c05720f00d039103d356a59c37dc7c3995e01 (diff) | |
download | linux-81e11336d97e7a4c25a65c302ef2bf9cd9808ed4.tar.xz |
Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton:
- a few MM hotfixes
- kthread, tools, scripts, ntfs and ocfs2
- some of MM
Subsystems affected by this patch series: kthread, tools, scripts, ntfs,
ocfs2 and mm (hofixes, pagealloc, slab-generic, slab, slub, kcsan,
debug, pagecache, gup, swap, shmem, memcg, pagemap, mremap, mincore,
sparsemem, vmalloc, kasan, pagealloc, hugetlb and vmscan).
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (162 commits)
mm: vmscan: consistent update to pgrefill
mm/vmscan.c: fix typo
khugepaged: khugepaged_test_exit() check mmget_still_valid()
khugepaged: retract_page_tables() remember to test exit
khugepaged: collapse_pte_mapped_thp() protect the pmd lock
khugepaged: collapse_pte_mapped_thp() flush the right range
mm/hugetlb: fix calculation of adjust_range_if_pmd_sharing_possible
mm: thp: replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones
mm/page_alloc: fix memalloc_nocma_{save/restore} APIs
mm/page_alloc.c: skip setting nodemask when we are in interrupt
mm/page_alloc: fallbacks at most has 3 elements
mm/page_alloc: silence a KASAN false positive
mm/page_alloc.c: remove unnecessary end_bitidx for [set|get]_pfnblock_flags_mask()
mm/page_alloc.c: simplify pageblock bitmap access
mm/page_alloc.c: extract the common part in pfn_to_bitidx()
mm/page_alloc.c: replace the definition of NR_MIGRATETYPE_BITS with PB_migratetype_bits
mm/shuffle: remove dynamic reconfiguration
mm/memory_hotplug: document why shuffle_zone() is relevant
mm/page_alloc: remove nr_free_pagecache_pages()
mm: remove vm_total_pages
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.rst index 4e95929301a5..c44f8b1d3cab 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.rst @@ -150,6 +150,22 @@ These options do not have any effect on remount. You can change these parameters with chmod(1), chown(1) and chgrp(1) on a mounted filesystem. +tmpfs has a mount option to select whether it will wrap at 32- or 64-bit inode +numbers: + +======= ======================== +inode64 Use 64-bit inode numbers +inode32 Use 32-bit inode numbers +======= ======================== + +On a 32-bit kernel, inode32 is implicit, and inode64 is refused at mount time. +On a 64-bit kernel, CONFIG_TMPFS_INODE64 sets the default. inode64 avoids the +possibility of multiple files with the same inode number on a single device; +but risks glibc failing with EOVERFLOW once 33-bit inode numbers are reached - +if a long-lived tmpfs is accessed by 32-bit applications so ancient that +opening a file larger than 2GiB fails with EINVAL. + + So 'mount -t tmpfs -o size=10G,nr_inodes=10k,mode=700 tmpfs /mytmpfs' will give you tmpfs instance on /mytmpfs which can allocate 10GB RAM/SWAP in 10240 inodes and it is only accessible by root. @@ -161,3 +177,5 @@ RAM/SWAP in 10240 inodes and it is only accessible by root. Hugh Dickins, 4 June 2007 :Updated: KOSAKI Motohiro, 16 Mar 2010 +:Updated: + Chris Down, 13 July 2020 |