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-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/caching/backend-api.rst2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/cifs/ksmbd.rst42
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/ext4/super.rst6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.rst5
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/idmappings.rst2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst11
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/qnx6.rst2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/spufs/spufs.rst2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.rst2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/xfs-delayed-logging-design.rst18
12 files changed, 67 insertions, 32 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/caching/backend-api.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/caching/backend-api.rst
index d7507becf674..3a199fc50828 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/caching/backend-api.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/caching/backend-api.rst
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ volumes, calling::
to tell fscache that a volume has been withdrawn. This waits for all
outstanding accesses on the volume to complete before returning.
-When the the cache is completely withdrawn, fscache should be notified by
+When the cache is completely withdrawn, fscache should be notified by
calling::
void fscache_relinquish_cache(struct fscache_cache *cache);
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/cifs/ksmbd.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/cifs/ksmbd.rst
index 1af600db2e70..7bed96d794fc 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/cifs/ksmbd.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/cifs/ksmbd.rst
@@ -118,26 +118,44 @@ ksmbd/nfsd interoperability Planned for future. The features that ksmbd
How to run
==========
-1. Download ksmbd-tools and compile them.
- - https://github.com/cifsd-team/ksmbd-tools
+1. Download ksmbd-tools(https://github.com/cifsd-team/ksmbd-tools/releases) and
+ compile them.
-2. Create user/password for SMB share.
+ - Refer README(https://github.com/cifsd-team/ksmbd-tools/blob/master/README.md)
+ to know how to use ksmbd.mountd/adduser/addshare/control utils
- # mkdir /etc/ksmbd/
- # ksmbd.adduser -a <Enter USERNAME for SMB share access>
+ $ ./autogen.sh
+ $ ./configure --with-rundir=/run
+ $ make && sudo make install
-3. Create /etc/ksmbd/smb.conf file, add SMB share in smb.conf file
- - Refer smb.conf.example and
- https://github.com/cifsd-team/ksmbd-tools/blob/master/Documentation/configuration.txt
+2. Create /usr/local/etc/ksmbd/ksmbd.conf file, add SMB share in ksmbd.conf file.
-4. Insert ksmbd.ko module
+ - Refer ksmbd.conf.example in ksmbd-utils, See ksmbd.conf manpage
+ for details to configure shares.
- # insmod ksmbd.ko
+ $ man ksmbd.conf
+
+3. Create user/password for SMB share.
+
+ - See ksmbd.adduser manpage.
+
+ $ man ksmbd.adduser
+ $ sudo ksmbd.adduser -a <Enter USERNAME for SMB share access>
+
+4. Insert ksmbd.ko module after build your kernel. No need to load module
+ if ksmbd is built into the kernel.
+
+ - Set ksmbd in menuconfig(e.g. $ make menuconfig)
+ [*] Network File Systems --->
+ <M> SMB3 server support (EXPERIMENTAL)
+
+ $ sudo modprobe ksmbd.ko
5. Start ksmbd user space daemon
- # ksmbd.mountd
-6. Access share from Windows or Linux using CIFS
+ $ sudo ksmbd.mountd
+
+6. Access share from Windows or Linux using SMB3 client (cifs.ko or smbclient of samba)
Shutdown KSMBD
==============
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/super.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/super.rst
index 268888522e35..0152888cac29 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/super.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/super.rst
@@ -456,15 +456,15 @@ The ext4 superblock is laid out as follows in
* - 0x277
- __u8
- s_lastcheck_hi
- - Upper 8 bits of the s_lastcheck_hi field.
+ - Upper 8 bits of the s_lastcheck field.
* - 0x278
- __u8
- s_first_error_time_hi
- - Upper 8 bits of the s_first_error_time_hi field.
+ - Upper 8 bits of the s_first_error_time field.
* - 0x279
- __u8
- s_last_error_time_hi
- - Upper 8 bits of the s_last_error_time_hi field.
+ - Upper 8 bits of the s_last_error_time field.
* - 0x27A
- __u8
- s_pad[2]
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.rst
index d0c09663dae8..17df9a02ccff 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.rst
@@ -286,9 +286,8 @@ compress_algorithm=%s:%d Control compress algorithm and its compress level, now,
algorithm level range
lz4 3 - 16
zstd 1 - 22
-compress_log_size=%u Support configuring compress cluster size, the size will
- be 4KB * (1 << %u), 16KB is minimum size, also it's
- default size.
+compress_log_size=%u Support configuring compress cluster size. The size will
+ be 4KB * (1 << %u). The default and minimum sizes are 16KB.
compress_extension=%s Support adding specified extension, so that f2fs can enable
compression on those corresponding files, e.g. if all files
with '.ext' has high compression rate, we can set the '.ext'
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/idmappings.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/idmappings.rst
index c1db8748389c..b9b31066aef2 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/idmappings.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/idmappings.rst
@@ -661,7 +661,7 @@ idmappings::
mount idmapping: u0:k10000:r10000
Assume a file owned by ``u1000`` is read from disk. The filesystem maps this id
-to ``k21000`` according to it's idmapping. This is what is stored in the
+to ``k21000`` according to its idmapping. This is what is stored in the
inode's ``i_uid`` and ``i_gid`` fields.
When the caller queries the ownership of this file via ``stat()`` the kernel
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst
index af138241bb4b..df0dc37e6f58 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst
@@ -925,6 +925,17 @@ should be done by looking at FMODE_LSEEK in file->f_mode.
---
+*mandatory*
+
+filldir_t (readdir callbacks) calling conventions have changed. Instead of
+returning 0 or -E... it returns bool now. false means "no more" (as -E... used
+to) and true - "keep going" (as 0 in old calling conventions). Rationale:
+callers never looked at specific -E... values anyway. ->iterate() and
+->iterate_shared() instance require no changes at all, all filldir_t ones in
+the tree converted.
+
+---
+
**mandatory**
Calling conventions for ->tmpfile() have changed. It now takes a struct
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
index e7aafc82be99..898c99eae8e4 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
@@ -982,6 +982,7 @@ Example output. You may not have all of these fields.
SUnreclaim: 142336 kB
KernelStack: 11168 kB
PageTables: 20540 kB
+ SecPageTables: 0 kB
NFS_Unstable: 0 kB
Bounce: 0 kB
WritebackTmp: 0 kB
@@ -1090,6 +1091,9 @@ KernelStack
Memory consumed by the kernel stacks of all tasks
PageTables
Memory consumed by userspace page tables
+SecPageTables
+ Memory consumed by secondary page tables, this currently
+ currently includes KVM mmu allocations on x86 and arm64.
NFS_Unstable
Always zero. Previous counted pages which had been written to
the server, but has not been committed to stable storage.
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/qnx6.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/qnx6.rst
index fd13433d362c..523b798f04e7 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/qnx6.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/qnx6.rst
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ Then userspace.
The requirement for a static, fixed preallocated system area comes from how
qnx6fs deals with writes.
-Each superblock got it's own half of the system area. So superblock #1
+Each superblock got its own half of the system area. So superblock #1
always uses blocks from the lower half while superblock #2 just writes to
blocks represented by the upper half bitmap system area bits.
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/spufs/spufs.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/spufs/spufs.rst
index 8a42859bb100..ca0441cbe37e 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/spufs/spufs.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/spufs/spufs.rst
@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ Files
from the data buffer, updating the value of the specified signal
notification register. The signal notification register will
either be replaced with the input data or will be updated to the
- bitwise OR or the old value and the input data, depending on the
+ bitwise OR of the old value and the input data, depending on the
contents of the signal1_type, or signal2_type respectively,
file.
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.rst
index 004d490179f3..8bba676b1365 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.rst
@@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ A very simple (and naive) implementation of a device attribute is::
static ssize_t show_name(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
char *buf)
{
- return scnprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "%s\n", dev->name);
+ return sysfs_emit(buf, "%s\n", dev->name);
}
static ssize_t store_name(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst
index 71b0b8114b18..2b55f71e2ae1 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst
@@ -274,6 +274,9 @@ or bottom half).
This is specifically for the inode itself being marked dirty,
not its data. If the update needs to be persisted by fdatasync(),
then I_DIRTY_DATASYNC will be set in the flags argument.
+ I_DIRTY_TIME will be set in the flags in case lazytime is enabled
+ and struct inode has times updated since the last ->dirty_inode
+ call.
``write_inode``
this method is called when the VFS needs to write an inode to
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/xfs-delayed-logging-design.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/xfs-delayed-logging-design.rst
index 4ef419f54663..6402ab8e370c 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/xfs-delayed-logging-design.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/xfs-delayed-logging-design.rst
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ transactions together::
ntp = xfs_trans_dup(tp);
xfs_trans_commit(tp);
- xfs_log_reserve(ntp);
+ xfs_trans_reserve(ntp);
This results in a series of "rolling transactions" where the inode is locked
across the entire chain of transactions. Hence while this series of rolling
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ transaction rolling mechanism to re-reserve space on every transaction roll. We
know from the implementation of the permanent transactions how many transaction
rolls are likely for the common modifications that need to be made.
-For example, and inode allocation is typically two transactions - one to
+For example, an inode allocation is typically two transactions - one to
physically allocate a free inode chunk on disk, and another to allocate an inode
from an inode chunk that has free inodes in it. Hence for an inode allocation
transaction, we might set the reservation log count to a value of 2 to indicate
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ chain. Each time a permanent transaction rolls, it consumes an entire unit
reservation.
Hence when the permanent transaction is first allocated, the log space
-reservation is increases from a single unit reservation to multiple unit
+reservation is increased from a single unit reservation to multiple unit
reservations. That multiple is defined by the reservation log count, and this
means we can roll the transaction multiple times before we have to re-reserve
log space when we roll the transaction. This ensures that the common
@@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ the next transaction in the sequeunce, but we have none remaining. We cannot
sleep during the transaction commit process waiting for new log space to become
available, as we may end up on the end of the FIFO queue and the items we have
locked while we sleep could end up pinning the tail of the log before there is
-enough free space in the log to fulfil all of the pending reservations and
+enough free space in the log to fulfill all of the pending reservations and
then wake up transaction commit in progress.
To take a new reservation without sleeping requires us to be able to take a
@@ -551,14 +551,14 @@ Essentially, this shows that an item that is in the AIL can still be modified
and relogged, so any tracking must be separate to the AIL infrastructure. As
such, we cannot reuse the AIL list pointers for tracking committed items, nor
can we store state in any field that is protected by the AIL lock. Hence the
-committed item tracking needs it's own locks, lists and state fields in the log
+committed item tracking needs its own locks, lists and state fields in the log
item.
Similar to the AIL, tracking of committed items is done through a new list
called the Committed Item List (CIL). The list tracks log items that have been
committed and have formatted memory buffers attached to them. It tracks objects
in transaction commit order, so when an object is relogged it is removed from
-it's place in the list and re-inserted at the tail. This is entirely arbitrary
+its place in the list and re-inserted at the tail. This is entirely arbitrary
and done to make it easy for debugging - the last items in the list are the
ones that are most recently modified. Ordering of the CIL is not necessary for
transactional integrity (as discussed in the next section) so the ordering is
@@ -615,7 +615,7 @@ those changes into the current checkpoint context. We then initialise a new
context and attach that to the CIL for aggregation of new transactions.
This allows us to unlock the CIL immediately after transfer of all the
-committed items and effectively allow new transactions to be issued while we
+committed items and effectively allows new transactions to be issued while we
are formatting the checkpoint into the log. It also allows concurrent
checkpoints to be written into the log buffers in the case of log force heavy
workloads, just like the existing transaction commit code does. This, however,
@@ -884,9 +884,9 @@ pin the object the first time it is inserted into the CIL - if it is already in
the CIL during a transaction commit, then we do not pin it again. Because there
can be multiple outstanding checkpoint contexts, we can still see elevated pin
counts, but as each checkpoint completes the pin count will retain the correct
-value according to it's context.
+value according to its context.
-Just to make matters more slightly more complex, this checkpoint level context
+Just to make matters slightly more complex, this checkpoint level context
for the pin count means that the pinning of an item must take place under the
CIL commit/flush lock. If we pin the object outside this lock, we cannot
guarantee which context the pin count is associated with. This is because of