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Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
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Give gcc the chance to compile out the debug logging code in ocfs2.
This saves some size at the expense of being able to debug the code.
Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
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* git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6:
[MTD] NAND: Select chip before checking write protect status
[MTD] CORE mtdchar.c: fix off-by-one error in lseek()
[MTD] NAND: Fix typo in mtd/nand/ts7250.c
[JFFS2][XATTR] coexistence between xattr and write buffering support.
[JFFS2][XATTR] Fix wrong copyright
[JFFS2][XATTR] Re-define xd->refcnt as atomic_t
[JFFS2][XATTR] Fix memory leak with jffs2_xattr_ref
[JFFS2][XATTR] rid unnecessary writing of delete marker.
[JFFS2][XATTR] Fix ACL bug when updating null xattr by null ACL.
[JFFS2][XATTR] using 'delete marker' for xdatum/xref deletion
[MTD] Fix off-by-one error in physmap.c
[MTD] Remove unused 'nr_banks' variable from ixp2000 map driver
[MTD NAND] s3c2412 support in s3c2410.c
[MTD] Initialize 'writesize'
[MTD] NAND: ndfc fix address offset thinko
[MTD] NAND: S3C2410 convert prinks to dev_*()s
[MTD] NAND: Missing fixups
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6: (25 commits)
[CIFS] Fix authentication choice so we do not force NTLMv2 unless the
[CIFS] Fix alignment of unicode strings in previous patch
[CIFS] Fix allocation of buffers for new session setup routine to allow
[CIFS] Remove calls to to take f_owner.lock
[CIFS] remove some redundant null pointer checks
[CIFS] Fix compile warning when CONFIG_CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL is off
[CIFS] Enable sec flags on mount for cifs (part one)
[CIFS] Fix suspend/resume problem which causes EIO on subsequent access to
[CIFS] fix minor compile warning when config_cifs_weak_security is off
[CIFS] NTLMv2 support part 5
[CIFS] Add support for readdir to legacy servers
[CIFS] NTLMv2 support part 4
[CIFS] NTLMv2 support part 3
[CIFS] NTLMv2 support part 2
[CIFS] Fix mask so can set new cifs security flags properly
CIFS] Support for older servers which require plaintext passwords - part 2
[CIFS] Support for older servers which require plaintext passwords
[CIFS] Fix mapping of old SMB return code Invalid Net Name so it is
[CIFS] Missing brace
[CIFS] Do not overwrite aops
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Drop '&& !JFFS2_FS_WRITEBUFFER' from fs/Kconfig.
The series of previous patches enables to use those
functionality at same time.
Signed-off-by: KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
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I noticed recently that my CONFIG_CRYPTO_MD5 turned into a y again instead
of m. It turns out that CONFIG_NFSD_V4 is selecting it to be y even though
I've chosen to compile nfsd as a module.
In general when we have a bool sitting under a tristate it is better to
select things you need from the tristate rather than the bool since that
allows the things you select to be modules.
The following patch does it for nfsd.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Make procfs non-optional unless EMBEDDED is set, just like sysfs. procfs
is already de facto required for a large subset of Linux functionality.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Currently to turn on debug mode "user" has to edit ~10 files, to turn off he
has to do it again.
This patch introduce such changes:
1)turn on(off) debug messages via ".config"
2)remove unnecessary duplication of code
3)make "UFSD" macros more similar to function
4)fix some compiler warnings
Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Dushistov <dushistov@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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To find new bugs, I suggest revert this patch:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/31/275 in -mm tree.
So others can test "write support" of UFS.
Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Dushistov <dushistov@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Disable Ext2 XIP if the kernel is configured in no-MMU mode as the former
won't build.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit-current
* 'audit.b21' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit-current: (25 commits)
[PATCH] make set_loginuid obey audit_enabled
[PATCH] log more info for directory entry change events
[PATCH] fix AUDIT_FILTER_PREPEND handling
[PATCH] validate rule fields' types
[PATCH] audit: path-based rules
[PATCH] Audit of POSIX Message Queue Syscalls v.2
[PATCH] fix se_sen audit filter
[PATCH] deprecate AUDIT_POSSBILE
[PATCH] inline more audit helpers
[PATCH] proc_loginuid_write() uses simple_strtoul() on non-terminated array
[PATCH] update of IPC audit record cleanup
[PATCH] minor audit updates
[PATCH] fix audit_krule_to_{rule,data} return values
[PATCH] add filtering by ppid
[PATCH] log ppid
[PATCH] collect sid of those who send signals to auditd
[PATCH] execve argument logging
[PATCH] fix deadlocks in AUDIT_LIST/AUDIT_LIST_RULES
[PATCH] audit_panic() is audit-internal
[PATCH] inotify (5/5): update kernel documentation
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Manual fixup of conflict in unclude/linux/inotify.h
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The following series of patches introduces a kernel API for inotify,
making it possible for kernel modules to benefit from inotify's
mechanism for watching inodes. With these patches, inotify will
maintain for each caller a list of watches (via an embedded struct
inotify_watch), where each inotify_watch is associated with a
corresponding struct inode. The caller registers an event handler and
specifies for which filesystem events their event handler should be
called per inotify_watch.
Signed-off-by: Amy Griffis <amy.griffis@hp.com>
Acked-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
Acked-by: John McCutchan <john@johnmccutchan.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
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Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
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This attached patches provide xattr support including POSIX-ACL and
SELinux support on JFFS2 (version.5).
There are some significant differences from previous version posted
at last December.
The biggest change is addition of EBS(Erase Block Summary) support.
Currently, both kernel and usermode utility (sumtool) can recognize
xattr nodes which have JFFS2_NODETYPE_XATTR/_XREF nodetype.
In addition, some bugs are fixed.
- A potential race condition was fixed.
- Unexpected fail when updating a xattr by same name/value pair was fixed.
- A bug when removing xattr name/value pair was fixed.
The fundamental structures (such as using two new nodetypes and exclusion
mechanism by rwsem) are unchanged. But most of implementation were reviewed
and updated if necessary.
Espacially, we had to change several internal implementations related to
load_xattr_datum() to avoid a potential race condition.
[1/2] xattr_on_jffs2.kernel.version-5.patch
[2/2] xattr_on_jffs2.utils.version-5.patch
Signed-off-by: KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
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In kernel bugzilla #6248 (http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6248),
Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> notes that CONFIG_HUGETLBFS is missing Kconfig
help text.
Signed-off-by: Arthur Othieno <apgo@patchbomb.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Everybody seems to be using /proc/vmcore as a method to access the kernel
crash dump. Hence probably it makes sense to enable CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE by
default if CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP is selected. This makes kdump configuration
further easier for a user.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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This patch fixes the a compile error with CONFIG_SYSFS=n
Configfs is creating, as a matter of policy, the /sys/kernel/config
mountpoint. This means it requires CONFIG_SYSFS.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
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Original patch from Paul Mundt, sysfs parts removed by me since they
were broken.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
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Add default selection of CRYPTO_CAST5 when selecting RPCSEC_GSS_SPKM3.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Coffman <kwc@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
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Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
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OpenBSD doesn't see "." correctly in directories created by Linux. Copying
files over several KB will buy you infinite loop in __getblk_slow().
Copying files smaller than 1 KB seems to be OK. Sometimes files will be
filled with zeros. Sometimes incorrectly copied file will reappear after
next file with truncated size.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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I have heard some complaints about people not finding CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP
option and also some objections about its dependency on CONFIG_EMBEDDED.
The following patch ends that dependency. I thought of hiding it under
CONFIG_KEXEC, but CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START could also be used for some reasons
other than kexec/kdump and hence left it visible. I will also update the
documentation accordingly.
o Following patch removes the config dependency of CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START
on CONFIG_EMBEDDED. The reason being CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP option for
kdump needs CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START which makes CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP depend
on CONFIG_EMBEDDED. It is not always obvious for kdump users to choose
CONFIG_EMBEDDED.
o It also shifts the palce where this option appears, to make it closer
to kexec and kdump options.
Signed-off-by: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Haren Myneni <haren@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
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Link the code into the kernel build system. OCFS2 is marked as
experimental.
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Kurt Hackel <kurt.hackel@oracle.com>
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Configfs, a file system for userspace-driven kernel object configuration.
The OCFS2 stack makes extensive use of this for propagation of cluster
configuration information into kernel.
Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
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Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
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Kconfig option for CIFS upcall.
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
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Some manual fixups for clashing kfree() cleanups etc.
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Reported by Eddy Petrisor <eddy.petrisor@gmail.com>
fs/built-in.o(.text+0x35fdc): In function `hfs_mdb_put':
: undefined reference to `unload_nls'
fs/built-in.o(.text+0x35ff1): In function `hfs_mdb_put':
: undefined reference to `unload_nls'
fs/built-in.o(.text+0x367a5): In function `parse_options':
super.c: undefined reference to `load_nls'
fs/built-in.o(.text+0x367db):super.c: undefined reference to `load_nls'
fs/built-in.o(.text+0x36938):super.c: undefined reference to `load_nls_default'
Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Acked-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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The goal of summary is to speed up the mount time. Erase block summary (EBS)
stores summary information at the end of every (closed) erase block. It is
no longer necessary to scan all nodes separetly (and read all pages of them)
just read this "small" summary, where every information is stored which is
needed at mount time.
This summary information is stored in a JFFS2_FEATURE_RWCOMPAT_DELETE. During
the mount process if there is no summary info the orignal scan process will
be executed. EBS works with NAND and NOR flashes, too.
There is a user space tool called sumtool to generate this summary
information for a JFFS2 image.
Signed-off-by: Ferenc Havasi <havasi@inf.u-szeged.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Add cifs extended stats configure option and reduce experimental code.
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
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It seems logical.
Note that CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL itself doesn't enable any code.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
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Add CONFIG_X86_32 for i386. This allows selecting options that only apply
to 32-bit systems.
(X86 && !X86_64) becomes X86_32
(X86 || X86_64) becomes X86
Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Add information about required version of the userspace library/utilities
to Documentation/Changes. Also add pointer to this and to FUSE
documentation from Kconfig.
Thanks to Anton Altaparmakov for the reminder.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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This patch adds FUSE filesystem to MAINTAINERS, fs/Kconfig and
fs/Makefile.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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OVERVIEW
V9FS is a distributed file system for Linux which provides an
implementation of the Plan 9 resource sharing protocol 9P. It can be
used to share all sorts of resources: static files, synthetic file servers
(such as /proc or /sys), devices, and application file servers (such as
FUSE).
BACKGROUND
Plan 9 (http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9) is a research operating
system and associated applications suite developed by the Computing
Science Research Center of AT&T Bell Laboratories (now a part of
Lucent Technologies), the same group that developed UNIX , C, and C++.
Plan 9 was initially released in 1993 to universities, and then made
generally available in 1995. Its core operating systems code laid the
foundation for the Inferno Operating System released as a product by
Lucent Bell-Labs in 1997. The Inferno venture was the only commercial
embodiment of Plan 9 and is currently maintained as a product by Vita
Nuova (http://www.vitanuova.com). After updated releases in 2000 and
2002, Plan 9 was open-sourced under the OSI approved Lucent Public
License in 2003.
The Plan 9 project was started by Ken Thompson and Rob Pike in 1985.
Their intent was to explore potential solutions to some of the
shortcomings of UNIX in the face of the widespread use of high-speed
networks to connect machines. In UNIX, networking was an afterthought
and UNIX clusters became little more than a network of stand-alone
systems. Plan 9 was designed from first principles as a seamless
distributed system with integrated secure network resource sharing.
Applications and services were architected in such a way as to allow
for implicit distribution across a cluster of systems. Configuring an
environment to use remote application components or services in place
of their local equivalent could be achieved with a few simple command
line instructions. For the most part, application implementations
operated independent of the location of their actual resources.
Commercial operating systems haven't changed much in the 20 years
since Plan 9 was conceived. Network and distributed systems support is
provided by a patchwork of middle-ware, with an endless number of
packages supplying pieces of the puzzle. Matters are complicated by
the use of different complicated protocols for individual services,
and separate implementations for kernel and application resources.
The V9FS project (http://v9fs.sourceforge.net) is an attempt to bring
Plan 9's unified approach to resource sharing to Linux and other
operating systems via support for the 9P2000 resource sharing
protocol.
V9FS HISTORY
V9FS was originally developed by Ron Minnich and Maya Gokhale at Los
Alamos National Labs (LANL) in 1997. In November of 2001, Greg Watson
setup a SourceForge project as a public repository for the code which
supported the Linux 2.4 kernel.
About a year ago, I picked up the initial attempt Ron Minnich had
made to provide 2.6 support and got the code integrated into a 2.6.5
kernel. I then went through a line-for-line re-write attempting to
clean-up the code while more closely following the Linux Kernel style
guidelines. I co-authored a paper with Ron Minnich on the V9FS Linux
support including performance comparisons to NFSv3 using Bonnie and
PostMark - this paper appeared at the USENIX/FREENIX 2005
conference in April 2005:
( http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix05/tech/freenix/hensbergen.html ).
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION/REQUEST FOR COMMENTS
Our 2.6 kernel support is stabilizing and we'd like to begin pursuing
its integration into the official kernel tree. We would appreciate any
review, comments, critiques, and additions from this community and are
actively seeking people to join our project and help us produce
something that would be acceptable and useful to the Linux community.
STATUS
The code is reasonably stable, although there are no doubt corner cases
our regression tests haven't discovered yet. It is in regular use by several
of the developers and has been tested on x86 and PowerPC
(32-bit and 64-bit) in both small and large (LANL cluster) deployments.
Our current regression tests include fsx, bonnie, and postmark.
It was our intention to keep things as simple as possible for this
release -- trying to focus on correctness within the core of the
protocol support versus a rich set of features. For example: a more
complete security model and cache layer are in the road map, but
excluded from this release. Additionally, we have removed support for
mmap operations at Al Viro's request.
PERFORMANCE
Detailed performance numbers and analysis are included in the FREENIX
paper, but we show comparable performance to NFSv3 for large file
operations based on the Bonnie benchmark, and superior performance for
many small file operations based on the PostMark benchmark. Somewhat
preliminary graphs (from the FREENIX paper) are available
(http://v9fs.sourceforge.net/perf/index.html).
RESOURCES
The source code is available in a few different forms:
tarballs: http://v9fs.sf.net
CVSweb: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/v9fs/linux-9p/
CVS: :pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/v9fs/linux-9p
Git: rsync://v9fs.graverobber.org/v9fs (webgit: http://v9fs.graverobber.org)
9P: tcp!v9fs.graverobber.org!6564
The user-level server is available from either the Plan 9 distribution
or from http://v9fs.sf.net
Other support applications are still being developed, but preliminary
version can be downloaded from sourceforge.
Documentation on the protocol has historically been the Plan 9 Man
pages (http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/man/5/INDEX.html), but there is
an effort under way to write a more complete Internet-Draft style
specification (http://v9fs.sf.net/rfc).
There are a couple of mailing lists supporting v9fs, but the most used
is v9fs-developer@lists.sourceforge.net -- please direct/cc your
comments there so the other v9fs contibutors can participate in the
conversation. There is also an IRC channel: irc://freenode.net/#v9fs
This part of the patch contains Documentation, Makefiles, and configuration
file changes.
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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This patch contains the following updates to the help texts:
- QUOTA: most people will get the quota utilities from their
distribution, and if not the mini-HOWTO will tell them
- QFMT_V2: quota utilities 3.01 are no longer recent, they are now
ancient
and 3.01 is lower than the minimal version documented in
Documentation/Changes
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Here's the latest version of relayfs, against linux-2.6.11-mm2. I'm hoping
you'll consider putting this version back into your tree - the previous
rounds of comment seem to have shaken out all the API issues and the number
of comments on the code itself have also steadily dwindled.
This patch is essentially the same as the relayfs redux part 5 patch, with
some minor changes based on reviewer comments. Thanks again to Pekka
Enberg for those. The patch size without documentation is now a little
smaller at just over 40k. Here's a detailed list of the changes:
- removed the attribute_flags in relay open and changed it to a
boolean specifying either overwrite or no-overwrite mode, and removed
everything referencing the attribute flags.
- added a check for NULL names in relayfs_create_entry()
- got rid of the unnecessary multiple labels in relay_create_buf()
- some minor simplification of relay_alloc_buf() which got rid of a
couple params
- updated the Documentation
In addition, this version (through code contained in the relay-apps tarball
linked to below, not as part of the relayfs patch) tries to make it as easy
as possible to create the cooperating kernel/user pieces of a typical and
common type of logging application, one where kernel logging is kicked off
when a user space data collection app starts and stops when the collection
app exits, with the data being automatically logged to disk in between. To
create this type of application, you basically just include a header file
(relay-app.h, included in the relay-apps tarball) in your kernel module,
define a couple of callbacks and call an initialization function, and on
the user side call a single function that sets up and continuously monitors
the buffers, and writes data to files as it becomes available. Channels
are created when the collection app is started and destroyed when it exits,
not when the kernel module is inserted, so different channel buffer sizes
can be specified for each separate run via command-line options. See the
README in the relay-apps tarball for details.
Also included in the relay-apps tarball are a couple examples
demonstrating how you can use this to create quick and dirty kernel
logging/debugging applications. They are:
- tprintk, short for 'tee printk', which temporarily puts a kprobe on
printk() and writes a duplicate stream of printk output to a relayfs
channel. This could be used anywhere there's printk() debugging code
in the kernel which you'd like to exercise, but would rather not have
your system logs cluttered with debugging junk. You'd probably want
to kill klogd while you do this, otherwise there wouldn't be much
point (since putting a kprobe on printk() doesn't change the output
of printk()). I've used this method to temporarily divert the packet
logging output of the iptables LOG target from the system logs to
relayfs files instead, for instance.
- klog, which just provides a printk-like formatted logging function
on top of relayfs. Again, you can use this to keep stuff out of your
system logs if used in place of printk.
The example applications can be found here:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/dprobes/relay-apps.tar.gz?download
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
avoid lookup_hash usage in relayfs
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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This patch modifies the VFS setxattr, getxattr, and listxattr code to fall
back to the security module for security xattrs if the filesystem does not
support xattrs natively. This allows security modules to export the incore
inode security label information to userspace even if the filesystem does
not provide xattr storage, and eliminates the need to individually patch
various pseudo filesystem types to provide such access. The patch removes
the existing xattr code from devpts and tmpfs as it is then no longer
needed.
The patch restructures the code flow slightly to reduce duplication between
the normal path and the fallback path, but this should only have one
user-visible side effect - a program may get -EACCES rather than
-EOPNOTSUPP if policy denied access but the filesystem didn't support the
operation anyway. Note that the post_setxattr hook call is not needed in
the fallback case, as the inode_setsecurity hook call handles the incore
inode security state update directly. In contrast, we do call fsnotify in
both cases.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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The inotify help text still refers to the character device. Update it.
Fixes kernel bug #4993.
Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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inotify is intended to correct the deficiencies of dnotify, particularly
its inability to scale and its terrible user interface:
* dnotify requires the opening of one fd per each directory
that you intend to watch. This quickly results in too many
open files and pins removable media, preventing unmount.
* dnotify is directory-based. You only learn about changes to
directories. Sure, a change to a file in a directory affects
the directory, but you are then forced to keep a cache of
stat structures.
* dnotify's interface to user-space is awful. Signals?
inotify provides a more usable, simple, powerful solution to file change
notification:
* inotify's interface is a system call that returns a fd, not SIGIO.
You get a single fd, which is select()-able.
* inotify has an event that says "the filesystem that the item
you were watching is on was unmounted."
* inotify can watch directories or files.
Inotify is currently used by Beagle (a desktop search infrastructure),
Gamin (a FAM replacement), and other projects.
See Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt.
Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
Cc: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Original patch from Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Update to Linus latest
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