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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/api-summary.rst | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/buffer.rst | 12 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/directory-locking.rst | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/efivarfs.rst | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/index.rst | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst | 33 |
7 files changed, 49 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/api-summary.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/api-summary.rst index 98db2ea5fa12..cc5cc7f3fbd8 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/api-summary.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/api-summary.rst @@ -56,9 +56,6 @@ Other Functions .. kernel-doc:: fs/namei.c :export: -.. kernel-doc:: fs/buffer.c - :export: - .. kernel-doc:: block/bio.c :export: diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/buffer.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/buffer.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..ae24faf68efa --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/buffer.rst @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +Buffer Heads +============ + +Linux uses buffer heads to maintain state about individual filesystem blocks. +Buffer heads are deprecated and new filesystems should use iomap instead. + +Functions +--------- + +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/buffer_head.h +.. kernel-doc:: fs/buffer.c + :export: diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/directory-locking.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/directory-locking.rst index 05ea387bc9fb..6fdf0b02df43 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/directory-locking.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/directory-locking.rst @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ For our purposes all operations fall in 6 classes: * decide which of the source and target need to be locked. The source needs to be locked if it's a non-directory, target - if it's a non-directory or about to be removed. - * take the locks that need to be taken (exlusive), in inode pointer order + * take the locks that need to be taken (exclusive), in inode pointer order if need to take both (that can happen only when both source and target are non-directories - the source because it wouldn't need to be locked otherwise and the target because mixing directory and non-directory is @@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ among the children, in some order. But that is also impossible, since neither of the children is a descendent of another. That concludes the proof, since the set of operations with the -properties requiered for a minimal deadlock can not exist. +properties required for a minimal deadlock can not exist. Note that the check for having a common ancestor in cross-directory rename is crucial - without it a deadlock would be possible. Indeed, diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/efivarfs.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/efivarfs.rst index 0551985821b8..f646c3f0980f 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/efivarfs.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/efivarfs.rst @@ -40,4 +40,4 @@ accidentally. *See also:* - Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst -- Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-firmware-efi-vars +- Documentation/ABI/removed/sysfs-firmware-efi-vars diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/index.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/index.rst index 1f9b4c905a6a..8f5c1ee02e2f 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/index.rst @@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ filesystem implementations. .. toctree:: :maxdepth: 2 + buffer journalling fscrypt fsverity diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst index 1be76ef117b3..f2b44c2400c6 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst @@ -858,7 +858,7 @@ be misspelled d_alloc_anon(). **mandatory** -[should've been added in 2016] stale comment in finish_open() nonwithstanding, +[should've been added in 2016] stale comment in finish_open() notwithstanding, failure exits in ->atomic_open() instances should *NOT* fput() the file, no matter what. Everything is handled by the caller. @@ -989,7 +989,7 @@ This mechanism would only work for a single device so the block layer couldn't find the owning superblock of any additional devices. In the old mechanism reusing or creating a superblock for a racing mount(2) and -umount(2) relied on the file_system_type as the holder. This was severly +umount(2) relied on the file_system_type as the holder. This was severely underdocumented however: (1) Any concurrent mounter that managed to grab an active reference on an diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst index c6a6b9df2104..4d97258a7954 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst @@ -688,6 +688,7 @@ files are there, and which are missing. ============ =============================================================== File Content ============ =============================================================== + allocinfo Memory allocations profiling information apm Advanced power management info bootconfig Kernel command line obtained from boot config, and, if there were kernel parameters from the @@ -953,6 +954,34 @@ also be allocatable although a lot of filesystem metadata may have to be reclaimed to achieve this. +allocinfo +~~~~~~~~~ + +Provides information about memory allocations at all locations in the code +base. Each allocation in the code is identified by its source file, line +number, module (if originates from a loadable module) and the function calling +the allocation. The number of bytes allocated and number of calls at each +location are reported. + +Example output. + +:: + + > sort -rn /proc/allocinfo + 127664128 31168 mm/page_ext.c:270 func:alloc_page_ext + 56373248 4737 mm/slub.c:2259 func:alloc_slab_page + 14880768 3633 mm/readahead.c:247 func:page_cache_ra_unbounded + 14417920 3520 mm/mm_init.c:2530 func:alloc_large_system_hash + 13377536 234 block/blk-mq.c:3421 func:blk_mq_alloc_rqs + 11718656 2861 mm/filemap.c:1919 func:__filemap_get_folio + 9192960 2800 kernel/fork.c:307 func:alloc_thread_stack_node + 4206592 4 net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c:2567 func:nf_ct_alloc_hashtable + 4136960 1010 drivers/staging/ctagmod/ctagmod.c:20 [ctagmod] func:ctagmod_start + 3940352 962 mm/memory.c:4214 func:alloc_anon_folio + 2894464 22613 fs/kernfs/dir.c:615 func:__kernfs_new_node + ... + + meminfo ~~~~~~~ @@ -1110,8 +1139,8 @@ KernelStack 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. + Memory consumed by secondary page tables, this currently includes + KVM mmu and IOMMU 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. |