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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/dnotify.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.md | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt | 3 |
5 files changed, 14 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/dnotify.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/dnotify.txt index 6baf88f46859..15156883d321 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/dnotify.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/dnotify.txt @@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ disabled, fcntl(fd, F_NOTIFY, ...) will return -EINVAL. Example ------- -See Documentation/filesystems/dnotify_test.c for an example. +See tools/testing/selftests/filesystems/dnotify_test.c for an example. NOTE ---- diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt index 5a8f7f4d2bca..75236c0c2ac2 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt @@ -94,10 +94,10 @@ Note: More extensive information for getting started with ext4 can be * ability to pack bitmaps and inode tables into larger virtual groups via the flex_bg feature * large file support -* Inode allocation using large virtual block groups via flex_bg +* inode allocation using large virtual block groups via flex_bg * delayed allocation * large block (up to pagesize) support -* efficient new ordered mode in JBD2 and ext4(avoid using buffer head to force +* efficient new ordered mode in JBD2 and ext4 (avoid using buffer head to force the ordering) [1] Filesystems with a block size of 1k may see a limit imposed by the @@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ directory hash tree having a maximum depth of two. 2.2 Candidate features for future inclusion -* Online defrag (patches available but not well tested) +* online defrag (patches available but not well tested) * reduced mke2fs time via lazy itable initialization in conjunction with the uninit_bg feature (capability to do this is available in e2fsprogs but a kernel thread to do lazy zeroing of unused inode table blocks @@ -602,7 +602,7 @@ Table of Ext4 specific ioctls bitmaps and inode table, the userspace tool thus just passes the new number of blocks. -EXT4_IOC_SWAP_BOOT Swap i_blocks and associated attributes + EXT4_IOC_SWAP_BOOT Swap i_blocks and associated attributes (like i_blocks, i_size, i_flags, ...) from the specified inode with inode EXT4_BOOT_LOADER_INO (#5). This is typically diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt index 36f528a7fdd6..8caa60734647 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt @@ -210,8 +210,11 @@ path as another overlay mount and it may use a lower layer path that is beneath or above the path of another overlay lower layer path. Using an upper layer path and/or a workdir path that are already used by -another overlay mount is not allowed and will fail with EBUSY. Using +another overlay mount is not allowed and may fail with EBUSY. Using partially overlapping paths is not allowed but will not fail with EBUSY. +If files are accessed from two overlayfs mounts which share or overlap the +upper layer and/or workdir path the behavior of the overlay is undefined, +though it will not result in a crash or deadlock. Mounting an overlay using an upper layer path, where the upper layer path was previously used by another mounted overlay in combination with a diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.md b/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.md index 1b39e084a2b2..1933ef734e63 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.md +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.md @@ -826,9 +826,9 @@ If the filesystem may need to revalidate dcache entries, then *is* passed the dentry but does not have access to the `inode` or the `seq` number from the `nameidata`, so it needs to be extra careful when accessing fields in the dentry. This "extra care" typically -involves using `ACCESS_ONCE()` or the newer [`READ_ONCE()`] to access -fields, and verifying the result is not NULL before using it. This -pattern can be see in `nfs_lookup_revalidate()`. +involves using [`READ_ONCE()`] to access fields, and verifying the +result is not NULL before using it. This pattern can be seen in +`nfs_lookup_revalidate()`. A pair of patterns ------------------ diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt index 24da7b32c489..9a3658cc399e 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt @@ -366,7 +366,8 @@ struct driver_attribute { Declaring: -DRIVER_ATTR(_name, _mode, _show, _store) +DRIVER_ATTR_RO(_name) +DRIVER_ATTR_RW(_name) Creation/Removal: |