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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/00-INDEX | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/caching/fscache.txt | 110 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/caching/netfs-api.txt | 21 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/exofs.txt | 23 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2.txt | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 7 |
6 files changed, 151 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/00-INDEX b/Documentation/filesystems/00-INDEX index f15621ee559..7001782ab93 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/00-INDEX +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/00-INDEX @@ -36,6 +36,8 @@ dnotify.txt - info about directory notification in Linux. ecryptfs.txt - docs on eCryptfs: stacked cryptographic filesystem for Linux. +exofs.txt + - info, usage, mount options, design about EXOFS. ext2.txt - info, mount options and specifications for the Ext2 filesystem. ext3.txt diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/caching/fscache.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/caching/fscache.txt index 9e94b9491d8..a91e2e2095b 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/caching/fscache.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/caching/fscache.txt @@ -235,6 +235,7 @@ proc files. neg=N Number of negative lookups made pos=N Number of positive lookups made crt=N Number of objects created by lookup + tmo=N Number of lookups timed out and requeued Updates n=N Number of update cookie requests seen nul=N Number of upd reqs given a NULL parent run=N Number of upd reqs granted CPU time @@ -250,8 +251,10 @@ proc files. ok=N Number of successful alloc reqs wt=N Number of alloc reqs that waited on lookup completion nbf=N Number of alloc reqs rejected -ENOBUFS + int=N Number of alloc reqs aborted -ERESTARTSYS ops=N Number of alloc reqs submitted owt=N Number of alloc reqs waited for CPU time + abt=N Number of alloc reqs aborted due to object death Retrvls n=N Number of retrieval (read) requests seen ok=N Number of successful retr reqs wt=N Number of retr reqs that waited on lookup completion @@ -261,6 +264,7 @@ proc files. oom=N Number of retr reqs failed -ENOMEM ops=N Number of retr reqs submitted owt=N Number of retr reqs waited for CPU time + abt=N Number of retr reqs aborted due to object death Stores n=N Number of storage (write) requests seen ok=N Number of successful store reqs agn=N Number of store reqs on a page already pending storage @@ -268,12 +272,37 @@ proc files. oom=N Number of store reqs failed -ENOMEM ops=N Number of store reqs submitted run=N Number of store reqs granted CPU time + pgs=N Number of pages given store req processing time + rxd=N Number of store reqs deleted from tracking tree + olm=N Number of store reqs over store limit + VmScan nos=N Number of release reqs against pages with no pending store + gon=N Number of release reqs against pages stored by time lock granted + bsy=N Number of release reqs ignored due to in-progress store + can=N Number of page stores cancelled due to release req Ops pend=N Number of times async ops added to pending queues run=N Number of times async ops given CPU time enq=N Number of times async ops queued for processing + can=N Number of async ops cancelled + rej=N Number of async ops rejected due to object lookup/create failure dfr=N Number of async ops queued for deferred release rel=N Number of async ops released gc=N Number of deferred-release async ops garbage collected + CacheOp alo=N Number of in-progress alloc_object() cache ops + luo=N Number of in-progress lookup_object() cache ops + luc=N Number of in-progress lookup_complete() cache ops + gro=N Number of in-progress grab_object() cache ops + upo=N Number of in-progress update_object() cache ops + dro=N Number of in-progress drop_object() cache ops + pto=N Number of in-progress put_object() cache ops + syn=N Number of in-progress sync_cache() cache ops + atc=N Number of in-progress attr_changed() cache ops + rap=N Number of in-progress read_or_alloc_page() cache ops + ras=N Number of in-progress read_or_alloc_pages() cache ops + alp=N Number of in-progress allocate_page() cache ops + als=N Number of in-progress allocate_pages() cache ops + wrp=N Number of in-progress write_page() cache ops + ucp=N Number of in-progress uncache_page() cache ops + dsp=N Number of in-progress dissociate_pages() cache ops (*) /proc/fs/fscache/histogram @@ -299,6 +328,87 @@ proc files. jiffy range covered, and the SECS field the equivalent number of seconds. +=========== +OBJECT LIST +=========== + +If CONFIG_FSCACHE_OBJECT_LIST is enabled, the FS-Cache facility will maintain a +list of all the objects currently allocated and allow them to be viewed +through: + + /proc/fs/fscache/objects + +This will look something like: + + [root@andromeda ~]# head /proc/fs/fscache/objects + OBJECT PARENT STAT CHLDN OPS OOP IPR EX READS EM EV F S | NETFS_COOKIE_DEF TY FL NETFS_DATA OBJECT_KEY, AUX_DATA + ======== ======== ==== ===== === === === == ===== == == = = | ================ == == ================ ================ + 17e4b 2 ACTV 0 0 0 0 0 0 7b 4 0 8 | NFS.fh DT 0 ffff88001dd82820 010006017edcf8bbc93b43298fdfbe71e50b57b13a172c0117f38472, e567634700000000000000000000000063f2404a000000000000000000000000c9030000000000000000000063f2404a + 1693a 2 ACTV 0 0 0 0 0 0 7b 4 0 8 | NFS.fh DT 0 ffff88002db23380 010006017edcf8bbc93b43298fdfbe71e50b57b1e0162c01a2df0ea6, 420ebc4a000000000000000000000000420ebc4a0000000000000000000000000e1801000000000000000000420ebc4a + +where the first set of columns before the '|' describe the object: + + COLUMN DESCRIPTION + ======= =============================================================== + OBJECT Object debugging ID (appears as OBJ%x in some debug messages) + PARENT Debugging ID of parent object + STAT Object state + CHLDN Number of child objects of this object + OPS Number of outstanding operations on this object + OOP Number of outstanding child object management operations + IPR + EX Number of outstanding exclusive operations + READS Number of outstanding read operations + EM Object's event mask + EV Events raised on this object + F Object flags + S Object slow-work work item flags + +and the second set of columns describe the object's cookie, if present: + + COLUMN DESCRIPTION + =============== ======================================================= + NETFS_COOKIE_DEF Name of netfs cookie definition + TY Cookie type (IX - index, DT - data, hex - special) + FL Cookie flags + NETFS_DATA Netfs private data stored in the cookie + OBJECT_KEY Object key } 1 column, with separating comma + AUX_DATA Object aux data } presence may be configured + +The data shown may be filtered by attaching the a key to an appropriate keyring +before viewing the file. Something like: + + keyctl add user fscache:objlist <restrictions> @s + +where <restrictions> are a selection of the following letters: + + K Show hexdump of object key (don't show if not given) + A Show hexdump of object aux data (don't show if not given) + +and the following paired letters: + + C Show objects that have a cookie + c Show objects that don't have a cookie + B Show objects that are busy + b Show objects that aren't busy + W Show objects that have pending writes + w Show objects that don't have pending writes + R Show objects that have outstanding reads + r Show objects that don't have outstanding reads + S Show objects that have slow work queued + s Show objects that don't have slow work queued + +If neither side of a letter pair is given, then both are implied. For example: + + keyctl add user fscache:objlist KB @s + +shows objects that are busy, and lists their object keys, but does not dump +their auxiliary data. It also implies "CcWwRrSs", but as 'B' is given, 'b' is +not implied. + +By default all objects and all fields will be shown. + + ========= DEBUGGING ========= diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/caching/netfs-api.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/caching/netfs-api.txt index 2666b1ed5e9..1902c57b72e 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/caching/netfs-api.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/caching/netfs-api.txt @@ -641,7 +641,7 @@ data file must be retired (see the relinquish cookie function below). Furthermore, note that this does not cancel the asynchronous read or write operation started by the read/alloc and write functions, so the page -invalidation and release functions must use: +invalidation functions must use: bool fscache_check_page_write(struct fscache_cookie *cookie, struct page *page); @@ -654,6 +654,25 @@ to see if a page is being written to the cache, and: to wait for it to finish if it is. +When releasepage() is being implemented, a special FS-Cache function exists to +manage the heuristics of coping with vmscan trying to eject pages, which may +conflict with the cache trying to write pages to the cache (which may itself +need to allocate memory): + + bool fscache_maybe_release_page(struct fscache_cookie *cookie, + struct page *page, + gfp_t gfp); + +This takes the netfs cookie, and the page and gfp arguments as supplied to +releasepage(). It will return false if the page cannot be released yet for +some reason and if it returns true, the page has been uncached and can now be +released. + +To make a page available for release, this function may wait for an outstanding +storage request to complete, or it may attempt to cancel the storage request - +in which case the page will not be stored in the cache this time. + + ========================== INDEX AND DATA FILE UPDATE ========================== diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/exofs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/exofs.txt index 0ced74c2f73..abd2a9b5b78 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/exofs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/exofs.txt @@ -60,13 +60,13 @@ USAGE mkfs.exofs --pid=65536 --format /dev/osd0 - The --format is optional if not specified no OSD_FORMAT will be - preformed and a clean file system will be created in the specified pid, + The --format is optional. If not specified, no OSD_FORMAT will be + performed and a clean file system will be created in the specified pid, in the available space of the target. (Use --format=size_in_meg to limit the total LUN space available) - If pid already exist it will be deleted and a new one will be created in it's - place. Be careful. + If pid already exists, it will be deleted and a new one will be created in + its place. Be careful. An exofs lives inside a single OSD partition. You can create multiple exofs filesystems on the same device using multiple pids. @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ USAGE 7. For reference (See do-exofs example script): do-exofs start - an example of how to perform the above steps. - do-exofs stop - an example of how to unmount the file system. + do-exofs stop - an example of how to unmount the file system. do-exofs format - an example of how to format and mkfs a new exofs. 8. Extra compilation flags (uncomment in fs/exofs/Kbuild): @@ -104,8 +104,8 @@ Where: exofs specific options: Options are separated by commas (,) pid=<integer> - The partition number to mount/create as container of the filesystem. - This option is mandatory - to=<integer> - Timeout in ticks for a single command + This option is mandatory. + to=<integer> - Timeout in ticks for a single command. default is (60 * HZ) [for debugging only] =============================================================================== @@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ DESIGN with a special ID (defined in common.h). Information included in the file system control block is used to fill the in-memory superblock structure at mount time. This object is created before - the file system is used by mkexofs.c It contains information such as: + the file system is used by mkexofs.c. It contains information such as: - The file system's magic number - The next inode number to be allocated @@ -134,8 +134,8 @@ DESIGN attributes. This applies to both regular files and other types (directories, device files, symlinks, etc.). -* Credentials are generated per object (inode and superblock) when they is - created in memory (read off disk or created). The credential works for all +* Credentials are generated per object (inode and superblock) when they are + created in memory (read from disk or created). The credential works for all operations and is used as long as the object remains in memory. * Async OSD operations are used whenever possible, but the target may execute @@ -145,7 +145,8 @@ DESIGN from executing in reverse order: - The following are handled with the OBJ_CREATED and OBJ_2BCREATED flags. OBJ_CREATED is set when we know the object exists on the OSD - - in create's callback function, and when we successfully do a read_inode. + in create's callback function, and when we successfully do a + read_inode. OBJ_2BCREATED is set in the beginning of the create function, so we know that we should wait. - create/delete: delete should wait until the object is created diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2.txt index c2a0871280a..c58b9f5ba00 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2.txt @@ -20,15 +20,16 @@ Lots of code taken from ext3 and other projects. Authors in alphabetical order: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com> Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com> -Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com> +Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com> Kurt Hackel <kurt.hackel@oracle.com> +Tao Ma <tao.ma@oracle.com> Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@oracle.com> Manish Singh <manish.singh@oracle.com> +Tiger Yang <tiger.yang@oracle.com> Caveats ======= Features which OCFS2 does not support yet: - - quotas - Directory change notification (F_NOTIFY) - Distributed Caching (F_SETLEASE/F_GETLEASE/break_lease) @@ -70,7 +71,6 @@ commit=nrsec (*) Ocfs2 can be told to sync all its data and metadata performance. localalloc=8(*) Allows custom localalloc size in MB. If the value is too large, the fs will silently revert it to the default. - Localalloc is not enabled for local mounts. localflocks This disables cluster aware flock. inode64 Indicates that Ocfs2 is allowed to create inodes at any location in the filesystem, including those which diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index 2c48f945546..94b9f2056f4 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -1072,7 +1072,8 @@ second). The meanings of the columns are as follows, from left to right: - irq: servicing interrupts - softirq: servicing softirqs - steal: involuntary wait -- guest: running a guest +- guest: running a normal guest +- guest_nice: running a niced guest The "intr" line gives counts of interrupts serviced since boot time, for each of the possible system interrupts. The first column is the total of all @@ -1088,8 +1089,8 @@ The "processes" line gives the number of processes and threads created, which includes (but is not limited to) those created by calls to the fork() and clone() system calls. -The "procs_running" line gives the number of processes currently running on -CPUs. +The "procs_running" line gives the total number of threads that are +running or ready to run (i.e., the total number of runnable threads). The "procs_blocked" line gives the number of processes currently blocked, waiting for I/O to complete. |