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-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/omfs.txt106
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/relay.txt10
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt6
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/omfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/omfs.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..1d0d41ff5c65
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@@ -0,0 +1,106 @@
1Optimized MPEG Filesystem (OMFS)
2
3Overview
4========
5
6OMFS is a filesystem created by SonicBlue for use in the ReplayTV DVR
7and Rio Karma MP3 player. The filesystem is extent-based, utilizing
8block sizes from 2k to 8k, with hash-based directories. This
9filesystem driver may be used to read and write disks from these
10devices.
11
12Note, it is not recommended that this FS be used in place of a general
13filesystem for your own streaming media device. Native Linux filesystems
14will likely perform better.
15
16More information is available at:
17
18 http://linux-karma.sf.net/
19
20Various utilities, including mkomfs and omfsck, are included with
21omfsprogs, available at:
22
23 http://bobcopeland.com/karma/
24
25Instructions are included in its README.
26
27Options
28=======
29
30OMFS supports the following mount-time options:
31
32 uid=n - make all files owned by specified user
33 gid=n - make all files owned by specified group
34 umask=xxx - set permission umask to xxx
35 fmask=xxx - set umask to xxx for files
36 dmask=xxx - set umask to xxx for directories
37
38Disk format
39===========
40
41OMFS discriminates between "sysblocks" and normal data blocks. The sysblock
42group consists of super block information, file metadata, directory structures,
43and extents. Each sysblock has a header containing CRCs of the entire
44sysblock, and may be mirrored in successive blocks on the disk. A sysblock may
45have a smaller size than a data block, but since they are both addressed by the
46same 64-bit block number, any remaining space in the smaller sysblock is
47unused.
48
49Sysblock header information:
50
51struct omfs_header {
52 __be64 h_self; /* FS block where this is located */
53 __be32 h_body_size; /* size of useful data after header */
54 __be16 h_crc; /* crc-ccitt of body_size bytes */
55 char h_fill1[2];
56 u8 h_version; /* version, always 1 */
57 char h_type; /* OMFS_INODE_X */
58 u8 h_magic; /* OMFS_IMAGIC */
59 u8 h_check_xor; /* XOR of header bytes before this */
60 __be32 h_fill2;
61};
62
63Files and directories are both represented by omfs_inode:
64
65struct omfs_inode {
66 struct omfs_header i_head; /* header */
67 __be64 i_parent; /* parent containing this inode */
68 __be64 i_sibling; /* next inode in hash bucket */
69 __be64 i_ctime; /* ctime, in milliseconds */
70 char i_fill1[35];
71 char i_type; /* OMFS_[DIR,FILE] */
72 __be32 i_fill2;
73 char i_fill3[64];
74 char i_name[OMFS_NAMELEN]; /* filename */
75 __be64 i_size; /* size of file, in bytes */
76};
77
78Directories in OMFS are implemented as a large hash table. Filenames are
79hashed then prepended into the bucket list beginning at OMFS_DIR_START.
80Lookup requires hashing the filename, then seeking across i_sibling pointers
81until a match is found on i_name. Empty buckets are represented by block
82pointers with all-1s (~0).
83
84A file is an omfs_inode structure followed by an extent table beginning at
85OMFS_EXTENT_START:
86
87struct omfs_extent_entry {
88 __be64 e_cluster; /* start location of a set of blocks */
89 __be64 e_blocks; /* number of blocks after e_cluster */
90};
91
92struct omfs_extent {
93 __be64 e_next; /* next extent table location */
94 __be32 e_extent_count; /* total # extents in this table */
95 __be32 e_fill;
96 struct omfs_extent_entry e_entry; /* start of extent entries */
97};
98
99Each extent holds the block offset followed by number of blocks allocated to
100the extent. The final extent in each table is a terminator with e_cluster
101being ~0 and e_blocks being ones'-complement of the total number of blocks
102in the table.
103
104If this table overflows, a continuation inode is written and pointed to by
105e_next. These have a header but lack the rest of the inode structure.
106
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
index 8c6384bdfed4..64557821ee59 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
@@ -931,7 +931,7 @@ group_prealloc max_to_scan mb_groups mb_history min_to_scan order2_req
931stats stream_req 931stats stream_req
932 932
933mb_groups: 933mb_groups:
934This file gives the details of mutiblock allocator buddy cache of free blocks 934This file gives the details of multiblock allocator buddy cache of free blocks
935 935
936mb_history: 936mb_history:
937Multiblock allocation history. 937Multiblock allocation history.
@@ -1474,7 +1474,7 @@ used because pages_free(1355) is smaller than watermark + protection[2]
1474normal page requirement. If requirement is DMA zone(index=0), protection[0] 1474normal page requirement. If requirement is DMA zone(index=0), protection[0]
1475(=0) is used. 1475(=0) is used.
1476 1476
1477zone[i]'s protection[j] is calculated by following exprssion. 1477zone[i]'s protection[j] is calculated by following expression.
1478 1478
1479(i < j): 1479(i < j):
1480 zone[i]->protection[j] 1480 zone[i]->protection[j]
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/relay.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/relay.txt
index 094f2d2f38b1..510b722667ac 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/relay.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/relay.txt
@@ -294,6 +294,16 @@ user-defined data with a channel, and is immediately available
294(including in create_buf_file()) via chan->private_data or 294(including in create_buf_file()) via chan->private_data or
295buf->chan->private_data. 295buf->chan->private_data.
296 296
297Buffer-only channels
298--------------------
299
300These channels have no files associated and can be created with
301relay_open(NULL, NULL, ...). Such channels are useful in scenarios such
302as when doing early tracing in the kernel, before the VFS is up. In these
303cases, one may open a buffer-only channel and then call
304relay_late_setup_files() when the kernel is ready to handle files,
305to expose the buffered data to the userspace.
306
297Channel 'modes' 307Channel 'modes'
298--------------- 308---------------
299 309
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
index b7522c6cbae3..c4d348dabe94 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ struct file_system_type {
143 143
144The get_sb() method has the following arguments: 144The get_sb() method has the following arguments:
145 145
146 struct file_system_type *fs_type: decribes the filesystem, partly initialized 146 struct file_system_type *fs_type: describes the filesystem, partly initialized
147 by the specific filesystem code 147 by the specific filesystem code
148 148
149 int flags: mount flags 149 int flags: mount flags
@@ -895,9 +895,9 @@ struct dentry_operations {
895 iput() yourself 895 iput() yourself
896 896
897 d_dname: called when the pathname of a dentry should be generated. 897 d_dname: called when the pathname of a dentry should be generated.
898 Usefull for some pseudo filesystems (sockfs, pipefs, ...) to delay 898 Useful for some pseudo filesystems (sockfs, pipefs, ...) to delay
899 pathname generation. (Instead of doing it when dentry is created, 899 pathname generation. (Instead of doing it when dentry is created,
900 its done only when the path is needed.). Real filesystems probably 900 it's done only when the path is needed.). Real filesystems probably
901 dont want to use it, because their dentries are present in global 901 dont want to use it, because their dentries are present in global
902 dcache hash, so their hash should be an invariant. As no lock is 902 dcache hash, so their hash should be an invariant. As no lock is
903 held, d_dname() should not try to modify the dentry itself, unless 903 held, d_dname() should not try to modify the dentry itself, unless