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* NFS: unmark NFS direct I/O as experimentalChuck Lever2006-09-221-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | Remove the EXPERIMENTAL flag from the NFS_DIRECTIO option. Test plan: Unset the EXPERIMENTAL kernel build option and check to see that the NFS direct I/O option is still available. Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* ocfs2: Remove EXPERIMENTAL dependencyMark Fasheh2006-09-201-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | Things have been working pretty well for a while now. We should've probably done this at least one kernel revision ago, but it doesn't hurt to be paranoid. Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
* Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6Linus Torvalds2006-07-131-0/+1
|\ | | | | | | | | * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6: [CIFS] CIFS_DEBUG2 depends on CIFS
| * [CIFS] CIFS_DEBUG2 depends on CIFSSteve French2006-07-081-0/+1
| | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
* | ocfs2: OCFS2_FS must depend on SYSFSAdrian Bunk2006-06-291-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
* | ocfs2: Compile-time disabling of ocfs2 debugging output.Joel Becker2006-06-291-0/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | Merge git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6Linus Torvalds2006-06-271-1/+1
|\ \ | |/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * 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
| * [JFFS2][XATTR] coexistence between xattr and write buffering support.KaiGai Kohei2006-06-271-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6Linus Torvalds2006-06-271-2/+38
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * 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 ...
| * \ Merge with /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.gitSteve French2006-06-251-7/+57
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| * | | [CIFS] Fix minor build breaks due to cifs kconfig issuesSteve French2006-06-011-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
| * | | [CIFS] Support for setting up SMB sessions to legacy lanman serversSteve French2006-05-311-2/+38
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* | | | [PATCH] nfsd kconfig: select things at the closest tristate instead of boolHerbert Xu2006-06-261-6/+6
| |_|/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | | [PATCH] Make procfs obligatory except under CONFIG_EMBEDDEDH. Peter Anvin2006-06-251-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | | [PATCH] ufs: easy debugEvgeniy Dushistov2006-06-251-0/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | | [PATCH] ufs: Unmark CONFIG_UFS_FS_WRITE as BROKENEvgeniy Dushistov2006-06-251-1/+1
| |/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | [PATCH] ext2 XIP won't build without MMUAl Viro2006-06-231-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | Merge branch 'audit.b21' of ↵Linus Torvalds2006-06-201-6/+18
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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 ... Manual fixup of conflict in unclude/linux/inotify.h
| * | [PATCH] inotify (1/5): split kernel API from userspace supportAmy Griffis2006-06-201-6/+18
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | [JFFS2] Mark XATTR support as experimental, for nowDavid Woodhouse2006-06-181-28/+28
| | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
* | [JFFS2][XATTR] XATTR support on JFFS2 (version. 5)KaiGai Kohei2006-05-131-0/+38
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] hugetlbfs: add Kconfig help textArthur Othieno2006-04-191-0/+6
| | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] kdump: enable CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE by defaultVivek Goyal2006-04-111-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] CONFIGFS_FS must depend on SYSFSAdrian Bunk2006-04-101-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* Merge branch 'linus'Trond Myklebust2006-03-231-12/+0
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| * [PATCH] relay: migrate from relayfs to a generic relay APIJens Axboe2006-03-231-12/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Original patch from Paul Mundt, sysfs parts removed by me since they were broken. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
* | SUNRPC,RPCSEC_GSS: spkm3--fix config dependenciesJ. Bruce Fields2006-03-201-0/+1
|/ | | | | | | | 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>
* o Remove confusing Kconfig text for CONFIGFS_FS.Joel Becker2006-02-031-2/+0
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
* [PATCH] Mark CONFIG_UFS_FS_WRITE as BROKENAlexey Dobriyan2006-02-011-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] kexec: change CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START dependencyManeesh Soni2006-01-101-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] o Update Kconfig documentation to reflect support for readonly mounts.Mark Fasheh2006-01-031-1/+0
| | | | Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
* [PATCH] OCFS2: The Second Oracle Cluster FilesystemMark Fasheh2006-01-031-11/+42
| | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] configfs: User-driven configuration filesystemJoel Becker2006-01-031-0/+14
| | | | | | | | 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>
* [CIFS] Fix spaces in cifs kconfig entrySteve French2005-11-101-3/+2
| | | | Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
* [CIFS] Reserve upcall IDX value for CIFS with connector header and addSteve French2005-11-101-0/+12
| | | | | | Kconfig option for CIFS upcall. Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
* Merge with /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.gitSteve French2005-11-091-5/+19
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| * Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/mtd-2.6Linus Torvalds2005-11-071-5/+18
| |\ | | | | | | | | | Some manual fixups for clashing kfree() cleanups etc.
| | * [JFFS2] Clean up trailing white spacesThomas Gleixner2005-11-071-5/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
| | * [JFFS2] Add erase block summary support (mount time improvement)Ferenc Havasi2005-11-061-0/+13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
| * | [PATCH] hfs needs nlsLennert Buytenhek2005-11-071-0/+1
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | [CIFS] Update kconfig for cifsSteve French2005-11-041-9/+31
| | | | | | | | | | | | Add cifs extended stats configure option and reduce experimental code. Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
* | [CIFS] Make CONFIG_CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL depend on CONFIG_EXPERIMENTALSteve French2005-11-021-1/+1
|/ | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] CONFIG_IA32Brian Gerst2005-10-301-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] fuse: add required version infoMiklos Szeredi2005-09-281-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] FUSE - MAINTAINERS, Kconfig and Makefile changesMiklos Szeredi2005-09-091-0/+13
| | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] v9fs: Documentation, Makefiles, ConfigurationEric Van Hensbergen2005-09-091-0/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] fs/Kconfig: quota help text updatesAdrian Bunk2005-09-071-6/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] relayfsTom Zanussi2005-09-071-0/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] Generic VFS fallback for security xattrsStephen Smalley2005-09-051-43/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] inotify: update help textRobert Love2005-08-041-4/+7
| | | | | | | | | | 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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