1. 27 7月, 2008 1 次提交
  2. 15 7月, 2008 1 次提交
  3. 03 7月, 2008 1 次提交
  4. 30 1月, 2008 1 次提交
  5. 17 10月, 2007 1 次提交
  6. 11 5月, 2007 4 次提交
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      signal/timer/event: eventfd core · e1ad7468
      Davide Libenzi 提交于
      This is a very simple and light file descriptor, that can be used as event
      wait/dispatch by userspace (both wait and dispatch) and by the kernel
      (dispatch only).  It can be used instead of pipe(2) in all cases where those
      would simply be used to signal events.  Their kernel overhead is much lower
      than pipes, and they do not consume two fds.  When used in the kernel, it can
      offer an fd-bridge to enable, for example, functionalities like KAIO or
      syslets/threadlets to signal to an fd the completion of certain operations.
      But more in general, an eventfd can be used by the kernel to signal readiness,
      in a POSIX poll/select way, of interfaces that would otherwise be incompatible
      with it.  The API is:
      
      int eventfd(unsigned int count);
      
      The eventfd API accepts an initial "count" parameter, and returns an eventfd
      fd.  It supports poll(2) (POLLIN, POLLOUT, POLLERR), read(2) and write(2).
      
      The POLLIN flag is raised when the internal counter is greater than zero.
      
      The POLLOUT flag is raised when at least a value of "1" can be written to the
      internal counter.
      
      The POLLERR flag is raised when an overflow in the counter value is detected.
      
      The write(2) operation can never overflow the counter, since it blocks (unless
      O_NONBLOCK is set, in which case -EAGAIN is returned).
      
      But the eventfd_signal() function can do it, since it's supposed to not sleep
      during its operation.
      
      The read(2) function reads the __u64 counter value, and reset the internal
      value to zero.  If the value read is equal to (__u64) -1, an overflow happened
      on the internal counter (due to 2^64 eventfd_signal() posts that has never
      been retired - unlickely, but possible).
      
      The write(2) call writes an __u64 count value, and adds it to the current
      counter.  The eventfd fd supports O_NONBLOCK also.
      
      On the kernel side, we have:
      
      struct file *eventfd_fget(int fd);
      int eventfd_signal(struct file *file, unsigned int n);
      
      The eventfd_fget() should be called to get a struct file* from an eventfd fd
      (this is an fget() + check of f_op being an eventfd fops pointer).
      
      The kernel can then call eventfd_signal() every time it wants to post an event
      to userspace.  The eventfd_signal() function can be called from any context.
      An eventfd() simple test and bench is available here:
      
      http://www.xmailserver.org/eventfd-bench.c
      
      This is the eventfd-based version of pipetest-4 (pipe(2) based):
      
      http://www.xmailserver.org/pipetest-4.c
      
      Not that performance matters much in the eventfd case, but eventfd-bench
      shows almost as double as performance than pipetest-4.
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix i386 build]
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: add sys_eventfd to sys_ni.c]
      Signed-off-by: NDavide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      e1ad7468
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      signal/timer/event: timerfd core · b215e283
      Davide Libenzi 提交于
      This patch introduces a new system call for timers events delivered though
      file descriptors.  This allows timer event to be used with standard POSIX
      poll(2), select(2) and read(2).  As a consequence of supporting the Linux
      f_op->poll subsystem, they can be used with epoll(2) too.
      
      The system call is defined as:
      
      int timerfd(int ufd, int clockid, int flags, const struct itimerspec *utmr);
      
      The "ufd" parameter allows for re-use (re-programming) of an existing timerfd
      w/out going through the close/open cycle (same as signalfd).  If "ufd" is -1,
      s new file descriptor will be created, otherwise the existing "ufd" will be
      re-programmed.
      
      The "clockid" parameter is either CLOCK_MONOTONIC or CLOCK_REALTIME.  The time
      specified in the "utmr->it_value" parameter is the expiry time for the timer.
      
      If the TFD_TIMER_ABSTIME flag is set in "flags", this is an absolute time,
      otherwise it's a relative time.
      
      If the time specified in the "utmr->it_interval" is not zero (.tv_sec == 0,
      tv_nsec == 0), this is the period at which the following ticks should be
      generated.
      
      The "utmr->it_interval" should be set to zero if only one tick is requested.
      Setting the "utmr->it_value" to zero will disable the timer, or will create a
      timerfd without the timer enabled.
      
      The function returns the new (or same, in case "ufd" is a valid timerfd
      descriptor) file, or -1 in case of error.
      
      As stated before, the timerfd file descriptor supports poll(2), select(2) and
      epoll(2).  When a timer event happened on the timerfd, a POLLIN mask will be
      returned.
      
      The read(2) call can be used, and it will return a u32 variable holding the
      number of "ticks" that happened on the interface since the last call to
      read(2).  The read(2) call supportes the O_NONBLOCK flag too, and EAGAIN will
      be returned if no ticks happened.
      
      A quick test program, shows timerfd working correctly on my amd64 box:
      
      http://www.xmailserver.org/timerfd-test.c
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: add sys_timerfd to sys_ni.c]
      Signed-off-by: NDavide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      b215e283
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      signal/timer/event: signalfd core · fba2afaa
      Davide Libenzi 提交于
      This patch series implements the new signalfd() system call.
      
      I took part of the original Linus code (and you know how badly it can be
      broken :), and I added even more breakage ;) Signals are fetched from the same
      signal queue used by the process, so signalfd will compete with standard
      kernel delivery in dequeue_signal().  If you want to reliably fetch signals on
      the signalfd file, you need to block them with sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK).  This
      seems to be working fine on my Dual Opteron machine.  I made a quick test
      program for it:
      
      http://www.xmailserver.org/signafd-test.c
      
      The signalfd() system call implements signal delivery into a file descriptor
      receiver.  The signalfd file descriptor if created with the following API:
      
      int signalfd(int ufd, const sigset_t *mask, size_t masksize);
      
      The "ufd" parameter allows to change an existing signalfd sigmask, w/out going
      to close/create cycle (Linus idea).  Use "ufd" == -1 if you want a brand new
      signalfd file.
      
      The "mask" allows to specify the signal mask of signals that we are interested
      in.  The "masksize" parameter is the size of "mask".
      
      The signalfd fd supports the poll(2) and read(2) system calls.  The poll(2)
      will return POLLIN when signals are available to be dequeued.  As a direct
      consequence of supporting the Linux poll subsystem, the signalfd fd can use
      used together with epoll(2) too.
      
      The read(2) system call will return a "struct signalfd_siginfo" structure in
      the userspace supplied buffer.  The return value is the number of bytes copied
      in the supplied buffer, or -1 in case of error.  The read(2) call can also
      return 0, in case the sighand structure to which the signalfd was attached,
      has been orphaned.  The O_NONBLOCK flag is also supported, and read(2) will
      return -EAGAIN in case no signal is available.
      
      If the size of the buffer passed to read(2) is lower than sizeof(struct
      signalfd_siginfo), -EINVAL is returned.  A read from the signalfd can also
      return -ERESTARTSYS in case a signal hits the process.  The format of the
      struct signalfd_siginfo is, and the valid fields depends of the (->code &
      __SI_MASK) value, in the same way a struct siginfo would:
      
      struct signalfd_siginfo {
      	__u32 signo;	/* si_signo */
      	__s32 err;	/* si_errno */
      	__s32 code;	/* si_code */
      	__u32 pid;	/* si_pid */
      	__u32 uid;	/* si_uid */
      	__s32 fd;	/* si_fd */
      	__u32 tid;	/* si_fd */
      	__u32 band;	/* si_band */
      	__u32 overrun;	/* si_overrun */
      	__u32 trapno;	/* si_trapno */
      	__s32 status;	/* si_status */
      	__s32 svint;	/* si_int */
      	__u64 svptr;	/* si_ptr */
      	__u64 utime;	/* si_utime */
      	__u64 stime;	/* si_stime */
      	__u64 addr;	/* si_addr */
      };
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix signalfd_copyinfo() on i386]
      Signed-off-by: NDavide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      fba2afaa
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      signal/timer/event fds: anonymous inode source · 5dc8bf81
      Davide Libenzi 提交于
      This patch add an anonymous inode source, to be used for files that need
      and inode only in order to create a file*. We do not care of having an
      inode for each file, and we do not even care of having different names in
      the associated dentries (dentry names will be same for classes of file*).
      This allow code reuse, and will be used by epoll, signalfd and timerfd
      (and whatever else there'll be).
      Signed-off-by: NDavide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      5dc8bf81
  7. 18 2月, 2007 1 次提交
  8. 09 12月, 2006 1 次提交
  9. 12 10月, 2006 2 次提交
  10. 04 10月, 2006 1 次提交
  11. 01 10月, 2006 2 次提交
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      [PATCH] Create fs/utimes.c · 82b0547c
      Alexey Dobriyan 提交于
      * fs/open.c is getting bit crowdy
      * preparation to lutimes(2)
      Signed-off-by: NAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      82b0547c
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      [PATCH] BLOCK: Make it possible to disable the block layer [try #6] · 9361401e
      David Howells 提交于
      Make it possible to disable the block layer.  Not all embedded devices require
      it, some can make do with just JFFS2, NFS, ramfs, etc - none of which require
      the block layer to be present.
      
      This patch does the following:
      
       (*) Introduces CONFIG_BLOCK to disable the block layer, buffering and blockdev
           support.
      
       (*) Adds dependencies on CONFIG_BLOCK to any configuration item that controls
           an item that uses the block layer.  This includes:
      
           (*) Block I/O tracing.
      
           (*) Disk partition code.
      
           (*) All filesystems that are block based, eg: Ext3, ReiserFS, ISOFS.
      
           (*) The SCSI layer.  As far as I can tell, even SCSI chardevs use the
           	 block layer to do scheduling.  Some drivers that use SCSI facilities -
           	 such as USB storage - end up disabled indirectly from this.
      
           (*) Various block-based device drivers, such as IDE and the old CDROM
           	 drivers.
      
           (*) MTD blockdev handling and FTL.
      
           (*) JFFS - which uses set_bdev_super(), something it could avoid doing by
           	 taking a leaf out of JFFS2's book.
      
       (*) Makes most of the contents of linux/blkdev.h, linux/buffer_head.h and
           linux/elevator.h contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK being set.  sector_div() is,
           however, still used in places, and so is still available.
      
       (*) Also made contingent are the contents of linux/mpage.h, linux/genhd.h and
           parts of linux/fs.h.
      
       (*) Makes a number of files in fs/ contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK.
      
       (*) Makes mm/bounce.c (bounce buffering) contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK.
      
       (*) set_page_dirty() doesn't call __set_page_dirty_buffers() if CONFIG_BLOCK
           is not enabled.
      
       (*) fs/no-block.c is created to hold out-of-line stubs and things that are
           required when CONFIG_BLOCK is not set:
      
           (*) Default blockdev file operations (to give error ENODEV on opening).
      
       (*) Makes some /proc changes:
      
           (*) /proc/devices does not list any blockdevs.
      
           (*) /proc/diskstats and /proc/partitions are contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK.
      
       (*) Makes some compat ioctl handling contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK.
      
       (*) If CONFIG_BLOCK is not defined, makes sys_quotactl() return -ENODEV if
           given command other than Q_SYNC or if a special device is specified.
      
       (*) In init/do_mounts.c, no reference is made to the blockdev routines if
           CONFIG_BLOCK is not defined.  This does not prohibit NFS roots or JFFS2.
      
       (*) The bdflush, ioprio_set and ioprio_get syscalls can now be absent (return
           error ENOSYS by way of cond_syscall if so).
      
       (*) The seclvl_bd_claim() and seclvl_bd_release() security calls do nothing if
           CONFIG_BLOCK is not set, since they can't then happen.
      Signed-Off-By: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      9361401e
  12. 30 9月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] Generic infrastructure for acls · f0c8bd16
      Andreas Gruenbacher 提交于
      The patches solve the following problem: We want to grant access to devices
      based on who is logged in from where, etc.  This includes switching back and
      forth between multiple user sessions, etc.
      
      Using ACLs to define device access for logged-in users gives us all the
      flexibility we need in order to fully solve the problem.
      
      Device special files nowadays usually live on tmpfs, hence tmpfs ACLs.
      
      Different distros have come up with solutions that solve the problem to
      different degrees: SUSE uses a resource manager which tracks login sessions
      and sets ACLs on device inodes as appropriate.  RedHat uses pam_console, which
      changes the primary file ownership to the logged-in user.  Others use a set of
      groups that users must be in in order to be granted the appropriate accesses.
      
      The freedesktop.org project plans to implement a combination of a
      console-tracker and a HAL-device-list based solution to grant access to
      devices to users, and more distros will likely follow this approach.
      
      These patches have first been posted here on 2 February 2005, and again
      on 8 January 2006. We have been shipping them in SLES9 and SLES10 with
      no problems reported.  The previous submission is archived here:
      
         http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/8/229
         http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/8/230
         http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/8/231
      
      This patch:
      
      Add some infrastructure for access control lists on in-memory
      filesystems such as tmpfs.
      Signed-off-by: NAndreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
      Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      f0c8bd16
  13. 27 6月, 2006 1 次提交
  14. 20 6月, 2006 1 次提交
  15. 18 5月, 2006 1 次提交
  16. 01 4月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] sys_sync_file_range() · f79e2abb
      Andrew Morton 提交于
      Remove the recently-added LINUX_FADV_ASYNC_WRITE and LINUX_FADV_WRITE_WAIT
      fadvise() additions, do it in a new sys_sync_file_range() syscall instead.
      Reasons:
      
      - It's more flexible.  Things which would require two or three syscalls with
        fadvise() can be done in a single syscall.
      
      - Using fadvise() in this manner is something not covered by POSIX.
      
      The patch wires up the syscall for x86.
      
      The sycall is implemented in the new fs/sync.c.  The intention is that we can
      move sys_fsync(), sys_fdatasync() and perhaps sys_sync() into there later.
      
      Documentation for the syscall is in fs/sync.c.
      
      A test app (sync_file_range.c) is in
      http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/ext3-tools.tar.gz.
      
      The available-to-GPL-modules do_sync_file_range() is for knfsd: "A COMMIT can
      say NFS_DATA_SYNC or NFS_FILE_SYNC.  I can skip the ->fsync call for
      NFS_DATA_SYNC which is hopefully the more common."
      
      Note: the `async' writeout mode SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WRITE will turn synchronous if
      the queue is congested.  This is trivial to fix: add a new flag bit, set
      wbc->nonblocking.  But I'm not sure that we want to expose implementation
      details down to that level.
      
      Note: it's notable that we can sync an fd which wasn't opened for writing.
      Same with fsync() and fdatasync()).
      
      Note: the code takes some care to handle attempts to sync file contents
      outside the 16TB offset on 32-bit machines.  It makes such attempts appear to
      succeed, for best 32-bit/64-bit compatibility.  Perhaps it should make such
      requests fail...
      
      Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
      Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
      Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
      Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      f79e2abb
  17. 31 3月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] Introduce sys_splice() system call · 5274f052
      Jens Axboe 提交于
      This adds support for the sys_splice system call. Using a pipe as a
      transport, it can connect to files or sockets (latter as output only).
      
      From the splice.c comments:
      
         "splice": joining two ropes together by interweaving their strands.
      
         This is the "extended pipe" functionality, where a pipe is used as
         an arbitrary in-memory buffer. Think of a pipe as a small kernel
         buffer that you can use to transfer data from one end to the other.
      
         The traditional unix read/write is extended with a "splice()" operation
         that transfers data buffers to or from a pipe buffer.
      
         Named by Larry McVoy, original implementation from Linus, extended by
         Jens to support splicing to files and fixing the initial implementation
         bugs.
      Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      5274f052
  18. 24 3月, 2006 1 次提交
  19. 18 1月, 2006 1 次提交
  20. 17 1月, 2006 1 次提交
  21. 11 1月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] sanitize building of fs/compat_ioctl.c · e6a6d2ef
      Christoph Hellwig 提交于
      Now that all these entries in the arch ioctl32.c files are gone [1], we can
      build fs/compat_ioctl.c as a normal object and kill tons of cruft.  We need a
      special do_ioctl32_pointer handler for s390 so the compat_ptr call is done.
      This is not needed but harmless on all other architectures.  Also remove some
      superflous includes in fs/compat_ioctl.c
      
      Tested on ppc64.
      
      [1] parisc still had it's PPP handler left, which is not fully correct
          for ppp and besides that ppp uses the generic SIOCPRIV ioctl so it'd
          kick in for all netdevice users.  We can introduce a proper handler
          in one of the next patch series by adding a compat_ioctl method to
          struct net_device but for now let's just kill it - parisc doesn't
          compile in mainline anyway and I don't want this to block this
          patchset.
      Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      e6a6d2ef
  22. 09 1月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] drop-pagecache · 9d0243bc
      Andrew Morton 提交于
      Add /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches.  When written to, this will cause the kernel to
      discard as much pagecache and/or reclaimable slab objects as it can.  THis
      operation requires root permissions.
      
      It won't drop dirty data, so the user should run `sync' first.
      
      Caveats:
      
      a) Holds inode_lock for exorbitant amounts of time.
      
      b) Needs to be taught about NUMA nodes: propagate these all the way through
         so the discarding can be controlled on a per-node basis.
      
      This is a debugging feature: useful for getting consistent results between
      filesystem benchmarks.  We could possibly put it under a config option, but
      it's less than 300 bytes.
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      9d0243bc
  23. 04 1月, 2006 2 次提交
  24. 08 11月, 2005 1 次提交
  25. 10 9月, 2005 2 次提交
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      [PATCH] FUSE - MAINTAINERS, Kconfig and Makefile changes · 04578f17
      Miklos Szeredi 提交于
      This patch adds FUSE filesystem to MAINTAINERS, fs/Kconfig and
      fs/Makefile.
      Signed-off-by: NMiklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      04578f17
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      [PATCH] v9fs: Documentation, Makefiles, Configuration · 93fa58cb
      Eric Van Hensbergen 提交于
      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: NEric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      93fa58cb
  26. 08 9月, 2005 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] relayfs · e82894f8
      Tom Zanussi 提交于
      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: NTom Zanussi <zanussi@us.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      e82894f8
  27. 13 7月, 2005 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] inotify · 0eeca283
      Robert Love 提交于
      inotify is intended to correct the deficiencies of dnotify, particularly
      its inability to scale and its terrible user interface:
      
              * dnotify requires the opening of one fd per each directory
                that you intend to watch. This quickly results in too many
                open files and pins removable media, preventing unmount.
              * dnotify is directory-based. You only learn about changes to
                directories. Sure, a change to a file in a directory affects
                the directory, but you are then forced to keep a cache of
                stat structures.
              * dnotify's interface to user-space is awful.  Signals?
      
      inotify provides a more usable, simple, powerful solution to file change
      notification:
      
              * inotify's interface is a system call that returns a fd, not SIGIO.
      	  You get a single fd, which is select()-able.
              * inotify has an event that says "the filesystem that the item
                you were watching is on was unmounted."
              * inotify can watch directories or files.
      
      Inotify is currently used by Beagle (a desktop search infrastructure),
      Gamin (a FAM replacement), and other projects.
      
      See Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt.
      Signed-off-by: NRobert Love <rml@novell.com>
      Cc: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>
      Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      0eeca283
  28. 28 6月, 2005 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] Update cfq io scheduler to time sliced design · 22e2c507
      Jens Axboe 提交于
      This updates the CFQ io scheduler to the new time sliced design (cfq
      v3).  It provides full process fairness, while giving excellent
      aggregate system throughput even for many competing processes.  It
      supports io priorities, either inherited from the cpu nice value or set
      directly with the ioprio_get/set syscalls.  The latter closely mimic
      set/getpriority.
      
      This import is based on my latest from -mm.
      Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      22e2c507
  29. 23 6月, 2005 1 次提交
  30. 17 4月, 2005 1 次提交
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      Linux-2.6.12-rc2 · 1da177e4
      Linus Torvalds 提交于
      Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
      even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
      archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
      3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
      git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
      infrastructure for it.
      
      Let it rip!
      1da177e4