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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-10-12 16:21:29 -0700
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Merge tag 'docs-5.10' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "As hoped, things calmed down for docs this cycle; fewer changes and almost no conflicts at all. This includes: - A reworked and expanded user-mode Linux document - Some simplifications and improvements for submitting-patches.rst - An emergency fix for (some) problems with Sphinx 3.x - Some welcome automarkup improvements to automatically generate cross-references to struct definitions and other documents - The usual collection of translation updates, typo fixes, etc" * tag 'docs-5.10' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (81 commits) gpiolib: Update indentation in driver.rst for code excerpts Documentation/admin-guide: tainted-kernels: Fix typo occured Documentation: better locations for sysfs-pci, sysfs-tagging docs: programming-languages: refresh blurb on clang support Documentation: kvm: fix a typo Documentation: Chinese translation of Documentation/arm64/amu.rst doc: zh_CN: index files in arm64 subdirectory mailmap: add entry for <mstarovoitov@marvell.com> doc: seq_file: clarify role of *pos in ->next() docs: trace: ring-buffer-design.rst: use the new SPDX tag Documentation: kernel-parameters: clarify "module." parameters Fix references to nommu-mmap.rst docs: rewrite admin-guide/sysctl/abi.rst docs: fb: Remove vesafb scrollback boot option docs: fb: Remove sstfb scrollback boot option docs: fb: Remove matroxfb scrollback boot option docs: fb: Remove framebuffer scrollback boot option docs: replace the old User Mode Linux HowTo with a new one Documentation/admin-guide: blockdev/ramdisk: remove use of "rdev" Documentation/admin-guide: README & svga: remove use of "rdev" ...
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/index.rst2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/mount_api.rst7
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.rst20
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.rst138
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-tagging.rst48
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.rst3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/ubifs-authentication.rst6
7 files changed, 27 insertions, 197 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/index.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/index.rst
index 4c536e66dc4c..98f59a864242 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/index.rst
@@ -34,8 +34,6 @@ algorithms work.
quota
seq_file
sharedsubtree
- sysfs-pci
- sysfs-tagging
automount-support
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/mount_api.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/mount_api.rst
index 29c169c68961..d7f53d62b5bb 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/mount_api.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/mount_api.rst
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
====================
-fILESYSTEM Mount API
+Filesystem Mount API
====================
.. CONTENTS
@@ -479,7 +479,7 @@ returned.
int vfs_parse_fs_param(struct fs_context *fc,
struct fs_parameter *param);
- Supply a single mount parameter to the filesystem context. This include
+ Supply a single mount parameter to the filesystem context. This includes
the specification of the source/device which is specified as the "source"
parameter (which may be specified multiple times if the filesystem
supports that).
@@ -592,8 +592,7 @@ The following helpers all wrap sget_fc():
one.
-=====================
-PARAMETER DESCRIPTION
+Parameter Description
=====================
Parameters are described using structures defined in linux/fs_parser.h.
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.rst
index 7f7ee06b2693..56856481dc8d 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.rst
@@ -129,7 +129,9 @@ also a special value which can be returned by the start() function
called SEQ_START_TOKEN; it can be used if you wish to instruct your
show() function (described below) to print a header at the top of the
output. SEQ_START_TOKEN should only be used if the offset is zero,
-however.
+however. SEQ_START_TOKEN has no special meaning to the core seq_file
+code. It is provided as a convenience for a start() funciton to
+communicate with the next() and show() functions.
The next function to implement is called, amazingly, next(); its job is to
move the iterator forward to the next position in the sequence. The
@@ -145,6 +147,22 @@ complete. Here's the example version::
return spos;
}
+The next() function should set ``*pos`` to a value that start() can use
+to find the new location in the sequence. When the iterator is being
+stored in the private data area, rather than being reinitialized on each
+start(), it might seem sufficient to simply set ``*pos`` to any non-zero
+value (zero always tells start() to restart the sequence). This is not
+sufficient due to historical problems.
+
+Historically, many next() functions have *not* updated ``*pos`` at
+end-of-file. If the value is then used by start() to initialise the
+iterator, this can result in corner cases where the last entry in the
+sequence is reported twice in the file. In order to discourage this bug
+from being resurrected, the core seq_file code now produces a warning if
+a next() function does not change the value of ``*pos``. Consequently a
+next() function *must* change the value of ``*pos``, and of course must
+set it to a non-zero value.
+
The stop() function closes a session; its job, of course, is to clean
up. If dynamic memory is allocated for the iterator, stop() is the
place to free it; if a lock was taken by start(), stop() must release
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 742fbd21dc1f..000000000000
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,138 +0,0 @@
-.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
-
-============================================
-Accessing PCI device resources through sysfs
-============================================
-
-sysfs, usually mounted at /sys, provides access to PCI resources on platforms
-that support it. For example, a given bus might look like this::
-
- /sys/devices/pci0000:17
- |-- 0000:17:00.0
- | |-- class
- | |-- config
- | |-- device
- | |-- enable
- | |-- irq
- | |-- local_cpus
- | |-- remove
- | |-- resource
- | |-- resource0
- | |-- resource1
- | |-- resource2
- | |-- revision
- | |-- rom
- | |-- subsystem_device
- | |-- subsystem_vendor
- | `-- vendor
- `-- ...
-
-The topmost element describes the PCI domain and bus number. In this case,
-the domain number is 0000 and the bus number is 17 (both values are in hex).
-This bus contains a single function device in slot 0. The domain and bus
-numbers are reproduced for convenience. Under the device directory are several
-files, each with their own function.
-
- =================== =====================================================
- file function
- =================== =====================================================
- class PCI class (ascii, ro)
- config PCI config space (binary, rw)
- device PCI device (ascii, ro)
- enable Whether the device is enabled (ascii, rw)
- irq IRQ number (ascii, ro)
- local_cpus nearby CPU mask (cpumask, ro)
- remove remove device from kernel's list (ascii, wo)
- resource PCI resource host addresses (ascii, ro)
- resource0..N PCI resource N, if present (binary, mmap, rw\ [1]_)
- resource0_wc..N_wc PCI WC map resource N, if prefetchable (binary, mmap)
- revision PCI revision (ascii, ro)
- rom PCI ROM resource, if present (binary, ro)
- subsystem_device PCI subsystem device (ascii, ro)
- subsystem_vendor PCI subsystem vendor (ascii, ro)
- vendor PCI vendor (ascii, ro)
- =================== =====================================================
-
-::
-
- ro - read only file
- rw - file is readable and writable
- wo - write only file
- mmap - file is mmapable
- ascii - file contains ascii text
- binary - file contains binary data
- cpumask - file contains a cpumask type
-
-.. [1] rw for IORESOURCE_IO (I/O port) regions only
-
-The read only files are informational, writes to them will be ignored, with
-the exception of the 'rom' file. Writable files can be used to perform
-actions on the device (e.g. changing config space, detaching a device).
-mmapable files are available via an mmap of the file at offset 0 and can be
-used to do actual device programming from userspace. Note that some platforms
-don't support mmapping of certain resources, so be sure to check the return
-value from any attempted mmap. The most notable of these are I/O port
-resources, which also provide read/write access.
-
-The 'enable' file provides a counter that indicates how many times the device
-has been enabled. If the 'enable' file currently returns '4', and a '1' is
-echoed into it, it will then return '5'. Echoing a '0' into it will decrease
-the count. Even when it returns to 0, though, some of the initialisation
-may not be reversed.
-
-The 'rom' file is special in that it provides read-only access to the device's
-ROM file, if available. It's disabled by default, however, so applications
-should write the string "1" to the file to enable it before attempting a read
-call, and disable it following the access by writing "0" to the file. Note
-that the device must be enabled for a rom read to return data successfully.
-In the event a driver is not bound to the device, it can be enabled using the
-'enable' file, documented above.
-
-The 'remove' file is used to remove the PCI device, by writing a non-zero
-integer to the file. This does not involve any kind of hot-plug functionality,
-e.g. powering off the device. The device is removed from the kernel's list of
-PCI devices, the sysfs directory for it is removed, and the device will be
-removed from any drivers attached to it. Removal of PCI root buses is
-disallowed.
-
-Accessing legacy resources through sysfs
-----------------------------------------
-
-Legacy I/O port and ISA memory resources are also provided in sysfs if the
-underlying platform supports them. They're located in the PCI class hierarchy,
-e.g.::
-
- /sys/class/pci_bus/0000:17/
- |-- bridge -> ../../../devices/pci0000:17
- |-- cpuaffinity
- |-- legacy_io
- `-- legacy_mem
-
-The legacy_io file is a read/write file that can be used by applications to
-do legacy port I/O. The application should open the file, seek to the desired
-port (e.g. 0x3e8) and do a read or a write of 1, 2 or 4 bytes. The legacy_mem
-file should be mmapped with an offset corresponding to the memory offset
-desired, e.g. 0xa0000 for the VGA frame buffer. The application can then
-simply dereference the returned pointer (after checking for errors of course)
-to access legacy memory space.
-
-Supporting PCI access on new platforms
---------------------------------------
-
-In order to support PCI resource mapping as described above, Linux platform
-code should ideally define ARCH_GENERIC_PCI_MMAP_RESOURCE and use the generic
-implementation of that functionality. To support the historical interface of
-mmap() through files in /proc/bus/pci, platforms may also set HAVE_PCI_MMAP.
-
-Alternatively, platforms which set HAVE_PCI_MMAP may provide their own
-implementation of pci_mmap_page_range() instead of defining
-ARCH_GENERIC_PCI_MMAP_RESOURCE.
-
-Platforms which support write-combining maps of PCI resources must define
-arch_can_pci_mmap_wc() which shall evaluate to non-zero at runtime when
-write-combining is permitted. Platforms which support maps of I/O resources
-define arch_can_pci_mmap_io() similarly.
-
-Legacy resources are protected by the HAVE_PCI_LEGACY define. Platforms
-wishing to support legacy functionality should define it and provide
-pci_legacy_read, pci_legacy_write and pci_mmap_legacy_page_range functions.
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-tagging.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-tagging.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 83647e10c207..000000000000
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-tagging.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,48 +0,0 @@
-.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
-
-=============
-Sysfs tagging
-=============
-
-(Taken almost verbatim from Eric Biederman's netns tagging patch
-commit msg)
-
-The problem. Network devices show up in sysfs and with the network
-namespace active multiple devices with the same name can show up in
-the same directory, ouch!
-
-To avoid that problem and allow existing applications in network
-namespaces to see the same interface that is currently presented in
-sysfs, sysfs now has tagging directory support.
-
-By using the network namespace pointers as tags to separate out
-the sysfs directory entries we ensure that we don't have conflicts
-in the directories and applications only see a limited set of
-the network devices.
-
-Each sysfs directory entry may be tagged with a namespace via the
-``void *ns member`` of its ``kernfs_node``. If a directory entry is tagged,
-then ``kernfs_node->flags`` will have a flag between KOBJ_NS_TYPE_NONE
-and KOBJ_NS_TYPES, and ns will point to the namespace to which it
-belongs.
-
-Each sysfs superblock's kernfs_super_info contains an array
-``void *ns[KOBJ_NS_TYPES]``. When a task in a tagging namespace
-kobj_nstype first mounts sysfs, a new superblock is created. It
-will be differentiated from other sysfs mounts by having its
-``s_fs_info->ns[kobj_nstype]`` set to the new namespace. Note that
-through bind mounting and mounts propagation, a task can easily view
-the contents of other namespaces' sysfs mounts. Therefore, when a
-namespace exits, it will call kobj_ns_exit() to invalidate any
-kernfs_node->ns pointers pointing to it.
-
-Users of this interface:
-
-- define a type in the ``kobj_ns_type`` enumeration.
-- call kobj_ns_type_register() with its ``kobj_ns_type_operations`` which has
-
- - current_ns() which returns current's namespace
- - netlink_ns() which returns a socket's namespace
- - initial_ns() which returns the initial namesapce
-
-- call kobj_ns_exit() when an individual tag is no longer valid
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.rst
index ab0f7795792b..5a3209a4cebf 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.rst
@@ -172,14 +172,13 @@ calls the associated methods.
To illustrate::
- #define to_dev(obj) container_of(obj, struct device, kobj)
#define to_dev_attr(_attr) container_of(_attr, struct device_attribute, attr)
static ssize_t dev_attr_show(struct kobject *kobj, struct attribute *attr,
char *buf)
{
struct device_attribute *dev_attr = to_dev_attr(attr);
- struct device *dev = to_dev(kobj);
+ struct device *dev = kobj_to_dev(kobj);
ssize_t ret = -EIO;
if (dev_attr->show)
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ubifs-authentication.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/ubifs-authentication.rst
index 1f39c8cea702..5210aed2afbc 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/ubifs-authentication.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ubifs-authentication.rst
@@ -1,11 +1,13 @@
.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
-:orphan:
-
.. UBIFS Authentication
.. sigma star gmbh
.. 2018
+============================
+UBIFS Authentication Support
+============================
+
Introduction
============