History log of /linux-master/fs/xfs/Kconfig
Revision Date Author Comments
# a095686a 22-Feb-2024 Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>

xfs: support in-memory btrees

Adapt the generic btree cursor code to be able to create a btree whose
buffers come from a (presumably in-memory) buftarg with a header block
that's specific to in-memory btrees. We'll connect this to other parts
of online scrub in the next patches.

Note that in-memory btrees always have a block size matching the system
memory page size for efficiency reasons. There are also a few things we
need to do to finalize a btree update; that's covered in the next patch.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>


# 5076a604 22-Feb-2024 Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>

xfs: support in-memory buffer cache targets

Allow the buffer cache to target in-memory files by making it possible
to have a buftarg that maps pages from private shmem files. As the
prevous patch alludes, the in-memory buftarg contains its own cache,
points to a shmem file, and does not point to a block_device.

The next few patches will make it possible to construct an xfs_btree in
pageable memory by using this buftarg.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>


# 4e98cc90 22-Feb-2024 Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>

xfs: allow scrub to hook metadata updates in other writers

Certain types of filesystem metadata can only be checked by scanning
every file in the entire filesystem. Specific examples of this include
quota counts, file link counts, and reverse mappings of file extents.
Directory and parent pointer reconstruction may also fall into this
category. File scanning is much trickier than scanning AG metadata
because we have to take inode locks in the same order as the rest of
[VX]FS, we can't be holding buffer locks when we do that, and scanning
the whole filesystem takes time.

Earlier versions of the online repair patchset relied heavily on
fsfreeze as a means to quiesce the filesystem so that we could take
locks in the proper order without worrying about concurrent updates from
other writers. Reviewers of those patches opined that freezing the
entire fs to check and repair something was not sufficiently better than
unmounting to run fsck offline. I don't agree with that 100%, but the
message was clear: find a way to repair things that minimizes the
quiet period where nobody can write to the filesystem.

Generally, building btree indexes online can be split into two phases: a
collection phase where we compute the records that will be put into the
new btree; and a construction phase, where we construct the physical
btree blocks and persist them. While it's simple to hold resource locks
for the entirety of the two phases to ensure that the new index is
consistent with the rest of the system, we don't need to hold resource
locks during the collection phase if we have a means to receive live
updates of other work going on elsewhere in the system.

The goal of this patch, then, is to enable online fsck to learn about
metadata updates going on in other threads while it constructs a shadow
copy of the metadata records to verify or correct the real metadata. To
minimize the overhead when online fsck isn't running, we use srcu
notifiers because they prioritize fast access to the notifier call chain
(particularly when the chain is empty) at a cost to configuring
notifiers. Online fsck should be relatively infrequent, so this is
acceptable.

The intended usage model is fairly simple. Code that modifies a
metadata structure of interest should declare a xfs_hook_chain structure
in some well defined place, and call xfs_hook_call whenever an update
happens. Online fsck code should define a struct notifier_block and use
xfs_hook_add to attach the block to the chain, along with a function to
be called. This function should synchronize with the fsck scanner to
update whatever in-memory data the scanner is collecting. When
finished, xfs_hook_del removes the notifier from the list and waits for
them all to complete.

Originally, I selected srcu notifiers over blocking notifiers to
implement live hooks because they seemed to have fewer impacts to
scalability. The per-call cost of srcu_notifier_call_chain is higher
(19ns) than blocking_notifier_ (4ns) in the single threaded case, but
blocking notifiers use an rwsem to stabilize the list. Cacheline
bouncing for that rwsem is costly to runtime code when there are a lot
of CPUs running regular filesystem operations. If there are no hooks
installed, this is a total waste of CPU time.

Therefore, I stuck with srcu notifiers, despite trading off single
threaded performance for multithreaded performance. I also wasn't
thrilled with the very high teardown time for srcu notifiers, since the
caller has to wait for the next rcu grace period. This can take a long
time if there are a lot of CPUs.

Then I discovered the jump label implementation of static keys.

Jump labels use kernel code patching to replace a branch with a nop sled
when the key is disabled. IOWs, they can eliminate the overhead of
_call_chain when there are no hooks enabled. This makes blocking
notifiers competitive again -- scrub runs faster because teardown of the
chain is a lot cheaper, and runtime code only pays the rwsem locking
overhead when scrub is actually running.

With jump labels enabled, calls to empty notifier chains are elided from
the call sites when there are no hooks registered, which means that the
overhead is 0.36ns when fsck is not running. This is perfect for most
of the architectures that XFS is expected to run on (e.g. x86, powerpc,
arm64, s390x, riscv).

For architectures that don't support jump labels (e.g. m68k) the runtime
overhead of checking the static key is an atomic counter read. This
isn't great, but it's still cheaper than taking a shared rwsem.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>


# a2e4388a 05-Nov-2023 Anthony Iliopoulos <ailiop@suse.com>

xfs: fix again select in kconfig XFS_ONLINE_SCRUB_STATS

Commit 57c0f4a8ea3a attempted to fix the select in the kconfig entry
XFS_ONLINE_SCRUB_STATS by selecting XFS_DEBUG, but the original
intention was to select DEBUG_FS, since the feature relies on debugfs to
export the related scrub statistics.

Fixes: 57c0f4a8ea3a ("xfs: fix select in config XFS_ONLINE_SCRUB_STATS")

Reported-by: Holger Hoffstätte <holger@applied-asynchrony.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Iliopoulos <ailiop@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Chandan Babu R <chandanbabu@kernel.org>


# 57c0f4a8 25-Aug-2023 Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>

xfs: fix select in config XFS_ONLINE_SCRUB_STATS

Commit d7a74cad8f45 ("xfs: track usage statistics of online fsck")
introduces config XFS_ONLINE_SCRUB_STATS, which selects the non-existing
config FS_DEBUG. It is probably intended to select the existing config
XFS_DEBUG.

Fix the select in config XFS_ONLINE_SCRUB_STATS.

Fixes: d7a74cad8f45 ("xfs: track usage statistics of online fsck")
Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Chandan Babu R <chandanbabu@kernel.org>


# d7a74cad 10-Aug-2023 Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>

xfs: track usage statistics of online fsck

Track the usage, outcomes, and run times of the online fsck code, and
report these values via debugfs. The columns in the file are:

* scrubber name

* number of scrub invocations
* clean objects found
* corruptions found
* optimizations found
* cross referencing failures
* inconsistencies found during cross referencing
* incomplete scrubs
* warnings
* number of time scrub had to retry
* cumulative amount of time spent scrubbing (microseconds)

* number of repair inovcations
* successfully repaired objects
* cumuluative amount of time spent repairing (microseconds)

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>


# 3934e8eb 10-Aug-2023 Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>

xfs: create a big array data structure

Create a simple 'big array' data structure for storage of fixed-size
metadata records that will be used to reconstruct a btree index. For
repair operations, the most important operations are append, iterate,
and sort.

Earlier implementations of the big array used linked lists and suffered
from severe problems -- pinning all records in kernel memory was not a
good idea and frequently lead to OOM situations; random access was very
inefficient; and record overhead for the lists was unacceptably high at
40-60%.

Therefore, the big memory array relies on the 'xfile' abstraction, which
creates a memfd file and stores the records in page cache pages. Since
the memfd is created in tmpfs, the memory pages can be pushed out to
disk if necessary and we have a built-in usage limit of 50% of physical
memory.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>


# 7ba83850 11-Apr-2023 Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>

xfs: deprecate the ascii-ci feature

This feature is a mess -- the hash function has been broken for the
entire 15 years of its existence if you create names with extended ascii
bytes; metadump name obfuscation has silently failed for just as long;
and the feature clashes horribly with the UTF8 encodings that most
systems use today. There is exactly one fstest for this feature.

In other words, this feature is crap. Let's deprecate it now so we can
remove it from the codebase in 2030.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>


# 466c525d 11-Apr-2023 Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>

xfs: minimize overhead of drain wakeups by using jump labels

To reduce the runtime overhead even further when online fsck isn't
running, use a static branch key to decide if we call wake_up on the
drain. For compilers that support jump labels, the call to wake_up is
replaced by a nop sled when nobody is waiting for intents to drain.

From my initial microbenchmarking, every transition of the static key
between the on and off states takes about 22000ns to complete; this is
paid entirely by the xfs_scrub process. When the static key is off
(which it should be when fsck isn't running), the nop sled adds an
overhead of approximately 0.36ns to runtime code. The post-atomic
lockless waiter check adds about 0.03ns, which is basically free.

For the few compilers that don't support jump labels, runtime code pays
the cost of calling wake_up on an empty waitqueue, which was observed to
be about 30ns. However, most architectures that have sufficient memory
and CPU capacity to run XFS also support jump labels, so this is not
much of a worry.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>


# d5c88131 11-Apr-2023 Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>

xfs: allow queued AG intents to drain before scrubbing

When a writer thread executes a chain of log intent items, the AG header
buffer locks will cycle during a transaction roll to get from one intent
item to the next in a chain. Although scrub takes all AG header buffer
locks, this isn't sufficient to guard against scrub checking an AG while
that writer thread is in the middle of finishing a chain because there's
no higher level locking primitive guarding allocation groups.

When there's a collision, cross-referencing between data structures
(e.g. rmapbt and refcountbt) yields false corruption events; if repair
is running, this results in incorrect repairs, which is catastrophic.

Fix this by adding to the perag structure the count of active intents
and make scrub wait until it has both AG header buffer locks and the
intent counter reaches zero.

One quirk of the drain code is that deferred bmap updates also bump and
drop the intent counter. A fundamental decision made during the design
phase of the reverse mapping feature is that updates to the rmapbt
records are always made by the same code that updates the primary
metadata. In other words, callers of bmapi functions expect that the
bmapi functions will queue deferred rmap updates.

Some parts of the reflink code queue deferred refcount (CUI) and bmap
(BUI) updates in the same head transaction, but the deferred work
manager completely finishes the CUI before the BUI work is started. As
a result, the CUI drops the intent count long before the deferred rmap
(RUI) update even has a chance to bump the intent count. The only way
to keep the intent count elevated between the CUI and RUI is for the BUI
to bump the counter until the RUI has been created.

A second quirk of the intent drain code is that deferred work items must
increment the intent counter as soon as the work item is added to the
transaction. When a BUI completes and queues an RUI, the RUI must
increment the counter before the BUI decrements it. The only way to
accomplish this is to require that the counter be bumped as soon as the
deferred work item is created in memory.

In the next patches we'll improve on this facility, but this patch
provides the basic functionality.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>


# 89464554 12-Oct-2020 Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>

xfs: fix Kconfig asking about XFS_SUPPORT_V4 when XFS_FS=n

Pavel Machek complained that the question about supporting deprecated
XFS v4 comes up even when XFS is disabled. This clearly makes no sense,
so fix Kconfig.

Reported-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>


# b96cb835 10-Sep-2020 Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>

xfs: deprecate the V4 format

The V4 filesystem format contains known weaknesses in the on-disk format
that make metadata verification diffiult. In addition, the format does
not support dates past 2038 and will not be upgraded to do so. We
should start the process of retiring the old format to close off attack
surfaces and to encourage users to migrate onto V5.

Therefore, make XFS V4 support a configurable option. For the first
period it will be default Y in case some distributors want to withdraw
support early; for the second period it will be default N so that anyone
who wishes to continue support can do so; and after that, support will
be removed from the kernel. Dates for these events have been added to
the upstream kernel.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>


# ec8f24b7 19-May-2019 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

treewide: Add SPDX license identifier - Makefile/Kconfig

Add SPDX license identifiers to all Make/Kconfig files which:

- Have no license information of any form

These files fall under the project license, GPL v2 only. The resulting SPDX
license identifier is:

GPL-2.0-only

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


# 72deb455 05-Apr-2019 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

block: remove CONFIG_LBDAF

Currently support for 64-bit sector_t and blkcnt_t is optional on 32-bit
architectures. These types are required to support block device and/or
file sizes larger than 2 TiB, and have generally defaulted to on for
a long time. Enabling the option only increases the i386 tinyconfig
size by 145 bytes, and many data structures already always use
64-bit values for their in-core and on-disk data structures anyway,
so there should not be a large change in dynamic memory usage either.

Dropping this option removes a somewhat weird non-default config that
has cause various bugs or compiler warnings when actually used.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>


# 84d42ea6 14-May-2018 Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>

xfs: implement the metadata repair ioctl flag

Plumb in the pieces necessary to make the "scrub" subfunction of
the scrub ioctl actually work. This means that we make the IFLAG_REPAIR
flag to the scrub ioctl actually do something, and we add an errortag
knob so that xfstests can force the kernel to rebuild a metadata
structure even if there's nothing wrong with it.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>


# 91581e4c 20-Dec-2017 Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>

fs/*/Kconfig: drop links to 404-compliant http://acl.bestbits.at

This link is replicated in most filesystems' config stanzas. Referring
to an archived version of that site is pointless as it mostly deals with
patches; user documentation is available elsewhere.

Signed-off-by: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>
CC: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp@oracle.com>
Acked-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Acked-by: "Yan, Zheng" <zyan@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>


# 36fd6e86 17-Oct-2017 Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>

xfs: create an ioctl to scrub AG metadata

Create an ioctl that can be used to scrub internal filesystem metadata.
The new ioctl takes the metadata type, an (optional) AG number, an
(optional) inode number and generation, and a flags argument. This will
be used by the upcoming XFS online scrub tool.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>


# 1040960e 14-Jun-2017 Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>

xfs: define fatal assert build time tunable

While configurable at runtime, the DEBUG mode assert failure
behavior is usually either desired or not for a particular
situation. For example, developers using kernel modules may prefer
for fatal asserts to remain disabled across module reloads while QE
engineers doing broad regression testing may prefer to have fatal
asserts enabled on boot to facilitate data collection for bug
reports.

To provide a compromise/convenience for developers, create a Kconfig
option that sets the default value of the DEBUG mode 'bug_on_assert'
sysfs tunable. The default behavior remains to trigger kernel BUGs
on assert failures to preserve existing behavior across kernel
configuration updates with DEBUG mode enabled.

Signed-off-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>


# 68a9f5e7 20-Jun-2016 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

xfs: implement iomap based buffered write path

Convert XFS to use the new iomap based multipage write path. This involves
implementing the ->iomap_begin and ->iomap_end methods, and switching the
buffered file write, page_mkwrite and xfs_iozero paths to the new iomap
helpers.

With this change __xfs_get_blocks will never be used for buffered writes,
and the code handling them can be removed.

Based on earlier code from Dave Chinner.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>


# d5cf09ba 29-Jul-2014 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

xfs: require 64-bit sector_t

Trying to support tiny disks only and saving a bit memory might have
made sense on an SGI O2 15 years ago, but is pretty pointless today.

Remove the rarely tested codepath that uses various smaller in-memory
types to reduce our test matrix and make the codebase a little bit
smaller and less complicated.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>


# 742ae1e3 30-Apr-2013 Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>

xfs: introduce CONFIG_XFS_WARN

Running a CONFIG_XFS_DEBUG kernel in production environments is not
the best idea as it introduces significant overhead, can change
the behaviour of algorithms (such as allocation) to improve test
coverage, and (most importantly) panic the machine on non-fatal
errors.

There are many cases where all we want to do is run a
kernel with more bounds checking enabled, such as is provided by the
ASSERT() statements throughout the code, but without all the
potential overhead and drawbacks.

This patch converts all the ASSERT statements to evaluate as
WARN_ON(1) statements and hence if they fail dump a warning and a
stack trace to the log. This has minimal overhead and does not
change any algorithms, and will allow us to find strange "out of
bounds" problems more easily on production machines.

There are a few places where assert statements contain debug only
code. These are converted to be debug-or-warn only code so that we
still get all the assert checks in the code.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>


# d9777b8d 02-Oct-2012 Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

fs/xfs: remove depends on CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL

The CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL config item has not carried much meaning for a
while now and is almost always enabled by default. As agreed during the
Linux kernel summit, remove it from any "depends on" lines in Kconfigs.

CC: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
CC: Alex Elder <elder@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>


# bc02e869 15-Nov-2012 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

xfs: add CRC infrastructure

- add a mount feature bit for CRC enabled filesystems
- add some helpers for generating and verifying the CRCs
- add a copy_uuid helper

The checksumming helpers are loosely based on similar ones in sctp,
all other bits come from Dave Chinner.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>


# 80f44b15 16-Aug-2010 Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

quota: Make QUOTACTL config be selected by its users

Remove "depends on" line from QUOTACTL config option and rather select
the option explicitely from config options which need it. It makes more
sense this way and also fixes Kconfig warning due to GFS2 selecting
QUOTACTL but QUOTACTL not depending on it.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>


# ef14f0c1 10-Jun-2009 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

xfs: use generic Posix ACL code

This patch rips out the XFS ACL handling code and uses the generic
fs/posix_acl.c code instead. The ondisk format is of course left
unchanged.

This also introduces the same ACL caching all other Linux filesystems do
by adding pointers to the acl and default acl in struct xfs_inode.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>


# ab596ad8 18-Jan-2009 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

xfs: fix dentry aliasing issues in open_by_handle

Open by handle just grabs an inode by handle and then creates itself
a dentry for it. While this works for regular files it is horribly
broken for directories, where the VFS locking relies on the fact that
there is only just one single dentry for a given inode, and that
these are always connected to the root of the filesystem so that
it's locking algorithms work (see Documentations/filesystems/Locking)

Remove all the existing open by handle code and replace it with a small
wrapper around the exportfs code which deals with all these issues.
At the same time we also make the checks for a valid handle strict
enough to reject all not perfectly well formed handles - given that
we never hand out others that's okay and simplifies the code.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>


# d296d30a 18-Jan-2009 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

xfs: fix dentry aliasing issues in open_by_handle

Open by handle just grabs an inode by handle and then creates itself
a dentry for it. While this works for regular files it is horribly
broken for directories, where the VFS locking relies on the fact that
there is only just one single dentry for a given inode, and that
these are always connected to the root of the filesystem so that
it's locking algorithms work (see Documentations/filesystems/Locking)

Remove all the existing open by handle code and replace it with a small
wrapper around the exportfs code which deals with all these issues.
At the same time we also make the checks for a valid handle strict
enough to reject all not perfectly well formed handles - given that
we never hand out others that's okay and simplifies the code.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>


# 7788fae6 21-Apr-2008 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

[XFS] allow enabling CONFIG_XFS_DEBUG

Back when I first submitted XFS for mainline inclusion we made the
decision that the debug code is far to extensive to be accidentally
enabled by users in mainline. But then again it's often quite useful
to track problems down and hacking the makefile all the time is rather
annoying. Given all the debug options with even more overhead like
lockdep or DEBUG_PAGE_ALLOC users (or rather developers) should know
by now what they're doing.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>


# f7d3c347 17-Apr-2008 Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>

[XFS] Remove CONFIG_XFS_SECURITY.

There is no point to the CONFIG_XFS_SECURITY option; it disables the
ability to set security attributes at runtime, but it does not actually
slim down or remove any code for runtime. Just remove it and always allow
security attributes to be set.

SGI-PV: 980310
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30877a

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>


# 9361401e 30-Sep-2006 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

[PATCH] BLOCK: Make it possible to disable the block layer [try #6]

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: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>


# a805bad5 18-Jun-2006 Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>

[XFS] Remove unneeded conditional code on NFS export interface related
code paths.

SGI-PV: 904196
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:26250a

Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>


# d7ede1aa 13-Jun-2006 Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>

[XFS] Minor XFS documentation updates.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>


# 538524ae 02-Nov-2005 Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>

[XFS] fix XFS quota for modular XFS builds

Cannot build XFS filesystem support as module with quota support. It
works only when the XFS filesystem support is compiled into the kernel.
Menuconfig prevents from setting CONFIG_XFS_FS=m and CONFIG_XFS_QUOTA=y.

How to reproduce: configure the XFS filesystem with quota support as
module. The resulting kernel won't have quota support compiled into
xfs.ko.

Fix: Changing the fs/xfs/Kconfig file from tristate to bool lets you
configure the quota support to be compiled into the XFS module. The
Makefile-linux-2.6 checks only for CONFIG_XFS_QUOTA=y.

Signed-off-by: Dimitri Puzin <tristan-777@ddkom-online.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>


# 20ba0287 07-Sep-2005 Nathan Scott <nathans@bruce>

[XFS] Remove special Kconfig XFS menu, make XFS options "inline".

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>


# 1da177e4 16-Apr-2005 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org>

Linux-2.6.12-rc2

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!