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-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/bcachefs/CodingStyle.rst2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/fiemap.rst49
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/iomap/operations.rst2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.rst8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst2
5 files changed, 22 insertions, 41 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/bcachefs/CodingStyle.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/bcachefs/CodingStyle.rst
index 01de555e21d8..b29562a6bf55 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/bcachefs/CodingStyle.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/bcachefs/CodingStyle.rst
@@ -183,4 +183,4 @@ even better as a code comment.
A good code comment is wonderful, but even better is the comment that didn't
need to exist because the code was so straightforward as to be obvious;
organized into small clean and tidy modules, with clear and descriptive names
-for functions and variable, where every line of code has a clear purpose.
+for functions and variables, where every line of code has a clear purpose.
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/fiemap.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/fiemap.rst
index 93fc96f760aa..23b3ed229e49 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/fiemap.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/fiemap.rst
@@ -12,21 +12,10 @@ returns a list of extents.
Request Basics
--------------
-A fiemap request is encoded within struct fiemap::
-
- struct fiemap {
- __u64 fm_start; /* logical offset (inclusive) at
- * which to start mapping (in) */
- __u64 fm_length; /* logical length of mapping which
- * userspace cares about (in) */
- __u32 fm_flags; /* FIEMAP_FLAG_* flags for request (in/out) */
- __u32 fm_mapped_extents; /* number of extents that were
- * mapped (out) */
- __u32 fm_extent_count; /* size of fm_extents array (in) */
- __u32 fm_reserved;
- struct fiemap_extent fm_extents[0]; /* array of mapped extents (out) */
- };
+A fiemap request is encoded within struct fiemap:
+.. kernel-doc:: include/uapi/linux/fiemap.h
+ :identifiers: fiemap
fm_start, and fm_length specify the logical range within the file
which the process would like mappings for. Extents returned mirror
@@ -60,6 +49,8 @@ FIEMAP_FLAG_XATTR
If this flag is set, the extents returned will describe the inodes
extended attribute lookup tree, instead of its data tree.
+FIEMAP_FLAG_CACHE
+ This flag requests caching of the extents.
Extent Mapping
--------------
@@ -77,18 +68,10 @@ complete the requested range and will not have the FIEMAP_EXTENT_LAST
flag set (see the next section on extent flags).
Each extent is described by a single fiemap_extent structure as
-returned in fm_extents::
-
- struct fiemap_extent {
- __u64 fe_logical; /* logical offset in bytes for the start of
- * the extent */
- __u64 fe_physical; /* physical offset in bytes for the start
- * of the extent */
- __u64 fe_length; /* length in bytes for the extent */
- __u64 fe_reserved64[2];
- __u32 fe_flags; /* FIEMAP_EXTENT_* flags for this extent */
- __u32 fe_reserved[3];
- };
+returned in fm_extents:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/uapi/linux/fiemap.h
+ :identifiers: fiemap_extent
All offsets and lengths are in bytes and mirror those on disk. It is valid
for an extents logical offset to start before the request or its logical
@@ -175,6 +158,8 @@ FIEMAP_EXTENT_MERGED
userspace would be highly inefficient, the kernel will try to merge most
adjacent blocks into 'extents'.
+FIEMAP_EXTENT_SHARED
+ This flag is set to request that space be shared with other files.
VFS -> File System Implementation
---------------------------------
@@ -191,14 +176,10 @@ each discovered extent::
u64 len);
->fiemap is passed struct fiemap_extent_info which describes the
-fiemap request::
-
- struct fiemap_extent_info {
- unsigned int fi_flags; /* Flags as passed from user */
- unsigned int fi_extents_mapped; /* Number of mapped extents */
- unsigned int fi_extents_max; /* Size of fiemap_extent array */
- struct fiemap_extent *fi_extents_start; /* Start of fiemap_extent array */
- };
+fiemap request:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/fiemap.h
+ :identifiers: fiemap_extent_info
It is intended that the file system should not need to access any of this
structure directly. Filesystem handlers should be tolerant to signals and return
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/iomap/operations.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/iomap/operations.rst
index ef082e5a4e0c..2c7f5df9d8b0 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/iomap/operations.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/iomap/operations.rst
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ iomap calls these functions:
For the pagecache, races can happen if writeback doesn't take
``i_rwsem`` or ``invalidate_lock`` and updates mapping information.
- Races can also happen if the filesytem allows concurrent writes.
+ Races can also happen if the filesystem allows concurrent writes.
For such files, the mapping *must* be revalidated after the folio
lock has been taken so that iomap can manage the folio correctly.
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.rst
index 4c8387e1c880..6245b67ae9e0 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.rst
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ A directory is made opaque by setting the xattr "trusted.overlay.opaque"
to "y". Where the upper filesystem contains an opaque directory, any
directory in the lower filesystem with the same name is ignored.
-An opaque directory should not conntain any whiteouts, because they do not
+An opaque directory should not contain any whiteouts, because they do not
serve any purpose. A merge directory containing regular files with the xattr
"trusted.overlay.whiteout", should be additionally marked by setting the xattr
"trusted.overlay.opaque" to "x" on the merge directory itself.
@@ -266,7 +266,7 @@ Non-directories
Objects that are not directories (files, symlinks, device-special
files etc.) are presented either from the upper or lower filesystem as
appropriate. When a file in the lower filesystem is accessed in a way
-the requires write-access, such as opening for write access, changing
+that requires write-access, such as opening for write access, changing
some metadata etc., the file is first copied from the lower filesystem
to the upper filesystem (copy_up). Note that creating a hard-link
also requires copy_up, though of course creation of a symlink does
@@ -549,8 +549,8 @@ Nesting overlayfs mounts
It is possible to use a lower directory that is stored on an overlayfs
mount. For regular files this does not need any special care. However, files
-that have overlayfs attributes, such as whiteouts or "overlay.*" xattrs will be
-interpreted by the underlying overlayfs mount and stripped out. In order to
+that have overlayfs attributes, such as whiteouts or "overlay.*" xattrs, will
+be interpreted by the underlying overlayfs mount and stripped out. In order to
allow the second overlayfs mount to see the attributes they must be escaped.
Overlayfs specific xattrs are escaped by using a special prefix of
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst
index 9ab2a3d6f2b4..c1c121055204 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst
@@ -313,7 +313,7 @@ done.
**mandatory**
-block truncatation on error exit from ->write_begin, and ->direct_IO
+block truncation on error exit from ->write_begin, and ->direct_IO
moved from generic methods (block_write_begin, cont_write_begin,
nobh_write_begin, blockdev_direct_IO*) to callers. Take a look at
ext2_write_failed and callers for an example.