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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2-online-filecheck.txt | 94 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kcov.txt | 111 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/rapidio/mport_cdev.txt | 104 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/rapidio/tsi721.txt | 9 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2-online-filecheck.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2-online-filecheck.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..1ab07860430d --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2-online-filecheck.txt @@ -0,0 +1,94 @@ + OCFS2 online file check + ----------------------- + +This document will describe OCFS2 online file check feature. + +Introduction +============ +OCFS2 is often used in high-availaibility systems. However, OCFS2 usually +converts the filesystem to read-only when encounters an error. This may not be +necessary, since turning the filesystem read-only would affect other running +processes as well, decreasing availability. +Then, a mount option (errors=continue) is introduced, which would return the +-EIO errno to the calling process and terminate furhter processing so that the +filesystem is not corrupted further. The filesystem is not converted to +read-only, and the problematic file's inode number is reported in the kernel +log. The user can try to check/fix this file via online filecheck feature. + +Scope +===== +This effort is to check/fix small issues which may hinder day-to-day operations +of a cluster filesystem by turning the filesystem read-only. The scope of +checking/fixing is at the file level, initially for regular files and eventually +to all files (including system files) of the filesystem. + +In case of directory to file links is incorrect, the directory inode is +reported as erroneous. + +This feature is not suited for extravagant checks which involve dependency of +other components of the filesystem, such as but not limited to, checking if the +bits for file blocks in the allocation has been set. In case of such an error, +the offline fsck should/would be recommended. + +Finally, such an operation/feature should not be automated lest the filesystem +may end up with more damage than before the repair attempt. So, this has to +be performed using user interaction and consent. + +User interface +============== +When there are errors in the OCFS2 filesystem, they are usually accompanied +by the inode number which caused the error. This inode number would be the +input to check/fix the file. + +There is a sysfs directory for each OCFS2 file system mounting: + + /sys/fs/ocfs2/<devname>/filecheck + +Here, <devname> indicates the name of OCFS2 volumn device which has been already +mounted. The file above would accept inode numbers. This could be used to +communicate with kernel space, tell which file(inode number) will be checked or +fixed. Currently, three operations are supported, which includes checking +inode, fixing inode and setting the size of result record history. + +1. If you want to know what error exactly happened to <inode> before fixing, do + + # echo "<inode>" > /sys/fs/ocfs2/<devname>/filecheck/check + # cat /sys/fs/ocfs2/<devname>/filecheck/check + +The output is like this: + INO DONE ERROR +39502 1 GENERATION + +<INO> lists the inode numbers. +<DONE> indicates whether the operation has been finished. +<ERROR> says what kind of errors was found. For the detailed error numbers, +please refer to the file linux/fs/ocfs2/filecheck.h. + +2. If you determine to fix this inode, do + + # echo "<inode>" > /sys/fs/ocfs2/<devname>/filecheck/fix + # cat /sys/fs/ocfs2/<devname>/filecheck/fix + +The output is like this: + INO DONE ERROR +39502 1 SUCCESS + +This time, the <ERROR> column indicates whether this fix is successful or not. + +3. The record cache is used to store the history of check/fix results. It's +defalut size is 10, and can be adjust between the range of 10 ~ 100. You can +adjust the size like this: + + # echo "<size>" > /sys/fs/ocfs2/<devname>/filecheck/set + +Fixing stuff +============ +On receivng the inode, the filesystem would read the inode and the +file metadata. In case of errors, the filesystem would fix the errors +and report the problems it fixed in the kernel log. As a precautionary measure, +the inode must first be checked for errors before performing a final fix. + +The inode and the result history will be maintained temporarily in a +small linked list buffer which would contain the last (N) inodes +fixed/checked, the detailed errors which were fixed/checked are printed in the +kernel log. diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt index 223c32171dcc..cf51360e3a9f 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt @@ -56,9 +56,10 @@ iocharset=<name> -- Character set to use for converting between the you should consider the following option instead. utf8=<bool> -- UTF-8 is the filesystem safe version of Unicode that - is used by the console. It can be enabled for the - filesystem with this option. If 'uni_xlate' gets set, - UTF-8 gets disabled. + is used by the console. It can be enabled or disabled + for the filesystem with this option. + If 'uni_xlate' gets set, UTF-8 gets disabled. + By default, FAT_DEFAULT_UTF8 setting is used. uni_xlate=<bool> -- Translate unhandled Unicode characters to special escaped sequences. This would let you backup and diff --git a/Documentation/kcov.txt b/Documentation/kcov.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..779ff4ab1c1d --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/kcov.txt @@ -0,0 +1,111 @@ +kcov: code coverage for fuzzing +=============================== + +kcov exposes kernel code coverage information in a form suitable for coverage- +guided fuzzing (randomized testing). Coverage data of a running kernel is +exported via the "kcov" debugfs file. Coverage collection is enabled on a task +basis, and thus it can capture precise coverage of a single system call. + +Note that kcov does not aim to collect as much coverage as possible. It aims +to collect more or less stable coverage that is function of syscall inputs. +To achieve this goal it does not collect coverage in soft/hard interrupts +and instrumentation of some inherently non-deterministic parts of kernel is +disbled (e.g. scheduler, locking). + +Usage: +====== + +Configure kernel with: + + CONFIG_KCOV=y + +CONFIG_KCOV requires gcc built on revision 231296 or later. +Profiling data will only become accessible once debugfs has been mounted: + + mount -t debugfs none /sys/kernel/debug + +The following program demonstrates kcov usage from within a test program: + +#include <stdio.h> +#include <stddef.h> +#include <stdint.h> +#include <stdlib.h> +#include <sys/types.h> +#include <sys/stat.h> +#include <sys/ioctl.h> +#include <sys/mman.h> +#include <unistd.h> +#include <fcntl.h> + +#define KCOV_INIT_TRACE _IOR('c', 1, unsigned long) +#define KCOV_ENABLE _IO('c', 100) +#define KCOV_DISABLE _IO('c', 101) +#define COVER_SIZE (64<<10) + +int main(int argc, char **argv) +{ + int fd; + unsigned long *cover, n, i; + + /* A single fd descriptor allows coverage collection on a single + * thread. + */ + fd = open("/sys/kernel/debug/kcov", O_RDWR); + if (fd == -1) + perror("open"), exit(1); + /* Setup trace mode and trace size. */ + if (ioctl(fd, KCOV_INIT_TRACE, COVER_SIZE)) + perror("ioctl"), exit(1); + /* Mmap buffer shared between kernel- and user-space. */ + cover = (unsigned long*)mmap(NULL, COVER_SIZE * sizeof(unsigned long), + PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, fd, 0); + if ((void*)cover == MAP_FAILED) + perror("mmap"), exit(1); + /* Enable coverage collection on the current thread. */ + if (ioctl(fd, KCOV_ENABLE, 0)) + perror("ioctl"), exit(1); + /* Reset coverage from the tail of the ioctl() call. */ + __atomic_store_n(&cover[0], 0, __ATOMIC_RELAXED); + /* That's the target syscal call. */ + read(-1, NULL, 0); + /* Read number of PCs collected. */ + n = __atomic_load_n(&cover[0], __ATOMIC_RELAXED); + for (i = 0; i < n; i++) + printf("0x%lx\n", cover[i + 1]); + /* Disable coverage collection for the current thread. After this call + * coverage can be enabled for a different thread. + */ + if (ioctl(fd, KCOV_DISABLE, 0)) + perror("ioctl"), exit(1); + /* Free resources. */ + if (munmap(cover, COVER_SIZE * sizeof(unsigned long))) + perror("munmap"), exit(1); + if (close(fd)) + perror("close"), exit(1); + return 0; +} + +After piping through addr2line output of the program looks as follows: + +SyS_read +fs/read_write.c:562 +__fdget_pos +fs/file.c:774 +__fget_light +fs/file.c:746 +__fget_light +fs/file.c:750 +__fget_light +fs/file.c:760 +__fdget_pos +fs/file.c:784 +SyS_read +fs/read_write.c:562 + +If a program needs to collect coverage from several threads (independently), +it needs to open /sys/kernel/debug/kcov in each thread separately. + +The interface is fine-grained to allow efficient forking of test processes. +That is, a parent process opens /sys/kernel/debug/kcov, enables trace mode, +mmaps coverage buffer and then forks child processes in a loop. Child processes +only need to enable coverage (disable happens automatically on thread end). diff --git a/Documentation/rapidio/mport_cdev.txt b/Documentation/rapidio/mport_cdev.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..20c120d4b3b8 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/rapidio/mport_cdev.txt @@ -0,0 +1,104 @@ +RapidIO subsystem mport character device driver (rio_mport_cdev.c) +================================================================== + +Version History: +---------------- + 1.0.0 - Initial driver release. + +================================================================== + +I. Overview + +This device driver is the result of collaboration within the RapidIO.org +Software Task Group (STG) between Texas Instruments, Freescale, +Prodrive Technologies, Nokia Networks, BAE and IDT. Additional input was +received from other members of RapidIO.org. The objective was to create a +character mode driver interface which exposes the capabilities of RapidIO +devices directly to applications, in a manner that allows the numerous and +varied RapidIO implementations to interoperate. + +This driver (MPORT_CDEV) provides access to basic RapidIO subsystem operations +for user-space applications. Most of RapidIO operations are supported through +'ioctl' system calls. + +When loaded this device driver creates filesystem nodes named rio_mportX in /dev +directory for each registered RapidIO mport device. 'X' in the node name matches +to unique port ID assigned to each local mport device. + +Using available set of ioctl commands user-space applications can perform +following RapidIO bus and subsystem operations: + +- Reads and writes from/to configuration registers of mport devices + (RIO_MPORT_MAINT_READ_LOCAL/RIO_MPORT_MAINT_WRITE_LOCAL) +- Reads and writes from/to configuration registers of remote RapidIO devices. + This operations are defined as RapidIO Maintenance reads/writes in RIO spec. + (RIO_MPORT_MAINT_READ_REMOTE/RIO_MPORT_MAINT_WRITE_REMOTE) +- Set RapidIO Destination ID for mport devices (RIO_MPORT_MAINT_HDID_SET) +- Set RapidIO Component Tag for mport devices (RIO_MPORT_MAINT_COMPTAG_SET) +- Query logical index of mport devices (RIO_MPORT_MAINT_PORT_IDX_GET) +- Query capabilities and RapidIO link configuration of mport devices + (RIO_MPORT_GET_PROPERTIES) +- Enable/Disable reporting of RapidIO doorbell events to user-space applications + (RIO_ENABLE_DOORBELL_RANGE/RIO_DISABLE_DOORBELL_RANGE) +- Enable/Disable reporting of RIO port-write events to user-space applications + (RIO_ENABLE_PORTWRITE_RANGE/RIO_DISABLE_PORTWRITE_RANGE) +- Query/Control type of events reported through this driver: doorbells, + port-writes or both (RIO_SET_EVENT_MASK/RIO_GET_EVENT_MASK) +- Configure/Map mport's outbound requests window(s) for specific size, + RapidIO destination ID, hopcount and request type + (RIO_MAP_OUTBOUND/RIO_UNMAP_OUTBOUND) +- Configure/Map mport's inbound requests window(s) for specific size, + RapidIO base address and local memory base address + (RIO_MAP_INBOUND/RIO_UNMAP_INBOUND) +- Allocate/Free contiguous DMA coherent memory buffer for DMA data transfers + to/from remote RapidIO devices (RIO_ALLOC_DMA/RIO_FREE_DMA) +- Initiate DMA data transfers to/from remote RapidIO devices (RIO_TRANSFER). + Supports blocking, asynchronous and posted (a.k.a 'fire-and-forget') data + transfer modes. +- Check/Wait for completion of asynchronous DMA data transfer + (RIO_WAIT_FOR_ASYNC) +- Manage device objects supported by RapidIO subsystem (RIO_DEV_ADD/RIO_DEV_DEL). + This allows implementation of various RapidIO fabric enumeration algorithms + as user-space applications while using remaining functionality provided by + kernel RapidIO subsystem. + +II. Hardware Compatibility + +This device driver uses standard interfaces defined by kernel RapidIO subsystem +and therefore it can be used with any mport device driver registered by RapidIO +subsystem with limitations set by available mport implementation. + +At this moment the most common limitation is availability of RapidIO-specific +DMA engine framework for specific mport device. Users should verify available +functionality of their platform when planning to use this driver: + +- IDT Tsi721 PCIe-to-RapidIO bridge device and its mport device driver are fully + compatible with this driver. +- Freescale SoCs 'fsl_rio' mport driver does not have implementation for RapidIO + specific DMA engine support and therefore DMA data transfers mport_cdev driver + are not available. + +III. Module parameters + +- 'dbg_level' - This parameter allows to control amount of debug information + generated by this device driver. This parameter is formed by set of + This parameter can be changed bit masks that correspond to the specific + functional block. + For mask definitions see 'drivers/rapidio/devices/rio_mport_cdev.c' + This parameter can be changed dynamically. + Use CONFIG_RAPIDIO_DEBUG=y to enable debug output at the top level. + +IV. Known problems + + None. + +V. User-space Applications and API + +API library and applications that use this device driver are available from +RapidIO.org. + +VI. TODO List + +- Add support for sending/receiving "raw" RapidIO messaging packets. +- Add memory mapped DMA data transfers as an option when RapidIO-specific DMA + is not available. diff --git a/Documentation/rapidio/tsi721.txt b/Documentation/rapidio/tsi721.txt index 626052f403bb..7c1c7bf48ec0 100644 --- a/Documentation/rapidio/tsi721.txt +++ b/Documentation/rapidio/tsi721.txt @@ -16,6 +16,15 @@ For inbound messages this driver uses destination ID matching to forward message into the corresponding message queue. Messaging callbacks are implemented to be fully compatible with RIONET driver (Ethernet over RapidIO messaging services). +1. Module parameters: +- 'dbg_level' - This parameter allows to control amount of debug information + generated by this device driver. This parameter is formed by set of + This parameter can be changed bit masks that correspond to the specific + functional block. + For mask definitions see 'drivers/rapidio/devices/tsi721.h' + This parameter can be changed dynamically. + Use CONFIG_RAPIDIO_DEBUG=y to enable debug output at the top level. + II. Known problems None. |