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Mauro Carvalho Chehab 77ce1a47eb docs: filesystems: add overlayfs to index.rst
While the document is there, it is currently missing at the
index file.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/3b8e7783b1fcc71e4f94af5ea8e5fa264392f8c4.1580193653.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-01-28 13:41:57 -07:00
Daniel W. S. Almeida a1986433a9 Documentation: filesystems: convert vfat.txt to RST
Converts vfat.txt to the reStructuredText format, improving presentation
without changing the underlying content.

Signed-off-by: Daniel W. S. Almeida <dwlsalmeida@gmail.com>
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Changes in v3:
Removed unnecessary markup.
Removed section "BUG REPORTS" as recommended by the maintainer.

Changes in v2:
Refactored long lines as pointed out by Jonathan
Copied the maintainer
Updated the reference in the MAINTAINERS file for vfat

I did not move this into admin-guide, waiting on what the
maintainer has to say about this and also about old sections
in the text, if any.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191223010030.434902-1-dwlsalmeida@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-01-10 10:58:45 -07:00
Jaskaran Singh f11f2a3c54 docs: filesystems: convert autofs.txt to reST
Convert autofs.txt to reST.

The following changes abound:

- Introduce reST formatting for headings, lists et al.
- Add an indentation of an 8 space tab wherever suitable, so as
  to maintain consistency.
- Remove indentation of the description of the ioctls which are similar
  to the AUTOFS_IOC ioctls, as it does not come out quite right in HTML.
- Add an entry for autofs in the index.

Signed-off-by: Jaskaran Singh <jaskaransingh7654321@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-11-18 12:17:17 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 8f744bdee4 add virtio-fs
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Merge tag 'virtio-fs-5.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse

Pull fuse virtio-fs support from Miklos Szeredi:
 "Virtio-fs allows exporting directory trees on the host and mounting
  them in guest(s).

  This isn't actually a new filesystem, but a glue layer between the
  fuse filesystem and a virtio based back-end.

  It's similar in functionality to the existing virtio-9p solution, but
  significantly faster in benchmarks and has better POSIX compliance.
  Further permformance improvements can be achieved by sharing the page
  cache between host and guest, allowing for faster I/O and reduced
  memory use.

  Kata Containers have been including the out-of-tree virtio-fs (with
  the shared page cache patches as well) since version 1.7 as an
  experimental feature. They have been active in development and plan to
  switch from virtio-9p to virtio-fs as their default solution. There
  has been interest from other sources as well.

  The userspace infrastructure is slated to be merged into qemu once the
  kernel part hits mainline.

  This was developed by Vivek Goyal, Dave Gilbert and Stefan Hajnoczi"

* tag 'virtio-fs-5.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse:
  virtio-fs: add virtiofs filesystem
  virtio-fs: add Documentation/filesystems/virtiofs.rst
  fuse: reserve values for mapping protocol
2019-09-27 15:54:24 -07:00
Linus Torvalds f60c55a94e fs-verity for 5.4
Please consider pulling fs-verity for 5.4.
 
 fs-verity is a filesystem feature that provides Merkle tree based
 hashing (similar to dm-verity) for individual readonly files, mainly for
 the purpose of efficient authenticity verification.
 
 This pull request includes:
 
 (a) The fs/verity/ support layer and documentation.
 
 (b) fs-verity support for ext4 and f2fs.
 
 Compared to the original fs-verity patchset from last year, the UAPI to
 enable fs-verity on a file has been greatly simplified.  Lots of other
 things were cleaned up too.
 
 fs-verity is planned to be used by two different projects on Android;
 most of the userspace code is in place already.  Another userspace tool
 ("fsverity-utils"), and xfstests, are also available.  e2fsprogs and
 f2fs-tools already have fs-verity support.  Other people have shown
 interest in using fs-verity too.
 
 I've tested this on ext4 and f2fs with xfstests, both the existing tests
 and the new fs-verity tests.  This has also been in linux-next since
 July 30 with no reported issues except a couple minor ones I found
 myself and folded in fixes for.
 
 Ted and I will be co-maintaining fs-verity.
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Merge tag 'fsverity-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/fscrypt/fscrypt

Pull fs-verity support from Eric Biggers:
 "fs-verity is a filesystem feature that provides Merkle tree based
  hashing (similar to dm-verity) for individual readonly files, mainly
  for the purpose of efficient authenticity verification.

  This pull request includes:

   (a) The fs/verity/ support layer and documentation.

   (b) fs-verity support for ext4 and f2fs.

  Compared to the original fs-verity patchset from last year, the UAPI
  to enable fs-verity on a file has been greatly simplified. Lots of
  other things were cleaned up too.

  fs-verity is planned to be used by two different projects on Android;
  most of the userspace code is in place already. Another userspace tool
  ("fsverity-utils"), and xfstests, are also available. e2fsprogs and
  f2fs-tools already have fs-verity support. Other people have shown
  interest in using fs-verity too.

  I've tested this on ext4 and f2fs with xfstests, both the existing
  tests and the new fs-verity tests. This has also been in linux-next
  since July 30 with no reported issues except a couple minor ones I
  found myself and folded in fixes for.

  Ted and I will be co-maintaining fs-verity"

* tag 'fsverity-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/fscrypt/fscrypt:
  f2fs: add fs-verity support
  ext4: update on-disk format documentation for fs-verity
  ext4: add fs-verity read support
  ext4: add basic fs-verity support
  fs-verity: support builtin file signatures
  fs-verity: add SHA-512 support
  fs-verity: implement FS_IOC_MEASURE_VERITY ioctl
  fs-verity: implement FS_IOC_ENABLE_VERITY ioctl
  fs-verity: add data verification hooks for ->readpages()
  fs-verity: add the hook for file ->setattr()
  fs-verity: add the hook for file ->open()
  fs-verity: add inode and superblock fields
  fs-verity: add Kconfig and the helper functions for hashing
  fs: uapi: define verity bit for FS_IOC_GETFLAGS
  fs-verity: add UAPI header
  fs-verity: add MAINTAINERS file entry
  fs-verity: add a documentation file
2019-09-18 16:59:14 -07:00
Stefan Hajnoczi 2d1d25d0a2 virtio-fs: add Documentation/filesystems/virtiofs.rst
Add information about the new "virtiofs" file system.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
2019-09-18 15:09:34 +02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 25b532cec5 docs: fs: convert porting to ReST
This file has its own proper style, except that, after a while,
the coding style gets violated and whitespaces are placed on
different ways.

As Sphinx and ReST are very sentitive to whitespace differences,
I had to opt if each entry after required/mandatory/... fields
should start with zero spaces or with a tab. I opted to start them
all from the zero position, in order to avoid needing to break lines
with more than 80 columns, with would make harder for review.

Most of the other changes at porting.rst were made to use an unified
notation with works nice as a text file while also produce a good html
output after being parsed.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-07-31 13:31:10 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab ec23eb54fb docs: fs: convert docs without extension to ReST
There are 3 remaining files without an extension inside the fs docs
dir.

Manually convert them to ReST.

In the case of the nfs/exporting.rst file, as the nfs docs
aren't ported yet, I opted to convert and add a :orphan: there,
with should be removed when it gets added into a nfs-specific
part of the fs documentation.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-07-31 13:31:05 -06:00
Eric Biggers 6ff2deb2e8 fs-verity: add a documentation file
Add a documentation file for fs-verity, covering:

- Introduction
- Use cases
- User API
    - FS_IOC_ENABLE_VERITY
    - FS_IOC_MEASURE_VERITY
    - FS_IOC_GETFLAGS
- Accessing verity files
- File measurement computation
    - Merkle tree
    - fs-verity descriptor
- Built-in signature verification
- Filesystem support
    - ext4
    - f2fs
- Implementation details
    - Verifying data
        - Pagecache
        - Block device based filesystems
- Userspace utility
- Tests
- FAQ

Reviewed-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
2019-07-28 16:59:15 -07:00
Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) 66f2a122c6 docs: Move binderfs to admin-guide
The documentation is more appropriate for the administrator than for
the internal kernel API section it is currently in.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-07-08 14:15:36 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 7c116d22ad docs: filesystems: Remove uneeded .rst extension on toctables
There's no need to use a .rst on Sphinx toc tables. As most of
the Documentation don't use, remove the remaing occurrences.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-06-26 16:08:22 -06:00
Tobin C. Harding af96c1e304 docs: filesystems: vfs: Convert vfs.txt to RST
vfs.txt is currently stale.  If we convert it to RST this is a good
first step in the process of getting the VFS documentation up to date.

This patch does the following (all as a single patch so as not to
introduce any new SPHINX build warnings)

 - Use '.. code-block:: c' for C code blocks and indent the code blocks.
 - Use double backticks for struct member descriptions.
 - Fix a couple of build warnings by guarding pointers (*) with double
   backticks .e.g  ``*ptr``.
 - Add vfs to Documentation/filesystems/index.rst

The member descriptions paragraph indentation was not touched.  It is
not pretty but these do not cause build warnings.  These descriptions
all need updating anyways so leave it as it is for now.

Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <tobin@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-05-29 16:15:20 -06:00
Jonathan Corbet 4064174bec docs: Bring some order to filesystem documentation
Documentation/filesystems is, like much of the rest of the kernel's
documentation, a jumble of unorganized information.  Split the
documentation into categories and try to bring some order to the top-level
index.rst files.  No text changes other than a few section-introductory
blurbs; this is all just moving stuff around.

Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-03-06 09:46:10 -07:00
Christian Brauner 35283f5662 Documentation/filesystems: add binderfs
This documents the Android binderfs filesystem used to dynamically add and
remove binder devices that are private to each instance.

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
[jc: tweaked markup and added to filesystems/index.rst]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-01-14 17:21:37 -07:00
NeilBrown 942104a21c docs: improve pathname-lookup document structure
Get rid of some unneeded structural elements around the new (to RST)
pathname-lookup document.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
[ jc: grabbed from email and changelog added ]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-12-20 08:47:18 -07:00
NeilBrown 7bbfd9ad8e Documentation: convert path-lookup from markdown to resturctured text
This allows the document to be integrated with the main documentation
tree.
Changes include:
- rename from .md to .rst
- use `` for code, not single `
- use correct sub-section marking
- fix indented blocks, both code and non-code
- fix external-link markup

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
[jc: changed the toctree organization a bit]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-12-06 10:06:51 -07:00
Matthew Wilcox b7d3f17fa7 fs: Add more kernel-doc to the produced documentation
People have gone to all the effort of writing kernel-doc for these
functions; the least we can do is put them in the "Other functions"
part of the VFS documentation.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2018-07-03 16:44:45 -04:00
Eric Biggers f4f864c121 fscrypt: add a documentation file for filesystem-level encryption
Perhaps long overdue, add a documentation file for filesystem-level
encryption, a.k.a. fscrypt or fs/crypto/, to the Documentation
directory.  The new file is based loosely on the latest version of the
"EXT4 Encryption Design Document (public version)" Google Doc, but with
many improvements made, including:

- Reflect the reality that it is not specific to ext4 anymore.
- More thoroughly document the design and user-visible API/behavior.
- Replace outdated information, such as the outdated explanation of how
  encrypted filenames are hashed for indexed directories and how
  encrypted filenames are presented to userspace without the key.
  (This was changed just before release.)

For now the focus is on the design and user-visible API/behavior, not on
how to add encryption support to a filesystem --- since the internal API
is still pretty messy and any standalone documentation for it would
become outdated as things get refactored over time.

Reviewed-by: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2017-10-31 13:49:24 -04:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 76d0d5d313 docs-rst: don't ignore internal functions for jbd2 docs
Those functions are currently ignored, causing references at
the documentation to be lost. Don't ignore it.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2017-05-16 08:44:09 -03:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 7a2208f636 docs-rst: filesystems: use c domain references where needed
Instead of just mention the function names, use cross-references
to the kernel-doc tags where pertinent.

While not all function documentation is included here, I
double-checked that all functions mentioned there still
exists.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2017-05-16 08:44:08 -03:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 90f9f118b7 docs-rst: convert filesystems book to ReST
Use pandoc to convert documentation to ReST by calling
Documentation/sphinx/tmplcvt script.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2017-05-16 08:44:08 -03:00