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Richard Weinberger 9ca2d73264 ubifs: Limit number of xattrs per inode
Since we have to write one deletion inode per xattr
into the journal, limit the max number of xattrs.

In theory UBIFS supported up to 65535 xattrs per inode.
But this never worked correctly, expect no powercuts happened.
Now we support only as many xattrs as we can store in 50% of a
LEB.
Even for tiny flashes this allows dozens of xattrs per inode,
which is for an embedded filesystem still fine.

In case someone has existing inodes with much more xattrs, it is
still possible to delete them.
UBIFS will fall back to an non-atomic deletion mode.

Reported-by: Stefan Agner <stefan@agner.ch>
Fixes: 1e51764a3c ("UBIFS: add new flash file system")
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
2019-05-07 21:58:31 +02:00
Documentation mm: do not boost watermarks to avoid fragmentation for the DISCONTIG memory model 2019-04-26 09:18:05 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add GCC runtime library exception text 2019-01-16 14:54:15 -07:00
arch A small number of ARM fixes 2019-04-28 10:50:57 -07:00
block bfq: update internal depth state when queue depth changes 2019-04-13 19:08:22 -06:00
certs kexec, KEYS: Make use of platform keyring for signature verify 2019-02-04 17:34:07 -05:00
crypto crypto: lrw - Fix atomic sleep when walking skcipher 2019-04-18 22:13:46 +08:00
drivers 5.1 Third RC pull request 2019-04-28 10:00:45 -07:00
fs ubifs: Limit number of xattrs per inode 2019-05-07 21:58:31 +02:00
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init init: initialize jump labels before command line option parsing 2019-04-19 09:46:05 -07:00
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CREDITS Char/Misc driver patches for 5.1-rc1 2019-03-06 14:18:59 -08:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v5.1 2019-03-10 17:48:21 -07:00
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README

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.