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author | Linus Torvalds | 2024-03-21 15:09:29 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds | 2024-03-21 15:09:29 -0700 |
commit | 85a79128c4f5723f812ab8d5ee465ec660e223f1 (patch) | |
tree | c7b658afff391c565023c5c02a16800aa93ee822 /Documentation | |
parent | cba9ffdb9913dfe6be29f049ce920ce451ce7cc4 (diff) | |
parent | b8a77b9a5f9c2ba313f2beef8440b6f9f69768e7 (diff) |
Merge tag 'ubifs-for-linus-6.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/ubifs
Pull UBI and UBIFS updates from Richard Weinberger:
"UBI:
- Add Zhihao Cheng as reviewer
- Attach via device tree
- Add NVMEM layer
- Various fastmap related fixes
UBIFS:
- Add Zhihao Cheng as reviewer
- Convert to folios
- Various fixes (memory leaks in error paths, function prototypes)"
* tag 'ubifs-for-linus-6.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/ubifs: (34 commits)
mtd: ubi: fix NVMEM over UBI volumes on 32-bit systems
mtd: ubi: provide NVMEM layer over UBI volumes
mtd: ubi: populate ubi volume fwnode
mtd: ubi: introduce pre-removal notification for UBI volumes
mtd: ubi: attach from device tree
mtd: ubi: block: use notifier to create ubiblock from parameter
dt-bindings: mtd: ubi-volume: allow UBI volumes to provide NVMEM
dt-bindings: mtd: add basic bindings for UBI
ubifs: Queue up space reservation tasks if retrying many times
ubifs: ubifs_symlink: Fix memleak of inode->i_link in error path
ubifs: dbg_check_idx_size: Fix kmemleak if loading znode failed
ubi: Correct the number of PEBs after a volume resize failure
ubi: fix slab-out-of-bounds in ubi_eba_get_ldesc+0xfb/0x130
ubi: correct the calculation of fastmap size
ubifs: Remove unreachable code in dbg_check_ltab_lnum
ubifs: fix function pointer cast warnings
ubifs: fix sort function prototype
ubi: Check for too small LEB size in VTBL code
MAINTAINERS: Add Zhihao Cheng as UBI/UBIFS reviewer
ubifs: Convert populate_page() to take a folio
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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/partitions/linux,ubi.yaml | 75 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/partitions/ubi-volume.yaml | 40 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/mm/page_cache.rst | 10 |
3 files changed, 125 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/partitions/linux,ubi.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/partitions/linux,ubi.yaml new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..27e1ac1f252e --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/partitions/linux,ubi.yaml @@ -0,0 +1,75 @@ +# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause +%YAML 1.2 +--- +$id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/mtd/partitions/linux,ubi.yaml# +$schema: http://devicetree.org/meta-schemas/core.yaml# + +title: Unsorted Block Images + +description: | + UBI ("Unsorted Block Images") is a volume management system for raw + flash devices which manages multiple logical volumes on a single + physical flash device and spreads the I/O load (i.e wear-leveling) + across the whole flash chip. + +maintainers: + - Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org> + +allOf: + - $ref: partition.yaml# + +properties: + compatible: + const: linux,ubi + + volumes: + type: object + description: UBI Volumes + + patternProperties: + "^ubi-volume-.*$": + $ref: /schemas/mtd/partitions/ubi-volume.yaml# + + unevaluatedProperties: false + +required: + - compatible + +unevaluatedProperties: false + +examples: + - | + partitions { + compatible = "fixed-partitions"; + #address-cells = <1>; + #size-cells = <1>; + + partition@0 { + reg = <0x0 0x100000>; + label = "bootloader"; + read-only; + }; + + partition@100000 { + reg = <0x100000 0x1ff00000>; + label = "ubi"; + compatible = "linux,ubi"; + + volumes { + ubi-volume-caldata { + volid = <2>; + volname = "rf"; + + nvmem-layout { + compatible = "fixed-layout"; + #address-cells = <1>; + #size-cells = <1>; + + eeprom@0 { + reg = <0x0 0x1000>; + }; + }; + }; + }; + }; + }; diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/partitions/ubi-volume.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/partitions/ubi-volume.yaml new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..19736b26056b --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/partitions/ubi-volume.yaml @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause +%YAML 1.2 +--- +$id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/mtd/partitions/ubi-volume.yaml# +$schema: http://devicetree.org/meta-schemas/core.yaml# + +title: UBI volume + +description: | + This binding describes a single UBI volume. Volumes can be matches either + by their ID or their name, or both. + +maintainers: + - Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org> + +properties: + volid: + $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint32 + description: + Match UBI volume ID + + volname: + $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/string + description: + Match UBI volume ID + + nvmem-layout: + $ref: /schemas/nvmem/layouts/nvmem-layout.yaml# + description: + This container may reference an NVMEM layout parser. + +anyOf: + - required: + - volid + + - required: + - volname + +# This is a generic file other binding inherit from and extend +additionalProperties: true diff --git a/Documentation/mm/page_cache.rst b/Documentation/mm/page_cache.rst index 75eba7c431b2..138d61f869df 100644 --- a/Documentation/mm/page_cache.rst +++ b/Documentation/mm/page_cache.rst @@ -3,3 +3,13 @@ ========== Page Cache ========== + +The page cache is the primary way that the user and the rest of the kernel +interact with filesystems. It can be bypassed (e.g. with O_DIRECT), +but normal reads, writes and mmaps go through the page cache. + +Folios +====== + +The folio is the unit of memory management within the page cache. +Operations |