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authorMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>2020-04-27 23:17:04 +0200
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2020-05-05 09:22:22 -0600
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docs: filesystems: convert fiemap.txt to ReST
- Add a SPDX header; - Some whitespace fixes and new line breaks; - Mark literal blocks as such; - Add it to filesystems/index.rst. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/9182d49ffca7a0580e32ab24ecf5f8cc8d8924af.1588021877.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/fiemap.rst (renamed from Documentation/filesystems/fiemap.txt)135
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/index.rst1
2 files changed, 70 insertions, 66 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/fiemap.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/fiemap.rst
index ac87e6fda842..2a572e7edc08 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/fiemap.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/fiemap.rst
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
============
Fiemap Ioctl
============
@@ -10,9 +12,9 @@ returns a list of extents.
Request Basics
--------------
-A fiemap request is encoded within struct fiemap:
+A fiemap request is encoded within struct fiemap::
-struct fiemap {
+ struct fiemap {
__u64 fm_start; /* logical offset (inclusive) at
* which to start mapping (in) */
__u64 fm_length; /* logical length of mapping which
@@ -23,7 +25,7 @@ struct fiemap {
__u32 fm_extent_count; /* size of fm_extents array (in) */
__u32 fm_reserved;
struct fiemap_extent fm_extents[0]; /* array of mapped extents (out) */
-};
+ };
fm_start, and fm_length specify the logical range within the file
@@ -51,12 +53,12 @@ nothing to prevent the file from changing between calls to FIEMAP.
The following flags can be set in fm_flags:
-* FIEMAP_FLAG_SYNC
-If this flag is set, the kernel will sync the file before mapping extents.
+FIEMAP_FLAG_SYNC
+ If this flag is set, the kernel will sync the file before mapping extents.
-* 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_XATTR
+ If this flag is set, the extents returned will describe the inodes
+ extended attribute lookup tree, instead of its data tree.
Extent Mapping
@@ -75,18 +77,18 @@ 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::
+
+ 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];
+ };
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
@@ -114,26 +116,27 @@ worry about all present and future flags which might imply unaligned
data. Note that the opposite is not true - it would be valid for
FIEMAP_EXTENT_NOT_ALIGNED to appear alone.
-* FIEMAP_EXTENT_LAST
-This is generally the last extent in the file. A mapping attempt past
-this extent may return nothing. Some implementations set this flag to
-indicate this extent is the last one in the range queried by the user
-(via fiemap->fm_length).
+FIEMAP_EXTENT_LAST
+ This is generally the last extent in the file. A mapping attempt past
+ this extent may return nothing. Some implementations set this flag to
+ indicate this extent is the last one in the range queried by the user
+ (via fiemap->fm_length).
+
+FIEMAP_EXTENT_UNKNOWN
+ The location of this extent is currently unknown. This may indicate
+ the data is stored on an inaccessible volume or that no storage has
+ been allocated for the file yet.
-* FIEMAP_EXTENT_UNKNOWN
-The location of this extent is currently unknown. This may indicate
-the data is stored on an inaccessible volume or that no storage has
-been allocated for the file yet.
+FIEMAP_EXTENT_DELALLOC
+ This will also set FIEMAP_EXTENT_UNKNOWN.
-* FIEMAP_EXTENT_DELALLOC
- - This will also set FIEMAP_EXTENT_UNKNOWN.
-Delayed allocation - while there is data for this extent, its
-physical location has not been allocated yet.
+ Delayed allocation - while there is data for this extent, its
+ physical location has not been allocated yet.
-* FIEMAP_EXTENT_ENCODED
-This extent does not consist of plain filesystem blocks but is
-encoded (e.g. encrypted or compressed). Reading the data in this
-extent via I/O to the block device will have undefined results.
+FIEMAP_EXTENT_ENCODED
+ This extent does not consist of plain filesystem blocks but is
+ encoded (e.g. encrypted or compressed). Reading the data in this
+ extent via I/O to the block device will have undefined results.
Note that it is *always* undefined to try to update the data
in-place by writing to the indicated location without the
@@ -145,32 +148,32 @@ unmounted, and then only if the FIEMAP_EXTENT_ENCODED flag is
clear; user applications must not try reading or writing to the
filesystem via the block device under any other circumstances.
-* FIEMAP_EXTENT_DATA_ENCRYPTED
- - This will also set FIEMAP_EXTENT_ENCODED
-The data in this extent has been encrypted by the file system.
+FIEMAP_EXTENT_DATA_ENCRYPTED
+ This will also set FIEMAP_EXTENT_ENCODED
+ The data in this extent has been encrypted by the file system.
-* FIEMAP_EXTENT_NOT_ALIGNED
-Extent offsets and length are not guaranteed to be block aligned.
+FIEMAP_EXTENT_NOT_ALIGNED
+ Extent offsets and length are not guaranteed to be block aligned.
-* FIEMAP_EXTENT_DATA_INLINE
+FIEMAP_EXTENT_DATA_INLINE
This will also set FIEMAP_EXTENT_NOT_ALIGNED
-Data is located within a meta data block.
+ Data is located within a meta data block.
-* FIEMAP_EXTENT_DATA_TAIL
+FIEMAP_EXTENT_DATA_TAIL
This will also set FIEMAP_EXTENT_NOT_ALIGNED
-Data is packed into a block with data from other files.
+ Data is packed into a block with data from other files.
-* FIEMAP_EXTENT_UNWRITTEN
-Unwritten extent - the extent is allocated but its data has not been
-initialized. This indicates the extent's data will be all zero if read
-through the filesystem but the contents are undefined if read directly from
-the device.
+FIEMAP_EXTENT_UNWRITTEN
+ Unwritten extent - the extent is allocated but its data has not been
+ initialized. This indicates the extent's data will be all zero if read
+ through the filesystem but the contents are undefined if read directly from
+ the device.
-* FIEMAP_EXTENT_MERGED
-This will be set when a file does not support extents, i.e., it uses a block
-based addressing scheme. Since returning an extent for each block back to
-userspace would be highly inefficient, the kernel will try to merge most
-adjacent blocks into 'extents'.
+FIEMAP_EXTENT_MERGED
+ This will be set when a file does not support extents, i.e., it uses a block
+ based addressing scheme. Since returning an extent for each block back to
+ userspace would be highly inefficient, the kernel will try to merge most
+ adjacent blocks into 'extents'.
VFS -> File System Implementation
@@ -179,23 +182,23 @@ VFS -> File System Implementation
File systems wishing to support fiemap must implement a ->fiemap callback on
their inode_operations structure. The fs ->fiemap call is responsible for
defining its set of supported fiemap flags, and calling a helper function on
-each discovered extent:
+each discovered extent::
-struct inode_operations {
+ struct inode_operations {
...
int (*fiemap)(struct inode *, struct fiemap_extent_info *, u64 start,
u64 len);
->fiemap is passed struct fiemap_extent_info which describes the
-fiemap request:
+fiemap request::
-struct fiemap_extent_info {
+ 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 */
-};
+ };
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
@@ -203,9 +206,9 @@ EINTR once fatal signal received.
Flag checking should be done at the beginning of the ->fiemap callback via the
-fiemap_check_flags() helper:
+fiemap_check_flags() helper::
-int fiemap_check_flags(struct fiemap_extent_info *fieinfo, u32 fs_flags);
+ int fiemap_check_flags(struct fiemap_extent_info *fieinfo, u32 fs_flags);
The struct fieinfo should be passed in as received from ioctl_fiemap(). The
set of fiemap flags which the fs understands should be passed via fs_flags. If
@@ -216,10 +219,10 @@ ioctl_fiemap().
For each extent in the request range, the file system should call
-the helper function, fiemap_fill_next_extent():
+the helper function, fiemap_fill_next_extent()::
-int fiemap_fill_next_extent(struct fiemap_extent_info *info, u64 logical,
- u64 phys, u64 len, u32 flags, u32 dev);
+ int fiemap_fill_next_extent(struct fiemap_extent_info *info, u64 logical,
+ u64 phys, u64 len, u32 flags, u32 dev);
fiemap_fill_next_extent() will use the passed values to populate the
next free extent in the fm_extents array. 'General' extent flags will
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/index.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/index.rst
index 815101241115..99b450260e4d 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/index.rst
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ algorithms work.
directory-locking
devpts
dnotify
+ fiemap
automount-support