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Linus Torvalds
937d6eefc7 Here's the main documentation changes for 5.5:
- Various kerneldoc script enhancements.
 
  - More RST conversions; those are slowing down as we run out of things to
    convert, but we're a ways from done still.
 
  - Dan's "maintainer profile entry" work landed at last.  Now we just need
    to get maintainers to fill in the profiles...
 
  - A reworking of the parallel build setup to work better with a variety of
    systems (and to not take over huge systems entirely in particular).
 
  - The MAINTAINERS file is now converted to RST during the build.
    Hopefully nobody ever tries to print this thing, or they will need to
    load a lot of paper.
 
  - A script and documentation making it easy for maintainers to add Link:
    tags at commit time.
 
 Also included is the removal of a bunch of spurious CR characters.
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Merge tag 'docs-5.5a' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

Pull Documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "Here are the main documentation changes for 5.5:

   - Various kerneldoc script enhancements.

   - More RST conversions; those are slowing down as we run out of
     things to convert, but we're a ways from done still.

   - Dan's "maintainer profile entry" work landed at last. Now we just
     need to get maintainers to fill in the profiles...

   - A reworking of the parallel build setup to work better with a
     variety of systems (and to not take over huge systems entirely in
     particular).

   - The MAINTAINERS file is now converted to RST during the build.
     Hopefully nobody ever tries to print this thing, or they will need
     to load a lot of paper.

   - A script and documentation making it easy for maintainers to add
     Link: tags at commit time.

  Also included is the removal of a bunch of spurious CR characters"

* tag 'docs-5.5a' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (91 commits)
  docs: remove a bunch of stray CRs
  docs: fix up the maintainer profile document
  libnvdimm, MAINTAINERS: Maintainer Entry Profile
  Maintainer Handbook: Maintainer Entry Profile
  MAINTAINERS: Reclaim the P: tag for Maintainer Entry Profile
  docs, parallelism: Rearrange how jobserver reservations are made
  docs, parallelism: Do not leak blocking mode to other readers
  docs, parallelism: Fix failure path and add comment
  Documentation: Remove bootmem_debug from kernel-parameters.txt
  Documentation: security: core.rst: fix warnings
  Documentation/process/howto/kokr: Update for 4.x -> 5.x versioning
  Documentation/translation: Use Korean for Korean translation title
  docs/memory-barriers.txt: Remove remaining references to mmiowb()
  docs/memory-barriers.txt/kokr: Update I/O section to be clearer about CPU vs thread
  docs/memory-barriers.txt/kokr: Fix style, spacing and grammar in I/O section
  Documentation/kokr: Kill all references to mmiowb()
  docs/memory-barriers.txt/kokr: Rewrite "KERNEL I/O BARRIER EFFECTS" section
  docs: Add initial documentation for devfreq
  Documentation: Document how to get links with git am
  docs: Add request_irq() documentation
  ...
2019-12-02 11:51:02 -08:00
Mikulas Patocka
d537858ac8 dm integrity: fix excessive alignment of metadata runs
Metadata runs are supposed to be aligned on 4k boundary (so that they work
efficiently with disks with 4k sectors). However, there was a programming
bug that makes them aligned on 128k boundary instead. The unused space is
wasted.

Fix this bug by providing a proper 4k alignment. In order to keep
existing volumes working, we introduce a new flag SB_FLAG_FIXED_PADDING
- when the flag is clear, we calculate the padding the old way. In order
to make sure that the old version cannot mount the volume created by the
new version, we increase superblock version to 4.

Also in order to not break with old integritysetup, we fix alignment
only if the parameter "fix_padding" is present when formatting the
device.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2019-11-15 14:49:16 -05:00
Heinz Mauelshagen
99273d9e6e dm raid: to ensure resynchronization, perform raid set grow in preresume
This fixes a flaw causing raid set extensions not to be synchronized
in case the MD bitmap resize required additional pages to be allocated.

Also share resize code in the raid constructor between
new size changes and those occuring during recovery.

Bump the target version to define the change and document
it in Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-raid.rst.

Reported-by: Steve D <steved424@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Heinz Mauelshagen <heinzm@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2019-11-05 14:02:26 -05:00
Bryan Gurney
0a6f33dba4 dm dust: convert documentation to ReST
Convert the dm-dust documentation to ReST formatting, using literal
blocks for all of the shell command, shell output, and log output
examples.

Add dm-dust to index.rst.

Additionally, fix an annotation in the "querying for specific bad
blocks" section, on the "queryblock ... not found in badblocklist"
example, to properly state that the message appears when a given
block is not found.

Signed-off-by: Bryan Gurney <bgurney@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-10-10 11:37:16 -06:00
Nikos Tsironis
7431b7835f dm: add clone target
Add the dm-clone target, which allows cloning of arbitrary block
devices.

dm-clone produces a one-to-one copy of an existing, read-only source
device into a writable destination device: It presents a virtual block
device which makes all data appear immediately, and redirects reads and
writes accordingly.

The main use case of dm-clone is to clone a potentially remote,
high-latency, read-only, archival-type block device into a writable,
fast, primary-type device for fast, low-latency I/O. The cloned device
is visible/mountable immediately and the copy of the source device to
the destination device happens in the background, in parallel with user
I/O.

When the cloning completes, the dm-clone table can be removed altogether
and be replaced, e.g., by a linear table, mapping directly to the
destination device.

For further information and examples of how to use dm-clone, please read
Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-clone.rst

Suggested-by: Vangelis Koukis <vkoukis@arrikto.com>
Co-developed-by: Ilias Tsitsimpis <iliastsi@arrikto.com>
Signed-off-by: Ilias Tsitsimpis <iliastsi@arrikto.com>
Signed-off-by: Nikos Tsironis <ntsironis@arrikto.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2019-09-12 09:32:31 -04:00
Jaskaran Khurana
88cd3e6cfa dm verity: add root hash pkcs#7 signature verification
The verification is to support cases where the root hash is not secured
by Trusted Boot, UEFI Secureboot or similar technologies.

One of the use cases for this is for dm-verity volumes mounted after
boot, the root hash provided during the creation of the dm-verity volume
has to be secure and thus in-kernel validation implemented here will be
used before we trust the root hash and allow the block device to be
created.

The signature being provided for verification must verify the root hash
and must be trusted by the builtin keyring for verification to succeed.

The hash is added as a key of type "user" and the description is passed
to the kernel so it can look it up and use it for verification.

Adds CONFIG_DM_VERITY_VERIFY_ROOTHASH_SIG which can be turned on if root
hash verification is needed.

Kernel commandline dm_verity module parameter 'require_signatures' will
indicate whether to force root hash signature verification (for all dm
verity volumes).

Signed-off-by: Jaskaran Khurana <jaskarankhurana@linux.microsoft.com>
Tested-and-Reviewed-by: Milan Broz <gmazyland@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2019-08-23 10:13:14 -04:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
4f4cfa6c56 docs: admin-guide: add a series of orphaned documents
There are lots of documents that belong to the admin-guide but
are on random places (most under Documentation root dir).

Move them to the admin guide.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>
Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
2019-07-15 11:03:02 -03:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
6cf2a73cb2 docs: device-mapper: move it to the admin-guide
The DM support describes lots of aspects related to mapped
disk partitions from the userspace PoV.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
2019-07-15 11:03:01 -03:00