History log of /linux-master/fs/configfs/configfs_internal.h
Revision Date Author Comments
# 7a77db95 12-Jan-2023 Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>

fs: port ->symlink() to pass mnt_idmap

Convert to struct mnt_idmap.

Last cycle we merged the necessary infrastructure in
256c8aed2b42 ("fs: introduce dedicated idmap type for mounts").
This is just the conversion to struct mnt_idmap.

Currently we still pass around the plain namespace that was attached to a
mount. This is in general pretty convenient but it makes it easy to
conflate namespaces that are relevant on the filesystem with namespaces
that are relevent on the mount level. Especially for non-vfs developers
without detailed knowledge in this area this can be a potential source for
bugs.

Once the conversion to struct mnt_idmap is done all helpers down to the
really low-level helpers will take a struct mnt_idmap argument instead of
two namespace arguments. This way it becomes impossible to conflate the two
eliminating the possibility of any bugs. All of the vfs and all filesystems
only operate on struct mnt_idmap.

Acked-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) <brauner@kernel.org>


# c1632a0f 12-Jan-2023 Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>

fs: port ->setattr() to pass mnt_idmap

Convert to struct mnt_idmap.

Last cycle we merged the necessary infrastructure in
256c8aed2b42 ("fs: introduce dedicated idmap type for mounts").
This is just the conversion to struct mnt_idmap.

Currently we still pass around the plain namespace that was attached to a
mount. This is in general pretty convenient but it makes it easy to
conflate namespaces that are relevant on the filesystem with namespaces
that are relevent on the mount level. Especially for non-vfs developers
without detailed knowledge in this area this can be a potential source for
bugs.

Once the conversion to struct mnt_idmap is done all helpers down to the
really low-level helpers will take a struct mnt_idmap argument instead of
two namespace arguments. This way it becomes impossible to conflate the two
eliminating the possibility of any bugs. All of the vfs and all filesystems
only operate on struct mnt_idmap.

Acked-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) <brauner@kernel.org>


# fa60ce2c 06-May-2021 Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

treewide: remove editor modelines and cruft

The section "19) Editor modelines and other cruft" in
Documentation/process/coding-style.rst clearly says, "Do not include any
of these in source files."

I recently receive a patch to explicitly add a new one.

Let's do treewide cleanups, otherwise some people follow the existing code
and attempt to upstream their favoriate editor setups.

It is even nicer if scripts/checkpatch.pl can check it.

If we like to impose coding style in an editor-independent manner, I think
editorconfig (patch [1]) is a saner solution.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200703073143.423557-1-danny@kdrag0n.dev/

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210324054457.1477489-1-masahiroy@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Reviewed-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org> [auxdisplay]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 549c7297 21-Jan-2021 Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>

fs: make helpers idmap mount aware

Extend some inode methods with an additional user namespace argument. A
filesystem that is aware of idmapped mounts will receive the user
namespace the mount has been marked with. This can be used for
additional permission checking and also to enable filesystems to
translate between uids and gids if they need to. We have implemented all
relevant helpers in earlier patches.

As requested we simply extend the exisiting inode method instead of
introducing new ones. This is a little more code churn but it's mostly
mechanical and doesnt't leave us with additional inode methods.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210121131959.646623-25-christian.brauner@ubuntu.com
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>


# e9c03af2 11-Sep-2019 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

configfs: calculate the symlink target only once

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>


# 2743c515 11-Sep-2019 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

configfs: make configfs_create() return inode

Get rid of the callback, deal with that and dentry in callers

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>


# 47320fbe 25-Aug-2019 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

configfs: new object reprsenting tree fragments

Refcounted, hangs of configfs_dirent, created by operations that add
fragments to configfs tree (mkdir and configfs_register_{subsystem,group}).
Will be used in the next commit to provide exclusion between fragment
removal and ->show/->store calls.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>


# 328970de 23-May-2019 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 145

Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by
the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at
your option any later version this program is distributed in the
hope that it will be useful but without any warranty without even
the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular
purpose see the gnu general public license for more details you
should have received a copy of the gnu general public license along
with this program if not write to the free software foundation inc
59 temple place suite 330 boston ma 021110 1307 usa

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

GPL-2.0-or-later

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 84 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Richard Fontana <rfontana@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net>
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190524100844.756442981@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


# 03607ace 22-Oct-2015 Pantelis Antoniou <pantelis.antoniou@konsulko.com>

configfs: implement binary attributes

ConfigFS lacked binary attributes up until now. This patch
introduces support for binary attributes in a somewhat similar
manner of sysfs binary attributes albeit with changes that
fit the configfs usage model.

Problems that configfs binary attributes fix are everything that
requires a binary blob as part of the configuration of a resource,
such as bitstream loading for FPGAs, DTBs for dynamically created
devices etc.

Look at Documentation/filesystems/configfs/configfs.txt for internals
and howto use them.

This patch is against linux-next as of today that contains
Christoph's configfs rework.

Signed-off-by: Pantelis Antoniou <pantelis.antoniou@konsulko.com>
[hch: folded a fix from Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>]
[hch: a few tiny updates based on review feedback]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>


# 28444a2b 28-Jan-2015 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

configfs_add_file: fold into its sole caller

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# c88b1e70 28-Jan-2015 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

configfs: configfs_create() init callback is never NULL and it never fails

... so make it return void and drop the check for it being non-NULL

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# b4caecd4 14-Jan-2015 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

fs: introduce f_op->mmap_capabilities for nommu mmap support

Since "BDI: Provide backing device capability information [try #3]" the
backing_dev_info structure also provides flags for the kind of mmap
operation available in a nommu environment, which is entirely unrelated
to it's original purpose.

Introduce a new nommu-only file operation to provide this information to
the nommu mmap code instead. Splitting this from the backing_dev_info
structure allows to remove lots of backing_dev_info instance that aren't
otherwise needed, and entirely gets rid of the concept of providing a
backing_dev_info for a character device. It also removes the need for
the mtd_inodefs filesystem.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>


# 1d88aa44 04-Jun-2014 Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>

fs/configfs: use pr_fmt

Add pr_fmt based on module name.

Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 2a152ad3 17-Mar-2012 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

make configfs_pin_fs() return root dentry on success

... and make configfs_mnt static

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# b7c177fc 17-Mar-2012 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

configfs: kill configfs_sb

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 81d44ed1 17-Mar-2012 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

configfs: don't bother with checks for mkdir/rmdir/unlink/symlink in root

just give root directory separate inode_operations without all those
methods...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 43947514 24-Jul-2011 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

configfs: convert to umode_t

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# d463a0c4 12-Jan-2011 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

switch configfs

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# b5c84bf6 06-Jan-2011 Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>

fs: dcache remove dcache_lock

dcache_lock no longer protects anything. remove it.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>


# da502956 06-Jan-2011 Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>

fs: dcache scale d_unhashed

Protect d_unhashed(dentry) condition with d_lock. This means keeping
DCACHE_UNHASHED bit in synch with hash manipulations.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>


# e74cc06d 28-Jan-2009 Louis Rilling <louis.rilling@kerlabs.com>

configfs: Silence lockdep on mkdir() and rmdir()

When attaching default groups (subdirs) of a new group (in mkdir() or
in configfs_register()), configfs recursively takes inode's mutexes
along the path from the parent of the new group to the default
subdirs. This is needed to ensure that the VFS will not race with
operations on these sub-dirs. This is safe for the following reasons:

- the VFS allows one to lock first an inode and second one of its
children (The lock subclasses for this pattern are respectively
I_MUTEX_PARENT and I_MUTEX_CHILD);
- from this rule any inode path can be recursively locked in
descending order as long as it stays under a single mountpoint and
does not follow symlinks.

Unfortunately lockdep does not know (yet?) how to handle such
recursion.

I've tried to use Peter Zijlstra's lock_set_subclass() helper to
upgrade i_mutexes from I_MUTEX_CHILD to I_MUTEX_PARENT when we know
that we might recursively lock some of their descendant, but this
usage does not seem to fit the purpose of lock_set_subclass() because
it leads to several i_mutex locked with subclass I_MUTEX_PARENT by
the same task.

>From inside configfs it is not possible to serialize those recursive
locking with a top-level one, because mkdir() and rmdir() are already
called with inodes locked by the VFS. So using some
mutex_lock_nest_lock() is not an option.

I am proposing two solutions:
1) one that wraps recursive mutex_lock()s with
lockdep_off()/lockdep_on().
2) (as suggested earlier by Peter Zijlstra) one that puts the
i_mutexes recursively locked in different classes based on their
depth from the top-level config_group created. This
induces an arbitrary limit (MAX_LOCK_DEPTH - 2 == 46) on the
nesting of configfs default groups whenever lockdep is activated
but this limit looks reasonably high. Unfortunately, this also
isolates VFS operations on configfs default groups from the others
and thus lowers the chances to detect locking issues.

Nobody likes solution 1), which I can understand.

This patch implements solution 2). However lockdep is still not happy with
configfs_depend_item(). Next patch reworks the locking of
configfs_depend_item() and finally makes lockdep happy.

[ Note: This hides a few locking interactions with the VFS from lockdep.
That was my big concern, because we like lockdep's protection. However,
the current state always dumps a spurious warning. The locking is
correct, so I tell people to ignore the warning and that we'll keep
our eyes on the locking to make sure it stays correct. With this patch,
we eliminate the warning. We do lose some of the lockdep protections,
but this only means that we still have to keep our eyes on the locking.
We're going to do that anyway. -- Joel ]

Signed-off-by: Louis Rilling <louis.rilling@kerlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>


# 2a109f2a 04-Jul-2008 Louis Rilling <louis.rilling@kerlabs.com>

[PATCH] configfs: Prevent userspace from creating new entries under attaching directories

process 1: process 2:
configfs_mkdir("A")
attach_group("A")
attach_item("A")
d_instantiate("A")
populate_groups("A")
mutex_lock("A")
attach_group("A/B")
attach_item("A")
d_instantiate("A/B")
mkdir("A/B/C")
do_path_lookup("A/B/C", LOOKUP_PARENT)
ok
lookup_create("A/B/C")
mutex_lock("A/B")
ok
configfs_mkdir("A/B/C")
ok
attach_group("A/C")
attach_item("A/C")
d_instantiate("A/C")
populate_groups("A/C")
mutex_lock("A/C")
attach_group("A/C/D")
attach_item("A/C/D")
failure
mutex_unlock("A/C")
detach_groups("A/C")
nothing to do
mkdir("A/C/E")
do_path_lookup("A/C/E", LOOKUP_PARENT)
ok
lookup_create("A/C/E")
mutex_lock("A/C")
ok
configfs_mkdir("A/C/E")
ok
detach_item("A/C")
d_delete("A/C")
mutex_unlock("A")
detach_groups("A")
mutex_lock("A/B")
detach_group("A/B")
detach_groups("A/B")
nothing since no _default_ group
detach_item("A/B")
mutex_unlock("A/B")
d_delete("A/B")
detach_item("A")
d_delete("A")

Two bugs:

1/ "A/B/C" and "A/C/E" are created, but never removed while their parent are
removed in the end. The same could happen with symlink() instead of mkdir().

2/ "A" and "A/C" inodes are not locked while detach_item() is called on them,
which may probably confuse VFS.

This commit fixes 1/, tagging new directories with CONFIGFS_USET_CREATING before
building the inode and instantiating the dentry, and validating the whole
group+default groups hierarchy in a second pass by clearing
CONFIGFS_USET_CREATING.
mkdir(), symlink(), lookup(), and dir_open() simply return -ENOENT if
called in (or linking to) a directory tagged with CONFIGFS_USET_CREATING. This
does not prevent userspace from calling stat() successfuly on such directories,
but this prevents userspace from adding (children to | symlinking from/to |
read/write attributes of | listing the contents of) not validated items. In
other words, userspace will not interact with the subsystem on a new item until
the new item creation completes correctly.
It was first proposed to re-use CONFIGFS_USET_IN_MKDIR instead of a new
flag CONFIGFS_USET_CREATING, but this generated conflicts when checking the
target of a new symlink: a valid target directory in the middle of attaching
a new user-created child item could be wrongly detected as being attached.

2/ is fixed by next commit.

Signed-off-by: Louis Rilling <louis.rilling@kerlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>


# 9a73d78c 20-Jun-2008 Louis Rilling <louis.rilling@kerlabs.com>

[PATCH] configfs: Fix failing symlink() making rmdir() fail

On a similar pattern as mkdir() vs rmdir(), a failing symlink() may make rmdir()
fail for the symlink's parent and the symlink's target as well.

failing symlink() making target's rmdir() fail:

process 1: process 2:
symlink("A/S" -> "B")
allow_link()
create_link()
attach to "B" links list
rmdir("B")
detach_prep("B")
error because of new link
configfs_create_link("A", "S")
error (eg -ENOMEM)

failing symlink() making parent's rmdir() fail:

process 1: process 2:
symlink("A/D/S" -> "B")
allow_link()
create_link()
attach to "B" links list
configfs_create_link("A/D", "S")
make_dirent("A/D", "S")
rmdir("A")
detach_prep("A")
detach_prep("A/D")
error because of "S"
create("S")
error (eg -ENOMEM)

We cannot use the same solution as for mkdir() vs rmdir(), since rmdir() on the
target cannot wait on the i_mutex of the new symlink's parent without risking a
deadlock (with other symlink() or sys_rename()). Instead we define a global
mutex protecting all configfs symlinks attachment, so that rmdir() can avoid the
races above.

Signed-off-by: Louis Rilling <louis.rilling@kerlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>


# 6d8344ba 16-Jun-2008 Louis Rilling <Louis.Rilling@kerlabs.com>

configfs: Fix failing mkdir() making racing rmdir() fail

When fixing the rename() vs rmdir() deadlock, we stopped locking default groups'
inodes in configfs_detach_prep(), letting racing mkdir() in default groups
proceed concurrently. This enables races like below happen, which leads to a
failing mkdir() making rmdir() fail, despite the group to remove having no
user-created directory under it in the end.

process A: process B:
/* PWD=A/B */
mkdir("C")
make_item("C")
attach_group("C")
rmdir("A")
detach_prep("A")
detach_prep("B")
error because of "C"
return -ENOTEMPTY
attach_group("C/D")
error (eg -ENOMEM)
return -ENOMEM

This patch prevents such scenarii by making rmdir() wait as long as
detach_prep() fails because a racing mkdir() is in the middle of attach_group().
To achieve this, mkdir() sets a flag CONFIGFS_USET_IN_MKDIR in parent's
configfs_dirent before calling attach_group(), and clears the flag once
attach_group() is done. detach_prep() fails with -EAGAIN whenever the flag is
hit and returns the guilty inode's mutex so that rmdir() can wait on it.

Signed-off-by: Louis Rilling <Louis.Rilling@kerlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>


# 6f610764 16-Jun-2008 Louis Rilling <Louis.Rilling@kerlabs.com>

configfs: Introduce configfs_dirent_lock

This patch introduces configfs_dirent_lock spinlock to protect configfs_dirent
traversals against linkage mutations (add/del/move). This will allow
configfs_detach_prep() to avoid locking i_mutexes.

Locking rules for configfs_dirent linkage mutations are the same plus the
requirement of taking configfs_dirent_lock. For configfs_dirent walking, one can
either take appropriate i_mutex as before, or take configfs_dirent_lock.

The spinlock could actually be a mutex, but the critical sections are either
O(1) or should not be too long (default groups walking in last patch).

ChangeLog:
- Clarify the comment on configfs_dirent_lock usage
- Move sd->s_element init before linking the new dirent
- In lseek(), do not release configfs_dirent_lock before the dirent is
relinked.

Signed-off-by: Louis Rilling <Louis.Rilling@kerlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>


# e0bf68dd 17-Oct-2007 Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>

mm: bdi init hooks

provide BDI constructor/destructor hooks

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: compile fix]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 631d1feb 18-Jun-2007 Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>

configfs: config item dependancies.

Sometimes other drivers depend on particular configfs items. For
example, ocfs2 mounts depend on a heartbeat region item. If that
region item is removed with rmdir(2), the ocfs2 mount must BUG or go
readonly. Not happy.

This provides two additional API calls: configfs_depend_item() and
configfs_undepend_item(). A client driver can call
configfs_depend_item() on an existing item to tell configfs that it is
depended on. configfs will then return -EBUSY from rmdir(2) for that
item. When the item is no longer depended on, the client driver calls
configfs_undepend_item() on it.

These API cannot be called underneath any configfs callbacks, as
they will conflict. They can block and allocate. A client driver
probably shouldn't calling them of its own gumption. Rather it should
be providing an API that external subsystems call.

How does this work? Imagine the ocfs2 mount process. When it mounts,
it asks for a heart region item. This is done via a call into the
heartbeat code. Inside the heartbeat code, the region item is looked
up. Here, the heartbeat code calls configfs_depend_item(). If it
succeeds, then heartbeat knows the region is safe to give to ocfs2.
If it fails, it was being torn down anyway, and heartbeat can gracefully
pass up an error.

[ Fixed some bad whitespace in configfs.txt. --Mark ]

Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>


# 754661f1 12-Feb-2007 Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>

[PATCH] mark struct inode_operations const 1

Many struct inode_operations in the kernel can be "const". Marking them const
moves these to the .rodata section, which avoids false sharing with potential
dirty data. In addition it'll catch accidental writes at compile time to
these shared resources.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# e18b890b 06-Dec-2006 Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>

[PATCH] slab: remove kmem_cache_t

Replace all uses of kmem_cache_t with struct kmem_cache.

The patch was generated using the following script:

#!/bin/sh
#
# Replace one string by another in all the kernel sources.
#

set -e

for file in `find * -name "*.c" -o -name "*.h"|xargs grep -l $1`; do
quilt add $file
sed -e "1,\$s/$1/$2/g" $file >/tmp/$$
mv /tmp/$$ $file
quilt refresh
done

The script was run like this

sh replace kmem_cache_t "struct kmem_cache"

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>


# 4b6f5d20 28-Mar-2006 Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>

[PATCH] Make most file operations structs in fs/ const

This is a conversion to make the various file_operations structs in fs/
const. Basically a regexp job, with a few manual fixups

The goal is both to increase correctness (harder to accidentally write to
shared datastructures) and reducing the false sharing of cachelines with
things that get dirty in .data (while .rodata is nicely read only and thus
cache clean)

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>


# 3d0f89bb 25-Jan-2006 Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>

configfs: Add permission and ownership to configfs objects.

configfs always made item and attribute ownership root.root and
permissions based on a umask of 022. Add ->setattr() to allow
chown(2)/chmod(2), and persist the changes for the lifetime of the
items and attributes.

Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>


# 7063fbf2 15-Dec-2005 Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>

[PATCH] configfs: User-driven configuration filesystem

Configfs, a file system for userspace-driven kernel object configuration.
The OCFS2 stack makes extensive use of this for propagation of cluster
configuration information into kernel.

Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>