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![]() with maintenance operations offloaded to userspace (Douglas Fuller, Mike Christie and myself). Another block device bullet is a series fixing up layering error paths (myself). On the filesystem side, we've got patches that improve our handling of buffered vs dio write races (Neil Brown) and a few assorted fixes from Zheng. Also included a couple of random cleanups and a minor CRUSH update. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAABCAAGBQJX+PjZAAoJEEp/3jgCEfOLVuoH/RwtFLIb6/KZUYtBOrVVrTun kReRlfq2xKYrGGtyQEqSuz7fBdwT1LVCVcL8kC4GFD4R67o+tNMAr6PfM/7pZABj HRoRLgSZ9FLw4W5n0VpBIznih75QUbCdXiTCtH9eorMHU5q1YpTvVHHlF9W9Pm2I eNGnBWpGyHVeiK66mpUCH+EQKQ4GkAVD9rneTNqLHgq2yotHkVl1j258+DL6JRGs OBoh3RmNQaGOAS37Lss8erCSusAGEcAeGV6ubuK2lFUKyR41EkD3I0xkhNSPe+CD RifFcpVziIeTu//cLgl0nnHGtmUytD7HgJubaPthArKIOen9ZDAfEkgI0o+JI2A= =45O7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Merge tag 'ceph-for-4.9-rc1' of git://github.com/ceph/ceph-client Pull Ceph updates from Ilya Dryomov: "The big ticket item here is support for rbd exclusive-lock feature, with maintenance operations offloaded to userspace (Douglas Fuller, Mike Christie and myself). Another block device bullet is a series fixing up layering error paths (myself). On the filesystem side, we've got patches that improve our handling of buffered vs dio write races (Neil Brown) and a few assorted fixes from Zheng. Also included a couple of random cleanups and a minor CRUSH update" * tag 'ceph-for-4.9-rc1' of git://github.com/ceph/ceph-client: (39 commits) crush: remove redundant local variable crush: don't normalize input of crush_ln iteratively libceph: ceph_build_auth() doesn't need ceph_auth_build_hello() libceph: use CEPH_AUTH_UNKNOWN in ceph_auth_build_hello() ceph: fix description for rsize and rasize mount options rbd: use kmalloc_array() in rbd_header_from_disk() ceph: use list_move instead of list_del/list_add ceph: handle CEPH_SESSION_REJECT message ceph: avoid accessing / when mounting a subpath ceph: fix mandatory flock check ceph: remove warning when ceph_releasepage() is called on dirty page ceph: ignore error from invalidate_inode_pages2_range() in direct write ceph: fix error handling of start_read() rbd: add rbd_obj_request_error() helper rbd: img_data requests don't own their page array rbd: don't call rbd_osd_req_format_read() for !img_data requests rbd: rework rbd_img_obj_exists_submit() error paths rbd: don't crash or leak on errors in rbd_img_obj_parent_read_full_callback() rbd: move bumping img_request refcount into rbd_obj_request_submit() rbd: mark the original request as done if stat request fails ... |
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This directory attempts to document the ABI between the Linux kernel and userspace, and the relative stability of these interfaces. Due to the everchanging nature of Linux, and the differing maturity levels, these interfaces should be used by userspace programs in different ways. We have four different levels of ABI stability, as shown by the four different subdirectories in this location. Interfaces may change levels of stability according to the rules described below. The different levels of stability are: stable/ This directory documents the interfaces that the developer has defined to be stable. Userspace programs are free to use these interfaces with no restrictions, and backward compatibility for them will be guaranteed for at least 2 years. Most interfaces (like syscalls) are expected to never change and always be available. testing/ This directory documents interfaces that are felt to be stable, as the main development of this interface has been completed. The interface can be changed to add new features, but the current interface will not break by doing this, unless grave errors or security problems are found in them. Userspace programs can start to rely on these interfaces, but they must be aware of changes that can occur before these interfaces move to be marked stable. Programs that use these interfaces are strongly encouraged to add their name to the description of these interfaces, so that the kernel developers can easily notify them if any changes occur (see the description of the layout of the files below for details on how to do this.) obsolete/ This directory documents interfaces that are still remaining in the kernel, but are marked to be removed at some later point in time. The description of the interface will document the reason why it is obsolete and when it can be expected to be removed. removed/ This directory contains a list of the old interfaces that have been removed from the kernel. Every file in these directories will contain the following information: What: Short description of the interface Date: Date created KernelVersion: Kernel version this feature first showed up in. Contact: Primary contact for this interface (may be a mailing list) Description: Long description of the interface and how to use it. Users: All users of this interface who wish to be notified when it changes. This is very important for interfaces in the "testing" stage, so that kernel developers can work with userspace developers to ensure that things do not break in ways that are unacceptable. It is also important to get feedback for these interfaces to make sure they are working in a proper way and do not need to be changed further. How things move between levels: Interfaces in stable may move to obsolete, as long as the proper notification is given. Interfaces may be removed from obsolete and the kernel as long as the documented amount of time has gone by. Interfaces in the testing state can move to the stable state when the developers feel they are finished. They cannot be removed from the kernel tree without going through the obsolete state first. It's up to the developer to place their interfaces in the category they wish for it to start out in. Notable bits of non-ABI, which should not under any circumstances be considered stable: - Kconfig. Userspace should not rely on the presence or absence of any particular Kconfig symbol, in /proc/config.gz, in the copy of .config commonly installed to /boot, or in any invocation of the kernel build process. - Kernel-internal symbols. Do not rely on the presence, absence, location, or type of any kernel symbol, either in System.map files or the kernel binary itself. See Documentation/stable_api_nonsense.txt.