linux_dsm_epyc7002/Documentation/filesystems
NeilBrown 1f4aace60b fs/seq_file.c: simplify seq_file iteration code and interface
The documentation for seq_file suggests that it is necessary to be able
to move the iterator to a given offset, however that is not the case.
If the iterator is stored in the private data and is stable from one
read() syscall to the next, it is only necessary to support first/next
interactions.  Implementing this in a client is a little clumsy.

 - if ->start() is given a pos of zero, it should go to start of
   sequence.

 - if ->start() is given the name pos that was given to the most recent
   next() or start(), it should restore the iterator to state just
   before that last call

 - if ->start is given another number, it should set the iterator one
   beyond the start just before the last ->start or ->next call.

Also, the documentation says that the implementation can interpret the
pos however it likes (other than zero meaning start), but seq_file
increments the pos sometimes which does impose on the implementation.

This patch simplifies the interface for first/next iteration and
simplifies the code, while maintaining complete backward compatability.
Now:

 - if ->start() is given a pos of zero, it should return an iterator
   placed at the start of the sequence

 - if ->start() is given a non-zero pos, it should return the iterator
   in the same state it was after the last ->start or ->next.

This is particularly useful for interators which walk the multiple
chains in a hash table, e.g.  using rhashtable_walk*.  See
fs/gfs2/glock.c and drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/vvp_dev.c

A large part of achieving this is to *always* call ->next after ->show
has successfully stored all of an entry in the buffer.  Never just
increment the index instead.  Also:

 - always pass &m->index to ->start() and ->next(), never a temp
   variable

 - don't clear ->from when ->count is zero, as ->from is dead when
   ->count is zero.

Some ->next functions do not increment *pos when they return NULL.  To
maintain compatability with this, we still need to increment m->index in
one place, if ->next didn't increment it.  Note that such ->next
functions are buggy and should be fixed.  A simple demonstration is

   dd if=/proc/swaps bs=1000 skip=1

Choose any block size larger than the size of /proc/swaps.  This will
always show the whole last line of /proc/swaps.

This patch doesn't work around buggy next() functions for this case.

[neilb@suse.com: ensure ->from is valid]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/87601ryb8a.fsf@notabene.neil.brown.name
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>	[docs]
Tested-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-08-17 16:20:28 -07:00
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caching fscache: Pass object size in rather than calling back for it 2018-04-06 14:05:14 +01:00
cifs smb3: update readme to correct information about /proc/fs/cifs/Stats 2018-08-07 14:20:23 -05:00
configfs fs: configfs: don't return anything from drop_link 2016-12-01 10:50:49 +01:00
ext4 docs: fix up the obviously obsolete bits in the new ext4 documentation 2018-07-29 16:35:23 -04:00
nfs ipconfig: Write NTP server IPs to /proc/net/ipconfig/ntp_servers 2018-04-24 13:40:42 -04:00
pohmelfs Documentation: fix common spelling mistakes 2016-04-28 07:51:59 -06:00
9p.txt
00-INDEX Staging/IIO patches for 4.18-rc1 2018-06-09 10:32:39 -07:00
adfs.txt
affs.txt
afs.txt afs: Implement @sys substitution handling 2018-04-09 21:12:31 +01:00
autofs-mount-control.txt autofs: use autofs instead of autofs4 in documentation 2018-06-07 17:34:39 -07:00
autofs.txt autofs: use autofs instead of autofs4 in documentation 2018-06-07 17:34:39 -07:00
automount-support.txt autofs: use autofs instead of autofs4 in documentation 2018-06-07 17:34:39 -07:00
befs.txt
bfs.txt Tigran has moved 2017-05-12 15:57:15 -07:00
btrfs.txt Documentation: btrfs: remove usage specific information 2016-03-11 17:02:09 +01:00
ceph.txt ceph: update description of some mount options 2018-06-04 20:46:02 +02:00
coda.txt
conf.py docs-rst: convert filesystems book to ReST 2017-05-16 08:44:08 -03:00
cramfs.txt cramfs: rehabilitate it 2017-10-15 00:47:23 -04:00
dax.txt powerpc/cell: Remove axonram driver 2018-01-28 17:00:36 +11:00
debugfs.txt debugfs: Pass bool pointer to debugfs_create_bool() 2015-10-04 11:36:07 +01:00
devpts.txt devpts: Make each mount of devpts an independent filesystem. 2016-06-05 10:36:01 -07:00
directory-locking vfs: remove unused i_op->rename 2016-09-27 11:03:58 +02:00
dlmfs.txt
dnotify.txt Documentation: fix selftests related file refs 2017-10-19 12:58:21 -06:00
ecryptfs.txt
efivarfs.txt efi: Make efivarfs entries immutable by default 2016-02-10 16:25:52 +00:00
exofs.txt
ext2.txt fs/*/Kconfig: drop links to 404-compliant http://acl.bestbits.at 2018-01-01 12:45:37 -07:00
ext3.txt fs: Remove ext3 filesystem driver 2015-07-23 20:59:40 +02:00
f2fs.txt f2fs: add fsync_mode=nobarrier for non-atomic files 2018-05-29 12:04:08 -07:00
fiemap.txt
files.txt
fscrypt.rst fscrypt: add Speck128/256 support 2018-05-20 16:35:51 -04:00
fuse-io.txt fuse: add writeback documentation 2018-03-20 17:11:45 +01:00
fuse.txt
gfs2-glocks.txt GFS2: Minor improvements to comments and documentation 2018-04-12 10:07:51 -07:00
gfs2-uevents.txt
gfs2.txt
hfs.txt
hfsplus.txt
hpfs.txt
index.rst docs: create filesystem internal section 2018-07-29 16:14:02 -04:00
inotify.txt
isofs.txt
jfs.txt
Locking This was a moderately busy cycle for docs, with the usual collection of 2018-08-14 14:29:31 -07:00
locks.txt docs: fix locations of several documents that got moved 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
mandatory-locking.txt
nilfs2.txt MAINTAINERS, nilfs2: change project home URLs 2018-01-13 10:42:48 -08:00
ntfs.txt
ocfs2-online-filecheck.txt Doc: ocfs: Fix typo in filesystems/ocfs2-online-filecheck.txt 2016-07-01 16:17:15 -06:00
ocfs2.txt
omfs.txt
orangefs.txt Orangefs: documentation updates 2018-04-04 14:05:48 -04:00
overlayfs.txt ovl: update documentation for unionmount-testsuite 2018-05-31 11:06:10 +02:00
path-lookup.md autofs: use autofs instead of autofs4 in documentation 2018-06-07 17:34:39 -07:00
path-lookup.txt Documentation: add new description of path-name lookup. 2015-11-02 18:18:25 -07:00
porting document alloc_file() changes 2018-07-12 10:04:29 -04:00
proc.txt Documentation: proc.txt: Adding 'HardwareCorrupted' field and description. 2018-07-23 09:23:37 -06:00
qnx6.txt Documentation: fix common spelling mistakes 2016-04-28 07:51:59 -06:00
quota.txt scripts/spelling.txt: add "an user" pattern and fix typo instances 2017-02-27 18:43:46 -08:00
ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt
relay.txt Documentation : Update relay function types 2018-07-10 15:11:00 -06:00
romfs.txt
seq_file.txt fs/seq_file.c: simplify seq_file iteration code and interface 2018-08-17 16:20:28 -07:00
sharedsubtree.txt doc: fix grammar 2016-03-09 15:33:06 -07:00
spufs.txt
squashfs.txt
sysfs-pci.txt PCI: Add pci_mmap_resource_range() and use it for ARM64 2017-04-20 08:47:47 -05:00
sysfs-tagging.txt sysfs-tagging.txt: fix pre-kernfs references 2015-09-13 14:38:51 -06:00
sysfs.txt kallsyms: remove print_symbol() function 2018-01-16 16:59:55 +01:00
sysv-fs.txt
tmpfs.txt docs/vm: move numa_memory_policy.rst to Documentation/admin-guide/mm 2018-05-08 09:31:31 -06:00
ubifs.txt
udf.txt udf: Remove never implemented mount options 2018-02-27 10:25:33 +01:00
ufs.txt
vfat.txt Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt: fix a remark that implies UCS2 2017-12-21 13:39:28 -07:00
vfs.txt Merge branch 'work.open3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2018-08-13 19:58:36 -07:00
xfs-delayed-logging-design.txt
xfs-self-describing-metadata.txt
xfs.txt xfs: remove deprecated barrier/nobarrier mount 2018-07-26 10:15:17 -07:00