Re: [PATCH v2] Documenting the crash-recovery guarantees of Linux file systems

2019-03-18 Thread Dave Chinner
On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 09:37:28PM -0500, Vijay Chidambaram wrote: > For new folks on the thread, I'm Vijay Chidambaram, prof at UT Austin > and Jayashree's advisor. We recently developed CrashMonkey, a tool for > finding crash-consistency bugs in file systems. As part of the > research effort, we

Re: [PATCH v2] Documenting the crash-recovery guarantees of Linux file systems

2019-03-18 Thread Dave Chinner
On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 09:13:58AM +0200, Amir Goldstein wrote: > On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 12:16 AM Dave Chinner wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 05:44:49AM +0200, Amir Goldstein wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 5:03 AM Dave Chinner wrote: > > > > On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 09:19:03AM +0200, Am

Re: [PATCH v2] Documenting the crash-recovery guarantees of Linux file systems

2019-03-18 Thread Vijay Chidambaram
For new folks on the thread, I'm Vijay Chidambaram, prof at UT Austin and Jayashree's advisor. We recently developed CrashMonkey, a tool for finding crash-consistency bugs in file systems. As part of the research effort, we had a lot of conversations with file-system developers to understand the gu

Documenting struct function pointers (methods)

2019-03-18 Thread Tobin C. Harding
Hi, Is documenting 'methods' i.e. function pointers in structs like 'struct file_operations' something that we do anywhere? Is this handled by RST? Is it something that has been discussed already? I'm in the process of trying to grok the dcache and update the docs. For each function pointer I'm

[PATCH] Documentation: fix core_pattern max length

2019-03-18 Thread Jakub Wilk
The buffer size for core_pattern is 128, but one character is used for terminating null byte, so the actual limit is 127: # printf '%0999d' > /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern # tr -d '\n' < /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern | wc -c 127 Signed-off-by: Jakub Wilk --- Documentation/sysctl/ker

Re: [PATCH] Documentation: admin-guide: Fix minimum required gcc version

2019-03-18 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Tue, 5 Mar 2019 11:53:03 +0100 Timothée Isnard wrote: > Signed-off-by: Timothée Isnard > --- > Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst > b/Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst > inde

Re: [PATCH 2/2] Documentation: seccomp: unify list indentation

2019-03-18 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Mon, 4 Mar 2019 21:31:52 +0100 Jakub Wilk wrote: > Use tabs to indent SECCOMP_RET_USER_NOTIF definition, for consistency > with other items in this list. > > Signed-off-by: Jakub Wilk Both patches applied, thanks. jon

Re: [PATCH v2] Documenting the crash-recovery guarantees of Linux file systems

2019-03-18 Thread Amir Goldstein
On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 12:16 AM Dave Chinner wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 05:44:49AM +0200, Amir Goldstein wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 5:03 AM Dave Chinner wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 09:19:03AM +0200, Amir Goldstein wrote: > > > > On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 3:19 AM Dave