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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2026-08-19 10:09:22 -0700
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Merge tag 'media/v7.3-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-mediagrafted
Pull media updates from Mauro Carvalho Chehab: - v4l2-core: added ISP statistics support and per-block validation - v4l2-core: Allow unknown HDR10 white point and luminance - New camera sensors: Sony IMX678 and IMX471m, Himax HM1092 IR sensor - New codec: Milos: VPU v2.0 codec support - isp driver: gained support for Dreamchip RPPX1 ISP framework - vsp1 driver: gained support for RZ/T2H and RZ/N2H - Novalake driver: gained CVS support for new NVL hardware - dvb-core: fix feed leak on failed DMX_ADD_PID - several driver fixes, cleanups and minor improvements * tag 'media/v7.3-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media: (308 commits) media: ipu-bridge: check all DMI entries when overriding sensor rotation media: v4l2-async: avoid deleting unlinked ASC entry on link error media: rzg2l-cru: Align bytesperline to hardware DMA stride requirement media: intel/ipu6: fix async notifier cleanup leak on parse error media: staging/ipu7: fix async notifier UAF on probe error path media: amd: isp4: fix self-deadlock in isp4sd_pwron_and_init() error path media: amd: isp4: release partial allocations in isp4if_alloc_fw_gpumem() media: rcar-isp: Fix VSPX reference leaks media: rcar-isp: Release ISPCORE resources media: i2c: imx415: Release runtime PM reference on VBLANK error media: i2c: imx415: Return test pattern write errors media: renesas: vsp1: Declare index variables in for loop statement media: renesas: vsp1: Make reset control optional to support platforms without a reset line media: dt-bindings: media: renesas,vsp1: Document RZ/T2H and RZ/N2H SoCs media: dt-bindings: media: renesas,fcp: Document RZ/T2H and RZ/N2H SoCs media: nxp: imx8-isi: Add additional 32-bit RGB format support media: nxp: imx8-isi: Add 16-bit raw Bayer format support media: nxp: imx8-isi: Implement per-stream reference counting for multiplexed streams media: nxp: imx8-isi: Use BIT_ULL() for 64-bit stream masks media: nxp: imx8-isi: Correct color map between V4L2 and ISI ...
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+Notes on Filesystem Layout
+--------------------------
+
+These notes describe what mkcramfs generates. Kernel requirements are
+a bit looser, e.g. it doesn't care if the <file_data> items are
+swapped around (though it does care that directory entries (inodes) in
+a given directory are contiguous, as this is used by readdir).
+
+All data is currently in host-endian format; neither mkcramfs nor the
+kernel ever do swabbing. (See section `Block Size' below.)
+
+<filesystem>:
+ <superblock>
+ <directory_structure>
+ <data>
+
+<superblock>: struct cramfs_super (see cramfs_fs.h).
+
+<directory_structure>:
+ For each file:
+ struct cramfs_inode (see cramfs_fs.h).
+ Filename. Not generally null-terminated, but it is
+ null-padded to a multiple of 4 bytes.
+
+The order of inode traversal is described as "width-first" (not to be
+confused with breadth-first); i.e. like depth-first but listing all of
+a directory's entries before recursing down its subdirectories: the
+same order as `ls -AUR' (but without the /^\..*:$/ directory header
+lines); put another way, the same order as `find -type d -exec
+ls -AU1 {} \;'.
+
+Beginning in 2.4.7, directory entries are sorted. This optimization
+allows cramfs_lookup to return more quickly when a filename does not
+exist, speeds up user-space directory sorts, etc.
+
+<data>:
+ One <file_data> for each file that's either a symlink or a
+ regular file of non-zero st_size.
+
+<file_data>:
+ nblocks * <block_pointer>
+ (where nblocks = (st_size - 1) / blksize + 1)
+ nblocks * <block>
+ padding to multiple of 4 bytes
+
+The i'th <block_pointer> for a file stores the byte offset of the
+*end* of the i'th <block> (i.e. one past the last byte, which is the
+same as the start of the (i+1)'th <block> if there is one). The first
+<block> immediately follows the last <block_pointer> for the file.
+<block_pointer>s are each 32 bits long.
+
+When the CRAMFS_FLAG_EXT_BLOCK_POINTERS capability bit is set, each
+<block_pointer>'s top bits may contain special flags as follows:
+
+CRAMFS_BLK_FLAG_UNCOMPRESSED (bit 31):
+ The block data is not compressed and should be copied verbatim.
+
+CRAMFS_BLK_FLAG_DIRECT_PTR (bit 30):
+ The <block_pointer> stores the actual block start offset and not
+ its end, shifted right by 2 bits. The block must therefore be
+ aligned to a 4-byte boundary. The block size is either blksize
+ if CRAMFS_BLK_FLAG_UNCOMPRESSED is also specified, otherwise
+ the compressed data length is included in the first 2 bytes of
+ the block data. This is used to allow discontiguous data layout
+ and specific data block alignments e.g. for XIP applications.
+
+
+The order of <file_data>'s is a depth-first descent of the directory
+tree, i.e. the same order as `find -size +0 \( -type f -o -type l \)
+-print'.
+
+
+<block>: The i'th <block> is the output of zlib's compress function
+applied to the i'th blksize-sized chunk of the input data if the
+corresponding CRAMFS_BLK_FLAG_UNCOMPRESSED <block_ptr> bit is not set,
+otherwise it is the input data directly.
+(For the last <block> of the file, the input may of course be smaller.)
+Each <block> may be a different size. (See <block_pointer> above.)
+
+<block>s are merely byte-aligned, not generally u32-aligned.
+
+When CRAMFS_BLK_FLAG_DIRECT_PTR is specified then the corresponding
+<block> may be located anywhere and not necessarily contiguous with
+the previous/next blocks. In that case it is minimally u32-aligned.
+If CRAMFS_BLK_FLAG_UNCOMPRESSED is also specified then the size is always
+blksize except for the last block which is limited by the file length.
+If CRAMFS_BLK_FLAG_DIRECT_PTR is set and CRAMFS_BLK_FLAG_UNCOMPRESSED
+is not set then the first 2 bytes of the block contains the size of the
+remaining block data as this cannot be determined from the placement of
+logically adjacent blocks.
+
+
+Holes
+-----
+
+This kernel supports cramfs holes (i.e. [efficient representation of]
+blocks in uncompressed data consisting entirely of NUL bytes), but by
+default mkcramfs doesn't test for & create holes, since cramfs in
+kernels up to at least 2.3.39 didn't support holes. Run mkcramfs
+with -z if you want it to create files that can have holes in them.
+
+
+Tools
+-----
+
+The cramfs user-space tools, including mkcramfs and cramfsck, are
+located at <https://github.com/npitre/cramfs-tools>.