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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2026-08-19 10:09:22 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2026-08-19 10:09:22 -0700 |
| commit | f4cdf7ca9a1fdcca413157df19753f388a5a224e (patch) | |
| tree | 60a31895b2446cd7fa27514e8c2843534a0de0da /fs/cramfs/README | |
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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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diff --git a/fs/cramfs/README b/fs/cramfs/README new file mode 100644 index 000000000..c0052a11a --- /dev/null +++ b/fs/cramfs/README @@ -0,0 +1,107 @@ +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>. |
