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Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx>
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 Documentation/filesystems/caching/index.rst   |   1 +
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+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+==========================
+General Filesystem Caching
+==========================
+
+Overview
+========
+
+This facility is a general purpose cache for network filesystems, though it
+could be used for caching other things such as ISO9660 filesystems too.
+
+FS-Cache mediates between cache backends (such as CacheFS) and network
+filesystems::
+
+	+---------+
+	|         |                        +--------------+
+	|   NFS   |--+                     |              |
+	|         |  |                 +-->|   CacheFS    |
+	+---------+  |   +----------+  |   |  /dev/hda5   |
+	             |   |          |  |   +--------------+
+	+---------+  +-->|          |  |
+	|         |      |          |--+
+	|   AFS   |----->| FS-Cache |
+	|         |      |          |--+
+	+---------+  +-->|          |  |
+	             |   |          |  |   +--------------+
+	+---------+  |   +----------+  |   |              |
+	|         |  |                 +-->|  CacheFiles  |
+	|  ISOFS  |--+                     |  /var/cache  |
+	|         |                        +--------------+
+	+---------+
+
+Or to look at it another way, FS-Cache is a module that provides a caching
+facility to a network filesystem such that the cache is transparent to the
+user::
+
+	+---------+
+	|         |
+	| Server  |
+	|         |
+	+---------+
+	     |                  NETWORK
+	~~~~~|~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+	     |
+	     |           +----------+
+	     V           |          |
+	+---------+      |          |
+	|         |      |          |
+	|   NFS   |----->| FS-Cache |
+	|         |      |          |--+
+	+---------+      |          |  |   +--------------+   +--------------+
+	     |           |          |  |   |              |   |              |
+	     V           +----------+  +-->|  CacheFiles  |-->|  Ext3        |
+	+---------+                        |  /var/cache  |   |  /dev/sda6   |
+	|         |                        +--------------+   +--------------+
+	|   VFS   |                                ^                     ^
+	|         |                                |                     |
+	+---------+                                +--------------+      |
+	     |                  KERNEL SPACE                      |      |
+	~~~~~|~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~|~~~~~~|~~~~
+	     |                  USER SPACE                        |      |
+	     V                                                    |      |
+	+---------+                                           +--------------+
+	|         |                                           |              |
+	| Process |                                           | cachefilesd  |
+	|         |                                           |              |
+	+---------+                                           +--------------+
+
+
+FS-Cache does not follow the idea of completely loading every netfs file
+opened in its entirety into a cache before permitting it to be accessed and
+then serving the pages out of that cache rather than the netfs inode because:
+
+ (1) It must be practical to operate without a cache.
+
+ (2) The size of any accessible file must not be limited to the size of the
+     cache.
+
+ (3) The combined size of all opened files (this includes mapped libraries)
+     must not be limited to the size of the cache.
+
+ (4) The user should not be forced to download an entire file just to do a
+     one-off access of a small portion of it (such as might be done with the
+     "file" program).
+
+It instead serves the cache out in PAGE_SIZE chunks as and when requested by
+the netfs('s) using it.
+
+
+FS-Cache provides the following facilities:
+
+ (1) More than one cache can be used at once.  Caches can be selected
+     explicitly by use of tags.
+
+ (2) Caches can be added / removed at any time.
+
+ (3) The netfs is provided with an interface that allows either party to
+     withdraw caching facilities from a file (required for (2)).
+
+ (4) The interface to the netfs returns as few errors as possible, preferring
+     rather to let the netfs remain oblivious.
+
+ (5) Cookies are used to represent indices, files and other objects to the
+     netfs.  The simplest cookie is just a NULL pointer - indicating nothing
+     cached there.
+
+ (6) The netfs is allowed to propose - dynamically - any index hierarchy it
+     desires, though it must be aware that the index search function is
+     recursive, stack space is limited, and indices can only be children of
+     indices.
+
+ (7) Data I/O is done direct to and from the netfs's pages.  The netfs
+     indicates that page A is at index B of the data-file represented by cookie
+     C, and that it should be read or written.  The cache backend may or may
+     not start I/O on that page, but if it does, a netfs callback will be
+     invoked to indicate completion.  The I/O may be either synchronous or
+     asynchronous.
+
+ (8) Cookies can be "retired" upon release.  At this point FS-Cache will mark
+     them as obsolete and the index hierarchy rooted at that point will get
+     recycled.
+
+ (9) The netfs provides a "match" function for index searches.  In addition to
+     saying whether a match was made or not, this can also specify that an
+     entry should be updated or deleted.
+
+(10) As much as possible is done asynchronously.
+
+
+FS-Cache maintains a virtual indexing tree in which all indices, files, objects
+and pages are kept.  Bits of this tree may actually reside in one or more
+caches::
+
+                                            FSDEF
+                                              |
+                         +------------------------------------+
+                         |                                    |
+                        NFS                                  AFS
+                         |                                    |
+            +--------------------------+                +-----------+
+            |                          |                |           |
+         homedir                     mirror          afs.org   redhat.com
+            |                          |                            |
+      +------------+           +---------------+              +----------+
+      |            |           |               |              |          |
+    00001        00002       00007           00125        vol00001   vol00002
+      |            |           |               |                         |
+  +---+---+     +-----+      +---+      +------+------+            +-----+----+
+  |   |   |     |     |      |   |      |      |      |            |     |    |
+ PG0 PG1 PG2   PG0  XATTR   PG0 PG1   DIRENT DIRENT DIRENT        R/W   R/O  Bak
+                      |                                            |
+                     PG0                                       +-------+
+                                                               |       |
+                                                             00001   00003
+                                                               |
+                                                           +---+---+
+                                                           |   |   |
+                                                          PG0 PG1 PG2
+
+In the example above, you can see two netfs's being backed: NFS and AFS.  These
+have different index hierarchies:
+
+   * The NFS primary index contains per-server indices.  Each server index is
+     indexed by NFS file handles to get data file objects.  Each data file
+     objects can have an array of pages, but may also have further child
+     objects, such as extended attributes and directory entries.  Extended
+     attribute objects themselves have page-array contents.
+
+   * The AFS primary index contains per-cell indices.  Each cell index contains
+     per-logical-volume indices.  Each of volume index contains up to three
+     indices for the read-write, read-only and backup mirrors of those volumes.
+     Each of these contains vnode data file objects, each of which contains an
+     array of pages.
+
+The very top index is the FS-Cache master index in which individual netfs's
+have entries.
+
+Any index object may reside in more than one cache, provided it only has index
+children.  Any index with non-index object children will be assumed to only
+reside in one cache.
+
+
+The netfs API to FS-Cache can be found in:
+
+	Documentation/filesystems/caching/netfs-api.txt
+
+The cache backend API to FS-Cache can be found in:
+
+	Documentation/filesystems/caching/backend-api.txt
+
+A description of the internal representations and object state machine can be
+found in:
+
+	Documentation/filesystems/caching/object.rst
+
+
+Statistical Information
+=======================
+
+If FS-Cache is compiled with the following options enabled::
+
+	CONFIG_FSCACHE_STATS=y
+	CONFIG_FSCACHE_HISTOGRAM=y
+
+then it will gather certain statistics and display them through a number of
+proc files.
+
+/proc/fs/fscache/stats
+----------------------
+
+     This shows counts of a number of events that can happen in FS-Cache:
+
++--------------+-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|CLASS         |EVENT  |MEANING                                                |
++==============+=======+=======================================================+
+|Cookies       |idx=N  |Number of index cookies allocated                      |
++              +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|              |dat=N  |Number of data storage cookies allocated               |
++              +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|              |spc=N  |Number of special cookies allocated                    |
++--------------+-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|Objects       |alc=N  |Number of objects allocated                            |
++              +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|              |nal=N  |Number of object allocation failures                   |
++              +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|              |avl=N  |Number of objects that reached the available state     |
++              +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|              |ded=N  |Number of objects that reached the dead state          |
++--------------+-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|ChkAux        |non=N  |Number of objects that didn't have a coherency check   |
++              +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|              |ok=N   |Number of objects that passed a coherency check        |
++              +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|              |upd=N  |Number of objects that needed a coherency data update  |
++              +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|              |obs=N  |Number of objects that were declared obsolete          |
++--------------+-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|Pages         |mrk=N  |Number of pages marked as being cached                 |
+|              |unc=N  |Number of uncache page requests seen                   |
++--------------+-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|Acquire       |n=N    |Number of acquire cookie requests seen                 |
++              +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|              |nul=N  |Number of acq reqs given a NULL parent                 |
++              +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|              |noc=N  |Number of acq reqs rejected due to no cache available  |
++              +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|              |ok=N   |Number of acq reqs succeeded                           |
++              +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|              |nbf=N  |Number of acq reqs rejected due to error               |
++              +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|              |oom=N  |Number of acq reqs failed on ENOMEM                    |
++--------------+-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|Lookups       |n=N    |Number of lookup calls made on cache backends          |
++              +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|              |neg=N  |Number of negative lookups made                        |
++              +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|              |pos=N  |Number of positive lookups made                        |
++              +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|              |crt=N  |Number of objects created by lookup                    |
++              +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|              |tmo=N  |Number of lookups timed out and requeued               |
++--------------+-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|Updates       |n=N    |Number of update cookie requests seen                  |
++              +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|              |nul=N  |Number of upd reqs given a NULL parent                 |
++              +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|              |run=N  |Number of upd reqs granted CPU time                    |
++--------------+-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|Relinqs       |n=N    |Number of relinquish cookie requests seen              |
++              +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|              |nul=N  |Number of rlq reqs given a NULL parent                 |
++              +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|              |wcr=N  |Number of rlq reqs waited on completion of creation    |
++--------------+-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|AttrChg       |n=N    |Number of attribute changed requests seen              |
++              +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|              |ok=N   |Number of attr changed requests queued                 |
++              +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|              |nbf=N  |Number of attr changed rejected -ENOBUFS               |
++              +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|              |oom=N  |Number of attr changed failed -ENOMEM                  |
++              +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|              |run=N  |Number of attr changed ops given CPU time              |
++--------------+-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|Allocs        |n=N    |Number of allocation requests seen                     |
++              +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|              |ok=N   |Number of successful alloc reqs                        |
++              +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|              |wt=N   |Number of alloc reqs that waited on lookup completion  |
++              +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|              |nbf=N  |Number of alloc reqs rejected -ENOBUFS                 |
++              +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|              |int=N  |Number of alloc reqs aborted -ERESTARTSYS              |
++              +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|              |ops=N  |Number of alloc reqs submitted                         |
++              +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|              |owt=N  |Number of alloc reqs waited for CPU time               |
++              +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|              |abt=N  |Number of alloc reqs aborted due to object death       |
++--------------+-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|Retrvls       |n=N    |Number of retrieval (read) requests seen               |
++              +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|              |ok=N   |Number of successful retr reqs                         |
++              +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|              |wt=N   |Number of retr reqs that waited on lookup completion   |
++              +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|              |nod=N  |Number of retr reqs returned -ENODATA                  |
++              +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|              |nbf=N  |Number of retr reqs rejected -ENOBUFS                  |
++              +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|              |int=N  |Number of retr reqs aborted -ERESTARTSYS               |
++              +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|              |oom=N  |Number of retr reqs failed -ENOMEM                     |
++              +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|              |ops=N  |Number of retr reqs submitted                          |
++              +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|              |owt=N  |Number of retr reqs waited for CPU time                |
++              +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|              |abt=N  |Number of retr reqs aborted due to object death        |
++--------------+-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|Stores        |n=N    |Number of storage (write) requests seen                |
++              +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|              |ok=N   |Number of successful store reqs                        |
++              +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|              |agn=N  |Number of store reqs on a page already pending storage |
++              +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|              |nbf=N  |Number of store reqs rejected -ENOBUFS                 |
++              +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|              |oom=N  |Number of store reqs failed -ENOMEM                    |
++              +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|              |ops=N  |Number of store reqs submitted                         |
++              +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|              |run=N  |Number of store reqs granted CPU time                  |
++              +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|              |pgs=N  |Number of pages given store req processing time        |
++              +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|              |rxd=N  |Number of store reqs deleted from tracking tree        |
++              +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|              |olm=N  |Number of store reqs over store limit                  |
++--------------+-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|VmScan        |nos=N  |Number of release reqs against pages with no           |
+|              |       |pending store                                          |
++              +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|              |gon=N  |Number of release reqs against pages stored by         |
+|              |       |time lock granted                                      |
++              +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|              |bsy=N  |Number of release reqs ignored due to in-progress store|
++              +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|              |can=N  |Number of page stores cancelled due to release req     |
++--------------+-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|Ops           |pend=N |Number of times async ops added to pending queues      |
++              +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|              |run=N  |Number of times async ops given CPU time               |
++              +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|              |enq=N  |Number of times async ops queued for processing        |
++              +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|              |can=N  |Number of async ops cancelled                          |
++              +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|              |rej=N  |Number of async ops rejected due to object             |
+|              |       |lookup/create failure                                  |
++              +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|              |ini=N  |Number of async ops initialised                        |
++              +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|              |dfr=N  |Number of async ops queued for deferred release        |
++              +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|              |rel=N  |Number of async ops released                           |
+|              |       |(should equal ini=N when idle)                         |
++              +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|              |gc=N   |Number of deferred-release async ops garbage collected |
++--------------+-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|CacheOp       |alo=N  |Number of in-progress alloc_object() cache ops         |
++              +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|              |luo=N  |Number of in-progress lookup_object() cache ops        |
++              +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|              |luc=N  |Number of in-progress lookup_complete() cache ops      |
++              +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|              |gro=N  |Number of in-progress grab_object() cache ops          |
++              +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|              |upo=N  |Number of in-progress update_object() cache ops        |
++              +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|              |dro=N  |Number of in-progress drop_object() cache ops          |
++              +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|              |pto=N  |Number of in-progress put_object() cache ops           |
++              +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|              |syn=N  |Number of in-progress sync_cache() cache ops           |
++              +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|              |atc=N  |Number of in-progress attr_changed() cache ops         |
++              +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|              |rap=N  |Number of in-progress read_or_alloc_page() cache ops   |
++              +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|              |ras=N  |Number of in-progress read_or_alloc_pages() cache ops  |
++              +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|              |alp=N  |Number of in-progress allocate_page() cache ops        |
++              +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|              |als=N  |Number of in-progress allocate_pages() cache ops       |
++              +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|              |wrp=N  |Number of in-progress write_page() cache ops           |
++              +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|              |ucp=N  |Number of in-progress uncache_page() cache ops         |
++              +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|              |dsp=N  |Number of in-progress dissociate_pages() cache ops     |
++--------------+-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|CacheEv       |nsp=N  |Number of object lookups/creations rejected due to     |
+|              |       |lack of space                                          |
++              +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|              |stl=N  |Number of stale objects deleted                        |
++              +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|              |rtr=N  |Number of objects retired when relinquished            |
++              +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|              |cul=N  |Number of objects culled                               |
++--------------+-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+
+
+
+/proc/fs/fscache/histogram
+--------------------------
+
+     ::
+
+	cat /proc/fs/fscache/histogram
+	JIFS  SECS  OBJ INST  OP RUNS   OBJ RUNS  RETRV DLY RETRIEVLS
+	===== ===== ========= ========= ========= ========= =========
+
+     This shows the breakdown of the number of times each amount of time
+     between 0 jiffies and HZ-1 jiffies a variety of tasks took to run.  The
+     columns are as follows:
+
+	=========	=======================================================
+	COLUMN		TIME MEASUREMENT
+	=========	=======================================================
+	OBJ INST	Length of time to instantiate an object
+	OP RUNS		Length of time a call to process an operation took
+	OBJ RUNS	Length of time a call to process an object event took
+	RETRV DLY	Time between an requesting a read and lookup completing
+	RETRIEVLS	Time between beginning and end of a retrieval
+	=========	=======================================================
+
+     Each row shows the number of events that took a particular range of times.
+     Each step is 1 jiffy in size.  The JIFS column indicates the particular
+     jiffy range covered, and the SECS field the equivalent number of seconds.
+
+
+
+Object List
+===========
+
+If CONFIG_FSCACHE_OBJECT_LIST is enabled, the FS-Cache facility will maintain a
+list of all the objects currently allocated and allow them to be viewed
+through::
+
+	/proc/fs/fscache/objects
+
+This will look something like::
+
+	[root@andromeda ~]# head /proc/fs/fscache/objects
+	OBJECT   PARENT   STAT CHLDN OPS OOP IPR EX READS EM EV F S | NETFS_COOKIE_DEF TY FL NETFS_DATA       OBJECT_KEY, AUX_DATA
+	======== ======== ==== ===== === === === == ===== == == = = | ================ == == ================ ================
+	   17e4b        2 ACTV     0   0   0   0  0     0 7b  4 0 0 | NFS.fh           DT  0 ffff88001dd82820 010006017edcf8bbc93b43298fdfbe71e50b57b13a172c0117f38472, e567634700000000000000000000000063f2404a000000000000000000000000c9030000000000000000000063f2404a
+	   1693a        2 ACTV     0   0   0   0  0     0 7b  4 0 0 | NFS.fh           DT  0 ffff88002db23380 010006017edcf8bbc93b43298fdfbe71e50b57b1e0162c01a2df0ea6, 420ebc4a000000000000000000000000420ebc4a0000000000000000000000000e1801000000000000000000420ebc4a
+
+where the first set of columns before the '|' describe the object:
+
+	=======	===============================================================
+	COLUMN	DESCRIPTION
+	=======	===============================================================
+	OBJECT	Object debugging ID (appears as OBJ%x in some debug messages)
+	PARENT	Debugging ID of parent object
+	STAT	Object state
+	CHLDN	Number of child objects of this object
+	OPS	Number of outstanding operations on this object
+	OOP	Number of outstanding child object management operations
+	IPR
+	EX	Number of outstanding exclusive operations
+	READS	Number of outstanding read operations
+	EM	Object's event mask
+	EV	Events raised on this object
+	F	Object flags
+	S	Object work item busy state mask (1:pending 2:running)
+	=======	===============================================================
+
+and the second set of columns describe the object's cookie, if present:
+
+	================ ======================================================
+	COLUMN		 DESCRIPTION
+	================ ======================================================
+	NETFS_COOKIE_DEF Name of netfs cookie definition
+	TY		 Cookie type (IX - index, DT - data, hex - special)
+	FL		 Cookie flags
+	NETFS_DATA	 Netfs private data stored in the cookie
+	OBJECT_KEY	 Object key } 1 column, with separating comma
+	AUX_DATA	 Object aux data } presence may be configured
+	================ ======================================================
+
+The data shown may be filtered by attaching the a key to an appropriate keyring
+before viewing the file.  Something like::
+
+		keyctl add user fscache:objlist <restrictions> @s
+
+where <restrictions> are a selection of the following letters:
+
+	==	=========================================================
+	K	Show hexdump of object key (don't show if not given)
+	A	Show hexdump of object aux data (don't show if not given)
+	==	=========================================================
+
+and the following paired letters:
+
+	==	=========================================================
+	C	Show objects that have a cookie
+	c	Show objects that don't have a cookie
+	B	Show objects that are busy
+	b	Show objects that aren't busy
+	W	Show objects that have pending writes
+	w	Show objects that don't have pending writes
+	R	Show objects that have outstanding reads
+	r	Show objects that don't have outstanding reads
+	S	Show objects that have work queued
+	s	Show objects that don't have work queued
+	==	=========================================================
+
+If neither side of a letter pair is given, then both are implied.  For example:
+
+	keyctl add user fscache:objlist KB @s
+
+shows objects that are busy, and lists their object keys, but does not dump
+their auxiliary data.  It also implies "CcWwRrSs", but as 'B' is given, 'b' is
+not implied.
+
+By default all objects and all fields will be shown.
+
+
+Debugging
+=========
+
+If CONFIG_FSCACHE_DEBUG is enabled, the FS-Cache facility can have runtime
+debugging enabled by adjusting the value in::
+
+	/sys/module/fscache/parameters/debug
+
+This is a bitmask of debugging streams to enable:
+
+	=======	=======	===============================	=======================
+	BIT	VALUE	STREAM				POINT
+	=======	=======	===============================	=======================
+	0	1	Cache management		Function entry trace
+	1	2					Function exit trace
+	2	4					General
+	3	8	Cookie management		Function entry trace
+	4	16					Function exit trace
+	5	32					General
+	6	64	Page handling			Function entry trace
+	7	128					Function exit trace
+	8	256					General
+	9	512	Operation management		Function entry trace
+	10	1024					Function exit trace
+	11	2048					General
+	=======	=======	===============================	=======================
+
+The appropriate set of values should be OR'd together and the result written to
+the control file.  For example::
+
+	echo $((1|8|64)) >/sys/module/fscache/parameters/debug
+
+will turn on all function entry debugging.
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/caching/fscache.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/caching/fscache.txt
deleted file mode 100644
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-			  ==========================
-			  General Filesystem Caching
-			  ==========================
-
-========
-OVERVIEW
-========
-
-This facility is a general purpose cache for network filesystems, though it
-could be used for caching other things such as ISO9660 filesystems too.
-
-FS-Cache mediates between cache backends (such as CacheFS) and network
-filesystems:
-
-	+---------+
-	|         |                        +--------------+
-	|   NFS   |--+                     |              |
-	|         |  |                 +-->|   CacheFS    |
-	+---------+  |   +----------+  |   |  /dev/hda5   |
-	             |   |          |  |   +--------------+
-	+---------+  +-->|          |  |
-	|         |      |          |--+
-	|   AFS   |----->| FS-Cache |
-	|         |      |          |--+
-	+---------+  +-->|          |  |
-	             |   |          |  |   +--------------+
-	+---------+  |   +----------+  |   |              |
-	|         |  |                 +-->|  CacheFiles  |
-	|  ISOFS  |--+                     |  /var/cache  |
-	|         |                        +--------------+
-	+---------+
-
-Or to look at it another way, FS-Cache is a module that provides a caching
-facility to a network filesystem such that the cache is transparent to the
-user:
-
-	+---------+
-	|         |
-	| Server  |
-	|         |
-	+---------+
-	     |                  NETWORK
-	~~~~~|~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-	     |
-	     |           +----------+
-	     V           |          |
-	+---------+      |          |
-	|         |      |          |
-	|   NFS   |----->| FS-Cache |
-	|         |      |          |--+
-	+---------+      |          |  |   +--------------+   +--------------+
-	     |           |          |  |   |              |   |              |
-	     V           +----------+  +-->|  CacheFiles  |-->|  Ext3        |
-	+---------+                        |  /var/cache  |   |  /dev/sda6   |
-	|         |                        +--------------+   +--------------+
-	|   VFS   |                                ^                     ^
-	|         |                                |                     |
-	+---------+                                +--------------+      |
-	     |                  KERNEL SPACE                      |      |
-	~~~~~|~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~|~~~~~~|~~~~
-	     |                  USER SPACE                        |      |
-	     V                                                    |      |
-	+---------+                                           +--------------+
-	|         |                                           |              |
-	| Process |                                           | cachefilesd  |
-	|         |                                           |              |
-	+---------+                                           +--------------+
-
-
-FS-Cache does not follow the idea of completely loading every netfs file
-opened in its entirety into a cache before permitting it to be accessed and
-then serving the pages out of that cache rather than the netfs inode because:
-
- (1) It must be practical to operate without a cache.
-
- (2) The size of any accessible file must not be limited to the size of the
-     cache.
-
- (3) The combined size of all opened files (this includes mapped libraries)
-     must not be limited to the size of the cache.
-
- (4) The user should not be forced to download an entire file just to do a
-     one-off access of a small portion of it (such as might be done with the
-     "file" program).
-
-It instead serves the cache out in PAGE_SIZE chunks as and when requested by
-the netfs('s) using it.
-
-
-FS-Cache provides the following facilities:
-
- (1) More than one cache can be used at once.  Caches can be selected
-     explicitly by use of tags.
-
- (2) Caches can be added / removed at any time.
-
- (3) The netfs is provided with an interface that allows either party to
-     withdraw caching facilities from a file (required for (2)).
-
- (4) The interface to the netfs returns as few errors as possible, preferring
-     rather to let the netfs remain oblivious.
-
- (5) Cookies are used to represent indices, files and other objects to the
-     netfs.  The simplest cookie is just a NULL pointer - indicating nothing
-     cached there.
-
- (6) The netfs is allowed to propose - dynamically - any index hierarchy it
-     desires, though it must be aware that the index search function is
-     recursive, stack space is limited, and indices can only be children of
-     indices.
-
- (7) Data I/O is done direct to and from the netfs's pages.  The netfs
-     indicates that page A is at index B of the data-file represented by cookie
-     C, and that it should be read or written.  The cache backend may or may
-     not start I/O on that page, but if it does, a netfs callback will be
-     invoked to indicate completion.  The I/O may be either synchronous or
-     asynchronous.
-
- (8) Cookies can be "retired" upon release.  At this point FS-Cache will mark
-     them as obsolete and the index hierarchy rooted at that point will get
-     recycled.
-
- (9) The netfs provides a "match" function for index searches.  In addition to
-     saying whether a match was made or not, this can also specify that an
-     entry should be updated or deleted.
-
-(10) As much as possible is done asynchronously.
-
-
-FS-Cache maintains a virtual indexing tree in which all indices, files, objects
-and pages are kept.  Bits of this tree may actually reside in one or more
-caches.
-
-                                           FSDEF
-                                             |
-                        +------------------------------------+
-                        |                                    |
-                       NFS                                  AFS
-                        |                                    |
-           +--------------------------+                +-----------+
-           |                          |                |           |
-        homedir                     mirror          afs.org   redhat.com
-           |                          |                            |
-     +------------+           +---------------+              +----------+
-     |            |           |               |              |          |
-   00001        00002       00007           00125        vol00001   vol00002
-     |            |           |               |                         |
- +---+---+     +-----+      +---+      +------+------+            +-----+----+
- |   |   |     |     |      |   |      |      |      |            |     |    |
-PG0 PG1 PG2   PG0  XATTR   PG0 PG1   DIRENT DIRENT DIRENT        R/W   R/O  Bak
-                     |                                            |
-                    PG0                                       +-------+
-                                                              |       |
-                                                            00001   00003
-                                                              |
-                                                          +---+---+
-                                                          |   |   |
-                                                         PG0 PG1 PG2
-
-In the example above, you can see two netfs's being backed: NFS and AFS.  These
-have different index hierarchies:
-
- (*) The NFS primary index contains per-server indices.  Each server index is
-     indexed by NFS file handles to get data file objects.  Each data file
-     objects can have an array of pages, but may also have further child
-     objects, such as extended attributes and directory entries.  Extended
-     attribute objects themselves have page-array contents.
-
- (*) The AFS primary index contains per-cell indices.  Each cell index contains
-     per-logical-volume indices.  Each of volume index contains up to three
-     indices for the read-write, read-only and backup mirrors of those volumes.
-     Each of these contains vnode data file objects, each of which contains an
-     array of pages.
-
-The very top index is the FS-Cache master index in which individual netfs's
-have entries.
-
-Any index object may reside in more than one cache, provided it only has index
-children.  Any index with non-index object children will be assumed to only
-reside in one cache.
-
-
-The netfs API to FS-Cache can be found in:
-
-	Documentation/filesystems/caching/netfs-api.txt
-
-The cache backend API to FS-Cache can be found in:
-
-	Documentation/filesystems/caching/backend-api.txt
-
-A description of the internal representations and object state machine can be
-found in:
-
-	Documentation/filesystems/caching/object.rst
-
-
-=======================
-STATISTICAL INFORMATION
-=======================
-
-If FS-Cache is compiled with the following options enabled:
-
-	CONFIG_FSCACHE_STATS=y
-	CONFIG_FSCACHE_HISTOGRAM=y
-
-then it will gather certain statistics and display them through a number of
-proc files.
-
- (*) /proc/fs/fscache/stats
-
-     This shows counts of a number of events that can happen in FS-Cache:
-
-	CLASS	EVENT	MEANING
-	=======	=======	=======================================================
-	Cookies	idx=N	Number of index cookies allocated
-		dat=N	Number of data storage cookies allocated
-		spc=N	Number of special cookies allocated
-	Objects	alc=N	Number of objects allocated
-		nal=N	Number of object allocation failures
-		avl=N	Number of objects that reached the available state
-		ded=N	Number of objects that reached the dead state
-	ChkAux	non=N	Number of objects that didn't have a coherency check
-		ok=N	Number of objects that passed a coherency check
-		upd=N	Number of objects that needed a coherency data update
-		obs=N	Number of objects that were declared obsolete
-	Pages	mrk=N	Number of pages marked as being cached
-		unc=N	Number of uncache page requests seen
-	Acquire	n=N	Number of acquire cookie requests seen
-		nul=N	Number of acq reqs given a NULL parent
-		noc=N	Number of acq reqs rejected due to no cache available
-		ok=N	Number of acq reqs succeeded
-		nbf=N	Number of acq reqs rejected due to error
-		oom=N	Number of acq reqs failed on ENOMEM
-	Lookups	n=N	Number of lookup calls made on cache backends
-		neg=N	Number of negative lookups made
-		pos=N	Number of positive lookups made
-		crt=N	Number of objects created by lookup
-		tmo=N	Number of lookups timed out and requeued
-	Updates	n=N	Number of update cookie requests seen
-		nul=N	Number of upd reqs given a NULL parent
-		run=N	Number of upd reqs granted CPU time
-	Relinqs	n=N	Number of relinquish cookie requests seen
-		nul=N	Number of rlq reqs given a NULL parent
-		wcr=N	Number of rlq reqs waited on completion of creation
-	AttrChg	n=N	Number of attribute changed requests seen
-		ok=N	Number of attr changed requests queued
-		nbf=N	Number of attr changed rejected -ENOBUFS
-		oom=N	Number of attr changed failed -ENOMEM
-		run=N	Number of attr changed ops given CPU time
-	Allocs	n=N	Number of allocation requests seen
-		ok=N	Number of successful alloc reqs
-		wt=N	Number of alloc reqs that waited on lookup completion
-		nbf=N	Number of alloc reqs rejected -ENOBUFS
-		int=N	Number of alloc reqs aborted -ERESTARTSYS
-		ops=N	Number of alloc reqs submitted
-		owt=N	Number of alloc reqs waited for CPU time
-		abt=N	Number of alloc reqs aborted due to object death
-	Retrvls	n=N	Number of retrieval (read) requests seen
-		ok=N	Number of successful retr reqs
-		wt=N	Number of retr reqs that waited on lookup completion
-		nod=N	Number of retr reqs returned -ENODATA
-		nbf=N	Number of retr reqs rejected -ENOBUFS
-		int=N	Number of retr reqs aborted -ERESTARTSYS
-		oom=N	Number of retr reqs failed -ENOMEM
-		ops=N	Number of retr reqs submitted
-		owt=N	Number of retr reqs waited for CPU time
-		abt=N	Number of retr reqs aborted due to object death
-	Stores	n=N	Number of storage (write) requests seen
-		ok=N	Number of successful store reqs
-		agn=N	Number of store reqs on a page already pending storage
-		nbf=N	Number of store reqs rejected -ENOBUFS
-		oom=N	Number of store reqs failed -ENOMEM
-		ops=N	Number of store reqs submitted
-		run=N	Number of store reqs granted CPU time
-		pgs=N	Number of pages given store req processing time
-		rxd=N	Number of store reqs deleted from tracking tree
-		olm=N	Number of store reqs over store limit
-	VmScan	nos=N	Number of release reqs against pages with no pending store
-		gon=N	Number of release reqs against pages stored by time lock granted
-		bsy=N	Number of release reqs ignored due to in-progress store
-		can=N	Number of page stores cancelled due to release req
-	Ops	pend=N	Number of times async ops added to pending queues
-		run=N	Number of times async ops given CPU time
-		enq=N	Number of times async ops queued for processing
-		can=N	Number of async ops cancelled
-		rej=N	Number of async ops rejected due to object lookup/create failure
-		ini=N	Number of async ops initialised
-		dfr=N	Number of async ops queued for deferred release
-		rel=N	Number of async ops released (should equal ini=N when idle)
-		gc=N	Number of deferred-release async ops garbage collected
-	CacheOp	alo=N	Number of in-progress alloc_object() cache ops
-		luo=N	Number of in-progress lookup_object() cache ops
-		luc=N	Number of in-progress lookup_complete() cache ops
-		gro=N	Number of in-progress grab_object() cache ops
-		upo=N	Number of in-progress update_object() cache ops
-		dro=N	Number of in-progress drop_object() cache ops
-		pto=N	Number of in-progress put_object() cache ops
-		syn=N	Number of in-progress sync_cache() cache ops
-		atc=N	Number of in-progress attr_changed() cache ops
-		rap=N	Number of in-progress read_or_alloc_page() cache ops
-		ras=N	Number of in-progress read_or_alloc_pages() cache ops
-		alp=N	Number of in-progress allocate_page() cache ops
-		als=N	Number of in-progress allocate_pages() cache ops
-		wrp=N	Number of in-progress write_page() cache ops
-		ucp=N	Number of in-progress uncache_page() cache ops
-		dsp=N	Number of in-progress dissociate_pages() cache ops
-	CacheEv	nsp=N	Number of object lookups/creations rejected due to lack of space
-		stl=N	Number of stale objects deleted
-		rtr=N	Number of objects retired when relinquished
-		cul=N	Number of objects culled
-
-
- (*) /proc/fs/fscache/histogram
-
-	cat /proc/fs/fscache/histogram
-	JIFS  SECS  OBJ INST  OP RUNS   OBJ RUNS  RETRV DLY RETRIEVLS
-	===== ===== ========= ========= ========= ========= =========
-
-     This shows the breakdown of the number of times each amount of time
-     between 0 jiffies and HZ-1 jiffies a variety of tasks took to run.  The
-     columns are as follows:
-
-	COLUMN		TIME MEASUREMENT
-	=======		=======================================================
-	OBJ INST	Length of time to instantiate an object
-	OP RUNS		Length of time a call to process an operation took
-	OBJ RUNS	Length of time a call to process an object event took
-	RETRV DLY	Time between an requesting a read and lookup completing
-	RETRIEVLS	Time between beginning and end of a retrieval
-
-     Each row shows the number of events that took a particular range of times.
-     Each step is 1 jiffy in size.  The JIFS column indicates the particular
-     jiffy range covered, and the SECS field the equivalent number of seconds.
-
-
-===========
-OBJECT LIST
-===========
-
-If CONFIG_FSCACHE_OBJECT_LIST is enabled, the FS-Cache facility will maintain a
-list of all the objects currently allocated and allow them to be viewed
-through:
-
-	/proc/fs/fscache/objects
-
-This will look something like:
-
-	[root@andromeda ~]# head /proc/fs/fscache/objects
-	OBJECT   PARENT   STAT CHLDN OPS OOP IPR EX READS EM EV F S | NETFS_COOKIE_DEF TY FL NETFS_DATA       OBJECT_KEY, AUX_DATA
-	======== ======== ==== ===== === === === == ===== == == = = | ================ == == ================ ================
-	   17e4b        2 ACTV     0   0   0   0  0     0 7b  4 0 0 | NFS.fh           DT  0 ffff88001dd82820 010006017edcf8bbc93b43298fdfbe71e50b57b13a172c0117f38472, e567634700000000000000000000000063f2404a000000000000000000000000c9030000000000000000000063f2404a
-	   1693a        2 ACTV     0   0   0   0  0     0 7b  4 0 0 | NFS.fh           DT  0 ffff88002db23380 010006017edcf8bbc93b43298fdfbe71e50b57b1e0162c01a2df0ea6, 420ebc4a000000000000000000000000420ebc4a0000000000000000000000000e1801000000000000000000420ebc4a
-
-where the first set of columns before the '|' describe the object:
-
-	COLUMN	DESCRIPTION
-	=======	===============================================================
-	OBJECT	Object debugging ID (appears as OBJ%x in some debug messages)
-	PARENT	Debugging ID of parent object
-	STAT	Object state
-	CHLDN	Number of child objects of this object
-	OPS	Number of outstanding operations on this object
-	OOP	Number of outstanding child object management operations
-	IPR
-	EX	Number of outstanding exclusive operations
-	READS	Number of outstanding read operations
-	EM	Object's event mask
-	EV	Events raised on this object
-	F	Object flags
-	S	Object work item busy state mask (1:pending 2:running)
-
-and the second set of columns describe the object's cookie, if present:
-
-	COLUMN		DESCRIPTION
-	===============	=======================================================
-	NETFS_COOKIE_DEF Name of netfs cookie definition
-	TY		Cookie type (IX - index, DT - data, hex - special)
-	FL		Cookie flags
-	NETFS_DATA	Netfs private data stored in the cookie
-	OBJECT_KEY	Object key	} 1 column, with separating comma
-	AUX_DATA	Object aux data	} presence may be configured
-
-The data shown may be filtered by attaching the a key to an appropriate keyring
-before viewing the file.  Something like:
-
-		keyctl add user fscache:objlist <restrictions> @s
-
-where <restrictions> are a selection of the following letters:
-
-	K	Show hexdump of object key (don't show if not given)
-	A	Show hexdump of object aux data (don't show if not given)
-
-and the following paired letters:
-
-	C	Show objects that have a cookie
-	c	Show objects that don't have a cookie
-	B	Show objects that are busy
-	b	Show objects that aren't busy
-	W	Show objects that have pending writes
-	w	Show objects that don't have pending writes
-	R	Show objects that have outstanding reads
-	r	Show objects that don't have outstanding reads
-	S	Show objects that have work queued
-	s	Show objects that don't have work queued
-
-If neither side of a letter pair is given, then both are implied.  For example:
-
-	keyctl add user fscache:objlist KB @s
-
-shows objects that are busy, and lists their object keys, but does not dump
-their auxiliary data.  It also implies "CcWwRrSs", but as 'B' is given, 'b' is
-not implied.
-
-By default all objects and all fields will be shown.
-
-
-=========
-DEBUGGING
-=========
-
-If CONFIG_FSCACHE_DEBUG is enabled, the FS-Cache facility can have runtime
-debugging enabled by adjusting the value in:
-
-	/sys/module/fscache/parameters/debug
-
-This is a bitmask of debugging streams to enable:
-
-	BIT	VALUE	STREAM				POINT
-	=======	=======	===============================	=======================
-	0	1	Cache management		Function entry trace
-	1	2					Function exit trace
-	2	4					General
-	3	8	Cookie management		Function entry trace
-	4	16					Function exit trace
-	5	32					General
-	6	64	Page handling			Function entry trace
-	7	128					Function exit trace
-	8	256					General
-	9	512	Operation management		Function entry trace
-	10	1024					Function exit trace
-	11	2048					General
-
-The appropriate set of values should be OR'd together and the result written to
-the control file.  For example:
-
-	echo $((1|8|64)) >/sys/module/fscache/parameters/debug
-
-will turn on all function entry debugging.
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/caching/index.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/caching/index.rst
index e5ec95ff0be2..f488747630aa 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/caching/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/caching/index.rst
@@ -6,4 +6,5 @@ Filesystem Caching
 .. toctree::
    :maxdepth: 2
 
+   fscache
    object
diff --git a/fs/fscache/Kconfig b/fs/fscache/Kconfig
index 506c5e643f0d..5e796e6c38e5 100644
--- a/fs/fscache/Kconfig
+++ b/fs/fscache/Kconfig
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ config FSCACHE
 	  Different sorts of caches can be plugged in, depending on the
 	  resources available.
 
-	  See Documentation/filesystems/caching/fscache.txt for more information.
+	  See Documentation/filesystems/caching/fscache.rst for more information.
 
 config FSCACHE_STATS
 	bool "Gather statistical information on local caching"
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ config FSCACHE_STATS
 	  between CPUs.  On the other hand, the stats are very useful for
 	  debugging purposes.  Saying 'Y' here is recommended.
 
-	  See Documentation/filesystems/caching/fscache.txt for more information.
+	  See Documentation/filesystems/caching/fscache.rst for more information.
 
 config FSCACHE_HISTOGRAM
 	bool "Gather latency information on local caching"
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ config FSCACHE_HISTOGRAM
 	  bouncing between CPUs.  On the other hand, the histogram may be
 	  useful for debugging purposes.  Saying 'N' here is recommended.
 
-	  See Documentation/filesystems/caching/fscache.txt for more information.
+	  See Documentation/filesystems/caching/fscache.rst for more information.
 
 config FSCACHE_DEBUG
 	bool "Debug FS-Cache"
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ config FSCACHE_DEBUG
 	  management module.  If this is set, the debugging output may be
 	  enabled by setting bits in /sys/modules/fscache/parameter/debug.
 
-	  See Documentation/filesystems/caching/fscache.txt for more information.
+	  See Documentation/filesystems/caching/fscache.rst for more information.
 
 config FSCACHE_OBJECT_LIST
 	bool "Maintain global object list for debugging purposes"
-- 
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