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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/index.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/index.rst
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+=============
+NFS
+=============
+
+.. toctree::
+    :maxdepth: 1
+
+    nfs-client
+    nfsroot
+    nfs-rdma
+    nfsd-admin-interfaces
+    nfs-idmapper
+    pnfs-block-server
+    pnfs-scsi-server
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfs-client.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfs-client.rst
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+==========
+NFS Client
+==========
+
+The NFS client
+==============
+
+The NFS version 2 protocol was first documented in RFC1094 (March 1989).
+Since then two more major releases of NFS have been published, with NFSv3
+being documented in RFC1813 (June 1995), and NFSv4 in RFC3530 (April
+2003).
+
+The Linux NFS client currently supports all the above published versions,
+and work is in progress on adding support for minor version 1 of the NFSv4
+protocol.
+
+The purpose of this document is to provide information on some of the
+special features of the NFS client that can be configured by system
+administrators.
+
+
+The nfs4_unique_id parameter
+============================
+
+NFSv4 requires clients to identify themselves to servers with a unique
+string.  File open and lock state shared between one client and one server
+is associated with this identity.  To support robust NFSv4 state recovery
+and transparent state migration, this identity string must not change
+across client reboots.
+
+Without any other intervention, the Linux client uses a string that contains
+the local system's node name.  System administrators, however, often do not
+take care to ensure that node names are fully qualified and do not change
+over the lifetime of a client system.  Node names can have other
+administrative requirements that require particular behavior that does not
+work well as part of an nfs_client_id4 string.
+
+The nfs.nfs4_unique_id boot parameter specifies a unique string that can be
+used together with  a system's node name when an NFS client identifies itself to
+a server.  Thus, if the system's node name is not unique, its
+nfs.nfs4_unique_id can help prevent collisions with other clients.
+
+The nfs.nfs4_unique_id string is typically a UUID, though it can contain
+anything that is believed to be unique across all NFS clients.  An
+nfs4_unique_id string should be chosen when a client system is installed,
+just as a system's root file system gets a fresh UUID in its label at
+install time.
+
+The string should remain fixed for the lifetime of the client.  It can be
+changed safely if care is taken that the client shuts down cleanly and all
+outstanding NFSv4 state has expired, to prevent loss of NFSv4 state.
+
+This string can be stored in an NFS client's grub.conf, or it can be provided
+via a net boot facility such as PXE.  It may also be specified as an nfs.ko
+module parameter.
+
+This uniquifier string will be the same for all NFS clients running in
+containers unless it is overridden by a value written to
+/sys/fs/nfs/net/nfs_client/identifier which will be local to the network
+namespace of the process which writes.
+
+
+The DNS resolver
+================
+
+NFSv4 allows for one server to refer the NFS client to data that has been
+migrated onto another server by means of the special "fs_locations"
+attribute. See `RFC3530 Section 6: Filesystem Migration and Replication`_ and
+`Implementation Guide for Referrals in NFSv4`_.
+
+.. _RFC3530 Section 6\: Filesystem Migration and Replication: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3530#section-6
+.. _Implementation Guide for Referrals in NFSv4: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-nfsv4-referrals-00
+
+The fs_locations information can take the form of either an ip address and
+a path, or a DNS hostname and a path. The latter requires the NFS client to
+do a DNS lookup in order to mount the new volume, and hence the need for an
+upcall to allow userland to provide this service.
+
+Assuming that the user has the 'rpc_pipefs' filesystem mounted in the usual
+/var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs, the upcall consists of the following steps:
+
+   (1) The process checks the dns_resolve cache to see if it contains a
+       valid entry. If so, it returns that entry and exits.
+
+   (2) If no valid entry exists, the helper script '/sbin/nfs_cache_getent'
+       (may be changed using the 'nfs.cache_getent' kernel boot parameter)
+       is run, with two arguments:
+       - the cache name, "dns_resolve"
+       - the hostname to resolve
+
+   (3) After looking up the corresponding ip address, the helper script
+       writes the result into the rpc_pipefs pseudo-file
+       '/var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs/cache/dns_resolve/channel'
+       in the following (text) format:
+
+		"<ip address> <hostname> <ttl>\n"
+
+       Where <ip address> is in the usual IPv4 (123.456.78.90) or IPv6
+       (ffee:ddcc:bbaa:9988:7766:5544:3322:1100, ffee::1100, ...) format.
+       <hostname> is identical to the second argument of the helper
+       script, and <ttl> is the 'time to live' of this cache entry (in
+       units of seconds).
+
+       .. note::
+            If <ip address> is invalid, say the string "0", then a negative
+            entry is created, which will cause the kernel to treat the hostname
+            as having no valid DNS translation.
+
+
+
+
+A basic sample /sbin/nfs_cache_getent
+=====================================
+.. code-block:: sh
+
+    #!/bin/bash
+    #
+    ttl=600
+    #
+    cut=/usr/bin/cut
+    getent=/usr/bin/getent
+    rpc_pipefs=/var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs
+    #
+    die()
+    {
+        echo "Usage: $0 cache_name entry_name"
+        exit 1
+    }
+
+    [ $# -lt 2 ] && die
+    cachename="$1"
+    cache_path=${rpc_pipefs}/cache/${cachename}/channel
+
+    case "${cachename}" in
+        dns_resolve)
+            name="$2"
+            result="$(${getent} hosts ${name} | ${cut} -f1 -d\ )"
+            [ -z "${result}" ] && result="0"
+            ;;
+        *)
+            die
+            ;;
+    esac
+    echo "${result} ${name} ${ttl}" >${cache_path}
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfs-idmapper.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfs-idmapper.rst
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+=============
+NFS ID Mapper
+=============
+
+Id mapper is used by NFS to translate user and group ids into names, and to
+translate user and group names into ids.  Part of this translation involves
+performing an upcall to userspace to request the information.  There are two
+ways NFS could obtain this information: placing a call to /sbin/request-key
+or by placing a call to the rpc.idmap daemon.
+
+NFS will attempt to call /sbin/request-key first.  If this succeeds, the
+result will be cached using the generic request-key cache.  This call should
+only fail if /etc/request-key.conf is not configured for the id_resolver key
+type, see the "Configuring" section below if you wish to use the request-key
+method.
+
+If the call to /sbin/request-key fails (if /etc/request-key.conf is not
+configured with the id_resolver key type), then the idmapper will ask the
+legacy rpc.idmap daemon for the id mapping.  This result will be stored
+in a custom NFS idmap cache.
+
+
+Configuring
+===========
+
+The file /etc/request-key.conf will need to be modified so /sbin/request-key can
+direct the upcall.  The following line should be added:
+
+``#OP	TYPE	DESCRIPTION	CALLOUT INFO	PROGRAM ARG1 ARG2 ARG3 ...``
+``#======	=======	===============	===============	===============================``
+``create	id_resolver	*	*		/usr/sbin/nfs.idmap %k %d 600``
+
+
+This will direct all id_resolver requests to the program /usr/sbin/nfs.idmap.
+The last parameter, 600, defines how many seconds into the future the key will
+expire.  This parameter is optional for /usr/sbin/nfs.idmap.  When the timeout
+is not specified, nfs.idmap will default to 600 seconds.
+
+id mapper uses for key descriptions::
+
+	  uid:  Find the UID for the given user
+	  gid:  Find the GID for the given group
+	 user:  Find the user  name for the given UID
+	group:  Find the group name for the given GID
+
+You can handle any of these individually, rather than using the generic upcall
+program.  If you would like to use your own program for a uid lookup then you
+would edit your request-key.conf so it look similar to this:
+
+``#OP	TYPE	DESCRIPTION	CALLOUT INFO	PROGRAM ARG1 ARG2 ARG3 ...``
+``#======	=======	===============	===============	===============================``
+``create	id_resolver	uid:*	*		/some/other/program %k %d 600``
+``create	id_resolver	*	*		/usr/sbin/nfs.idmap %k %d 600``
+
+
+Notice that the new line was added above the line for the generic program.
+request-key will find the first matching line and corresponding program.  In
+this case, /some/other/program will handle all uid lookups and
+/usr/sbin/nfs.idmap will handle gid, user, and group lookups.
+
+See Documentation/security/keys/request-key.rst for more information
+about the request-key function.
+
+
+nfs.idmap
+=========
+
+nfs.idmap is designed to be called by request-key, and should not be run "by
+hand".  This program takes two arguments, a serialized key and a key
+description.  The serialized key is first converted into a key_serial_t, and
+then passed as an argument to keyctl_instantiate (both are part of keyutils.h).
+
+The actual lookups are performed by functions found in nfsidmap.h.  nfs.idmap
+determines the correct function to call by looking at the first part of the
+description string.  For example, a uid lookup description will appear as
+"uid:user@domain".
+
+nfs.idmap will return 0 if the key was instantiated, and non-zero otherwise.
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfs-rdma.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfs-rdma.rst
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+===================
+Setting up NFS/RDMA
+===================
+
+:Author:
+  NetApp and Open Grid Computing (May 29, 2008)
+
+.. warning::
+  This document is probably obsolete.
+
+Overview
+========
+
+This document describes how to install and setup the Linux NFS/RDMA client
+and server software.
+
+The NFS/RDMA client was first included in Linux 2.6.24. The NFS/RDMA server
+was first included in the following release, Linux 2.6.25.
+
+In our testing, we have obtained excellent performance results (full 10Gbit
+wire bandwidth at minimal client CPU) under many workloads. The code passes
+the full Connectathon test suite and operates over both Infiniband and iWARP
+RDMA adapters.
+
+Getting Help
+============
+
+If you get stuck, you can ask questions on the
+nfs-rdma-devel@lists.sourceforge.net mailing list.
+
+Installation
+============
+
+These instructions are a step by step guide to building a machine for
+use with NFS/RDMA.
+
+- Install an RDMA device
+
+  Any device supported by the drivers in drivers/infiniband/hw is acceptable.
+
+  Testing has been performed using several Mellanox-based IB cards, the
+  Ammasso AMS1100 iWARP adapter, and the Chelsio cxgb3 iWARP adapter.
+
+- Install a Linux distribution and tools
+
+  The first kernel release to contain both the NFS/RDMA client and server was
+  Linux 2.6.25  Therefore, a distribution compatible with this and subsequent
+  Linux kernel release should be installed.
+
+  The procedures described in this document have been tested with
+  distributions from Red Hat's Fedora Project (http://fedora.redhat.com/).
+
+- Install nfs-utils-1.1.2 or greater on the client
+
+  An NFS/RDMA mount point can be obtained by using the mount.nfs command in
+  nfs-utils-1.1.2 or greater (nfs-utils-1.1.1 was the first nfs-utils
+  version with support for NFS/RDMA mounts, but for various reasons we
+  recommend using nfs-utils-1.1.2 or greater). To see which version of
+  mount.nfs you are using, type:
+
+  .. code-block:: sh
+
+    $ /sbin/mount.nfs -V
+
+  If the version is less than 1.1.2 or the command does not exist,
+  you should install the latest version of nfs-utils.
+
+  Download the latest package from: https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/nfs
+
+  Uncompress the package and follow the installation instructions.
+
+  If you will not need the idmapper and gssd executables (you do not need
+  these to create an NFS/RDMA enabled mount command), the installation
+  process can be simplified by disabling these features when running
+  configure:
+
+  .. code-block:: sh
+
+    $ ./configure --disable-gss --disable-nfsv4
+
+  To build nfs-utils you will need the tcp_wrappers package installed. For
+  more information on this see the package's README and INSTALL files.
+
+  After building the nfs-utils package, there will be a mount.nfs binary in
+  the utils/mount directory. This binary can be used to initiate NFS v2, v3,
+  or v4 mounts. To initiate a v4 mount, the binary must be called
+  mount.nfs4.  The standard technique is to create a symlink called
+  mount.nfs4 to mount.nfs.
+
+  This mount.nfs binary should be installed at /sbin/mount.nfs as follows:
+
+  .. code-block:: sh
+
+    $ sudo cp utils/mount/mount.nfs /sbin/mount.nfs
+
+  In this location, mount.nfs will be invoked automatically for NFS mounts
+  by the system mount command.
+
+    .. note::
+      mount.nfs and therefore nfs-utils-1.1.2 or greater is only needed
+      on the NFS client machine. You do not need this specific version of
+      nfs-utils on the server. Furthermore, only the mount.nfs command from
+      nfs-utils-1.1.2 is needed on the client.
+
+- Install a Linux kernel with NFS/RDMA
+
+  The NFS/RDMA client and server are both included in the mainline Linux
+  kernel version 2.6.25 and later. This and other versions of the Linux
+  kernel can be found at: https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/
+
+  Download the sources and place them in an appropriate location.
+
+- Configure the RDMA stack
+
+  Make sure your kernel configuration has RDMA support enabled. Under
+  Device Drivers -> InfiniBand support, update the kernel configuration
+  to enable InfiniBand support [NOTE: the option name is misleading. Enabling
+  InfiniBand support is required for all RDMA devices (IB, iWARP, etc.)].
+
+  Enable the appropriate IB HCA support (mlx4, mthca, ehca, ipath, etc.) or
+  iWARP adapter support (amso, cxgb3, etc.).
+
+  If you are using InfiniBand, be sure to enable IP-over-InfiniBand support.
+
+- Configure the NFS client and server
+
+  Your kernel configuration must also have NFS file system support and/or
+  NFS server support enabled. These and other NFS related configuration
+  options can be found under File Systems -> Network File Systems.
+
+- Build, install, reboot
+
+  The NFS/RDMA code will be enabled automatically if NFS and RDMA
+  are turned on. The NFS/RDMA client and server are configured via the hidden
+  SUNRPC_XPRT_RDMA config option that depends on SUNRPC and INFINIBAND. The
+  value of SUNRPC_XPRT_RDMA will be:
+
+    #. N if either SUNRPC or INFINIBAND are N, in this case the NFS/RDMA client
+       and server will not be built
+
+    #. M if both SUNRPC and INFINIBAND are on (M or Y) and at least one is M,
+       in this case the NFS/RDMA client and server will be built as modules
+
+    #. Y if both SUNRPC and INFINIBAND are Y, in this case the NFS/RDMA client
+       and server will be built into the kernel
+
+  Therefore, if you have followed the steps above and turned no NFS and RDMA,
+  the NFS/RDMA client and server will be built.
+
+  Build a new kernel, install it, boot it.
+
+Check RDMA and NFS Setup
+========================
+
+Before configuring the NFS/RDMA software, it is a good idea to test
+your new kernel to ensure that the kernel is working correctly.
+In particular, it is a good idea to verify that the RDMA stack
+is functioning as expected and standard NFS over TCP/IP and/or UDP/IP
+is working properly.
+
+- Check RDMA Setup
+
+  If you built the RDMA components as modules, load them at
+  this time. For example, if you are using a Mellanox Tavor/Sinai/Arbel
+  card:
+
+  .. code-block:: sh
+
+    $ modprobe ib_mthca
+    $ modprobe ib_ipoib
+
+  If you are using InfiniBand, make sure there is a Subnet Manager (SM)
+  running on the network. If your IB switch has an embedded SM, you can
+  use it. Otherwise, you will need to run an SM, such as OpenSM, on one
+  of your end nodes.
+
+  If an SM is running on your network, you should see the following:
+
+  .. code-block:: sh
+
+    $ cat /sys/class/infiniband/driverX/ports/1/state
+    4: ACTIVE
+
+  where driverX is mthca0, ipath5, ehca3, etc.
+
+  To further test the InfiniBand software stack, use IPoIB (this
+  assumes you have two IB hosts named host1 and host2):
+
+  .. code-block:: sh
+
+    host1$ ip link set dev ib0 up
+    host1$ ip address add dev ib0 a.b.c.x
+    host2$ ip link set dev ib0 up
+    host2$ ip address add dev ib0 a.b.c.y
+    host1$ ping a.b.c.y
+    host2$ ping a.b.c.x
+
+  For other device types, follow the appropriate procedures.
+
+- Check NFS Setup
+
+  For the NFS components enabled above (client and/or server),
+  test their functionality over standard Ethernet using TCP/IP or UDP/IP.
+
+NFS/RDMA Setup
+==============
+
+We recommend that you use two machines, one to act as the client and
+one to act as the server.
+
+One time configuration:
+-----------------------
+
+- On the server system, configure the /etc/exports file and start the NFS/RDMA server.
+
+  Exports entries with the following formats have been tested::
+
+  /vol0   192.168.0.47(fsid=0,rw,async,insecure,no_root_squash)
+  /vol0   192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0(fsid=0,rw,async,insecure,no_root_squash)
+
+  The IP address(es) is(are) the client's IPoIB address for an InfiniBand
+  HCA or the client's iWARP address(es) for an RNIC.
+
+  .. note::
+    The "insecure" option must be used because the NFS/RDMA client does
+    not use a reserved port.
+
+Each time a machine boots:
+--------------------------
+
+- Load and configure the RDMA drivers
+
+  For InfiniBand using a Mellanox adapter:
+
+  .. code-block:: sh
+
+    $ modprobe ib_mthca
+    $ modprobe ib_ipoib
+    $ ip li set dev ib0 up
+    $ ip addr add dev ib0 a.b.c.d
+
+  .. note::
+    Please use unique addresses for the client and server!
+
+- Start the NFS server
+
+  If the NFS/RDMA server was built as a module (CONFIG_SUNRPC_XPRT_RDMA=m in
+  kernel config), load the RDMA transport module:
+
+  .. code-block:: sh
+
+    $ modprobe svcrdma
+
+  Regardless of how the server was built (module or built-in), start the
+  server:
+
+  .. code-block:: sh
+
+    $ /etc/init.d/nfs start
+
+  or
+
+  .. code-block:: sh
+
+    $ service nfs start
+
+  Instruct the server to listen on the RDMA transport:
+
+  .. code-block:: sh
+
+    $ echo rdma 20049 > /proc/fs/nfsd/portlist
+
+- On the client system
+
+  If the NFS/RDMA client was built as a module (CONFIG_SUNRPC_XPRT_RDMA=m in
+  kernel config), load the RDMA client module:
+
+  .. code-block:: sh
+
+    $ modprobe xprtrdma.ko
+
+  Regardless of how the client was built (module or built-in), use this
+  command to mount the NFS/RDMA server:
+
+  .. code-block:: sh
+
+    $ mount -o rdma,port=20049 <IPoIB-server-name-or-address>:/<export> /mnt
+
+  To verify that the mount is using RDMA, run "cat /proc/mounts" and check
+  the "proto" field for the given mount.
+
+  Congratulations! You're using NFS/RDMA!
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsd-admin-interfaces.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsd-admin-interfaces.rst
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+==================================
+Administrative interfaces for nfsd
+==================================
+
+Note that normally these interfaces are used only by the utilities in
+nfs-utils.
+
+nfsd is controlled mainly by pseudofiles under the "nfsd" filesystem,
+which is normally mounted at /proc/fs/nfsd/.
+
+The server is always started by the first write of a nonzero value to
+nfsd/threads.
+
+Before doing that, NFSD can be told which sockets to listen on by
+writing to nfsd/portlist; that write may be:
+
+	-  an ascii-encoded file descriptor, which should refer to a
+	   bound (and listening, for tcp) socket, or
+	-  "transportname port", where transportname is currently either
+	   "udp", "tcp", or "rdma".
+
+If nfsd is started without doing any of these, then it will create one
+udp and one tcp listener at port 2049 (see nfsd_init_socks).
+
+On startup, nfsd and lockd grace periods start. nfsd is shut down by a write of
+0 to nfsd/threads.  All locks and state are thrown away at that point.
+
+Between startup and shutdown, the number of threads may be adjusted up
+or down by additional writes to nfsd/threads or by writes to
+nfsd/pool_threads.
+
+For more detail about files under nfsd/ and what they control, see
+fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c; most of them have detailed comments.
+
+Implementation notes
+====================
+
+Note that the rpc server requires the caller to serialize addition and
+removal of listening sockets, and startup and shutdown of the server.
+For nfsd this is done using nfsd_mutex.
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst
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+===============================================
+Mounting the root filesystem via NFS (nfsroot)
+===============================================
+
+:Authors:
+	Written 1996 by Gero Kuhlmann <gero@gkminix.han.de>
+
+	Updated 1997 by Martin Mares <mj@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
+
+	Updated 2006 by Nico Schottelius <nico-kernel-nfsroot@schottelius.org>
+
+	Updated 2006 by Horms <horms@verge.net.au>
+
+	Updated 2018 by Chris Novakovic <chris@chrisn.me.uk>
+
+
+
+In order to use a diskless system, such as an X-terminal or printer server for
+example, it is necessary for the root filesystem to be present on a non-disk
+device. This may be an initramfs (see
+Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.rst), a ramdisk (see
+Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst) or a filesystem mounted via NFS. The
+following text describes on how to use NFS for the root filesystem. For the rest
+of this text 'client' means the diskless system, and 'server' means the NFS
+server.
+
+
+
+
+Enabling nfsroot capabilities
+=============================
+
+In order to use nfsroot, NFS client support needs to be selected as
+built-in during configuration. Once this has been selected, the nfsroot
+option will become available, which should also be selected.
+
+In the networking options, kernel level autoconfiguration can be selected,
+along with the types of autoconfiguration to support. Selecting all of
+DHCP, BOOTP and RARP is safe.
+
+
+
+
+Kernel command line
+===================
+
+When the kernel has been loaded by a boot loader (see below) it needs to be
+told what root fs device to use. And in the case of nfsroot, where to find
+both the server and the name of the directory on the server to mount as root.
+This can be established using the following kernel command line parameters:
+
+
+root=/dev/nfs
+  This is necessary to enable the pseudo-NFS-device. Note that it's not a
+  real device but just a synonym to tell the kernel to use NFS instead of
+  a real device.
+
+
+nfsroot=[<server-ip>:]<root-dir>[,<nfs-options>]
+  If the `nfsroot' parameter is NOT given on the command line,
+  the default ``"/tftpboot/%s"`` will be used.
+
+  <server-ip>	Specifies the IP address of the NFS server.
+		The default address is determined by the ip parameter
+		(see below). This parameter allows the use of different
+		servers for IP autoconfiguration and NFS.
+
+  <root-dir>	Name of the directory on the server to mount as root.
+		If there is a "%s" token in the string, it will be
+		replaced by the ASCII-representation of the client's
+		IP address.
+
+  <nfs-options>	Standard NFS options. All options are separated by commas.
+		The following defaults are used::
+
+			port		= as given by server portmap daemon
+			rsize		= 4096
+			wsize		= 4096
+			timeo		= 7
+			retrans		= 3
+			acregmin	= 3
+			acregmax	= 60
+			acdirmin	= 30
+			acdirmax	= 60
+			flags		= hard, nointr, noposix, cto, ac
+
+
+ip=<client-ip>:<server-ip>:<gw-ip>:<netmask>:<hostname>:<device>:<autoconf>:<dns0-ip>:<dns1-ip>:<ntp0-ip>
+  This parameter tells the kernel how to configure IP addresses of devices
+  and also how to set up the IP routing table. It was originally called
+  nfsaddrs, but now the boot-time IP configuration works independently of
+  NFS, so it was renamed to ip and the old name remained as an alias for
+  compatibility reasons.
+
+  If this parameter is missing from the kernel command line, all fields are
+  assumed to be empty, and the defaults mentioned below apply. In general
+  this means that the kernel tries to configure everything using
+  autoconfiguration.
+
+  The <autoconf> parameter can appear alone as the value to the ip
+  parameter (without all the ':' characters before).  If the value is
+  "ip=off" or "ip=none", no autoconfiguration will take place, otherwise
+  autoconfiguration will take place.  The most common way to use this
+  is "ip=dhcp".
+
+  <client-ip>	IP address of the client.
+  		Default:  Determined using autoconfiguration.
+
+  <server-ip>	IP address of the NFS server.
+		If RARP is used to determine
+		the client address and this parameter is NOT empty only
+		replies from the specified server are accepted.
+
+		Only required for NFS root. That is autoconfiguration
+		will not be triggered if it is missing and NFS root is not
+		in operation.
+
+		Value is exported to /proc/net/pnp with the prefix "bootserver "
+		(see below).
+
+		Default: Determined using autoconfiguration.
+		The address of the autoconfiguration server is used.
+
+  <gw-ip>	IP address of a gateway if the server is on a different subnet.
+		Default: Determined using autoconfiguration.
+
+  <netmask>	Netmask for local network interface.
+		If unspecified the netmask is derived from the client IP address
+		assuming classful addressing.
+
+		Default:  Determined using autoconfiguration.
+
+  <hostname>	Name of the client.
+		If a '.' character is present, anything
+		before the first '.' is used as the client's hostname, and anything
+		after it is used as its NIS domain name. May be supplied by
+		autoconfiguration, but its absence will not trigger autoconfiguration.
+		If specified and DHCP is used, the user-provided hostname (and NIS
+		domain name, if present) will be carried in the DHCP request; this
+		may cause a DNS record to be created or updated for the client.
+
+  		Default: Client IP address is used in ASCII notation.
+
+  <device>	Name of network device to use.
+		Default: If the host only has one device, it is used.
+		Otherwise the device is determined using
+		autoconfiguration. This is done by sending
+		autoconfiguration requests out of all devices,
+		and using the device that received the first reply.
+
+  <autoconf>	Method to use for autoconfiguration.
+		In the case of options
+		which specify multiple autoconfiguration protocols,
+		requests are sent using all protocols, and the first one
+		to reply is used.
+
+		Only autoconfiguration protocols that have been compiled
+		into the kernel will be used, regardless of the value of
+		this option::
+
+                  off or none: don't use autoconfiguration
+				(do static IP assignment instead)
+		  on or any:   use any protocol available in the kernel
+			       (default)
+		  dhcp:        use DHCP
+		  bootp:       use BOOTP
+		  rarp:        use RARP
+		  both:        use both BOOTP and RARP but not DHCP
+		               (old option kept for backwards compatibility)
+
+		if dhcp is used, the client identifier can be used by following
+		format "ip=dhcp,client-id-type,client-id-value"
+
+                Default: any
+
+  <dns0-ip>	IP address of primary nameserver.
+		Value is exported to /proc/net/pnp with the prefix "nameserver "
+		(see below).
+
+		Default: None if not using autoconfiguration; determined
+		automatically if using autoconfiguration.
+
+  <dns1-ip>	IP address of secondary nameserver.
+		See <dns0-ip>.
+
+  <ntp0-ip>	IP address of a Network Time Protocol (NTP) server.
+		Value is exported to /proc/net/ipconfig/ntp_servers, but is
+		otherwise unused (see below).
+
+		Default: None if not using autoconfiguration; determined
+		automatically if using autoconfiguration.
+
+  After configuration (whether manual or automatic) is complete, two files
+  are created in the following format; lines are omitted if their respective
+  value is empty following configuration:
+
+  - /proc/net/pnp:
+
+	#PROTO: <DHCP|BOOTP|RARP|MANUAL>	(depending on configuration method)
+	domain <dns-domain>			(if autoconfigured, the DNS domain)
+	nameserver <dns0-ip>			(primary name server IP)
+	nameserver <dns1-ip>			(secondary name server IP)
+	nameserver <dns2-ip>			(tertiary name server IP)
+	bootserver <server-ip>			(NFS server IP)
+
+  - /proc/net/ipconfig/ntp_servers:
+
+	<ntp0-ip>				(NTP server IP)
+	<ntp1-ip>				(NTP server IP)
+	<ntp2-ip>				(NTP server IP)
+
+  <dns-domain> and <dns2-ip> (in /proc/net/pnp) and <ntp1-ip> and <ntp2-ip>
+  (in /proc/net/ipconfig/ntp_servers) are requested during autoconfiguration;
+  they cannot be specified as part of the "ip=" kernel command line parameter.
+
+  Because the "domain" and "nameserver" options are recognised by DNS
+  resolvers, /etc/resolv.conf is often linked to /proc/net/pnp on systems
+  that use an NFS root filesystem.
+
+  Note that the kernel will not synchronise the system time with any NTP
+  servers it discovers; this is the responsibility of a user space process
+  (e.g. an initrd/initramfs script that passes the IP addresses listed in
+  /proc/net/ipconfig/ntp_servers to an NTP client before mounting the real
+  root filesystem if it is on NFS).
+
+
+nfsrootdebug
+  This parameter enables debugging messages to appear in the kernel
+  log at boot time so that administrators can verify that the correct
+  NFS mount options, server address, and root path are passed to the
+  NFS client.
+
+
+rdinit=<executable file>
+  To specify which file contains the program that starts system
+  initialization, administrators can use this command line parameter.
+  The default value of this parameter is "/init".  If the specified
+  file exists and the kernel can execute it, root filesystem related
+  kernel command line parameters, including 'nfsroot=', are ignored.
+
+  A description of the process of mounting the root file system can be
+  found in Documentation/driver-api/early-userspace/early_userspace_support.rst
+
+
+Boot Loader
+===========
+
+To get the kernel into memory different approaches can be used.
+They depend on various facilities being available:
+
+
+- Booting from a floppy using syslinux
+
+	When building kernels, an easy way to create a boot floppy that uses
+	syslinux is to use the zdisk or bzdisk make targets which use zimage
+      	and bzimage images respectively. Both targets accept the
+     	FDARGS parameter which can be used to set the kernel command line.
+
+	e.g::
+
+	   make bzdisk FDARGS="root=/dev/nfs"
+
+   	Note that the user running this command will need to have
+     	access to the floppy drive device, /dev/fd0
+
+     	For more information on syslinux, including how to create bootdisks
+     	for prebuilt kernels, see https://syslinux.zytor.com/
+
+	.. note::
+		Previously it was possible to write a kernel directly to
+		a floppy using dd, configure the boot device using rdev, and
+		boot using the resulting floppy. Linux no longer supports this
+		method of booting.
+
+- Booting from a cdrom using isolinux
+
+     	When building kernels, an easy way to create a bootable cdrom that
+     	uses isolinux is to use the isoimage target which uses a bzimage
+     	image. Like zdisk and bzdisk, this target accepts the FDARGS
+     	parameter which can be used to set the kernel command line.
+
+	e.g::
+
+	  make isoimage FDARGS="root=/dev/nfs"
+
+     	The resulting iso image will be arch/<ARCH>/boot/image.iso
+     	This can be written to a cdrom using a variety of tools including
+     	cdrecord.
+
+	e.g::
+
+	  cdrecord dev=ATAPI:1,0,0 arch/x86/boot/image.iso
+
+     	For more information on isolinux, including how to create bootdisks
+     	for prebuilt kernels, see https://syslinux.zytor.com/
+
+- Using LILO
+
+	When using LILO all the necessary command line parameters may be
+	specified using the 'append=' directive in the LILO configuration
+	file.
+
+	However, to use the 'root=' directive you also need to create
+	a dummy root device, which may be removed after LILO is run.
+
+	e.g::
+
+	  mknod /dev/boot255 c 0 255
+
+	For information on configuring LILO, please refer to its documentation.
+
+- Using GRUB
+
+	When using GRUB, kernel parameter are simply appended after the kernel
+	specification: kernel <kernel> <parameters>
+
+- Using loadlin
+
+	loadlin may be used to boot Linux from a DOS command prompt without
+	requiring a local hard disk to mount as root. This has not been
+	thoroughly tested by the authors of this document, but in general
+	it should be possible configure the kernel command line similarly
+	to the configuration of LILO.
+
+	Please refer to the loadlin documentation for further information.
+
+- Using a boot ROM
+
+	This is probably the most elegant way of booting a diskless client.
+	With a boot ROM the kernel is loaded using the TFTP protocol. The
+	authors of this document are not aware of any no commercial boot
+	ROMs that support booting Linux over the network. However, there
+	are two free implementations of a boot ROM, netboot-nfs and
+	etherboot, both of which are available on sunsite.unc.edu, and both
+	of which contain everything you need to boot a diskless Linux client.
+
+- Using pxelinux
+
+	Pxelinux may be used to boot linux using the PXE boot loader
+	which is present on many modern network cards.
+
+	When using pxelinux, the kernel image is specified using
+	"kernel <relative-path-below /tftpboot>". The nfsroot parameters
+	are passed to the kernel by adding them to the "append" line.
+	It is common to use serial console in conjunction with pxeliunx,
+	see Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more information.
+
+	For more information on isolinux, including how to create bootdisks
+	for prebuilt kernels, see https://syslinux.zytor.com/
+
+
+
+
+Credits
+=======
+
+  The nfsroot code in the kernel and the RARP support have been written
+  by Gero Kuhlmann <gero@gkminix.han.de>.
+
+  The rest of the IP layer autoconfiguration code has been written
+  by Martin Mares <mj@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>.
+
+  In order to write the initial version of nfsroot I would like to thank
+  Jens-Uwe Mager <jum@anubis.han.de> for his help.
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/pnfs-block-server.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/pnfs-block-server.rst
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+===================================
+pNFS block layout server user guide
+===================================
+
+The Linux NFS server now supports the pNFS block layout extension.  In this
+case the NFS server acts as Metadata Server (MDS) for pNFS, which in addition
+to handling all the metadata access to the NFS export also hands out layouts
+to the clients to directly access the underlying block devices that are
+shared with the client.
+
+To use pNFS block layouts with the Linux NFS server the exported file
+system needs to support the pNFS block layouts (currently just XFS), and the
+file system must sit on shared storage (typically iSCSI) that is accessible
+to the clients in addition to the MDS.  As of now the file system needs to
+sit directly on the exported volume, striping or concatenation of
+volumes on the MDS and clients is not supported yet.
+
+On the server, pNFS block volume support is automatically if the file system
+support it.  On the client make sure the kernel has the CONFIG_PNFS_BLOCK
+option enabled, the blkmapd daemon from nfs-utils is running, and the
+file system is mounted using the NFSv4.1 protocol version (mount -o vers=4.1).
+
+If the nfsd server needs to fence a non-responding client it calls
+/sbin/nfsd-recall-failed with the first argument set to the IP address of
+the client, and the second argument set to the device node without the /dev
+prefix for the file system to be fenced. Below is an example file that shows
+how to translate the device into a serial number from SCSI EVPD 0x80::
+
+	cat > /sbin/nfsd-recall-failed << EOF
+
+.. code-block:: sh
+
+	#!/bin/sh
+
+	CLIENT="$1"
+	DEV="/dev/$2"
+	EVPD=`sg_inq --page=0x80 ${DEV} | \
+		grep "Unit serial number:" | \
+		awk -F ': ' '{print $2}'`
+
+	echo "fencing client ${CLIENT} serial ${EVPD}" >> /var/log/pnfsd-fence.log
+	EOF
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/pnfs-scsi-server.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/pnfs-scsi-server.rst
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+
+==================================
+pNFS SCSI layout server user guide
+==================================
+
+This document describes support for pNFS SCSI layouts in the Linux NFS server.
+With pNFS SCSI layouts, the NFS server acts as Metadata Server (MDS) for pNFS,
+which in addition to handling all the metadata access to the NFS export,
+also hands out layouts to the clients so that they can directly access the
+underlying SCSI LUNs that are shared with the client.
+
+To use pNFS SCSI layouts with the Linux NFS server, the exported file
+system needs to support the pNFS SCSI layouts (currently just XFS), and the
+file system must sit on a SCSI LUN that is accessible to the clients in
+addition to the MDS.  As of now the file system needs to sit directly on the
+exported LUN, striping or concatenation of LUNs on the MDS and clients
+is not supported yet.
+
+On a server built with CONFIG_NFSD_SCSI, the pNFS SCSI volume support is
+automatically enabled if the file system is exported using the "pnfs"
+option and the underlying SCSI device support persistent reservations.
+On the client make sure the kernel has the CONFIG_PNFS_BLOCK option
+enabled, and the file system is mounted using the NFSv4.1 protocol
+version (mount -o vers=4.1).