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authorJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2012-09-07 23:07:55 +0400
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2012-09-07 23:07:55 +0400
commitfac805f8c198092de9a2842efd7f5022e2937b18 (patch)
tree7557809c373f97a343c427d8fded0696060394ce /Documentation/filesystems/Locking
parent2461c7d60f9f3821274e4acf9019cba8b82c94b5 (diff)
parentf10723841e624c0726c70356b31d91befed01dd6 (diff)
downloadlinux-fac805f8c198092de9a2842efd7f5022e2937b18.tar.xz
Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/Locking')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/Locking19
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
index e0cce2a5f820..0f103e39b4f6 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
@@ -138,8 +138,8 @@ evict_inode:
put_super: write
write_super: read
sync_fs: read
-freeze_fs: read
-unfreeze_fs: read
+freeze_fs: write
+unfreeze_fs: write
statfs: maybe(read) (see below)
remount_fs: write
umount_begin: no
@@ -206,6 +206,8 @@ prototypes:
int (*launder_page)(struct page *);
int (*is_partially_uptodate)(struct page *, read_descriptor_t *, unsigned long);
int (*error_remove_page)(struct address_space *, struct page *);
+ int (*swap_activate)(struct file *);
+ int (*swap_deactivate)(struct file *);
locking rules:
All except set_page_dirty and freepage may block
@@ -229,6 +231,8 @@ migratepage: yes (both)
launder_page: yes
is_partially_uptodate: yes
error_remove_page: yes
+swap_activate: no
+swap_deactivate: no
->write_begin(), ->write_end(), ->sync_page() and ->readpage()
may be called from the request handler (/dev/loop).
@@ -330,6 +334,15 @@ cleaned, or an error value if not. Note that in order to prevent the page
getting mapped back in and redirtied, it needs to be kept locked
across the entire operation.
+ ->swap_activate will be called with a non-zero argument on
+files backing (non block device backed) swapfiles. A return value
+of zero indicates success, in which case this file can be used for
+backing swapspace. The swapspace operations will be proxied to the
+address space operations.
+
+ ->swap_deactivate() will be called in the sys_swapoff()
+path after ->swap_activate() returned success.
+
----------------------- file_lock_operations ------------------------------
prototypes:
void (*fl_copy_lock)(struct file_lock *, struct file_lock *);
@@ -346,7 +359,6 @@ prototypes:
int (*lm_compare_owner)(struct file_lock *, struct file_lock *);
void (*lm_notify)(struct file_lock *); /* unblock callback */
int (*lm_grant)(struct file_lock *, struct file_lock *, int);
- void (*lm_release_private)(struct file_lock *);
void (*lm_break)(struct file_lock *); /* break_lease callback */
int (*lm_change)(struct file_lock **, int);
@@ -355,7 +367,6 @@ locking rules:
lm_compare_owner: yes no
lm_notify: yes no
lm_grant: no no
-lm_release_private: maybe no
lm_break: yes no
lm_change yes no