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authorJan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu>2007-07-21 15:37:26 +0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-07-22 04:49:14 +0400
commitd3fec424b23c47686efcf3f2004c3f1c1cee4d9c (patch)
treeffad3cf369d35e85fca9a340347eea09caa53ff3 /include/linux/coda_linux.h
parentb50731732f926d6c49fd0724616a7344c31cd5cf (diff)
downloadlinux-d3fec424b23c47686efcf3f2004c3f1c1cee4d9c.tar.xz
coda: remove CODA_STORE/CODA_RELEASE upcalls
This is an variation on the patch sent by Christoph Hellwig which kills file_count abuse by the Coda kernel module by moving the coda_flush functionality into coda_release. However part of reason we were using the coda_flush callback was to allow Coda to pass errors that occur during writeback from the userspace cache manager back to close(). As Al Viro explained on linux-fsdevel, it is impossible to guarantee that such errors can in fact be returned back to the caller. There are many cases where the last reference to a file is not released by the close system call and it is also impossible to pick some close as a 'last-close' and delay it until all other references have been destroyed. The CODA_STORE/CODA_RELEASE upcall combination is clearly a broken design, and it is better to remove it completely. Signed-off-by: Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/coda_linux.h')
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1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/coda_linux.h b/include/linux/coda_linux.h
index c4079b403e9e..1c47a34aa794 100644
--- a/include/linux/coda_linux.h
+++ b/include/linux/coda_linux.h
@@ -36,7 +36,6 @@ extern const struct file_operations coda_ioctl_operations;
/* operations shared over more than one file */
int coda_open(struct inode *i, struct file *f);
-int coda_flush(struct file *f, fl_owner_t id);
int coda_release(struct inode *i, struct file *f);
int coda_permission(struct inode *inode, int mask, struct nameidata *nd);
int coda_revalidate_inode(struct dentry *);