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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/Locking')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/Locking | 30 |
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking index 8e2da1e06e3b..0f103e39b4f6 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ be able to use diff(1). --------------------------- dentry_operations -------------------------- prototypes: - int (*d_revalidate)(struct dentry *, struct nameidata *); + int (*d_revalidate)(struct dentry *, unsigned int); int (*d_hash)(const struct dentry *, const struct inode *, struct qstr *); int (*d_compare)(const struct dentry *, const struct inode *, @@ -37,9 +37,8 @@ d_manage: no no yes (ref-walk) maybe --------------------------- inode_operations --------------------------- prototypes: - int (*create) (struct inode *,struct dentry *,umode_t, struct nameidata *); - struct dentry * (*lookup) (struct inode *,struct dentry *, struct nameid -ata *); + int (*create) (struct inode *,struct dentry *,umode_t, bool); + struct dentry * (*lookup) (struct inode *,struct dentry *, unsigned int); int (*link) (struct dentry *,struct inode *,struct dentry *); int (*unlink) (struct inode *,struct dentry *); int (*symlink) (struct inode *,struct dentry *,const char *); @@ -62,6 +61,9 @@ ata *); int (*removexattr) (struct dentry *, const char *); int (*fiemap)(struct inode *, struct fiemap_extent_info *, u64 start, u64 len); void (*update_time)(struct inode *, struct timespec *, int); + int (*atomic_open)(struct inode *, struct dentry *, + struct file *, unsigned open_flag, + umode_t create_mode, int *opened); locking rules: all may block @@ -89,6 +91,7 @@ listxattr: no removexattr: yes fiemap: no update_time: no +atomic_open: yes Additionally, ->rmdir(), ->unlink() and ->rename() have ->i_mutex on victim. @@ -135,8 +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 @@ -203,6 +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 @@ -226,6 +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). @@ -327,6 +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 *); @@ -343,7 +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); @@ -352,7 +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 |