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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/Locking | 21 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/porting | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt | 11 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | 16 |
4 files changed, 40 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking index e0cce2a5f820..e540a24e5d06 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking @@ -114,7 +114,6 @@ prototypes: int (*drop_inode) (struct inode *); void (*evict_inode) (struct inode *); void (*put_super) (struct super_block *); - void (*write_super) (struct super_block *); int (*sync_fs)(struct super_block *sb, int wait); int (*freeze_fs) (struct super_block *); int (*unfreeze_fs) (struct super_block *); @@ -136,10 +135,9 @@ write_inode: drop_inode: !!!inode->i_lock!!! 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 +204,8 @@ 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 +229,8 @@ 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 +332,15 @@ 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 +357,6 @@ 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 +365,6 @@ 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 diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting index 2bef2b3843d1..0742feebc6e2 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting @@ -94,9 +94,8 @@ protected. --- [mandatory] -BKL is also moved from around sb operations. ->write_super() Is now called -without BKL held. BKL should have been shifted into individual fs sb_op -functions. If you don't need it, remove it. +BKL is also moved from around sb operations. BKL should have been shifted into +individual fs sb_op functions. If you don't need it, remove it. --- [informational] diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt index ead764b2728f..de1e6c4dccff 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt @@ -137,6 +137,17 @@ errors=panic|continue|remount-ro without doing anything or remount the partition in read-only mode (default behavior). +discard -- If set, issues discard/TRIM commands to the block + device when blocks are freed. This is useful for SSD devices + and sparse/thinly-provisoned LUNs. + +nfs -- This option maintains an index (cache) of directory + inodes by i_logstart which is used by the nfs-related code to + improve look-ups. + + Enable this only if you want to export the FAT filesystem + over NFS + <bool>: 0,1,yes,no,true,false TODO diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt index aa754e01464e..2ee133e030c3 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt @@ -216,7 +216,6 @@ struct super_operations { void (*drop_inode) (struct inode *); void (*delete_inode) (struct inode *); void (*put_super) (struct super_block *); - void (*write_super) (struct super_block *); int (*sync_fs)(struct super_block *sb, int wait); int (*freeze_fs) (struct super_block *); int (*unfreeze_fs) (struct super_block *); @@ -273,9 +272,6 @@ or bottom half). put_super: called when the VFS wishes to free the superblock (i.e. unmount). This is called with the superblock lock held - write_super: called when the VFS superblock needs to be written to - disc. This method is optional - sync_fs: called when VFS is writing out all dirty data associated with a superblock. The second parameter indicates whether the method should wait until the write out has been completed. Optional. @@ -592,6 +588,8 @@ struct address_space_operations { int (*migratepage) (struct page *, struct page *); int (*launder_page) (struct page *); int (*error_remove_page) (struct mapping *mapping, struct page *page); + int (*swap_activate)(struct file *); + int (*swap_deactivate)(struct file *); }; writepage: called by the VM to write a dirty page to backing store. @@ -760,6 +758,16 @@ struct address_space_operations { Setting this implies you deal with pages going away under you, unless you have them locked or reference counts increased. + swap_activate: Called when swapon is used on a file to allocate + space if necessary and pin the block lookup information in + memory. A return value of zero indicates success, + in which case this file can be used to back swapspace. The + swapspace operations will be proxied to this address space's + ->swap_{out,in} methods. + + swap_deactivate: Called during swapoff on files where swap_activate + was successful. + The File Object =============== |