diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | 21 |
2 files changed, 20 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt index b176928e6963..79637d227e85 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt @@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ Documentation/early-userspace/README for more details.) The kernel does not depend on external cpio tools. If you specify a directory instead of a configuration file, the kernel's build infrastructure creates a configuration file from that directory (usr/Makefile calls -scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh), and proceeds to package up that directory +usr/gen_initramfs_list.sh), and proceeds to package up that directory using the config file (by feeding it to usr/gen_init_cpio, which is created from usr/gen_init_cpio.c). The kernel's build-time cpio creation code is entirely self-contained, and the kernel's boot-time extractor is also diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt index 4b2084d0f1fb..a6c6a8af48a2 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt @@ -848,7 +848,7 @@ struct file_operations ---------------------- This describes how the VFS can manipulate an open file. As of kernel -4.1, the following members are defined: +4.18, the following members are defined: struct file_operations { struct module *owner; @@ -858,11 +858,11 @@ struct file_operations { ssize_t (*read_iter) (struct kiocb *, struct iov_iter *); ssize_t (*write_iter) (struct kiocb *, struct iov_iter *); int (*iterate) (struct file *, struct dir_context *); + int (*iterate_shared) (struct file *, struct dir_context *); __poll_t (*poll) (struct file *, struct poll_table_struct *); long (*unlocked_ioctl) (struct file *, unsigned int, unsigned long); long (*compat_ioctl) (struct file *, unsigned int, unsigned long); int (*mmap) (struct file *, struct vm_area_struct *); - int (*mremap)(struct file *, struct vm_area_struct *); int (*open) (struct inode *, struct file *); int (*flush) (struct file *, fl_owner_t id); int (*release) (struct inode *, struct file *); @@ -882,6 +882,10 @@ struct file_operations { #ifndef CONFIG_MMU unsigned (*mmap_capabilities)(struct file *); #endif + ssize_t (*copy_file_range)(struct file *, loff_t, struct file *, loff_t, size_t, unsigned int); + int (*clone_file_range)(struct file *, loff_t, struct file *, loff_t, u64); + int (*dedupe_file_range)(struct file *, loff_t, struct file *, loff_t, u64); + int (*fadvise)(struct file *, loff_t, loff_t, int); }; Again, all methods are called without any locks being held, unless @@ -899,6 +903,9 @@ otherwise noted. iterate: called when the VFS needs to read the directory contents + iterate_shared: called when the VFS needs to read the directory contents + when filesystem supports concurrent dir iterators + poll: called by the VFS when a process wants to check if there is activity on this file and (optionally) go to sleep until there is activity. Called by the select(2) and poll(2) system calls @@ -951,6 +958,16 @@ otherwise noted. fallocate: called by the VFS to preallocate blocks or punch a hole. + copy_file_range: called by the copy_file_range(2) system call. + + clone_file_range: called by the ioctl(2) system call for FICLONERANGE and + FICLONE commands. + + dedupe_file_range: called by the ioctl(2) system call for FIDEDUPERANGE + command. + + fadvise: possibly called by the fadvise64() system call. + Note that the file operations are implemented by the specific filesystem in which the inode resides. When opening a device node (character or block special) most filesystems will call special |