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authorChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>2018-11-22 18:37:38 +0300
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>2019-02-24 18:20:17 +0300
commitfb7e160019f4abb4082740bfeb27a38f6389c745 (patch)
tree7898b05dee28219f4a573c7b31249c733c570b49 /Documentation/filesystems
parent758a58d0bc67457f1215321a536226654a830eeb (diff)
downloadlinux-fb7e160019f4abb4082740bfeb27a38f6389c745.tar.xz
fs: add an iopoll method to struct file_operations
This new methods is used to explicitly poll for I/O completion for an iocb. It must be called for any iocb submitted asynchronously (that is with a non-null ki_complete) which has the IOCB_HIPRI flag set. The method is assisted by a new ki_cookie field in struct iocb to store the polling cookie. Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
index 8dc8e9c2913f..761c6fd24a53 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
@@ -857,6 +857,7 @@ struct file_operations {
ssize_t (*write) (struct file *, const char __user *, size_t, loff_t *);
ssize_t (*read_iter) (struct kiocb *, struct iov_iter *);
ssize_t (*write_iter) (struct kiocb *, struct iov_iter *);
+ int (*iopoll)(struct kiocb *kiocb, bool spin);
int (*iterate) (struct file *, struct dir_context *);
int (*iterate_shared) (struct file *, struct dir_context *);
__poll_t (*poll) (struct file *, struct poll_table_struct *);
@@ -902,6 +903,8 @@ otherwise noted.
write_iter: possibly asynchronous write with iov_iter as source
+ iopoll: called when aio wants to poll for completions on HIPRI iocbs
+
iterate: called when the VFS needs to read the directory contents
iterate_shared: called when the VFS needs to read the directory contents