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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2010-12-19 16:35:08 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2010-12-19 16:35:14 +0100
commitca680888d5d0d03862ec311a83c6a1c7a1e00a01 (patch)
treebc2a1777f1d715f947fa77940ebce5c43029b37b /Documentation/filesystems/Locking
parent40dc11ffb35e8c4e8fa71092048e0f8de9db758c (diff)
parentb0c3844d8af6b9f3f18f31e1b0502fbefa2166be (diff)
Merge commit 'v2.6.37-rc6' into sched/core
Merge reason: Update to the latest -rc. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/Locking')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/Locking7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
index a91f3089001..b6426f15b4a 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
@@ -173,12 +173,13 @@ prototypes:
sector_t (*bmap)(struct address_space *, sector_t);
int (*invalidatepage) (struct page *, unsigned long);
int (*releasepage) (struct page *, int);
+ void (*freepage)(struct page *);
int (*direct_IO)(int, struct kiocb *, const struct iovec *iov,
loff_t offset, unsigned long nr_segs);
int (*launder_page) (struct page *);
locking rules:
- All except set_page_dirty may block
+ All except set_page_dirty and freepage may block
BKL PageLocked(page) i_mutex
writepage: no yes, unlocks (see below)
@@ -193,6 +194,7 @@ perform_write: no n/a yes
bmap: no
invalidatepage: no yes
releasepage: no yes
+freepage: no yes
direct_IO: no
launder_page: no yes
@@ -288,6 +290,9 @@ buffers from the page in preparation for freeing it. It returns zero to
indicate that the buffers are (or may be) freeable. If ->releasepage is zero,
the kernel assumes that the fs has no private interest in the buffers.
+ ->freepage() is called when the kernel is done dropping the page
+from the page cache.
+
->launder_page() may be called prior to releasing a page if
it is still found to be dirty. It returns zero if the page was successfully
cleaned, or an error value if not. Note that in order to prevent the page