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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/Locking')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/Locking | 21 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking index bb2534bc0b0..b18dd177902 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking @@ -47,6 +47,8 @@ prototypes: int (*mknod) (struct inode *,struct dentry *,umode_t,dev_t); int (*rename) (struct inode *, struct dentry *, struct inode *, struct dentry *); + int (*rename2) (struct inode *, struct dentry *, + struct inode *, struct dentry *, unsigned int); int (*readlink) (struct dentry *, char __user *,int); void * (*follow_link) (struct dentry *, struct nameidata *); void (*put_link) (struct dentry *, struct nameidata *, void *); @@ -78,6 +80,7 @@ mkdir: yes unlink: yes (both) rmdir: yes (both) (see below) rename: yes (all) (see below) +rename2: yes (all) (see below) readlink: no follow_link: no put_link: no @@ -96,7 +99,8 @@ tmpfile: no Additionally, ->rmdir(), ->unlink() and ->rename() have ->i_mutex on victim. - cross-directory ->rename() has (per-superblock) ->s_vfs_rename_sem. + cross-directory ->rename() and rename2() has (per-superblock) +->s_vfs_rename_sem. See Documentation/filesystems/directory-locking for more detailed discussion of the locking scheme for directory operations. @@ -192,8 +196,7 @@ prototypes: void (*invalidatepage) (struct page *, unsigned int, unsigned int); 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 (*direct_IO)(int, struct kiocb *, struct iov_iter *iter, loff_t offset); int (*get_xip_mem)(struct address_space *, pgoff_t, int, void **, unsigned long *); int (*migratepage)(struct address_space *, struct page *, struct page *); @@ -427,6 +430,8 @@ prototypes: ssize_t (*write) (struct file *, const char __user *, size_t, loff_t *); ssize_t (*aio_read) (struct kiocb *, const struct iovec *, unsigned long, loff_t); ssize_t (*aio_write) (struct kiocb *, const struct iovec *, unsigned long, loff_t); + 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 *); unsigned int (*poll) (struct file *, struct poll_table_struct *); long (*unlocked_ioctl) (struct file *, unsigned int, unsigned long); @@ -525,6 +530,7 @@ locking rules: open: yes close: yes fault: yes can return with page locked +map_pages: yes page_mkwrite: yes can return with page locked access: yes @@ -536,6 +542,15 @@ the page, then ensure it is not already truncated (the page lock will block subsequent truncate), and then return with VM_FAULT_LOCKED, and the page locked. The VM will unlock the page. + ->map_pages() is called when VM asks to map easy accessible pages. +Filesystem should find and map pages associated with offsets from "pgoff" +till "max_pgoff". ->map_pages() is called with page table locked and must +not block. If it's not possible to reach a page without blocking, +filesystem should skip it. Filesystem should use do_set_pte() to setup +page table entry. Pointer to entry associated with offset "pgoff" is +passed in "pte" field in vm_fault structure. Pointers to entries for other +offsets should be calculated relative to "pte". + ->page_mkwrite() is called when a previously read-only pte is about to become writeable. The filesystem again must ensure that there are no truncate/invalidate races, and then return with the page locked. If |