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authorJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>2009-05-22 14:25:34 -0400
committerJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>2009-05-22 14:25:34 -0400
commite4b636366c00738b9609cda307014d71b1225b7f (patch)
tree760b67b3624eda62e943e48ce93635c30a5b47bf /Documentation/filesystems/Locking
parentb9ed7252d219c1c663944bf03846eabb515dbe75 (diff)
parent279e677faa775ad16e75c32e1bf4a37f8158bc61 (diff)
Merge branch 'master' into for-2.6.31
Conflicts: drivers/block/hd.c drivers/block/mg_disk.c Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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@@ -512,16 +512,24 @@ locking rules:
512 BKL mmap_sem PageLocked(page) 512 BKL mmap_sem PageLocked(page)
513open: no yes 513open: no yes
514close: no yes 514close: no yes
515fault: no yes 515fault: no yes can return with page locked
516page_mkwrite: no yes no 516page_mkwrite: no yes can return with page locked
517access: no yes 517access: no yes
518 518
519 ->page_mkwrite() is called when a previously read-only page is 519 ->fault() is called when a previously not present pte is about
520about to become writeable. The file system is responsible for 520to be faulted in. The filesystem must find and return the page associated
521protecting against truncate races. Once appropriate action has been 521with the passed in "pgoff" in the vm_fault structure. If it is possible that
522taking to lock out truncate, the page range should be verified to be 522the page may be truncated and/or invalidated, then the filesystem must lock
523within i_size. The page mapping should also be checked that it is not 523the page, then ensure it is not already truncated (the page lock will block
524NULL. 524subsequent truncate), and then return with VM_FAULT_LOCKED, and the page
525locked. The VM will unlock the page.
526
527 ->page_mkwrite() is called when a previously read-only pte is
528about to become writeable. The filesystem again must ensure that there are
529no truncate/invalidate races, and then return with the page locked. If
530the page has been truncated, the filesystem should not look up a new page
531like the ->fault() handler, but simply return with VM_FAULT_NOPAGE, which
532will cause the VM to retry the fault.
525 533
526 ->access() is called when get_user_pages() fails in 534 ->access() is called when get_user_pages() fails in
527acces_process_vm(), typically used to debug a process through 535acces_process_vm(), typically used to debug a process through