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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-06-01 13:34:35 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-06-01 13:34:35 -0400
commit1193755ac6328ad240ba987e6ec41d5e8baf0680 (patch)
tree40bf847d7e3ebaa57b107151d14e6cd1d280cc6d /Documentation/filesystems
parent4edebed86690eb8db9af3ab85baf4a34e73266cc (diff)
parent0ef97dcfce4179a2eba046b855ee2f91d6f1b414 (diff)
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull vfs changes from Al Viro. "A lot of misc stuff. The obvious groups: * Miklos' atomic_open series; kills the damn abuse of ->d_revalidate() by NFS, which was the major stumbling block for all work in that area. * ripping security_file_mmap() and dealing with deadlocks in the area; sanitizing the neighborhood of vm_mmap()/vm_munmap() in general. * ->encode_fh() switched to saner API; insane fake dentry in mm/cleancache.c gone. * assorted annotations in fs (endianness, __user) * parts of Artem's ->s_dirty work (jff2 and reiserfs parts) * ->update_time() work from Josef. * other bits and pieces all over the place. Normally it would've been in two or three pull requests, but signal.git stuff had eaten a lot of time during this cycle ;-/" Fix up trivial conflicts in Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt (the 'truncate_range' inode method was removed by the VM changes, the VFS update adds an 'update_time()' method), and in fs/btrfs/ulist.[ch] (due to sparse fix added twice, with other changes nearby). * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (95 commits) nfs: don't open in ->d_revalidate vfs: retry last component if opening stale dentry vfs: nameidata_to_filp(): don't throw away file on error vfs: nameidata_to_filp(): inline __dentry_open() vfs: do_dentry_open(): don't put filp vfs: split __dentry_open() vfs: do_last() common post lookup vfs: do_last(): add audit_inode before open vfs: do_last(): only return EISDIR for O_CREAT vfs: do_last(): check LOOKUP_DIRECTORY vfs: do_last(): make ENOENT exit RCU safe vfs: make follow_link check RCU safe vfs: do_last(): use inode variable vfs: do_last(): inline walk_component() vfs: do_last(): make exit RCU safe vfs: split do_lookup() Btrfs: move over to use ->update_time fs: introduce inode operation ->update_time reiserfs: get rid of resierfs_sync_super reiserfs: mark the superblock as dirty a bit later ...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/Locking3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt4
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
index d449e632e6a0..8e2da1e06e3b 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ ata *);
61 ssize_t (*listxattr) (struct dentry *, char *, size_t); 61 ssize_t (*listxattr) (struct dentry *, char *, size_t);
62 int (*removexattr) (struct dentry *, const char *); 62 int (*removexattr) (struct dentry *, const char *);
63 int (*fiemap)(struct inode *, struct fiemap_extent_info *, u64 start, u64 len); 63 int (*fiemap)(struct inode *, struct fiemap_extent_info *, u64 start, u64 len);
64 void (*update_time)(struct inode *, struct timespec *, int);
64 65
65locking rules: 66locking rules:
66 all may block 67 all may block
@@ -87,6 +88,8 @@ getxattr: no
87listxattr: no 88listxattr: no
88removexattr: yes 89removexattr: yes
89fiemap: no 90fiemap: no
91update_time: no
92
90 Additionally, ->rmdir(), ->unlink() and ->rename() have ->i_mutex on 93 Additionally, ->rmdir(), ->unlink() and ->rename() have ->i_mutex on
91victim. 94victim.
92 cross-directory ->rename() has (per-superblock) ->s_vfs_rename_sem. 95 cross-directory ->rename() has (per-superblock) ->s_vfs_rename_sem.
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
index ef19f91a0f12..efd23f481704 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
@@ -363,6 +363,7 @@ struct inode_operations {
363 ssize_t (*getxattr) (struct dentry *, const char *, void *, size_t); 363 ssize_t (*getxattr) (struct dentry *, const char *, void *, size_t);
364 ssize_t (*listxattr) (struct dentry *, char *, size_t); 364 ssize_t (*listxattr) (struct dentry *, char *, size_t);
365 int (*removexattr) (struct dentry *, const char *); 365 int (*removexattr) (struct dentry *, const char *);
366 void (*update_time)(struct inode *, struct timespec *, int);
366}; 367};
367 368
368Again, all methods are called without any locks being held, unless 369Again, all methods are called without any locks being held, unless
@@ -471,6 +472,9 @@ otherwise noted.
471 removexattr: called by the VFS to remove an extended attribute from 472 removexattr: called by the VFS to remove an extended attribute from
472 a file. This method is called by removexattr(2) system call. 473 a file. This method is called by removexattr(2) system call.
473 474
475 update_time: called by the VFS to update a specific time or the i_version of
476 an inode. If this is not defined the VFS will update the inode itself
477 and call mark_inode_dirty_sync.
474 478
475The Address Space Object 479The Address Space Object
476======================== 480========================