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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/Locking | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/porting | 16 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | 2 |
3 files changed, 13 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking index 2e994efe12cb..61b31acb9176 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking @@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ alloc_inode: destroy_inode: dirty_inode: (must not sleep) write_inode: -drop_inode: !!!inode_lock!!! +drop_inode: !!!inode->i_lock!!! evict_inode: put_super: write write_super: read diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting index 0c986c9e8519..6e29954851a2 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting @@ -298,11 +298,14 @@ be used instead. It gets called whenever the inode is evicted, whether it has remaining links or not. Caller does *not* evict the pagecache or inode-associated metadata buffers; getting rid of those is responsibility of method, as it had been for ->delete_inode(). - ->drop_inode() returns int now; it's called on final iput() with inode_lock -held and it returns true if filesystems wants the inode to be dropped. As before, -generic_drop_inode() is still the default and it's been updated appropriately. -generic_delete_inode() is also alive and it consists simply of return 1. Note that -all actual eviction work is done by caller after ->drop_inode() returns. + + ->drop_inode() returns int now; it's called on final iput() with +inode->i_lock held and it returns true if filesystems wants the inode to be +dropped. As before, generic_drop_inode() is still the default and it's been +updated appropriately. generic_delete_inode() is also alive and it consists +simply of return 1. Note that all actual eviction work is done by caller after +->drop_inode() returns. + clear_inode() is gone; use end_writeback() instead. As before, it must be called exactly once on each call of ->evict_inode() (as it used to be for each call of ->delete_inode()). Unlike before, if you are using inode-associated @@ -397,6 +400,9 @@ a file off. -- [mandatory] + +-- +[mandatory] ->get_sb() is gone. Switch to use of ->mount(). Typically it's just a matter of switching from calling get_sb_... to mount_... and changing the function type. If you were doing it manually, just switch from setting ->mnt_root diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt index 306f0ae8df09..80815ed654cb 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt @@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ or bottom half). should be synchronous or not, not all filesystems check this flag. drop_inode: called when the last access to the inode is dropped, - with the inode_lock spinlock held. + with the inode->i_lock spinlock held. This method should be either NULL (normal UNIX filesystem semantics) or "generic_delete_inode" (for filesystems that do not |