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authorStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>2011-07-25 13:59:46 -0400
committerTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>2011-07-25 14:53:52 -0400
commit5f00bcb38ef9a980a33c6dbdc0044964b05f22dd (patch)
tree3175fb9375aecb50bde1be0bf4fa8aa8155131d6 /Documentation/filesystems/Locking
parent34006cee28f7344f9557a4be3816c7891b1bbab1 (diff)
parentb6844e8f64920cdee620157252169ba63afb0c89 (diff)
Merge branch 'master' into devel and apply fixup from Stephen Rothwell:
vfs/nfs: fixup for nfs_open_context change Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/Locking')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/Locking8
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
index 57d827d6071..ca7e2529254 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ ata *);
void (*put_link) (struct dentry *, struct nameidata *, void *);
void (*truncate) (struct inode *);
int (*permission) (struct inode *, int, unsigned int);
- int (*check_acl)(struct inode *, int, unsigned int);
+ int (*check_acl)(struct inode *, int);
int (*setattr) (struct dentry *, struct iattr *);
int (*getattr) (struct vfsmount *, struct dentry *, struct kstat *);
int (*setxattr) (struct dentry *, const char *,const void *,size_t,int);
@@ -412,7 +412,7 @@ prototypes:
int (*open) (struct inode *, struct file *);
int (*flush) (struct file *);
int (*release) (struct inode *, struct file *);
- int (*fsync) (struct file *, int datasync);
+ int (*fsync) (struct file *, loff_t start, loff_t end, int datasync);
int (*aio_fsync) (struct kiocb *, int datasync);
int (*fasync) (int, struct file *, int);
int (*lock) (struct file *, int, struct file_lock *);
@@ -438,9 +438,7 @@ prototypes:
locking rules:
All may block except for ->setlease.
- No VFS locks held on entry except for ->fsync and ->setlease.
-
-->fsync() has i_mutex on inode.
+ No VFS locks held on entry except for ->setlease.
->setlease has the file_list_lock held and must not sleep.