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authorLachlan McIlroy <lachlan@redback.melbourne.sgi.com>2009-01-08 13:22:55 +1100
committerLachlan McIlroy <lachlan@redback.melbourne.sgi.com>2009-01-08 13:22:55 +1100
commit6206aa8b2b9a45b4cf3ee31b7209b014be349fd9 (patch)
tree72c4223a2cc21bf055948eadb3b314ed0568ae9d /Documentation/filesystems/Locking
parent95f8e302c04c0b0c6de35ab399a5551605eeb006 (diff)
parent9e42d0cf5020aaf217433cad1a224745241d212a (diff)
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/Locking')
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
index 23d2f4460de..cfbfa15a46b 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
@@ -394,11 +394,10 @@ prototypes:
unsigned long (*get_unmapped_area)(struct file *, unsigned long,
unsigned long, unsigned long, unsigned long);
int (*check_flags)(int);
- int (*dir_notify)(struct file *, unsigned long);
};
locking rules:
- All except ->poll() may block.
+ All may block.
BKL
llseek: no (see below)
read: no
@@ -424,7 +423,6 @@ sendfile: no
sendpage: no
get_unmapped_area: no
check_flags: no
-dir_notify: no
->llseek() locking has moved from llseek to the individual llseek
implementations. If your fs is not using generic_file_llseek, you