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author | Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> | 2011-04-26 10:22:15 +0200 |
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committer | Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> | 2011-04-26 10:22:59 +0200 |
commit | 07f9479a40cc778bc1462ada11f95b01360ae4ff (patch) | |
tree | 0676cf38df3844004bb3ebfd99dfa67a4a8998f5 /Documentation/filesystems/porting | |
parent | 9d5e6bdb3013acfb311ab407eeca0b6a6a3dedbf (diff) | |
parent | cd2e49e90f1cae7726c9a2c54488d881d7f1cd1c (diff) |
Merge branch 'master' into for-next
Fast-forwarded to current state of Linus' tree as there are patches to be
applied for files that didn't exist on the old branch.
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/porting')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/porting | 16 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting index 0c986c9e851..6e29954851a 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 |