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author | Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> | 2011-04-13 13:32:28 +0200 |
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committer | Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> | 2011-04-13 13:32:28 +0200 |
commit | b32e3dc7860d00124fa432dba09667e647cb9bcc (patch) | |
tree | 2fa6e56f389431dfb84609d3d7572cad76e88e71 /Documentation/filesystems/porting | |
parent | 6604271c5bc658a6067ed0c3deba4d89e0e50382 (diff) | |
parent | 96120d86fe302c006259baee9061eea9e1b9e486 (diff) |
Merge branch 'master' of ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kaber/nf-2.6
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 |