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authorPatrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>2011-04-13 13:32:28 +0200
committerPatrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>2011-04-13 13:32:28 +0200
commitb32e3dc7860d00124fa432dba09667e647cb9bcc (patch)
tree2fa6e56f389431dfb84609d3d7572cad76e88e71 /Documentation/filesystems/porting
parent6604271c5bc658a6067ed0c3deba4d89e0e50382 (diff)
parent96120d86fe302c006259baee9061eea9e1b9e486 (diff)
Merge branch 'master' of ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kaber/nf-2.6
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@@ -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