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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/Locking')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/Locking | 21 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking index e0cce2a5f82..e540a24e5d0 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking @@ -114,7 +114,6 @@ prototypes: int (*drop_inode) (struct inode *); void (*evict_inode) (struct inode *); void (*put_super) (struct super_block *); - void (*write_super) (struct super_block *); int (*sync_fs)(struct super_block *sb, int wait); int (*freeze_fs) (struct super_block *); int (*unfreeze_fs) (struct super_block *); @@ -136,10 +135,9 @@ write_inode: drop_inode: !!!inode->i_lock!!! evict_inode: put_super: write -write_super: read sync_fs: read -freeze_fs: read -unfreeze_fs: read +freeze_fs: write +unfreeze_fs: write statfs: maybe(read) (see below) remount_fs: write umount_begin: no @@ -206,6 +204,8 @@ prototypes: int (*launder_page)(struct page *); int (*is_partially_uptodate)(struct page *, read_descriptor_t *, unsigned long); int (*error_remove_page)(struct address_space *, struct page *); + int (*swap_activate)(struct file *); + int (*swap_deactivate)(struct file *); locking rules: All except set_page_dirty and freepage may block @@ -229,6 +229,8 @@ migratepage: yes (both) launder_page: yes is_partially_uptodate: yes error_remove_page: yes +swap_activate: no +swap_deactivate: no ->write_begin(), ->write_end(), ->sync_page() and ->readpage() may be called from the request handler (/dev/loop). @@ -330,6 +332,15 @@ cleaned, or an error value if not. Note that in order to prevent the page getting mapped back in and redirtied, it needs to be kept locked across the entire operation. + ->swap_activate will be called with a non-zero argument on +files backing (non block device backed) swapfiles. A return value +of zero indicates success, in which case this file can be used for +backing swapspace. The swapspace operations will be proxied to the +address space operations. + + ->swap_deactivate() will be called in the sys_swapoff() +path after ->swap_activate() returned success. + ----------------------- file_lock_operations ------------------------------ prototypes: void (*fl_copy_lock)(struct file_lock *, struct file_lock *); @@ -346,7 +357,6 @@ prototypes: int (*lm_compare_owner)(struct file_lock *, struct file_lock *); void (*lm_notify)(struct file_lock *); /* unblock callback */ int (*lm_grant)(struct file_lock *, struct file_lock *, int); - void (*lm_release_private)(struct file_lock *); void (*lm_break)(struct file_lock *); /* break_lease callback */ int (*lm_change)(struct file_lock **, int); @@ -355,7 +365,6 @@ locking rules: lm_compare_owner: yes no lm_notify: yes no lm_grant: no no -lm_release_private: maybe no lm_break: yes no lm_change yes no |