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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/Locking')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/Locking | 11 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking index f1997e9da61..94d93b1f8b5 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking @@ -464,15 +464,12 @@ prototypes: size_t, unsigned int); ssize_t (*splice_read)(struct file *, loff_t *, struct pipe_inode_info *, size_t, unsigned int); - int (*setlease)(struct file *, long, struct file_lock **); + int (*setlease)(struct file *, long, struct file_lock **, void **); long (*fallocate)(struct file *, int, loff_t, loff_t); }; locking rules: - All may block except for ->setlease. - No VFS locks held on entry except for ->setlease. - -->setlease has the file_list_lock held and must not sleep. + All may block. ->llseek() locking has moved from llseek to the individual llseek implementations. If your fs is not using generic_file_llseek, you @@ -496,6 +493,10 @@ components. And there are other reasons why the current interface is a mess... ->read on directories probably must go away - we should just enforce -EISDIR in sys_read() and friends. +->setlease operations should call generic_setlease() before or after setting +the lease within the individual filesystem to record the result of the +operation + --------------------------- dquot_operations ------------------------------- prototypes: int (*write_dquot) (struct dquot *); |