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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | 10 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt index 1846374a5ad..a1d0d7a3016 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt @@ -806,6 +806,8 @@ struct file_operations { ssize_t (*write) (struct file *, const char __user *, size_t, loff_t *); ssize_t (*aio_read) (struct kiocb *, const struct iovec *, unsigned long, loff_t); ssize_t (*aio_write) (struct kiocb *, const struct iovec *, unsigned long, loff_t); + ssize_t (*read_iter) (struct kiocb *, struct iov_iter *); + ssize_t (*write_iter) (struct kiocb *, struct iov_iter *); int (*iterate) (struct file *, struct dir_context *); unsigned int (*poll) (struct file *, struct poll_table_struct *); long (*unlocked_ioctl) (struct file *, unsigned int, unsigned long); @@ -836,11 +838,15 @@ otherwise noted. read: called by read(2) and related system calls - aio_read: called by io_submit(2) and other asynchronous I/O operations + aio_read: vectored, possibly asynchronous read + + read_iter: possibly asynchronous read with iov_iter as destination write: called by write(2) and related system calls - aio_write: called by io_submit(2) and other asynchronous I/O operations + aio_write: vectored, possibly asynchronous write + + write_iter: possibly asynchronous write with iov_iter as source iterate: called when the VFS needs to read the directory contents |