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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/Locking | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/porting | 16 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | 13 |
5 files changed, 20 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking index 4fca82e5276..d449e632e6a 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking @@ -60,7 +60,6 @@ ata *); ssize_t (*getxattr) (struct dentry *, const char *, void *, size_t); ssize_t (*listxattr) (struct dentry *, char *, size_t); int (*removexattr) (struct dentry *, const char *); - void (*truncate_range)(struct inode *, loff_t, loff_t); int (*fiemap)(struct inode *, struct fiemap_extent_info *, u64 start, u64 len); locking rules: @@ -87,7 +86,6 @@ setxattr: yes getxattr: no listxattr: no removexattr: yes -truncate_range: yes fiemap: no Additionally, ->rmdir(), ->unlink() and ->rename() have ->i_mutex on victim. diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt index b100adc38ad..293855e9500 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt @@ -59,9 +59,9 @@ commit=nrsec (*) Ext3 can be told to sync all its data and metadata Setting it to very large values will improve performance. -barrier=<0(*)|1> This enables/disables the use of write barriers in -barrier the jbd code. barrier=0 disables, barrier=1 enables. -nobarrier (*) This also requires an IO stack which can support +barrier=<0|1(*)> This enables/disables the use of write barriers in +barrier (*) the jbd code. barrier=0 disables, barrier=1 enables. +nobarrier This also requires an IO stack which can support barriers, and if jbd gets an error on a barrier write, it will disable again with a warning. Write barriers enforce proper on-disk ordering diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting index 74acd961881..8c91d1057d9 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting @@ -297,7 +297,8 @@ in the beginning of ->setattr unconditionally. 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(). +been for ->delete_inode(). Caller makes sure async writeback cannot be running +for the inode while (or after) ->evict_inode() is called. ->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 @@ -306,14 +307,11 @@ 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 -metadata buffers (i.e. mark_buffer_dirty_inode()), it's your responsibility to -call invalidate_inode_buffers() before end_writeback(). - No async writeback (and thus no calls of ->write_inode()) will happen -after end_writeback() returns, so actions that should not overlap with ->write_inode() -(e.g. freeing on-disk inode if i_nlink is 0) ought to be done after that call. + As before, clear_inode() 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 metadata buffers (i.e. +mark_buffer_dirty_inode()), it's your responsibility to call +invalidate_inode_buffers() before clear_inode(). NOTE: checking i_nlink in the beginning of ->write_inode() and bailing out if it's zero is not *and* *never* *had* *been* enough. Final unlink() and iput() diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index ef088e55ab2..912af6ce562 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -743,6 +743,7 @@ Committed_AS: 100056 kB VmallocTotal: 112216 kB VmallocUsed: 428 kB VmallocChunk: 111088 kB +AnonHugePages: 49152 kB MemTotal: Total usable ram (i.e. physical ram minus a few reserved bits and the kernel binary code) @@ -776,6 +777,7 @@ VmallocChunk: 111088 kB Dirty: Memory which is waiting to get written back to the disk Writeback: Memory which is actively being written back to the disk AnonPages: Non-file backed pages mapped into userspace page tables +AnonHugePages: Non-file backed huge pages mapped into userspace page tables Mapped: files which have been mmaped, such as libraries Slab: in-kernel data structures cache SReclaimable: Part of Slab, that might be reclaimed, such as caches diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt index 0d049202808..ef19f91a0f1 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt @@ -363,7 +363,6 @@ struct inode_operations { ssize_t (*getxattr) (struct dentry *, const char *, void *, size_t); ssize_t (*listxattr) (struct dentry *, char *, size_t); int (*removexattr) (struct dentry *, const char *); - void (*truncate_range)(struct inode *, loff_t, loff_t); }; Again, all methods are called without any locks being held, unless @@ -472,9 +471,6 @@ otherwise noted. removexattr: called by the VFS to remove an extended attribute from a file. This method is called by removexattr(2) system call. - truncate_range: a method provided by the underlying filesystem to truncate a - range of blocks , i.e. punch a hole somewhere in a file. - The Address Space Object ======================== @@ -760,7 +756,7 @@ struct file_operations ---------------------- This describes how the VFS can manipulate an open file. As of kernel -2.6.22, the following members are defined: +3.5, the following members are defined: struct file_operations { struct module *owner; @@ -790,6 +786,8 @@ struct file_operations { int (*flock) (struct file *, int, struct file_lock *); ssize_t (*splice_write)(struct pipe_inode_info *, struct file *, size_t, unsigned int); ssize_t (*splice_read)(struct file *, struct pipe_inode_info *, size_t, unsigned int); + int (*setlease)(struct file *, long arg, struct file_lock **); + long (*fallocate)(struct file *, int mode, loff_t offset, loff_t len); }; Again, all methods are called without any locks being held, unless @@ -858,6 +856,11 @@ otherwise noted. splice_read: called by the VFS to splice data from file to a pipe. This method is used by the splice(2) system call + setlease: called by the VFS to set or release a file lock lease. + setlease has the file_lock_lock held and must not sleep. + + fallocate: called by the VFS to preallocate blocks or punch a hole. + Note that the file operations are implemented by the specific filesystem in which the inode resides. When opening a device node (character or block special) most filesystems will call special |