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-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/Locking8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.txt9
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/porting6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt24
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/xfs.txt3
5 files changed, 32 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
index 0706d32a61e..9858f337529 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ prototypes:
loff_t pos, unsigned len, unsigned copied,
struct page *page, void *fsdata);
sector_t (*bmap)(struct address_space *, sector_t);
- int (*invalidatepage) (struct page *, unsigned long);
+ void (*invalidatepage) (struct page *, unsigned int, unsigned int);
int (*releasepage) (struct page *, int);
void (*freepage)(struct page *);
int (*direct_IO)(int, struct kiocb *, const struct iovec *iov,
@@ -310,8 +310,8 @@ filesystems and by the swapper. The latter will eventually go away. Please,
keep it that way and don't breed new callers.
->invalidatepage() is called when the filesystem must attempt to drop
-some or all of the buffers from the page when it is being truncated. It
-returns zero on success. If ->invalidatepage is zero, the kernel uses
+some or all of the buffers from the page when it is being truncated. It
+returns zero on success. If ->invalidatepage is zero, the kernel uses
block_invalidatepage() instead.
->releasepage() is called when the kernel is about to try to drop the
@@ -414,7 +414,7 @@ prototypes:
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);
- int (*readdir) (struct file *, void *, filldir_t);
+ 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);
long (*compat_ioctl) (struct file *, unsigned int, unsigned long);
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.txt
index bd3c56c6738..b91e2f26b67 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.txt
@@ -98,8 +98,13 @@ Cleaning Overhead
MOUNT OPTIONS
================================================================================
-background_gc_off Turn off cleaning operations, namely garbage collection,
- triggered in background when I/O subsystem is idle.
+background_gc=%s Turn on/off cleaning operations, namely garbage
+ collection, triggered in background when I/O subsystem is
+ idle. If background_gc=on, it will turn on the garbage
+ collection and if background_gc=off, garbage collection
+ will be truned off.
+ Default value for this option is on. So garbage
+ collection is on by default.
disable_roll_forward Disable the roll-forward recovery routine
discard Issue discard/TRIM commands when a segment is cleaned.
no_heap Disable heap-style segment allocation which finds free
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting
index 4db22f6491e..206a1bdc732 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting
@@ -445,3 +445,9 @@ object doesn't exist. It's remote/distributed ones that might care...
[mandatory]
FS_REVAL_DOT is gone; if you used to have it, add ->d_weak_revalidate()
in your dentry operations instead.
+--
+[mandatory]
+ vfs_readdir() is gone; switch to iterate_dir() instead
+--
+[mandatory]
+ ->readdir() is gone now; switch to ->iterate()
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
index bc4b06b3160..e6bd1ffd821 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
@@ -549,7 +549,7 @@ struct address_space_operations
-------------------------------
This describes how the VFS can manipulate mapping of a file to page cache in
-your filesystem. As of kernel 2.6.22, the following members are defined:
+your filesystem. The following members are defined:
struct address_space_operations {
int (*writepage)(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *wbc);
@@ -566,7 +566,7 @@ struct address_space_operations {
loff_t pos, unsigned len, unsigned copied,
struct page *page, void *fsdata);
sector_t (*bmap)(struct address_space *, sector_t);
- int (*invalidatepage) (struct page *, unsigned long);
+ void (*invalidatepage) (struct page *, unsigned int, unsigned int);
int (*releasepage) (struct page *, int);
void (*freepage)(struct page *);
ssize_t (*direct_IO)(int, struct kiocb *, const struct iovec *iov,
@@ -685,14 +685,14 @@ struct address_space_operations {
invalidatepage: If a page has PagePrivate set, then invalidatepage
will be called when part or all of the page is to be removed
from the address space. This generally corresponds to either a
- truncation or a complete invalidation of the address space
- (in the latter case 'offset' will always be 0).
- Any private data associated with the page should be updated
- to reflect this truncation. If offset is 0, then
- the private data should be released, because the page
- must be able to be completely discarded. This may be done by
- calling the ->releasepage function, but in this case the
- release MUST succeed.
+ truncation, punch hole or a complete invalidation of the address
+ space (in the latter case 'offset' will always be 0 and 'length'
+ will be PAGE_CACHE_SIZE). Any private data associated with the page
+ should be updated to reflect this truncation. If offset is 0 and
+ length is PAGE_CACHE_SIZE, then the private data should be released,
+ because the page must be able to be completely discarded. This may
+ be done by calling the ->releasepage function, but in this case the
+ release MUST succeed.
releasepage: releasepage is called on PagePrivate pages to indicate
that the page should be freed if possible. ->releasepage
@@ -777,7 +777,7 @@ 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);
- int (*readdir) (struct file *, void *, filldir_t);
+ 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);
long (*compat_ioctl) (struct file *, unsigned int, unsigned long);
@@ -815,7 +815,7 @@ otherwise noted.
aio_write: called by io_submit(2) and other asynchronous I/O operations
- readdir: called when the VFS needs to read the directory contents
+ iterate: called when the VFS needs to read the directory contents
poll: called by the VFS when a process wants to check if there is
activity on this file and (optionally) go to sleep until there
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/xfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/xfs.txt
index 3e4b3dd1e04..83577f0232a 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/xfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/xfs.txt
@@ -33,6 +33,9 @@ When mounting an XFS filesystem, the following options are accepted.
removing extended attributes) the on-disk superblock feature
bit field will be updated to reflect this format being in use.
+ CRC enabled filesystems always use the attr2 format, and so
+ will reject the noattr2 mount option if it is set.
+
barrier
Enables the use of block layer write barriers for writes into
the journal and unwritten extent conversion. This allows for