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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-03-24 19:01:30 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-03-24 19:01:30 -0700
commitd39dd11c3e6a7af5c20bfac40594db36cf270f42 (patch)
tree6384e07fa2f347b286cde9754c4507b5a738ab47 /Documentation/filesystems
parent30f5b28e7f937608e0407edaa459cc8161de81d9 (diff)
parent0b2d0724e26a335cd326eb7ad552c109116a8795 (diff)
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: fs: simplify iget & friends fs: pull inode->i_lock up out of writeback_single_inode fs: rename inode_lock to inode_hash_lock fs: move i_wb_list out from under inode_lock fs: move i_sb_list out from under inode_lock fs: remove inode_lock from iput_final and prune_icache fs: Lock the inode LRU list separately fs: factor inode disposal fs: protect inode->i_state with inode->i_lock autofs4: Do not potentially dereference NULL pointer returned by fget() in autofs_dev_ioctl_setpipefd() autofs4 - remove autofs4_lock autofs4 - fix d_manage() return on rcu-walk autofs4 - fix autofs4_expire_indirect() traversal autofs4 - fix dentry leak in autofs4_expire_direct() autofs4 - reinstate last used update on access vfs - check non-mountpoint dentry might block in __follow_mount_rcu()
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/Locking2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/porting16
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt2
3 files changed, 13 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
index 2e994efe12c..61b31acb917 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ alloc_inode:
destroy_inode:
dirty_inode: (must not sleep)
write_inode:
-drop_inode: !!!inode_lock!!!
+drop_inode: !!!inode->i_lock!!!
evict_inode:
put_super: write
write_super: read
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting
index 0c986c9e851..6e29954851a 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting
@@ -298,11 +298,14 @@ 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().
- ->drop_inode() returns int now; it's called on final iput() with inode_lock
-held and it returns true if filesystems wants the inode to be dropped. As before,
-generic_drop_inode() is still the default and it's been 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.
+
+ ->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
+dropped. As before, generic_drop_inode() is still the default and it's been
+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
@@ -397,6 +400,9 @@ a file off.
--
[mandatory]
+
+--
+[mandatory]
->get_sb() is gone. Switch to use of ->mount(). Typically it's just
a matter of switching from calling get_sb_... to mount_... and changing the
function type. If you were doing it manually, just switch from setting ->mnt_root
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
index 306f0ae8df0..80815ed654c 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ or bottom half).
should be synchronous or not, not all filesystems check this flag.
drop_inode: called when the last access to the inode is dropped,
- with the inode_lock spinlock held.
+ with the inode->i_lock spinlock held.
This method should be either NULL (normal UNIX filesystem
semantics) or "generic_delete_inode" (for filesystems that do not