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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-07-26 19:55:54 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-07-26 19:55:54 -0700
commit0e06f5c0deeef0332a5da2ecb8f1fcf3e024d958 (patch)
treee0f0af4aadf10c713c5cf1b65356844b3c9b3215 /Documentation/filesystems/Locking
parentf7816ad0f878dacd5f0120476f9b836ccf8699ea (diff)
parent8f19b0c058d93a678a99dd6fec03af2e769943f2 (diff)
Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge updates from Andrew Morton: - a few misc bits - ocfs2 - most(?) of MM * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (125 commits) thp: fix comments of __pmd_trans_huge_lock() cgroup: remove unnecessary 0 check from css_from_id() cgroup: fix idr leak for the first cgroup root mm: memcontrol: fix documentation for compound parameter mm: memcontrol: remove BUG_ON in uncharge_list mm: fix build warnings in <linux/compaction.h> mm, thp: convert from optimistic swapin collapsing to conservative mm, thp: fix comment inconsistency for swapin readahead functions thp: update Documentation/{vm/transhuge,filesystems/proc}.txt shmem: split huge pages beyond i_size under memory pressure thp: introduce CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGE_PAGECACHE khugepaged: add support of collapse for tmpfs/shmem pages shmem: make shmem_inode_info::lock irq-safe khugepaged: move up_read(mmap_sem) out of khugepaged_alloc_page() thp: extract khugepaged from mm/huge_memory.c shmem, thp: respect MADV_{NO,}HUGEPAGE for file mappings shmem: add huge pages support shmem: get_unmapped_area align huge page shmem: prepare huge= mount option and sysfs knob mm, rmap: account shmem thp pages ...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/Locking')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/Locking14
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
index 75eea7ce3d7c..5a7386e38e2d 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
@@ -195,7 +195,9 @@ prototypes:
int (*releasepage) (struct page *, int);
void (*freepage)(struct page *);
int (*direct_IO)(struct kiocb *, struct iov_iter *iter);
+ bool (*isolate_page) (struct page *, isolate_mode_t);
int (*migratepage)(struct address_space *, struct page *, struct page *);
+ void (*putback_page) (struct page *);
int (*launder_page)(struct page *);
int (*is_partially_uptodate)(struct page *, unsigned long, unsigned long);
int (*error_remove_page)(struct address_space *, struct page *);
@@ -219,7 +221,9 @@ invalidatepage: yes
releasepage: yes
freepage: yes
direct_IO:
+isolate_page: yes
migratepage: yes (both)
+putback_page: yes
launder_page: yes
is_partially_uptodate: yes
error_remove_page: yes
@@ -544,13 +548,13 @@ subsequent truncate), and then return with VM_FAULT_LOCKED, and the page
locked. The VM will unlock the page.
->map_pages() is called when VM asks to map easy accessible pages.
-Filesystem should find and map pages associated with offsets from "pgoff"
-till "max_pgoff". ->map_pages() is called with page table locked and must
+Filesystem should find and map pages associated with offsets from "start_pgoff"
+till "end_pgoff". ->map_pages() is called with page table locked and must
not block. If it's not possible to reach a page without blocking,
filesystem should skip it. Filesystem should use do_set_pte() to setup
-page table entry. Pointer to entry associated with offset "pgoff" is
-passed in "pte" field in vm_fault structure. Pointers to entries for other
-offsets should be calculated relative to "pte".
+page table entry. Pointer to entry associated with the page is passed in
+"pte" field in fault_env structure. Pointers to entries for other offsets
+should be calculated relative to "pte".
->page_mkwrite() is called when a previously read-only pte is
about to become writeable. The filesystem again must ensure that there are