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| author | Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@gmail.com> | 2012-12-15 12:00:38 +0100 |
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| committer | Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2012-12-20 18:47:08 -0500 |
| commit | b9f61c3c0c8daed9844870bc9358e6d9fdb7eb61 (patch) | |
| tree | 7c5be784012a40186316c78ee85dacea354d3c87 /Documentation | |
| parent | 7898575fc81bd707ce0844cb06874d48e39bbe09 (diff) | |
documentation: drop vmtruncate
Removed vmtruncate
Signed-off-by: Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/Locking | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/porting | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | 11 |
3 files changed, 1 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking index e540a24e5d06..f48e0c6b4c42 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking @@ -80,7 +80,6 @@ rename: yes (all) (see below) readlink: no follow_link: no put_link: no -truncate: yes (see below) setattr: yes permission: no (may not block if called in rcu-walk mode) get_acl: no @@ -96,11 +95,6 @@ atomic_open: yes Additionally, ->rmdir(), ->unlink() and ->rename() have ->i_mutex on victim. cross-directory ->rename() has (per-superblock) ->s_vfs_rename_sem. - ->truncate() is never called directly - it's a callback, not a -method. It's called by vmtruncate() - deprecated library function used by -->setattr(). Locking information above applies to that call (i.e. is -inherited from ->setattr() - vmtruncate() is used when ATTR_SIZE had been -passed). See Documentation/filesystems/directory-locking for more detailed discussion of the locking scheme for directory operations. diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting index 0742feebc6e2..0472c31c163b 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting @@ -281,7 +281,7 @@ ext2_write_failed and callers for an example. [mandatory] - ->truncate is going away. The whole truncate sequence needs to be + ->truncate is gone. The whole truncate sequence needs to be implemented in ->setattr, which is now mandatory for filesystems implementing on-disk size changes. Start with a copy of the old inode_setattr and vmtruncate, and the reorder the vmtruncate + foofs_vmtruncate sequence to diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt index 2ee133e030c3..e3869098163e 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt @@ -350,7 +350,6 @@ struct inode_operations { int (*readlink) (struct dentry *, char __user *,int); void * (*follow_link) (struct dentry *, struct nameidata *); void (*put_link) (struct dentry *, struct nameidata *, void *); - void (*truncate) (struct inode *); int (*permission) (struct inode *, int); int (*get_acl)(struct inode *, int); int (*setattr) (struct dentry *, struct iattr *); @@ -431,16 +430,6 @@ otherwise noted. started might not be in the page cache at the end of the walk). - truncate: Deprecated. This will not be called if ->setsize is defined. - Called by the VFS to change the size of a file. The - i_size field of the inode is set to the desired size by the - VFS before this method is called. This method is called by - the truncate(2) system call and related functionality. - - Note: ->truncate and vmtruncate are deprecated. Do not add new - instances/calls of these. Filesystems should be converted to do their - truncate sequence via ->setattr(). - permission: called by the VFS to check for access rights on a POSIX-like filesystem. |