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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/Locking')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/Locking | 19 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking index b18dd1779029..b30753cbf431 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking @@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ prototypes: struct file *, unsigned open_flag, umode_t create_mode, int *opened); int (*tmpfile) (struct inode *, struct dentry *, umode_t); + int (*dentry_open)(struct dentry *, struct file *, const struct cred *); locking rules: all may block @@ -96,6 +97,7 @@ fiemap: no update_time: no atomic_open: yes tmpfile: no +dentry_open: no Additionally, ->rmdir(), ->unlink() and ->rename() have ->i_mutex on victim. @@ -349,7 +351,11 @@ prototypes: locking rules: inode->i_lock may block fl_copy_lock: yes no -fl_release_private: maybe no +fl_release_private: maybe maybe[1] + +[1]: ->fl_release_private for flock or POSIX locks is currently allowed +to block. Leases however can still be freed while the i_lock is held and +so fl_release_private called on a lease should not block. ----------------------- lock_manager_operations --------------------------- prototypes: @@ -460,15 +466,12 @@ prototypes: size_t, unsigned int); ssize_t (*splice_read)(struct file *, loff_t *, struct pipe_inode_info *, size_t, unsigned int); - int (*setlease)(struct file *, long, struct file_lock **); + int (*setlease)(struct file *, long, struct file_lock **, void **); long (*fallocate)(struct file *, int, loff_t, loff_t); }; locking rules: - All may block except for ->setlease. - No VFS locks held on entry except for ->setlease. - -->setlease has the file_list_lock held and must not sleep. + All may block. ->llseek() locking has moved from llseek to the individual llseek implementations. If your fs is not using generic_file_llseek, you @@ -492,6 +495,10 @@ components. And there are other reasons why the current interface is a mess... ->read on directories probably must go away - we should just enforce -EISDIR in sys_read() and friends. +->setlease operations should call generic_setlease() before or after setting +the lease within the individual filesystem to record the result of the +operation + --------------------------- dquot_operations ------------------------------- prototypes: int (*write_dquot) (struct dquot *); |