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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst | 2 |
3 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst index 08d01bc62c31..c274c5eef733 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst @@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ inode_operations prototypes:: - int (*create) (struct mnt_idmap *, struct inode *,struct dentry *,umode_t, bool); + int (*create) (struct mnt_idmap *, struct inode *,struct dentry *,umode_t); struct dentry * (*lookup) (struct inode *,struct dentry *, unsigned int); int (*link) (struct dentry *,struct inode *,struct dentry *); int (*unlink) (struct inode *,struct dentry *); diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst index d13f0a23c882..02522fbfd968 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst @@ -1401,3 +1401,11 @@ as with d_dispose_if_unused() these are not trivial; with this variant of API it's more explicit, since grabbing ->d_lock is caller-side, but d_dispose_if_unused() had all the same issues. It's a low-level primitive; use only if you have no alternative. + +--- + +**mandatory** + +The .create inode_operation no longer receives the 'excl' arg. It must +always assume the file does not already exist. If the filesystem needs +to be involved in non-exclusive create, it should provide atomic_open. diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst index 7c753148af88..651b83b00440 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst @@ -415,7 +415,7 @@ As of kernel 2.6.22, the following members are defined: .. code-block:: c struct inode_operations { - int (*create) (struct mnt_idmap *, struct inode *,struct dentry *, umode_t, bool); + int (*create) (struct mnt_idmap *, struct inode *,struct dentry *, umode_t); struct dentry * (*lookup) (struct inode *,struct dentry *, unsigned int); int (*link) (struct dentry *,struct inode *,struct dentry *); int (*unlink) (struct inode *,struct dentry *); |