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author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2010-12-23 09:48:41 +0100 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2010-12-23 09:48:41 +0100 |
commit | 26e20a108caca6231c6a5ec659f815a866904751 (patch) | |
tree | 36932c208a9e8994bfd7ed4eaf48b9c33f71fbe3 /Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | |
parent | 691513f70d3957939a318da970987b876c720861 (diff) | |
parent | 90a8a73c06cc32b609a880d48449d7083327e11a (diff) | |
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Merge commit 'v2.6.37-rc7' into x86/security
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt index ed7e5efc06d8..20899e095e7e 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt @@ -534,6 +534,7 @@ struct address_space_operations { sector_t (*bmap)(struct address_space *, sector_t); int (*invalidatepage) (struct page *, unsigned long); int (*releasepage) (struct page *, int); + void (*freepage)(struct page *); ssize_t (*direct_IO)(int, struct kiocb *, const struct iovec *iov, loff_t offset, unsigned long nr_segs); struct page* (*get_xip_page)(struct address_space *, sector_t, @@ -660,11 +661,10 @@ struct address_space_operations { releasepage: releasepage is called on PagePrivate pages to indicate that the page should be freed if possible. ->releasepage should remove any private data from the page and clear the - PagePrivate flag. It may also remove the page from the - address_space. If this fails for some reason, it may indicate - failure with a 0 return value. - This is used in two distinct though related cases. The first - is when the VM finds a clean page with no active users and + PagePrivate flag. If releasepage() fails for some reason, it must + indicate failure with a 0 return value. + releasepage() is used in two distinct though related cases. The + first is when the VM finds a clean page with no active users and wants to make it a free page. If ->releasepage succeeds, the page will be removed from the address_space and become free. @@ -679,6 +679,12 @@ struct address_space_operations { need to ensure this. Possibly it can clear the PageUptodate bit if it cannot free private data yet. + freepage: freepage is called once the page is no longer visible in + the page cache in order to allow the cleanup of any private + data. Since it may be called by the memory reclaimer, it + should not assume that the original address_space mapping still + exists, and it should not block. + direct_IO: called by the generic read/write routines to perform direct_IO - that is IO requests which bypass the page cache and transfer data directly between the storage and the |