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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/Locking | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | 4 |
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking index 4fca82e5276e..d5a269a51a9e 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking @@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ ata *); int (*removexattr) (struct dentry *, const char *); void (*truncate_range)(struct inode *, loff_t, loff_t); int (*fiemap)(struct inode *, struct fiemap_extent_info *, u64 start, u64 len); + void (*update_time)(struct inode *, struct timespec *, int); locking rules: all may block @@ -89,6 +90,8 @@ listxattr: no removexattr: yes truncate_range: yes fiemap: no +update_time: no + Additionally, ->rmdir(), ->unlink() and ->rename() have ->i_mutex on victim. cross-directory ->rename() has (per-superblock) ->s_vfs_rename_sem. diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt index 0d0492028082..b2aa722e5ea2 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt @@ -364,6 +364,7 @@ struct inode_operations { ssize_t (*listxattr) (struct dentry *, char *, size_t); int (*removexattr) (struct dentry *, const char *); void (*truncate_range)(struct inode *, loff_t, loff_t); + void (*update_time)(struct inode *, struct timespec *, int); }; Again, all methods are called without any locks being held, unless @@ -475,6 +476,9 @@ otherwise noted. truncate_range: a method provided by the underlying filesystem to truncate a range of blocks , i.e. punch a hole somewhere in a file. + update_time: called by the VFS to update a specific time or the i_version of + an inode. If this is not defined the VFS will update the inode itself + and call mark_inode_dirty_sync. The Address Space Object ======================== |