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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/fuse-io.rst | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst | 12 |
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/fuse-io.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/fuse-io.rst index 255a368fe534..6464de4266ad 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/fuse-io.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/fuse-io.rst @@ -15,7 +15,8 @@ The direct-io mode can be selected with the FOPEN_DIRECT_IO flag in the FUSE_OPEN reply. In direct-io mode the page cache is completely bypassed for reads and writes. -No read-ahead takes place. Shared mmap is disabled. +No read-ahead takes place. Shared mmap is disabled by default. To allow shared +mmap, the FUSE_DIRECT_IO_ALLOW_MMAP flag may be enabled in the FUSE_INIT reply. In cached mode reads may be satisfied from the page cache, and data may be read-ahead by the kernel to fill the cache. The cache is always kept consistent diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst index 878e72b2f8b7..ced3a6761329 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst @@ -1061,3 +1061,15 @@ export_operations ->encode_fh() no longer has a default implementation to encode FILEID_INO32_GEN* file handles. Filesystems that used the default implementation may use the generic helper generic_encode_ino32_fh() explicitly. + +--- + +**recommended** + +Block device freezing and thawing have been moved to holder operations. + +Before this change, get_active_super() would only be able to find the +superblock of the main block device, i.e., the one stored in sb->s_bdev. Block +device freezing now works for any block device owned by a given superblock, not +just the main block device. The get_active_super() helper and bd_fsfreeze_sb +pointer are gone. |