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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/Locking | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/porting | 12 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | 6 |
3 files changed, 12 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking index f91926f2f482..c3cd6279e92e 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking @@ -429,8 +429,6 @@ prototypes: loff_t (*llseek) (struct file *, loff_t, int); ssize_t (*read) (struct file *, char __user *, size_t, loff_t *); ssize_t (*write) (struct file *, const char __user *, size_t, loff_t *); - ssize_t (*aio_read) (struct kiocb *, const struct iovec *, unsigned long, loff_t); - ssize_t (*aio_write) (struct kiocb *, const struct iovec *, unsigned long, loff_t); ssize_t (*read_iter) (struct kiocb *, struct iov_iter *); ssize_t (*write_iter) (struct kiocb *, struct iov_iter *); int (*iterate) (struct file *, struct dir_context *); diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting index fa2db081505e..e69274de8d0c 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting @@ -471,3 +471,15 @@ in your dentry operations instead. [mandatory] f_dentry is gone; use f_path.dentry, or, better yet, see if you can avoid it entirely. +-- +[mandatory] + never call ->read() and ->write() directly; use __vfs_{read,write} or + wrappers; instead of checking for ->write or ->read being NULL, look for + FMODE_CAN_{WRITE,READ} in file->f_mode. +-- +[mandatory] + do _not_ use new_sync_{read,write} for ->read/->write; leave it NULL + instead. +-- +[mandatory] + ->aio_read/->aio_write are gone. Use ->read_iter/->write_iter. diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt index 966b22829f3b..207cdca68bed 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt @@ -804,8 +804,6 @@ struct file_operations { loff_t (*llseek) (struct file *, loff_t, int); ssize_t (*read) (struct file *, char __user *, size_t, loff_t *); ssize_t (*write) (struct file *, const char __user *, size_t, loff_t *); - ssize_t (*aio_read) (struct kiocb *, const struct iovec *, unsigned long, loff_t); - ssize_t (*aio_write) (struct kiocb *, const struct iovec *, unsigned long, loff_t); ssize_t (*read_iter) (struct kiocb *, struct iov_iter *); ssize_t (*write_iter) (struct kiocb *, struct iov_iter *); int (*iterate) (struct file *, struct dir_context *); @@ -838,14 +836,10 @@ otherwise noted. read: called by read(2) and related system calls - aio_read: vectored, possibly asynchronous read - read_iter: possibly asynchronous read with iov_iter as destination write: called by write(2) and related system calls - aio_write: vectored, possibly asynchronous write - write_iter: possibly asynchronous write with iov_iter as source iterate: called when the VFS needs to read the directory contents |