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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt index fceff7c00a3c..43ce0507ee25 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt @@ -364,6 +364,7 @@ struct inode_operations { int (*atomic_open)(struct inode *, struct dentry *, struct file *, unsigned open_flag, umode_t create_mode, int *opened); int (*tmpfile) (struct inode *, struct dentry *, umode_t); + int (*dentry_open)(struct dentry *, struct file *, const struct cred *); }; Again, all methods are called without any locks being held, unless @@ -696,6 +697,12 @@ struct address_space_operations { but instead uses bmap to find out where the blocks in the file are and uses those addresses directly. + dentry_open: *WARNING: probably going away soon, do not use!* This is an + alternative to f_op->open(), the difference is that this method may open + a file not necessarily originating from the same filesystem as the one + i_op->open() was called on. It may be useful for stacking filesystems + which want to allow native I/O directly on underlying files. + invalidatepage: If a page has PagePrivate set, then invalidatepage will be called when part or all of the page is to be removed @@ -828,7 +835,7 @@ struct file_operations { ssize_t (*splice_read)(struct file *, struct pipe_inode_info *, size_t, unsigned int); int (*setlease)(struct file *, long arg, struct file_lock **, void **); long (*fallocate)(struct file *, int mode, loff_t offset, loff_t len); - int (*show_fdinfo)(struct seq_file *m, struct file *f); + void (*show_fdinfo)(struct seq_file *m, struct file *f); }; Again, all methods are called without any locks being held, unless |