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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
index b66858538df5..94677e7dcb13 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
@@ -401,11 +401,16 @@ otherwise noted.
started might not be in the page cache at the end of the
walk).
- truncate: called by the VFS to change the size of a file. The
+ truncate: Deprecated. This will not be called if ->setsize is defined.
+ Called by the VFS to change the size of a file. The
i_size field of the inode is set to the desired size by the
VFS before this method is called. This method is called by
the truncate(2) system call and related functionality.
+ Note: ->truncate and vmtruncate are deprecated. Do not add new
+ instances/calls of these. Filesystems should be converted to do their
+ truncate sequence via ->setattr().
+
permission: called by the VFS to check for access rights on a POSIX-like
filesystem.
@@ -729,7 +734,7 @@ struct file_operations {
int (*open) (struct inode *, struct file *);
int (*flush) (struct file *);
int (*release) (struct inode *, struct file *);
- int (*fsync) (struct file *, struct dentry *, int datasync);
+ int (*fsync) (struct file *, int datasync);
int (*aio_fsync) (struct kiocb *, int datasync);
int (*fasync) (int, struct file *, int);
int (*lock) (struct file *, int, struct file_lock *);