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author | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2014-11-01 18:53:27 (GMT) |
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committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2014-11-01 18:53:27 (GMT) |
commit | 55b42b5ca2dcf143465968697fe6c6503b05fca1 (patch) | |
tree | 91878cd53efc44ba67244d4d3897020828c87c01 /Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | |
parent | 10738eeaf4ab3de092586cefcc082e7d43ca0044 (diff) | |
parent | ec1f1276022e4e3ca40871810217d513e39ff250 (diff) | |
download | linux-55b42b5ca2dcf143465968697fe6c6503b05fca1.tar.xz |
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Conflicts:
drivers/net/phy/marvell.c
Simple overlapping changes in drivers/net/phy/marvell.c
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt')
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt index fceff7c..20bf204 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 |