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| author | Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> | 2011-05-27 10:53:02 (GMT) |
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| committer | Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2011-05-27 11:04:40 (GMT) |
| commit | aa38572954ade525817fe88c54faebf85e5a61c0 (patch) | |
| tree | ef398ec06c97134592f62a49c99f3f80041b427c /Documentation/filesystems | |
| parent | d6e9bd256c88ce5f4b668249e363a74f51393daa (diff) | |
| download | linux-aa38572954ade525817fe88c54faebf85e5a61c0.tar.xz | |
fs: pass exact type of data dirties to ->dirty_inode
Tell the filesystem if we just updated timestamp (I_DIRTY_SYNC) or
anything else, so that the filesystem can track internally if it
needs to push out a transaction for fdatasync or not.
This is just the prototype change with no user for it yet. I plan
to push large XFS changes for the next merge window, and getting
this trivial infrastructure in this window would help a lot to avoid
tree interdependencies.
Also remove incorrect comments that ->dirty_inode can't block. That
has been changed a long time ago, and many implementations rely on it.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/Locking | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | 2 |
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking index 61b31ac..57d827d6 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking @@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ of the locking scheme for directory operations. prototypes: struct inode *(*alloc_inode)(struct super_block *sb); void (*destroy_inode)(struct inode *); - void (*dirty_inode) (struct inode *); + void (*dirty_inode) (struct inode *, int flags); int (*write_inode) (struct inode *, struct writeback_control *wbc); int (*drop_inode) (struct inode *); void (*evict_inode) (struct inode *); @@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ locking rules: s_umount alloc_inode: destroy_inode: -dirty_inode: (must not sleep) +dirty_inode: write_inode: drop_inode: !!!inode->i_lock!!! evict_inode: diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt index 21a7dc4..88b9f55 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt @@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ struct super_operations { struct inode *(*alloc_inode)(struct super_block *sb); void (*destroy_inode)(struct inode *); - void (*dirty_inode) (struct inode *); + void (*dirty_inode) (struct inode *, int flags); int (*write_inode) (struct inode *, int); void (*drop_inode) (struct inode *); void (*delete_inode) (struct inode *); |