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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-08-01 02:25:39 (GMT) |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-08-01 02:25:39 (GMT) |
commit | ac694dbdbc403c00e2c14d10bc7b8412cc378259 (patch) | |
tree | e37328cfbeaf43716dd5914cad9179e57e84df76 /Documentation/filesystems/Locking | |
parent | a40a1d3d0a2fd613fdec6d89d3c053268ced76ed (diff) | |
parent | 437ea90cc3afdca5229b41c6b1d38c4842756cb9 (diff) | |
download | linux-fsl-qoriq-ac694dbdbc403c00e2c14d10bc7b8412cc378259.tar.xz |
Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch-bomb)
Merge Andrew's second set of patches:
- MM
- a few random fixes
- a couple of RTC leftovers
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (120 commits)
rtc/rtc-88pm80x: remove unneed devm_kfree
rtc/rtc-88pm80x: assign ret only when rtc_register_driver fails
mm: hugetlbfs: close race during teardown of hugetlbfs shared page tables
tmpfs: distribute interleave better across nodes
mm: remove redundant initialization
mm: warn if pg_data_t isn't initialized with zero
mips: zero out pg_data_t when it's allocated
memcg: gix memory accounting scalability in shrink_page_list
mm/sparse: remove index_init_lock
mm/sparse: more checks on mem_section number
mm/sparse: optimize sparse_index_alloc
memcg: add mem_cgroup_from_css() helper
memcg: further prevent OOM with too many dirty pages
memcg: prevent OOM with too many dirty pages
mm: mmu_notifier: fix freed page still mapped in secondary MMU
mm: memcg: only check anon swapin page charges for swap cache
mm: memcg: only check swap cache pages for repeated charging
mm: memcg: split swapin charge function into private and public part
mm: memcg: remove needless !mm fixup to init_mm when charging
mm: memcg: remove unneeded shmem charge type
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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/Locking')
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking index e0cce2a..2db1900 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking @@ -206,6 +206,8 @@ prototypes: int (*launder_page)(struct page *); int (*is_partially_uptodate)(struct page *, read_descriptor_t *, unsigned long); int (*error_remove_page)(struct address_space *, struct page *); + int (*swap_activate)(struct file *); + int (*swap_deactivate)(struct file *); locking rules: All except set_page_dirty and freepage may block @@ -229,6 +231,8 @@ migratepage: yes (both) launder_page: yes is_partially_uptodate: yes error_remove_page: yes +swap_activate: no +swap_deactivate: no ->write_begin(), ->write_end(), ->sync_page() and ->readpage() may be called from the request handler (/dev/loop). @@ -330,6 +334,15 @@ cleaned, or an error value if not. Note that in order to prevent the page getting mapped back in and redirtied, it needs to be kept locked across the entire operation. + ->swap_activate will be called with a non-zero argument on +files backing (non block device backed) swapfiles. A return value +of zero indicates success, in which case this file can be used for +backing swapspace. The swapspace operations will be proxied to the +address space operations. + + ->swap_deactivate() will be called in the sys_swapoff() +path after ->swap_activate() returned success. + ----------------------- file_lock_operations ------------------------------ prototypes: void (*fl_copy_lock)(struct file_lock *, struct file_lock *); |