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| author |   Borislav Petkov <bbpetkov@yahoo.de> | 2007-07-15 23:41:19 -0700 |
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| committer |   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-07-16 09:05:48 -0700 |
| commit | 0746aec3c75f23de0148774ac50cf73161f09d68 (patch) | |
| tree | 861be11b793f026145f503852065b9b5b6bbe31c /Documentation | |
| parent | cdrom: replace hard-coded constants by kernel.h macro. (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-0746aec3c75f23de0148774ac50cf73161f09d68.tar.xz linux-dev-0746aec3c75f23de0148774ac50cf73161f09d68.zip | |
update description in Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
Update the description of struct file_system_type and get_sb() in
Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt to match the current code.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bbpetkov@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | 22 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt index a47cc819f37b..f023609fa718 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Original author: Richard Gooch <rgooch@atnf.csiro.au> - Last updated on October 28, 2005 + Last updated on June 24, 2007. Copyright (C) 1999 Richard Gooch Copyright (C) 2005 Pekka Enberg @@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ file /proc/filesystems. struct file_system_type ----------------------- -This describes the filesystem. As of kernel 2.6.13, the following +This describes the filesystem. As of kernel 2.6.22, the following members are defined: struct file_system_type { @@ -119,6 +119,8 @@ struct file_system_type { struct module *owner; struct file_system_type * next; struct list_head fs_supers; + struct lock_class_key s_lock_key; + struct lock_class_key s_umount_key; }; name: the name of the filesystem type, such as "ext2", "iso9660", @@ -137,11 +139,12 @@ struct file_system_type { next: for internal VFS use: you should initialize this to NULL + s_lock_key, s_umount_key: lockdep-specific + The get_sb() method has the following arguments: - struct super_block *sb: the superblock structure. This is partially - initialized by the VFS and the rest must be initialized by the - get_sb() method + struct file_system_type *fs_type: decribes the filesystem, partly initialized + by the specific filesystem code int flags: mount flags @@ -150,12 +153,13 @@ The get_sb() method has the following arguments: void *data: arbitrary mount options, usually comes as an ASCII string - int silent: whether or not to be silent on error + struct vfsmount *mnt: a vfs-internal representation of a mount point The get_sb() method must determine if the block device specified -in the superblock contains a filesystem of the type the method -supports. On success the method returns the superblock pointer, on -failure it returns NULL. +in the dev_name and fs_type contains a filesystem of the type the method +supports. If it succeeds in opening the named block device, it initializes a +struct super_block descriptor for the filesystem contained by the block device. +On failure it returns an error. The most interesting member of the superblock structure that the get_sb() method fills in is the "s_op" field. This is a pointer to |