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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/Locking')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/Locking | 30 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking index 96d4293607ec..2db4283efa8d 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking @@ -92,8 +92,8 @@ prototypes: void (*destroy_inode)(struct inode *); void (*dirty_inode) (struct inode *); int (*write_inode) (struct inode *, int); - void (*drop_inode) (struct inode *); - void (*delete_inode) (struct inode *); + int (*drop_inode) (struct inode *); + void (*evict_inode) (struct inode *); void (*put_super) (struct super_block *); void (*write_super) (struct super_block *); int (*sync_fs)(struct super_block *sb, int wait); @@ -101,14 +101,13 @@ prototypes: int (*unfreeze_fs) (struct super_block *); int (*statfs) (struct dentry *, struct kstatfs *); int (*remount_fs) (struct super_block *, int *, char *); - void (*clear_inode) (struct inode *); void (*umount_begin) (struct super_block *); int (*show_options)(struct seq_file *, struct vfsmount *); ssize_t (*quota_read)(struct super_block *, int, char *, size_t, loff_t); ssize_t (*quota_write)(struct super_block *, int, const char *, size_t, loff_t); locking rules: - All may block. + All may block [not true, see below] None have BKL s_umount alloc_inode: @@ -116,22 +115,25 @@ destroy_inode: dirty_inode: (must not sleep) write_inode: drop_inode: !!!inode_lock!!! -delete_inode: +evict_inode: put_super: write write_super: read sync_fs: read freeze_fs: read unfreeze_fs: read -statfs: no -remount_fs: maybe (see below) -clear_inode: +statfs: maybe(read) (see below) +remount_fs: write umount_begin: no show_options: no (namespace_sem) quota_read: no (see below) quota_write: no (see below) -->remount_fs() will have the s_umount exclusive lock if it's already mounted. -When called from get_sb_single, it does NOT have the s_umount lock. +->statfs() has s_umount (shared) when called by ustat(2) (native or +compat), but that's an accident of bad API; s_umount is used to pin +the superblock down when we only have dev_t given us by userland to +identify the superblock. Everything else (statfs(), fstatfs(), etc.) +doesn't hold it when calling ->statfs() - superblock is pinned down +by resolving the pathname passed to syscall. ->quota_read() and ->quota_write() functions are both guaranteed to be the only ones operating on the quota file by the quota code (via dqio_sem) (unless an admin really wants to screw up something and @@ -372,8 +374,6 @@ prototypes: ssize_t (*aio_write) (struct kiocb *, const struct iovec *, unsigned long, loff_t); int (*readdir) (struct file *, void *, filldir_t); unsigned int (*poll) (struct file *, struct poll_table_struct *); - int (*ioctl) (struct inode *, struct file *, unsigned int, - unsigned long); long (*unlocked_ioctl) (struct file *, unsigned int, unsigned long); long (*compat_ioctl) (struct file *, unsigned int, unsigned long); int (*mmap) (struct file *, struct vm_area_struct *); @@ -407,8 +407,7 @@ write: no aio_write: no readdir: no poll: no -ioctl: yes (see below) -unlocked_ioctl: no (see below) +unlocked_ioctl: no compat_ioctl: no mmap: no open: no @@ -451,9 +450,6 @@ move ->readdir() to inode_operations and use a separate method for directory anything that resembles union-mount we won't have a struct file for all components. And there are other reasons why the current interface is a mess... -->ioctl() on regular files is superceded by the ->unlocked_ioctl() that -doesn't take the BKL. - ->read on directories probably must go away - we should just enforce -EISDIR in sys_read() and friends. |