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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
index 829a7b7857a4..4b2084d0f1fb 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
@@ -386,7 +386,7 @@ struct inode_operations {
ssize_t (*listxattr) (struct dentry *, char *, size_t);
void (*update_time)(struct inode *, struct timespec *, int);
int (*atomic_open)(struct inode *, struct dentry *, struct file *,
- unsigned open_flag, umode_t create_mode, int *opened);
+ unsigned open_flag, umode_t create_mode);
int (*tmpfile) (struct inode *, struct dentry *, umode_t);
};
@@ -496,13 +496,15 @@ otherwise noted.
atomic_open: called on the last component of an open. Using this optional
method the filesystem can look up, possibly create and open the file in
- one atomic operation. If it cannot perform this (e.g. the file type
- turned out to be wrong) it may signal this by returning 1 instead of
- usual 0 or -ve . This method is only called if the last component is
- negative or needs lookup. Cached positive dentries are still handled by
- f_op->open(). If the file was created, the FILE_CREATED flag should be
- set in "opened". In case of O_EXCL the method must only succeed if the
- file didn't exist and hence FILE_CREATED shall always be set on success.
+ one atomic operation. If it wants to leave actual opening to the
+ caller (e.g. if the file turned out to be a symlink, device, or just
+ something filesystem won't do atomic open for), it may signal this by
+ returning finish_no_open(file, dentry). This method is only called if
+ the last component is negative or needs lookup. Cached positive dentries
+ are still handled by f_op->open(). If the file was created,
+ FMODE_CREATED flag should be set in file->f_mode. In case of O_EXCL
+ the method must only succeed if the file didn't exist and hence FMODE_CREATED
+ shall always be set on success.
tmpfile: called in the end of O_TMPFILE open(). Optional, equivalent to
atomically creating, opening and unlinking a file in given directory.
@@ -857,8 +859,6 @@ struct file_operations {
ssize_t (*write_iter) (struct kiocb *, struct iov_iter *);
int (*iterate) (struct file *, struct dir_context *);
__poll_t (*poll) (struct file *, struct poll_table_struct *);
- struct wait_queue_head * (*get_poll_head)(struct file *, __poll_t);
- __poll_t (*poll_mask) (struct file *, __poll_t);
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 *);
@@ -903,17 +903,6 @@ otherwise noted.
activity on this file and (optionally) go to sleep until there
is activity. Called by the select(2) and poll(2) system calls
- get_poll_head: Returns the struct wait_queue_head that callers can
- wait on. Callers need to check the returned events using ->poll_mask
- once woken. Can return NULL to indicate polling is not supported,
- or any error code using the ERR_PTR convention to indicate that a
- grave error occured and ->poll_mask shall not be called.
-
- poll_mask: return the mask of EPOLL* values describing the file descriptor
- state. Called either before going to sleep on the waitqueue returned by
- get_poll_head, or after it has been woken. If ->get_poll_head and
- ->poll_mask are implemented ->poll does not need to be implement.
-
unlocked_ioctl: called by the ioctl(2) system call.
compat_ioctl: called by the ioctl(2) system call when 32 bit system calls
@@ -1000,8 +989,7 @@ struct dentry_operations {
char *(*d_dname)(struct dentry *, char *, int);
struct vfsmount *(*d_automount)(struct path *);
int (*d_manage)(const struct path *, bool);
- struct dentry *(*d_real)(struct dentry *, const struct inode *,
- unsigned int, unsigned int);
+ struct dentry *(*d_real)(struct dentry *, const struct inode *);
};
d_revalidate: called when the VFS needs to revalidate a dentry. This
@@ -1135,22 +1123,15 @@ struct dentry_operations {
dentry being transited from.
d_real: overlay/union type filesystems implement this method to return one of
- the underlying dentries hidden by the overlay. It is used in three
+ the underlying dentries hidden by the overlay. It is used in two
different modes:
- Called from open it may need to copy-up the file depending on the
- supplied open flags. This mode is selected with a non-zero flags
- argument. In this mode the d_real method can return an error.
-
Called from file_dentry() it returns the real dentry matching the inode
argument. The real dentry may be from a lower layer already copied up,
but still referenced from the file. This mode is selected with a
- non-NULL inode argument. This will always succeed.
-
- With NULL inode and zero flags the topmost real underlying dentry is
- returned. This will always succeed.
+ non-NULL inode argument.
- This method is never called with both non-NULL inode and non-zero flags.
+ With NULL inode the topmost real underlying dentry is returned.
Each dentry has a pointer to its parent dentry, as well as a hash list
of child dentries. Child dentries are basically like files in a