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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/porting | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | 22 |
2 files changed, 20 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting index 321d74b73937..cf43bc4dbf31 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting @@ -623,6 +623,11 @@ in your dentry operations instead. On success you get a new struct file sharing the mount/dentry with the original, on failure - ERR_PTR(). -- +[mandatory] + ->clone_file_range() and ->dedupe_file_range have been replaced with + ->remap_file_range(). See Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt for more + information. +-- [recommended] ->lookup() instances doing an equivalent of if (IS_ERR(inode)) diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt index a6c6a8af48a2..5f71a252e2e0 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt @@ -883,8 +883,9 @@ struct file_operations { unsigned (*mmap_capabilities)(struct file *); #endif ssize_t (*copy_file_range)(struct file *, loff_t, struct file *, loff_t, size_t, unsigned int); - int (*clone_file_range)(struct file *, loff_t, struct file *, loff_t, u64); - int (*dedupe_file_range)(struct file *, loff_t, struct file *, loff_t, u64); + loff_t (*remap_file_range)(struct file *file_in, loff_t pos_in, + struct file *file_out, loff_t pos_out, + loff_t len, unsigned int remap_flags); int (*fadvise)(struct file *, loff_t, loff_t, int); }; @@ -960,11 +961,18 @@ otherwise noted. copy_file_range: called by the copy_file_range(2) system call. - clone_file_range: called by the ioctl(2) system call for FICLONERANGE and - FICLONE commands. - - dedupe_file_range: called by the ioctl(2) system call for FIDEDUPERANGE - command. + remap_file_range: called by the ioctl(2) system call for FICLONERANGE and + FICLONE and FIDEDUPERANGE commands to remap file ranges. An + implementation should remap len bytes at pos_in of the source file into + the dest file at pos_out. Implementations must handle callers passing + in len == 0; this means "remap to the end of the source file". The + return value should the number of bytes remapped, or the usual + negative error code if errors occurred before any bytes were remapped. + The remap_flags parameter accepts REMAP_FILE_* flags. If + REMAP_FILE_DEDUP is set then the implementation must only remap if the + requested file ranges have identical contents. If REMAP_CAN_SHORTEN is + set, the caller is ok with the implementation shortening the request + length to satisfy alignment or EOF requirements (or any other reason). fadvise: possibly called by the fadvise64() system call. |