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| author | Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> | 2007-10-16 01:25:01 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-10-16 09:42:55 -0700 |
| commit | afddba49d18f346e5cc2938b6ed7c512db18ca68 (patch) | |
| tree | 4726e3d3b0e9e8e5b5d3b2b0cccb36446bbdf3ca /Documentation/filesystems/Locking | |
| parent | 637aff46f94a754207c80c8c64bf1b74f24b967d (diff) | |
| download | linux-afddba49d18f346e5cc2938b6ed7c512db18ca68.tar.gz | |
fs: introduce write_begin, write_end, and perform_write aops
These are intended to replace prepare_write and commit_write with more flexible alternatives that are also able to avoid the buffered write deadlock problems efficiently (which prepare_write is unable to do). [mark.fasheh@oracle.com: API design contributions, code review and fixes] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: various fixes] [dmonakhov@sw.ru: new aop block_write_begin fix] Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Dmitriy Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/Locking')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/Locking | 9 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking index f0f825808ca4..fe26cc978523 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking @@ -178,15 +178,18 @@ prototypes: locking rules: All except set_page_dirty may block - BKL PageLocked(page) + BKL PageLocked(page) i_sem writepage: no yes, unlocks (see below) readpage: no yes, unlocks sync_page: no maybe writepages: no set_page_dirty no no readpages: no -prepare_write: no yes -commit_write: no yes +prepare_write: no yes yes +commit_write: no yes yes +write_begin: no locks the page yes +write_end: no yes, unlocks yes +perform_write: no n/a yes bmap: yes invalidatepage: no yes releasepage: no yes |