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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-06-01 10:34:35 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-06-01 10:34:35 -0700
commit1193755ac6328ad240ba987e6ec41d5e8baf0680 (patch)
tree40bf847d7e3ebaa57b107151d14e6cd1d280cc6d /Documentation
parent4edebed86690eb8db9af3ab85baf4a34e73266cc (diff)
parent0ef97dcfce4179a2eba046b855ee2f91d6f1b414 (diff)
downloadlinux-1193755ac6328ad240ba987e6ec41d5e8baf0680.tar.gz
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull vfs changes from Al Viro.
 "A lot of misc stuff.  The obvious groups:
   * Miklos' atomic_open series; kills the damn abuse of
     ->d_revalidate() by NFS, which was the major stumbling block for
     all work in that area.
   * ripping security_file_mmap() and dealing with deadlocks in the
     area; sanitizing the neighborhood of vm_mmap()/vm_munmap() in
     general.
   * ->encode_fh() switched to saner API; insane fake dentry in
     mm/cleancache.c gone.
   * assorted annotations in fs (endianness, __user)
   * parts of Artem's ->s_dirty work (jff2 and reiserfs parts)
   * ->update_time() work from Josef.
   * other bits and pieces all over the place.

  Normally it would've been in two or three pull requests, but
  signal.git stuff had eaten a lot of time during this cycle ;-/"

Fix up trivial conflicts in Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt (the
'truncate_range' inode method was removed by the VM changes, the VFS
update adds an 'update_time()' method), and in fs/btrfs/ulist.[ch] (due
to sparse fix added twice, with other changes nearby).

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (95 commits)
  nfs: don't open in ->d_revalidate
  vfs: retry last component if opening stale dentry
  vfs: nameidata_to_filp(): don't throw away file on error
  vfs: nameidata_to_filp(): inline __dentry_open()
  vfs: do_dentry_open(): don't put filp
  vfs: split __dentry_open()
  vfs: do_last() common post lookup
  vfs: do_last(): add audit_inode before open
  vfs: do_last(): only return EISDIR for O_CREAT
  vfs: do_last(): check LOOKUP_DIRECTORY
  vfs: do_last(): make ENOENT exit RCU safe
  vfs: make follow_link check RCU safe
  vfs: do_last(): use inode variable
  vfs: do_last(): inline walk_component()
  vfs: do_last(): make exit RCU safe
  vfs: split do_lookup()
  Btrfs: move over to use ->update_time
  fs: introduce inode operation ->update_time
  reiserfs: get rid of resierfs_sync_super
  reiserfs: mark the superblock as dirty a bit later
  ...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/Locking3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt4
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
index d449e632e6a0..8e2da1e06e3b 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ ata *);
 	ssize_t (*listxattr) (struct dentry *, char *, size_t);
 	int (*removexattr) (struct dentry *, const char *);
 	int (*fiemap)(struct inode *, struct fiemap_extent_info *, u64 start, u64 len);
+	void (*update_time)(struct inode *, struct timespec *, int);
 
 locking rules:
 	all may block
@@ -87,6 +88,8 @@ getxattr:	no
 listxattr:	no
 removexattr:	yes
 fiemap:		no
+update_time:	no
+
 	Additionally, ->rmdir(), ->unlink() and ->rename() have ->i_mutex on
 victim.
 	cross-directory ->rename() has (per-superblock) ->s_vfs_rename_sem.
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
index ef19f91a0f12..efd23f481704 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
@@ -363,6 +363,7 @@ struct inode_operations {
 	ssize_t (*getxattr) (struct dentry *, const char *, void *, size_t);
 	ssize_t (*listxattr) (struct dentry *, char *, size_t);
 	int (*removexattr) (struct dentry *, const char *);
+	void (*update_time)(struct inode *, struct timespec *, int);
 };
 
 Again, all methods are called without any locks being held, unless
@@ -471,6 +472,9 @@ otherwise noted.
   removexattr: called by the VFS to remove an extended attribute from
   	a file. This method is called by removexattr(2) system call.
 
+  update_time: called by the VFS to update a specific time or the i_version of
+  	an inode.  If this is not defined the VFS will update the inode itself
+  	and call mark_inode_dirty_sync.
 
 The Address Space Object
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