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| author | Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> | 2018-08-27 15:56:01 +0300 |
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| committer | Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com> | 2018-08-30 17:08:35 +0200 |
| commit | 17ef445f9befdc5c9adac270b18240ad24ee50ec (patch) | |
| tree | 7cdd538af85de227e4679d8e384acf1190c496a3 /Documentation | |
| parent | 5b910bd615ba947383e63cd1ed106ffa3060159e (diff) | |
| download | linux-17ef445f9befdc5c9adac270b18240ad24ee50ec.tar.gz | |
Documentation/filesystems: update documentation of file_operations
...to kernel 4.18. Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | 18 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt index 4b2084d0f1fb..ec2142c8dbd3 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt @@ -848,7 +848,7 @@ struct file_operations ---------------------- This describes how the VFS can manipulate an open file. As of kernel -4.1, the following members are defined: +4.18, the following members are defined: struct file_operations { struct module *owner; @@ -858,11 +858,11 @@ struct file_operations { ssize_t (*read_iter) (struct kiocb *, struct iov_iter *); ssize_t (*write_iter) (struct kiocb *, struct iov_iter *); int (*iterate) (struct file *, struct dir_context *); + int (*iterate_shared) (struct file *, struct dir_context *); __poll_t (*poll) (struct file *, struct poll_table_struct *); 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 *); - int (*mremap)(struct file *, struct vm_area_struct *); int (*open) (struct inode *, struct file *); int (*flush) (struct file *, fl_owner_t id); int (*release) (struct inode *, struct file *); @@ -882,6 +882,9 @@ struct file_operations { #ifndef CONFIG_MMU 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); }; Again, all methods are called without any locks being held, unless @@ -899,6 +902,9 @@ otherwise noted. iterate: called when the VFS needs to read the directory contents + iterate_shared: called when the VFS needs to read the directory contents + when filesystem supports concurrent dir iterators + poll: called by the VFS when a process wants to check if there is activity on this file and (optionally) go to sleep until there is activity. Called by the select(2) and poll(2) system calls @@ -951,6 +957,14 @@ otherwise noted. fallocate: called by the VFS to preallocate blocks or punch a hole. + 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. + Note that the file operations are implemented by the specific filesystem in which the inode resides. When opening a device node (character or block special) most filesystems will call special |