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authorChristoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>2011-05-27 06:53:02 -0400
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2011-05-27 07:04:40 -0400
commitaa38572954ade525817fe88c54faebf85e5a61c0 (patch)
treeef398ec06c97134592f62a49c99f3f80041b427c /Documentation
parentd6e9bd256c88ce5f4b668249e363a74f51393daa (diff)
fs: pass exact type of data dirties to ->dirty_inode
Tell the filesystem if we just updated timestamp (I_DIRTY_SYNC) or anything else, so that the filesystem can track internally if it needs to push out a transaction for fdatasync or not. This is just the prototype change with no user for it yet. I plan to push large XFS changes for the next merge window, and getting this trivial infrastructure in this window would help a lot to avoid tree interdependencies. Also remove incorrect comments that ->dirty_inode can't block. That has been changed a long time ago, and many implementations rely on it. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/Locking4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt2
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
index 61b31acb9176..57d827d6071d 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ of the locking scheme for directory operations.
prototypes:
struct inode *(*alloc_inode)(struct super_block *sb);
void (*destroy_inode)(struct inode *);
- void (*dirty_inode) (struct inode *);
+ void (*dirty_inode) (struct inode *, int flags);
int (*write_inode) (struct inode *, struct writeback_control *wbc);
int (*drop_inode) (struct inode *);
void (*evict_inode) (struct inode *);
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ locking rules:
s_umount
alloc_inode:
destroy_inode:
-dirty_inode: (must not sleep)
+dirty_inode:
write_inode:
drop_inode: !!!inode->i_lock!!!
evict_inode:
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
index 21a7dc467bba..88b9f5519af9 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ struct super_operations {
struct inode *(*alloc_inode)(struct super_block *sb);
void (*destroy_inode)(struct inode *);
- void (*dirty_inode) (struct inode *);
+ void (*dirty_inode) (struct inode *, int flags);
int (*write_inode) (struct inode *, int);
void (*drop_inode) (struct inode *);
void (*delete_inode) (struct inode *);