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authorJustin Waters <justin.waters@timesys.com>2008-02-26 13:07:02 -0500
committerJustin Waters <justin.waters@timesys.com>2008-02-26 13:07:02 -0500
commitb80a32b9cc634adfa8eaef33ec981e7febf2ade2 (patch)
treef256bce13ba11f514a388160df84e1410bedbe2b /Documentation/filesystems/Locking
parent594133ef22fae0d737bd1b57352cf3f48a192c63 (diff)
Update the i.MX31 Kernel to 2.6.232.6.23-mx31ads-2008022618072.6.23-mx31-200802261807
This is the result of a brute-force attempt to update the kernel to 2.6.23. Now that we have a git tree, our effort will be a little nicer in the future. Signed-off-by: Justin Waters <justin.waters@timesys.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
index d866551be037..f0f825808ca4 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
@@ -510,13 +510,24 @@ More details about quota locking can be found in fs/dquot.c.
prototypes:
void (*open)(struct vm_area_struct*);
void (*close)(struct vm_area_struct*);
+ int (*fault)(struct vm_area_struct*, struct vm_fault *);
struct page *(*nopage)(struct vm_area_struct*, unsigned long, int *);
+ int (*page_mkwrite)(struct vm_area_struct *, struct page *);
locking rules:
- BKL mmap_sem
+ BKL mmap_sem PageLocked(page)
open: no yes
close: no yes
+fault: no yes
nopage: no yes
+page_mkwrite: no yes no
+
+ ->page_mkwrite() is called when a previously read-only page is
+about to become writeable. The file system is responsible for
+protecting against truncate races. Once appropriate action has been
+taking to lock out truncate, the page range should be verified to be
+within i_size. The page mapping should also be checked that it is not
+NULL.
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Dubious stuff