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authorNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>2008-10-29 14:00:55 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-10-30 11:38:45 -0700
commit4e02ed4b4a2fae34aae766a5bb93ae235f60adb8 (patch)
treebddfb61b7cc4a4007ae176ccb1ace5740b61da8d /Documentation/filesystems/Locking
parent9b913735e53ab0da4a792bac0de8e178cc13dcfb (diff)
fs: remove prepare_write/commit_write
Nothing uses prepare_write or commit_write. Remove them from the tree completely. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: schedule simple_prepare_write() for unexporting] Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> 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/Locking12
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
index 8362860e21a7..23d2f4460deb 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
@@ -161,8 +161,12 @@ prototypes:
int (*set_page_dirty)(struct page *page);
int (*readpages)(struct file *filp, struct address_space *mapping,
struct list_head *pages, unsigned nr_pages);
- int (*prepare_write)(struct file *, struct page *, unsigned, unsigned);
- int (*commit_write)(struct file *, struct page *, unsigned, unsigned);
+ int (*write_begin)(struct file *, struct address_space *mapping,
+ loff_t pos, unsigned len, unsigned flags,
+ struct page **pagep, void **fsdata);
+ int (*write_end)(struct file *, struct address_space *mapping,
+ loff_t pos, unsigned len, unsigned copied,
+ struct page *page, void *fsdata);
sector_t (*bmap)(struct address_space *, sector_t);
int (*invalidatepage) (struct page *, unsigned long);
int (*releasepage) (struct page *, int);
@@ -180,8 +184,6 @@ sync_page: no maybe
writepages: no
set_page_dirty no no
readpages: no
-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
@@ -191,7 +193,7 @@ releasepage: no yes
direct_IO: no
launder_page: no yes
- ->prepare_write(), ->commit_write(), ->sync_page() and ->readpage()
+ ->write_begin(), ->write_end(), ->sync_page() and ->readpage()
may be called from the request handler (/dev/loop).
->readpage() unlocks the page, either synchronously or via I/O