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authorStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>2011-07-25 13:59:46 -0400
committerTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>2011-07-25 14:53:52 -0400
commit5f00bcb38ef9a980a33c6dbdc0044964b05f22dd (patch)
tree3175fb9375aecb50bde1be0bf4fa8aa8155131d6 /Documentation/filesystems/porting
parent34006cee28f7344f9557a4be3816c7891b1bbab1 (diff)
parentb6844e8f64920cdee620157252169ba63afb0c89 (diff)
Merge branch 'master' into devel and apply fixup from Stephen Rothwell:
vfs/nfs: fixup for nfs_open_context change Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
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@@ -400,10 +400,31 @@ a file off.
--
[mandatory]
-
---
-[mandatory]
->get_sb() is gone. Switch to use of ->mount(). Typically it's just
a matter of switching from calling get_sb_... to mount_... and changing the
function type. If you were doing it manually, just switch from setting ->mnt_root
to some pointer to returning that pointer. On errors return ERR_PTR(...).
+
+--
+[mandatory]
+ ->permission(), generic_permission() and ->check_acl() have lost flags
+argument; instead of passing IPERM_FLAG_RCU we add MAY_NOT_BLOCK into mask.
+ generic_permission() has also lost the check_acl argument; if you want
+non-NULL to be used for that inode, put it into ->i_op->check_acl.
+
+--
+[mandatory]
+ If you implement your own ->llseek() you must handle SEEK_HOLE and
+SEEK_DATA. You can hanle this by returning -EINVAL, but it would be nicer to
+support it in some way. The generic handler assumes that the entire file is
+data and there is a virtual hole at the end of the file. So if the provided
+offset is less than i_size and SEEK_DATA is specified, return the same offset.
+If the above is true for the offset and you are given SEEK_HOLE, return the end
+of the file. If the offset is i_size or greater return -ENXIO in either case.
+
+[mandatory]
+ If you have your own ->fsync() you must make sure to call
+filemap_write_and_wait_range() so that all dirty pages are synced out properly.
+You must also keep in mind that ->fsync() is not called with i_mutex held
+anymore, so if you require i_mutex locking you must make sure to take it and
+release it yourself.