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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2010-04-02 20:02:55 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2010-04-02 20:03:08 +0200
commitc9494727cf293ae2ec66af57547a3e79c724fec2 (patch)
tree44ae197b64fa7530ee695a90ad31326dda06f1e1 /Documentation/filesystems/Locking
parent6427462bfa50f50dc6c088c07037264fcc73eca1 (diff)
parent42be79e37e264557f12860fa4cc84b4de3685954 (diff)
Merge branch 'linus' into sched/core
Merge reason: update to latest upstream Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
index 18b9d0ca0630..06bbbed71206 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
@@ -460,13 +460,6 @@ in sys_read() and friends.
--------------------------- dquot_operations -------------------------------
prototypes:
- int (*initialize) (struct inode *, int);
- int (*drop) (struct inode *);
- int (*alloc_space) (struct inode *, qsize_t, int);
- int (*alloc_inode) (const struct inode *, unsigned long);
- int (*free_space) (struct inode *, qsize_t);
- int (*free_inode) (const struct inode *, unsigned long);
- int (*transfer) (struct inode *, struct iattr *);
int (*write_dquot) (struct dquot *);
int (*acquire_dquot) (struct dquot *);
int (*release_dquot) (struct dquot *);
@@ -479,13 +472,6 @@ a proper locking wrt the filesystem and call the generic quota operations.
What filesystem should expect from the generic quota functions:
FS recursion Held locks when called
-initialize: yes maybe dqonoff_sem
-drop: yes -
-alloc_space: ->mark_dirty() -
-alloc_inode: ->mark_dirty() -
-free_space: ->mark_dirty() -
-free_inode: ->mark_dirty() -
-transfer: yes -
write_dquot: yes dqonoff_sem or dqptr_sem
acquire_dquot: yes dqonoff_sem or dqptr_sem
release_dquot: yes dqonoff_sem or dqptr_sem
@@ -495,10 +481,6 @@ write_info: yes dqonoff_sem
FS recursion means calling ->quota_read() and ->quota_write() from superblock
operations.
-->alloc_space(), ->alloc_inode(), ->free_space(), ->free_inode() are called
-only directly by the filesystem and do not call any fs functions only
-the ->mark_dirty() operation.
-
More details about quota locking can be found in fs/dquot.c.
--------------------------- vm_operations_struct -----------------------------