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| author | Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> | 2011-01-06 18:24:07 +0900 |
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| committer | Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> | 2011-01-06 18:24:07 +0900 |
| commit | f862f904d357dc0d3612347a8dbabe6fae037fbb (patch) | |
| tree | d7f5c2d5f85fd9e1cfc36beae904dc4f9cca04a3 /Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | |
| parent | 6f09e41d704fe0bc9157a5357480751d39361d01 (diff) | |
| parent | 3c0eee3fe6a3a1c745379547c7e7c904aa64f6d5 (diff) | |
| download | linux-f862f904d357dc0d3612347a8dbabe6fae037fbb.tar.bz2 | |
Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 into sh-latest
Conflicts:
arch/sh/kernel/cpu/sh2a/clock-sh7201.c
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt index 55c28b79d8dc..20899e095e7e 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt @@ -534,6 +534,7 @@ struct address_space_operations { sector_t (*bmap)(struct address_space *, sector_t); int (*invalidatepage) (struct page *, unsigned long); int (*releasepage) (struct page *, int); + void (*freepage)(struct page *); ssize_t (*direct_IO)(int, struct kiocb *, const struct iovec *iov, loff_t offset, unsigned long nr_segs); struct page* (*get_xip_page)(struct address_space *, sector_t, @@ -678,6 +679,12 @@ struct address_space_operations { need to ensure this. Possibly it can clear the PageUptodate bit if it cannot free private data yet. + freepage: freepage is called once the page is no longer visible in + the page cache in order to allow the cleanup of any private + data. Since it may be called by the memory reclaimer, it + should not assume that the original address_space mapping still + exists, and it should not block. + direct_IO: called by the generic read/write routines to perform direct_IO - that is IO requests which bypass the page cache and transfer data directly between the storage and the |