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authorAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2013-07-03 16:19:23 +0400
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2013-07-03 16:23:29 +0400
commit48bde8d3620f5f3c6ae9ff599eb404055ae51664 (patch)
tree7b59e511bcb0258bccafe3224db41a312b4fc2f0 /Documentation/filesystems
parentaf51a2ac36d1f96bee30438ec95a51e4635d1e33 (diff)
downloadlinux-48bde8d3620f5f3c6ae9ff599eb404055ae51664.tar.bz2
Document ->tmpfile()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/Locking2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt5
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
index 7d9ca7a83fcc..e95d3131309e 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ prototypes:
int (*atomic_open)(struct inode *, struct dentry *,
struct file *, unsigned open_flag,
umode_t create_mode, int *opened);
+ int (*tmpfile) (struct inode *, struct dentry *, umode_t);
locking rules:
all may block
@@ -91,6 +92,7 @@ removexattr: yes
fiemap: no
update_time: no
atomic_open: yes
+tmpfile: no
Additionally, ->rmdir(), ->unlink() and ->rename() have ->i_mutex on
victim.
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
index 51ba44e3fc40..aeff462c7228 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
@@ -360,6 +360,8 @@ struct inode_operations {
int (*removexattr) (struct dentry *, const char *);
void (*update_time)(struct inode *, struct timespec *, int);
int (*atomic_open)(struct inode *, struct dentry *,
+ int (*tmpfile) (struct inode *, struct dentry *, umode_t);
+} ____cacheline_aligned;
struct file *, unsigned open_flag,
umode_t create_mode, int *opened);
};
@@ -472,6 +474,9 @@ otherwise noted.
component is negative or needs lookup. Cached positive dentries are
still handled by f_op->open().
+ tmpfile: called in the end of O_TMPFILE open(). Optional, equivalent to
+ atomically creating, opening and unlinking a file in given directory.
+
The Address Space Object
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