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authorAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2015-04-04 01:14:53 -0400
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2015-04-11 22:29:43 -0400
commit8436318205b9f29e45db88850ec60e326327e241 (patch)
tree4339c116819e9e6d8e61a1876d9d0d08d0ee089c /Documentation
parent1c65d98672e09a0cb28e1e9ae49e9d96355f522f (diff)
downloadlinux-8436318205b9f29e45db88850ec60e326327e241.tar.bz2
->aio_read and ->aio_write removed
no remaining users Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/Locking2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/porting3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt6
3 files changed, 3 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
index f91926f2f482..c3cd6279e92e 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
@@ -429,8 +429,6 @@ prototypes:
loff_t (*llseek) (struct file *, loff_t, int);
ssize_t (*read) (struct file *, char __user *, size_t, loff_t *);
ssize_t (*write) (struct file *, const char __user *, size_t, loff_t *);
- ssize_t (*aio_read) (struct kiocb *, const struct iovec *, unsigned long, loff_t);
- ssize_t (*aio_write) (struct kiocb *, const struct iovec *, unsigned long, loff_t);
ssize_t (*read_iter) (struct kiocb *, struct iov_iter *);
ssize_t (*write_iter) (struct kiocb *, struct iov_iter *);
int (*iterate) (struct file *, struct dir_context *);
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting
index 4006483c275f..e69274de8d0c 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting
@@ -480,3 +480,6 @@ in your dentry operations instead.
[mandatory]
do _not_ use new_sync_{read,write} for ->read/->write; leave it NULL
instead.
+--
+[mandatory]
+ ->aio_read/->aio_write are gone. Use ->read_iter/->write_iter.
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
index 966b22829f3b..207cdca68bed 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
@@ -804,8 +804,6 @@ struct file_operations {
loff_t (*llseek) (struct file *, loff_t, int);
ssize_t (*read) (struct file *, char __user *, size_t, loff_t *);
ssize_t (*write) (struct file *, const char __user *, size_t, loff_t *);
- ssize_t (*aio_read) (struct kiocb *, const struct iovec *, unsigned long, loff_t);
- ssize_t (*aio_write) (struct kiocb *, const struct iovec *, unsigned long, loff_t);
ssize_t (*read_iter) (struct kiocb *, struct iov_iter *);
ssize_t (*write_iter) (struct kiocb *, struct iov_iter *);
int (*iterate) (struct file *, struct dir_context *);
@@ -838,14 +836,10 @@ otherwise noted.
read: called by read(2) and related system calls
- aio_read: vectored, possibly asynchronous read
-
read_iter: possibly asynchronous read with iov_iter as destination
write: called by write(2) and related system calls
- aio_write: vectored, possibly asynchronous write
-
write_iter: possibly asynchronous write with iov_iter as source
iterate: called when the VFS needs to read the directory contents