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-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/porting8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt17
3 files changed, 17 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting
index 3eae250254d5..68f1c9106573 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting
@@ -379,10 +379,10 @@ may now be called in rcu-walk mode (nd->flags & LOOKUP_RCU). -ECHILD should be
returned if the filesystem cannot handle rcu-walk. See
Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt for more details.
- permission and check_acl are inode permission checks that are called
-on many or all directory inodes on the way down a path walk (to check for
-exec permission). These must now be rcu-walk aware (flags & IPERM_FLAG_RCU).
-See Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt for more details.
+ permission is an inode permission check that is called on many or all
+directory inodes on the way down a path walk (to check for exec permission). It
+must now be rcu-walk aware (mask & MAY_NOT_BLOCK). See
+Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt for more details.
--
[mandatory]
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
index c3b6b301d8b0..6f7fafde0884 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ asynchronous manner and the value may not be very precise. To see a precise
snapshot of a moment, you can see /proc/<pid>/smaps file and scan page table.
It's slow but very precise.
-Table 1-2: Contents of the status files (as of 3.20.0)
+Table 1-2: Contents of the status files (as of 4.1)
..............................................................................
Field Content
Name filename of the executable
@@ -235,6 +235,7 @@ Table 1-2: Contents of the status files (as of 3.20.0)
VmExe size of text segment
VmLib size of shared library code
VmPTE size of page table entries
+ VmPMD size of second level page tables
VmSwap size of swap usage (the number of referred swapents)
Threads number of threads
SigQ number of signals queued/max. number for queue
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
index b403b29ef710..5eb8456fc41e 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
@@ -799,7 +799,7 @@ struct file_operations
----------------------
This describes how the VFS can manipulate an open file. As of kernel
-3.12, the following members are defined:
+4.1, the following members are defined:
struct file_operations {
struct module *owner;
@@ -813,8 +813,9 @@ struct file_operations {
long (*unlocked_ioctl) (struct file *, unsigned int, unsigned long);
long (*compat_ioctl) (struct file *, unsigned int, unsigned long);
int (*mmap) (struct file *, struct vm_area_struct *);
+ int (*mremap)(struct file *, struct vm_area_struct *);
int (*open) (struct inode *, struct file *);
- int (*flush) (struct file *);
+ int (*flush) (struct file *, fl_owner_t id);
int (*release) (struct inode *, struct file *);
int (*fsync) (struct file *, loff_t, loff_t, int datasync);
int (*aio_fsync) (struct kiocb *, int datasync);
@@ -824,11 +825,15 @@ struct file_operations {
unsigned long (*get_unmapped_area)(struct file *, unsigned long, unsigned long, unsigned long, unsigned long);
int (*check_flags)(int);
int (*flock) (struct file *, int, struct file_lock *);
- ssize_t (*splice_write)(struct pipe_inode_info *, struct file *, size_t, unsigned int);
- ssize_t (*splice_read)(struct file *, struct pipe_inode_info *, size_t, unsigned int);
- int (*setlease)(struct file *, long arg, struct file_lock **, void **);
- long (*fallocate)(struct file *, int mode, loff_t offset, loff_t len);
+ ssize_t (*splice_write)(struct pipe_inode_info *, struct file *, loff_t *, size_t, unsigned int);
+ ssize_t (*splice_read)(struct file *, loff_t *, struct pipe_inode_info *, size_t, unsigned int);
+ int (*setlease)(struct file *, long, struct file_lock **, void **);
+ long (*fallocate)(struct file *file, int mode, loff_t offset,
+ loff_t len);
void (*show_fdinfo)(struct seq_file *m, struct file *f);
+#ifndef CONFIG_MMU
+ unsigned (*mmap_capabilities)(struct file *);
+#endif
};
Again, all methods are called without any locks being held, unless