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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/porting | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/magic-number.txt | 2 |
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting index 07a32b42cf9c..266d2059b9b8 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting @@ -385,3 +385,12 @@ Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt for more details. 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_RCU). See Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt for more details. + +-- +[mandatory] + In ->fallocate() you must check the mode option passed in. If your +filesystem does not support hole punching (deallocating space in the middle of a +file) you must return -EOPNOTSUPP if FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE is set in mode. +Currently you can only have FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE with FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE set, +so the i_size should not change when hole punching, even when puching the end of +a file off. diff --git a/Documentation/magic-number.txt b/Documentation/magic-number.txt index 505f19607542..4b12abcb2ad3 100644 --- a/Documentation/magic-number.txt +++ b/Documentation/magic-number.txt @@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ NBD_REPLY_MAGIC 0x96744668 nbd_reply include/linux/nbd.h STL_BOARDMAGIC 0xa2267f52 stlbrd include/linux/stallion.h ENI155_MAGIC 0xa54b872d midway_eprom drivers/atm/eni.h SCI_MAGIC 0xbabeface gs_port drivers/char/sh-sci.h -CODA_MAGIC 0xC0DAC0DA coda_file_info include/linux/coda_fs_i.h +CODA_MAGIC 0xC0DAC0DA coda_file_info fs/coda/coda_fs_i.h DPMEM_MAGIC 0xc0ffee11 gdt_pci_sram drivers/scsi/gdth.h STLI_PORTMAGIC 0xe671c7a1 stliport include/linux/istallion.h YAM_MAGIC 0xF10A7654 yam_port drivers/net/hamradio/yam.c |