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-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/Locking3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt4
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
index d449e63..8e2da1e 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ ata *);
ssize_t (*listxattr) (struct dentry *, char *, size_t);
int (*removexattr) (struct dentry *, const char *);
int (*fiemap)(struct inode *, struct fiemap_extent_info *, u64 start, u64 len);
+ void (*update_time)(struct inode *, struct timespec *, int);
locking rules:
all may block
@@ -87,6 +88,8 @@ getxattr: no
listxattr: no
removexattr: yes
fiemap: no
+update_time: no
+
Additionally, ->rmdir(), ->unlink() and ->rename() have ->i_mutex on
victim.
cross-directory ->rename() has (per-superblock) ->s_vfs_rename_sem.
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
index ef19f91..efd23f4 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
@@ -363,6 +363,7 @@ struct inode_operations {
ssize_t (*getxattr) (struct dentry *, const char *, void *, size_t);
ssize_t (*listxattr) (struct dentry *, char *, size_t);
int (*removexattr) (struct dentry *, const char *);
+ void (*update_time)(struct inode *, struct timespec *, int);
};
Again, all methods are called without any locks being held, unless
@@ -471,6 +472,9 @@ otherwise noted.
removexattr: called by the VFS to remove an extended attribute from
a file. This method is called by removexattr(2) system call.
+ update_time: called by the VFS to update a specific time or the i_version of
+ an inode. If this is not defined the VFS will update the inode itself
+ and call mark_inode_dirty_sync.
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