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authorAnton Vorontsov <cbouatmailru@gmail.com>2008-07-30 02:05:23 +0400
committerAnton Vorontsov <cbouatmailru@gmail.com>2008-07-30 02:05:23 +0400
commit9fec6060d9e48ed7db0dac0e16d0f0f0e615b7f6 (patch)
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parent6e86841d05f371b5b9b86ce76c02aaee83352298 (diff)
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Merge branch 'master' of /home/cbou/linux-2.6
Conflicts: drivers/power/Kconfig drivers/power/Makefile
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/Locking')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/Locking9
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
index c2992bc54f2f..680fb566b928 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
@@ -92,7 +92,6 @@ prototypes:
void (*destroy_inode)(struct inode *);
void (*dirty_inode) (struct inode *);
int (*write_inode) (struct inode *, int);
- void (*put_inode) (struct inode *);
void (*drop_inode) (struct inode *);
void (*delete_inode) (struct inode *);
void (*put_super) (struct super_block *);
@@ -115,7 +114,6 @@ alloc_inode: no no no
destroy_inode: no
dirty_inode: no (must not sleep)
write_inode: no
-put_inode: no
drop_inode: no !!!inode_lock!!!
delete_inode: no
put_super: yes yes no
@@ -512,6 +510,7 @@ prototypes:
void (*close)(struct vm_area_struct*);
int (*fault)(struct vm_area_struct*, struct vm_fault *);
int (*page_mkwrite)(struct vm_area_struct *, struct page *);
+ int (*access)(struct vm_area_struct *, unsigned long, void*, int, int);
locking rules:
BKL mmap_sem PageLocked(page)
@@ -519,6 +518,7 @@ open: no yes
close: no yes
fault: no yes
page_mkwrite: no yes no
+access: no yes
->page_mkwrite() is called when a previously read-only page is
about to become writeable. The file system is responsible for
@@ -527,6 +527,11 @@ taking to lock out truncate, the page range should be verified to be
within i_size. The page mapping should also be checked that it is not
NULL.
+ ->access() is called when get_user_pages() fails in
+acces_process_vm(), typically used to debug a process through
+/proc/pid/mem or ptrace. This function is needed only for
+VM_IO | VM_PFNMAP VMAs.
+
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