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author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-05-11 09:33:06 +0200 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-05-11 09:33:15 +0200 |
commit | 134cbf35c739bf89c51fd975a33a6b87507482c4 (patch) | |
tree | c30536dcbb6e99a0f204879bbe5a19bfb27cccf8 /Documentation/filesystems | |
parent | 2feceeff1e771850e49f9074307f071964fd9e3e (diff) | |
parent | 091bf7624d1c90cec9e578a18529f615213ff847 (diff) | |
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Merge commit 'v2.6.30-rc5' into x86/mm
Merge reason: this branch was on a .30-rc2 base - sync it up with
all the latest fixes.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/Locking | 24 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/caching/cachefiles.txt | 8 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | 3 |
3 files changed, 21 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking index 76efe5b71d7d..3120f8dd2c31 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking @@ -512,16 +512,24 @@ locking rules: BKL mmap_sem PageLocked(page) open: no yes close: no yes -fault: no yes -page_mkwrite: no yes no +fault: no yes can return with page locked +page_mkwrite: no yes can return with page locked access: no yes - ->page_mkwrite() is called when a previously read-only page is -about to become writeable. The file system is responsible for -protecting against truncate races. Once appropriate action has been -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. + ->fault() is called when a previously not present pte is about +to be faulted in. The filesystem must find and return the page associated +with the passed in "pgoff" in the vm_fault structure. If it is possible that +the page may be truncated and/or invalidated, then the filesystem must lock +the page, then ensure it is not already truncated (the page lock will block +subsequent truncate), and then return with VM_FAULT_LOCKED, and the page +locked. The VM will unlock the page. + + ->page_mkwrite() is called when a previously read-only pte is +about to become writeable. The filesystem again must ensure that there are +no truncate/invalidate races, and then return with the page locked. If +the page has been truncated, the filesystem should not look up a new page +like the ->fault() handler, but simply return with VM_FAULT_NOPAGE, which +will cause the VM to retry the fault. ->access() is called when get_user_pages() fails in acces_process_vm(), typically used to debug a process through diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/caching/cachefiles.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/caching/cachefiles.txt index c78a49b7bba6..748a1ae49e12 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/caching/cachefiles.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/caching/cachefiles.txt @@ -407,7 +407,7 @@ A NOTE ON SECURITY ================== CacheFiles makes use of the split security in the task_struct. It allocates -its own task_security structure, and redirects current->act_as to point to it +its own task_security structure, and redirects current->cred to point to it when it acts on behalf of another process, in that process's context. The reason it does this is that it calls vfs_mkdir() and suchlike rather than @@ -429,9 +429,9 @@ This means it may lose signals or ptrace events for example, and affects what the process looks like in /proc. So CacheFiles makes use of a logical split in the security between the -objective security (task->sec) and the subjective security (task->act_as). The -objective security holds the intrinsic security properties of a process and is -never overridden. This is what appears in /proc, and is what is used when a +objective security (task->real_cred) and the subjective security (task->cred). +The objective security holds the intrinsic security properties of a process and +is never overridden. This is what appears in /proc, and is what is used when a process is the target of an operation by some other process (SIGKILL for example). diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt index deeeed0faa8f..f49eecf2e573 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt @@ -277,8 +277,7 @@ or bottom half). unfreeze_fs: called when VFS is unlocking a filesystem and making it writable again. - statfs: called when the VFS needs to get filesystem statistics. This - is called with the kernel lock held + statfs: called when the VFS needs to get filesystem statistics. remount_fs: called when the filesystem is remounted. This is called with the kernel lock held |