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2012-02-19Wrap accesses to the fd_sets in struct fdtableDavid Howells1-2/+2
Wrap accesses to the fd_sets in struct fdtable (for recording open files and close-on-exec flags) so that we can move away from using fd_sets since we abuse the fd_set structs by not allocating the full-sized structure under normal circumstances and by non-core code looking at the internals of the fd_sets. The first abuse means that use of FD_ZERO() on these fd_sets is not permitted, since that cannot be told about their abnormal lengths. This introduces six wrapper functions for setting, clearing and testing close-on-exec flags and fd-is-open flags: void __set_close_on_exec(int fd, struct fdtable *fdt); void __clear_close_on_exec(int fd, struct fdtable *fdt); bool close_on_exec(int fd, const struct fdtable *fdt); void __set_open_fd(int fd, struct fdtable *fdt); void __clear_open_fd(int fd, struct fdtable *fdt); bool fd_is_open(int fd, const struct fdtable *fdt); Note that I've prepended '__' to the names of the set/clear functions because they require the caller to hold a lock to use them. Note also that I haven't added wrappers for looking behind the scenes at the the array. Possibly that should exist too. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120216174942.23314.1364.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-01-01fix f_count description in Documentation/filesystems/files.txtEric Dumazet1-3/+3
Documentation/filesystems/files.txt was not updated when f_count became an atomic_long_t. atomic_long_inc_not_zero() is now used instead of atomic_inc_not_zero() Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2007-10-20Documentation/filesystems/files.txt: remove rcuref_inc_lf() reverencesEric Dumazet1-3/+3
rcuref_inc_lf() is not used anymore. Replace it by atomic_inc_not_zero() Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2006-10-04Documentation: remove duplicated wordsPaolo Ornati1-1/+1
Remove many duplicated words under Documentation/ and do other small cleanups. Examples: "and and" --> "and" "in in" --> "in" "the the" --> "the" "the the" --> "to the" ... Signed-off-by: Paolo Ornati <ornati@fastwebnet.it> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2005-09-10[PATCH] files: files locking docDipankar Sarma1-0/+123
Add documentation describing the new locking scheme for file descriptor table. Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>