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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-07-02 20:28:37 +0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-07-02 20:28:37 +0400
commit63580e51bb3e7ec459501165884e5f815a7a9322 (patch)
tree2130de984dda95996bc7922734feb465a13fca70 /Documentation
parent7747bd4bceb3079572695d3942294a6c7b265557 (diff)
parentac6614b76478e68173ccf7ad4e9e98035cc9c21d (diff)
downloadlinux-63580e51bb3e7ec459501165884e5f815a7a9322.tar.xz
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull VFS patches (part 1) from Al Viro: "The major change in this pile is ->readdir() replacement with ->iterate(), dealing with ->f_pos races in ->readdir() instances for good. There's a lot more, but I'd prefer to split the pull request into several stages and this is the first obvious cutoff point." * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (67 commits) [readdir] constify ->actor [readdir] ->readdir() is gone [readdir] convert ecryptfs [readdir] convert coda [readdir] convert ocfs2 [readdir] convert fatfs [readdir] convert xfs [readdir] convert btrfs [readdir] convert hostfs [readdir] convert afs [readdir] convert ncpfs [readdir] convert hfsplus [readdir] convert hfs [readdir] convert befs [readdir] convert cifs [readdir] convert freevxfs [readdir] convert fuse [readdir] convert hpfs reiserfs: switch reiserfs_readdir_dentry to inode reiserfs: is_privroot_deh() needs only directory inode, actually ...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/Locking2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/porting6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt4
3 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
index 0706d32a61e6..bdd82b2339d9 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
@@ -414,7 +414,7 @@ prototypes:
ssize_t (*write) (struct file *, const char __user *, size_t, loff_t *);
ssize_t (*aio_read) (struct kiocb *, const struct iovec *, unsigned long, loff_t);
ssize_t (*aio_write) (struct kiocb *, const struct iovec *, unsigned long, loff_t);
- int (*readdir) (struct file *, void *, filldir_t);
+ int (*iterate) (struct file *, struct dir_context *);
unsigned int (*poll) (struct file *, struct poll_table_struct *);
long (*unlocked_ioctl) (struct file *, unsigned int, unsigned long);
long (*compat_ioctl) (struct file *, unsigned int, unsigned long);
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting
index 4db22f6491e0..206a1bdc7321 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting
@@ -445,3 +445,9 @@ object doesn't exist. It's remote/distributed ones that might care...
[mandatory]
FS_REVAL_DOT is gone; if you used to have it, add ->d_weak_revalidate()
in your dentry operations instead.
+--
+[mandatory]
+ vfs_readdir() is gone; switch to iterate_dir() instead
+--
+[mandatory]
+ ->readdir() is gone now; switch to ->iterate()
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
index bc4b06b3160a..4a35f6614a66 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
@@ -777,7 +777,7 @@ struct file_operations {
ssize_t (*write) (struct file *, const char __user *, size_t, loff_t *);
ssize_t (*aio_read) (struct kiocb *, const struct iovec *, unsigned long, loff_t);
ssize_t (*aio_write) (struct kiocb *, const struct iovec *, unsigned long, loff_t);
- int (*readdir) (struct file *, void *, filldir_t);
+ int (*iterate) (struct file *, struct dir_context *);
unsigned int (*poll) (struct file *, struct poll_table_struct *);
long (*unlocked_ioctl) (struct file *, unsigned int, unsigned long);
long (*compat_ioctl) (struct file *, unsigned int, unsigned long);
@@ -815,7 +815,7 @@ otherwise noted.
aio_write: called by io_submit(2) and other asynchronous I/O operations
- readdir: called when the VFS needs to read the directory contents
+ iterate: called when the VFS needs to read the directory contents
poll: called by the VFS when a process wants to check if there is
activity on this file and (optionally) go to sleep until there