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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-05-12 12:17:30 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-05-12 12:17:36 +0200 |
| commit | 6cda3eb62ef42aa5acd649bf99c8db544e0f4051 (patch) | |
| tree | 93f74ca002f5756c8e157611174f9540b5cf41c0 /Documentation/filesystems/Locking | |
| parent | b9c61b70075c87a8612624736faf4a2de5b1ed30 (diff) | |
| parent | cec6be6d1069d697beb490bbb40a290d5ff554a2 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'x86/apic' into irq/numa
Merge reason: both topics modify the APIC code but were able to do it in
parallel so far. An upcoming patch generates a conflict so
merge them to avoid the conflict.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/Locking')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/Locking | 24 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking index 76efe5b71d7..3120f8dd2c3 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 |