Documentation: drop vmtruncate
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PATCH 21/21 Documentation: drop vmtruncate
Removed vmtruncate
Signed-off-by Marco <[email protected]>
--- Documentation/filesystems/Locking | 6 ------ Documentation/filesystems/porting | 2 +- Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | 11 ----------- 3 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
Documentation/filesystems/Locking +0 -6
@@ -80,7 +80,6 @@ rename: yes (all) (see below) readlink: no follow_link: no put_link: no -truncate: yes (see below) setattr: yes permission: no (may not block if called in rcu-walk mode) get_acl: no
@@ -96,11 +95,6 @@ atomic_open: yes Additionally, ->rmdir(), ->unlink() and ->rename() have ->i_mutex on victim. cross-directory ->rename() has (per-superblock) ->s_vfs_rename_sem. - ->truncate() is never called directly - it's a callback, not a -method. It's called by vmtruncate() - deprecated library function used by -->setattr(). Locking information above applies to that call (i.e. is -inherited from ->setattr() - vmtruncate() is used when ATTR_SIZE had been -passed). See Documentation/filesystems/directory-locking for more detailed discussion of the locking scheme for directory operations.
Documentation/filesystems/porting +1 -1
@@ -281,7 +281,7 @@ ext2_write_failed and callers for an example. [mandatory] - ->truncate is going away. The whole truncate sequence needs to be + ->truncate is gone. The whole truncate sequence needs to be implemented in ->setattr, which is now mandatory for filesystems implementing on-disk size changes. Start with a copy of the old inode_setattr and vmtruncate, and the reorder the vmtruncate + foofs_vmtruncate sequence to
Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt +0 -11
@@ -350,7 +350,6 @@ struct inode_operations { int (*readlink) (struct dentry *, char __user *,int); void * (*follow_link) (struct dentry *, struct nameidata *); void (*put_link) (struct dentry *, struct nameidata *, void *); - void (*truncate) (struct inode *); int (*permission) (struct inode *, int); int (*get_acl)(struct inode *, int); int (*setattr) (struct dentry *, struct iattr *);
@@ -431,16 +430,6 @@ otherwise noted. started might not be in the page cache at the end of the walk). - truncate: Deprecated. This will not be called if ->setsize is defined. - Called by the VFS to change the size of a file. The - i_size field of the inode is set to the desired size by the - VFS before this method is called. This method is called by - the truncate(2) system call and related functionality. - - Note: ->truncate and vmtruncate are deprecated. Do not add new - instances/calls of these. Filesystems should be converted to do their - truncate sequence via ->setattr(). - permission: called by the VFS to check for access rights on a POSIX-like filesystem.
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