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authorAmir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>2018-08-27 14:56:02 +0200
committerMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>2018-08-30 17:08:35 +0200
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parentDocumentation/filesystems: update documentation of file_operations (diff)
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vfs: add the fadvise() file operation
This is going to be used by overlayfs and possibly useful for other filesystems. Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
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@@ -885,6 +885,7 @@ struct file_operations {
ssize_t (*copy_file_range)(struct file *, loff_t, struct file *, loff_t, size_t, unsigned int);
int (*clone_file_range)(struct file *, loff_t, struct file *, loff_t, u64);
int (*dedupe_file_range)(struct file *, loff_t, struct file *, loff_t, u64);
+ int (*fadvise)(struct file *, loff_t, loff_t, int);
};
Again, all methods are called without any locks being held, unless
@@ -965,6 +966,8 @@ otherwise noted.
dedupe_file_range: called by the ioctl(2) system call for FIDEDUPERANGE
command.
+ fadvise: possibly called by the fadvise64() system call.
+
Note that the file operations are implemented by the specific
filesystem in which the inode resides. When opening a device node
(character or block special) most filesystems will call special