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authorJeff Layton <jlayton@primarydata.com>2014-08-23 00:13:28 +0200
committerJeff Layton <jlayton@primarydata.com>2014-10-07 20:06:12 +0200
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parentlocks: generic_delete_lease doesn't need a file_lock at all (diff)
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locks: clean up vfs_setlease kerneldoc comments
Some of the latter paragraphs seem ambiguous and just plain wrong. In particular the break_lease comment makes no sense. We call break_lease (and break_deleg) from all sorts of vfs-layer functions, so there is clearly such a method. Also get rid of some of the other comments about what's needed for a full implementation. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@primarydata.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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diff --git a/fs/locks.c b/fs/locks.c
index f79c74ef51ef..e16c2c61a44f 100644
--- a/fs/locks.c
+++ b/fs/locks.c
@@ -1708,30 +1708,16 @@ static int __vfs_setlease(struct file *filp, long arg, struct file_lock **lease)
}
/**
- * vfs_setlease - sets a lease on an open file
- * @filp: file pointer
- * @arg: type of lease to obtain
- * @lease: file_lock to use
- *
- * Call this to establish a lease on the file.
- * The (*lease)->fl_lmops->lm_break operation must be set; if not,
- * break_lease will oops!
- *
- * This will call the filesystem's setlease file method, if
- * defined. Note that there is no getlease method; instead, the
- * filesystem setlease method should call back to setlease() to
- * add a lease to the inode's lease list, where fcntl_getlease() can
- * find it. Since fcntl_getlease() only reports whether the current
- * task holds a lease, a cluster filesystem need only do this for
- * leases held by processes on this node.
- *
- * There is also no break_lease method; filesystems that
- * handle their own leases should break leases themselves from the
- * filesystem's open, create, and (on truncate) setattr methods.
- *
- * Warning: the only current setlease methods exist only to disable
- * leases in certain cases. More vfs changes may be required to
- * allow a full filesystem lease implementation.
+ * vfs_setlease - sets a lease on an open file
+ * @filp: file pointer
+ * @arg: type of lease to obtain
+ * @lease: file_lock to use when adding a lease
+ *
+ * Call this to establish a lease on the file. The "lease" argument is not
+ * used for F_UNLCK requests and may be NULL. For commands that set or alter
+ * an existing lease, the (*lease)->fl_lmops->lm_break operation must be set;
+ * if not, this function will return -ENOLCK (and generate a scary-looking
+ * stack trace).
*/
int vfs_setlease(struct file *filp, long arg, struct file_lock **lease)