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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst')
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst index fd9d9caf09ab..aeba2475a53c 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst @@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ address_space_operations prototypes:: int (*writepage)(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *wbc); - int (*readpage)(struct file *, struct page *); + int (*read_folio)(struct file *, struct folio *); int (*writepages)(struct address_space *, struct writeback_control *); bool (*dirty_folio)(struct address_space *, struct folio *folio); void (*readahead)(struct readahead_control *); @@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ locking rules: ops PageLocked(page) i_rwsem invalidate_lock ====================== ======================== ========= =============== writepage: yes, unlocks (see below) -readpage: yes, unlocks shared +read_folio: yes, unlocks shared writepages: dirty_folio maybe readahead: yes, unlocks shared @@ -289,13 +289,13 @@ swap_activate: no swap_deactivate: no ====================== ======================== ========= =============== -->write_begin(), ->write_end() and ->readpage() may be called from +->write_begin(), ->write_end() and ->read_folio() may be called from the request handler (/dev/loop). -->readpage() unlocks the page, either synchronously or via I/O +->read_folio() unlocks the folio, either synchronously or via I/O completion. -->readahead() unlocks the pages that I/O is attempted on like ->readpage(). +->readahead() unlocks the folios that I/O is attempted on like ->read_folio(). ->writepage() is used for two purposes: for "memory cleansing" and for "sync". These are quite different operations and the behaviour may differ |