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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst index 469882f72fc1..0919a4ad973a 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst @@ -656,7 +656,7 @@ by memory-mapping the page. Data is written into the address space by the application, and then written-back to storage typically in whole pages, however the address_space has finer control of write sizes. -The read process essentially only requires 'readpage'. The write +The read process essentially only requires 'read_folio'. The write process is more complicated and uses write_begin/write_end or dirty_folio to write data into the address_space, and writepage and writepages to writeback data to storage. @@ -722,7 +722,7 @@ cache in your filesystem. The following members are defined: struct address_space_operations { 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 *); void (*readahead)(struct readahead_control *); @@ -772,14 +772,14 @@ cache in your filesystem. The following members are defined: See the file "Locking" for more details. -``readpage`` - called by the VM to read a page from backing store. The page - will be Locked when readpage is called, and should be unlocked - and marked uptodate once the read completes. If ->readpage - discovers that it needs to unlock the page for some reason, it - can do so, and then return AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE. In this case, - the page will be relocated, relocked and if that all succeeds, - ->readpage will be called again. +``read_folio`` + called by the VM to read a folio from backing store. The folio + will be locked when read_folio is called, and should be unlocked + and marked uptodate once the read completes. If ->read_folio + discovers that it cannot perform the I/O at this time, it can + unlock the folio and return AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE. In this case, + the folio will be looked up again, relocked and if that all succeeds, + ->read_folio will be called again. ``writepages`` called by the VM to write out pages associated with the |