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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/Locking | 11 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking index 970c8ec1a05b..91ec4b40ebfe 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking @@ -512,13 +512,22 @@ prototypes: void (*close)(struct vm_area_struct*); struct page *(*fault)(struct vm_area_struct*, struct fault_data *); struct page *(*nopage)(struct vm_area_struct*, unsigned long, int *); + int (*page_mkwrite)(struct vm_area_struct *, struct page *); locking rules: - BKL mmap_sem + BKL mmap_sem PageLocked(page) open: no yes close: no yes fault: no yes nopage: no yes +page_mkwrite: no yes no + + ->page_mkwrite() is called when a previously read-only page is +about to become writeable. The file system is responsible for +protecting against truncate races. Once appropriate action has been +taking to lock out truncate, the page range should be verified to be +within i_size. The page mapping should also be checked that it is not +NULL. ================================================================================ Dubious stuff |