From 75dd7e4bb663c7047c7d1bd4dad26f8c048851be Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Biggers Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2017 18:31:25 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Documentation/filesystems: fix documentation for ->getattr() Following the recent merge of statx, correct the documented prototype for the ->getattr() inode operation, and add an entry to the porting file. Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers Signed-off-by: David Howells Signed-off-by: Al Viro --- Documentation/filesystems/Locking | 3 +-- Documentation/filesystems/porting | 6 ++++++ Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | 3 +-- 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking index fdcfdd79682a..fe25787ff6d4 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking @@ -58,8 +58,7 @@ prototypes: int (*permission) (struct inode *, int, unsigned int); int (*get_acl)(struct inode *, int); int (*setattr) (struct dentry *, struct iattr *); - int (*getattr) (const struct path *, struct dentry *, struct kstat *, - u32, unsigned int); + int (*getattr) (const struct path *, struct kstat *, u32, unsigned int); ssize_t (*listxattr) (struct dentry *, char *, size_t); int (*fiemap)(struct inode *, struct fiemap_extent_info *, u64 start, u64 len); void (*update_time)(struct inode *, struct timespec *, int); diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting index 95280079c0b3..5fb17f49f7a2 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting @@ -600,3 +600,9 @@ in your dentry operations instead. [recommended] ->readlink is optional for symlinks. Don't set, unless filesystem needs to fake something for readlink(2). +-- +[mandatory] + ->getattr() is now passed a struct path rather than a vfsmount and + dentry separately, and it now has request_mask and query_flags arguments + to specify the fields and sync type requested by statx. Filesystems not + supporting any statx-specific features may ignore the new arguments. diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt index 569211703721..94dd27ef4a76 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt @@ -382,8 +382,7 @@ struct inode_operations { int (*permission) (struct inode *, int); int (*get_acl)(struct inode *, int); int (*setattr) (struct dentry *, struct iattr *); - int (*getattr) (const struct path *, struct dentry *, struct kstat *, - u32, unsigned int); + int (*getattr) (const struct path *, struct kstat *, u32, unsigned int); ssize_t (*listxattr) (struct dentry *, char *, size_t); void (*update_time)(struct inode *, struct timespec *, int); int (*atomic_open)(struct inode *, struct dentry *, struct file *, -- GitLab