From 543cc115339baa44fbea877b3d8673aca652622f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mel Gorman Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 15:04:46 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] documentation: document the is_dirty_writeback aops callback Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt index fc5d2a1d26c0..f93a88250a44 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt @@ -582,6 +582,7 @@ struct address_space_operations { int (*launder_page) (struct page *); int (*is_partially_uptodate) (struct page *, read_descriptor_t *, unsigned long); + void (*is_dirty_writeback) (struct page *, bool *, bool *); int (*error_remove_page) (struct mapping *mapping, struct page *page); int (*swap_activate)(struct file *); int (*swap_deactivate)(struct file *); @@ -746,6 +747,15 @@ struct address_space_operations { block is up to date then the read can complete without needing the IO to bring the whole page up to date. + is_dirty_writeback: Called by the VM when attempting to reclaim a page. + The VM uses dirty and writeback information to determine if it needs + to stall to allow flushers a chance to complete some IO. Ordinarily + it can use PageDirty and PageWriteback but some filesystems have + more complex state (unstable pages in NFS prevent reclaim) or + do not set those flags due to locking problems (jbd). This callback + allows a filesystem to indicate to the VM if a page should be + treated as dirty or writeback for the purposes of stalling. + error_remove_page: normally set to generic_error_remove_page if truncation is ok for this address space. Used for memory failure handling. Setting this implies you deal with pages going away under you, -- GitLab