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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting index f9547a5c187b..b12c89538680 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting @@ -291,3 +291,30 @@ be in order of zeroing blocks using block_truncate_page or similar helpers, size update and on finally on-disk truncation which should not fail. inode_change_ok now includes the size checks for ATTR_SIZE and must be called in the beginning of ->setattr unconditionally. + +[mandatory] + + ->clear_inode() and ->delete_inode() are gone; ->evict_inode() should +be used instead. It gets called whenever the inode is evicted, whether it has +remaining links or not. Caller does *not* evict the pagecache or inode-associated +metadata buffers; getting rid of those is responsibility of method, as it had +been for ->delete_inode(). + ->drop_inode() returns int now; it's called on final iput() with inode_lock +held and it returns true if filesystems wants the inode to be dropped. As before, +generic_drop_inode() is still the default and it's been updated appropriately. +generic_delete_inode() is also alive and it consists simply of return 1. Note that +all actual eviction work is done by caller after ->drop_inode() returns. + clear_inode() is gone; use end_writeback() instead. As before, it must +be called exactly once on each call of ->evict_inode() (as it used to be for +each call of ->delete_inode()). Unlike before, if you are using inode-associated +metadata buffers (i.e. mark_buffer_dirty_inode()), it's your responsibility to +call invalidate_inode_buffers() before end_writeback(). + No async writeback (and thus no calls of ->write_inode()) will happen +after end_writeback() returns, so actions that should not overlap with ->write_inode() +(e.g. freeing on-disk inode if i_nlink is 0) ought to be done after that call. + + NOTE: checking i_nlink in the beginning of ->write_inode() and bailing out +if it's zero is not *and* *never* *had* *been* enough. Final unlink() and iput() +may happen while the inode is in the middle of ->write_inode(); e.g. if you blindly +free the on-disk inode, you may end up doing that while ->write_inode() is writing +to it. |