fs: introduce f_op->mmap_capabilities for nommu mmap support
authorChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Wed, 14 Jan 2015 09:42:32 +0000 (10:42 +0100)
committerJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Tue, 20 Jan 2015 21:02:58 +0000 (14:02 -0700)
Since "BDI: Provide backing device capability information [try #3]" the
backing_dev_info structure also provides flags for the kind of mmap
operation available in a nommu environment, which is entirely unrelated
to it's original purpose.

Introduce a new nommu-only file operation to provide this information to
the nommu mmap code instead.  Splitting this from the backing_dev_info
structure allows to remove lots of backing_dev_info instance that aren't
otherwise needed, and entirely gets rid of the concept of providing a
backing_dev_info for a character device.  It also removes the need for
the mtd_inodefs filesystem.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
32 files changed:
Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt
block/blk-core.c
drivers/char/mem.c
drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c
drivers/mtd/mtdconcat.c
drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c
drivers/mtd/mtdpart.c
drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/llite_lib.c
fs/9p/v9fs.c
fs/afs/volume.c
fs/aio.c
fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
fs/char_dev.c
fs/cifs/connect.c
fs/coda/inode.c
fs/configfs/configfs_internal.h
fs/configfs/inode.c
fs/configfs/mount.c
fs/ecryptfs/main.c
fs/exofs/super.c
fs/ncpfs/inode.c
fs/ramfs/file-nommu.c
fs/ramfs/inode.c
fs/romfs/mmap-nommu.c
fs/ubifs/super.c
include/linux/backing-dev.h
include/linux/cdev.h
include/linux/fs.h
include/linux/mtd/mtd.h
mm/backing-dev.c
mm/nommu.c
security/security.c

Simple merge
Simple merge
Simple merge
Simple merge
Simple merge
Simple merge
Simple merge
diff --cc fs/9p/v9fs.c
Simple merge
diff --cc fs/afs/volume.c
Simple merge
diff --cc fs/aio.c
Simple merge
Simple merge
diff --cc fs/char_dev.c
Simple merge
Simple merge
diff --cc fs/coda/inode.c
Simple merge
Simple merge
Simple merge
Simple merge
Simple merge
Simple merge
Simple merge
Simple merge
Simple merge
Simple merge
Simple merge
Simple merge
Simple merge
Simple merge
Simple merge
Simple merge
diff --cc mm/nommu.c
Simple merge
Simple merge