Merge branches 'doc', 'multitouch', 'upstream' and 'upstream-fixes' into for-linus

[pandora-kernel.git] / Documentation / filesystems / porting

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting
index 0c986c9..6e29954 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting
@@ -298,11 +298,14 @@ 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.
+
+       ->drop_inode() returns int now; it's called on final iput() with
+inode->i_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
@@ -395,6 +398,9 @@ Currently you can only have FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE with FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE set,
 so the i_size should not change when hole punching, even when puching the end of
 a file off.
 
+--
+[mandatory]
+
 --
 [mandatory]
        ->get_sb() is gone.  Switch to use of ->mount().  Typically it's just