Merge branch 'vfs-scale-working' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git...

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

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting
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--- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting
@@ -385,3 +385,12 @@ Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt for more details.
 on many or all directory inodes on the way down a path walk (to check for
 exec permission). These must now be rcu-walk aware (flags & IPERM_FLAG_RCU).
 See Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt for more details.
+ 
+--
+[mandatory]
+       In ->fallocate() you must check the mode option passed in.  If your
+filesystem does not support hole punching (deallocating space in the middle of a
+file) you must return -EOPNOTSUPP if FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE is set in mode.
+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.