From: Al Viro <v...@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <v...@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
---
Documentation/filesystems/Locking | 2 +-
Documentation/filesystems/porting | 8 ++++++++
Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | 18 ++++++++++--------
3 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
index 2c391338c675..04c867981375 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ prototypes:
void (*update_time)(struct inode *, struct timespec *, int);
int (*atomic_open)(struct inode *, struct dentry *,
struct file *, unsigned open_flag,
- umode_t create_mode, int *opened);
+ umode_t create_mode);
int (*tmpfile) (struct inode *, struct dentry *, umode_t);
locking rules:
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting
b/Documentation/filesystems/porting
index 17bb4dc28fae..c68ea9294b5f 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting
@@ -602,3 +602,11 @@ in your dentry operations instead.
dentry separately, and it now has request_mask and query_flags arguments
to specify the fields and sync type requested by statx. Filesystems not
supporting any statx-specific features may ignore the new arguments.
+--
+[mandatory]
+ ->atomic_open() calling conventions have changed. Gone is int *opened,
+ along with FILE_OPENED/FILE_CREATED. In place of those we have
+ FMODE_OPENED/FMODE_CREATED, set in file->f_mode. Additionally, return
+ value for 'called finish_no_open(), open it yourself' case has become
+ 0, not 1. Since finish_no_open() itself is returning 0 now, that part
+ does not need any changes in ->atomic_open() instances.
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
index 829a7b7857a4..d564cc44397e 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
@@ -386,7 +386,7 @@ struct inode_operations {
ssize_t (*listxattr) (struct dentry *, char *, size_t);
void (*update_time)(struct inode *, struct timespec *, int);
int (*atomic_open)(struct inode *, struct dentry *, struct file *,
- unsigned open_flag, umode_t create_mode, int *opened);
+ unsigned open_flag, umode_t create_mode);
int (*tmpfile) (struct inode *, struct dentry *, umode_t);
};
@@ -496,13 +496,15 @@ otherwise noted.
atomic_open: called on the last component of an open. Using this optional
method the filesystem can look up, possibly create and open the file in
- one atomic operation. If it cannot perform this (e.g. the file type
- turned out to be wrong) it may signal this by returning 1 instead of
- usual 0 or -ve . This method is only called if the last component is
- negative or needs lookup. Cached positive dentries are still handled by
- f_op->open(). If the file was created, the FILE_CREATED flag should be
- set in "opened". In case of O_EXCL the method must only succeed if the
- file didn't exist and hence FILE_CREATED shall always be set on success.
+ one atomic operation. If it wants to leave actual opening to the
+ caller (e.g. if the file turned out to be a symlink, device, or just
+ something filesystem won't do atomic open for), it may signal this by
+ returning finish_no_open(file, dentry). This method is only called if
+ the last component is negative or needs lookup. Cached positive
dentries
+ are still handled by f_op->open(). If the file was created,
+ FMODE_CREATED flag should be set in file->f_mode. In case of O_EXCL
+ the method must only succeed if the file didn't exist and hence
FMODE_CREATED
+ shall always be set on success.
tmpfile: called in the end of O_TMPFILE open(). Optional, equivalent to
atomically creating, opening and unlinking a file in given directory.
--
2.11.0
