struct file *, unsigned open_flag,
umode_t create_mode, int *opened);
int (*tmpfile) (struct inode *, struct dentry *, umode_t);
- int (*dentry_open)(struct dentry *, struct file *, const struct cred *);
locking rules:
all may block
update_time: no
atomic_open: yes
tmpfile: no
-dentry_open: no
Additionally, ->rmdir(), ->unlink() and ->rename() have ->i_mutex on
victim.
int (*atomic_open)(struct inode *, struct dentry *, struct file *,
unsigned open_flag, umode_t create_mode, int *opened);
int (*tmpfile) (struct inode *, struct dentry *, umode_t);
- int (*dentry_open)(struct dentry *, struct file *, const struct cred *);
};
Again, all methods are called without any locks being held, unless
but instead uses bmap to find out where the blocks in the file
are and uses those addresses directly.
- dentry_open: *WARNING: probably going away soon, do not use!* This is an
- alternative to f_op->open(), the difference is that this method may open
- a file not necessarily originating from the same filesystem as the one
- i_op->open() was called on. It may be useful for stacking filesystems
- which want to allow native I/O directly on underlying files.
-
-
invalidatepage: If a page has PagePrivate set, then invalidatepage
will be called when part or all of the page is to be removed
from the address space. This generally corresponds to either a
at the end of the buffer, and returns a pointer to the first char.
dynamic_dname() helper function is provided to take care of this.
+ Example :
+
+ static char *pipefs_dname(struct dentry *dent, char *buffer, int buflen)
+ {
+ return dynamic_dname(dentry, buffer, buflen, "pipe:[%lu]",
+ dentry->d_inode->i_ino);
+ }
+
d_automount: called when an automount dentry is to be traversed (optional).
This should create a new VFS mount record and return the record to the
caller. The caller is supplied with a path parameter giving the
This method is never called with both non-NULL inode and non-zero flags.
-Example :
-
-static char *pipefs_dname(struct dentry *dent, char *buffer, int buflen)
-{
- return dynamic_dname(dentry, buffer, buflen, "pipe:[%lu]",
- dentry->d_inode->i_ino);
-}
-
Each dentry has a pointer to its parent dentry, as well as a hash list
of child dentries. Child dentries are basically like files in a
directory.