permission and check_acl are inode permission checks that are called
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_RCU). See
- Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt for more details.
+ 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.