Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

[cascardo/linux.git] / Documentation / filesystems / Locking

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
index fe15682..14cdc10 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
@@ -59,10 +59,7 @@ prototypes:
        int (*get_acl)(struct inode *, int);
        int (*setattr) (struct dentry *, struct iattr *);
        int (*getattr) (struct vfsmount *, struct dentry *, struct kstat *);
-       int (*setxattr) (struct dentry *, const char *,const void *,size_t,int);
-       ssize_t (*getxattr) (struct dentry *, const char *, void *, size_t);
        ssize_t (*listxattr) (struct dentry *, char *, size_t);
-       int (*removexattr) (struct dentry *, const char *);
        int (*fiemap)(struct inode *, struct fiemap_extent_info *, u64 start, u64 len);
        void (*update_time)(struct inode *, struct timespec *, int);
        int (*atomic_open)(struct inode *, struct dentry *,
@@ -88,15 +85,13 @@ setattr:    yes
 permission:    no (may not block if called in rcu-walk mode)
 get_acl:       no
 getattr:       no
-setxattr:      yes
-getxattr:      no
 listxattr:     no
-removexattr:   yes
 fiemap:                no
 update_time:   no
 atomic_open:   yes
 tmpfile:       no
 
+
        Additionally, ->rmdir(), ->unlink() and ->rename() have ->i_mutex on
 victim.
        cross-directory ->rename() has (per-superblock) ->s_vfs_rename_sem.
@@ -104,6 +99,23 @@ victim.
 See Documentation/filesystems/directory-locking for more detailed discussion
 of the locking scheme for directory operations.
 
+----------------------- xattr_handler operations -----------------------
+prototypes:
+       bool (*list)(struct dentry *dentry);
+       int (*get)(const struct xattr_handler *handler, struct dentry *dentry,
+                  struct inode *inode, const char *name, void *buffer,
+                  size_t size);
+       int (*set)(const struct xattr_handler *handler, struct dentry *dentry,
+                  struct inode *inode, const char *name, const void *buffer,
+                  size_t size, int flags);
+
+locking rules:
+       all may block
+               i_mutex(inode)
+list:          no
+get:           no
+set:           yes
+
 --------------------------- super_operations ---------------------------
 prototypes:
        struct inode *(*alloc_inode)(struct super_block *sb);