linux-kernel - Re: [patch 2/5] fs: introduce new aops and infrastructure

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Date:	Thu, 15 Mar 2007 16:06:39 -0400
From:	Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@....uio.no>
To:	Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@...cle.com>
Cc:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>,
	Linux Filesystems <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 2/5] fs: introduce new aops and infrastructure

On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 21:13 -0700, Mark Fasheh wrote:
> Hi Nick,
> 
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 02:38:22PM +0100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > Introduce write_begin, write_end, and perform_write aops.
> > 
> > These are intended to replace prepare_write and commit_write with more
> > flexible alternatives that are also able to avoid the buffered write
> > deadlock problems efficiently (which prepare_write is unable to do).
> 
> > Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/fs.h
> > ===================================================================
> > --- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/fs.h
> > +++ linux-2.6/include/linux/fs.h
> > @@ -449,6 +449,17 @@ struct address_space_operations {
> >  	 */
> >  	int (*prepare_write)(struct file *, struct page *, unsigned, unsigned);
> >  	int (*commit_write)(struct file *, struct page *, unsigned, unsigned);
> > +
> > +	int (*write_begin)(struct file *, struct address_space *mapping,
> > +				loff_t pos, unsigned len, int intr,
> > +				struct page **pagep, void **fsdata);
> > +	int (*write_end)(struct file *, struct address_space *mapping,
> > +				loff_t pos, unsigned len, unsigned copied,
> > +				struct page *page, void *fsdata);
> 
> Are we going to get rid of the file and intr arguments btw? I'm not sure
> intr is useful, and mapping is probably enough to get whatever we inside
> ->write_begin / ->write_end.

Hell no! Struct file carries information that is essential for those of
us that use strong authentication. It stays.

Trond

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