is a pointer to a "struct inode_operations" which describes the methods that
can be performed on individual inodes.
+struct xattr_handlers
+---------------------
+
+On filesystems that support extended attributes (xattrs), the s_xattr
+superblock field points to a NULL-terminated array of xattr handlers. Extended
+attributes are name:value pairs.
+
+ name: Indicates that the handler matches attributes with the specified name
+ (such as "system.posix_acl_access"); the prefix field must be NULL.
+
+ prefix: Indicates that the handler matches all attributes with the specified
+ name prefix (such as "user."); the name field must be NULL.
+
+ list: Determine if attributes matching this xattr handler should be listed
+ for a particular dentry. Used by some listxattr implementations like
+ generic_listxattr.
+
+ get: Called by the VFS to get the value of a particular extended attribute.
+ This method is called by the getxattr(2) system call.
+
+ set: Called by the VFS to set the value of a particular extended attribute.
+ When the new value is NULL, called to remove a particular extended
+ attribute. This method is called by the the setxattr(2) and
+ removexattr(2) system calls.
+
+When none of the xattr handlers of a filesystem match the specified attribute
+name or when a filesystem doesn't support extended attributes, the various
+*xattr(2) system calls return -EOPNOTSUPP.
+
The Inode Object
================
int (*rmdir) (struct inode *,struct dentry *);
int (*mknod) (struct inode *,struct dentry *,umode_t,dev_t);
int (*rename) (struct inode *, struct dentry *,
- struct inode *, struct dentry *);
- int (*rename2) (struct inode *, struct dentry *,
struct inode *, struct dentry *, unsigned int);
int (*readlink) (struct dentry *, char __user *,int);
const char *(*get_link) (struct dentry *, struct inode *,
int (*get_acl)(struct inode *, int);
int (*setattr) (struct dentry *, struct iattr *);
int (*getattr) (struct vfsmount *mnt, 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 *);
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);
rename: called by the rename(2) system call to rename the object to
have the parent and name given by the second inode and dentry.
- rename2: this has an additional flags argument compared to rename.
- If no flags are supported by the filesystem then this method
- need not be implemented. If some flags are supported then the
- filesystem must return -EINVAL for any unsupported or unknown
- flags. Currently the following flags are implemented:
+ The filesystem must return -EINVAL for any unsupported or
+ unknown flags. Currently the following flags are implemented:
(1) RENAME_NOREPLACE: this flag indicates that if the target
of the rename exists the rename should fail with -EEXIST
instead of replacing the target. The VFS already checks for
exist; this is checked by the VFS. Unlike plain rename,
source and target may be of different type.
- readlink: called by the readlink(2) system call. Only required if
- you want to support reading symbolic links
-
get_link: called by the VFS to follow a symbolic link to the
inode it points to. Only required if you want to support
symbolic links. This method returns the symlink body
argument. If request can't be handled without leaving RCU mode,
have it return ERR_PTR(-ECHILD).
+ readlink: this is now just an override for use by readlink(2) for the
+ cases when ->get_link uses nd_jump_link() or object is not in
+ fact a symlink. Normally filesystems should only implement
+ ->get_link for symlinks and readlink(2) will automatically use
+ that.
+
permission: called by the VFS to check for access rights on a POSIX-like
filesystem.
getattr: called by the VFS to get attributes of a file. This method
is called by stat(2) and related system calls.
- setxattr: called by the VFS to set an extended attribute for a file.
- Extended attribute is a name:value pair associated with an
- inode. This method is called by setxattr(2) system call.
-
- getxattr: called by the VFS to retrieve the value of an extended
- attribute name. This method is called by getxattr(2) function
- call.
-
listxattr: called by the VFS to list all extended attributes for a
- given file. This method is called by listxattr(2) system call.
-
- removexattr: called by the VFS to remove an extended attribute from
- a file. This method is called by removexattr(2) system call.
+ given file. This method is called by the listxattr(2) system call.
update_time: called by the VFS to update a specific time or the i_version of
an inode. If this is not defined the VFS will update the inode itself
The second case is when a request has been made to invalidate
some or all pages in an address_space. This can happen
- through the fadvice(POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED) system call or by the
+ through the fadvise(POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED) system call or by the
filesystem explicitly requesting it as nfs and 9fs do (when
they believe the cache may be out of date with storage) by
calling invalidate_inode_pages2().
int (*flush) (struct file *, fl_owner_t id);
int (*release) (struct inode *, struct file *);
int (*fsync) (struct file *, loff_t, loff_t, int datasync);
- int (*aio_fsync) (struct kiocb *, int datasync);
int (*fasync) (int, struct file *, int);
int (*lock) (struct file *, int, struct file_lock *);
ssize_t (*sendpage) (struct file *, struct page *, int, size_t, loff_t *, int);
void (*d_iput)(struct dentry *, struct inode *);
char *(*d_dname)(struct dentry *, char *, int);
struct vfsmount *(*d_automount)(struct path *);
- int (*d_manage)(struct dentry *, bool);
+ int (*d_manage)(const struct path *, bool);
struct dentry *(*d_real)(struct dentry *, const struct inode *,
unsigned int);
};
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