- Add a SPDX header; - Adjust document title; - Some whitespace fixes and new line breaks; - Mark literal blocks as such; - Add it to filesystems/index.rst. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx> --- .../filesystems/{files.txt => files.rst} | 15 ++++++++++----- Documentation/filesystems/index.rst | 1 + 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) rename Documentation/filesystems/{files.txt => files.rst} (95%) diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/files.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/files.rst similarity index 95% rename from Documentation/filesystems/files.txt rename to Documentation/filesystems/files.rst index 46dfc6b038c3..cbf8e57376bf 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/files.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/files.rst @@ -1,5 +1,8 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +=================================== File management in the Linux kernel ------------------------------------ +=================================== This document describes how locking for files (struct file) and file descriptor table (struct files) works. @@ -34,7 +37,7 @@ appear atomic. Here are the locking rules for the fdtable structure - 1. All references to the fdtable must be done through - the files_fdtable() macro : + the files_fdtable() macro:: struct fdtable *fdt; @@ -61,7 +64,8 @@ the fdtable structure - 4. To look up the file structure given an fd, a reader must use either fcheck() or fcheck_files() APIs. These take care of barrier requirements due to lock-free lookup. - An example : + + An example:: struct file *file; @@ -77,7 +81,7 @@ the fdtable structure - of the fd (fget()/fget_light()) are lock-free, it is possible that look-up may race with the last put() operation on the file structure. This is avoided using atomic_long_inc_not_zero() - on ->f_count : + on ->f_count:: rcu_read_lock(); file = fcheck_files(files, fd); @@ -106,7 +110,8 @@ the fdtable structure - holding files->file_lock. If ->file_lock is dropped, then another thread expand the files thereby creating a new fdtable and making the earlier fdtable pointer stale. - For example : + + For example:: spin_lock(&files->file_lock); fd = locate_fd(files, file, start); diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/index.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/index.rst index c571112746f3..42f3309b994e 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/index.rst @@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ algorithms work. devpts dnotify fiemap + files automount-support -- 2.25.4