Updated Documentation/filesystems/Locking to match the code. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Index: linux-2.6/Documentation/filesystems/Locking =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/Documentation/filesystems/Locking 2010-09-20 17:43:52.944444174 +0200 +++ linux-2.6/Documentation/filesystems/Locking 2010-09-22 11:34:48.213032570 +0200 @@ -349,21 +349,36 @@ call this method upon the IO completion. --------------------------- block_device_operations ----------------------- prototypes: - int (*open) (struct inode *, struct file *); - int (*release) (struct inode *, struct file *); - int (*ioctl) (struct inode *, struct file *, unsigned, unsigned long); + int (*open) (struct block_device *, fmode_t); + int (*release) (struct gendisk *, fmode_t); + int (*ioctl) (struct block_device *, fmode_t, unsigned, unsigned long); + int (*compat_ioctl) (struct block_device *, fmode_t, unsigned, unsigned long); + int (*direct_access) (struct block_device *, sector_t, void **, unsigned long *); int (*media_changed) (struct gendisk *); + void (*unlock_native_capacity) (struct gendisk *); int (*revalidate_disk) (struct gendisk *); + int (*getgeo)(struct block_device *, struct hd_geometry *); + void (*swap_slot_free_notify) (struct block_device *, unsigned long); locking rules: - BKL bd_sem -open: yes yes -release: yes yes -ioctl: yes no + BKL bd_mutex +open: no yes +release: no yes +ioctl: no no +compat_ioctl: no no +direct_access: no no media_changed: no no +unlock_native_capacity: no no revalidate_disk: no no +getgeo: no no +swap_slot_free_notify: no no (see below) + +media_changed, unlock_native_capacity and revalidate_disk are called only from +check_disk_change(). + +swap_slot_free_notify is called with swap_lock and sometimes the page lock +held. -The last two are called only from check_disk_change(). --------------------------- file_operations ------------------------------- prototypes: -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html