On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 7:38 PM, Abhi Das <adas@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This system call takes 5 arguments: > fd - file descriptor of the directory > flags - flags used by xstat > mask - field mask used to request stat/xattr info > buf - user buf to return collected info > count - size of user buffer in bytes > > xgetdents() should read the directory entries, collect stat > and xattr information for each entry as requested and return > all the data back to the user in a container structure > (linux_xdirent) as part of the supplied user buffer. Hello Abhi, As per Documentation/SubmitChecklist, please CC linux-api on patches that change the kerne-user-space API/ABI. (See https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/linux-api-ml.html for more details.) Cheers, Michael > Abhi Das (5): > fs: xstat system call VFS bits > fs: Add xgetdents system call and xreaddir file operation > gfs2: Add a dynamic buffer backed by a vector of pages > gfs2: Add sort functionality with extra parameter > gfs2: Add xreaddir file operation and supporting functions > > arch/x86/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl | 3 + > arch/x86/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl | 3 + > fs/gfs2/Makefile | 3 +- > fs/gfs2/dir.c | 80 +-- > fs/gfs2/dir.h | 13 +- > fs/gfs2/export.c | 2 +- > fs/gfs2/file.c | 17 +- > fs/gfs2/incore.h | 6 + > fs/gfs2/inode.c | 3 +- > fs/gfs2/inode.h | 5 + > fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c | 4 + > fs/gfs2/sys.c | 26 +- > fs/gfs2/util.c | 363 ++++++++++++++ > fs/gfs2/util.h | 47 ++ > fs/gfs2/xattr.c | 27 +- > fs/gfs2/xattr.h | 23 + > fs/gfs2/xreaddir.c | 1024 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > fs/gfs2/xreaddir.h | 84 ++++ > fs/readdir.c | 42 ++ > fs/stat.c | 340 ++++++++++++- > include/linux/fs.h | 5 + > include/linux/stat.h | 16 +- > include/linux/syscalls.h | 5 + > include/uapi/linux/fcntl.h | 1 + > include/uapi/linux/stat.h | 143 ++++++ > 25 files changed, 2196 insertions(+), 89 deletions(-) > create mode 100644 fs/gfs2/xreaddir.c > create mode 100644 fs/gfs2/xreaddir.h > > -- > 1.8.1.4 > > -- > 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 -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Author of "The Linux Programming Interface", http://blog.man7.org/ -- 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
