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vfs: add the fadvise() file operation

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This is going to be used by overlayfs and possibly useful
for other filesystems.

Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
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Amir Goldstein
2018-08-27 15:56:02 +03:00
committed by Miklos Szeredi
parent 17ef445f9b
commit 45cd0faae3
3 changed files with 53 additions and 33 deletions
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@@ -885,6 +885,7 @@ struct file_operations {
ssize_t (*copy_file_range)(struct file *, loff_t, struct file *, loff_t, size_t, unsigned int);
int (*clone_file_range)(struct file *, loff_t, struct file *, loff_t, u64);
int (*dedupe_file_range)(struct file *, loff_t, struct file *, loff_t, u64);
int (*fadvise)(struct file *, loff_t, loff_t, int);
};
Again, all methods are called without any locks being held, unless
@@ -965,6 +966,8 @@ otherwise noted.
dedupe_file_range: called by the ioctl(2) system call for FIDEDUPERANGE
command.
fadvise: possibly called by the fadvise64() system call.
Note that the file operations are implemented by the specific
filesystem in which the inode resides. When opening a device node
(character or block special) most filesystems will call special