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authorTobin C. Harding2019-05-15 10:29:08 +1000
committerJonathan Corbet2019-05-29 16:14:07 -0600
commite04c83cd53b59e422157c4cea0cdc4e2f33fe305 (patch)
tree294cc2dade0726c5ac3e10dab69c5af5e3a97ad8
parent90caa781f6402a08b4e602fab7017baa3cee3a28 (diff)
docs: filesystems: vfs: Use uniform spacing around headings
Currently spacing before and after headings is non-uniform. Use two blank lines before a heading and one after the heading. Use uniform spacing around headings. Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <tobin@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
index 1cd0e658137a..242fd644c97b 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
@@ -319,6 +319,7 @@ Whoever sets up the inode is responsible for filling in the "i_op"
field. This is a pointer to a "struct inode_operations" which describes
the methods that can be performed on individual inodes.
+
struct xattr_handlers
---------------------
@@ -511,6 +512,7 @@ otherwise noted.
tmpfile: called in the end of O_TMPFILE open(). Optional, equivalent to
atomically creating, opening and unlinking a file in given directory.
+
The Address Space Object
========================
@@ -584,8 +586,10 @@ and the constraints under which it is being done. It is also used to
return information back to the caller about the result of a writepage or
writepages request.
+
Handling errors during writeback
--------------------------------
+
Most applications that do buffered I/O will periodically call a file
synchronization call (fsync, fdatasync, msync or sync_file_range) to
ensure that data written has made it to the backing store. When there
@@ -616,6 +620,7 @@ file->fsync operation, they should call file_check_and_advance_wb_err to
ensure that the struct file's error cursor has advanced to the correct
point in the stream of errors emitted by the backing device(s).
+
struct address_space_operations
-------------------------------
@@ -1207,9 +1212,11 @@ manipulate dentries:
and the dentry is returned. The caller must use dput()
to free the dentry when it finishes using it.
+
Mount Options
=============
+
Parsing options
---------------
@@ -1224,6 +1231,7 @@ The <linux/parser.h> header defines an API that helps parse these
options. There are plenty of examples on how to use it in existing
filesystems.
+
Showing options
---------------
@@ -1245,6 +1253,7 @@ The underlying reason for the above rules is to make sure, that a mount
can be accurately replicated (e.g. umounting and mounting again) based
on the information found in /proc/mounts.
+
Resources
=========