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| author | Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com> | 2018-10-30 10:41:21 +1100 |
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| committer | Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> | 2018-10-30 10:41:21 +1100 |
| commit | 2e5dfc99f2e61c42083ba742395e7a7b353513d1 (patch) | |
| tree | 48bc800424405b56153ed8c8997847c8ed9aaf14 /Documentation/filesystems/porting | |
| parent | 6095028b455d775e369ae27875f698ff0f6fdeb8 (diff) | |
vfs: combine the clone and dedupe into a single remap_file_range
Combine the clone_file_range and dedupe_file_range operations into a
single remap_file_range file operation dispatch since they're
fundamentally the same operation. The differences between the two can
be made in the prep functions.
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/porting')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/porting | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting index 7b7b845c490a..e6d4466268dd 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting @@ -622,3 +622,8 @@ in your dentry operations instead. alloc_file_clone(file, flags, ops) does not affect any caller's references. On success you get a new struct file sharing the mount/dentry with the original, on failure - ERR_PTR(). +-- +[mandatory] + ->clone_file_range() and ->dedupe_file_range have been replaced with + ->remap_file_range(). See Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt for more + information. |