docs: filesystems: convert files.txt to ReST
- Add a SPDX header; - Adjust document title; - Some whitespace fixes and new line breaks; - Mark literal blocks as such; - Add it to filesystems/index.rst. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/e31b0f6a7ee466a233dc7f9c73f53f07ebb07f0b.1588021877.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
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===================================
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File management in the Linux kernel
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-----------------------------------
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===================================
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This document describes how locking for files (struct file)
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and file descriptor table (struct files) works.
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the fdtable structure -
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1. All references to the fdtable must be done through
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the files_fdtable() macro :
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the files_fdtable() macro::
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struct fdtable *fdt;
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4. To look up the file structure given an fd, a reader
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must use either fcheck() or fcheck_files() APIs. These
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take care of barrier requirements due to lock-free lookup.
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An example :
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An example::
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struct file *file;
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of the fd (fget()/fget_light()) are lock-free, it is possible
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that look-up may race with the last put() operation on the
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file structure. This is avoided using atomic_long_inc_not_zero()
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on ->f_count :
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on ->f_count::
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rcu_read_lock();
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file = fcheck_files(files, fd);
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holding files->file_lock. If ->file_lock is dropped, then
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another thread expand the files thereby creating a new
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fdtable and making the earlier fdtable pointer stale.
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For example :
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For example::
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spin_lock(&files->file_lock);
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fd = locate_fd(files, file, start);
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devpts
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dnotify
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fiemap
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files
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automount-support
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