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-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/Locking3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/porting6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt3
3 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
index fdcfdd79682a..fe25787ff6d4 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
@@ -58,8 +58,7 @@ prototypes:
int (*permission) (struct inode *, int, unsigned int);
int (*get_acl)(struct inode *, int);
int (*setattr) (struct dentry *, struct iattr *);
- int (*getattr) (const struct path *, struct dentry *, struct kstat *,
- u32, unsigned int);
+ int (*getattr) (const struct path *, struct kstat *, u32, unsigned int);
ssize_t (*listxattr) (struct dentry *, char *, size_t);
int (*fiemap)(struct inode *, struct fiemap_extent_info *, u64 start, u64 len);
void (*update_time)(struct inode *, struct timespec *, int);
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting
index 95280079c0b3..5fb17f49f7a2 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting
@@ -600,3 +600,9 @@ in your dentry operations instead.
[recommended]
->readlink is optional for symlinks. Don't set, unless filesystem needs
to fake something for readlink(2).
+--
+[mandatory]
+ ->getattr() is now passed a struct path rather than a vfsmount and
+ dentry separately, and it now has request_mask and query_flags arguments
+ to specify the fields and sync type requested by statx. Filesystems not
+ supporting any statx-specific features may ignore the new arguments.
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
index 569211703721..94dd27ef4a76 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
@@ -382,8 +382,7 @@ struct inode_operations {
int (*permission) (struct inode *, int);
int (*get_acl)(struct inode *, int);
int (*setattr) (struct dentry *, struct iattr *);
- int (*getattr) (const struct path *, struct dentry *, struct kstat *,
- u32, unsigned int);
+ int (*getattr) (const struct path *, struct kstat *, u32, unsigned int);
ssize_t (*listxattr) (struct dentry *, char *, size_t);
void (*update_time)(struct inode *, struct timespec *, int);
int (*atomic_open)(struct inode *, struct dentry *, struct file *,