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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/exporting.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/exporting.rst index 4b30daee39..f04ce1215a 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/exporting.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/exporting.rst @@ -122,12 +122,9 @@ are exportable by setting the s_export_op field in the struct super_block. This field must point to a "struct export_operations" struct which has the following members: - encode_fh (optional) + encode_fh (mandatory) Takes a dentry and creates a filehandle fragment which may later be used - to find or create a dentry for the same object. The default - implementation creates a filehandle fragment that encodes a 32bit inode - and generation number for the inode encoded, and if necessary the - same information for the parent. + to find or create a dentry for the same object. fh_to_dentry (mandatory) Given a filehandle fragment, this should find the implied object and @@ -241,3 +238,10 @@ following flags are defined: all of an inode's dirty data on last close. Exports that behave this way should set EXPORT_OP_FLUSH_ON_CLOSE so that NFSD knows to skip waiting for writeback when closing such files. + + EXPORT_OP_ASYNC_LOCK - Indicates a capable filesystem to do async lock + requests from lockd. Only set EXPORT_OP_ASYNC_LOCK if the filesystem has + it's own ->lock() functionality as core posix_lock_file() implementation + has no async lock request handling yet. For more information about how to + indicate an async lock request from a ->lock() file_operations struct, see + fs/locks.c and comment for the function vfs_lock_file(). |