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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Mauro Carvalho Chehab 2020-04-27 23:17:05 +02:00 committed by Jonathan Corbet
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.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
===================================
File management in the Linux kernel
-----------------------------------
===================================
This document describes how locking for files (struct file)
and file descriptor table (struct files) works.
@ -34,7 +37,7 @@ appear atomic. Here are the locking rules for
the fdtable structure -
1. All references to the fdtable must be done through
the files_fdtable() macro :
the files_fdtable() macro::
struct fdtable *fdt;
@ -61,7 +64,8 @@ the fdtable structure -
4. To look up the file structure given an fd, a reader
must use either fcheck() or fcheck_files() APIs. These
take care of barrier requirements due to lock-free lookup.
An example :
An example::
struct file *file;
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of the fd (fget()/fget_light()) are lock-free, it is possible
that look-up may race with the last put() operation on the
file structure. This is avoided using atomic_long_inc_not_zero()
on ->f_count :
on ->f_count::
rcu_read_lock();
file = fcheck_files(files, fd);
@ -106,7 +110,8 @@ the fdtable structure -
holding files->file_lock. If ->file_lock is dropped, then
another thread expand the files thereby creating a new
fdtable and making the earlier fdtable pointer stale.
For example :
For example::
spin_lock(&files->file_lock);
fd = locate_fd(files, file, start);

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devpts
dnotify
fiemap
files
automount-support