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Provide a flag whereby a filesystem may request that cifs_perform_write() perform write-through caching. This involves putting pages directly into writeback rather than dirty and attaching them to a write operation as we go. Further, the writes being made are limited to the byte range being written rather than whole folios being written. This can be used by cifs, for example, to deal with strict byte-range locking. This can't be used with content encryption as that may require expansion of the write RPC beyond the write being made. This doesn't affect writes via mmap - those are written back in the normal way; similarly failed writethrough writes are marked dirty and left to writeback to retry. Another option would be to simply invalidate them, but the contents can be simultaneously accessed by read() and through mmap. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org cc: linux-mm@kvack.org |
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README
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.