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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/fiemap.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/fiemap.rst index 93fc96f760aa..23b3ed229e49 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/fiemap.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/fiemap.rst @@ -12,21 +12,10 @@ returns a list of extents. Request Basics -------------- -A fiemap request is encoded within struct fiemap:: - - struct fiemap { - __u64 fm_start; /* logical offset (inclusive) at - * which to start mapping (in) */ - __u64 fm_length; /* logical length of mapping which - * userspace cares about (in) */ - __u32 fm_flags; /* FIEMAP_FLAG_* flags for request (in/out) */ - __u32 fm_mapped_extents; /* number of extents that were - * mapped (out) */ - __u32 fm_extent_count; /* size of fm_extents array (in) */ - __u32 fm_reserved; - struct fiemap_extent fm_extents[0]; /* array of mapped extents (out) */ - }; +A fiemap request is encoded within struct fiemap: +.. kernel-doc:: include/uapi/linux/fiemap.h + :identifiers: fiemap fm_start, and fm_length specify the logical range within the file which the process would like mappings for. Extents returned mirror @@ -60,6 +49,8 @@ FIEMAP_FLAG_XATTR If this flag is set, the extents returned will describe the inodes extended attribute lookup tree, instead of its data tree. +FIEMAP_FLAG_CACHE + This flag requests caching of the extents. Extent Mapping -------------- @@ -77,18 +68,10 @@ complete the requested range and will not have the FIEMAP_EXTENT_LAST flag set (see the next section on extent flags). Each extent is described by a single fiemap_extent structure as -returned in fm_extents:: - - struct fiemap_extent { - __u64 fe_logical; /* logical offset in bytes for the start of - * the extent */ - __u64 fe_physical; /* physical offset in bytes for the start - * of the extent */ - __u64 fe_length; /* length in bytes for the extent */ - __u64 fe_reserved64[2]; - __u32 fe_flags; /* FIEMAP_EXTENT_* flags for this extent */ - __u32 fe_reserved[3]; - }; +returned in fm_extents: + +.. kernel-doc:: include/uapi/linux/fiemap.h + :identifiers: fiemap_extent All offsets and lengths are in bytes and mirror those on disk. It is valid for an extents logical offset to start before the request or its logical @@ -175,6 +158,8 @@ FIEMAP_EXTENT_MERGED userspace would be highly inefficient, the kernel will try to merge most adjacent blocks into 'extents'. +FIEMAP_EXTENT_SHARED + This flag is set to request that space be shared with other files. VFS -> File System Implementation --------------------------------- @@ -191,14 +176,10 @@ each discovered extent:: u64 len); ->fiemap is passed struct fiemap_extent_info which describes the -fiemap request:: - - struct fiemap_extent_info { - unsigned int fi_flags; /* Flags as passed from user */ - unsigned int fi_extents_mapped; /* Number of mapped extents */ - unsigned int fi_extents_max; /* Size of fiemap_extent array */ - struct fiemap_extent *fi_extents_start; /* Start of fiemap_extent array */ - }; +fiemap request: + +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/fiemap.h + :identifiers: fiemap_extent_info It is intended that the file system should not need to access any of this structure directly. Filesystem handlers should be tolerant to signals and return |