[PATCH v2 14/29] docs: filesystems: convert files.txt to ReST

From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Date: Tue Apr 21 2020 - 12:56:46 EST


- 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@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
.../filesystems/{files.txt => files.rst} | 15 ++++++++++-----
Documentation/filesystems/index.rst | 1 +
2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
rename Documentation/filesystems/{files.txt => files.rst} (95%)

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/files.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/files.rst
similarity index 95%
rename from Documentation/filesystems/files.txt
rename to Documentation/filesystems/files.rst
index 46dfc6b038c3..cbf8e57376bf 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/files.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/files.rst
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
+.. 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;

@@ -77,7 +81,7 @@ the fdtable structure -
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);
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/index.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/index.rst
index 30925e73666c..a996d880025e 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/index.rst
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ algorithms work.
devpts
dnotify
fiemap
+ files

automount-support

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