iv/linux
1
0
Fork 0
Code Issues Pull Requests Actions Packages Projects Releases Wiki Activity

[PATCH] relayfs: add Documention for non-relay files

Browse Source 
Documentation update for non-relay files.

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This commit is contained in:
Tom Zanussi 2006-01-08 01:02:27 -08:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent aaea25d7a6
commit 925ac8a2b6
1 changed files with 23 additions and 0 deletions
Show Stats Download Patch File Download Diff File Expand all files Collapse all files

23
Documentation/filesystems/relayfs.txt
View File

@ -125,6 +125,8 @@ Here's a summary of the API relayfs provides to in-kernel clients:
relay_reset(chan)
relayfs_create_dir(name, parent)
relayfs_remove_dir(dentry)
relayfs_create_file(name, parent, mode, fops, data)
relayfs_remove_file(dentry)
channel management typically called on instigation of userspace:
@ -320,6 +322,27 @@ forces a sub-buffer switch on all the channel buffers, and can be used
to finalize and process the last sub-buffers before the channel is
closed.
Creating non-relay files
------------------------
relay_open() automatically creates files in the relayfs filesystem to
represent the per-cpu kernel buffers; it's often useful for
applications to be able to create their own files alongside the relay
files in the relayfs filesystem as well e.g. 'control' files much like
those created in /proc or debugfs for similar purposes, used to
communicate control information between the kernel and user sides of a
relayfs application. For this purpose the relayfs_create_file() and
relayfs_remove_file() API functions exist. For relayfs_create_file(),
the caller passes in a set of user-defined file operations to be used
for the file and an optional void * to a user-specified data item,
which will be accessible via inode->u.generic_ip (see the relay-apps
tarball for examples). The file_operations are a required parameter
to relayfs_create_file() and thus the semantics of these files are
completely defined by the caller.
See the relay-apps tarball at http://relayfs.sourceforge.net for
examples of how these non-relay files are meant to be used.
Misc
----