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>
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 46dfc6b..cbf8e57 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 @@
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 @@
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 @@
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 @@
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 99b4502..597ea3e 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/index.rst
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
devpts
dnotify
fiemap
+ files
automount-support