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-rw-r--r--Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt27
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/Locking2
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diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
index 66c8b4b165c..716568afdff 100644
--- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
@@ -135,6 +135,33 @@ Who: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
---------------------------
+What: filemap_nopage, filemap_populate
+When: April 2007
+Why: These legacy interfaces no longer have any callers in the kernel and
+ any functionality provided can be provided with filemap_fault. The
+ removal schedule is short because they are a big maintainence burden
+ and have some bugs.
+Who: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
+
+---------------------------
+
+What: vm_ops.populate, install_page
+When: April 2007
+Why: These legacy interfaces no longer have any callers in the kernel and
+ any functionality provided can be provided with vm_ops.fault.
+Who: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
+
+---------------------------
+
+What: vm_ops.nopage
+When: February 2008, provided in-kernel callers have been converted
+Why: This interface is replaced by vm_ops.fault, but it has been around
+ forever, is used by a lot of drivers, and doesn't cost much to
+ maintain.
+Who: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
+
+---------------------------
+
What: Interrupt only SA_* flags
When: September 2007
Why: The interrupt related SA_* flags are replaced by IRQF_* to move them
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
index d866551be03..970c8ec1a05 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
@@ -510,12 +510,14 @@ More details about quota locking can be found in fs/dquot.c.
prototypes:
void (*open)(struct vm_area_struct*);
void (*close)(struct vm_area_struct*);
+ struct page *(*fault)(struct vm_area_struct*, struct fault_data *);
struct page *(*nopage)(struct vm_area_struct*, unsigned long, int *);
locking rules:
BKL mmap_sem
open: no yes
close: no yes
+fault: no yes
nopage: no yes
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