linux/Documentation/filesystems/caching
David Howells da9803bc88 FS-Cache: Add interface to check consistency of a cached object
Extend the fscache netfs API so that the netfs can ask as to whether a cache
object is up to date with respect to its corresponding netfs object:

	int fscache_check_consistency(struct fscache_cookie *cookie)

This will call back to the netfs to check whether the auxiliary data associated
with a cookie is correct.  It returns 0 if it is and -ESTALE if it isn't; it
may also return -ENOMEM and -ERESTARTSYS.

The backends now have to implement a mandatory operation pointer:

	int (*check_consistency)(struct fscache_object *object)

that corresponds to the above API call.  FS-Cache takes care of pinning the
object and the cookie in memory and managing this call with respect to the
object state.

Original-author: Hongyi Jia <jiayisuse@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Hongyi Jia <jiayisuse@gmail.com>
cc: Milosz Tanski <milosz@adfin.com>
2013-09-06 09:17:30 +01:00
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backend-api.txt FS-Cache: Add interface to check consistency of a cached object 2013-09-06 09:17:30 +01:00
cachefiles.txt
fscache.txt fscache: convert object to use workqueue instead of slow-work 2010-07-22 22:58:34 +02:00
netfs-api.txt FS-Cache: Add interface to check consistency of a cached object 2013-09-06 09:17:30 +01:00
object.txt FS-Cache: Provide proper invalidation 2012-12-20 22:04:07 +00:00
operations.txt FS-Cache: Fix operation state management and accounting 2012-12-20 21:58:26 +00:00