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From: Luis Henriques <lhenriques@suse.de>
To: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>,
	Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>,
	Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>,
	Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>,
	Steve French <sfrench@samba.org>,
	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>,
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	Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@netapp.com>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
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	Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Nicolas Boichat <drinkcat@chromium.org>,
	Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com>,
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Cc: ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org, samba-technical@lists.samba.org,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-man@vger.kernel.org, Luis Henriques <lhenriques@suse.de>
Subject: [PATCH] copy_file_range.2: Kernel v5.12 updates
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2021 14:23:07 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210224142307.7284-1-lhenriques@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210222102456.6692-1-lhenriques@suse.de>

Update man-page with recent changes to this syscall.

Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <lhenriques@suse.de>
---
Hi!

Here's a suggestion for fixing the manpage for copy_file_range().  Note that
I've assumed the fix will hit 5.12.

 man2/copy_file_range.2 | 10 +++++++++-
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/man2/copy_file_range.2 b/man2/copy_file_range.2
index 611a39b8026b..b0fd85e2631e 100644
--- a/man2/copy_file_range.2
+++ b/man2/copy_file_range.2
@@ -169,6 +169,9 @@ Out of memory.
 .B ENOSPC
 There is not enough space on the target filesystem to complete the copy.
 .TP
+.B EOPNOTSUPP
+The filesystem does not support this operation.
+.TP
 .B EOVERFLOW
 The requested source or destination range is too large to represent in the
 specified data types.
@@ -187,7 +190,7 @@ refers to an active swap file.
 .B EXDEV
 The files referred to by
 .IR fd_in " and " fd_out
-are not on the same mounted filesystem (pre Linux 5.3).
+are not on the same mounted filesystem (pre Linux 5.3 and post Linux 5.12).
 .SH VERSIONS
 The
 .BR copy_file_range ()
@@ -202,6 +205,11 @@ Applications should target the behaviour and requirements of 5.3 kernels.
 .PP
 First support for cross-filesystem copies was introduced in Linux 5.3.
 Older kernels will return -EXDEV when cross-filesystem copies are attempted.
+.PP
+After Linux 5.12, support for copies between different filesystems was dropped.
+However, individual filesystems may still provide
+.BR copy_file_range ()
+implementations that allow copies across different devices.
 .SH CONFORMING TO
 The
 .BR copy_file_range ()

  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-02-24 15:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 93+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CAOQ4uxiFGjdvX2-zh5o46pn7RZhvbGHH0wpzLPuPOom91FwWeQ@mail.gmail.com>
2021-02-15 15:43 ` [PATCH v2] vfs: prevent copy_file_range to copy across devices Luis Henriques
2021-02-15 16:02   ` Trond Myklebust
2021-02-16  0:25     ` Steve French
2021-02-15 16:34   ` Amir Goldstein
2021-02-15 16:53     ` Trond Myklebust
2021-02-15 17:24       ` Amir Goldstein
2021-02-15 18:57         ` Trond Myklebust
2021-02-15 19:43           ` Amir Goldstein
2021-02-16 11:17             ` Luis Henriques
2021-02-16 11:28               ` gregkh
2021-02-16 12:01                 ` Luis Henriques
2021-02-16 12:08                   ` Greg KH
2021-02-16 13:51               ` Amir Goldstein
2021-02-16 16:42                 ` Luis Henriques
2021-02-16 17:44                   ` Amir Goldstein
2021-02-16 18:55                     ` Luis Henriques
2021-02-16 19:20                       ` Amir Goldstein
2021-02-16 19:27                         ` Anna Schumaker
2021-02-16 19:31                           ` Steve French
2021-02-16 19:40                             ` Amir Goldstein
2021-02-16 21:15                               ` Steve French
2021-02-17  8:08                                 ` Amir Goldstein
2021-02-17 17:26                                   ` [PATCH v3] vfs: fix copy_file_range regression in cross-fs copies Luis Henriques
2021-02-17 20:47                                     ` Amir Goldstein
2021-02-18  0:56                                     ` Nicolas Boichat
2021-02-18  5:32                                     ` Olga Kornievskaia
2021-02-18  6:47                                       ` Amir Goldstein
2021-02-18 16:28                                         ` Olga Kornievskaia
2021-02-18  7:43                                     ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-02-18  0:50                                   ` [PATCH v2] vfs: prevent copy_file_range to copy across devices Andreas Dilger
2021-02-18  7:34                                     ` gregkh
2021-02-16 18:54                 ` Andreas Dilger
2021-02-17  4:45   ` Nicolas Boichat
2021-02-18  7:42   ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-02-18  9:10     ` Amir Goldstein
2021-02-18 10:29       ` Luis Henriques
2021-02-18 12:15         ` Luis Henriques
2021-02-18 12:49           ` Amir Goldstein
2021-02-18 14:36             ` [PATCH v4] vfs: fix copy_file_range regression in cross-fs copies Luis Henriques
2021-02-18 14:58               ` Amir Goldstein
2021-02-18 15:17                 ` [PATCH v5] " Luis Henriques
2021-02-18 15:53                   ` Amir Goldstein
2021-02-18 16:35                     ` Luis Henriques
2021-02-18 17:18                       ` [PATCH v6] " Luis Henriques
2021-02-19 21:18                         ` Olga Kornievskaia
2021-02-19 21:52                           ` Amir Goldstein
2021-02-21 19:58                           ` [PATCH v7] " Luis Henriques
2021-02-22  3:00                             ` Nicolas Boichat
2021-02-22 10:24                             ` [PATCH v8] " Luis Henriques
2021-02-22 10:46                               ` Amir Goldstein
2021-02-22 16:25                               ` dai.ngo
2021-02-23 10:32                                 ` Luis Henriques
2021-02-23 15:28                                   ` Amir Goldstein
2021-02-23 15:29                                   ` dai.ngo
2021-02-23 16:02                                     ` dai.ngo
2021-02-23 16:47                                       ` Amir Goldstein
2021-02-23 16:57                                         ` dai.ngo
     [not found]                                           ` <e3eed18b-fc7e-e687-608b-7f662017329c@oracle.com>
2021-02-23 17:33                                             ` Amir Goldstein
2021-02-24  0:13                                               ` dai.ngo
2021-02-23 17:56                                           ` Luis Henriques
2021-02-23 17:13                                       ` Olga Kornievskaia
2021-02-24  1:00                               ` Olga Kornievskaia
2021-02-24 10:23                                 ` Luis Henriques
2021-02-24 10:44                                   ` Nicolas Boichat
2021-04-09  5:23                                     ` Nicolas Boichat
2021-04-09 13:39                                       ` Luis Henriques
2021-04-09 13:50                                         ` Amir Goldstein
2021-04-23  4:40                                           ` Nicolas Boichat
2021-05-03  8:54                                             ` Luis Henriques
2021-02-24 14:23                               ` Luis Henriques [this message]
2021-02-24 16:10                                 ` [PATCH] copy_file_range.2: Kernel v5.12 updates Amir Goldstein
2021-02-25 10:21                                   ` Luis Henriques
2021-02-26 10:13                                     ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2021-02-26 10:34                                       ` Amir Goldstein
2021-02-26 11:15                                         ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2021-02-26 13:59                                           ` Jeff Layton
2021-02-26 21:26                                             ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2021-02-26 22:18                                   ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2021-02-27  5:41                                     ` Amir Goldstein
2021-02-27 12:20                                       ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2021-02-27 13:49                                         ` [RFC v2] copy_file_range.2: Update cross-filesystem support for 5.12 Alejandro Colomar
2021-02-27 16:00                                           ` Amir Goldstein
2021-02-27 23:08                                       ` [PATCH] copy_file_range.2: Kernel v5.12 updates Steve French
2021-02-28  7:35                                         ` Amir Goldstein
2021-02-28 22:25                                           ` Steve French
2021-03-01  6:18                                             ` Amir Goldstein
2021-03-01 14:41                                 ` [RFC v3] copy_file_range.2: Update cross-filesystem support for 5.12 Alejandro Colomar
2021-03-01 14:58                                   ` Amir Goldstein
2021-03-04  9:38                                 ` [RFC v4] " Alejandro Colomar
2021-03-04 17:13                                   ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-03-04 18:24                                     ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2021-03-04 23:50                                       ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-02-18 20:41       ` [PATCH v2] vfs: prevent copy_file_range to copy across devices Steve French

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