Documentation/filesystems/api-summary.rst

File Facts

System

Linux kernel

Corpus path

Documentation/filesystems/api-summary.rst

Extension

.rst

Size

2291 bytes

Lines

151

Domain

Support Tooling And Documentation

Bucket

Documentation

Inferred role

Support Tooling And Documentation: documentation

Status

atlas-only

Why This File Exists

Repository support layer: documentation, build tooling, samples, user-space helper tools, generated initramfs support, licenses, and validation utilities.

• Repository support layer: documentation, build tooling, samples, user-space helper tools, generated initramfs support, licenses, and validation utilities.

Dependency Surface

• No C-style include directives detected by the generator.

Detected Declarations

• No top-level syscall, struct, function, initcall, or export declaration detected by the generator.

Annotated Snippet

=============================
Linux Filesystems API summary
=============================

This section contains API-level documentation, mostly taken from the source
code itself.

The Linux VFS
=============

The Filesystem types
--------------------

.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/fs.h
   :internal:

The Directory Cache
-------------------

.. kernel-doc:: fs/dcache.c
   :export:

.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/dcache.h
   :internal:

Inode Handling
--------------

.. kernel-doc:: fs/inode.c
   :export:

.. kernel-doc:: fs/bad_inode.c
   :export:

Registration and Superblocks
----------------------------

.. kernel-doc:: fs/super.c
   :export:

File Locks
----------

.. kernel-doc:: fs/locks.c
   :export:

.. kernel-doc:: fs/locks.c
   :internal:

Other Functions
---------------

.. kernel-doc:: fs/mpage.c
   :export:

.. kernel-doc:: fs/namei.c
   :export:

.. kernel-doc:: fs/open.c
   :export:

.. kernel-doc:: block/bio.c
   :export:

.. kernel-doc:: fs/seq_file.c
   :export:

.. kernel-doc:: fs/filesystems.c
   :export:

Annotation

• Atlas domain: Support Tooling And Documentation / Documentation.
• Implementation status: atlas-only.

Implementation Notes

• This generated page is the file-by-file coverage layer; curated subsystem chapters should link here when they synthesize a multi-file control flow.
• Core OS pages should be promoted from atlas-only to deep-reviewed when they explain data structures, invariants, locking, lifecycle, and C implementation snippets.
• Driver-family pages are intentionally pattern-oriented unless they are part of the selected PCIe/NVMe representative device path.