fs/hpfs/dir.c

File Facts

System

Linux kernel

Corpus path

fs/hpfs/dir.c

Extension

.c

Size

8798 bytes

Lines

332

Domain

Core OS

Bucket

VFS And Filesystem Core

Inferred role

Core OS: operation-table or driver-model contract

Status

pattern implementation candidate

Why This File Exists

Core operating-system implementation surface: boot, tasks, memory, VFS, syscall-facing interfaces, synchronization, credentials, and isolation.

• Core operating-system implementation surface: boot, tasks, memory, VFS, syscall-facing interfaces, synchronization, credentials, and isolation.
• Defines an operation table; this is where Linux turns generic core objects into subsystem-specific behavior.
• Defines or uses C structs; map object ownership, embedded links, reference counts, and lock ownership.

Dependency Surface

• linux/slab.h
• hpfs_fn.h

Detected Declarations

• function Patocka
• function hpfs_dir_lseek
• function hpfs_readdir

Annotated Snippet

const struct file_operations hpfs_dir_ops =
{
	.llseek		= hpfs_dir_lseek,
	.read		= generic_read_dir,
	.iterate_shared	= hpfs_readdir,
	.release	= hpfs_dir_release,
	.fsync		= hpfs_file_fsync,
	.unlocked_ioctl	= hpfs_ioctl,
	.compat_ioctl	= compat_ptr_ioctl,
};

Annotation

• Immediate include surface: `linux/slab.h`, `hpfs_fn.h`.
• Detected declarations: `function Patocka`, `function hpfs_dir_lseek`, `function hpfs_readdir`.
• Atlas domain: Core OS / VFS And Filesystem Core.
• Implementation status: pattern implementation candidate.

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.