docs: filesystems: convert files.txt to ReST

- Add a SPDX header;
- Adjust document title;
- Some whitespace fixes and new line breaks;
- Mark literal blocks as such;
- Add it to filesystems/index.rst.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/e31b0f6a7ee466a233dc7f9c73f53f07ebb07f0b.1588021877.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/files.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/files.rst
similarity index 95%
rename from Documentation/filesystems/files.txt
rename to Documentation/filesystems/files.rst
index 46dfc6b..cbf8e57 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/files.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/files.rst
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+===================================
 File management in the Linux kernel
------------------------------------
+===================================
 
 This document describes how locking for files (struct file)
 and file descriptor table (struct files) works.
@@ -34,7 +37,7 @@ appear atomic. Here are the locking rules for
 the fdtable structure -
 
 1. All references to the fdtable must be done through
-   the files_fdtable() macro :
+   the files_fdtable() macro::
 
        struct fdtable *fdt;
 
@@ -61,7 +64,8 @@ the fdtable structure -
 4. To look up the file structure given an fd, a reader
    must use either fcheck() or fcheck_files() APIs. These
    take care of barrier requirements due to lock-free lookup.
-   An example :
+
+   An example::
 
        struct file *file;
 
@@ -77,7 +81,7 @@ the fdtable structure -
    of the fd (fget()/fget_light()) are lock-free, it is possible
    that look-up may race with the last put() operation on the
    file structure. This is avoided using atomic_long_inc_not_zero()
-   on ->f_count :
+   on ->f_count::
 
        rcu_read_lock();
        file = fcheck_files(files, fd);
@@ -106,7 +110,8 @@ the fdtable structure -
    holding files->file_lock. If ->file_lock is dropped, then
    another thread expand the files thereby creating a new
    fdtable and making the earlier fdtable pointer stale.
-   For example :
+
+   For example::
 
        spin_lock(&files->file_lock);
        fd = locate_fd(files, file, start);

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/index.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/index.rst
index 99b4502..597ea3e 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/index.rst
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ algorithms work.
    devpts
    dnotify
    fiemap
+   files
 
    automount-support