Generally you won't find a direct call to the function in question - it is most likely a dynamically registered callback - so the call will be via a function pointer stored in a kernel/vfs/mtd struct. You might want to buy a book/text that explains these sorts of things. Otherwise printk is your best friend... :-) Alan On Jul 29, 2012, at 10:05 PM, "S. K." > wrote: Thanks again for reply. About the process of writing, I follow the similar way: vfs_write calls do_sync_read do_sync_write calls aio_write it is generic_file_aio_write in YAFFS it calls __generic_file_aio_write ??????????===============>> What does happen in this level? I have searched for somewhere calls writepage but, I could not find it! finally call yaffs_writepage Could you help me with that please?(I do not know kernel codes very good.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- up at vfs_read(). > > Look up vfs_read in the LXR and you will see it calls file->f_op->read() if > that exists otherwise it calls do_sync_read(). Yaffs uses do_sync_read(). > > That calls aio_read() which, for yaffs is generic_file_aio_read. > > generic_file_aio_read() sets up a page in the page cache and calls readpage > which is the yaffs_readpage() function in vfs_vfs_multi.c > > The configuration of which of the plug-in functions gets called is defined > in the yaffs_file_ ________________________________ From: Charles Manning > To: S. K. > Sent: Friday, July 27, 2012 2:56 AM Subject: Re: [Yaffs] read and write operation On Thursday 26 July 2012 17:16:51 S. K. wrote: > Hello Charles! > > Thanks a lot. Your explanation was really helpful. > > > > Is there a same operation for writing too? It is similar, but not the same. > > > and another question: the functions yaffs_file_rd() and yaffs_do_file_wr() > in the yaffs_guts.c have no role in reading or writing a file!? Yes they do. The read and write paths in yaffs_vfs_multi/single call them. > What do > they work exactly? I would think it pretty obvious from reading the functions: they read and write data from/to the files. > > > > With many thanks. > > > > > ________________________________ > From: Charles Manning > > To: yaffs@lists.aleph1.co.uk; S. K. > > Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2012 1:10 AM > Subject: Re: [Yaffs] read and write operation > > On Wednesday 25 July 2012 18:34:21 S. K. wrote: > > Good Day! > > > > > > I am looking for the serial operations that happen when read and write > > operation use in a ubuntu system that use yaffs2 as the filesystem. > > > > As I understood, for these operations: os tells to the vfs and the vfs > > tells to the yaffs to do read or write, then yaffs_file_operations in the > > yaffs_vfs_multi looks at its structure and call do_sync_read or > > do_sync_write. these files exist in the kernel and do the read and write > > operation. > > > > Is there any thing I missing? > > > > Is this sequence explained correctly? If not, would you explain the > > correct one? > > Have a look at http://lxr.linux.no/ This provides a cross reference to > Linux code. > > Basically, the read issued by the application does a system call which then > ends up at vfs_read(). > > Look up vfs_read in the LXR and you will see it calls file->f_op->read() if > that exists otherwise it calls do_sync_read(). Yaffs uses do_sync_read(). > > That calls aio_read() which, for yaffs is generic_file_aio_read. > > generic_file_aio_read() sets up a page in the page cache and calls readpage > which is the yaffs_readpage() function in vfs_vfs_multi.c > > The configuration of which of the plug-in functions gets called is defined > in the yaffs_file_operations table in yaffs_vfs_multi.c _______________________________________________ yaffs mailing list yaffs@lists.aleph1.co.uk http://lists.aleph1.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/yaffs