vfs inode

struct inode {
    struct hlist_node    i_hash;
    struct list_head    i_list;        /* backing dev IO list */
    struct list_head    i_sb_list;
    struct list_head    i_dentry;
    unsigned long        i_ino;
    atomic_t        i_count;
    unsigned int        i_nlink;
    uid_t            i_uid;
    gid_t            i_gid;
    dev_t            i_rdev;
    unsigned int        i_blkbits;
    u64            i_version;
    loff_t            i_size;
#ifdef __NEED_I_SIZE_ORDERED
    seqcount_t        i_size_seqcount;
#endif
    struct timespec        i_atime;
    struct timespec        i_mtime;
    struct timespec        i_ctime;
    blkcnt_t        i_blocks;
    unsigned short i_bytes;
    umode_t            i_mode;
    spinlock_t        i_lock;    /* i_blocks, i_bytes, maybe i_size */
    struct mutex        i_mutex;
    struct rw_semaphore    i_alloc_sem;
    const struct inode_operations    *i_op;
    const struct file_operations    *i_fop;    /* former ->i_op->default_file_ops */
    struct super_block    *i_sb;
    struct file_lock    *i_flock;
    struct address_space    *i_mapping;
    struct address_space    i_data;
#ifdef CONFIG_QUOTA
    struct dquot        *i_dquot[MAXQUOTAS];
#endif
    struct list_head    i_devices;
    union {
        struct pipe_inode_info    *i_pipe;
        struct block_device    *i_bdev;
        struct cdev        *i_cdev;
    };

    __u32            i_generation;

#ifdef CONFIG_FSNOTIFY
    __u32            i_fsnotify_mask; /* all events this inode cares about */
    struct hlist_head    i_fsnotify_mark_entries; /* fsnotify mark entries */
#endif

#ifdef CONFIG_INOTIFY
    struct list_head    inotify_watches; /* watches on this inode */
    struct mutex        inotify_mutex;    /* protects the watches list */
#endif

    unsigned long        i_state;
    unsigned long        dirtied_when;    /* jiffies of first dirtying */

    unsigned int        i_flags;

    atomic_t        i_writecount;
#ifdef CONFIG_SECURITY
    void            *i_security;
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_FS_POSIX_ACL
    struct posix_acl    *i_acl;
    struct posix_acl    *i_default_acl;
#endif
    void            *i_private; /* fs or device private pointer */
}

struct inode_operations {
    int (*create) (struct inode *,struct dentry *,int, struct nameidata *);
    struct dentry * (*lookup) (struct inode *,struct dentry *, struct nameidata *);
    int (*link) (struct dentry *,struct inode *,struct dentry *);
    int (*unlink) (struct inode *,struct dentry *);
    int (*symlink) (struct inode *,struct dentry *,const char *);
    int (*mkdir) (struct inode *,struct dentry *,int);
    int (*rmdir) (struct inode *,struct dentry *);
    int (*mknod) (struct inode *,struct dentry *,int,dev_t);
    int (*rename) (struct inode *, struct dentry *,
            struct inode *, struct dentry *);
    int (*readlink) (struct dentry *, char __user *,int);
    void * (*follow_link) (struct dentry *, struct nameidata *);
    void (*put_link) (struct dentry *, struct nameidata *, void *);
    void (*truncate) (struct inode *);
    int (*permission) (struct inode *, int);
    int (*check_acl)(struct inode *, int);
    int (*setattr) (struct dentry *, struct iattr *);
    int (*getattr) (struct vfsmount *mnt, struct dentry *, struct kstat *);
    int (*setxattr) (struct dentry *, const char *,const void *,size_t,int);
    ssize_t (*getxattr) (struct dentry *, const char *, void *, size_t);
    ssize_t (*listxattr) (struct dentry *, char *, size_t);
    int (*removexattr) (struct dentry *, const char *);
    void (*truncate_range)(struct inode *, loff_t, loff_t);
    long (*fallocate)(struct inode *inode, int mode, loff_t offset,
             loff_t len);
    int (*fiemap)(struct inode *, struct fiemap_extent_info *, u64 start,
         u64 len);
};