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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/index.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/index.rst index 46d1b1be3a51..605befab300b 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/index.rst @@ -359,3 +359,24 @@ encryption of files and directories. :maxdepth: 2 fscrypt + +Pathname lookup +=============== + + +This write-up is based on three articles published at lwn.net: + +- <https://lwn.net/Articles/649115/> Pathname lookup in Linux +- <https://lwn.net/Articles/649729/> RCU-walk: faster pathname lookup in Linux +- <https://lwn.net/Articles/650786/> A walk among the symlinks + +Written by Neil Brown with help from Al Viro and Jon Corbet. +It has subsequently been updated to reflect changes in the kernel +including: + +- per-directory parallel name lookup. + +.. toctree:: + :maxdepth: 2 + + path-lookup.rst |