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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/porting | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting index f0890581f7f6..fe2b7ae6f962 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting @@ -455,3 +455,11 @@ in your dentry operations instead. vfs_follow_link has been removed. Filesystems must use nd_set_link from ->follow_link for normal symlinks, or nd_jump_link for magic /proc/<pid> style links. +-- +[mandatory] + iget5_locked()/ilookup5()/ilookup5_nowait() test() callback used to be + called with both ->i_lock and inode_hash_lock held; the former is *not* + taken anymore, so verify that your callbacks do not rely on it (none + of the in-tree instances did). inode_hash_lock is still held, + of course, so they are still serialized wrt removal from inode hash, + as well as wrt set() callback of iget5_locked(). |