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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/Locking | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/porting | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | 8 |
3 files changed, 10 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking index 33e5243948f0..52a057367f6f 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ be able to use diff(1). --------------------------- dentry_operations -------------------------- prototypes: - int (*d_revalidate)(struct dentry *, struct nameidata *); + int (*d_revalidate)(struct dentry *, unsigned int); int (*d_hash)(const struct dentry *, const struct inode *, struct qstr *); int (*d_compare)(const struct dentry *, const struct inode *, diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting index ed9fbc23ece0..56750b714d1e 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting @@ -431,3 +431,8 @@ release it yourself. d_alloc_root() is gone, along with a lot of bugs caused by code misusing it. Replacement: d_make_root(inode). The difference is, d_make_root() drops the reference to inode if dentry allocation fails. + +-- +[mandatory] + The witch is dead! Well, 1/3 of it, anyway. ->d_revalidate() does *not* +take struct nameidata anymore; just the flags. diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt index 279de2190365..b9a406b2ed0f 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt @@ -902,7 +902,7 @@ the VFS uses a default. As of kernel 2.6.22, the following members are defined: struct dentry_operations { - int (*d_revalidate)(struct dentry *, struct nameidata *); + int (*d_revalidate)(struct dentry *, unsigned int); int (*d_hash)(const struct dentry *, const struct inode *, struct qstr *); int (*d_compare)(const struct dentry *, const struct inode *, @@ -921,11 +921,11 @@ struct dentry_operations { dcache. Most filesystems leave this as NULL, because all their dentries in the dcache are valid - d_revalidate may be called in rcu-walk mode (nd->flags & LOOKUP_RCU). + d_revalidate may be called in rcu-walk mode (flags & LOOKUP_RCU). If in rcu-walk mode, the filesystem must revalidate the dentry without blocking or storing to the dentry, d_parent and d_inode should not be - used without care (because they can go NULL), instead nd->inode should - be used. + used without care (because they can change and, in d_inode case, even + become NULL under us). If a situation is encountered that rcu-walk cannot handle, return -ECHILD and it will be called again in ref-walk mode. |