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| author | Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> | 2013-12-19 15:08:03 +0100 |
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| committer | Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> | 2013-12-19 15:08:32 +0100 |
| commit | e23c34bb41da65f354fb7eee04300c56ee48f60c (patch) | |
| tree | 549fbe449d55273b81ef104a9755109bf4ae7817 /Documentation/filesystems/porting | |
| parent | b481c2cb3534c85dca625973b33eba15f9af3e4c (diff) | |
| parent | 319e2e3f63c348a9b66db4667efa73178e18b17d (diff) | |
Merge branch 'master' into for-next
Sync with Linus' tree to be able to apply fixes on top of newer things
in tree (efi-stub).
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/porting')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/porting | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting index 206a1bdc7321..fe2b7ae6f962 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting @@ -451,3 +451,15 @@ in your dentry operations instead. -- [mandatory] ->readdir() is gone now; switch to ->iterate() +[mandatory] + 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(). |