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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2012-04-14 13:18:27 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2012-04-14 13:19:04 +0200 |
| commit | 6ac1ef482d7ae0c690f1640bf6eb818ff9a2d91e (patch) | |
| tree | 021cc9f6b477146fcebe6f3be4752abfa2ba18a9 /Documentation/filesystems/porting | |
| parent | 682968e0c425c60f0dde37977e5beb2b12ddc4cc (diff) | |
| parent | a385ec4f11bdcf81af094c03e2444ee9b7fad2e5 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'perf/core' into perf/uprobes
Merge in latest upstream (and the latest perf development tree),
to prepare for tooling changes, and also to pick up v3.4 MM
changes that the uprobes code needs to take care of.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/porting')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/porting | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting index b4a3d765ff9..74acd961881 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting @@ -429,3 +429,9 @@ filemap_write_and_wait_range() so that all dirty pages are synced out properly. You must also keep in mind that ->fsync() is not called with i_mutex held anymore, so if you require i_mutex locking you must make sure to take it and release it yourself. + +-- +[mandatory] + 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. |