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| author | Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com> | 2012-09-03 09:26:33 +0300 |
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| committer | Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com> | 2012-09-03 09:26:33 +0300 |
| commit | c50e86ce7c2961a41f2f7aa6e4fd6c99229ba205 (patch) | |
| tree | 4ea36009719bd8fc523239fe1bdccb90f0dce3ae /Documentation/filesystems/porting | |
| parent | 14d33d384693eb6083396199de516fdef320f7af (diff) | |
| parent | 4cbe5a555fa58a79b6ecbb6c531b8bab0650778d (diff) | |
Merge tag 'v3.6-rc4'
Merge 3.6-rc4 to get latest OMAP and device tree fixes.
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/porting')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/porting | 26 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting index 8c91d1057d9..0742feebc6e 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting @@ -94,9 +94,8 @@ protected. --- [mandatory] -BKL is also moved from around sb operations. ->write_super() Is now called -without BKL held. BKL should have been shifted into individual fs sb_op -functions. If you don't need it, remove it. +BKL is also moved from around sb operations. BKL should have been shifted into +individual fs sb_op functions. If you don't need it, remove it. --- [informational] @@ -355,12 +354,10 @@ protects *all* the dcache state of a given dentry. via rcu-walk path walk (basically, if the file can have had a path name in the vfs namespace). - i_dentry and i_rcu share storage in a union, and the vfs expects -i_dentry to be reinitialized before it is freed, so an: - - INIT_LIST_HEAD(&inode->i_dentry); - -must be done in the RCU callback. + Even though i_dentry and i_rcu share storage in a union, we will +initialize the former in inode_init_always(), so just leave it alone in +the callback. It used to be necessary to clean it there, but not anymore +(starting at 3.2). -- [recommended] @@ -433,3 +430,14 @@ 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, 2/3 of it, anyway. ->d_revalidate() and +->lookup() do *not* take struct nameidata anymore; just the flags. +-- +[mandatory] + ->create() doesn't take struct nameidata *; unlike the previous +two, it gets "is it an O_EXCL or equivalent?" boolean argument. Note that +local filesystems can ignore tha argument - they are guaranteed that the +object doesn't exist. It's remote/distributed ones that might care... |