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author | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2012-08-06 09:48:31 -0700 |
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committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2012-08-06 09:48:31 -0700 |
commit | c87985a3ce723995fc7b25e598238d67154108a1 (patch) | |
tree | e60def1b77c25c1d74180f62e8a5603f9826f209 /Documentation/filesystems/porting | |
parent | d155255a344c417acad74156654295a2964e6b81 (diff) | |
parent | 0d7614f09c1ebdbaa1599a5aba7593f147bf96ee (diff) |
Merge tty-next into 3.6-rc1
This handles the merge issue in:
arch/um/drivers/line.c
arch/um/drivers/line.h
And resolves the duplicate patches that were in both trees do to the
tty-next branch not getting merged into 3.6-rc1.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/porting')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/porting | 21 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting index 8c91d1057d9..2bef2b3843d 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting @@ -355,12 +355,10 @@ 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 +431,14 @@ 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... |