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authorAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2012-02-12 22:15:47 -0500
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2012-03-20 21:29:37 -0400
commit32991ab305ace7017c62f8eecbe5eb36dc32e13b (patch)
tree7a802091fa9f152f38577a4eeaa24937c4b4b2c9 /Documentation/filesystems
parent318ceed088497d1ca839b1172518ac4cc7096b82 (diff)
vfs: d_alloc_root() gone
all callers converted to d_make_root() by now Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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@@ -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.