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| author | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2019-02-20 15:29:36 -0700 |
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| committer | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2019-03-06 09:46:10 -0700 |
| commit | 4064174becc09a5a2385a27c8a6fd40888b0e13c (patch) | |
| tree | f2320919f5088bca1746ca8e655cfd97304af3e2 /Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst | |
| parent | 866d65b9d72f117134197712dca9c2569b703365 (diff) | |
docs: Bring some order to filesystem documentation
Documentation/filesystems is, like much of the rest of the kernel's
documentation, a jumble of unorganized information. Split the
documentation into categories and try to bring some order to the top-level
index.rst files. No text changes other than a few section-introductory
blurbs; this is all just moving stuff around.
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst index 80e22eda4132..434a07b0002b 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst @@ -1,3 +1,18 @@ +=============== +Pathname lookup +=============== + +This write-up is based on three articles published at lwn.net: + +- <https://lwn.net/Articles/649115/> Pathname lookup in Linux +- <https://lwn.net/Articles/649729/> RCU-walk: faster pathname lookup in Linux +- <https://lwn.net/Articles/650786/> A walk among the symlinks + +Written by Neil Brown with help from Al Viro and Jon Corbet. +It has subsequently been updated to reflect changes in the kernel +including: + +- per-directory parallel name lookup. Introduction to pathname lookup =============================== |