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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/Locking | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | 16 |
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking index 24e1a4f37c83..08a36e14e8fc 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking @@ -21,8 +21,7 @@ prototypes: char *(*d_dname)((struct dentry *dentry, char *buffer, int buflen); struct vfsmount *(*d_automount)(struct path *path); int (*d_manage)(const struct path *, bool); - struct dentry *(*d_real)(struct dentry *, const struct inode *, - unsigned int); + struct dentry *(*d_real)(struct dentry *, const struct inode *); locking rules: rename_lock ->d_lock may block rcu-walk diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt index 6417b161f88d..497609f00e3e 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt @@ -1000,8 +1000,7 @@ struct dentry_operations { char *(*d_dname)(struct dentry *, char *, int); struct vfsmount *(*d_automount)(struct path *); int (*d_manage)(const struct path *, bool); - struct dentry *(*d_real)(struct dentry *, const struct inode *, - unsigned int); + struct dentry *(*d_real)(struct dentry *, const struct inode *); }; d_revalidate: called when the VFS needs to revalidate a dentry. This @@ -1135,22 +1134,15 @@ struct dentry_operations { dentry being transited from. d_real: overlay/union type filesystems implement this method to return one of - the underlying dentries hidden by the overlay. It is used in three + the underlying dentries hidden by the overlay. It is used in two different modes: - Called from open it may need to copy-up the file depending on the - supplied open flags. This mode is selected with a non-zero flags - argument. In this mode the d_real method can return an error. - Called from file_dentry() it returns the real dentry matching the inode argument. The real dentry may be from a lower layer already copied up, but still referenced from the file. This mode is selected with a - non-NULL inode argument. This will always succeed. - - With NULL inode and zero flags the topmost real underlying dentry is - returned. This will always succeed. + non-NULL inode argument. - This method is never called with both non-NULL inode and non-zero flags. + With NULL inode the topmost real underlying dentry is returned. Each dentry has a pointer to its parent dentry, as well as a hash list of child dentries. Child dentries are basically like files in a |