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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/Locking | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/porting | 6 |
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking index 06d443450f21..4fba54b9fcec 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ prototypes: int (*rename2) (struct inode *, struct dentry *, struct inode *, struct dentry *, unsigned int); int (*readlink) (struct dentry *, char __user *,int); - const char *(*follow_link) (struct dentry *, void **); + const char *(*get_link) (struct dentry *, struct inode *, void **); void (*put_link) (struct inode *, void *); void (*truncate) (struct inode *); int (*permission) (struct inode *, int, unsigned int); @@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ rmdir: yes (both) (see below) rename: yes (all) (see below) rename2: yes (all) (see below) readlink: no -follow_link: no +get_link: no put_link: no setattr: yes permission: no (may not block if called in rcu-walk mode) diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting index 3eb7c35c9698..cf92a8c55594 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting @@ -509,3 +509,9 @@ in your dentry operations instead. any symlink that might use page_follow_link_light/page_put_link() must have inode_nohighmem(inode) called before anything might start playing with its pagecache. +-- +[mandatory] + ->follow_link() is replaced with ->get_link(); same API, except that + * ->get_link() gets inode as a separate argument + * ->get_link() may be called in RCU mode - in that case NULL + dentry is passed |