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| author |   Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> | 2011-01-07 17:49:57 +1100 |
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| committer | Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> | 2011-01-07 17:50:29 +1100 |
| commit | 34286d6662308d82aed891852d04c7c3a2649b16 (patch) | |
| tree | c4b7311404d302e7cb94df7a4690298e1059910a /Documentation/filesystems/Locking | |
| parent | fs: cache optimise dentry and inode for rcu-walk (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-34286d6662308d82aed891852d04c7c3a2649b16.tar.xz linux-dev-34286d6662308d82aed891852d04c7c3a2649b16.zip | |
fs: rcu-walk aware d_revalidate method
Require filesystems be aware of .d_revalidate being called in rcu-walk
mode (nd->flags & LOOKUP_RCU). For now do a simple push down, returning
-ECHILD from all implementations.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/Locking')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/Locking | 18 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking index bdad6414dfa0..e90ffe61eb65 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ be able to use diff(1). --------------------------- dentry_operations -------------------------- prototypes: - int (*d_revalidate)(struct dentry *, int); + int (*d_revalidate)(struct dentry *, struct nameidata *); int (*d_hash)(const struct dentry *, const struct inode *, struct qstr *); int (*d_compare)(const struct dentry *, const struct inode *, @@ -21,14 +21,14 @@ prototypes: char *(*d_dname)((struct dentry *dentry, char *buffer, int buflen); locking rules: - rename_lock ->d_lock may block -d_revalidate: no no yes -d_hash no no no -d_compare: yes no no -d_delete: no yes no -d_release: no no yes -d_iput: no no yes -d_dname: no no no + rename_lock ->d_lock may block rcu-walk +d_revalidate: no no yes (ref-walk) maybe +d_hash no no no maybe +d_compare: yes no no maybe +d_delete: no yes no no +d_release: no no yes no +d_iput: no no yes no +d_dname: no no no no --------------------------- inode_operations --------------------------- prototypes: |