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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/porting')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/porting | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting index 0f88e6020487..f1b87d8aa2da 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting @@ -508,7 +508,11 @@ in your dentry operations instead. [mandatory] 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. + its pagecache. No highmem pages should end up in the pagecache of such + symlinks. That includes any preseeding that might be done during symlink + creation. __page_symlink() will honour the mapping gfp flags, so once + you've done inode_nohighmem() it's safe to use, but if you allocate and + insert the page manually, make sure to use the right gfp flags. -- [mandatory] ->follow_link() is replaced with ->get_link(); same API, except that |