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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/porting')
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1 files changed, 18 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting index 3bd1148d8bb6..6b7a41cfcaed 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting @@ -330,14 +330,14 @@ unreferenced dentries, and is now only called when the dentry refcount goes to [mandatory] .d_compare() calling convention and locking rules are significantly -changed. Read updated documentation in Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt (and +changed. Read updated documentation in Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst (and look at examples of other filesystems) for guidance. --- [mandatory] .d_hash() calling convention and locking rules are significantly -changed. Read updated documentation in Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt (and +changed. Read updated documentation in Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst (and look at examples of other filesystems) for guidance. --- @@ -377,12 +377,12 @@ where possible. the filesystem provides it), which requires dropping out of rcu-walk mode. This may now be called in rcu-walk mode (nd->flags & LOOKUP_RCU). -ECHILD should be returned if the filesystem cannot handle rcu-walk. See -Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt for more details. +Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst for more details. permission is an inode permission check that is called on many or all directory inodes on the way down a path walk (to check for exec permission). It must now be rcu-walk aware (mask & MAY_NOT_BLOCK). See -Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt for more details. +Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst for more details. -- [mandatory] @@ -428,8 +428,19 @@ release it yourself. -- [mandatory] d_alloc_root() is gone, along with a lot of bugs caused by code -misusing it. Replacement: d_make_root(inode). The difference is, -d_make_root() drops the reference to inode if dentry allocation fails. +misusing it. Replacement: d_make_root(inode). On success d_make_root(inode) +allocates and returns a new dentry instantiated with the passed in inode. +On failure NULL is returned and the passed in inode is dropped so the reference +to inode is consumed in all cases and failure handling need not do any cleanup +for the inode. If d_make_root(inode) is passed a NULL inode it returns NULL +and also requires no further error handling. Typical usage is: + + inode = foofs_new_inode(....); + s->s_root = d_make_root(inode); + if (!s->s_root) + /* Nothing needed for the inode cleanup */ + return -ENOMEM; + ... -- [mandatory] @@ -625,7 +636,7 @@ in your dentry operations instead. -- [mandatory] ->clone_file_range() and ->dedupe_file_range have been replaced with - ->remap_file_range(). See Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt for more + ->remap_file_range(). See Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst for more information. -- [recommended] |