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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt')
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt index 761c6fd24a53..57fc576b1f3e 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt @@ -3,8 +3,6 @@ Original author: Richard Gooch <rgooch@atnf.csiro.au> - Last updated on June 24, 2007. - Copyright (C) 1999 Richard Gooch Copyright (C) 2005 Pekka Enberg @@ -465,6 +463,12 @@ otherwise noted. argument. If request can't be handled without leaving RCU mode, have it return ERR_PTR(-ECHILD). + If the filesystem stores the symlink target in ->i_link, the + VFS may use it directly without calling ->get_link(); however, + ->get_link() must still be provided. ->i_link must not be + freed until after an RCU grace period. Writing to ->i_link + post-iget() time requires a 'release' memory barrier. + readlink: this is now just an override for use by readlink(2) for the cases when ->get_link uses nd_jump_link() or object is not in fact a symlink. Normally filesystems should only implement |