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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst index 331405f4b29f..da8073b592ff 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst @@ -1070,3 +1070,11 @@ The list of children anchored in parent dentry got turned into hlist now. Field names got changed (->d_children/->d_sib instead of ->d_subdirs/->d_child for anchor/entries resp.), so any affected places will be immediately caught by compiler. + +--- + +**mandatory** + +->d_delete() instances are now called for dentries with ->d_lock held +and refcount equal to 0. They are not permitted to drop/regain ->d_lock. +None of in-tree instances did anything of that sort. Make sure yours do not... |