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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/files.rst | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst | 16 |
3 files changed, 9 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/files.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/files.rst index 9e38e4c221ca..eb770f891b27 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/files.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/files.rst @@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ before and after the reference count increment. This pattern can be seen in get_file_rcu() and __files_get_rcu(). In addition, it isn't possible to access or check fields in struct file -without first aqcuiring a reference on it under rcu lookup. Not doing +without first acquiring a reference on it under rcu lookup. Not doing that was always very dodgy and it was only usable for non-pointer data in struct file. With SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU it is necessary that callers either first acquire a reference or they must hold the files_lock of the diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst index d5bf4b6b7509..e664061ed55d 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ prototypes:: char *(*d_dname)((struct dentry *dentry, char *buffer, int buflen); struct vfsmount *(*d_automount)(struct path *path); int (*d_manage)(const struct path *, bool); - struct dentry *(*d_real)(struct dentry *, const struct inode *); + struct dentry *(*d_real)(struct dentry *, enum d_real_type type); locking rules: diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst index eebcc0f9e2bc..6e903a903f8f 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst @@ -1264,7 +1264,7 @@ defined: char *(*d_dname)(struct dentry *, char *, int); struct vfsmount *(*d_automount)(struct path *); int (*d_manage)(const struct path *, bool); - struct dentry *(*d_real)(struct dentry *, const struct inode *); + struct dentry *(*d_real)(struct dentry *, enum d_real_type type); }; ``d_revalidate`` @@ -1419,16 +1419,14 @@ defined: the dentry being transited from. ``d_real`` - overlay/union type filesystems implement this method to return - one of the underlying dentries hidden by the overlay. It is - used in two different modes: + overlay/union type filesystems implement this method to return one + of the underlying dentries of a regular file hidden by the overlay. - Called from file_dentry() it returns the real dentry matching - the inode argument. The real dentry may be from a lower layer - already copied up, but still referenced from the file. This - mode is selected with a non-NULL inode argument. + The 'type' argument takes the values D_REAL_DATA or D_REAL_METADATA + for returning the real underlying dentry that refers to the inode + hosting the file's data or metadata respectively. - With NULL inode the topmost real underlying dentry is returned. + For non-regular files, the 'dentry' argument is returned. Each dentry has a pointer to its parent dentry, as well as a hash list of child dentries. Child dentries are basically like files in a |