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authorAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2015-11-17 18:20:54 +0300
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2015-12-09 06:41:54 +0300
commit6b2553918d8b4e6de9853fd6315bec7271a2e592 (patch)
tree85540dcb0dc0de3d67c68d0aa7b17058f4e96539 /Documentation/filesystems/porting
parent21fc61c73c3903c4c312d0802da01ec2b323d174 (diff)
downloadlinux-6b2553918d8b4e6de9853fd6315bec7271a2e592.tar.xz
replace ->follow_link() with new method that could stay in RCU mode
new method: ->get_link(); replacement of ->follow_link(). The differences are: * inode and dentry are passed separately * might be called both in RCU and non-RCU mode; the former is indicated by passing it a NULL dentry. * when called that way it isn't allowed to block and should return ERR_PTR(-ECHILD) if it needs to be called in non-RCU mode. It's a flagday change - the old method is gone, all in-tree instances converted. Conversion isn't hard; said that, so far very few instances do not immediately bail out when called in RCU mode. That'll change in the next commits. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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@@ -509,3 +509,9 @@ in your dentry operations instead.
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.
+--
+[mandatory]
+ ->follow_link() is replaced with ->get_link(); same API, except that
+ * ->get_link() gets inode as a separate argument
+ * ->get_link() may be called in RCU mode - in that case NULL
+ dentry is passed