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authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2017-07-17 10:45:35 +0300
committerDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2017-07-17 10:45:35 +0300
commite462ec50cb5fad19f6003a3d8087f4a0945dd2b1 (patch)
tree7e56b715ce6b1c4ad13a4c3cfbce9462efe875bc /Documentation/filesystems/porting
parentbc98a42c1f7d0f886c0c1b75a92a004976a46d9f (diff)
downloadlinux-e462ec50cb5fad19f6003a3d8087f4a0945dd2b1.tar.xz
VFS: Differentiate mount flags (MS_*) from internal superblock flags
Differentiate the MS_* flags passed to mount(2) from the internal flags set in the super_block's s_flags. s_flags are now called SB_*, with the names and the values for the moment mirroring the MS_* flags that they're equivalent to. In this patch, just the headers are altered and some kernel code where blind automated conversion isn't necessarily correct. Note that this shows up some interesting issues: (1) Some MS_* flags get translated to MNT_* flags (such as MS_NODEV -> MNT_NODEV) without passing this on to the filesystem, but some filesystems set such flags anyway. (2) The ->remount_fs() methods of some filesystems adjust the *flags argument by setting MS_* flags in it, such as MS_NOATIME - but these flags are then scrubbed by do_remount_sb() (only the occupants of MS_RMT_MASK are permitted: MS_RDONLY, MS_SYNCHRONOUS, MS_MANDLOCK, MS_I_VERSION and MS_LAZYTIME) I'm not sure what's the best way to solve all these cases. Suggested-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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@@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ anything from oops to silent memory corruption.
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[mandatory]
- FS_NOMOUNT is gone. If you use it - just set MS_NOUSER in flags
+ FS_NOMOUNT is gone. If you use it - just set SB_NOUSER in flags
(see rootfs for one kind of solution and bdev/socket/pipe for another).
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