From 6b2553918d8b4e6de9853fd6315bec7271a2e592 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Al Viro Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 10:20:54 -0500 Subject: 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 --- Documentation/filesystems/porting | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/porting') diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting index 3eb7c35c9698..cf92a8c55594 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting @@ -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 -- cgit v1.2.3