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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2016-01-11 13:13:23 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2016-01-11 13:13:23 -0800 |
| commit | 32fb378437a1d716e72a442237d7ead1f435ecf0 (patch) | |
| tree | 411b25023d4df908fb8ca4517185d49c37c51e10 /Documentation/filesystems/porting | |
| parent | 19ccb28e296d5afa299db1003d37e5d37994d46e (diff) | |
| parent | fceef393a538134f03b778c5d2519e670269342f (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'work.symlinks' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull vfs RCU symlink updates from Al Viro:
"Replacement of ->follow_link/->put_link, allowing to stay in RCU mode
even if the symlink is not an embedded one.
No changes since the mailbomb on Jan 1"
* 'work.symlinks' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
switch ->get_link() to delayed_call, kill ->put_link()
kill free_page_put_link()
teach nfs_get_link() to work in RCU mode
teach proc_self_get_link()/proc_thread_self_get_link() to work in RCU mode
teach shmem_get_link() to work in RCU mode
teach page_get_link() to work in RCU mode
replace ->follow_link() with new method that could stay in RCU mode
don't put symlink bodies in pagecache into highmem
namei: page_getlink() and page_follow_link_light() are the same thing
ufs: get rid of ->setattr() for symlinks
udf: don't duplicate page_symlink_inode_operations
logfs: don't duplicate page_symlink_inode_operations
switch befs long symlinks to page_symlink_operations
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/porting')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/porting | 17 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting index f24d1b833957..0f88e6020487 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting @@ -504,3 +504,20 @@ in your dentry operations instead. [mandatory] __fd_install() & fd_install() can now sleep. Callers should not hold a spinlock or other resources that do not allow a schedule. +-- +[mandatory] + 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 +-- +[mandatory] + ->get_link() gets struct delayed_call *done now, and should do + set_delayed_call() where it used to set *cookie. + ->put_link() is gone - just give the destructor to set_delayed_call() + in ->get_link(). |