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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