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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | 23 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt index 3c4b2f1b64d0..94cf97b901d7 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt @@ -933,15 +933,20 @@ struct dentry_operations { dynamic_dname() helper function is provided to take care of this. d_automount: called when an automount dentry is to be traversed (optional). - This should create a new VFS mount record, mount it on the directory - and return the record to the caller. The caller is supplied with a - path parameter giving the automount directory to describe the automount - target and the parent VFS mount record to provide inheritable mount - parameters. NULL should be returned if someone else managed to make - the automount first. If the automount failed, then an error code - should be returned. If -EISDIR is returned, then the directory will - be treated as an ordinary directory and returned to pathwalk to - continue walking. + This should create a new VFS mount record and return the record to the + caller. The caller is supplied with a path parameter giving the + automount directory to describe the automount target and the parent + VFS mount record to provide inheritable mount parameters. NULL should + be returned if someone else managed to make the automount first. If + the vfsmount creation failed, then an error code should be returned. + If -EISDIR is returned, then the directory will be treated as an + ordinary directory and returned to pathwalk to continue walking. + + If a vfsmount is returned, the caller will attempt to mount it on the + mountpoint and will remove the vfsmount from its expiration list in + the case of failure. The vfsmount should be returned with 2 refs on + it to prevent automatic expiration - the caller will clean up the + additional ref. This function is only used if DCACHE_NEED_AUTOMOUNT is set on the dentry. This is set by __d_instantiate() if S_AUTOMOUNT is set on the |