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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/porting')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/porting | 25 |
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting index e69274de8d0c..68f1c9106573 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting @@ -379,10 +379,10 @@ may now be called in rcu-walk mode (nd->flags & LOOKUP_RCU). -ECHILD should be returned if the filesystem cannot handle rcu-walk. See Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt for more details. - permission and check_acl are inode permission checks that are called -on many or all directory inodes on the way down a path walk (to check for -exec permission). These must now be rcu-walk aware (flags & IPERM_FLAG_RCU). -See Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt for more details. + permission is an inode permission check that is called on many or all +directory inodes on the way down a path walk (to check for exec permission). It +must now be rcu-walk aware (mask & MAY_NOT_BLOCK). See +Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt for more details. -- [mandatory] @@ -483,3 +483,20 @@ in your dentry operations instead. -- [mandatory] ->aio_read/->aio_write are gone. Use ->read_iter/->write_iter. +--- +[recommended] + for embedded ("fast") symlinks just set inode->i_link to wherever the + symlink body is and use simple_follow_link() as ->follow_link(). +-- +[mandatory] + calling conventions for ->follow_link() have changed. Instead of returning + cookie and using nd_set_link() to store the body to traverse, we return + the body to traverse and store the cookie using explicit void ** argument. + nameidata isn't passed at all - nd_jump_link() doesn't need it and + nd_[gs]et_link() is gone. +-- +[mandatory] + calling conventions for ->put_link() have changed. It gets inode instead of + dentry, it does not get nameidata at all and it gets called only when cookie + is non-NULL. Note that link body isn't available anymore, so if you need it, + store it as cookie. |