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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | 47 |
1 files changed, 45 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt index fbb324e2bd43..94cf97b901d7 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt @@ -415,8 +415,8 @@ otherwise noted. permission: called by the VFS to check for access rights on a POSIX-like filesystem. - May be called in rcu-walk mode (flags & IPERM_RCU). If in rcu-walk - mode, the filesystem must check the permission without blocking or + May be called in rcu-walk mode (flags & IPERM_FLAG_RCU). If in rcu-walk + mode, the filesystem must check the permission without blocking or storing to the inode. If a situation is encountered that rcu-walk cannot handle, return @@ -864,6 +864,8 @@ struct dentry_operations { void (*d_release)(struct dentry *); void (*d_iput)(struct dentry *, struct inode *); char *(*d_dname)(struct dentry *, char *, int); + struct vfsmount *(*d_automount)(struct path *); + int (*d_manage)(struct dentry *, bool, bool); }; d_revalidate: called when the VFS needs to revalidate a dentry. This @@ -930,6 +932,47 @@ struct dentry_operations { at the end of the buffer, and returns a pointer to the first char. 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 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 + inode being added. + + d_manage: called to allow the filesystem to manage the transition from a + dentry (optional). This allows autofs, for example, to hold up clients + waiting to explore behind a 'mountpoint' whilst letting the daemon go + past and construct the subtree there. 0 should be returned to let the + calling process continue. -EISDIR can be returned to tell pathwalk to + use this directory as an ordinary directory and to ignore anything + mounted on it and not to check the automount flag. Any other error + code will abort pathwalk completely. + + If the 'mounting_here' parameter is true, then namespace_sem is being + held by the caller and the function should not initiate any mounts or + unmounts that it will then wait for. + + If the 'rcu_walk' parameter is true, then the caller is doing a + pathwalk in RCU-walk mode. Sleeping is not permitted in this mode, + and the caller can be asked to leave it and call again by returing + -ECHILD. + + This function is only used if DCACHE_MANAGE_TRANSIT is set on the + dentry being transited from. + Example : static char *pipefs_dname(struct dentry *dent, char *buffer, int buflen) |