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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/porting')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/porting | 12 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting index fbd3815a5f57..92b888d540a6 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting @@ -34,8 +34,8 @@ FOO_I(inode) (see in-tree filesystems for examples). Make them ->alloc_inode and ->destroy_inode in your super_operations. -Keep in mind that now you need explicit initialization of private data - -typically in ->read_inode() and after getting an inode from new_inode(). +Keep in mind that now you need explicit initialization of private data +typically between calling iget_locked() and unlocking the inode. At some point that will become mandatory. @@ -173,10 +173,10 @@ should be a non-blocking function that initializes those parts of a newly created inode to allow the test function to succeed. 'data' is passed as an opaque value to both test and set functions. -When the inode has been created by iget5_locked(), it will be returned with -the I_NEW flag set and will still be locked. read_inode has not been -called so the file system still has to finalize the initialization. Once -the inode is initialized it must be unlocked by calling unlock_new_inode(). +When the inode has been created by iget5_locked(), it will be returned with the +I_NEW flag set and will still be locked. The filesystem then needs to finalize +the initialization. Once the inode is initialized it must be unlocked by +calling unlock_new_inode(). The filesystem is responsible for setting (and possibly testing) i_ino when appropriate. There is also a simpler iget_locked function that |
