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authorAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2019-03-15 22:58:11 -0400
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2019-04-09 19:20:46 -0400
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unexport d_alloc_pseudo()
No modular uses since introducion of alloc_file_pseudo(), and the only non-modular user not in alloc_file_pseudo() had actually been wrong - should've been d_alloc_anon(). Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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@@ -643,3 +643,8 @@ in your dentry operations instead.
DCACHE_RCUACCESS is gone; having an RCU delay on dentry freeing is the
default. DCACHE_NORCU opts out, and only d_alloc_pseudo() has any
business doing so.
+--
+[mandatory]
+ d_alloc_pseudo() is internal-only; uses outside of alloc_file_pseudo() are
+ very suspect (and won't work in modules). Such uses are very likely to
+ be misspelled d_alloc_anon().
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