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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/porting | 5 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting index a60fa516d4cb..7ed8188e7047 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting @@ -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(). |
