From 34286d6662308d82aed891852d04c7c3a2649b16 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nick Piggin Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 17:49:57 +1100 Subject: fs: rcu-walk aware d_revalidate method Require filesystems be aware of .d_revalidate being called in rcu-walk mode (nd->flags & LOOKUP_RCU). For now do a simple push down, returning -ECHILD from all implementations. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin --- Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.txt | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.txt index 09b2878724a1..8789d1810bed 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.txt @@ -317,11 +317,10 @@ The detailed design for rcu-walk is like this: The cases where rcu-walk cannot continue are: * NULL dentry (ie. any uncached path element) * parent with d_inode->i_op->permission or ACLs -* dentries with d_revalidate * Following links -In future patches, permission checks and d_revalidate become rcu-walk aware. It -may be possible eventually to make following links rcu-walk aware. +In future patches, permission checks become rcu-walk aware. It may be possible +eventually to make following links rcu-walk aware. Uncached path elements will always require dropping to ref-walk mode, at the very least because i_mutex needs to be grabbed, and objects allocated. -- cgit v1.2.1