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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/porting')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/porting | 12 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting index 3eae250254d5..f24d1b833957 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting @@ -379,10 +379,10 @@ may now be called in rcu-walk mode (nd->flags & LOOKUP_RCU). -ECHILD should be returned if the filesystem cannot handle rcu-walk. See Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt for more details. - permission and check_acl are inode permission checks that are called -on many or all directory inodes on the way down a path walk (to check for -exec permission). These must now be rcu-walk aware (flags & IPERM_FLAG_RCU). -See Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt for more details. + permission is an inode permission check that is called on many or all +directory inodes on the way down a path walk (to check for exec permission). It +must now be rcu-walk aware (mask & MAY_NOT_BLOCK). See +Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt for more details. -- [mandatory] @@ -500,3 +500,7 @@ in your dentry operations instead. dentry, it does not get nameidata at all and it gets called only when cookie is non-NULL. Note that link body isn't available anymore, so if you need it, store it as cookie. +-- +[mandatory] + __fd_install() & fd_install() can now sleep. Callers should not + hold a spinlock or other resources that do not allow a schedule. |
