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| author | Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> | 2013-12-09 22:22:40 -0800 |
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| committer | Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> | 2013-12-09 22:22:40 -0800 |
| commit | 5d43889c07bb38694742936aa70d1187c012e198 (patch) | |
| tree | 73809dddae39ae3b746396e9779142dbd1973f33 /Documentation/filesystems/porting | |
| parent | 95f75e91588afecfb0090988393653d21f5d1f91 (diff) | |
| parent | 374b105797c3d4f29c685f3be535c35f5689b30e (diff) | |
Merge tag 'v3.13-rc3' into for-linus
Merging with the mainline to sync up on changes to serio core.
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/porting')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/porting | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting index f0890581f7f..fe2b7ae6f96 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting @@ -455,3 +455,11 @@ in your dentry operations instead. vfs_follow_link has been removed. Filesystems must use nd_set_link from ->follow_link for normal symlinks, or nd_jump_link for magic /proc/<pid> style links. +-- +[mandatory] + iget5_locked()/ilookup5()/ilookup5_nowait() test() callback used to be + called with both ->i_lock and inode_hash_lock held; the former is *not* + taken anymore, so verify that your callbacks do not rely on it (none + of the in-tree instances did). inode_hash_lock is still held, + of course, so they are still serialized wrt removal from inode hash, + as well as wrt set() callback of iget5_locked(). |