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| author | Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> | 2011-01-14 02:26:53 +0000 |
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| committer | Nick Piggin <npiggin@hera.kernel.org> | 2011-01-14 02:26:53 +0000 |
| commit | a82416da83722944d78d933301e32e7c5ad70edd (patch) | |
| tree | c2990d561fc5ed703bf46b34122f7a6b81b45dd5 /Documentation/filesystems | |
| parent | b3e19d924b6eaf2ca7d22cba99a517c5171007b6 (diff) | |
fs: small rcu-walk documentation fixes
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/porting | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | 4 |
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting index 07a32b42cf9..7fcac6393cd 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting @@ -365,8 +365,8 @@ must be done in the RCU callback. [recommended] vfs now tries to do path walking in "rcu-walk mode", which avoids atomic operations and scalability hazards on dentries and inodes (see -Documentation/filesystems/path-walk.txt). d_hash and d_compare changes (above) -are examples of the changes required to support this. For more complex +Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.txt). d_hash and d_compare changes +(above) are examples of the changes required to support this. For more complex filesystem callbacks, the vfs drops out of rcu-walk mode before the fs call, so no changes are required to the filesystem. However, this is costly and loses the benefits of rcu-walk mode. We will begin to add filesystem callbacks that @@ -383,5 +383,5 @@ 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_RCU). See -Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt for more details. +exec permission). These must now be rcu-walk aware (flags & IPERM_FLAG_RCU). +See Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt for more details. diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt index fbb324e2bd4..cae6d27c9f5 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt @@ -415,8 +415,8 @@ otherwise noted. permission: called by the VFS to check for access rights on a POSIX-like filesystem. - May be called in rcu-walk mode (flags & IPERM_RCU). If in rcu-walk - mode, the filesystem must check the permission without blocking or + May be called in rcu-walk mode (flags & IPERM_FLAG_RCU). If in rcu-walk + mode, the filesystem must check the permission without blocking or storing to the inode. If a situation is encountered that rcu-walk cannot handle, return |