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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.txt index 09b2878724a..8789d1810be 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. |