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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting index b12c8953868..9e71c9ad310 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting @@ -318,3 +318,11 @@ if it's zero is not *and* *never* *had* *been* enough. Final unlink() and iput( may happen while the inode is in the middle of ->write_inode(); e.g. if you blindly free the on-disk inode, you may end up doing that while ->write_inode() is writing to it. + +--- +[mandatory] + + .d_delete() now only advises the dcache as to whether or not to cache +unreferenced dentries, and is now only called when the dentry refcount goes to +0. Even on 0 refcount transition, it must be able to tolerate being called 0, +1, or more times (eg. constant, idempotent). |