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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting
index 0472c31c163..0f3a1390bf0 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting
@@ -295,9 +295,9 @@ in the beginning of ->setattr unconditionally.
->clear_inode() and ->delete_inode() are gone; ->evict_inode() should
be used instead. It gets called whenever the inode is evicted, whether it has
remaining links or not. Caller does *not* evict the pagecache or inode-associated
-metadata buffers; getting rid of those is responsibility of method, as it had
-been for ->delete_inode(). Caller makes sure async writeback cannot be running
-for the inode while (or after) ->evict_inode() is called.
+metadata buffers; the method has to use truncate_inode_pages_final() to get rid
+of those. Caller makes sure async writeback cannot be running for the inode while
+(or after) ->evict_inode() is called.
->drop_inode() returns int now; it's called on final iput() with
inode->i_lock held and it returns true if filesystems wants the inode to be
@@ -441,3 +441,25 @@ d_make_root() drops the reference to inode if dentry allocation fails.
two, it gets "is it an O_EXCL or equivalent?" boolean argument. Note that
local filesystems can ignore tha argument - they are guaranteed that the
object doesn't exist. It's remote/distributed ones that might care...
+--
+[mandatory]
+ FS_REVAL_DOT is gone; if you used to have it, add ->d_weak_revalidate()
+in your dentry operations instead.
+--
+[mandatory]
+ vfs_readdir() is gone; switch to iterate_dir() instead
+--
+[mandatory]
+ ->readdir() is gone now; switch to ->iterate()
+[mandatory]
+ 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().