From b1e6a015a580ad145689ad1d6b4aa0e03e6c868b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nick Piggin Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 17:49:28 +1100 Subject: fs: change d_hash for rcu-walk Change d_hash so it may be called from lock-free RCU lookups. See similar patch for d_compare for details. For in-tree filesystems, this is just a mechanical change. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin --- Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt index 250681b8c7c..69b10ff5ec8 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt @@ -847,7 +847,8 @@ defined: struct dentry_operations { int (*d_revalidate)(struct dentry *, struct nameidata *); - int (*d_hash)(struct dentry *, struct qstr *); + int (*d_hash)(const struct dentry *, const struct inode *, + struct qstr *); int (*d_compare)(const struct dentry *, const struct inode *, const struct dentry *, const struct inode *, unsigned int, const char *, const struct qstr *); @@ -864,7 +865,10 @@ struct dentry_operations { d_hash: called when the VFS adds a dentry to the hash table. The first dentry passed to d_hash is the parent directory that the name is - to be hashed into. + to be hashed into. The inode is the dentry's inode. + + Same locking and synchronisation rules as d_compare regarding + what is safe to dereference etc. d_compare: called to compare a dentry name with a given name. The first dentry is the parent of the dentry to be compared, the second is -- cgit v1.2.3-18-g5258