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authorTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>2012-07-16 12:01:42 -0400
committerTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>2012-07-16 12:01:42 -0400
commit8626e4a42675ff9903f7d4fbf14d8ebc11b5926c (patch)
treec631dfe2854cb1382a5d8f5aa11b071762ddf27d /Documentation/filesystems/porting
parenta8d8f02cf0c379693762107afe812b9e52090e39 (diff)
parent9249e17fe094d853d1ef7475dd559a2cc7e23d42 (diff)
Merge commit '9249e17fe094d853d1ef7475dd559a2cc7e23d42' into nfs-for-3.6
Resolve conflicts with the VFS atomic open and sget changes. Conflicts: fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c
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@@ -355,12 +355,10 @@ protects *all* the dcache state of a given dentry.
355via rcu-walk path walk (basically, if the file can have had a path name in the 355via rcu-walk path walk (basically, if the file can have had a path name in the
356vfs namespace). 356vfs namespace).
357 357
358 i_dentry and i_rcu share storage in a union, and the vfs expects 358 Even though i_dentry and i_rcu share storage in a union, we will
359i_dentry to be reinitialized before it is freed, so an: 359initialize the former in inode_init_always(), so just leave it alone in
360 360the callback. It used to be necessary to clean it there, but not anymore
361 INIT_LIST_HEAD(&inode->i_dentry); 361(starting at 3.2).
362
363must be done in the RCU callback.
364 362
365-- 363--
366[recommended] 364[recommended]
@@ -433,3 +431,14 @@ release it yourself.
433 d_alloc_root() is gone, along with a lot of bugs caused by code 431 d_alloc_root() is gone, along with a lot of bugs caused by code
434misusing it. Replacement: d_make_root(inode). The difference is, 432misusing it. Replacement: d_make_root(inode). The difference is,
435d_make_root() drops the reference to inode if dentry allocation fails. 433d_make_root() drops the reference to inode if dentry allocation fails.
434
435--
436[mandatory]
437 The witch is dead! Well, 2/3 of it, anyway. ->d_revalidate() and
438->lookup() do *not* take struct nameidata anymore; just the flags.
439--
440[mandatory]
441 ->create() doesn't take struct nameidata *; unlike the previous
442two, it gets "is it an O_EXCL or equivalent?" boolean argument. Note that
443local filesystems can ignore tha argument - they are guaranteed that the
444object doesn't exist. It's remote/distributed ones that might care...