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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.txt index 09b2878724a1..8789d1810bed 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: | |||
| 317 | The cases where rcu-walk cannot continue are: | 317 | The cases where rcu-walk cannot continue are: |
| 318 | * NULL dentry (ie. any uncached path element) | 318 | * NULL dentry (ie. any uncached path element) |
| 319 | * parent with d_inode->i_op->permission or ACLs | 319 | * parent with d_inode->i_op->permission or ACLs |
| 320 | * dentries with d_revalidate | ||
| 321 | * Following links | 320 | * Following links |
| 322 | 321 | ||
| 323 | In future patches, permission checks and d_revalidate become rcu-walk aware. It | 322 | In future patches, permission checks become rcu-walk aware. It may be possible |
| 324 | may be possible eventually to make following links rcu-walk aware. | 323 | eventually to make following links rcu-walk aware. |
| 325 | 324 | ||
| 326 | Uncached path elements will always require dropping to ref-walk mode, at the | 325 | Uncached path elements will always require dropping to ref-walk mode, at the |
| 327 | very least because i_mutex needs to be grabbed, and objects allocated. | 326 | very least because i_mutex needs to be grabbed, and objects allocated. |