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authorDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>2012-08-17 08:57:56 +0200
committerDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>2012-08-17 09:01:08 +0200
commita22ddff8bedfe33eeb1330bbb7ef1fbe007a42c4 (patch)
tree61a2eb7fa62f5af10c2b913ca429e6b068b0eb2d /Documentation/filesystems/porting
parent20d5a540e55a29daeef12706f9ee73baf5641c16 (diff)
parentd9875690d9b89a866022ff49e3fcea892345ad92 (diff)
Merge tag 'v3.6-rc2' into drm-intel-next
Backmerge Linux 3.6-rc2 to resolve a few funny conflicts before we put even more madness on top: - drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_irq.c: Just a spurious WARN removed in -fixes, that has been changed in a variable-rename in -next, too. - drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c: -next remove scratch_addr (since all their users have been extracted in another fucntion), -fixes added another user for a hw workaroudn. Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting
index 8c91d1057d9a..0742feebc6e2 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting
@@ -94,9 +94,8 @@ protected.
---
[mandatory]
-BKL is also moved from around sb operations. ->write_super() Is now called
-without BKL held. BKL should have been shifted into individual fs sb_op
-functions. If you don't need it, remove it.
+BKL is also moved from around sb operations. BKL should have been shifted into
+individual fs sb_op functions. If you don't need it, remove it.
---
[informational]
@@ -355,12 +354,10 @@ protects *all* the dcache state of a given dentry.
via rcu-walk path walk (basically, if the file can have had a path name in the
vfs namespace).
- i_dentry and i_rcu share storage in a union, and the vfs expects
-i_dentry to be reinitialized before it is freed, so an:
-
- INIT_LIST_HEAD(&inode->i_dentry);
-
-must be done in the RCU callback.
+ Even though i_dentry and i_rcu share storage in a union, we will
+initialize the former in inode_init_always(), so just leave it alone in
+the callback. It used to be necessary to clean it there, but not anymore
+(starting at 3.2).
--
[recommended]
@@ -433,3 +430,14 @@ release it yourself.
d_alloc_root() is gone, along with a lot of bugs caused by code
misusing it. Replacement: d_make_root(inode). The difference is,
d_make_root() drops the reference to inode if dentry allocation fails.
+
+--
+[mandatory]
+ The witch is dead! Well, 2/3 of it, anyway. ->d_revalidate() and
+->lookup() do *not* take struct nameidata anymore; just the flags.
+--
+[mandatory]
+ ->create() doesn't take struct nameidata *; unlike the previous
+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...