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| author | Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2026-04-12 23:39:16 -0400 |
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| committer | Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2026-06-05 00:34:55 -0400 |
| commit | 67132b5e5de8a01493ddbb217e936415ca4e09af (patch) | |
| tree | 8e7692acc7bcb8575dc96f6af19af82cb61ab346 /Documentation | |
| parent | 20aa45a87c308552781bc33dfb89a933ba5e8f43 (diff) | |
kill d_dispose_if_unused()
Rename to_shrink_list() into __move_to_shrink_list(), document and
export it. Switch d_dispose_if_unused() users to that and kill
d_dispose_if_unused() itself.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst | 11 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst index 36fecc7a3d97..003ab084ad48 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst @@ -1391,3 +1391,14 @@ either form of manual loop. **mandatory** d_alloc_parallel() no longer requires a waitqueue_head. + +--- + +**mandatory** + +d_dispose_if_unused() is gone; use __move_to_shrink_list() if you really +need that functionality, but watch out for memory safety issues - just +as with d_dispose_if_unused() these are not trivial; with this variant +of API it's more explicit, since grabbing ->d_lock is caller-side, but +d_dispose_if_unused() had all the same issues. It's a low-level primitive; +use only if you have no alternative. |