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1 files changed, 14 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
index 3c4b2f1b64d0..94cf97b901d7 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
@@ -933,15 +933,20 @@ struct dentry_operations {
dynamic_dname() helper function is provided to take care of this.
d_automount: called when an automount dentry is to be traversed (optional).
- This should create a new VFS mount record, mount it on the directory
- and return the record to the caller. The caller is supplied with a
- path parameter giving the automount directory to describe the automount
- target and the parent VFS mount record to provide inheritable mount
- parameters. NULL should be returned if someone else managed to make
- the automount first. If the automount failed, then an error code
- should be returned. If -EISDIR is returned, then the directory will
- be treated as an ordinary directory and returned to pathwalk to
- continue walking.
+ This should create a new VFS mount record and return the record to the
+ caller. The caller is supplied with a path parameter giving the
+ automount directory to describe the automount target and the parent
+ VFS mount record to provide inheritable mount parameters. NULL should
+ be returned if someone else managed to make the automount first. If
+ the vfsmount creation failed, then an error code should be returned.
+ If -EISDIR is returned, then the directory will be treated as an
+ ordinary directory and returned to pathwalk to continue walking.
+
+ If a vfsmount is returned, the caller will attempt to mount it on the
+ mountpoint and will remove the vfsmount from its expiration list in
+ the case of failure. The vfsmount should be returned with 2 refs on
+ it to prevent automatic expiration - the caller will clean up the
+ additional ref.
This function is only used if DCACHE_NEED_AUTOMOUNT is set on the
dentry. This is set by __d_instantiate() if S_AUTOMOUNT is set on the