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-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/Locking2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/porting4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt24
3 files changed, 28 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
index f48e0c6b4c42..0706d32a61e6 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ be able to use diff(1).
--------------------------- dentry_operations --------------------------
prototypes:
int (*d_revalidate)(struct dentry *, unsigned int);
+ int (*d_weak_revalidate)(struct dentry *, unsigned int);
int (*d_hash)(const struct dentry *, const struct inode *,
struct qstr *);
int (*d_compare)(const struct dentry *, const struct inode *,
@@ -25,6 +26,7 @@ prototypes:
locking rules:
rename_lock ->d_lock may block rcu-walk
d_revalidate: no no yes (ref-walk) maybe
+d_weak_revalidate:no no yes no
d_hash no no no maybe
d_compare: yes no no maybe
d_delete: no yes no no
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting
index 0472c31c163b..4db22f6491e0 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting
@@ -441,3 +441,7 @@ d_make_root() drops the reference to inode if dentry allocation fails.
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...
+--
+[mandatory]
+ FS_REVAL_DOT is gone; if you used to have it, add ->d_weak_revalidate()
+in your dentry operations instead.
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
index e3869098163e..bc4b06b3160a 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
@@ -900,6 +900,7 @@ defined:
struct dentry_operations {
int (*d_revalidate)(struct dentry *, unsigned int);
+ int (*d_weak_revalidate)(struct dentry *, unsigned int);
int (*d_hash)(const struct dentry *, const struct inode *,
struct qstr *);
int (*d_compare)(const struct dentry *, const struct inode *,
@@ -915,8 +916,13 @@ struct dentry_operations {
d_revalidate: called when the VFS needs to revalidate a dentry. This
is called whenever a name look-up finds a dentry in the
- dcache. Most filesystems leave this as NULL, because all their
- dentries in the dcache are valid
+ dcache. Most local filesystems leave this as NULL, because all their
+ dentries in the dcache are valid. Network filesystems are different
+ since things can change on the server without the client necessarily
+ being aware of it.
+
+ This function should return a positive value if the dentry is still
+ valid, and zero or a negative error code if it isn't.
d_revalidate may be called in rcu-walk mode (flags & LOOKUP_RCU).
If in rcu-walk mode, the filesystem must revalidate the dentry without
@@ -927,6 +933,20 @@ struct dentry_operations {
If a situation is encountered that rcu-walk cannot handle, return
-ECHILD and it will be called again in ref-walk mode.
+ d_weak_revalidate: called when the VFS needs to revalidate a "jumped" dentry.
+ This is called when a path-walk ends at dentry that was not acquired by
+ doing a lookup in the parent directory. This includes "/", "." and "..",
+ as well as procfs-style symlinks and mountpoint traversal.
+
+ In this case, we are less concerned with whether the dentry is still
+ fully correct, but rather that the inode is still valid. As with
+ d_revalidate, most local filesystems will set this to NULL since their
+ dcache entries are always valid.
+
+ This function has the same return code semantics as d_revalidate.
+
+ d_weak_revalidate is only called after leaving rcu-walk mode.
+
d_hash: called when the VFS adds a dentry to the hash table. The first
dentry passed to d_hash is the parent directory that the name is
to be hashed into. The inode is the dentry's inode.