From fe15ce446beb3a33583af81ffe6c9d01a75314ed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nick Piggin Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 17:49:23 +1100 Subject: fs: change d_delete semantics Change d_delete from a dentry deletion notification to a dentry caching advise, more like ->drop_inode. Require it to be constant and idempotent, and not take d_lock. This is how all existing filesystems use the callback anyway. This makes fine grained dentry locking of dput and dentry lru scanning much simpler. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin --- Documentation/filesystems/porting | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/porting') diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting index b12c89538680..9e71c9ad3108 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting @@ -318,3 +318,11 @@ if it's zero is not *and* *never* *had* *been* enough. Final unlink() and iput( may happen while the inode is in the middle of ->write_inode(); e.g. if you blindly free the on-disk inode, you may end up doing that while ->write_inode() is writing to it. + +--- +[mandatory] + + .d_delete() now only advises the dcache as to whether or not to cache +unreferenced dentries, and is now only called when the dentry refcount goes to +0. Even on 0 refcount transition, it must be able to tolerate being called 0, +1, or more times (eg. constant, idempotent). -- cgit v1.2.3