Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932297AbbEKSJS (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 May 2015 14:09:18 -0400 Received: from zeniv.linux.org.uk ([195.92.253.2]:47649 "EHLO ZenIV.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755077AbbEKSIc (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 May 2015 14:08:32 -0400 From: Al Viro To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Neil Brown , Christoph Hellwig , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH v3 110/110] update Documentation/filesystems/ regarding the follow_link/put_link changes Date: Mon, 11 May 2015 19:08:10 +0100 Message-Id: <1431367690-5223-110-git-send-email-viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.7.6 In-Reply-To: <20150511180650.GA4147@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> References: <20150511180650.GA4147@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3089 Lines: 72 From: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Al Viro --- Documentation/filesystems/porting | 17 +++++++++++++++++ Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | 18 ++++++++++-------- 2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting index e69274d..3eae250 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting @@ -483,3 +483,20 @@ in your dentry operations instead. -- [mandatory] ->aio_read/->aio_write are gone. Use ->read_iter/->write_iter. +--- +[recommended] + for embedded ("fast") symlinks just set inode->i_link to wherever the + symlink body is and use simple_follow_link() as ->follow_link(). +-- +[mandatory] + calling conventions for ->follow_link() have changed. Instead of returning + cookie and using nd_set_link() to store the body to traverse, we return + the body to traverse and store the cookie using explicit void ** argument. + nameidata isn't passed at all - nd_jump_link() doesn't need it and + nd_[gs]et_link() is gone. +-- +[mandatory] + calling conventions for ->put_link() have changed. It gets inode instead of + dentry, it does not get nameidata at all and it gets called only when cookie + is non-NULL. Note that link body isn't available anymore, so if you need it, + store it as cookie. diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt index 542d935..b403b29 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt @@ -436,16 +436,18 @@ otherwise noted. follow_link: called by the VFS to follow a symbolic link to the inode it points to. Only required if you want to support - symbolic links. This method returns a void pointer cookie - that is passed to put_link(). + symbolic links. This method returns the symlink body + to traverse (and possibly resets the current position with + nd_jump_link()). If the body won't go away until the inode + is gone, nothing else is needed; if it needs to be otherwise + pinned, the data needed to release whatever we'd grabbed + is to be stored in void * variable passed by address to + follow_link() instance. put_link: called by the VFS to release resources allocated by - follow_link(). The cookie returned by follow_link() is passed - to this method as the last parameter. It is used by - filesystems such as NFS where page cache is not stable - (i.e. page that was installed when the symbolic link walk - started might not be in the page cache at the end of the - walk). + follow_link(). The cookie stored by follow_link() is passed + to this method as the last parameter; only called when + cookie isn't NULL. permission: called by the VFS to check for access rights on a POSIX-like filesystem. -- 2.1.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/