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authorJosé Pekkarinen <jose.pekkarinen@nokia.com>2016-04-11 10:41:07 +0300
committerJosé Pekkarinen <jose.pekkarinen@nokia.com>2016-04-13 08:17:18 +0300
commite09b41010ba33a20a87472ee821fa407a5b8da36 (patch)
treed10dc367189862e7ca5c592f033dc3726e1df4e3 /kernel/Documentation/filesystems/porting
parentf93b97fd65072de626c074dbe099a1fff05ce060 (diff)
These changes are the raw update to linux-4.4.6-rt14. Kernel sources
are taken from kernel.org, and rt patch from the rt wiki download page. During the rebasing, the following patch collided: Force tick interrupt and get rid of softirq magic(I70131fb85). Collisions have been removed because its logic was found on the source already. Change-Id: I7f57a4081d9deaa0d9ccfc41a6c8daccdee3b769 Signed-off-by: José Pekkarinen <jose.pekkarinen@nokia.com>
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diff --git a/kernel/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/kernel/Documentation/filesystems/porting
index e69274de8..f24d1b833 100644
--- a/kernel/Documentation/filesystems/porting
+++ b/kernel/Documentation/filesystems/porting
@@ -379,10 +379,10 @@ may now be called in rcu-walk mode (nd->flags & LOOKUP_RCU). -ECHILD should be
returned if the filesystem cannot handle rcu-walk. See
Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt for more details.
- permission and check_acl are inode permission checks that are called
-on many or all directory inodes on the way down a path walk (to check for
-exec permission). These must now be rcu-walk aware (flags & IPERM_FLAG_RCU).
-See Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt for more details.
+ permission is an inode permission check that is called on many or all
+directory inodes on the way down a path walk (to check for exec permission). It
+must now be rcu-walk aware (mask & MAY_NOT_BLOCK). See
+Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt for more details.
--
[mandatory]
@@ -483,3 +483,24 @@ 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.
+--
+[mandatory]
+ __fd_install() & fd_install() can now sleep. Callers should not
+ hold a spinlock or other resources that do not allow a schedule.