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| author | Al Viro | 2012-02-13 04:15:47 +0100 |
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| committer | Al Viro | 2012-03-21 02:29:37 +0100 |
| commit | 32991ab305ace7017c62f8eecbe5eb36dc32e13b (patch) | |
| tree | 7a802091fa9f152f38577a4eeaa24937c4b4b2c9 /Documentation/filesystems/porting | |
| parent | tidy up after d_make_root() conversion (diff) | |
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vfs: d_alloc_root() gone
all callers converted to d_make_root() by now
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting index b4a3d765ff9a..74acd9618819 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting @@ -429,3 +429,9 @@ filemap_write_and_wait_range() so that all dirty pages are synced out properly. You must also keep in mind that ->fsync() is not called with i_mutex held anymore, so if you require i_mutex locking you must make sure to take it and release it yourself. + +-- +[mandatory] + d_alloc_root() is gone, along with a lot of bugs caused by code +misusing it. Replacement: d_make_root(inode). The difference is, +d_make_root() drops the reference to inode if dentry allocation fails. |