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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/nfs/Exporting | 27 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/nilfs2.txt | 4 |
2 files changed, 21 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/Exporting b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/Exporting index 520a4becb75c..63889149f532 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/Exporting +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/Exporting @@ -56,13 +56,25 @@ a/ A dentry flag DCACHE_DISCONNECTED which is set on any dentry that might not be part of the proper prefix. This is set when anonymous dentries are created, and cleared when a dentry is noticed to be a child of a dentry which is in the proper - prefix. - -b/ A per-superblock list "s_anon" of dentries which are the roots of - subtrees that are not in the proper prefix. These dentries, as - well as the proper prefix, need to be released at unmount time. As - these dentries will not be hashed, they are linked together on the - d_hash list_head. + prefix. If the refcount on a dentry with this flag set + becomes zero, the dentry is immediately discarded, rather than being + kept in the dcache. If a dentry that is not already in the dcache + is repeatedly accessed by filehandle (as NFSD might do), an new dentry + will be a allocated for each access, and discarded at the end of + the access. + + Note that such a dentry can acquire children, name, ancestors, etc. + without losing DCACHE_DISCONNECTED - that flag is only cleared when + subtree is successfully reconnected to root. Until then dentries + in such subtree are retained only as long as there are references; + refcount reaching zero means immediate eviction, same as for unhashed + dentries. That guarantees that we won't need to hunt them down upon + umount. + +b/ A primitive for creation of secondary roots - d_obtain_root(inode). + Those do _not_ bear DCACHE_DISCONNECTED. They are placed on the + per-superblock list (->s_roots), so they can be located at umount + time for eviction purposes. c/ Helper routines to allocate anonymous dentries, and to help attach loose directory dentries at lookup time. They are: @@ -77,7 +89,6 @@ c/ Helper routines to allocate anonymous dentries, and to help attach (such as an anonymous one created by d_obtain_alias), if appropriate. It returns NULL when the passed-in dentry is used, following the calling convention of ->lookup. - Filesystem Issues ----------------- diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nilfs2.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/nilfs2.txt index c0727dc36271..f2f3f8592a6f 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/nilfs2.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/nilfs2.txt @@ -25,8 +25,8 @@ available from the following download page. At least "mkfs.nilfs2", cleaner or garbage collector) are required. Details on the tools are described in the man pages included in the package. -Project web page: http://nilfs.sourceforge.net/ -Download page: http://nilfs.sourceforge.net/en/download.html +Project web page: https://nilfs.sourceforge.io/ +Download page: https://nilfs.sourceforge.io/en/download.html List info: http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#linux-nilfs Caveats |