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Commit 5eef7fa9 authored by Nick Piggin's avatar Nick Piggin
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fs: dcache documentation cleanup



Remove redundant (and incorrect, since dcache RCU lookup) dentry locking
documentation and point to the canonical document.

Signed-off-by: default avatarNick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
parent fbc8d4c0
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@@ -141,22 +141,16 @@ struct dentry_operations {
	char *(*d_dname)(struct dentry *, char *, int);
};

/* the dentry parameter passed to d_hash and d_compare is the parent
/*
 * Locking rules for dentry_operations callbacks are to be found in
 * Documentation/filesystems/Locking. Keep it updated!
 *
 * the dentry parameter passed to d_hash and d_compare is the parent
 * directory of the entries to be compared. It is used in case these
 * functions need any directory specific information for determining
 * equivalency classes.  Using the dentry itself might not work, as it
 * might be a negative dentry which has no information associated with
 * it */

/*
locking rules:
		big lock	dcache_lock	d_lock   may block
d_revalidate:	no		no		no       yes
d_hash		no		no		no       yes
d_compare:	no		yes		yes      no
d_delete:	no		yes		no       no
d_release:	no		no		no       yes
d_iput:		no		no		no       yes
 * it.
 */

/* d_flags entries */