From b74c79e99389cd79b31fcc08f82c24e492e63c7e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nick Piggin Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 17:49:58 +1100 Subject: fs: provide rcu-walk aware permission i_ops Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin --- Documentation/filesystems/porting | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/porting') diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting index cd9756a2709..07a32b42cf9 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting @@ -379,4 +379,9 @@ where possible. the filesystem provides it), which requires dropping out of rcu-walk mode. This 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_RCU). See Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt for more details. -- cgit v1.2.3