summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to '')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst
index c0f2c7586..fbd695d66 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ symlink: exclusive
mkdir: exclusive
unlink: exclusive (both)
rmdir: exclusive (both)(see below)
-rename: exclusive (all) (see below)
+rename: exclusive (both parents, some children) (see below)
readlink: no
get_link: no
setattr: exclusive
@@ -113,6 +113,9 @@ tmpfile: no
Additionally, ->rmdir(), ->unlink() and ->rename() have ->i_rwsem
exclusive on victim.
cross-directory ->rename() has (per-superblock) ->s_vfs_rename_sem.
+ ->unlink() and ->rename() have ->i_rwsem exclusive on all non-directories
+ involved.
+ ->rename() has ->i_rwsem exclusive on any subdirectory that changes parent.
See Documentation/filesystems/directory-locking.rst for more detailed discussion
of the locking scheme for directory operations.