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| author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-08-07 13:11:40 +0000 |
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| committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-08-07 13:11:40 +0000 |
| commit | 8b0a8165cdad0f4133837d753649ef4682e42c3b (patch) | |
| tree | 5c58f869f31ddb1f7bd6e8bdea269b680b36c5b6 /Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst | |
| parent | Releasing progress-linux version 6.8.12-1~progress7.99u1. (diff) | |
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Merging upstream version 6.9.7.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst index eebcc0f9e2..6e903a903f 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst @@ -1264,7 +1264,7 @@ defined: char *(*d_dname)(struct dentry *, char *, int); struct vfsmount *(*d_automount)(struct path *); int (*d_manage)(const struct path *, bool); - struct dentry *(*d_real)(struct dentry *, const struct inode *); + struct dentry *(*d_real)(struct dentry *, enum d_real_type type); }; ``d_revalidate`` @@ -1419,16 +1419,14 @@ defined: the dentry being transited from. ``d_real`` - overlay/union type filesystems implement this method to return - one of the underlying dentries hidden by the overlay. It is - used in two different modes: + overlay/union type filesystems implement this method to return one + of the underlying dentries of a regular file hidden by the overlay. - Called from file_dentry() it returns the real dentry matching - the inode argument. The real dentry may be from a lower layer - already copied up, but still referenced from the file. This - mode is selected with a non-NULL inode argument. + The 'type' argument takes the values D_REAL_DATA or D_REAL_METADATA + for returning the real underlying dentry that refers to the inode + hosting the file's data or metadata respectively. - With NULL inode the topmost real underlying dentry is returned. + For non-regular files, the 'dentry' argument is returned. Each dentry has a pointer to its parent dentry, as well as a hash list of child dentries. Child dentries are basically like files in a |