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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst index 1be76ef117..92bffcc674 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst @@ -858,7 +858,7 @@ be misspelled d_alloc_anon(). **mandatory** -[should've been added in 2016] stale comment in finish_open() nonwithstanding, +[should've been added in 2016] stale comment in finish_open() notwithstanding, failure exits in ->atomic_open() instances should *NOT* fput() the file, no matter what. Everything is handled by the caller. @@ -989,7 +989,7 @@ This mechanism would only work for a single device so the block layer couldn't find the owning superblock of any additional devices. In the old mechanism reusing or creating a superblock for a racing mount(2) and -umount(2) relied on the file_system_type as the holder. This was severly +umount(2) relied on the file_system_type as the holder. This was severely underdocumented however: (1) Any concurrent mounter that managed to grab an active reference on an @@ -1134,3 +1134,10 @@ superblock of the main block device, i.e., the one stored in sb->s_bdev. Block device freezing now works for any block device owned by a given superblock, not just the main block device. The get_active_super() helper and bd_fsfreeze_sb pointer are gone. + +--- + +**mandatory** + +set_blocksize() takes opened struct file instead of struct block_device now +and it *must* be opened exclusive. |