[PATCH v3 110/110] update Documentation/filesystems/ regarding the follow_link/put_link changes

[Al Viro]

From: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 Documentation/filesystems/porting | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | 18 ++++++++++--------
 2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting
index e69274d..3eae250 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting
@@ -483,3 +483,20 @@ in your dentry operations instead.
 --
 [mandatory]
 	->aio_read/->aio_write are gone.  Use ->read_iter/->write_iter.
+---
+[recommended]
+	for embedded ("fast") symlinks just set inode->i_link to wherever the
+	symlink body is and use simple_follow_link() as ->follow_link().
+--
+[mandatory]
+	calling conventions for ->follow_link() have changed.  Instead of returning
+	cookie and using nd_set_link() to store the body to traverse, we return
+	the body to traverse and store the cookie using explicit void ** argument.
+	nameidata isn't passed at all - nd_jump_link() doesn't need it and
+	nd_[gs]et_link() is gone.
+--
+[mandatory]
+	calling conventions for ->put_link() have changed.  It gets inode instead of
+	dentry,  it does not get nameidata at all and it gets called only when cookie
+	is non-NULL.  Note that link body isn't available anymore, so if you need it,
+	store it as cookie.
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
index 542d935..b403b29 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
@@ -436,16 +436,18 @@ otherwise noted.
 
   follow_link: called by the VFS to follow a symbolic link to the
 	inode it points to.  Only required if you want to support
-	symbolic links.  This method returns a void pointer cookie
-	that is passed to put_link().
+	symbolic links.  This method returns the symlink body
+	to traverse (and possibly resets the current position with
+	nd_jump_link()).  If the body won't go away until the inode
+	is gone, nothing else is needed; if it needs to be otherwise
+	pinned, the data needed to release whatever we'd grabbed
+	is to be stored in void * variable passed by address to
+	follow_link() instance.
 
   put_link: called by the VFS to release resources allocated by
-  	follow_link().  The cookie returned by follow_link() is passed
-  	to this method as the last parameter.  It is used by
-  	filesystems such as NFS where page cache is not stable
-  	(i.e. page that was installed when the symbolic link walk
-  	started might not be in the page cache at the end of the
-  	walk).
+	follow_link().  The cookie stored by follow_link() is passed
+	to this method as the last parameter; only called when
+	cookie isn't NULL.
 
   permission: called by the VFS to check for access rights on a POSIX-like
   	filesystem.
-- 
2.1.4

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