[RESEND PATCH 0/2] docs: Add some struct file refcounting information

From: Jonathan Corbet
Date: Mon Mar 04 2019 - 15:01:33 EST


[No changes since the previous mailing; resending in hopes that somebody
will actually look at it :) I may yet try to sneak the first patch into
5.1 if nobody screams; the second one definitely needs a more affirmative
ack, though. ]

Al Viro's recent "braindump" on how struct file refcounting works is too
good to lose, so let's capture it in Documentation/. There are two changes
here:

- Clean up the filesystem book, move stuff around, and generally try to
create some order here. No text changes other than some connecting
text.

- Bring in Al's text, with a fair amount of language tweaking and later
corrections applied.

Hopefully this is just the beginning.

Jonathan Corbet (2):
docs: Bring some order to filesystem documentation
docs: Add struct file refcounting and SCM_RIGHTS mess info

Documentation/filesystems/api-summary.rst | 150 ++++++++
Documentation/filesystems/index.rst | 395 ++--------------------
Documentation/filesystems/journalling.rst | 184 ++++++++++
Documentation/filesystems/lifecycles.rst | 357 +++++++++++++++++++
Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst | 15 +
Documentation/filesystems/splice.rst | 22 ++
6 files changed, 753 insertions(+), 370 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 Documentation/filesystems/api-summary.rst
create mode 100644 Documentation/filesystems/journalling.rst
create mode 100644 Documentation/filesystems/lifecycles.rst
create mode 100644 Documentation/filesystems/splice.rst

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