Commit 5eef7fa9 authored by Nick Piggin's avatar Nick Piggin

fs: dcache documentation cleanup

Remove redundant (and incorrect, since dcache RCU lookup) dentry locking
documentation and point to the canonical document.
Signed-off-by: default avatarNick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
parent fbc8d4c0
......@@ -141,22 +141,16 @@ struct dentry_operations {
char *(*d_dname)(struct dentry *, char *, int);
};
/* the dentry parameter passed to d_hash and d_compare is the parent
/*
* Locking rules for dentry_operations callbacks are to be found in
* Documentation/filesystems/Locking. Keep it updated!
*
* the dentry parameter passed to d_hash and d_compare is the parent
* directory of the entries to be compared. It is used in case these
* functions need any directory specific information for determining
* equivalency classes. Using the dentry itself might not work, as it
* might be a negative dentry which has no information associated with
* it */
/*
locking rules:
big lock dcache_lock d_lock may block
d_revalidate: no no no yes
d_hash no no no yes
d_compare: no yes yes no
d_delete: no yes no no
d_release: no no no yes
d_iput: no no no yes
* it.
*/
/* d_flags entries */
......
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