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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/porting | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/dcache.c | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/internal.h | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/dcache.h | 1 |
4 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting index a60fa516d4cb..7ed8188e7047 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting @@ -643,3 +643,8 @@ in your dentry operations instead. DCACHE_RCUACCESS is gone; having an RCU delay on dentry freeing is the default. DCACHE_NORCU opts out, and only d_alloc_pseudo() has any business doing so. +-- +[mandatory] + d_alloc_pseudo() is internal-only; uses outside of alloc_file_pseudo() are + very suspect (and won't work in modules). Such uses are very likely to + be misspelled d_alloc_anon(). diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c index c663c602f9ef..6dd58ced8236 100644 --- a/fs/dcache.c +++ b/fs/dcache.c @@ -1742,6 +1742,9 @@ struct dentry *d_alloc_cursor(struct dentry * parent) * never be anyone's children or parents. Unlike all other * dentries, these will not have RCU delay between dropping the * last reference and freeing them. + * + * The only user is alloc_file_pseudo() and that's what should + * be considered a public interface. Don't use directly. */ struct dentry *d_alloc_pseudo(struct super_block *sb, const struct qstr *name) { @@ -1750,7 +1753,6 @@ struct dentry *d_alloc_pseudo(struct super_block *sb, const struct qstr *name) dentry->d_flags |= DCACHE_NORCU; return dentry; } -EXPORT_SYMBOL(d_alloc_pseudo); struct dentry *d_alloc_name(struct dentry *parent, const char *name) { diff --git a/fs/internal.h b/fs/internal.h index 2e7362837a6e..8102032432cf 100644 --- a/fs/internal.h +++ b/fs/internal.h @@ -155,6 +155,7 @@ extern struct dentry *__d_alloc(struct super_block *, const struct qstr *); extern int d_set_mounted(struct dentry *dentry); extern long prune_dcache_sb(struct super_block *sb, struct shrink_control *sc); extern struct dentry *d_alloc_cursor(struct dentry *); +extern struct dentry * d_alloc_pseudo(struct super_block *, const struct qstr *); /* * read_write.c diff --git a/include/linux/dcache.h b/include/linux/dcache.h index 6e1e8e6602c6..2f044e232e1b 100644 --- a/include/linux/dcache.h +++ b/include/linux/dcache.h @@ -235,7 +235,6 @@ extern void d_set_d_op(struct dentry *dentry, const struct dentry_operations *op /* allocate/de-allocate */ extern struct dentry * d_alloc(struct dentry *, const struct qstr *); extern struct dentry * d_alloc_anon(struct super_block *); -extern struct dentry * d_alloc_pseudo(struct super_block *, const struct qstr *); extern struct dentry * d_alloc_parallel(struct dentry *, const struct qstr *, wait_queue_head_t *); extern struct dentry * d_splice_alias(struct inode *, struct dentry *); |