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authorMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>2018-07-18 15:44:44 +0200
committerMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>2018-07-18 15:44:44 +0200
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vfs: remove open_flags from d_real()
Opening regular files on overlayfs is now handled via ovl_open(). Remove the now unused "open_flags" argument from d_op->d_real() and the d_real() helper. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
index 6417b161f88d..497609f00e3e 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
@@ -1000,8 +1000,7 @@ struct dentry_operations {
char *(*d_dname)(struct dentry *, char *, int);
struct vfsmount *(*d_automount)(struct path *);
int (*d_manage)(const struct path *, bool);
- struct dentry *(*d_real)(struct dentry *, const struct inode *,
- unsigned int);
+ struct dentry *(*d_real)(struct dentry *, const struct inode *);
};
d_revalidate: called when the VFS needs to revalidate a dentry. This
@@ -1135,22 +1134,15 @@ struct dentry_operations {
dentry being transited from.
d_real: overlay/union type filesystems implement this method to return one of
- the underlying dentries hidden by the overlay. It is used in three
+ the underlying dentries hidden by the overlay. It is used in two
different modes:
- Called from open it may need to copy-up the file depending on the
- supplied open flags. This mode is selected with a non-zero flags
- argument. In this mode the d_real method can return an error.
-
Called from file_dentry() it returns the real dentry matching the inode
argument. The real dentry may be from a lower layer already copied up,
but still referenced from the file. This mode is selected with a
- non-NULL inode argument. This will always succeed.
-
- With NULL inode and zero flags the topmost real underlying dentry is
- returned. This will always succeed.
+ non-NULL inode argument.
- This method is never called with both non-NULL inode and non-zero flags.
+ With NULL inode the topmost real underlying dentry is returned.
Each dentry has a pointer to its parent dentry, as well as a hash list
of child dentries. Child dentries are basically like files in a