From: Fox Chen <foxhlchen@gmail.com>
To: corbet@lwn.net, vegard.nossum@oracle.com,
viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, rdunlap@infradead.org,
grandmaster@al2klimov.de
Cc: Fox Chen <foxhlchen@gmail.com>,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 02/12] docs: path-lookup: update path_to_nameidata() parth
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2021 15:24:33 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210126072443.33066-3-foxhlchen@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210126072443.33066-1-foxhlchen@gmail.com>
No path_to_namei() anymore, step_into() will be called.
Related commit: c99687a03a78775f77d57fe9b07af4c8ec3dd03c
Signed-off-by: Fox Chen <foxhlchen@gmail.com>
---
Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst
index e778db767120..2ad96e1e3c49 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst
@@ -455,7 +455,7 @@ In the absence of symbolic links, ``walk_component()`` creates a new
``struct path`` containing a counted reference to the new dentry and a
reference to the new ``vfsmount`` which is only counted if it is
different from the previous ``vfsmount``. It then calls
-``path_to_nameidata()`` to install the new ``struct path`` in the
+``step_into()`` to install the new ``struct path`` in the
``struct nameidata`` and drop the unneeded references.
This "hand-over-hand" sequencing of getting a reference to the new
--
2.30.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-26 18:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-26 7:24 [PATCH 00/12] docs: path-lookup: Update pathlookup docs Fox Chen
2021-01-26 7:24 ` [PATCH 01/12] docs: path-lookup: update follow_managed() part Fox Chen
2021-01-26 14:03 ` Greg KH
2021-01-27 1:11 ` Fox Chen
2021-01-28 3:20 ` NeilBrown
2021-01-26 7:24 ` Fox Chen [this message]
2021-01-28 3:24 ` [PATCH 02/12] docs: path-lookup: update path_to_nameidata() parth NeilBrown
2021-01-26 7:24 ` [PATCH 03/12] docs: path-lookup: update path_mountpoint() part Fox Chen
2021-01-28 3:28 ` NeilBrown
2021-01-26 7:24 ` [PATCH 04/12] docs: path-lookup: update do_last() part Fox Chen
2021-01-28 3:50 ` NeilBrown
2021-01-26 7:24 ` [PATCH 05/12] docs: path-lookup: remove filename_mountpoint Fox Chen
2021-01-26 7:24 ` [PATCH 06/12] docs: path-lookup: Add macro name to symlink limit description Fox Chen
2021-01-26 7:24 ` [PATCH 07/12] docs: path-lookup: i_op->follow_link replaced with i_op->get_link Fox Chen
2021-01-28 3:53 ` NeilBrown
2021-01-26 7:24 ` [PATCH 08/12] docs: path-lookup: update i_op->put_link and cookie description Fox Chen
2021-01-28 3:50 ` NeilBrown
2021-01-26 7:24 ` [PATCH 09/12] docs: path-lookup: no get_link() Fox Chen
2021-01-26 7:24 ` [PATCH 10/12] docs: path-lookup: update WALK_GET, WALK_PUT desc Fox Chen
2021-01-26 7:24 ` [PATCH 11/12] docs: path-lookup: update get_link() ->follow_link description Fox Chen
2021-01-26 7:24 ` [PATCH 12/12] docs: path-lookup: update symlink description Fox Chen
2021-01-26 7:30 ` [PATCH 00/12] docs: path-lookup: Update pathlookup docs Fox Chen
2021-01-26 20:31 ` Jonathan Corbet
2021-01-28 1:23 ` Fox Chen
2021-01-28 3:58 ` NeilBrown
2021-01-29 1:29 ` Fox Chen
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