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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2010-03-04 16:15:33 (GMT) |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2010-03-04 16:15:33 (GMT) |
commit | 0f2cc4ecd81dc1917a041dc93db0ada28f8356fa (patch) | |
tree | f128b50f48f50f0cda6d2b20b53e9ad6e2dfded3 /Documentation/filesystems | |
parent | 1fae4cfb97302289bb5df6a8195eb28385d0b002 (diff) | |
parent | 9643f5d94aadd47a5fa9754fb60f2c957de05903 (diff) | |
download | linux-0f2cc4ecd81dc1917a041dc93db0ada28f8356fa.tar.xz |
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (52 commits)
init: Open /dev/console from rootfs
mqueue: fix typo "failues" -> "failures"
mqueue: only set error codes if they are really necessary
mqueue: simplify do_open() error handling
mqueue: apply mathematics distributivity on mq_bytes calculation
mqueue: remove unneeded info->messages initialization
mqueue: fix mq_open() file descriptor leak on user-space processes
fix race in d_splice_alias()
set S_DEAD on unlink() and non-directory rename() victims
vfs: add NOFOLLOW flag to umount(2)
get rid of ->mnt_parent in tomoyo/realpath
hppfs can use existing proc_mnt, no need for do_kern_mount() in there
Mirror MS_KERNMOUNT in ->mnt_flags
get rid of useless vfsmount_lock use in put_mnt_ns()
Take vfsmount_lock to fs/internal.h
get rid of insanity with namespace roots in tomoyo
take check for new events in namespace (guts of mounts_poll()) to namespace.c
Don't mess with generic_permission() under ->d_lock in hpfs
sanitize const/signedness for udf
nilfs: sanitize const/signedness in dealing with ->d_name.name
...
Fix up fairly trivial (famous last words...) conflicts in
drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_main.c and security/tomoyo/realpath.c
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/sharedsubtree.txt | 16 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/sharedsubtree.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/sharedsubtree.txt index 23a1810..fc0e39a 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/sharedsubtree.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/sharedsubtree.txt @@ -837,6 +837,9 @@ replicas continue to be exactly same. individual lists does not affect propagation or the way propagation tree is modified by operations. + All vfsmounts in a peer group have the same ->mnt_master. If it is + non-NULL, they form a contiguous (ordered) segment of slave list. + A example propagation tree looks as shown in the figure below. [ NOTE: Though it looks like a forest, if we consider all the shared mounts as a conceptual entity called 'pnode', it becomes a tree] @@ -874,8 +877,19 @@ replicas continue to be exactly same. NOTE: The propagation tree is orthogonal to the mount tree. +8B Locking: + + ->mnt_share, ->mnt_slave, ->mnt_slave_list, ->mnt_master are protected + by namespace_sem (exclusive for modifications, shared for reading). + + Normally we have ->mnt_flags modifications serialized by vfsmount_lock. + There are two exceptions: do_add_mount() and clone_mnt(). + The former modifies a vfsmount that has not been visible in any shared + data structures yet. + The latter holds namespace_sem and the only references to vfsmount + are in lists that can't be traversed without namespace_sem. -8B Algorithm: +8C Algorithm: The crux of the implementation resides in rbind/move operation. |