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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt index 250681b..69b10ff 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt @@ -847,7 +847,8 @@ defined: struct dentry_operations { int (*d_revalidate)(struct dentry *, struct nameidata *); - int (*d_hash)(struct dentry *, struct qstr *); + int (*d_hash)(const struct dentry *, const struct inode *, + struct qstr *); int (*d_compare)(const struct dentry *, const struct inode *, const struct dentry *, const struct inode *, unsigned int, const char *, const struct qstr *); @@ -864,7 +865,10 @@ struct dentry_operations { d_hash: called when the VFS adds a dentry to the hash table. The first dentry passed to d_hash is the parent directory that the name is - to be hashed into. + to be hashed into. The inode is the dentry's inode. + + Same locking and synchronisation rules as d_compare regarding + what is safe to dereference etc. d_compare: called to compare a dentry name with a given name. The first dentry is the parent of the dentry to be compared, the second is |