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| author | Junxuan Liao <ljx@cs.wisc.edu> | 2025-06-22 23:01:32 -0500 |
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| committer | Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> | 2025-06-23 12:17:33 +0200 |
| commit | 2773d282cd56464f62e9b4703c41d2f733a67842 (patch) | |
| tree | 74326b19e67c7ee91acfc1aa84a80e0d3a988956 /fs/dcache.c | |
| parent | 6ae58121126dcf8efcc2611f216a36a5e50b8ad9 (diff) | |
docs/vfs: update references to i_mutex to i_rwsem
VFS has switched to i_rwsem for ten years now (9902af79c01a: parallel
lookups actual switch to rwsem), but the VFS documentation and comments
still has references to i_mutex.
Signed-off-by: Junxuan Liao <ljx@cs.wisc.edu>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/72223729-5471-474a-af3c-f366691fba82@cs.wisc.edu
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/dcache.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/dcache.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c index 03d58b2d4fa3..ab8465ae9cad 100644 --- a/fs/dcache.c +++ b/fs/dcache.c @@ -2774,10 +2774,10 @@ static void copy_name(struct dentry *dentry, struct dentry *target) * @target: new dentry * @exchange: exchange the two dentries * - * Update the dcache to reflect the move of a file name. Negative - * dcache entries should not be moved in this way. Caller must hold - * rename_lock, the i_mutex of the source and target directories, - * and the sb->s_vfs_rename_mutex if they differ. See lock_rename(). + * Update the dcache to reflect the move of a file name. Negative dcache + * entries should not be moved in this way. Caller must hold rename_lock, the + * i_rwsem of the source and target directories (exclusively), and the sb-> + * s_vfs_rename_mutex if they differ. See lock_rename(). */ static void __d_move(struct dentry *dentry, struct dentry *target, bool exchange) @@ -2923,7 +2923,7 @@ struct dentry *d_ancestor(struct dentry *p1, struct dentry *p2) * This helper attempts to cope with remotely renamed directories * * It assumes that the caller is already holding - * dentry->d_parent->d_inode->i_mutex, and rename_lock + * dentry->d_parent->d_inode->i_rwsem, and rename_lock * * Note: If ever the locking in lock_rename() changes, then please * remember to update this too... |