The Path lookup is a very complex subject in VFS. The path-lookup document provides a very detailed guidance to help people understand how path lookup works in the kernel.This document was originally written based on three lwn articles five years ago. As times goes by, some of the content was outdated. This patchset is intended to update the document to make it more relevant to current codebase. Fox Chen (12): docs: path-lookup: update follow_managed() part docs: path-lookup: update path_to_nameidata() parth docs: path-lookup: update path_mountpoint() part docs: path-lookup: update do_last() part docs: path-lookup: remove filename_mountpoint docs: path-lookup: Add macro name to symlink limit description docs: path-lookup: i_op->follow_link replaced with i_op->get_link docs: path-lookup: update i_op->put_link and cookie description docs: path-lookup: no get_link() docs: path-lookup: update WALK_GET, WALK_PUT desc docs: path-lookup: update get_link() ->follow_link description docs: path-lookup: update symlink description Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst | 146 ++++++++++------------ 1 file changed, 63 insertions(+), 83 deletions(-) -- 2.30.0
