On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 3:25 PM Fox Chen <foxhlchen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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 some of the content was outdated.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 > To help review the patches, I annotated and highlighted changes using hypothesis you can check the current docs: https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kernel.org%2Fdoc%2Fhtml%2Flatest%2Ffilesystems%2Fpath-lookup.html&group=__world__ the docs after patches applied: https://hyp.is/go?url=http%3A%2F%2Flinux-docs.54fox.com%2Flinux_docs%2Ffilesystems%2Fpath-lookup.html&group=__world__
