On Tue, 26 Jan 2021 15:24:31 +0800 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 some of the content was outdated.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(-) Neil Brown (copied) is the original author of this document; I'd really like his feedback on these changes. Neil, the full set is at: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210126072443.33066-1-foxhlchen@xxxxxxxxx/ Thanks, jon
