On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 4:31 AM Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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 some of the content was outdated.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 FYI, To help review the patches I marked & annotated all the places I've changed. you can check the link: https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kernel.org%2Fdoc%2Fhtml%2Flatest%2Ffilesystems%2Fpath-lookup.html&group=__world__ thanks, fox
