On Tue, Mar 16 2021, Fox Chen wrote:
> No filename_mountpoint any more
> see commit: commit 161aff1d93ab ("LOOKUP_MOUNTPOINT:
> fold path_mountpointat() into path_lookupat()")
>
> Without filename_mountpoint and path_mountpoint(), the
> numbers should be four & three:
>
> "These four correspond roughly to the three path_*() functions"
>
> Signed-off-by: Fox Chen <foxhlchen@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx>
Thanks,
NeilBrown
> ---
> Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst | 6 +++---
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst
> index a65cb477d524..66697db74955 100644
> --- a/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst
> @@ -652,9 +652,9 @@ restarts from the top with REF-walk.
>
> This pattern of "try RCU-walk, if that fails try REF-walk" can be
> clearly seen in functions like ``filename_lookup()``,
> -``filename_parentat()``, ``filename_mountpoint()``,
> -``do_filp_open()``, and ``do_file_open_root()``. These five
> -correspond roughly to the four ``path_*()`` functions we met earlier,
> +``filename_parentat()``,
> +``do_filp_open()``, and ``do_file_open_root()``. These four
> +correspond roughly to the three ``path_*()`` functions we met earlier,
> each of which calls ``link_path_walk()``. The ``path_*()`` functions are
> called using different mode flags until a mode is found which works.
> They are first called with ``LOOKUP_RCU`` set to request "RCU-walk". If
> --
> 2.30.2
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