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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/files.rst')
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/files.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/files.rst index cbf8e57376bf..ea75acdb632c 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/files.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/files.rst @@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ the fdtable structure - be held. 4. To look up the file structure given an fd, a reader - must use either fcheck() or fcheck_files() APIs. These + must use either fcheck() or files_lookup_fd_rcu() APIs. These take care of barrier requirements due to lock-free lookup. An example:: @@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ the fdtable structure - on ->f_count:: rcu_read_lock(); - file = fcheck_files(files, fd); + file = files_lookup_fd_rcu(files, fd); if (file) { if (atomic_long_inc_not_zero(&file->f_count)) *fput_needed = 1; @@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ the fdtable structure - lock-free, they must be installed using rcu_assign_pointer() API. If they are looked up lock-free, rcu_dereference() must be used. However it is advisable to use files_fdtable() - and fcheck()/fcheck_files() which take care of these issues. + and fcheck()/files_lookup_fd_rcu() which take care of these issues. 7. While updating, the fdtable pointer must be looked up while holding files->file_lock. If ->file_lock is dropped, then |