Merge remote-tracking branch 'y2038/y2038'

[karo-tx-linux.git] / Documentation / filesystems / porting

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting
index 68f1c9106573f40df371e01d14946c52df98405d..f24d1b8339576e96c46045f5da8f275ee9250056 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting
@@ -500,3 +500,7 @@ in your dentry operations instead.
        dentry,  it does not get nameidata at all and it gets called only when cookie
        is non-NULL.  Note that link body isn't available anymore, so if you need it,
        store it as cookie.
        dentry,  it does not get nameidata at all and it gets called only when cookie
        is non-NULL.  Note that link body isn't available anymore, so if you need it,
        store it as cookie.

+--
+[mandatory]
+       __fd_install() & fd_install() can now sleep. Callers should not
+       hold a spinlock or other resources that do not allow a schedule.