From: Fox Chen <foxhlchen@gmail.com>
To: neilb@suse.de
Cc: Fox Chen <foxhlchen@gmail.com>,
corbet@lwn.net, vegard.nossum@oracle.com,
viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, rdunlap@infradead.org,
grandmaster@al2klimov.de, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Subject: [PATCH v3 04/13] docs: path-lookup: update do_last() part
Date: Thu, 27 May 2021 17:16:09 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210527091618.287093-5-foxhlchen@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210527091618.287093-1-foxhlchen@gmail.com>
traling_symlink() was merged into lookup_last, do_last().
do_last() has later been split into open_last_lookups()
and do_open().
see related commit: commit c5971b8c6354 ("take post-lookup
part of do_last() out of loop")
Signed-off-by: Fox Chen <foxhlchen@gmail.com>
---
Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst | 47 +++++++++++------------
1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst
index 652d3284f178..2b0b33168067 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst
@@ -495,11 +495,11 @@ This is important when unmounting a filesystem that is inaccessible, such as
one provided by a dead NFS server.
Finally ``path_openat()`` is used for the ``open()`` system call; it
-contains, in support functions starting with "``do_last()``", all the
+contains, in support functions starting with "``open_last_lookups()``", all the
complexity needed to handle the different subtleties of O_CREAT (with
or without O_EXCL), final "``/``" characters, and trailing symbolic
links. We will revisit this in the final part of this series, which
-focuses on those symbolic links. "``do_last()``" will sometimes, but
+focuses on those symbolic links. "``open_last_lookups()``" will sometimes, but
not always, take ``i_rwsem``, depending on what it finds.
Each of these, or the functions which call them, need to be alert to
@@ -1196,29 +1196,26 @@ potentially need to call ``link_path_walk()`` again and again on
successive symlinks until one is found that doesn't point to another
symlink.
-This case is handled by the relevant caller of ``link_path_walk()``, such as
-``path_lookupat()`` using a loop that calls ``link_path_walk()``, and then
-handles the final component. If the final component is a symlink
-that needs to be followed, then ``trailing_symlink()`` is called to set
-things up properly and the loop repeats, calling ``link_path_walk()``
-again. This could loop as many as 40 times if the last component of
-each symlink is another symlink.
-
-The various functions that examine the final component and possibly
-report that it is a symlink are ``lookup_last()``, ``mountpoint_last()``
-and ``do_last()``, each of which use the same convention as
-``walk_component()`` of returning ``1`` if a symlink was found that needs
-to be followed.
-
-Of these, ``do_last()`` is the most interesting as it is used for
-opening a file. Part of ``do_last()`` runs with ``i_rwsem`` held and this
-part is in a separate function: ``lookup_open()``.
-
-Explaining ``do_last()`` completely is beyond the scope of this article,
-but a few highlights should help those interested in exploring the
-code.
-
-1. Rather than just finding the target file, ``do_last()`` needs to open
+This case is handled by relevant callers of ``link_path_walk()``, such as
+``path_lookupat()``, ``path_openat()`` using a loop that calls ``link_path_walk()``,
+and then handles the final component by calling ``open_last_lookups()`` or
+``lookup_last()``. If it is a symlink that needs to be followed,
+``open_last_lookups()`` or ``lookup_last()`` will set things up properly and
+return the path so that the loop repeats, calling
+``link_path_walk()`` again. This could loop as many as 40 times if the last
+component of each symlink is another symlink.
+
+Of the various functions that examine the final component,
+``open_last_lookups()`` is the most interesting as it works in tandem
+with ``do_open()`` for opening a file. Part of ``open_last_lookups()`` runs
+with ``i_rwsem`` held and this part is in a separate function: ``lookup_open()``.
+
+Explaining ``open_last_lookups()`` and ``do_open()`` completely is beyond the scope
+of this article, but a few highlights should help those interested in exploring
+the code.
+
+1. Rather than just finding the target file, ``do_open()`` is used after
+ ``open_last_lookup()`` to open
it. If the file was found in the dcache, then ``vfs_open()`` is used for
this. If not, then ``lookup_open()`` will either call ``atomic_open()`` (if
the filesystem provides it) to combine the final lookup with the open, or
--
2.31.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-27 9:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-27 9:16 [PATCH v3 00/13] docs: path-lookup: Update pathlookup docs Fox Chen
2021-05-27 9:16 ` [PATCH v3 01/13] docs: path-lookup: update follow_managed() part Fox Chen
2021-05-27 9:16 ` [PATCH v3 02/13] docs: path-lookup: update path_to_nameidata() part Fox Chen
2021-05-27 9:16 ` [PATCH v3 03/13] docs: path-lookup: update path_mountpoint() part Fox Chen
2021-05-27 9:16 ` Fox Chen [this message]
2021-05-27 9:16 ` [PATCH v3 05/13] docs: path-lookup: remove filename_mountpoint Fox Chen
2021-05-27 9:16 ` [PATCH v3 06/13] docs: path-lookup: Add macro name to symlink limit description Fox Chen
2021-05-27 9:16 ` [PATCH v3 07/13] docs: path-lookup: i_op->follow_link replaced with i_op->get_link Fox Chen
2021-05-27 9:16 ` [PATCH v3 08/13] docs: path-lookup: update i_op->put_link and cookie description Fox Chen
2021-05-27 9:16 ` [PATCH v3 09/13] docs: path-lookup: no get_link() Fox Chen
2021-05-27 9:16 ` [PATCH v3 10/13] docs: path-lookup: update WALK_GET, WALK_PUT desc Fox Chen
2021-06-17 22:31 ` NeilBrown
2021-05-27 9:16 ` [PATCH v3 11/13] docs: path-lookup: update get_link() ->follow_link description Fox Chen
2021-05-27 9:16 ` [PATCH v3 12/13] docs: path-lookup: update symlink description Fox Chen
2021-05-27 9:16 ` [PATCH v3 13/13] docs: path-lookup: use bare function() rather than literals Fox Chen
2021-06-17 22:35 ` [PATCH v3 00/13] docs: path-lookup: Update pathlookup docs NeilBrown
2021-06-18 1:00 ` Fox Chen
2021-06-18 17:39 ` Jonathan Corbet
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