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-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/netfs_library.rst8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.rst4
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/netfs_library.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/netfs_library.rst
index 4d19b19bcc08..73a4176144b3 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/netfs_library.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/netfs_library.rst
@@ -301,7 +301,7 @@ through which it can issue requests and negotiate::
void (*issue_read)(struct netfs_io_subrequest *subreq);
bool (*is_still_valid)(struct netfs_io_request *rreq);
int (*check_write_begin)(struct file *file, loff_t pos, unsigned len,
- struct folio *folio, void **_fsdata);
+ struct folio **foliop, void **_fsdata);
void (*done)(struct netfs_io_request *rreq);
};
@@ -381,8 +381,10 @@ The operations are as follows:
allocated/grabbed the folio to be modified to allow the filesystem to flush
conflicting state before allowing it to be modified.
- It should return 0 if everything is now fine, -EAGAIN if the folio should be
- regrabbed and any other error code to abort the operation.
+ It may unlock and discard the folio it was given and set the caller's folio
+ pointer to NULL. It should return 0 if everything is now fine (``*foliop``
+ left set) or the op should be retried (``*foliop`` cleared) and any other
+ error code to abort the operation.
* ``done``
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.rst
index 7da6c30ed596..316cfd8b1891 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.rst
@@ -466,6 +466,10 @@ overlay filesystem and the value of st_ino for filesystem objects may not be
persistent and could change even while the overlay filesystem is mounted, as
summarized in the `Inode properties`_ table above.
+4) "idmapped mounts"
+When the upper or lower layers are idmapped mounts overlayfs will be mounted
+without support for POSIX Access Control Lists (ACLs). This limitation will
+eventually be lifted.
Changes to underlying filesystems
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