Commit 8593d2cc authored by Fox Chen's avatar Fox Chen Committed by Jonathan Corbet
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docs: path-lookup: update path_mountpoint() part



path_mountpoint() doesn't exist anymore. Have been folded
into path_lookup_at when flag is set with LOOKUP_MOUNTPOINT.
Check commit: commit 161aff1d ("LOOKUP_MOUNTPOINT: fold
path_mountpointat() into path_lookupat()")

Signed-off-by: default avatarFox Chen <foxhlchen@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210527091618.287093-4-foxhlchen@gmail.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
parent 084c8683
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@@ -472,7 +472,7 @@ Handling the final component
``nd->last_type`` to refer to the final component of the path.  It does
not call ``walk_component()`` that last time.  Handling that final
component remains for the caller to sort out. Those callers are
``path_lookupat()``, ``path_parentat()``, ``path_mountpoint()`` and
``path_lookupat()``, ``path_parentat()`` and
``path_openat()`` each of which handles the differing requirements of
different system calls.

@@ -488,12 +488,10 @@ perform their operation.
object is wanted such as by ``stat()`` or ``chmod()``.  It essentially just
calls ``walk_component()`` on the final component through a call to
``lookup_last()``.  ``path_lookupat()`` returns just the final dentry.

``path_mountpoint()`` handles the special case of unmounting which must
not try to revalidate the mounted filesystem.  It effectively
contains, through a call to ``mountpoint_last()``, an alternate
implementation of ``lookup_slow()`` which skips that step.  This is
important when unmounting a filesystem that is inaccessible, such as
It is worth noting that when flag ``LOOKUP_MOUNTPOINT`` is set,
``path_lookupat()`` will unset LOOKUP_JUMPED in nameidata so that in the
subsequent path traversal ``d_weak_revalidate()`` won't be called.
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