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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-03-04 08:15:33 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-03-04 08:15:33 -0800
commit0f2cc4ecd81dc1917a041dc93db0ada28f8356fa (patch)
treef128b50f48f50f0cda6d2b20b53e9ad6e2dfded3 /Documentation/filesystems
parent1fae4cfb97302289bb5df6a8195eb28385d0b002 (diff)
parent9643f5d94aadd47a5fa9754fb60f2c957de05903 (diff)
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (52 commits) init: Open /dev/console from rootfs mqueue: fix typo "failues" -> "failures" mqueue: only set error codes if they are really necessary mqueue: simplify do_open() error handling mqueue: apply mathematics distributivity on mq_bytes calculation mqueue: remove unneeded info->messages initialization mqueue: fix mq_open() file descriptor leak on user-space processes fix race in d_splice_alias() set S_DEAD on unlink() and non-directory rename() victims vfs: add NOFOLLOW flag to umount(2) get rid of ->mnt_parent in tomoyo/realpath hppfs can use existing proc_mnt, no need for do_kern_mount() in there Mirror MS_KERNMOUNT in ->mnt_flags get rid of useless vfsmount_lock use in put_mnt_ns() Take vfsmount_lock to fs/internal.h get rid of insanity with namespace roots in tomoyo take check for new events in namespace (guts of mounts_poll()) to namespace.c Don't mess with generic_permission() under ->d_lock in hpfs sanitize const/signedness for udf nilfs: sanitize const/signedness in dealing with ->d_name.name ... Fix up fairly trivial (famous last words...) conflicts in drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_main.c and security/tomoyo/realpath.c
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/sharedsubtree.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/sharedsubtree.txt
index 23a181074f94..fc0e39af43c3 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/sharedsubtree.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/sharedsubtree.txt
@@ -837,6 +837,9 @@ replicas continue to be exactly same.
individual lists does not affect propagation or the way propagation
tree is modified by operations.
+ All vfsmounts in a peer group have the same ->mnt_master. If it is
+ non-NULL, they form a contiguous (ordered) segment of slave list.
+
A example propagation tree looks as shown in the figure below.
[ NOTE: Though it looks like a forest, if we consider all the shared
mounts as a conceptual entity called 'pnode', it becomes a tree]
@@ -874,8 +877,19 @@ replicas continue to be exactly same.
NOTE: The propagation tree is orthogonal to the mount tree.
+8B Locking:
+
+ ->mnt_share, ->mnt_slave, ->mnt_slave_list, ->mnt_master are protected
+ by namespace_sem (exclusive for modifications, shared for reading).
+
+ Normally we have ->mnt_flags modifications serialized by vfsmount_lock.
+ There are two exceptions: do_add_mount() and clone_mnt().
+ The former modifies a vfsmount that has not been visible in any shared
+ data structures yet.
+ The latter holds namespace_sem and the only references to vfsmount
+ are in lists that can't be traversed without namespace_sem.
-8B Algorithm:
+8C Algorithm:
The crux of the implementation resides in rbind/move operation.