linux-kernel - [PATCH 01/12] docs: path-lookup: update follow

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Date:   Tue, 26 Jan 2021 15:24:32 +0800
From:   Fox Chen <foxhlchen@...il.com>
To:     corbet@....net, vegard.nossum@...cle.com, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk,
        rdunlap@...radead.org, grandmaster@...klimov.de
Cc:     Fox Chen <foxhlchen@...il.com>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 01/12] docs: path-lookup: update follow_managed() part

No follow_managed() anymore, handle_mounts(),
traverse_mounts(), will do the job.
see commit: 9deed3ebca244663530782631834e706a86a8c8f

Signed-off-by: Fox Chen <foxhlchen@...il.com>
---
 Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst
index c482e1619e77..e778db767120 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst
@@ -448,8 +448,8 @@ described.  If it finds a ``LAST_NORM`` component it first calls
 filesystem to revalidate the result if it is that sort of filesystem.
 If that doesn't get a good result, it calls "``lookup_slow()``" which
 takes ``i_rwsem``, rechecks the cache, and then asks the filesystem
-to find a definitive answer.  Each of these will call
-``follow_managed()`` (as described below) to handle any mount points.
+to find a definitive answer.  In ``step_into()``, ``handle_mount()`` will be 
+called to handle any mount point.
 
 In the absence of symbolic links, ``walk_component()`` creates a new
 ``struct path`` containing a counted reference to the new dentry and a
@@ -536,7 +536,7 @@ tree, but a few notes specifically related to path lookup are in order
 here.
 
 The Linux VFS has a concept of "managed" dentries which is reflected
-in function names such as "``follow_managed()``".  There are three
+in function names such as "``traverse_mounts()``".  There are three
 potentially interesting things about these dentries corresponding
 to three different flags that might be set in ``dentry->d_flags``:
 
-- 
2.30.0