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Message-ID: <87h7k32inj.fsf@notabene.neil.brown.name>
Date:   Mon, 19 Apr 2021 11:00:00 +1000
From:   NeilBrown <neilb@...e.de>
To:     Fox Chen <foxhlchen@...il.com>
Cc:     Fox Chen <foxhlchen@...il.com>, corbet@....net,
        vegard.nossum@...cle.com, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk,
        rdunlap@...radead.org, grandmaster@...klimov.de,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        gregkh@...uxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 02/12] docs: path-lookup: update path_to_nameidata()
 part

On Tue, Mar 16 2021, Fox Chen wrote:

> No path_to_namei() anymore, step_into() will be called.
> Related commit: commit c99687a03a78 ("fold path_to_nameidata()
> into its only remaining caller")
>
> Signed-off-by: Fox Chen <foxhlchen@...il.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst | 7 ++++---
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst
> index d07766375e13..a29d714431a3 100644
> --- a/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst
> @@ -455,9 +455,10 @@ directly from walk_component() or from handle_dots().  It calls
>  ``handle_mount()``, to check and handle mount points, in which a new
>  ``struct path`` containing a counted reference to the new dentry and a
>  reference to the new ``vfsmount`` which is only counted if it is
> -different from the previous ``vfsmount``.  It then calls
> -``path_to_nameidata()`` to install the new ``struct path`` in the
> -``struct nameidata`` and drop the unneeded references.
> +different from the previous ``vfsmount`` will be created. Then if there is

That "will be created" messes up the sentence.
It would probably work to put it earlier:

  It calls handle_mounts() to check and handle mount points, in which a
  new struct path is created containing a counted reference to the new
  dentry and a reference to the new vfsmount, which is only counted if
  it is different from the previous vfsmount.

(I'm not sure about the comma I put in before the 'which' - Jon often
removes my commas, and sometimes changes 'which' to 'that'...)

> +symbolic link, ``step_into()`` calls ``pick_link()`` to deal with it, otherwise

"a symbolic link"

> +installs the new ``struct path`` in the ``struct nameidata`` and drop the

"it installs".  Any maybe "into the".  And "drops".

> +unneeded references.

So sentence is:
   Then if there is a symbolic link, step_into() calls pick_link() to
   deal with it, otherwise it installs the new struct path into the
   struct nameidata, and drops the unneeded references.

With those changes,
  Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neilb@...e.de>

Thanks,
NeilBrown

>  
>  This "hand-over-hand" sequencing of getting a reference to the new
>  dentry before dropping the reference to the previous dentry may
> -- 
> 2.30.2

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