vfs: add i_op->dentry_open()
Add a new inode operation i_op->dentry_open(). This is for stacked filesystems
that want to return a struct file from a different filesystem.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
index 94d93b1..b30753c 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@
struct file *, unsigned open_flag,
umode_t create_mode, int *opened);
int (*tmpfile) (struct inode *, struct dentry *, umode_t);
+ int (*dentry_open)(struct dentry *, struct file *, const struct cred *);
locking rules:
all may block
@@ -96,6 +97,7 @@
update_time: no
atomic_open: yes
tmpfile: no
+dentry_open: no
Additionally, ->rmdir(), ->unlink() and ->rename() have ->i_mutex on
victim.