Merge branch 'linux-linaro-lsk-v4.4' into linux-linaro-lsk-v4.4-android

[firefly-linux-kernel-4.4.55.git] / Documentation / filesystems / porting

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting
index 68f1c9106573f40df371e01d14946c52df98405d..f24d1b8339576e96c46045f5da8f275ee9250056 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting
@@ -500,3 +500,7 @@ in your dentry operations instead.
        dentry,  it does not get nameidata at all and it gets called only when cookie
        is non-NULL.  Note that link body isn't available anymore, so if you need it,
        store it as cookie.
+--
+[mandatory]
+       __fd_install() & fd_install() can now sleep. Callers should not
+       hold a spinlock or other resources that do not allow a schedule.