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Use an inode flag, S_KERNEL_FILE, to mark that a backing file is in use by the kernel to prevent cachefiles or other kernel services from interfering with that file. Alter rmdir to reject attempts to remove a directory marked with this flag. This is used by cachefiles to prevent cachefilesd from removing them. Using S_SWAPFILE instead isn't really viable as that has other effects in the I/O paths. Changes ======= ver #3: - Check for the object pointer being NULL in the tracepoints rather than the caller. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163819630256.215744.4815885535039369574.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v1 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163906931596.143852.8642051223094013028.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v2 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163967141000.1823006.12920680657559677789.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v3 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/164021541207.640689.564689725898537127.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v4
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.