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authorAndré Fabian Silva Delgado <emulatorman@parabola.nu>2016-01-20 14:01:31 -0300
committerAndré Fabian Silva Delgado <emulatorman@parabola.nu>2016-01-20 14:01:31 -0300
commitb4b7ff4b08e691656c9d77c758fc355833128ac0 (patch)
tree82fcb00e6b918026dc9f2d1f05ed8eee83874cc0 /Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-tagging.txt
parent35acfa0fc609f2a2cd95cef4a6a9c3a5c38f1778 (diff)
Linux-libre 4.4-gnupck-4.4-gnu
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-tagging.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-tagging.txt
index eb843e49c..c7c8e6438 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-tagging.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-tagging.txt
@@ -17,13 +17,13 @@ the sysfs directory entries we ensure that we don't have conflicts
in the directories and applications only see a limited set of
the network devices.
-Each sysfs directory entry may be tagged with zero or one
-namespaces. A sysfs_dirent is augmented with a void *s_ns. If a
-directory entry is tagged, then sysfs_dirent->s_flags will have a
-flag between KOBJ_NS_TYPE_NONE and KOBJ_NS_TYPES, and s_ns will
-point to the namespace to which it belongs.
+Each sysfs directory entry may be tagged with a namespace via the
+void *ns member of its kernfs_node. If a directory entry is tagged,
+then kernfs_node->flags will have a flag between KOBJ_NS_TYPE_NONE
+and KOBJ_NS_TYPES, and ns will point to the namespace to which it
+belongs.
-Each sysfs superblock's sysfs_super_info contains an array void
+Each sysfs superblock's kernfs_super_info contains an array void
*ns[KOBJ_NS_TYPES]. When a task in a tagging namespace
kobj_nstype first mounts sysfs, a new superblock is created. It
will be differentiated from other sysfs mounts by having its
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ s_fs_info->ns[kobj_nstype] set to the new namespace. Note that
through bind mounting and mounts propagation, a task can easily view
the contents of other namespaces' sysfs mounts. Therefore, when a
namespace exits, it will call kobj_ns_exit() to invalidate any
-sysfs_dirent->s_ns pointers pointing to it.
+kernfs_node->ns pointers pointing to it.
Users of this interface:
- define a type in the kobj_ns_type enumeration.