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Add a flag to entry expiration that lets the filesystem expire a dentry without kicking it out from the cache immediately. This makes a difference for overmounted dentries, where plain invalidation would detach all submounts before dropping the dentry from the cache. If only expiry is set on the dentry, then any overmounts are left alone and until ->d_revalidate() is called. Note: ->d_revalidate() is not called for the case of following a submount, so invalidation will only be triggered for the non-overmounted case. The dentry could also be mounted in a different mount instance, in which case any submounts will still be detached. Suggested-by: Jakob Blomer <jblomer@cern.ch> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Linux kernel
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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.