VFS: Comment mount following code

Add comments describing what the directions "up" and "down" mean and ref count
handling to the VFS mount following family of functions.

Signed-off-by: Valerie Aurora <vaurora@redhat.com> (Original author)
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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David Howells
2012-06-25 12:55:28 +01:00
committed by Al Viro
parent be34d1a3bc
commit f015f1267b
2 changed files with 24 additions and 2 deletions

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@@ -672,6 +672,16 @@ static int follow_up_rcu(struct path *path)
return 1;
}
/*
* follow_up - Find the mountpoint of path's vfsmount
*
* Given a path, find the mountpoint of its source file system.
* Replace @path with the path of the mountpoint in the parent mount.
* Up is towards /.
*
* Return 1 if we went up a level and 0 if we were already at the
* root.
*/
int follow_up(struct path *path)
{
struct mount *mnt = real_mount(path->mnt);