diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst index 4d05b9862451..d69f59700a23 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst @@ -1045,3 +1045,10 @@ filesystem type is now moved to a later point when the devices are closed: As this is a VFS level change it has no practical consequences for filesystems other than that all of them must use one of the provided kill_litter_super(), kill_anon_super(), or kill_block_super() helpers. + +--- + +**mandatory** + +Lock ordering has been changed so that s_umount ranks above open_mutex again. +All places where s_umount was taken under open_mutex have been fixed up.