@@ -246,19 +246,19 @@ static void ____fput(struct callback_head *work)
static DECLARE_DELAYED_WORK(delayed_fput_work, delayed_fput);
/*
- * If kernel thread really needs to have the final fput() it has done
- * to complete, call this. The only user right now is the boot - we
- * *do* need to make sure our writes to binaries on initramfs has
- * not left us with opened struct file waiting for __fput() - execve()
- * won't work without that. Please, don't add more callers without
- * very good reasons; in particular, never call that with locks
- * held and never call that from a thread that might need to do
- * some work on any kind of umount.
+ * If kernel thread or task that has used fput_queue really needs to have the
+ * final fput() it has done to complete, call this. The only user right now is
+ * the boot - we *do* need to make sure our writes to binaries on initramfs has
+ * not left us with opened struct file waiting for __fput() - execve() won't
+ * work without that. Please, don't add more callers without very good
+ * reasons; in particular, never call that with locks held and never call that
+ * from a thread that might need to do some work on any kind of umount.
*/
void flush_delayed_fput(void)
{
flush_delayed_work(&delayed_fput_work);
}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(flush_delayed_fput);
/**
* fput - put a struct file reference
...and clean up the comments over it a bit. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jeff.layton@primarydata.com> --- fs/file_table.c | 16 ++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)