[PATCH 46/53] Remove references to d_add() in documentation and comments.

NeilBrown neilb at ownmail.net
Thu Mar 12 14:12:33 PDT 2026


From: NeilBrown <neil at brown.name>

It is planned to remove d_add(), so remove all references in
documentation and comments.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neil at brown.name>
---
 Documentation/filesystems/nfs/exporting.rst | 10 ++--------
 Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst           |  4 ++--
 fs/afs/dir.c                                |  5 +++--
 fs/dcache.c                                 |  2 +-
 fs/ocfs2/namei.c                            |  2 +-
 fs/xfs/xfs_iops.c                           |  6 +++---
 6 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/exporting.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/exporting.rst
index a01d9b9b5bc3..ccaacdc72576 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/exporting.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/exporting.rst
@@ -101,14 +101,8 @@ Filesystem Issues
 For a filesystem to be exportable it must:
 
    1. provide the filehandle fragment routines described below.
-   2. make sure that d_splice_alias is used rather than d_add
-      when ->lookup finds an inode for a given parent and name.
-
-      If inode is NULL, d_splice_alias(inode, dentry) is equivalent to::
-
-		d_add(dentry, inode), NULL
-
-      Similarly, d_splice_alias(ERR_PTR(err), dentry) = ERR_PTR(err)
+   2. Use d_splice_alias() when ->lookup finds an inode for a given 
+      parent and name.
 
       Typically the ->lookup routine will simply end with a::
 
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst
index d8df0a84cdba..26dec777ca5c 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst
@@ -460,7 +460,7 @@ otherwise noted.
 ``lookup``
 	called when the VFS needs to look up an inode in a parent
 	directory.  The name to look for is found in the dentry.  This
-	method must call d_add() to insert the found inode into the
+	method must call d_splice_alias() to insert the found inode into the
 	dentry.  The "i_count" field in the inode structure should be
 	incremented.  If the named inode does not exist a NULL inode
 	should be inserted into the dentry (this is called a negative
@@ -1433,7 +1433,7 @@ manipulate dentries:
 	d_iput() method is called).  If there are other references, then
 	d_drop() is called instead
 
-``d_add``
+``d_splice_alias``
 	add a dentry to its parents hash list and then calls
 	d_instantiate()
 
diff --git a/fs/afs/dir.c b/fs/afs/dir.c
index b5c593f50079..f259ca2da383 100644
--- a/fs/afs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/afs/dir.c
@@ -960,8 +960,9 @@ static struct dentry *afs_lookup_atsys(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry,
 		dput(ret);
 	}
 
-	/* We don't want to d_add() the @sys dentry here as we don't want to
-	 * the cached dentry to hide changes to the sysnames list.
+	/* We don't want to d_splice_alias() the @sys dentry here as we
+	 * don't want to the cached dentry to hide changes to the
+	 * sysnames list.
 	 */
 	ret = NULL;
 out_s:
diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c
index c48337d95f9a..9a6139013367 100644
--- a/fs/dcache.c
+++ b/fs/dcache.c
@@ -3323,7 +3323,7 @@ struct dentry *d_splice_alias_ops(struct inode *inode, struct dentry *dentry,
  * @dentry must be negative and may be in-lookup or unhashed or hashed.
  *
  * If inode is a directory and has an IS_ROOT alias, then d_move that in
- * place of the given dentry and return it, else simply d_add the inode
+ * place of the given dentry and return it, else simply __d_add the inode
  * to the dentry and return NULL.
  *
  * If a non-IS_ROOT directory is found, the filesystem is corrupt, and
diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/namei.c b/fs/ocfs2/namei.c
index 268b79339a51..0d3116142bd7 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/namei.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/namei.c
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ static struct dentry *ocfs2_lookup(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry,
 		ocfs2_dentry_attach_gen(dentry);
 
 bail_unlock:
-	/* Don't drop the cluster lock until *after* the d_add --
+	/* Don't drop the cluster lock until *after* the d_splice_alias --
 	 * unlink on another node will message us to remove that
 	 * dentry under this lock so otherwise we can race this with
 	 * the downconvert thread and have a stale dentry. */
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_iops.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_iops.c
index ec19d3ec7cf0..2641061ba1db 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_iops.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_iops.c
@@ -356,9 +356,9 @@ xfs_vn_ci_lookup(
 		if (unlikely(error != -ENOENT))
 			return ERR_PTR(error);
 		/*
-		 * call d_add(dentry, NULL) here when d_drop_negative_children
-		 * is called in xfs_vn_mknod (ie. allow negative dentries
-		 * with CI filesystems).
+		 * call d_splice_alias(NULL, dentry) here when
+		 * d_drop_negative_children is called in xfs_vn_mknod
+		 * (ie.  allow negative dentries with CI filesystems).
 		 */
 		return NULL;
 	}
-- 
2.50.0.107.gf914562f5916.dirty




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