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In the common case we can just use the real file cached in file->private_data. There are two exceptions: 1) File has been copied up since open: in this unlikely corner case just use a throwaway real file for the operation. If ever this becomes a perfomance problem (very unlikely, since overlayfs has been doing most fine without correctly handling this case at all), then we can deal with that by updating the cached real file. 2) File's f_flags have changed since open: no need to reopen the cached real file, we can just change the flags there as well. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Linux kernel
============
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.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
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.