Add a comment to explain the checks that cachefiles is making of the
backing filesystem[1].

Suggested-by: Jeff Layton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <[email protected]>
cc: [email protected]
Link: 
https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]/
 [1]
---

 fs/cachefiles/cache.c |    8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/cachefiles/cache.c b/fs/cachefiles/cache.c
index 1e9c71666c6a..2b2879c5d1d2 100644
--- a/fs/cachefiles/cache.c
+++ b/fs/cachefiles/cache.c
@@ -49,7 +49,13 @@ int cachefiles_add_cache(struct cachefiles_cache *cache)
                goto error_unsupported;
        }
 
-       /* check parameters */
+       /* Check features of the backing filesystem:
+        * - Directories must support looking up and directory creation
+        * - We use xattrs to store metadata
+        * - We need to be able to query the amount of space available
+        * - We want to be able to sync the filesystem when stopping the cache
+        * - We use DIO to/from pages, so the blocksize mustn't be too big.
+        */
        ret = -EOPNOTSUPP;
        if (d_is_negative(root) ||
            !d_backing_inode(root)->i_op->lookup ||


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