From ff467342d3090350b3b5aa6885d6a55fbb1d0c35 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:46:54 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: atomic_open called with shared lock on
 non-O_CREAT open

The exclusive lock is only held when O_CREAT is set.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
---
 Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst
index fc3a0704553cf..5057e4d9dcd1d 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ getattr:	no
 listxattr:	no
 fiemap:		no
 update_time:	no
-atomic_open:	exclusive
+atomic_open:	shared (exclusive if O_CREAT is set in open flags)
 tmpfile:	no
 ============	=============================================
 
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