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@@ -652,9 +652,9 @@ restarts from the top with REF-walk.
This pattern of "try RCU-walk, if that fails try REF-walk" can be
clearly seen in functions like ``filename_lookup()``,
-``filename_parentat()``, ``filename_mountpoint()``,
-``do_filp_open()``, and ``do_file_open_root()``. These five
-correspond roughly to the four ``path_*()`` functions we met earlier,
+``filename_parentat()``,
+``do_filp_open()``, and ``do_file_open_root()``. These four
+correspond roughly to the three ``path_*()`` functions we met earlier,
each of which calls ``link_path_walk()``. The ``path_*()`` functions are
called using different mode flags until a mode is found which works.
They are first called with ``LOOKUP_RCU`` set to request "RCU-walk". If