linux-stable.git/include/linux/dcache.h, branch v3.16.52

dentry name snapshots

2017-08-26T01:14:48+00:00

commit 49d31c2f389acfe83417083e1208422b4091cd9e upstream.

take_dentry_name_snapshot() takes a safe snapshot of dentry name;
if the name is a short one, it gets copied into caller-supplied
structure, otherwise an extra reference to external name is grabbed
(those are never modified).  In either case the pointer to stable
string is stored into the same structure.

dentry must be held by the caller of take_dentry_name_snapshot(),
but may be freely dropped afterwards - the snapshot will stay
until destroyed by release_dentry_name_snapshot().

Intended use:
	struct name_snapshot s;

	take_dentry_name_snapshot(&s, dentry);
	...
	access s.name
	...
	release_dentry_name_snapshot(&s);

Replaces fsnotify_oldname_...(), gets used in fsnotify to obtain the name
to pass down with event.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro 
[carnil: backport 4.9: adjust context]
[bwh: Backported to 3.16:
 - External names are not ref-counted, so copy them
 - Adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

VFS: Introduce inode-getting helpers for layered/unioned fs environments

2015-07-15T09:01:05+00:00

commit 155e35d4daa804582f75acaa2c74ec797a89c615 upstream.

Introduce some function for getting the inode (and also the dentry) in an
environment where layered/unioned filesystems are in operation.

The problem is that we have places where we need *both* the union dentry and
the lower source or workspace inode or dentry available, but we can only have
a handle on one of them.  Therefore we need to derive the handle to the other
from that.

The idea is to introduce an extra field in struct dentry that allows the union
dentry to refer to and pin the lower dentry.

Signed-off-by: David Howells 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro 
[ luis: 3.16 prereq for:
  fbabfd0f4ee2 "fs: Add helper functions for permanently empty directories." ]
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques

move d_rcu from overlapping d_child to overlapping d_alias

2015-01-15T10:44:58+00:00

commit 946e51f2bf37f1656916eb75bd0742ba33983c28 upstream.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro 
[bwh: Backported to 3.16:
 - Apply name changes in all the different places we use d_alias and d_child
 - Adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings 
Cc: Moritz Muehlenhoff 
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques

dentry_kill(): don't try to remove from shrink list

2014-05-01T14:30:00+00:00

If the victim in on the shrink list, don't remove it from there.
If shrink_dentry_list() manages to remove it from the list before
we are done - fine, we'll just free it as usual.  If not - mark
it with new flag (DCACHE_MAY_FREE) and leave it there.

Eventually, shrink_dentry_list() will get to it, remove the sucker
from shrink list and call dentry_kill(dentry, 0).  Which is where
we'll deal with freeing.

Since now dentry_kill(dentry, 0) may happen after or during
dentry_kill(dentry, 1), we need to recognize that (by seeing
DCACHE_DENTRY_KILLED already set), unlock everything
and either free the sucker (in case DCACHE_MAY_FREE has been
set) or leave it for ongoing dentry_kill(dentry, 1) to deal with.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

vfs: add cross-rename

2014-04-01T15:08:43+00:00

If flags contain RENAME_EXCHANGE then exchange source and destination files.
There's no restriction on the type of the files; e.g. a directory can be
exchanged with a symlink.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi 
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara 
Reviewed-by: J. Bruce Fields

vfs: add d_is_dir()

2014-04-01T15:08:41+00:00

Add d_is_dir(dentry) helper which is analogous to S_ISDIR().

To avoid confusion, rename d_is_directory() to d_can_lookup().

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi 
Reviewed-by: J. Bruce Fields

dcache: allow word-at-a-time name hashing with big-endian CPUs

2013-12-12T18:39:01+00:00

When explicitly hashing the end of a string with the word-at-a-time
interface, we have to be careful which end of the word we pick up.

On big-endian CPUs, the upper-bits will contain the data we're after, so
ensure we generate our masks accordingly (and avoid hashing whatever
random junk may have been sitting after the string).

This patch adds a new dcache helper, bytemask_from_count, which creates
a mask appropriate for the CPU endianness.

Cc: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

VFS: Put a small type field into struct dentry::d_flags

2013-11-09T05:16:30+00:00

Put a type field into struct dentry::d_flags to indicate if the dentry is one
of the following types that relate particularly to pathwalk:

	Miss (negative dentry)
	Directory
	"Automount" directory (defective - no i_op->lookup())
	Symlink
	Other (regular, socket, fifo, device)

The type field is set to one of the first five types on a dentry by calls to
__d_instantiate() and d_obtain_alias() from information in the inode (if one is
given).

The type is cleared by dentry_unlink_inode() when it reconstitutes an existing
dentry as a negative dentry.

Accessors provided are:

	d_set_type(dentry, type)
	d_is_directory(dentry)
	d_is_autodir(dentry)
	d_is_symlink(dentry)
	d_is_file(dentry)
	d_is_negative(dentry)
	d_is_positive(dentry)

A bunch of checks in pathname resolution switched to those.

Signed-off-by: David Howells 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

vfs: introduce d_instantiate_no_diralias()

2013-10-25T03:41:37+00:00

...which just returns -EBUSY if a directory alias would be created.

This is to be used by fuse mkdir to make sure that a buggy or malicious
userspace filesystem doesn't do anything nasty.  Previously fuse used a
private mutex for this purpose, which can now go away.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi

super: fix calculation of shrinkable objects for small numbers

2013-09-10T22:56:29+00:00

The sysctl knob sysctl_vfs_cache_pressure is used to determine which
percentage of the shrinkable objects in our cache we should actively try
to shrink.

It works great in situations in which we have many objects (at least more
than 100), because the aproximation errors will be negligible.  But if
this is not the case, specially when total_objects < 100, we may end up
concluding that we have no objects at all (total / 100 = 0, if total <
100).

This is certainly not the biggest killer in the world, but may matter in
very low kernel memory situations.

Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa 
Reviewed-by: Carlos Maiolino 
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 
Acked-by: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Dave Chinner 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" 
Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Artem Bityutskiy 
Cc: Arve Hjønnevåg 
Cc: Carlos Maiolino 
Cc: Christoph Hellwig 
Cc: Chuck Lever 
Cc: Daniel Vetter 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: Gleb Natapov 
Cc: Greg Thelen 
Cc: J. Bruce Fields 
Cc: Jan Kara 
Cc: Jerome Glisse 
Cc: John Stultz 
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 
Cc: Kent Overstreet 
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Steven Whitehouse 
Cc: Thomas Hellstrom 
Cc: Trond Myklebust 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro