linux.git/include/linux/dcache.h, branch v2.6.26-rc2

Remove "#ifdef KERNEL" checks from unexported headers

2008-04-30T15:29:54+00:00

Remove the "#ifdef __KERNEL__" tests from unexported header files in
linux/include whose entire contents are wrapped in that preprocessor
test.

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day 
Cc: David Woodhouse 
Cc: Sam Ravnborg 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[patch 2/7] vfs: mountinfo: add seq_file_root()

2008-04-23T04:04:38+00:00

Add a new function:

  seq_file_root()

This is similar to seq_path(), but calculates the path relative to the
given root, instead of current->fs->root.  If the path was unreachable
from root, then modify the root parameter to reflect this.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

[patch 1/7] vfs: mountinfo: add dentry_path()

2008-04-23T04:04:32+00:00

[mszeredi@suse.cz] split big patch into managable chunks

Add the following functions:

  dentry_path()
  seq_dentry()

These are similar to d_path() and seq_path().  But instead of
calculating the path within a mount namespace, they calculate the path
from the root of the filesystem to a given dentry, ignoring mounts
completely.

Signed-off-by: Ram Pai 
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

[PATCH] move a bunch of declarations to fs/internal.h

2008-04-22T03:11:01+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

d_path: Make d_path() use a struct path

2008-02-15T05:17:09+00:00

d_path() is used on a  pair.  Lets use a struct path to
reflect this.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build in mm/memory.c]
Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck 
Acked-by: Bryan Wu 
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" 
Cc: Neil Brown 
Cc: Michael Halcrow 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] audit: watching subtrees

2007-10-21T06:37:45+00:00

New kind of audit rule predicates: "object is visible in given subtree".
The part that can be sanely implemented, that is.  Limitations:
	* if you have hardlink from outside of tree, you'd better watch
it too (or just watch the object itself, obviously)
	* if you mount something under a watched tree, tell audit
that new chunk should be added to watched subtrees
	* if you umount something in a watched tree and it's still mounted
elsewhere, you will get matches on events happening there.  New command
tells audit to recalculate the trees, trimming such sources of false
positives.

Note that it's _not_ about path - if something mounted in several places
(multiple mount, bindings, different namespaces, etc.), the match does
_not_ depend on which one we are using for access.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

VFS: delay the dentry name generation on sockets and pipes

2007-05-08T18:15:03+00:00

1) Introduces a new method in 'struct dentry_operations'.  This method
   called d_dname() might be called from d_path() to build a pathname for
   special filesystems.  It is called without locks.

   Future patches (if we succeed in having one common dentry for all
   pipes/sockets) may need to change prototype of this method, but we now
   use : char *d_dname(struct dentry *dentry, char *buffer, int buflen);

2) Adds a dynamic_dname() helper function that eases d_dname() implementations

3) Defines d_dname method for sockets : No more sprintf() at socket
   creation.  This is delayed up to the moment someone does an access to
   /proc/pid/fd/...

4) Defines d_dname method for pipes : No more sprintf() at pipe
   creation.  This is delayed up to the moment someone does an access to
   /proc/pid/fd/...

A benchmark consisting of 1.000.000 calls to pipe()/close()/close() gives a
*nice* speedup on my Pentium(M) 1.6 Ghz :

3.090 s instead of 3.450 s

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] VFS: Destroy the dentries contributed by a superblock on unmounting

2006-10-11T18:14:25+00:00

The attached patch destroys all the dentries attached to a superblock in one go
by:

 (1) Destroying the tree rooted at s_root.

 (2) Destroying every entry in the anon list, one at a time.

 (3) Each entry in the anon list has its subtree consumed from the leaves
     inwards.

This reduces the amount of work generic_shutdown_super() does, and avoids
iterating through the dentry_unused list.

Note that locking is almost entirely absent in the shrink_dcache_for_umount*()
functions added by this patch.  This is because:

 (1) at the point the filesystem calls generic_shutdown_super(), it is not
     permitted to further touch the superblock's set of dentries, and nor may
     it remove aliases from inodes;

 (2) the dcache memory shrinker now skips dentries that are being unmounted;
     and

 (3) the superblock no longer has any external references through which the VFS
     can reach it.

Given these points, the only locking we need to do is when we remove dentries
from the unused list and the name hashes, which we do a directory's worth at a
time.

We also don't need to guard against reference counts going to zero unexpectedly
and removing bits of the tree we're working on as nothing else can call dput().

A cut down version of dentry_iput() has been folded into
shrink_dcache_for_umount_subtree() function.  Apart from not needing to unlock
things, it also doesn't need to check for inotify watches.

In this version of the patch, the complaint about a dentry still being in use
has been expanded from a single BUG_ON() and now gives much more information.

Signed-off-by: David Howells 
Acked-by: NeilBrown 
Acked-by: Ian Kent 
Cc: Trond Myklebust 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

NFS: Add dentry materialisation op

2006-09-23T03:24:30+00:00

The attached patch adds a new directory cache management function that prepares
a disconnected anonymous function to be connected into the dentry tree. The
anonymous dentry is transferred the name and parentage from another dentry.

The following changes were made in [try #2]:

 (*) d_materialise_dentry() now switches the parentage of the two nodes around
     correctly when one or other of them is self-referential.

The following changes were made in [try #7]:

 (*) d_instantiate_unique() has had the interior part split out as function
     __d_instantiate_unique(). Callers of this latter function must be holding
     the appropriate locks.

 (*) _d_rehash() has been added as a wrapper around __d_rehash() to call it
     with the most obvious hash list (the one from the name). d_rehash() now
     calls _d_rehash().

 (*) d_materialise_dentry() is now __d_materialise_dentry() and is static.

 (*) d_materialise_unique() added to perform the combination of d_find_alias(),
     d_materialise_dentry() and d_add_unique() that the NFS client was doing
     twice, all within a single dcache_lock critical section. This reduces the
     number of times two different spinlocks were being accessed.

The following further changes were made:

 (*) Add the dentries onto their parents d_subdirs lists.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells 
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust

[PATCH] lockdep: annotate dcache

2006-07-03T22:27:06+00:00

Teach special (recursive) locking code to the lock validator.  Has no effect
on non-lockdep kernels.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds