vfs: make it possible to access the dentry hash/len as one 64-bit entry

This allows comparing hash and len in one operation on 64-bit
architectures.  Right now only __d_lookup_rcu() takes advantage of this,
since that is the case we care most about.

The use of anonymous struct/unions hides the alternate 64-bit approach
from most users, the exception being a few cases where we initialize a
'struct qstr' with a static initializer.  This makes the problematic
cases use a new QSTR_INIT() helper function for that (but initializing
just the name pointer with a "{ .name = xyzzy }" initializer remains
valid, as does just copying another qstr structure).

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Linus Torvalds
2012-05-10 13:14:12 -07:00
parent ee983e8967
commit 26fe575028
18 changed files with 44 additions and 48 deletions

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@@ -441,7 +441,7 @@ static struct dentry *nilfs_get_parent(struct dentry *child)
{
unsigned long ino;
struct inode *inode;
struct qstr dotdot = {.name = "..", .len = 2};
struct qstr dotdot = QSTR_INIT("..", 2);
struct nilfs_root *root;
ino = nilfs_inode_by_name(child->d_inode, &dotdot);