fs: rcu-walk aware d_revalidate method

Require filesystems be aware of .d_revalidate being called in rcu-walk
mode (nd->flags & LOOKUP_RCU). For now do a simple push down, returning
-ECHILD from all implementations.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
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Nick Piggin
2011-01-07 17:49:57 +11:00
parent 44a7d7a878
commit 34286d6662
27 changed files with 215 additions and 61 deletions

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@@ -360,3 +360,23 @@ i_dentry to be reinitialized before it is freed, so an:
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&inode->i_dentry);
must be done in the RCU callback.
--
[recommended]
vfs now tries to do path walking in "rcu-walk mode", which avoids
atomic operations and scalability hazards on dentries and inodes (see
Documentation/filesystems/path-walk.txt). d_hash and d_compare changes (above)
are examples of the changes required to support this. For more complex
filesystem callbacks, the vfs drops out of rcu-walk mode before the fs call, so
no changes are required to the filesystem. However, this is costly and loses
the benefits of rcu-walk mode. We will begin to add filesystem callbacks that
are rcu-walk aware, shown below. Filesystems should take advantage of this
where possible.
--
[mandatory]
d_revalidate is a callback that is made on every path element (if
the filesystem provides it), which requires dropping out of rcu-walk mode. This
may now be called in rcu-walk mode (nd->flags & LOOKUP_RCU). -ECHILD should be
returned if the filesystem cannot handle rcu-walk. See
Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt for more details.