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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@@ -863,6 +863,15 @@ struct dentry_operations {
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dcache. Most filesystems leave this as NULL, because all their
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dentries in the dcache are valid
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d_revalidate may be called in rcu-walk mode (nd->flags & LOOKUP_RCU).
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If in rcu-walk mode, the filesystem must revalidate the dentry without
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blocking or storing to the dentry, d_parent and d_inode should not be
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used without care (because they can go NULL), instead nd->inode should
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be used.
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If a situation is encountered that rcu-walk cannot handle, return
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-ECHILD and it will be called again in ref-walk mode.
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d_hash: called when the VFS adds a dentry to the hash table. The first
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dentry passed to d_hash is the parent directory that the name is
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to be hashed into. The inode is the dentry's inode.
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