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