linux-toradex.git/fs/proc/generic.c, branch v3.6.5

stop passing nameidata to ->lookup()

2012-07-14T12:34:32+00:00

Just the flags; only NFS cares even about that, but there are
legitimate uses for such argument.  And getting rid of that
completely would require splitting ->lookup() into a couple
of methods (at least), so let's leave that alone for now...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

switch procfs to umode_t use

2012-01-04T03:54:56+00:00

both proc_dir_entry ->mode and populating functions

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

filesystems: add set_nlink()

2011-11-02T11:53:43+00:00

Replace remaining direct i_nlink updates with a new set_nlink()
updater function.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi 
Tested-by: Toshiyuki Okajima 
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig

proc: make struct proc_dir_entry::name a terminal array rather than a pointer

2011-07-27T19:50:45+00:00

Since __proc_create() appends the name it is given to the end of the PDE
structure that it allocates, there isn't a need to store a name pointer.
Instead we can just replace the name pointer with a terminal char array of
_unspecified_ length.  The compiler will simply append the string to statically
defined variables of PDE type overlapping any hole at the end of the structure
and, unlike specifying an explicitly _zero_ length array, won't give a warning
if you try to statically initialise it with a string of more than zero length.

Also, whilst we're at it:

 (1) Move namelen to end just prior to name and reduce it to a single byte
     (name shouldn't be longer than NAME_MAX).

 (2) Move pde_unload_lock two places further on so that if it's four bytes in
     size on a 64-bit machine, it won't cause an unused hole in the PDE struct.

Signed-off-by: David Howells 
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

airo: correct proc entry creation interfaces

2011-05-16T18:25:28+00:00

* use proc_mkdir_mode() instead of create_proc_entry(S_IFDIR|...),
  export proc_mkdir_mode() for that, oh well.
* don't supply S_IFREG to proc_create_data(), it's unnecessary

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

proc: make struct proc_dir_entry::namelen unsigned int

2011-03-24T02:46:37+00:00

1. namelen is declared "unsigned short" which hints for "maybe space savings".
   Indeed in 2.4 struct proc_dir_entry looked like:

        struct proc_dir_entry {
                unsigned short low_ino;
                unsigned short namelen;

   Now, low_ino is "unsigned int", all savings were gone for a long time.
   "struct proc_dir_entry" is not that countless to worry about it's size,
   anyway.

2. converting from unsigned short to int/unsigned int can only create
   problems, we better play it safe.

Space is not really conserved, because of natural alignment for the next
field.  sizeof(struct proc_dir_entry) remains the same.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

proc: less LOCK/UNLOCK in remove_proc_entry()

2011-01-13T16:03:17+00:00

For the common case where a proc entry is being removed and nobody is in
the process of using it, save a LOCK/UNLOCK pair.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

proc: ->low_ino cleanup

2011-01-13T16:03:16+00:00

- ->low_ino is write-once field -- reading it under locks is unnecessary.

- /proc/$PID stuff never reaches pde_put()/free_proc_entry() --
   PROC_DYNAMIC_FIRST check never triggers.

- in proc_get_inode(), inode number always matches proc dir entry, so
  save one parameter.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

fs: dcache reduce branches in lookup path

2011-01-07T06:50:28+00:00

Reduce some branches and memory accesses in dcache lookup by adding dentry
flags to indicate common d_ops are set, rather than having to check them.
This saves a pointer memory access (dentry->d_op) in common path lookup
situations, and saves another pointer load and branch in cases where we
have d_op but not the particular operation.

Patched with:

git grep -E '[.>]([[:space:]])*d_op([[:space:]])*=' | xargs sed -e 's/\([^\t ]*\)->d_op = \(.*\);/d_set_d_op(\1, \2);/' -e 's/\([^\t ]*\)\.d_op = \(.*\);/d_set_d_op(\&\1, \2);/' -i

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin

fs: change d_delete semantics

2011-01-07T06:50:18+00:00

Change d_delete from a dentry deletion notification to a dentry caching
advise, more like ->drop_inode. Require it to be constant and idempotent,
and not take d_lock. This is how all existing filesystems use the callback
anyway.

This makes fine grained dentry locking of dput and dentry lru scanning
much simpler.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin