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authorAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2011-01-14 22:30:21 -0500
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2011-01-16 13:47:07 -0500
commitf03c65993b98eeb909a4012ce7833c5857d74755 (patch)
treea6dd5e353889b7fe4ab87c54170d09443d788fec /fs/namei.c
parent7b8a53fd815deb39542085897743fa0063f9fe06 (diff)
sanitize vfsmount refcounting changes
Instead of splitting refcount between (per-cpu) mnt_count and (SMP-only) mnt_longrefs, make all references contribute to mnt_count again and keep track of how many are longterm ones. Accounting rules for longterm count: * 1 for each fs_struct.root.mnt * 1 for each fs_struct.pwd.mnt * 1 for having non-NULL ->mnt_ns * decrement to 0 happens only under vfsmount lock exclusive That allows nice common case for mntput() - since we can't drop the final reference until after mnt_longterm has reached 0 due to the rules above, mntput() can grab vfsmount lock shared and check mnt_longterm. If it turns out to be non-zero (which is the common case), we know that this is not the final mntput() and can just blindly decrement percpu mnt_count. Otherwise we grab vfsmount lock exclusive and do usual decrement-and-check of percpu mnt_count. For fs_struct.c we have mnt_make_longterm() and mnt_make_shortterm(); namespace.c uses the latter in places where we don't already hold vfsmount lock exclusive and opencodes a few remaining spots where we need to manipulate mnt_longterm. Note that we mostly revert the code outside of fs/namespace.c back to what we used to have; in particular, normal code doesn't need to care about two kinds of references, etc. And we get to keep the optimization Nick's variant had bought us... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/namei.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/namei.c24
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 24 deletions
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index c2e37727e3ab..8f7b41a14882 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -368,18 +368,6 @@ void path_get(struct path *path)
EXPORT_SYMBOL(path_get);
/**
- * path_get_long - get a long reference to a path
- * @path: path to get the reference to
- *
- * Given a path increment the reference count to the dentry and the vfsmount.
- */
-void path_get_long(struct path *path)
-{
- mntget_long(path->mnt);
- dget(path->dentry);
-}
-
-/**
* path_put - put a reference to a path
* @path: path to put the reference to
*
@@ -393,18 +381,6 @@ void path_put(struct path *path)
EXPORT_SYMBOL(path_put);
/**
- * path_put_long - put a long reference to a path
- * @path: path to put the reference to
- *
- * Given a path decrement the reference count to the dentry and the vfsmount.
- */
-void path_put_long(struct path *path)
-{
- dput(path->dentry);
- mntput_long(path->mnt);
-}
-
-/**
* nameidata_drop_rcu - drop this nameidata out of rcu-walk
* @nd: nameidata pathwalk data to drop
* Returns: 0 on success, -ECHILD on failure