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authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2006-10-02 02:18:57 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-10-02 07:57:25 -0700
commit1c0d04c9e44f4a248335c33d2be7c7f7b06ff359 (patch)
tree6eb913a14a86311158e9a36cc28cd765b179b023 /fs/proc
parent5e61feafa2c641c2a013ba94eec56c411011cc94 (diff)
[PATCH] proc: comment what proc_fill_cache does
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/proc')
-rw-r--r--fs/proc/base.c12
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c
index 433a01d2e992..a317eb2c4442 100644
--- a/fs/proc/base.c
+++ b/fs/proc/base.c
@@ -1057,6 +1057,18 @@ static struct dentry_operations pid_dentry_operations =
typedef struct dentry *instantiate_t(struct inode *, struct dentry *, struct task_struct *, void *);
+/*
+ * Fill a directory entry.
+ *
+ * If possible create the dcache entry and derive our inode number and
+ * file type from dcache entry.
+ *
+ * Since all of the proc inode numbers are dynamically generated, the inode
+ * numbers do not exist until the inode is cache. This means creating the
+ * the dcache entry in readdir is necessary to keep the inode numbers
+ * reported by readdir in sync with the inode numbers reported
+ * by stat.
+ */
static int proc_fill_cache(struct file *filp, void *dirent, filldir_t filldir,
char *name, int len,
instantiate_t instantiate, struct task_struct *task, void *ptr)