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| author | Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> | 2024-01-16 16:12:18 -0500 |
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| committer | Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> | 2024-01-16 16:27:47 -0500 |
| commit | 53c41052ba3121761e6f62a813961164532a214f (patch) | |
| tree | 3bca956bb1e60bd569a6a614398411c19a8acfb0 /fs/tracefs | |
| parent | 1de94b52d5e8d8b32f0252f14fad1f1edc2e71f1 (diff) | |
eventfs: Have the inodes all for files and directories all be the same
The dentries and inodes are created in the readdir for the sole purpose of
getting a consistent inode number. Linus stated that is unnecessary, and
that all inodes can have the same inode number. For a virtual file system
they are pretty meaningless.
Instead use a single unique inode number for all files and one for all
directories.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240116133753.2808d45e@gandalf.local.home/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240116211353.412180363@goodmis.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ajay Kaher <ajay.kaher@broadcom.com>
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/tracefs')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/tracefs/event_inode.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c b/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c index fdff53d5a1f8..5edf0b96758b 100644 --- a/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c +++ b/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c @@ -32,6 +32,10 @@ */ static DEFINE_MUTEX(eventfs_mutex); +/* Choose something "unique" ;-) */ +#define EVENTFS_FILE_INODE_INO 0x12c4e37 +#define EVENTFS_DIR_INODE_INO 0x134b2f5 + /* * The eventfs_inode (ei) itself is protected by SRCU. It is released from * its parent's list and will have is_freed set (under eventfs_mutex). @@ -352,6 +356,9 @@ static struct dentry *create_file(const char *name, umode_t mode, inode->i_fop = fop; inode->i_private = data; + /* All files will have the same inode number */ + inode->i_ino = EVENTFS_FILE_INODE_INO; + ti = get_tracefs(inode); ti->flags |= TRACEFS_EVENT_INODE; d_instantiate(dentry, inode); @@ -388,6 +395,9 @@ static struct dentry *create_dir(struct eventfs_inode *ei, struct dentry *parent inode->i_op = &eventfs_root_dir_inode_operations; inode->i_fop = &eventfs_file_operations; + /* All directories will have the same inode number */ + inode->i_ino = EVENTFS_DIR_INODE_INO; + ti = get_tracefs(inode); ti->flags |= TRACEFS_EVENT_INODE; |