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-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/porting5
-rw-r--r--fs/dcache.c24
-rw-r--r--fs/nsfs.c3
-rw-r--r--include/linux/dcache.h2
4 files changed, 20 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting
index cf43bc4dbf31..a60fa516d4cb 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting
@@ -638,3 +638,8 @@ in your dentry operations instead.
inode to d_splice_alias() will also do the right thing (equivalent of
d_add(dentry, NULL); return NULL;), so that kind of special cases
also doesn't need a separate treatment.
+--
+[mandatory]
+ DCACHE_RCUACCESS is gone; having an RCU delay on dentry freeing is the
+ default. DCACHE_NORCU opts out, and only d_alloc_pseudo() has any
+ business doing so.
diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c
index aac41adf4743..c663c602f9ef 100644
--- a/fs/dcache.c
+++ b/fs/dcache.c
@@ -344,7 +344,7 @@ static void dentry_free(struct dentry *dentry)
}
}
/* if dentry was never visible to RCU, immediate free is OK */
- if (!(dentry->d_flags & DCACHE_RCUACCESS))
+ if (dentry->d_flags & DCACHE_NORCU)
__d_free(&dentry->d_u.d_rcu);
else
call_rcu(&dentry->d_u.d_rcu, __d_free);
@@ -1701,7 +1701,6 @@ struct dentry *d_alloc(struct dentry * parent, const struct qstr *name)
struct dentry *dentry = __d_alloc(parent->d_sb, name);
if (!dentry)
return NULL;
- dentry->d_flags |= DCACHE_RCUACCESS;
spin_lock(&parent->d_lock);
/*
* don't need child lock because it is not subject
@@ -1726,7 +1725,7 @@ struct dentry *d_alloc_cursor(struct dentry * parent)
{
struct dentry *dentry = d_alloc_anon(parent->d_sb);
if (dentry) {
- dentry->d_flags |= DCACHE_RCUACCESS | DCACHE_DENTRY_CURSOR;
+ dentry->d_flags |= DCACHE_DENTRY_CURSOR;
dentry->d_parent = dget(parent);
}
return dentry;
@@ -1739,10 +1738,17 @@ struct dentry *d_alloc_cursor(struct dentry * parent)
*
* For a filesystem that just pins its dentries in memory and never
* performs lookups at all, return an unhashed IS_ROOT dentry.
+ * This is used for pipes, sockets et.al. - the stuff that should
+ * never be anyone's children or parents. Unlike all other
+ * dentries, these will not have RCU delay between dropping the
+ * last reference and freeing them.
*/
struct dentry *d_alloc_pseudo(struct super_block *sb, const struct qstr *name)
{
- return __d_alloc(sb, name);
+ struct dentry *dentry = __d_alloc(sb, name);
+ if (likely(dentry))
+ dentry->d_flags |= DCACHE_NORCU;
+ return dentry;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(d_alloc_pseudo);
@@ -1911,12 +1917,10 @@ struct dentry *d_make_root(struct inode *root_inode)
if (root_inode) {
res = d_alloc_anon(root_inode->i_sb);
- if (res) {
- res->d_flags |= DCACHE_RCUACCESS;
+ if (res)
d_instantiate(res, root_inode);
- } else {
+ else
iput(root_inode);
- }
}
return res;
}
@@ -2781,9 +2785,7 @@ static void __d_move(struct dentry *dentry, struct dentry *target,
copy_name(dentry, target);
target->d_hash.pprev = NULL;
dentry->d_parent->d_lockref.count++;
- if (dentry == old_parent)
- dentry->d_flags |= DCACHE_RCUACCESS;
- else
+ if (dentry != old_parent) /* wasn't IS_ROOT */
WARN_ON(!--old_parent->d_lockref.count);
} else {
target->d_parent = old_parent;
diff --git a/fs/nsfs.c b/fs/nsfs.c
index 60702d677bd4..30d150a4f0c6 100644
--- a/fs/nsfs.c
+++ b/fs/nsfs.c
@@ -85,13 +85,12 @@ slow:
inode->i_fop = &ns_file_operations;
inode->i_private = ns;
- dentry = d_alloc_pseudo(mnt->mnt_sb, &empty_name);
+ dentry = d_alloc_anon(mnt->mnt_sb);
if (!dentry) {
iput(inode);
return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
}
d_instantiate(dentry, inode);
- dentry->d_flags |= DCACHE_RCUACCESS;
dentry->d_fsdata = (void *)ns->ops;
d = atomic_long_cmpxchg(&ns->stashed, 0, (unsigned long)dentry);
if (d) {
diff --git a/include/linux/dcache.h b/include/linux/dcache.h
index 60996e64c579..6e1e8e6602c6 100644
--- a/include/linux/dcache.h
+++ b/include/linux/dcache.h
@@ -176,7 +176,6 @@ struct dentry_operations {
* typically using d_splice_alias. */
#define DCACHE_REFERENCED 0x00000040 /* Recently used, don't discard. */
-#define DCACHE_RCUACCESS 0x00000080 /* Entry has ever been RCU-visible */
#define DCACHE_CANT_MOUNT 0x00000100
#define DCACHE_GENOCIDE 0x00000200
@@ -217,6 +216,7 @@ struct dentry_operations {
#define DCACHE_PAR_LOOKUP 0x10000000 /* being looked up (with parent locked shared) */
#define DCACHE_DENTRY_CURSOR 0x20000000
+#define DCACHE_NORCU 0x40000000 /* No RCU delay for freeing */
extern seqlock_t rename_lock;