Re: [patch 2/6] fs: no games with DCACHE_UNHASHED

From: Nick Piggin
Date: Thu Oct 15 2009 - 04:30:32 EST


On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 10:13:43AM +0200, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Now both sockets and pipes define a d_dname so they are OK, but anon_inodes
> does not. I think they should probably be made to just provide a d_dname
> anyway so we can have the familiar format of "pseudofs:[ino]" rather than
> "[pseudofs]" that we have now.
>
> That should make this patch work for anon_inodes.c as well.

So what if we were to do this first? Are there any other reasons I've
missed? (btw. this changes the format the link if that is a problem.
Probably if we're going to do this change, we should change things like
[timerfd] to just timerfd while we're there to improve consistency
further.
--
Pipe and socket pseudo filesystems report their file descriptor link
paths as pipe:[ino] and socket:[ino]. anon_inodefs allows subsystems
to specify a name, but it does not report an associated inode number.

Implement this with anon_inodefs_dname in the same way pipefs and sockfs
are.

---
fs/anon_inodes.c | 10 ++++++++++
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

Index: linux-2.6/fs/anon_inodes.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/fs/anon_inodes.c
+++ linux-2.6/fs/anon_inodes.c
@@ -45,6 +45,15 @@ static int anon_inodefs_delete_dentry(st
return 1;
}

+/*
+ * anon_inodefs_dname() is called from d_path().
+ */
+static char *anon_inodefs_dname(struct dentry *dentry, char *buffer, int buflen)
+{
+ return dynamic_dname(dentry, buffer, buflen, "%s:[%lu]",
+ dentry->d_name.name, dentry->d_inode->i_ino);
+}
+
static struct file_system_type anon_inode_fs_type = {
.name = "anon_inodefs",
.get_sb = anon_inodefs_get_sb,
@@ -52,6 +61,7 @@ static struct file_system_type anon_inod
};
static const struct dentry_operations anon_inodefs_dentry_operations = {
.d_delete = anon_inodefs_delete_dentry,
+ .d_dname = anon_inodefs_dname,
};

/*
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