Re: [PATCH] Store sysfs dirent structs in rbtree

From: Cornelia Huck
Date: Thu Jun 24 2010 - 14:04:39 EST


On Wed, 23 Jun 2010 21:56:04 -0500,
Nathan Fontenot <nfont@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> +static void sysfs_dirent_insert(struct sysfs_dirent *sd)
> +{
> + struct sysfs_dirent *parent_sd = sd->s_parent;
> + struct sysfs_dirent *d;
> + struct rb_node **p = &parent_sd->s_dir.rb_root.rb_node;
> + struct rb_node *parent = NULL;
> +
> + while (*p) {
> + int cmp_val;
> + parent = *p;
> + d = to_sysfs_dirent(parent);
> +
> + cmp_val = strcmp(d->s_name, sd->s_name);
> + if (cmp_val < 0)
> + p = &parent->rb_left;
> + if (cmp_val > 0)
> + p = &parent->rb_right;
> + }
> +
> + rb_link_node(&sd->s_dir.rb_node, parent, p);
> + rb_insert_color(&sd->s_dir.rb_node, &parent_sd->s_dir.rb_root);
> +}

This will run into trouble if you have duplicate names in different
namespaces. You won't see it with your patch though, since...

> @@ -536,14 +572,24 @@
> const void *ns,
> const unsigned char *name)
> {
> - struct sysfs_dirent *sd;
> -
> - for (sd = parent_sd->s_dir.children; sd; sd = sd->s_sibling) {
> - if (ns && sd->s_ns && (sd->s_ns != ns))
> - continue;
> - if (!strcmp(sd->s_name, name))
> - return sd;
> + struct sysfs_dirent *d;
> + struct rb_node **p = &parent_sd->s_dir.rb_root.rb_node;
> + struct rb_node *parent = NULL;
> +
> + while (*p) {
> + int cmp_val;
> + parent = *p;
> + d = to_sysfs_dirent(parent);
> +
> + cmp_val = strcmp(d->s_name, name);
> + if (cmp_val == 0)
> + return d;
> + else if (cmp_val < 0)
> + p = &parent->rb_left;
> + else /* (cmp_val > 0) */
> + p = &parent->rb_right;
> }
> +
> return NULL;
> }

...you removed the namespace check down here.
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