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authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2006-08-23 04:06:07 +0400
committerTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>2006-09-23 07:24:30 +0400
commit770bfad846ab6628444428467b11fa6773ae9ea1 (patch)
tree5fd803319fe718367dca081b23abd36bfc85f78a /include
parent979df72e6f963b42ee484f2eca049c3344da0ba7 (diff)
downloadlinux-770bfad846ab6628444428467b11fa6773ae9ea1.tar.xz
NFS: Add dentry materialisation op
The attached patch adds a new directory cache management function that prepares a disconnected anonymous function to be connected into the dentry tree. The anonymous dentry is transferred the name and parentage from another dentry. The following changes were made in [try #2]: (*) d_materialise_dentry() now switches the parentage of the two nodes around correctly when one or other of them is self-referential. The following changes were made in [try #7]: (*) d_instantiate_unique() has had the interior part split out as function __d_instantiate_unique(). Callers of this latter function must be holding the appropriate locks. (*) _d_rehash() has been added as a wrapper around __d_rehash() to call it with the most obvious hash list (the one from the name). d_rehash() now calls _d_rehash(). (*) d_materialise_dentry() is now __d_materialise_dentry() and is static. (*) d_materialise_unique() added to perform the combination of d_find_alias(), d_materialise_dentry() and d_add_unique() that the NFS client was doing twice, all within a single dcache_lock critical section. This reduces the number of times two different spinlocks were being accessed. The following further changes were made: (*) Add the dentries onto their parents d_subdirs lists. Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/dcache.h1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/dcache.h b/include/linux/dcache.h
index 471781ffeab1..44605be59409 100644
--- a/include/linux/dcache.h
+++ b/include/linux/dcache.h
@@ -221,6 +221,7 @@ static inline int dname_external(struct dentry *dentry)
*/
extern void d_instantiate(struct dentry *, struct inode *);
extern struct dentry * d_instantiate_unique(struct dentry *, struct inode *);
+extern struct dentry * d_materialise_unique(struct dentry *, struct inode *);
extern void d_delete(struct dentry *);
/* allocate/de-allocate */