From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [RFC][PATCHES] reducing d_add() use, part 1
Date: Sun, 13 May 2018 22:26:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180513212612.GV30522@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
A lot of d_add() uses are in ->lookup() instances;
those really should be d_splice_alias() - that's mandatory
for anything exported (and we'd seen people not bothering
to convert when adding exports/open-by-fhandle support) *and*
it's not costlier than d_add() anyway, in all cases when
d_add() wouldn't have caused instant breakage.
What's more, d_splice_alias() makes for simpler life
in callers - it does the right thing when given ERR_PTR(),
which simplifies the logics in quite a few ->lookup() instances.
There are trickier cases, but a bunch of those call
sites are completely straightforward. See followups, or
vfs.git#work.lookup
next reply other threads:[~2018-05-13 21:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-13 21:26 Al Viro [this message]
2018-05-13 21:30 ` [PATCH 01/15] bfs_lookup(): use d_splice_alias() Al Viro
2018-05-13 21:30 ` [PATCH 02/15] bfs_find_entry: pass name/len as qstr pointer Al Viro
2018-05-13 21:30 ` [PATCH 03/15] bfs_add_entry: " Al Viro
2018-05-13 21:30 ` [PATCH 04/15] cramfs_lookup(): use d_splice_alias() Al Viro
2018-05-13 21:30 ` [PATCH 05/15] freevxfs_lookup(): " Al Viro
2018-05-14 8:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-05-14 15:26 ` Al Viro
2018-05-13 21:30 ` [PATCH 06/15] minix_lookup: " Al Viro
2018-05-13 21:30 ` [PATCH 07/15] qnx4_lookup: " Al Viro
2018-05-14 10:48 ` Anders Larsen
2018-05-13 21:30 ` [PATCH 08/15] sysv_lookup: " Al Viro
2018-05-14 8:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-05-13 21:30 ` [PATCH 09/15] ubifs_lookup: " Al Viro
2018-05-14 6:48 ` Richard Weinberger
2018-05-13 21:30 ` [PATCH 10/15] qnx6_lookup: switch to d_splice_alias() Al Viro
2018-05-13 21:30 ` [PATCH 11/15] romfs_lookup: hash negative lookups, use d_splice_alias() Al Viro
2018-05-13 21:30 ` [PATCH 12/15] adfs_lookup_byname: .. *is* taken care of in fs/namei.c Al Viro
2018-05-13 21:30 ` [PATCH 13/15] adfs_lookup: do not fail with ENOENT on negatives, use d_splice_alias() Al Viro
2018-05-13 21:30 ` [PATCH 14/15] xfs_vn_lookup: simplify a bit Al Viro
2018-05-14 8:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-05-13 21:30 ` [PATCH 15/15] openpromfs: switch to d_splice_alias() Al Viro
2018-05-16 9:45 ` [PATCH 01/15] bfs_lookup(): use d_splice_alias() Tigran Aivazian
2018-05-25 23:53 ` [RFC][PATCHES] reducing d_add() use, part 2 Al Viro
2018-05-25 23:54 ` [PATCH 01/10] openpromfs: switch to d_splice_alias() Al Viro
2018-05-25 23:54 ` [PATCH 02/10] orangefs_lookup: simplify Al Viro
2018-05-31 18:23 ` Mike Marshall
2018-05-25 23:54 ` [PATCH 03/10] omfs_lookup(): report IO errors, use d_splice_alias() Al Viro
2018-05-25 23:54 ` [PATCH 04/10] hfs: " Al Viro
2018-05-25 23:54 ` [PATCH 05/10] hfs: don't allow mounting over .../rsrc Al Viro
2018-05-25 23:54 ` [PATCH 06/10] hfsplus: switch to d_splice_alias() Al Viro
2018-05-25 23:54 ` [PATCH 07/10] ncp_lookup(): use d_splice_alias() Al Viro
2018-05-25 23:54 ` [PATCH 08/10] 9p: unify paths in v9fs_vfs_lookup() Al Viro
2018-05-25 23:54 ` [PATCH 09/10] cifs_lookup(): cifs_get_inode_...() never returns 0 with *inode left NULL Al Viro
2018-05-25 23:54 ` [PATCH 10/10] cifs_lookup(): switch to d_splice_alias() Al Viro
2018-05-26 0:03 ` [RFC][PATCHES] reducing d_add() use, part 3 (procfs) Al Viro
2018-05-26 0:04 ` [PATCH 1/5] procfs: get rid of ancient BS in pid_revalidate() uses Al Viro
2018-05-26 0:04 ` [PATCH 2/5] proc_lookupfd_common(): don't bother with instantiate unless the file is open Al Viro
2018-05-26 0:04 ` [PATCH 3/5] don't bother with tid_fd_revalidate() in lookups Al Viro
2018-05-26 0:04 ` [PATCH 4/5] procfs: switch instantiate_t to d_splice_alias() Al Viro
2018-05-26 0:04 ` [PATCH 5/5] switch the rest of procfs lookups " Al Viro
2018-05-31 8:28 ` [PATCH 1/5] procfs: get rid of ancient BS in pid_revalidate() uses Alexey Dobriyan
2018-05-26 13:07 ` [RFC][PATCHES] reducing d_add() use, part 3 (procfs) Alexey Dobriyan
2018-05-26 13:56 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2018-05-26 18:20 ` Al Viro
2018-05-26 18:38 ` Matthew Wilcox
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