Re: [REPOST PATCH v4 1/5] kernfs: move revalidate to be near lookup

[Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>]

On Thu, 2021-06-03 at 09:50 -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> writes:
> 
> > While the dentry operation kernfs_dop_revalidate() is grouped with
> > dentry type functions it also has a strong affinity to the inode
> > operation ->lookup().
> > 
> > In order to take advantage of the VFS negative dentry caching that
> > can be used to reduce path lookup overhead on non-existent paths it
> > will need to call kernfs_find_ns(). So, to avoid a forward
> > declaration,
> > move it to be near kernfs_iop_lookup().
> > 
> > There's no functional change from this patch.
> 
> Does this patch compile independently?

Doubt it.

> 
> During the code movement  kernfs_active is replaced
> by kernfs_active_read which does not exist yet.

Oops, that was a consequence of reordering the series which I
didn't catch.

I'll fix that when I post a v5 which I'm going to have to do.

Thanks for looking at this Eric,
Ian
> 
> Eric
> 
> > Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
> > ---
> >  fs/kernfs/dir.c |   86 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
> > ------------
> >  1 file changed, 43 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/fs/kernfs/dir.c b/fs/kernfs/dir.c
> > index 7e0e62deab53c..4c69e2af82dac 100644
> > --- a/fs/kernfs/dir.c
> > +++ b/fs/kernfs/dir.c
> > @@ -548,49 +548,6 @@ void kernfs_put(struct kernfs_node *kn)
> >  }
> >  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kernfs_put);
> >  
> > -static int kernfs_dop_revalidate(struct dentry *dentry, unsigned
> > int flags)
> > -{
> > -       struct kernfs_node *kn;
> > -
> > -       if (flags & LOOKUP_RCU)
> > -               return -ECHILD;
> > -
> > -       /* Always perform fresh lookup for negatives */
> > -       if (d_really_is_negative(dentry))
> > -               goto out_bad_unlocked;
> > -
> > -       kn = kernfs_dentry_node(dentry);
> > -       mutex_lock(&kernfs_mutex);
> > -
> > -       /* The kernfs node has been deactivated */
> > -       if (!kernfs_active(kn))
> > -               goto out_bad;
> > -
> > -       /* The kernfs node has been moved? */
> > -       if (kernfs_dentry_node(dentry->d_parent) != kn->parent)
> > -               goto out_bad;
> > -
> > -       /* The kernfs node has been renamed */
> > -       if (strcmp(dentry->d_name.name, kn->name) != 0)
> > -               goto out_bad;
> > -
> > -       /* The kernfs node has been moved to a different namespace
> > */
> > -       if (kn->parent && kernfs_ns_enabled(kn->parent) &&
> > -           kernfs_info(dentry->d_sb)->ns != kn->ns)
> > -               goto out_bad;
> > -
> > -       mutex_unlock(&kernfs_mutex);
> > -       return 1;
> > -out_bad:
> > -       mutex_unlock(&kernfs_mutex);
> > -out_bad_unlocked:
> > -       return 0;
> > -}
> > -
> > -const struct dentry_operations kernfs_dops = {
> > -       .d_revalidate   = kernfs_dop_revalidate,
> > -};
> > -
> >  /**
> >   * kernfs_node_from_dentry - determine kernfs_node associated with
> > a dentry
> >   * @dentry: the dentry in question
> > @@ -1073,6 +1030,49 @@ struct kernfs_node
> > *kernfs_create_empty_dir(struct kernfs_node *parent,
> >         return ERR_PTR(rc);
> >  }
> >  
> > +static int kernfs_dop_revalidate(struct dentry *dentry, unsigned
> > int flags)
> > +{
> > +       struct kernfs_node *kn;
> > +
> > +       if (flags & LOOKUP_RCU)
> > +               return -ECHILD;
> > +
> > +       /* Always perform fresh lookup for negatives */
> > +       if (d_really_is_negative(dentry))
> > +               goto out_bad_unlocked;
> > +
> > +       kn = kernfs_dentry_node(dentry);
> > +       mutex_lock(&kernfs_mutex);
> > +
> > +       /* The kernfs node has been deactivated */
> > +       if (!kernfs_active_read(kn))
> > +               goto out_bad;
> > +
> > +       /* The kernfs node has been moved? */
> > +       if (kernfs_dentry_node(dentry->d_parent) != kn->parent)
> > +               goto out_bad;
> > +
> > +       /* The kernfs node has been renamed */
> > +       if (strcmp(dentry->d_name.name, kn->name) != 0)
> > +               goto out_bad;
> > +
> > +       /* The kernfs node has been moved to a different namespace
> > */
> > +       if (kn->parent && kernfs_ns_enabled(kn->parent) &&
> > +           kernfs_info(dentry->d_sb)->ns != kn->ns)
> > +               goto out_bad;
> > +
> > +       mutex_unlock(&kernfs_mutex);
> > +       return 1;
> > +out_bad:
> > +       mutex_unlock(&kernfs_mutex);
> > +out_bad_unlocked:
> > +       return 0;
> > +}
> > +
> > +const struct dentry_operations kernfs_dops = {
> > +       .d_revalidate   = kernfs_dop_revalidate,
> > +};
> > +
> >  static struct dentry *kernfs_iop_lookup(struct inode *dir,
> >                                         struct dentry *dentry,
> >                                         unsigned int flags)