android_kernel_samsung_msm8976/mm
David Howells 454e2398be [PATCH] VFS: Permit filesystem to override root dentry on mount
Extend the get_sb() filesystem operation to take an extra argument that
permits the VFS to pass in the target vfsmount that defines the mountpoint.

The filesystem is then required to manually set the superblock and root dentry
pointers.  For most filesystems, this should be done with simple_set_mnt()
which will set the superblock pointer and then set the root dentry to the
superblock's s_root (as per the old default behaviour).

The get_sb() op now returns an integer as there's now no need to return the
superblock pointer.

This patch permits a superblock to be implicitly shared amongst several mount
points, such as can be done with NFS to avoid potential inode aliasing.  In
such a case, simple_set_mnt() would not be called, and instead the mnt_root
and mnt_sb would be set directly.

The patch also makes the following changes:

 (*) the get_sb_*() convenience functions in the core kernel now take a vfsmount
     pointer argument and return an integer, so most filesystems have to change
     very little.

 (*) If one of the convenience function is not used, then get_sb() should
     normally call simple_set_mnt() to instantiate the vfsmount. This will
     always return 0, and so can be tail-called from get_sb().

 (*) generic_shutdown_super() now calls shrink_dcache_sb() to clean up the
     dcache upon superblock destruction rather than shrink_dcache_anon().

     This is required because the superblock may now have multiple trees that
     aren't actually bound to s_root, but that still need to be cleaned up. The
     currently called functions assume that the whole tree is rooted at s_root,
     and that anonymous dentries are not the roots of trees which results in
     dentries being left unculled.

     However, with the way NFS superblock sharing are currently set to be
     implemented, these assumptions are violated: the root of the filesystem is
     simply a dummy dentry and inode (the real inode for '/' may well be
     inaccessible), and all the vfsmounts are rooted on anonymous[*] dentries
     with child trees.

     [*] Anonymous until discovered from another tree.

 (*) The documentation has been adjusted, including the additional bit of
     changing ext2_* into foo_* in the documentation.

[akpm@osdl.org: convert ipath_fs, do other stuff]
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23 07:42:45 -07:00
..
bootmem.c [PATCH] x86_64: Handle empty PXMs that only contain hotplug memory 2006-04-09 11:53:16 -07:00
fadvise.c [PATCH] sys_sync_file_range() 2006-03-31 12:18:54 -08:00
filemap.c [PATCH] Add find_get_pages_contig(): contiguous variant of find_get_pages() 2006-04-27 08:59:48 +02:00
filemap.h [PATCH] xip: reduce code duplication 2005-06-24 00:06:41 -07:00
filemap_xip.c [PATCH] replace inode_update_time with file_update_time 2006-01-10 08:01:30 -08:00
fremap.c VM: add common helper function to create the page tables 2005-11-29 14:03:14 -08:00
highmem.c BUG_ON() Conversion in mm/highmem.c 2006-04-02 13:47:35 +02:00
hugetlb.c [PATCH] hugetlb: don't allow free hugetlb count fall below reserved count 2006-03-31 12:18:50 -08:00
internal.h [PATCH] remove set_page_count() outside mm/ 2006-03-22 07:54:02 -08:00
Kconfig [PATCH] mm: make page migration dependent on swap and NUMA 2006-03-25 08:22:50 -08:00
madvise.c [PATCH] Fix MADV_REMOVE protection checking 2006-04-17 18:22:18 -07:00
Makefile [PATCH] uninline zone helpers 2006-03-27 08:44:48 -08:00
memory.c [PATCH] Don't pass boot parameters to argv_init[] 2006-03-31 12:18:53 -08:00
memory_hotplug.c [PATCH] spanned_pages is not updated at a case of memory hot-add 2006-05-31 16:27:10 -07:00
mempolicy.c [PATCH] Remove cond_resched in gather_stats() 2006-04-20 07:54:03 -07:00
mempool.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial 2006-03-26 09:41:18 -08:00
migrate.c [PATCH] page migration: Fix fallback behavior for dirty pages 2006-05-01 18:17:45 -07:00
mincore.c [PATCH] freepgt: sys_mincore ignore FIRST_USER_PGD_NR 2005-04-19 13:29:20 -07:00
mlock.c [PATCH] move capable() to capability.h 2006-01-11 18:42:13 -08:00
mmap.c [PATCH] overcommit: use totalreserve_pages 2006-04-11 06:18:32 -07:00
mmzone.c [PATCH] uninline zone helpers 2006-03-27 08:44:48 -08:00
mprotect.c [PATCH] Enable mprotect on huge pages 2006-03-22 07:54:03 -08:00
mremap.c [PATCH] move capable() to capability.h 2006-01-11 18:42:13 -08:00
msync.c The comment describing how MS_ASYNC works in msync.c is confusing 2006-03-24 18:30:53 +01:00
nommu.c [PATCH] overcommit: use totalreserve_pages for nommu 2006-04-11 06:18:32 -07:00
oom_kill.c [PATCH] mm: fix mm_struct reference counting bugs in mm/oom_kill.c 2006-04-19 09:13:50 -07:00
page-writeback.c [PATCH] page-writeback comment fixes 2006-04-11 06:18:46 -07:00
page_alloc.c [PATCH] Align the node_mem_map endpoints to a MAX_ORDER boundary 2006-05-21 12:59:22 -07:00
page_io.c [PATCH] mm: split page table lock 2005-10-29 21:40:42 -07:00
pdflush.c [PATCH] Swap Migration V5: PF_SWAPWRITE to allow writing to swap 2006-01-08 20:12:41 -08:00
prio_tree.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
readahead.c [PATCH] ext3_readdir: use generic readahead 2006-03-23 07:38:09 -08:00
rmap.c [PATCH] mm: more CONFIG_DEBUG_VM 2006-03-22 07:54:02 -08:00
shmem.c [PATCH] VFS: Permit filesystem to override root dentry on mount 2006-06-23 07:42:45 -07:00
slab.c [PATCH] slab.c: fix offslab_limit bug 2006-06-02 11:21:10 -07:00
slob.c [PATCH] mm/slob.c: for_each_possible_cpu(), not NR_CPUS 2006-04-19 09:13:49 -07:00
sparse.c [PATCH] SPARSEMEM incorrectly calculates section number 2006-05-21 12:59:17 -07:00
swap.c [PATCH] for_each_possible_cpu: fixes for generic part 2006-03-28 09:16:05 -08:00
swap_state.c BUG_ON() Conversion in mm/swap_state.c 2006-04-01 01:25:12 +02:00
swapfile.c [PATCH] mm: schedule find_trylock_page() removal 2006-03-31 12:18:49 -08:00
thrash.c [PATCH] temporarily disable swap token on memory pressure 2005-11-28 14:42:25 -08:00
tiny-shmem.c [PATCH] do_truncate() call fix in tiny-shmem.c 2006-01-12 09:08:49 -08:00
truncate.c [PATCH] mutex subsystem, semaphore to mutex: VFS, ->i_sem 2006-01-09 15:59:24 -08:00
util.c [PATCH] slab: optimize constant-size kzalloc calls 2006-03-25 08:22:49 -08:00
vmalloc.c BUG_ON() Conversion in mm/vmalloc.c 2006-04-01 01:26:09 +02:00
vmscan.c [PATCH] typo in vmscan.c 2006-06-11 15:27:37 -07:00