dcache: Don't set DISCONNECTED on "pseudo filesystem" dentries
I can't for the life of me see any reason why anyone should care whether
a dentry that is never hooked into the dentry cache would need
DCACHE_DISCONNECTED set.
This originates from 4b936885ab04dc6e0bb0ef35e0e23c1a7364d9e5 "fs:
improve scalability of pseudo filesystems", which probably just made the
false assumption the DCACHE_DISCONNECTED was meant to be set on anything
not connected to a parent somehow.
So this is just confusing. Ideally the only uses of DCACHE_DISCONNECTED
would be in the filehandle-lookup code, which needs it to ensure
dentries are connected into the dentry tree before use.
I left d_alloc_pseudo there even though it's now equivalent to
__d_alloc(), just on the theory the name is better documentation of its
intended use outside dcache.c.
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c
index c2add37..67662be 100644
--- a/fs/dcache.c
+++ b/fs/dcache.c
@@ -1607,12 +1607,17 @@
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(d_alloc);
+/**
+ * d_alloc_pseudo - allocate a dentry (for lookup-less filesystems)
+ * @sb: the superblock
+ * @name: qstr of the name
+ *
+ * For a filesystem that just pins its dentries in memory and never
+ * performs lookups at all, return an unhashed IS_ROOT dentry.
+ */
struct dentry *d_alloc_pseudo(struct super_block *sb, const struct qstr *name)
{
- struct dentry *dentry = __d_alloc(sb, name);
- if (dentry)
- dentry->d_flags |= DCACHE_DISCONNECTED;
- return dentry;
+ return __d_alloc(sb, name);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(d_alloc_pseudo);