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Al Viro 339e9e1353 don't try to cut corners in shrink_lock_dentry()
That is to say, do *not* treat the ->d_inode or ->d_parent changes
as "it's hard, return false; somebody must have grabbed it, so
even if has zero refcount, we don't need to bother killing it -
final dput() from whoever grabbed it would've done everything".

First of all, that is not guaranteed.  It might have been dropped
by shrink_kill() handling of victim's parent, which would've found
it already on a shrink list (ours) and decided that they don't need
to put it on their shrink list.

What's more, dentry_kill() is doing pretty much the same thing,
cutting its own set of corners (it assumes that dentry can't
go from positive to negative, so its inode can change but only once
and only in one direction).

Doing that right allows to get rid of that not-quite-duplication
and removes the only reason for re-incrementing refcount before
the call of dentry_kill().

Replacement is called lock_for_kill(); called under rcu_read_lock
and with ->d_lock held.  If it returns false, dentry has non-zero
refcount and the same locks are held.  If it returns true,
dentry has zero refcount and all locks required by __dentry_kill()
are taken.

Part of __lock_parent() had been lifted into lock_parent() to
allow its reuse.  Now it's called with rcu_read_lock already
held and dentry already unlocked.

Note that this is not the final change - locking requirements for
__dentry_kill() are going to change later in the series and the
set of locks taken by lock_for_kill() will be adjusted.  Both
lock_parent() and __lock_parent() will be gone once that happens.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
History 2023-11-25 02:34:12 -05:00
arch dentry: switch the lists of children to hlist 2023-11-25 02:32:13 -05:00
block blk-core: use pr_warn_ratelimited() in bio_check_ro() 2023-11-07 08:15:23 -07:00
certs This update includes the following changes: 2023-11-02 16:15:30 -10:00
crypto This push fixes a regression in ahash and hides the Kconfig sub-options for the jitter RNG. 2023-11-09 17:04:58 -08:00
Documentation Call retain_dentry() with refcount 0 2023-11-25 02:33:56 -05:00
drivers wifi: iwlwifi: fix system commands group ordering 2023-11-12 11:34:19 -08:00
fs don't try to cut corners in shrink_lock_dentry() 2023-11-25 02:34:12 -05:00
include dentry: switch the lists of children to hlist 2023-11-25 02:32:13 -05:00
init As usual, lots of singleton and doubleton patches all over the tree and 2023-11-02 20:53:31 -10:00
io_uring io_uring: do not clamp read length for multishot read 2023-11-06 13:41:58 -07:00
ipc Many singleton patches against the MM code. The patch series which are 2023-11-02 19:38:47 -10:00
kernel Probes fixes for v6.7-rc1: 2023-11-10 16:35:04 -08:00
lib lib: test_objpool: make global variables static 2023-11-10 19:59:04 +09:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add the copyleft-next-0.3.1 license 2022-11-08 15:44:01 +01:00
mm memblock: report failures when memblock_can_resize is not set 2023-11-08 09:40:13 -08:00
net Including fixes from netfilter and bpf. 2023-11-09 17:09:35 -08:00
rust Kbuild updates for v6.7 2023-11-04 08:07:19 -10:00
samples Landlock updates for v6.7-rc1 2023-11-03 09:28:53 -10:00
scripts Kbuild updates for v6.7 2023-11-04 08:07:19 -10:00
security + Features 2023-11-03 09:48:17 -10:00
sound sound fixes for 6.7-rc1 2023-11-10 11:57:51 -08:00
tools LoongArch changes for v6.7 2023-11-12 10:58:08 -08:00
usr arch: Remove Itanium (IA-64) architecture 2023-09-11 08:13:17 +00:00
virt ARM: 2023-09-07 13:52:20 -07:00
.clang-format iommu: Add for_each_group_device() 2023-05-23 08:15:51 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore get_maintainer: add Alan to .get_maintainer.ignore 2022-08-20 15:17:44 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore kbuild: rpm-pkg: generate kernel.spec in rpmbuild/SPECS/ 2023-10-03 20:49:09 +09:00
.mailmap As usual, lots of singleton and doubleton patches all over the tree and 2023-11-02 20:53:31 -10:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS USB: Remove Wireless USB and UWB documentation 2023-08-09 14:17:32 +02:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS - removed AR7 platform support 2023-11-10 09:19:46 -08:00
Makefile Linux 6.7-rc1 2023-11-12 16:19:07 -08:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.