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Christian Brauner 523ac76880
Merge patch series "Create and use APIs to centralise locking for directory ops."
NeilBrown <neilb@ownmail.net> says:

This series is the next part of my effort to change directory-op
locking to allow multiple concurrent ops in a directory.  Ultimately we
will (in my plan) lock the target dentry(s) rather than the whole
parent directory.

To help with changing the locking protocol, this series centralises
locking and lookup in some helpers.  The various helpers are introduced
and then used in the same patch - roughly one patch per helper though
with various exceptions.

I haven't introduced these helpers into the various filesystems that
Al's tree-in-dcache series is changing.  That series introduces and
uses similar helpers tuned to the specific needs of that set of
filesystems.  Ultimately all the helpers will use the same backends
which can then be adjusted when it is time to change the locking
protocol.

One change that deserves highlighting is in patch 13 where vfs_mkdir()
is changed to unlock the parent on failure, as well as the current
behaviour of dput()ing the dentry on failure.  Once this change is in
place, the final step of both create and an remove sequences only
requires the target dentry, not the parent.  So e.g.  end_creating() is
only given the dentry (which may be IS_ERR() after vfs_mkdir()).  This
helps establish the pattern that it is the dentry that is being locked
and unlocked (the lock is currently held on dentry->d_parent->d_inode,
but that can change).

* patches from https://patch.msgid.link/20251113002050.676694-1-neilb@ownmail.net:
  VFS: introduce end_creating_keep()
  VFS: change vfs_mkdir() to unlock on failure.
  ecryptfs: use new start_creating/start_removing APIs
  Add start_renaming_two_dentries()
  VFS/ovl/smb: introduce start_renaming_dentry()
  VFS/nfsd/ovl: introduce start_renaming() and end_renaming()
  VFS: add start_creating_killable() and start_removing_killable()
  VFS: introduce start_removing_dentry()
  smb/server: use end_removing_noperm for for target of smb2_create_link()
  VFS: introduce start_creating_noperm() and start_removing_noperm()
  VFS/nfsd/cachefiles/ovl: introduce start_removing() and end_removing()
  VFS/nfsd/cachefiles/ovl: add start_creating() and end_creating()
  VFS: tidy up do_unlinkat()
  VFS: introduce start_dirop() and end_dirop()
  debugfs: rename end_creating() to debugfs_end_creating()

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251113002050.676694-1-neilb@ownmail.net
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
History 2025-11-14 13:16:04 +01:00
arch Kbuild fixes for 6.18 #1 2025-10-11 15:47:12 -07:00
block block-6.18-20251009 2025-10-10 10:37:13 -07:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
crypto This push contains the following changes: 2025-10-10 08:56:16 -07:00
Documentation VFS: change vfs_mkdir() to unlock on failure. 2025-11-14 13:15:58 +01:00
drivers i2c-for-6.18-rc1-hotfix 2025-10-12 13:27:56 -07:00
fs VFS: introduce end_creating_keep() 2025-11-14 13:15:58 +01:00
include VFS: introduce end_creating_keep() 2025-11-14 13:15:58 +01:00
init printk changes for 6.18 2025-10-04 11:13:11 -07:00
io_uring io_uring/zcrx: increment fallback loop src offset 2025-10-08 07:26:14 -06:00
ipc VFS: change vfs_mkdir() to unlock on failure. 2025-11-14 13:15:58 +01:00
kernel tracing fixes for v6.18: 2025-10-11 16:06:04 -07:00
lib lib/test_kho: use kho_preserve_vmalloc instead of storing addresses in fdt 2025-10-07 13:48:56 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Replace the obsolete address of the FSF in the GFDL-1.2 2025-07-24 11:15:39 +02:00
mm slab hotfix for 6.18-rc1 2025-10-11 10:40:24 -07:00
net bpf-fixes 2025-10-11 10:31:38 -07:00
rust 7 hotfixes. All 7 are cc:stable and all 7 are for MM. 2025-10-11 10:14:55 -07:00
samples Char/Misc/IIO/Binder changes for 6.18-rc1 2025-10-04 16:26:32 -07:00
scripts Kbuild fixes for 6.18 #1 2025-10-11 15:47:12 -07:00
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sound sound fixes for 6.18-rc1 2025-10-10 09:55:19 -07:00
tools - Remove a bunch of asm implementing condition flags testing in KVM's 2025-10-11 11:19:16 -07:00
usr gen_init_cpio: Ignore fsync() returning EINVAL on pipes 2025-10-07 09:53:05 -07:00
virt hyperv-next for v6.18 2025-10-07 08:40:15 -07:00
.clang-format memblock: drop for_each_free_mem_pfn_range_in_zone_from() 2025-09-14 08:49:03 +03:00
.clippy.toml rust: clean Rust 1.88.0's warning about clippy::disallowed_macros configuration 2025-05-07 00:11:47 +02:00
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COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS USB/Thunderbolt changes for 6.18-rc1 2025-10-04 16:07:08 -07:00
Kbuild sched: Make migrate_{en,dis}able() inline 2025-09-25 09:57:16 +02:00
Kconfig io_uring: Rename KConfig to Kconfig 2025-02-19 14:53:27 -07:00
MAINTAINERS Just one series here - Mike Rappoport has taught KEXEC handover to 2025-10-11 10:27:52 -07:00
Makefile Linux 6.18-rc1 2025-10-12 13:42:36 -07:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -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 reStructuredText 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.