kernel-ark/include
David Howells c636ebdb18 [PATCH] VFS: Destroy the dentries contributed by a superblock on unmounting
The attached patch destroys all the dentries attached to a superblock in one go
by:

 (1) Destroying the tree rooted at s_root.

 (2) Destroying every entry in the anon list, one at a time.

 (3) Each entry in the anon list has its subtree consumed from the leaves
     inwards.

This reduces the amount of work generic_shutdown_super() does, and avoids
iterating through the dentry_unused list.

Note that locking is almost entirely absent in the shrink_dcache_for_umount*()
functions added by this patch.  This is because:

 (1) at the point the filesystem calls generic_shutdown_super(), it is not
     permitted to further touch the superblock's set of dentries, and nor may
     it remove aliases from inodes;

 (2) the dcache memory shrinker now skips dentries that are being unmounted;
     and

 (3) the superblock no longer has any external references through which the VFS
     can reach it.

Given these points, the only locking we need to do is when we remove dentries
from the unused list and the name hashes, which we do a directory's worth at a
time.

We also don't need to guard against reference counts going to zero unexpectedly
and removing bits of the tree we're working on as nothing else can call dput().

A cut down version of dentry_iput() has been folded into
shrink_dcache_for_umount_subtree() function.  Apart from not needing to unlock
things, it also doesn't need to check for inotify watches.

In this version of the patch, the complaint about a dentry still being in use
has been expanded from a single BUG_ON() and now gives much more information.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Acked-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11 11:14:25 -07:00
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acpi ACPI: Allow setting SCI_EN bit in PM1_CONTROL register 2006-10-10 17:14:44 -07:00
asm-alpha [PATCH] Consolidate check_signature 2006-10-11 11:14:23 -07:00
asm-arm [PATCH] Consolidate check_signature 2006-10-11 11:14:23 -07:00
asm-arm26 fix file specification in comments 2006-10-03 23:01:26 +02:00
asm-avr32 [PATCH] IRQ: Fix AVR32 breakage 2006-10-11 11:14:14 -07:00
asm-cris [PATCH] remove remaining errno and __KERNEL_SYSCALLS__ references 2006-10-02 07:57:23 -07:00
asm-frv [PATCH] Consolidate check_signature 2006-10-11 11:14:23 -07:00
asm-generic [PATCH] sched: likely profiling 2006-10-11 11:14:22 -07:00
asm-h8300 [PATCH] remove remaining errno and __KERNEL_SYSCALLS__ references 2006-10-02 07:57:23 -07:00
asm-i386 [PATCH] uaccess.h: match kernel-doc and function names 2006-10-11 11:14:24 -07:00
asm-ia64 [PATCH] ia64/sn __iomem annotations 2006-10-10 15:37:22 -07:00
asm-m32r [PATCH] Consolidate check_signature 2006-10-11 11:14:23 -07:00
asm-m68k [PATCH] m68k: more syscall updates 2006-10-09 14:53:35 -07:00
asm-m68knommu fix file specification in comments 2006-10-03 23:01:26 +02:00
asm-mips [PATCH] Consolidate check_signature 2006-10-11 11:14:23 -07:00
asm-parisc [PARISC] pdc_init no longer exists 2006-10-07 05:22:30 -06:00
asm-powerpc [PATCH] Consolidate check_signature 2006-10-11 11:14:23 -07:00
asm-ppc [PATCH] Consolidate check_signature 2006-10-11 11:14:23 -07:00
asm-s390 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git390.osdl.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6 2006-10-06 09:13:53 -07:00
asm-sh [PATCH] Consolidate check_signature 2006-10-11 11:14:23 -07:00
asm-sh64 [PATCH] Consolidate check_signature 2006-10-11 11:14:23 -07:00
asm-sparc IRQ: Use the new typedef for interrupt handler function pointers 2006-10-09 12:19:47 +01:00
asm-sparc64 [PATCH] Consolidate check_signature 2006-10-11 11:14:23 -07:00
asm-um [PATCH] um: irq changes break build 2006-10-06 08:53:42 -07:00
asm-v850 [PATCH] remove remaining errno and __KERNEL_SYSCALLS__ references 2006-10-02 07:57:23 -07:00
asm-x86_64 [PATCH] Consolidate check_signature 2006-10-11 11:14:23 -07:00
asm-xtensa fix file specification in comments 2006-10-03 23:01:26 +02:00
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linux [PATCH] VFS: Destroy the dentries contributed by a superblock on unmounting 2006-10-11 11:14:25 -07:00
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video fix file specification in comments 2006-10-03 23:01:26 +02:00
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