linux/fs/proc
Eric W. Biederman 3790ee4bd8 proc: remove/Fix proc generic d_revalidate
Ultimately to implement /proc perfectly we need an implementation of
d_revalidate because files and directories can be removed behind the back
of the VFS, and d_revalidate is the only way we can let the VFS know that
this has happened.

Unfortunately the linux VFS can not cope with anything in the path to a
mount point going away.  So a proper d_revalidate method that calls d_drop
also needs to call have_submounts which is moderately expensive, so you
really don't want a d_revalidate method that unconditionally calls it, but
instead only calls it when the backing object has really gone away.

proc generic entries only disappear on module_unload (when not counting the
fledgling network namespace) so it is quite rare that we actually encounter
that case and has not actually caused us real world trouble yet.

So until we get a proper test for keeping dentries in the dcache fix the
current d_revalidate method by completely removing it.  This returns us to
the current status quo.

So with CONFIG_NETNS=n things should look as they have always looked.

For CONFIG_NETNS=y things work most of the time but there are a few rare
corner cases that don't behave properly.  As the network namespace is
barely present in 2.6.24 this should not be a problem.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: "Denis V. Lunev" <den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-12-10 19:43:55 -08:00
..
array.c sched: fix prev_stime calculation 2007-11-26 21:21:49 +01:00
base.c proc: remove races from proc_id_readdir() 2007-11-29 09:24:52 -08:00
generic.c proc: remove/Fix proc generic d_revalidate 2007-12-10 19:43:55 -08:00
inode-alloc.txt
inode.c proc: fix proc_dir_entry refcounting 2007-12-05 09:21:20 -08:00
internal.h proc: fix NULL ->i_fop oops 2007-11-29 09:24:52 -08:00
kcore.c [PATCH] elf: fix kcore note size calculation 2006-12-07 08:39:38 -08:00
kmsg.c
Makefile [NET]: Make /proc/net per network namespace 2007-10-10 16:49:06 -07:00
mmu.c fs/proc/mmu.c: headers butchery 2007-10-17 08:42:48 -07:00
nommu.c [PATCH] mark struct file_operations const 6 2007-02-12 09:48:45 -08:00
proc_devtree.c [POWERPC] Make struct property's value a void * 2007-04-13 03:55:18 +10:00
proc_misc.c pid namespaces: define and use task_active_pid_ns() wrapper 2007-10-19 11:53:37 -07:00
proc_net.c [NETNS]: Fix /proc/net breakage 2007-12-02 00:33:17 +11:00
proc_sysctl.c Fix pointer mismatches in proc_sysctl.c 2007-10-25 15:16:49 -07:00
proc_tty.c Make /proc/tty/drivers use seq_list_xxx helpers 2007-07-16 09:05:42 -07:00
root.c proc: fix proc_dir_entry refcounting 2007-12-05 09:21:20 -08:00
task_mmu.c proc: maps protection 2007-05-08 11:15:02 -07:00
task_nommu.c proc: maps protection 2007-05-08 11:15:02 -07:00
vmcore.c [PATCH] i386: Allow i386 crash kernels to handle x86_64 dumps 2007-05-02 19:27:09 +02:00