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Al Viro 076515fc92 make non-exchanging __d_move() copy ->d_parent rather than swap them
Currently d_move(from, to) does the following:
	* name/parent of from <- old name/parent of to, from hashed there
	* to is unhashed
	* name of to is preserved
	* if from used to be detached, to gets detached
	* if from used to be attached, parent of to <- old parent of from.

That's both user-visibly bogus and complicates reasoning a lot.
Much saner semantics would be
	* name/parent of from <- name/parent of to, from hashed there.
	* to is unhashed
	* name/parent of to is unchanged.

The price, of course, is that old parent of from might lose a reference.
However,
	* all potentially cross-directory callers of d_move() have both
parents pinned directly; typically, dentries themselves are grabbed
only after we have grabbed and locked both parents.  IOW, the decrement
of old parent's refcount in case of d_move() won't reach zero.
	* __d_move() from d_splice_alias() is done to detached alias.
No refcount decrements in that case
	* __d_move() from __d_unalias() *can* get the refcount to zero.
So let's grab a reference to alias' old parent before calling __d_unalias()
and dput() it after we'd dropped rename_lock.

That does make d_splice_alias() potentially blocking.  However, it has
no callers in non-sleepable contexts (and the case where we'd grown
that dget/dput pair is _very_ rare, so performance is not an issue).

Another thing that needs adjustment is unlocking in the end of __d_move();
folded it in.  And cleaned the remnants of bogus ordering from the
"lock them in the beginning" counterpart - it's never been right and
now (well, for 7 years now) we have that thing always serialized on
rename_lock anyway.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2018-03-29 15:07:49 -04:00
arch Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-02-18 12:56:41 -08:00
block blk: optimization for classic polling 2018-02-13 09:12:04 -07:00
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crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2018-02-12 08:57:21 -08:00
Documentation ACPI updates for v4.16-rc2 2018-02-15 14:50:32 -08:00
drivers oprofilefs: don't oops on allocation failure 2018-03-29 15:07:48 -04:00
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fs make non-exchanging __d_move() copy ->d_parent rather than swap them 2018-03-29 15:07:49 -04:00
include take out orphan externs (empty_string/slash_string) 2018-03-29 15:07:46 -04:00
init membarrier: Provide core serializing command, *_SYNC_CORE 2018-02-05 21:35:03 +01:00
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kernel Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-02-18 12:38:40 -08:00
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samples sample/bpf: fix erspan metadata 2018-02-06 11:32:49 -05:00
scripts Kbuild updates for v4.16 (2nd) 2018-02-09 19:32:41 -08:00
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sound ALSA: hda/realtek: PCI quirk for Fujitsu U7x7 2018-02-14 12:02:26 +01:00
tools perf/core improvements and fixes: 2018-02-16 09:10:09 +01:00
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MAINTAINERS Merge branch 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-02-14 17:02:15 -08:00
Makefile Linux 4.16-rc2 2018-02-18 17:29:42 -08:00
README

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

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

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.