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[ Upstream commit 439be32656035d3239fd56f9b83353ec06cb3b45 ] When discussing[1] exec and posix file locks it was realized that none of the callers of get_files_struct fundamentally needed to call get_files_struct, and that by switching them to helper functions instead it will both simplify their code and remove unnecessary increments of files_struct.count. Those unnecessary increments can result in exec unnecessarily unsharing files_struct which breaking posix locks, and it can result in fget_light having to fallback to fget reducing system performance. Simplifying proc_fd_link is a little bit tricky. It is necessary to know that there is a reference to fd_f ile while path_get is running. This reference can either be guaranteed to exist either by locking the fdtable as the code currently does or by taking a reference on the file in question. Use fget_task to remove the need for get_files_struct and to take a reference to file in question. [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180915160423.GA31461@redhat.com Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> v1: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200817220425.9389-8-ebiederm@xmission.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201120231441.29911-6-ebiederm@xmission.com Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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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.