linux/drivers/usb/core
David Howells 454e2398be [PATCH] VFS: Permit filesystem to override root dentry on mount
Extend the get_sb() filesystem operation to take an extra argument that
permits the VFS to pass in the target vfsmount that defines the mountpoint.

The filesystem is then required to manually set the superblock and root dentry
pointers.  For most filesystems, this should be done with simple_set_mnt()
which will set the superblock pointer and then set the root dentry to the
superblock's s_root (as per the old default behaviour).

The get_sb() op now returns an integer as there's now no need to return the
superblock pointer.

This patch permits a superblock to be implicitly shared amongst several mount
points, such as can be done with NFS to avoid potential inode aliasing.  In
such a case, simple_set_mnt() would not be called, and instead the mnt_root
and mnt_sb would be set directly.

The patch also makes the following changes:

 (*) the get_sb_*() convenience functions in the core kernel now take a vfsmount
     pointer argument and return an integer, so most filesystems have to change
     very little.

 (*) If one of the convenience function is not used, then get_sb() should
     normally call simple_set_mnt() to instantiate the vfsmount. This will
     always return 0, and so can be tail-called from get_sb().

 (*) generic_shutdown_super() now calls shrink_dcache_sb() to clean up the
     dcache upon superblock destruction rather than shrink_dcache_anon().

     This is required because the superblock may now have multiple trees that
     aren't actually bound to s_root, but that still need to be cleaned up. The
     currently called functions assume that the whole tree is rooted at s_root,
     and that anonymous dentries are not the roots of trees which results in
     dentries being left unculled.

     However, with the way NFS superblock sharing are currently set to be
     implemented, these assumptions are violated: the root of the filesystem is
     simply a dummy dentry and inode (the real inode for '/' may well be
     inaccessible), and all the vfsmounts are rooted on anonymous[*] dentries
     with child trees.

     [*] Anonymous until discovered from another tree.

 (*) The documentation has been adjusted, including the additional bit of
     changing ext2_* into foo_* in the documentation.

[akpm@osdl.org: convert ipath_fs, do other stuff]
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23 07:42:45 -07:00
..
buffer.c [PATCH] USB: don't allocate dma pools for PIO HCDs 2006-01-04 13:51:39 -08:00
config.c [PATCH] USB: move CONFIG_USB_DEBUG checks into the Makefile 2005-11-17 11:29:55 -08:00
devices.c [PATCH] USB: convert a bunch of USB semaphores to mutexes 2006-03-20 14:49:55 -08:00
devio.c [PATCH] USB: move usb_device_class class devices to be real devices 2006-06-21 15:04:19 -07:00
driver.c [PATCH] add EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_FUTURE() to USB subsystem 2006-03-20 13:42:58 -08:00
endpoint.c [PATCH] USB: make endpoints real struct devices 2006-06-21 15:04:19 -07:00
file.c [PATCH] USB: only make /sys/class/usb show up when there is something in it 2006-06-21 15:04:19 -07:00
hcd-pci.c [PATCH] pm: print name of failed suspend function 2006-04-14 11:41:25 -07:00
hcd.c [SPARC]: Kill __irq_itoa(). 2006-06-20 01:21:29 -07:00
hcd.h [PATCH] USB: remove usbcore-specific wakeup flags 2006-03-20 14:49:56 -08:00
hub.c [PATCH] USB hub: use usb_reset_composite_device 2006-06-21 15:04:15 -07:00
hub.h [PATCH] USB: Consider power budget when choosing configuration 2006-01-04 13:48:34 -08:00
inode.c [PATCH] VFS: Permit filesystem to override root dentry on mount 2006-06-23 07:42:45 -07:00
Kconfig [PATCH] USB: otg hub support is optional 2006-04-14 11:12:23 -07:00
Makefile [PATCH] USB: move the endpoint specific sysfs code to it's own file 2006-06-21 15:04:18 -07:00
message.c [PATCH] usbcore: recovery from Set-Configuration failure 2006-06-21 15:04:15 -07:00
notify.c [PATCH] Notifier chain update: API changes 2006-03-27 08:44:50 -08:00
otg_whitelist.h Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
sysfs.c [PATCH] USB: make usb_create_ep_files take a struct device 2006-06-21 15:04:19 -07:00
urb.c [PATCH] USB: add might_sleep() to usb_unlink_urb() to warn developers 2006-01-31 17:23:42 -08:00
usb.c [PATCH] USB: get USB suspend to work again 2006-06-22 22:54:23 -07:00
usb.h [PATCH] USB: make usb_create_ep_files take a struct device 2006-06-21 15:04:19 -07:00