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authorDavid M. Grimes <dgrimes@navisite.com>2006-10-17 00:09:45 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-10-17 08:18:43 -0700
commit91828a405ae454a9503c41a7744f6ff877a80714 (patch)
treeaa1f051da60f320675a970ad304a9987ca1d7ce3 /drivers/dio
parent5c496374a72320279ddb86291ef709e090a5d531 (diff)
[PATCH] knfsd: add nfs-export support to tmpfs
We need to encode a decode the 'file' part of a handle. We simply use the inode number and generation number to construct the filehandle. The generation number is the time when the file was created. As inode numbers cycle through the full 32 bits before being reused, there is no real chance of the same inum being allocated to different files in the same second so this is suitably unique. Using time-of-day rather than e.g. jiffies makes it less likely that the same filehandle can be created after a reboot. In order to be able to decode a filehandle we need to be able to lookup by inum, which means that the inode needs to be added to the inode hash table (tmpfs doesn't currently hash inodes as there is never a need to lookup by inum). To avoid overhead when not exporting, we only hash an inode when it is first exported. This requires a lock to ensure it isn't hashed twice. This code is separate from the patch posted in June06 from Atal Shargorodsky which provided the same functionality, but does borrow slightly from it. Locking comment: Most filesystems that hash their inodes do so at the point where the 'struct inode' is initialised, and that has suitable locking (I_NEW). Here in shmem, we are hashing the inode later, the first time we need an NFS file handle for it. We no longer have I_NEW to ensure only one thread tries to add it to the hash table. Cc: Atal Shargorodsky <atal@codefidence.com> Cc: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@codefidence.com> Signed-off-by: David M. Grimes <dgrimes@navisite.com> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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