linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 03/41] VFS: Make lookup

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Date:	Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:23:32 -0500
From:	Valerie Aurora <vaurora@...hat.com>
To:	Erez Zadok <ezk@...sunysb.edu>
Cc:	Jan Blunck <jblunck@...e.de>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>,
	Scott James Remnant <scott@...onical.com>,
	Sandu Popa Marius <sandupopamarius@...il.com>,
	Jan Rekorajski <baggins@...h.mimuw.edu.pl>,
	"J. R. Okajima" <hooanon05@...oo.co.jp>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov@...il.com>,
	Felix Fietkau <nbd@...nwrt.org>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/41] VFS: Make lookup_hash() return a struct path

On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 09:02:31PM -0500, Erez Zadok wrote:
> In message <1256152779-10054-4-git-send-email-vaurora@...hat.com>, Valerie Aurora writes:
> > From: Jan Blunck <jblunck@...e.de>
> > 
> > This patch changes lookup_hash() into returning a struct path.
> 
> Actually, lookup_hash now also takes a qstr.
> 
> This is a somewhat involved patch.  I think more documentation is needed to
> list all the places it touches and changes, b/c now struct path has to
> propagate in various other places.  (In general, passing struct path instead
> of struct dentry is going in the right direction: eventually we could get rid
> of lookup_one_len.)

Hm, it seems like a straightforward next step in the long-term project
of migration from dentries to paths.  I looked at some of the previous
dentry->path patches and they didn't include this kind of documentation.

> > @@ -1219,14 +1219,22 @@ out:
> >   * needs parent already locked. Doesn't follow mounts.
> >   * SMP-safe.
> >   */
> > -static struct dentry *lookup_hash(struct nameidata *nd)
> > +static int lookup_hash(struct nameidata *nd, struct qstr *name,
> > +		       struct path *path)
> >  {
> 
> I suggest you document above this function what the @name and @path are for,
> who is supposed to allocate and free them, caller/callee's responsibilities,
> side effects (if any), new return status upon success/failure, etc.

That would be good, but consistently documenting existing VFS
functionality would be a large project and not one I'm going to take
on. :)

-VAL
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