linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 13/25] cifs: implement i_op->atomic_open() and i_op->atomic

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Date:	Tue, 13 Mar 2012 09:43:15 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Sage Weil <sage@...dream.net>
To:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>, viro@...IV.linux.org.uk,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Trond.Myklebust@...app.com, sfrench@...ba.org, ericvh@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/25] cifs: implement i_op->atomic_open() and
 i_op->atomic_create()

On Tue, 13 Mar 2012, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> writes:
> 
> > On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 10:22:30PM +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> >> From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...e.cz>
> >> 
> >> Replace CIFS's ->create operation with ->atomic_open and ->atomic_create.  Also
> >> move the relevant code from ->lookup into the create function.
> >> 
> >> CIFS currently only does atomic open for O_CREAT, but it wants to do that as
> >> early as possible, without first calling ->lookup, so it uses ->atomic_open,
> >> just like NFS.
> >
> > Why does cifs need to set the created flag from inside ->atomic_open?
> >
> > It's different from everyone else in that respect.
> 
> Apparently CIFS is the only one that can tell whether the file was
> created or not.  If the flag is set then notify_create() is called.
> Users of NFS doesn't seem to care, it's of dubious value anyway, but why
> not use the info when available?

It also add MAY_OPEN to acc_mode... I take it that only matters if the 
fs who set created = true looks for it in ->permission()?

+       acc_mode = op->acc_mode;
+       if (created) {
+               fsnotify_create(dir, dentry);
+               acc_mode = MAY_OPEN;
+       }

sage
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