linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH linux 2/2] fs/proc: use a hash table for the directory entries

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Date:	Fri, 03 Oct 2014 15:07:14 +0200
From:	Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>
To:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
CC:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	rui.xiang@...wei.com, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...nvz.org>,
	kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>,
	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
	Thierry Herbelot <thierry.herbelot@...nd.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH linux 2/2] fs/proc: use a hash table for the directory
 entries

Le 03/10/2014 12:55, Alexey Dobriyan a écrit :
> On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 6:25 PM, Nicolas Dichtel
> <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com> wrote:
>> --- a/fs/proc/generic.c
>> +++ b/fs/proc/generic.c
>> @@ -81,10 +81,13 @@ static int __xlate_proc_name(const char *name, struct proc_dir_entry **ret,
>
>> +       if (!S_ISDIR(de->mode))
>> +               return -EINVAL;
>
> There are way too many S_ISDIR checks.
> In lookup and readdir, it is guaranteed that PDE is directory.
>
> I'd say all of them aren't needed because non-directories have
> ->subdir = NULL and
> directories have ->subdir != NULL which transforms into hashtable or
> rbtree or whatever,
> so you only need to guarantee only directories appear where they are
> expected and
> fearlessly use your new data structure traversing directories.
To be honest, they was put during the debug stage and I hesitated to remove
them at the end.
I will remove them!


Thank you,
Nicolas
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