linux-kernel - [PATCH RFCv2 1/3] fs: introduce helper d_path

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Message-Id: <20210528113951.6225-2-justin.he@arm.com>
Date:   Fri, 28 May 2021 19:39:49 +0800
From:   Jia He <justin.he@....com>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...omium.org>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@...el.com>,
        Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Heiko Carstens <hca@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Vasily Gorbik <gor@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc:     Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>,
        Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-s390@...r.kernel.org, Jia He <justin.he@....com>
Subject: [PATCH RFCv2 1/3] fs: introduce helper d_path_fast()

This helper is similar to d_path except that it doesn't take any
seqlock/spinlock. It is typical for debugging purpose.

Signed-off-by: Jia He <justin.he@....com>
---
 fs/d_path.c            | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
 include/linux/dcache.h |  1 +
 2 files changed, 22 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/d_path.c b/fs/d_path.c
index 23a53f7b5c71..f9df68d62786 100644
--- a/fs/d_path.c
+++ b/fs/d_path.c
@@ -263,6 +263,27 @@ char *d_path(const struct path *path, char *buf, int buflen)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(d_path);
 
+/**
+ * d_path_fast - fast return the full path of a dentry without taking
+ * any seqlock/spinlock. This helper is typical for debugging purpose
+ */
+char *d_path_fast(const struct path *path, char *buf, int buflen)
+{
+	struct path root;
+	struct mount *mnt = real_mount(path->mnt);
+	DECLARE_BUFFER(b, buf, buflen);
+
+	rcu_read_lock();
+	get_fs_root_rcu(current->fs, &root);
+
+	prepend(&b, "", 1);
+	__prepend_path(path->dentry, mnt, &root, &b);
+	rcu_read_unlock();
+
+	return extract_string(&b);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(d_path_fast);
+
 /*
  * Helper function for dentry_operations.d_dname() members
  */
diff --git a/include/linux/dcache.h b/include/linux/dcache.h
index 9e23d33bb6f1..c4483fc887a5 100644
--- a/include/linux/dcache.h
+++ b/include/linux/dcache.h
@@ -301,6 +301,7 @@ char *dynamic_dname(struct dentry *, char *, int, const char *, ...);
 extern char *__d_path(const struct path *, const struct path *, char *, int);
 extern char *d_absolute_path(const struct path *, char *, int);
 extern char *d_path(const struct path *, char *, int);
+extern char *d_path_fast(const struct path *, char *, int);
 extern char *dentry_path_raw(const struct dentry *, char *, int);
 extern char *dentry_path(const struct dentry *, char *, int);
 
-- 
2.17.1