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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>,
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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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