From c636ebdb186bf37f98d3839f69293597723edb36 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Howells Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 01:22:19 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] VFS: Destroy the dentries contributed by a superblock on unmounting The attached patch destroys all the dentries attached to a superblock in one go by: (1) Destroying the tree rooted at s_root. (2) Destroying every entry in the anon list, one at a time. (3) Each entry in the anon list has its subtree consumed from the leaves inwards. This reduces the amount of work generic_shutdown_super() does, and avoids iterating through the dentry_unused list. Note that locking is almost entirely absent in the shrink_dcache_for_umount*() functions added by this patch. This is because: (1) at the point the filesystem calls generic_shutdown_super(), it is not permitted to further touch the superblock's set of dentries, and nor may it remove aliases from inodes; (2) the dcache memory shrinker now skips dentries that are being unmounted; and (3) the superblock no longer has any external references through which the VFS can reach it. Given these points, the only locking we need to do is when we remove dentries from the unused list and the name hashes, which we do a directory's worth at a time. We also don't need to guard against reference counts going to zero unexpectedly and removing bits of the tree we're working on as nothing else can call dput(). A cut down version of dentry_iput() has been folded into shrink_dcache_for_umount_subtree() function. Apart from not needing to unlock things, it also doesn't need to check for inotify watches. In this version of the patch, the complaint about a dentry still being in use has been expanded from a single BUG_ON() and now gives much more information. Signed-off-by: David Howells Acked-by: NeilBrown Acked-by: Ian Kent Cc: Trond Myklebust Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/dcache.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include/linux') diff --git a/include/linux/dcache.h b/include/linux/dcache.h index 44605be59409..63f64a9a5bf7 100644 --- a/include/linux/dcache.h +++ b/include/linux/dcache.h @@ -230,6 +230,7 @@ extern struct dentry * d_alloc_anon(struct inode *); extern struct dentry * d_splice_alias(struct inode *, struct dentry *); extern void shrink_dcache_sb(struct super_block *); extern void shrink_dcache_parent(struct dentry *); +extern void shrink_dcache_for_umount(struct super_block *); extern int d_invalidate(struct dentry *); /* only used at mount-time */ -- cgit v1.2.3