Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 21 Oct 2006 00:22:00 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 01 of 23] VFS: change struct file to use struct path |
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On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 02:17:26 -0400 Josef "Jeff" Sipek <jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu> wrote:
> From: Josef "Jeff" Sipek <jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu> > > This patch changes struct file to use struct path instead of having > independent pointers to struct dentry and struct vfsmount, and converts all > users of f_{dentry,vfsmnt} in fs/ to use f_path.{dentry,mnt}. >
why?
> @@ -723,8 +724,9 @@ struct file { > struct list_head fu_list; > struct rcu_head fu_rcuhead; > } f_u; > - struct dentry *f_dentry; > - struct vfsmount *f_vfsmnt; > + struct path f_path; > +#define f_dentry f_path.dentry > +#define f_vfsmnt f_path.mnt > const struct file_operations *f_op; > atomic_t f_count; > unsigned int f_flags; - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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