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authorJan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>2008-02-14 19:34:32 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2008-02-14 21:13:33 -0800
commit4ac9137858e08a19f29feac4e1f4df7c268b0ba5 (patch)
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parentc5e725f33b733a77de622e91b6ba5645fcf070be (diff)
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Embed a struct path into struct nameidata instead of nd->{dentry,mnt}
This is the central patch of a cleanup series. In most cases there is no good reason why someone would want to use a dentry for itself. This series reflects that fact and embeds a struct path into nameidata. Together with the other patches of this series - it enforced the correct order of getting/releasing the reference count on <dentry,vfsmount> pairs - it prepares the VFS for stacking support since it is essential to have a struct path in every place where the stack can be traversed - it reduces the overall code size: without patch series: text data bss dec hex filename 5321639 858418 715768 6895825 6938d1 vmlinux with patch series: text data bss dec hex filename 5320026 858418 715768 6894212 693284 vmlinux This patch: Switch from nd->{dentry,mnt} to nd->path.{dentry,mnt} everywhere. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix cifs] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix smack] Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/namei.h3
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/namei.h b/include/linux/namei.h
index 1cd15da..52fa2f7 100644
--- a/include/linux/namei.h
+++ b/include/linux/namei.h
@@ -16,8 +16,7 @@ struct open_intent {
enum { MAX_NESTED_LINKS = 8 };
struct nameidata {
- struct dentry *dentry;
- struct vfsmount *mnt;
+ struct path path;
struct qstr last;
unsigned int flags;
int last_type;
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