From: "Steven Rostedt (Google)" <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> The dentries and inodes are created in the readdir for the sole purpose of getting a consistent inode number. Linus stated that is unnecessary, and that all inodes can have the same inode number. For a virtual file system they are pretty meaningless. Instead use a single unique inode number for all files and one for all directories. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240116133753.2808d45e@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/tracefs/event_inode.c | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c b/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c index fdff53d5a1f8..5edf0b96758b 100644 --- a/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c +++ b/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c @@ -32,6 +32,10 @@ */ static DEFINE_MUTEX(eventfs_mutex); +/* Choose something "unique" ;-) */ +#define EVENTFS_FILE_INODE_INO 0x12c4e37 +#define EVENTFS_DIR_INODE_INO 0x134b2f5 + /* * The eventfs_inode (ei) itself is protected by SRCU. It is released from * its parent's list and will have is_freed set (under eventfs_mutex). @@ -352,6 +356,9 @@ static struct dentry *create_file(const char *name, umode_t mode, inode->i_fop = fop; inode->i_private = data; + /* All files will have the same inode number */ + inode->i_ino = EVENTFS_FILE_INODE_INO; + ti = get_tracefs(inode); ti->flags |= TRACEFS_EVENT_INODE; d_instantiate(dentry, inode); @@ -388,6 +395,9 @@ static struct dentry *create_dir(struct eventfs_inode *ei, struct dentry *parent inode->i_op = &eventfs_root_dir_inode_operations; inode->i_fop = &eventfs_file_operations; + /* All directories will have the same inode number */ + inode->i_ino = EVENTFS_DIR_INODE_INO; + ti = get_tracefs(inode); ti->flags |= TRACEFS_EVENT_INODE; -- 2.43.0
