[PATCH 00/19] Do not dentry_unhash in VFS (v3)

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Hi Al,

Here's the latest version of my dentry_unhash series, with Christoph's 
ack on the push-down patches, some additional cleanup he suggested, xfs 
and gfs2 removed from the push-down (at maintainers' request), and acks 
for ocfs2 and exofs.  Is this suitable for this merge window?

The series can also be pulled from git at

        git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sage/ceph-client.git dentry_unhash

Summary:

For the most part the VFS does not hash or unhash dentries outside of 
dcache pruning.  This is left to the file system namespace methods.  The 
only exception is on rmdir and directory rename, where we call 
dentry_unhash() for the benefit of a few file systems that can't handle 
lingering references to the empty and unlinked directory.

This patchset aims to clean this up by pushing the dentry_unhash calls 
into each fs where they can be safely removed on a per-fs basis.  We 
also take this opportunity to finally fix a longstanding bug in 
vfs_rename_dir() which rehashes new_dentry (Miklos' patch, see
        http://marc.info/?l=linux-fsdevel&m=121666695328987&w=2
        http://marc.info/?t=121580579500004&r=1&w=2
).

On a per-fs basis, the dentry_unhash calls can be replaced with 
shrink_dcache_parent (or dropped entirely) if it is safe to do so.  I 
expect that this is safe for most of them.

My hope is that this will move us closer to being able to introduce a 
->d_prune d_op.  Independent of that, however, I think this is a 
worthwhile dcache cleanup.

Thanks!
sage


v3:
 * drop xfs from push-down at Christoph's request
 * rebased against Linus' master
 * fixed Miklos' email address

v2:
 * clean up vfs_rmdir flow
 * clean up vfs_rename_dir flow
 * clean up vfs_rename_other flow to match vfs_rename_dir
 * drop gfs2 from push-down at Steve's request


Miklos Szeredi (1):
  vfs: fix vfs_rename_dir for FS_RENAME_DOES_D_MOVE filesystems

Sage Weil (18):
  vfs: dentry_unhash immediately prior to rmdir
  vfs: remove dget() from dentry_unhash()
  vfs: push dentry_unhash on rmdir into file systems
  vfs: push dentry_unhash on rename_dir into file systems
  vfs: update dentry_unhash() comment
  libfs: drop unneeded dentry_unhash
  vfs: clean up vfs_rmdir
  vfs: clean up vfs_rename_dir
  vfs: clean up vfs_rename_other
  ceph: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash calls
  btrfs: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash in rmdir/rename_dir
  ext4: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir/rename_dir
  ext3: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir/rename_dir
  ext2: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir/rename_dir
  nfs: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir/rename_dir
  exofs: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir/rename_dir
  ocfs2: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir/rename_dir
  cifs: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir/rename_dir

 fs/9p/vfs_inode.c       |    4 ++
 fs/affs/namei.c         |    5 ++
 fs/afs/dir.c            |    5 ++
 fs/autofs4/root.c       |    2 +
 fs/bfs/dir.c            |    3 +
 fs/coda/dir.c           |    5 ++
 fs/configfs/dir.c       |    2 +
 fs/ecryptfs/inode.c     |    5 ++
 fs/fat/namei_msdos.c    |    5 ++
 fs/fat/namei_vfat.c     |    5 ++
 fs/fuse/dir.c           |    6 +++
 fs/hfs/dir.c            |    6 +++
 fs/hfsplus/dir.c        |    8 +++-
 fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c |    5 ++
 fs/hpfs/namei.c         |    9 +++-
 fs/jffs2/dir.c          |    5 ++
 fs/jfs/namei.c          |    5 ++
 fs/logfs/dir.c          |    5 ++
 fs/minix/namei.c        |    5 ++
 fs/namei.c              |  108 ++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------
 fs/ncpfs/dir.c          |    5 ++
 fs/nilfs2/namei.c       |    5 ++
 fs/omfs/dir.c           |   11 ++++-
 fs/reiserfs/namei.c     |    5 ++
 fs/reiserfs/xattr.c     |    1 -
 fs/sysv/namei.c         |    5 ++
 fs/ubifs/dir.c          |    5 ++
 fs/udf/namei.c          |    5 ++
 fs/ufs/namei.c          |    5 ++
 29 files changed, 186 insertions(+), 64 deletions(-)

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