Hi Al, thanks for all your review help - particularly the fact that dentry->d_inode is not stable in RCU-walk. That has lead to a number of changes. I think this set addresses all of your review comments, improves some documentation, and has a go at providing a solution for lustre. I hope to organize some proper testing soon, so I can confirm that it makes certain loads a lot faster. Thanks, NeilBrown --- NeilBrown (20): Documentation: remove outdated information from automount-support.txt STAGING/lustre: limit follow_link recursion using stack space. VFS: replace {,total_}link_count in task_struct with pointer to nameidata ovl: rearrange ovl_follow_link to it doesn't need to call ->put_link VFS: replace nameidata arg to ->put_link with a char*. SECURITY: remove nameidata arg from inode_follow_link. VFS: remove nameidata args from ->follow_link VFS: make all ->follow_link handlers aware for LOOKUP_RCU security/selinux: pass 'flags' arg to avc_audit() and avc_has_perm_flags() security: make inode_follow_link RCU-walk aware VFS/namei: use terminate_walk when symlink lookup fails. VFS/namei: new flag to support RCU symlinks: LOOKUP_LINK_RCU. VFS/namei: abort RCU-walk on symlink if atime needs updating. VFS/namei: add 'inode' arg to put_link(). VFS/namei: enhance follow_link to support RCU-walk. VFS/namei: enable RCU-walk when following symlinks. VFS/namei: handle LOOKUP_RCU in page_follow_link_light. xfs: use RCU to free 'struct xfs_mount'. XFS: allow follow_link to often succeed in RCU-walk. NFS: support LOOKUP_RCU in nfs_follow_link. Documentation/filesystems/Locking | 4 Documentation/filesystems/automount-support.txt | 51 +--- Documentation/filesystems/porting | 23 ++ Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | 4 drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/symlink.c | 32 ++- fs/9p/v9fs.h | 2 fs/9p/vfs_inode.c | 19 +- fs/9p/vfs_inode_dotl.c | 13 + fs/autofs4/symlink.c | 6 fs/befs/linuxvfs.c | 19 +- fs/ceph/inode.c | 7 - fs/cifs/cifsfs.h | 3 fs/cifs/link.c | 7 - fs/configfs/symlink.c | 16 + fs/debugfs/file.c | 5 fs/ecryptfs/inode.c | 16 + fs/exofs/symlink.c | 8 - fs/ext2/symlink.c | 7 - fs/ext3/symlink.c | 7 - fs/ext4/symlink.c | 7 - fs/freevxfs/vxfs_immed.c | 12 + fs/fuse/dir.c | 11 + fs/gfs2/inode.c | 14 + fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c | 15 + fs/hppfs/hppfs.c | 13 + fs/inode.c | 26 ++ fs/jffs2/symlink.c | 10 - fs/jfs/symlink.c | 7 - fs/kernfs/symlink.c | 15 + fs/libfs.c | 4 fs/namei.c | 281 +++++++++++++++-------- fs/nfs/inode.c | 21 ++ fs/nfs/symlink.c | 26 ++ fs/ntfs/namei.c | 1 fs/overlayfs/inode.c | 35 ++- fs/proc/base.c | 8 - fs/proc/inode.c | 9 - fs/proc/namespaces.c | 9 - fs/proc/self.c | 12 + fs/proc/thread_self.c | 15 + fs/sysv/symlink.c | 5 fs/ubifs/file.c | 7 - fs/ufs/symlink.c | 8 - fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl.c | 2 fs/xfs/xfs_iops.c | 20 +- fs/xfs/xfs_mount.h | 2 fs/xfs/xfs_super.c | 4 fs/xfs/xfs_symlink.c | 15 + fs/xfs/xfs_symlink.h | 2 include/linux/fs.h | 12 - include/linux/namei.h | 7 - include/linux/nfs_fs.h | 1 include/linux/sched.h | 3 include/linux/security.h | 13 + mm/shmem.c | 20 +- security/capability.c | 4 security/security.c | 7 - security/selinux/avc.c | 18 + security/selinux/hooks.c | 21 +- security/selinux/include/avc.h | 9 + 60 files changed, 632 insertions(+), 348 deletions(-) -- Signature -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html